January 30, 2026 • 34 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (01/30) - Monks joins the show live from Downtown to discuss today’s walkouts and the protests taking place. Reports show that several protest organizations are being subsidized by millionaires living outside the country. The latest developments involving Don Lemon and the church protest.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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the same in terms of content. All right, there's there's
stuff happening as we speak downtown, So we're going to
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go right to this. This is some kind of national
shutdown has been called by all the whack jobs that
are part of the protest industry, and so today they're
expecting big crowds in LA and Orange Counties. It's supposed
to be a nationwide day of doing nothing.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
This one.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I mean, we've seen like lots of stupid protests, especially
the last five six years. This one, I am completely
baffled by. They want people to do nothing. Don't they
know it's Friday afternoon. Nobody shows up for work anymore
anyway on Friday afternoon, everybody always goes home. How are
you gonna tell the difference. Let's go to Michael Monks.
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He's in downtown LA what's going on.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Good afternoon, John. This crowd here outside of La City
Hall and between the City Building and Gloria Molina Park
on Spring Street has swelled from a few hundred about
an hour ago. I think there's clearly more than a thousand.
Are never good at gauging this just from this view,
but definitely more than a thousand people here in the
middle of the street as part of the national shutdown.
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You noted this is a day not necessarily where they
say to do nothing. They are calling them to do
something very specific, which is to come out here and protest.
The nothing part relates to no work, no school, and
no buying from the big businesses. That's why you've got
another protest no buying another part of the region outside
of a target store.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Oh, are they not going to have lunch or it's
limited no buying.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
It's unclear.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
I will say, you know, I drove from the fashion
district here in downtown LA to get over to the
City Building with this equipment this morning, and the immigrant
owned shops were opened.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I mean, those folks are at.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Work today, and that is our sight of many immigration
related enforcement efforts.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
The immigrants are wed this protest.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Yeah, that's a good argument for deporting some of the
Americans and keeping the immigrants who want to work.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
That's going to be my new issue.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
But this was motivated john more and more immediately by
the deaths of those two protesters in Minneapolis. So you
are seeing signage related to Renee Good and Alex s Pretty.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
You've also got.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Signage related to the man who was killed in Northridge
by an off duty federal agent. So there are a
lot of signs here calling for justice for those individuals.
Ice out of la is on these signs. A lot
of anti Trump sentiment here in this crowd is also
extremely young. If I had to guess, I'd say a
good chunk of this are the high school students who
left school today.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yeah, and I could see that all these subversive groups
have infiltrated most of the schools to quickly organize the
kid But high school kids will We'll walk out over anything.
They'll walk out because the hand sandwich tastes a little funky,
and they'll have a.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Protest engage in these protests.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Since the beginning of this they have protested the Trump
administration since the beginning of the school year.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
We saw some walkouts in the fall.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
But this is the largest immigration specific related protests that
I've seen in this part of southern California since June
when the enforcement actions really started to ramp up for
the first time. And now what seems like to me
is that with the tragedies that happened in Minneapolis as
well as with Keith Porter in Northridge, and those are
all under investigation, these folks are re energized to come
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out and confront immigration enforcement again.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Right, is there any immigration enforcement tending today? Are any
operations going on that the direct directly that's directly being affected.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Not clear because this is not near any of their facilities.
We do understand that there may be a gathering tonight
around seven o'clock on the other side of Temple Street
where we saw a lot of those protests in the summer.
Get a little, let's say, testier outside of that detention
facility where some illegal immigrants suspected illegal immigrants are being held,
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So that might happen. And then tomorrow the people who
brought you the No King's March are calling for people
to return to downtown Los Angeles for a rally tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
As well the No Kings March, and what did that
accomplish the No Kings march? I forget what was the
consequences besides not you.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Know, I don't know that there were consequences or actions.
But sometimes people just want to blow off steam. And
a lot of people did come down here to participate
in that movement earlier last summer. These people have a
lot of state the largest protests. It's America in twenty
twenty six. John, there's a lot of steam. Maybe that's
why so many people are overweight. They're filled with steam. Well,
(05:12):
that'd be an easy fix, I think if you just
give them a good squeeze. So why don't you go
out and start hugging people, John, pop them?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Uh yeah, I just wonder if they'd noticed that that
Trump administration is not backed off to porting people.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Well.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
I asked that of a councilwoman Monica Rodriguez, who I
interviewed a little while ago, and I'll bring some of
that sound to the studio soon. But I asked, I said, look,
if President Trump ran very openly on this message and
more than half the country said yeah, go for it,
and that's what's happening. So what are you hoping to
accomplish as a local government when you stand up to this,
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and what she says is there's checks and balances, and
she is of course correct about that. There's an executive branch,
let a slive branch, a judicial branch, and local governments
and all of that. So what they're doing is they
obviously don't agree with the immigration and Horseman effort.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
They're looking for any way they can to slow it down.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
All right, Michael Monks, thank you, my pleasure. Very good
Michael Monks for KFI. I have trouble talking about this stuff.
I find nearly all protests to be absolutely useless, and
I understand that their their magic on television because the
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the housebound audience that watches the news in the middle
of the day. If you wonder about the demographic to
watch TV news at, say, you know, one in the afternoon,
just look at the commercials. It's mostly diseases that you've
never heard of, and certainly diseases you don't want to catch,
mostly diseases related to advanced age. So this is I guess,
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entertainment for people trapped in nursing homes and they're not
able to get out of their wheelchairs to change the channel.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
So I mean it looks exciting.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
You have angry people and they're they're chanting and they're
waving their stupid signs. Sometimes you know, the chants are poetic, right,
they rhyme. Sometimes there's music. You always have one bozo
with a drum and you hear the boom boom boom
boom in the background, and that's that's always a good
time to listen to. But if you look at this
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stuff objectively, a colossal waste.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Of time in there.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
But I realized the people who are involved in this
have the it's not a waste of time to them
because they have nothing to do in their life.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
This gives the meaning.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
A lot of them are getting paid, so it's like
watching people at work. I find these incredibly boring. I mean,
unless you have real violence breaking out, then that gets exciting.
Right when they bring out the tear gas, they bring
out the UH less than lethal methods UH. And then
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when they start setting fires, like in June when they
when they UH protesters called up Waimo and summoned five
waymos downtown and all those were set on fire, and
then that's that's pretty colorful television. But otherwise it's a
stupid message. Ice is absolutely necessary. It's what Michael said,
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is like, that's what Trump ran on, ran on, and
by the way, he's got majority support to deport illegal aliens.
I you know this, this is the this is the
sliver of progressive activism that is like a plague. It's
like it's like, you know, you have a body like
you you're probably mostly healthy, but I don't know, something
bit you and it got infected and you're constantly having
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to treat the infection. And it's you know what, maybe
you got maybe you got a spider bite in your
leg or something, or a wasp bite, and it's like,
oh man, I got infected. And it's periodically there's puss
coming out and some flame.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Well that's what the that's this. This is the.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Pussy infection of American society. The stupid activists in their
protest movements, they amount to nothing. For all the protests
during the Trump era now, which is going on we're
in year eleven, imagine how many protests. I think we
were talking about this the other day, the first day
of the first few days that Trump after Trump was inaugurated,
(09:21):
I was in Washington, DC with my wife recovered for
the show. Here the Trump inauguration and as we're leaving town,
all the pink pussycat hats arrived. And that was January
twenty seventeen. That's nine years ago. So million women march
just like so what happened after that?
Speaker 5 (09:43):
It makes them feel like they're doing something. It makes
them feel that they're not.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
That they're not useless. They're usually useless.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
I'm saying when I talk to people about protesting, they
feel that if they keep their mouth shut on something
they feel strongly about, that's not a good thing.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
So they feel.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
That they need to talk about it, they need to protest,
they need to be with other people to feel the same.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Way about them.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
So it's public therapy sessions for people who feel impotent.
That's great. They have no effect on policy. I mean,
I can't think of Trump changing his policy at all
once in all these years. I mean maybe they, you know,
do a tweak on a strategy or a tactic if
something's not working or it's too much trouble, but in general,
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they're going to keep deporting. I forget what the pussy
Pussy had crowd was complaining about me Too movement. You
know that that kind of petered out too as well.
You don't hear much about that anymore. They got enough
innocent guys roped in or exaggerated charges that.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
That thing was.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
There were some guys that were total losers.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
There were some guys not all no, but yeah, I know,
but but you would think it was all guys all
the time from the way everybody was acting instead of
you know, the usual narrow You always have a narrow
sliver of people who are doing bad things, and you
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should you catch them and you put them away, like
Parvey Winstein, right, is gnarled up genitals. That's put them away. Epstein,
same thing, right, Fortunately he checked himself out. Maybe all right,
more coming up.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
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Speaker 2 (11:31):
All right, so Michael Monks is still downtown and anything
if any stupidity breaks out among these losers that are
clogging up traffic, I just have a question. Apparently there's
all kinds of closures downtown. When we went and covered
the the late the Rally and the Palisades a few
weeks ago, they let us burn. I was told that
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that organization had to pay thousands of dollars for a
permit in order to hold their demonstration. Now, did these
groups did they have to pay the city thousands of
dollars for a permit to block traffic at one o'clock
in the afternoon most normal people are working.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Or do they get a waiver.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Because Karen Bass supports subversive groups who screw up taxpayers'
normal workdays.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Yeah, another question.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
All right, here's what you need to know about all
these demonstrations. These things are staged, phony, organized mayhem. And
let me start off with this story from Fox News.
This is from their online operation Fox News Digital. They
talked to Andrew Tchikarski, make that Andrew Cherkoski, a former
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federal prosecutor, and he told Fox that there's undoubtedly a
lot of money behind agitators in Minneapolis, and very possibly
foreign money. One of the financial backers of these anti
Ice demonstrations is an advocate of the Chinese Communist Party.
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I think most people don't have one half of one
percent of the knowledge they should have about how much
the Chinese underwrite this rebellion in our country in order
to attempt to rot us out from the inside. The
way they send fentmil to this country so that we
end up with thousands of drug addicts dying in the
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streets here. They spend these Chinese Communist Party operatives spend
lots of money manipulating people's emotions on social media and
paying them to organize and agitate and cous mayhem in
the streets of the big cities. And that's what's going
on here. Fox News has found that several organizations who
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are the lead voices in mobilizing agitators, uh, play groups
I called the Party for Socialism and Liberation and the
People's Form. Well, both those organizations are largely subsidized by
an American, a former tech mogul named Neville Roy Singham.
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I've told you about these these weird tech guys who
made huge fortunes.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
They're they're in a particular subset of the business that
nobody really understands. But they made they made a big fortune,
they sold their company, and then they spend it trying
to undermine American capitalism, the American democracy are just our
whole system of civilized life. So we've got a we've
got one here, Neville Roy Singham. And this is according
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to various media reports and congressional investigations. Singham has been
investigat for decades, going back to the nineteen seventies. And
you may wonder, well, why isn't he in jail. I'll
explain that in a moment. A former federal prosecutor tells
Fox News Digital that he's moved to China, and by
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moving to China, it shields him from being subpoened by
US law enforcement. In the meantime, he's pumping vast amounts
of money to create these protest organizations, these these organizations
designed to cause trouble. Singham sold his IT consulting company
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nine years ago for seven hundred and eighty five million
dollars and moved to Shanghai. He was the focus of
a New York Times expose in twenty twenty three that
revealed his connections to the Chinese Communist Party and his
determination to finance extremist groups. To in bolden is radical ideology.
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So the Times exposed, this guy and his money goes
to the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the People's Forum,
and these are two of the main groups creating all
the mayhem in Minneapolis. In fact, the New York Times
said that Neville Royce Singham has funneled over a quarter
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of a billion dollars to organizations in the US. These
organizations have vague names, their office address is they're in
suspicious locations like ups mailboxes. He's seventy one years old
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and he shares his office space with a Chinese media
company called the Maku Group that is funded by Singham
and is associated with pro Chinese Communist Party propaganda. Their
mission is to tell China's story well. Investigations into his
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activities go back literally over fifty years when he was
in his early twenties, when he was flagged for being
engaged in activities that are oppositional to US interests. The
House Overside Community Oversight Committee launched an investigation into Singham
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for his involvement in the anti ice riots here in
Los Angeles, and one of the benefactors for the rioters,
according to the Oversight Committee, is Neville Roy. Singham say
he was paying for the trouble that we had in
Los Angeles last June, in addition to local Hispanic groups
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funded by taxpayers like Churla. But the big daddy here
is this guy and this is according to many different
media reports. Singham lives in China. He has a long
track record of assisting far left entities such as Code Pink.
You see those crazy people, usually women, who go busting
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into congressional hearings, screaming and yelling and carrying on Supreme
Court hearings and the like. And I go on and on.
It's a very very long story, but you should read
most of it. You should read the rest of it yourself.
So again, that's really what's going on. So when you
see the dopey local anchors of the dopey national anchors
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talking about all the unrest, you see the politicians saying, obviously,
the American people are fed up with this. No, most
Americans want ice, and ice is going to stay. It's
not going to go anywhere. Most of them want criminal
aliens to be deported. A majority want non criminal aliens
deported too. They don't like to see the mayhem. Then
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nobody wants to see people killed in the streets, and
so that's caused a temporary dampening of enthusiasm. But ultimately
it's what Trump was elected to do, and they're going
to continue to do it.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
They're just gonna be maybe a little cleaner about it.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
But both victims were part of these subversive groups and
the whole plan of the part of these groups is
to whip people up into a frenzy.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
To create extremely tense.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Chaotic situations, knowing that if we do this every day
in enough cities, one of the officers is going to
blow and fire a shot that he shouldn't fire, and
now they have a martyr, and now that re energizes
their movement. So everything's going according to plan and according
to script. None of it's genuine though. The only genuine
thing is they really want to do under They want
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under minor way of life and destroy our way of
conducting ourselves.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
As a nation.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
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Speaker 2 (19:59):
Keep an eye on downtown in LA where they have
over a thousand people gathering for these fake anti ice protests,
and we've just been explaining to you that based on
reporting by The New York Times and Fox News and others,
these protests in Minneapolis and in Los Angeles for the
past year have been funded in large part by one
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man named Neville Roy Singham, who made seven hundred and
eighty five million dollars in the IT industry, sold his company,
moved to China, and he is the one who funds
all these bizarre protest groups who create all the mayhem,
the Party for Socialism and Liberation for an example, the
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People's Forum for another example. And he works out of Shanghai,
and he does the dirty work for the Chinese government.
The Chinese government has done a lot of damage to
this country, not only unleashing COVID and lying about it,
but they also have sent in a tremendous amount of
fentanyl ingredients that were mixed in Mexico and then transported
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here and has killed, as you know, literally hundreds of
thousands of people. So we had hundreds of thousands, if
not millions die of COVID that they lied about, hundreds
of thousands that have died from sentinel poisoning. And now
they're trying to burn down the cities with these ice
protests that this guy, along with the Chinese Communist Party
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are funding. There was no question that they are. And
you should go read the New York Times articles about it,
and read the Fox News stories about it, and many
other publications as well. And so you know, we got
to Los Angeles. One of the first stories we got
some notoriety for Ken and I was covering the OJ trial.
And what triggered me about the OJ trial in the
very beginning is how everybody in the media was pretending that, well,
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we really don't know what happened. Did OJ do it? Well,
maybe he didn't do it. Maybe he could have heard
some of the other defense theories. Maybe it was maybe
it was a group of ninja fighters, remember those things,
And maybe it was OJ's son, or maybe maybe it
was this, maybe it was that. It's like, no, it
clearly it was Oj. So we were the only ones
you said every day, all day long. Uh, clearly this
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was OJ, obviously, But the rest of the news meetings
like what, we're trying to be objective here, we don't
really know for sure, and and uh, and and and
then you end up with that verdict. And that's where
I lost total faith in the whole system. I lost
faith in the whole media system, lost faith in the
whole jury system. The truth was evident, as evident as
the nose on your face, and yet everybody played pretend.
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And then when the verdict came out, people continued to
play pretend. But that's what the jury said, it looks
like you didn't do it. We got a situation here
similar in this way. Everybody in the media should know
that these that these protests are bankrolled by uh, very
wealthy people who have radical views, and they create these
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subversive organizations to create mayhem in the streets. Part of
the job is to go the ice officers into doing
what they did in the last few weeks in Minneapolis.
These protesters are goaded into being very aggressive. The aggressive
protesters go far enough to trigger something in a random
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cop boom, he shoots protesters dead, and now the place
is energized. Now these organizations are taking into even more donations.
Now they have more people who they're useful idiots. All
these people, of course, it's young people. It's young people
who feel hopeless. They feel empty in life. Why because
they spent their childhood staring at screens and scrolling and
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scrolling and scrolling on social media looking for the dopamine
hit of some likes theyded all. They of course they
have pointless, empty lives. And some of the old people
who showed up for the Nome King's rally, they're the
leftover hippies from the sixties and seventies who in the
excitement in their youth of their idiotic rallies that accomplished nothing.
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These are collections of losers, but they get their moment
another moment here breaking news CNN nationwide anti as protests.
Of course, when it was put up for a vote,
Trump won easily and getting deporting people wins easily in
the polls. Had a couple of bad incidents, and if
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the cops screwed up, then the cops ought to go
to prison, like Derek Schauvin did for the George Floyd situation.
But you think, I mean, we've successfully deported what was it,
I think six hundred and seventy five thousand people, and
then we have self deportations over two million. And then
you look at the conditions that the ice officers are
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operating under with thousands and thousands of protesters screaming at him,
blowing their stupid whistles, shouting, throwing things. Yeah, a couple
of times there's gonna be a bad action because the
world's not perfect. Human beings are not perfect. And if
you go over the line, you violate policy, you do
something like kill someone when you shouldn't have, then yeah,
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you'll get thrown in prison or get fired or whatever
whatever the punishment is. But now we're into the shutdown
ice like defund the police. A few years ago, when
cities started defunding the police, you suddenly had record murder rates.
And everybody's saying, wow, the murder rates are down. Well
because most places they realized defund the police was a disaster,
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and they stopped not only defunding the police, but they
allowed the police go back to go back to their
normal ways of combating and tracking crime. Because the police
had completely shut down. They were staying in their patrol cars,
they were passing by and waving at criminals.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
And that's why you had a high murder rate.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
And then everybody I got sick of that, And now
the murder rates are going down. Oh and you know
what else? I heard something about how the lays at
a historically low murder rate. Do you think that's got
something to do with all the criminal illegal aliens that
have either been deported or deported themselves. I saw a
story a few days ago that rental prices in la
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are coming down for the first time in many years.
Do you think that has to do with thousands and
thousands of illegal aliens either getting deported or self deporting.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Gee, wouldn't that open up the market a bit.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Wouldn't that cause rents to drop when you don't when
you don't have hundreds of thousands of people in competition
for these apartments, and you don't have these criminal aliens
committing crime in the streets, so the crime rate goes down.
Nobody connects all these dots. They're waiting for you to connect.
Look around, you got less crime. I know, we got
less traffic. You got less crime. We got less traffic.
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We've got rents falling. We must have lost hundreds of
thousands of illegal aliens because we had the highest percentage
in the country, and between deportations and self deportations, that's
about two points seven million that are not here anymore.
We must have had at least ten percent of that total. Well,
it's a couple hundred thousand people. That's a couple you know,
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that could be tens of thousands of apartments that opened up.
That's tens of thousands of trucks and cars not on
the road, tens maybe hundreds of crimes, thousands of crimes
not being committed. It's all connected. Of course, nobody in
the media will do that connection. But that's what we're
here for. And OJ's still guilty.
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Speaker 1 (27:57):
All right.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Alex Stone is coming up right after Deborah's News at
two o'clock to talk about uh uh, you talk about
a useful idiot and a stooge, Don Lemon, who flamed
out as a CNN host and anchor for all kinds
of reasons. He's he's like not mentally well, he got
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arrested last Friday.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
There was a now let me see, uh or was
he arrested today? He was arrested last night?
Speaker 2 (28:31):
He was yeah for yeah, he was arrested last night
with the at a hotel in Beverly Hills for what
he did about a week ago in Minnesota Saint Paul,
Minnesota City's church. There was a group of protesters that
stormed into the church during a service, and that breaks
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federal law. Because if there's there's UH, there's federal law
that protects church goers from being invaded by angry groups
protesting one thing or another. There's the Enforcement Act of
eighteen seventy one, which bans interference with certain civil rights,
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such as voting, serving on jurors, or the right to
practice one's religion. It's known as the Ku Klux Klan Act.
It was created to prevent the racial terrorist group from vigilanteism.
They're also considering charging Lemon under the Freedom of Access
to Clinic Entrances Act, which is a law from nineteen
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ninety four that covers interference with religious worship. Then there's
conspiracy charges that are possible. And here's the thing. Lemon
is trying to claim. Well, I'm a journalist and he
doesn't work for anybody anymore. He's one of these independent
journalists and he's got some kind of online operation. But
we're gonna play you a clip, and I don't know
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if this part quote is in the clip, so I'm
going to read it to you. During one of his
reports or live streams, Don Lemon says they're planning an operation.
We're going to follow them on. I can't tell you
exactly what they're doing, but it's called operation pull Up.
So that's what we're doing here. And after we do
this operation, you'll see it live. These operations are surprise operations. Again,
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I can't tell you where they're going. So he seemed
to identify himself as part of the group. That's what
we're doing here. After we do this operation, and he's
providing like the public relations coverage for his followers. Well,
now he's trying to claim no, no, I was just
a reporter exercising my first Amendment to rights to inform
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the world about a news event. So you know he
wants it both ways. And the Department of Justice, by
the way, they took this to an appeals court and
got the indictment, so it's not just some crazy Trump
loving attorney who's bringing the charges, but they got a judge,
judge or judges to sign off on it. Give you
(31:06):
an example of his reporting. I don't know exactly what's
on this, but here's Lemon interviewing a Minneapolis church pastor.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
What do you think of it?
Speaker 1 (31:15):
I mean, this is unacceptable, it's shameful. It's shameful to
interrupt a public gathering of Christians in worship. But I
have to take care of my flaw.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
There's a constitution in the First Amendment to freedom of
speaks him the freedom to assemble in protest.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
We're here to worship.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
We're here to worship Jesus because that's the hope of
these cities, that's the hope of the world is Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
We very respect, but please don't push me there.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Let's stop right there, stop right there. The church pastor's
trying to explain. It's like, look, we have a bunch
of people here in my church, and they're here to
worship Jesus Jesus and practice they're religion and lemon aggressively saying, well,
they have a First amend right to gather in protest. Well, actually,
you don't in a church because of the laws that
I read to you before the Ku Klux Klan Act,
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the Enforcement Act of eighteen seventy one, the Freedom of
Access to Clinic Entrances Act.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
No, you can't burst into a church and do this.
You know.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
One of the reasons allegedly that they burst into that
church is they thought the pastor had some connections to Ice,
so they decided that they were going to storm his church.
Now I don't know if that's true or not, but
it doesn't matter because it is legal to have connections
to ICE. ICE is a law enforcement operation. And all
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these Democratic politicians who are speaking out and want to
get rid of ICE, when they had the chance to
just four years ago when they had the House, the Senate,
and the presidency, they didn't do it. But now because
ICE killed two people out of the hundreds of thousands
that they've deported and out of the thousands and thousands
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and thousands that have protested, you had two incidents that
want to ry and now they want to defund the
whole operation. So this, uh, this nut, This useful idiot
Don Lemon joins the people storming a church and then
tries to say, oh, First Amendment, right now, you don't
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have a First Amendment right to storm a church and
disrupt religious services. Part of the First Amendment is religious
freedom to worship. And no, you can't claim that we're
part that he Don Lemon is part of an operation
and then claimed, well, no, I was just covering the operation.
It's nonsense. But he's been a crazy person for a
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long time. When we come back, Alex Stone is going
to give us a coplete rundown of the Lemon situation,
and Debora Mark has the news 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
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Welcome.
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We are on from one until four o'clock, and then
after four o'clock. Whatever you miss, you listen to the
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that's how you catch up. That's both shows are exactly
the same in terms of content. All right, there's there's
stuff happening as we speak downtown, So we're going to
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go right to this. This is some kind of national
shutdown has been called by all the whack jobs that
are part of the protest industry, and so today they're
expecting big crowds in LA and Orange Counties. It's supposed
to be a nationwide day of doing nothing.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
This one.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I mean, we've seen like lots of stupid protests, especially
the last five six years. This one, I am completely
baffled by. They want people to do nothing. Don't they
know it's Friday afternoon. Nobody shows up for work anymore
anyway on Friday afternoon, everybody always goes home. How are
you gonna tell the difference. Let's go to Michael Monks.
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He's in downtown LA what's going on.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Good afternoon, John. This crowd here outside of La City
Hall and between the City Building and Gloria Molina Park
on Spring Street has swelled from a few hundred about
an hour ago. I think there's clearly more than a thousand.
Are never good at gauging this just from this view,
but definitely more than a thousand people here in the
middle of the street as part of the national shutdown.
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You noted this is a day not necessarily where they
say to do nothing. They are calling them to do
something very specific, which is to come out here and protest.
The nothing part relates to no work, no school, and
no buying from the big businesses. That's why you've got
another protest no buying another part of the region outside
of a target store.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Oh, are they not going to have lunch or it's
limited no buying.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
It's unclear.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
I will say, you know, I drove from the fashion
district here in downtown LA to get over to the
City Building with this equipment this morning, and the immigrant
owned shops were opened.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I mean, those folks are at.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Work today, and that is our sight of many immigration
related enforcement efforts.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
The immigrants are wed this protest.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Yeah, that's a good argument for deporting some of the
Americans and keeping the immigrants who want to work.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
That's going to be my new issue.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
But this was motivated john more and more immediately by
the deaths of those two protesters in Minneapolis. So you
are seeing signage related to Renee Good and Alex s Pretty.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
You've also got.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Signage related to the man who was killed in Northridge
by an off duty federal agent. So there are a
lot of signs here calling for justice for those individuals.
Ice out of la is on these signs. A lot
of anti Trump sentiment here in this crowd is also
extremely young. If I had to guess, I'd say a
good chunk of this are the high school students who
left school today.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yeah, and I could see that all these subversive groups
have infiltrated most of the schools to quickly organize the
kid But high school kids will We'll walk out over anything.
They'll walk out because the hand sandwich tastes a little funky,
and they'll have a.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Protest engage in these protests.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Since the beginning of this they have protested the Trump
administration since the beginning of the school year.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
We saw some walkouts in the fall.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
But this is the largest immigration specific related protests that
I've seen in this part of southern California since June
when the enforcement actions really started to ramp up for
the first time. And now what seems like to me
is that with the tragedies that happened in Minneapolis as
well as with Keith Porter in Northridge, and those are
all under investigation, these folks are re energized to come
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out and confront immigration enforcement again.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Right, is there any immigration enforcement tending today? Are any
operations going on that the direct directly that's directly being affected.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Not clear because this is not near any of their facilities.
We do understand that there may be a gathering tonight
around seven o'clock on the other side of Temple Street
where we saw a lot of those protests in the summer.
Get a little, let's say, testier outside of that detention
facility where some illegal immigrants suspected illegal immigrants are being held,
(04:30):
So that might happen. And then tomorrow the people who
brought you the No King's March are calling for people
to return to downtown Los Angeles for a rally tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
As well the No Kings March, and what did that
accomplish the No Kings march? I forget what was the
consequences besides not you.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Know, I don't know that there were consequences or actions.
But sometimes people just want to blow off steam. And
a lot of people did come down here to participate
in that movement earlier last summer. These people have a
lot of state the largest protests. It's America in twenty
twenty six. John, there's a lot of steam. Maybe that's
why so many people are overweight. They're filled with steam. Well,
(05:12):
that'd be an easy fix, I think if you just
give them a good squeeze. So why don't you go
out and start hugging people, John, pop them?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Uh yeah, I just wonder if they'd noticed that that
Trump administration is not backed off to porting people.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Well.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
I asked that of a councilwoman Monica Rodriguez, who I
interviewed a little while ago, and I'll bring some of
that sound to the studio soon. But I asked, I said, look,
if President Trump ran very openly on this message and
more than half the country said yeah, go for it,
and that's what's happening. So what are you hoping to
accomplish as a local government when you stand up to this,
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and what she says is there's checks and balances, and
she is of course correct about that. There's an executive branch,
let a slive branch, a judicial branch, and local governments
and all of that. So what they're doing is they
obviously don't agree with the immigration and Horseman effort.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
They're looking for any way they can to slow it down.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
All right, Michael Monks, thank you, my pleasure. Very good
Michael Monks for KFI. I have trouble talking about this stuff.
I find nearly all protests to be absolutely useless, and
I understand that their their magic on television because the
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the housebound audience that watches the news in the middle
of the day. If you wonder about the demographic to
watch TV news at, say, you know, one in the afternoon,
just look at the commercials. It's mostly diseases that you've
never heard of, and certainly diseases you don't want to catch,
mostly diseases related to advanced age. So this is I guess,
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entertainment for people trapped in nursing homes and they're not
able to get out of their wheelchairs to change the channel.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
So I mean it looks exciting.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
You have angry people and they're they're chanting and they're
waving their stupid signs. Sometimes you know, the chants are poetic, right,
they rhyme. Sometimes there's music. You always have one bozo
with a drum and you hear the boom boom boom
boom in the background, and that's that's always a good
time to listen to. But if you look at this
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stuff objectively, a colossal waste.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Of time in there.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
But I realized the people who are involved in this
have the it's not a waste of time to them
because they have nothing to do in their life.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
This gives the meaning.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
A lot of them are getting paid, so it's like
watching people at work. I find these incredibly boring. I mean,
unless you have real violence breaking out, then that gets exciting.
Right when they bring out the tear gas, they bring
out the UH less than lethal methods UH. And then
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when they start setting fires, like in June when they
when they UH protesters called up Waimo and summoned five
waymos downtown and all those were set on fire, and
then that's that's pretty colorful television. But otherwise it's a
stupid message. Ice is absolutely necessary. It's what Michael said,
(08:19):
is like, that's what Trump ran on, ran on, and
by the way, he's got majority support to deport illegal aliens.
I you know this, this is the this is the
sliver of progressive activism that is like a plague. It's
like it's like, you know, you have a body like
you you're probably mostly healthy, but I don't know, something
bit you and it got infected and you're constantly having
(08:42):
to treat the infection. And it's you know what, maybe
you got maybe you got a spider bite in your
leg or something, or a wasp bite, and it's like,
oh man, I got infected. And it's periodically there's puss
coming out and some flame.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Well that's what the that's this. This is the.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Pussy infection of American society. The stupid activists in their
protest movements, they amount to nothing. For all the protests
during the Trump era now, which is going on we're
in year eleven, imagine how many protests. I think we
were talking about this the other day, the first day
of the first few days that Trump after Trump was inaugurated,
(09:21):
I was in Washington, DC with my wife recovered for
the show. Here the Trump inauguration and as we're leaving town,
all the pink pussycat hats arrived. And that was January
twenty seventeen. That's nine years ago. So million women march
just like so what happened after that?
Speaker 5 (09:43):
It makes them feel like they're doing something. It makes
them feel that they're not.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
That they're not useless. They're usually useless.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
I'm saying when I talk to people about protesting, they
feel that if they keep their mouth shut on something
they feel strongly about, that's not a good thing.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
So they feel.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
That they need to talk about it, they need to protest,
they need to be with other people to feel the same.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Way about them.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
So it's public therapy sessions for people who feel impotent.
That's great. They have no effect on policy. I mean,
I can't think of Trump changing his policy at all
once in all these years. I mean maybe they, you know,
do a tweak on a strategy or a tactic if
something's not working or it's too much trouble, but in general,
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they're going to keep deporting. I forget what the pussy
Pussy had crowd was complaining about me Too movement. You
know that that kind of petered out too as well.
You don't hear much about that anymore. They got enough
innocent guys roped in or exaggerated charges that.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
That thing was.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
There were some guys that were total losers.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
There were some guys not all no, but yeah, I know,
but but you would think it was all guys all
the time from the way everybody was acting instead of
you know, the usual narrow You always have a narrow
sliver of people who are doing bad things, and you
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should you catch them and you put them away, like
Parvey Winstein, right, is gnarled up genitals. That's put them away. Epstein,
same thing, right, Fortunately he checked himself out. Maybe all right,
more coming up.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
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Speaker 2 (11:31):
All right, so Michael Monks is still downtown and anything
if any stupidity breaks out among these losers that are
clogging up traffic, I just have a question. Apparently there's
all kinds of closures downtown. When we went and covered
the the late the Rally and the Palisades a few
weeks ago, they let us burn. I was told that
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that organization had to pay thousands of dollars for a
permit in order to hold their demonstration. Now, did these
groups did they have to pay the city thousands of
dollars for a permit to block traffic at one o'clock
in the afternoon most normal people are working.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Or do they get a waiver.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Because Karen Bass supports subversive groups who screw up taxpayers'
normal workdays.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Yeah, another question.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
All right, here's what you need to know about all
these demonstrations. These things are staged, phony, organized mayhem. And
let me start off with this story from Fox News.
This is from their online operation Fox News Digital. They
talked to Andrew Tchikarski, make that Andrew Cherkoski, a former
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federal prosecutor, and he told Fox that there's undoubtedly a
lot of money behind agitators in Minneapolis, and very possibly
foreign money. One of the financial backers of these anti
Ice demonstrations is an advocate of the Chinese Communist Party.
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I think most people don't have one half of one
percent of the knowledge they should have about how much
the Chinese underwrite this rebellion in our country in order
to attempt to rot us out from the inside. The
way they send fentmil to this country so that we
end up with thousands of drug addicts dying in the
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streets here. They spend these Chinese Communist Party operatives spend
lots of money manipulating people's emotions on social media and
paying them to organize and agitate and cous mayhem in
the streets of the big cities. And that's what's going
on here. Fox News has found that several organizations who
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are the lead voices in mobilizing agitators, uh, play groups
I called the Party for Socialism and Liberation and the
People's Form. Well, both those organizations are largely subsidized by
an American, a former tech mogul named Neville Roy Singham.
(14:24):
I've told you about these these weird tech guys who
made huge fortunes.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
They're they're in a particular subset of the business that
nobody really understands. But they made they made a big fortune,
they sold their company, and then they spend it trying
to undermine American capitalism, the American democracy are just our
whole system of civilized life. So we've got a we've
got one here, Neville Roy Singham. And this is according
(14:54):
to various media reports and congressional investigations. Singham has been
investigat for decades, going back to the nineteen seventies. And
you may wonder, well, why isn't he in jail. I'll
explain that in a moment. A former federal prosecutor tells
Fox News Digital that he's moved to China, and by
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moving to China, it shields him from being subpoened by
US law enforcement. In the meantime, he's pumping vast amounts
of money to create these protest organizations, these these organizations
designed to cause trouble. Singham sold his IT consulting company
(15:38):
nine years ago for seven hundred and eighty five million
dollars and moved to Shanghai. He was the focus of
a New York Times expose in twenty twenty three that
revealed his connections to the Chinese Communist Party and his
determination to finance extremist groups. To in bolden is radical ideology.
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So the Times exposed, this guy and his money goes
to the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the People's Forum,
and these are two of the main groups creating all
the mayhem in Minneapolis. In fact, the New York Times
said that Neville Royce Singham has funneled over a quarter
(16:25):
of a billion dollars to organizations in the US. These
organizations have vague names, their office address is they're in
suspicious locations like ups mailboxes. He's seventy one years old
(16:46):
and he shares his office space with a Chinese media
company called the Maku Group that is funded by Singham
and is associated with pro Chinese Communist Party propaganda. Their
mission is to tell China's story well. Investigations into his
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activities go back literally over fifty years when he was
in his early twenties, when he was flagged for being
engaged in activities that are oppositional to US interests. The
House Overside Community Oversight Committee launched an investigation into Singham
(17:28):
for his involvement in the anti ice riots here in
Los Angeles, and one of the benefactors for the rioters,
according to the Oversight Committee, is Neville Roy. Singham say
he was paying for the trouble that we had in
Los Angeles last June, in addition to local Hispanic groups
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funded by taxpayers like Churla. But the big daddy here
is this guy and this is according to many different
media reports. Singham lives in China. He has a long
track record of assisting far left entities such as Code Pink.
You see those crazy people, usually women, who go busting
(18:16):
into congressional hearings, screaming and yelling and carrying on Supreme
Court hearings and the like. And I go on and on.
It's a very very long story, but you should read
most of it. You should read the rest of it yourself.
So again, that's really what's going on. So when you
see the dopey local anchors of the dopey national anchors
(18:38):
talking about all the unrest, you see the politicians saying, obviously,
the American people are fed up with this. No, most
Americans want ice, and ice is going to stay. It's
not going to go anywhere. Most of them want criminal
aliens to be deported. A majority want non criminal aliens
deported too. They don't like to see the mayhem. Then
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nobody wants to see people killed in the streets, and
so that's caused a temporary dampening of enthusiasm. But ultimately
it's what Trump was elected to do, and they're going
to continue to do it.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
They're just gonna be maybe a little cleaner about it.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
But both victims were part of these subversive groups and
the whole plan of the part of these groups is
to whip people up into a frenzy.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
To create extremely tense.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Chaotic situations, knowing that if we do this every day
in enough cities, one of the officers is going to
blow and fire a shot that he shouldn't fire, and
now they have a martyr, and now that re energizes
their movement. So everything's going according to plan and according
to script. None of it's genuine though. The only genuine
thing is they really want to do under They want
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under minor way of life and destroy our way of
conducting ourselves.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
As a nation.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
You're listening to John Cobbel's on demand from KFI A
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Speaker 2 (19:59):
Keep an eye on downtown in LA where they have
over a thousand people gathering for these fake anti ice protests,
and we've just been explaining to you that based on
reporting by The New York Times and Fox News and others,
these protests in Minneapolis and in Los Angeles for the
past year have been funded in large part by one
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man named Neville Roy Singham, who made seven hundred and
eighty five million dollars in the IT industry, sold his company,
moved to China, and he is the one who funds
all these bizarre protest groups who create all the mayhem,
the Party for Socialism and Liberation for an example, the
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People's Forum for another example. And he works out of Shanghai,
and he does the dirty work for the Chinese government.
The Chinese government has done a lot of damage to
this country, not only unleashing COVID and lying about it,
but they also have sent in a tremendous amount of
fentanyl ingredients that were mixed in Mexico and then transported
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here and has killed, as you know, literally hundreds of
thousands of people. So we had hundreds of thousands, if
not millions die of COVID that they lied about, hundreds
of thousands that have died from sentinel poisoning. And now
they're trying to burn down the cities with these ice
protests that this guy, along with the Chinese Communist Party
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are funding. There was no question that they are. And
you should go read the New York Times articles about it,
and read the Fox News stories about it, and many
other publications as well. And so you know, we got
to Los Angeles. One of the first stories we got
some notoriety for Ken and I was covering the OJ trial.
And what triggered me about the OJ trial in the
very beginning is how everybody in the media was pretending that, well,
(21:52):
we really don't know what happened. Did OJ do it? Well,
maybe he didn't do it. Maybe he could have heard
some of the other defense theories. Maybe it was maybe
it was a group of ninja fighters, remember those things,
And maybe it was OJ's son, or maybe maybe it
was this, maybe it was that. It's like, no, it
clearly it was Oj. So we were the only ones
you said every day, all day long. Uh, clearly this
(22:12):
was OJ, obviously, But the rest of the news meetings
like what, we're trying to be objective here, we don't
really know for sure, and and uh, and and and
then you end up with that verdict. And that's where
I lost total faith in the whole system. I lost
faith in the whole media system, lost faith in the
whole jury system. The truth was evident, as evident as
the nose on your face, and yet everybody played pretend.
(22:36):
And then when the verdict came out, people continued to
play pretend. But that's what the jury said, it looks
like you didn't do it. We got a situation here
similar in this way. Everybody in the media should know
that these that these protests are bankrolled by uh, very
wealthy people who have radical views, and they create these
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subversive organizations to create mayhem in the streets. Part of
the job is to go the ice officers into doing
what they did in the last few weeks in Minneapolis.
These protesters are goaded into being very aggressive. The aggressive
protesters go far enough to trigger something in a random
(23:20):
cop boom, he shoots protesters dead, and now the place
is energized. Now these organizations are taking into even more donations.
Now they have more people who they're useful idiots. All
these people, of course, it's young people. It's young people
who feel hopeless. They feel empty in life. Why because
they spent their childhood staring at screens and scrolling and
(23:41):
scrolling and scrolling on social media looking for the dopamine
hit of some likes theyded all. They of course they
have pointless, empty lives. And some of the old people
who showed up for the Nome King's rally, they're the
leftover hippies from the sixties and seventies who in the
excitement in their youth of their idiotic rallies that accomplished nothing.
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These are collections of losers, but they get their moment
another moment here breaking news CNN nationwide anti as protests.
Of course, when it was put up for a vote,
Trump won easily and getting deporting people wins easily in
the polls. Had a couple of bad incidents, and if
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the cops screwed up, then the cops ought to go
to prison, like Derek Schauvin did for the George Floyd situation.
But you think, I mean, we've successfully deported what was it,
I think six hundred and seventy five thousand people, and
then we have self deportations over two million. And then
you look at the conditions that the ice officers are
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operating under with thousands and thousands of protesters screaming at him,
blowing their stupid whistles, shouting, throwing things. Yeah, a couple
of times there's gonna be a bad action because the
world's not perfect. Human beings are not perfect. And if
you go over the line, you violate policy, you do
something like kill someone when you shouldn't have, then yeah,
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you'll get thrown in prison or get fired or whatever
whatever the punishment is. But now we're into the shutdown
ice like defund the police. A few years ago, when
cities started defunding the police, you suddenly had record murder rates.
And everybody's saying, wow, the murder rates are down. Well
because most places they realized defund the police was a disaster,
(25:33):
and they stopped not only defunding the police, but they
allowed the police go back to go back to their
normal ways of combating and tracking crime. Because the police
had completely shut down. They were staying in their patrol cars,
they were passing by and waving at criminals.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
And that's why you had a high murder rate.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
And then everybody I got sick of that, And now
the murder rates are going down. Oh and you know
what else? I heard something about how the lays at
a historically low murder rate. Do you think that's got
something to do with all the criminal illegal aliens that
have either been deported or deported themselves. I saw a
story a few days ago that rental prices in la
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are coming down for the first time in many years.
Do you think that has to do with thousands and
thousands of illegal aliens either getting deported or self deporting.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Gee, wouldn't that open up the market a bit.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Wouldn't that cause rents to drop when you don't when
you don't have hundreds of thousands of people in competition
for these apartments, and you don't have these criminal aliens
committing crime in the streets, so the crime rate goes down.
Nobody connects all these dots. They're waiting for you to connect.
Look around, you got less crime. I know, we got
less traffic. You got less crime. We got less traffic.
(26:46):
We've got rents falling. We must have lost hundreds of
thousands of illegal aliens because we had the highest percentage
in the country, and between deportations and self deportations, that's
about two points seven million that are not here anymore.
We must have had at least ten percent of that total. Well,
it's a couple hundred thousand people. That's a couple you know,
(27:09):
that could be tens of thousands of apartments that opened up.
That's tens of thousands of trucks and cars not on
the road, tens maybe hundreds of crimes, thousands of crimes
not being committed. It's all connected. Of course, nobody in
the media will do that connection. But that's what we're
here for. And OJ's still guilty.
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Speaker 1 (27:57):
All right.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Alex Stone is coming up right after Deborah's News at
two o'clock to talk about uh uh, you talk about
a useful idiot and a stooge, Don Lemon, who flamed
out as a CNN host and anchor for all kinds
of reasons. He's he's like not mentally well, he got
(28:20):
arrested last Friday.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
There was a now let me see, uh or was
he arrested today? He was arrested last night?
Speaker 2 (28:31):
He was yeah for yeah, he was arrested last night
with the at a hotel in Beverly Hills for what
he did about a week ago in Minnesota Saint Paul,
Minnesota City's church. There was a group of protesters that
stormed into the church during a service, and that breaks
(28:52):
federal law. Because if there's there's UH, there's federal law
that protects church goers from being invaded by angry groups
protesting one thing or another. There's the Enforcement Act of
eighteen seventy one, which bans interference with certain civil rights,
(29:15):
such as voting, serving on jurors, or the right to
practice one's religion. It's known as the Ku Klux Klan Act.
It was created to prevent the racial terrorist group from vigilanteism.
They're also considering charging Lemon under the Freedom of Access
to Clinic Entrances Act, which is a law from nineteen
(29:38):
ninety four that covers interference with religious worship. Then there's
conspiracy charges that are possible. And here's the thing. Lemon
is trying to claim. Well, I'm a journalist and he
doesn't work for anybody anymore. He's one of these independent
journalists and he's got some kind of online operation. But
we're gonna play you a clip, and I don't know
(29:59):
if this part quote is in the clip, so I'm
going to read it to you. During one of his
reports or live streams, Don Lemon says they're planning an operation.
We're going to follow them on. I can't tell you
exactly what they're doing, but it's called operation pull Up.
So that's what we're doing here. And after we do
this operation, you'll see it live. These operations are surprise operations. Again,
(30:23):
I can't tell you where they're going. So he seemed
to identify himself as part of the group. That's what
we're doing here. After we do this operation, and he's
providing like the public relations coverage for his followers. Well,
now he's trying to claim no, no, I was just
a reporter exercising my first Amendment to rights to inform
(30:44):
the world about a news event. So you know he
wants it both ways. And the Department of Justice, by
the way, they took this to an appeals court and
got the indictment, so it's not just some crazy Trump
loving attorney who's bringing the charges, but they got a judge,
judge or judges to sign off on it. Give you
(31:06):
an example of his reporting. I don't know exactly what's
on this, but here's Lemon interviewing a Minneapolis church pastor.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
What do you think of it?
Speaker 1 (31:15):
I mean, this is unacceptable, it's shameful. It's shameful to
interrupt a public gathering of Christians in worship. But I
have to take care of my flaw.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
There's a constitution in the First Amendment to freedom of
speaks him the freedom to assemble in protest.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
We're here to worship.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
We're here to worship Jesus because that's the hope of
these cities, that's the hope of the world is Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
We very respect, but please don't push me there.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Let's stop right there, stop right there. The church pastor's
trying to explain. It's like, look, we have a bunch
of people here in my church, and they're here to
worship Jesus Jesus and practice they're religion and lemon aggressively saying, well,
they have a First amend right to gather in protest. Well, actually,
you don't in a church because of the laws that
I read to you before the Ku Klux Klan Act,
(32:08):
the Enforcement Act of eighteen seventy one, the Freedom of
Access to Clinic Entrances Act.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
No, you can't burst into a church and do this.
You know.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
One of the reasons allegedly that they burst into that
church is they thought the pastor had some connections to Ice,
so they decided that they were going to storm his church.
Now I don't know if that's true or not, but
it doesn't matter because it is legal to have connections
to ICE. ICE is a law enforcement operation. And all
(32:40):
these Democratic politicians who are speaking out and want to
get rid of ICE, when they had the chance to
just four years ago when they had the House, the Senate,
and the presidency, they didn't do it. But now because
ICE killed two people out of the hundreds of thousands
that they've deported and out of the thousands and thousands
(33:02):
and thousands that have protested, you had two incidents that
want to ry and now they want to defund the
whole operation. So this, uh, this nut, This useful idiot
Don Lemon joins the people storming a church and then
tries to say, oh, First Amendment, right now, you don't
(33:23):
have a First Amendment right to storm a church and
disrupt religious services. Part of the First Amendment is religious
freedom to worship. And no, you can't claim that we're
part that he Don Lemon is part of an operation
and then claimed, well, no, I was just covering the operation.
It's nonsense. But he's been a crazy person for a
(33:43):
long time. When we come back, Alex Stone is going
to give us a coplete rundown of the Lemon situation,
and Debora Mark has the news 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 amc forty from one to four pm
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