February 18, 2025 • 35 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (02/18) - Royal Oakes comes on the show to talk about whether or not Elon Musk's government role is constitutional or not. Elon Musk made some comments on Fox News about "Trump Derangement Syndrome". More on all of the corruption DOGE is uncovering. There is a crime wave of thieves demanding Ozempic from pharmacies in Brazil.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 3 (00:02):
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Discuss what You're the one that brought that up.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Well, you didn't shy away, not at all. Anyway, that's
on the podcast for later, probably not during dinner though,
in front of your wife. Royal Oaks from ABC News,
We're going to talk to him because Elon Musk is
drawing the same kind of bizarre emotional rage that Trump
has been drawing for the last ten years, because he's
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been in charge of DOGE and people are claiming this
isn't constitutional, He's unelected, and I says illegal.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
There's lawsuits everywhere. I am baffled by all this.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Because the well, letting me get to, let me get
to we'real excited to talk about this. ABC News legal
analyst Royal how are you, John.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
I mean, what it boils down to is the Constitution
has what's called an appointments Clause, and it says, hey,
if you want somebody who's an officer of the United States,
like an ambassador or cabinet secretary or judge, you've got
to go to the Senate of a hearing and they
have to say up or down. And so they should
have done that for Mosco, and they did. And that's
what the lawsuits say. And they've got an argument because
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a couple of decades ago Supreme Court said an officer
of the US is an appointee exercising significant authority under
the laws of the United States. But Trump probably has
the stronger argument because his lawyers are pointing out, look
that this guy, he's the big deal, the richest man
in the world, but he doesn't have decision making powers,
not like he's the Defense Secretary who runs the entire
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Defense establishment makes decisions. This is all about Trump, and
all Musk is doing is making recommendations. So probably Trump
will survive these legal challenges to the Musk appointment.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
And that's that's what I was thinking, because ultimately it's
Donald Trump's responsible responsibility if people are pissed, be pissed
at Trump, But muski Yea is just sending him paperwork
basically saying this is what you ought to do, and
Trump is apparently saying, yes, you're right.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
I agree, that's right.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
And one sign that Trump's going to be okay. And
this just broke a few minutes ago. One of the
suits seeking an injunction to stop Elon Musk was filed
in Washington, d C. Federal Trial Court before Judge Tanya Chutkan.
And that sounds familiar. It's because she was a thorn
in Trump's side for years. She was a huge fan
of Jack Smith. She was absolutely ruling against Trump and
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all of those election interference case decisions. She just now
today said no temporary restraining order, no injunction at this
point for the people object to two Musk. She made
an instant comment she'd gave a shot to Trump's lawyer.
She said defense counsel was reminded of their duty to
make truthful representations to the court. She thought maybe they'd fudge,
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which is judge talk for you, lying sack. Don't ever
do that to me again. But for her to vote
for Donald Trump, this is a real good sign for
the administration.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
What was the specific case here.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Well, in two cases. One is a coalition of fourteen states,
you know, blue states who Democrat attorneys general. They went
into court and sued saying, hey, you know this is
the illegal Musk hasn't been confirmed. Then there's a second
suit a group of a couple of dozen federal civil servants.
So you know, if you usually you have multiple suits,
you're kind of judge shopping. They shopped, but be careful
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what you wish for. And ultimately, John I think Trump
is the winner here in any event, because all right,
let's say they said, oh, you got to go to
the Senate. The Senate will probably approve elon Musk. And
in meantime, Trump is presenting himself as the guy who
wants to drain the swamp, and anybody opposing him in
Musk looks like they not only want to leave the
swamp intact, they want to feed the alligators. I mean,
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Trump is talking about transgender stuff and immigration and DEI
all the stuff that swept him into office, and he's
still doing it.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
I'm looking at polling and on the issues he's pushing,
he's got anywhere from sixty to eighty five percent of
the public on his side on all these issues. There's
not a whole lot of controversy in the real world,
including significant in some cases majorities of Democrats.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Yeah, it's pretty amazing. It's an astounding turnaround. He just
has tapped into the issues that people care about about
cutting the bureaucracy and getting it rid of all the
DEI stuff. The only glimmer of rope for the Democrats
is that when I've seen polls like that, there is
one question in the poll where people are still a
little worried about inflation. So that unless Trump can turn
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around the price of eggs or something, it could be
the old James Carville it's the economy stupe. But it
was true in nineteen ninety two with Clinton and still
true now.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Well, he's going to have to come up with a
bird flu vaccine. Yes, so with Musk also didn't understand
people keep calling them unelected. Well, there's only about what
five hundred and thirty five congressman and senators who are elected,
plus the president and vice president. The other two and
a half million, three million government workers are all unelected.
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I don't understand how that's like some kind of winning
issue that he's unelected.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Of course, he's unelected.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Everybody's unelected outside of those categories I mentioned.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
You're right, I mean, it's just a red herring and
they probably you know, focus group tested it and they
liked the phrase unelected. But as you know, we talked
about the cabinet members, they do have to be approved
by the Senate. They're not elected either. Nobody elects the
Secretary of Defense. It's strictly up to the President of
the United States. So yeah, that's just loose rhetoric, and
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it may sound good to some people, but it doesn't
matter whether Trump Musk is elected or not. The president
has a right to appoint him. And again, Musk isn't
making decisions like the Secretary of State does. He's just saying,
like a Blue Ribbon commission, Hey my really smart guys
that work for me. You have said A B and C. Donald,
you're the decider, what do you want to do? So
in that sense, we don't really need confirmation for Elon Musk.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
You may not have the answer to this, but why
would a political party want to side with promoting waste,
fraud and abuse. You just came off of shellacking in
November in the election, and these are your new issues
that you're trying to win on waste and fraud.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Absolutely right. The moderate Democrats in the nation are tearing
their hair out because they're saying to themselves and anybody
who will listen, guys, we got shellacked. And the reason
was we were perceived as progressive. We had Kamala Harris
who had the word salad problem, and we got to change.
And yet by Donald Trump's push of issues like transgender
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during immigration, yeah, he's actually lured them into the cul
de sac where they're continuing to fight because they can't
hold back, and he's continuing to win the hearts and
minds of the public. Again, it's subject to the condition
of the economy.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
All right, thank you, Royal, thank you for coming on.
You bet all right, Royal Oaks, ABC News Legal Analyst.
When we come back, we got a clip of Musk.
He was on with Trump on Fox News. They did
an interview with Hannity and uh uh, he talks about
people who in person, when he's at dinner with people
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that they start acting as if they have rabies. So
I play that clip. Also, they found two billion dollars
in tax money that was misplaced by the Biden administration.
I don't know how you misplace. You can misplace a wallet,
a scarf, but two billion dollars as honey, Look what
I found into the couch.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
It's at two billion dollars. Hey, you must have misplaced it.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
And then, and this is the heart of the issue,
they discovered four point seven trillion in payments from the
Treasury Department that we're missing a critical code, which means
it's almost impossible to trace the payments. And we've been
telling you about that being an issue here in the state,
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state government, high speed rail, local homeless, criminals. The trick
is just figure this out, you know, in the last
year is you don't write down what the payments are for,
the money disappears, can't be tracked, and that's how you
pay off let's say, cirked nonprofits who then give you
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some kickback money also untraced. We'll explain this. Four point
seven trillion dollars in treasury payments, none of them have
a payments code that you need to track where the
money went. Four point seven trillion. We'll talk about it.
We come back.
Speaker 6 (09:03):
You're listening to John Cobelt on Demand from kfi AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
So Elon Musk so far has done only has done
good things. He is cutting government waste and government fraud.
And he doesn't even have the power to cut anybody
or fire anybody. So understand those of you who are
angry and upset. He's making recommendations which any American citizen
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can do.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
People call up.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Their congressmen and their senators all the time. They send
emails to the president all the time. They write letters
to the editor in the newspaper saying this is what
Congress should do, this is what the governor should do
all the time. All right, Really is the same thing,
Elon Musk is any easy thing is unlike you know,
some drunk old guy in a trailer just pop it off.
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He's going into the databases and see line by line
what kind of nonsense is going on. This is criminal activity. Really,
you could not do this in any private company. He's
seeing what amounts to criminal activity, money launching, and he
says he's telling Trump, hey, look what's going on here.
And Trump looks at it and says, wow, that's bad. Yeah,
let's get rid of it. Let's fire people. This is
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no good. We're thirty This is another thing. We're thirty
six trillion dollars in debt, and whenever I hear somebody
pop off about Musk and the cut, I say, all right, well,
how would you cut the thirty six trillion? It's another
trillion every ninety days, every three months. That's four trillion
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dollars of extra debt. So it's thirty six now a
year from now, it's going to be forty two years
from now because it to fifty trillion. So what would
what do you want to cut? They don't know because
nobody knows this stuff. Not even people in government know
this stuff. Look at all this stuff Musk is uncovering
for the first time. Nobody knows because it's it's it's
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it's built up over over decades and decades. Everybody goes
in there and waste money. All the Republicans, all the Democrats,
all these lazy deadwood people that populate government. They've been
stealing and running up the debt for decades, and it's
the first time anybody's looked at it.
Speaker 7 (11:25):
Right.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Let me play you a clip because Trump and Musk
were on Sean Hannity last night and Musk starts to
talk about Trump derangement system syndrome and how how Musk's
presence is causing similar derangement in people.
Speaker 8 (11:41):
I would think liberals would love the fact that you
have the biggest electric vehicle company in the world.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Yeah, I mean I used to be adored by the left.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
You not.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
I mean I really did it well.
Speaker 7 (11:55):
I mean this whole sort of like you know, it
is cut like Trump drangement syndrome, And I didn't know.
You don't realize how real this is until like it's
you can't reason with people. So like I was at
a friend's birthday party and ali just a birthday dinner
and there was like a nice quiet dinner and everything
was everyone was behaving normally. And then I happened to mention,
this is before the election, like a month or two
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before after, to mention the president's name, and it was
like they got shot with a dart in the jugular
that contained like the methamphattermine and Raby's. Okay, I'm like,
what is guys, like you can't have like a normal conversation,
and it's like it's like that to become completely irrational.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Yeah, I've run into that now.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
I run into that where somebody somebody I know or
somebody I'm friends with, and they listen to the radio
show and they realized that I voted for Trump and
I like, I like a lot of Trump's policies, and
they just completely become unhinged, just unhinged. It's I remember
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I had two mothers run up to me, and I
think it was a Super Bowl party, two mothers from
the school we went to, and it was just going
back to when Trump was first president, and they ran
up to me, and they used to be very nice
to me because they wanted me to do stuff. They
would say, hey, you know, they were the ones who
put on the school galis and they would want me, hey,
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would you would you be the MC or would you
would you offer a tour of the station as a prize?
And I said, yeah, sure, I'll do that. I'll do
the tour and they were very nice. And then Trump
came and they listened to the show and they heard
me talking positively and suddenly it's like, well, how could
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you I don't under you know, and they're giving me
this this third degree at this party and it's like
I'm looking at him like they crawled out from under
a rock. It's like, would you go away? So you disagree?
So what who cares? I remember one guy, this is
another Well, I didn't know all that well, but we
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were at a cocktail party. This is all west side stuff,
west side parents around and he comes up to me.
He looks at me, and he looks left, and he
looks right, and he goes. And I didn't know him well,
but he knew I was on the radio, and he
knew how I felt about Trump running for president. He goes,
I can't tell anybody this, and I can't tell my
wife this, but you know, I really like this guy Trump.
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I thought he was going to tell me he's gay. Honestly,
that's the way he was at you know. It was
like it was like a coming out of the closet approach,
which he was. And he was afraid that it. Kept
looking around because what if somebody overhears him? What if
his wife overhears him. It's like, all right, well then
then vote for And I don't care what other people
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vote for. I've never understood. It's like you can get met.
You're getting met at me over how I vote.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Well, go away? Is that your business? I did ask somebody.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
I asked somebody about that exact thing.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
You know, Well, why can't you be friends with somebody
who votes for somebody different than you know what you think?
And she said, because that tells me a lot about
that person.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
If that person is okay.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
With voting for whomever, Yeah, and I don't like that
person's policies or I think that person's awful, Well, then
how am I supposed to be friends with you? That's
because you are aligned with something I just I don't
agree with.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Except I've been friends with you for twenty years, so
you know exactly what I'm about, what my character is,
and how I treat people, and how I treat you.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
I'm not talking about me, by the way, I'm just
talking about that. That's that was kind of the.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
I know, but it's a but it's a general thing.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
People you know for years, and most of my friends
i'd never knew. I had friends like for forty years
going back to school. I didn't know ever, and I
stayed in touch with them. We've had plenty of conversations
about interesting stuff. I never knew what they're power politics was,
or if I got a whiff of it, I didn't care.
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And suddenly in the last ten years, you're supposed to
care and you're supposed to not be friends.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
It's like, this is stupid.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
You're stupid if you create or break friendships. If you
break friendships over stuff like this, or you break romantic
relationships over stuff like this, please don't reproduce. You should
break off the relationship and take your genetics somewhere else
because you're an idiot.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Well, if you're so against somebody right in your spouse
or your friend is constantly talking about it and you
just can't stand it, I can understand.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
If they're constantly talking about it, but that's another issue.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
That's a whole difference.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
That means they're.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Annoying in some obsessive way. But I'm saying your vote, yeah,
I who care? We come back, all right, We're going
to talk about the nearly two billion dollars that they
found misplaced, the four point seven trillion dollars that were
missing a critical code. And this is going to be entertaining.
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I'm gonna play a clip of four of the biggest
Democratic names of the last thirty years, and you listen
to what they say and tell me the difference between
these four major Democratic figures and anything Trump or Musk
has said on the same matter that is coming up
to the next segment.
Speaker 6 (17:21):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A
six forty.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
We're gonna have Todd Benzman on, have Todd Stale aborting
he must be getting lonely. Todd Benzman from the Center
for Immigration Studies. He writes a lot of pieces for
the New York Post and the Daily Mail, and we're
gonna have them on all the criminals, the legal alien
criminals that are being arrested. Some of them are being
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handcuffed and shackled for their flights back home. And there
are progressives who are outraged. These are illgal alien criminals
and you're handcuffing them as you're deporting them. Why I'm
going to talk to Todd Bensman, see what that's about.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Coming up? All right, back back to Musk. Imagine this.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
His group DOGE said it found one point nine billion,
let's call it two billion that was misplaced by the
Biden administration.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Misplaced, uh.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
They they was earmarked for financial services. The money was
no longer needed and it just sat there in the account.
Nobody knew it was there. And I guess as they
were going through all these God imagine how many bank
accounts they have, how many line items they have. And
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the thing is, it's one billion, nine hundred million dollars
and I was just sitting there in an account. So
they de obligated the funds. That's what one of the
secretaries said. So now they're going to use it for
something else. There's this housing an Urban Development secretary, Scott Turner,
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who said they also identified two hundred and sixty million
dollars in savings just two days earlier. In fact, the
grand total of money that Musk's team has saved in
just a month has been fifty five billion dollars. Fifty
five billion, and that's money that was lying around contracts
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that were signed and now canceled, people that have been fired.
The EPA sent one hundred and sixty million dollars to
a Canadian electric bus manufacturer. Well that's been canceled, he said.
The Biden administration sent the full amount to the manufactur
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You're in advance rather than making payments along the way
as the school buses were being produced. I hope they're
going to get it back. The head of the EPA League, Zelden,
says he's canceled a Joe Biden fifty million dollar environmental
justice grant. Oh you hear that phrase environmental justice. You
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know that is a scam, That is some nonprofit racket.
It was granted to an organization that believes, listen to this,
climate justice travels through a free palestine.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
How does that mean?
Speaker 3 (20:40):
It means we're stealing fifty million dollars, But we dressed
it up in language that makes progressives.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Start to start to swell.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
With pride and arousal Climate justice through a free palaceine
fifty million dollars.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
This is this is like comedy stuff. Can't make it up?
Speaker 3 (21:09):
All right, let me play these clips and then we're
going to get to the big one, the four point
seven trillion, Yes, four point seven trillion. You know how
if you write it up to five, how long do
you think it takes to count to five trillion? Because
people have a hard time with these digesting these numbers.
Our brains aren't really designed. You know, a couple hundred
years ago, we were just we were growing vegetables and
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we were milking cows. Right, none of our brains are
designed to handle the concept of five trillion. So five
trillion if you counted one, two, three, four, it would
take you over thirty one years. So start now. You
can't sleep. You have to do this twenty four hours
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a day, every hour, seven days a week. Start counting,
and let's see in twenty In twenty fifty six, you'll
be done counting to a trillion. That's how much money
in treasury payments they can't trace. I'll tell you about
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that in a minute. But for all the idiots in
the media and all the progressive fools who are squealing
about cutting all the waste and fraud, we're gonna pill
you eclipse from maybe some of your heroes. I would say,
these are the four biggest names in democratic politics over
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the last thirty years. And you listen to them talk
and tell me if there's one word different from what
Trump and Musk have been saying. Let's start with Cut
four from September nineteen ninety seven, Al Gore and Bill Clinton.
Speaker 9 (22:55):
Everyone, this report tells us how to cut waste, cut
red tape, streamline the bureaucracy, change procurement rule, change the
personnel rules, and create a government that works better and
costs less.
Speaker 8 (23:10):
I've read it, and where it says the President should
the president will herey go.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
September ninety seven, the team of Gore and Clinton very
forceful saying that wasteful spending is going to be cut definitively. Now,
let's move ahead the early days of the Obama administration.
You'll hear Joe Biden on this. It's kind of a
montage between Obama and Biden. And you can tell Biden
was was still saying he was still in command, which
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when Biden was first became president, and you know, I said, oh,
he's senile.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Oh do you know that you're not a doctor. I
said no, he's see noile. Listen, go go back, go
back to two.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Thousand and eight and listen to his debate with Sarah Palin.
I did that and I was like, oh my god,
he's so far gone. You know, this was in the
first days of his administration. Well, listen to this. This
is Obama and Biden talking about the same thing.
Speaker 10 (24:05):
Budget reform is not an option, it's a necessity.
Speaker 8 (24:09):
The American people are entitled to transparency.
Speaker 10 (24:13):
We can't sustain a system that bleeds billions of taxpayer
dollars on programs that have outlived their usefulness or exist
solely because of the power of politicians, lobbyists or interest groups.
Speaker 8 (24:25):
They're entitally be able to figure out where their dollars
are going, and they're entitled to accountability to make sure
that we're using.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
The dollars for what we said it was for.
Speaker 10 (24:35):
We are going to go through our federal budget as
I promised during the campaign, page by page, line by line,
eliminating those programs we don't need, and insisting that those
that we do need operate in a sensible, cost effective way.
It should be easy is getting rid of the pointless
waste and stupid spending that doesn't benefit anybody.
Speaker 8 (24:58):
We hope to be instilling an enti hire new culture
the not only our administration, but every succeeding administration will
in fact pursue.
Speaker 10 (25:06):
No amount of waste is acceptable, not when it's your money.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
And of course Biden went on to blow literally trillions
of dollars. I will say, during the Clinton years they
ran that pretty tight. Of course, they had a Republican
Congress that provided a lot of guidance and direction. But
when Clinton left office, the budget was balanced. And then
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Bush took over and he was a disaster, and so
Obama wanted to clean up Bush's mess, but Biden was
completely out of hand. So there you go, Al Gore,
Bill Clinton, Obama, and Biden. Those are all the Democratic
presidents and vice presidents of the last twenty five years,
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thirty years. Yeah, four main Democratic figures speaking exactly like
Trump and Musk.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
And now.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
The four point seven trillion dollars that DOGE has discovered,
this is payments from the Treasury Department. All government payments
out of Washington passed through the Treasury Department, and four
point seven trillion dollars of payments. We're missing a critical
tracking code. So now tracing the transactions are almost impossible.
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Each transaction is supposed to get what they call a
thaf thas excuse me, a Treasury account symbol, its identification
an identification code, and that links a treasury payment to
a budget line item.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Does that make sense?
Speaker 3 (26:58):
You have a line item in the budget saying a
million dollars to debor mark for the oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
for face filler or something. Okay, I'll take it, okay,
And they're supposed to be a TIS, a Treasury account symbol,
so that they can connect the million dollars to debormark
for the face filler. It's standard financial process. Well, what
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doeses found That particular box where you put the symbol,
where you put the code was optional and it was
often left blank. So Musk is saying that traceability is
almost impossible. This is exactly what they found with high
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speed rail with the billions of dollars that disappeared there
after they did to audits. This is what they found
in Sacramento with Gavin Newsom's homeless waste of twenty four
billion dollars. This is what they found here in Los
Angeles with the audits into homelessness as well. When I
first heard this was the high speed rail story, and
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I didn't understand because they said, well, we looked at
the paperwork and it was blank. There was no indication
of where it went. And I thought, well, that's not possible.
And now I realize this was standard operating procedure all
the way up to the federal government. They simply don't
write down what they're spending the money on, and it
added up, according to Musk, to four point seven trillion dollars. Now,
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I don't know what period of time that is, but
as a Saturday, that code is not is now required,
so they are gonna, I mean you, and why don't
they put in the code? Because the money is being
wasted and stolen, that's why. And the people doing the
paying are getting kickbacks because we are run by criminals.
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In Washington, Sacramento, in Los Angeles and everywhere else, we
are run by criminals, and so they had a racket
scam going for decades and decades. I always wondered, like,
if you look at the spending here in California, and
I know, I gotta go. Spending has gone up dramatically
last fifteen years under Brown and new Something. Everybody goes, well,
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what's it going for? Spending has gone up dramatically in
the last few years under Biden. What's it going for?
It's going up. The spending is up dramatically because they're
stealing the money. That's the reality. They're actually stealing the
money and they're leaving no trace.
Speaker 6 (29:36):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
After three o'clock. We're talking to Todd Bensman from the
Center for Immigration Study. He's got a piece in the
New York Post today. Find out if Todd has anybody
to talk to over at the border. Because the border
crossings are down to a couple hundred a day, there
is some contra. Some of the sensitive, fragile progressives are
(30:04):
very upset that these illegal alien felling criminals are being
handcuffed and shackled before being shoved on a plane and
sent home. So that should be entertaining. Also, next hour,
in case you're hungry, we have you know what, we
have a Kamala Harris word salad.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Yes we do.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
The next governor of California. You're gonna hear her in
all her oratorical glory. Now ozempic story I promised Deborah
Today he's going to be penises and a zempic. In
Brazil there is a crime wave. Thieves are demanding from
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pharmacists that they hand over the ozempic. Give you an example.
Ten thirty on a Friday evening in January. David Fernando
is a pharmacist. He's working behind the counter in sal Polo.
Man walks out to him and flashed a gun. He
asked for money from the refrigerator. No, he asked for
money from the register.
Speaker 5 (31:07):
Okay, that makes more sense.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
And medications from the refrigerator. Medications from the refrigerator is
a code word for give me the ozempic and all
the other variations we go vi Saxende.
Speaker 5 (31:22):
I haven't heard of that one.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
No, they're all the same injectable weight loss drugs. Most
Brazilians can't afford. These are very expensive arry if.
Speaker 5 (31:33):
Your insurance doesn't cover it. It's a lot.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
The thief made off with five boxes. Each box has
a month's worth and costs about to convert it about
to one hundred and ninety dollars, which may not seem
like a lot in America, but the average Brazilian income
is three hundred dollars, so imagine paying two thirds of
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your monthly income for a zempic for a zempic was
not a surprise. Third time his drug store has been
held up. Now they have a security guard outside to
try to word off the ozempic thieves. There was a
robbery a few blocks north in August. Police interrupted an
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ozempic robbery resulting in a shootout and a woman was injured.
There's another one on an afternoon. Two guards stood washed,
one inside the door and the other near the back room.
He's guarding the door to the refrigerator that holds the ozempic.
It's in Sapaulo. It's Brazil's richest city. Many wealthy neighborhoods,
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many pharmacies stocked the drugs for the wealthy women.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
But then you have a lot of poor people like.
Speaker 5 (32:46):
That, wealthy women. What about the wealthy men.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
I don't know a lot of Mostly it's women taking it.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
There are guys, there are guys that are taking these, yes, yeah,
but they don't talk about it.
Speaker 10 (33:00):
Some do.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
I don't hear guys talking about it very much, but
you're right, some do, all right. So in twenty twenty two,
there was only one ozempic robbery in Brazil, and it
was four boxes from a single drug store. Last year
thirty nine of them. And anyone who stocks a zempic
(33:29):
cannot work in peace, said the manager of one store.
People ask do you have ozempic? And he says, no,
we don't. This way, we don't get robbed.
Speaker 5 (33:39):
It's liquid gold, it is.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
How quickly does that stuff work?
Speaker 5 (33:44):
I don't take it, so you.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
And I don't take anything. We don't know anything. In
the last hour. I couldn't help you on the penis filling.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
Yeah, and I couldn't help you on that either. I
don't know how quickly it works, actually maybe a few months.
I mean, I know that it stops you from being hungry, right,
so you eat less, So maybe, I mean, and I
think it also depends on how much weight you have
to lose. If you have a lot of weight, obviously
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it's going to take longer, so maybe you lose a
few pounds a week.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
In Brazil, ozempic sales grew from twenty seven million five
years ago to over six hundred million two years ago.
That's the last year they have data. God, it makes
be spid how many billions and billions are they spending here?
Speaker 4 (34:35):
People are desperate well to lose weight to look nice.
I mean, we were talking about fillers earlier.
Speaker 5 (34:42):
I'm not just talking about Peenis.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Yeah, but then they end up with a zepic face,
and then you have to get the face fillers.
Speaker 5 (34:47):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Well, end the ball was deflated looking.
Speaker 5 (34:51):
Not everybody has a zempic face, but a lot of
people do.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
When we come back, we're going to talk to Todd Benzman.
He's has been covered border issues for many years now.
And are there border issues anymore? We don't know. Well, actually,
in a way, there are so few border issues the
progressive nuts are making stuff up. They're angry that some
of the criminals being deported on planes are wearing handcuffs
and shackles.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Why is this.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
I'm gonna talk to Deborah Mark next. No, we're gonna
talk to Todd Bensman next. Well, we're gonna hear from Debormark.
Speaker 5 (35:23):
Now, you hear from me all day long.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
I know, I feel like I'm constantly talking to you.
Debra's got the news live in the KFI twenty four
hour newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to The John Cobalt
Show podcast. You can always hear the show live on
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Speaker 2 (00:00):
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You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio
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App is for.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Very exciting for the Debra spent more time discussing penis
filler than I've ever heard anyone.
Speaker 5 (00:27):
Discuss what You're the one that brought that up.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Well, you didn't shy away, not at all. Anyway, that's
on the podcast for later, probably not during dinner though,
in front of your wife. Royal Oaks from ABC News,
We're going to talk to him because Elon Musk is
drawing the same kind of bizarre emotional rage that Trump
has been drawing for the last ten years, because he's
(00:53):
been in charge of DOGE and people are claiming this
isn't constitutional, He's unelected, and I says illegal.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
There's lawsuits everywhere. I am baffled by all this.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Because the well, letting me get to, let me get
to we'real excited to talk about this. ABC News legal
analyst Royal how are you, John.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
I mean, what it boils down to is the Constitution
has what's called an appointments Clause, and it says, hey,
if you want somebody who's an officer of the United States,
like an ambassador or cabinet secretary or judge, you've got
to go to the Senate of a hearing and they
have to say up or down. And so they should
have done that for Mosco, and they did. And that's
what the lawsuits say. And they've got an argument because
(01:38):
a couple of decades ago Supreme Court said an officer
of the US is an appointee exercising significant authority under
the laws of the United States. But Trump probably has
the stronger argument because his lawyers are pointing out, look
that this guy, he's the big deal, the richest man
in the world, but he doesn't have decision making powers,
not like he's the Defense Secretary who runs the entire
(01:58):
Defense establishment makes decisions. This is all about Trump, and
all Musk is doing is making recommendations. So probably Trump
will survive these legal challenges to the Musk appointment.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
And that's that's what I was thinking, because ultimately it's
Donald Trump's responsible responsibility if people are pissed, be pissed
at Trump, But muski Yea is just sending him paperwork
basically saying this is what you ought to do, and
Trump is apparently saying, yes, you're right.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
I agree, that's right.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
And one sign that Trump's going to be okay. And
this just broke a few minutes ago. One of the
suits seeking an injunction to stop Elon Musk was filed
in Washington, d C. Federal Trial Court before Judge Tanya Chutkan.
And that sounds familiar. It's because she was a thorn
in Trump's side for years. She was a huge fan
of Jack Smith. She was absolutely ruling against Trump and
(02:50):
all of those election interference case decisions. She just now
today said no temporary restraining order, no injunction at this
point for the people object to two Musk. She made
an instant comment she'd gave a shot to Trump's lawyer.
She said defense counsel was reminded of their duty to
make truthful representations to the court. She thought maybe they'd fudge,
(03:11):
which is judge talk for you, lying sack. Don't ever
do that to me again. But for her to vote
for Donald Trump, this is a real good sign for
the administration.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
What was the specific case here.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Well, in two cases. One is a coalition of fourteen states,
you know, blue states who Democrat attorneys general. They went
into court and sued saying, hey, you know this is
the illegal Musk hasn't been confirmed. Then there's a second
suit a group of a couple of dozen federal civil servants.
So you know, if you usually you have multiple suits,
you're kind of judge shopping. They shopped, but be careful
(03:45):
what you wish for. And ultimately, John I think Trump
is the winner here in any event, because all right,
let's say they said, oh, you got to go to
the Senate. The Senate will probably approve elon Musk. And
in meantime, Trump is presenting himself as the guy who
wants to drain the swamp, and anybody opposing him in
Musk looks like they not only want to leave the
swamp intact, they want to feed the alligators. I mean,
(04:06):
Trump is talking about transgender stuff and immigration and DEI
all the stuff that swept him into office, and he's
still doing it.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
I'm looking at polling and on the issues he's pushing,
he's got anywhere from sixty to eighty five percent of
the public on his side on all these issues. There's
not a whole lot of controversy in the real world,
including significant in some cases majorities of Democrats.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Yeah, it's pretty amazing. It's an astounding turnaround. He just
has tapped into the issues that people care about about
cutting the bureaucracy and getting it rid of all the
DEI stuff. The only glimmer of rope for the Democrats
is that when I've seen polls like that, there is
one question in the poll where people are still a
little worried about inflation. So that unless Trump can turn
(04:52):
around the price of eggs or something, it could be
the old James Carville it's the economy stupe. But it
was true in nineteen ninety two with Clinton and still
true now.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Well, he's going to have to come up with a
bird flu vaccine. Yes, so with Musk also didn't understand
people keep calling them unelected. Well, there's only about what
five hundred and thirty five congressman and senators who are elected,
plus the president and vice president. The other two and
a half million, three million government workers are all unelected.
(05:24):
I don't understand how that's like some kind of winning
issue that he's unelected.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Of course, he's unelected.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Everybody's unelected outside of those categories I mentioned.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
You're right, I mean, it's just a red herring and
they probably you know, focus group tested it and they
liked the phrase unelected. But as you know, we talked
about the cabinet members, they do have to be approved
by the Senate. They're not elected either. Nobody elects the
Secretary of Defense. It's strictly up to the President of
the United States. So yeah, that's just loose rhetoric, and
(05:56):
it may sound good to some people, but it doesn't
matter whether Trump Musk is elected or not. The president
has a right to appoint him. And again, Musk isn't
making decisions like the Secretary of State does. He's just saying,
like a Blue Ribbon commission, Hey my really smart guys
that work for me. You have said A B and C. Donald,
you're the decider, what do you want to do? So
in that sense, we don't really need confirmation for Elon Musk.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
You may not have the answer to this, but why
would a political party want to side with promoting waste,
fraud and abuse. You just came off of shellacking in
November in the election, and these are your new issues
that you're trying to win on waste and fraud.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Absolutely right. The moderate Democrats in the nation are tearing
their hair out because they're saying to themselves and anybody
who will listen, guys, we got shellacked. And the reason
was we were perceived as progressive. We had Kamala Harris
who had the word salad problem, and we got to change.
And yet by Donald Trump's push of issues like transgender
(07:00):
during immigration, yeah, he's actually lured them into the cul
de sac where they're continuing to fight because they can't
hold back, and he's continuing to win the hearts and
minds of the public. Again, it's subject to the condition
of the economy.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
All right, thank you, Royal, thank you for coming on.
You bet all right, Royal Oaks, ABC News Legal Analyst.
When we come back, we got a clip of Musk.
He was on with Trump on Fox News. They did
an interview with Hannity and uh uh, he talks about
people who in person, when he's at dinner with people
(07:37):
that they start acting as if they have rabies. So
I play that clip. Also, they found two billion dollars
in tax money that was misplaced by the Biden administration.
I don't know how you misplace. You can misplace a wallet,
a scarf, but two billion dollars as honey, Look what
I found into the couch.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
It's at two billion dollars. Hey, you must have misplaced it.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
And then, and this is the heart of the issue,
they discovered four point seven trillion in payments from the
Treasury Department that we're missing a critical code, which means
it's almost impossible to trace the payments. And we've been
telling you about that being an issue here in the state,
(08:23):
state government, high speed rail, local homeless, criminals. The trick
is just figure this out, you know, in the last
year is you don't write down what the payments are for,
the money disappears, can't be tracked, and that's how you
pay off let's say, cirked nonprofits who then give you
(08:45):
some kickback money also untraced. We'll explain this. Four point
seven trillion dollars in treasury payments, none of them have
a payments code that you need to track where the
money went. Four point seven trillion. We'll talk about it.
We come back.
Speaker 6 (09:03):
You're listening to John Cobelt on Demand from kfi AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
So Elon Musk so far has done only has done
good things. He is cutting government waste and government fraud.
And he doesn't even have the power to cut anybody
or fire anybody. So understand those of you who are
angry and upset. He's making recommendations which any American citizen
(09:31):
can do.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
People call up.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Their congressmen and their senators all the time. They send
emails to the president all the time. They write letters
to the editor in the newspaper saying this is what
Congress should do, this is what the governor should do
all the time. All right, Really is the same thing,
Elon Musk is any easy thing is unlike you know,
some drunk old guy in a trailer just pop it off.
(09:57):
He's going into the databases and see line by line
what kind of nonsense is going on. This is criminal activity. Really,
you could not do this in any private company. He's
seeing what amounts to criminal activity, money launching, and he
says he's telling Trump, hey, look what's going on here.
And Trump looks at it and says, wow, that's bad. Yeah,
let's get rid of it. Let's fire people. This is
(10:18):
no good. We're thirty This is another thing. We're thirty
six trillion dollars in debt, and whenever I hear somebody
pop off about Musk and the cut, I say, all right, well,
how would you cut the thirty six trillion? It's another
trillion every ninety days, every three months. That's four trillion
(10:42):
dollars of extra debt. So it's thirty six now a
year from now, it's going to be forty two years
from now because it to fifty trillion. So what would
what do you want to cut? They don't know because
nobody knows this stuff. Not even people in government know
this stuff. Look at all this stuff Musk is uncovering
for the first time. Nobody knows because it's it's it's
(11:05):
it's built up over over decades and decades. Everybody goes
in there and waste money. All the Republicans, all the Democrats,
all these lazy deadwood people that populate government. They've been
stealing and running up the debt for decades, and it's
the first time anybody's looked at it.
Speaker 7 (11:25):
Right.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Let me play you a clip because Trump and Musk
were on Sean Hannity last night and Musk starts to
talk about Trump derangement system syndrome and how how Musk's
presence is causing similar derangement in people.
Speaker 8 (11:41):
I would think liberals would love the fact that you
have the biggest electric vehicle company in the world.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Yeah, I mean I used to be adored by the left.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
You not.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
I mean I really did it well.
Speaker 7 (11:55):
I mean this whole sort of like you know, it
is cut like Trump drangement syndrome, And I didn't know.
You don't realize how real this is until like it's
you can't reason with people. So like I was at
a friend's birthday party and ali just a birthday dinner
and there was like a nice quiet dinner and everything
was everyone was behaving normally. And then I happened to mention,
this is before the election, like a month or two
(12:16):
before after, to mention the president's name, and it was
like they got shot with a dart in the jugular
that contained like the methamphattermine and Raby's. Okay, I'm like,
what is guys, like you can't have like a normal conversation,
and it's like it's like that to become completely irrational.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Yeah, I've run into that now.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
I run into that where somebody somebody I know or
somebody I'm friends with, and they listen to the radio
show and they realized that I voted for Trump and
I like, I like a lot of Trump's policies, and
they just completely become unhinged, just unhinged. It's I remember
(12:56):
I had two mothers run up to me, and I
think it was a Super Bowl party, two mothers from
the school we went to, and it was just going
back to when Trump was first president, and they ran
up to me, and they used to be very nice
to me because they wanted me to do stuff. They
would say, hey, you know, they were the ones who
put on the school galis and they would want me, hey,
(13:18):
would you would you be the MC or would you
would you offer a tour of the station as a prize?
And I said, yeah, sure, I'll do that. I'll do
the tour and they were very nice. And then Trump
came and they listened to the show and they heard
me talking positively and suddenly it's like, well, how could
(13:41):
you I don't under you know, and they're giving me
this this third degree at this party and it's like
I'm looking at him like they crawled out from under
a rock. It's like, would you go away? So you disagree?
So what who cares? I remember one guy, this is
another Well, I didn't know all that well, but we
(14:02):
were at a cocktail party. This is all west side stuff,
west side parents around and he comes up to me.
He looks at me, and he looks left, and he
looks right, and he goes. And I didn't know him well,
but he knew I was on the radio, and he
knew how I felt about Trump running for president. He goes,
I can't tell anybody this, and I can't tell my
wife this, but you know, I really like this guy Trump.
(14:27):
I thought he was going to tell me he's gay. Honestly,
that's the way he was at you know. It was
like it was like a coming out of the closet approach,
which he was. And he was afraid that it. Kept
looking around because what if somebody overhears him? What if
his wife overhears him. It's like, all right, well then
then vote for And I don't care what other people
(14:49):
vote for. I've never understood. It's like you can get met.
You're getting met at me over how I vote.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Well, go away? Is that your business? I did ask somebody.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
I asked somebody about that exact thing.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
You know, Well, why can't you be friends with somebody
who votes for somebody different than you know what you think?
And she said, because that tells me a lot about
that person.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
If that person is okay.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
With voting for whomever, Yeah, and I don't like that
person's policies or I think that person's awful, Well, then
how am I supposed to be friends with you? That's
because you are aligned with something I just I don't
agree with.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Except I've been friends with you for twenty years, so
you know exactly what I'm about, what my character is,
and how I treat people, and how I treat you.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
I'm not talking about me, by the way, I'm just
talking about that. That's that was kind of the.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
I know, but it's a but it's a general thing.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
People you know for years, and most of my friends
i'd never knew. I had friends like for forty years
going back to school. I didn't know ever, and I
stayed in touch with them. We've had plenty of conversations
about interesting stuff. I never knew what they're power politics was,
or if I got a whiff of it, I didn't care.
(16:03):
And suddenly in the last ten years, you're supposed to
care and you're supposed to not be friends.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
It's like, this is stupid.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
You're stupid if you create or break friendships. If you
break friendships over stuff like this, or you break romantic
relationships over stuff like this, please don't reproduce. You should
break off the relationship and take your genetics somewhere else
because you're an idiot.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Well, if you're so against somebody right in your spouse
or your friend is constantly talking about it and you
just can't stand it, I can understand.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
If they're constantly talking about it, but that's another issue.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
That's a whole difference.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
That means they're.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Annoying in some obsessive way. But I'm saying your vote, yeah,
I who care? We come back, all right, We're going
to talk about the nearly two billion dollars that they
found misplaced, the four point seven trillion dollars that were
missing a critical code. And this is going to be entertaining.
(17:00):
I'm gonna play a clip of four of the biggest
Democratic names of the last thirty years, and you listen
to what they say and tell me the difference between
these four major Democratic figures and anything Trump or Musk
has said on the same matter that is coming up
to the next segment.
Speaker 6 (17:21):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A
six forty.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
We're gonna have Todd Benzman on, have Todd Stale aborting
he must be getting lonely. Todd Benzman from the Center
for Immigration Studies. He writes a lot of pieces for
the New York Post and the Daily Mail, and we're
gonna have them on all the criminals, the legal alien
criminals that are being arrested. Some of them are being
(17:48):
handcuffed and shackled for their flights back home. And there
are progressives who are outraged. These are illgal alien criminals
and you're handcuffing them as you're deporting them. Why I'm
going to talk to Todd Bensman, see what that's about.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Coming up? All right, back back to Musk. Imagine this.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
His group DOGE said it found one point nine billion,
let's call it two billion that was misplaced by the
Biden administration.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Misplaced, uh.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
They they was earmarked for financial services. The money was
no longer needed and it just sat there in the account.
Nobody knew it was there. And I guess as they
were going through all these God imagine how many bank
accounts they have, how many line items they have. And
(18:47):
the thing is, it's one billion, nine hundred million dollars
and I was just sitting there in an account. So
they de obligated the funds. That's what one of the
secretaries said. So now they're going to use it for
something else. There's this housing an Urban Development secretary, Scott Turner,
(19:16):
who said they also identified two hundred and sixty million
dollars in savings just two days earlier. In fact, the
grand total of money that Musk's team has saved in
just a month has been fifty five billion dollars. Fifty
five billion, and that's money that was lying around contracts
(19:38):
that were signed and now canceled, people that have been fired.
The EPA sent one hundred and sixty million dollars to
a Canadian electric bus manufacturer. Well that's been canceled, he said.
The Biden administration sent the full amount to the manufactur
(20:00):
You're in advance rather than making payments along the way
as the school buses were being produced. I hope they're
going to get it back. The head of the EPA League, Zelden,
says he's canceled a Joe Biden fifty million dollar environmental
justice grant. Oh you hear that phrase environmental justice. You
(20:23):
know that is a scam, That is some nonprofit racket.
It was granted to an organization that believes, listen to this,
climate justice travels through a free palestine.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
How does that mean?
Speaker 3 (20:40):
It means we're stealing fifty million dollars, But we dressed
it up in language that makes progressives.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Start to start to swell.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
With pride and arousal Climate justice through a free palaceine
fifty million dollars.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
This is this is like comedy stuff. Can't make it up?
Speaker 3 (21:09):
All right, let me play these clips and then we're
going to get to the big one, the four point
seven trillion, Yes, four point seven trillion. You know how
if you write it up to five, how long do
you think it takes to count to five trillion? Because
people have a hard time with these digesting these numbers.
Our brains aren't really designed. You know, a couple hundred
years ago, we were just we were growing vegetables and
(21:33):
we were milking cows. Right, none of our brains are
designed to handle the concept of five trillion. So five
trillion if you counted one, two, three, four, it would
take you over thirty one years. So start now. You
can't sleep. You have to do this twenty four hours
(21:54):
a day, every hour, seven days a week. Start counting,
and let's see in twenty In twenty fifty six, you'll
be done counting to a trillion. That's how much money
in treasury payments they can't trace. I'll tell you about
(22:19):
that in a minute. But for all the idiots in
the media and all the progressive fools who are squealing
about cutting all the waste and fraud, we're gonna pill
you eclipse from maybe some of your heroes. I would say,
these are the four biggest names in democratic politics over
(22:40):
the last thirty years. And you listen to them talk
and tell me if there's one word different from what
Trump and Musk have been saying. Let's start with Cut
four from September nineteen ninety seven, Al Gore and Bill Clinton.
Speaker 9 (22:55):
Everyone, this report tells us how to cut waste, cut
red tape, streamline the bureaucracy, change procurement rule, change the
personnel rules, and create a government that works better and
costs less.
Speaker 8 (23:10):
I've read it, and where it says the President should
the president will herey go.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
September ninety seven, the team of Gore and Clinton very
forceful saying that wasteful spending is going to be cut definitively. Now,
let's move ahead the early days of the Obama administration.
You'll hear Joe Biden on this. It's kind of a
montage between Obama and Biden. And you can tell Biden
was was still saying he was still in command, which
(23:40):
when Biden was first became president, and you know, I said, oh,
he's senile.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Oh do you know that you're not a doctor. I
said no, he's see noile. Listen, go go back, go
back to two.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Thousand and eight and listen to his debate with Sarah Palin.
I did that and I was like, oh my god,
he's so far gone. You know, this was in the
first days of his administration. Well, listen to this. This
is Obama and Biden talking about the same thing.
Speaker 10 (24:05):
Budget reform is not an option, it's a necessity.
Speaker 8 (24:09):
The American people are entitled to transparency.
Speaker 10 (24:13):
We can't sustain a system that bleeds billions of taxpayer
dollars on programs that have outlived their usefulness or exist
solely because of the power of politicians, lobbyists or interest groups.
Speaker 8 (24:25):
They're entitally be able to figure out where their dollars
are going, and they're entitled to accountability to make sure
that we're using.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
The dollars for what we said it was for.
Speaker 10 (24:35):
We are going to go through our federal budget as
I promised during the campaign, page by page, line by line,
eliminating those programs we don't need, and insisting that those
that we do need operate in a sensible, cost effective way.
It should be easy is getting rid of the pointless
waste and stupid spending that doesn't benefit anybody.
Speaker 8 (24:58):
We hope to be instilling an enti hire new culture
the not only our administration, but every succeeding administration will
in fact pursue.
Speaker 10 (25:06):
No amount of waste is acceptable, not when it's your money.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
And of course Biden went on to blow literally trillions
of dollars. I will say, during the Clinton years they
ran that pretty tight. Of course, they had a Republican
Congress that provided a lot of guidance and direction. But
when Clinton left office, the budget was balanced. And then
(25:38):
Bush took over and he was a disaster, and so
Obama wanted to clean up Bush's mess, but Biden was
completely out of hand. So there you go, Al Gore,
Bill Clinton, Obama, and Biden. Those are all the Democratic
presidents and vice presidents of the last twenty five years,
(26:00):
thirty years. Yeah, four main Democratic figures speaking exactly like
Trump and Musk.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
And now.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
The four point seven trillion dollars that DOGE has discovered,
this is payments from the Treasury Department. All government payments
out of Washington passed through the Treasury Department, and four
point seven trillion dollars of payments. We're missing a critical
tracking code. So now tracing the transactions are almost impossible.
(26:40):
Each transaction is supposed to get what they call a
thaf thas excuse me, a Treasury account symbol, its identification
an identification code, and that links a treasury payment to
a budget line item.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Does that make sense?
Speaker 3 (26:58):
You have a line item in the budget saying a
million dollars to debor mark for the oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
for face filler or something. Okay, I'll take it, okay,
And they're supposed to be a TIS, a Treasury account symbol,
so that they can connect the million dollars to debormark
for the face filler. It's standard financial process. Well, what
(27:23):
doeses found That particular box where you put the symbol,
where you put the code was optional and it was
often left blank. So Musk is saying that traceability is
almost impossible. This is exactly what they found with high
(27:47):
speed rail with the billions of dollars that disappeared there
after they did to audits. This is what they found
in Sacramento with Gavin Newsom's homeless waste of twenty four
billion dollars. This is what they found here in Los
Angeles with the audits into homelessness as well. When I
first heard this was the high speed rail story, and
(28:08):
I didn't understand because they said, well, we looked at
the paperwork and it was blank. There was no indication
of where it went. And I thought, well, that's not possible.
And now I realize this was standard operating procedure all
the way up to the federal government. They simply don't
write down what they're spending the money on, and it
added up, according to Musk, to four point seven trillion dollars. Now,
(28:33):
I don't know what period of time that is, but
as a Saturday, that code is not is now required,
so they are gonna, I mean you, and why don't
they put in the code? Because the money is being
wasted and stolen, that's why. And the people doing the
paying are getting kickbacks because we are run by criminals.
(28:56):
In Washington, Sacramento, in Los Angeles and everywhere else, we
are run by criminals, and so they had a racket
scam going for decades and decades. I always wondered, like,
if you look at the spending here in California, and
I know, I gotta go. Spending has gone up dramatically
last fifteen years under Brown and new Something. Everybody goes, well,
(29:19):
what's it going for? Spending has gone up dramatically in
the last few years under Biden. What's it going for?
It's going up. The spending is up dramatically because they're
stealing the money. That's the reality. They're actually stealing the
money and they're leaving no trace.
Speaker 6 (29:36):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
After three o'clock. We're talking to Todd Bensman from the
Center for Immigration Study. He's got a piece in the
New York Post today. Find out if Todd has anybody
to talk to over at the border. Because the border
crossings are down to a couple hundred a day, there
is some contra. Some of the sensitive, fragile progressives are
(30:04):
very upset that these illegal alien felling criminals are being
handcuffed and shackled before being shoved on a plane and
sent home. So that should be entertaining. Also, next hour,
in case you're hungry, we have you know what, we
have a Kamala Harris word salad.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Yes we do.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
The next governor of California. You're gonna hear her in
all her oratorical glory. Now ozempic story I promised Deborah
Today he's going to be penises and a zempic. In
Brazil there is a crime wave. Thieves are demanding from
(30:47):
pharmacists that they hand over the ozempic. Give you an example.
Ten thirty on a Friday evening in January. David Fernando
is a pharmacist. He's working behind the counter in sal Polo.
Man walks out to him and flashed a gun. He
asked for money from the refrigerator. No, he asked for
money from the register.
Speaker 5 (31:07):
Okay, that makes more sense.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
And medications from the refrigerator. Medications from the refrigerator is
a code word for give me the ozempic and all
the other variations we go vi Saxende.
Speaker 5 (31:22):
I haven't heard of that one.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
No, they're all the same injectable weight loss drugs. Most
Brazilians can't afford. These are very expensive arry if.
Speaker 5 (31:33):
Your insurance doesn't cover it. It's a lot.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
The thief made off with five boxes. Each box has
a month's worth and costs about to convert it about
to one hundred and ninety dollars, which may not seem
like a lot in America, but the average Brazilian income
is three hundred dollars, so imagine paying two thirds of
(31:56):
your monthly income for a zempic for a zempic was
not a surprise. Third time his drug store has been
held up. Now they have a security guard outside to
try to word off the ozempic thieves. There was a
robbery a few blocks north in August. Police interrupted an
(32:19):
ozempic robbery resulting in a shootout and a woman was injured.
There's another one on an afternoon. Two guards stood washed,
one inside the door and the other near the back room.
He's guarding the door to the refrigerator that holds the ozempic.
It's in Sapaulo. It's Brazil's richest city. Many wealthy neighborhoods,
(32:41):
many pharmacies stocked the drugs for the wealthy women.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
But then you have a lot of poor people like.
Speaker 5 (32:46):
That, wealthy women. What about the wealthy men.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
I don't know a lot of Mostly it's women taking it.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
There are guys, there are guys that are taking these, yes, yeah,
but they don't talk about it.
Speaker 10 (33:00):
Some do.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
I don't hear guys talking about it very much, but
you're right, some do, all right. So in twenty twenty two,
there was only one ozempic robbery in Brazil, and it
was four boxes from a single drug store. Last year
thirty nine of them. And anyone who stocks a zempic
(33:29):
cannot work in peace, said the manager of one store.
People ask do you have ozempic? And he says, no,
we don't. This way, we don't get robbed.
Speaker 5 (33:39):
It's liquid gold, it is.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
How quickly does that stuff work?
Speaker 5 (33:44):
I don't take it, so you.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
And I don't take anything. We don't know anything. In
the last hour. I couldn't help you on the penis filling.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
Yeah, and I couldn't help you on that either. I
don't know how quickly it works, actually maybe a few months.
I mean, I know that it stops you from being hungry, right,
so you eat less, So maybe, I mean, and I
think it also depends on how much weight you have
to lose. If you have a lot of weight, obviously
(34:14):
it's going to take longer, so maybe you lose a
few pounds a week.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
In Brazil, ozempic sales grew from twenty seven million five
years ago to over six hundred million two years ago.
That's the last year they have data. God, it makes
be spid how many billions and billions are they spending here?
Speaker 4 (34:35):
People are desperate well to lose weight to look nice.
I mean, we were talking about fillers earlier.
Speaker 5 (34:42):
I'm not just talking about Peenis.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Yeah, but then they end up with a zepic face,
and then you have to get the face fillers.
Speaker 5 (34:47):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Well, end the ball was deflated looking.
Speaker 5 (34:51):
Not everybody has a zempic face, but a lot of
people do.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
When we come back, we're going to talk to Todd Benzman.
He's has been covered border issues for many years now.
And are there border issues anymore? We don't know. Well, actually,
in a way, there are so few border issues the
progressive nuts are making stuff up. They're angry that some
of the criminals being deported on planes are wearing handcuffs
and shackles.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Why is this.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
I'm gonna talk to Deborah Mark next. No, we're gonna
talk to Todd Bensman next. Well, we're gonna hear from Debormark.
Speaker 5 (35:23):
Now, you hear from me all day long.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
I know, I feel like I'm constantly talking to you.
Debra's got the news live in the KFI twenty four
hour newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to The John Cobalt
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