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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I am six forty. You're listening to the John Cobel
podcast on the iHeartRadio apps. Been about fifteen minutes. We
got one thousand dollars to give away and we are
going We've got we've got more coverage of the protests Ucla.
It's been a little nuts, not quite as insane as Columbia,
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where the terrorists have taken over the main administration building,
have held hostages at times and now we're demanding to
be fed. But the UCLA campus, We're going to play
you some clips of a Jewish student being denied entry
to the library because the student believes that Israel should
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be a country. And then there's we've got a clip
of a Jewish mother of a Jewish UCLA student calling
the UCLA campus police because her kid can't get into
the library. I don't know if it's the same kid
or not, but we'll just listen to the clips coming up.
There's also a protest with actual arrests at cal Poly Humboldt,
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which is up in Arcada, California. That's in the northwest
corner of the state near Oregon, and they've arrested twenty
five students there. According to the Los Angeles Times. We'll
follow up on all that, but first, actually, a Donald
Trump trial is peaceful in comparison to what's going on.
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And today Trump was fined nine thousand dollars because he moved,
shut up. He keeps violating the gag order of the
judge Juan Marchon. And we have Royal Oaks, the ABC
News legal analyst on the scene. Royal, how are you doing?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Great? John? And it might be a little calmer in
the Trump trial today than Columbia's on, but it could
be interesting Thursday because although Donald Trump was fined nine
thousand bucks today, one thousand for each of nine posts,
as the judge said, violate that his really can't talk
bad about the witnesses, can't talk bad about the jurors.
On Thursday morning, John, you're going to be hearing where
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four more alleged violations will be presented. The DA has
offered this up to the judge, and the judges said,
I just may have to jail Donald Trump. Now I
don't think he's ever going to do that because I
think he knows Donald Trump would love it. I mean,
just you know, the Trump TV ads would right themselves here.
I am behind bars put here by a Democrat judge
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and a Democrat da Joe Biden is jatting around the
country campaigning. So I don't think he's going to do that,
but he could sock him with much larger financial penalties.
So it's a really fascinating side show to the trial, which,
of course the main of edable Michael Cohen. That's going
to be a couple of weeks down the road.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
How much larger can the penalties be considering Trump's wealth?
I mean, you know he was able to satisfy that
what one hundred and seventy five million dollar bond a
few weeks ago, right.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
You know, when you're in a civil context, you get
hit with punitive damages. The idea there is, well, a
jury has to hit Jeff Bezos with a billion dollars
or he's going to laugh at you. But in a
criminal context, the judge has some discretion, but he can't
do vary too much from like a thousand bucks two
thousand and five thousand dollars because it starts to seem punitive.
But I mean the track record is, you know, every
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time Donald Trump's inded, it boom, his numbers go up.
He makes more money. If he were to be jailed,
that would be huge, huge.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Well, because it's going to be a standoff. Trump never
backs down. He can afford the fines. So is Judge
Murchon actually going to have a gut the guts to
put him in prison or in jail and deal with
all the consequences because you never know when there's going
to be a backlash from some crazy Trump followers and
you can have a real well.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
That's right, that's right. But you know, Trump actually has
an argument to be made, which the judge is acknowledged. Now,
when it comes to the jurors, you're not supposed to
intimidate them and call them names, and so that was
his order. But when it comes to witnesses, Donald Trump's
position has been, Hey, Michael Cohen, he's out there, he
wrote a book called Revenge, he's all sorts of terrible
things about me. What I'm supposed to just shut up
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and take it? And the judge actually said if Michael
Cohen starts to go after Donald Trump, then he might
let Trump respond. But now the judge has not been
presented with evidence that Michael Cohen is really doing that.
So you know, everybody is just firing at everybody else.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
It would have to be like in the con would
have to go Trump, go after Trump presently now or
can Trump just bring back all the old grievances from
Cohen's book and and and and and you know, regurgitate
their old battles.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Now he can't do that. The judge's attitude is there
has to be a fresh new attack by Michael Cohen
against Donald and then he might be able to respond
to it. But you know, mccollen's going to be just
the nuclear core in his case. John me He's not
going to have a smoking gun that says, aha, Trump
knew that we were falsifying records and saying it was
legal fees instead of money for Stormy. And you're not
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going to have a smoking gun a document that says
Trump knew this was a violation of campaign laws. You're
supposed to report it if you give yourself one hundred
and thirty grand. Instead, it's going to be Michael Cohen
looking at the eyes of the jury and saying, look,
you may not like me much, and I've had my
legal issues for Trump, but the fact is it makes
common sense that Trump and I were sitting around and
we agreed we were going to cook up this scheme
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and it was going to be a violation of the law.
The jury buys that, then Trump is toast. Of course,
with the jury basically ninety percent anti Trump anyway, based
on the voting the record in Manhattan, it may not
take a whole lot to convince them to convict him.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
What was Cohen ever convicted of anything related to the
Stormy Daniel's situation. I seem to have a hazing memory
on that.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Yeah. Yeah, So the idea was that you Cohen give
me this one hundred and thirty thousand dollars, you knew
it was really a campaign contribution, and you didn't report it,
and he entered into a plea deal on that. Then
he was victa of lying to Congress. So yeah, he's
had some legal trouble both really pertinent to this dispute
and also a little tangential to it. But the bottom
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line is, you know, Trump's lawyer, this is going to
be where he makes his money. He should have a
field day impeaching this guy, because when a guy writes
a book called Revenge against Donald Trump obviously has this
huge vise. He'd love to see the bad Orange man
in an orange jumpsuit, and you know you got to
take testimony like that with a grain of salt. On
the other hand, if the jury is nodding along and thinking,
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you know, that makes sense, I can see Trump agreeing
with Cohen on that. Then they could go against Trump
on that basis.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
I've aways been kind of fascinated by the dynamics when
you have a group of people charged with crimes, right,
whether it's a group of criminals breaking into a bank
or people in a white collar crime like this is,
and one of them flips and the immediate response from
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the remaining defendant is, well, you can't trust him, you know,
he's a convicted criminal. Well yeah, it's part of the
operation with you. That's why this convicted criminal. But I
just found it always be a weird dynamic. Who else
are you gonna get? I mean, you can't go to
a convent and get three nuns. Of course, it's going
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to be the guy who's involved in the crime itself.
He'd be able to tell the best story.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Now that's a great point because so often you got
a bunch of people involved in a criminal enterprise and
the jury hears it's common sense. Of course, everybody involved
in that. They're kind of crooked, so you can't trust
everything they say. But if it is the ring of truth,
if if they got some documents backing it up. And
that relates to the racketeering allegations against Trump down in Georgia,
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Trump was the top of a crime family. And the
idea of the racketeering law is we're never going to
get proof that John gott he pulled the trigger. But
if we've got proof that he told fairly clear terms
to his henchmen, I want you to go kill this
guy in that guy, then you can get the top
guys well. And that's the theory against Trump when it
comes to racketeering. And they're going to try to use
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the same idea saying Trump and Cohen were in it
together and then Cohen got paid off and what is
Mary Way? All right?
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Roll good talking with you again. See what happens next. Yes,
thanks for coming on roll Oakes ABC News about Trump
getting fined nine thousand dollars and maybe more fines coming
on Thursday morning for more public assaults on all the
other participants in this trial, including the jury and witnesses
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like Michael Cohen, the judge himself too. We come back.
We got a couple of audio clips to play about
our homegrown terrorism supporters at UCLA. We've got a Jewish
student denied entry to the UCLA library. And then we
have a clip of a mother of a Jewish student
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because he was denied access to the library. Now we
don't know if this is ain't kid or not, doesn't
really matter, but she calls the UCLA campus police and
we'll see what the reaction was from the police.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Back to the protests all over the country. Now, the
Marquee protest is in is in New York City at
Columbia University. Because they're all right, they took hammers and
smashed windows, and they've taken over a building, the administration building,
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and they even took some janitor's hostage for a time.
Now they're up there. They didn't plan this. Well, you know,
you get a surge of adrenaline and get all excited
about that. You're a revolutionary. You're a revolutionary. I actually
read about this. These kids are these adults, Excuse me,
I think they're revolutionaries. Yeah, you're you're in. You're in
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New York City in America. This is the freest country
in the world, and we're gonna We're gonna show you
how oppressed we are and how angry we are about
being oppressed. You're in a country, at a university where
they let you destroy things. They let you block all
the other students from going to class, studying and taking
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their exams. They're letting you do this. They're letting you
take over a building. They're letting you take hostages along
the way, and you feel oppressed. It's fascinating. Well that's Columbia.
Here at u C l A they are blocking Jewish students,
and here's a Jewish student denied entry into the UCLA library.
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Listen closely to this clip.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
What on nurs men?
Speaker 1 (10:55):
It's time to go.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
I can stand here if I want. I'm not moving.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
M hm.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Okay, they're now cornering me. I'm not moving, kid.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Can'dy get into the library?
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Say whatever you want?
Speaker 2 (11:33):
The chant to get bar in the background, Yes they are.
I mean no harm.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
I'm just standing here, just showing you, guys, how pointless
your blockade is. I got in through the other entrance
and now I'm standing here you guys want to prevent
Jewish students from entering. Fine, of course on Zionus. Okay,
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so you don't lead Zionists in the library that I
pay tuition.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
This is just fascinating. Yes, so the parents have paid tuition.
By the way, we've all paid taxes to the federal government,
and all these universities collectively get many, many billions and
billions of dollars of our taxes. And yet the administration
allows these Palestinian terrorists supporters. They're they're terrorists, they're supporting terrorists,
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and they control the library. I don't understand the kids
parents paid for access to the library, and nobody in
the administration will defend the right of that student and
the parents who paid Columbia so that he could have
the access to the library. They're they're not protecting or
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defending the student at all. Instead, these weird they're chanting
Allahu akbar. I don't understand why people are people so
snowed by political correctness and cancel culture that you can't
call this out for what it is. It's infiltration by
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terrorist groups and terrorist sympathizers who've now taken over a
major US university funded by US taxpayers, tuition paid for
by US citizens, and nobody can use the place except
the terrorists. Now Here's the mother of a Jewish student.
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Could be the same one. I don't know, it could
be somebody different calling UCLA campus police.
Speaker 6 (13:42):
Hi there, I'm trying to report my kid is not
able to get into the library. They are bombarding him
and not allowing him to get into the library. Sightings
the need for some riskbands. Did you see LA issue
ristbands to people?
Speaker 7 (14:01):
I don't have any information on that.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
If they did, okay, So what should he do? Because
he can't enter the library, he can't enter his classes.
Speaker 7 (14:12):
That they need LISP? Is he not able to ask
them any information?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
They said?
Speaker 5 (14:18):
They said because he's Jewish, he cannot enter that area
and that they won't issue him at risk.
Speaker 7 (14:26):
Them a university thing. That's probably the protesters that are
out there right.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
So are the protesters allowed to not allow a student
who pays tuition access to their class and the library?
Speaker 7 (14:42):
No, they're not allowed. But unfortunately they have kind of
taken over that little area right there. But is there
any other interest that your son can enter through?
Speaker 5 (14:52):
No, they are barricading every area for him to get into.
And and you know, with all due respect, why is
that even tolerated? Like why should a Jewish kid have
to go to another entrance?
Speaker 7 (15:07):
But Bob, I don't know if I'm gonna say, but unfortunately,
the police are not answering with that right now.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Wait stop a second, Stop a second. In this case,
it's an outside police, that's the UCLA campus police. Unfortunately,
the police are not intervening right now. Classic customer service response,
isn't it saying the obvious? Of course they're not intervening.
That's why she's calling. If they were intervening, her son
would be in the library and the rest of those
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terrorists would be kicked off the campus. And she's got
the perfect tone of voice of a customer service rep.
Speaker 8 (15:45):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Well, unfortunately, unfortunately, like she's trying to commiserate, she's you know, yes,
when somebody calls them complaints, make sure you acknowledge their
pain and their discomfort. So just unfortunately they're not intervening
right now. Call back in a week. Maybe if they
start killing Jews, then the campus police will intervene. But
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right now you're just being denied access. And what's with
the wristbands? What does everybody have to wear a wristband
to get in the library, or just the Jewish kids.
This some sort of symbolism like they used to have
in Nazi Germany. Play some more of this.
Speaker 7 (16:23):
I'm intervening with that right now. And this is coming
from the university. So if you had any questions, are concerned,
you would pick it with the university itself.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
So the university has taken a stance that they will
not in fact allow or help Jewish students get to
their classes, that this is going to be tolerated.
Speaker 7 (16:47):
They had receive the directive cannot intervene at this time.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
Yes, and what is at what point have they given.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
A directive to you?
Speaker 5 (16:56):
At what point you should intervene?
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Right?
Speaker 7 (17:01):
As far as right now?
Speaker 5 (17:02):
No, Okay, is there anything we can do as concerned
parents about I would.
Speaker 7 (17:08):
Suggest contacting the ANSWER's office or higher up in the
university your concerns. I do have a phone number, but
I don't know if they're going to answer.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Yeah, they're gonna have a different answer.
Speaker 7 (17:21):
But I can give you a phone number.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Yeah, could you give me that number?
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Three?
Speaker 7 (17:25):
One ol mm hmm, two five six three, and you
can ask your questions and express your concerns there and
see if they have an answer for you.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
Lastly, just so I know at what point does UCPD
get involved, Because if my child says.
Speaker 7 (17:45):
If your son is needs police assistant and he's, of
course he can contact us.
Speaker 5 (17:50):
So I'm calling and saying he needs police assistants to
get into his class, that people aren't letting him into
his class or.
Speaker 7 (17:57):
Not forcing them to move out other area. That's what
If it's if he needs like if he's if he's
getting an attacked or as a police concerning but the
fact that it's just blocked off, they're not they're not
intervening with it.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
After he's getting attacked, he physically gets attacked, at that
point we should contact you.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
I'm not.
Speaker 7 (18:17):
I mean, we're not blocking.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
So you're allowing the protesters to block the Jewish students
allowing it?
Speaker 6 (18:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (18:29):
Is this the school is saying that they will not
be removed at this time?
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
If if they have you flat on the ground and
they're choking you and kicking you and beating you, see
if you can find your cell phone, dig it out
of your pocket, and then you could call the campus
police and maybe they'll intervene the chancellor. She mentioned, we're
going to talk about the chancellor when we come back,
and we're going to talk about the sick faculty at
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UCLA who've joined the terrorists in the protest.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A
six fort.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
We just played two clips in the last segment, a
Jewish student getting denied entry to UCLA's library by the
Palestinian terrorists. It's happening right here in LA And then
the mother of a Jewish student at UCLA, don't know
if it's the same kid, but calling about her son
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being denied access to the library. You hear chanting of
Allahu Akbar in the first clip by the terrorists, and
the student is admonished by the terrorists, the Jewish student
for not having a wristband. I don't know what that's about.
But when the mother called, she called the campus police
and she got one of those customer service robot and
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responses that we're not unfortunately, we're not intervening at this time,
and suggested that the mother contact the chancellor. And I thought,
whatever the chancellor is. I never paid any attention to
the hierarchy UCLA. I I've never heard of this guy.
I guess he's had a quiet tenure for a long time.
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His name is gene Block. He's the chief executive officer,
the chancellor at UCLA, And if you go to their page,
it says he oversees all aspects of the university's three
part mission of Education, Research, and Service. Doesn't say anything
about coddling terrorists and denying Jewish students the freedom to
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go to the library. I mean, I don't see that
as part of the mission statement. Maybe it's buried somewhere
deep and I just didn't notice. So I'm looking up
this gene Block and it says he manages UCLA's haven
and a half billion dollar budget. Wow, there's a lot
of tax money in there. Obviously, it's one of the
jewels of the UC system, not to mention all the
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federal tax money. And it's got forty two thousand and
forty three thousand students, forty three hundred faculty, forty two
thousand employees, but only the Jews can't go in the library.
The chancellor also plays a vital external role, serving as
a thought leader. So what's the thought behind this? What
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is his leading.
Speaker 8 (21:33):
Thought that supporters of Palestinian terrorism can block Jewish kids
and chant alahu akbar at him.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
They can tell the mothers of Jewish students, it's like,
we're not intervening at this time unless he's attacked. Maybe
if he gets bloodied up a bit, yeah, then make
a call. We'll see what we can do. And he
works with colleagues around the world to address challenges and
opportunities at UCLA and public higher education. Well, here's a challenge,
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here's an opportunity to show that as the CEO and
the chancellor, he's in charge of the school and that
nobody is going to keep Jewish students from entering the library.
But I haven't heard any reaction. Now he's almost done.
Poor guy. He's been anonymous since he took over in
two thousand and seven, seventeen years and July thirty first
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is his last day. And now all of a sudden,
he has Palestinian terrorists stopping the Jewish students from going
to the library and apparently gene block. Even though he's
a thought leader, even though he plays a vital external role,
even though he shapes the vision and strategic plan of UCLA,
doesn't know what to do. He can't even empower the
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campus police to go over to the library and tell
the Palestinian terrorists to scram, and if they don't scram,
we're calling the real police and they're going to have
you evicted because at UCLA you can't stop kids from
entering the library for any reason, especially based on their
religion or ethnicity. Isn't that basic? Wow? And let me
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see it? Threading his biography, how did he become the
man he is? Under Chancellor Block's leadership use today has
greatly enhanced his position as a national leader in enrolling
undergraduates who come from low income backgrounds have been traditionally
underrepresented in higher education and among their first in the
families to go to college. So if it was poor
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black and Hispanic students who were blocked from the library
while the protesters chanted Alahu akbar or some some other
I don't know what you were chanted black and Hispanic students,
but some other ugly chant that made it clear that
want to kill you, would this still be going on.
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I mean, he's championing these low income background students. He
doesn't champion Jewish students. He's an expert in neuroscience. He's
a smart guy. I mean, he is His current research
focuses on the effects of aging in the nervous system
and how it impacts biological timing and mammals. He holds
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faculty appointments in psychiatry, has a master's and PhD in
psychology from the University of Oregon WOW, and he's also
served as vice president in provost University of Virginia. He
also was the professor of biology there. He was vice
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president for Research and Public Service in Virginia and then
he came to UCLA. So he's a accomplished academic. So
you must understand the biology of mob behavior, of group behavior,
and how people band together to bully and commit violent
acts against an out of favor tribe like the Jews
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at the moment. In the last August he said he's
going to be retiring July thirty first, just in time
to oversee the banishment of Jewish students from the UCLA library.
So a capstone to an excellent, impressive academic career. What
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a way to go out do exactly oversee a policy
that exactly mimics what they did in Nazi Germany and
the same thing they did in the South in the
nineteen fifties when Jim Crow laws were enforced. You deny
people access to a library that their parents tuition and
taxes paid for because they're the wrong ethnicity, they're the
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wrong religion. Chancellor Gene Block, there should be some kind
of prize for you, maybe a Nobel Prize in Humanity.
More coming up.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
You're listening to John Cobel on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Coming up after three o'clock. You remember the case, a
sad story, but today we have finally sentencing in the
case of four year old Noah Quattro. He was the
little Palmdale boy whose parents tortured and killed him back
in July twenty nineteen, and they both the both parents
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got sentenced, and we're going to speak with Brian Claypool,
who's been involved in the case, representing some family members.
It's a terrible case and the Department of Child and
Family Services, which is a brutally incompetent, cruel department. I
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don't know how it still exists in the county, but
the board of supervisors don't care. Children could die and
nothing will ever get changed at the Department of Children
and Family Services. We'll talk about the whole case again
because it has been almost five years, and that's how
long it takes to put two parents in jail for
torturing and killing their kid. One more thing. I mentioned
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this briefly, but there's more detail here from the Wall
Street Journal about this stupid demand. When you hear the
list of demands by the terrorist students and outside agitators
that they demand that Columbia University divest itself from any
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investments in companies that produce weapons. They tried this in
the past too, with oil companies. The climate change fanatics
to colleges universities not to invest in energy stocks.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Right.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Nothing could be more useless, more pathetic, more ineffective, more
feeble than to make an organization like Columbia sell their
stock in any weapons companies or oil companies. Because Colombia,
even though it has an endowment of fourteen billion dollars,
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it's a tiny, tiny, little microscopic drop in the vast
ocean of money swirling out there. For example, Microsoft, which
the protesters want sold. Protesters want Columbia to sell a
Microsoft stock. That company alone is valued at three trillion dollars.
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Colombia is only fourteen billion to play with in total.
Selling stock has no effect. There's always somebody to sell
stock to who don't care whether Israel is getting weaponry
or doesn't care that oil companies produce oil. They just
want to make a profit from a successful industry. Because
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when the oil companies profit or the weapons company's profit,
then people who own the stock profit, and that's all
most investors care about. Now, you could have the best
in tensions and be a nice little goodie good or
you could be an angry terrorist demanding investment. Doesn't matter.
Most of the people in the stock market game are
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in there to make profits. Period. Give you an example,
there's always been people demanding that they don't invest in coal,
and they will not invest in coal. Well, what happened
after Russia invaded Ukraine energy shortages. Suddenly coal development was
very valuable. Coal companies their share sword. Now the investors
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who wanted the world to stop using coal could not
affect the production. Didn't matter whether they bought the stock
or not. They could never buy the stock. They could
sell all their stock. They could scream and rent and
raise and stamp their feet to sell coal stock didn't matter.
Coal became more valuable after the Russian invasion. If you
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sell the shares cheaply. According to Wall Street Journal, it
just leaves the buyer owning the future profits at a
bargain price. And the companies most important Israeli is military
and to their oil production belong well. The control belongs
to the governments that supply the military aid, like the
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United States supplies a lot of military aid to Israel.
So not buying a weapons company stock and a weapons company,
or trying to get Columbia or UCLA to sell their
investments in a weapons company makes no difference. The US
is going to send just as much military help to
Israel as possible, so will all the other Israeli allies,
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and so will Israel itself buy and use whatever weaponry
it needs. Same thing in the climate debate. Five of
the top ten oil producers are controlled by Saudi Arabia, China, Mexico,
and Brazil, and they pump far more than the five
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biggest private US and UK producers. So you could say
I'll never own any stock in a US oil company.
It's like who cares Saudi Arabian governments in China and
Mexico and Brazil. They pump morel than we do. In fact,
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for all the talk of climate change and boy Kott's investment.
Global production of oil in the final quarter of last
year broke the previous record set in twenty eighteen. There's
more oil being pumped out of the ground and used
than ever before. Jeez, how did that happen? Bud Gavin
Newsom solved that problem right. In fact, Columbia was one
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of the few universities who publicly acknowledged how pointless divesting
shares of oil stocks are because they had a committee.
It was called the Socially Responsible Investing Committee. But doesn't
that sounded like the Soviet Union and the Soviet The
Socially Responsible Investing Committee told Columbia they were against a
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ban on oil stocks four years ago because the oil
companies are going to be able to get as much
money and as much investment as they want and there's
nothing that's going to stop them. In other words, join
the party by the stocks, buy the weapon stocks, you'll
make a lot of money. You're not going to stop
the world from doing what it does. But of course,
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not one in a thousand of these stupid protester students
know about how the stock market works and why demanding
divestiture is pointless. But truth is. It doesn't matter. They're
there to create anarchy. They're not there to get the
college to divest They're there to destroy the peaceful flow
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of life at the universities and really keep the Jewish
students from studying and learning, taking their final exams, even
going to the library. That's their purpose. It's to terrorize
Jewish students. It's to terrorize Jewish students, make them fearful
that they might die if they go to the library.
That's the purpose of these terrorists. It's not some high
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minded financial analysis about divestiture. But you won't find any
of these jack holes in the media figuring that out
anytime soon. Hey, you've been listening to the John Cobalt
Show podcast. You can always hear the show live on
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Can't.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I am six forty. You're listening to the John Cobel
podcast on the iHeartRadio apps. Been about fifteen minutes. We
got one thousand dollars to give away and we are
going We've got we've got more coverage of the protests Ucla.
It's been a little nuts, not quite as insane as Columbia,
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where the terrorists have taken over the main administration building,
have held hostages at times and now we're demanding to
be fed. But the UCLA campus, We're going to play
you some clips of a Jewish student being denied entry
to the library because the student believes that Israel should
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be a country. And then there's we've got a clip
of a Jewish mother of a Jewish UCLA student calling
the UCLA campus police because her kid can't get into
the library. I don't know if it's the same kid
or not, but we'll just listen to the clips coming up.
There's also a protest with actual arrests at cal Poly Humboldt,
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which is up in Arcada, California. That's in the northwest
corner of the state near Oregon, and they've arrested twenty
five students there. According to the Los Angeles Times. We'll
follow up on all that, but first, actually, a Donald
Trump trial is peaceful in comparison to what's going on.
(01:31):
And today Trump was fined nine thousand dollars because he moved,
shut up. He keeps violating the gag order of the
judge Juan Marchon. And we have Royal Oaks, the ABC
News legal analyst on the scene. Royal, how are you doing?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Great? John? And it might be a little calmer in
the Trump trial today than Columbia's on, but it could
be interesting Thursday because although Donald Trump was fined nine
thousand bucks today, one thousand for each of nine posts,
as the judge said, violate that his really can't talk
bad about the witnesses, can't talk bad about the jurors.
On Thursday morning, John, you're going to be hearing where
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four more alleged violations will be presented. The DA has
offered this up to the judge, and the judges said,
I just may have to jail Donald Trump. Now I
don't think he's ever going to do that because I
think he knows Donald Trump would love it. I mean,
just you know, the Trump TV ads would right themselves here.
I am behind bars put here by a Democrat judge
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and a Democrat da Joe Biden is jatting around the
country campaigning. So I don't think he's going to do that,
but he could sock him with much larger financial penalties.
So it's a really fascinating side show to the trial, which,
of course the main of edable Michael Cohen. That's going
to be a couple of weeks down the road.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
How much larger can the penalties be considering Trump's wealth?
I mean, you know he was able to satisfy that
what one hundred and seventy five million dollar bond a
few weeks ago, right.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
You know, when you're in a civil context, you get
hit with punitive damages. The idea there is, well, a
jury has to hit Jeff Bezos with a billion dollars
or he's going to laugh at you. But in a
criminal context, the judge has some discretion, but he can't
do vary too much from like a thousand bucks two
thousand and five thousand dollars because it starts to seem punitive.
But I mean the track record is, you know, every
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time Donald Trump's inded, it boom, his numbers go up.
He makes more money. If he were to be jailed,
that would be huge, huge.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Well, because it's going to be a standoff. Trump never
backs down. He can afford the fines. So is Judge
Murchon actually going to have a gut the guts to
put him in prison or in jail and deal with
all the consequences because you never know when there's going
to be a backlash from some crazy Trump followers and
you can have a real well.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
That's right, that's right. But you know, Trump actually has
an argument to be made, which the judge is acknowledged. Now,
when it comes to the jurors, you're not supposed to
intimidate them and call them names, and so that was
his order. But when it comes to witnesses, Donald Trump's
position has been, Hey, Michael Cohen, he's out there, he
wrote a book called Revenge, he's all sorts of terrible
things about me. What I'm supposed to just shut up
(04:09):
and take it? And the judge actually said if Michael
Cohen starts to go after Donald Trump, then he might
let Trump respond. But now the judge has not been
presented with evidence that Michael Cohen is really doing that.
So you know, everybody is just firing at everybody else.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
It would have to be like in the con would
have to go Trump, go after Trump presently now or
can Trump just bring back all the old grievances from
Cohen's book and and and and and you know, regurgitate
their old battles.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Now he can't do that. The judge's attitude is there
has to be a fresh new attack by Michael Cohen
against Donald and then he might be able to respond
to it. But you know, mccollen's going to be just
the nuclear core in his case. John me He's not
going to have a smoking gun that says, aha, Trump
knew that we were falsifying records and saying it was
legal fees instead of money for Stormy. And you're not
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going to have a smoking gun a document that says
Trump knew this was a violation of campaign laws. You're
supposed to report it if you give yourself one hundred
and thirty grand. Instead, it's going to be Michael Cohen
looking at the eyes of the jury and saying, look,
you may not like me much, and I've had my
legal issues for Trump, but the fact is it makes
common sense that Trump and I were sitting around and
we agreed we were going to cook up this scheme
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and it was going to be a violation of the law.
The jury buys that, then Trump is toast. Of course,
with the jury basically ninety percent anti Trump anyway, based
on the voting the record in Manhattan, it may not
take a whole lot to convince them to convict him.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
What was Cohen ever convicted of anything related to the
Stormy Daniel's situation. I seem to have a hazing memory
on that.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Yeah. Yeah, So the idea was that you Cohen give
me this one hundred and thirty thousand dollars, you knew
it was really a campaign contribution, and you didn't report it,
and he entered into a plea deal on that. Then
he was victa of lying to Congress. So yeah, he's
had some legal trouble both really pertinent to this dispute
and also a little tangential to it. But the bottom
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line is, you know, Trump's lawyer, this is going to
be where he makes his money. He should have a
field day impeaching this guy, because when a guy writes
a book called Revenge against Donald Trump obviously has this
huge vise. He'd love to see the bad Orange man
in an orange jumpsuit, and you know you got to
take testimony like that with a grain of salt. On
the other hand, if the jury is nodding along and thinking,
(06:31):
you know, that makes sense, I can see Trump agreeing
with Cohen on that. Then they could go against Trump
on that basis.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
I've aways been kind of fascinated by the dynamics when
you have a group of people charged with crimes, right,
whether it's a group of criminals breaking into a bank
or people in a white collar crime like this is,
and one of them flips and the immediate response from
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the remaining defendant is, well, you can't trust him, you know,
he's a convicted criminal. Well yeah, it's part of the
operation with you. That's why this convicted criminal. But I
just found it always be a weird dynamic. Who else
are you gonna get? I mean, you can't go to
a convent and get three nuns. Of course, it's going
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to be the guy who's involved in the crime itself.
He'd be able to tell the best story.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Now that's a great point because so often you got
a bunch of people involved in a criminal enterprise and
the jury hears it's common sense. Of course, everybody involved
in that. They're kind of crooked, so you can't trust
everything they say. But if it is the ring of truth,
if if they got some documents backing it up. And
that relates to the racketeering allegations against Trump down in Georgia,
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Trump was the top of a crime family. And the
idea of the racketeering law is we're never going to
get proof that John gott he pulled the trigger. But
if we've got proof that he told fairly clear terms
to his henchmen, I want you to go kill this
guy in that guy, then you can get the top
guys well. And that's the theory against Trump when it
comes to racketeering. And they're going to try to use
(08:06):
the same idea saying Trump and Cohen were in it
together and then Cohen got paid off and what is
Mary Way? All right?
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Roll good talking with you again. See what happens next. Yes,
thanks for coming on roll Oakes ABC News about Trump
getting fined nine thousand dollars and maybe more fines coming
on Thursday morning for more public assaults on all the
other participants in this trial, including the jury and witnesses
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like Michael Cohen, the judge himself too. We come back.
We got a couple of audio clips to play about
our homegrown terrorism supporters at UCLA. We've got a Jewish
student denied entry to the UCLA library. And then we
have a clip of a mother of a Jewish student
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because he was denied access to the library. Now we
don't know if this is ain't kid or not, doesn't
really matter, but she calls the UCLA campus police and
we'll see what the reaction was from the police.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Back to the protests all over the country. Now, the
Marquee protest is in is in New York City at
Columbia University. Because they're all right, they took hammers and
smashed windows, and they've taken over a building, the administration building,
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and they even took some janitor's hostage for a time.
Now they're up there. They didn't plan this. Well, you know,
you get a surge of adrenaline and get all excited
about that. You're a revolutionary. You're a revolutionary. I actually
read about this. These kids are these adults, Excuse me,
I think they're revolutionaries. Yeah, you're you're in. You're in
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New York City in America. This is the freest country
in the world, and we're gonna We're gonna show you
how oppressed we are and how angry we are about
being oppressed. You're in a country, at a university where
they let you destroy things. They let you block all
the other students from going to class, studying and taking
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their exams. They're letting you do this. They're letting you
take over a building. They're letting you take hostages along
the way, and you feel oppressed. It's fascinating. Well that's Columbia.
Here at u C l A they are blocking Jewish students,
and here's a Jewish student denied entry into the UCLA library.
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Listen closely to this clip.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
What on nurs men?
Speaker 1 (10:55):
It's time to go.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
I can stand here if I want. I'm not moving.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
M hm.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Okay, they're now cornering me. I'm not moving, kid.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Can'dy get into the library?
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Say whatever you want?
Speaker 2 (11:33):
The chant to get bar in the background, Yes they are.
I mean no harm.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
I'm just standing here, just showing you, guys, how pointless
your blockade is. I got in through the other entrance
and now I'm standing here you guys want to prevent
Jewish students from entering. Fine, of course on Zionus. Okay,
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so you don't lead Zionists in the library that I
pay tuition.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
This is just fascinating. Yes, so the parents have paid tuition.
By the way, we've all paid taxes to the federal government,
and all these universities collectively get many, many billions and
billions of dollars of our taxes. And yet the administration
allows these Palestinian terrorists supporters. They're they're terrorists, they're supporting terrorists,
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and they control the library. I don't understand the kids
parents paid for access to the library, and nobody in
the administration will defend the right of that student and
the parents who paid Columbia so that he could have
the access to the library. They're they're not protecting or
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defending the student at all. Instead, these weird they're chanting
Allahu akbar. I don't understand why people are people so
snowed by political correctness and cancel culture that you can't
call this out for what it is. It's infiltration by
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terrorist groups and terrorist sympathizers who've now taken over a
major US university funded by US taxpayers, tuition paid for
by US citizens, and nobody can use the place except
the terrorists. Now Here's the mother of a Jewish student.
(13:36):
Could be the same one. I don't know, it could
be somebody different calling UCLA campus police.
Speaker 6 (13:42):
Hi there, I'm trying to report my kid is not
able to get into the library. They are bombarding him
and not allowing him to get into the library. Sightings
the need for some riskbands. Did you see LA issue
ristbands to people?
Speaker 7 (14:01):
I don't have any information on that.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
If they did, okay, So what should he do? Because
he can't enter the library, he can't enter his classes.
Speaker 7 (14:12):
That they need LISP? Is he not able to ask
them any information?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
They said?
Speaker 5 (14:18):
They said because he's Jewish, he cannot enter that area
and that they won't issue him at risk.
Speaker 7 (14:26):
Them a university thing. That's probably the protesters that are
out there right.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
So are the protesters allowed to not allow a student
who pays tuition access to their class and the library?
Speaker 7 (14:42):
No, they're not allowed. But unfortunately they have kind of
taken over that little area right there. But is there
any other interest that your son can enter through?
Speaker 5 (14:52):
No, they are barricading every area for him to get into.
And and you know, with all due respect, why is
that even tolerated? Like why should a Jewish kid have
to go to another entrance?
Speaker 7 (15:07):
But Bob, I don't know if I'm gonna say, but unfortunately,
the police are not answering with that right now.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Wait stop a second, Stop a second. In this case,
it's an outside police, that's the UCLA campus police. Unfortunately,
the police are not intervening right now. Classic customer service response,
isn't it saying the obvious? Of course they're not intervening.
That's why she's calling. If they were intervening, her son
would be in the library and the rest of those
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terrorists would be kicked off the campus. And she's got
the perfect tone of voice of a customer service rep.
Speaker 8 (15:45):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Well, unfortunately, unfortunately, like she's trying to commiserate, she's you know, yes,
when somebody calls them complaints, make sure you acknowledge their
pain and their discomfort. So just unfortunately they're not intervening
right now. Call back in a week. Maybe if they
start killing Jews, then the campus police will intervene. But
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right now you're just being denied access. And what's with
the wristbands? What does everybody have to wear a wristband
to get in the library, or just the Jewish kids.
This some sort of symbolism like they used to have
in Nazi Germany. Play some more of this.
Speaker 7 (16:23):
I'm intervening with that right now. And this is coming
from the university. So if you had any questions, are concerned,
you would pick it with the university itself.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
So the university has taken a stance that they will
not in fact allow or help Jewish students get to
their classes, that this is going to be tolerated.
Speaker 7 (16:47):
They had receive the directive cannot intervene at this time.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
Yes, and what is at what point have they given.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
A directive to you?
Speaker 5 (16:56):
At what point you should intervene?
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Right?
Speaker 7 (17:01):
As far as right now?
Speaker 5 (17:02):
No, Okay, is there anything we can do as concerned
parents about I would.
Speaker 7 (17:08):
Suggest contacting the ANSWER's office or higher up in the
university your concerns. I do have a phone number, but
I don't know if they're going to answer.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Yeah, they're gonna have a different answer.
Speaker 7 (17:21):
But I can give you a phone number.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Yeah, could you give me that number?
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Three?
Speaker 7 (17:25):
One ol mm hmm, two five six three, and you
can ask your questions and express your concerns there and
see if they have an answer for you.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
Lastly, just so I know at what point does UCPD
get involved, Because if my child says.
Speaker 7 (17:45):
If your son is needs police assistant and he's, of
course he can contact us.
Speaker 5 (17:50):
So I'm calling and saying he needs police assistants to
get into his class, that people aren't letting him into
his class or.
Speaker 7 (17:57):
Not forcing them to move out other area. That's what
If it's if he needs like if he's if he's
getting an attacked or as a police concerning but the
fact that it's just blocked off, they're not they're not
intervening with it.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
After he's getting attacked, he physically gets attacked, at that
point we should contact you.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
I'm not.
Speaker 7 (18:17):
I mean, we're not blocking.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
So you're allowing the protesters to block the Jewish students
allowing it?
Speaker 6 (18:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (18:29):
Is this the school is saying that they will not
be removed at this time?
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
If if they have you flat on the ground and
they're choking you and kicking you and beating you, see
if you can find your cell phone, dig it out
of your pocket, and then you could call the campus
police and maybe they'll intervene the chancellor. She mentioned, we're
going to talk about the chancellor when we come back,
and we're going to talk about the sick faculty at
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UCLA who've joined the terrorists in the protest.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A
six fort.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
We just played two clips in the last segment, a
Jewish student getting denied entry to UCLA's library by the
Palestinian terrorists. It's happening right here in LA And then
the mother of a Jewish student at UCLA, don't know
if it's the same kid, but calling about her son
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being denied access to the library. You hear chanting of
Allahu Akbar in the first clip by the terrorists, and
the student is admonished by the terrorists, the Jewish student
for not having a wristband. I don't know what that's about.
But when the mother called, she called the campus police
and she got one of those customer service robot and
(20:00):
responses that we're not unfortunately, we're not intervening at this time,
and suggested that the mother contact the chancellor. And I thought,
whatever the chancellor is. I never paid any attention to
the hierarchy UCLA. I I've never heard of this guy.
I guess he's had a quiet tenure for a long time.
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His name is gene Block. He's the chief executive officer,
the chancellor at UCLA, And if you go to their page,
it says he oversees all aspects of the university's three
part mission of Education, Research, and Service. Doesn't say anything
about coddling terrorists and denying Jewish students the freedom to
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go to the library. I mean, I don't see that
as part of the mission statement. Maybe it's buried somewhere
deep and I just didn't notice. So I'm looking up
this gene Block and it says he manages UCLA's haven
and a half billion dollar budget. Wow, there's a lot
of tax money in there. Obviously, it's one of the
jewels of the UC system, not to mention all the
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federal tax money. And it's got forty two thousand and
forty three thousand students, forty three hundred faculty, forty two
thousand employees, but only the Jews can't go in the library.
The chancellor also plays a vital external role, serving as
a thought leader. So what's the thought behind this? What
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is his leading.
Speaker 8 (21:33):
Thought that supporters of Palestinian terrorism can block Jewish kids
and chant alahu akbar at him.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
They can tell the mothers of Jewish students, it's like,
we're not intervening at this time unless he's attacked. Maybe
if he gets bloodied up a bit, yeah, then make
a call. We'll see what we can do. And he
works with colleagues around the world to address challenges and
opportunities at UCLA and public higher education. Well, here's a challenge,
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here's an opportunity to show that as the CEO and
the chancellor, he's in charge of the school and that
nobody is going to keep Jewish students from entering the library.
But I haven't heard any reaction. Now he's almost done.
Poor guy. He's been anonymous since he took over in
two thousand and seven, seventeen years and July thirty first
(22:29):
is his last day. And now all of a sudden,
he has Palestinian terrorists stopping the Jewish students from going
to the library and apparently gene block. Even though he's
a thought leader, even though he plays a vital external role,
even though he shapes the vision and strategic plan of UCLA,
doesn't know what to do. He can't even empower the
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campus police to go over to the library and tell
the Palestinian terrorists to scram, and if they don't scram,
we're calling the real police and they're going to have
you evicted because at UCLA you can't stop kids from
entering the library for any reason, especially based on their
religion or ethnicity. Isn't that basic? Wow? And let me
(23:19):
see it? Threading his biography, how did he become the
man he is? Under Chancellor Block's leadership use today has
greatly enhanced his position as a national leader in enrolling
undergraduates who come from low income backgrounds have been traditionally
underrepresented in higher education and among their first in the
families to go to college. So if it was poor
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black and Hispanic students who were blocked from the library
while the protesters chanted Alahu akbar or some some other
I don't know what you were chanted black and Hispanic students,
but some other ugly chant that made it clear that
want to kill you, would this still be going on.
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I mean, he's championing these low income background students. He
doesn't champion Jewish students. He's an expert in neuroscience. He's
a smart guy. I mean, he is His current research
focuses on the effects of aging in the nervous system
and how it impacts biological timing and mammals. He holds
(24:30):
faculty appointments in psychiatry, has a master's and PhD in
psychology from the University of Oregon WOW, and he's also
served as vice president in provost University of Virginia. He
also was the professor of biology there. He was vice
(24:54):
president for Research and Public Service in Virginia and then
he came to UCLA. So he's a accomplished academic. So
you must understand the biology of mob behavior, of group behavior,
and how people band together to bully and commit violent
acts against an out of favor tribe like the Jews
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at the moment. In the last August he said he's
going to be retiring July thirty first, just in time
to oversee the banishment of Jewish students from the UCLA library.
So a capstone to an excellent, impressive academic career. What
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a way to go out do exactly oversee a policy
that exactly mimics what they did in Nazi Germany and
the same thing they did in the South in the
nineteen fifties when Jim Crow laws were enforced. You deny
people access to a library that their parents tuition and
taxes paid for because they're the wrong ethnicity, they're the
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wrong religion. Chancellor Gene Block, there should be some kind
of prize for you, maybe a Nobel Prize in Humanity.
More coming up.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
You're listening to John Cobel on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Coming up after three o'clock. You remember the case, a
sad story, but today we have finally sentencing in the
case of four year old Noah Quattro. He was the
little Palmdale boy whose parents tortured and killed him back
in July twenty nineteen, and they both the both parents
(26:42):
got sentenced, and we're going to speak with Brian Claypool,
who's been involved in the case, representing some family members.
It's a terrible case and the Department of Child and
Family Services, which is a brutally incompetent, cruel department. I
(27:05):
don't know how it still exists in the county, but
the board of supervisors don't care. Children could die and
nothing will ever get changed at the Department of Children
and Family Services. We'll talk about the whole case again
because it has been almost five years, and that's how
long it takes to put two parents in jail for
torturing and killing their kid. One more thing. I mentioned
(27:29):
this briefly, but there's more detail here from the Wall
Street Journal about this stupid demand. When you hear the
list of demands by the terrorist students and outside agitators
that they demand that Columbia University divest itself from any
(27:50):
investments in companies that produce weapons. They tried this in
the past too, with oil companies. The climate change fanatics
to colleges universities not to invest in energy stocks.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Right.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Nothing could be more useless, more pathetic, more ineffective, more
feeble than to make an organization like Columbia sell their
stock in any weapons companies or oil companies. Because Colombia,
even though it has an endowment of fourteen billion dollars,
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it's a tiny, tiny, little microscopic drop in the vast
ocean of money swirling out there. For example, Microsoft, which
the protesters want sold. Protesters want Columbia to sell a
Microsoft stock. That company alone is valued at three trillion dollars.
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Colombia is only fourteen billion to play with in total.
Selling stock has no effect. There's always somebody to sell
stock to who don't care whether Israel is getting weaponry
or doesn't care that oil companies produce oil. They just
want to make a profit from a successful industry. Because
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when the oil companies profit or the weapons company's profit,
then people who own the stock profit, and that's all
most investors care about. Now, you could have the best
in tensions and be a nice little goodie good or
you could be an angry terrorist demanding investment. Doesn't matter.
Most of the people in the stock market game are
(29:36):
in there to make profits. Period. Give you an example,
there's always been people demanding that they don't invest in coal,
and they will not invest in coal. Well, what happened
after Russia invaded Ukraine energy shortages. Suddenly coal development was
very valuable. Coal companies their share sword. Now the investors
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who wanted the world to stop using coal could not
affect the production. Didn't matter whether they bought the stock
or not. They could never buy the stock. They could
sell all their stock. They could scream and rent and
raise and stamp their feet to sell coal stock didn't matter.
Coal became more valuable after the Russian invasion. If you
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sell the shares cheaply. According to Wall Street Journal, it
just leaves the buyer owning the future profits at a
bargain price. And the companies most important Israeli is military
and to their oil production belong well. The control belongs
to the governments that supply the military aid, like the
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United States supplies a lot of military aid to Israel.
So not buying a weapons company stock and a weapons company,
or trying to get Columbia or UCLA to sell their
investments in a weapons company makes no difference. The US
is going to send just as much military help to
Israel as possible, so will all the other Israeli allies,
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and so will Israel itself buy and use whatever weaponry
it needs. Same thing in the climate debate. Five of
the top ten oil producers are controlled by Saudi Arabia, China, Mexico,
and Brazil, and they pump far more than the five
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biggest private US and UK producers. So you could say
I'll never own any stock in a US oil company.
It's like who cares Saudi Arabian governments in China and
Mexico and Brazil. They pump morel than we do. In fact,
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for all the talk of climate change and boy Kott's investment.
Global production of oil in the final quarter of last
year broke the previous record set in twenty eighteen. There's
more oil being pumped out of the ground and used
than ever before. Jeez, how did that happen? Bud Gavin
Newsom solved that problem right. In fact, Columbia was one
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of the few universities who publicly acknowledged how pointless divesting
shares of oil stocks are because they had a committee.
It was called the Socially Responsible Investing Committee. But doesn't
that sounded like the Soviet Union and the Soviet The
Socially Responsible Investing Committee told Columbia they were against a
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ban on oil stocks four years ago because the oil
companies are going to be able to get as much
money and as much investment as they want and there's
nothing that's going to stop them. In other words, join
the party by the stocks, buy the weapon stocks, you'll
make a lot of money. You're not going to stop
the world from doing what it does. But of course,
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not one in a thousand of these stupid protester students
know about how the stock market works and why demanding
divestiture is pointless. But truth is. It doesn't matter. They're
there to create anarchy. They're not there to get the
college to divest They're there to destroy the peaceful flow
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of life at the universities and really keep the Jewish
students from studying and learning, taking their final exams, even
going to the library. That's their purpose. It's to terrorize
Jewish students. It's to terrorize Jewish students, make them fearful
that they might die if they go to the library.
That's the purpose of these terrorists. It's not some high
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minded financial analysis about divestiture. But you won't find any
of these jack holes in the media figuring that out
anytime soon. Hey, you've been listening to the John Cobalt
Show podcast. You can always hear the show live on
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