July 1, 2025 • 33 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (07/01) - Mark Thompson fills in for John. MIchael Monks comes on the show to talk about Pres. Trump suing LA over their sanctuary city policies. Jimmy Swaggart died. More on ICE deportations. Support from Republicans for gay marriage has declined.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 3 (00:23):
Know, the Trump administration suing the City of Los Angeles
challenging the constitutionality of the sanctuary city policies, and Mayor
Karen Bass pushing back on President Trump. Michael Monks has
been watching all of this and joins us. Now, Hi,
Michael Monks.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Hey, it's good to see you.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (00:42):
Ayr Bass was busy at her press conference this morning
stating her case on behalf of a Los Angeles. She
calls this policy a reflection of LA values. I'll let
you know that the city council meeting that is taking
place right now. They're last one before their month long
hiatus that they take every year kind of a marathon.
But they are also about to have a press conference
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as this meeting concludes to talk about this issue as well.
Keep in mind the mayor and the city council both
named as defendants in this lawsuit. But earlier today we
did hear from Mayor Bass. She had some strong words
for the administration. Here's part of what she had to say.
Speaker 6 (01:18):
First, the raids, then randomly grabbing people off the streets,
chasing Angelinos through parking lots, sending and federalized troops to
stand idle protecting two buildings, and having US Marines trained
to fight the enemy abroad stationed here and caravanning around town,
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intimidating Angelinos, creating a sense of fear and terror in
our city.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
So why is she saying that?
Speaker 5 (01:46):
Well, the lawsuit says Los Angeles and the sanctuary policy
therein has resulted in the vandalism and the violence around
those early protests. That's what the Department of Justice says
in its lawsuit. Karen Bass, the mayor says, no, Actually,
this stuff has been caused by the Trump administration coming
in full throated, full fisted, ready to rumble here in
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the streets of Los Angeles. And that's the problem here,
further proving the deep disconnect between the local government and
the federal government on the issue of illegal immigration.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
She road testing a legal argument here, I mean a
legal narrative might be the way to put it.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
I think that that will have to be evaluated in
the court of law should this go to that level
where they're actually looking at evidence and having witnesses. Is
what triggered any type of violence. Now, the National Guard
wasn't sent in until after the initial eruption of minor
violence and then the serious vandalism that took place in
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downtown Los Angeles, and then there were some violent demonstrations
after the arrival of the National Guard. But the mayor
says it's the Trump administration that's causing this, not really
just by sending in the military, but by doing the
deportations in the first place, citing fear in the communities here,
shutting down shops, diminishing commerce, and just creating just this
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sense of anxiety across Los Angeles.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
That seems to be the position that she's taking here.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Well, she's not wrong about a lot of that. I mean,
they are doing that, and there is a chutlling effect
on that community of immigrants. And the I mean, the
bald face fact is that there are people who have
been here decades and they are getting pinched and thrown
into detention, it threatened with deportention.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
It's what I talked to you about yesterday.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
The specific language that was used when they quoted city
council in Hugosoda Martinez in the lawsuit. The Trump administration's
lawsuit quoted him. I'm not quoting directly now, but a
little loosely here. They quoted Soda Martinez as saying, we
will not stand by as the Trump administration deports in parentheses,
the lawsuit says illegal immigrants. But Hugosda Martinez put out
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a statement, so that's not how I said it. I
said we will not stand by while the Trump administration
deports our friends, family, co workers, et cetera. That's the disconnect.
The Trump administration's position is, I don't care about these
heartstrung stories that you're sharing about your neighbor and the
grandfather and the flower shop in the taco stand. These
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folks are here illegally, and we said there would be
mass deportations, and that's what's happening.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Well, I mean, and they're not wrong about that.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
They promised and won the presidency on a platform of
mass deportations. Now, I mean the one bit of disconnect
I think and criticism that many have leveled across the
board is, Hey, I thought you guys are going to
start with the criminals and violent offenders. Instead, you're just
going to pick up my landscaper and the day worker
at home Depot.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
It's been a mixed message because we do know that
they flat out said, yes, we're going to be targeting
the criminals, the worst of the worst. But we've also
heard the reporting from national media figures about the internal
goals of hitting three thousand detainments a day. There's just
not that many that would fit the criteria of worst
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of the worst. You know, So if you're going to
home Depot looking for anybody who might be hanging about,
if you're hitting the fruit stand on the corner, you're
running up the scoreboard a bit. You're still enforcing the law.
I mean, if you're here illegally, then you are subject
to arrest and deportation. But that is a conflicting narrative
that's come. I think folks here on the ground would
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like a little clarity on who they're going after, because again,
so many parts of Los Angeles are completely shut down,
and you see how reliant the local economy is here,
not just on businesses and workers, but customers who may
not have legal immigration status.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
It's just a it's a ripple that will extend beyond California.
But we're such a robust economy, especially if you consider
the agriculture that is feeding the world dependent on immigrant
working I mean at workforce, I should say that if
primarily those who are not here legally. I mean, you know,
it reminds me of the effective Brascero program that really
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was designed to include a lot of these agricultural workers.
They phased it out in the sixties and it was
a brilliant program. And now you hear President Trump actually
talking about something like the Brescero program and in relation
to what I'm speaking about California agriculture.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Yeah, it was like the second time that this has
come up, because a couple of weeks ago, the issue
of hospitality workers and migrant farm workers seemed to touch
Trump in a different way, whereas like, maybe we'll take
it easy on that, and then the White House clarified, no,
we're not taking it easy on that. And then this
week this new reporting comes out that maybe they're looking
at something They're not calling it a visa, but something
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like a visa for certain industries.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Again because folks are real.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
This is also supported by Republican state lawmakers here in
California that maybe we're being a little heavy.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Handed here with who were grabbing.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
The other interesting part here in Los Angeles is this
has only been a sanctuary city for a short period
of time officially, but there have long been policies in place,
including an LAPD not to question people's immigration status when
making arrest so as not to deter them from participating
in the legal process. We want your testimony, We want
your help in finding bad guys. The LAPED has been
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getting it from both ends throughout a lot of this,
and there was a police Commission meeting today this morning.
LAPD Chief Jim McDonald was there offering some clarity because
there have been activists who are opposed to the federal
Immigration enforcement saying the LAPD is clearly in collusion.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
But here's what the chief said this morning.
Speaker 7 (07:31):
To further clarify the department's position and promote transparents, we
also published an updated Immigration Frequently Asked Questions document.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
This resource is.
Speaker 7 (07:40):
Readily available to the public and outlines in clear terms
that the LAPD does not participate in immigration enforcement and
does not initiate contact based on immigration status. The FAQ
explains our responsibilities and legal boundaries and reaffirms our commitment
to all Los Angeles communities regarding regardless of immigration status.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
So they put out this new document. This updated document
frequently asked questions to say, we do not enforce immigration law,
but we are going to be showing up when things
get routing. I mean, that's what we're here for, to
keep the peace. But it's not just activists questioning laped's
role here. Just moments ago, Mark the La City Council
has approved a motion pushed by City Council Women Unites
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Hernandez that is requesting a report from the city attorney
very soon, within fifteen days. They want this report to
see any and all laws at every level of government
that require and or trigger LAPD to respond to a
call for assistance from another law enforcement agency. They also
want to know from the Chief Legislative Analyst that's the
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guy looks over all different motions at city Hall to
report back very soon with information on how other municipalities
and jurisdictions across the country are responding to these actions.
Basically a little suspicious of how LAPD is being used
during these federal immigration.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Sure, what happens when the Feds pick up the phone
or community kate that they want LAPD help. How do
you handle that since you're not actually supposed to by
law aid the Feds in their immigration what mandate, I'll
just call it that and their work with rounding up illegals,
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that's not supposed to be the work of LAPD, and
you're not supposed to be there helping them. But as
we were mentioning yesterday and we got to take a break,
but the way in which LAPD protects the immigration officers
from the public that collects and might actually become involved
in some sort of violent confrontation of some sort, that
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is the job of the LAPD.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
That's exactly what the chief is saying, and that's probably
what he'll explain to these council members again when he's
probably hauled back into the city building to answer questions.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Wow, this is such an extraordinary thing, and you know,
we seem, as usual to be the test case for
the rest of the nation the Donald Trump. No love
lost between the Democrats in the state of California and
the President.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Thank you, Michael Monks, my pleasure. Mark, Yeah, good to
see you.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
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Speaker 3 (10:21):
Jimmy Swagger died ninety years old. He was really playing
a hot hand in the eighties. I would say he
might have been the top, wouldn't you say? He was
in the top five of televangelists.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
He was.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Playing before huge crowds, got a ton of media attention,
held what he was calling crusades across the globe, I
mean across Latin America, South Africa, Jamaica, Liberia. He had
the Swagger Ministries, and he had that broadcasting network. I mean,
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the power of Christian broadcasting was really still super hot
in the eighties, and that i'd say was sort of
the height of his power. So, you know, moving from
radio broadcasts, which were always a big part of if
you've grown up in any kind of I would say,
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you know, in even through the decade of the seventies,
Sunday morning it was wall to wall radio with the
basically going to church. Then you go to Sundays on
television sort of the same thing. And so if you
had the swaggered ministries dominant as they were, you were
in really great shape. And the reality is he spread
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that word, as they say, called it a crusade across
much of the world. So what brought him down, of course,
was in the late eighties was like nineteen eighty eight
he got slammed with that was he coming out of
a motel room, I think with a prostitute.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
There was I can't.
Speaker 9 (12:04):
Remember if it was a motel room, but he was
with the prostitute.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Yeah, And then he was I think he was.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
He was defrocked and then that kind of that sounds
sort of sexy if you don't know what it is.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
And then he was caught again. I think there were
two scandals involving prostitution, and he became well, he made
that big apology, remember the apology of Superful Chuma, Lord
of sind against you. I thought that was one of
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his best performances. And he is from a family, I
believe of I want to say they're musicians or singers.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Singing was part of his thing, Debra.
Speaker 9 (12:56):
I didn't know that. I mean, I wasn't a huge
follower to tell you the well the Swaggered family, then
this will come as a surprise to you.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
They want a Grammy nomination for Best Gospel Performance.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
So how dare you not be aware?
Speaker 4 (13:13):
I'm so sorry of their.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Prowess when it comes to music.
Speaker 9 (13:16):
Streak me down.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
They had an album called Worship in nineteen eighty one
and that got the Grammy nomination. He look, he was
a leading figure in the powerful movement of the Christian right.
And again he wasn't someone who had I guess, I
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want to say a political agenda, you know in his preaching,
but clearly the message was implicit, and he did have
praise for the Republican Party and for Donald Trump. So
he made it all the way to age ninety and
he passed away in the hospital ninety years old. Jimmy
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Swaggert and his ministries so very powerful, and again I'll
bet that his power would have continued had it not
been for those scandals.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
You know, he.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Wrote fifty Christian books and sold over fifteen million records worldwide.
Speaker 9 (14:24):
His family apparently is still running the Family Worship Center
in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
It's the gift that keeps on giving. Got to keep
it running. You know, there's no business like the lord business.
So Jimmy Swaggert has made his way out. The California
Republicans now are speaking to Donald Trump. They're saying, mister President,
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and they said this in a letter. We are urging
you to get back to targeting violent criminals with your
immigration crackdown. The sweeping raids are producing widespread fear in
all of our communities here in California. These again are
Republicans who author this letter. They are driving these raids,
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are they're driving workers out of critical industries. The Republican
Coalition sending this letter and saying that the heavy handed
nature of these ICE enforcement tactics are leading to the
arrest of non criminal migrants and also ultimately producing labor
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shortages in California and only worsening the state's affordability crisis.
We urge you to direct to ICE and DHS to
focus on their enforcement operations on criminal immigrants, they wrote,
and when possible, avoid the kinds of sweeping raids that
instill fear and disrupt the world work. In response to
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the letter, White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson points to new
comments made by Donald Trump about efforts to give the
hospitality and farming industries a temporary pass from the negative
impacts of ice operations. Again, what that will actually look
like is the big question mark. But it sounded to
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me because I watched Trump talking about this. He had
a long press conference about that Alligator Alcatraz that they're
opening in Florida. And by the way, they're selling merch
that says Alligator Alcatraz on it. That would strike me
again as the oddest thing. But anyway, that's going up
in Florida, and he was saying, well, I want to
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try to.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Do something for the farmers. I love the farmers.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
I always had a good relationship with the farmers and
those farmers who are affected by this. We've got to
try to figure out some kind of program that can
accommodate the workers. So those people have been in this
country for a while. I'm paraphrasing, but that's almost exactly
what he said. And that again, that reminds me of
the Brasero program that did exist. There's no reason.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
They shouldn't bring it back.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
That would address these issues while still honoring the overall
goal that they have of this administration's policies.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
When it comes to illegal immigration.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
And finally, the White House spokesperson said President Trump remains
committed to carrying out the largest mass deportation operation in
history by removing dangerous, violent, criminal illegal aliens from American
communities and targeting the sanctuary cities that provide safe harbor
to criminal illegals. So they're leaning in and they're leaning
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on the state of California, even as California Republicans say, hey,
these ice rates should focus on criminals and not where
they're focusing. It is the co Belt Show. Mark Thompson
sitting in for John on KFI AM six forty. We're
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Speaker 3 (18:06):
Mark Thompson here for John Cobelt's looking at the the
world of ice and immigration raids and controversies back and
forth and who started. What's It's fascinating, it's disturbing, it's
it's everything, and it's also just bizarre. I mean, among
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the things that I'm reading, most everything that Christy Noms
says just strikes me as bizarre. Now, she may be
your north star, so I don't mean to insult her,
But I just mean that she really sings from the hymnal,
you know, and the I'll start first with just what
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she said about this deportation of a cannibal. Yeah, that's
what she's talking about. She says, the government tried to
deport and Eric has the the the audio for in
a minute, the deportation of a cannibal. But the immigrant
was so quote deranged, he began eating himself on the plane.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
He shared.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
He shared this story this morning during the Trump It
was called a roundtable, which was to announce the Alligator
Alcatraz opening, which is going to happen this weekend. This
is the facility in Florida's Everglades. It'll house up to
five thousand people. But she starts in with this story.
Here's a piece of it.
Speaker 10 (19:34):
President Trump is upholding freedom by what he is doing,
the freedom to live safely in this country and to
do things legally and to have justice. And because those
liberals and I'm calling out you, CNN, I'm calling you
out because you lie every single day about what these
operations are. We are going after murderers and rapists and
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traffickers and drug dealers and getting them off the streets
and getting them out of this country because Joe Biden
let the worst of the worst come in here. The
other day, I was talking to some marshalls that have
been partnering with ICE. They said that they had detained
a cannibal and put him on a plane to take
him home, and while they had him in his seat,
he started to eat himself and they had to get
him off and get him medical attention. These are the
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kind of deranged individuals that are on our streets in
America that we're trying to target and get out of
our country because they are so deranged they don't belong here.
President Trump is upholding freedom.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Well, I don't know about that story. I don't know
whether to believe it. By the way, if deranged people
are eating themselves on the streets of America, I almost
don't care. I mean, if they can do it in private,
i'd prefer it. But they're not affecting me.
Speaker 9 (20:44):
But I as long as they don't come after.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
You, thank you. It's true. Yeah, I'm not on the
menu yet, but I do think that it just feels
like there's hyperbole there.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
But I don't know.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Maybe it happened Christinenome to me, is not the most
dependable witness. I'll just put it that way. She was
the governor of South Dakota, as you know. And one
of the things that's come out just in the last
day is that Christy Nome supplemented her income by secretly
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accepting a cut of the money that she raised for
a nonprofit that promotes her political career. This is according
to tax records. This is a wild arrangement. She had
the nonprofit rooted funds to a personal company of Christy Nomes.
It was established in Delaware, That's where a lot of
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these companies are established, as you know. And the payment
was eighty thousand dollars. That year, she was making one
hundred and thirty thousand dollars on her government salary, so
she added eighty k to that. And since the nonprofit is,
you know, one of those dark money groups, one that's
not required to close the names of its donors, the
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original source of the money is unknown, but she didn't
disclose the eighty thousand dollars payment. And after Trump chose
Nome to be running DHS, she had to release a
detailed accounting of her assets and sources of income from
twenty twenty three on. She did not include that income
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from that dark money group on her disclosure form. So
those who've looked at it say that it was Nome
personally taking money that came from political donors, and this
has been revealed as a payment for fundraising, essentially wet
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my beak, and indeed for her fundraising, she was apparently compensated.
So this is disturbing by the way. I don't think
it's going to affect Christyome at all. I don't think
it's going to affect policy at all, but I do
think it's a window on more of this dark money
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and how dark money finds its way to so many legislators.
I'll remind you also as I do the story, that
it's not the Christi Nome who's running DHS now who
took that money. No, it's the Christi Nome who was
at that time governor of South Dakota. As I say, so, look,
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she's someone who likes nice things. She wore that Rolex
during that tour of the Latin American prison they're in
El Salvador, so we know she's a high end girl.
There's nothing wrong with that. But the eighty thousand dollars
payment again, sort of a bad look. It was a
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Rolex Cosmograph Daytona watch, is what she was wearing.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
How much?
Speaker 9 (23:49):
How much is that thing?
Speaker 3 (23:50):
What do you think I've seen the answer, But I
mean if I said it was fifteen thousand dollars looking
it up right now, it would be that would be
a lot. I would say fifteen twenty would be a lot.
Fifty thousand is the answer. Oh, that's a fifty thousand
dollars Rolex Cosmograph Daytona watch. Yeah, it was just a
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bad I'm not saying you may want to put that
on it's a collectible at some white house dinner. I'm
just saying at that max prison down there a door.
Speaker 9 (24:22):
I might maybe she never takes it off as she forgot.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Oh that's good, and you know what, Yeah, that's good,
shouldn't She also was carrying three thousand in cash.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
You got that stolen with a purse.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Yeah, she's a she's a bit of a I don't
quite get her rhythm, but you said.
Speaker 9 (24:38):
She likes a nice thing. She had a designer handbag
as well.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
MS know, how much money do you have on you?
Just just just carr it. Let's see I got three
thousand here in the bag, and let's have another forty
five hundred year in my rock pocket.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
My pocket.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
That's the latest on Christy Nome as it relates to
both California and to a aparently some dark money that
donned its way into her pocket. It is k I
Am six forty. This is the co Belt Show, Thompson
sitting in. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 8 (25:10):
You're listening to John cobelts on demand from KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
It is the John Cobelt Show, Mark Thompson sitting in
and just looking at the the tenth birthday of gay marriage. Yeah, boy,
that seemed as though it was, you know, past the
finish line, no looking back. But now I think there's
been considerable evidence that maybe the new administration a new
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way to look at gay rights in America maybe changing.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
I mean, it was in.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Two thousand and four the first legal same sex marriage
in America took place in Massachusetts, and at that time
it was George Bushy was president, right, And I have
to say the polling on this really is doesn't really
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reflect that people don't care.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
There is.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
For a long time there was a trend of people
supporting gay marriage. Now it fears that things have shifted
a bit. And since twenty eighteen, support among Democrats for
gay marriage has grown modestly from seventy seven percent to
eighty percent. I mean that's most people. But Republican support,
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which had surpassed fifty percent, it went from fifty eight
percent to forty five percent. So there is a souring
of opinions sort of on same sex marriage within the
Republican Party, and courts and state houses nationwide are going
to feel that pinch Legislators feel safer in introducing resolutions
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to overturn the Supreme Court decision that legalized gay marriage.
It was it overfelt, so again you're going to see
more of this.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Now.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
We're in California, where generally liberal policies rule. You have
an all democrat democratic control of everything that matters when
it comes to the rights of the same sex people
to marry. But the Supreme Court is the last word,
and the Supreme Court has taken on some problematic cases.
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From what I understand, it's only Clarence Thomas who suggested
that the Supreme Court would take this case up. But
this is an issue that spills over to it a
lot of other things, and the Republican coalition has changed.
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You've got to admit the number of people who identify
with the Republican Party, the kinds of people who identify
with the party, the texture of the party has changed.
Moderate Republicans are fleeing the trump Ism that they see
rising in the Republican Party, and socially conservative Democrats feel
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like the party speaks more to them than they've become Republican.
So I'd say keep an eye on this because to me,
as I say, I thought this cake was baked, but
now I would say more and more, everything's on the table.
I've seen legislation just today. Look at this California rolling
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back landmark environmental laws. This is in relation to another demand,
and it's the demand for affordable housing. This is a
national symbol of environmental protection as noted here, and it
was pointed to as a reason for the state severe
housing shortage and a homelessness crisis. Environmental restrictions that are
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imposed that make it harder to build to develop, they
are now being rolled back, and so suburban growth and
parties to that growth they are affected by this. In
Nusenstein two bills written by Democrats, but with bipartisan support
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in California, that will allow many developmental development projects to
go through and get fast tracked without the kind of
in environmental review that's informed all of that. Normally, it's
a very rigorous process, as you know, to get this
stuff done. But those reviews and those processes are pointed
to is one of the reasons that hey, this is
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the reason that there's not enough housing. It's all of
these environmental concerns. And this is a state that has
prided itself California has I'm reducing pollution, protecting waterways. You know,
we take environmental stuff seriously. Here, Well, mark this day
on the calendar. Democrats long reluctant to weaken this law,
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they are weakening it. The bureaucratic hurdles that made it
so difficult to build enough housing for nearly forty million residents,
well those hurdles are being streamlined and you can thank
again both Democrats and Republicans in California for that. Newsom said,
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if we can't address this issue, we're going to lose trust.
And that's just the truth. And so this is so
much bigger in many ways than the issue itself. It's
about the reputation of not just Sacramento and the legislative
leadership and executive leadership, but the reputation of the state
of California. So the ways in which they might modify
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environmental law that's been talked about for a long time,
but what Newsom has done is really rolled it back.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
And you can see that.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
The fires informed this. The narrative in California is just different.
The demand for affordable housing has created a kind of
urgency to this, and those who comment on public policy
have said the same thing. This is a different political
environment today. Voters have been telling us in polling for
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quite a while that the cost of housing is a
big problem, and maybe for elected officials, the election itself
was a wake up call. In other words, you know,
see the first story I was mentioning. I mean, there
is a changing political landscape, both nationally and in California,
and Newsom is responding to that now. And I've got
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to say, when you look at the track record on
a homelessness and housing, it's pathetic. We throw all this
money at this, the homelessness industrial complex, and what do
we get for it? More homelessness. So this legislative rollback
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of these environmental restrictions. Maybe that does spur development. I
don't know that it puts a dent in the homelessness issue.
I'm guessing not, but it's a sign of a political
tide that's turned, and both parties know it, most notably
the Democrats in California. When we come back back to
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the law, we're watching the situation with the Diddy jury
wavering maybe on one of the charges minimally that involves
Sean Combs. We'll talk to Royal Oaks in the next hour.
It is the John Cobalt Show. Mark Thompson sitting in
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The latest development is that the jury has reached partial
verdicts in the Diddy trial, or you may call him
Sean Combs, and so we will continue to update that.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Deborah is watching that minute to minute. Among other things, you.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Know, the Trump administration suing the City of Los Angeles
challenging the constitutionality of the sanctuary city policies, and Mayor
Karen Bass pushing back on President Trump. Michael Monks has
been watching all of this and joins us. Now, Hi,
Michael Monks.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Hey, it's good to see you.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (00:42):
Ayr Bass was busy at her press conference this morning
stating her case on behalf of a Los Angeles. She
calls this policy a reflection of LA values. I'll let
you know that the city council meeting that is taking
place right now. They're last one before their month long
hiatus that they take every year kind of a marathon.
But they are also about to have a press conference
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as this meeting concludes to talk about this issue as well.
Keep in mind the mayor and the city council both
named as defendants in this lawsuit. But earlier today we
did hear from Mayor Bass. She had some strong words
for the administration. Here's part of what she had to say.
Speaker 6 (01:18):
First, the raids, then randomly grabbing people off the streets,
chasing Angelinos through parking lots, sending and federalized troops to
stand idle protecting two buildings, and having US Marines trained
to fight the enemy abroad stationed here and caravanning around town,
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intimidating Angelinos, creating a sense of fear and terror in
our city.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
So why is she saying that?
Speaker 5 (01:46):
Well, the lawsuit says Los Angeles and the sanctuary policy
therein has resulted in the vandalism and the violence around
those early protests. That's what the Department of Justice says
in its lawsuit. Karen Bass, the mayor says, no, Actually,
this stuff has been caused by the Trump administration coming
in full throated, full fisted, ready to rumble here in
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the streets of Los Angeles. And that's the problem here,
further proving the deep disconnect between the local government and
the federal government on the issue of illegal immigration.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
She road testing a legal argument here, I mean a
legal narrative might be the way to put it.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
I think that that will have to be evaluated in
the court of law should this go to that level
where they're actually looking at evidence and having witnesses. Is
what triggered any type of violence. Now, the National Guard
wasn't sent in until after the initial eruption of minor
violence and then the serious vandalism that took place in
(02:45):
downtown Los Angeles, and then there were some violent demonstrations
after the arrival of the National Guard. But the mayor
says it's the Trump administration that's causing this, not really
just by sending in the military, but by doing the
deportations in the first place, citing fear in the communities here,
shutting down shops, diminishing commerce, and just creating just this
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sense of anxiety across Los Angeles.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
That seems to be the position that she's taking here.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Well, she's not wrong about a lot of that. I mean,
they are doing that, and there is a chutlling effect
on that community of immigrants. And the I mean, the
bald face fact is that there are people who have
been here decades and they are getting pinched and thrown
into detention, it threatened with deportention.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
It's what I talked to you about yesterday.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
The specific language that was used when they quoted city
council in Hugosoda Martinez in the lawsuit. The Trump administration's
lawsuit quoted him. I'm not quoting directly now, but a
little loosely here. They quoted Soda Martinez as saying, we
will not stand by as the Trump administration deports in parentheses,
the lawsuit says illegal immigrants. But Hugosda Martinez put out
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a statement, so that's not how I said it. I
said we will not stand by while the Trump administration
deports our friends, family, co workers, et cetera. That's the disconnect.
The Trump administration's position is, I don't care about these
heartstrung stories that you're sharing about your neighbor and the
grandfather and the flower shop in the taco stand. These
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folks are here illegally, and we said there would be
mass deportations, and that's what's happening.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Well, I mean, and they're not wrong about that.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
They promised and won the presidency on a platform of
mass deportations. Now, I mean the one bit of disconnect
I think and criticism that many have leveled across the
board is, Hey, I thought you guys are going to
start with the criminals and violent offenders. Instead, you're just
going to pick up my landscaper and the day worker
at home Depot.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
It's been a mixed message because we do know that
they flat out said, yes, we're going to be targeting
the criminals, the worst of the worst. But we've also
heard the reporting from national media figures about the internal
goals of hitting three thousand detainments a day. There's just
not that many that would fit the criteria of worst
(05:00):
of the worst. You know, So if you're going to
home Depot looking for anybody who might be hanging about,
if you're hitting the fruit stand on the corner, you're
running up the scoreboard a bit. You're still enforcing the law.
I mean, if you're here illegally, then you are subject
to arrest and deportation. But that is a conflicting narrative
that's come. I think folks here on the ground would
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like a little clarity on who they're going after, because again,
so many parts of Los Angeles are completely shut down,
and you see how reliant the local economy is here,
not just on businesses and workers, but customers who may
not have legal immigration status.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
It's just a it's a ripple that will extend beyond California.
But we're such a robust economy, especially if you consider
the agriculture that is feeding the world dependent on immigrant
working I mean at workforce, I should say that if
primarily those who are not here legally. I mean, you know,
it reminds me of the effective Brascero program that really
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was designed to include a lot of these agricultural workers.
They phased it out in the sixties and it was
a brilliant program. And now you hear President Trump actually
talking about something like the Brescero program and in relation
to what I'm speaking about California agriculture.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Yeah, it was like the second time that this has
come up, because a couple of weeks ago, the issue
of hospitality workers and migrant farm workers seemed to touch
Trump in a different way, whereas like, maybe we'll take
it easy on that, and then the White House clarified, no,
we're not taking it easy on that. And then this
week this new reporting comes out that maybe they're looking
at something They're not calling it a visa, but something
(06:38):
like a visa for certain industries.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Again because folks are real.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
This is also supported by Republican state lawmakers here in
California that maybe we're being a little heavy.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Handed here with who were grabbing.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
The other interesting part here in Los Angeles is this
has only been a sanctuary city for a short period
of time officially, but there have long been policies in place,
including an LAPD not to question people's immigration status when
making arrest so as not to deter them from participating
in the legal process. We want your testimony, We want
your help in finding bad guys. The LAPED has been
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getting it from both ends throughout a lot of this,
and there was a police Commission meeting today this morning.
LAPD Chief Jim McDonald was there offering some clarity because
there have been activists who are opposed to the federal
Immigration enforcement saying the LAPD is clearly in collusion.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
But here's what the chief said this morning.
Speaker 7 (07:31):
To further clarify the department's position and promote transparents, we
also published an updated Immigration Frequently Asked Questions document.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
This resource is.
Speaker 7 (07:40):
Readily available to the public and outlines in clear terms
that the LAPD does not participate in immigration enforcement and
does not initiate contact based on immigration status. The FAQ
explains our responsibilities and legal boundaries and reaffirms our commitment
to all Los Angeles communities regarding regardless of immigration status.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
So they put out this new document. This updated document
frequently asked questions to say, we do not enforce immigration law,
but we are going to be showing up when things
get routing. I mean, that's what we're here for, to
keep the peace. But it's not just activists questioning laped's
role here. Just moments ago, Mark the La City Council
has approved a motion pushed by City Council Women Unites
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Hernandez that is requesting a report from the city attorney
very soon, within fifteen days. They want this report to
see any and all laws at every level of government
that require and or trigger LAPD to respond to a
call for assistance from another law enforcement agency. They also
want to know from the Chief Legislative Analyst that's the
(08:42):
guy looks over all different motions at city Hall to
report back very soon with information on how other municipalities
and jurisdictions across the country are responding to these actions.
Basically a little suspicious of how LAPD is being used
during these federal immigration.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Sure, what happens when the Feds pick up the phone
or community kate that they want LAPD help. How do
you handle that since you're not actually supposed to by
law aid the Feds in their immigration what mandate, I'll
just call it that and their work with rounding up illegals,
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that's not supposed to be the work of LAPD, and
you're not supposed to be there helping them. But as
we were mentioning yesterday and we got to take a break,
but the way in which LAPD protects the immigration officers
from the public that collects and might actually become involved
in some sort of violent confrontation of some sort, that
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is the job of the LAPD.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
That's exactly what the chief is saying, and that's probably
what he'll explain to these council members again when he's
probably hauled back into the city building to answer questions.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Wow, this is such an extraordinary thing, and you know,
we seem, as usual to be the test case for
the rest of the nation the Donald Trump. No love
lost between the Democrats in the state of California and
the President.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Thank you, Michael Monks, my pleasure. Mark, Yeah, good to
see you.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
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Speaker 3 (10:21):
Jimmy Swagger died ninety years old. He was really playing
a hot hand in the eighties. I would say he
might have been the top, wouldn't you say? He was
in the top five of televangelists.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
He was.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Playing before huge crowds, got a ton of media attention,
held what he was calling crusades across the globe, I
mean across Latin America, South Africa, Jamaica, Liberia. He had
the Swagger Ministries, and he had that broadcasting network. I mean,
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the power of Christian broadcasting was really still super hot
in the eighties, and that i'd say was sort of
the height of his power. So, you know, moving from
radio broadcasts, which were always a big part of if
you've grown up in any kind of I would say,
(11:26):
you know, in even through the decade of the seventies,
Sunday morning it was wall to wall radio with the
basically going to church. Then you go to Sundays on
television sort of the same thing. And so if you
had the swaggered ministries dominant as they were, you were
in really great shape. And the reality is he spread
(11:47):
that word, as they say, called it a crusade across
much of the world. So what brought him down, of course,
was in the late eighties was like nineteen eighty eight
he got slammed with that was he coming out of
a motel room, I think with a prostitute.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
There was I can't.
Speaker 9 (12:04):
Remember if it was a motel room, but he was
with the prostitute.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Yeah, And then he was I think he was.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
He was defrocked and then that kind of that sounds
sort of sexy if you don't know what it is.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
And then he was caught again. I think there were
two scandals involving prostitution, and he became well, he made
that big apology, remember the apology of Superful Chuma, Lord
of sind against you. I thought that was one of
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his best performances. And he is from a family, I
believe of I want to say they're musicians or singers.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Singing was part of his thing, Debra.
Speaker 9 (12:56):
I didn't know that. I mean, I wasn't a huge
follower to tell you the well the Swaggered family, then
this will come as a surprise to you.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
They want a Grammy nomination for Best Gospel Performance.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
So how dare you not be aware?
Speaker 4 (13:13):
I'm so sorry of their.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Prowess when it comes to music.
Speaker 9 (13:16):
Streak me down.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
They had an album called Worship in nineteen eighty one
and that got the Grammy nomination. He look, he was
a leading figure in the powerful movement of the Christian right.
And again he wasn't someone who had I guess, I
(13:43):
want to say a political agenda, you know in his preaching,
but clearly the message was implicit, and he did have
praise for the Republican Party and for Donald Trump. So
he made it all the way to age ninety and
he passed away in the hospital ninety years old. Jimmy
(14:06):
Swaggert and his ministries so very powerful, and again I'll
bet that his power would have continued had it not
been for those scandals.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
You know, he.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Wrote fifty Christian books and sold over fifteen million records worldwide.
Speaker 9 (14:24):
His family apparently is still running the Family Worship Center
in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
It's the gift that keeps on giving. Got to keep
it running. You know, there's no business like the lord business.
So Jimmy Swaggert has made his way out. The California
Republicans now are speaking to Donald Trump. They're saying, mister President,
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and they said this in a letter. We are urging
you to get back to targeting violent criminals with your
immigration crackdown. The sweeping raids are producing widespread fear in
all of our communities here in California. These again are
Republicans who author this letter. They are driving these raids,
(15:16):
are they're driving workers out of critical industries. The Republican
Coalition sending this letter and saying that the heavy handed
nature of these ICE enforcement tactics are leading to the
arrest of non criminal migrants and also ultimately producing labor
(15:38):
shortages in California and only worsening the state's affordability crisis.
We urge you to direct to ICE and DHS to
focus on their enforcement operations on criminal immigrants, they wrote,
and when possible, avoid the kinds of sweeping raids that
instill fear and disrupt the world work. In response to
(16:03):
the letter, White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson points to new
comments made by Donald Trump about efforts to give the
hospitality and farming industries a temporary pass from the negative
impacts of ice operations. Again, what that will actually look
like is the big question mark. But it sounded to
(16:25):
me because I watched Trump talking about this. He had
a long press conference about that Alligator Alcatraz that they're
opening in Florida. And by the way, they're selling merch
that says Alligator Alcatraz on it. That would strike me
again as the oddest thing. But anyway, that's going up
in Florida, and he was saying, well, I want to
(16:46):
try to.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Do something for the farmers. I love the farmers.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
I always had a good relationship with the farmers and
those farmers who are affected by this. We've got to
try to figure out some kind of program that can
accommodate the workers. So those people have been in this
country for a while. I'm paraphrasing, but that's almost exactly
what he said. And that again, that reminds me of
the Brasero program that did exist. There's no reason.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
They shouldn't bring it back.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
That would address these issues while still honoring the overall
goal that they have of this administration's policies.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
When it comes to illegal immigration.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
And finally, the White House spokesperson said President Trump remains
committed to carrying out the largest mass deportation operation in
history by removing dangerous, violent, criminal illegal aliens from American
communities and targeting the sanctuary cities that provide safe harbor
to criminal illegals. So they're leaning in and they're leaning
(17:42):
on the state of California, even as California Republicans say, hey,
these ice rates should focus on criminals and not where
they're focusing. It is the co Belt Show. Mark Thompson
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Speaker 8 (18:00):
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Speaker 3 (18:06):
Mark Thompson here for John Cobelt's looking at the the
world of ice and immigration raids and controversies back and
forth and who started. What's It's fascinating, it's disturbing, it's
it's everything, and it's also just bizarre. I mean, among
(18:28):
the things that I'm reading, most everything that Christy Noms
says just strikes me as bizarre. Now, she may be
your north star, so I don't mean to insult her,
But I just mean that she really sings from the hymnal,
you know, and the I'll start first with just what
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she said about this deportation of a cannibal. Yeah, that's
what she's talking about. She says, the government tried to
deport and Eric has the the the audio for in
a minute, the deportation of a cannibal. But the immigrant
was so quote deranged, he began eating himself on the plane.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
He shared.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
He shared this story this morning during the Trump It
was called a roundtable, which was to announce the Alligator
Alcatraz opening, which is going to happen this weekend. This
is the facility in Florida's Everglades. It'll house up to
five thousand people. But she starts in with this story.
Here's a piece of it.
Speaker 10 (19:34):
President Trump is upholding freedom by what he is doing,
the freedom to live safely in this country and to
do things legally and to have justice. And because those
liberals and I'm calling out you, CNN, I'm calling you
out because you lie every single day about what these
operations are. We are going after murderers and rapists and
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traffickers and drug dealers and getting them off the streets
and getting them out of this country because Joe Biden
let the worst of the worst come in here. The
other day, I was talking to some marshalls that have
been partnering with ICE. They said that they had detained
a cannibal and put him on a plane to take
him home, and while they had him in his seat,
he started to eat himself and they had to get
him off and get him medical attention. These are the
(20:16):
kind of deranged individuals that are on our streets in
America that we're trying to target and get out of
our country because they are so deranged they don't belong here.
President Trump is upholding freedom.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Well, I don't know about that story. I don't know
whether to believe it. By the way, if deranged people
are eating themselves on the streets of America, I almost
don't care. I mean, if they can do it in private,
i'd prefer it. But they're not affecting me.
Speaker 9 (20:44):
But I as long as they don't come after.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
You, thank you. It's true. Yeah, I'm not on the
menu yet, but I do think that it just feels
like there's hyperbole there.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
But I don't know.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Maybe it happened Christinenome to me, is not the most
dependable witness. I'll just put it that way. She was
the governor of South Dakota, as you know. And one
of the things that's come out just in the last
day is that Christy Nome supplemented her income by secretly
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accepting a cut of the money that she raised for
a nonprofit that promotes her political career. This is according
to tax records. This is a wild arrangement. She had
the nonprofit rooted funds to a personal company of Christy Nomes.
It was established in Delaware, That's where a lot of
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these companies are established, as you know. And the payment
was eighty thousand dollars. That year, she was making one
hundred and thirty thousand dollars on her government salary, so
she added eighty k to that. And since the nonprofit is,
you know, one of those dark money groups, one that's
not required to close the names of its donors, the
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original source of the money is unknown, but she didn't
disclose the eighty thousand dollars payment. And after Trump chose
Nome to be running DHS, she had to release a
detailed accounting of her assets and sources of income from
twenty twenty three on. She did not include that income
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from that dark money group on her disclosure form. So
those who've looked at it say that it was Nome
personally taking money that came from political donors, and this
has been revealed as a payment for fundraising, essentially wet
(22:44):
my beak, and indeed for her fundraising, she was apparently compensated.
So this is disturbing by the way. I don't think
it's going to affect Christyome at all. I don't think
it's going to affect policy at all, but I do
think it's a window on more of this dark money
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and how dark money finds its way to so many legislators.
I'll remind you also as I do the story, that
it's not the Christi Nome who's running DHS now who
took that money. No, it's the Christi Nome who was
at that time governor of South Dakota. As I say, so, look,
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she's someone who likes nice things. She wore that Rolex
during that tour of the Latin American prison they're in
El Salvador, so we know she's a high end girl.
There's nothing wrong with that. But the eighty thousand dollars
payment again, sort of a bad look. It was a
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Rolex Cosmograph Daytona watch, is what she was wearing.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
How much?
Speaker 9 (23:49):
How much is that thing?
Speaker 3 (23:50):
What do you think I've seen the answer, But I
mean if I said it was fifteen thousand dollars looking
it up right now, it would be that would be
a lot. I would say fifteen twenty would be a lot.
Fifty thousand is the answer. Oh, that's a fifty thousand
dollars Rolex Cosmograph Daytona watch. Yeah, it was just a
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bad I'm not saying you may want to put that
on it's a collectible at some white house dinner. I'm
just saying at that max prison down there a door.
Speaker 9 (24:22):
I might maybe she never takes it off as she forgot.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Oh that's good, and you know what, Yeah, that's good,
shouldn't She also was carrying three thousand in cash.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
You got that stolen with a purse.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Yeah, she's a she's a bit of a I don't
quite get her rhythm, but you said.
Speaker 9 (24:38):
She likes a nice thing. She had a designer handbag
as well.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
MS know, how much money do you have on you?
Just just just carr it. Let's see I got three
thousand here in the bag, and let's have another forty
five hundred year in my rock pocket.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
My pocket.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
That's the latest on Christy Nome as it relates to
both California and to a aparently some dark money that
donned its way into her pocket. It is k I
Am six forty. This is the co Belt Show, Thompson
sitting in. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
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You're listening to John cobelts on demand from KFI AM sixty.
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It is the John Cobelt Show, Mark Thompson sitting in
and just looking at the the tenth birthday of gay marriage. Yeah, boy,
that seemed as though it was, you know, past the
finish line, no looking back. But now I think there's
been considerable evidence that maybe the new administration a new
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way to look at gay rights in America maybe changing.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
I mean, it was in.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Two thousand and four the first legal same sex marriage
in America took place in Massachusetts, and at that time
it was George Bushy was president, right, And I have
to say the polling on this really is doesn't really
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reflect that people don't care.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
There is.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
For a long time there was a trend of people
supporting gay marriage. Now it fears that things have shifted
a bit. And since twenty eighteen, support among Democrats for
gay marriage has grown modestly from seventy seven percent to
eighty percent. I mean that's most people. But Republican support,
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which had surpassed fifty percent, it went from fifty eight
percent to forty five percent. So there is a souring
of opinions sort of on same sex marriage within the
Republican Party, and courts and state houses nationwide are going
to feel that pinch Legislators feel safer in introducing resolutions
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to overturn the Supreme Court decision that legalized gay marriage.
It was it overfelt, so again you're going to see
more of this.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Now.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
We're in California, where generally liberal policies rule. You have
an all democrat democratic control of everything that matters when
it comes to the rights of the same sex people
to marry. But the Supreme Court is the last word,
and the Supreme Court has taken on some problematic cases.
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From what I understand, it's only Clarence Thomas who suggested
that the Supreme Court would take this case up. But
this is an issue that spills over to it a
lot of other things, and the Republican coalition has changed.
(28:04):
You've got to admit the number of people who identify
with the Republican Party, the kinds of people who identify
with the party, the texture of the party has changed.
Moderate Republicans are fleeing the trump Ism that they see
rising in the Republican Party, and socially conservative Democrats feel
(28:30):
like the party speaks more to them than they've become Republican.
So I'd say keep an eye on this because to me,
as I say, I thought this cake was baked, but
now I would say more and more, everything's on the table.
I've seen legislation just today. Look at this California rolling
(28:51):
back landmark environmental laws. This is in relation to another demand,
and it's the demand for affordable housing. This is a
national symbol of environmental protection as noted here, and it
was pointed to as a reason for the state severe
housing shortage and a homelessness crisis. Environmental restrictions that are
(29:14):
imposed that make it harder to build to develop, they
are now being rolled back, and so suburban growth and
parties to that growth they are affected by this. In
Nusenstein two bills written by Democrats, but with bipartisan support
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in California, that will allow many developmental development projects to
go through and get fast tracked without the kind of
in environmental review that's informed all of that. Normally, it's
a very rigorous process, as you know, to get this
stuff done. But those reviews and those processes are pointed
to is one of the reasons that hey, this is
(29:56):
the reason that there's not enough housing. It's all of
these environmental concerns. And this is a state that has
prided itself California has I'm reducing pollution, protecting waterways. You know,
we take environmental stuff seriously. Here, Well, mark this day
on the calendar. Democrats long reluctant to weaken this law,
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they are weakening it. The bureaucratic hurdles that made it
so difficult to build enough housing for nearly forty million residents,
well those hurdles are being streamlined and you can thank
again both Democrats and Republicans in California for that. Newsom said,
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if we can't address this issue, we're going to lose trust.
And that's just the truth. And so this is so
much bigger in many ways than the issue itself. It's
about the reputation of not just Sacramento and the legislative
leadership and executive leadership, but the reputation of the state
of California. So the ways in which they might modify
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environmental law that's been talked about for a long time,
but what Newsom has done is really rolled it back.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
And you can see that.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
The fires informed this. The narrative in California is just different.
The demand for affordable housing has created a kind of
urgency to this, and those who comment on public policy
have said the same thing. This is a different political
environment today. Voters have been telling us in polling for
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quite a while that the cost of housing is a
big problem, and maybe for elected officials, the election itself
was a wake up call. In other words, you know,
see the first story I was mentioning. I mean, there
is a changing political landscape, both nationally and in California,
and Newsom is responding to that now. And I've got
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to say, when you look at the track record on
a homelessness and housing, it's pathetic. We throw all this
money at this, the homelessness industrial complex, and what do
we get for it? More homelessness. So this legislative rollback
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of these environmental restrictions. Maybe that does spur development. I
don't know that it puts a dent in the homelessness issue.
I'm guessing not, but it's a sign of a political
tide that's turned, and both parties know it, most notably
the Democrats in California. When we come back back to
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the law, we're watching the situation with the Diddy jury
wavering maybe on one of the charges minimally that involves
Sean Combs. We'll talk to Royal Oaks in the next hour.
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