May 20, 2025 • 34 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (05/20) - CA Democrats are not ruling out a new state tax to help pay for free healthcare for illegal immigrants. More on Jake Tapper defending former Pres. Biden's cognitive decline.
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Next hour. Todd strick I'm sorry. Tony Strickland is coming on.
He is the Republican state senator from Huntington Beach and
he's going to address the ten to fourteen billion extra
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dollars needed to fund high speed rail just to build Bakersfield.
To Merced, there's a lot of misleading headlines here. High
speed rail is short fourteen billion. No, it's short, well
over one hundred billion. They just want to finish Baker's
fieldmer said, And they're ten to fourteen billion short, and
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Newsom will not give up. I think the union heads
have pictures of Newsom with a goat or something, because
this is insane, but it's not the only insane thing
going on. It's not even the most expensive insane thing
going on. While they need ten billion to finish that
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stretch of high speed rail, they need twelve billion dollars
for illegal alien healthcare and Sacramento twelve billion of your
tax dollars. Look at your paycheck this week and look
how much California state tax comes out of your check,
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and there's twelve billion of these dollars that are going
for legal alien healthcare. Let me do like a quick rundown.
If you're not real familiar, you know the government, federal
government pays for Medicare. We all put into that right
and then when we get old and we retire after
sixty five that the government will pay a lot of
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our medical expenses. Now, poor people get Medicaid and that
comes out of general tax money. In California, Medicaid is
called medical and the way it works is US government
and the state government more or less split the cost.
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I'm simplifying this. However, the federal government does not cover
illegal alien health care. The federal government will only pay
for American citizens. I don't know about Green cardholders. But
American citizens get this and we should. Illegal aliens, in
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the eyes of the federal government under all administrations, have
never gotten Medicare. I'm sorry, you never gotten medical or medicaid. Okay,
illegal aliens don't get that. However, a few years ago
in California, they started incrementally giving illegal aliens health care.
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It started first with elderly illegal aliens. Then it was
little kids, then it was everybody. Everybody from cradle to grave,
birth to death. Everybody gets your tax money. But in
this case in California, medical one hundred percent is paid
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by the state because again the federal government says, no,
we are not covering people who broke the law and
came to this country illegally. They don't come here and
get a free healthcare ride. You know. You know how
difficult it is for a lot of people to get
medical care, how expensive it is. No, you know, But
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of course California stands by itself. Fifty states, forty nine
of them say no money for illegal aliens. Gavin Newsom
said yes, and the idiots in the legislature passed it,
and now we have over a million and a half
illegal aliens getting twelve billion dollars of free health care.
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You do know when they come over the border they
come here. Either they come straight up into California or
they make a left turn because you get free health
care here. And Newsom and the idiots, you know, I
told you the other day, three quarters of the people
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in this state who graduate high school are not proficient
in math, three quarters of them. And guaranteed they're all
in government. Guaranteed. They can't add, they can't subtract, multiply,
or divide, They can't count, obviously, So all these public
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school failures that populate the government now are shoveling out
twelve billion dollars. They thought it would cost half that,
which is bad enough, bad enough, it was supposed to
be six billion. They didn't count on all these legal
aliens coming and all of them apply. Well, who wouldn't,
Who wouldn't come for free healthcare? Who wouldn't apply? See
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these forms they can fill out. So Newsom is now
backed into a corner because state's broke. We have a
budget over three hundred billion dollars. Fifteen years ago it
was one hundred billion. Now it's three hundred billion. A
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lot of money's going to legal alliens in one form
or another. And now he's hit a wall. So he said, Okay,
this year, since we're broke, we're not taking any new
illegal aliens, and the old ones on the medical program
have to cough up one hundred dollars a month. Well,
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all holy hell is broken loose in Sacramento because now
the Democratic Legislative Latino Caucus is demanding, demanding that their
illegal aliens, all of them, should get full healthcare paid for.
And they're willing to raise taxes. Yes, the Legislative Latino
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Caucus wants to raise taxes on you. Here's a report
from again the only reporter covering Sacramento and the legislature
and newsom. This is NBC Sacramento KCRA Channel three, Ashley Zavala.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Well, a new tax cuts to other state services. These
are things that are now being talked about here at
the state capitol as some lawmakers try to continue providing
healthcare to undocumented people at the scale that California has been.
As we've been reporting, state leaders ended up spending a
lot more money than they thought they would on this
program this year alone to cover one point six million
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undocumented people. California taxpayers are spending about eleven billion dollars.
The state next year is expecting to spend even more.
To address that, the governor proposed capping the program no
longer allowing undocumented adults to sign up starting in twenty
twenty six, and for those who are already signed up,
the governor proposes a monthly one hundred dollars premium. This
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would not have an impact on kids. The issue is
that the federal government helps pay for Medicaid costs for
low income Californians. In fact, the federal government provides California
with more than half of those healthcare funds, but the
federal government will not reimburse the state for costs associated
with undocumented immigrants. The Democratic Latino Legislative Caucus held this
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press conference today blatantly rejecting the governor's proposal to make changes.
The caucus did not provide any specific solutions.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
They said everything should.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Be on the table, including a new tax to help
pay for those costs.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
We've got to assess everything we're saying. We've got to
be reasonable about this approach. We have to stop the
narrative on vilifying immigrants.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
The rhetoric.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
What they want you to believe is that our community
is at fault for the deficit in our state's budget,
but is not. What is happening year after year after
year is that entities, businesses are getting away with providing
a less than livable wage, or getting away with forcing
their employees to have a part time schedule, forcing them
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into our state's driven medical program.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Now, California this year also has a Republican Hispanic legislative caucus.
We checked in with members there, some who tell us
that the healthcare was a promise that the governor.
Speaker 7 (08:56):
Could not keep.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Assemblymen Josh Hoover is one of those members. Here's what
he had to say about a possible new tax that
the Democrats are floating.
Speaker 8 (09:05):
The idea that they would even consider a tax increase
to cover these services, I think just shows where California's
priorities are. We are the governor, to his credit, is
trying to be a little bit more responsible. We cannot
in good conscience continue to cover those programs while cutting
IHSS and cutting foster youth programs and all these other
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priorities in California.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Over the next month or so, this will be one of,
if not the biggest debate as California lawmakers and the
governor try to nail down the state spending plan for
the upcoming year.
Speaker 9 (09:39):
Federal lawmakers are still in the process of deciding possible
cuts to the Medicaid program. The result of that could
also impact how the state moves forward with healthcare for
undocumented people only.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
But that's Ashley Zavala, NBC Sacramento KCRA Channel three only
reporter in the state, the Sacramento Insanity, and it affects
all of us. I don't I don't understand why all
the television stations and the Allied Times don't have a
dedicated Sacramento reporter covering this, covering this, but they don't.
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So we're grateful that we can use Ashley Zavalla's reports
all the time so that you know what's going on here.
In her report, you may have heard a couple of
Latino Latino Caucus assembly women speaking out with this rhetoric
on how we are obligated to pay for legal alien healthcare.
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I want to focus on that when we come back.
I'll give you the names of these two assembly people
and we'll play we'll play that clip again. In fact, Eric,
if you could just isolate that area where the two
women spoke, the two assembly people, because these two are trouble.
One of them, I know for sure.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Is a nut.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
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Speaker 2 (11:00):
All right, last segment, we played you a TV report
from Ashley Zavala of KCRA Channel three and Sacramento, the
NBC affiliate, and it is about twelve billion dollars of
your tax money which was blown this year on illegal
aliens for healthcare issues. Specifically, they get free healthcare, free
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healthcare here in California that one hundred percent of it
is paid paid for by you, a state taxpayer. This
is Medicaid, and in fifty states the federal government splits
the cost of health care with the state, and Medicaid
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is for poor people. In California, they allocate a lot
of money just for illegal aliens, and the federal government says, no,
we're not using federal dollars on.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
That they're not citizens.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
And this goes back to every administration Trump, Biden, Obama,
Bush Clinton. No administration has ever paid for legal alien
health care. No other state does this because it's really
expensive and they don't deserve it. Because if there's money
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available tax This comes out of the general tax treasury.
We know there's a lot of things that are neglected
and screwed up in the state, and they always say, well,
you know, have the money. So now you have this
Latino Legislative Caucus, Democratic Legislative Latino Caucus. We're going to
play another clip from Ashley Zavala's story and the two
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women State Senator Lena Gonzalez from Long Beach and then
you have Carolina Men's Javar from Van nys So these
are two local women who are state senators and they're
making the case that you, the American California taxpayer, ought
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to be paying healthcare from birth to death for anybody
who wanders in from any country and ends up in California.
All the illegal aliens came from one hundred and seventy
different nations. They all deserve free healthcare that you were
supposed to pay for. Listen to these two lunatics again.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
We've got to assess everything we're saying. We've got to
be reasonable about this approach. We have to stop the
narrative on vilifying immigrants.
Speaker 6 (13:31):
The rhetoric. What they want you to believe is that
our community is at fault for the deficit in our
state's budget, but is not. What is happening, year after
year after year is that entities, businesses are getting away
with providing a less than livable wage, are getting away
with forcing their employees to have a part time schedule,
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forcing them into our state's driven medical program.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Well, that second woman is really a koop, isn't it.
I'll dress her first. This is Caroline to men Javar
from dan n van Nis. The rhetoric is that our
community is at fault for the state's deficit. Our community.
Who does she represent? Does she represent the American citizens
that pay her salary, that pay for her staff, her office,
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her office supplies, that pays for her car, pays for
her gas. Does she represent us? What is this our community?
What is she the representative from? I don't know, since
it's one hundred and seventy countries now that poort over
the border during the Biden years? Who is she representing? Specifically?
Speaker 5 (14:37):
Not us?
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Our community?
Speaker 2 (14:41):
She says, year after year entities and businesses are getting
away with providing less than a livable wage.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Then go home, go back to your home country.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Those businesses, those business owners are to be put in
jail for hiring illegal aliens. It's illegal to hire illegal aliens.
So you have one set of law breakers or aren't
paying enough money to the other set of law breakers,
and so we're required to step in with our tax money,
and you want more tax money.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Does she hear what she's saying.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
She's telling you that there are a set of business
owners who are paying cheap wages to set another set
of people who broke into the country illegally, and that
we're responsible to make up the difference and give the
illegals free health care.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
That's nuts.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
The business owners who are paying cheap wages, we're hiring
illegal aliens. They should be charged and the illegal aliens
should be deported. That's how it works in most other countries.
Nobody else does this, and nobody in any other state
gives a Maria Can tax money to illegal aliens for
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health care. No body doesn't exist.
Speaker 7 (16:05):
Now.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
The second woman was Lina Gonzalez No.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
That was the first woman in the clip play Lina
Gonzales part again, listen to this.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Sas everything we're saying. We've got to be reasonable about
this approach. We have to stop the narrative on vilifying immigrants.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Or stop it there. We've got to be reasonable about
this approach. You already have twelve billion dollars and now
you want more. You want to raise taxes on us.
You're reasonable.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
You're reasonable because eight million people broke the law over
the last four years, busting into the country illegally. A
lot of them came to California hand out, pay pay,
pay pay, Free healthcare for me, free health care for
my partner here, free healthcare for whatever kids. We've made free, free, free, free,
and you and I have to go work, work, work, work,
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And she wants us to be read all this. Lena Gonzalez,
another five star gold plated kook. We have to stop
the narrative on vilifying immigrants. No, they don't belong here,
they don't deserve free health care.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
I don't want to pay for it, and you're going
to increase taxes.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
We have the highest taxes in the country, highest income taxes,
highest sales taxes, highest gas taxes, and the property tax
revenue in this state is more than any other state,
even on a per capita basis, because real estate is
so expensive here and that's not enough. So you invite
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people from one hundred and seventy other countries, and we're
supposed to say, ashore, here's some more money. It's okay,
I'll work extra, you know what. I'll work on the weekend.
I don't need to see my kids, I don't need
to see my wife or husband. I'll work extra. Because
there's eight million people from US. We got a million
and a half people already, million and a half already
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here in California who are siphoning money from us with
this Medicaid program. That's stolen money. As far as I'm concerned,
they should have no legal right to it. I enough
is enough already. But you've got to wake up here
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because with the highest taxes and then inviting the whole
world to come in and get free healthcare and you're.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Paying for it. What kind of STUPIDO? Are you? All right?
Speaker 2 (18:34):
We come back? I can't get enough of this. I
also have a bit of a dilemma. But you know
Jake Tapper, who's a king bozo on c D. He
spent years frantically trying to cover up for Joe Biden's
health collapse. Then he switched sides and wrote what I
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understand is a pretty terrific book. Along with Alex Thompson,
and they uncovered a million secrets in the Biden White House.
So now he's hawking the book and Maigan Kelly as
a satellite talk show, and Kelly had Jake Tapper on,
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and Kelly went after him for spending years covering up
Biden's health problems and mocking anybody who questioned it. And
now suddenly, when there's millions of dollars at stake, it's like, oh, yeah, yeah,
he lost his mind. We'll play eclips from that. It's
pretty entertaining.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
So Jake Tapper was probably one of the premiere liars
and deflectors polishing Joe Biden's rear end all those years.
He's one of CNN's top anchors and hosts. In fact,
he moderated co moderated the debate between Trump and Biden
when Biden's brain fell out of his head, and for
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years he was trashing guests who appeared on his program.
Tapper went after Lara Trump, Donald Trump's daughter in law
when Lara started talking about Biden's fading cognitive issues, and
Jake Tapper insisted it was because Biden has a stutter.
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They thought Lara Trump was making fun of his stutter.
Total nonsense. And he also you might hear it here
in this montage. He goes after Dean Phillips, who is
a Democratic congressman, who is the only one who had
encourage to run against Biden in the primary because he
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saw what was obvious. And by the way, eighty percent
of the country saw it. In the polls, eighty percent
thought Biden wasn't fit anymore mentally or physically fit to
be preyed. So we're going to play a compilation of
Jake Tapper trying to cover up for Biden and lying
about it.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Let's play it.
Speaker 10 (21:09):
Last December, when he's promoting his book, he said, quote,
I am a gaff machine, but my god, what a
wonderful thing compared to a guy who can't tell the truth,
comparing himself to President Trump.
Speaker 7 (21:17):
And there is this.
Speaker 10 (21:18):
Overlay of, well, Joe Biden said this, but you know
what he meant, Look at what President Trump says, which
is horrific and in some cases racist or at least
racially tims.
Speaker 7 (21:27):
But I mean, he seemed to.
Speaker 10 (21:29):
Be suggesting that Joe Biden wasn't all there and had
forgotten something he had said. Given all the attacks coming
from the Trump campaign alleging all sorts of things about
Biden's mental acuity, his capability, fair or not, and frankly
hypocritical or not, what do you make of the fact
that so many of the criticisms that you're talking about,
the Russians are trying to do to make us and
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the public not trust our election integrity, the elections rigged.
Speaker 7 (21:54):
Joe Biden has to mention all.
Speaker 10 (21:56):
This stuff is stuff that we're hearing repeated by leaders,
by American political leaders.
Speaker 11 (22:01):
I think what we see on stage with Joe Biden
Jake is very clearly a cognitive decline. That's what I'm
referring to.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
It makes me unconscious, cognitive decline.
Speaker 11 (22:10):
You're trying to tell me that what I was suggesting
wasting his stutter?
Speaker 7 (22:15):
Yeah, I think you were mocking his stutter.
Speaker 10 (22:17):
And I think you have absolutely just standing to diagnose
somebody's cognitive decline. And he's sharp physically, I mean mentally, Yeah,
I think the question is physically right.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Right, All right, stop, we got we got the point
about stop. Okay, So that was lyarra Trump he was.
He was arguing with about the stutter. He's sharp mentally.
You heard him say that he's explained it on Russian disinformation.
That old oorial bit of nonsense.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Maidan Kelly, former Fox anchor, now has her own podcast
and radio showing serious XM. She had Jake Tapper on
and she went after Tapper, let's play cut number two.
Speaker 10 (23:01):
Knowing what I know now, obviously I feel tremendous humility
about my coverage that Laura Trump interviewed for example, etc.
She saw something, She saw something that I did not
see at.
Speaker 7 (23:16):
The time, one hundred percent.
Speaker 10 (23:18):
And I own that I did ask Joe Biden to
be transparent about his health records in an interview in
twenty twenty. I did ask him about the fact that
voters but then he was thought that he was not
transparent at all.
Speaker 11 (23:30):
Now, he promised you that he would be transparent about
his health records, and then he wasn't.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
And when you sat with him.
Speaker 11 (23:34):
Again at all, including one month, including one month after
the Jackie Willorski thing, you didn't ask him about it.
You didn't follow up on the fact that he was
falling up the stairs, that he was losing his train,
of thought regularly, that he was slurring, that he was incomprehensible,
that he was getting lost on the White House lawn.
You sat right across from him, and you asked none
of that, notwithstanding the fact that he had promised you
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he would be fully transparent about his health issues.
Speaker 7 (23:58):
That's true.
Speaker 10 (24:00):
But I did ask him about his age and the
fact that the American people had concluded that even though
he said whenever anybody brought up the subject of his age,
watched me, and I said, yes, they're watching you, and
they are concerned we're too old for this job.
Speaker 11 (24:14):
You know as well as I do that. There's a
way of you can say, hey, there's this poll on
your age, or you could say you just forgot that
Jackie Woolarski was dead.
Speaker 7 (24:26):
You asked where she was.
Speaker 11 (24:27):
Moments after watching a videotape tribute to her. You lowered
the flags at the White House after she died. This
happened thirteen days before you sat with him. There is
a way of pressing a man like that on the
actual infirmities, to bring it home to him and to
the audience. And you didn't do it.
Speaker 7 (24:47):
That's correct.
Speaker 10 (24:48):
I didn't, And like I said, I feel humility about
my coverage. I mean, it's not like I was asking
him his favorite movie or his favorite color. We were
talking about Putin, we were talking about other issues of
national importance. But yeah, I mean, of course I've said
I look back at my coverage with humility, and uh,
I wish I did cover the issues of age andcuity,
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but I wish I had covered them much more.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
But if you're if you're an objective reporter, why are
you looking back with humility?
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Why did you do so a bad job?
Speaker 7 (25:20):
So?
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Why did you do such a bad job? See Megan
Kelly when she was at Fox, and this didn't turn
out well for her, but she was willing at that
Republican debate with a pro Trump crowd yelling at her,
she went after Trump.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Remember the question she asked.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
About how badly Trump treats women, how badly he speaks
of women, And that's when he fired off the crack,
well only about Rosie O'Donnell, And uh, you know then
Trump villa fied her for weeks Fox, the Fox audience
vill fighter for weeks.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
But she had the guts to ask him.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
It wasn't wrong to ask him that question. He did
say all those things. She was afraid. Chick Tapper apparently
got the the testicle snip he had.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
No, he didn't have the balls to go after Joe Biden.
And why was that?
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Is he just a loyal Democratic public relations hack, not
an objective reporter. That's why his loyalties was with protecting Biden,
like most of the Democratic left wing journalists that have
overwhelmed the media, especially in Washington and New York.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
That's what it is. And he got caught.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
He got caught, and now he's trying to make millions
of dollars with this new book, and actually I want
to read it all about.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
I don't want to give him money.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
I don't want to reward him with, you know, twenty
five bucks or whatever the thing costs. But apparently he
and his co writer Alex Thompson really really got the
goods and they just have dozens and dozens and dozens.
Because that was the one thing I was wondering the
whole time I knew Biden was seen.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
I only knew that we were playing.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Biden's senility skits on the radio here for four years.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
I was wondering what's going on behind closed doors?
Speaker 2 (27:16):
And apparently Tapper got a lot of the stories, maybe
not all of them, but a lot of them. And now, yes,
I look at that time with humility, who wrote that
phrase for him? I've never heard anyone say that. You
ever heard any Have you ever been with somebody who
was caught in a mistake and saying, they don't say
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I sorry, I screwed up, I fed up, I'm sorry.
I don't know what was gotten into me, or they
tell you why, Hey, look I was paid off. Look
I my loyalties were with the White House.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Just say it.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Your loyalties were with the white because they all hated
Trump so deeply, which is fine, free country. You can
hate Trump, but when you're a reporter and anchor, an
interview host, you're some on. He was constantly insisting that
he plays it down the middle. He wasn't an opinion host.
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It's not like Sean Hannity. This guy was CNN supposedly
straight down the middle. He was lying, he was doing
public relations dirty work, got caught and now it's like, well,
look on the back on that with humility, What a wiener,
what a throbbing wiener.
Speaker 7 (28:29):
I just.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
All right, we got a couple more clips to play
between Megan Kelly and Jake Tapper.
Speaker 5 (28:33):
Coming up next, you're listening to John Cobels on demand
from KFI A six.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Let's work in another clip here where Megan Kelly, who
has a podcast and a satellite talk show, is grilling
Jake Tapper. He's the CNN anchor who helped cover up
Biden's cognitive decline, constantly swatting away and a guest who
criticized Biden. And here Megan presses Tapper on defending Biden.
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And this is where he brings up the exchange with
Lara Trump, the President's daughter in law.
Speaker 11 (29:10):
We'll start with the Laura Trump issue that you referred here.
It is this happened in twenty twenty.
Speaker 10 (29:14):
Joe Biden, as we all know, his work to overcome
a stutter. How do you think it makes little kids
with stutters feel when they see you make a comment
like that?
Speaker 11 (29:23):
First and foremost, I had no idea that Joe Biden
ever suffered from a stutter. I think what we see
on stage with Joe Biden Jake is very clearly a
cognitive decline.
Speaker 7 (29:34):
That's what I'm referring to.
Speaker 11 (29:35):
It makes me uncomfortable.
Speaker 7 (29:36):
You are, no, that's so amazing.
Speaker 11 (29:40):
You're trying to tell me that what I was suggesting
was you were.
Speaker 7 (29:43):
Mocking his stutter.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (29:45):
I think you were mocking his stutter. And I think
you have absolutely no standing to diagnose somebody's cognitive decline.
Speaker 11 (29:50):
And it's very concerning to a lot of people that
this could be the leader of the free world.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Okay, that is all I'm saying.
Speaker 11 (29:56):
I genuinely thank.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
You, Laura.
Speaker 8 (29:57):
Sorry for Joe.
Speaker 10 (29:58):
I appreciate it. I'm sure from a place of concern.
We all believe that Lara Trump, thank you so much.
Speaker 11 (30:03):
Do you want to apologize to Lara Trump?
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Now?
Speaker 7 (30:06):
I've already apologized to her. I called her months ago,
and what did she say.
Speaker 10 (30:10):
I mean, I don't want to disclose the contents of
a private conversation, but I thought the conversation went well,
and she said she has said this publicly, so I
feel fine of sharing it. She said that she would
never mock anybody's stutter. But I mean, you know, after
we did the research for this book and I realized
how bad his acuity issues were, Like I mean, I
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called Laura Trump and I said, you were you were right?
Speaker 2 (30:39):
She was totally right.
Speaker 11 (30:40):
That's the thing because when I watched that clip, and
I'm giving voice to what a lot of people watching
the show are feeling. Jake, I feel angry because she
was right, and not only did you not allow her
to make her comments, but you seem to try to
humiliate her. You had a hostility toward the position, but
she was totally right, and then you lecture her on
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how she was in no position to diagnose cognitive decline,
which you guys do at length, including on page four
of your book. You described at length his cognitive decline,
which is all she tried to do with you. But
you had such a visceral reaction to her, And my
feeling is that's because you didn't want to hear it.
Speaker 7 (31:21):
Now.
Speaker 10 (31:22):
I mean, if we can, I'm happy to talk about this.
I didn't come here thinking that you weren't going to
ask me about this. I'm happy to talk to you
about it.
Speaker 7 (31:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (31:28):
The first time I saw the coverage of Laura Trump's comments,
which were interpreted as her mocking Joe biden stutter, was
in January twenty twenty.
Speaker 7 (31:40):
I read it in conservative media. I read it in
the Daily Email.
Speaker 10 (31:43):
And that's where I saw that her comments were being
interpreted that way after those comments were publicized, it got
a lot of coverage, and Sully Sullenberger wrote an op
ed in The New York Times criticizing her about this.
So that's the context for that.
Speaker 7 (32:04):
That I was.
Speaker 10 (32:08):
Following up on a story that had been out there
months before. This is also in the context of October
twenty twenty, a very intense time. People on the Biden
side are saying crazy things about Trump. People on the
Trump side are saying crazy things about Biden, including Don
Junior suggesting that Joe Biden is a pedophile.
Speaker 7 (32:26):
So that is the larger context.
Speaker 10 (32:28):
But as I said, her comments have aged well, My
comments have aged poorly.
Speaker 7 (32:35):
I own that.
Speaker 10 (32:37):
But I think what is significant is, in addition to
me owning that, the reporting that Alex and I have done,
which is beyond just and I when I say just don't,
I don't mean to diminish it.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Now that I could make billions of dollars on a book.
He claims they talked to two hundred Democratic insiders and
many of them said, yeah, we covered it up because
we didn't want Trump to win. That was the uh
general message that Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson got from
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all those democratic insiders. It goes back to what I
keep telling you. Most of the people you see in
public life, certainly politicians, a lot of people in the media,
even the straight ahead journalists, a lot of corporate leaders.
They're lying to you all day and night. Except for
Michael Monks. He's straight an hour. He's are gonna find
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Tony Strickland is coming up right after two o'clock. He's
the state Senator from Huntington Beach because they're at least
ten billion dollars short of high speed rail money they
need just for that Bakersfield to Merced run. And we'll
talk to Tony Strickland next. Mister honest, mister truthfulness, mister integrity,
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Michael Monks live in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hey,
you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You
can always hear the show live on KFI AM six
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
We're on every day from one ton till four o'clock.
And I'm telling you, I know you can only stick
around for maybe a short while, maybe twenty thirty minutes.
But there's a lot of good stuff today. You're going
to want to listen to the podcast later tonight, John
Cobelt Show on demand on the iHeart app, and we
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posted shortly after four o'clock, so you can take it
all in on your schedule. Let's get right to it.
Next hour. Todd strick I'm sorry. Tony Strickland is coming on.
He is the Republican state senator from Huntington Beach and
he's going to address the ten to fourteen billion extra
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dollars needed to fund high speed rail just to build Bakersfield.
To Merced, there's a lot of misleading headlines here. High
speed rail is short fourteen billion. No, it's short, well
over one hundred billion. They just want to finish Baker's
fieldmer said, And they're ten to fourteen billion short, and
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Newsom will not give up. I think the union heads
have pictures of Newsom with a goat or something, because
this is insane, but it's not the only insane thing
going on. It's not even the most expensive insane thing
going on. While they need ten billion to finish that
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stretch of high speed rail, they need twelve billion dollars
for illegal alien healthcare and Sacramento twelve billion of your
tax dollars. Look at your paycheck this week and look
how much California state tax comes out of your check,
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and there's twelve billion of these dollars that are going
for legal alien healthcare. Let me do like a quick rundown.
If you're not real familiar, you know the government, federal
government pays for Medicare. We all put into that right
and then when we get old and we retire after
sixty five that the government will pay a lot of
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our medical expenses. Now, poor people get Medicaid and that
comes out of general tax money. In California, Medicaid is
called medical and the way it works is US government
and the state government more or less split the cost.
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I'm simplifying this. However, the federal government does not cover
illegal alien health care. The federal government will only pay
for American citizens. I don't know about Green cardholders. But
American citizens get this and we should. Illegal aliens, in
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the eyes of the federal government under all administrations, have
never gotten Medicare. I'm sorry, you never gotten medical or medicaid. Okay,
illegal aliens don't get that. However, a few years ago
in California, they started incrementally giving illegal aliens health care.
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It started first with elderly illegal aliens. Then it was
little kids, then it was everybody. Everybody from cradle to grave,
birth to death. Everybody gets your tax money. But in
this case in California, medical one hundred percent is paid
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by the state because again the federal government says, no,
we are not covering people who broke the law and
came to this country illegally. They don't come here and
get a free healthcare ride. You know. You know how
difficult it is for a lot of people to get
medical care, how expensive it is. No, you know, But
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of course California stands by itself. Fifty states, forty nine
of them say no money for illegal aliens. Gavin Newsom
said yes, and the idiots in the legislature passed it,
and now we have over a million and a half
illegal aliens getting twelve billion dollars of free health care.
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You do know when they come over the border they
come here. Either they come straight up into California or
they make a left turn because you get free health
care here. And Newsom and the idiots, you know, I
told you the other day, three quarters of the people
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in this state who graduate high school are not proficient
in math, three quarters of them. And guaranteed they're all
in government. Guaranteed. They can't add, they can't subtract, multiply,
or divide, They can't count, obviously, So all these public
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school failures that populate the government now are shoveling out
twelve billion dollars. They thought it would cost half that,
which is bad enough, bad enough, it was supposed to
be six billion. They didn't count on all these legal
aliens coming and all of them apply. Well, who wouldn't,
Who wouldn't come for free healthcare? Who wouldn't apply? See
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these forms they can fill out. So Newsom is now
backed into a corner because state's broke. We have a
budget over three hundred billion dollars. Fifteen years ago it
was one hundred billion. Now it's three hundred billion. A
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lot of money's going to legal alliens in one form
or another. And now he's hit a wall. So he said, Okay,
this year, since we're broke, we're not taking any new
illegal aliens, and the old ones on the medical program
have to cough up one hundred dollars a month. Well,
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all holy hell is broken loose in Sacramento because now
the Democratic Legislative Latino Caucus is demanding, demanding that their
illegal aliens, all of them, should get full healthcare paid for.
And they're willing to raise taxes. Yes, the Legislative Latino
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Caucus wants to raise taxes on you. Here's a report
from again the only reporter covering Sacramento and the legislature
and newsom. This is NBC Sacramento KCRA Channel three, Ashley Zavala.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Well, a new tax cuts to other state services. These
are things that are now being talked about here at
the state capitol as some lawmakers try to continue providing
healthcare to undocumented people at the scale that California has been.
As we've been reporting, state leaders ended up spending a
lot more money than they thought they would on this
program this year alone to cover one point six million
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undocumented people. California taxpayers are spending about eleven billion dollars.
The state next year is expecting to spend even more.
To address that, the governor proposed capping the program no
longer allowing undocumented adults to sign up starting in twenty
twenty six, and for those who are already signed up,
the governor proposes a monthly one hundred dollars premium. This
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would not have an impact on kids. The issue is
that the federal government helps pay for Medicaid costs for
low income Californians. In fact, the federal government provides California
with more than half of those healthcare funds, but the
federal government will not reimburse the state for costs associated
with undocumented immigrants. The Democratic Latino Legislative Caucus held this
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press conference today blatantly rejecting the governor's proposal to make changes.
The caucus did not provide any specific solutions.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
They said everything should.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Be on the table, including a new tax to help
pay for those costs.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
We've got to assess everything we're saying. We've got to
be reasonable about this approach. We have to stop the
narrative on vilifying immigrants.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
The rhetoric.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
What they want you to believe is that our community
is at fault for the deficit in our state's budget,
but is not. What is happening year after year after
year is that entities, businesses are getting away with providing
a less than livable wage, or getting away with forcing
their employees to have a part time schedule, forcing them
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into our state's driven medical program.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Now, California this year also has a Republican Hispanic legislative caucus.
We checked in with members there, some who tell us
that the healthcare was a promise that the governor.
Speaker 7 (08:56):
Could not keep.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Assemblymen Josh Hoover is one of those members. Here's what
he had to say about a possible new tax that
the Democrats are floating.
Speaker 8 (09:05):
The idea that they would even consider a tax increase
to cover these services, I think just shows where California's
priorities are. We are the governor, to his credit, is
trying to be a little bit more responsible. We cannot
in good conscience continue to cover those programs while cutting
IHSS and cutting foster youth programs and all these other
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priorities in California.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Over the next month or so, this will be one of,
if not the biggest debate as California lawmakers and the
governor try to nail down the state spending plan for
the upcoming year.
Speaker 9 (09:39):
Federal lawmakers are still in the process of deciding possible
cuts to the Medicaid program. The result of that could
also impact how the state moves forward with healthcare for
undocumented people only.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
But that's Ashley Zavala, NBC Sacramento KCRA Channel three only
reporter in the state, the Sacramento Insanity, and it affects
all of us. I don't I don't understand why all
the television stations and the Allied Times don't have a
dedicated Sacramento reporter covering this, covering this, but they don't.
(10:12):
So we're grateful that we can use Ashley Zavalla's reports
all the time so that you know what's going on here.
In her report, you may have heard a couple of
Latino Latino Caucus assembly women speaking out with this rhetoric
on how we are obligated to pay for legal alien healthcare.
(10:34):
I want to focus on that when we come back.
I'll give you the names of these two assembly people
and we'll play we'll play that clip again. In fact, Eric,
if you could just isolate that area where the two
women spoke, the two assembly people, because these two are trouble.
One of them, I know for sure.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Is a nut.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
All right, last segment, we played you a TV report
from Ashley Zavala of KCRA Channel three and Sacramento, the
NBC affiliate, and it is about twelve billion dollars of
your tax money which was blown this year on illegal
aliens for healthcare issues. Specifically, they get free healthcare, free
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healthcare here in California that one hundred percent of it
is paid paid for by you, a state taxpayer. This
is Medicaid, and in fifty states the federal government splits
the cost of health care with the state, and Medicaid
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is for poor people. In California, they allocate a lot
of money just for illegal aliens, and the federal government says, no,
we're not using federal dollars on.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
That they're not citizens.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
And this goes back to every administration Trump, Biden, Obama,
Bush Clinton. No administration has ever paid for legal alien
health care. No other state does this because it's really
expensive and they don't deserve it. Because if there's money
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available tax This comes out of the general tax treasury.
We know there's a lot of things that are neglected
and screwed up in the state, and they always say, well,
you know, have the money. So now you have this
Latino Legislative Caucus, Democratic Legislative Latino Caucus. We're going to
play another clip from Ashley Zavala's story and the two
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women State Senator Lena Gonzalez from Long Beach and then
you have Carolina Men's Javar from Van nys So these
are two local women who are state senators and they're
making the case that you, the American California taxpayer, ought
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to be paying healthcare from birth to death for anybody
who wanders in from any country and ends up in California.
All the illegal aliens came from one hundred and seventy
different nations. They all deserve free healthcare that you were
supposed to pay for. Listen to these two lunatics again.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
We've got to assess everything we're saying. We've got to
be reasonable about this approach. We have to stop the
narrative on vilifying immigrants.
Speaker 6 (13:31):
The rhetoric. What they want you to believe is that
our community is at fault for the deficit in our
state's budget, but is not. What is happening, year after
year after year is that entities, businesses are getting away
with providing a less than livable wage, are getting away
with forcing their employees to have a part time schedule,
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forcing them into our state's driven medical program.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Well, that second woman is really a koop, isn't it.
I'll dress her first. This is Caroline to men Javar
from dan n van Nis. The rhetoric is that our
community is at fault for the state's deficit. Our community.
Who does she represent? Does she represent the American citizens
that pay her salary, that pay for her staff, her office,
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her office supplies, that pays for her car, pays for
her gas. Does she represent us? What is this our community?
What is she the representative from? I don't know, since
it's one hundred and seventy countries now that poort over
the border during the Biden years? Who is she representing? Specifically?
Speaker 5 (14:37):
Not us?
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Our community?
Speaker 2 (14:41):
She says, year after year entities and businesses are getting
away with providing less than a livable wage.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Then go home, go back to your home country.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Those businesses, those business owners are to be put in
jail for hiring illegal aliens. It's illegal to hire illegal aliens.
So you have one set of law breakers or aren't
paying enough money to the other set of law breakers,
and so we're required to step in with our tax money,
and you want more tax money.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Does she hear what she's saying.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
She's telling you that there are a set of business
owners who are paying cheap wages to set another set
of people who broke into the country illegally, and that
we're responsible to make up the difference and give the
illegals free health care.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
That's nuts.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
The business owners who are paying cheap wages, we're hiring
illegal aliens. They should be charged and the illegal aliens
should be deported. That's how it works in most other countries.
Nobody else does this, and nobody in any other state
gives a Maria Can tax money to illegal aliens for
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health care. No body doesn't exist.
Speaker 7 (16:05):
Now.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
The second woman was Lina Gonzalez No.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
That was the first woman in the clip play Lina
Gonzales part again, listen to this.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Sas everything we're saying. We've got to be reasonable about
this approach. We have to stop the narrative on vilifying immigrants.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Or stop it there. We've got to be reasonable about
this approach. You already have twelve billion dollars and now
you want more. You want to raise taxes on us.
You're reasonable.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
You're reasonable because eight million people broke the law over
the last four years, busting into the country illegally. A
lot of them came to California hand out, pay pay,
pay pay, Free healthcare for me, free health care for
my partner here, free healthcare for whatever kids. We've made free, free, free, free,
and you and I have to go work, work, work, work,
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And she wants us to be read all this. Lena Gonzalez,
another five star gold plated kook. We have to stop
the narrative on vilifying immigrants. No, they don't belong here,
they don't deserve free health care.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
I don't want to pay for it, and you're going
to increase taxes.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
We have the highest taxes in the country, highest income taxes,
highest sales taxes, highest gas taxes, and the property tax
revenue in this state is more than any other state,
even on a per capita basis, because real estate is
so expensive here and that's not enough. So you invite
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people from one hundred and seventy other countries, and we're
supposed to say, ashore, here's some more money. It's okay,
I'll work extra, you know what. I'll work on the weekend.
I don't need to see my kids, I don't need
to see my wife or husband. I'll work extra. Because
there's eight million people from US. We got a million
and a half people already, million and a half already
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here in California who are siphoning money from us with
this Medicaid program. That's stolen money. As far as I'm concerned,
they should have no legal right to it. I enough
is enough already. But you've got to wake up here
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because with the highest taxes and then inviting the whole
world to come in and get free healthcare and you're.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Paying for it. What kind of STUPIDO? Are you? All right?
Speaker 2 (18:34):
We come back? I can't get enough of this. I
also have a bit of a dilemma. But you know
Jake Tapper, who's a king bozo on c D. He
spent years frantically trying to cover up for Joe Biden's
health collapse. Then he switched sides and wrote what I
(18:56):
understand is a pretty terrific book. Along with Alex Thompson,
and they uncovered a million secrets in the Biden White House.
So now he's hawking the book and Maigan Kelly as
a satellite talk show, and Kelly had Jake Tapper on,
(19:19):
and Kelly went after him for spending years covering up
Biden's health problems and mocking anybody who questioned it. And
now suddenly, when there's millions of dollars at stake, it's like, oh, yeah, yeah,
he lost his mind. We'll play eclips from that. It's
pretty entertaining.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
So Jake Tapper was probably one of the premiere liars
and deflectors polishing Joe Biden's rear end all those years.
He's one of CNN's top anchors and hosts. In fact,
he moderated co moderated the debate between Trump and Biden
when Biden's brain fell out of his head, and for
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years he was trashing guests who appeared on his program.
Tapper went after Lara Trump, Donald Trump's daughter in law
when Lara started talking about Biden's fading cognitive issues, and
Jake Tapper insisted it was because Biden has a stutter.
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They thought Lara Trump was making fun of his stutter.
Total nonsense. And he also you might hear it here
in this montage. He goes after Dean Phillips, who is
a Democratic congressman, who is the only one who had
encourage to run against Biden in the primary because he
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saw what was obvious. And by the way, eighty percent
of the country saw it. In the polls, eighty percent
thought Biden wasn't fit anymore mentally or physically fit to
be preyed. So we're going to play a compilation of
Jake Tapper trying to cover up for Biden and lying
about it.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Let's play it.
Speaker 10 (21:09):
Last December, when he's promoting his book, he said, quote,
I am a gaff machine, but my god, what a
wonderful thing compared to a guy who can't tell the truth,
comparing himself to President Trump.
Speaker 7 (21:17):
And there is this.
Speaker 10 (21:18):
Overlay of, well, Joe Biden said this, but you know
what he meant, Look at what President Trump says, which
is horrific and in some cases racist or at least
racially tims.
Speaker 7 (21:27):
But I mean, he seemed to.
Speaker 10 (21:29):
Be suggesting that Joe Biden wasn't all there and had
forgotten something he had said. Given all the attacks coming
from the Trump campaign alleging all sorts of things about
Biden's mental acuity, his capability, fair or not, and frankly
hypocritical or not, what do you make of the fact
that so many of the criticisms that you're talking about,
the Russians are trying to do to make us and
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the public not trust our election integrity, the elections rigged.
Speaker 7 (21:54):
Joe Biden has to mention all.
Speaker 10 (21:56):
This stuff is stuff that we're hearing repeated by leaders,
by American political leaders.
Speaker 11 (22:01):
I think what we see on stage with Joe Biden
Jake is very clearly a cognitive decline. That's what I'm
referring to.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
It makes me unconscious, cognitive decline.
Speaker 11 (22:10):
You're trying to tell me that what I was suggesting
wasting his stutter?
Speaker 7 (22:15):
Yeah, I think you were mocking his stutter.
Speaker 10 (22:17):
And I think you have absolutely just standing to diagnose
somebody's cognitive decline. And he's sharp physically, I mean mentally, Yeah,
I think the question is physically right.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Right, All right, stop, we got we got the point
about stop. Okay, So that was lyarra Trump he was.
He was arguing with about the stutter. He's sharp mentally.
You heard him say that he's explained it on Russian disinformation.
That old oorial bit of nonsense.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Maidan Kelly, former Fox anchor, now has her own podcast
and radio showing serious XM. She had Jake Tapper on
and she went after Tapper, let's play cut number two.
Speaker 10 (23:01):
Knowing what I know now, obviously I feel tremendous humility
about my coverage that Laura Trump interviewed for example, etc.
She saw something, She saw something that I did not
see at.
Speaker 7 (23:16):
The time, one hundred percent.
Speaker 10 (23:18):
And I own that I did ask Joe Biden to
be transparent about his health records in an interview in
twenty twenty. I did ask him about the fact that
voters but then he was thought that he was not
transparent at all.
Speaker 11 (23:30):
Now, he promised you that he would be transparent about
his health records, and then he wasn't.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
And when you sat with him.
Speaker 11 (23:34):
Again at all, including one month, including one month after
the Jackie Willorski thing, you didn't ask him about it.
You didn't follow up on the fact that he was
falling up the stairs, that he was losing his train,
of thought regularly, that he was slurring, that he was incomprehensible,
that he was getting lost on the White House lawn.
You sat right across from him, and you asked none
of that, notwithstanding the fact that he had promised you
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he would be fully transparent about his health issues.
Speaker 7 (23:58):
That's true.
Speaker 10 (24:00):
But I did ask him about his age and the
fact that the American people had concluded that even though
he said whenever anybody brought up the subject of his age,
watched me, and I said, yes, they're watching you, and
they are concerned we're too old for this job.
Speaker 11 (24:14):
You know as well as I do that. There's a
way of you can say, hey, there's this poll on
your age, or you could say you just forgot that
Jackie Woolarski was dead.
Speaker 7 (24:26):
You asked where she was.
Speaker 11 (24:27):
Moments after watching a videotape tribute to her. You lowered
the flags at the White House after she died. This
happened thirteen days before you sat with him. There is
a way of pressing a man like that on the
actual infirmities, to bring it home to him and to
the audience. And you didn't do it.
Speaker 7 (24:47):
That's correct.
Speaker 10 (24:48):
I didn't, And like I said, I feel humility about
my coverage. I mean, it's not like I was asking
him his favorite movie or his favorite color. We were
talking about Putin, we were talking about other issues of
national importance. But yeah, I mean, of course I've said
I look back at my coverage with humility, and uh,
I wish I did cover the issues of age andcuity,
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but I wish I had covered them much more.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
But if you're if you're an objective reporter, why are
you looking back with humility?
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Why did you do so a bad job?
Speaker 7 (25:20):
So?
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Why did you do such a bad job? See Megan
Kelly when she was at Fox, and this didn't turn
out well for her, but she was willing at that
Republican debate with a pro Trump crowd yelling at her,
she went after Trump.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Remember the question she asked.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
About how badly Trump treats women, how badly he speaks
of women, And that's when he fired off the crack,
well only about Rosie O'Donnell, And uh, you know then
Trump villa fied her for weeks Fox, the Fox audience
vill fighter for weeks.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
But she had the guts to ask him.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
It wasn't wrong to ask him that question. He did
say all those things. She was afraid. Chick Tapper apparently
got the the testicle snip he had.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
No, he didn't have the balls to go after Joe Biden.
And why was that?
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Is he just a loyal Democratic public relations hack, not
an objective reporter. That's why his loyalties was with protecting Biden,
like most of the Democratic left wing journalists that have
overwhelmed the media, especially in Washington and New York.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
That's what it is. And he got caught.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
He got caught, and now he's trying to make millions
of dollars with this new book, and actually I want
to read it all about.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
I don't want to give him money.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
I don't want to reward him with, you know, twenty
five bucks or whatever the thing costs. But apparently he
and his co writer Alex Thompson really really got the
goods and they just have dozens and dozens and dozens.
Because that was the one thing I was wondering the
whole time I knew Biden was seen.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
I only knew that we were playing.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Biden's senility skits on the radio here for four years.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
I was wondering what's going on behind closed doors?
Speaker 2 (27:16):
And apparently Tapper got a lot of the stories, maybe
not all of them, but a lot of them. And now, yes,
I look at that time with humility, who wrote that
phrase for him? I've never heard anyone say that. You
ever heard any Have you ever been with somebody who
was caught in a mistake and saying, they don't say
(27:37):
I sorry, I screwed up, I fed up, I'm sorry.
I don't know what was gotten into me, or they
tell you why, Hey, look I was paid off. Look
I my loyalties were with the White House.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Just say it.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Your loyalties were with the white because they all hated
Trump so deeply, which is fine, free country. You can
hate Trump, but when you're a reporter and anchor, an
interview host, you're some on. He was constantly insisting that
he plays it down the middle. He wasn't an opinion host.
(28:13):
It's not like Sean Hannity. This guy was CNN supposedly
straight down the middle. He was lying, he was doing
public relations dirty work, got caught and now it's like, well,
look on the back on that with humility, What a wiener,
what a throbbing wiener.
Speaker 7 (28:29):
I just.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
All right, we got a couple more clips to play
between Megan Kelly and Jake Tapper.
Speaker 5 (28:33):
Coming up next, you're listening to John Cobels on demand
from KFI A six.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Let's work in another clip here where Megan Kelly, who
has a podcast and a satellite talk show, is grilling
Jake Tapper. He's the CNN anchor who helped cover up
Biden's cognitive decline, constantly swatting away and a guest who
criticized Biden. And here Megan presses Tapper on defending Biden.
(29:05):
And this is where he brings up the exchange with
Lara Trump, the President's daughter in law.
Speaker 11 (29:10):
We'll start with the Laura Trump issue that you referred here.
It is this happened in twenty twenty.
Speaker 10 (29:14):
Joe Biden, as we all know, his work to overcome
a stutter. How do you think it makes little kids
with stutters feel when they see you make a comment
like that?
Speaker 11 (29:23):
First and foremost, I had no idea that Joe Biden
ever suffered from a stutter. I think what we see
on stage with Joe Biden Jake is very clearly a
cognitive decline.
Speaker 7 (29:34):
That's what I'm referring to.
Speaker 11 (29:35):
It makes me uncomfortable.
Speaker 7 (29:36):
You are, no, that's so amazing.
Speaker 11 (29:40):
You're trying to tell me that what I was suggesting
was you were.
Speaker 7 (29:43):
Mocking his stutter.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (29:45):
I think you were mocking his stutter. And I think
you have absolutely no standing to diagnose somebody's cognitive decline.
Speaker 11 (29:50):
And it's very concerning to a lot of people that
this could be the leader of the free world.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Okay, that is all I'm saying.
Speaker 11 (29:56):
I genuinely thank.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
You, Laura.
Speaker 8 (29:57):
Sorry for Joe.
Speaker 10 (29:58):
I appreciate it. I'm sure from a place of concern.
We all believe that Lara Trump, thank you so much.
Speaker 11 (30:03):
Do you want to apologize to Lara Trump?
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Now?
Speaker 7 (30:06):
I've already apologized to her. I called her months ago,
and what did she say.
Speaker 10 (30:10):
I mean, I don't want to disclose the contents of
a private conversation, but I thought the conversation went well,
and she said she has said this publicly, so I
feel fine of sharing it. She said that she would
never mock anybody's stutter. But I mean, you know, after
we did the research for this book and I realized
how bad his acuity issues were, Like I mean, I
(30:34):
called Laura Trump and I said, you were you were right?
Speaker 2 (30:39):
She was totally right.
Speaker 11 (30:40):
That's the thing because when I watched that clip, and
I'm giving voice to what a lot of people watching
the show are feeling. Jake, I feel angry because she
was right, and not only did you not allow her
to make her comments, but you seem to try to
humiliate her. You had a hostility toward the position, but
she was totally right, and then you lecture her on
(31:01):
how she was in no position to diagnose cognitive decline,
which you guys do at length, including on page four
of your book. You described at length his cognitive decline,
which is all she tried to do with you. But
you had such a visceral reaction to her, And my
feeling is that's because you didn't want to hear it.
Speaker 7 (31:21):
Now.
Speaker 10 (31:22):
I mean, if we can, I'm happy to talk about this.
I didn't come here thinking that you weren't going to
ask me about this. I'm happy to talk to you
about it.
Speaker 7 (31:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (31:28):
The first time I saw the coverage of Laura Trump's comments,
which were interpreted as her mocking Joe biden stutter, was
in January twenty twenty.
Speaker 7 (31:40):
I read it in conservative media. I read it in
the Daily Email.
Speaker 10 (31:43):
And that's where I saw that her comments were being
interpreted that way after those comments were publicized, it got
a lot of coverage, and Sully Sullenberger wrote an op
ed in The New York Times criticizing her about this.
So that's the context for that.
Speaker 7 (32:04):
That I was.
Speaker 10 (32:08):
Following up on a story that had been out there
months before. This is also in the context of October
twenty twenty, a very intense time. People on the Biden
side are saying crazy things about Trump. People on the
Trump side are saying crazy things about Biden, including Don
Junior suggesting that Joe Biden is a pedophile.
Speaker 7 (32:26):
So that is the larger context.
Speaker 10 (32:28):
But as I said, her comments have aged well, My
comments have aged poorly.
Speaker 7 (32:35):
I own that.
Speaker 10 (32:37):
But I think what is significant is, in addition to
me owning that, the reporting that Alex and I have done,
which is beyond just and I when I say just don't,
I don't mean to diminish it.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Now that I could make billions of dollars on a book.
He claims they talked to two hundred Democratic insiders and
many of them said, yeah, we covered it up because
we didn't want Trump to win. That was the uh
general message that Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson got from
(33:14):
all those democratic insiders. It goes back to what I
keep telling you. Most of the people you see in
public life, certainly politicians, a lot of people in the media,
even the straight ahead journalists, a lot of corporate leaders.
They're lying to you all day and night. Except for
Michael Monks. He's straight an hour. He's are gonna find
(33:38):
Tony Strickland is coming up right after two o'clock. He's
the state Senator from Huntington Beach because they're at least
ten billion dollars short of high speed rail money they
need just for that Bakersfield to Merced run. And we'll
talk to Tony Strickland next. Mister honest, mister truthfulness, mister integrity,
(34:03):
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