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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John
Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Two runs of the
Moistline coming up after three o'clock and then you could
get You can catch me on my wife's podcast, Deborah
Cobet Live. It's on YouTube. It's video, and we talked
about a lot of stuff in the news over the
(00:21):
last time.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
You don't want to miss it. You definitely don't want
to miss it.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
I'll be I'll be watching. That's better. That's that's much better.
There Deborah Cobet Live, and just go on YouTube and
you can watch it anytime. This weekend, I had mentioned
all the hypocrisy over the outrage regarding Jimmy Kimmel. Drew Holden,
he's the managing editor at some internet site called American Compass.
(00:46):
He has a long thread on x It's at Drew
Holden three point sixty if you're interested. He did a
great comparison of all the headlines about Trump and Jimmy
Kimmel compared to how they covered all the suppression on
social media in the Biden administration during the COVID lockdown
(01:11):
and the virus debate. It's actually hysterical. So just see
the outraged headlines over Trump and Kimmel and compared to
the headlines about the Biden administration shutting people down on
social media over COVID and vaccines, and you'll understand what
I'm talking about with hypocrisy and people virtue signaling its
(01:38):
performance are it's not reality. Let's get Royal Oakson. He's
the ABC News leal analysts. This is fascinating. The New
York Attorney General Letitia James famously wrote civil charges against Trump,
saying that he had inflated the value of his New
York real estate in order to get better terms from
banks in New York. Very found him liable. He was
(02:01):
originally punished for five hundred million dollars that was tremendously
knocked down, if not wiped out entirely, actually forget. But
he what he did is went for revenge and he
had federal prosecutors in Virginia go after Letitia James for
mortgage fraud. Well, they're telling him we can't find the
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enough evidence for that. And now the Trump people are
so upset with the US attorney on that case, Eric Seybert,
they want him to be fired because he won't bring
criminal charges. And Cybert runs the Eastern District of Virginia.
He's the US attorney and they handle a lot of
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espionage and terrorism cases across the country. And they're saying that.
People are saying, that's not a good idea. Let's get
to Royal Oaks Royal.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Yeah. John, it's a big, big kerfuffle over this US attorney,
Eric Sebert. You know, the bottom line is that the
president into the United States gets to appoint the US
attorney for all. They're about ninety districts around the country,
and they serve at his pleasure. He doesn't have to
show good cause to fire them. And so people can
criticize Trump for politicizing this, but he actually has a
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legal right to go to this US attorney and say, hey,
Eric Seedbert, you may have noticed. You know, I resigned
as a president of the Letitia James fan Club when
she sued me for fraud and won, you know, nearly
a billion dollars and fortunately I got all that damage
tossed out. But I want her prosecuted because she lied
when she got a home mortgage for her home in Virginia.
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She said that was her primary residence and that was
a lie, So I want you to go get her
and put her in jail. He's looked into it for
four or five months and he really can't find enough
to having as prosecutor. And Trump is not happy. And
now he's apparently saying, look, either you quit or I'll
fire you. But the fact is he does have a right.
Trump has a right to fire a guy for any
reason except some racially discriminatory reason. But Trump then has
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to put up with the political in terms of the
public saying, hey, you're politicizing the Department of Justice. That's
essentially the controversy and.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Cyber Is he an important guy as far as you know,
especially with his office handling all these terrorism cases and
these espionage cases.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Yeah. Absolutely. You know, some districts are arguably more important
than others. And you know, maybe Montana has some you know,
interesting criminal matters, but they're not as important as you
suggest that.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Could you have the stolen cattle rings in Montana?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
But that's true, that's true. But you know, so it's
controversial and it's an extent. This guy, you know, is
a solid US attorney. But you know, you remember every
time a new president comes in all ninety or so
US attorneys are out of there because elections have consequences,
and even though they're not really inherently political, that's one
of the perks of the presidency. You get to a
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point US attorneys in all of the districts, Now, is
that true?
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Isn't there? They're all wait, they're all got to work
as soon as the new president takes over.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Absolutely. Now, not every president says to all nighty, Hey,
you know, new sheriff and talent, you're fired. You're fired.
But in general, yes, basically that happens. You know. The
most famous example of people going crazy when a president
gets rid of a prosecutor was the Saturnying massacre when
Nixon back in the day fired Archibald Cox. But he
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had the right to do it. But you know, when
you fire them, not at the outset of your term,
but in between, then people say, hey, what's going on here?
And that's why people are getting lathered up about the
politicization of the Department of Justice.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
You know.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
The ultimate protection John against politicizing this is regardless of
what a Department of Justice or a US attorney does.
You know, fire charge somebody and diet them, file criminal charges.
A judge gets to decide if there's a real legal
basis for it, and if there's some you know, rogue
US attorney that prosecutes somebody for no reason or a
purely political reason, that's when the federal district judge says, hey,
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I read your complaint, this is a croc I'm tossing
it out. Then if he messes up, you go up
to the Court of Appeals. So it's not the end
of the world if the Department of Justice is inspired
by politics. You don't want politics to be running the
Department of Justice, but let's face it, that's the way
it is. You know, the Attorney General is the handmaiden
of the president appointed to the cabinet, and all the
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Department of Justice US attorneys around the country are the
handmaidens of the Attorney general. So it's drenched in politics.
And even though you don't want people going to jail
because of politics, you know, that's just the system. But
the backstop is the judges. Hopefully you make a fair decision, they.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Can throw these things out. I find it fascinating on
so many issues that the Democrats of the left wing
gets gets crazy and they obscure the fact that Trump
has the power to do all these things. The executive branch,
the president himself has tremendous power. He's in charge of
all this stuff, and he may be making the wrong
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decision and you may hate the decision, but he does
have the power to do it, and that really gets
lost in all this overheated rhetoric.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Absolutely, elections have consequences, and the party out of power
doesn't like that and they rail against it. But that's
just the inherent nature of the system.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
All right, very good, Thank you Royal Oaks for explaining
all that. ABC News legal analysts on the Trump's quest
to get Letitia James, the New York State Attorney General,
thrown into jail for something. When we come back, the
City Council voted overwhelmingly to send another five million dollars
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to a law firm whose main job was to keep
Karen Bass from testifying before a federal judge on where
two billion dollars in homeless money disappeared to And they
did a good job of that, and they want to
get paid, and they want another five million, And the
City counsul said, oh sure, let me bend over right here.
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That's your tax money. You're you're you're live in broke
Los Angeles, and they're now shoveling more money for a
law firm that's helping to keep Karen Bass from answering
questions about the missing two billion in homeless money. You
cannot make this stuff up. We'll get to that coming up.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
All right, so just demanded two runs of the Moistline
coming up. So you know this is this, This really
fries me, This makes me crazy. You're an LA texpayer too, Yes,
I am. Don't remind me Los Angeles. Just a brief
rundown in case you just came out of a coma today.
So Karen Bass, uh is, there's two billion dollars missing
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from the homeless money that we pay in taxes. It
goes to LASA, and it goes to the city. The
city is as a partnership with the county and LASA,
which is the LA Homeless Services Association. Anyway, it's a
all big mix, big bowl of money. Two billion is missing.
(09:20):
Two billion, Okay, that's two Comma zero zero zero, Comma
zero zero zero, Comma zero zero zero. Nobody will say
where it is. A federal judge tried to figure it out.
David O. Carter. There was a civil lawsuit by a
private group called La Alliance for Human Rights. It was
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made up of local businesses and people, and they wanted
to know where the money went because they could see
by looking out the window that it didn't go to
get the homeless off the streets. It's a citizens group
and a business group. They're the good guys in this
city of Los Angeles. Bad guys because the two billion
is missing, and shockingly, there's no investigation that I'm aware
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of into it. Now. Judge Carter tried to do one,
and he mandated an audit of sorts, and but you know,
it wasn't an investigatory audit. It was just, hey, do
these numbers add up? And it's like, huh, there's two
billion missing. So Karen Bass hired fifteen lawyers. Four of
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them worked for the city elet of eleven of them
worked for Gibson Done and Crutcher. Gibson Done and Crutcher
provided eleven lawyers to try to block the La Alliance
group from hearing Karen Bass's potential testimony. They threw every
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roadblock in the way to delay this potentially for months
and months, and eventually La Alliance gave up and the
judge David Carter allowed this to happen. Now, originally the
city had agreed to give Gibson, Done and Crutcher and
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eight other guys nine hundred thousand dollars for legal services.
But they had so many people protecting Karen Bass the
keep her from testifying about the missing two billion, that
the contract ballooned from nine hundred thousand dollars to five million. No,
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five million extra. So now we're at six billion, six
million dollars. I'm getting dizzy. I'm getting a headache here
and Done had charged the city almost two million for
two weeks of work. Attorneys were billing individual attorneys were
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building nearly thirteen hundred dollars an hour. By August the
bill had grown to over three million, and Kenny Arslovsky,
the incredibly empty headed councilwoman, she's in charge of the
budget committee. No wonder we're bankrupt, apparently incapable of doing
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simple mass. She defended the decision, saying that Gibson Dunn's
work had been essential to protecting the city's interests. The
city's interests, you blew two billion dollars in homeless money
that you can't account for, and now you're spending six
million for attorneys to provide enough interference to protect Karen Bass,
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who must know where the two billion went. I think
that's reasonable to assume, right, but she can't be questioned.
It's not in the city's interests. It's in the interest
of Karen Bass, and our friends are protecting her. It's incredibly,
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incredibly overwhelming corrupt. It's just so corrupt in the city. Eventually,
Carter broke her to settlement between the city and LA Alliance,
and Carter is appointed a former city controller, Ron Galprin,
and another data expert, Daniel Geary, to independently monitor the
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city's homelessness data. But again, nobody is trying to find
the six billion, and nobody's making Karen Bass talk about it.
Remember it was Karen Bass's buddy, Felicia Adams Kellum who
was in charge of LASA. She was forced out and
she was the one caught giving two million dollars to
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her husband's nonprofit. I can't believe this is just an
absolute rate of the taxpayer. This is completely corrupt. There
is missing money, stolen money. Nobody wants to talk about it.
You got fifteen attorneys lined up surrounding Karen Bass, so
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she doesn't have to talk. Absolutely nobody, nobody, nobody in
the media is demanding any answers outside of us. And
now I'll get to this. Next, La City Council is
saying they're going to withdraw a major funding from LASA. Well, yeah,
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because a lot of the funding they gave to LOSSA
disappeared when it was run by Karen Bass's friend. We'll
tell you about this coming up, Okay, So that's why,
that's why there's still tens of thousands of homeless people
on the street after eight years of billions of dollars
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because somebody stole the money, lots of somebody stole the money,
and now nobody wants to talk about it. And let's
just pretell oh, you know what, well, we'll just pull
out of that organization. We'll pull out out a loss
So yeah, yeah, we'll oversee things ourselves. Yeah, let's pay
six million to these attorneys. And that was their only job,
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that was the only thing of note they did. They
kept Karen Bass. I was going to say, out of jail,
but from testifying sometimes you can testify you end up
in jail, but.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Now, I told you in the last segment, oh by
the way, where we got the moistline coming up twice
next hour. It's coming up very close. And also, if
you'd like, I'm gonna I'm appearing on my wife her,
well I'm not appearing on my wife. I'm appearing on
her podcast, Deborah Cobelt Live. And that's on YouTube, Debora
(16:14):
Cobet Live on YouTube, and you punch into that and
you can watch me and my wife talk about all
the issues of the day. And it got kind of
intense at one point. Did you guys fight right on
the verge of it? I don't really. She might have
cut something out, I don't know. But it didn't get physical. No.
(16:35):
I have never gotten physical in my life with a girl.
I say you, I have not gotten physical since I
was getting assaulted on the fifth grade playground. I didn't
say you.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
I wonder if you know she slapped some sense and.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
You thought, no, no, she didn't hit me, not not
this time. Anyway. Go to Deborah Cobet Live and on
YouTube you could see me and it's very peaceful. The
city council. Now, what did I say in the last
segment that the City council voted six billion dollars in
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Los Angeles to pay a bunch of lawyers whose main
job was to keep Karen Bass from testifying as to
where two billion dollars disappeared to. I don't know why
the judge wasn't all over this more. But I don't
know if there was just some limitations on his domain
because this was a civil case brought by a group
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of businesses and citizens. But seriously, there's two billion dollars missing.
For that matter, I think there's twenty five billion missing
on the state level. But they did also vote to
this week to withdraw all homeless funding from LASA. The
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county has withdrawn from LASA. It was a joint project
between City and County of La LASA is LA Homeless
Services Authority. Council members, some of them asked for an
analysis of what this would mean. They have LAS has
existed since nineteen ninety three. They're the lead agency for
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coordinating housing and social services. If you were here in
nineteen ninety three, a tiny amount of homelessness existed on
skid row in downtown in LA and nowhere else, nowhere else.
I was here, you were here, right, I was. Did
you ever see any of this stuff in nineteen ninety three? Oh?
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Actually, you know what. I wasn't here in ninety three.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
I'm sorry. I left in ninety two, all right, years,
all right? Ninety two? Was it okay? In ninety two?
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Yes, okay. So now the county has a Department of
Homeless Services and Housing. They're going to take three hundred
million dollars in tax money from Measure A. That was
the new tax the debora and I are paying under protest.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Yes, I want it rescinded.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
It should have already been recented. It should have if
people were just would wake up and pay attention. And
they're supposed to have this new agency running July at
twenty twenty six. And that came in response, according to
The Daily News, came in response to scathing audits of
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LASA that suggested, oh listen to this, can't somebody write
in English? Suggested a lack of transparency related to services
provided in funding. No, no, no, here's the translation. There's
two billion dollars missing and unaccounted for a lack of
transparency related to services. Whah who wrote this? Jose Herrera,
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Jose back to journalism school. I hate it when writers
speak like bureaucrats. You're writing to regular people who speak
and read the English language. The English language is not
suggested a lack of transparency nowhere. It's two billion dollars missing.
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LOSSA have refuted such claims, saying any problems came as
a result of rapid expansion and crises. Oh, they're blaming
the coronavirus pandemic. Stop it. The two billion dollars is missing.
That's got nothing to do with the virus. So the
city has established a homelessness oversight bureau, and the county
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has its own thing now and it looks like Losses
going to go out at business, which it should. That
was an incredibly wasteful, bloated, corrupt agency, and homelessness is
worse in all ways. There are more vagrants, mental patients,
and criminals running around drug addicts than ever before. Exponentially
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it's increased. I don't know if there's any way to
get the to get the number of homeless people here
in LA in nineteen ninety three, I don't even know
if they were counting homeless people back then because there
were so few of them and you knew where they were.
They were on skid row. I mean, I lived here.
I don't remember encountering any serious homeless people until the
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mid twenty tens under the idiot Garcetti. I'm sorry, Garcetti,
the idiot, the idiot Garcetti the second, not to be
confused with Gil Garcetti. The idiot Garcetti the first lost
the ojks. It's amazing how many sins against the public
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those two have committed, all from the same genetic line.
Hoping there are no more Garcetties in the pipeline cause
any more damage anyway. And man, can you imagine you
woke up in the morning and the La Times had
ten riders. I mean they got, they got, They got
so many stories on Jimmy Kimmel, And really, at the end,
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who gets a crap? Guys got tens of millions, maybe
hundreds of millions of dollars, but we got plenty of
stories on him. Where the two billion dollars in your
tax money goes? Nobody even asked the question. Imagine if
all the television channels did expose's and documentaries and sixty
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minutes special reports in prime time on where did the
two billion go? And track down all the criminals that
work in the bureaucracy in La City, La County, LASA,
all the nonprofits, the nonprofits, that's where the real criminals are,
all the fake nonprofits, all the people with titles. They've
all got six figure salaries. Some of you may have
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seven figure salaries now. But we'll keep doing what we're
doing because we want that tax repeal. I do, yeah,
really desperately.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Coming up after three o'clock. We were going to pull
out our Kamala Harris Pinata, Oh man, if I thought
she was if I thought she was an empty bag.
Before today, some of the excerpts from her book leaked out,
and boy, she really really is floating in her own orbit.
(23:40):
I'll try to be kind. Well, the excerpts are pretty entertaining,
and she's now going after she's all going after Biden,
and she's going after the other people who wanted to
run for president and those who she looked at to
be vice president. It's like, Wow, what a crowd you're
bidding on the Uh if you bet on the Kamala
(24:01):
Harris horse, you had no idea what a waste of
time that was. Uh. You remember this bozo, Peter Aikman.
He was an executive in the video game industry, and
during the fire in the Palisades, he's the one who
went on a roof of a building in a Santa
(24:22):
Monica parking garage. He led to the top and he
launched a drone into the fire. He wanted to he
was curious about how much was burning, and he was
also curious about a friend's home. Well, he lost track
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of the drone. And this is the drone that slammed
into the Super Scooper, that gigantic plane that we borrow
from Canada every year, and Peter Aikman's drone punched a
three x six eight hole in the wing, so on
day three of the Big Palisades Fire, it was out
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of service. Now that plane has a huge water tank.
It's an amphibious plane, so we can fly down low
and scoop enormous amounts of water out of the reservoir,
out of the lake. And he's not been sentenced fourteen
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days in prison, thirty days of home detention, one hundred
and fifty hours of community service, one hundred and forty
six thousand dollars in restitution because he's got to pay
for the the hole that they that he put in
the plane, eighty one thousand to go to La County's
fire department. The rest will go to the government of Quebec,
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which owns the plane. He owes a ninety five hundred
dollars fine to the US government. His lawyers had lobbied
the judge just a sentence into probation because he was remorseful.
He wrote a letter to the judge saying, my decision
to fly a drone in that time and place was
a stupid and reckless thing to do. But the judge decided, no,
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you gotta at least sit in jail for two weeks. Now,
he was a big time gaming executive. He created the
try Arch Studio Trey Art Studio behind the Call of
Duty franchise, and he has most recently been running a
(26:39):
startup entertainment and video game company executive director of technology
to be specific. But now he's I can't imagine the
urge somebody would get to send a drone into the
Palisades fire I'm just y. I don't know what overcomes people.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Well, now they're sending drones over people's homes, these these crooks,
so they can see this home.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Yeah, I knew it.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
I saw what looked like drones kind of in my
my my neighborhood, and I said to my husband, I
bet you that that's a drone. And they are doing
searches of people's homes. And then I heard her news
story the other day and I forgot where it was
somewhere in the San Fernando Valley and homeowners said the
exact same thing.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
They're looking for open windows, doorries that can be easily breached.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Yeah, I'm looking to see what people's you know, they're
comings and going right.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Yeah, I guess you got what you got to shoot
them out of the sky. Yeah. Probably. I'm so sick
of crooks. I can't like. I'm I'm listening crooks. Don't
go near her, Okay, oh yeah, don't. She's going to
take you out. I'm not going to tell you how.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
But well, what about I heard yesterday, you know, when
I was I was driving and I heard on the
news that somebody, what was it in West Hollywood broke
into a house and killed somebody's dog, really, really a
small dog. You got to kill a dog? Sorry, I
don't on a tangent.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
I no, no, I understand. I know that was that
was a heinous a death penalty for that guy. Absolutely,
you kill a dog absolutely should be the death pens
I'm with you on that. All right, we have more
coming up. Kamala Harris uh more excerpts from her book
I I don't know. It looks like she doesn't want
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to have anything to do with any of the people
that she knew in politics, and she is ripping them
all and embarrassing them all. And we'll go through a
list because those excerpts have been released. We've got two
rounds of the Moistline coming up. 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
(29:03):
to four pm every Monday through Friday, and of course,
anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John
Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Two runs of the
Moistline coming up after three o'clock and then you could
get You can catch me on my wife's podcast, Deborah
Cobet Live. It's on YouTube. It's video, and we talked
about a lot of stuff in the news over the
(00:21):
last time.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
You don't want to miss it. You definitely don't want
to miss it.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
I'll be I'll be watching. That's better. That's that's much better.
There Deborah Cobet Live, and just go on YouTube and
you can watch it anytime. This weekend, I had mentioned
all the hypocrisy over the outrage regarding Jimmy Kimmel. Drew Holden,
he's the managing editor at some internet site called American Compass.
(00:46):
He has a long thread on x It's at Drew
Holden three point sixty if you're interested. He did a
great comparison of all the headlines about Trump and Jimmy
Kimmel compared to how they covered all the suppression on
social media in the Biden administration during the COVID lockdown
(01:11):
and the virus debate. It's actually hysterical. So just see
the outraged headlines over Trump and Kimmel and compared to
the headlines about the Biden administration shutting people down on
social media over COVID and vaccines, and you'll understand what
I'm talking about with hypocrisy and people virtue signaling its
(01:38):
performance are it's not reality. Let's get Royal Oakson. He's
the ABC News leal analysts. This is fascinating. The New
York Attorney General Letitia James famously wrote civil charges against Trump,
saying that he had inflated the value of his New
York real estate in order to get better terms from
banks in New York. Very found him liable. He was
(02:01):
originally punished for five hundred million dollars that was tremendously
knocked down, if not wiped out entirely, actually forget. But
he what he did is went for revenge and he
had federal prosecutors in Virginia go after Letitia James for
mortgage fraud. Well, they're telling him we can't find the
(02:21):
enough evidence for that. And now the Trump people are
so upset with the US attorney on that case, Eric Seybert,
they want him to be fired because he won't bring
criminal charges. And Cybert runs the Eastern District of Virginia.
He's the US attorney and they handle a lot of
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espionage and terrorism cases across the country. And they're saying that.
People are saying, that's not a good idea. Let's get
to Royal Oaks Royal.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Yeah. John, it's a big, big kerfuffle over this US attorney,
Eric Sebert. You know, the bottom line is that the
president into the United States gets to appoint the US
attorney for all. They're about ninety districts around the country,
and they serve at his pleasure. He doesn't have to
show good cause to fire them. And so people can
criticize Trump for politicizing this, but he actually has a
(03:14):
legal right to go to this US attorney and say, hey,
Eric Seedbert, you may have noticed. You know, I resigned
as a president of the Letitia James fan Club when
she sued me for fraud and won, you know, nearly
a billion dollars and fortunately I got all that damage
tossed out. But I want her prosecuted because she lied
when she got a home mortgage for her home in Virginia.
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She said that was her primary residence and that was
a lie, So I want you to go get her
and put her in jail. He's looked into it for
four or five months and he really can't find enough
to having as prosecutor. And Trump is not happy. And
now he's apparently saying, look, either you quit or I'll
fire you. But the fact is he does have a right.
Trump has a right to fire a guy for any
reason except some racially discriminatory reason. But Trump then has
(03:58):
to put up with the political in terms of the
public saying, hey, you're politicizing the Department of Justice. That's
essentially the controversy and.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Cyber Is he an important guy as far as you know,
especially with his office handling all these terrorism cases and
these espionage cases.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Yeah. Absolutely. You know, some districts are arguably more important
than others. And you know, maybe Montana has some you know,
interesting criminal matters, but they're not as important as you
suggest that.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Could you have the stolen cattle rings in Montana?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
But that's true, that's true. But you know, so it's
controversial and it's an extent. This guy, you know, is
a solid US attorney. But you know, you remember every
time a new president comes in all ninety or so
US attorneys are out of there because elections have consequences,
and even though they're not really inherently political, that's one
of the perks of the presidency. You get to a
(04:52):
point US attorneys in all of the districts, Now, is
that true?
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Isn't there? They're all wait, they're all got to work
as soon as the new president takes over.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Absolutely. Now, not every president says to all nighty, Hey,
you know, new sheriff and talent, you're fired. You're fired.
But in general, yes, basically that happens. You know. The
most famous example of people going crazy when a president
gets rid of a prosecutor was the Saturnying massacre when
Nixon back in the day fired Archibald Cox. But he
(05:22):
had the right to do it. But you know, when
you fire them, not at the outset of your term,
but in between, then people say, hey, what's going on here?
And that's why people are getting lathered up about the
politicization of the Department of Justice.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
You know.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
The ultimate protection John against politicizing this is regardless of
what a Department of Justice or a US attorney does.
You know, fire charge somebody and diet them, file criminal charges.
A judge gets to decide if there's a real legal
basis for it, and if there's some you know, rogue
US attorney that prosecutes somebody for no reason or a
purely political reason, that's when the federal district judge says, hey,
(06:00):
I read your complaint, this is a croc I'm tossing
it out. Then if he messes up, you go up
to the Court of Appeals. So it's not the end
of the world if the Department of Justice is inspired
by politics. You don't want politics to be running the
Department of Justice, but let's face it, that's the way
it is. You know, the Attorney General is the handmaiden
of the president appointed to the cabinet, and all the
(06:22):
Department of Justice US attorneys around the country are the
handmaidens of the Attorney general. So it's drenched in politics.
And even though you don't want people going to jail
because of politics, you know, that's just the system. But
the backstop is the judges. Hopefully you make a fair decision, they.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Can throw these things out. I find it fascinating on
so many issues that the Democrats of the left wing
gets gets crazy and they obscure the fact that Trump
has the power to do all these things. The executive branch,
the president himself has tremendous power. He's in charge of
all this stuff, and he may be making the wrong
(06:58):
decision and you may hate the decision, but he does
have the power to do it, and that really gets
lost in all this overheated rhetoric.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Absolutely, elections have consequences, and the party out of power
doesn't like that and they rail against it. But that's
just the inherent nature of the system.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
All right, very good, Thank you Royal Oaks for explaining
all that. ABC News legal analysts on the Trump's quest
to get Letitia James, the New York State Attorney General,
thrown into jail for something. When we come back, the
City Council voted overwhelmingly to send another five million dollars
(07:41):
to a law firm whose main job was to keep
Karen Bass from testifying before a federal judge on where
two billion dollars in homeless money disappeared to And they
did a good job of that, and they want to
get paid, and they want another five million, And the
City counsul said, oh sure, let me bend over right here.
(08:05):
That's your tax money. You're you're you're live in broke
Los Angeles, and they're now shoveling more money for a
law firm that's helping to keep Karen Bass from answering
questions about the missing two billion in homeless money. You
cannot make this stuff up. We'll get to that coming up.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
All right, so just demanded two runs of the Moistline
coming up. So you know this is this, This really
fries me, This makes me crazy. You're an LA texpayer too, Yes,
I am. Don't remind me Los Angeles. Just a brief
rundown in case you just came out of a coma today.
So Karen Bass, uh is, there's two billion dollars missing
(08:56):
from the homeless money that we pay in taxes. It
goes to LASA, and it goes to the city. The
city is as a partnership with the county and LASA,
which is the LA Homeless Services Association. Anyway, it's a
all big mix, big bowl of money. Two billion is missing.
(09:20):
Two billion, Okay, that's two Comma zero zero zero, Comma
zero zero zero, Comma zero zero zero. Nobody will say
where it is. A federal judge tried to figure it out.
David O. Carter. There was a civil lawsuit by a
private group called La Alliance for Human Rights. It was
(09:42):
made up of local businesses and people, and they wanted
to know where the money went because they could see
by looking out the window that it didn't go to
get the homeless off the streets. It's a citizens group
and a business group. They're the good guys in this
city of Los Angeles. Bad guys because the two billion
is missing, and shockingly, there's no investigation that I'm aware
(10:07):
of into it. Now. Judge Carter tried to do one,
and he mandated an audit of sorts, and but you know,
it wasn't an investigatory audit. It was just, hey, do
these numbers add up? And it's like, huh, there's two
billion missing. So Karen Bass hired fifteen lawyers. Four of
(10:35):
them worked for the city elet of eleven of them
worked for Gibson Done and Crutcher. Gibson Done and Crutcher
provided eleven lawyers to try to block the La Alliance
group from hearing Karen Bass's potential testimony. They threw every
(10:58):
roadblock in the way to delay this potentially for months
and months, and eventually La Alliance gave up and the
judge David Carter allowed this to happen. Now, originally the
city had agreed to give Gibson, Done and Crutcher and
(11:21):
eight other guys nine hundred thousand dollars for legal services.
But they had so many people protecting Karen Bass the
keep her from testifying about the missing two billion, that
the contract ballooned from nine hundred thousand dollars to five million. No,
(11:43):
five million extra. So now we're at six billion, six
million dollars. I'm getting dizzy. I'm getting a headache here
and Done had charged the city almost two million for
two weeks of work. Attorneys were billing individual attorneys were
(12:06):
building nearly thirteen hundred dollars an hour. By August the
bill had grown to over three million, and Kenny Arslovsky,
the incredibly empty headed councilwoman, she's in charge of the
budget committee. No wonder we're bankrupt, apparently incapable of doing
(12:34):
simple mass. She defended the decision, saying that Gibson Dunn's
work had been essential to protecting the city's interests. The
city's interests, you blew two billion dollars in homeless money
that you can't account for, and now you're spending six
million for attorneys to provide enough interference to protect Karen Bass,
(12:54):
who must know where the two billion went. I think
that's reasonable to assume, right, but she can't be questioned.
It's not in the city's interests. It's in the interest
of Karen Bass, and our friends are protecting her. It's incredibly,
(13:23):
incredibly overwhelming corrupt. It's just so corrupt in the city. Eventually,
Carter broke her to settlement between the city and LA Alliance,
and Carter is appointed a former city controller, Ron Galprin,
and another data expert, Daniel Geary, to independently monitor the
(13:44):
city's homelessness data. But again, nobody is trying to find
the six billion, and nobody's making Karen Bass talk about it.
Remember it was Karen Bass's buddy, Felicia Adams Kellum who
was in charge of LASA. She was forced out and
she was the one caught giving two million dollars to
(14:05):
her husband's nonprofit. I can't believe this is just an
absolute rate of the taxpayer. This is completely corrupt. There
is missing money, stolen money. Nobody wants to talk about it.
You got fifteen attorneys lined up surrounding Karen Bass, so
(14:26):
she doesn't have to talk. Absolutely nobody, nobody, nobody in
the media is demanding any answers outside of us. And
now I'll get to this. Next, La City Council is
saying they're going to withdraw a major funding from LASA. Well, yeah,
(14:48):
because a lot of the funding they gave to LOSSA
disappeared when it was run by Karen Bass's friend. We'll
tell you about this coming up, Okay, So that's why,
that's why there's still tens of thousands of homeless people
on the street after eight years of billions of dollars
(15:11):
because somebody stole the money, lots of somebody stole the money,
and now nobody wants to talk about it. And let's
just pretell oh, you know what, well, we'll just pull
out of that organization. We'll pull out out a loss
So yeah, yeah, we'll oversee things ourselves. Yeah, let's pay
six million to these attorneys. And that was their only job,
(15:33):
that was the only thing of note they did. They
kept Karen Bass. I was going to say, out of jail,
but from testifying sometimes you can testify you end up
in jail, but.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Now, I told you in the last segment, oh by
the way, where we got the moistline coming up twice
next hour. It's coming up very close. And also, if
you'd like, I'm gonna I'm appearing on my wife her,
well I'm not appearing on my wife. I'm appearing on
her podcast, Deborah Cobelt Live. And that's on YouTube, Debora
(16:14):
Cobet Live on YouTube, and you punch into that and
you can watch me and my wife talk about all
the issues of the day. And it got kind of
intense at one point. Did you guys fight right on
the verge of it? I don't really. She might have
cut something out, I don't know. But it didn't get physical. No.
(16:35):
I have never gotten physical in my life with a girl.
I say you, I have not gotten physical since I
was getting assaulted on the fifth grade playground. I didn't
say you.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
I wonder if you know she slapped some sense and.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
You thought, no, no, she didn't hit me, not not
this time. Anyway. Go to Deborah Cobet Live and on
YouTube you could see me and it's very peaceful. The
city council. Now, what did I say in the last
segment that the City council voted six billion dollars in
(17:10):
Los Angeles to pay a bunch of lawyers whose main
job was to keep Karen Bass from testifying as to
where two billion dollars disappeared to. I don't know why
the judge wasn't all over this more. But I don't
know if there was just some limitations on his domain
because this was a civil case brought by a group
(17:30):
of businesses and citizens. But seriously, there's two billion dollars missing.
For that matter, I think there's twenty five billion missing
on the state level. But they did also vote to
this week to withdraw all homeless funding from LASA. The
(17:54):
county has withdrawn from LASA. It was a joint project
between City and County of La LASA is LA Homeless
Services Authority. Council members, some of them asked for an
analysis of what this would mean. They have LAS has
existed since nineteen ninety three. They're the lead agency for
(18:18):
coordinating housing and social services. If you were here in
nineteen ninety three, a tiny amount of homelessness existed on
skid row in downtown in LA and nowhere else, nowhere else.
I was here, you were here, right, I was. Did
you ever see any of this stuff in nineteen ninety three? Oh?
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Actually, you know what. I wasn't here in ninety three.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
I'm sorry. I left in ninety two, all right, years,
all right? Ninety two? Was it okay? In ninety two?
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Yes, okay. So now the county has a Department of
Homeless Services and Housing. They're going to take three hundred
million dollars in tax money from Measure A. That was
the new tax the debora and I are paying under protest.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Yes, I want it rescinded.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
It should have already been recented. It should have if
people were just would wake up and pay attention. And
they're supposed to have this new agency running July at
twenty twenty six. And that came in response, according to
The Daily News, came in response to scathing audits of
(19:31):
LASA that suggested, oh listen to this, can't somebody write
in English? Suggested a lack of transparency related to services
provided in funding. No, no, no, here's the translation. There's
two billion dollars missing and unaccounted for a lack of
transparency related to services. Whah who wrote this? Jose Herrera,
(19:52):
Jose back to journalism school. I hate it when writers
speak like bureaucrats. You're writing to regular people who speak
and read the English language. The English language is not
suggested a lack of transparency nowhere. It's two billion dollars missing.
(20:17):
LOSSA have refuted such claims, saying any problems came as
a result of rapid expansion and crises. Oh, they're blaming
the coronavirus pandemic. Stop it. The two billion dollars is missing.
That's got nothing to do with the virus. So the
city has established a homelessness oversight bureau, and the county
(20:40):
has its own thing now and it looks like Losses
going to go out at business, which it should. That
was an incredibly wasteful, bloated, corrupt agency, and homelessness is
worse in all ways. There are more vagrants, mental patients,
and criminals running around drug addicts than ever before. Exponentially
(21:07):
it's increased. I don't know if there's any way to
get the to get the number of homeless people here
in LA in nineteen ninety three, I don't even know
if they were counting homeless people back then because there
were so few of them and you knew where they were.
They were on skid row. I mean, I lived here.
I don't remember encountering any serious homeless people until the
(21:30):
mid twenty tens under the idiot Garcetti. I'm sorry, Garcetti,
the idiot, the idiot Garcetti the second, not to be
confused with Gil Garcetti. The idiot Garcetti the first lost
the ojks. It's amazing how many sins against the public
(21:55):
those two have committed, all from the same genetic line.
Hoping there are no more Garcetties in the pipeline cause
any more damage anyway. And man, can you imagine you
woke up in the morning and the La Times had
ten riders. I mean they got, they got, They got
so many stories on Jimmy Kimmel, And really, at the end,
(22:18):
who gets a crap? Guys got tens of millions, maybe
hundreds of millions of dollars, but we got plenty of
stories on him. Where the two billion dollars in your
tax money goes? Nobody even asked the question. Imagine if
all the television channels did expose's and documentaries and sixty
(22:38):
minutes special reports in prime time on where did the
two billion go? And track down all the criminals that
work in the bureaucracy in La City, La County, LASA,
all the nonprofits, the nonprofits, that's where the real criminals are,
all the fake nonprofits, all the people with titles. They've
all got six figure salaries. Some of you may have
(23:00):
seven figure salaries now. But we'll keep doing what we're
doing because we want that tax repeal. I do, yeah,
really desperately.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Coming up after three o'clock. We were going to pull
out our Kamala Harris Pinata, Oh man, if I thought
she was if I thought she was an empty bag.
Before today, some of the excerpts from her book leaked out,
and boy, she really really is floating in her own orbit.
(23:40):
I'll try to be kind. Well, the excerpts are pretty entertaining,
and she's now going after she's all going after Biden,
and she's going after the other people who wanted to
run for president and those who she looked at to
be vice president. It's like, Wow, what a crowd you're
bidding on the Uh if you bet on the Kamala
(24:01):
Harris horse, you had no idea what a waste of
time that was. Uh. You remember this bozo, Peter Aikman.
He was an executive in the video game industry, and
during the fire in the Palisades, he's the one who
went on a roof of a building in a Santa
(24:22):
Monica parking garage. He led to the top and he
launched a drone into the fire. He wanted to he
was curious about how much was burning, and he was
also curious about a friend's home. Well, he lost track
(24:43):
of the drone. And this is the drone that slammed
into the Super Scooper, that gigantic plane that we borrow
from Canada every year, and Peter Aikman's drone punched a
three x six eight hole in the wing, so on
day three of the Big Palisades Fire, it was out
(25:05):
of service. Now that plane has a huge water tank.
It's an amphibious plane, so we can fly down low
and scoop enormous amounts of water out of the reservoir,
out of the lake. And he's not been sentenced fourteen
(25:28):
days in prison, thirty days of home detention, one hundred
and fifty hours of community service, one hundred and forty
six thousand dollars in restitution because he's got to pay
for the the hole that they that he put in
the plane, eighty one thousand to go to La County's
fire department. The rest will go to the government of Quebec,
(25:53):
which owns the plane. He owes a ninety five hundred
dollars fine to the US government. His lawyers had lobbied
the judge just a sentence into probation because he was remorseful.
He wrote a letter to the judge saying, my decision
to fly a drone in that time and place was
a stupid and reckless thing to do. But the judge decided, no,
(26:18):
you gotta at least sit in jail for two weeks. Now,
he was a big time gaming executive. He created the
try Arch Studio Trey Art Studio behind the Call of
Duty franchise, and he has most recently been running a
(26:39):
startup entertainment and video game company executive director of technology
to be specific. But now he's I can't imagine the
urge somebody would get to send a drone into the
Palisades fire I'm just y. I don't know what overcomes people.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Well, now they're sending drones over people's homes, these these crooks,
so they can see this home.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Yeah, I knew it.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
I saw what looked like drones kind of in my
my my neighborhood, and I said to my husband, I
bet you that that's a drone. And they are doing
searches of people's homes. And then I heard her news
story the other day and I forgot where it was
somewhere in the San Fernando Valley and homeowners said the
exact same thing.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
They're looking for open windows, doorries that can be easily breached.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Yeah, I'm looking to see what people's you know, they're
comings and going right.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Yeah, I guess you got what you got to shoot
them out of the sky. Yeah. Probably. I'm so sick
of crooks. I can't like. I'm I'm listening crooks. Don't
go near her, Okay, oh yeah, don't. She's going to
take you out. I'm not going to tell you how.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
But well, what about I heard yesterday, you know, when
I was I was driving and I heard on the
news that somebody, what was it in West Hollywood broke
into a house and killed somebody's dog, really, really a
small dog. You got to kill a dog? Sorry, I
don't on a tangent.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
I no, no, I understand. I know that was that
was a heinous a death penalty for that guy. Absolutely,
you kill a dog absolutely should be the death pens
I'm with you on that. All right, we have more
coming up. Kamala Harris uh more excerpts from her book
I I don't know. It looks like she doesn't want
(28:42):
to have anything to do with any of the people
that she knew in politics, and she is ripping them
all and embarrassing them all. And we'll go through a
list because those excerpts have been released. We've got two
rounds of the Moistline coming up. Hey, you've been listening
to The John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear
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