August 29, 2025 • 36 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (08/29) - Lou Penrose fills in for John. CA State Senator Tony Strickland comes on the show to talk about his reaction to Newsom's supposedly getting tougher on crime. Polls show that Americans love that Pres. Trump is tough on crime. RFK Jr. has a warning about food on Labor Day.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
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Speaker 3 (00:06):
It's the John Cobelt Show. Lou Penrose sitting in for
John Covelt this week. John, We'll be back on Tuesday.
Thank you for tuning in. Good to have you along
with us. So Governor Gavenues some announces a CHP led
crime suppression team to be dispatched all across the state
here in Los Angeles, in San Diego, in the Border region,
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also San Berdandino, the Inland Empire, Riverside, Sacramento, the Bay Area, everywhere, Bakersfield.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
So he is, in fact getting tough on crime.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
He says there is no correlation between the successes President
Trump is having in getting tough on crime in Washington,
DC and his decision to do this.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
In fact, he said in the press conference that.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
He's always been fighting crime and this is just doubling
down on the efforts. California State Senator Tony Strickland joins us.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Nobody leaves him, Senator, not even the media.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Like at the press conference, he couldn't fend off questions
fast enough, the press that.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Used to let him get away with everything.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
He says that like constantly saying, you got to be
kidding me, Governor, this is obviously an effort to mirror
what President Trump.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Is doing well without questioning.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
In fact, the biggest question that he has to answer
is he didn't fund proposers in thirty six that would
have actually made it safe.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
For all Californians. In fact, it was an initiative to
make crime illegal.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
Again in California, and they got over seventy percent of
the vote. All fifty eight counties voted in the affirmative. I
can't I've been doing this a long time. I can't
recall the last initiative that passed. Even the most liberal
counties of Morne in San Francisco voted for POP thirty six.
And he didn't fund it at all.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
I didn't fund it at all, and.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
The legislature pushed back. Some of the Democrats pushed for
a little bit of money, but the money that they
he agreed to was a slap in the face that
all those Democrats, Independence and Republicans that fought to to
make a public safety a top priority. They only put
one hundred million dollars in for three years and zero
money for probation and What that means is it's a
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central part of the program Prop thirty six, and that
means no accountability. Because if you don't have accountability, what
ends up happening is you just have repeat offenders. And
that's what's frustrating law enforcement. They just keep it as
a revolving door of repeat offenders. And if you don't
have any accountability into the system, you're not going to
keep people safe.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Where is the money coming from for this surge of
crime suppression? Who's paying the CHP the overtime? And I
last time I checked, we were out of money. We're
upside down and nine billion dollars going to medical for undocumented.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Immigrant Well, it wasn't in the budget.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
And I will tell you when I was pushing for
the full funding of Proposition thirty six, I've been taking
a lead on this. I was, you know, the governor
Knews said we don't have the money to keep us safe.
I think the most essential role of government is public safety,
keeping us safe.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
He did have the money.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
He obviously found the money for this this power grab
in terms of redistricting two hundred and fifty million. He
bailed out bart with Bay Area Transit seven hundred and
fifty million, and he put a billion dollars in the
high speed rail on a project that everybody knows and
Sacramento will never be built as proposed to the people
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in California.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
So all of a sudden he found a little bit
of money for this. I just think it's not serious.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
He's just trying to mimic President Trump. And I believe,
you know, Governor Newsom.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Doesn't do his job as governor. Every morning he wakes
up to.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
Try to find a formula to make him run for
president of the United States. The problem with that, lou is,
we need a governor. We need someone that was actually
engaged on these very important issues facing Californians, for example, crime, affordability,
to be able to have water storage, infrastructure, the things
that the basic things that people expect from government.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Newsoman is not engaged.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
I've served with five different governors and this is the
worst governor by far, and it's not even close.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
That's a good point.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
He spends an awful lot of time guesting on podcasts,
hosting his own podcast, appearing, you know, on a panel
discussion about how terrible the president is, or I mean,
if you believe that he's in charge of his own
X account. He's got to be spending a lot of
time on his phone coming up with you know, sarcastic
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little comments and digs on Governor Abbit. I mean, really,
it's quite incredible when you consider that between the press conferences,
the podcast, the podcast appearances.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
When is he governing? What do you see him in Sacramento?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Ever?
Speaker 5 (04:42):
No, No, In fact, again I have a unique experience
because I have served with five different governors.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
This is the most aloof governor.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
He's not engaged on the important issues station everyday Californians.
And that's my biggest beef. Stop worrying about what's going
on in Texas, or in Illinois, or or in Louisiana
the governor in California.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
We need a leader.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
And in fact, I think we're one leader away from
prosperity here in California. But so many things are on
the wrong track here because we don't We're ruddless. We
don't have a leader. He's not doing the job that
he was elected to do to be governor of California.
And every morning I firmly believe he looks in the
mirror and says, what are we going to do today
to try to become president of the United States.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
The bad thing about that is he's not.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Doing the things that people expect from our state. This
is the first time in California history more lead people
are leaving the state than coming in since the gold Rush.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
It's all based on the lack of leaders. They've come
right from the governor Instant's office.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
So that's interesting that you said that, because I agree
with that notion. We're one leader away from having a
fantastic state and having a lot of our problems solved.
And I'm wondering if his action, his his ambition, his
his presidential ambition, and the neglect to the state hasn't
opened the door for that leader to emerge.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
I mean he could, because I don't think he cares
at all.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
I don't think he cares if the next governor of
California is a Republican or Democrat.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
I think he only cares about avenues.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
I concur with that.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
And I do believe that a leader will emerge here
in California. It's too much of a special place to
go with someone like this that just isn't doing the
job people expect from government. Like I said, the most
central role of governments of public safety. It should have
been the first thing that was funded in the budget
this year. Again, seventy percent of Californias, that means an
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overwhelming amount of Democrats, Independence and Republicans said they want
to make a public safety a top priority. And seventy
percent of the vote all fifty eight counties voting the
affirmative that they want to make crime illegal again. And
here we have a governor that just ignores seventy percent
of the vote and doesn't fund it, but he funds
a high speed rail over over a billion dollars, and
he funds this redistricing power grab at two hundred and
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fifty million dollars. That just tells you that he's out
of touch with everyday citizens in California. And what people
expect they should expect from government is to keep them safe,
to make sure we have enough energy and power. When
you turn on the light, the lights go on. And
then when we have water wet years last two or
three years, when we have those fires, those reservoirs have
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been full of water and they were empty. When you
turn on a fire hydrant, water's supposed to come out.
It's the basics that this governor's not getting done, and
that's why I'm looking forward to hopefully we get a
new leader to come in here to be able to
actually do the job of governor, because that's what we need.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
We need a governor.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
California State Senator Tony Strickland, thanks so much for spending
your Friday with us.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
We do appreciate the update. Have yourself a fantastic Labor
Day weekend, and we'll be in touch.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Thanks LOUI for having me on. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Goes Tony Strickland.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
So, the issue of crime when polled, CNN had a
very interesting poll. Harry Enton is the polling analyst over
at CNN and he has some really interesting numbers. Trump
came into office with some strong polling numbers on other
issues crime and law enforcement. Domestic law enforcement wasn't really
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on the radar. Now those numbers are flipped and I'll
share them with you. That's coming up next. Lou Penrose
in for John Cobelt on The John Cobelt Show on
KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
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six forty.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Lou Penrose sitting in for John coblt.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
John will be back with you on Tuesday, talking about
California Governor Gavin Newsom's new surge of crime suppression here
in Los Angeles and all across the state. The new
get tough on crime Gavin. So, a lot of criticism
about the mimicking of the Trump effort here is you know,
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when reporters now in California are starting to challenge the governor,
it is interesting. I think this governor is not used
to being challenged. I think Democrats in this state are
not used to being challenged by reporters and by the media,
and now they, at least in Newsom's case, in this
latest effort, he has become so transparent, so clearly trying
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to jump on the Trump crackdown on crime bandwagon that
they cannot help. But ask him, Governor, how can you
say you're not trying to mimic what the Trump administration
is doing.
Speaker 7 (09:34):
The governor announcing he's stepping up the state's law enforcement
presidence in major cities across California to crack down on crime,
days after President Donald Trump said he'd do something similar
with federal officers.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Yeah, so there's a case. CRA's Ashley Zavala. She is
one of the top political reporters up in Sacramento, and
she's making the case that this is days after President
Trump said the same thing across the country.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
So we're not reacting funding anything.
Speaker 8 (10:03):
The contrary.
Speaker 7 (10:04):
The governor said, it's to build on public safety world
his administration.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Has been doing since he took office.
Speaker 7 (10:09):
But the announcement and the setting the latest that appeared
to taunt the President and Republicans.
Speaker 8 (10:15):
Just look at the murder rate that's nearly four times
higher than in Californias in Louisiana.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Right, So he's talking about Louisiana because the Speaker of
the House, Mike Johnson, is from Louisiana. And so I
don't know if you follow Gavenusom on social media.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
I do.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
I follow him personally, him governor and him his press office,
and a lot of time is spent trying to talk
about how there's no crime in California and Louisiana is
the murder capital of the world. That's if somebody from
Louisiana in politics says anything, If somebody in politics from Texas,
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like the Texas governor says something immediately, Governor Gavenussom in
one of those three vehicles personal official or through his
press office, will take a shot at Texas and say
Texas is a homicide capital of the world, and there
are no deaths here in California, and they're always so extreme.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
You just heard it there.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Louisiana's has a fort the murder rate is four times
out of California. Does anybody believe that? How many people
that you how many people do you know? How many
new neighbors do you have from Louisiana that moved to
Los Angeles specifically to be safer.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
I mean, it's just it's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
But CNN's Harry Enton, he's the political analyst over there,
always really good, does great polling and really gets snapshot polling,
so right when an issue is hot, he's able to
get it out and get some decent polling numbers on it.
And he said, look, there's no secret that Newsom.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Is now a crime fighter.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
There's no secret that he wants to increase crime suppression units.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
This is not a secret.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Crime is working for Republicans crime and like the fighting
of crime, the reduction of crime.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
In the case of Washington, d C. The elimination of homicide.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
This is very popular Americans, by and large, Republicans, Democrats,
and independents like it when crime is eliminated or greatly reduced.
And everybody, whether you are a Republican or a Democrat
running for mayor or governor or whatever, always says you're
going to get tough on crime. So what are the
results In major cities in the United States that are
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run by Democrats.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
They're third world hellholes. And the one major city.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Where the effective chief of police is the president of
the United States, President Trump became effectively the chief of
police of.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
DC see and crime is plummeted. And since it's our
nation's capital.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
There are news organizations there so they cannot help but
to report it. So it was the perfect model and
the perfect showcase for President Trump to pull off the unthinkable,
and that is make the nation's capital, which used to
be a third world l.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
A safe place.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
So there's no question that Newsom wants to jump on
that crime fighting bandwagon and see if he can pull
it off too.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
But according to CNN, Democrats.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Need to just come to grips with the fact that
by and large the general public does not believe Democrats
are crime fighters.
Speaker 9 (13:44):
The Democrats have to get it around their heads that
Americans are far more hawkish on crime than they think
that they are. What are we talking about. Trump's not
approval handling crime. He's on the positive side of election.
He's on the positive side at plus one point. Americans
view Trump far more favorable now on crime than they
did a year ago, and Americans for the most part,
actually have vi Trump favorably.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Crime is one of Trump's best issues.
Speaker 9 (14:07):
It's one of the reasons why he wants to talk
about crime because it favors.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
Him and it's good.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Like he wants to talk about his successes in crime
fighting because they are successes. They're not spin It's not
like Gavin Newsom trying to pretend that Alabama is the
murder capital of the world, when the reality is most
of Alabama is pretty safe, not going to be wanting
to do any breaking and entering on some of those
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good old boys out there out in the rural areas.
But Birmingham, the capital, which is a blue city run
by a Democrat, has a high murder rate, high homicide.
And that's the way it goes with every one of
those red states that he talks about. He mentioned Louisiana
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right in that press conference with Ashley's Zavalla from KCRA that, well,
you know they talk about crime, We're good here in
California where they really got crime as Louisiana four times
the murder rate than California. Yeah, New Orleans, run by
a Democrat mayor, is less safe than the rest of
the state. But the state by and large is a
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red state. So you can play with numbers if you want.
But those of us here in California that have had
our cars broken into, that have had assaults or no
people that have had carjackings and robberies, property crime, or
just watch TV, watch ABC, NBC, KTLA, Fox, right, I mean,
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it's NonStop not a safe place. Nobody moves to downtown
Los Angeles because it is so safe, despite the fact
that the governor's out there trying to pretend that it's
so safe speaking of Louisiana, so that, of course he
mentions Louisiana. Now the Senator from Louisiana taking a shot
at Governor gavenusso Iss Senator Kennedy.
Speaker 10 (16:02):
He has decided to send the state police, California State
Police into his major cities to help local cops fight
crime envirolence. Now, you don't have to be a senior
at cal Tech to know that that's in response to
the Trump administration's threat to send in a federal law
enforcement officials.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
But look, I'll take it.
Speaker 10 (16:22):
If that's what it takes to get Governor Newsom to stop.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Being a princess. I'll take that too.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Called Governor Newsom a princess, unbelievable. Loving the war of
the words across state line. I'm telling you we're in
the Cold Civil War, and the Cold Civil War does
have a bit of comedy to it, Thank goodness. Lou
Penrose in for John Cobelt. I'm the John Cobelt Show
on KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 6 (16:52):
You're listening to John cobelts on demand from KFI.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
A six Lou Penrose in for John Cobelt this week.
John Cobelt will be back on Tuesday. Good to have
you along with us. President Trump is tough on crime. Now,
Gavin Newsom is Trump being Trump Esque and getting tough
on crime, although he says it has nothing to do
with President Trump.
Speaker 11 (17:14):
Governor Gavin Newsom highlighting the success of California Highway Patrol
crime suppression teams deployed last year to Bakersfield, San Bernardino
and Oakland, A.
Speaker 8 (17:22):
Building on the success that is now included over nine
thousand arrests.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
Nine thousand arrests. That's good.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
So I am not going to be like the snowflakes
in Washington, d C And yell at the crime suppression team.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
I'm not going to go down to the corner of
sixth in LA.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
And say, why are we militarizing Los Angeles?
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Shame on you, fascist. That's what they did. That's what
people did.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
All the snowflakes and those with Trump arrangement syndrome in Washington,
DC would go out into the streets and yell at
law enforcement. They don't like President Trump increasing law enforcement.
They don't like him bringing in the National Guard. They
don't like him bringing in immigration and Customs enforcement and
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uscis going after the illegals.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
They don't want crime suppressed in DC.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Now, why you would not want carjacking in your city
to go down eighty three percent and homicide.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
To go to zero is beyond me. But this is.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Deranged Democrat lunatics with Trump arrangement syndrome, and I do
not have Newsome derangement syndrome. So, you know what, great
If Newsom wants to double on the efforts. And I
don't know the nine thousand arrests that he talks about,
I don't know what time period that was in nine
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thousand arrests in a week, nine thousand arrests? What this year,
since you've been governor, since you've been in public office,
But whatever, any arrest is good. So if you're gonna
double down on that, I expect that number to go
to eighteen hundred arrests, and that's fine.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
I welcome it. You know what, Governor, good for you.
Even though politically.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
I think this looks a little transparent, I am not
gonna be the way the snowflakes are to the Republicans.
I am going to welcome the CHP officers working with
the LAPD, working with the Sheriff's Department, working with Immigration
and Customs enforcement.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
I think this is great. I think this is absolutely great.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
As a Californian and a taxpayer, I win either way.
Either you get tough on crime or Donald Trump sends
in the National Guard. Either way, the crooks get hit
over the head with the billy club and thrown in
the back of the squad car and Jimmy crackcorn And
I don't care.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Newsom is just a copycat, copy and trumping just about
everything that he does. He gets rid of home this
fam Newson want to gets rid of homeless camp.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
He want to get tough on crime.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Newson want to get tough on crime.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Just a copycat, He's just a kid.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Oh my god, I'll tell.
Speaker 11 (20:07):
You what as John, you know, you guys have nothing
better to do, and to say, what are you guys gonna.
Speaker 12 (20:14):
Talk about when kevinus and is no longer in California.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
I don't know what we'll talk about when Newsom is
no longer in California.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Is he leaving California?
Speaker 3 (20:29):
But while he's governor, I have no other option but
to critique, examine, and sometimes criticize the way he's running
the state. But as I said, you're not gonna get
criticism for me. If the governor all of a sudden
has has some kind of law and order epiphany and
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wants to crack down on crime, it's gonna be interesting
to see what happens, because you know and I know
that crime is committed disproportionately in California by all kinds
of things, age, geography.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Sometimes race. I mean, there is going to be a.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Disproportionate amount of people of one type of person in
the back of those squad cars. Seems to me, I
don't know how he's going to make it all, you know,
a real mosaic of Californians getting arrested at the same
time so as to not get criticism by some of
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his Democrat friends who don't like law enforcement because law
enforcement has a disparate impact on their community. But he's
going to have to face that, Like, there's no way
to drive up that number.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
What do he say that he's doubling down on nine
thousand arrests?
Speaker 11 (21:55):
Govinor Gavin Knew some highlighting the success of California Highway
Patrol crime suppression teams to Floyd last year, to Bakersfield,
Sam Bernardino and Oakland.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
So Bakersfield, Sam Bernardino, and Oakland. That's a decent mosaic.
I see what he did there.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
It's like, let's not focus only on.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Coastal cities because that's gonna get me sideways with a
lot of my Democrats in the Assembly and Senate.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
So it's uh, Sam.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Bernardino, bakers Field and Oakland's that's.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
That's a good mosaic.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
But he got a bunch of people building on this
success that is now included over nine thousand arrests, all right,
So nine thousand arrests, so double down. That means it's
going to go to eighteen hundred. It better you better
not be wasting a whole lot of time. It's pretty
impossible to increase law enforcement and not run into criminals.
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Like there's so much crime going on in Los Angeles,
there's so much crime going on in San Diego, there's
so much.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Crime going on in Sacramento. Where else is he going?
The Bay Area?
Speaker 3 (22:56):
So not just Oakland, all right, So he's going state wide,
but a lot of major cities.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
On the coast.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Like I noticed, he's not going up to Reading. So
I think he's going to find himself in hot water
with the social justice crowd who don't like it when
a lot of people get arrested.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
But we'll see.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
But I'm here to tell you, and I pledge this
to you as a Californian and a taxpayer and a Republican,
I didn't vote for Newsom I didn't vote for him
both times, and I voted for him to be recalled.
But if he wants to all of a sudden come
to the party and provide what I believe is the
number one thing the government should be doing for me,
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and that is keeping me safe and keeping the public safe,
and restoring law and order to my cities, in my
streets where I can walk around with my children in
my own city and not stumble on a homeless person,
step on on a hypodermic needle, or worried about getting mugged, robbed, carjacked,
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or having my property stolen or having my car broke
it into.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
If he can accomplish that, then he's going to get
all my accolades.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
And I think this is going to be an interesting
couple of years. This is going to be an interesting
cycle as Newsom is chasing Trump's success. And make no
mistake about it, what Trump has done in DC, those
early moments of him federalizing the Federal City.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
Everybody was outraged. Oh my god, unprecedented.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
I must have heard the word unprecedented sixteen times in
eighteen minutes.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Unprecedented.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Never before as the president of the United States federalized
the police department in the Federal City.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Well can he do it?
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Well, technically, Wolf, he can't do it. But it's never
been done before. The Trump effectively takes over the police
department of DC, DC a third world hellhole. Trust me,
I worked there, and within hours, I mean seventy two
hours later, the we're like three hundred arrests and eighty
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arrests of illegals, and some of the illegals were gang members,
and like eighty six weapons were taking off the street
and carjacking went down, you know, forty six percent. And
then within the week carjacking was down eighty six percent,
violent crime down, assault with the deadly.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Weapon down, people going it.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
You know, it's warm and muggy in DC this time
of year, which is why Congress is not in session,
and people go outside because it's a little bit cooler
outside than it is inside, and they go jogging around
them all. Can't do that in DC because it's a
third world hell hole. Now you can. And I have
friends of mine, staffers that work for members of even
members of Congress, are out there sending selfies to themselves
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walking around at night, walking home from dinner.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
And because it's the nation's capital.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
There are news outlets right there, right in the heart of.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
DC, ABC, NBCCBS, Fox.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
They're all right, and all the reporters are there, so
it's impossible to avoid the success that the president is
happening with respect the law enforcement. So if the governor
wants to mimic that and try and one up Trump,
we can make California safer, then you can make DC.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
I'm all for it. It's a race to the top
of quality.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Of life, and that's one thing I think Republicans and
Democrats and independents in LA can agree on. Lou Penrose
Info John Cobelt on The John Cobelt Show on KFI
AM six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 6 (26:36):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
Lou Penrose Info.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
John Cobelt on The John Cobelt Show, John back on Tuesday.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Monday is Labor Day.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Best of John Cobelt on Monday, and he has all
kinds of examples on how Governor Govenusom is truly the
world's largest political chameleon.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
So I urge you to stay tuned for that on Monday.
A great show by the way.
Speaker 13 (27:05):
A side note on the newsom they're increasing and doubling
down on the law enforcement efforts and arresting a lot
of people.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
I have a feeling he did.
Speaker 13 (27:12):
That before with the crime rings and basically they get arrested,
but then he doesn't prosecute.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
He lets him all go.
Speaker 13 (27:20):
So he's touting the arrest and the law enforcement and
then letting him all go like a liberal.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
Yeah, I appreciate the call. Look, we need to start somewhere.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
So if the governor has decided that arresting people needs
to happen, because we're doubling down on our nine thousands,
so nine thousand, double down.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
So it's eighteen thousand. I know, I said it's eighteen thousand.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
So if he wants to get more people arrested, I'm
all for it. Now, the DA is the one that charges,
Like the comps are only in charge of wrestling people
to the ground, hitting them over the head of the
billy club and getting him in the handcuffs and getting
out back in the squad car. Then what happens to
them is not the comps fault. Then the DA charges them.
(28:06):
Right then you got judges that sentence or suspend sentences.
And then you have Democrats and Sacramento that don't want.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
People to sit in jail. So there's lots of layers
to this.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
But it wouldn't matter if we had tougher judges if
nobody was arresting anybody.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
To see what I'm.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Saying, So it starts with the governor wanting to arrest people.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
Now, whether he wants to arrest more people.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Because he wants to arrest more people, or he wants
to arrest more people because he wants to look more
like Donald Trump, I don't know. I suspect it's the latter.
I don't care because I win.
Speaker 12 (28:48):
Here's the problem I have with this fighting crime. Who
they're letting now out of the prisons unbelievable and almost
two hundred billion to keep on this fantasy fast rail.
But we can't afford to prisons. We have to close
them down, letting people who have committed crimes that weren't
prosecuted in prison get out. I mean, fight on crime,
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please do the maw.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
Yeah, I appreciate the call.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
I have grown to not have a healthy respect for rehabilitation.
I just I mean I used to root for rehabilitation.
We used to call these places Department of Rehabilitation. And
I've spent an awful long time hanging around newsrooms at
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radio stations doing talk radio, and you know, before the show,
you sit around the newsroom and you hear a lot
about crime, and you hear a lot about criminals and
the kinds of horrible things they do, and then you
hear about them getting released and serving time and what
had recidivism and all these things.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
And I'm not a student of it, but.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Tangentially I get a lot of it just hanging around
the newsroom and just my own wits and my own
kind of thoughts on it. I'm here to tell you
I don't think people are getting rehabilitated. I don't think
anything that goes on in prison is rehabilitating.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
And I'm not sure.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
I personally don't have the bandwidth to wait around for
them to get rehabilitated.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
And I don't know that as a society we have
the tools to rehabilitate them.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
We certainly have not agreed on the methods of rehabilitation.
So in the absence of that, the best we can
do is to keep them away from us for as
long as we can, as arbitrary and capricious as that is.
The guy's a bad guy, hits people over the head,
robs people, assaults people. Why does he do that, LOUI
(30:45):
you need to look at the core problems. No, I don't,
I really don't. Most of us don't assault people. Most
of us don't rob a bank. Most of us get.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Through our whole lives and not cardjack. Imagine that.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Imagine living your whole life and not once carjacking.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
So most of us are able to pull it off.
I don't know what's wrong with these people.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Many of us have had challenging childhoods and still don't
murder people. Some of us have had wonderful childhoods and
murder our parents and then every combination in between.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
So most of us are not criminals. In fact, it's
like less than three percent.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
I think we could probably increase that number of incarcerated
people from three percent to eight percent, and I'd be
fine with it.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
Like, why do I need these people walking around our streets?
Why instead of.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Spending time worrying about why they committed the crime and
how unfair it is.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Because they're just a function.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Or they're of their environment, they're a product of their upbringing,
about babook just drowm and jail.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
And let's enjoy our city.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
And after jail time they've had a goodly amount of
time to think about it.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
If they're better, they're better, and if they're not, they
were at least away from us for as long as
we could. So that's kind of where I'm at with
respect to the whole jail thing.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
Like, there have always been criminals in harsh societies, there
are criminals. There are people that get caned in Singapore
and people still commit crimes. Caning and they commit crimes.
So de terrence don't work. I remind you, for those
of you that are Catholic, I'm Catholic. Jesus was crucified
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between two thieves, crucified. The punishment for stealing was crucifixion,
and people still stole.
Speaker 4 (33:02):
So I'm not.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
Sure looking at ninety day lock up in County is
at all any deterrent to crime.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
But on we go, Hey, Robert F.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
Kennedy Junior getting an awful lot of heat because he
fired a bunch of people at the CDC and there's
all kinds of outrage.
Speaker 14 (33:17):
Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman Bill Cassidy
is calling on the Health and Human Services Vaccine Committee too,
and definitely postpone the upcoming September meeting until serious oversight
has been conducted.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
So there's a lot of concern now, Like the top rast,
the head of the CDC, top medical advisor, they've all
walked out in protest that the Secretary of Health and
Human Services, Robert F.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
Kennedy Junior, wants to.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Revisit the schedule of vaccines on the new board and
they don't like that. They for whatever reason, I don't
know what harm could come. He's not saying suspend all
the vaccines. He's saying all the new ones that got
rammed through in the eighties and then shortly thereafter we
had all kinds of problems with young people.
Speaker 4 (34:07):
I want to review them, and I.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
Want them under the same strict scrutiny as.
Speaker 4 (34:13):
The first seven vaccines. I don't see the problem with
that at all. But Kennedy really on board with the
whole health thing.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
He's also talking a lot more these days about young
people and inflammation.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Here he is, I'm.
Speaker 8 (34:25):
Looking at kids as I walked through the airports today,
as I walk down the street, and I see these
kids that are just overburdened with mitochondrial challenges, with inflammation.
You can tell from their faces from their body movements,
and I know that that's not how our children are
supposed to look.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
Yeah, and I think he's onto something.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
So we talk about obesity and being overweight a lot
in this country, and for the most part, body fat
is a thing.
Speaker 4 (34:56):
But you could be.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
You could have a fier percentage of body fat than is,
you know, to your liking, and still be healthy. What
he talks about things like inflammation, that's a new discussion
that we are just now starting to have in the
in the health sector. And I know a thing or
two about it. And he's right, Like when you see
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especially children, but it's not just children, even adults, and
you see them and they look misshapened, like if you
have if you're big, then you should be big all over.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Right.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
You have body fat in your wrists, your body fat
in your ankles, your body fat in your fingers, and
your body fat on your stomach. But you see people
and they have like skinny legs and skinny arms, but
their stomach is all ballooned out. That that isn't body fat.
There probably is some body fat in there.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
But that's inflammation. And what he means by inflammation is your.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
Guts are so agitated and inflamed because of toxins and
poisons and all kinds of chemicals from processed food that
when you eat you can't get any nutrients at all.
But the food just kind of slips through you because
of that inflammation. And when that goes on day after
day after day, you're not just getting any nutrients at all.
Speaker 4 (36:11):
So that's why you continue to eat.
Speaker 5 (36:14):
Try.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
Your body is so hard, so struggling to draw some
nutrients out of the little quality of food that you're getting,
and it's just not working.
Speaker 4 (36:23):
So when he talks about it, I hope he does talk.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
More about inflammation because I think that's the next big challenge.
We need to de inflame America so that they can
absorb nutrients and feel better. So think about that going
into your Labor Day holiday weekend. Louke Penrose if for
John Coblt on KFI AM six forty live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
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You can always hear the show live on KFI AM
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It's the John Cobelt Show. Lou Penrose sitting in for
John Covelt this week. John, We'll be back on Tuesday.
Thank you for tuning in. Good to have you along
with us. So Governor Gavenues some announces a CHP led
crime suppression team to be dispatched all across the state
here in Los Angeles, in San Diego, in the Border region,
(00:28):
also San Berdandino, the Inland Empire, Riverside, Sacramento, the Bay Area, everywhere, Bakersfield.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
So he is, in fact getting tough on crime.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
He says there is no correlation between the successes President
Trump is having in getting tough on crime in Washington,
DC and his decision to do this.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
In fact, he said in the press conference that.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
He's always been fighting crime and this is just doubling
down on the efforts. California State Senator Tony Strickland joins us.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Nobody leaves him, Senator, not even the media.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Like at the press conference, he couldn't fend off questions
fast enough, the press that.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Used to let him get away with everything.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
He says that like constantly saying, you got to be
kidding me, Governor, this is obviously an effort to mirror
what President Trump.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Is doing well without questioning.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
In fact, the biggest question that he has to answer
is he didn't fund proposers in thirty six that would
have actually made it safe.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
For all Californians. In fact, it was an initiative to
make crime illegal.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
Again in California, and they got over seventy percent of
the vote. All fifty eight counties voted in the affirmative. I
can't I've been doing this a long time. I can't
recall the last initiative that passed. Even the most liberal
counties of Morne in San Francisco voted for POP thirty six.
And he didn't fund it at all.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
I didn't fund it at all, and.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
The legislature pushed back. Some of the Democrats pushed for
a little bit of money, but the money that they
he agreed to was a slap in the face that
all those Democrats, Independence and Republicans that fought to to
make a public safety a top priority. They only put
one hundred million dollars in for three years and zero
money for probation and What that means is it's a
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central part of the program Prop thirty six, and that
means no accountability. Because if you don't have accountability, what
ends up happening is you just have repeat offenders. And
that's what's frustrating law enforcement. They just keep it as
a revolving door of repeat offenders. And if you don't
have any accountability into the system, you're not going to
keep people safe.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Where is the money coming from for this surge of
crime suppression? Who's paying the CHP the overtime? And I
last time I checked, we were out of money. We're
upside down and nine billion dollars going to medical for undocumented.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Immigrant Well, it wasn't in the budget.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
And I will tell you when I was pushing for
the full funding of Proposition thirty six, I've been taking
a lead on this. I was, you know, the governor
Knews said we don't have the money to keep us safe.
I think the most essential role of government is public safety,
keeping us safe.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
He did have the money.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
He obviously found the money for this this power grab
in terms of redistricting two hundred and fifty million. He
bailed out bart with Bay Area Transit seven hundred and
fifty million, and he put a billion dollars in the
high speed rail on a project that everybody knows and
Sacramento will never be built as proposed to the people
(03:22):
in California.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
So all of a sudden he found a little bit
of money for this. I just think it's not serious.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
He's just trying to mimic President Trump. And I believe,
you know, Governor Newsom.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Doesn't do his job as governor. Every morning he wakes
up to.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
Try to find a formula to make him run for
president of the United States. The problem with that, lou is,
we need a governor. We need someone that was actually
engaged on these very important issues facing Californians, for example, crime, affordability,
to be able to have water storage, infrastructure, the things
that the basic things that people expect from government.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Newsoman is not engaged.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
I've served with five different governors and this is the
worst governor by far, and it's not even close.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
That's a good point.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
He spends an awful lot of time guesting on podcasts,
hosting his own podcast, appearing, you know, on a panel
discussion about how terrible the president is, or I mean,
if you believe that he's in charge of his own
X account. He's got to be spending a lot of
time on his phone coming up with you know, sarcastic
(04:29):
little comments and digs on Governor Abbit. I mean, really,
it's quite incredible when you consider that between the press conferences,
the podcast, the podcast appearances.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
When is he governing? What do you see him in Sacramento?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Ever?
Speaker 5 (04:42):
No, No, In fact, again I have a unique experience
because I have served with five different governors.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
This is the most aloof governor.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
He's not engaged on the important issues station everyday Californians.
And that's my biggest beef. Stop worrying about what's going
on in Texas, or in Illinois, or or in Louisiana
the governor in California.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
We need a leader.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
And in fact, I think we're one leader away from
prosperity here in California. But so many things are on
the wrong track here because we don't We're ruddless. We
don't have a leader. He's not doing the job that
he was elected to do to be governor of California.
And every morning I firmly believe he looks in the
mirror and says, what are we going to do today
to try to become president of the United States.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
The bad thing about that is he's not.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Doing the things that people expect from our state. This
is the first time in California history more lead people
are leaving the state than coming in since the gold Rush.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
It's all based on the lack of leaders. They've come
right from the governor Instant's office.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
So that's interesting that you said that, because I agree
with that notion. We're one leader away from having a
fantastic state and having a lot of our problems solved.
And I'm wondering if his action, his his ambition, his
his presidential ambition, and the neglect to the state hasn't
opened the door for that leader to emerge.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
I mean he could, because I don't think he cares
at all.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
I don't think he cares if the next governor of
California is a Republican or Democrat.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
I think he only cares about avenues.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
I concur with that.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
And I do believe that a leader will emerge here
in California. It's too much of a special place to
go with someone like this that just isn't doing the
job people expect from government. Like I said, the most
central role of governments of public safety. It should have
been the first thing that was funded in the budget
this year. Again, seventy percent of Californias, that means an
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overwhelming amount of Democrats, Independence and Republicans said they want
to make a public safety a top priority. And seventy
percent of the vote all fifty eight counties voting the
affirmative that they want to make crime illegal again. And
here we have a governor that just ignores seventy percent
of the vote and doesn't fund it, but he funds
a high speed rail over over a billion dollars, and
he funds this redistricing power grab at two hundred and
(06:57):
fifty million dollars. That just tells you that he's out
of touch with everyday citizens in California. And what people
expect they should expect from government is to keep them safe,
to make sure we have enough energy and power. When
you turn on the light, the lights go on. And
then when we have water wet years last two or
three years, when we have those fires, those reservoirs have
(07:18):
been full of water and they were empty. When you
turn on a fire hydrant, water's supposed to come out.
It's the basics that this governor's not getting done, and
that's why I'm looking forward to hopefully we get a
new leader to come in here to be able to
actually do the job of governor, because that's what we need.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
We need a governor.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
California State Senator Tony Strickland, thanks so much for spending
your Friday with us.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
We do appreciate the update. Have yourself a fantastic Labor
Day weekend, and we'll be in touch.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Thanks LOUI for having me on. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Goes Tony Strickland.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
So, the issue of crime when polled, CNN had a
very interesting poll. Harry Enton is the polling analyst over
at CNN and he has some really interesting numbers. Trump
came into office with some strong polling numbers on other
issues crime and law enforcement. Domestic law enforcement wasn't really
(08:10):
on the radar. Now those numbers are flipped and I'll
share them with you. That's coming up next. Lou Penrose
in for John Cobelt on The John Cobelt Show on
KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Lou Penrose sitting in for John coblt.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
John will be back with you on Tuesday, talking about
California Governor Gavin Newsom's new surge of crime suppression here
in Los Angeles and all across the state. The new
get tough on crime Gavin. So, a lot of criticism
about the mimicking of the Trump effort here is you know,
(08:55):
when reporters now in California are starting to challenge the governor,
it is interesting. I think this governor is not used
to being challenged. I think Democrats in this state are
not used to being challenged by reporters and by the media,
and now they, at least in Newsom's case, in this
latest effort, he has become so transparent, so clearly trying
(09:19):
to jump on the Trump crackdown on crime bandwagon that
they cannot help. But ask him, Governor, how can you
say you're not trying to mimic what the Trump administration
is doing.
Speaker 7 (09:34):
The governor announcing he's stepping up the state's law enforcement
presidence in major cities across California to crack down on crime,
days after President Donald Trump said he'd do something similar
with federal officers.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Yeah, so there's a case. CRA's Ashley Zavala. She is
one of the top political reporters up in Sacramento, and
she's making the case that this is days after President
Trump said the same thing across the country.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
So we're not reacting funding anything.
Speaker 8 (10:03):
The contrary.
Speaker 7 (10:04):
The governor said, it's to build on public safety world
his administration.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Has been doing since he took office.
Speaker 7 (10:09):
But the announcement and the setting the latest that appeared
to taunt the President and Republicans.
Speaker 8 (10:15):
Just look at the murder rate that's nearly four times
higher than in Californias in Louisiana.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Right, So he's talking about Louisiana because the Speaker of
the House, Mike Johnson, is from Louisiana. And so I
don't know if you follow Gavenusom on social media.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
I do.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
I follow him personally, him governor and him his press office,
and a lot of time is spent trying to talk
about how there's no crime in California and Louisiana is
the murder capital of the world. That's if somebody from
Louisiana in politics says anything, If somebody in politics from Texas,
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like the Texas governor says something immediately, Governor Gavenussom in
one of those three vehicles personal official or through his
press office, will take a shot at Texas and say
Texas is a homicide capital of the world, and there
are no deaths here in California, and they're always so extreme.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
You just heard it there.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Louisiana's has a fort the murder rate is four times
out of California. Does anybody believe that? How many people
that you how many people do you know? How many
new neighbors do you have from Louisiana that moved to
Los Angeles specifically to be safer.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
I mean, it's just it's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
But CNN's Harry Enton, he's the political analyst over there,
always really good, does great polling and really gets snapshot polling,
so right when an issue is hot, he's able to
get it out and get some decent polling numbers on it.
And he said, look, there's no secret that Newsom.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Is now a crime fighter.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
There's no secret that he wants to increase crime suppression units.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
This is not a secret.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Crime is working for Republicans crime and like the fighting
of crime, the reduction of crime.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
In the case of Washington, d C. The elimination of homicide.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
This is very popular Americans, by and large, Republicans, Democrats,
and independents like it when crime is eliminated or greatly reduced.
And everybody, whether you are a Republican or a Democrat
running for mayor or governor or whatever, always says you're
going to get tough on crime. So what are the
results In major cities in the United States that are
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run by Democrats.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
They're third world hellholes. And the one major city.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Where the effective chief of police is the president of
the United States, President Trump became effectively the chief of
police of.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
DC see and crime is plummeted. And since it's our
nation's capital.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
There are news organizations there so they cannot help but
to report it. So it was the perfect model and
the perfect showcase for President Trump to pull off the unthinkable,
and that is make the nation's capital, which used to
be a third world l.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
A safe place.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
So there's no question that Newsom wants to jump on
that crime fighting bandwagon and see if he can pull
it off too.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
But according to CNN, Democrats.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Need to just come to grips with the fact that
by and large the general public does not believe Democrats
are crime fighters.
Speaker 9 (13:44):
The Democrats have to get it around their heads that
Americans are far more hawkish on crime than they think
that they are. What are we talking about. Trump's not
approval handling crime. He's on the positive side of election.
He's on the positive side at plus one point. Americans
view Trump far more favorable now on crime than they
did a year ago, and Americans for the most part,
actually have vi Trump favorably.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Crime is one of Trump's best issues.
Speaker 9 (14:07):
It's one of the reasons why he wants to talk
about crime because it favors.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
Him and it's good.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Like he wants to talk about his successes in crime
fighting because they are successes. They're not spin It's not
like Gavin Newsom trying to pretend that Alabama is the
murder capital of the world, when the reality is most
of Alabama is pretty safe, not going to be wanting
to do any breaking and entering on some of those
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good old boys out there out in the rural areas.
But Birmingham, the capital, which is a blue city run
by a Democrat, has a high murder rate, high homicide.
And that's the way it goes with every one of
those red states that he talks about. He mentioned Louisiana
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right in that press conference with Ashley's Zavalla from KCRA that, well,
you know they talk about crime, We're good here in
California where they really got crime as Louisiana four times
the murder rate than California. Yeah, New Orleans, run by
a Democrat mayor, is less safe than the rest of
the state. But the state by and large is a
(15:16):
red state. So you can play with numbers if you want.
But those of us here in California that have had
our cars broken into, that have had assaults or no
people that have had carjackings and robberies, property crime, or
just watch TV, watch ABC, NBC, KTLA, Fox, right, I mean,
(15:41):
it's NonStop not a safe place. Nobody moves to downtown
Los Angeles because it is so safe, despite the fact
that the governor's out there trying to pretend that it's
so safe speaking of Louisiana, so that, of course he
mentions Louisiana. Now the Senator from Louisiana taking a shot
at Governor gavenusso Iss Senator Kennedy.
Speaker 10 (16:02):
He has decided to send the state police, California State
Police into his major cities to help local cops fight
crime envirolence. Now, you don't have to be a senior
at cal Tech to know that that's in response to
the Trump administration's threat to send in a federal law
enforcement officials.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
But look, I'll take it.
Speaker 10 (16:22):
If that's what it takes to get Governor Newsom to stop.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Being a princess. I'll take that too.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Called Governor Newsom a princess, unbelievable. Loving the war of
the words across state line. I'm telling you we're in
the Cold Civil War, and the Cold Civil War does
have a bit of comedy to it, Thank goodness. Lou
Penrose in for John Cobelt. I'm the John Cobelt Show
on KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 6 (16:52):
You're listening to John cobelts on demand from KFI.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
A six Lou Penrose in for John Cobelt this week.
John Cobelt will be back on Tuesday. Good to have
you along with us. President Trump is tough on crime. Now,
Gavin Newsom is Trump being Trump Esque and getting tough
on crime, although he says it has nothing to do
with President Trump.
Speaker 11 (17:14):
Governor Gavin Newsom highlighting the success of California Highway Patrol
crime suppression teams deployed last year to Bakersfield, San Bernardino
and Oakland, A.
Speaker 8 (17:22):
Building on the success that is now included over nine
thousand arrests.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
Nine thousand arrests. That's good.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
So I am not going to be like the snowflakes
in Washington, d C And yell at the crime suppression team.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
I'm not going to go down to the corner of
sixth in LA.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
And say, why are we militarizing Los Angeles?
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Shame on you, fascist. That's what they did. That's what
people did.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
All the snowflakes and those with Trump arrangement syndrome in Washington,
DC would go out into the streets and yell at
law enforcement. They don't like President Trump increasing law enforcement.
They don't like him bringing in the National Guard. They
don't like him bringing in immigration and Customs enforcement and
(18:11):
uscis going after the illegals.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
They don't want crime suppressed in DC.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Now, why you would not want carjacking in your city
to go down eighty three percent and homicide.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
To go to zero is beyond me. But this is.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Deranged Democrat lunatics with Trump arrangement syndrome, and I do
not have Newsome derangement syndrome. So, you know what, great
If Newsom wants to double on the efforts. And I
don't know the nine thousand arrests that he talks about,
I don't know what time period that was in nine
(18:52):
thousand arrests in a week, nine thousand arrests? What this year,
since you've been governor, since you've been in public office,
But whatever, any arrest is good. So if you're gonna
double down on that, I expect that number to go
to eighteen hundred arrests, and that's fine.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
I welcome it. You know what, Governor, good for you.
Even though politically.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
I think this looks a little transparent, I am not
gonna be the way the snowflakes are to the Republicans.
I am going to welcome the CHP officers working with
the LAPD, working with the Sheriff's Department, working with Immigration
and Customs enforcement.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
I think this is great. I think this is absolutely great.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
As a Californian and a taxpayer, I win either way.
Either you get tough on crime or Donald Trump sends
in the National Guard. Either way, the crooks get hit
over the head with the billy club and thrown in
the back of the squad car and Jimmy crackcorn And
I don't care.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Newsom is just a copycat, copy and trumping just about
everything that he does. He gets rid of home this
fam Newson want to gets rid of homeless camp.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
He want to get tough on crime.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Newson want to get tough on crime.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Just a copycat, He's just a kid.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Oh my god, I'll tell.
Speaker 11 (20:07):
You what as John, you know, you guys have nothing
better to do, and to say, what are you guys gonna.
Speaker 12 (20:14):
Talk about when kevinus and is no longer in California.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
I don't know what we'll talk about when Newsom is
no longer in California.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Is he leaving California?
Speaker 3 (20:29):
But while he's governor, I have no other option but
to critique, examine, and sometimes criticize the way he's running
the state. But as I said, you're not gonna get
criticism for me. If the governor all of a sudden
has has some kind of law and order epiphany and
(20:53):
wants to crack down on crime, it's gonna be interesting
to see what happens, because you know and I know
that crime is committed disproportionately in California by all kinds
of things, age, geography.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Sometimes race. I mean, there is going to be a.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Disproportionate amount of people of one type of person in
the back of those squad cars. Seems to me, I
don't know how he's going to make it all, you know,
a real mosaic of Californians getting arrested at the same
time so as to not get criticism by some of
(21:39):
his Democrat friends who don't like law enforcement because law
enforcement has a disparate impact on their community. But he's
going to have to face that, Like, there's no way
to drive up that number.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
What do he say that he's doubling down on nine
thousand arrests?
Speaker 11 (21:55):
Govinor Gavin Knew some highlighting the success of California Highway
Patrol crime suppression teams to Floyd last year, to Bakersfield,
Sam Bernardino and Oakland.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
So Bakersfield, Sam Bernardino, and Oakland. That's a decent mosaic.
I see what he did there.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
It's like, let's not focus only on.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Coastal cities because that's gonna get me sideways with a
lot of my Democrats in the Assembly and Senate.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
So it's uh, Sam.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Bernardino, bakers Field and Oakland's that's.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
That's a good mosaic.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
But he got a bunch of people building on this
success that is now included over nine thousand arrests, all right,
So nine thousand arrests, so double down. That means it's
going to go to eighteen hundred. It better you better
not be wasting a whole lot of time. It's pretty
impossible to increase law enforcement and not run into criminals.
(22:47):
Like there's so much crime going on in Los Angeles,
there's so much crime going on in San Diego, there's
so much.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Crime going on in Sacramento. Where else is he going?
The Bay Area?
Speaker 3 (22:56):
So not just Oakland, all right, So he's going state wide,
but a lot of major cities.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
On the coast.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Like I noticed, he's not going up to Reading. So
I think he's going to find himself in hot water
with the social justice crowd who don't like it when
a lot of people get arrested.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
But we'll see.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
But I'm here to tell you, and I pledge this
to you as a Californian and a taxpayer and a Republican,
I didn't vote for Newsom I didn't vote for him
both times, and I voted for him to be recalled.
But if he wants to all of a sudden come
to the party and provide what I believe is the
number one thing the government should be doing for me,
(23:42):
and that is keeping me safe and keeping the public safe,
and restoring law and order to my cities, in my
streets where I can walk around with my children in
my own city and not stumble on a homeless person,
step on on a hypodermic needle, or worried about getting mugged, robbed, carjacked,
(24:04):
or having my property stolen or having my car broke
it into.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
If he can accomplish that, then he's going to get
all my accolades.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
And I think this is going to be an interesting
couple of years. This is going to be an interesting
cycle as Newsom is chasing Trump's success. And make no
mistake about it, what Trump has done in DC, those
early moments of him federalizing the Federal City.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
Everybody was outraged. Oh my god, unprecedented.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
I must have heard the word unprecedented sixteen times in
eighteen minutes.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Unprecedented.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Never before as the president of the United States federalized
the police department in the Federal City.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Well can he do it?
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Well, technically, Wolf, he can't do it. But it's never
been done before. The Trump effectively takes over the police
department of DC, DC a third world hellhole. Trust me,
I worked there, and within hours, I mean seventy two
hours later, the we're like three hundred arrests and eighty
(25:03):
arrests of illegals, and some of the illegals were gang members,
and like eighty six weapons were taking off the street
and carjacking went down, you know, forty six percent. And
then within the week carjacking was down eighty six percent,
violent crime down, assault with the deadly.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Weapon down, people going it.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
You know, it's warm and muggy in DC this time
of year, which is why Congress is not in session,
and people go outside because it's a little bit cooler
outside than it is inside, and they go jogging around
them all. Can't do that in DC because it's a
third world hell hole. Now you can. And I have
friends of mine, staffers that work for members of even
members of Congress, are out there sending selfies to themselves
(25:44):
walking around at night, walking home from dinner.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
And because it's the nation's capital.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
There are news outlets right there, right in the heart of.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
DC, ABC, NBCCBS, Fox.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
They're all right, and all the reporters are there, so
it's impossible to avoid the success that the president is
happening with respect the law enforcement. So if the governor
wants to mimic that and try and one up Trump,
we can make California safer, then you can make DC.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
I'm all for it. It's a race to the top
of quality.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Of life, and that's one thing I think Republicans and
Democrats and independents in LA can agree on. Lou Penrose
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Speaker 6 (26:36):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
Lou Penrose Info.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
John Cobelt on The John Cobelt Show, John back on Tuesday.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Monday is Labor Day.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Best of John Cobelt on Monday, and he has all
kinds of examples on how Governor Govenusom is truly the
world's largest political chameleon.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
So I urge you to stay tuned for that on Monday.
A great show by the way.
Speaker 13 (27:05):
A side note on the newsom they're increasing and doubling
down on the law enforcement efforts and arresting a lot
of people.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
I have a feeling he did.
Speaker 13 (27:12):
That before with the crime rings and basically they get arrested,
but then he doesn't prosecute.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
He lets him all go.
Speaker 13 (27:20):
So he's touting the arrest and the law enforcement and
then letting him all go like a liberal.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
Yeah, I appreciate the call. Look, we need to start somewhere.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
So if the governor has decided that arresting people needs
to happen, because we're doubling down on our nine thousands,
so nine thousand, double down.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
So it's eighteen thousand. I know, I said it's eighteen thousand.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
So if he wants to get more people arrested, I'm
all for it. Now, the DA is the one that charges,
Like the comps are only in charge of wrestling people
to the ground, hitting them over the head of the
billy club and getting him in the handcuffs and getting
out back in the squad car. Then what happens to
them is not the comps fault. Then the DA charges them.
(28:06):
Right then you got judges that sentence or suspend sentences.
And then you have Democrats and Sacramento that don't want.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
People to sit in jail. So there's lots of layers
to this.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
But it wouldn't matter if we had tougher judges if
nobody was arresting anybody.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
To see what I'm.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Saying, So it starts with the governor wanting to arrest people.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
Now, whether he wants to arrest more people.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Because he wants to arrest more people, or he wants
to arrest more people because he wants to look more
like Donald Trump, I don't know. I suspect it's the latter.
I don't care because I win.
Speaker 12 (28:48):
Here's the problem I have with this fighting crime. Who
they're letting now out of the prisons unbelievable and almost
two hundred billion to keep on this fantasy fast rail.
But we can't afford to prisons. We have to close
them down, letting people who have committed crimes that weren't
prosecuted in prison get out. I mean, fight on crime,
(29:08):
please do the maw.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
Yeah, I appreciate the call.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
I have grown to not have a healthy respect for rehabilitation.
I just I mean I used to root for rehabilitation.
We used to call these places Department of Rehabilitation. And
I've spent an awful long time hanging around newsrooms at
(29:33):
radio stations doing talk radio, and you know, before the show,
you sit around the newsroom and you hear a lot
about crime, and you hear a lot about criminals and
the kinds of horrible things they do, and then you
hear about them getting released and serving time and what
had recidivism and all these things.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
And I'm not a student of it, but.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Tangentially I get a lot of it just hanging around
the newsroom and just my own wits and my own
kind of thoughts on it. I'm here to tell you
I don't think people are getting rehabilitated. I don't think
anything that goes on in prison is rehabilitating.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
And I'm not sure.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
I personally don't have the bandwidth to wait around for
them to get rehabilitated.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
And I don't know that as a society we have
the tools to rehabilitate them.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
We certainly have not agreed on the methods of rehabilitation.
So in the absence of that, the best we can
do is to keep them away from us for as
long as we can, as arbitrary and capricious as that is.
The guy's a bad guy, hits people over the head,
robs people, assaults people. Why does he do that, LOUI
(30:45):
you need to look at the core problems. No, I don't,
I really don't. Most of us don't assault people. Most
of us don't rob a bank. Most of us get.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Through our whole lives and not cardjack. Imagine that.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Imagine living your whole life and not once carjacking.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
So most of us are able to pull it off.
I don't know what's wrong with these people.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Many of us have had challenging childhoods and still don't
murder people. Some of us have had wonderful childhoods and
murder our parents and then every combination in between.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
So most of us are not criminals. In fact, it's
like less than three percent.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
I think we could probably increase that number of incarcerated
people from three percent to eight percent, and I'd be
fine with it.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
Like, why do I need these people walking around our streets?
Why instead of.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Spending time worrying about why they committed the crime and
how unfair it is.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Because they're just a function.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Or they're of their environment, they're a product of their upbringing,
about babook just drowm and jail.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
And let's enjoy our city.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
And after jail time they've had a goodly amount of
time to think about it.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
If they're better, they're better, and if they're not, they
were at least away from us for as long as
we could. So that's kind of where I'm at with
respect to the whole jail thing.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
Like, there have always been criminals in harsh societies, there
are criminals. There are people that get caned in Singapore
and people still commit crimes. Caning and they commit crimes.
So de terrence don't work. I remind you, for those
of you that are Catholic, I'm Catholic. Jesus was crucified
(32:48):
between two thieves, crucified. The punishment for stealing was crucifixion,
and people still stole.
Speaker 4 (33:02):
So I'm not.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
Sure looking at ninety day lock up in County is
at all any deterrent to crime.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
But on we go, Hey, Robert F.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
Kennedy Junior getting an awful lot of heat because he
fired a bunch of people at the CDC and there's
all kinds of outrage.
Speaker 14 (33:17):
Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman Bill Cassidy
is calling on the Health and Human Services Vaccine Committee too,
and definitely postpone the upcoming September meeting until serious oversight
has been conducted.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
So there's a lot of concern now, Like the top rast,
the head of the CDC, top medical advisor, they've all
walked out in protest that the Secretary of Health and
Human Services, Robert F.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
Kennedy Junior, wants to.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Revisit the schedule of vaccines on the new board and
they don't like that. They for whatever reason, I don't
know what harm could come. He's not saying suspend all
the vaccines. He's saying all the new ones that got
rammed through in the eighties and then shortly thereafter we
had all kinds of problems with young people.
Speaker 4 (34:07):
I want to review them, and I.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
Want them under the same strict scrutiny as.
Speaker 4 (34:13):
The first seven vaccines. I don't see the problem with
that at all. But Kennedy really on board with the
whole health thing.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
He's also talking a lot more these days about young
people and inflammation.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Here he is, I'm.
Speaker 8 (34:25):
Looking at kids as I walked through the airports today,
as I walk down the street, and I see these
kids that are just overburdened with mitochondrial challenges, with inflammation.
You can tell from their faces from their body movements,
and I know that that's not how our children are
supposed to look.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
Yeah, and I think he's onto something.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
So we talk about obesity and being overweight a lot
in this country, and for the most part, body fat
is a thing.
Speaker 4 (34:56):
But you could be.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
You could have a fier percentage of body fat than is,
you know, to your liking, and still be healthy. What
he talks about things like inflammation, that's a new discussion
that we are just now starting to have in the
in the health sector. And I know a thing or
two about it. And he's right, Like when you see
(35:20):
especially children, but it's not just children, even adults, and
you see them and they look misshapened, like if you
have if you're big, then you should be big all over.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Right.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
You have body fat in your wrists, your body fat
in your ankles, your body fat in your fingers, and
your body fat on your stomach. But you see people
and they have like skinny legs and skinny arms, but
their stomach is all ballooned out. That that isn't body fat.
There probably is some body fat in there.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
But that's inflammation. And what he means by inflammation is your.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
Guts are so agitated and inflamed because of toxins and
poisons and all kinds of chemicals from processed food that
when you eat you can't get any nutrients at all.
But the food just kind of slips through you because
of that inflammation. And when that goes on day after
day after day, you're not just getting any nutrients at all.
Speaker 4 (36:11):
So that's why you continue to eat.
Speaker 5 (36:14):
Try.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
Your body is so hard, so struggling to draw some
nutrients out of the little quality of food that you're getting,
and it's just not working.
Speaker 4 (36:23):
So when he talks about it, I hope he does talk.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
More about inflammation because I think that's the next big challenge.
We need to de inflame America so that they can
absorb nutrients and feel better. So think about that going
into your Labor Day holiday weekend. Louke Penrose if for
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