September 23, 2025 • 30 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (09/23) - Don Mihalek comes on the show to talk about the Secret Service saying they thwarted a plan that would’ve impacted NYC’s telecommunications system. Pres. Trump called the world out at the UN today. One of the guys who tried to assassinated Pres. Trump stabbed himself in the courtroom after being found guilty.
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on the iHeart app. All right, this all's just happened
in the last few hours. Donald Trump went off on
all those pompfoons at the United Nations, all the European diplomats,
everybody there. We're gonna play you some clips cause he
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just smacked him all in the head. Also, Trump's the
second would be assassin of Trump, Ryan Ruth. He was
convicted today of trying to kill Trump, and then Ruth,
after you heard the verdict, tried to stab himself. Well,
he did stab himself in the neck in the courtroom.
(01:06):
We'll tell you about that. And just a few seconds ago,
there's a story that Trump has announced that NATO should
shoot down any Russian jets that fly over NATO airspace. Okay,
that's three. Here's fourth, and we're going to talk with
Don Mahalik from ABC News. He's the law enforcement contributor
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and the retired senior Secret Service agent. Because this morning,
the big story was that the Secret Service had cracked
a plot that could have brought down all the cell service,
at least in New York City. They found hundreds of
servers and tens of thousands of SIM chips that could
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have produced thirty million calls a minute that would have
overwhelmed the New York City Cell Service. And this was
a strike at this United Nations General Assembly where Trump
spoke at and all the other world leaders attended as well.
Don Mahallak is going to explain that story for us. Now, Don,
(02:16):
how are you.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Good, John, how are you Man?
Speaker 1 (02:20):
I'm good, trying to keep up here.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
There's a lot to keep up with today.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I know.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
So what was this plot and what did the Secret
Service do?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
So this case started from a threat case that the
Secret Service was investigating. The director and several of the protectees,
high level White House staff type that the Secret Service has.
We're getting anonymous threatening calls that needed to be investigating
so the Secret Service began its investigation and through it
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they traced it to an area of Brooklyn, and what
they found there was several apartments that once they served
the warrants and made entry, were empty apartments with racks
and racks of data servers with over one hundred thousand
SIM cards and a couple of different apartments there that
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were making these random row VO calls. Think of the
random texts you get on your cell phone, of the
random calls you get right, those type of calls. But
of course this all started from call threatening calls being
made to Secret Service protect these I tell people, from
my understanding, it would have been like a scene out
of a twenty four episode or a Jason Bourne movie.
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When you walked into these apartments, the scope was, I think,
unlike anything they've ever seen before. Normally, these type of
cyber cases are some kid in the basement with a server.
In this case, it was so va that the investigation
is indicating that there was definitely some foreign state sponsor
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for this type of set up who were utilizing criminal types,
you know, low level terrorist types to set this thing up,
and that you know, these devices were capable of conducting
all sorts of telecom attacks, including disabling cell phone towers,
doing denial of service attacks. Thinking the nine one one
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system is taken out, you can make a nine to
one call, doing anonymous to cryptic communications between threat actors
or terrorist groups, being able to coordinate anonymously. And the
key for the UN was if they were to overtake
cell towers and around the UN being able to intercept
and route world leader's cell phone communications and think about
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them using AI now and changing what is being said
and what the worldwide implications would be because of that,
this case, this situation was vast, and that's why they've
looped into the office of the Director of National Director
of National Intelligence because there was an intelligen his piece
of this because of the foreign state actors, and the
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other question out there is where else are these other
parts of the country have something similar set up, which
is what they need to find.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Out what country is suspected being behind this.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
China has been named, but they're not one hundred percent,
but that's the name that's been floated out there. But
it could be a China, it could be an Iran,
it could be a Russia. The thinking is that because
of the scope of this. This is not something a
gang or a low level criminal organization you can do.
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This is this can only be done with some sophisticated
technical support. And if you think about the Salt typhoon
virus which hit Verizon and a couple other self carries
a couple of months ago, that virus was China initiated
and was particularly targeting the cell phones of members of
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Congress so they could intercept members of Congress communications. So
they're the most likely suspect in it's kind of situation
right now.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Yeah, I know, we don't know a whole lot, but
is this something that the Chinese government would have sanctioned
or is this some type of rogue group? I mean,
you're having this you in General Assembly meeting. This is
the biggest meeting of the year. There's a one hundred
foreign leaders all gathering. And if this is China, this
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is China really attacking every other nation.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Right And you know, from what I know about China,
there is no such thing as a rogue group in China.
Everybody works for China, and this is the type of
incident where, yeah, the Chinese could have theoretically been targeting
all the other world leaders or that were there, because
think about the power of knowing what every world leader
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is talking about, or what the plans are, or the
conversations every world leaders is having. Think about the power
in that. The blackmail, the national security implications, I mean,
it's it's it could it could have been world changing.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
How close were they to pulling this off?
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Well, considering the Secret Service served the warrants pretty recently
and the un started a couple of days ago, they
were pretty close.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
The would would they have taken out the cell phones
in a much wider area than New York City?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
They could have from from the setup, they could have
taken the self I mean it was based in New York,
so the thinking was it was New York centric, but
they could have theoretically targeted anywhere in the country and
taken out self communications and and or taken over cell towers.
It was that robust of a of a setup that
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they uncovered.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
If the warning threats came from this set up, why
did they send him out? If they hadn't sent out
the warning, maybe they would have been able to succeed.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Well, I think right now they haven't been able to.
They haven't arrested anybody, They're leaning. I think they're leaning
on the intelligence side of this, so you know, intelligence
is a different animal, so I think there might be
they might have released that information to let folks know
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and hear that they're on to them. And in the
intelligence world, they don't want to be uncovered, so maybe
it helps shut down some places. Something's going on in
other places.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
All right, Well, Don mohollick, thank you for coming on.
I hopefully do Johns, hopefully we learn a lot more
about this. Don Mahowick, ABC News LA Enforcement col contributor,
and he's a retired senior Secret Service agent. Yeah, it's crazy.
I mean, they go into these apartments in Brooklyn and
they found one hundred thousand SIM cards, three hundred servers,
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and they were going to tie up all the cell
phone systems in the New York City area at least,
and it was to greet the General Assembly of the
UN one hundred foreign leaders and their staffs. Trump spoke today.
We're going to play the Trump clips in just a moment,
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because he really told off the whole world today. And
they were going to send out three hundred million text
messages a minute, and that would have shut down all
communication like three hundred spam messages a minute.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
And.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Secret Service said they had never seen such an extensive
operation before. There's got to be others. This is nuts,
all right, we come back Donald Trump going to town,
whiling away on all the pompous buffoons that run the world.
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all your anger and fury on the world. Trump did
that today, but instead of calling the moist line, he
went to the United Nations General Assembly. One hundred world leaders,
all those diplomats, all the staff, everybody who's anybody was
there and Trump took center stage and he smacked them
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all in the head with a two by four. It
actually is great because these are the pomp foonds that
have really ruined the world and told them exactly why.
He said, US is in a golden age, but everybody,
especially in Europe, is falling apart because of illegal immigration,
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bad green energy policies, and weak leaders. And he told
them all to their faces. Let's start with my favorite.
This is Trump yelling at the European countries over legal
immigration cut number three.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
In Greece, the number was fifty four percent, and in Switzerland,
beautiful Switzerland, is seventy two percent. If the people in
prisons are from outside of Switzerland, when your prisons are
filled with so called asylum seekers who repaid kindness, and
that's what they did, they repaid kindness with crime, It's
time to end the failed experiment of open borders.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
You have to end it now. Let's see. I can
tell you I'm really good at this stuff.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Your countries are going to hell. In America, we've taken
bold action to swift shut down uncontrolled migration. Once we
started detaining and deporting everyone who crossed the border and
removing illegal aliens from the United States, they simply stopped coming.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
They're not coming anymore.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
We're getting a lot of credit, but they're not coming anymore.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
That's true, they're not coming anymore. And it looks like
the number of people who left, either being forced out
or leaving on their own, is over two million. I
read another story today that, as hard as it is
to believe, it looks like that's a real number. Over
two million. Fewer illegal aliens in this country, only a
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fraction of them actually deported by ICE. For all the
hysteria going on, but the reason that ICE should instill
fear in people is because the bulk of the migration
is voluntary back to the home country. And so that's
why showing force is important when you do this, and
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that is why they do it. It's not so much
about the number they catch. It's about the number of
people who look at the TV and say, Okay, time's up,
let's get the hell out of here before they knock
on our door. And did you catch those statistics at
the beginning of the clip. Fifty four percent of the
prisoners in Greece are illegal aliens, seventy two percent, seventy
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two percent in Switzerland. Switzerland is so nice. Why would
you do that if you were the Swiss? Switzerland is
beautiful and pleasant and peaceful. I was there for a
day last year. I just don't understand. All right, let's
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let's continue on with this more on a legal immigration
cut number four.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Our message is very simple. If you come illegally into
the United States, you're going to jail, or you're going
back to where you came from. Well perhaps even further
than that.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
You know what that means.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
I want to thank the country of El Salvador for
the successful and professional job they're done in receiving and
jailing so many criminals that entered our country.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
I love the murmur from from the dimplomats. What does
he mean? What does he does he mean? The hell
does he mean? They're they're going to hell, They're going
to the next dimension, Oh, thinking El Salvador, because El
Salvador has that super max mega prison where they keep
everybody in their tidy whities, and there they laid laid
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them down by the hundreds and thousands in these these
huge uh, in these gigantic rooms. That's what you gotta
do the criminals. Of course, now he continues whacking away UH,
taking credit for bringing America back, and reemphasizes that Europe
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is going down the toilet because of illegal immigration. Cut five.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
We have reasserted that America belongs to the American people,
and I encourage all countries to take their own stand
in defense of their citizens as well. You have to
do that because I see it. I'm not mentioning names.
I see it, and I can call every single one
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of them. You're destroying your countries. They're being destroyed. Europe
is in serious trouble. They've been invaded by a force
of illegal aliens like nobody's ever seen before. Illegal aliens
are pouring into Europe. Nobody is every and nobody's doing
anything to change it, to get them out.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
It's not sustainable.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
And because they choose to be politically correct, they're doing
just absolutely nothing about it.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
And you could see it just in the news this week.
I mean, they've taken a tremendous amount, a tremendous number
of migrants from the Middle East over the last ten years,
you know, places like Sharia, and also from North Africa.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
And.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
They had huge demonstrations in Italy, in Milan, for example,
and in London. Now the native Italians and the native
British are not going to take to the streets by
the thousands to scream about Palestine. They're all immigrants of
one kind or another. So this is what you invite
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into the country, crazy people screaming, all kinds of disorder,
all kinds of crime. That who migrates, and so Europe
is suffering all from all kinds of spasms. Now you know,
every five minutes there's another Palestinian protest going on. Why
do that to your people? You know, the Italians just
want to live their life, like the Swiss, like the Greeks,
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like the British. Who what's to put up with this?
The insanity from these countries. Many of them have never
been able to govern themselves, They've never figured it out.
You don't import all of that trouble. You know, you
have people who are who want to work, who are peaceful,
who are hard working, hard working working class or professionals. Yeah,
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those you let in. But Jesus not this open border garbage.
It's made every country in Europe worse. It made us
a lot worse. All we well, I mean, how many
criminals did we have? I mean it's just shocking. But
this is this is the progressive infestation that's running the country,
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running the world. They're all infected with the progressive virus
in their brain. And all it's done is caused destruction,
the destruction of peaceful societies. All right, well we got
more when we come back, a couple more Trump clips
because he went after the whole He went after the
whole purpose of the un which I waited all my
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life for somebody to do.
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the radio show. We're playing Trump clips. Trump was knocking,
was knocking everybody at the UNF the side of the
head because you know, he gave an hour long speech
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and it was four times longer than he was allotted.
He just went up there and he kept ripping them
and ripping them and ripping them. I played you the
clips where he repeatedly told the European countries they got
to end the legal immigration. Your countries are going to hell.
Let's play a clip where he questions the whole purpose
of the United Nations.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
What is the purpose of the United Nations? The un
has such tremendous potential. I've always said it, it has
such tremendous, tremendous potential. It's not even coming close to
living up to that potential for the most part, at
least for now. All they seem to do is write
a really strongly worded letter and then never follow that
(19:11):
letter up. It's empty words, and empty words don't solve war.
The only thing that solves war and wars is action.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
I've always wondered that all they do. You know, you're
supposed to revere the United Nations. They teaches us when
you're little kids, and then you grow up and you
realize there's a bunch of gas bags. It's like a
debating society at a university. They just come there and
they blather at each other, and they make proclamations and resolutions,
(19:42):
and they write letters and they condemn I mean, how
many times have they condemned everything that's gone on in
the Middle East? And zero effect, zero effect on everything.
What they do is they steal a lot of money
with all their nonprofits, all the tax money they've sucked
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up from countries. He called climate change. Trump did the
greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world, and curiously,
he got very little applause the entire time. It was
fifty seven minutes of Trump yelling at them, and they
just sat on their hands the whole time. He's telling
the truth. He's right about legal aliens, he's right about
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climate change being a big con job. And by the way,
they have it lowered the temperature around the globe, not
by one million to one degree whatever. Whatever the hell
they've done has had no effect because you can't control
the climate. He then you know how he's blowing up
Venezuelan ships that well, that are carting the drugs here.
(20:49):
He's just blowing them up. And everybody knows why he
should go to the UN. It's thing. No, we're not
going to go to the u N. And Congress is
going right, he needs congressional approval. No, no congressional approval.
Everybody just wants to debate and pontificate and just make
self serving speeches. What you do is, if you have
people out of Venezuela, we're bringing drugs to America to
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kill our Americans, what you do is you blow them up.
And he talks about this and cut six.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
I've also designated multiple savage drug cartels as far as
foreign terrorists organizations, along with two blood thirsty transnational gangs,
probably the worst gangs anywhere in the world.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
MS thirteen and.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Trend de Ragua Trend de Iragua's from Venezuela. By the way,
such organizations torture, name, mutilate, and murder with impunity. They're
the enemies of all humanity. For this reason, we've recently
begun using the supreme power of the United States military
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to destroy Venezuela terrorists and trafficking networks led by Nicholas Maduro.
To every iris thugs smuggling poisonous drugs into the United
States of America, please be warned that we will blow
you out of existence. That's what we're doing. We have
no choice. Can't let it happen.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
He said that so softly. We will blow you out
of existence. But tell me where he's wrong on this.
Are we supposed to let the Venezuelans bring the drugs
here to kill our people? I don't understand who objects
to this unless you're getting a cut. Sometimes I warner
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him by some of the people in Congress who are
objecting the Trump is doing this on his own, Well,
then go ahead, pass your phony, blooney resolution. But if
anyone is taken bringing drugs into the country by boat,
blow them up.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
We will blow you out of existence.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Hey, you know that's how you deal with it. They
sealed the border, right, I heard that. I've read that
fentanyl deliveries are down by fifty percent. And people would say, well,
you're not going to stop the drug smuggling by closing
the border. They'll find other ways. Well good, they're trying
boats now, and you blow up the boats. Okay, so
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there we go. We've cut off two ways to get
in here. You can't go over land because the border
is shut. And now you can't sail a drug ship
to America. Either blow the floyd. Good, we'll blow them
out of the sky. What else you got here? Hold
dig tunnels? Fine, we'll fill up the tunnels with cement
(23:31):
and suffocate them. All you have to eat, right, All
you have to do is take action. This is easy,
This is simple. You just don't put up with it anymore.
God imagine if a pray president, any president, had done
this ten twenty years ago, how many fewer people would
be dead from drug overdoses. Literally hundreds of thousands fewer deaths.
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How many kids, teenage college students would still be alive
if some president had just decided to seal the border
and blow up the ships. Why is it controversial? Why
is it a political issue? Why is it debatable? I
really don't understand. Yeah, bad guys trying to kill us.
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Kill them first, blow them up at the very least,
seal off the border. I mean, who's side of these
people on?
Speaker 4 (24:28):
All?
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Right, we've got when we come back. Oh you know
what's coming up at two o'clock. First, we've got John
Fleischman coming on. He's got a story about this Prop fifty,
you know, Newsom's stupid plan to redraw the district lines.
And he's gonna explain how they're carving out special districts
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for Democrats who are turned out in the legislature. Their
political careers would be at a dead end, except now
they have a new congressional district to run in and
there'll be no competition because the districts will be heavily
weighted Democratic and they get a free seat. Also, in
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the next segment, talk about Ryan Ruth. He was the
guy behind the second assassination attempt and he got convicted
today and as soon as the conviction was announced, he
tried to kill himself. We'll tell you about it coming up.
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A six Moist slide for Friday eight seven seven Moist
eighty six, eight seven seven Moist eighty six, or the
talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. The second guy who
tried to kill Trump last summer was Ryan ruth rout H.
He was the one hiding at the golf course and
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he had a rifle poking through the fence and a
Secret Service agent saw the rifle and they caught him
and he was convicted today and he's probably gonna go
to jail for life. He tried to he tried to
(26:16):
defend himself in court. He was his own lawyer, in
no legal training, and he's really mentally ill. And I'm
just glad that he was convicted of the crime and
there wasn't this carve out for mental illness. I have
a feeling if he'd gotten a real lawyer, they would
have played the mental health card and maybe he would
(26:36):
have gotten off or at least not not said to
federal prison for life. The jurors only took two hours
and after the verdict was read, he pulled out a
pen and he stabbed himself in the neck, right in
(26:58):
front of everybody. He was a construction worker and his
defense was really bizarre. His opening statement touched on prehistoric
(27:19):
human history, world leaders including Adolph Hitler, Vladimir Putin, Benjamin Nutt,
and Yahoo. He tried to ask prospective jurors questions about
what they thought of the US taking over Greenland, what
they thought of pro Palestinian student activism, how they would
(27:42):
react if a turtle crossed the road when they were
driving seriously, and the judge in the case, Aileen Cannon,
a Trump appointee, kept blocking the questions, saying they were relevant.
He tried he had a witness list, and he tried
to call Trump himself to the stand. He also wanted
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Mahmoud Khalil, one of those Palestinian activists. He wanted a
Secret Service agent to testify because he claimed the agent
asked him to spank or slap his rear end. And
he called up a couple of acquaintances who testified, and
the whole purpose of the questioning was aren't I an
(28:23):
I sky? Are and I a good guy? He also
wanted to know why his case wasn't eligible for the
death penalty. He asked to be traded as in a
prisoner exchange with Hamas or Iran, China or Russia. He
challenged Trump to a game of golf to the death.
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If he lost, he would be executed, and if Trump lost,
Ruth would become president. This is how he defended himsel.
He's clearly a complete metal medal patient. Honestly, I think
if he hired an attorney, they might have gotten him
off just to send him to an asylum for six months,
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because you know, the experts there would probably have declared
him sane after a period of treatment. That's what usually happens. Instead,
he was found guilty. He'll probably spend the rest of
his life in prison. And he stabbed himself in the neck.
It was really awful. I mean, his son and daughter
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were outside the courtroom. The daughter was crying. She was
insisting to reporters that he was innocent, that everybody was
lying and bullying. And I don't know, I think that
genetic trail needs to come to an end. All right,
we come back John Fleischman. His website is so doesnmatter
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dot com. He writes almost exclusively about politics, and he's
got a piece about Prop fifty. This is the Gavin
Newsom's thing to put redistricting back in the hands of
Newsom's political buddies. Right now, we have an independent panel
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doing the line drawing. This would change it. And he's
got a story about how when they read through the lines,
it gave jobs to some Democratic legislative leaders who are
going to be turned out and they don't have a
political future unless this proposition passes, because this will create
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new congressional districts for them to win. John Fleischman coming
up next, Deborah Mark Live in the KFI twenty four
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on the iHeart app. All right, this all's just happened
in the last few hours. Donald Trump went off on
all those pompfoons at the United Nations, all the European diplomats,
everybody there. We're gonna play you some clips cause he
(00:45):
just smacked him all in the head. Also, Trump's the
second would be assassin of Trump, Ryan Ruth. He was
convicted today of trying to kill Trump, and then Ruth,
after you heard the verdict, tried to stab himself. Well,
he did stab himself in the neck in the courtroom.
(01:06):
We'll tell you about that. And just a few seconds ago,
there's a story that Trump has announced that NATO should
shoot down any Russian jets that fly over NATO airspace. Okay,
that's three. Here's fourth, and we're going to talk with
Don Mahalik from ABC News. He's the law enforcement contributor
(01:29):
and the retired senior Secret Service agent. Because this morning,
the big story was that the Secret Service had cracked
a plot that could have brought down all the cell service,
at least in New York City. They found hundreds of
servers and tens of thousands of SIM chips that could
(01:55):
have produced thirty million calls a minute that would have
overwhelmed the New York City Cell Service. And this was
a strike at this United Nations General Assembly where Trump
spoke at and all the other world leaders attended as well.
Don Mahallak is going to explain that story for us. Now, Don,
(02:16):
how are you.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Good, John, how are you Man?
Speaker 1 (02:20):
I'm good, trying to keep up here.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
There's a lot to keep up with today.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I know.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
So what was this plot and what did the Secret
Service do?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
So this case started from a threat case that the
Secret Service was investigating. The director and several of the protectees,
high level White House staff type that the Secret Service has.
We're getting anonymous threatening calls that needed to be investigating
so the Secret Service began its investigation and through it
(02:52):
they traced it to an area of Brooklyn, and what
they found there was several apartments that once they served
the warrants and made entry, were empty apartments with racks
and racks of data servers with over one hundred thousand
SIM cards and a couple of different apartments there that
(03:13):
were making these random row VO calls. Think of the
random texts you get on your cell phone, of the
random calls you get right, those type of calls. But
of course this all started from call threatening calls being
made to Secret Service protect these I tell people, from
my understanding, it would have been like a scene out
of a twenty four episode or a Jason Bourne movie.
(03:35):
When you walked into these apartments, the scope was, I think,
unlike anything they've ever seen before. Normally, these type of
cyber cases are some kid in the basement with a server.
In this case, it was so va that the investigation
is indicating that there was definitely some foreign state sponsor
(03:59):
for this type of set up who were utilizing criminal types,
you know, low level terrorist types to set this thing up,
and that you know, these devices were capable of conducting
all sorts of telecom attacks, including disabling cell phone towers,
doing denial of service attacks. Thinking the nine one one
(04:21):
system is taken out, you can make a nine to
one call, doing anonymous to cryptic communications between threat actors
or terrorist groups, being able to coordinate anonymously. And the
key for the UN was if they were to overtake
cell towers and around the UN being able to intercept
and route world leader's cell phone communications and think about
(04:41):
them using AI now and changing what is being said
and what the worldwide implications would be because of that,
this case, this situation was vast, and that's why they've
looped into the office of the Director of National Director
of National Intelligence because there was an intelligen his piece
of this because of the foreign state actors, and the
(05:03):
other question out there is where else are these other
parts of the country have something similar set up, which
is what they need to find.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Out what country is suspected being behind this.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
China has been named, but they're not one hundred percent,
but that's the name that's been floated out there. But
it could be a China, it could be an Iran,
it could be a Russia. The thinking is that because
of the scope of this. This is not something a
gang or a low level criminal organization you can do.
(05:36):
This is this can only be done with some sophisticated
technical support. And if you think about the Salt typhoon
virus which hit Verizon and a couple other self carries
a couple of months ago, that virus was China initiated
and was particularly targeting the cell phones of members of
(05:59):
Congress so they could intercept members of Congress communications. So
they're the most likely suspect in it's kind of situation
right now.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Yeah, I know, we don't know a whole lot, but
is this something that the Chinese government would have sanctioned
or is this some type of rogue group? I mean,
you're having this you in General Assembly meeting. This is
the biggest meeting of the year. There's a one hundred
foreign leaders all gathering. And if this is China, this
(06:30):
is China really attacking every other nation.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Right And you know, from what I know about China,
there is no such thing as a rogue group in China.
Everybody works for China, and this is the type of
incident where, yeah, the Chinese could have theoretically been targeting
all the other world leaders or that were there, because
think about the power of knowing what every world leader
(06:58):
is talking about, or what the plans are, or the
conversations every world leaders is having. Think about the power
in that. The blackmail, the national security implications, I mean,
it's it's it could it could have been world changing.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
How close were they to pulling this off?
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Well, considering the Secret Service served the warrants pretty recently
and the un started a couple of days ago, they
were pretty close.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
The would would they have taken out the cell phones
in a much wider area than New York City?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
They could have from from the setup, they could have
taken the self I mean it was based in New York,
so the thinking was it was New York centric, but
they could have theoretically targeted anywhere in the country and
taken out self communications and and or taken over cell towers.
It was that robust of a of a setup that
(07:56):
they uncovered.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
If the warning threats came from this set up, why
did they send him out? If they hadn't sent out
the warning, maybe they would have been able to succeed.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Well, I think right now they haven't been able to.
They haven't arrested anybody, They're leaning. I think they're leaning
on the intelligence side of this, so you know, intelligence
is a different animal, so I think there might be
they might have released that information to let folks know
(08:29):
and hear that they're on to them. And in the
intelligence world, they don't want to be uncovered, so maybe
it helps shut down some places. Something's going on in
other places.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
All right, Well, Don mohollick, thank you for coming on.
I hopefully do Johns, hopefully we learn a lot more
about this. Don Mahowick, ABC News LA Enforcement col contributor,
and he's a retired senior Secret Service agent. Yeah, it's crazy.
I mean, they go into these apartments in Brooklyn and
they found one hundred thousand SIM cards, three hundred servers,
(09:00):
and they were going to tie up all the cell
phone systems in the New York City area at least,
and it was to greet the General Assembly of the
UN one hundred foreign leaders and their staffs. Trump spoke today.
We're going to play the Trump clips in just a moment,
(09:21):
because he really told off the whole world today. And
they were going to send out three hundred million text
messages a minute, and that would have shut down all
communication like three hundred spam messages a minute.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
And.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Secret Service said they had never seen such an extensive
operation before. There's got to be others. This is nuts,
all right, we come back Donald Trump going to town,
whiling away on all the pompous buffoons that run the world.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
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six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Were on every day from one until four o'clock. Moistline
call it eight seven seven mois eighty six. You could
be heard by hundreds of thousands of people all over
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Mois staighty six. So you usual the talkback feature in
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(10:27):
all your anger and fury on the world. Trump did
that today, but instead of calling the moist line, he
went to the United Nations General Assembly. One hundred world leaders,
all those diplomats, all the staff, everybody who's anybody was
there and Trump took center stage and he smacked them
(10:51):
all in the head with a two by four. It
actually is great because these are the pomp foonds that
have really ruined the world and told them exactly why.
He said, US is in a golden age, but everybody,
especially in Europe, is falling apart because of illegal immigration,
(11:11):
bad green energy policies, and weak leaders. And he told
them all to their faces. Let's start with my favorite.
This is Trump yelling at the European countries over legal
immigration cut number three.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
In Greece, the number was fifty four percent, and in Switzerland,
beautiful Switzerland, is seventy two percent. If the people in
prisons are from outside of Switzerland, when your prisons are
filled with so called asylum seekers who repaid kindness, and
that's what they did, they repaid kindness with crime, It's
time to end the failed experiment of open borders.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
You have to end it now. Let's see. I can
tell you I'm really good at this stuff.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Your countries are going to hell. In America, we've taken
bold action to swift shut down uncontrolled migration. Once we
started detaining and deporting everyone who crossed the border and
removing illegal aliens from the United States, they simply stopped coming.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
They're not coming anymore.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
We're getting a lot of credit, but they're not coming anymore.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
That's true, they're not coming anymore. And it looks like
the number of people who left, either being forced out
or leaving on their own, is over two million. I
read another story today that, as hard as it is
to believe, it looks like that's a real number. Over
two million. Fewer illegal aliens in this country, only a
(12:35):
fraction of them actually deported by ICE. For all the
hysteria going on, but the reason that ICE should instill
fear in people is because the bulk of the migration
is voluntary back to the home country. And so that's
why showing force is important when you do this, and
(12:56):
that is why they do it. It's not so much
about the number they catch. It's about the number of
people who look at the TV and say, Okay, time's up,
let's get the hell out of here before they knock
on our door. And did you catch those statistics at
the beginning of the clip. Fifty four percent of the
prisoners in Greece are illegal aliens, seventy two percent, seventy
(13:17):
two percent in Switzerland. Switzerland is so nice. Why would
you do that if you were the Swiss? Switzerland is
beautiful and pleasant and peaceful. I was there for a
day last year. I just don't understand. All right, let's
(13:37):
let's continue on with this more on a legal immigration
cut number four.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Our message is very simple. If you come illegally into
the United States, you're going to jail, or you're going
back to where you came from. Well perhaps even further
than that.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
You know what that means.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
I want to thank the country of El Salvador for
the successful and professional job they're done in receiving and
jailing so many criminals that entered our country.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
I love the murmur from from the dimplomats. What does
he mean? What does he does he mean? The hell
does he mean? They're they're going to hell, They're going
to the next dimension, Oh, thinking El Salvador, because El
Salvador has that super max mega prison where they keep
everybody in their tidy whities, and there they laid laid
(14:31):
them down by the hundreds and thousands in these these
huge uh, in these gigantic rooms. That's what you gotta
do the criminals. Of course, now he continues whacking away UH,
taking credit for bringing America back, and reemphasizes that Europe
(14:54):
is going down the toilet because of illegal immigration. Cut five.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
We have reasserted that America belongs to the American people,
and I encourage all countries to take their own stand
in defense of their citizens as well. You have to
do that because I see it. I'm not mentioning names.
I see it, and I can call every single one
(15:17):
of them. You're destroying your countries. They're being destroyed. Europe
is in serious trouble. They've been invaded by a force
of illegal aliens like nobody's ever seen before. Illegal aliens
are pouring into Europe. Nobody is every and nobody's doing
anything to change it, to get them out.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
It's not sustainable.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
And because they choose to be politically correct, they're doing
just absolutely nothing about it.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
And you could see it just in the news this week.
I mean, they've taken a tremendous amount, a tremendous number
of migrants from the Middle East over the last ten years,
you know, places like Sharia, and also from North Africa.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
And.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
They had huge demonstrations in Italy, in Milan, for example,
and in London. Now the native Italians and the native
British are not going to take to the streets by
the thousands to scream about Palestine. They're all immigrants of
one kind or another. So this is what you invite
(16:26):
into the country, crazy people screaming, all kinds of disorder,
all kinds of crime. That who migrates, and so Europe
is suffering all from all kinds of spasms. Now you know,
every five minutes there's another Palestinian protest going on. Why
do that to your people? You know, the Italians just
want to live their life, like the Swiss, like the Greeks,
(16:48):
like the British. Who what's to put up with this?
The insanity from these countries. Many of them have never
been able to govern themselves, They've never figured it out.
You don't import all of that trouble. You know, you
have people who are who want to work, who are peaceful,
who are hard working, hard working working class or professionals. Yeah,
(17:13):
those you let in. But Jesus not this open border garbage.
It's made every country in Europe worse. It made us
a lot worse. All we well, I mean, how many
criminals did we have? I mean it's just shocking. But
this is this is the progressive infestation that's running the country,
(17:34):
running the world. They're all infected with the progressive virus
in their brain. And all it's done is caused destruction,
the destruction of peaceful societies. All right, well we got
more when we come back, a couple more Trump clips
because he went after the whole He went after the
whole purpose of the un which I waited all my
(17:55):
life for somebody to do.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
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Speaker 1 (18:03):
Follow us at John Cobelt Radio on social media at
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four o'clock and go listen to the podcast after four
o'clock and it's John Cobelt Show on demand, same as
the radio show. We're playing Trump clips. Trump was knocking,
was knocking everybody at the UNF the side of the
head because you know, he gave an hour long speech
(18:28):
and it was four times longer than he was allotted.
He just went up there and he kept ripping them
and ripping them and ripping them. I played you the
clips where he repeatedly told the European countries they got
to end the legal immigration. Your countries are going to hell.
Let's play a clip where he questions the whole purpose
of the United Nations.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
What is the purpose of the United Nations? The un
has such tremendous potential. I've always said it, it has
such tremendous, tremendous potential. It's not even coming close to
living up to that potential for the most part, at
least for now. All they seem to do is write
a really strongly worded letter and then never follow that
(19:11):
letter up. It's empty words, and empty words don't solve war.
The only thing that solves war and wars is action.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
I've always wondered that all they do. You know, you're
supposed to revere the United Nations. They teaches us when
you're little kids, and then you grow up and you
realize there's a bunch of gas bags. It's like a
debating society at a university. They just come there and
they blather at each other, and they make proclamations and resolutions,
(19:42):
and they write letters and they condemn I mean, how
many times have they condemned everything that's gone on in
the Middle East? And zero effect, zero effect on everything.
What they do is they steal a lot of money
with all their nonprofits, all the tax money they've sucked
(20:04):
up from countries. He called climate change. Trump did the
greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world, and curiously,
he got very little applause the entire time. It was
fifty seven minutes of Trump yelling at them, and they
just sat on their hands the whole time. He's telling
the truth. He's right about legal aliens, he's right about
(20:26):
climate change being a big con job. And by the way,
they have it lowered the temperature around the globe, not
by one million to one degree whatever. Whatever the hell
they've done has had no effect because you can't control
the climate. He then you know how he's blowing up
Venezuelan ships that well, that are carting the drugs here.
(20:49):
He's just blowing them up. And everybody knows why he
should go to the UN. It's thing. No, we're not
going to go to the u N. And Congress is
going right, he needs congressional approval. No, no congressional approval.
Everybody just wants to debate and pontificate and just make
self serving speeches. What you do is, if you have
people out of Venezuela, we're bringing drugs to America to
(21:10):
kill our Americans, what you do is you blow them up.
And he talks about this and cut six.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
I've also designated multiple savage drug cartels as far as
foreign terrorists organizations, along with two blood thirsty transnational gangs,
probably the worst gangs anywhere in the world.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
MS thirteen and.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Trend de Ragua Trend de Iragua's from Venezuela. By the way,
such organizations torture, name, mutilate, and murder with impunity. They're
the enemies of all humanity. For this reason, we've recently
begun using the supreme power of the United States military
(21:50):
to destroy Venezuela terrorists and trafficking networks led by Nicholas Maduro.
To every iris thugs smuggling poisonous drugs into the United
States of America, please be warned that we will blow
you out of existence. That's what we're doing. We have
no choice. Can't let it happen.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
He said that so softly. We will blow you out
of existence. But tell me where he's wrong on this.
Are we supposed to let the Venezuelans bring the drugs
here to kill our people? I don't understand who objects
to this unless you're getting a cut. Sometimes I warner
(22:32):
him by some of the people in Congress who are
objecting the Trump is doing this on his own, Well,
then go ahead, pass your phony, blooney resolution. But if
anyone is taken bringing drugs into the country by boat,
blow them up.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
We will blow you out of existence.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Hey, you know that's how you deal with it. They
sealed the border, right, I heard that. I've read that
fentanyl deliveries are down by fifty percent. And people would say, well,
you're not going to stop the drug smuggling by closing
the border. They'll find other ways. Well good, they're trying
boats now, and you blow up the boats. Okay, so
(23:09):
there we go. We've cut off two ways to get
in here. You can't go over land because the border
is shut. And now you can't sail a drug ship
to America. Either blow the floyd. Good, we'll blow them
out of the sky. What else you got here? Hold
dig tunnels? Fine, we'll fill up the tunnels with cement
(23:31):
and suffocate them. All you have to eat, right, All
you have to do is take action. This is easy,
This is simple. You just don't put up with it anymore.
God imagine if a pray president, any president, had done
this ten twenty years ago, how many fewer people would
be dead from drug overdoses. Literally hundreds of thousands fewer deaths.
(23:57):
How many kids, teenage college students would still be alive
if some president had just decided to seal the border
and blow up the ships. Why is it controversial? Why
is it a political issue? Why is it debatable? I
really don't understand. Yeah, bad guys trying to kill us.
(24:19):
Kill them first, blow them up at the very least,
seal off the border. I mean, who's side of these
people on?
Speaker 4 (24:28):
All?
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Right, we've got when we come back. Oh you know
what's coming up at two o'clock. First, we've got John
Fleischman coming on. He's got a story about this Prop fifty,
you know, Newsom's stupid plan to redraw the district lines.
And he's gonna explain how they're carving out special districts
(24:52):
for Democrats who are turned out in the legislature. Their
political careers would be at a dead end, except now
they have a new congressional district to run in and
there'll be no competition because the districts will be heavily
weighted Democratic and they get a free seat. Also, in
(25:14):
the next segment, talk about Ryan Ruth. He was the
guy behind the second assassination attempt and he got convicted
today and as soon as the conviction was announced, he
tried to kill himself. We'll tell you about it coming up.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
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Speaker 1 (25:32):
A six Moist slide for Friday eight seven seven Moist
eighty six, eight seven seven Moist eighty six, or the
talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. The second guy who
tried to kill Trump last summer was Ryan ruth rout H.
He was the one hiding at the golf course and
(25:55):
he had a rifle poking through the fence and a
Secret Service agent saw the rifle and they caught him
and he was convicted today and he's probably gonna go
to jail for life. He tried to he tried to
(26:16):
defend himself in court. He was his own lawyer, in
no legal training, and he's really mentally ill. And I'm
just glad that he was convicted of the crime and
there wasn't this carve out for mental illness. I have
a feeling if he'd gotten a real lawyer, they would
have played the mental health card and maybe he would
(26:36):
have gotten off or at least not not said to
federal prison for life. The jurors only took two hours
and after the verdict was read, he pulled out a
pen and he stabbed himself in the neck, right in
(26:58):
front of everybody. He was a construction worker and his
defense was really bizarre. His opening statement touched on prehistoric
(27:19):
human history, world leaders including Adolph Hitler, Vladimir Putin, Benjamin Nutt,
and Yahoo. He tried to ask prospective jurors questions about
what they thought of the US taking over Greenland, what
they thought of pro Palestinian student activism, how they would
(27:42):
react if a turtle crossed the road when they were
driving seriously, and the judge in the case, Aileen Cannon,
a Trump appointee, kept blocking the questions, saying they were relevant.
He tried he had a witness list, and he tried
to call Trump himself to the stand. He also wanted
(28:03):
Mahmoud Khalil, one of those Palestinian activists. He wanted a
Secret Service agent to testify because he claimed the agent
asked him to spank or slap his rear end. And
he called up a couple of acquaintances who testified, and
the whole purpose of the questioning was aren't I an
(28:23):
I sky? Are and I a good guy? He also
wanted to know why his case wasn't eligible for the
death penalty. He asked to be traded as in a
prisoner exchange with Hamas or Iran, China or Russia. He
challenged Trump to a game of golf to the death.
(28:46):
If he lost, he would be executed, and if Trump lost,
Ruth would become president. This is how he defended himsel.
He's clearly a complete metal medal patient. Honestly, I think
if he hired an attorney, they might have gotten him
off just to send him to an asylum for six months,
(29:06):
because you know, the experts there would probably have declared
him sane after a period of treatment. That's what usually happens. Instead,
he was found guilty. He'll probably spend the rest of
his life in prison. And he stabbed himself in the neck.
It was really awful. I mean, his son and daughter
(29:27):
were outside the courtroom. The daughter was crying. She was
insisting to reporters that he was innocent, that everybody was
lying and bullying. And I don't know, I think that
genetic trail needs to come to an end. All right,
we come back John Fleischman. His website is so doesnmatter
(29:51):
dot com. He writes almost exclusively about politics, and he's
got a piece about Prop fifty. This is the Gavin
Newsom's thing to put redistricting back in the hands of
Newsom's political buddies. Right now, we have an independent panel
(30:11):
doing the line drawing. This would change it. And he's
got a story about how when they read through the lines,
it gave jobs to some Democratic legislative leaders who are
going to be turned out and they don't have a
political future unless this proposition passes, because this will create
(30:34):
new congressional districts for them to win. John Fleischman coming
up next, Deborah Mark Live in the KFI twenty four
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