December 26, 2025 • 34 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (12/26) - Best Of The John Kobylt Show. Attorney and Pacific Palisades resident Saied Kashani comes on the show to talk about the latest going on with the Palisades Fire recovery and rebuilding fiasco. Spencer Pratt went after Mayor Karen Bass in a social media video. Jon Fleischman comes on the show to talk about the Capitol Annex Project in Sacramento. CA's problems are all Gov. Newsom's fault.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty you're listening to the John Cobel
podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We're going to talk with
Sayed Kashani, who's an attorney from the Palisades lost his
home in the fire, and like many in the Palisades,
as you heard from the report we played before Brigida's news,
they cannot believe that the DWP is draining the reservoir
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a second time, the one hundred and seventeen million gallon
reservoir that was drained in twenty twenty four before the
fire because the cover was torn. Well, they put a
new cover on. Eventually it was too late, too late
for use the reservoir to fight fire. But now it's
been torn again, and so they're going to shut the
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reservoir down for another nine months, drain it all over again.
And they're still trying to sell that this doesn't matter
except they've come up with a backup water supply for
fire safety. It's hard to keep up with this. Let's
get say Ed Kashan on say it. How are you well?
Speaker 3 (01:01):
It's a couple. Thanks for having me back, appreciate it makes.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
My head spin. So let me get this straight. So
they're actually draining the thing again. But they've always claimed
they would have not done any good at the fire,
but they have a backup water system this time, like
just in case.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Well, i'll tell you right now that backup system, as
they describe it, isn't going to help at all. They're
talking about a ten inch diameter water line that possibly
could bring more water over the hill from Topanga. Now,
the reservoir outputs to two thirty inch diameter lines. You
cannot replace two thirty inch diameter water lines with a
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ten inch line. It just doesn't work. At least, they're
recognizing that there is a fire danger when the reservoir
is empty, so they're doing something about it. And you know,
the interesting thing is when they first put this cover
on in twenty eleven, the DWP had reports and public
meetings and they announced that the reservoir would be drained
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for a period of time. And back then the LA
Fire Department actually objected and said, we need this reservoir
for fire safety, and if you drain it, there has
to be alternatives. And at the time there were some alternatives.
Well they're all gone now. The alternatives are like the
Chautauqua reservoir. There's another reservoir which is now closed down,
not even available, so they're you know, they're putting the
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entire Pallsage area at risk again.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Over a cover, and they keep insisting we have to
protect drinking water now, this reservoir and correct me if
I had the dates wrong, didn't have a cover. For
over forty years, from about nineteen seventy until twenty eleven, there.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Was no cover exactly. This cover is, you might say,
is kind of a bureaucratic fiction. The idea is, I
don't want to get into the details and the chemistry
about it, but the idea is that having a cover
enables you to use a different type of chlorinating agent
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that supposedly is safer. But it's all nonsense. In fact,
there's a epedeomologist, epidemiologist John Instrom out of UCLA speaking
of UCLA who's been quite vocal on this and pointing
out that there's absolutely no risk caused by using ordinary
chlorine and no cover.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
So that's why they got the cover? Well, because yeah,
I know, is there, it's not, it's probably not where
they're gone. It's absurd because they drain this reservoir in
early twenty twenty four. So the Palisades went that whole
year without that reservoir supplying water, and it turns out
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I guess they didn't need it.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Right, Well, I'll do you one better. Not only did
they drain the reservoir, but the DWP never told anyone
for as far as I can tell, as far as
the evidence has shown, they didn't even tell the fire department.
So there were helicopters landing at the beginning of the
fire expecting water at the reservoir, and it was empty
and worse. After they drained the reservoir, the director of
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DWP gave it an announcement and he said, and I quote,
our reservoirs are full. What kind of thing to say
is that when you know that the most important reservoir
in that area is still empty at the time.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Why had they been lying so frequently for so long
before the fire, During the fire? After the fire, all
they do is lie, or at least they cover up,
and with whole information, what are they doing?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I think it all goes back to these environmental these
extreme environmental extremists. I mean, the environmental extremists at the
State Water Quality Board state that there's a tiny risk
of some issue of something falling into the reservoir, So
you need to cover the whole reservoir an enormous expense
and take it out of commission and put everyone at
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risk for that. Okay, that's one. Now we're hearing, as
you know, from the fire, that in order to protect
some native species of plans, oh, they were unable to
fight the fire. Probably, Well how did that work out
for you? I mean, all those floods were destroyed.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Anyway, This is all so crazy.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
It really is. All the environmental extremists, it really is.
You know, you hear this, people complain about it, and
you never know if it's just hyperbole, right, it's just
people taking political shots at one another. But this is
a real thing. These environmentalists who got embedded into the
government have insane policies that kill people and destroy enormous
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amounts of real estate.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Well, the worst of it is, these are people and
programs that operate behind the scenes, that pass rules behind
the scenes. None of this even goes through the legislature,
whatever you think of the legislature, at least as public
areas of the public vote. This cover idea started with
a regulation, and it started in some you know, environmental
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bureaucracy that was never voted on, that never had public hearings.
It was just some decision that someone decided that if
you use this type of chlorine instead of other type
of chlorine, then somehow that I don't know, it makes
a difference to the water supply when the first type
of chlorine has been used for over one hundred years
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with no problems.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Yeah, first, first I heard of this, and now they're
going to close it down for nine months. Why do
they have to close it for nine months? They repaired
the old cover much more quickly than that.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
You know, I.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
This work. This is what happens when you only have
one outside source to fix your cover. They deal with
a single company I won't give its name, but they're
out of San Diego actually that installs and repairs this cover.
And it's only one company, it's a single source. Well,
guess what if your company knows that you're going to
get substanti business from repairing this cover, what's the incentive
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to do it right the first time? Isn't it easier
just to keep coming back and back and back and
repair and repair and refair. I mean, I'm not saying
they do it deliberately, but you know, I mean, I
think it would be a better idea to do it
do it right the first time, so it works. But
like I said, the whole idea of a cover was
never necessary. Is just an extreme environmental decision made by
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unelected bureaucrats that put everyone at risk because of their
environmental agenda.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah, and we never know their name, you know, as
they passed through the battles of the system. We don't
know their name. We know Jennie Kenones. And by the way,
what does it take to get her removed? And this
is one insane, stupid decision and one insane why after
another after another. And she's making seven hundred and fifty
thousand a year and all she's brought is devastation. How
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does she survives?
Speaker 3 (07:57):
The And it just gave an award for Women of
the years?
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Yes, yes, the Times the Times game were a Woman
of the Year award.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
I mean, it's it's it's completely ridiculous, but I mean,
there's no accountability. But look, the same people who made
the wrong decisions are the ones who are now covering up.
For example, we sought a report from the state that
claimed that the reservoir wouldn't have made any difference. Well,
who was who provided that report? That report came from
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state agencies that imposed the water regulation and the cover
regulation in the first place. In other words, three of
the agencies who wrote that report were the same agencies
that made DWP drain the reservoir. So obviously these agencies
aren't going to come back and admit, oh, we made
a mistake and you know, we let the whole city
burn down because of our environmental policy. No, they're going
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to say, well, it never made any difference.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Sed Well, one hundred and seventeen million gallons they claim
would have had no effect. I met a guy in
the Palisades a few weeks ago. He had a two
inch hose connected to his swimming pool and he saved
his home and two weather homes near him watered it
down well so that they wouldn't easily burn, and they
didn't the two inch holls one to his pool.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Well, my neighbor just three houses down for me, was
able to protect his house so long as there was water.
But he didn't have a pool, and that's another story.
But he didn't have a pool, he didn't have a
source of water. As long as the city supplied water.
He was able to keep his house safe once the
water shut off. The evening of the first fire, that's
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when his house got fired and there was nothing he
would do about it. He went to firemen, firefighters, they said,
there's no waters, there's nothing we can do. By the way,
the DWP story that houses water lines broke and that's
why they lost pressure. That doesn't hold up either, because
many areas of the Palisades, if you see them after
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the fire, they were bone dry. That means the water
means did not break and spill water over. That means
the fire got to these areas after the water was
shut off. So that story isn't going to hold up either. Again,
the only thing that's going to get us the truth
here is this pending litigation, and I'm hoping the courts
will let it go forward to the point that we
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have a trial, We have witnesses, we have documents, all
presented in the light of days so people can see
exactly what happened.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Sia Kashani, thanks for coming on, no problem, Thanks for
having me si ed as an attorney in the Palisades,
lost his home there. When we come back, Spencer Pratt,
the reality star who lost his home in the Palisades.
He has seized on Karen Bass admitting on a video
podcast that La City botched the fire response. This was
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the piece of video that was cut out of the
final version posted to YouTube. I'll play you Spencer Pratt's
comments on Twitter about this. That's next.
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all the other social media platforms. Well, we just talked
with Sayed Kashani, the attorney out of the Palisades, about this,
the insanity of the DWP now taking the cover off
the reservoir again. They're going to close the reservoir again
for nine months. This time they're proposing a ten inch
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water line from the Panga Canyon Reservoir has two thirty
inch water lines that's supposed to be used to fight fires.
You can't replace sixty inches of water line with a
ten inch line. That makes no sense. And they're claiming, well,
they're going to do it for fire. Well, I thought
having a full reservoir wouldn't have made a difference in
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the fire. They're so full of it, they're so absolutely
full of it, and they keep saying, well, we got
to keep the drinking water safe. Well, when they closed
it in twenty twenty four, there was no drinking water
that year, and the Palisades didn't need it. Don't you
think they need it now? You know it's going to
rain this week, but you never know when the sant
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Ana winds may hit in the summertime. All the rain now,
everything could be bone dry come July or August or
September next year, and there'll be a lot more there'll
be a lot more brush that had grown because of
all the rain we've had so far this winter. Spencer Pratt,
the reality star, we've had him on the show. He's
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responding to the Karen Bass botch comment to quickly run down.
Karen Bass appeared on a podcast called The Fifth Column,
and it was originally a sixty six minute podcast The
last four minutes came after the host said goodbye to
Bass on air, and then the video chems kept rolling
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and she started talking about how La City botched the
response the La Fire Department, and the video was posted
in November. At some point between November and this week,
Bass's office realized that that extra four minutes was up
there and she was admitting that the city had screwed
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up badly, and so they took it down, and the
weasel who hosted the podcast agreed to take it down,
then hung up on the La Times when he was
questioned on it. I got to get his name while
I look for his name. Just to remind everybody who
the weasel is. Here is Spencer Pratt on X with
a post going after Bass.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
Mayor Karen Bass just got outed for admitting that the
Palisades fire was quote botched while on a hot mic
at the end of a recent podcast. However, you can't
find that video anywhere because Mayor Bass's office demanded that
they scrubbed that footage from the internet.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Well, guess what, by admitting that.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
The Palisades fire response was botched, she just earned herself
a subpoena from our lawyers. For the Palisades Fire lawsuit.
Her stunning admission is a massive departure from.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
The Ooh, we did everything we could. It was just one.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
Hundred miles pro wins bs and narrative that they've been
spinning to date. But in a moment of accidental candor,
she let the truth slip, and this mistake will cost
her dearly. She has just signaled that we were right.
They did botch the fire response, and now we have
good cause to call her as a witness.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
What did she mean by botched? What went wrong? Who
screwed up?
Speaker 5 (14:58):
Thanks for playing It's time for my lawyers to go fishing.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
That's great, That is great, And he's absolutely right. She
and all her stooge fire chiefs, and she's had three
of them this year, and countless other fire officials had
been insisting repeatedly, over and over again, we.
Speaker 6 (15:19):
Did everything we could. These were extraordinary circumstances. One hundred
miles of hour winds. There was no one hundred mile
an hour winds, nothing even close. They didn't read six
days worth of warnings from the National Weather Service and
had a firefighters at the site of the original January
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first fire, which was still smoldering, and it was smoldering
because the ninnies in the State Parks Department went down
and kicked the LA Fire Department out on January second,
because they wanted to save the freaking milk vetch plant,
the milk Vetch plan. They didn't want the firefighters stepping
on the milkvetch plant. They didn't want Laft bulldozers creating
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a fire line. And I remember another LA time story
early in the year where they had long wanted to
build a fire road out of the Palisades up and
over the mountain going to the north, and they weren't
allowed to because of the milk Vetch plan.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
That was a story from US January or February. But yeah,
they botched it. Of course they botched it. They had
nobody there.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
It.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Bass admitted it, and I hope she gets nailed by
the attorneys, but that's going to be a fight because
she never wanted to admit to losing two billion dollars
in homeless money, and she hired fifteen attorneys at taxpayer
expense to keep her from testifying in front of a
federal judge. Fifteen attorneys. They created so much delay that
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the other side gave up. So how many attorneys are
they going to fight Spencer Pratt and the rest of
the Palisades residents with twenty five thirty five. By the way,
the name of the host of the Fifth Column is
Matt Welch. He was the weasel who hosted the show
and the ninnies in Bass's office. Why are they so
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beholden to her? She abandoned the city, people died, sixty
eight hundred buildings burned. She abandoned the city, She defunded
the fire department. What are these staff members? This is
your life? And then they call up Matt Welch and
bully him to take down the last four minutes of
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the podcast, and he does it. Wow, Wow, Wow, I
don't get how the world works anymore. Okay, we've got
more coming up on the John Cobelt Show.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
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Speaker 2 (17:59):
Were on every day one till four o'clock. After four o'clock,
it's John Cobelt Show on demand on the iHeart app
and you can listen to what you missed. We are
going to now talk with John Fleischman. He's got a
website so does itmatter dot com. He's a political writer
and a commentator. And there is a story that has
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been bubbling in the background. We've covered it some because
there's only one reporter in the whole state trying to
find out the truth, and her name is Ashley Zavala
for Channel three and Sacramento KCRA. And this thing, like
I said, for all the people just beside themselves with
anger and fury over Trump using private money to build
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that ballroom. In Washington, we got Newsome spending over a
billion dollars on something called the State Capitol Annex project.
It's a new large section of the state Capitol, over
a billion dollars, but nobody really knows how much it's
going to cost or it's going to be built. It
there's a tremendous amount of secrecy, a lot of nondisclosure agreements,
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and it looks like a big sticking boondoggle that nobody
wants to acknowledge. So we'll talk to us talk with
John Fleischman about this, John, how are you.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
I'm doing fine, John, And you're not kidding, you know.
Speaker 7 (19:22):
Gavin Newsom was very quick that he went on X
to call the expansion of the White House, the knockoff Versailles,
and and and really let Donald Trump have it while
he's got his own crazy thing going on.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
At the Capitol.
Speaker 7 (19:35):
Uh, the ballroom expansion that the White House is estimated
to cost around four hundred million dollars, and as you
pointed out, it's all coming from private money. But here
in California, they're they're like massively expanding the state capitol,
like and the last the last budget was one point
one billion, but no one thinks that's even going to
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come close to what it's actually going to cost. There's
no no one in charge, No one will say what
it actually costs.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
And this is my favorite part.
Speaker 7 (20:04):
There's over two thousand people working on this project, and
the government has had every single person, from the lawyers
down to the construction workers signing legal nondescrolloser agreements so
that they cannot talk to the media or anyone else
about what they're doing and how much it costs.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
It's completely nuts.
Speaker 7 (20:24):
Newsom obviously has approved the funny because he signed the
budget bills that include the money. And as you said,
Ashley's of all of the reporter from KSETV and Sacramento
has been on this thing. But she's been the only
one and so there's been virtually no disclosure about this thing,
and it's absolutely boggers. I mean it's I mean, I
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wish that I know this is radio, but you know,
if you go to I'm sure your website, if you
go to so doesn'tmatter dot com. My piece has photos.
It's just it's like.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
They're building the taj Mahal.
Speaker 7 (20:56):
He's building his own Versailles at the same time that
he's trying to criticize as the president.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
And it's it's it's it's not there's some hypocrisy.
Speaker 7 (21:08):
And it's even better they it's leaked out that they
have built this new structure of the building with secure
secret corridors that will allow the politicians to move all
around the Capitol without ever having to come out to where.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
The media or the public are.
Speaker 7 (21:22):
So it's like they're literally creating this own little kind
of like honeycombed secret capital structure.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
At the cost.
Speaker 7 (21:30):
I mean, they're spending more than on this than you
would spend to.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Build like an NBA stadium.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
And what's going to be in what's going to be
inside this attics.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
Well, supposedly it's just more office spaces, more rooms for
all these legislators to work out of. It's it's literally
a physical manifestation of the grotesque enlargement of California state government.
You have to have a bigger capital because we're spending
more money and doing more stuff.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
And it's and again.
Speaker 7 (22:01):
There's literally you know, it's not like they held at
press conference and said, Hi, I'm the architect.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
We're building this up.
Speaker 7 (22:08):
Here's the charts, here's what it's going to be, or
here's what it's going to cost. Ashley wrote an entire
story of the millions and millions and millions of dollars
they're spending, importing granted from like Italy put into the capitol.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
I mean we're paying for that, We're paying for that
Italian granted.
Speaker 7 (22:27):
Yeah, but we don't know how much we're paying for it,
because anybody that could tell us has been locked down
with the non disclosure agreement and has been told del
w sou that if they disclose anything.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
And I've never even heard of such a thing.
Speaker 7 (22:40):
And you know, literally, after years of covering this, Ashlely
like a week ago, got some of these legislators that
are in charge of this to.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Go on her program.
Speaker 7 (22:50):
Where they proceeded to tell everybody exactly nothing. And so
the whole thing is crazy, and so I think it's
going to be one more of those questions that people
are like, Okay, you really want this guy to be
the president of the United States. It's completely nuts. Although
you know, maybe you know, the whole thing is just crazy.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
He he actually says out loud, it's a taxpayer, I'd
like to know what it costs. Well, you know what
it costs. You signed the bill authorizing the budget.
Speaker 7 (23:22):
Oh not only that, not only that, but he has
appointed his office has appointed there's a three member group
that oversees all of this somebody from the state Senate,
a senator, somebody from the state Assembly, and.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
The governor's representative.
Speaker 7 (23:36):
So while he's telling us I liked to know how
everything's spend, his representative is in every meeting making every decision.
And so once again it's a complete pile of dog
crap right that he's literally we've seen this guy before.
He's pathological. He goes on talk radio shows, he goes
on television, and he literally says whatever he wants. And
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because of all of his friends in the media, this
radio show accepted you know.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Nobody calls them on it.
Speaker 7 (24:06):
Well, and why he literally gets away with saying whatever
he wants?
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Why so many friends in the media, the listeners and
the viewers and the readers of these media sites. They're
the taxpayers paying for this. The media's obligation should be
to its audience, to the taxpayers. Why is there obligation
to protecting newsome I don't understand.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (24:32):
And by the way, the Los Angeles Times, the San
Francisco Chronicle, the Sacramento all of these newspapers have standing
to go sue the government over these non disclosure agreements
and get the truth out.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Do you think any of them have.
Speaker 7 (24:45):
Taken the time to sue the government over this?
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Well, that's what I want to add. I want to ask,
how can it be legal for them to force two
thousand people to sign non disclosure agreements over a project
that's costing over a billion dollars of tax money and
the purpose of the building is going to be making
law in California for the public. How can we not
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have access to every detail and understand where every penny went.
Speaker 7 (25:14):
Well, understand what they do in California is and this
is really it tells you something about the legislature. Most
of these invasive laws that they passed that put restrictions
on us.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Or open up the books.
Speaker 7 (25:26):
In almost every one of these laws, they put boilerplate
language at the end it says, this public disclosure law
shall not apply to the legislature or the governor, and
so they exempt themselves from all these disclosure laws. But
I don't think what they're.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Doing is legal.
Speaker 7 (25:41):
Hence I was saying somebody ought to sue them and
get this information. But you know, the media is more
interested in covering his hair than they are covering his versides.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
His verside, So you.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Know, you mentioned those major newspapers make it up. We
got to have about twenty five minutes to television stations,
not to mention, all the television networks and the cable
news channels, and nobody, nobody wants to take him on.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Well apparently not, you know. So, I mean, I've now
written about it today.
Speaker 7 (26:18):
And Ashley is of all of the local Sacramento reporter
has been writing about it. But it has been virtually
crickets from the state wide media.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
And it's just a reminder.
Speaker 7 (26:28):
That they do not exist to be watchdogs on the left.
You could be sure if there was a Republican governor
right now or a Republican legislature, they would be all
over it. But they're too excited, frankly, as biased media
people for what the policies are that are coming out
of Sacramento.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
And they don't want to provide a distraction, right because
Trump is spending.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
A fraction with private money on that ballroom, and look
at all the hysteria that goes on.
Speaker 7 (26:55):
Well, like we said, Gavin Newsom himself, while he is
overseeing this boondoggle, has the nerve to go on X
and accused Donald Trump of building his own private Versailles.
Those are his words, those are the governor's words, and
so really laying really.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Stupid and uh, you know hopefully you know.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Yeah, I don't know, you know what, does he keep talking.
Speaker 7 (27:16):
Maybe America deserves Maybe America deserves this guy, and we'll
get a new governor. Although frankly, the batch of people
running behind him don't seem to be the brightest light
bulbs in California either.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
I mean no, there's nobody home.
Speaker 7 (27:29):
At least not on the this not on the Democrat side.
All right, John, our attorney general may run. He'll save
us all right, Thanks John, thanks for having me on,
and I'd encourage people to come visit sodaes itmatter dot com?
Speaker 2 (27:40):
So does itmatter dot com? John Fleischman. He's got a
two part series on this on this scandal, uh coming up.
Katie Grinds from californiaglobe dot com. She's writing about this situation.
She also put together the Top fifty California issues, like
the Top fifty Gavin Newsom disasters. I'm not going to
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read all fifty, touch on a few of them again.
All the feeding back to what I discussed last hour.
There are going to be many Democratic candidates running for
president against Newsom, and they are collecting a tremendous amount
of opposition research on all this. He is going to
get pillaried. Like you won't believe we actually has competition
for the nomination.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
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all the other social media platforms. All right, well, we
just had John fly spanon from sodesitmatter dot com. One
of her other favorite reporters, Katie Grimes from California Globe.
She was on with us yesterday and this week.
Speaker 6 (29:11):
She wrote a piece about the Top fifty disasters. The
top fifty disasters Governor Gavin Newsom has ushered into California.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
We should do it. We should do a countdown. We
could probably fill four hours of a countdown. Well, here
we go. I'm not going to read all fifty, but
the ones that some of them are old, some of
them are are newly discovered or newly rediscovered because they're
a few years old and probably everybody's forgotten. How about
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this one. Just found this out a few days ago.
Under Gavin Newsom, well, eight hundred and seventeen thousand Californians
left California in twenty twenty two. He's written, seventeen thousand
people left the state in twenty twenty two, more than
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two hundred thousand of them were ages twenty five or older,
most of them with four year or two year college degrees,
and they went to Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Florida, and the Carolinas.
Joel Kotkin, the demographicer, scholar, researcher, he went through the
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numbers and you could track how many people leave the state,
how many moved to other states, and what their socio
income status is, and so what you had here is
a huge percentage of the two hundred thousand net migrants
lost were college educated. Andy had Nevada, Arizona, Texas, and Florida.
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Thousands of businesses have fled to other states. That's just
one number two. I talk about this all the time
and I'll never stop talking about it. Highest taxes in
the nation. California ranks among the worst for high taxes,
the bottom two for worse for individual taxes, worst gas tax,
(31:16):
highest business tax. And he's looking for more tax He's
trying to pass a retroactive billionaire's tax. He's going after
two hundred and twenty billionaires who live in California, and
it's going to make them pay for the past in
case they leave. And this is going to drive some
of them out in twenty twenty. Here's another one. Twenty twenty,
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he planned to close two state prisons. He's closed five.
Speaker 6 (31:46):
Remember after we've passed Prop thirty six over his objections.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Which made stealing illegal again and drug use illegal again
and created a set of sentinel laws. Well, he was
so pissed that it passed against his objections that he
hasn't funded it. He refuses to funder the treatment programs
for the drug addicts. Gavin Newsom is the first governor
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to make homelessness a way of life. The number of
mentally ill drug addicted people littering the streets with thess
and drug needles, tent encampments and filth has grown dramatically.
I think it's about one hundred and eighty seven thousand
in the state. He has spent thirty seven billion dollars
on homelessness in the last six years, and homelessness has
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exploded in the state. These are all from Katie Grimes,
and I'm just getting a fraction of them. You should
go to californiaglobe dot com. You could read the whole list.
Eight to twelve dollars gas coming. We used to have
forty three refineries We're down to seven our oil production
has declined by sixty five percent, our foreign imports have
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increased by seventy percent, or increased two seventy percent. Let's
not forget the COVID lockdowns, which destroyed thousands of businesses
and destroyed the childhoods and the learning capabilities of hundreds
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of thousands of children. He spent four and a half
million dollars on free immigration legal services, and of course
the big whopper, he passed a bill that guaranteed free
healthcare to every illegal immigrant in the state. It's costing
US thirteen billion dollars, now thirteen billion. The medical program
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is insolvent, it's broke. What do you do with a
broke plan like that. Well, he's going to medical to
any poor or disabled, elderly person who has two thousand
dollars in assets. So if your parents or grandparents are
down to their last two thousand dollars, Newsome wants that
(34:12):
two grand or they don't get medical because he blew
thirteen billion on illegal aliens. That's enough for now. I'm
holding on to this. Katie Grimes in the Californiaglobe dot com.
You have to read that because there's plenty more. It
it just makes you sick. Okay, we've got more coming
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Can't.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty you're listening to the John Cobel
podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We're going to talk with
Sayed Kashani, who's an attorney from the Palisades lost his
home in the fire, and like many in the Palisades,
as you heard from the report we played before Brigida's news,
they cannot believe that the DWP is draining the reservoir
(00:24):
a second time, the one hundred and seventeen million gallon
reservoir that was drained in twenty twenty four before the
fire because the cover was torn. Well, they put a
new cover on. Eventually it was too late, too late
for use the reservoir to fight fire. But now it's
been torn again, and so they're going to shut the
(00:45):
reservoir down for another nine months, drain it all over again.
And they're still trying to sell that this doesn't matter
except they've come up with a backup water supply for
fire safety. It's hard to keep up with this. Let's
get say Ed Kashan on say it. How are you well?
Speaker 3 (01:01):
It's a couple. Thanks for having me back, appreciate it makes.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
My head spin. So let me get this straight. So
they're actually draining the thing again. But they've always claimed
they would have not done any good at the fire,
but they have a backup water system this time, like
just in case.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Well, i'll tell you right now that backup system, as
they describe it, isn't going to help at all. They're
talking about a ten inch diameter water line that possibly
could bring more water over the hill from Topanga. Now,
the reservoir outputs to two thirty inch diameter lines. You
cannot replace two thirty inch diameter water lines with a
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ten inch line. It just doesn't work. At least, they're
recognizing that there is a fire danger when the reservoir
is empty, so they're doing something about it. And you know,
the interesting thing is when they first put this cover
on in twenty eleven, the DWP had reports and public
meetings and they announced that the reservoir would be drained
(02:06):
for a period of time. And back then the LA
Fire Department actually objected and said, we need this reservoir
for fire safety, and if you drain it, there has
to be alternatives. And at the time there were some alternatives.
Well they're all gone now. The alternatives are like the
Chautauqua reservoir. There's another reservoir which is now closed down,
not even available, so they're you know, they're putting the
(02:30):
entire Pallsage area at risk again.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Over a cover, and they keep insisting we have to
protect drinking water now, this reservoir and correct me if
I had the dates wrong, didn't have a cover. For
over forty years, from about nineteen seventy until twenty eleven, there.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Was no cover exactly. This cover is, you might say,
is kind of a bureaucratic fiction. The idea is, I
don't want to get into the details and the chemistry
about it, but the idea is that having a cover
enables you to use a different type of chlorinating agent
(03:10):
that supposedly is safer. But it's all nonsense. In fact,
there's a epedeomologist, epidemiologist John Instrom out of UCLA speaking
of UCLA who's been quite vocal on this and pointing
out that there's absolutely no risk caused by using ordinary
chlorine and no cover.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
So that's why they got the cover? Well, because yeah,
I know, is there, it's not, it's probably not where
they're gone. It's absurd because they drain this reservoir in
early twenty twenty four. So the Palisades went that whole
year without that reservoir supplying water, and it turns out
(03:49):
I guess they didn't need it.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Right, Well, I'll do you one better. Not only did
they drain the reservoir, but the DWP never told anyone
for as far as I can tell, as far as
the evidence has shown, they didn't even tell the fire department.
So there were helicopters landing at the beginning of the
fire expecting water at the reservoir, and it was empty
and worse. After they drained the reservoir, the director of
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DWP gave it an announcement and he said, and I quote,
our reservoirs are full. What kind of thing to say
is that when you know that the most important reservoir
in that area is still empty at the time.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Why had they been lying so frequently for so long
before the fire, During the fire? After the fire, all
they do is lie, or at least they cover up,
and with whole information, what are they doing?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I think it all goes back to these environmental these
extreme environmental extremists. I mean, the environmental extremists at the
State Water Quality Board state that there's a tiny risk
of some issue of something falling into the reservoir, So
you need to cover the whole reservoir an enormous expense
and take it out of commission and put everyone at
(04:59):
risk for that. Okay, that's one. Now we're hearing, as
you know, from the fire, that in order to protect
some native species of plans, oh, they were unable to
fight the fire. Probably, Well how did that work out
for you? I mean, all those floods were destroyed.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Anyway, This is all so crazy.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
It really is. All the environmental extremists, it really is.
You know, you hear this, people complain about it, and
you never know if it's just hyperbole, right, it's just
people taking political shots at one another. But this is
a real thing. These environmentalists who got embedded into the
government have insane policies that kill people and destroy enormous
(05:41):
amounts of real estate.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Well, the worst of it is, these are people and
programs that operate behind the scenes, that pass rules behind
the scenes. None of this even goes through the legislature,
whatever you think of the legislature, at least as public
areas of the public vote. This cover idea started with
a regulation, and it started in some you know, environmental
(06:03):
bureaucracy that was never voted on, that never had public hearings.
It was just some decision that someone decided that if
you use this type of chlorine instead of other type
of chlorine, then somehow that I don't know, it makes
a difference to the water supply when the first type
of chlorine has been used for over one hundred years
(06:23):
with no problems.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Yeah, first, first I heard of this, and now they're
going to close it down for nine months. Why do
they have to close it for nine months? They repaired
the old cover much more quickly than that.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
You know, I.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
This work. This is what happens when you only have
one outside source to fix your cover. They deal with
a single company I won't give its name, but they're
out of San Diego actually that installs and repairs this cover.
And it's only one company, it's a single source. Well,
guess what if your company knows that you're going to
get substanti business from repairing this cover, what's the incentive
(07:04):
to do it right the first time? Isn't it easier
just to keep coming back and back and back and
repair and repair and refair. I mean, I'm not saying
they do it deliberately, but you know, I mean, I
think it would be a better idea to do it
do it right the first time, so it works. But
like I said, the whole idea of a cover was
never necessary. Is just an extreme environmental decision made by
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unelected bureaucrats that put everyone at risk because of their
environmental agenda.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah, and we never know their name, you know, as
they passed through the battles of the system. We don't
know their name. We know Jennie Kenones. And by the way,
what does it take to get her removed? And this
is one insane, stupid decision and one insane why after
another after another. And she's making seven hundred and fifty
thousand a year and all she's brought is devastation. How
(07:54):
does she survives?
Speaker 3 (07:57):
The And it just gave an award for Women of
the years?
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Yes, yes, the Times the Times game were a Woman
of the Year award.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
I mean, it's it's it's completely ridiculous, but I mean,
there's no accountability. But look, the same people who made
the wrong decisions are the ones who are now covering up.
For example, we sought a report from the state that
claimed that the reservoir wouldn't have made any difference. Well,
who was who provided that report? That report came from
(08:32):
state agencies that imposed the water regulation and the cover
regulation in the first place. In other words, three of
the agencies who wrote that report were the same agencies
that made DWP drain the reservoir. So obviously these agencies
aren't going to come back and admit, oh, we made
a mistake and you know, we let the whole city
burn down because of our environmental policy. No, they're going
(08:54):
to say, well, it never made any difference.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Sed Well, one hundred and seventeen million gallons they claim
would have had no effect. I met a guy in
the Palisades a few weeks ago. He had a two
inch hose connected to his swimming pool and he saved
his home and two weather homes near him watered it
down well so that they wouldn't easily burn, and they
didn't the two inch holls one to his pool.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Well, my neighbor just three houses down for me, was
able to protect his house so long as there was water.
But he didn't have a pool, and that's another story.
But he didn't have a pool, he didn't have a
source of water. As long as the city supplied water.
He was able to keep his house safe once the
water shut off. The evening of the first fire, that's
(09:41):
when his house got fired and there was nothing he
would do about it. He went to firemen, firefighters, they said,
there's no waters, there's nothing we can do. By the way,
the DWP story that houses water lines broke and that's
why they lost pressure. That doesn't hold up either, because
many areas of the Palisades, if you see them after
(10:01):
the fire, they were bone dry. That means the water
means did not break and spill water over. That means
the fire got to these areas after the water was
shut off. So that story isn't going to hold up either. Again,
the only thing that's going to get us the truth
here is this pending litigation, and I'm hoping the courts
will let it go forward to the point that we
(10:22):
have a trial, We have witnesses, we have documents, all
presented in the light of days so people can see
exactly what happened.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Sia Kashani, thanks for coming on, no problem, Thanks for
having me si ed as an attorney in the Palisades,
lost his home there. When we come back, Spencer Pratt,
the reality star who lost his home in the Palisades.
He has seized on Karen Bass admitting on a video
podcast that La City botched the fire response. This was
(10:52):
the piece of video that was cut out of the
final version posted to YouTube. I'll play you Spencer Pratt's
comments on Twitter about this. That's next.
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all the other social media platforms. Well, we just talked
with Sayed Kashani, the attorney out of the Palisades, about this,
the insanity of the DWP now taking the cover off
the reservoir again. They're going to close the reservoir again
for nine months. This time they're proposing a ten inch
(11:53):
water line from the Panga Canyon Reservoir has two thirty
inch water lines that's supposed to be used to fight fires.
You can't replace sixty inches of water line with a
ten inch line. That makes no sense. And they're claiming, well,
they're going to do it for fire. Well, I thought
having a full reservoir wouldn't have made a difference in
(12:14):
the fire. They're so full of it, they're so absolutely
full of it, and they keep saying, well, we got
to keep the drinking water safe. Well, when they closed
it in twenty twenty four, there was no drinking water
that year, and the Palisades didn't need it. Don't you
think they need it now? You know it's going to
rain this week, but you never know when the sant
(12:35):
Ana winds may hit in the summertime. All the rain now,
everything could be bone dry come July or August or
September next year, and there'll be a lot more there'll
be a lot more brush that had grown because of
all the rain we've had so far this winter. Spencer Pratt,
the reality star, we've had him on the show. He's
(12:55):
responding to the Karen Bass botch comment to quickly run down.
Karen Bass appeared on a podcast called The Fifth Column,
and it was originally a sixty six minute podcast The
last four minutes came after the host said goodbye to
Bass on air, and then the video chems kept rolling
(13:18):
and she started talking about how La City botched the
response the La Fire Department, and the video was posted
in November. At some point between November and this week,
Bass's office realized that that extra four minutes was up
there and she was admitting that the city had screwed
(13:38):
up badly, and so they took it down, and the
weasel who hosted the podcast agreed to take it down,
then hung up on the La Times when he was
questioned on it. I got to get his name while
I look for his name. Just to remind everybody who
the weasel is. Here is Spencer Pratt on X with
a post going after Bass.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
Mayor Karen Bass just got outed for admitting that the
Palisades fire was quote botched while on a hot mic
at the end of a recent podcast. However, you can't
find that video anywhere because Mayor Bass's office demanded that
they scrubbed that footage from the internet.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Well, guess what, by admitting that.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
The Palisades fire response was botched, she just earned herself
a subpoena from our lawyers. For the Palisades Fire lawsuit.
Her stunning admission is a massive departure from.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
The Ooh, we did everything we could. It was just one.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
Hundred miles pro wins bs and narrative that they've been
spinning to date. But in a moment of accidental candor,
she let the truth slip, and this mistake will cost
her dearly. She has just signaled that we were right.
They did botch the fire response, and now we have
good cause to call her as a witness.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
What did she mean by botched? What went wrong? Who
screwed up?
Speaker 5 (14:58):
Thanks for playing It's time for my lawyers to go fishing.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
That's great, That is great, And he's absolutely right. She
and all her stooge fire chiefs, and she's had three
of them this year, and countless other fire officials had
been insisting repeatedly, over and over again, we.
Speaker 6 (15:19):
Did everything we could. These were extraordinary circumstances. One hundred
miles of hour winds. There was no one hundred mile
an hour winds, nothing even close. They didn't read six
days worth of warnings from the National Weather Service and
had a firefighters at the site of the original January
(15:41):
first fire, which was still smoldering, and it was smoldering
because the ninnies in the State Parks Department went down
and kicked the LA Fire Department out on January second,
because they wanted to save the freaking milk vetch plant,
the milk Vetch plan. They didn't want the firefighters stepping
on the milkvetch plant. They didn't want Laft bulldozers creating
(16:02):
a fire line. And I remember another LA time story
early in the year where they had long wanted to
build a fire road out of the Palisades up and
over the mountain going to the north, and they weren't
allowed to because of the milk Vetch plan.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
That was a story from US January or February. But yeah,
they botched it. Of course they botched it. They had
nobody there.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
It.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Bass admitted it, and I hope she gets nailed by
the attorneys, but that's going to be a fight because
she never wanted to admit to losing two billion dollars
in homeless money, and she hired fifteen attorneys at taxpayer
expense to keep her from testifying in front of a
federal judge. Fifteen attorneys. They created so much delay that
(16:54):
the other side gave up. So how many attorneys are
they going to fight Spencer Pratt and the rest of
the Palisades residents with twenty five thirty five. By the way,
the name of the host of the Fifth Column is
Matt Welch. He was the weasel who hosted the show
and the ninnies in Bass's office. Why are they so
(17:20):
beholden to her? She abandoned the city, people died, sixty
eight hundred buildings burned. She abandoned the city, She defunded
the fire department. What are these staff members? This is
your life? And then they call up Matt Welch and
bully him to take down the last four minutes of
(17:41):
the podcast, and he does it. Wow, Wow, Wow, I
don't get how the world works anymore. Okay, we've got
more coming up on the John Cobelt Show.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
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Speaker 2 (17:59):
Were on every day one till four o'clock. After four o'clock,
it's John Cobelt Show on demand on the iHeart app
and you can listen to what you missed. We are
going to now talk with John Fleischman. He's got a
website so does itmatter dot com. He's a political writer
and a commentator. And there is a story that has
(18:22):
been bubbling in the background. We've covered it some because
there's only one reporter in the whole state trying to
find out the truth, and her name is Ashley Zavala
for Channel three and Sacramento KCRA. And this thing, like
I said, for all the people just beside themselves with
anger and fury over Trump using private money to build
(18:43):
that ballroom. In Washington, we got Newsome spending over a
billion dollars on something called the State Capitol Annex project.
It's a new large section of the state Capitol, over
a billion dollars, but nobody really knows how much it's
going to cost or it's going to be built. It
there's a tremendous amount of secrecy, a lot of nondisclosure agreements,
(19:07):
and it looks like a big sticking boondoggle that nobody
wants to acknowledge. So we'll talk to us talk with
John Fleischman about this, John, how are you.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
I'm doing fine, John, And you're not kidding, you know.
Speaker 7 (19:22):
Gavin Newsom was very quick that he went on X
to call the expansion of the White House, the knockoff Versailles,
and and and really let Donald Trump have it while
he's got his own crazy thing going on.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
At the Capitol.
Speaker 7 (19:35):
Uh, the ballroom expansion that the White House is estimated
to cost around four hundred million dollars, and as you
pointed out, it's all coming from private money. But here
in California, they're they're like massively expanding the state capitol,
like and the last the last budget was one point
one billion, but no one thinks that's even going to
(19:57):
come close to what it's actually going to cost. There's
no no one in charge, No one will say what
it actually costs.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
And this is my favorite part.
Speaker 7 (20:04):
There's over two thousand people working on this project, and
the government has had every single person, from the lawyers
down to the construction workers signing legal nondescrolloser agreements so
that they cannot talk to the media or anyone else
about what they're doing and how much it costs.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
It's completely nuts.
Speaker 7 (20:24):
Newsom obviously has approved the funny because he signed the
budget bills that include the money. And as you said,
Ashley's of all of the reporter from KSETV and Sacramento
has been on this thing. But she's been the only
one and so there's been virtually no disclosure about this thing,
and it's absolutely boggers. I mean it's I mean, I
(20:45):
wish that I know this is radio, but you know,
if you go to I'm sure your website, if you
go to so doesn'tmatter dot com. My piece has photos.
It's just it's like.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
They're building the taj Mahal.
Speaker 7 (20:56):
He's building his own Versailles at the same time that
he's trying to criticize as the president.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
And it's it's it's it's not there's some hypocrisy.
Speaker 7 (21:08):
And it's even better they it's leaked out that they
have built this new structure of the building with secure
secret corridors that will allow the politicians to move all
around the Capitol without ever having to come out to where.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
The media or the public are.
Speaker 7 (21:22):
So it's like they're literally creating this own little kind
of like honeycombed secret capital structure.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
At the cost.
Speaker 7 (21:30):
I mean, they're spending more than on this than you
would spend to.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Build like an NBA stadium.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
And what's going to be in what's going to be
inside this attics.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
Well, supposedly it's just more office spaces, more rooms for
all these legislators to work out of. It's it's literally
a physical manifestation of the grotesque enlargement of California state government.
You have to have a bigger capital because we're spending
more money and doing more stuff.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
And it's and again.
Speaker 7 (22:01):
There's literally you know, it's not like they held at
press conference and said, Hi, I'm the architect.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
We're building this up.
Speaker 7 (22:08):
Here's the charts, here's what it's going to be, or
here's what it's going to cost. Ashley wrote an entire
story of the millions and millions and millions of dollars
they're spending, importing granted from like Italy put into the capitol.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
I mean we're paying for that, We're paying for that
Italian granted.
Speaker 7 (22:27):
Yeah, but we don't know how much we're paying for it,
because anybody that could tell us has been locked down
with the non disclosure agreement and has been told del
w sou that if they disclose anything.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
And I've never even heard of such a thing.
Speaker 7 (22:40):
And you know, literally, after years of covering this, Ashlely
like a week ago, got some of these legislators that
are in charge of this to.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Go on her program.
Speaker 7 (22:50):
Where they proceeded to tell everybody exactly nothing. And so
the whole thing is crazy, and so I think it's
going to be one more of those questions that people
are like, Okay, you really want this guy to be
the president of the United States. It's completely nuts. Although
you know, maybe you know, the whole thing is just crazy.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
He he actually says out loud, it's a taxpayer, I'd
like to know what it costs. Well, you know what
it costs. You signed the bill authorizing the budget.
Speaker 7 (23:22):
Oh not only that, not only that, but he has
appointed his office has appointed there's a three member group
that oversees all of this somebody from the state Senate,
a senator, somebody from the state Assembly, and.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
The governor's representative.
Speaker 7 (23:36):
So while he's telling us I liked to know how
everything's spend, his representative is in every meeting making every decision.
And so once again it's a complete pile of dog
crap right that he's literally we've seen this guy before.
He's pathological. He goes on talk radio shows, he goes
on television, and he literally says whatever he wants. And
(23:59):
because of all of his friends in the media, this
radio show accepted you know.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Nobody calls them on it.
Speaker 7 (24:06):
Well, and why he literally gets away with saying whatever
he wants?
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Why so many friends in the media, the listeners and
the viewers and the readers of these media sites. They're
the taxpayers paying for this. The media's obligation should be
to its audience, to the taxpayers. Why is there obligation
to protecting newsome I don't understand.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (24:32):
And by the way, the Los Angeles Times, the San
Francisco Chronicle, the Sacramento all of these newspapers have standing
to go sue the government over these non disclosure agreements
and get the truth out.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Do you think any of them have.
Speaker 7 (24:45):
Taken the time to sue the government over this?
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Well, that's what I want to add. I want to ask,
how can it be legal for them to force two
thousand people to sign non disclosure agreements over a project
that's costing over a billion dollars of tax money and
the purpose of the building is going to be making
law in California for the public. How can we not
(25:08):
have access to every detail and understand where every penny went.
Speaker 7 (25:14):
Well, understand what they do in California is and this
is really it tells you something about the legislature. Most
of these invasive laws that they passed that put restrictions
on us.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Or open up the books.
Speaker 7 (25:26):
In almost every one of these laws, they put boilerplate
language at the end it says, this public disclosure law
shall not apply to the legislature or the governor, and
so they exempt themselves from all these disclosure laws. But
I don't think what they're.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Doing is legal.
Speaker 7 (25:41):
Hence I was saying somebody ought to sue them and
get this information. But you know, the media is more
interested in covering his hair than they are covering his versides.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
His verside, So you.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Know, you mentioned those major newspapers make it up. We
got to have about twenty five minutes to television stations,
not to mention, all the television networks and the cable
news channels, and nobody, nobody wants to take him on.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Well apparently not, you know. So, I mean, I've now
written about it today.
Speaker 7 (26:18):
And Ashley is of all of the local Sacramento reporter
has been writing about it. But it has been virtually
crickets from the state wide media.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
And it's just a reminder.
Speaker 7 (26:28):
That they do not exist to be watchdogs on the left.
You could be sure if there was a Republican governor
right now or a Republican legislature, they would be all
over it. But they're too excited, frankly, as biased media
people for what the policies are that are coming out
of Sacramento.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
And they don't want to provide a distraction, right because
Trump is spending.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
A fraction with private money on that ballroom, and look
at all the hysteria that goes on.
Speaker 7 (26:55):
Well, like we said, Gavin Newsom himself, while he is
overseeing this boondoggle, has the nerve to go on X
and accused Donald Trump of building his own private Versailles.
Those are his words, those are the governor's words, and
so really laying really.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Stupid and uh, you know hopefully you know.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Yeah, I don't know, you know what, does he keep talking.
Speaker 7 (27:16):
Maybe America deserves Maybe America deserves this guy, and we'll
get a new governor. Although frankly, the batch of people
running behind him don't seem to be the brightest light
bulbs in California either.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
I mean no, there's nobody home.
Speaker 7 (27:29):
At least not on the this not on the Democrat side.
All right, John, our attorney general may run. He'll save
us all right, Thanks John, thanks for having me on,
and I'd encourage people to come visit sodaes itmatter dot com?
Speaker 2 (27:40):
So does itmatter dot com? John Fleischman. He's got a
two part series on this on this scandal, uh coming up.
Katie Grinds from californiaglobe dot com. She's writing about this situation.
She also put together the Top fifty California issues, like
the Top fifty Gavin Newsom disasters. I'm not going to
(28:04):
read all fifty, touch on a few of them again.
All the feeding back to what I discussed last hour.
There are going to be many Democratic candidates running for
president against Newsom, and they are collecting a tremendous amount
of opposition research on all this. He is going to
get pillaried. Like you won't believe we actually has competition
for the nomination.
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all the other social media platforms. All right, well, we
just had John fly spanon from sodesitmatter dot com. One
of her other favorite reporters, Katie Grimes from California Globe.
She was on with us yesterday and this week.
Speaker 6 (29:11):
She wrote a piece about the Top fifty disasters. The
top fifty disasters Governor Gavin Newsom has ushered into California.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
We should do it. We should do a countdown. We
could probably fill four hours of a countdown. Well, here
we go. I'm not going to read all fifty, but
the ones that some of them are old, some of
them are are newly discovered or newly rediscovered because they're
a few years old and probably everybody's forgotten. How about
(29:42):
this one. Just found this out a few days ago.
Under Gavin Newsom, well, eight hundred and seventeen thousand Californians
left California in twenty twenty two. He's written, seventeen thousand
people left the state in twenty twenty two, more than
(30:06):
two hundred thousand of them were ages twenty five or older,
most of them with four year or two year college degrees,
and they went to Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Florida, and the Carolinas.
Joel Kotkin, the demographicer, scholar, researcher, he went through the
(30:27):
numbers and you could track how many people leave the state,
how many moved to other states, and what their socio
income status is, and so what you had here is
a huge percentage of the two hundred thousand net migrants
lost were college educated. Andy had Nevada, Arizona, Texas, and Florida.
(30:55):
Thousands of businesses have fled to other states. That's just
one number two. I talk about this all the time
and I'll never stop talking about it. Highest taxes in
the nation. California ranks among the worst for high taxes,
the bottom two for worse for individual taxes, worst gas tax,
(31:16):
highest business tax. And he's looking for more tax He's
trying to pass a retroactive billionaire's tax. He's going after
two hundred and twenty billionaires who live in California, and
it's going to make them pay for the past in
case they leave. And this is going to drive some
of them out in twenty twenty. Here's another one. Twenty twenty,
(31:41):
he planned to close two state prisons. He's closed five.
Speaker 6 (31:46):
Remember after we've passed Prop thirty six over his objections.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Which made stealing illegal again and drug use illegal again
and created a set of sentinel laws. Well, he was
so pissed that it passed against his objections that he
hasn't funded it. He refuses to funder the treatment programs
for the drug addicts. Gavin Newsom is the first governor
(32:16):
to make homelessness a way of life. The number of
mentally ill drug addicted people littering the streets with thess
and drug needles, tent encampments and filth has grown dramatically.
I think it's about one hundred and eighty seven thousand
in the state. He has spent thirty seven billion dollars
on homelessness in the last six years, and homelessness has
(32:38):
exploded in the state. These are all from Katie Grimes,
and I'm just getting a fraction of them. You should
go to californiaglobe dot com. You could read the whole list.
Eight to twelve dollars gas coming. We used to have
forty three refineries We're down to seven our oil production
has declined by sixty five percent, our foreign imports have
(33:02):
increased by seventy percent, or increased two seventy percent. Let's
not forget the COVID lockdowns, which destroyed thousands of businesses
and destroyed the childhoods and the learning capabilities of hundreds
(33:24):
of thousands of children. He spent four and a half
million dollars on free immigration legal services, and of course
the big whopper, he passed a bill that guaranteed free
healthcare to every illegal immigrant in the state. It's costing
US thirteen billion dollars, now thirteen billion. The medical program
(33:49):
is insolvent, it's broke. What do you do with a
broke plan like that. Well, he's going to medical to
any poor or disabled, elderly person who has two thousand
dollars in assets. So if your parents or grandparents are
down to their last two thousand dollars, Newsome wants that
(34:12):
two grand or they don't get medical because he blew
thirteen billion on illegal aliens. That's enough for now. I'm
holding on to this. Katie Grimes in the Californiaglobe dot com.
You have to read that because there's plenty more. It
it just makes you sick. Okay, we've got more coming
(34:32):
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