February 18, 2025 • 29 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (02/18) - Todd Bensman comes on the show to talk about why ICE has been cuffing and shackling some deportees. Kamala Harris tossed another word salad! Gas prices continue to rise. Carl DeMaio questioned Newsom's office on how much money we are going to spend on illegal immigrant healthcare.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John
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(00:20):
have a new Kamala Harris word salad. Very disturbed because
there are so many silly people in the state. In
a Democratic poll, fifty seven percent said they would vote
for Kamala Harris to be the Democratic nominee for governor
fifty seven percent. Next closest person was at nine percent.
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And she hasn't announced, no idea what you do, but
I think people need to be reminded of just what
she is. And so we have a Kamala Harris word
salad that's going to be served up. It's a fresh one.
It was made in New York City. She went to
Broadway show, explain to you the details and serve the
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salad coming up in just about ten to fifteen minutes.
It seems that the idiot progressives who tried to destroy
the country are still angry over things they're very upset
that you have illegal aliens, now criminal aliens being deported,
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and some of them shackled and handcuffed, they're put on planes.
We're going to talk to Todd Bensman now, who's at
the border reporting. He's for Center for Immigration Studies, and
he writes from New York Post, Daily Mail and other places. Todd,
how are you doing great?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Thanks for having me. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Are you at the border still?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
No? No, I'm in Texas, Austin Texas, but not near
the border.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
I was going to say, you'd be awfully lonely if
you were still there.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Did you see they closed the border in about an hour.
It's about how long it took. They didn't need a
big Senate bill, and they didn't need to rebuild other
countries and address root causes. And none of that stuff
was true. They just simply flipped the switch like they
always could have.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
It was all lies and nonsense, wasn't it?
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Nonsense? All of it? I mean the worst thing about
it is, you know, I knew it the whole time.
Every time I heard it, every time I saw the
country half the country believe in it. I you know,
it would just outrage. It was outraging, you know, the
whole thing. Listening to that, I knew it would take
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about all of about an hour.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Boll was it for decades? The Republicans were in on
it too. I remember about twenty years ago there was
this congressman here in California, David Dryer, and he'd come
on and he'd blow viate for ten or fifteen minutes,
and it was all about the root causes, how we
have to spend billions of dollars developing these economies in
Central America. And it was just total nonsense. I was
(03:01):
just no, you just close the border. You don't have
to develop anybody's economy. That's up, that's up to them.
Separate issue.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
The real trick is the real the real magic elixir
is just that you spell detain and deport rather than
let everybody in. It's that simple.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yeah. Well, now apparently some of the uh criminal aliens
that Trump is deporting are are getting handcuffed and shackled,
and this is causing some issues. What's going on?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Yeah, So Border Patrol Chief Agent Michael Banks made the mistake,
I guess, I mean I thought he was he thought
he was doing something kind of cool. He put out
video of Indian deportees boarding a flight to New Delhi
deportation flight and they were shackled and had leg restraints,
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and this set off an absolute, uh you know, outrage
party in India. I mean all the way to the president,
every lawmaker, the whole country is completely outraged over this.
We heard this already from Columbia's president when we tried
to send Colombian deportees by air to his to his country,
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turned the flights around that sort of thing because it
was humiliating that they were in leg irons. And American
progressives are always complaining about this is terrible thing that
they're doing. So I thought I'd write a story about
why we do that. And the reason is because just
a few years ago, remember the mass migration, the big
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Haitian migrant crisis, where fifteen thousands showed up under the
bridge in Del Rio, Texas, just ahead of the twenty
twenty two campaign season, and they had their liquidata fast
and they decided to go full Trump by doing air
deportation flights, and they started putting the Haitian on board
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these flights unrestrained and they rioted at forty thousand feet
tore everything up on anything that was destroyable, they destroyed
it on that plane, pulled the cushions off, the stuffing
out of the cushions, the overhead bins, ripped them all apart,
food everywhere, just destroyed the entire thing. And then it
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kept going like that. Another group tried to hijack a plane,
tried to get the pilots by force to take them
back to the United States. They attacked ice agents, They
mutinied on the buses that were taking them to the
airfield to overtaking the driver and seizing the buses and
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escaping into the desert and all that sort of thing.
And it just went on and on like that. And
that's why even the Biden administration at that time instituted
leg irons and hand cuffs, because you can't trust that
they're not going to kill everybody on a plane or
hijack the plane or hurt somebody. So that's the story
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that I tell in the New York Posts piece. I
was at the camp through the entire time. I covered it,
and I was there and I interviewed one of the
pilots who showed me all the cell phone pictures that
he had on his phone. And told me about the
terror of being in the pilot's cabin with just a
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thin door separating them in flight from their insane passengers.
So that's why we do it. I thought i'd remind
people that you have to do this or risk everybody's life.
You can't trust that they're not going to try to
overtake the plane.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Right and crash it. Yeah, because people probably think that
the pilots are sealed off the way they are on
commercial jets, but that's not the case. That's not what
you're flying in. It's just a thin door, and these
crazy people can easily break in and take out the plane, right.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
So that's that's all. And I'm just trying to point
out that, you know, there's really good reasons for why
dhs and it wasn't Trump that came up with this either.
This was happened in the Biden administration. They always use that.
And I want to point out one other thing that
you know, they're deporting the worst first under the Trump
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two point zero. That means criminal aliens make up the
bulk of these deportees, and that category of deporte is
probably the most unstable and untrustworthy of them all the
Haitians did that. They weren't even they weren't criminal aliens
as far as we knew. They were just in the
country illegally. These ones are criminal aliens coming out of
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jail for fellon and out of prisons and that sort
of thing. I've wanted, warrants and things like that. Too
bad if you don't like it, But they're going to
keep doing it. They have to keep doing it.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Yeah, And the Colombian president and the Indian officials, they
didn't know this, I guess.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
No nobody knew. The story of what happened in twenty
twenty one during the Del Real migrant crisis has never
been told except in my book, chapter seventeen of Overrun,
where I go into elaborate detail of what happened there.
That's why I know about this, to be able to
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explain to the American people why we have to use
leg irons and cuffs on some of them. We don't
do it for all of them, obviously, not the children, or.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
We're dealing with nasty lifetime criminals here. I don't understand
the objections unless your goal is to completely undermine our civilization.
But nobody should have an objection to the way we're
treating these criminal aliens.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
That is the goal, you know, to try to trump
up like some kind of injustice inhumanity about the flights.
So to stop the flights. Let's not do the flights anymore,
is the argument for bringing this up.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Well, Todd, very good, fascinating stuff. I'd never heard these
stories before. And if you want to read his piece,
it's in the New York Post. Todd Bensman, Senior National
Security Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, Thanks for
coming on.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Again, Thanks for having me anytime.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
All right, we will have a Kamala Harris word salad
for mid afternoon snack. It's coming up next to you.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Kamala Harris goes to Broadway. There's a new musical called
A Wonderful World, the Louis Armstrong musical, a lot of
Louis Armstrong songs, and she showed up backstage and wanted
to deliver an inspirational speech to the cast members. You
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kind of have to see this to get the full impact.
We have audio, but if you look at this and
the way she well, she's either drunk or high. Absolutely,
I have been around enough drunk people in my life
and high people. She's I would vote for drunk, but
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you know, I can't do a blood alcohol test on her.
And she's the only, like major public figure where I
always get that reaction is like, is she drinking? And
it's because her delivery and the way she moves her
head and then try to follow what she says. Here
play cut too.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
For those rights to be maintained, which means we have
to be vigilant. And it's just the nature of it.
I mean what I mean in this beautiful play, and
everyone let me know, ha handed that he was surprising.
He had to suppress so much he knew, and you
know he shook those risks. But we have to we
have to pick a clear eye. And it doesn't mean
we don't see the beauty and everything right, these things
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all coexist, but I believe we fight for something, not
against it. And that's.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
What did I miss?
Speaker 5 (11:47):
What they were agreed?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Mmm? She was? She was.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
She was just saying random phrases. And you got to
watch her though, because her head kind of tilts and
loops around and her eyes look like they're gonna roll
in the back of her head. Her hair looked all disheveled. Yeah,
it looks like she just woke up off the sofa,
and like they're just empty wine bottles scattered all of
the carpet, and she mumbles some nonsense to them, and
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they're all whom and then they started plotting. Maybe they're
happy it was over. I don't know, what do you do?
Kamala Harris walks in and it's like, you gotta be
nice to her. I guess right, I don't know, Governor
of California. Seriously, we have to start taking voting rights away.
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In addition to deporting people, deporting American citizens, some American
citizens need to lose their right to vote.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
If you were king, if I was king.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
And I'm thinking about it, I am thinking about becoming king.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Yah.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
I'm not going to tell you how I do it,
because then I get arrested or investigated.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
Would you wear a dime and encrusted.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
I'd wear yeah, of course, I'd wear a long gown
and a sash. In fact, you know the way you
dressed me up for postathon postathon. Sure, I'd let you
be the.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
I'd be the I'd be the decoration John of John.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Yeah, the costume design. Yes you could, you could, uh
select my robes, my ruling robes.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
I will charge for that.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
That's are I'm king. I'm going to create my own money.
I'll create my own uh the cryptocurrency with my face
on it. Call it a cob belt coin, cob coin.
That is what I think about at home, actually really
yea being a shower in the shower, think about wearing
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a robe and a scepter. So that's what I need
as well. Oh the crown, and I just fantasized about
the porting people.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
That's what you fantasize about.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
It, Yes, taking away their their constitutional rights, the rights
of and then remaking society the way I wish it
would be. Is there a burger on top of your scepter?
There might be? All right, we got more coming up.
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are hosting it and it's CAFI listeners that are coming.
If you want to get more information, we're gonna have
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This is the kind of thing I really like to do,
so I want you to come and you can get
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dot com slash Iceland and we're going with the collect
Travel Agency. This is frightening. I'm gonna give a list
of countries. I'll let you think for a moment, what
they have in common, because California may be joining them
in this regard. If I say Russia, China, Venezuela, and Iran,
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what do you think four places you don't want to
live in, right, four oppressive regimes. Well, they all control
the oil industry, They own the oil refineries. And that's
what California, that's what California politicians want to do. Seriously,
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in Sacramento, they Newsom's crowd wants to take over the
oil industry here in the state, just like they do
in Iran, Venezuela, Russia, and China. When I've told you
that these people are slowly checking the boxes in the
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communist socialist playbook, you probably think it's hyperbole. It's not.
They're doing it slowly. It's the old boiling a frog routine.
Happens really slowly. Frog doesn't notice it until it's too late.
But in Sacramento they're considering state ownership of one or
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more oil refineries. What they've done one is so many
stupid regulations, so many stupid taxes, that the oil companies
have been closing the refineries. In fact, two more are
closing very soon, and that only leaves eight. We used
to have several dozen the major oil companies still refining oil, Chevron, Marathon,
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Phillips sixty six PBF Energy, and Valero. But Phillips has
two refineries they're closing in the Wilmington Carson area. And
now we're down to eight and one more closure. We
have serious gasoline issues. We already have serious gasoline issues.
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Four eighty nine a gallon for gas for eighty nine.
Hang on, let me.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
Gas prices have been going up. I don't know the
last few weeks. I know there's why we're blend. It's
not summer.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
I don't know why. Yeah, this is the this is
the February blend. I see here. I'm gonna look up
the state averages. Here we go, all right. In Mississippi,
they're selling gas for two sixty seven to sixty seven.
I paid for eighty nine. You know what the California averages. Oh,
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look at that. We're the most expensive in the state
for eighty four.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
We are more expensive. We're thirty cents more expensive than Hawaii.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
It's because of all of our taxes, all the gas taxes.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Right, you are right, you're a good citizen. You know
these things. Most people don't understand, for eighty four gallon
we're paying and in Mississippi to sixty seven. And that's
not an anomaly. Texas is two seventy three, Louisiana's two
seventy five. In fact, most of the time when I
count this stuff, there's thirty states that are probably well. Actually,
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if I look at forty states, let's say less than
three dollars than thirty cents.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
But nothing ever changes here in California. Nothing, It never
gets better.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
And now, because California has destroyed the oil industry, the
refineries have closed their refineries, and now the state is thinking, well,
before they close anymore, we're going to take them over.
I mean, this is classic communist behavior. You think that's
going to go well, you think Kamala Harris can run
an oil refinery.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
John, you have to watch that show I was telling
you land Landman with Billy Bob Thornton. Yeah, it's about
the oil industry, it is. Yeah, I think you'll get
a kick.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Out, all right, I haven't heard of it.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
Yeah on Peacock Plus or Peacock.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
I did. And the only time I hear about paramount
your TV shows is listening to you.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
I know this one I think you should watch.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Chevron and Villain Arrow or contemplating permanent refinery closures. Well,
that's not good. Then we'd have six or maybe less.
We're a gasoline island because in most states in this country,
they have pipelines that connect oil supply, for example, near
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the Gulf of Mexico excuse me, the Gulf of America,
the Gulf of Trump and the pipes come out of
the south there and they go in all directions and
they carry gasoline. And that's why the gasoline is. One
of the reasons it's so cheap. Most of the reason
here is the taxes. No pipelines exist to feed gasoline
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to California from other states. They can't even ship them
by ocean easily because there's some antiquated federal law known
as the Jones Act. I don't know what that does.
I've got to look that up, but it keeps them
from ship Why why is everything stacked against us? We
have a government that taxes the refineries to death, regulates
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them to death. We don't have any pipelines between us
and the other states to get the oil. They can't
do ocean shipments because of some other wacky law, so
only eight percent of the California supply comes from outside California.
The other ninety two percent is nearly produced at is
all produced at California refineries. And there's a huge amount
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of oil and gas below the ground, oil and natural gas.
According to James Gallagher, you know, we had to have
him Enrey, he's the Republican Assembly leader. He says, we're
starting to lose refineries because we've made it so expensive
and impossible to operate in California. Now, after we've chased
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them off, we're talking about taking them over to ensure
there's some supply. They've destroyed an injury an industry. And
then they said, well what are we going to do?
Everybody left and they were told this crowd news. Someome brown.
They were told, if you keep doing this, they'll close
electric vehicles. Yeah, that's that's working out really well, isn't it,
(22:17):
Except they don't have What was that other story I saw?
Do you know they passed a few years ago one
of those big spending bills here It is one of
those big multi hundred billion dollar spending bills three years ago,
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and it was supposed to they were supposed to use
it to install a network of five hundred thousand charging
stations across America, five hundred thousand charging stations, tens of
billions of dollars. You know how many charging stations they
installed in three years? How many fifty eight, fifty eight?
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It is so bad that I love reading columns by
left wing writers, progressive writers, and even there I've read
several of these saying, you know, if we're going to
get these things accomplished that we want accomplished, we have
to execute the plan. If you want people driving electric
cars and you want to save the planner from climate change,
then when you spend the money, you actually have to
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build the charging stations. But they don't. They don't three years,
fifty eight charging stations in all the United States of America.
And I'm trying to find how many, oh five billion dollars,
five billion dollars we got fifty eight charging stations. The
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whole bill was tens of billions dollars. They are They
have all kinds of crazy ideas. They pass restrictive, destructive laws,
and then they fail at the execution of their plan.
They're losers. Progressive politicians are all losers, and all the
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activists and all the staff members all these agencies and
these nonprofits and these think that they're losers and they
need to be deported. How we're paying for eighty four
a gallon and they're paying two sixty something in the South.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
Come on, King, Cobelt has spoken, you.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Need a king. I am down on democracy. Heard you've
heard all these debates right about democracy, dangerous to democracy.
I'm in the camp of like, yeah, let's try something else.
I did democracy does it certainly doesn't work here in California.
We've let the majority run things now and look, we're
we're all going to hell. I'll vote for you, thank you.
(24:50):
I want to be a dictator. I want to be king.
You'll be in my mint, you'll be a minister.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
But I want a high salary and I want to
work from home.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Well, kings usually are corrupt, so you'll get to enjoy
the correction with me. Yeah, okay, cool, Sure, I won't
even call and wake you.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
You can go out and you can go out ride
your bike too. Uh, deb mark Fridays off, Yeah, Fridays
off for bike riding.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty.
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We're on from one until four and then Conway's coming
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Iceland with me. All right, let me see tomorrow on
the show, we are going to have Carl Demayo on
the Assemblyman from the San Diego area Republican and boy,
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he's uh, he's good. He uh, he questioned Gavin Newsom's
office about how much money we're going to spend on
free healthcare for legal aliens. And it turned out that
Newsom miscalculated. Another word, another word for it would be
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he lied. Newsom had claimed that it would cost six
half billion dollars for legal alien health care, but the
true cost is forty six percent more nine and a
half billion dollars. And Carl Demo is going to have
the whole story tomorrow and we'll bring it to you
codways here.
Speaker 6 (27:14):
Hey, now, what's what's the obsession with everybody on that
side of the aisle treating foreigners better than they do Americans?
Speaker 1 (27:24):
I never got that. I don't know. There was a
story today that they were spending money to give people
down payments on their homes, cars, to start businesses, right,
personal loans, I mean, I mean, you name it. And
they spent hundreds of billions of dollars on this.
Speaker 6 (27:42):
And I guess the theory was, you know, if enough
of them, you know, swing and vote towards the Democrats,
that they'll they'll win. They'll never you know, Republicans will
never win another election.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Yeah, well that didn't work, because now most Hispanic men
vote for Trump. I know they tried that one. They
missed college.
Speaker 6 (28:00):
Yeah, all right, Well we got the more information on
the air accident in Toronto. La USD cell phone band
now in effect, so if your kid goes to LAUSD
Noah cell phones AHOI. And then we got this big,
huge game coming up Canada versus the United States in
hockey on Thursday in Boston. It's gonna be a huge game. John,
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I know that you're not a big hockey fan.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Like hockey.
Speaker 6 (28:25):
I love the fact that the Canadians hate Americans because
they always have might A lot of my family's Canadian
and Canadians have always under their breath talked about how
they hate Americans. And I love that now it's out
on the surface, you know, because it's a group of
people that doesn't they don't hate anything, right, and now
they hate us.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
I think it's great. Good there's what three fights in
nine seconds? That's right? Yeah, more competition now, all right,
very good? Yeah? Dig dog with all right, Conway, dig
dog with you. And we've got Eileen Gonzales Eileen Live
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have a new Kamala Harris word salad. Very disturbed because
there are so many silly people in the state. In
a Democratic poll, fifty seven percent said they would vote
for Kamala Harris to be the Democratic nominee for governor
fifty seven percent. Next closest person was at nine percent.
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And she hasn't announced, no idea what you do, but
I think people need to be reminded of just what
she is. And so we have a Kamala Harris word
salad that's going to be served up. It's a fresh one.
It was made in New York City. She went to
Broadway show, explain to you the details and serve the
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salad coming up in just about ten to fifteen minutes.
It seems that the idiot progressives who tried to destroy
the country are still angry over things they're very upset
that you have illegal aliens, now criminal aliens being deported,
(01:25):
and some of them shackled and handcuffed, they're put on planes.
We're going to talk to Todd Bensman now, who's at
the border reporting. He's for Center for Immigration Studies, and
he writes from New York Post, Daily Mail and other places. Todd,
how are you doing great?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Thanks for having me. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Are you at the border still?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
No? No, I'm in Texas, Austin Texas, but not near
the border.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
I was going to say, you'd be awfully lonely if
you were still there.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Did you see they closed the border in about an hour.
It's about how long it took. They didn't need a
big Senate bill, and they didn't need to rebuild other
countries and address root causes. And none of that stuff
was true. They just simply flipped the switch like they
always could have.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
It was all lies and nonsense, wasn't it?
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Nonsense? All of it? I mean the worst thing about
it is, you know, I knew it the whole time.
Every time I heard it, every time I saw the
country half the country believe in it. I you know,
it would just outrage. It was outraging, you know, the
whole thing. Listening to that, I knew it would take
(02:37):
about all of about an hour.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Boll was it for decades? The Republicans were in on
it too. I remember about twenty years ago there was
this congressman here in California, David Dryer, and he'd come
on and he'd blow viate for ten or fifteen minutes,
and it was all about the root causes, how we
have to spend billions of dollars developing these economies in
Central America. And it was just total nonsense. I was
(03:01):
just no, you just close the border. You don't have
to develop anybody's economy. That's up, that's up to them.
Separate issue.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
The real trick is the real the real magic elixir
is just that you spell detain and deport rather than
let everybody in. It's that simple.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yeah. Well, now apparently some of the uh criminal aliens
that Trump is deporting are are getting handcuffed and shackled,
and this is causing some issues. What's going on?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Yeah, So Border Patrol Chief Agent Michael Banks made the mistake,
I guess, I mean I thought he was he thought
he was doing something kind of cool. He put out
video of Indian deportees boarding a flight to New Delhi
deportation flight and they were shackled and had leg restraints,
(03:52):
and this set off an absolute, uh you know, outrage
party in India. I mean all the way to the president,
every lawmaker, the whole country is completely outraged over this.
We heard this already from Columbia's president when we tried
to send Colombian deportees by air to his to his country,
(04:16):
turned the flights around that sort of thing because it
was humiliating that they were in leg irons. And American
progressives are always complaining about this is terrible thing that
they're doing. So I thought I'd write a story about
why we do that. And the reason is because just
a few years ago, remember the mass migration, the big
(04:39):
Haitian migrant crisis, where fifteen thousands showed up under the
bridge in Del Rio, Texas, just ahead of the twenty
twenty two campaign season, and they had their liquidata fast
and they decided to go full Trump by doing air
deportation flights, and they started putting the Haitian on board
(05:00):
these flights unrestrained and they rioted at forty thousand feet
tore everything up on anything that was destroyable, they destroyed
it on that plane, pulled the cushions off, the stuffing
out of the cushions, the overhead bins, ripped them all apart,
food everywhere, just destroyed the entire thing. And then it
(05:23):
kept going like that. Another group tried to hijack a plane,
tried to get the pilots by force to take them
back to the United States. They attacked ice agents, They
mutinied on the buses that were taking them to the
airfield to overtaking the driver and seizing the buses and
(05:47):
escaping into the desert and all that sort of thing.
And it just went on and on like that. And
that's why even the Biden administration at that time instituted
leg irons and hand cuffs, because you can't trust that
they're not going to kill everybody on a plane or
hijack the plane or hurt somebody. So that's the story
(06:12):
that I tell in the New York Posts piece. I
was at the camp through the entire time. I covered it,
and I was there and I interviewed one of the
pilots who showed me all the cell phone pictures that
he had on his phone. And told me about the
terror of being in the pilot's cabin with just a
(06:33):
thin door separating them in flight from their insane passengers.
So that's why we do it. I thought i'd remind
people that you have to do this or risk everybody's life.
You can't trust that they're not going to try to
overtake the plane.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Right and crash it. Yeah, because people probably think that
the pilots are sealed off the way they are on
commercial jets, but that's not the case. That's not what
you're flying in. It's just a thin door, and these
crazy people can easily break in and take out the plane, right.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
So that's that's all. And I'm just trying to point
out that, you know, there's really good reasons for why
dhs and it wasn't Trump that came up with this either.
This was happened in the Biden administration. They always use that.
And I want to point out one other thing that
you know, they're deporting the worst first under the Trump
(07:34):
two point zero. That means criminal aliens make up the
bulk of these deportees, and that category of deporte is
probably the most unstable and untrustworthy of them all the
Haitians did that. They weren't even they weren't criminal aliens
as far as we knew. They were just in the
country illegally. These ones are criminal aliens coming out of
(07:58):
jail for fellon and out of prisons and that sort
of thing. I've wanted, warrants and things like that. Too
bad if you don't like it, But they're going to
keep doing it. They have to keep doing it.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Yeah, And the Colombian president and the Indian officials, they
didn't know this, I guess.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
No nobody knew. The story of what happened in twenty
twenty one during the Del Real migrant crisis has never
been told except in my book, chapter seventeen of Overrun,
where I go into elaborate detail of what happened there.
That's why I know about this, to be able to
(08:42):
explain to the American people why we have to use
leg irons and cuffs on some of them. We don't
do it for all of them, obviously, not the children, or.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
We're dealing with nasty lifetime criminals here. I don't understand
the objections unless your goal is to completely undermine our civilization.
But nobody should have an objection to the way we're
treating these criminal aliens.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
That is the goal, you know, to try to trump
up like some kind of injustice inhumanity about the flights.
So to stop the flights. Let's not do the flights anymore,
is the argument for bringing this up.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Well, Todd, very good, fascinating stuff. I'd never heard these
stories before. And if you want to read his piece,
it's in the New York Post. Todd Bensman, Senior National
Security Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, Thanks for
coming on.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Again, Thanks for having me anytime.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
All right, we will have a Kamala Harris word salad
for mid afternoon snack. It's coming up next to you.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Kamala Harris goes to Broadway. There's a new musical called
A Wonderful World, the Louis Armstrong musical, a lot of
Louis Armstrong songs, and she showed up backstage and wanted
to deliver an inspirational speech to the cast members. You
(10:26):
kind of have to see this to get the full impact.
We have audio, but if you look at this and
the way she well, she's either drunk or high. Absolutely,
I have been around enough drunk people in my life
and high people. She's I would vote for drunk, but
(10:47):
you know, I can't do a blood alcohol test on her.
And she's the only, like major public figure where I
always get that reaction is like, is she drinking? And
it's because her delivery and the way she moves her
head and then try to follow what she says. Here
play cut too.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
For those rights to be maintained, which means we have
to be vigilant. And it's just the nature of it.
I mean what I mean in this beautiful play, and
everyone let me know, ha handed that he was surprising.
He had to suppress so much he knew, and you
know he shook those risks. But we have to we
have to pick a clear eye. And it doesn't mean
we don't see the beauty and everything right, these things
(11:30):
all coexist, but I believe we fight for something, not
against it. And that's.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
What did I miss?
Speaker 5 (11:47):
What they were agreed?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Mmm? She was? She was.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
She was just saying random phrases. And you got to
watch her though, because her head kind of tilts and
loops around and her eyes look like they're gonna roll
in the back of her head. Her hair looked all disheveled. Yeah,
it looks like she just woke up off the sofa,
and like they're just empty wine bottles scattered all of
the carpet, and she mumbles some nonsense to them, and
(12:17):
they're all whom and then they started plotting. Maybe they're
happy it was over. I don't know, what do you do?
Kamala Harris walks in and it's like, you gotta be
nice to her. I guess right, I don't know, Governor
of California. Seriously, we have to start taking voting rights away.
(12:40):
In addition to deporting people, deporting American citizens, some American
citizens need to lose their right to vote.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
If you were king, if I was king.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
And I'm thinking about it, I am thinking about becoming king.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Yah.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
I'm not going to tell you how I do it,
because then I get arrested or investigated.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
Would you wear a dime and encrusted.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
I'd wear yeah, of course, I'd wear a long gown
and a sash. In fact, you know the way you
dressed me up for postathon postathon. Sure, I'd let you
be the.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
I'd be the I'd be the decoration John of John.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Yeah, the costume design. Yes you could, you could, uh
select my robes, my ruling robes.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
I will charge for that.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
That's are I'm king. I'm going to create my own money.
I'll create my own uh the cryptocurrency with my face
on it. Call it a cob belt coin, cob coin.
That is what I think about at home, actually really
yea being a shower in the shower, think about wearing
(13:46):
a robe and a scepter. So that's what I need
as well. Oh the crown, and I just fantasized about
the porting people.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
That's what you fantasize about.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
It, Yes, taking away their their constitutional rights, the rights
of and then remaking society the way I wish it
would be. Is there a burger on top of your scepter?
There might be? All right, we got more coming up.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Six forty, Voiceline is eight seven seven Mois eighty six
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Just a reminder if you're interested in that trip to
(14:39):
Iceland that we're doing in October. My wife and I
are hosting it and it's CAFI listeners that are coming.
If you want to get more information, we're gonna have
a live Q and a tonight on zoom. Go to
caf IAM six forty dot com slash Iceland for the
zoom link. I'll be on the zoom call tonight at
six o'clock. At six o'clock tonight, caf i AM six
(15:02):
forty dot com slash Iceland. This is a week long
trip to go see the Northern Lights and all the
beautiful Iceland geography and geology, all this scenic beauty. It's
really one of the most magical places. And I've never
seen the Northern Lights and this is definitely a John trip.
This is the kind of thing I really like to do,
so I want you to come and you can get
(15:23):
all the information tonight on the zoom meeting KFIAM sixporty
dot com slash Iceland and we're going with the collect
Travel Agency. This is frightening. I'm gonna give a list
of countries. I'll let you think for a moment, what
they have in common, because California may be joining them
in this regard. If I say Russia, China, Venezuela, and Iran,
(15:49):
what do you think four places you don't want to
live in, right, four oppressive regimes. Well, they all control
the oil industry, They own the oil refineries. And that's
what California, that's what California politicians want to do. Seriously,
(16:14):
in Sacramento, they Newsom's crowd wants to take over the
oil industry here in the state, just like they do
in Iran, Venezuela, Russia, and China. When I've told you
that these people are slowly checking the boxes in the
(16:36):
communist socialist playbook, you probably think it's hyperbole. It's not.
They're doing it slowly. It's the old boiling a frog routine.
Happens really slowly. Frog doesn't notice it until it's too late.
But in Sacramento they're considering state ownership of one or
(16:57):
more oil refineries. What they've done one is so many
stupid regulations, so many stupid taxes, that the oil companies
have been closing the refineries. In fact, two more are
closing very soon, and that only leaves eight. We used
to have several dozen the major oil companies still refining oil, Chevron, Marathon,
(17:24):
Phillips sixty six PBF Energy, and Valero. But Phillips has
two refineries they're closing in the Wilmington Carson area. And
now we're down to eight and one more closure. We
have serious gasoline issues. We already have serious gasoline issues.
(17:46):
Four eighty nine a gallon for gas for eighty nine.
Hang on, let me.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
Gas prices have been going up. I don't know the
last few weeks. I know there's why we're blend. It's
not summer.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
I don't know why. Yeah, this is the this is
the February blend. I see here. I'm gonna look up
the state averages. Here we go, all right. In Mississippi,
they're selling gas for two sixty seven to sixty seven.
I paid for eighty nine. You know what the California averages. Oh,
(18:24):
look at that. We're the most expensive in the state
for eighty four.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
We are more expensive. We're thirty cents more expensive than Hawaii.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
It's because of all of our taxes, all the gas taxes.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Right, you are right, you're a good citizen. You know
these things. Most people don't understand, for eighty four gallon
we're paying and in Mississippi to sixty seven. And that's
not an anomaly. Texas is two seventy three, Louisiana's two
seventy five. In fact, most of the time when I
count this stuff, there's thirty states that are probably well. Actually,
(19:03):
if I look at forty states, let's say less than
three dollars than thirty cents.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
But nothing ever changes here in California. Nothing, It never
gets better.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
And now, because California has destroyed the oil industry, the
refineries have closed their refineries, and now the state is thinking, well,
before they close anymore, we're going to take them over.
I mean, this is classic communist behavior. You think that's
going to go well, you think Kamala Harris can run
an oil refinery.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
John, you have to watch that show I was telling
you land Landman with Billy Bob Thornton. Yeah, it's about
the oil industry, it is. Yeah, I think you'll get
a kick.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Out, all right, I haven't heard of it.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
Yeah on Peacock Plus or Peacock.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
I did. And the only time I hear about paramount
your TV shows is listening to you.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
I know this one I think you should watch.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Chevron and Villain Arrow or contemplating permanent refinery closures. Well,
that's not good. Then we'd have six or maybe less.
We're a gasoline island because in most states in this country,
they have pipelines that connect oil supply, for example, near
(20:19):
the Gulf of Mexico excuse me, the Gulf of America,
the Gulf of Trump and the pipes come out of
the south there and they go in all directions and
they carry gasoline. And that's why the gasoline is. One
of the reasons it's so cheap. Most of the reason
here is the taxes. No pipelines exist to feed gasoline
(20:43):
to California from other states. They can't even ship them
by ocean easily because there's some antiquated federal law known
as the Jones Act. I don't know what that does.
I've got to look that up, but it keeps them
from ship Why why is everything stacked against us? We
have a government that taxes the refineries to death, regulates
(21:07):
them to death. We don't have any pipelines between us
and the other states to get the oil. They can't
do ocean shipments because of some other wacky law, so
only eight percent of the California supply comes from outside California.
The other ninety two percent is nearly produced at is
all produced at California refineries. And there's a huge amount
(21:30):
of oil and gas below the ground, oil and natural gas.
According to James Gallagher, you know, we had to have
him Enrey, he's the Republican Assembly leader. He says, we're
starting to lose refineries because we've made it so expensive
and impossible to operate in California. Now, after we've chased
(21:53):
them off, we're talking about taking them over to ensure
there's some supply. They've destroyed an injury an industry. And
then they said, well what are we going to do?
Everybody left and they were told this crowd news. Someome brown.
They were told, if you keep doing this, they'll close
electric vehicles. Yeah, that's that's working out really well, isn't it,
(22:17):
Except they don't have What was that other story I saw?
Do you know they passed a few years ago one
of those big spending bills here It is one of
those big multi hundred billion dollar spending bills three years ago,
(22:38):
and it was supposed to they were supposed to use
it to install a network of five hundred thousand charging
stations across America, five hundred thousand charging stations, tens of
billions of dollars. You know how many charging stations they
installed in three years? How many fifty eight, fifty eight?
(23:00):
It is so bad that I love reading columns by
left wing writers, progressive writers, and even there I've read
several of these saying, you know, if we're going to
get these things accomplished that we want accomplished, we have
to execute the plan. If you want people driving electric
cars and you want to save the planner from climate change,
then when you spend the money, you actually have to
(23:22):
build the charging stations. But they don't. They don't three years,
fifty eight charging stations in all the United States of America.
And I'm trying to find how many, oh five billion dollars,
five billion dollars we got fifty eight charging stations. The
(23:46):
whole bill was tens of billions dollars. They are They
have all kinds of crazy ideas. They pass restrictive, destructive laws,
and then they fail at the execution of their plan.
They're losers. Progressive politicians are all losers, and all the
(24:09):
activists and all the staff members all these agencies and
these nonprofits and these think that they're losers and they
need to be deported. How we're paying for eighty four
a gallon and they're paying two sixty something in the South.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
Come on, King, Cobelt has spoken, you.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Need a king. I am down on democracy. Heard you've
heard all these debates right about democracy, dangerous to democracy.
I'm in the camp of like, yeah, let's try something else.
I did democracy does it certainly doesn't work here in California.
We've let the majority run things now and look, we're
we're all going to hell. I'll vote for you, thank you.
(24:50):
I want to be a dictator. I want to be king.
You'll be in my mint, you'll be a minister.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
But I want a high salary and I want to
work from home.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Well, kings usually are corrupt, so you'll get to enjoy
the correction with me. Yeah, okay, cool, Sure, I won't
even call and wake you.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
You can go out and you can go out ride
your bike too. Uh, deb mark Fridays off, Yeah, Fridays
off for bike riding.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
We're on from one until four and then Conway's coming
on in just a few minutes. Final reminder, Final reminder.
Six o'clock is when we're going to have the zoom
meeting tonight kf I am six forty dot com slash
Iceland and talk about the trip to Iceland. My wife
and I are hosting it for KFI listeners. Many have
(25:52):
signed up. You should come too, and you'll all like
each other. Right, you all listen to the same station,
same show all day and we'll have a lot to
talk about. Its October seventeenth for a week, and you
want to know more about it. Six o'clock tonight, Live
Question and answer Zoom Meeting. I'm gonna be on it.
Caf I am sixporty dot com slash Iceland. That's the
zoom link k if I am six forty dot com
(26:13):
slash Iceland six o'clock tonight. So have dinner and then
let's let's get together and talk about you coming to
Iceland with me. All right, let me see tomorrow on
the show, we are going to have Carl Demayo on
the Assemblyman from the San Diego area Republican and boy,
(26:35):
he's uh, he's good. He uh, he questioned Gavin Newsom's
office about how much money we're going to spend on
free healthcare for legal aliens. And it turned out that
Newsom miscalculated. Another word, another word for it would be
(26:55):
he lied. Newsom had claimed that it would cost six
half billion dollars for legal alien health care, but the
true cost is forty six percent more nine and a
half billion dollars. And Carl Demo is going to have
the whole story tomorrow and we'll bring it to you
codways here.
Speaker 6 (27:14):
Hey, now, what's what's the obsession with everybody on that
side of the aisle treating foreigners better than they do Americans?
Speaker 1 (27:24):
I never got that. I don't know. There was a
story today that they were spending money to give people
down payments on their homes, cars, to start businesses, right,
personal loans, I mean, I mean, you name it. And
they spent hundreds of billions of dollars on this.
Speaker 6 (27:42):
And I guess the theory was, you know, if enough
of them, you know, swing and vote towards the Democrats,
that they'll they'll win. They'll never you know, Republicans will
never win another election.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Yeah, well that didn't work, because now most Hispanic men
vote for Trump. I know they tried that one. They
missed college.
Speaker 6 (28:00):
Yeah, all right, Well we got the more information on
the air accident in Toronto. La USD cell phone band
now in effect, so if your kid goes to LAUSD
Noah cell phones AHOI. And then we got this big,
huge game coming up Canada versus the United States in
hockey on Thursday in Boston. It's gonna be a huge game. John,
(28:22):
I know that you're not a big hockey fan.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Like hockey.
Speaker 6 (28:25):
I love the fact that the Canadians hate Americans because
they always have might A lot of my family's Canadian
and Canadians have always under their breath talked about how
they hate Americans. And I love that now it's out
on the surface, you know, because it's a group of
people that doesn't they don't hate anything, right, and now
they hate us.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
I think it's great. Good there's what three fights in
nine seconds? That's right? Yeah, more competition now, all right,
very good? Yeah? Dig dog with all right, Conway, dig
dog with you. And we've got Eileen Gonzales Eileen Live
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