August 4, 2025 • 34 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (08/04) - Ben Siegel comes on the show to talk about what Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is threatening to do to Democrats who fled the state amid redistricting efforts by Republicans. Your brain could be turning to plastic. The Eaton Fire could have been prevented. There is a new major media outlet coming to California in the near future.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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the last few days there's been building drama which is
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going to affect California potentially and Texas. The governor Greg
Abbott wants the congressional districts redrawn. Normally they're redrawn every
ten years after the census, but Abbot wanted to redrawn
now and after they drew new lines. He hopes it
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leads to more Republican congress people coming from Texas next year.
So the Republicans put the crafted together a plan. The
Democrats in the legislature in Texas said no, and they
took off. They took off for Illinois and Deny the
Republicans at Quorn and now Abbott is threatening to have
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them all arrested and to kick them all out of office.
Supposedly he's got the power to remove them from office
for abandonment. Now, how this affects California is Newsom wants
to do the same thing in this state to ensure
that there's almost all Democrats from California going to Congress
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and a few are no Republicans in retaliation. So let's
get Ben Single on the ABC News deputy director, deputy
political director in Washington. Ben, how are you.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
I'm doing well. Thanks for the surprise promotion.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
All right, I'm sorry about that. My apologies to your
political director. Well, Ben, I don't know to the minute
where this story is. They all the Democratic legislators went
to Illinois to seek refuge. Are they coming back? Are
they listening to his threats first?
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Right now? The answer is no. They have made clear
that they've planned to stay outside of Texas for at
least two weeks. That's so they can wait out this
special session of the state legislature that the governor has
called to pass this new congressional mass that they opposed
that would give Republicans as many as five new seats.
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So that's the short term strategy. But is it a
long term plan? The problem here is that Abbott can
call a new special session after this one expires. So
you know, our Democrats really willing to spend the next
year and a half outside their state to prevent this
new map from getting an active It's hard to see
that happening. They have been cagy about how long they're
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willing to keep this up. And I think it's also
worth noting that, unlike in the past when they've done this,
there's now a five hundred dollars a day fine that
each of these members incurs. And you know, this is
part time work they do in the state House. They
only make about seventy five one hundred dollars a year
from being state legislators. So those finds can start to
add up and put some real stress on these members
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and pressure them to return to Austin.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
While you were talking, both Fox and CNN are running
graphics saying that Abbott is ordering the arrest of the
Democratic lawmakers who fled, So that work is he going
to send.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
So that's how he's responded today. He you know, they
officially tried to meet in the gavel in the state House,
but they lacked the quorum, they didn't have enough members,
and they authorized, you know, civil arrest warrants for these
members who were outside of the state. And the governor
has echoedet the only problem he has is that this
is why they left the state in the first place,
because the governor does not have the authority outside of
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state lines to compel them to get law enforcement to
bring them back to the state house. They are beyond
his reach right now. Is he did the same thing
in twenty twenty one where Democrats left the state to
stop the Republican from taking up a voting bill, and
you know, his hands are tied. Now. The question is,
you know, does he request some sort of federal support,
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federal assistance from the Trump administration. We know President Trump
is the reason why they're doing all this. He told
Republicans in Texas to redraw their maps in the middle
of the decade instead of waiting until you know, every
ten years as his most states do, as all states do,
because he wanted more Republican seats. So I think that's
the big question going forward. How far is Governor Habbitt
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willing to escalate this, and if he does, how far
is President Trump willing to escalate this? Will there be
an attempt to bring these Democrats to heal at the
federal level. I think that's kind of the big question
at this hour. After this, you.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Know, call for their arrest, trumpet jurisdiction in a state matter,
and what like, what could he do to these democratic legislators.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Well, we've talked to experts about this and most of
them say, no, he doesn't. But you remember this as
a president who sort of defied the conventional wisdom about
his office and sent the National Guard into Los Angeles
to deal with immigration, even though judges on several levels
that he did not have the power to do so.
So this is a president in an administration that has
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emboldened to expand executive power. And I think there is
a real question here how far are they wanted to
push it on this issue and what would that look like.
It's really untested waters if they decide to go that way,
even if you know lawyers that we spoke to say
that he does not have the ability to do so.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Does Greg Abbott have the power to have them expelled
from the legislature claiming abandonment? I read that was the
next step.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Well, that's a good question. He's saying he does, and
he's pointing to a non bind legal opinion that the
Attorney General issued in twenty twenty one about the responsibilities
and duties of Republican lawmakers. The Attorney General Ken Paxton
was asked about this today and he basically said, it's
a really complicated process. It's a long drawn out thing
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that would be challenged in court, tested legally, and it's
not as cut and dry as the governor may be
suggesting it is when he said, you have the power
to do this. So that's another new frontier of this
fight here, and it's another untested one. We'll see how
far this goes and if he tries to go to
court to make his case.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
So here in California, you have I knew someone's to
retaliate and have the lines redrawn. Now, normally they wouldn't
get redrawn until after the twenty thirty census, in time
for the twenty thirty two elections, and we have a
constitucial amendment that the voters passed years ago saying only
an independent commission can redraw the lines. And he's trying
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to get a ballot initiative for us to vote on
soon so that we change the district lines. Now, I
mean that is that legal for him to do this?
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Well, it's a much more onerous process in California because,
as you mentioned, they have this nonpartisan commission independent commission
rather that draws up the the congressional districts, so they
will Basically, they are saying they would have to go
back to voters, perhaps in a special election, and get
permission to do this. Now they claim they're on legal
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ground to do that that you know, if they put
forward some proposal to suspend their independent process until the
end of the decade, they can do this in the
interim to respond to Texas. But again, that's another new,
untested battle. And we've already heard from California Republicans who
say they will take this to court. So it's another
it's another example of how all these unprecedented, extraordinary efforts
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to sort of exercise raw political power are leading to
these new, unexpected fights in court in all these different states.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
It seems like the laws aren't really written to deal
with this. It's never happened before.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
I think there's a lot. I think we're seeing a
lot of things that haven't happened before that are getting
tested in court on all manner of issues. And it's
happening all across the country. And the challenge here is that,
you know, Congress has you know, been pushed to do this.
Democrats have called for this for years, but for a
number of reasons, they haven't done it when they were
in power, and Republicans have not supported either to standardize
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the process of redistricting and make a one size fits
all model for every state. Congress has not done that.
So absolutely federal standard for doing this, I guess they can.
I mean they can.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Yes, it's a federal election because normally the federal government
can interfere in state elections, but this would be for
federal officials, so they could do that.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
I think, yeah, I think I think the government could
set forward to stand by which every state conducts it's
redistricting and drawing of congressional districts. But they have not
done that, And because in that absence, you've seen the
states sort of, you know, do their own processes for
doing this. In Republican states, it's mostly left in the
hand of the legislature. In democratic states at the mix
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states like Maryland and Illinois, it's done by Democrats in
the state house. And in states like New York, New Jersey, California,
there are there have been efforts to set aside and
have commissions to do this. Ohio is another state within
they've tried to do that and try to take this
out of the state House to mixed results.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Really, Ben Siegel, thanks for coming on with us ABC
News Deputy political director in Washington. Thank you, all right,
Well we come back. Your brain may be turning to plastic.
There's a new study out and it looks like all
the plastic that you ingest from the moment you're born
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till you die is actually changing the inside wiring of
your body. And there's a long list of potential diseases
and medical conditions that you can get now because of
the accumulation of plastic. You may be half plastic by
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this I I'm sure I am.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
That will explain a lot of things that are going
on in my life.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Well, we'll get into the details coming up.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
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is a I was gonna be careful because I could
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I could read this story two ways, like for for
long time time. You heard them. You heard the media
and the activists pushing the idea that you shouldn't eat
meat and you shouldn't eat me because it's not healthy
for you, it'll give you all kinds of health issues,
and a lot of that turned out to be overblown nonsense. Really,
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what's driving a lot of the anti meat activism is
because they claim the cows cause climate change because cows
eat all day and then they pass gas, which a
big portion of cow gas is methane, and the methane
is even worse for the climate, they claim, than than
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carbon dioxide, which is the usual villain. And it took
a while, but I read enough articles and I finally thought, oh,
I get it. It's not because you care about my health,
because they don't care about my health, and it's just overblown.
We've been eating meat for thousands of years. It actually
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keeps most of the world alive. What it was was
part of the climate change religion. Same thing with this
story about plastics. May be true, maybe not, or maybe
another way to scare people into saluting the climate change religion.
So this is in the medical journal Lancing, And I
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used to believe medical journals and then they become severely
politicized and woke. They claim in this report there is
a grave, growing underrecognized danger to health. It's costing the
world up one and a half trillion dollars a year.
(12:43):
And apparently this week there's talks in Geneva trying to
get a worldwide treaty on plastic pollution. They have delegates
from one hundred and eighty nations. They've been trying on
trying this treaty repeatedly over the years, that it always
fails because the way you can't really you can't really
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live without oil and gas, and you can't live without plastics.
But they claim that plastics cause disease and death from
infancy to old age. How about that no nuance here?
You would think we'd all be dead by now.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Like I was gonna say, what about the people that
are one hundred hundred and five.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Well, maybe their innerds are made of plastic, but maybe
that works. Well, maybe they found evidence for multiple health
effects at all stages of human life. Infants and young
children are at risk. You could end up with polycystic
ovary syndrome, endometriosis, which affects women's reproductive parts. Perinatal effects, miscarriages,
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reduced birth weight, malformations of the genital organs. Oh, Harvey
Harvey's mom. Yeah, Harvey's mom got too much plastic. That
was a long time ago. Diminute, diminished. Now we're into
you know what might be ailing you, diminished cognitive function?
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Thanks John, true, but.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Thanks including IQ lots. Okay, two, here you are insulin resistance, hypertension,
obesity in children, type two diabetes, cardiovascular disease, stroke, obesity,
and cancer and adults. Holy mackerel. It's from all the
plastic uh, and they're calling on the world to come
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together and find common ground. It's tiny pieces of plastic,
microplastics that UH lives in all our bodies. They just
slash around in our bloodstream. They collect in our brains.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Okay, let me ask you a question. When you heat
up food in the microwave, do you put it in plastic?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Well, I don't. I don't eat up food very much
because I don't like warmed over food. But if we
order out and bring it in and heat it up,
well it's in those plastic like trays.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Yeah, you need to take it out. That's one way
of doing something. I mean, I will not eat up
food in plastic.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Well, something would happen to the plastic, right, would it
start to melt at some point? Like I know, not
to put our plastic dishes in the microwave, right because
they would they turn into some kind of plastic good
which is probably not good for you. The amount of
plastic produced by the world, all right in nineteen fifty
two million tons. In twenty twenty two, four hundred and
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seventy five million tons, four hundred seventy five million tons
of plastic reproduce, and the number is going to triple
by twenty sixty. Hardly any of it is recycled because
there's nowhere to sell the recycled plastic. Two plastic is
made from fossil fuels. See here we go. The plastic
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crisis is connected to the climate crisis. There's no understating
the magnitude of the climate crisis and the plastic crisis.
According to one of these officials, Philip Landrigan, a doctor
and researcher at Boston College, they're causing disease, death, and
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disability and tens of thousands of people. See, you don't
eat plastic. Plastic is made with the petroleum products the
petroleum products are causing climate change, so we're not only
killing the atmosphere, we're killing ourselves. They're trying every angle possible.
They're so crazed about this. That's one of the things
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I'm enjoying about Trump. He's dismantling the entire climate change industry.
I mean, the whole thing is getting bulldozed. The other day,
the EPA announced that within a matter of months they
are going to just shut down their whole climate change department,
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and anything that's been put out out about climate change
being this existential threat no longer, no longer their policy.
Everything's being canceled, not their policy, no longer. They're finding
nothing they believed it, and nothing they're going to ever
talk about again. So this is like the last gasp
here this this plastic conference in Geneva. Well, look, the
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IQ is pretty low as it is in this country.
I don't think losing a couple of points going to
make a difference, like it's already too low.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
But the cancer possibilities and all, you know, cognitive decline, diabetes,
you know.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
I'm kind of rooting for cognitive decline. I want to
get to a day where I don't notice as much.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Oh, that'll happen.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Yeah, and I'm not bothered as much by everything. I
want to just be one of those guys that sits
and just watches the birds and just have like a
silly smile on my face. Then you won't be doing
this show and not irritated by the word I don't
that's thing. So you want to go to Bidenville, I
want to go to Bidenville. That's right. There was part
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of me watching Biden's jealous. That's not a bad state
to the end. You know, he doesn't look with all
the all the crap that was going on in the world.
He didn't seem bothered at the end. In the last
few months, he's wandering around get lost. Well that would
be scary, but not not to the person with the
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with the dimension.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
You don't you.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Don't know, you're lost. I remember he got he got
lost at one of those European conferences and they were
trying to arrange everybody for a group picture.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Yeah, I remember seeing that.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
He and they ran some video and people start going,
where where's Joe, Where's Joe? And a voice said, he's
over there behind the tree, and he was.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
He was standing by I remember I'm thinking when somebody
is lost, though, if they really they have that cognitive
decline and they know that they're lost, but they don't
know where they're going.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Scar probably a transition period where you know you're lost
and you can't panic, and then there's a period where
you don't know you're lost and it doesn't really matter
and you're blissfully again. That's right. You just you know,
you see a squirrel, you follow the squirrel. See a bird,
you follow the bird. That's where I'm going.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
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Speaker 2 (19:25):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. We are going
to talk to Michael Monks after three o'clock because the
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the Trump administration. Remember,
there was a restraining order against the immigration raids that
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were going on in the streets of Los Angeles and elsewhere,
and a US District judge and now the Ninth Circuit
Court of Appeals panel both said that you were rounding
up people without reasonable suspicion that they were here illegal.
And today the ACLU and others who had filed a suit,
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we're going to have a news conference. Michael Monks has
talk all about this issue coming up after three o'clock.
All right, you may have heard these headlines, and there
is one headline in the La Times that's really simple
and it's true. The Altadena fire. This fire could have
been prevented. If you haven't heard by now, it's almost
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certain that the Altadena fire was started by an abandoned
power line that somehow got re energized. That's a bit
of a mystery. They think something similar may have happened
in the middle of the Palisades fire as well. And
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there's these old transmission lines that chriss crossed the whole state. Now,
the last time this Alta Dino line was used was
nineteen seventy one. Seriously, that's the last time it transported electricity.
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It's called the Mesas Silmour Transmission Line. And the bad
guys here is Edison. It was Edison's line and they
hadn't used it in fifty four years, but they kept
it around because hey, maybe we'll need it someday. Now.
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For twenty five years, the state government has tried to
force these power companies to shut down these lines and
tear them down rather than let it sit there for
fifty years and take a risk, just get rid of them.
Because these lines are not getting maintained, and if there's
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some kind of fluke or some kind of storm, they'll
fall to the ground, and if they somehow get energized,
they start a massive wilefire. That's what wiped out a
big chunk of Altadena. It was nine thousand, four hundred homes,
killed nineteen people, ninety four hundred homes and other structures.
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So get this. This is how corrupt the government is.
If only people knew. If you listen to this show,
you know that Sacramento, La is thick with political corruption.
Everything is payoffs. Well, state regulators knew in two thousand
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and one that old transmission lines could set off wildfires,
and they proposed a safety rule that would have forced
Edison to remove the lines unless they could prove they
would use them in the future. And the electrical utilities
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fought this like crazy. And the polite term is lobbying,
but really what it is is bribery. Because really a
grown man, a politician, he could withstand an angry phone call.
It's not that big a deal. But if somebody's bringing
a big check, or they're offering a big wire deposit
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to your campaign or maybe some other mysterious bank account
that you'd like them to fill. That's not lobbying, this bribery,
and you're not being persuaded by their arguments. You're saying, Wow,
that's a lot of money there, I'd like that. So
by two thousand and five they were supposed to have
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this new law, and then the legislature caved in and
they did whatever the utility companies wanted. When the revised
rule was finally agreed on, it allowed utilities to keep
the abandoned lines in place until the executives, not the government,
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till the executives decided they were permanently abandoned. And one
of those lines affected by this ruling, nineteen seventy one
MESA Silmar line, was the line that started the Altadena fire.
There was a they tried again a year ago. State
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Public Utilities Commission wrote a rule that would have put
this line permanently out of service, but they weakened that regulation.
So cal Edison once again protested nineteen seventy one. Now
there's dozens of lawsuits and so cal Edison probably will
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be bailed out. The way PGME was bailed out after
they started Paradise fire, which killed eighty five people. They
talked to an electrical engineer connected to this case, Raffi Stepenion,
and he was part of the Public Utilities Commissioned safety
team that proposed the rule twenty five years ago. Said
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the commission members dialed back the regulation because of fierce
lobbying by the utilities. There was a lot of pressure
on us to agree with the utilities on everything. The
utilities pretty much wrote those rules. And again everybody's dancing around. Well,
you could just say no pressure, right guys, some slee's
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bag executive or lawyer lobbyist is yelling at you. It's like,
go pound sand buddy, get out of my office. You're
going to kill people. And still Edison is claiming that
some of these lines there's a reasonable chance we're going
to use them in the future. In the case of
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the silmar MESA line, it's twenty five years. It was no,
it's fifty fifty five years and used it. This goes
back to two thousand and one, like I said. The
president of the Public Utilities Commission was a woman named
Loretta Lynch, and she remembers stiff resistance from the utility executives.
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The folks who were trying to improve safety got pulled
into a back room with a bunch of industry participants,
and what happened there was a final decision that rolled
back safety regulations or they should record all these conversations.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Now we've had twenty years where utilities have repeatedly started
these massive fires over and over and over again, and
you hear squawks about climate change. Oh, fire season is
a year round now. Maybe it's year round now, and
maybe it seems to be almost every year because these
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lines weren't maintained, they were neglected, and the whole system's
falling apart. Maybe that's what's happening. And the cover story was, Oh,
and I really believe this. It's not climate change. It's
not a year round fire season. It's that after one
hundred years with no maintenance, now everything's falling apart. Yeah.
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You notice the roads are falling apart. You notice the
source systems or the water main breaks that.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
We have.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Because nothing's been maintained, you knowice the sidewalks in LA.
A couple of commissioners who approved the rule included the
chief of staff for Arnold Schwarzenegger. Susan Kennedy, she had
no comment. And another guy, Jeffrey Brown, who was an attorney.
He was on the commission, a cousin of Jerry Brown.
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He said he couldn't recall the details. YEA would call
the details, all right, more coming up. Oh, there might
be a new major media outlet in southern California very soon,
could shake things up. Are the AI. I don't know.
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I'll tell you about it though. Coming up.
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us at John Cobelt Radio at John Cobelt Radio. All right,
this could be this could be a big deal. We'll
see you know, we have and I talk about this
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almost every day. We have an incredible lack of basic
news coverage in the state and in the city. There's
almost nobody who covers Sacramento here in southern California. There's
hardly anybody that covers Los Angeles. Here in Los Angeles.
You've got I guess what, five news stations on television,
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and they have limited staffs and they're mainly interested in
car chases and crime stories, so nobody really covers the
daily government doings, which is why all these a holes
that run our government from canadass on down could do
whatever they want because nobody knows what they're doing and
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nobody's paying attention. And if you want to pay attention,
there's very limited places to go. You can come here,
but for those people who don't come here, they don't
know at all. And the La Times, honest to God,
is a bunch of college kids, left wing, progressive college kids.
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I look at a lot of their bios. All the
good journalists th had, you know, ten, fifteen, twenty years ago,
were gone. We're dead and they weren't replaced. So there's
a huge gap. There's a huge gap on television, there's
a huge gap in on news sites, newspapers, huge gap
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on the radio too outside of US. But the New
York Post is going to try to fill this chasm.
They are coming up with a sister publication called the
California Post, and they have published a mock up and
it would look like the New York Post, except it
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would be about California, about Los Angeles. And if you
follow the New York Post, and ninety percent of their
following is outside the New York area, you know, they
really smack politicians over the head when they do buy four.
They like to expose and highlight their stupidity and corruption.
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And I grew up on that. I grew up on.
You know, my dad would bring home the New York
Daily News. I grew up in Jersey and that was
another tabloid, slightly more upscale than the Post. But he'd
bring the Daily News and I would get the New
York Post. And there were local television stations that had
large teams of reporters that chased politicians around and yelled
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at them and did all kinds of investigative stories. And
maybe there was a lot of corruption going on. Well,
there was a lot of corruption going on, but at least,
you know, we knew about it. And it wasn't filled
with silly progressives. The reporters were more feisty, blue collar guys,
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and it was mostly guys. The California Post. They are
looking for reporters, editors or audience development professionals, so they're
trying they want to process their LA based operations. So
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if you want to work for a media outlet that's
going to be based here in Los Angeles and is
actually going to go after the bad guys in government,
this this would be for you. Now. The New York
Post has been in business for over two hundred years.
You know, it's founded by Alexander Hamilton, and uh, they're
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trying to put together a national brand, and they want
to get together to deal with the elections, the governor,
the governor's election in California, mayor's election next year. We
got the you know, the World Cup and the Olympics
and all that, and uh, you know, they already get
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millions of people following the New York Post and there'll
be a daily print edition and there's gonna be video
and audio on social media. If they are as aggressive
here in LA as they are in New York, if
they can afford to pay for of that, then that
could really shake up the media environment. Because the LA
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Times already seems like something that's antique and obsolete. There's
just it's flaccid and feeble. It's about as flaccid as
Harvey Weinstein. The La Times is just, you know, a sad,
rotted remnant of what it used to be. And I
(33:27):
opened the paper. I want to look on the website
every day, not expecting to get anything useful, and then
when I find stuff, it's just like propaganda. It's like
I told you the propaganda today about you know, the
fourth largest economy. You know, when we got when we
got over a third of the state can't decide between
whether they're going to pay for food or their rent
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on any given day, and they're telling us about the
fourth largest economy. So anyway, I hope that comes to be.
I've always wondered why there couldn't. There's got to be
room for an aggressive tabloidy style publication, and maybe it'll
provide a lot of material for us here, all right,
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when we come back. Michael Monks from KFI News. Ruling
came against the Trump administration late last week. Ninth Circuit
Court of Appeal said the Trump's raids on illegal aliens
they were unconstitutional because they're going after people when they
don't have reasonable suspicion. Aco. You had a press conference today,
(34:32):
Michael Monks has the story coming up. Denbormark Live in
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the last few days there's been building drama which is
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going to affect California potentially and Texas. The governor Greg
Abbott wants the congressional districts redrawn. Normally they're redrawn every
ten years after the census, but Abbot wanted to redrawn
now and after they drew new lines. He hopes it
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leads to more Republican congress people coming from Texas next year.
So the Republicans put the crafted together a plan. The
Democrats in the legislature in Texas said no, and they
took off. They took off for Illinois and Deny the
Republicans at Quorn and now Abbott is threatening to have
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them all arrested and to kick them all out of office.
Supposedly he's got the power to remove them from office
for abandonment. Now, how this affects California is Newsom wants
to do the same thing in this state to ensure
that there's almost all Democrats from California going to Congress
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and a few are no Republicans in retaliation. So let's
get Ben Single on the ABC News deputy director, deputy
political director in Washington. Ben, how are you.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
I'm doing well. Thanks for the surprise promotion.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
All right, I'm sorry about that. My apologies to your
political director. Well, Ben, I don't know to the minute
where this story is. They all the Democratic legislators went
to Illinois to seek refuge. Are they coming back? Are
they listening to his threats first?
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Right now? The answer is no. They have made clear
that they've planned to stay outside of Texas for at
least two weeks. That's so they can wait out this
special session of the state legislature that the governor has
called to pass this new congressional mass that they opposed
that would give Republicans as many as five new seats.
(02:40):
So that's the short term strategy. But is it a
long term plan? The problem here is that Abbott can
call a new special session after this one expires. So
you know, our Democrats really willing to spend the next
year and a half outside their state to prevent this
new map from getting an active It's hard to see
that happening. They have been cagy about how long they're
(03:01):
willing to keep this up. And I think it's also
worth noting that, unlike in the past when they've done this,
there's now a five hundred dollars a day fine that
each of these members incurs. And you know, this is
part time work they do in the state House. They
only make about seventy five one hundred dollars a year
from being state legislators. So those finds can start to
add up and put some real stress on these members
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and pressure them to return to Austin.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
While you were talking, both Fox and CNN are running
graphics saying that Abbott is ordering the arrest of the
Democratic lawmakers who fled, So that work is he going
to send.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
So that's how he's responded today. He you know, they
officially tried to meet in the gavel in the state House,
but they lacked the quorum, they didn't have enough members,
and they authorized, you know, civil arrest warrants for these
members who were outside of the state. And the governor
has echoedet the only problem he has is that this
is why they left the state in the first place,
because the governor does not have the authority outside of
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state lines to compel them to get law enforcement to
bring them back to the state house. They are beyond
his reach right now. Is he did the same thing
in twenty twenty one where Democrats left the state to
stop the Republican from taking up a voting bill, and
you know, his hands are tied. Now. The question is,
you know, does he request some sort of federal support,
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federal assistance from the Trump administration. We know President Trump
is the reason why they're doing all this. He told
Republicans in Texas to redraw their maps in the middle
of the decade instead of waiting until you know, every
ten years as his most states do, as all states do,
because he wanted more Republican seats. So I think that's
the big question going forward. How far is Governor Habbitt
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willing to escalate this, and if he does, how far
is President Trump willing to escalate this? Will there be
an attempt to bring these Democrats to heal at the
federal level. I think that's kind of the big question
at this hour. After this, you.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Know, call for their arrest, trumpet jurisdiction in a state matter,
and what like, what could he do to these democratic legislators.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Well, we've talked to experts about this and most of
them say, no, he doesn't. But you remember this as
a president who sort of defied the conventional wisdom about
his office and sent the National Guard into Los Angeles
to deal with immigration, even though judges on several levels
that he did not have the power to do so.
So this is a president in an administration that has
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emboldened to expand executive power. And I think there is
a real question here how far are they wanted to
push it on this issue and what would that look like.
It's really untested waters if they decide to go that way,
even if you know lawyers that we spoke to say
that he does not have the ability to do so.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Does Greg Abbott have the power to have them expelled
from the legislature claiming abandonment? I read that was the
next step.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Well, that's a good question. He's saying he does, and
he's pointing to a non bind legal opinion that the
Attorney General issued in twenty twenty one about the responsibilities
and duties of Republican lawmakers. The Attorney General Ken Paxton
was asked about this today and he basically said, it's
a really complicated process. It's a long drawn out thing
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that would be challenged in court, tested legally, and it's
not as cut and dry as the governor may be
suggesting it is when he said, you have the power
to do this. So that's another new frontier of this
fight here, and it's another untested one. We'll see how
far this goes and if he tries to go to
court to make his case.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
So here in California, you have I knew someone's to
retaliate and have the lines redrawn. Now, normally they wouldn't
get redrawn until after the twenty thirty census, in time
for the twenty thirty two elections, and we have a
constitucial amendment that the voters passed years ago saying only
an independent commission can redraw the lines. And he's trying
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to get a ballot initiative for us to vote on
soon so that we change the district lines. Now, I
mean that is that legal for him to do this?
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Well, it's a much more onerous process in California because,
as you mentioned, they have this nonpartisan commission independent commission
rather that draws up the the congressional districts, so they
will Basically, they are saying they would have to go
back to voters, perhaps in a special election, and get
permission to do this. Now they claim they're on legal
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ground to do that that you know, if they put
forward some proposal to suspend their independent process until the
end of the decade, they can do this in the
interim to respond to Texas. But again, that's another new,
untested battle. And we've already heard from California Republicans who
say they will take this to court. So it's another
it's another example of how all these unprecedented, extraordinary efforts
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to sort of exercise raw political power are leading to
these new, unexpected fights in court in all these different states.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
It seems like the laws aren't really written to deal
with this. It's never happened before.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
I think there's a lot. I think we're seeing a
lot of things that haven't happened before that are getting
tested in court on all manner of issues. And it's
happening all across the country. And the challenge here is that,
you know, Congress has you know, been pushed to do this.
Democrats have called for this for years, but for a
number of reasons, they haven't done it when they were
in power, and Republicans have not supported either to standardize
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the process of redistricting and make a one size fits
all model for every state. Congress has not done that.
So absolutely federal standard for doing this, I guess they can.
I mean they can.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Yes, it's a federal election because normally the federal government
can interfere in state elections, but this would be for
federal officials, so they could do that.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
I think, yeah, I think I think the government could
set forward to stand by which every state conducts it's
redistricting and drawing of congressional districts. But they have not
done that, And because in that absence, you've seen the
states sort of, you know, do their own processes for
doing this. In Republican states, it's mostly left in the
hand of the legislature. In democratic states at the mix
(09:19):
states like Maryland and Illinois, it's done by Democrats in
the state house. And in states like New York, New Jersey, California,
there are there have been efforts to set aside and
have commissions to do this. Ohio is another state within
they've tried to do that and try to take this
out of the state House to mixed results.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Really, Ben Siegel, thanks for coming on with us ABC
News Deputy political director in Washington. Thank you, all right,
Well we come back. Your brain may be turning to plastic.
There's a new study out and it looks like all
the plastic that you ingest from the moment you're born
(09:58):
till you die is actually changing the inside wiring of
your body. And there's a long list of potential diseases
and medical conditions that you can get now because of
the accumulation of plastic. You may be half plastic by
(10:20):
this I I'm sure I am.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
That will explain a lot of things that are going
on in my life.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Well, we'll get into the details coming up.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
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usually talkback feature on the iHeart Radio app U. There
is a I was gonna be careful because I could
(10:56):
I could read this story two ways, like for for
long time time. You heard them. You heard the media
and the activists pushing the idea that you shouldn't eat
meat and you shouldn't eat me because it's not healthy
for you, it'll give you all kinds of health issues,
and a lot of that turned out to be overblown nonsense. Really,
(11:18):
what's driving a lot of the anti meat activism is
because they claim the cows cause climate change because cows
eat all day and then they pass gas, which a
big portion of cow gas is methane, and the methane
is even worse for the climate, they claim, than than
(11:39):
carbon dioxide, which is the usual villain. And it took
a while, but I read enough articles and I finally thought, oh,
I get it. It's not because you care about my health,
because they don't care about my health, and it's just overblown.
We've been eating meat for thousands of years. It actually
(12:00):
keeps most of the world alive. What it was was
part of the climate change religion. Same thing with this
story about plastics. May be true, maybe not, or maybe
another way to scare people into saluting the climate change religion.
So this is in the medical journal Lancing, And I
(12:22):
used to believe medical journals and then they become severely
politicized and woke. They claim in this report there is
a grave, growing underrecognized danger to health. It's costing the
world up one and a half trillion dollars a year.
(12:43):
And apparently this week there's talks in Geneva trying to
get a worldwide treaty on plastic pollution. They have delegates
from one hundred and eighty nations. They've been trying on
trying this treaty repeatedly over the years, that it always
fails because the way you can't really you can't really
(13:03):
live without oil and gas, and you can't live without plastics.
But they claim that plastics cause disease and death from
infancy to old age. How about that no nuance here?
You would think we'd all be dead by now.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Like I was gonna say, what about the people that
are one hundred hundred and five.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Well, maybe their innerds are made of plastic, but maybe
that works. Well, maybe they found evidence for multiple health
effects at all stages of human life. Infants and young
children are at risk. You could end up with polycystic
ovary syndrome, endometriosis, which affects women's reproductive parts. Perinatal effects, miscarriages,
(13:47):
reduced birth weight, malformations of the genital organs. Oh, Harvey
Harvey's mom. Yeah, Harvey's mom got too much plastic. That
was a long time ago. Diminute, diminished. Now we're into
you know what might be ailing you, diminished cognitive function?
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Thanks John, true, but.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Thanks including IQ lots. Okay, two, here you are insulin resistance, hypertension,
obesity in children, type two diabetes, cardiovascular disease, stroke, obesity,
and cancer and adults. Holy mackerel. It's from all the
plastic uh, and they're calling on the world to come
(14:31):
together and find common ground. It's tiny pieces of plastic,
microplastics that UH lives in all our bodies. They just
slash around in our bloodstream. They collect in our brains.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Okay, let me ask you a question. When you heat
up food in the microwave, do you put it in plastic?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Well, I don't. I don't eat up food very much
because I don't like warmed over food. But if we
order out and bring it in and heat it up,
well it's in those plastic like trays.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Yeah, you need to take it out. That's one way
of doing something. I mean, I will not eat up
food in plastic.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Well, something would happen to the plastic, right, would it
start to melt at some point? Like I know, not
to put our plastic dishes in the microwave, right because
they would they turn into some kind of plastic good
which is probably not good for you. The amount of
plastic produced by the world, all right in nineteen fifty
two million tons. In twenty twenty two, four hundred and
(15:34):
seventy five million tons, four hundred seventy five million tons
of plastic reproduce, and the number is going to triple
by twenty sixty. Hardly any of it is recycled because
there's nowhere to sell the recycled plastic. Two plastic is
made from fossil fuels. See here we go. The plastic
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crisis is connected to the climate crisis. There's no understating
the magnitude of the climate crisis and the plastic crisis.
According to one of these officials, Philip Landrigan, a doctor
and researcher at Boston College, they're causing disease, death, and
(16:16):
disability and tens of thousands of people. See, you don't
eat plastic. Plastic is made with the petroleum products the
petroleum products are causing climate change, so we're not only
killing the atmosphere, we're killing ourselves. They're trying every angle possible.
They're so crazed about this. That's one of the things
(16:36):
I'm enjoying about Trump. He's dismantling the entire climate change industry.
I mean, the whole thing is getting bulldozed. The other day,
the EPA announced that within a matter of months they
are going to just shut down their whole climate change department,
(16:58):
and anything that's been put out out about climate change
being this existential threat no longer, no longer their policy.
Everything's being canceled, not their policy, no longer. They're finding
nothing they believed it, and nothing they're going to ever
talk about again. So this is like the last gasp
here this this plastic conference in Geneva. Well, look, the
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IQ is pretty low as it is in this country.
I don't think losing a couple of points going to
make a difference, like it's already too low.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
But the cancer possibilities and all, you know, cognitive decline, diabetes,
you know.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
I'm kind of rooting for cognitive decline. I want to
get to a day where I don't notice as much.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Oh, that'll happen.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Yeah, and I'm not bothered as much by everything. I
want to just be one of those guys that sits
and just watches the birds and just have like a
silly smile on my face. Then you won't be doing
this show and not irritated by the word I don't
that's thing. So you want to go to Bidenville, I
want to go to Bidenville. That's right. There was part
(18:05):
of me watching Biden's jealous. That's not a bad state
to the end. You know, he doesn't look with all
the all the crap that was going on in the world.
He didn't seem bothered at the end. In the last
few months, he's wandering around get lost. Well that would
be scary, but not not to the person with the
(18:27):
with the dimension.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
You don't you.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Don't know, you're lost. I remember he got he got
lost at one of those European conferences and they were
trying to arrange everybody for a group picture.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Yeah, I remember seeing that.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
He and they ran some video and people start going,
where where's Joe, Where's Joe? And a voice said, he's
over there behind the tree, and he was.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
He was standing by I remember I'm thinking when somebody
is lost, though, if they really they have that cognitive
decline and they know that they're lost, but they don't
know where they're going.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Scar probably a transition period where you know you're lost
and you can't panic, and then there's a period where
you don't know you're lost and it doesn't really matter
and you're blissfully again. That's right. You just you know,
you see a squirrel, you follow the squirrel. See a bird,
you follow the bird. That's where I'm going.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
Okay, you're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. We are going
to talk to Michael Monks after three o'clock because the
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the Trump administration. Remember,
there was a restraining order against the immigration raids that
(19:45):
were going on in the streets of Los Angeles and elsewhere,
and a US District judge and now the Ninth Circuit
Court of Appeals panel both said that you were rounding
up people without reasonable suspicion that they were here illegal.
And today the ACLU and others who had filed a suit,
(20:07):
we're going to have a news conference. Michael Monks has
talk all about this issue coming up after three o'clock.
All right, you may have heard these headlines, and there
is one headline in the La Times that's really simple
and it's true. The Altadena fire. This fire could have
been prevented. If you haven't heard by now, it's almost
(20:30):
certain that the Altadena fire was started by an abandoned
power line that somehow got re energized. That's a bit
of a mystery. They think something similar may have happened
in the middle of the Palisades fire as well. And
(20:52):
there's these old transmission lines that chriss crossed the whole state. Now,
the last time this Alta Dino line was used was
nineteen seventy one. Seriously, that's the last time it transported electricity.
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It's called the Mesas Silmour Transmission Line. And the bad
guys here is Edison. It was Edison's line and they
hadn't used it in fifty four years, but they kept
it around because hey, maybe we'll need it someday. Now.
(21:35):
For twenty five years, the state government has tried to
force these power companies to shut down these lines and
tear them down rather than let it sit there for
fifty years and take a risk, just get rid of them.
Because these lines are not getting maintained, and if there's
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some kind of fluke or some kind of storm, they'll
fall to the ground, and if they somehow get energized,
they start a massive wilefire. That's what wiped out a
big chunk of Altadena. It was nine thousand, four hundred homes,
killed nineteen people, ninety four hundred homes and other structures.
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So get this. This is how corrupt the government is.
If only people knew. If you listen to this show,
you know that Sacramento, La is thick with political corruption.
Everything is payoffs. Well, state regulators knew in two thousand
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and one that old transmission lines could set off wildfires,
and they proposed a safety rule that would have forced
Edison to remove the lines unless they could prove they
would use them in the future. And the electrical utilities
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fought this like crazy. And the polite term is lobbying,
but really what it is is bribery. Because really a
grown man, a politician, he could withstand an angry phone call.
It's not that big a deal. But if somebody's bringing
a big check, or they're offering a big wire deposit
(23:26):
to your campaign or maybe some other mysterious bank account
that you'd like them to fill. That's not lobbying, this bribery,
and you're not being persuaded by their arguments. You're saying, Wow,
that's a lot of money there, I'd like that. So
by two thousand and five they were supposed to have
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this new law, and then the legislature caved in and
they did whatever the utility companies wanted. When the revised
rule was finally agreed on, it allowed utilities to keep
the abandoned lines in place until the executives, not the government,
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till the executives decided they were permanently abandoned. And one
of those lines affected by this ruling, nineteen seventy one
MESA Silmar line, was the line that started the Altadena fire.
There was a they tried again a year ago. State
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Public Utilities Commission wrote a rule that would have put
this line permanently out of service, but they weakened that regulation.
So cal Edison once again protested nineteen seventy one. Now
there's dozens of lawsuits and so cal Edison probably will
(24:56):
be bailed out. The way PGME was bailed out after
they started Paradise fire, which killed eighty five people. They
talked to an electrical engineer connected to this case, Raffi Stepenion,
and he was part of the Public Utilities Commissioned safety
team that proposed the rule twenty five years ago. Said
(25:18):
the commission members dialed back the regulation because of fierce
lobbying by the utilities. There was a lot of pressure
on us to agree with the utilities on everything. The
utilities pretty much wrote those rules. And again everybody's dancing around. Well,
you could just say no pressure, right guys, some slee's
(25:39):
bag executive or lawyer lobbyist is yelling at you. It's like,
go pound sand buddy, get out of my office. You're
going to kill people. And still Edison is claiming that
some of these lines there's a reasonable chance we're going
to use them in the future. In the case of
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the silmar MESA line, it's twenty five years. It was no,
it's fifty fifty five years and used it. This goes
back to two thousand and one, like I said. The
president of the Public Utilities Commission was a woman named
Loretta Lynch, and she remembers stiff resistance from the utility executives.
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The folks who were trying to improve safety got pulled
into a back room with a bunch of industry participants,
and what happened there was a final decision that rolled
back safety regulations or they should record all these conversations.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Now we've had twenty years where utilities have repeatedly started
these massive fires over and over and over again, and
you hear squawks about climate change. Oh, fire season is
a year round now. Maybe it's year round now, and
maybe it seems to be almost every year because these
(27:01):
lines weren't maintained, they were neglected, and the whole system's
falling apart. Maybe that's what's happening. And the cover story was, Oh,
and I really believe this. It's not climate change. It's
not a year round fire season. It's that after one
hundred years with no maintenance, now everything's falling apart. Yeah.
(27:26):
You notice the roads are falling apart. You notice the
source systems or the water main breaks that.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
We have.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Because nothing's been maintained, you knowice the sidewalks in LA.
A couple of commissioners who approved the rule included the
chief of staff for Arnold Schwarzenegger. Susan Kennedy, she had
no comment. And another guy, Jeffrey Brown, who was an attorney.
He was on the commission, a cousin of Jerry Brown.
(27:57):
He said he couldn't recall the details. YEA would call
the details, all right, more coming up. Oh, there might
be a new major media outlet in southern California very soon,
could shake things up. Are the AI. I don't know.
(28:19):
I'll tell you about it though. Coming up.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
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Speaker 2 (28:27):
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us at John Cobelt Radio at John Cobelt Radio. All right,
this could be this could be a big deal. We'll
see you know, we have and I talk about this
(28:47):
almost every day. We have an incredible lack of basic
news coverage in the state and in the city. There's
almost nobody who covers Sacramento here in southern California. There's
hardly anybody that covers Los Angeles. Here in Los Angeles.
You've got I guess what, five news stations on television,
(29:14):
and they have limited staffs and they're mainly interested in
car chases and crime stories, so nobody really covers the
daily government doings, which is why all these a holes
that run our government from canadass on down could do
whatever they want because nobody knows what they're doing and
(29:36):
nobody's paying attention. And if you want to pay attention,
there's very limited places to go. You can come here,
but for those people who don't come here, they don't
know at all. And the La Times, honest to God,
is a bunch of college kids, left wing, progressive college kids.
(29:57):
I look at a lot of their bios. All the
good journalists th had, you know, ten, fifteen, twenty years ago,
were gone. We're dead and they weren't replaced. So there's
a huge gap. There's a huge gap on television, there's
a huge gap in on news sites, newspapers, huge gap
(30:17):
on the radio too outside of US. But the New
York Post is going to try to fill this chasm.
They are coming up with a sister publication called the
California Post, and they have published a mock up and
it would look like the New York Post, except it
(30:38):
would be about California, about Los Angeles. And if you
follow the New York Post, and ninety percent of their
following is outside the New York area, you know, they
really smack politicians over the head when they do buy four.
They like to expose and highlight their stupidity and corruption.
(31:00):
And I grew up on that. I grew up on.
You know, my dad would bring home the New York
Daily News. I grew up in Jersey and that was
another tabloid, slightly more upscale than the Post. But he'd
bring the Daily News and I would get the New
York Post. And there were local television stations that had
large teams of reporters that chased politicians around and yelled
(31:23):
at them and did all kinds of investigative stories. And
maybe there was a lot of corruption going on. Well,
there was a lot of corruption going on, but at least,
you know, we knew about it. And it wasn't filled
with silly progressives. The reporters were more feisty, blue collar guys,
(31:44):
and it was mostly guys. The California Post. They are
looking for reporters, editors or audience development professionals, so they're
trying they want to process their LA based operations. So
(32:05):
if you want to work for a media outlet that's
going to be based here in Los Angeles and is
actually going to go after the bad guys in government,
this this would be for you. Now. The New York
Post has been in business for over two hundred years.
You know, it's founded by Alexander Hamilton, and uh, they're
(32:25):
trying to put together a national brand, and they want
to get together to deal with the elections, the governor,
the governor's election in California, mayor's election next year. We
got the you know, the World Cup and the Olympics
and all that, and uh, you know, they already get
(32:45):
millions of people following the New York Post and there'll
be a daily print edition and there's gonna be video
and audio on social media. If they are as aggressive
here in LA as they are in New York, if
they can afford to pay for of that, then that
could really shake up the media environment. Because the LA
(33:07):
Times already seems like something that's antique and obsolete. There's
just it's flaccid and feeble. It's about as flaccid as
Harvey Weinstein. The La Times is just, you know, a sad,
rotted remnant of what it used to be. And I
(33:27):
opened the paper. I want to look on the website
every day, not expecting to get anything useful, and then
when I find stuff, it's just like propaganda. It's like
I told you the propaganda today about you know, the
fourth largest economy. You know, when we got when we
got over a third of the state can't decide between
whether they're going to pay for food or their rent
(33:49):
on any given day, and they're telling us about the
fourth largest economy. So anyway, I hope that comes to be.
I've always wondered why there couldn't. There's got to be
room for an aggressive tabloidy style publication, and maybe it'll
provide a lot of material for us here, all right,
(34:11):
when we come back. Michael Monks from KFI News. Ruling
came against the Trump administration late last week. Ninth Circuit
Court of Appeal said the Trump's raids on illegal aliens
they were unconstitutional because they're going after people when they
don't have reasonable suspicion. Aco. You had a press conference today,
(34:32):
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