May 14, 2024 • 31 mins
Derricke Dennis comes on the show to talk about the latest developments in the Trump "Hush Money" trial. Eric Adams says that he wants to hire migrants as lifeguards in NYC because they are "excellent swimmers" and there is a shortage of lifeguards ahead of the Summer season. Newsom was dodging questions about the state not being able to account for billions of dollars that was supposed to be spent on trying to solve the homeless crisis. LA County Dept. of Public Health has said that there has been a Hepatitis A outbreak amongst the homeless.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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York and Derek Dennis from ABC News. This there in
the final days of the Trump trial and the last
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prosecution witness is Michael Cohen, Trump's former attorney, and he
got examined and cross examined today a lot intensely, and
Derek's gonna tell us about it.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
He was on the stand for many hours. Derek, how
are you hi there? I'm good.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
It was really an explosive day when you counted all
together with Trump's former fixer Michael Cohen on the stand.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
You mentioned.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
He was examined and then cross examined by Trump's defense
lawyers who grilled him and got him to admit that
he lies, that he has an axe to grind against
the president, that he wants to see him behind bars,
and that he turned against him. This is all part
of the defensive strategy to paint Michael Cohen as a
witness who's just not credible. He's a convicted fellon, after all,
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an admitted liar, spent thirteen months in prison for lying
to the Feds. And so that's the strategy, and it
seemed to have worked, at least according to court watchers
who are watching this grilling of Michael Cohen on the
stand this afternoon under the defensive questioning, getting him to
admit all sorts of things. But the bottom line Michael
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Cohen says is that he was Trump's fixer, That there
was a payment that was orchestrated through Cohen to payoff
porn star Stormy Daniels because of an alleged affair, a
sexual encounter she had with Trump back in two thousand
and six. Trump wanted that story buried in advance of
the twenty sixteen election. He thought it would hurt him politically,
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prosecutors say, and that Trump falsified business records to cover
that payment up. And that's the crust of the case.
And that's why this trial is ongoing this week.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yeah, because Cohen was convicted lying to Congress, right, and
also lying by special counsel the federal government. So I
mean he's a he's a double liar on the record, Yeah, and.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
He admits to it. But Michael Cohen maintained that Trump
was the one who was orchestrating all this, that was
paying to kill stories, paid off the National Inquirer, paid
off Stormy Daniels, paid off Karen McDougall, a former Playboy
playmate that Trump is also accused of having an alleged
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affair with. And so uh, as much as Cohen has
admitted to being a liar, he maintains, at least this
time and in this trial, that he's telling the truth.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Right.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Well, I mean, the payoffs did happen. Although the payoffs
themselves are not illegal, it's that that that the false
falsifying what what they wrote down in the Ledger and
the business Ledger, what the payments were for, although what
they wrote down was was legal expenses, right.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Right, And that's what Trump maintains that these were legitimate
legal expenses. That Michael Cohen was his lawyer, you know,
a lawyer who you know was paid a fee.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Yeah, because Colin Cohen fronted the money to Stormy Daniels
and then Trump paid Cohen back and wrote it down
as legal expenses. I mean, you can argue all day
whether they were should have legal expenses or not, but
it's in the ballpark.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Right, And Cohen maintains that that's where his relationship with
Trump's soured. It took a while, Cohen says, for Trump
to pay him back, and then while he was waiting
for payment, his year end bonus was cut by two thirds,
and so financially they fell out. And that all created
this animosity between Cohen and Trump that eventually caused Cohen
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to turn against him and then being convicted of lying
to the Feds into Congress, going to prison for thirteen months.
All of that DEFENSI lawers have said has made Cohen
a very angry man, angry at Trump and wanting to
seek revenge. And that's why he's testifying so forcefully against
the former president in court.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
All right, So the original misdemeanor is falsifying the ledger
records by putting in legal expenses. But the real felonies
that would potentially get Trump in prison is that he
did it in order to influence the election by getting
this story buried in advance of the twenty sixteen election. Now, right,
was there much evidence in Cohen's story that was the
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sole purpose to pay off Stormy Daniels is to have
an effect on the voting, Not.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
At all, according to court watchers. Many legal experts, including
ABC's own legal expert Brian Buckmeyer, have said that there
doesn't appear to be a smoking gun in terms of
the election interference part or in terms of the falsified
documents part. You know that legitimate legal expenses could be
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claimed here, because after all, Cohen was Trump's lawyer, and
so yeah, not a lot of evidence. It seems like
the prosecutors is really pinning all of its case on
Michael Cohen, whether it's testimony is credible or not.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Because what I'm wondering, and I'm not asking you for
an answer on this, but I would think all candidates
running for anything want all their darkest secrets to be
covered up in some way or another. Nobody runs a
campaign and leads with all the terrible things they've done
in their life, all their worst days, all their mistakes
they made, every time that they were abusive to somebody.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Nobody would ever do that.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
So just simply withholding a bad story as election interference,
I just I can't.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
I don't get that.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Yeah, And that is why Trump's defense team is hammering
so forcefully against Michael Cohen, really trying to poke holes
in his story, poke holes in his credibility, so that
the prosecution really loses its case on Michael Cohen. We'll
have to see if that works or not. And I
should tell you court is dark on Wednesday and they're
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off again on Friday, so we really only have another
day this week. So the trial really is expected to
go into next week before we get a redirect from
the prosecution and then presumably closing arguments.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
All right, Derek, thanks for coming on. Sure, Derek Dennis,
ABC News at the Trump Trial. I mean, I know
it's a political thing, right, but I'm trying to understand
this argument and if this would have any sway on jurors,
I mean, you certainly in New York City can have
twelve crazed, zealous anti Trump jurors, and it doesn't matter
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what the case is, right, you get no j jury. Right,
you can get a group of people and they've got
some position in life where it doesn't matter what the
facts of the case are.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
And Trump is guilty.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
But I'm just examining the details here, not wanting a
bad story about your life to go public. Well, of course,
it's like when you go for a job interview, to
do you tell every bad day you had at work
At the last job, you tell about every argument you
had with the boss, every time you cut a corner.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Well, of course you don't.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
So is that somehow unethical that you don't show off
your your bad side? Is basically in an election campaign,
it's like a job interview. You know, you're trying to
put your case why you should be president, And of
course nobody's gonna Probably virtually every candidate for office had
an affair that they covered up one way or the other.
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I'm just just astonished that this case was allowed into court.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
This should have been thrown out by the judge minute one.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
It really should. There's no crime here. There's no no
crime in hush money. Okay, so you brought off somebody's silence.
That's legal. We can all do that every day. And
then election interference because you don't want a bad story
to come out. Really, my god, I remember reading during
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the Clinton years. Reporters would get whiffs of, you know,
the nonsense he was up to, and Clinton had a
whole staff that would call in and br I'll beat
editors and reporters not to follow up on those stories,
not to publish them. They were always denying the stories,
lying in their denials, and sometimes the newspapers and the
reporters would go along with it because they got intimidated.
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Harvey Weinstein did that. Harvey Weinstein paid off newspapers with
movie advertising to keep his sexual attacks out of the papers.
It's not illegal to do that. It's tawdry, but it's
not illegal.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A
six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
We're gonna play you a clip by Eric Adams, the
mayor of New York. Adams has gotten overwhelmed by a
couple one hundred thousand illegal aliens, migrants running around everywhere,
and they don't all have a place to stay.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
There aren't jobs for them.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Some of them have been I have been attacking people,
They've been getting into fights amongst themselves. Some of them
have been assigned to schools and ball fields so that
the kids in New York can't play ball, they can't
use their sports facilities. They're getting pushed around out of
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their classrooms, you know, because the illegal aliens are at
the top of the hierarchy, and a lot of people,
especially those impoort neighborhoods, are really angry with the mayor
and angry with city government because now the illegal aliens
are getting all this money in all this space. So
Eric Adams is trying to figure out what to do
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with them, and he'd like to hire them. There's a
shortage of lifeguards in New York City, and so he
wants to hire the illegal aliens. And we're gonna play
this clip and you'll see why he thinks they're good candidates.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
Let me just take your imagination for a moment. If
we had a migrant and asylum seeker plan that states
those jobs that we are in high demand, we could expedite.
How do we have a large body of people that
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are in our city and country that are excellent swimmers
and at the same time, we need lifeguards, and the
only obstacle is that we won't give them the right
to work to become a lifeguard. That just doesn't make sense.
But if we had a plan that say, you have
this shortage your food service workers and those who fit
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the criteria, we're going to expect expedite you. If you
have the experience that you are a nurse, which you
have a nurse's shortage, and we would expect that expedite you.
And that's the same with lifeguards. So we have all
these eligible people waiting to work with the skills we
need to fill the jobs, but we're unable to allow
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them to work because bureaucracy is in a way that's
just that just does not make sense.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
So they're qualified because they're excellent swimmers. Now, why would
Eric Adams think that the migrants are excellent swimmers? You
know why because of the ones that had to swim
across the Rio Grande River on the US Mexico border.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
He saw all those people swimming across and decided, well,
these people who know ad.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
To swim, they could be lifeguards. Apparently there's a there's
a severe shortage. The Deputy Mayor for Operations, someone named
Mira Joshi said that, you know, they'd have to pass
rigorous testing for positions ahead of the summer season this year,
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and it's twenty two dollars an hour plus one thousand
dollars bonus if you work through the peak season. They
need fifteen hundred because there's fourteen miles of beaches and
public pools scattered throughout the city. Twenty two bucks an hour. Wow,
So if you could prove that you can swim across
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the Rio Grande without drowning. Eric Adams has a twenty
two dollars an hour job plus bonus. And then and
then somebody says, well, I was a nurse. Okay, sure,
we'll make you a nurse.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
We do. We have shortages and all this.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Because there there's I see people in the streets, A
lot of people in the streets Americans standing around with
nothing to do, and they're filling their days shooting up.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
You know, maybe if we force them into getting off
the drugs and taking their mental illness pills, then they
could be filling these jobs. I guess, I guess teenagers
don't show up for these anymore. We're twenty too busy
on TikTok they don't want to work.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Yeah, I guess. I guess all the jobs that.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Me and my friends used to have as kids are
now filled mostly by in la by illegal aliens.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
And I guess you're right.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
I guess the kids a few years ago, as they
were playing video games all day and now it's it's uh,
it's TikTok.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Well it's supposed to be.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
I read that the average teenager is spending like from
five to seven hours a day on social media. Five
to seven hours a day. What a what a wasted, empty,
stupid life that is? That is just beyond sad. Why
are you even bothering to get up in the morning
if that's all you're gonna do all day stare at
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a screen and scroll? What what's the purpose? Well do
you get do you get the screen reports on your phone?
What does that mean? The screen reports where it shows
your screen time? I guess you could look that up, right?
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Yeah? Yeah, why you want me to?
Speaker 2 (15:04):
It's not very much, well no, but it's just it's
amazing to see what people's screen times are these days.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Yeah, it's supposed to be five six seven hours a day. Yeah,
I mean, that's that's embarrassing. If I I mean, I
have screen time on the iPad, but I'm doing work right,
I'm reading all the news sites. But on a day
where I'm not doing that, what why would you? I mean,
the sun is out, it's warm here, there's people out
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there to talk to.
Speaker 6 (15:32):
You want to post a picture and get likes.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
For seven hours? You're right? I don't. Yeah, I've been
posting much lately.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
I posted a bunch.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
Over the weekend. Did you you didn't see anything I posted?
Not a bunch on Mother's Day?
Speaker 1 (15:49):
I did?
Speaker 2 (15:51):
No, I don't know. I think somehow they disconnected me
from you. They disconnected my feed from your posts. They
show you the picture.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
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Speaker 2 (16:08):
You want to take a brief moment to set up
what we're going to do in a half an hour
at three o'clock. Chris Legras, who we've had on many times.
He's a writer, and he and another writer, Jamie Page,
wrote a piece for the West Side Current, and you
really ought to read this. It's a story about how
the city of Los Angeles spent eight hundred million dollars
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eight hundred million dollars to create homeless apartments and to
buy apartments and motel and hotel rooms. And this came,
you know, a lot of tax funding obviously. And he
says they they bought. He says, they went to a
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neighborhood on West Florence Avenue in South la This is
not far from where the Rodney King riots broke out
and the boulevard never came back. It's never a good
idea to riot in your own neighborhood. You'll destroy the neighborhood,
and thirty five years later, it's still going to be destroyed.
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The few businesses consist of liquor stores, marijuana dispensaries, fast
food franchises, and auto body shops. The area's median income
is thirty five percent below the city as a whole.
But they bought a luxury apartment building for the homeless.
They spent fifty million dollars on that single building. It
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was by far the highest sale price in the neighborhood's history.
So what's going on here? In fact, they have spent
one hundred million dollars on a buying spree. There are
now twelve hundred homeless housing units that the city owns
that are vacant still two years after the buying spree.
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This is the massive corruption in Karen Bass's Los Angeles.
Twelve hundred housing units vacant after spending eight hundred million
dollars of your tax money. And they spent fifty million
on a building on Florence. It's after three o'clock. We're
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going to tell you about that. Now, speaking of blown money,
we have very little media in the state that confronts
the thieves and the morons and Sacramento and I think
we're it. Newsom has been on the defensive for several
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weeks because the state auditor said, hey, you spend twenty
four billion dollars over the last six years on homeless stuff.
And the problem's worse. What's going on? How is the
money spent? And this guy did the audit and there's
apparently no record where the money was spent. And they're
now the legislator sure is really holding unpleasant hearings and
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they're asking these bureaucrats what happened to the money, and
the bureaucrats are coming up to the microphone said I
really don't know, but it won't happen again. So now
Newsom is his budget is busted. Right, it's tens of
billions of dollars in the red, and he's got to
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start cutting. And he starts cutting, and all the parasites
starts squealing because they don't want the budget cuts. He
has a press conference and he's asked about the homeless
money by a woman named Angela Hart of something called
KFF Health News. I think it's got something to do
with Kaiser. I never heard of this, but you know,
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this is the thing. I'd like to quote, you know,
the La Times or the San Francisco Chronicle, or the
you know, all the TV stations we have, but no, none.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Of them cover this stuff anymore.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
All right, So we're gonna go with Angela Heart of
KFF Health News, and she questions Newsome about where all
the money went and whether he's worried that people are
not going to have an appetite for any more homeless
spending because twenty four billion dollars is blown. Now, I'm
going to ask you to endure about two minutes of
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Newsome not answering the question. But it's always entertaining to
hear him do his battling routine when he wants to
avoid answering and telling the truth, so play tight.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Number three, do.
Speaker 7 (20:32):
You acknowledge, Governor, is your administration doing enough to determine
whether the money that's being plowed into homelessness is being
well spent? And do you worry I'm curious, do you
worry that the appetite is souring among the public for
spending more given the lack of progress that's happening.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
I appreciate the.
Speaker 8 (20:52):
Question in the frame. It's the right question to what
I ask myself all the time.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
And the phrase you know from the audit.
Speaker 8 (20:59):
One of the VECs issues that was highlighting the audit
was local appropriations, local data collection, and it's difficult at
the stay level.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
I say it often.
Speaker 8 (21:11):
Localism's determinative, and each city and county has different strategies
and approaches. We've tried to level set that to your
Sub's a good question about doing enough. As you know,
a few years ago, we required accountability plans before we
submitted at least one of the discretionary portions the HAVE
program to cities and counties and ccs.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
I rejected the.
Speaker 8 (21:33):
First plans because I didn't think there was enough transparency
and accountability and ambition. We supported the last plans. I
also acknowledged that we need to do more not just
in the homeless bucket, but also the mental health slash
almost's bucket. That's why Proposition one had subsequent reforms as
it relates to requirement by July of twenty twenty six
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to have one single plan for all funding sources for
mental health local level, with more transparency, auditing and oversight
again of the local spend, so that audit didn't surprise
me in the least quite the contrary.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Also Third, and.
Speaker 8 (22:13):
This is really important until you know this well, but
for others perhaps don't. We also promoted and I couldn't
be more proud of Member Ward introducing just a few
days ago the proposal to take the framework of our
Housing Accountability Unit, which by the way is unlocked twenty
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three thousand housing units in the state. I'm really proud
of their work and to connect a homeless component into
that accountability framework, which I think is deeply in the
spirit of the gist of what the audit was the
least showcasing, and so that's another tool we hope we
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were able to have site You're races it in the
next few weeks.
Speaker 7 (23:02):
I'm sorry, Grevnor I didn't hear responses to either of
those questions about whether this is state money. Ultimately, I
understand it goes to the counties, but do you acknowledge
whether the money that the state isn't doing enough to
ensure that the money is being well spent. I also
didn't hear a response to whether you think that there's
any I mean, it's the public appetite. Do you think
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I'm hearing this like souring towards putting more money into
the credit? I didn't hear responses to either of those.
Speaker 8 (23:29):
Well, and forgive me, I'll if I appear to repeat
the first sponsor. The audit did not surprise me.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Well, Agela Hart.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
I don't know who she is or what KFF Health
News is, but she did what nobody else has done
in the last six years, just stop newsom basically say,
I didn't hear an answer there. He talked for two
minutes and it was just gibberish. It was jargon and
gibberish and nonsense. How does he do that?
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Actually? Sitting back and it's kind of marveling.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
He just keeps going and going with more words, more
complicated phrasing, meander. I mean, I can't do that. I've
never heard anybody able to do that, and it adds
up to absolutely nothing. At the end, he's all satisfied
with himself, and.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
When she.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Restates the question again, his only response is, well.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
You know, I'm just gonna repeair what it just said.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
He's Look, this is really insane. It's twenty four billion
dollars and it's missing. It's twenty four billion dollars missing.
Speaker 8 (24:46):
The audit did not surprise me.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
So he knows over the six year period that there
are billions going out the door and not accounted for
in any way, and nothing helped the homeless situation. He
knows this. It didn't surprise him. Then he on any
given day, if you'd asked him, it's like, oh, yeah,
we spend twenty four billion dollars. No, I don't know
where it is, and no, it didn't make anything better.
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That was the gist of the audit. No one knows
where the money is and it didn't make anything better.
And he said it didn't surprise him. So what's he
been doing the last six years? What they really don't care?
I mean, they really don't care. After three o'clock we'll
hear the mini version of what's going on in LA
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where they blown eight hundred million dollars buying up buildings.
They have twelve hundred city owned homeless housing units in
LA and they're vacant after spending eight hundred million dollars. Oh,
and there's a hepatitis outbreak among the homeless.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Two we'll get to. It's it's a great day.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Coming up after three o'clock. We're going to talk to
Chrys Lagrath. He's a writer we've had on a number
of times. He's got a piece. It's quite an investigation
in the West Side Current. You can go to Westside
Current dot com. And it's about the city of LA
spending eight hundred million dollars buying up buildings that they
were supposed to be homeless in. Looks like they're wildly
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overpaying for a lot of rundown buildings and now they
have twelve hundred homeless housing units and two years later
they're vacant after the eight hundred million dollar buying spree.
And if you go through this article, it's absolutely infuriating
and shocking, and I mean, we've created this monster of
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a homeless bureaucracy that is gobbling up billions of dollars,
and there's no accounting for the money, and nobody's hardly
anybody's been helped. You heard clueless Newsom stumbling through his
answer in that press conference last segment. Order asked, hey,
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twenty four billion dollars, blown, says the audit, and Newsom
started spewing verbal diarrhea for two minutes, and she said
in response, I didn't hear an answer there.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Nobody has any answers.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
If you'd seen some of the testimony before the legislature,
some of Newsom's lieutenants were asked by the legislature what
happened to all the money?
Speaker 1 (27:25):
They didn't have an inn.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Literally, nobody knows what happened to the twenty four billion.
And here in Los Angeles, nobody knows how you spend
eight hundred million dollars and you have twelve hundred housing
units vacant after two years.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
What a racket? What a scam? This is?
Speaker 2 (27:42):
This is criminal activity, This is organized crime. The mob
in New York City would be ashamed of this operation. Anyway,
we're going to talk with crys La grog meantime back
on the street. The La County Department of Public Health,
you know the ones who shut down your lives for
several years. Well, here's a gift from the homeless in
the streets, an outbreak of hepatitis A. They detected the
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first case in mid March, and now it's spread to
at least five people, and I'm sure it's a lot
more than that. You know how you catch hepatitis A.
Hope you're not having lunch. It's a highly contagious liver
infection that spreads even before you're sick, and it spreads
through the stool and blood of infected people. And homeless
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people get it a lot because according to oh oh,
this is CBS, this is channel channel two and nine.
Doctor say, listen to this PC garbage. Why are all
the newswriters use this idiot this idiotic language, doctor say,
the unhoused. The unhoused, they're vagrants, they're mentally ill, and
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they're drug addicts. The unhoused, Oh, if we put a
house over their head, magically things would be better. They're
at a high risk of contracting hepatitis A because they
typically have limited access to hand washing stations.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
And toilets. So what are they saying.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
They have poop all over their hands, and then they
stick their hands in their mouth and they catch the
hepatitis from their own poop. And then they shake the
hand of another homeless guy who puts his hand in
his mouth, and now he's got the hepatitis. And they're
touching all the door knobs and door handles in the neighborhood.
Speaker 6 (29:40):
That's why you need the paper towel.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Yeah, now that's why.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
That's why you walk around those white b's and paper towels. So,
so this is because they don't have access to hand
washing stations. Oh, you mean a bathroom, sink and a toilet,
which you have when you work for a living, and
then you can either rent an apartment or buy a home.
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But why why don't the newswriters write because these people
have chosen to shoot up drugs or not take their
mental illness medication. Uh, they don't have a job, so
they don't have a washing station, a hand washing hand
washing station. Nobody has a hand washing station. We call
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them sinks in our house. Kids go to the hand
washing station and washing station. Does anybody speak English? And
he do some gibbering for three minutes. Nobody speaks English anymore.
Everything is euphemisms. All right, we come back. I can't
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wait to talk to Chrys Lagrath. Wait to hear this story.
Bet you want to read this story because it's it's
quite long. We'll only end up covering a you know,
a fraction of it. But the city has blown hundred
dreds of millions of dollars buying a lot of old
buildings apartments for the homeless, except they're sitting vacant after
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two years of eight hundred million spent.
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York and Derek Dennis from ABC News. This there in
the final days of the Trump trial and the last
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prosecution witness is Michael Cohen, Trump's former attorney, and he
got examined and cross examined today a lot intensely, and
Derek's gonna tell us about it.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
He was on the stand for many hours. Derek, how
are you hi there? I'm good.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
It was really an explosive day when you counted all
together with Trump's former fixer Michael Cohen on the stand.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
You mentioned.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
He was examined and then cross examined by Trump's defense
lawyers who grilled him and got him to admit that
he lies, that he has an axe to grind against
the president, that he wants to see him behind bars,
and that he turned against him. This is all part
of the defensive strategy to paint Michael Cohen as a
witness who's just not credible. He's a convicted fellon, after all,
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an admitted liar, spent thirteen months in prison for lying
to the Feds. And so that's the strategy, and it
seemed to have worked, at least according to court watchers
who are watching this grilling of Michael Cohen on the
stand this afternoon under the defensive questioning, getting him to
admit all sorts of things. But the bottom line Michael
(01:58):
Cohen says is that he was Trump's fixer, That there
was a payment that was orchestrated through Cohen to payoff
porn star Stormy Daniels because of an alleged affair, a
sexual encounter she had with Trump back in two thousand
and six. Trump wanted that story buried in advance of
the twenty sixteen election. He thought it would hurt him politically,
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prosecutors say, and that Trump falsified business records to cover
that payment up. And that's the crust of the case.
And that's why this trial is ongoing this week.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yeah, because Cohen was convicted lying to Congress, right, and
also lying by special counsel the federal government. So I
mean he's a he's a double liar on the record, Yeah, and.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
He admits to it. But Michael Cohen maintained that Trump
was the one who was orchestrating all this, that was
paying to kill stories, paid off the National Inquirer, paid
off Stormy Daniels, paid off Karen McDougall, a former Playboy
playmate that Trump is also accused of having an alleged
(03:08):
affair with. And so uh, as much as Cohen has
admitted to being a liar, he maintains, at least this
time and in this trial, that he's telling the truth.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Right.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Well, I mean, the payoffs did happen. Although the payoffs
themselves are not illegal, it's that that that the false
falsifying what what they wrote down in the Ledger and
the business Ledger, what the payments were for, although what
they wrote down was was legal expenses, right.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Right, And that's what Trump maintains that these were legitimate
legal expenses. That Michael Cohen was his lawyer, you know,
a lawyer who you know was paid a fee.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Yeah, because Colin Cohen fronted the money to Stormy Daniels
and then Trump paid Cohen back and wrote it down
as legal expenses. I mean, you can argue all day
whether they were should have legal expenses or not, but
it's in the ballpark.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Right, And Cohen maintains that that's where his relationship with
Trump's soured. It took a while, Cohen says, for Trump
to pay him back, and then while he was waiting
for payment, his year end bonus was cut by two thirds,
and so financially they fell out. And that all created
this animosity between Cohen and Trump that eventually caused Cohen
(04:29):
to turn against him and then being convicted of lying
to the Feds into Congress, going to prison for thirteen months.
All of that DEFENSI lawers have said has made Cohen
a very angry man, angry at Trump and wanting to
seek revenge. And that's why he's testifying so forcefully against
the former president in court.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
All right, So the original misdemeanor is falsifying the ledger
records by putting in legal expenses. But the real felonies
that would potentially get Trump in prison is that he
did it in order to influence the election by getting
this story buried in advance of the twenty sixteen election. Now, right,
was there much evidence in Cohen's story that was the
(05:12):
sole purpose to pay off Stormy Daniels is to have
an effect on the voting, Not.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
At all, according to court watchers. Many legal experts, including
ABC's own legal expert Brian Buckmeyer, have said that there
doesn't appear to be a smoking gun in terms of
the election interference part or in terms of the falsified
documents part. You know that legitimate legal expenses could be
(05:40):
claimed here, because after all, Cohen was Trump's lawyer, and
so yeah, not a lot of evidence. It seems like
the prosecutors is really pinning all of its case on
Michael Cohen, whether it's testimony is credible or not.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Because what I'm wondering, and I'm not asking you for
an answer on this, but I would think all candidates
running for anything want all their darkest secrets to be
covered up in some way or another. Nobody runs a
campaign and leads with all the terrible things they've done
in their life, all their worst days, all their mistakes
they made, every time that they were abusive to somebody.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Nobody would ever do that.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
So just simply withholding a bad story as election interference,
I just I can't.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
I don't get that.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Yeah, And that is why Trump's defense team is hammering
so forcefully against Michael Cohen, really trying to poke holes
in his story, poke holes in his credibility, so that
the prosecution really loses its case on Michael Cohen. We'll
have to see if that works or not. And I
should tell you court is dark on Wednesday and they're
(06:49):
off again on Friday, so we really only have another
day this week. So the trial really is expected to
go into next week before we get a redirect from
the prosecution and then presumably closing arguments.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
All right, Derek, thanks for coming on. Sure, Derek Dennis,
ABC News at the Trump Trial. I mean, I know
it's a political thing, right, but I'm trying to understand
this argument and if this would have any sway on jurors,
I mean, you certainly in New York City can have
twelve crazed, zealous anti Trump jurors, and it doesn't matter
(07:28):
what the case is, right, you get no j jury. Right,
you can get a group of people and they've got
some position in life where it doesn't matter what the
facts of the case are.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
And Trump is guilty.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
But I'm just examining the details here, not wanting a
bad story about your life to go public. Well, of course,
it's like when you go for a job interview, to
do you tell every bad day you had at work
At the last job, you tell about every argument you
had with the boss, every time you cut a corner.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Well, of course you don't.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
So is that somehow unethical that you don't show off
your your bad side? Is basically in an election campaign,
it's like a job interview. You know, you're trying to
put your case why you should be president, And of
course nobody's gonna Probably virtually every candidate for office had
an affair that they covered up one way or the other.
(08:22):
I'm just just astonished that this case was allowed into court.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
This should have been thrown out by the judge minute one.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
It really should. There's no crime here. There's no no
crime in hush money. Okay, so you brought off somebody's silence.
That's legal. We can all do that every day. And
then election interference because you don't want a bad story
to come out. Really, my god, I remember reading during
(08:51):
the Clinton years. Reporters would get whiffs of, you know,
the nonsense he was up to, and Clinton had a
whole staff that would call in and br I'll beat
editors and reporters not to follow up on those stories,
not to publish them. They were always denying the stories,
lying in their denials, and sometimes the newspapers and the
reporters would go along with it because they got intimidated.
(09:14):
Harvey Weinstein did that. Harvey Weinstein paid off newspapers with
movie advertising to keep his sexual attacks out of the papers.
It's not illegal to do that. It's tawdry, but it's
not illegal.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A
six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
We're gonna play you a clip by Eric Adams, the
mayor of New York. Adams has gotten overwhelmed by a
couple one hundred thousand illegal aliens, migrants running around everywhere,
and they don't all have a place to stay.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
There aren't jobs for them.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Some of them have been I have been attacking people,
They've been getting into fights amongst themselves. Some of them
have been assigned to schools and ball fields so that
the kids in New York can't play ball, they can't
use their sports facilities. They're getting pushed around out of
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their classrooms, you know, because the illegal aliens are at
the top of the hierarchy, and a lot of people,
especially those impoort neighborhoods, are really angry with the mayor
and angry with city government because now the illegal aliens
are getting all this money in all this space. So
Eric Adams is trying to figure out what to do
(10:41):
with them, and he'd like to hire them. There's a
shortage of lifeguards in New York City, and so he
wants to hire the illegal aliens. And we're gonna play
this clip and you'll see why he thinks they're good candidates.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
Let me just take your imagination for a moment. If
we had a migrant and asylum seeker plan that states
those jobs that we are in high demand, we could expedite.
How do we have a large body of people that
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are in our city and country that are excellent swimmers
and at the same time, we need lifeguards, and the
only obstacle is that we won't give them the right
to work to become a lifeguard. That just doesn't make sense.
But if we had a plan that say, you have
this shortage your food service workers and those who fit
(11:38):
the criteria, we're going to expect expedite you. If you
have the experience that you are a nurse, which you
have a nurse's shortage, and we would expect that expedite you.
And that's the same with lifeguards. So we have all
these eligible people waiting to work with the skills we
need to fill the jobs, but we're unable to allow
(12:00):
them to work because bureaucracy is in a way that's
just that just does not make sense.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
So they're qualified because they're excellent swimmers. Now, why would
Eric Adams think that the migrants are excellent swimmers? You
know why because of the ones that had to swim
across the Rio Grande River on the US Mexico border.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
He saw all those people swimming across and decided, well,
these people who know ad.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
To swim, they could be lifeguards. Apparently there's a there's
a severe shortage. The Deputy Mayor for Operations, someone named
Mira Joshi said that, you know, they'd have to pass
rigorous testing for positions ahead of the summer season this year,
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and it's twenty two dollars an hour plus one thousand
dollars bonus if you work through the peak season. They
need fifteen hundred because there's fourteen miles of beaches and
public pools scattered throughout the city. Twenty two bucks an hour. Wow,
So if you could prove that you can swim across
(13:11):
the Rio Grande without drowning. Eric Adams has a twenty
two dollars an hour job plus bonus. And then and
then somebody says, well, I was a nurse. Okay, sure,
we'll make you a nurse.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
We do. We have shortages and all this.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Because there there's I see people in the streets, A
lot of people in the streets Americans standing around with
nothing to do, and they're filling their days shooting up.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
You know, maybe if we force them into getting off
the drugs and taking their mental illness pills, then they
could be filling these jobs. I guess, I guess teenagers
don't show up for these anymore. We're twenty too busy
on TikTok they don't want to work.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Yeah, I guess. I guess all the jobs that.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Me and my friends used to have as kids are
now filled mostly by in la by illegal aliens.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
And I guess you're right.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
I guess the kids a few years ago, as they
were playing video games all day and now it's it's uh,
it's TikTok.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Well it's supposed to be.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
I read that the average teenager is spending like from
five to seven hours a day on social media. Five
to seven hours a day. What a what a wasted, empty,
stupid life that is? That is just beyond sad. Why
are you even bothering to get up in the morning
if that's all you're gonna do all day stare at
(14:45):
a screen and scroll? What what's the purpose? Well do
you get do you get the screen reports on your phone?
What does that mean? The screen reports where it shows
your screen time? I guess you could look that up, right?
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Yeah? Yeah, why you want me to?
Speaker 2 (15:04):
It's not very much, well no, but it's just it's
amazing to see what people's screen times are these days.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Yeah, it's supposed to be five six seven hours a day. Yeah,
I mean, that's that's embarrassing. If I I mean, I
have screen time on the iPad, but I'm doing work right,
I'm reading all the news sites. But on a day
where I'm not doing that, what why would you? I mean,
the sun is out, it's warm here, there's people out
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there to talk to.
Speaker 6 (15:32):
You want to post a picture and get likes.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
For seven hours? You're right? I don't. Yeah, I've been
posting much lately.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
I posted a bunch.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
Over the weekend. Did you you didn't see anything I posted?
Not a bunch on Mother's Day?
Speaker 1 (15:49):
I did?
Speaker 2 (15:51):
No, I don't know. I think somehow they disconnected me
from you. They disconnected my feed from your posts. They
show you the picture.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Go look, you're listening to John Cobels on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
You want to take a brief moment to set up
what we're going to do in a half an hour
at three o'clock. Chris Legras, who we've had on many times.
He's a writer, and he and another writer, Jamie Page,
wrote a piece for the West Side Current, and you
really ought to read this. It's a story about how
the city of Los Angeles spent eight hundred million dollars
(16:30):
eight hundred million dollars to create homeless apartments and to
buy apartments and motel and hotel rooms. And this came,
you know, a lot of tax funding obviously. And he
says they they bought. He says, they went to a
(16:51):
neighborhood on West Florence Avenue in South la This is
not far from where the Rodney King riots broke out
and the boulevard never came back. It's never a good
idea to riot in your own neighborhood. You'll destroy the neighborhood,
and thirty five years later, it's still going to be destroyed.
(17:12):
The few businesses consist of liquor stores, marijuana dispensaries, fast
food franchises, and auto body shops. The area's median income
is thirty five percent below the city as a whole.
But they bought a luxury apartment building for the homeless.
They spent fifty million dollars on that single building. It
(17:34):
was by far the highest sale price in the neighborhood's history.
So what's going on here? In fact, they have spent
one hundred million dollars on a buying spree. There are
now twelve hundred homeless housing units that the city owns
that are vacant still two years after the buying spree.
(17:55):
This is the massive corruption in Karen Bass's Los Angeles.
Twelve hundred housing units vacant after spending eight hundred million
dollars of your tax money. And they spent fifty million
on a building on Florence. It's after three o'clock. We're
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going to tell you about that. Now, speaking of blown money,
we have very little media in the state that confronts
the thieves and the morons and Sacramento and I think
we're it. Newsom has been on the defensive for several
(18:39):
weeks because the state auditor said, hey, you spend twenty
four billion dollars over the last six years on homeless stuff.
And the problem's worse. What's going on? How is the
money spent? And this guy did the audit and there's
apparently no record where the money was spent. And they're
now the legislator sure is really holding unpleasant hearings and
(19:03):
they're asking these bureaucrats what happened to the money, and
the bureaucrats are coming up to the microphone said I
really don't know, but it won't happen again. So now
Newsom is his budget is busted. Right, it's tens of
billions of dollars in the red, and he's got to
(19:23):
start cutting. And he starts cutting, and all the parasites
starts squealing because they don't want the budget cuts. He
has a press conference and he's asked about the homeless
money by a woman named Angela Hart of something called
KFF Health News. I think it's got something to do
with Kaiser. I never heard of this, but you know,
(19:46):
this is the thing. I'd like to quote, you know,
the La Times or the San Francisco Chronicle, or the
you know, all the TV stations we have, but no, none.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Of them cover this stuff anymore.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
All right, So we're gonna go with Angela Heart of
KFF Health News, and she questions Newsome about where all
the money went and whether he's worried that people are
not going to have an appetite for any more homeless
spending because twenty four billion dollars is blown. Now, I'm
going to ask you to endure about two minutes of
(20:19):
Newsome not answering the question. But it's always entertaining to
hear him do his battling routine when he wants to
avoid answering and telling the truth, so play tight.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Number three, do.
Speaker 7 (20:32):
You acknowledge, Governor, is your administration doing enough to determine
whether the money that's being plowed into homelessness is being
well spent? And do you worry I'm curious, do you
worry that the appetite is souring among the public for
spending more given the lack of progress that's happening.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
I appreciate the.
Speaker 8 (20:52):
Question in the frame. It's the right question to what
I ask myself all the time.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
And the phrase you know from the audit.
Speaker 8 (20:59):
One of the VECs issues that was highlighting the audit
was local appropriations, local data collection, and it's difficult at
the stay level.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
I say it often.
Speaker 8 (21:11):
Localism's determinative, and each city and county has different strategies
and approaches. We've tried to level set that to your
Sub's a good question about doing enough. As you know,
a few years ago, we required accountability plans before we
submitted at least one of the discretionary portions the HAVE
program to cities and counties and ccs.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
I rejected the.
Speaker 8 (21:33):
First plans because I didn't think there was enough transparency
and accountability and ambition. We supported the last plans. I
also acknowledged that we need to do more not just
in the homeless bucket, but also the mental health slash
almost's bucket. That's why Proposition one had subsequent reforms as
it relates to requirement by July of twenty twenty six
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to have one single plan for all funding sources for
mental health local level, with more transparency, auditing and oversight
again of the local spend, so that audit didn't surprise
me in the least quite the contrary.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Also Third, and.
Speaker 8 (22:13):
This is really important until you know this well, but
for others perhaps don't. We also promoted and I couldn't
be more proud of Member Ward introducing just a few
days ago the proposal to take the framework of our
Housing Accountability Unit, which by the way is unlocked twenty
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three thousand housing units in the state. I'm really proud
of their work and to connect a homeless component into
that accountability framework, which I think is deeply in the
spirit of the gist of what the audit was the
least showcasing, and so that's another tool we hope we
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were able to have site You're races it in the
next few weeks.
Speaker 7 (23:02):
I'm sorry, Grevnor I didn't hear responses to either of
those questions about whether this is state money. Ultimately, I
understand it goes to the counties, but do you acknowledge
whether the money that the state isn't doing enough to
ensure that the money is being well spent. I also
didn't hear a response to whether you think that there's
any I mean, it's the public appetite. Do you think
(23:23):
I'm hearing this like souring towards putting more money into
the credit? I didn't hear responses to either of those.
Speaker 8 (23:29):
Well, and forgive me, I'll if I appear to repeat
the first sponsor. The audit did not surprise me.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Well, Agela Hart.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
I don't know who she is or what KFF Health
News is, but she did what nobody else has done
in the last six years, just stop newsom basically say,
I didn't hear an answer there. He talked for two
minutes and it was just gibberish. It was jargon and
gibberish and nonsense. How does he do that?
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Actually? Sitting back and it's kind of marveling.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
He just keeps going and going with more words, more
complicated phrasing, meander. I mean, I can't do that. I've
never heard anybody able to do that, and it adds
up to absolutely nothing. At the end, he's all satisfied
with himself, and.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
When she.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Restates the question again, his only response is, well.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
You know, I'm just gonna repeair what it just said.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
He's Look, this is really insane. It's twenty four billion
dollars and it's missing. It's twenty four billion dollars missing.
Speaker 8 (24:46):
The audit did not surprise me.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
So he knows over the six year period that there
are billions going out the door and not accounted for
in any way, and nothing helped the homeless situation. He
knows this. It didn't surprise him. Then he on any
given day, if you'd asked him, it's like, oh, yeah,
we spend twenty four billion dollars. No, I don't know
where it is, and no, it didn't make anything better.
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That was the gist of the audit. No one knows
where the money is and it didn't make anything better.
And he said it didn't surprise him. So what's he
been doing the last six years? What they really don't care?
I mean, they really don't care. After three o'clock we'll
hear the mini version of what's going on in LA
(25:30):
where they blown eight hundred million dollars buying up buildings.
They have twelve hundred city owned homeless housing units in
LA and they're vacant after spending eight hundred million dollars. Oh,
and there's a hepatitis outbreak among the homeless.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Two we'll get to. It's it's a great day.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Coming up after three o'clock. We're going to talk to
Chrys Lagrath. He's a writer we've had on a number
of times. He's got a piece. It's quite an investigation
in the West Side Current. You can go to Westside
Current dot com. And it's about the city of LA
spending eight hundred million dollars buying up buildings that they
were supposed to be homeless in. Looks like they're wildly
(26:17):
overpaying for a lot of rundown buildings and now they
have twelve hundred homeless housing units and two years later
they're vacant after the eight hundred million dollar buying spree.
And if you go through this article, it's absolutely infuriating
and shocking, and I mean, we've created this monster of
(26:40):
a homeless bureaucracy that is gobbling up billions of dollars,
and there's no accounting for the money, and nobody's hardly
anybody's been helped. You heard clueless Newsom stumbling through his
answer in that press conference last segment. Order asked, hey,
(27:01):
twenty four billion dollars, blown, says the audit, and Newsom
started spewing verbal diarrhea for two minutes, and she said
in response, I didn't hear an answer there.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Nobody has any answers.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
If you'd seen some of the testimony before the legislature,
some of Newsom's lieutenants were asked by the legislature what
happened to all the money?
Speaker 1 (27:25):
They didn't have an inn.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Literally, nobody knows what happened to the twenty four billion.
And here in Los Angeles, nobody knows how you spend
eight hundred million dollars and you have twelve hundred housing
units vacant after two years.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
What a racket? What a scam? This is?
Speaker 2 (27:42):
This is criminal activity, This is organized crime. The mob
in New York City would be ashamed of this operation. Anyway,
we're going to talk with crys La grog meantime back
on the street. The La County Department of Public Health,
you know the ones who shut down your lives for
several years. Well, here's a gift from the homeless in
the streets, an outbreak of hepatitis A. They detected the
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first case in mid March, and now it's spread to
at least five people, and I'm sure it's a lot
more than that. You know how you catch hepatitis A.
Hope you're not having lunch. It's a highly contagious liver
infection that spreads even before you're sick, and it spreads
through the stool and blood of infected people. And homeless
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people get it a lot because according to oh oh,
this is CBS, this is channel channel two and nine.
Doctor say, listen to this PC garbage. Why are all
the newswriters use this idiot this idiotic language, doctor say,
the unhoused. The unhoused, they're vagrants, they're mentally ill, and
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they're drug addicts. The unhoused, Oh, if we put a
house over their head, magically things would be better. They're
at a high risk of contracting hepatitis A because they
typically have limited access to hand washing stations.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
And toilets. So what are they saying.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
They have poop all over their hands, and then they
stick their hands in their mouth and they catch the
hepatitis from their own poop. And then they shake the
hand of another homeless guy who puts his hand in
his mouth, and now he's got the hepatitis. And they're
touching all the door knobs and door handles in the neighborhood.
Speaker 6 (29:40):
That's why you need the paper towel.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Yeah, now that's why.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
That's why you walk around those white b's and paper towels. So,
so this is because they don't have access to hand
washing stations. Oh, you mean a bathroom, sink and a toilet,
which you have when you work for a living, and
then you can either rent an apartment or buy a home.
(30:05):
But why why don't the newswriters write because these people
have chosen to shoot up drugs or not take their
mental illness medication. Uh, they don't have a job, so
they don't have a washing station, a hand washing hand
washing station. Nobody has a hand washing station. We call
(30:27):
them sinks in our house. Kids go to the hand
washing station and washing station. Does anybody speak English? And
he do some gibbering for three minutes. Nobody speaks English anymore.
Everything is euphemisms. All right, we come back. I can't
(30:48):
wait to talk to Chrys Lagrath. Wait to hear this story.
Bet you want to read this story because it's it's
quite long. We'll only end up covering a you know,
a fraction of it. But the city has blown hundred
dreds of millions of dollars buying a lot of old
buildings apartments for the homeless, except they're sitting vacant after
(31:09):
two years of eight hundred million spent.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
That's next. Debor Mark Live in the CAFI twenty four
hour newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the John Cobalt
Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
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