March 13, 2025 • 34 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (03/13) - US Congressman Kevin Kiley comes on the show to talk about wanting the FBI to look into the high-speed rail project in California. Pres. Trump has quickly shut the border down and the Biden Administration was cooking the books! Anti-Israel protestors were protesting at Trump Tower today for the release of Mahmoud Khalil. Why do we put up with so much garbage in the streets in Los Angeles?!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
We are on from one till four o'clock every day
and after four o'clock if you missed stuff, and we've
had quite a show already, you've got to listen to
two o'clock. Howery, we talked with a possible Democrat. Well
he is running for a governor, not impossible, a real
candidate for governor on the Democratic side, Stephen Klubeck, a
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businessman who's about as straight talking as you're going to find.
He's not a Gavenus style Democrat, far from it. So
you ought to listen to Stephen Klubeck on the iHeartRadio podcast.
Coming up after two o'clock. Now we're going to talk
to Kevin Kylie. Kevin was in the state legislature for
many years and made the jump to congressman, and now
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he's going after high speed rail from his office in Washington,
d C. Because there's nobody here in California is doing
anything about it. And Kylie has put in a request
to the FBI director Cash Battel to investigate high speed
rail because, as he puts it, it's seventeen years, there's
no track, no trains, and thirteen billion dollars gone.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Let's get Kevin kylie on. How are you doing well?
Speaker 3 (01:15):
How are you John?
Speaker 1 (01:16):
I'm all right. You joined life in Washington.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Uh, yeah, you know, it's certainly an interesting time going on,
and it's different than California a lot way.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Yeah, I could imagine.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
I've been looking at your letter that you wrote to
a Cash Patel ahead of the FBI, and one line
really struck me. The New York Times reported that, according
project to projections used by engineers and project managers, this
train could not be completed in this century, like it
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could not be completed before the year twenty one hundred.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Correct, And this is the New York Times, you.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Know, yeah exactly, And I'm thinking, well, just about you know,
most people listening are going to be dead, and the
thing still may not be completed.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Right, I mean exactly, And so like seventy five years
from now. They told us initially it was going to
be done in twenty twenty. Right, y eight, this thing passes,
it's going to be thirty three billion dollars. It's going
to be done in twenty twenty. You'll have smooth saline.
It's going to be an easy ride from La to
San Francisco. Here we are, it's twenty twenty five. The
cost is the loon die over a hundred billion, even
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the first segment, which you know they've moved this around
a lot, but it's baker Steel to Merced. The Inspector
General just said a couple of weeks ago they're going
to miss their deadline, so that that deadline was twenty
thirty three. So we've gone from the whole thing was
going to be done in twenty twenty, so we're not
even going to make the first segment by twenty thirty three. Meanwhile,
the cost is absolutely exploded, and they continue to throw
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billions into this sinkhole and no one can tell us
where all this money went.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Nobody even talks about it.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Yeah, so that's what we're hoping to have the FBI
take a look at.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Where do you think it's going? Do you think they're
stealing it?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Well, there are certainly a lot of questions, and so
that's why we felt that the FBI's Public Integrity Unit
was well suited to the task. And you know, at
this point, there's something like seventeen billion that has actually
been spent and you just look around and say, okay,
what what where has that money gone? What have we
gotten in return for it? It's incredible. If you follow
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the high Speed Rail Authority's account on x it's almost
like a parody. Whenever they do something that's you know,
not oppressive at all, but they feel like they need
to show progress on something, they'll say, okay, here it
is after fifteen years, we've built one bridge to nowhere.
This is what we are unveiling. So it's crazy. I mean,
the authority itself has had five CEOs. By this point.
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There have been zero passengers, but there have been five
CEOs of the rail authority. And you know, it's not
like high speed trains are impossible to build. One of
the early operators in California, Yeah, they actually left early
on said we cannot build this year. It's too politically dysfunctional.
We need to go someplace that's less politically dysfunctional. So
they went to North Africa and they brought a high
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speed train online in Morocco in twenty eighteen, seven years ago,
and it continues to operate to this day.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
I have been on high speed trains in Japan and
in Italy and they are great and they go two
hundred miles an hour. And I hear, is this the
only place in the world that they can't build a
high speed rail train?
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Well, I mean it's you're right, like you look at
it's been decades and decades since this technology became commonplace
in places like Asia and in Europe, and you know,
you look at what California is planning to build. Let's assume,
for the sake of argument, okay, that you snap your
fingers and magically the train is done. It'd be a
pretty underwhelming, like low tech project at that point. It'll go,
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you know, maybe a third of what they're planning in
China right now. China's planning to build a high speed
train that's going to go one thousand kilometers per hour.
California's train would go about a third of that if
it's ever built. So we're spending insane amounts of money
to build a technology that are a modality that's going
to be outdated even if it came into existence today.
But it's not going to come into existence today. It's
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not going to come into existence this century, according to
the New York Times.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
So there must be at this point criminal intent, where
everybody knows it's not going to be built, but the
funding mechanism keeps shoveling more billions at it. So let's
take it and run. I can't think of another. I mean,
are they all that collectively stupid? That's the only other possibility,
I mean, the right.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
So there are a lot of questions, and you know,
it's crazy when I hear the argument that, well, we've
already spent so much on it, what we're just gonna
you know, I'll waste all that money that's already been spent.
But that's that's the entire reason it needs to stop.
Because we haven't gotten anything with the first seventeen billion.
What makes us think we're going to get anything with
the next one hundred and one hundred and forty billion,
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probably a lot more.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Can you imagine if it takes till the year twenty
one hundred, how much it's going to be by then
it'll be trillions of dollars.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Exactly exactly, And you know, and then and there's the
opportunity costs as well. What could we be using this
money for? Like those at our roads? Our roads are
in terrible shape. Look at the traffic situation of in LA.
Could we be adding lanes to our roads? Can we
be fixing potholes with this money? Could we even be
supporting regional rail lines and public trains? That lines would
at least, you know, get us something right. People are
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riding this, there'd be people moving. They're good moving from
A to B as opposed to this was just just
a total sinkhole.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Newsome seemed like he was on the verge a few
years ago of pulling the plug on it, and then
he changed his mind. Did he get some threatening people
knocking on his door? Did he get a bad phone call?
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Yeah, that's a great question. I was there. He said
this in his State of the State address and what
was it, twenty eighteen. I think he said, look, this
is not a viable project. He actually said in his
State of the State, which is the biggest platform that
he has as governor. But he very quickly walked that back,
and that's actually where they did debate and switch and said, okay, okay, okay,
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we're going to just focus on this line from Bakersfield
to Mercelles, which you know, it's questionable how useful that
will be in its own right. So it was obviously,
which we're going to build this to justify the project
and then we'll keep it going.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
And I guess they.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Can do it because everybody, the whole public, seems to
be asleep on this. I mean, I can't believe there
has been some kind of uprising, like a referendum on
the ballot to block any further funding, to stop borrowing money,
to stop the whole thing. Just we admit defeat. You
got it. She stole the seventeen billion.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Yeah, So well that's what we're doing with my bill.
I have a bill that's going to take away it's
going to make it ineligible for any further federal funding
going forward. And I believe that once the federal funding
is off the table, that'll force the state to have
a reckoning, because they're relying on federal funding to keep
this project on life support.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
And I would think in this climate, you've got a
good chance of having the President sign it. He's already
I think he was talking about it last week that
he thinks it's the worst project he's ever seen in
his life, exactly.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
So, and he's already. I joined his Secretary of Transportation
in La at their union station to announce that the
DOT is doing a compliance review of the federal funding
that has already been granted to see where it went.
So there's a lot of action right now. I think
there's a lot of momentum for finally killing this project,
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and we're going to see that it happens. And I
think that this FBI investigation, if and when it happens,
is going to be very revealing.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
All right, well, we'll talk again, especially if cash Betel
agrees to do an investigation. I think it's obvious somebody's
stolen the money. Criminal laws have been broken. It just
has to be and I hope he he initiates an
investigation quickly.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Thank you for coming on my pleasure, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
All right.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
That is a Congressman Kevin Kylie from northern California. We
have a variety of good immigration news. This may be
one of the most dramatic successes I've ever seen by
any president in my life. How the border got shut
down and there are very few people crossing the border,
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very few people who are even trying to cross the
Darien Gap, which is how people get from South America
to Central America. Wait to hear the numbers on that
and Trump administration says the Biden people were cooking the
books on the on their claim over how many illegal
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aliens were getting arrested by during the Biden years.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
That's all ahead.
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on the iHeartRadio app. A lot of good immigration news.
This really is one of the greatest, most quickly executed
accomplishment I've ever seen in my life, and it put
to lie about twenty years of nonsense and garbage by
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both Democrats and Republicans. I have heard it all over
the years about why you can't do this, and the
Republicans were just as bad as the Democrats up until recently.
But you go back ten to fifteen, twenty years ago,
and they were so full of crap. Bill Malusian had
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this report yesterday. Trump's ICE agents who've been going around
the US to arrest criminal, illegal aliens. In just the
first two and a half months this year, they've already
surpassed all of Joe Biden's arrests in all of fiscal
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year twenty twenty four. From January twentieth who March the twelfth,
they have arrested over thirty three thousand people. For the
twelve month fiscal year period of twenty twenty four, Biden
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made about thirty two thousand arrests. So the Trump arrests
in two and a half months have exceeded the Biden
arrests of twelve months.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Now.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
By the way, you may see.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Idiot lying politicians, idiot lying activists, idiot lying media members.
Although I think I'm getting redundant in the last two categories.
The media members are largely idiot activists. At a thirty
three thousand ICE arrests fourteen thousand are convicted criminals, ten
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thousand have pending criminal charges, and another eight thousand plus
have immigration violations. Being in the US illegally, many of
them had already had deportation orders. Many of them had
already had asylum hearings where they were turned down by
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a judge. ICE has forty seven thousand plus illegal aliens
in detention, and they're maxed out on beds, and ICE
officials and Homeland Security officials said after reviewing Biden administration records,
they say Biden's people cook the books, falsely inflated ICE
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arrest data, were purposely misleading the public by categorizing. Now
follow this what Trump's and Tom Homan is doing. They're
arresting people wandering around in the interior of the US, right,
they're living life day to day here, except they're either convicted,
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they have pending charges, or they have immigration violations and
they've already been ordered out. What the Biden people did
is they took illegal aliens who crossed the border, were
processed by ICE, and then released into the US anyway.
They counted them as arrests. So a big chunk of
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those thirty two thousand arrests weren't arrests. They were just
briefly detained, given some paperwork and let free. What Trump
and Homan have done is they've arrested thirty three thousand
criminals and they're all being deported out of the country.
They're all going to get the behave I said, reviewing
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the Biden cases, they called them pass through arrests. No
immigration enforcement action was taken. The aliens were released into
the country and included thousands of violent criminals and gang members.
And they're trying now the current ICE management is trying
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to locate and arrest these passed through these passed through criminals.
They're calling him pass through arrests. So all the statistical
claims were fake numbers from Joe Biden's people, not from
Biden himself because he was deceased for much of that time,
and of course they were amplified by the media and
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nobody questioned it, investigated, challenged it nothing. Now, this is fascinating.
You heard of the Darien Gap. This is a very
difficult area to pass through. It's in the northern edge
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of South America. I believe it's in Columbia and you
have to pass through it on foot. It's all jungle
to get into Central America, into Panama and then on
to Mexico. In the US, there's something called the Pan
American Highway. You could actually drive on a network of
roads from Alaska to the southern tip of Argentina. It's
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nineteen thousand miles long. You go on YouTube, there's all
kinds of people who've taken this journey, except there's a
four hundred mile break for this jungle. They call it
the Darien Gap, and it goes from Colombia to Panama,
from South to Central America. Well, we had Todd Bensinger,
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the journalist who did a lot of stories because that
was the very difficult area for people migrating from South
America to get through. And at the height of Biden's insanity,
eighty two thousand people traveled through the Darien Gap in
August to twenty twenty three, eighty two thousand last month,
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four hundred and eight. Trump's policies cut the flow from
eighty two thousand to four hundred and eight. The Darien
Gap is sixty miles no roads, a treacherous jungle of crocodiles, snakes,
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harsh terrain, and drug gangs.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Yeah. De Broh there's a summer vacation. Huh, No, I'm
not going to do that.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Don't tell me about these resorts you stay at.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
This is this is fun and no one knows, and
then I love this.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
This is from Axios, which is a left wing political site.
No one knows precisely why migrant traffic along the Darien
Gap has fallen so much. No one knows. Let's see,
with Biden is eighty two thousand a month. With Trump,
it's four hundred. Gee, what could be the reason? They
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actually quote a Boston College law professor that, well, many
migrants aren't trying to go north because they don't know
if they'll be able to apply for asylum in the US.
No kidding, But we've seen this for decades. It's just episodic.
It'll go back up again because the forces that move
people north have not changed. It's a temporary low. No,
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it's a permanent low. If Trump stays as president and
continues these policies, which he will, but the next guy
has to do it too. It's entirely dependent on the
policies set by the president because he has full control
over immigration policies, and so as long as his executive
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orders remain in effect, then you're going to get four
hundred a month, and then eventually it's going to be
less and less. Well is always happens, No, it doesn't,
but they just keep lying. Why not keep lying? I
guess there's a market for it.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI Am
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Speaker 2 (19:13):
Ron every day from one until four and then after
four o'clock John Cobelt's show on demand on the iHeart
app Conway coming up in a half hour. One thing
I'm enjoying this on a day to day basis is
we're suddenly living in an era where for a lot
of issues, we're not putting up.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
With this crap anymore.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Right, That's why I like Kevin Kylie was on the
congressman and he's trying to get the FBI to investigate
high speed rail because we've blumned seventeen billion dollars. That's
what Kevin said. The latest number is seventeen billion. We're
not gonna put up with this scrap anymore and this
project enough done with this nonsense.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Trump came in.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
We're not putting up with illegal aliens coming over the
border or anymore. Boom ninety six percent. Draw up in
border crossing its ninety six percent. We just told you
about the Darien Gap, which is the crossing, a jungle
crossing sixty miles between Colombia and Panama. Back two years ago,
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there was eighty two thousand people a month crossing it.
Now it's four hundred. Simply not putting up in the
crap anymore. And Trump administration has decided the same thing
when it comes to these terrorisd protesters who support the
bloody Hamasque group. You saw they took over college campuses
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all over the place. And it turns out many of
them are here on visas or student visas, and they
got green cards. They're foreigners, they are they're financed by Hamas,
financed by Iran or these left wing whack job groups
here in America, and they tied up universities from coast
to coast. We had it happen here at UCLA and
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usc Colombia was the most famous in New York City.
And the lead, the ring leader for the Columbia protest
was this Uh, this Mahmoud Khalil. Now, remember these people
are celebrating the the UH slaughtering of thousands of Jewish people,
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and they're supporting Hamas, which is dedicated in its mission
statement to killing every Jewish person and also destroying the
entire state of Israel. These are those supporters. They grew
up in that region. They were taught by their parents,
their family, the culture that this is this is why
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you're here, this is why God made you to kill
Jews and destroy their land. So they come to America,
they infiltrate the universities, and the university presidents and bureaucratic
leaders welcome, embrace them, and pretty soon they are carrying
on with these absurd demonstrations, harassing and threatening Jewish students
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and actually disrupting class for all students. Well, finally Trump
comes in and said enough of this, the hell with this,
and they arrested Mamod Khalil and they say he's a
national security threat. And now he's in a jail in
Louisiana and there's a federal judge getting involved in the case. Meantime,
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mah Mood Khalil's supporters and again, these are this. In fact,
I heard a New York police official on today and
he said, we know these people. We've had five thousand
protests over this in New York City, five thousand. He goes,
it's the same people, it's the same organizations. They get
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their funding from Hamas Iran and left wing coop groups
here in America.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
So they stormed Trump Tower.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Where Trump lived in New York City, the escalator that
he came down when he ran for president. Originally, there
was about one hundred and fifty of these lunatic, bloodthirsty
terrorists that poured into the lobby, and NYPD went in
immediately and arrested about one hundred of them. They refused
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to cooperate. They had to be carried up the stairs
or down the stairs. Here's what it sounded like, play catch.
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This is all celebrating the death of Jewish people and
supporting this monster Mamoud Khalia. Now they've been arrested, so
New York Police have their names. Marco Rubio, ahead of
the State Department, says that if they're on visas, student visas,
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regular visas, green cards, it's.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
All going to get revoked. They're going to get deported.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
And I always suspected that most of these people were
foreigner troublemakers devoted to the killing of Jews. These are
the true modern day nazis now Columbia University, and this
is really enjoyable. Columbia University allowed all this, enabled, engaged, supported, encouraged,
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and then Trump pulled four one hundred million dollars worth
of funding. That's the lifeblood is the federal money for
these universities. Four hundred million dollars. Well, look what happened.
Columbia University just today very quickly expelled some of the
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students who had taken over Hamilton Hall during last year's protests.
They've expelled or suspended the students, and they revoked the
diplomas of some of the students, even some who've graduated.
How about that? How about that letter in the mail
The university said its judicial board had issued its sanctions
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against dozens of students who had occupied Hamilton Hall based
on the severity of their behaviors.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
No breakdown was cited.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
And as I said, my Mood Khalil, who organized it,
is in a federal jail right now, and Trump is
saying that's the first of many arrests. We're simply like,
enough is enough. We're not putting up with this crap anymore.
And I hope this spirit enters California because there's so
much nonsense going on here that we just shouldn't put
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up with anymore. No more debate, no more seeing both
sides trying to convince no, just save your energy, just
out out, out out. And it's amazing how withdrawing four
hundred million dollars worth of funding is going to do.
This went on in April of twenty twenty four, and
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they're all going to finally get justice. You see how
how quick, how quickly that.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
That that changes things.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
You decide to enforce the law, You decide to take action,
You decide to be tough about it, not cowed by
demonstrators or people trying to manipulate emotionally manipulate you, or
shame you, just saying you about enough of your garbage out,
Get the f out all right?
Speaker 1 (26:42):
More coming up.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
You're listening to John cobelts on demand from KFI AM
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Speaker 2 (26:49):
John Cobelt's show Conway is up in minutes. One of
the things I noticed in Los Angeles and beyond a
few years ago during the Garcetti era is the enormous
amount of garbage that's all over the streets. That this
is one of another one of those things that we
just shouldn't put up with anymore. Enough of this and
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the city stopped picking up garbage some years ago, and
I don't know why. For a couple of years they
were claiming it had something to do with COVID. I
don't know what that would be, but all the excuses
are long past. You know, it's either only had badget
cots and I mean the call then whatever. Garbage dumping.
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Illegal dumping in la is at a record high and
a sword under Karen Bass. Karen Bass can't even pick.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Up the garbage. And I got the numbers to prove it.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
In twenty twenty three, in the first two months, there
were thirteen thousand, five hundred illegal dumping reports in the
first two months of twenty twenty five, twenty two thousand,
from thirteen thousand to twenty two thousand in two years,
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just the first two months of the year. Extrapolate that
if you're getting over ten thousand complaints a month, you're
talking about one hundred and twenty five one hundred and
thirty thousand complaints a year for illegal dumping trash, furniture debris.
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It's gone up thirty six percent in just a year.
And it's the highest number that they looked at public
data that they had from the a city website. It
only went back to twenty eighteen. It's the highest number
by far. So apparently Karen Bass has kind of in
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anything goes policy where everybody can dump garbage and furniture,
debris and filth everywhere, and of course much of this
gets washed out into the ocean. You remember remember a
few years ago when that happened in Elsagundo. It was
the sewage plant. The sewage plant jammed up and they
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wouldn't say why, and eventually it leaked out, and it
leaked out from a small news site in the area.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
This is the kind of stuff that it is.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Not politically possible for the La Times to report on it.
It was homeless furniture. The homeless furniture had washed into
the drainage system, got to the sewage plant. Elseagundo completely
seized it up, and we ended up with a massive
sewage leak, like millions of gallons of sewage leaking into
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the ocean because of homeless furniture, and nobody wanted to
talk about it. That that is the strategy now with everything,
we're not talking about it. What's happened the last two
months about the fire. Why don't we fill the reservoir?
Not talking about it? How can the fire hydrants are broken?
Not talking about it? Why are there only half as
many firefighters? Not talking about? How come about all the
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engines haven't been thinks I'm not talking about there's there's
there's a report out, uh, some organization called Crosstown l A.
I guess they're tracking the garbage. While legal dumping may
bring to mind a few trash bags dropped on a corner,
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it often means piles of construction debris. Hazard is waste.
Hazard is waste tossed by a person or business trying
to afford trying to avoid paying proper disposal fees. And
now uh the the council president and the it was
the acting mayor of the day of the fire, Marquise
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Harris Dawson says, this situation is unacceptable. We're going after
the big fish, the businesses trying to avoid construction debris
and waste fees by illegally dumping.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
It's been going out for years. He just woke up.
What has he got? Joe Biden disease.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
We're gonna make examples of them and do it swiftly
and publicly until we shift this culture.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
If anything goes Yeah, you do that.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
You created the culture, but go ahead, you shifted it now, Marquis,
we got Kinway, big dog with you.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
You know.
Speaker 5 (31:22):
I was listening earlier to the program, and I can't
believe that Columbia University is still getting four hundred million
dollars from the government. They can't sustain on eighty thousand
dollars tuition. They get four hundred million a year and
those university has have billions of dollars in endowment.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Right, and then they discriminate who gets in there. Right.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
They discriminate a lot against Asian students. Yeah, if you're Asian,
good luck getting into Columbia. And then the US government
gives them four hundred million dollars. It's unbelievable. Oh that
that whole system is. Why do they hate Asians?
Speaker 1 (31:56):
What's going on?
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Because they do too well on the testing? So so
what they don't.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Want that once you want the smartest people in there, so.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
They don't they look at your color, they don't look
at your accomplishments. It's outrageous, right, this is Ivy League
that everybody has worshiped all our lives right, right, Nothing
no bigger dream than your kid going to the Ivy League,
and it's it's a joke.
Speaker 5 (32:20):
Harvard has thirty eight billion dollars in endowment. Thirty eight billion,
eight billion. Yeah, so that means for the next one
hundred and fifty years, all those kids could go to
school for free, and we're still the government's still go
to money.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
And if they invest it in something normal, they're getting
billions of dollars.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Put in a CD you can still get three percent. Yeah,
everything's a racket.
Speaker 5 (32:41):
But that's why they want to keep Elon Mosk and
Trump and these guys out, because the whole thing is
a scam.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Right, And the harder they dig, the more we're going
to find out. That's right.
Speaker 5 (32:51):
And after they finish with the with the federal they're
going to come to state and then counties and then city.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
I want to see California, Sacramento in la oh, and
I see that investigated.
Speaker 5 (33:02):
Maybe we get Trump's I mean Elon Musk eight year
old kid to do it, you know, does junior? We
probably could h Dean Sharp's coming on with us, that's
always great. And then we'll talk about the rain and
the tornado. That nearly wiped out southern California. I don't
know if it was that big, but it was close.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Pinka Rivera though, you know a tornado and Peka Rivera
that's pretty rare. Might have been one once in a lifetime.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
Yeah right, and it happened today or only this morning.
But man, I don't know if you were up like
on three three thirty when the big rain came through.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Man, that was loud. That sound like a freight train
through it. Oh you did, yeah?
Speaker 5 (33:36):
Oh man, whole house was rattling and shaking everything.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
I miss earthquakes and ah, you gotta go tornadoes and
you gotta get up.
Speaker 5 (33:46):
And then I will probably have five guests coming on
today to talk about.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Rain, like all five weathermen from TV.
Speaker 5 (33:57):
Five guys who have different opinions on what's going on
on outside. All right, we then we all can see
with our on that'll be fascinating.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
That's great. Look at the dog conways.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Next, Michael Krazer has the news live in the twenty
four hour CAFI News. Hey, you've been listening to the
John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear the show
live on KFI AM six forty from one to four
pm every Monday through Friday, and of course anytime on
demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Can't. I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
We are on from one till four o'clock every day
and after four o'clock if you missed stuff, and we've
had quite a show already, you've got to listen to
two o'clock. Howery, we talked with a possible Democrat. Well
he is running for a governor, not impossible, a real
candidate for governor on the Democratic side, Stephen Klubeck, a
(00:25):
businessman who's about as straight talking as you're going to find.
He's not a Gavenus style Democrat, far from it. So
you ought to listen to Stephen Klubeck on the iHeartRadio podcast.
Coming up after two o'clock. Now we're going to talk
to Kevin Kylie. Kevin was in the state legislature for
many years and made the jump to congressman, and now
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he's going after high speed rail from his office in Washington,
d C. Because there's nobody here in California is doing
anything about it. And Kylie has put in a request
to the FBI director Cash Battel to investigate high speed
rail because, as he puts it, it's seventeen years, there's
no track, no trains, and thirteen billion dollars gone.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Let's get Kevin kylie on. How are you doing well?
Speaker 3 (01:15):
How are you John?
Speaker 1 (01:16):
I'm all right. You joined life in Washington.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Uh, yeah, you know, it's certainly an interesting time going on,
and it's different than California a lot way.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Yeah, I could imagine.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
I've been looking at your letter that you wrote to
a Cash Patel ahead of the FBI, and one line
really struck me. The New York Times reported that, according
project to projections used by engineers and project managers, this
train could not be completed in this century, like it
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could not be completed before the year twenty one hundred.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Correct, And this is the New York Times, you.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Know, yeah exactly, And I'm thinking, well, just about you know,
most people listening are going to be dead, and the
thing still may not be completed.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Right, I mean exactly, And so like seventy five years
from now. They told us initially it was going to
be done in twenty twenty. Right, y eight, this thing passes,
it's going to be thirty three billion dollars. It's going
to be done in twenty twenty. You'll have smooth saline.
It's going to be an easy ride from La to
San Francisco. Here we are, it's twenty twenty five. The
cost is the loon die over a hundred billion, even
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the first segment, which you know they've moved this around
a lot, but it's baker Steel to Merced. The Inspector
General just said a couple of weeks ago they're going
to miss their deadline, so that that deadline was twenty
thirty three. So we've gone from the whole thing was
going to be done in twenty twenty, so we're not
even going to make the first segment by twenty thirty three. Meanwhile,
the cost is absolutely exploded, and they continue to throw
(02:49):
billions into this sinkhole and no one can tell us
where all this money went.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Nobody even talks about it.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Yeah, so that's what we're hoping to have the FBI
take a look at.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Where do you think it's going? Do you think they're
stealing it?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Well, there are certainly a lot of questions, and so
that's why we felt that the FBI's Public Integrity Unit
was well suited to the task. And you know, at
this point, there's something like seventeen billion that has actually
been spent and you just look around and say, okay,
what what where has that money gone? What have we
gotten in return for it? It's incredible. If you follow
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the high Speed Rail Authority's account on x it's almost
like a parody. Whenever they do something that's you know,
not oppressive at all, but they feel like they need
to show progress on something, they'll say, okay, here it
is after fifteen years, we've built one bridge to nowhere.
This is what we are unveiling. So it's crazy. I mean,
the authority itself has had five CEOs. By this point.
(03:49):
There have been zero passengers, but there have been five
CEOs of the rail authority. And you know, it's not
like high speed trains are impossible to build. One of
the early operators in California, Yeah, they actually left early
on said we cannot build this year. It's too politically dysfunctional.
We need to go someplace that's less politically dysfunctional. So
they went to North Africa and they brought a high
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speed train online in Morocco in twenty eighteen, seven years ago,
and it continues to operate to this day.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
I have been on high speed trains in Japan and
in Italy and they are great and they go two
hundred miles an hour. And I hear, is this the
only place in the world that they can't build a
high speed rail train?
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Well, I mean it's you're right, like you look at
it's been decades and decades since this technology became commonplace
in places like Asia and in Europe, and you know,
you look at what California is planning to build. Let's assume,
for the sake of argument, okay, that you snap your
fingers and magically the train is done. It'd be a
pretty underwhelming, like low tech project at that point. It'll go,
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you know, maybe a third of what they're planning in
China right now. China's planning to build a high speed
train that's going to go one thousand kilometers per hour.
California's train would go about a third of that if
it's ever built. So we're spending insane amounts of money
to build a technology that are a modality that's going
to be outdated even if it came into existence today.
But it's not going to come into existence today. It's
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not going to come into existence this century, according to
the New York Times.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
So there must be at this point criminal intent, where
everybody knows it's not going to be built, but the
funding mechanism keeps shoveling more billions at it. So let's
take it and run. I can't think of another. I mean,
are they all that collectively stupid? That's the only other possibility,
I mean, the right.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
So there are a lot of questions, and you know,
it's crazy when I hear the argument that, well, we've
already spent so much on it, what we're just gonna
you know, I'll waste all that money that's already been spent.
But that's that's the entire reason it needs to stop.
Because we haven't gotten anything with the first seventeen billion.
What makes us think we're going to get anything with
the next one hundred and one hundred and forty billion,
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probably a lot more.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Can you imagine if it takes till the year twenty
one hundred, how much it's going to be by then
it'll be trillions of dollars.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Exactly exactly, And you know, and then and there's the
opportunity costs as well. What could we be using this
money for? Like those at our roads? Our roads are
in terrible shape. Look at the traffic situation of in LA.
Could we be adding lanes to our roads? Can we
be fixing potholes with this money? Could we even be
supporting regional rail lines and public trains? That lines would
at least, you know, get us something right. People are
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riding this, there'd be people moving. They're good moving from
A to B as opposed to this was just just
a total sinkhole.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Newsome seemed like he was on the verge a few
years ago of pulling the plug on it, and then
he changed his mind. Did he get some threatening people
knocking on his door? Did he get a bad phone call?
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Yeah, that's a great question. I was there. He said
this in his State of the State address and what
was it, twenty eighteen. I think he said, look, this
is not a viable project. He actually said in his
State of the State, which is the biggest platform that
he has as governor. But he very quickly walked that back,
and that's actually where they did debate and switch and said, okay, okay, okay,
(07:10):
we're going to just focus on this line from Bakersfield
to Mercelles, which you know, it's questionable how useful that
will be in its own right. So it was obviously,
which we're going to build this to justify the project
and then we'll keep it going.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
And I guess they.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Can do it because everybody, the whole public, seems to
be asleep on this. I mean, I can't believe there
has been some kind of uprising, like a referendum on
the ballot to block any further funding, to stop borrowing money,
to stop the whole thing. Just we admit defeat. You
got it. She stole the seventeen billion.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Yeah, So well that's what we're doing with my bill.
I have a bill that's going to take away it's
going to make it ineligible for any further federal funding
going forward. And I believe that once the federal funding
is off the table, that'll force the state to have
a reckoning, because they're relying on federal funding to keep
this project on life support.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
And I would think in this climate, you've got a
good chance of having the President sign it. He's already
I think he was talking about it last week that
he thinks it's the worst project he's ever seen in
his life, exactly.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
So, and he's already. I joined his Secretary of Transportation
in La at their union station to announce that the
DOT is doing a compliance review of the federal funding
that has already been granted to see where it went.
So there's a lot of action right now. I think
there's a lot of momentum for finally killing this project,
(08:42):
and we're going to see that it happens. And I
think that this FBI investigation, if and when it happens,
is going to be very revealing.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
All right, well, we'll talk again, especially if cash Betel
agrees to do an investigation. I think it's obvious somebody's
stolen the money. Criminal laws have been broken. It just
has to be and I hope he he initiates an
investigation quickly.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Thank you for coming on my pleasure, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
All right.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
That is a Congressman Kevin Kylie from northern California. We
have a variety of good immigration news. This may be
one of the most dramatic successes I've ever seen by
any president in my life. How the border got shut
down and there are very few people crossing the border,
(09:36):
very few people who are even trying to cross the
Darien Gap, which is how people get from South America
to Central America. Wait to hear the numbers on that
and Trump administration says the Biden people were cooking the
books on the on their claim over how many illegal
(09:58):
aliens were getting arrested by during the Biden years.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
That's all ahead.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
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John Cobelt Show kf I AM six forty live everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app. A lot of good immigration news.
This really is one of the greatest, most quickly executed
accomplishment I've ever seen in my life, and it put
to lie about twenty years of nonsense and garbage by
(11:07):
both Democrats and Republicans. I have heard it all over
the years about why you can't do this, and the
Republicans were just as bad as the Democrats up until recently.
But you go back ten to fifteen, twenty years ago,
and they were so full of crap. Bill Malusian had
(11:28):
this report yesterday. Trump's ICE agents who've been going around
the US to arrest criminal, illegal aliens. In just the
first two and a half months this year, they've already
surpassed all of Joe Biden's arrests in all of fiscal
(11:52):
year twenty twenty four. From January twentieth who March the twelfth,
they have arrested over thirty three thousand people. For the
twelve month fiscal year period of twenty twenty four, Biden
(12:15):
made about thirty two thousand arrests. So the Trump arrests
in two and a half months have exceeded the Biden
arrests of twelve months.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Now.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
By the way, you may see.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Idiot lying politicians, idiot lying activists, idiot lying media members.
Although I think I'm getting redundant in the last two categories.
The media members are largely idiot activists. At a thirty
three thousand ICE arrests fourteen thousand are convicted criminals, ten
(12:55):
thousand have pending criminal charges, and another eight thousand plus
have immigration violations. Being in the US illegally, many of
them had already had deportation orders. Many of them had
already had asylum hearings where they were turned down by
(13:16):
a judge. ICE has forty seven thousand plus illegal aliens
in detention, and they're maxed out on beds, and ICE
officials and Homeland Security officials said after reviewing Biden administration records,
they say Biden's people cook the books, falsely inflated ICE
(13:40):
arrest data, were purposely misleading the public by categorizing. Now
follow this what Trump's and Tom Homan is doing. They're
arresting people wandering around in the interior of the US, right,
they're living life day to day here, except they're either convicted,
(14:02):
they have pending charges, or they have immigration violations and
they've already been ordered out. What the Biden people did
is they took illegal aliens who crossed the border, were
processed by ICE, and then released into the US anyway.
They counted them as arrests. So a big chunk of
(14:27):
those thirty two thousand arrests weren't arrests. They were just
briefly detained, given some paperwork and let free. What Trump
and Homan have done is they've arrested thirty three thousand
criminals and they're all being deported out of the country.
They're all going to get the behave I said, reviewing
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the Biden cases, they called them pass through arrests. No
immigration enforcement action was taken. The aliens were released into
the country and included thousands of violent criminals and gang members.
And they're trying now the current ICE management is trying
(15:13):
to locate and arrest these passed through these passed through criminals.
They're calling him pass through arrests. So all the statistical
claims were fake numbers from Joe Biden's people, not from
Biden himself because he was deceased for much of that time,
and of course they were amplified by the media and
(15:35):
nobody questioned it, investigated, challenged it nothing. Now, this is fascinating.
You heard of the Darien Gap. This is a very
difficult area to pass through. It's in the northern edge
(15:56):
of South America. I believe it's in Columbia and you
have to pass through it on foot. It's all jungle
to get into Central America, into Panama and then on
to Mexico. In the US, there's something called the Pan
American Highway. You could actually drive on a network of
roads from Alaska to the southern tip of Argentina. It's
(16:19):
nineteen thousand miles long. You go on YouTube, there's all
kinds of people who've taken this journey, except there's a
four hundred mile break for this jungle. They call it
the Darien Gap, and it goes from Colombia to Panama,
from South to Central America. Well, we had Todd Bensinger,
(16:41):
the journalist who did a lot of stories because that
was the very difficult area for people migrating from South
America to get through. And at the height of Biden's insanity,
eighty two thousand people traveled through the Darien Gap in
August to twenty twenty three, eighty two thousand last month,
(17:06):
four hundred and eight. Trump's policies cut the flow from
eighty two thousand to four hundred and eight. The Darien
Gap is sixty miles no roads, a treacherous jungle of crocodiles, snakes,
(17:26):
harsh terrain, and drug gangs.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Yeah. De Broh there's a summer vacation. Huh, No, I'm
not going to do that.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Don't tell me about these resorts you stay at.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
This is this is fun and no one knows, and
then I love this.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
This is from Axios, which is a left wing political site.
No one knows precisely why migrant traffic along the Darien
Gap has fallen so much. No one knows. Let's see,
with Biden is eighty two thousand a month. With Trump,
it's four hundred. Gee, what could be the reason? They
(18:07):
actually quote a Boston College law professor that, well, many
migrants aren't trying to go north because they don't know
if they'll be able to apply for asylum in the US.
No kidding, But we've seen this for decades. It's just episodic.
It'll go back up again because the forces that move
people north have not changed. It's a temporary low. No,
(18:28):
it's a permanent low. If Trump stays as president and
continues these policies, which he will, but the next guy
has to do it too. It's entirely dependent on the
policies set by the president because he has full control
over immigration policies, and so as long as his executive
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orders remain in effect, then you're going to get four
hundred a month, and then eventually it's going to be
less and less. Well is always happens, No, it doesn't,
but they just keep lying. Why not keep lying? I
guess there's a market for it.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI Am
six forty.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Ron every day from one until four and then after
four o'clock John Cobelt's show on demand on the iHeart
app Conway coming up in a half hour. One thing
I'm enjoying this on a day to day basis is
we're suddenly living in an era where for a lot
of issues, we're not putting up.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
With this crap anymore.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Right, That's why I like Kevin Kylie was on the
congressman and he's trying to get the FBI to investigate
high speed rail because we've blumned seventeen billion dollars. That's
what Kevin said. The latest number is seventeen billion. We're
not gonna put up with this scrap anymore and this
project enough done with this nonsense.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Trump came in.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
We're not putting up with illegal aliens coming over the
border or anymore. Boom ninety six percent. Draw up in
border crossing its ninety six percent. We just told you
about the Darien Gap, which is the crossing, a jungle
crossing sixty miles between Colombia and Panama. Back two years ago,
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there was eighty two thousand people a month crossing it.
Now it's four hundred. Simply not putting up in the
crap anymore. And Trump administration has decided the same thing
when it comes to these terrorisd protesters who support the
bloody Hamasque group. You saw they took over college campuses
(20:33):
all over the place. And it turns out many of
them are here on visas or student visas, and they
got green cards. They're foreigners, they are they're financed by Hamas,
financed by Iran or these left wing whack job groups
here in America, and they tied up universities from coast
to coast. We had it happen here at UCLA and
(20:56):
usc Colombia was the most famous in New York City.
And the lead, the ring leader for the Columbia protest
was this Uh, this Mahmoud Khalil. Now, remember these people
are celebrating the the UH slaughtering of thousands of Jewish people,
(21:17):
and they're supporting Hamas, which is dedicated in its mission
statement to killing every Jewish person and also destroying the
entire state of Israel. These are those supporters. They grew
up in that region. They were taught by their parents,
their family, the culture that this is this is why
(21:40):
you're here, this is why God made you to kill
Jews and destroy their land. So they come to America,
they infiltrate the universities, and the university presidents and bureaucratic
leaders welcome, embrace them, and pretty soon they are carrying
on with these absurd demonstrations, harassing and threatening Jewish students
(22:02):
and actually disrupting class for all students. Well, finally Trump
comes in and said enough of this, the hell with this,
and they arrested Mamod Khalil and they say he's a
national security threat. And now he's in a jail in
Louisiana and there's a federal judge getting involved in the case. Meantime,
(22:23):
mah Mood Khalil's supporters and again, these are this. In fact,
I heard a New York police official on today and
he said, we know these people. We've had five thousand
protests over this in New York City, five thousand. He goes,
it's the same people, it's the same organizations. They get
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their funding from Hamas Iran and left wing coop groups
here in America.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
So they stormed Trump Tower.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Where Trump lived in New York City, the escalator that
he came down when he ran for president. Originally, there
was about one hundred and fifty of these lunatic, bloodthirsty
terrorists that poured into the lobby, and NYPD went in
immediately and arrested about one hundred of them. They refused
(23:14):
to cooperate. They had to be carried up the stairs
or down the stairs. Here's what it sounded like, play catch.
(23:51):
This is all celebrating the death of Jewish people and
supporting this monster Mamoud Khalia. Now they've been arrested, so
New York Police have their names. Marco Rubio, ahead of
the State Department, says that if they're on visas, student visas,
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regular visas, green cards, it's.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
All going to get revoked. They're going to get deported.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
And I always suspected that most of these people were
foreigner troublemakers devoted to the killing of Jews. These are
the true modern day nazis now Columbia University, and this
is really enjoyable. Columbia University allowed all this, enabled, engaged, supported, encouraged,
(24:40):
and then Trump pulled four one hundred million dollars worth
of funding. That's the lifeblood is the federal money for
these universities. Four hundred million dollars. Well, look what happened.
Columbia University just today very quickly expelled some of the
(25:01):
students who had taken over Hamilton Hall during last year's protests.
They've expelled or suspended the students, and they revoked the
diplomas of some of the students, even some who've graduated.
How about that? How about that letter in the mail
The university said its judicial board had issued its sanctions
(25:24):
against dozens of students who had occupied Hamilton Hall based
on the severity of their behaviors.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
No breakdown was cited.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
And as I said, my Mood Khalil, who organized it,
is in a federal jail right now, and Trump is
saying that's the first of many arrests. We're simply like,
enough is enough. We're not putting up with this crap anymore.
And I hope this spirit enters California because there's so
much nonsense going on here that we just shouldn't put
(25:54):
up with anymore. No more debate, no more seeing both
sides trying to convince no, just save your energy, just
out out, out out. And it's amazing how withdrawing four
hundred million dollars worth of funding is going to do.
This went on in April of twenty twenty four, and
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they're all going to finally get justice. You see how
how quick, how quickly that.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
That that changes things.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
You decide to enforce the law, You decide to take action,
You decide to be tough about it, not cowed by
demonstrators or people trying to manipulate emotionally manipulate you, or
shame you, just saying you about enough of your garbage out,
Get the f out all right?
Speaker 1 (26:42):
More coming up.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
You're listening to John cobelts on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
John Cobelt's show Conway is up in minutes. One of
the things I noticed in Los Angeles and beyond a
few years ago during the Garcetti era is the enormous
amount of garbage that's all over the streets. That this
is one of another one of those things that we
just shouldn't put up with anymore. Enough of this and
(27:12):
the city stopped picking up garbage some years ago, and
I don't know why. For a couple of years they
were claiming it had something to do with COVID. I
don't know what that would be, but all the excuses
are long past. You know, it's either only had badget
cots and I mean the call then whatever. Garbage dumping.
(27:33):
Illegal dumping in la is at a record high and
a sword under Karen Bass. Karen Bass can't even pick.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Up the garbage. And I got the numbers to prove it.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
In twenty twenty three, in the first two months, there
were thirteen thousand, five hundred illegal dumping reports in the
first two months of twenty twenty five, twenty two thousand,
from thirteen thousand to twenty two thousand in two years,
(28:09):
just the first two months of the year. Extrapolate that
if you're getting over ten thousand complaints a month, you're
talking about one hundred and twenty five one hundred and
thirty thousand complaints a year for illegal dumping trash, furniture debris.
(28:29):
It's gone up thirty six percent in just a year.
And it's the highest number that they looked at public
data that they had from the a city website. It
only went back to twenty eighteen. It's the highest number
by far. So apparently Karen Bass has kind of in
(28:55):
anything goes policy where everybody can dump garbage and furniture,
debris and filth everywhere, and of course much of this
gets washed out into the ocean. You remember remember a
few years ago when that happened in Elsagundo. It was
the sewage plant. The sewage plant jammed up and they
(29:16):
wouldn't say why, and eventually it leaked out, and it
leaked out from a small news site in the area.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
This is the kind of stuff that it is.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Not politically possible for the La Times to report on it.
It was homeless furniture. The homeless furniture had washed into
the drainage system, got to the sewage plant. Elseagundo completely
seized it up, and we ended up with a massive
sewage leak, like millions of gallons of sewage leaking into
(29:50):
the ocean because of homeless furniture, and nobody wanted to
talk about it. That that is the strategy now with everything,
we're not talking about it. What's happened the last two
months about the fire. Why don't we fill the reservoir?
Not talking about it? How can the fire hydrants are broken?
Not talking about it? Why are there only half as
many firefighters? Not talking about? How come about all the
(30:10):
engines haven't been thinks I'm not talking about there's there's
there's a report out, uh, some organization called Crosstown l A.
I guess they're tracking the garbage. While legal dumping may
bring to mind a few trash bags dropped on a corner,
(30:31):
it often means piles of construction debris. Hazard is waste.
Hazard is waste tossed by a person or business trying
to afford trying to avoid paying proper disposal fees. And
now uh the the council president and the it was
the acting mayor of the day of the fire, Marquise
(30:53):
Harris Dawson says, this situation is unacceptable. We're going after
the big fish, the businesses trying to avoid construction debris
and waste fees by illegally dumping.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
It's been going out for years. He just woke up.
What has he got? Joe Biden disease.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
We're gonna make examples of them and do it swiftly
and publicly until we shift this culture.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
If anything goes Yeah, you do that.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
You created the culture, but go ahead, you shifted it now, Marquis,
we got Kinway, big dog with you.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
You know.
Speaker 5 (31:22):
I was listening earlier to the program, and I can't
believe that Columbia University is still getting four hundred million
dollars from the government. They can't sustain on eighty thousand
dollars tuition. They get four hundred million a year and
those university has have billions of dollars in endowment.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Right, and then they discriminate who gets in there. Right.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
They discriminate a lot against Asian students. Yeah, if you're Asian,
good luck getting into Columbia. And then the US government
gives them four hundred million dollars. It's unbelievable. Oh that
that whole system is. Why do they hate Asians?
Speaker 1 (31:56):
What's going on?
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Because they do too well on the testing? So so
what they don't.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Want that once you want the smartest people in there, so.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
They don't they look at your color, they don't look
at your accomplishments. It's outrageous, right, this is Ivy League
that everybody has worshiped all our lives right, right, Nothing
no bigger dream than your kid going to the Ivy League,
and it's it's a joke.
Speaker 5 (32:20):
Harvard has thirty eight billion dollars in endowment. Thirty eight billion,
eight billion. Yeah, so that means for the next one
hundred and fifty years, all those kids could go to
school for free, and we're still the government's still go
to money.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
And if they invest it in something normal, they're getting
billions of dollars.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Put in a CD you can still get three percent. Yeah,
everything's a racket.
Speaker 5 (32:41):
But that's why they want to keep Elon Mosk and
Trump and these guys out, because the whole thing is
a scam.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Right, And the harder they dig, the more we're going
to find out. That's right.
Speaker 5 (32:51):
And after they finish with the with the federal they're
going to come to state and then counties and then city.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
I want to see California, Sacramento in la oh, and
I see that investigated.
Speaker 5 (33:02):
Maybe we get Trump's I mean Elon Musk eight year
old kid to do it, you know, does junior? We
probably could h Dean Sharp's coming on with us, that's
always great. And then we'll talk about the rain and
the tornado. That nearly wiped out southern California. I don't
know if it was that big, but it was close.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Pinka Rivera though, you know a tornado and Peka Rivera
that's pretty rare. Might have been one once in a lifetime.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
Yeah right, and it happened today or only this morning.
But man, I don't know if you were up like
on three three thirty when the big rain came through.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Man, that was loud. That sound like a freight train
through it. Oh you did, yeah?
Speaker 5 (33:36):
Oh man, whole house was rattling and shaking everything.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
I miss earthquakes and ah, you gotta go tornadoes and
you gotta get up.
Speaker 5 (33:46):
And then I will probably have five guests coming on
today to talk about.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Rain, like all five weathermen from TV.
Speaker 5 (33:57):
Five guys who have different opinions on what's going on
on outside. All right, we then we all can see
with our on that'll be fascinating.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
That's great. Look at the dog conways.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
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