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You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
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for exposing the secrets regarding the Palisades fire. Secrets that
are being leaked through text messages of LA firefighters and
secrets being leaked in a public letter by LA Fire
Department personnel as well. And I mean more, the new
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fire chief is angry at the media for reporting what
the firefighters are texting and what the firefighters are writing
in this letter. So we have the third straight zero
as a as a fire chief here in.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Bye I mean bass is.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
That has she appointed anybody who's any good at anything
in the three years she's been mayor.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
That's in the first hour.
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Now we've got more secrets, these secrets up in Sacramento,
the state capital. You may not know this, we covered it.
Some has built an annex or is building an annex
that's costing us, you and me a billion and a
half dollars in tax money a billion and a half,
which is triple the cost that was projected, and it
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may go a lot higher than that. We're going to
talk with Katie Grimes from californiaglobe dot com.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Katie, how are you doing well?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
John? Thank you for people.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Just hearing about this. What is this California State Capital Annex?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
What is this thing?
Speaker 3 (02:01):
So a big portion of the capitol has not the
old beautiful, you know, classic structure, but the part that
was built in the fifties where all the legislative offices
were in committee hearing rooms and kind of you know,
where all the sausages made, that part has been torn down.
This started in twenty twenty when California was under Gavin
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Newsom's strict lockdown and for some reason the governor and
the legislators decided, ooh, now would be a good time
to tear half of our capital down and rebuild it
and stick the cost to the taxpayers. So at the
time the and again I remember there were no committee
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hearings going on, media had no access to the governor.
Everything we ever did was on zoom, and so they
just jammed this through, got it approved and then announced
that the renovation would start and it would only be
five hundred and forty three point two million dollars to
quote renovate the building. Since then, it has ballooned to
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one point five or one point six billion that they're
even admitting, and that's been like the last couple of years.
They won't even tell us now. All of Media's California
Public Records Act requests have been denied. They have forced
everybody involved with the project, including lawmakers, to sign non
disclosure agreements. Clearly, there's a lot of information about this
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project that they don't want out, and I'm really questioning
how they're going to try to sell this to the
public after the fact.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Uh, they get to wait, they get to create a
wall of secrecy with non disclosure agreements when they're spending
a billion and a half dollars in tax money. I
don't understand that they're supposed to be all kinds there's
all kinds of laws that require all this business to
be done out in the open, and that since it's
our money, that we have every right to know what
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they're doing with it. So so, really a non disclosure
agreement forbids public information from being disseminated to the public.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
You know, John, you asked some very good questions, and
these are all things that would have to be answered
if the large media outlets in the state would get
together and file a lawsuit against the governor of the legislature,
the committee running this debacle. But they won't. I suspect
so many of them, says I've even talked with people, Oh,
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we don't want to lose our seat at the table,
and I hasten to remind them that if they're ignoring
your public records or quests, you don't have a seat
at the table.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Oh wait a second, are you talking about journalists? Are
you talking about media outlets? They don't want to lose
their seat at what table?
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Yeah, that's what I keep telling them. You don't have
a seat at the table.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
But what table? What are they looking for here? Yeah,
they're supposed to be outsiders. There's supposed to be skeptical
outsiders trying to pierce all this secrecy. That's their job. Well,
I don't understand what's being served at this table.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
No, John, what's being served at this table is a
lot of favoritism. A lot of the mainstream media in
California has just become kind of the official arm of
the Democrat supermajority. I mean, you read the same fawning
stories that I do. And unfortunately, in the meantime, the
governor and the legislature really violated the state's Open Meeting Act.
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They violated the state's Public Records Act. Who knows what
else they violated. I don't see how they can force
contractors and fellow lawmakers to adhere to non disclosure agreements
at all. But again, we won't know unless somebody files
a big old lawsuit.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Have you thought, is it a California globe capable of
filing the lawsuit?
Speaker 1 (05:56):
I know these things are.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Expensive, yeah, not by ourselves.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
So you need you need a major media outlet here.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
You really need. Actually, where the strength is that several
of the big media outlets get together and do this.
Then they you know, then you can't just have everybody
pointing fingers at one you. You know, you would have
the LA Times, the McClatchy, San Francisco, Chronicle San Diego
or any of the La LA media.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Group, and then the TV stations and then I mean
that they are all affiliates of the networks.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Yes, and I cleared this with an attorney who works
in and around the capitol. He said, yeah, the media
outlets would just get together. They could very easily do this.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
But they're afraid. They're afraid they're going to lose their
seat at the table.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Yeah. Wow, I've been told that too many times over
the years of it.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
But I mean, that's that's code for something. I mean,
they're these media outlets. First of all, they rarely publish
any stories on the California state government. What they what
they publish are glossy profiles of how wonderful Gavin Newsom is. Yeah,
there's one TV reporter because we play her clips all
the time, and I wish there was a second person.
I'd give the second person credit, but the only one
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that we can find is Casey r A Channel three
and Sacramento.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Ashley Zavala correct and she good.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Yeah, Well, she's got stuff almost every day, continuously posting
stuff on social media. She's the only one who's confrontational
and not afraid of Newsom or anybody else.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
And that's it. There's nobody else, No.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
There's nobody else. Unfortunately, because she has a TV crew
with her, they really can't duck her. The way they
can a print journalist or little of me who doesn't
even get called back half the time.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
But that she's one out of probably three or four
Sacramento TV stations. You must have a half a dozen
San Francisco stations, got half a dozen LA stations here
and then everybody in between. And nobody in this state
is interested in covering I mean, look, look at the
news some investigation into his administration. Now with the FBI,
there's a tremendous amount of corruption going on.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
There's a lot of there there and I you know,
we we scratch the surface with a California globe and
there's so much more. Well, it's yeah, and this, this,
this situation with the Capitol building project shows you that.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Uh, can you hang on for another segment because I
want to talk about the FBI, uh, apparently intercepting all
kinds of electronic communications of dozens of news administration officials.
By the way, I know you're a small operation there,
you do an incredible job.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
These days.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
We're using more your stories than any other news outlet
in the state.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Well, I know if you don't have a big staff,
but what you're doing is high quality.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Whatever you're putting out.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Uh, John, appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Katie Grimes, Californiaglobe dot com. That should be on your
list of must reads every day. We're going to continue
with Katie. Coming up.
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will twice play back all the uh, all the calls,
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well not all the calls, but the ones make the great.
We continue now with California Globe dot com Katie Grimes,
and now we're going to talk about the FBI. Sam
just a chronicle d this story. First, the FBI intercepted
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dozens of tronic communications of dozens of Sacramento insiders. And
it looks like hold on because I scrambled my my
my pages here, I guess it was all their phone calls,
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their emails, electronic communications of any kind. What do you
know about this?
Speaker 3 (10:31):
I probably don't know any more than you know at
this point, certainly nobody in the capitol talking, but this
looks very very serious to me. You know, if you
remember previous episodes in the California State Capitol, I remember
the Senator Lili with the rocket launcher sales, and there
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was a Senator Calderon with the bribery scheme. And boy,
when the FBI descends on the capitol, there's some there there.
So I don't think this is frivolous at all. And
I'll bet you this is like they've scattered this bignette
and they're going to probably pull in some big fish.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
It's all our phone calls, texts, all electronic communications. Dozens
of people in the newsub administration, dozens of other Sacramento insiders.
They all got FBI letters in the last few days
saying we have we already have the communications.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Right and yeah, that would be unnerving.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Now.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
You know.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
It starts with the corruption case involving the former chief
of staff Dean News and Dana Williamson and others, but
it seems like, as you just said, there's other scandals there.
There's other stories that the FBI wants to unravel. Is
that is that a fair assessment here that not all
of this is related to Dana Williamson.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Yeah, it sounds well even if it does during the
time period she was there, you know, I mean just
you can read what she's accused of doing and you know,
using her office to get the Attorney general to you know,
quickly flee a case with one of her clients and
stuff like that. That's that's bad, really bad. But the
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fact that they have notified so many newsome administration people, lobbyists,
people in the community that they have their communications is
that's huge. That is absolutely huge.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
And that whole crowd compulsively texts to each other and
they compulsively gossip to each other. So if everybody's text
and emails and phone calls have been have been collected
by the FBI, all kinds of bad behavior could be
exposed here.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
I think so. And again I think this is kind
of the the result of this Democrat supermajority running everything
in the state capital in the state. It is it's
a license to steal, and I think we're going to
find out just what the booty was.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
The range of dates for the communications that were intercepted
went from May of twenty twenty four to the end
of July of twenty twenty four. This is under the
Joe Biden administration that these intercepts were authorized. So this
has nothing to do with Trump. The original investigation and
the intercepts, right, and which.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Makes me laugh that his pr flax have been screaming
retaliation now. I think it also shows you that there,
despite our criticisms of the previous FBI director et cetera
and the top staff, there are really good, very serious
people working in the FBI and the DOJ, and they
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were doing their jobs in spite of a crappy administration.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
I'm surprised how little leaks out of the Newsom administration.
I mean, there's so much bad stuff going on. There's
so little media coverage except to lionize him as you know,
the next great hope to save America. But it's it's
so dirty, and yet hardly anybody talks and hardly anybody
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questions and pokes around.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Yeah, it's it's incredibly frustrating to me, you know, and
there is there is so much stirt there. I don't
you know, whether we're talking about Gavin Newsom's no bid
uh you know, one point four billion dollar mask deal
with byd that the Chinese bus company during COVID, or
his weird trip to China, or the miraculous cleanup of
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San Francisco for Chinese officials. Gavin Newsom has very, very
serious and very long time ties to China, going back
to his days as mayor. I would hope they're looking at.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
That too, all right, Katie, thank you for coming on.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Thank you, John.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Katie Grimes from californiglobe dot com. Definitely, I look at
it every day, one of the first places I go
to each morning, and again if you're just joining us.
Apparently dozens current and former members of Newsom's administration, dozens
of Sacramento insiders got a letter from the FBI recent
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days that their phone calls, texts, and other electronic communications
were intercepted as part of a federal corruption investigation starting
with Dana Williamson, Newsom's chief of staff. But odds are
they're finding all kinds of all kinds of dirt there.
They've got to. That place is so disgusting and dirty
(15:44):
and corrupt. It just can't go on forever. This way,
We'll continue.
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get information and entertainment from all of us here. Now
this is really you know, and the thing is smart
people knew this was coming. University of California, San Diego,
you see, San Diego released a report and this is
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really bad. They found that one out of eight incoming
freshmen do not meet middle school math standards. Middle school
is sixth seventh eighth grade, sixth seventh eighth grade, and
one out of eight freshmen forget twelfth, eleventh, tenth, and ninth.
(17:28):
They can only do what's a seventh graders are doing. Wait,
let me correct that they can't do what seventh graders
are doing.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
They do not meet middle school math scores.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
It's not that they have middle school math abilities, is
they can't even make that level. So now what are
we talking about? Fifth grade and lower? And you see
San Diego is a really good school, that's one of
the better ones in the UC system. Well, why are
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they admitting these people? Question number one? Why are they
admitting these people? Well, it looks like the university is
flying blind because according to the report you see, border
regents eliminated standardized tests, no more SAT or ACT, so
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there's no incentive to.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Learn this stuff. So you do well on the SAT.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
And they'll test for it anyway, and they're graduated anyway.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Can you imagine.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Graduating all these kids and they're getting into a really
good you see system college and they can't do sixth
grade math. That's now the bigger reason when they shut
down the schools during COVID up down the schools and
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it looks like, without a doubt, remote learning was a huge,
gigantic failure. And now five years later, these kids don't
even have fifth grade maths skills. And this is Gavin
Newsom and the Democratic legislature and the teachers' union, those maniacs,
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the maniac teachers. Do the teachers feel any shame? And
I'm not just saying the union leaders that's always the
cop out. No, no, teachers, are you ashamed of this
that you sent these people to college and they can't
even do sixth grade math? In Florida, they were only
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closed from March to June of twenty twenty. They sent
their kids back by the fall. A lot of states did.
There was no massive increase in COVID infections. California didn't
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let kids go back to school to September of twenty
twenty one, not twenty twenty. September of twenty twenty one was.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
A year and a half.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
And now look, this is permanent brain damage they suffered,
and it's been proven.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Now I knew this was going to take a little while.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
You're not gonna really this statistic here, according to this report,
and again this is from UC San Diego, the number
of freshmen at that college who did not meet middle
school middle school standards in math increased thirtyfold thirtyfold between
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twenty twenty and twenty twenty five, thirty times as many
kids now do not meet middle school math proficiency standards.
Freshmen at UC San Diego they're eighteen nineteen years old.
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I mean that is.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Six seven eight.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
That is seven years worth of education that didn't stick.
They didn't pick up any of the math skills that
you need in sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, and
twelfth grade. In fact, they're stuck in fifth grade or
before because of the COVID lockdown, because they stopped ACT
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and SAT testing, So there's no motivation for the kids
to learn.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
I don't read that.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
But there is a moron who runs are he's the
superintendent of public instruction. Name's Tony Thurman, State superintendent, and
he says, well.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Look at the high school graduation rates.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
By the way, Thurman is a complete moron, and he's
running for governor. He's got like one percent what he's
doing running the public school system. So here's what they did.
They stopped teaching math for a year and a half.
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They stopped the SAT and the ACT scores and the testing.
Kids learned nothing for at least the last seven years.
But they graduated them anyway. They graduated high school. They
applied to UC San Diego and got accepted. But they
don't know any math. Do you realize the era that
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we're entering here, the era of AI and they can't
do the math that an eleven or eleven year old
can do or should know.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
How to do. I said, not only, not only the
COVID lockdown.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Which should be the biggest stain on Gavin Newsom when
he starts actually competing. He should be hounded from here
to eternity for destroying the brains and the educational development
of literally millions of children with his idiotic lockdown. Why
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isn't that an unforgivable, mortal sin that he committed. Why
do the teachers' unions still exist?
Speaker 3 (23:50):
You know?
Speaker 2 (23:50):
I You know, in Florida you get eight thousand dollars
from the state and you get to pick what school
you want to go to. You mentioned if we all
got eight thousand dollars, I mean, the public school in
my district was such an abomination. I'd spent a fortune
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on private school. I was lucky I could afford it.
A lot of people can't. But in Florida have are
given people eight thousand dollars so that they're not stuck
with a really, really bad public school system.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
If I hear anybody carrying on, oh, the public school system,
it's a cornerstone of American.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Many of them, especially in the cities, are disasters. And
what you have here is psychopaths running our asylum, from
psychlopath Newsom to the cycle paths who run the LA
School district, the cyclopaths who run the teachers unions. How
can you have this? How can you have this where
thousands of kids don't even know don't know sixth grade math?
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One news outlet, another good one called the Center Square.
They called San Diego State. You see San Diego, u CLA, Berkeley,
Santa Barbara, Irvine and others. Nobody would respond with a
comment on this. Aren't they awful? People?
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Aren't they awful?
Speaker 2 (25:24):
What if I told you in twenty nineteen, it's like, hey,
next year they're going to concoct a plan between the
governor and the teachers unions and the legislature, and your
kids seven years from now will still be doing fifth
grade math when they enter at UC freshman year because
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of what Newsome and the teachers unions are going to
do to your kid basically create, basically cause permanent brain damage.
What would you've said, Well, that's what they did and
they got away with it. We're coming up.
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The UH Alex Stone is coming on right after three o'clock. Uh.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
The Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy UH wants people to start
behaving properly and dressing better when you go on airlines,
which I'm all for here because people are really disgusting
and smelly when they go on airlines. And I'm tired
of saying their their their shabby clothing, their their lack
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of body hygiene. It's really foul. And there's now a
video out and it looks like it's.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
The Transportation Secretary is going to go full board to
trying to people to uh behave themselves and to dress
more towards the way people used to dress uh airplanes.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
We'll talk about that coming up.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
I've you know, Jasmine Crockett is Jasmine Crockett is this
loud mouth Congress woman in Texas. She she's always shooting
off her mouth with a bunch of insults in anti Trump,
anti Republicans, you know, the whole routine. And she thought
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she had a real scoop here because she went online
and found out that Jeffrey Epstein or somebody named Jeffrey
Epstein donated a lot of money to a lot of
Republican candidates and Republican organizations. I'm going to play you
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this clip. It's debate on the House floor. This is
Jasmine Krott Crockett going after Republicans and she claims that
she found that Jeffrey Epstein had donated a lot lot
of money to various people. Apparently the House wanted to
censure a delegate named Stacy Plaskett, a Democrat, because she
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didn't sign on to the Epstein Files Discharge petition or
something or other. Apparently she was exchanging messages with Epstein
while Congress was in session. I just want to explain
who Plasket is. The real point of this is Crockett
play the clip.
Speaker 5 (28:30):
This is a distraction to take away from the fact
that the Guardians of Pedophiles is literally trying to protect pedophiles.
The President is a convicted FELA and an accused sex offender.
Stacy Plasket hasn't been accused of either.
Speaker 6 (28:44):
So what are we actually here talking about?
Speaker 5 (28:47):
Trump and Epstein were besties. We've all seen the pictures
of them. We saw the birthday book. So why are
y'all more interested in talking about Stacey Plaskett than Trump's
relationship with the man.
Speaker 6 (29:00):
When did y'all become so moral?
Speaker 5 (29:02):
Because I can remember when when y'all wouldn't sign the
discharge petition.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
All of a.
Speaker 5 (29:07):
Sudden, everybody wanted to vote for this, but you wouldn't
sign the discharge petition until we decide that we are
going to go after the actual rapists and pedophiles. Miss
me with your moral high ground, folks who also took
money from somebody named Jeffrey Epstein. As I had my
team dig in very quickly, met Romney, the NRCC, Lee Zelden,
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George Bush when read McCain, Palin Rick Lazio, I just
want to be clear, if this is the standard that
we gonna make, just know we gonna expose it all
and just know that the FEC filings.
Speaker 6 (29:47):
They are available for everybody to review.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
This is absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 6 (29:51):
You decide that you want to punish a sitting member.
Speaker 5 (29:54):
Of Congress because you are concerned about her text messages, Well,
maybe you should be more concerned about those sex takes
that we still haven't gotten access to.
Speaker 6 (30:03):
Maybe you should be more concerned.
Speaker 5 (30:04):
With the fact that the president his name is mentioned
in the files way more than Stacy Plaski's name.
Speaker 6 (30:11):
Listen.
Speaker 5 (30:11):
I'm not saying that anything is right or wrong, but listen,
if you're trying to figure out what goe all with
somebody that's a criminal, then you maybe need to talk
to their associates.
Speaker 6 (30:20):
That's exactly why maybe she was getting text messages.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
I'm not saying she was or wasn't, because are in
the fact that they were talking to another associate of
the presidents, and maybe she needed intel. You'd have to
go talk to somebody that maybe knows what he's.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Time has expired.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Wow, yeah, more than time has expired. I think I
lost fifty brain cells listening to that. Jasmine Crockett, all right,
you heard her list of people that she said took
money from, Jeffrey Epstein, Jim Garrity. Did a little digging,
It's likely all these people are other Jeffrey Epstein's. There's
nearly three hundred Jeffrey Epstein's around the United States. White
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Pages lists lists nineteen people named Jeffrey Epstein in New
York State and ninety three people across the United States,
and Rolling Stone says, there's three hundred of these people,
and God knows what these guys have to go through.
So those are likely other Jeffrey Epstein's who donated money
to these other politicians, Republican politicians. And by the way,
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Jasmine Crockett's going to run for senator. You think in
Texas they'd elect her as Senator Debor Mark is Off
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