This video discusses how nonprofit organizations like PATH (People Assisting the Homeless) may be distributing drugs to homeless individuals rather than providing genuine assistance, as evidenced by the arrest of Christopher Johnson, a substance use disorder specialist who was found selling meth and fentanyl at MacArthur Park. Additionally, the video presents research from the Rand Corporation showing that while tent encampments have decreased, rough sleeping (people sleeping without tents on streets) has increased by 20%, suggesting that homeless counts may be manipulated by reclassifying people rather than actually reducing the homeless population.
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Uh the feds have arrested a man named Christopher Johnson and uh they found he was in possession of uh fentinyl and meth and it looks as if he was selling it to the local drug addicts at MacArthur Park. And uh here's the twist.
He either works or has worked for one of those nonprofits, the people assisting the homeless.
That's right. He uh he was a substance use disorder specialist and uh he was caught actually supplying the drugs. Let's get Bill Salon, the first assistant US attorney for the central district here. Uh welcome. How are you?
>> I'm doing good. John, how are you?
>> I'm good. I have seen conflicting accounts. Uh was he currently an employee or a former employee?
>> You know, it's a good question. He says he works there. He has their business cards. Uh a business card that he works there. Uh and he was pictured on their website. Uh before we arrested him, we tried to talk to them and they basically told us to go pound sand and not so pleasant language. Um so now they're saying, "Well, he used to work there." I I don't know exactly. Um I suspect uh they're trying to distance themselves, but we issued them a subpoena yesterday as well for his record. So, we'll get to the bottom of it. But whether he's a current employee or recent employee, I I I'm not sure that matters that much. No, >> it just shows you that the the people that they're hiring to work there. And by the way, it's not his first time dealing drugs, so I'll break that news for you. He's got prior convictions.
>> I'm um I'm pretty shocked by that.
So, but but like you we suspected I mean every time I'm down there and I see these these jeeps handing out crack pipes and and needles and all everything you need to use drugs. The word on the street is that they also deal drugs because it's very convenient that you would be in a position to do handtohand exchanges with the people who are addicted to drugs. As you're handing them the paraphernalia, you'd want to supply them the drugs as well. But we didn't we didn't have any concrete evidence of it until this case, which is frankly a little ser uh serendipitous in how it happened. It was while we were getting ready to do the MacArthur Park takedown that we did about two weeks ago. LAPD happened to pull him over and find the drugs in his car. And it was the same day or or just the day before we did that takedown. So, we weren't able to charge him in time to include him in that takedown, but we have since worked it up uh since then. But that's how we discovered him. He just got pulled over and and they found the drugs.
>> They found the drugs in his car there.
>> Yes. In Macarthur Park.
>> And how do you how do you know that he was selling them to the locals? I mean, that's an obvious conclusion, but is there is there any like video evidence of him milling about?
>> He's actually charged with possession with intent to distribute. So often, you know, we we don't often get drug dealers in the act of selling. What we do is we find them with quantities of drugs that let's just say are beyond personal use um and other indishes of of stealing drugs. So the technical charge is possession with the intent to distribute and he's looking at a 5-year mandatory minimum federal prison sentence on the quantities of drugs he had in his possession.
>> Now I would think maybe this organization people assisting the homeless path they've been around since 1983. I see them pop up all the time and they got a lot of money from the taxpayers. I I would think uh there ought to be a wider investigation into this operation. Is that possible?
>> Well, I'm not going to comment on on any pending investigations, but uh I I certainly would we want to understand uh what they knew, when they knew, and how how involved anyone might have been. So, we we issued a grand jury subpoena to them yesterday.
um we won't be able to discuss anything until, you know, if and when we're prepared to make a charge. But look, I think it does call into question certainly the wisdom of these programs, the handing out the the syringes. Um we've always said it's not a good idea.
And here's here's another reason that program I believe shouldn't exist. And also, who are the people involved in these programs? Why why are there no background checks? Why are they hiring drug known drug dealers? And who are these people making tens of millions of dollars? I think this group gets hundreds of millions of dollars.
>> This is a biggie.
>> They're very worried about this case and they've been a lot of double talk on their side about whether they hand out needles or not.
>> Well, that see that's a sign when they're doing double talk. When there's confusion over whether this guy was a current or a former employee, when I hear that stuff, it's I I know they're in damage control mode and they're trying to at the very least uh foul up the public perception of the case if nothing else.
>> Yeah. Because they're standing to lose a lot of money.
>> Yeah. Uh but I mean, this can't be the only one. He obviously can't be the only guy. I mean it would >> look I don't know how hard uh people were looking before to be honest with you prior to our involvement. I mean no one was doing anything about the drug dealing there. It was all happening in plain sight open air drug market. And it wasn't until the feds got on scene where we said we're not putting up with this anymore. Um I may have used stronger language and uh and that's when we changed the the narrative. And now I'm actually very uh happy to say LAPD is welcoming us with open arms to come and help them clean up uh the community.
They do need us. They need our criminal justice system because uh Sacramento has totally serrated the California justice system and their ability to incarcerate people. So they need us to come in with uh long prison sentences to get these people off the street. It just explained to people that it when the state or local authorities don't want to take on cases like this for their, you know, for political reasons, right? Um what gives you the right to come in to a local jurisdiction and slap federal charges?
How how does it transform into a federal crime and gives you the power to to bust up uh these drug gangs?
>> Yeah, often we have parallel jurisdiction. So there's a lot of crimes that could either be brought federally or just on the state side. Um and uh I mean you saw that with for example famous cases Rodney King where he was charged both by the state and the federal government on the same charge.
So oftent times there's parallel jurisdiction. We do need a federal statute on point. In this case, Congress has made it a federal crime to distribute drugs with the intent to to sell. Uh we don't have the ability to charge drug users. we can only charge drug dealers. So, there is no federal charge for for using drugs. The state has charges for for using drugs. So, it can be a little complicated, but when we're dealing with drug dealers, we have a big hammer to come in and and uh bring those cases and lock them up uh with mandatory prison sentences, 5, 10, longer, uh depending on their record.
>> Right. So, you can go after a guy like this. You can't go after his customers necessarily.
>> No. And that's why, you know, we are working with uh Nathan Hawkman. We're working with LAPD because uh we're going to go to the next phase of MacArthur Park, which is a sustained regular law enforcement presence at the park. And part of it is, yes, we do have to address the users. Um if we don't deal with the demand, this problem will never get resolved. So with Prop 36, >> Nathan has some tools now to hopefully compel people into rehab. But I'll tell you the hard part. before he can compel him into rehab, they need two prior convictions for possessing drugs. Uh that is very difficult because no one has been prosecuting these cases for like the last decade. So, we're going to need them to get some convictions uh before you can compel them in a rehab under Prop 36.
>> You tell me George Gasone wasn't prosecuting drug crimes, huh?
>> Are you shocked?
>> Well, you hit me with a lot of body blows in this in this segment. I'll tell you, I I am I'm stunned and stunned again. All right, Bill. Good work as always. Thank you very much. I'm so glad you have the job you have. You're you're just perfect for this and uh I know there's a lot more to come. So, thank you.
>> Thank you. Thanks, John.
>> All right. Bill Asaly, the first assistant US attorney for the Central District of California. Uh he's a federal prosecutor and his team put together a big bust in a series of big busts at MacArthur Park. I'm going to tell you more about this this character and Christopher Johnson uh who was arrested and he was found with meth and fentinil and and other things. He he works or worked for a major nonprofit.
And I'll tell you about this organization cuz you have to be highly suspicious of all these nonprofit organizations involved in in giving out needles, giving out pipes for meth, for crack, for fentinel, for heroin. They're all should be under suspicion. All of them should be investigated. We'll talk more. Uh Deborah Mark is live in the KFI 24-hour newsroom.
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>> Uh I don't want to know what they do with the coconuts. Uh we're talking about MacArthur Park. This is now the third round of of arrests. one guy. But it's an important arrest because this confirms what uh I suspect is that some of the people, maybe a lot of the people involved in this nonprofit world for the homeless are actually giving the drugs out to the vagrants, to the addicts, because to me, it's a great business move. What's the If you run or or or uh get a six figure salary from PATH the people people assisting the homeless, that's the name of the organization. If you're a principal in this organization and you're making six figures, what's the one thing you don't want? The one thing you don't want is drug addicts to be taken off the streets. Because then what do you do?
Where else are you going to make six figures?
What you do is you sit in an air conditioned office somewhere. You get millions of dollars in tax money pouring in and then you hire ex- prisoners to actually hand out the meth pipes and crack pipes and and the needles, the syringes. You you have a you know you you you have people, street people. Well, where are you going to get those people from? They have to be people who already involved in the drug trade. Preferably people who have been arrested before, let out by our stupid system because they know they know that world. They speak the language. They got to know the difference between heroin and fentinil between crack and meth. You know, they got to be familiar with the prices. They got to they got to know the addicts.
It's like any customer, right? If you're running a jewelry store or a shoe store or a car dealership, you got to know your customers. You got to know their preferences. You got to be able to speak the language. You got to talk about you're selling cars, you got to know know about all the all the latest options, right?
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Running a grocery store, you got to know about all the uh Himalayan virgin coconut popcorn snacks that come in. So Christopher Johnson, THE GUY THEY BUSTED, WAS PERFECT. He worked for the nonprofit People Assisting the Homeless. Now they're trying to smudge that up, saying, "Well, he didn't work here."
Well, it turns out he did, and maybe still does. Well, he left a few months ago. Yeah, maybe, maybe not. There's a subpoena that's going to determine that.
My point is he was hired. What do you think he was hired for? Just what what good is handing out the pipes and the needles if the people don't have something to smoke or snort or inject?
You got to have a package. You got to own the whole business.
Now, God, ah, who knows how much money the people assisting the homeless has taken in from taxpayers since 1983.
42 years they have been sucking money out of the taxpayers and what have they accomplished?
They're in the business of of keeping the drug ADDICTS ADDICTED TO DRUGS.
That's what's nuts. And they came up like they always do. The progressives always have a fancy cool name to make you feel guilty for criticizing it. Um oh it's harm reduction. Aren't you in favor of harm reduction? Why you want to increase the harm? You don't want to reduce the harm.
No, I don't want you to be handing out drugs and paraphernalia. That increases the harm. What they're doing is the opposite of what their title says.
And I resent every single penny going to keep drug addicts addicted to drugs.
Don't you? You really think it's a good idea to have spending tax money so that addicts stay addicted? So you make it easier for them to mainline their drugs?
Does that sound really smart? Think about it. Is that really a smart thing to do? Would you do that for your kid?
If you had a a a a meth addict son lying on the floor of your living room, would you say, "Uh, here Tom, here's a here's a uh here's a meth pipe.
Here's some meth.
Have at it. Now, go out in the backyard.
But here, it's free. It's for me.
Maybe Path wanted to own the whole distribution business, right? Stay in control, keep the customers steady, and keep them happy.
This guy, Christopher Johnson, a substance use disorder specialist.
Doesn't that sound like a lot of hoie?
Substance use disorder specialist. This guy was trained in selling drugs and paraphernalia to people. So, he's a specialist. This is all such garbage.
This is all such nonsense. And every single person in government knows it.
The city council knows it. Bass knows it. They know what they're doing. They know this money that they're shuttling to these nonprofits goes to guys like him so they can keep the business hot.
Say, Billy, who we just had on, the first assistant US attorney, told the California Post something similar. He said the nonprofit groups have long been suspected of distributing distributing drugs in the park. They have a cover story. It's like, well, we we we want to we give him safer needles and we want to help him get government services.
This guy this guy had prior gun and drug charges.
And this is why this this this homeless industrial complex, which the Post wrote an editorial on today, stays in business.
Cuz there's always new customers. They are creating new addicts. They're enabling the old addicts until they die.
That's what they're doing with our funding because and and Ed, we supply the funding. We've given him two two no I think three new taxes in the last 10 years. There was a county tax and two city taxes or a city tax and two county taxes. That's a lot of taxes and it's it's it's for organizations like PATH.
So it's the public's fault for voting for this nonsense. If we didn't give them the money, PATH wouldn't exist. And the drug addicts wouldn't get a supply of drugs and a supply of paraphernalia to snort or inject the drugs.
And this is why it costs billions of dollars. And this is why it never ends.
None of these people will ever live a normal life as long as you have a quasi government agency in the disguise of a nonprofit like PATH handing out the paraphernalia and their employees or ex employees handing out the drugs. It will never go away. And Karen Bass knows this. That's why she's the most deceptive, dishonest, destructive.
That's evil. That's evil to to know that your system that you're in charge of that you fund is actively enabling addicts to remain addicted.
And you don't stop, you don't change things. That is the devil's work. That's what Karen Bass is doing. All right, we're gonna have more coming up. Uh oh, four o'clock, we're gonna have John Slav on. State of Gold is the name of his podcast. He's uh a businessman uh briefly ran for governor and he um had his his State of Gold podcast put out a video about this billionaire's tax. This billionaire's tax is coming after you.
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Podcast after 6:00. Moist line will run twice at 5:20 and 5:50 today. Couple other programming notes. I'm on CNN tonight with Alex Michaelsson. The story is the name of his show at in the 9:00 hour. I don't know exactly what time, but if you're home, uh 9:00 p.m. I'm going to be on CNN some point that hour.
Alex was on our show yesterday. And then I got to give uh special notice. My wife Deborah Kobelt uh had a really good interview with Spencer Pratt. If uh you want to you want to see Spencer Pratt unleashed, uh it it is really good. Uh Deborah Cobalt Live is the name of the podcast. You can see it on YouTube. You can hear it on the iHeart Radio app.
Deborah Cobalt Live. Spencer Pratt. Uh a really lively uh time with him. So you could watch that. All right. Um speaking of Spencer Pratt, uh he was on with with Alex Michaelson.
Here's a perfect marriage of those two promos. uh we didn't get to play all his clips yesterday and and it's really important because we're in the we're in the final days here, right? We're talking about what about 10 days until the election and um I haven't seen any new polling from any organization I recognize. Be very wary of what you see online or on Twitter. Uh I haven't seen anything anything bad about his polling chances. I'm just saying in general, there's a there's a lot of people putting out fake stuff and there's a lot of polls that are intentionally slanted. I don't know if they're just making up numbers. Uh the one thing you can't tell with most of the polls is how they weight the responses based on demographics or political leanings.
uh he th this this whole thing with him uh focusing on on the homelessness and on the fires. This should not be a political issue, a partisan issue in any way a Republican, Democrat, liberal, conservative issue. This is quality of life stuff starting with the fire. Fires should be put out. We all agree on that.
Homeless people should not be living in the street doing all the insane things they're doing, right? The roads should be paved, the sidewalks should be fixed, the police and the fire department should be funded, and and the street lights should be fixed. It's it's all the basics of life. It's quality of life basics. That is not a partisan debate.
And I am going to start strangling people if I got to read one more time about some partisan angle about how people are going to vote or should vote in this election. Look, we either fix this these problems or we live in in in squalor and in misery.
That's your choice. You want an orderly city or you want mayhem and uh an an apocalyptic environment.
Um, so here is Pratt on with Alex on on CNN. The story is, and this ties into what we did in the first half hour with that guy, uh, Christopher uh, what was his name?
Christopher Johnson.
Was that his name?
He he's he's the guy who works for or worked for the nonprofit uh people assisting the homeless. Although one KFI listener said it should be people addicting the homeless. Yeah.
Christopher Johnson is his name. And and the nonprofits have employees handing out not only the paraphernalia to use the drugs, but the drugs themselves. So here's Spencer Pratt talking about all that. Cut three. Cut three. There's so many people profiting off of these people just living in misery and dying and I'm going to be the one saying we are not letting that. So yes, if you're torturing and abusing animals, that's jail. If you're pleasuring yourself in front of kids, which I all day long parents are messaging me the craziest videos and photos that I can't post cuz my accounts will get deleted. You will go to jail. and in jail, you know, maybe you end up getting sober and you have a chance to come back into society, but if you come out and do that again, you go back to jail. We need to be a society of laws that we have. I don't want to add one law. We have plenty of laws that functioning cities enforce. Look at Beverly Hills. This isn't happening in Beverly Hills. You can go have dinner there.
>> Why do you think that is?
>> Cuz they enforce their laws.
>> There's plenty of cities around LA that these criminals know that it's like I talked to firefighters and police. They literally can like jump over the board like I can do anything here. Oh, over here I'll they have laws over here. LA city you can do whatever you want. And we need to make sure everyone knows LA city is a city of laws to keep everyone safe. To keep the people that are to keep the people that are dying on the sidewalk safe.
>> Stop letting them. We're paying over a million dollars for needles right now in MacArthur Park. I have a a text from uh Norm at Langers Deli just asking me to come there Saturday Saturday and he said she lied on the on the debate. He said after she said I'm not for that. He says they're giving out needles four times a day. It doesn't make sense because in my town when tragically Matthew Perry passed of a drug overdose, what happened to his dealer? We went after his dealer.
That dealer goes to prison. We have seven people dying every day. We're the ones paying with our tax money to give them needles, tourniquets, even alcohol wipes. But those those people don't go to jail. You see people that are taking our money to kill people >> to kill animals because these people are on drugs and then harming the animals.
So everything I'm saying is is common sense. We've just lost it in Los Angeles.
>> Is there anything he said that is wrong?
Anything he said not true? All of that is true. I've seen a lot of it myself.
It's what we were just talking about.
Christopher Johnson works with nonprofit people assisting the homeless path. He is selling them the drugs. He had meth and fentinyl on him when the police pulled him over near MacArthur Park. His job again was to hand out meth pipes, crack pipes, fentinyl, heroin needles, and he's supplying all those drugs for the pipes and the needles.
Your money. Karen Bass did say in that debate that she's against it. She's lying. Her she signed off on the programs.
She is supplying our tax money to a a program like PATH anything he said actually is is political partisan or IS IT AND WHAT ABOUT I I TALK ABOUT THIS ALL the time it is non-existent in Beverly Hills non-existent in Glendale non-existent in Manhattan Beach non-existent in Malibu you go to Orange County there are numerous towns it's non-existent same state laws You just tell the police arrest for these for the following crimes. Arrest them and you have a choice. You either go to jail or go to treatment which used to be our policy.
Now this is this is interesting and next week when I have more time I want to discuss this in greater detail. This is uh Spencer Pratt on with Alex Michaelson on CNN about this idea to build a large campus on federal land outside of LA for all the vagrants and drug addicts to recover. Listen to cut five.
>> So you're going to build your own campus to do 100%.
>> Where is it going to be?
>> Probably I'll get a beautiful federal land. It's going to have trees. But >> the city of Los Angeles.
>> It's probably going to be outside of the city of Los Angeles cuz we need a very large piece of dirt. So this idea because that was sort of rumored that you're going to send people outside of LA. That's that is what you want. And how do you get buyin for that from that community?
>> Oh well because there's plenty of land that is just sitting with beautiful nature. We need to put these people in nature connect ground healing and the amount of people that are here to put the money into it. I'm not going to need our tax money. There is a lot of people that want to help people that know they can't help these people because the NOS's are just scamming their money. But if there's a real solution, my friend Matt Hess, he does this right now in Bentonville with veterans. He has a beautiful UHP. He has a facility and it's incredible. And there he lets veterans have opportunities. They train you into businesses and things that when you graduate or leave here, you can come back and say in Italy it's an incredible thing for addicts. You need to offer people a chance and teach them whether it's how we're going to teach them how to do brush clearance, whether we're going to teach them how to clean trash professionally. If they want to come back to the city, we have a job for them. Not just a bed off Skid Row, they're sober off fentanyl for two days.
They go into bed, they come out right back on to where all the drugs, all their We need to actually help these people and get them back in. So, your plan is to is to require homeless people to go to a facility outside the city of Los Angeles, potentially in the desert.
>> I didn't say desert. I said beautiful nature. The desert's hot. That sounds brutal. I was thinking more like >> so, like where, >> you know, I'm going to have to meet with the federal government when I'm mayor and look at the most beautiful property we can get >> and get that. But it's going to be somewhere where people will go and they go, "Thank God for Spencer. This is the greatest thing in the United States of America. Everyone needs to copy this model.
>> Isn't this a a better idea worth exploring?
Worth worth seeing if it's feasible?
Shouldn't we all be thinking that way?
Is that a political idea? That's not a political It's not a partisan idea.
That's an idea to rehabilitate these drug addicts and then get them work.
That's a good idea. You ever hear that from Bass? No. You ever heard that?
That's what I don't understand. This is the way we ought to be discussing this.
Is there a place we could build this?
What would it look like? He says he's got very wealthy people. All the all the billionaires that are demonized, some of them want to do something productive like this.
There are some small programs that work.
Can you make them uh workable at a larger scale?
Right now, our policy is let him die in the street. All right. Uh Deborah Mark is live in the KFI 24-hour newsroom.
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KFIM640 live everywhere on the iHeart Radio app. We are on every day from 3 to 6 uh after 6 o'clock. John Kobelt show on demand the podcast and John Slavit is coming on with us. John Slavit is a uh uh has been in the technology world um and he's led multiple companies. Uh he was the CEO of Central uh a housing innovator. He also very involved in politics, briefly ran for governor this year, and he has a podcast called State of Gold about reclaiming California's promise. and I've been on his podcast and they put out a video and it it's called Wipeout and it centers on this billionaire tax which you may have heard of that is not just a billionaire tax.
There is a provision in there where all of us get taxed. It is really sneaky.
It's another piece of evil. We're going to talk with John Slab about it and you better pay attention. Uh we have uh one super chat here. I just want to give a hello to uh Carol King. Not the Carol King. Uh Carol King live from Savannah, Georgia. Left California two years ago.
Miss you. Savannah is a beautiful little city and it's one of the cities I talked about last year when we did a drive through the south from uh Charlotte to uh Charleston, Savannah to Sarasota.
These are great small cities, entirely civilized. None of this nonsense. zero of this nonsense. Uh, so everybody else has figured it out. All right. I couldn't believe this today, but in the California Post and all over social media, my grocery store was in the news. The one a half a mile from my house that I was uh went to this morning.
>> Whole Foods.
>> No, that's not a grocery store.
>> Yes, it is. So, you go there often? I I don't go there often and it's definitely not a grocery store because there's nothing that I can eat there that I I don't even want to give the name of this place because I I don't I mean you go look for it, all right, cuz I like the store. I don't want to cause any problems for them, but it's it's it's a local store and but it's it's fully stocked with the groceries. And apparently the sister-in-law of Jimmy Kimmel went online and was was complaining because at the store they were selling pro-Sper Pratt cookies.
Now this is a pretty left-wing section of town that I live in, but yeah, there were there were Spencer Pratt cookies. vote Pratt along with a big P and an eagle backdrop of uh of Los Angeles.
And apparently Jimmy Kimmel's sister-in-law just went nuts over this.
Carly Kimmel is her name. Now I I don't get into this controversy over Jimmy Kimmel or Steven Cobear. You know, I they're not shows I watch if other people want to watch that stuff. It's a free country. I just object that they are both allowed to lose tens of millions of dollars and still keep their shows. We We don't have that luxury here. We actually >> Oh, you're jealous.
>> That part I'm jealous. Okay. I'd love to be able to do a show where uh getting revenue didn't matter >> or showing a profit didn't matter.
>> Yeah, of course.
>> But I I didn't get that lane. All right.
I got the lane where you uh you have to have advertising and the cost of the show has to uh has to be less than the revenue that comes in. Okay. But apparently Kimmel and Cobar had some special dispensation and they could lose their which I'd never seen in television or radio or any medium before. Right.
You always hear about box office bombs.
Why do they get a lot of attention?
Because they cost the movie company tens or hundreds of millions of dollars, right?
And then when you do that, you can't act in another big movie or you can't direct another one. You have enough television shows or radio shows that wipe out.
Nobody hires you. But yeah, different world, I guess, now. So, um anyway, she complained uh online uh and she actually complained at at the store.
Somebody posted this about Carly Kimmel.
Attacking a small business seems to run in the family.
And it's worth noting the last two cases involving bakeries and freedom of speech ended with the bakeries winning in Supreme Court.
She is the wife of Jonathan Kimmel.
Jimmy's brother who has also worked on Jimmy's show.
And uh an employee at the store talk about it referred the California Post to a manager who wasn't available. Yeah.
They just want to sell food there.
And Carly uh is uh not is not talking.
But I I I couldn't believe it's like, "Hey, wait, that's my store. I felt like something bad happened."
Now, why would you get angry if a store is selling Spencer Pratt cookies? How emotionally unstable do you have to be that you're actually complaining? live in the grocery store over over Spencer cookies. I I I I honestly the mental illness is so deep, so widespread now, so inexplicable.
I I I I've never seen this kind of hysteria. If you don't like the cookies, don't buy them. Don't look at them.
So then you're pissed off at the store because you think that the store owners or managers are taking a political they're they're they're stud they they obviously don't want Spencer Pratt. This person the sister-in-law doesn't isn't a fan of Spencer Pratt and now is pissed off that the grocery store is a fan and wants >> wants him to be the next mayor.
>> You know how many homeless people have have been in front of that store over the years? Tracy Park cleaned it up, but there was a period a few years ago where it was bad. Like it was it was a little scary at times. You know, they'd wander in the store. They have a security guard there all the time just to keep out keep out the freaks. There was one woman seemed like she was an Eastern European woman, older, kind of blocky looking, you know, and she was completely deranged. She had schizophrenia. and she'd stand in front of the front door just yelling just yelling and babbling at everybody walking by. Now, this is the kind of store where Girl Scouts feel comfortable selling their girl Girl Scout cookies and and that's, you know, it's a community store and instead you have crazy person there.
I was in the bagel shop this morning and I I I was really upset about this. There is some disgusting homeless person who walks in with his bed roll and his blanket and all his filth. It's it's it's like he is so dirty you you you can't tell what he is really. And he's been there two days in a row and he gets coffee and he touches everything, the coffee pots and the creamer stand.
>> And you wonder why I don't touch anything.
>> Actually, I thought of you today. I saw him touching everything and I it's like I wanted to get a photo of it.
It's like not in my bagel shop. And don't tell me he's a regular. All right, Deborah Mark is live in the KFI 24-hour newsroom.
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KFI AM640 >> an iHeart Radio station guaranteed human >> John Cobel show KFI AM640 live everywhere on the iHeart Radio app and we're on every day 3 to 6 after 6:00 John Kobelt show on demand we're live streaming on YouTube again uh so we're back and just go to youtube.comjco show youtube.comjcoshow and uh you can join us you can join the chat room over on the side there. Follow us at John Cobalt Radio and all the other social media platforms. Uh there's been a lot of uh publicity about a possible billionaires tax being on the ballot in November and uh there's a lot of support from it for it to uh steal billionaires money and uh have have the government uh have the government make it disappear.
I wouldn't say it's would probably go for anything useful.
Uh the thing is when you read when you read the detail of the proposal of the referendum, the legislature would have the option to turn this billionaire's tax into a tax on everybody regardless of income. This is a sneaky backdoor way to increase taxes without you knowing about it because this hasn't been publicized. Uh John Slavit's coming on with us. He has a uh uh he has a uh podcast called State of Gold and he spent a lot of years in technology. He uh was the CEO of Central the housing innovator among other companies. Uh he was an executive with Weiwork and he's uh also into politics. He briefly ran briefly ran for governor this year. He's got that podcast State of Gold. and we're gonna have him on here to talk about this sneaky billionaires tax that uh conceivably could tax a lot more than billionaires. Hi John, how are you >> John? Great to be with you.
>> Good to have you on. Explain to everybody well what's the overall claim they're making about the billionaire's tax and then tell us what's the secret provision in there.
>> Yeah. Well, you the operative word is sneaky. We'll come back to that. You said the word sneaky a few times and I think that that's fairly accurate. But, you know, the way this thing is being proposed is for the state of California to go after the 250 or so, of course, that number is counting down, right, because they're leaving. But the 250 or so billionaires who live in California, we have more billionaires that live in California than anyone else, any other state. And that's a good thing because they create jobs and contribute to charities here in California. But what's being proposed is to take 5% of their net worth and the way that the way this proposed initiative is written is to sequester and use 90% of that for health care particularly for medical. So that that's the way the thing is written.
It's being pushed by unions uh and it's being pushed by interests that uh want to make sure that um uh health care uh is available uh for uh for people in California.
That's the the why that's being put forward. But the the the dirty secret, John, when you read this thing and it's over 30 pages long, right? You think it was just a tax on billionaires, you do it in one page. It's 30 something pages long.
Without going back to voters, the supermajority Democrats in Sacramento by by a two-thirds vote could could apply this same tax to any California citizen, John, and come after any of us for 5% of our net worth, regardless of how much money we have.
>> That is chilling.
That I just I just felt a pit in my stomach. So they have language in there where they could do one vote in the legislature and take 5% of everybody's income.
>> Yeah. It's it's uh that's the bottom line. And that's that's not the only nugget, John. It's not just that the legislature in their discretion without going back to voters could vote. Of course, they've got the super majority. The Democrats, >> they can do it anytime they want.
>> Super majority.
>> They can do it anytime they want. I mean, heck, you know, in four days, they put together the the the uh the legislation and the action on Prop 50.
People remember last year they Democrats can do whatever they want in California, the legislature. They have the super majority. So, they can do that. They can vote and then come after any of us.
There's another sneaky provision that says that if the franchise tax board disagrees with the way you have valued your assets, they can charge you a 40% penalty.
>> Whoa.
>> That's another sneaky provision in what's being proposed. Uh and the way this is uh headed is that the franchise tax board will have the right to make you raise your proverbial right hand and uh declare under penalty of perjury all of your assets and submit that to the franchise tax board when you do your tax return and have bureaucrats coming after you.
Imagine a couple that's in their 60s or 70s that bought a home for 50,000 bucks 30 or 40 years ago, but now it's worth a million bucks. That's pretty typical in California. They could come after that couple and say, "We want 5% of the value of your home. Give us 50 grand."
That's the kind of future that this this law could portend for all Californians.
>> That's that's that's really frightening.
I I'm I'm I'm I mean every And what do they count as assets? Just your home or >> everything you you you know your 401k, pension, social security?
>> Uh >> yeah, that's a good question. It's a good question. My understanding is that it opens up the pots of money available to the franchise tax board. um they could come after your 401k, they could come after your IRA, they could come after the equity in your home and what you know we in technology know as unrealized gains which is so common in uh in the world of of of private stock which is what has you know not just billionaires but other people wigged out. That is yeah that's the profit on paper that you have when your stock your stocks go up >> profit it's the profit on paper you have >> when the value of your equity goes up but it may be that your company is private and the stock is not tradable.
So you could have a position on paper.
You could have started a company a decade ago and it could be worth a big number on paper and you could have a gain on paper from a decade ago. Well, technically the franchise tax board could come after you for that unrealized gain on paper which also has is very chilling with the tech community because how would you handle paying the franchise tax board cash on something that's not tradable? It's not like it's a public stock.
>> Why is this getting so little coverage?
>> Gosh, John. Well, um, it's a great question. I think, uh, it's obviously a busy political season with the statewide races and the governor's race. So, there is certainly some attention on that. Um, I think that I hope that once we get past the June 2nd primary that uh the interests that are opposing this are going to be running all kinds of uh awareness and advertising to get citizens to wake up to understand this thing because it it will be on the November ballot. We get our ballots in November for governor. Everything else, >> this thing's going to be on probably with tricky language. It sounds like it's about protecting regular people and their health care. Well, it's uh it's more insidious and uh you know, it's at a time, John, if you follow Sacramento, which most people don't, you see that we have revenues to the state at an all-time high because of this amazing stock market that we have, but we have about a $30 billion annual structural deficit because of Newsome and before him mismanagement of the budget, raiding of the rainy fund. Well, where is the state of California going to go for extra revenue?
And I think people need to wake up and understand that um this is written is just going after 250 people on the surface.
>> All right.
>> But it gives them the right to come after any of us. And uh it' be very dark.
>> Yeah. I just have a minute. Uh wipeout is the name of the video that you put out. Why don't you just because this is where people could learn more details about what you're talking about.
>> Absolutely. If you go to if you go to YouTube and you type in State of Gold podcast, uh you'll see Wipeout uh the billionaire tax uh as one of the top videos. It's gotten a ton of views, a ton of likes. Uh, it's only 5 minutes and 30 seconds and we've got a whole range of prominent Democrats on the record saying this is a terrible idea, including Steve Wesley, the former state controller, Democrat, Paul Mitchell, who wrote the Prop 50 maps, Democrat, uh, Governor Gay Davis, Democrat, and many others who are speaking out to say this is a terrible idea. By the way, even Nuome said he's against this thing.
>> Yeah, I know. But they could whip up.
What I'm worried about is whipping up an emotional frenzy with their advertising and get people frothing of the mouth against billionaires, not realizing that they have a weapon in here that could could attack all our wealth, no matter how much you have or how little you have. All right, John.
>> That's right, John.
>> John Slavage, thank you for coming on.
State of Gold. Look it up on YouTube.
The name of the video is Wipeout. It's 5 and a half minutes of your time. Uh that billionaire's tax is not what it seems.
It's aimed at you too and everybody else. Uh we'll talk more coming up. Uh reminder, I'm going to be on CNN tonight in the 9:00 hour with Alex Michaelson.
The story is so CNN 9:00 tonight. I'll be there. Deborah Mark is live in the KFI 24-hour newsroom.
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They could turn that law from going only after billionaires with one vote and they go after everybody.
You could have 5% of your net worth confiscated by the California government.
And that includes the worth of your house.
Even if you pay it, as John said, let's say you paid a h 100red grand, you know, 30 years ago, and it's now worth a million, you are going to pay the 5% tax on the million. And the same thing on your 401k, your IRA, and all your other assets. So this billionaire's tax that is a phony baloney cover. They've done this many times with fake covers. Get you all riled up emotionally. All this stuff is about emotional manipulation. I keep telling you that. And this one they could they could two in the morning they could pass by a twothirds majority and they've got it in the assembly and and said it a 5% wealth tax on everybody.
And you watch this video. It's called Wipeout. It's State of Gold. That's that's the uh that's the channel on YouTube. And go watch this video. I mean, they show you the actual wording that's in the referendum because this referendum, I forgot how many pages he said it was. It's many, many pages long, but there's one clause in there that'll stop your heart.
Now, this is what makes it difficult and why I have conversations every day with somebody about staying in California because they're also trying to put retroactive um clauses into these tax laws.
So, let's say they pass some kind of tax that's supposed to kick in, you know, December of 2026. It'll be retroactive if you were living here January 1st, 2026 because they know when they pass these massive taxes, people are going to flee.
They already are.
So, they're trying to hook you into like, "Oh, yeah. Well, if uh if you decide to flee when this tax goes into effect too late because you were here January 1st and it started, it's really sick. It's really sick." And uh I I you know that's why people that's why the billionaires are actually fleeing now because they don't know what's coming.
They want to do this to everybody and they think they're very proud of themselves. This is driven by these ultralleftwing union leaders now who are completely and utterly out of their minds. There's no point debating them. There's no point in lecturing them. You can't.
They're crazy people.
But they whip their followers up into a frenzy. The union workers in the healthcare industry sign this thing.
Now, you know how much fraud has been proven to be in the healthcare industry, which is why the Trump administration is cutting some of the funding cuz that that that fraud is real. Medicaid.
I mean, that whole hospice story is about Medicaid. Illegal alien health care. That's a Medicaid story.
And so, the Trump administration says, "Well, we're not funding this stuff.
We're not funding hospice fraud. We're not funding illegal alien healthcare."
So, the unions are going, it's like, "Well, we'll get the funding out of the billionaires, and we'll get people to vote for it by saying billionaires are evil.
this this old set him straight, but they have to they put a clause in there to go after all of us. And I I know you don't want to believe it and that's why I want you to look at the video and you'll actually see in black and white the print. This is a real thing.
John Slavit is a serious guy. He's been a very successful entrepreneur and businessman for a long time. Uh this this is a real thing. And believe me, we've had many scams pulled on us like like Prop 47. All right, I think you only need that example, I think, to make the point what Prop 47 actually did that was supposed to be save our neighborhoods and schools and it unleashed a tremendous amount of theft and public drug use.
So whenever this billionaire tax gets on board, I seriously if Newsome is saying no, I will never understand all the uh hatred of wealthy successful people.
That is so completely opposite the way I I have felt my whole life. Most of the people I know admired successful people.
My god, they employ just millions and millions. I I just I there this really is mental illness. This is beyond discussion and debate. It's just flatout insanity, but there's so much of it. All right, when we come back, uh we're going to talk with Daniel Gus Gus report.
uh he has been publicizing on the internet photos of a woman, speaking of of crazy, in Studio City and she's stealing Spencer Pratt from air signs and he's been trying to track down who this uh crazy woman is. It's got some pretty clear photos. It's a kind of fascinating detective work using the internet as a as a crowd sourcing tool.
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All right. Uh, Daniel Gus is going to come on with us. I've been following this story he's been pushing online for a few days. There's some uh crazy young woman who is running around uh pulling down Spencer Pratt signs, campaign signs, and she's been photographed and uh Daniel's been trying to get uh the internet crowd to figure out who she is. They've enhanced these photos with AI to try to better identify the details. Uh, let's get Daniel Guus to see what this is about because I have found this entertaining. Daniel, how are you?
>> Hey, John. Thanks for having me back. I appreciate it.
>> Uh, well, tell me where this originated here.
>> Well, it's it's it's funny. A couple of my friends, I get some of my best story leads from my friends at the local dog park. And one of them caught on uh their webcam for their home security. This lunatic who if you see the photos on my Substack, Daniel Gust.substack.com or onthegustreport on Twitter, you'll see photos. This is a skank. I I'm making up a a nickname for her. She is a stankeroni. Honey, wherever you are, you can't go out now cuz you and your hideous tattoos, you are a skankeroni and you can't go out now. And so I showed those photos to other friends of mine who live in that area. And there is a community watch group and once I started asking, hey, did you see this person? Did you see this person? Um, and I had all sorts of good angles of her and again on her left arm, really bad tattoos. So, some of my best stories of corruption and failure in Los Angeles start at the dog park. So, shout out to to all my friends there. And um, I want to announce on the John Cobel show that a buddy of mine by the name of David Veahi. Yeah, >> he's a really good guy who's involved in a lot of civic issues. Really good guy if you know him. He is now offering a $1,000 reward for the identity and arrest of this skank. Um because it has to stop here. Somebody, according to the California Post, somebody else is trying this in North Hollywood. So, let's find this because now we have beautiful weather for everybody who's out barbecuing this weekend. Everybody except Nathia Ramen who doesn't want you to barbecue. Um, she's not going to be able to wear t-shirts and tank tops because those tattoos, hideous ink, John, are going to be what leads to her arrest.
>> I am I am not a fan of women with excessive tattoos. Um, I don't understand why you disfigure yourself with with basically ugly graffiti. We should describe her. I You describe her since you've been looking at her all week. Describe her physically.
>> I've I've had the misfortune of looking at this skank. Um, she's probably about 5 foot2. Um, you know, uh, we would call it the itty bitty blankie committee. Um, you know, small chest, big butt. She may have lympadeema in the ankles, otherwise known as cankles, and a and a repulsive first look on her face like somebody who's was raised to think that nobody else's opinion matters other than yours.
Yeah, she does look like she's sucking on a lemon there. And it looks like she's got blonde hair pulled back into a ponytail. Uh big dark sunglasses, dark colored shorts, and the tank top and and running shoes. Um well, I think I think that we by the way, the running shoes are are white Nike high tops with dark uh dark laces. And I think we're using the phrase female quite loosely because there's a lot of people out there who I'm having behind the scenes conversations with that wonder if it might not be a um a biological female. I don't know. But a lot of people are saying that.
>> Well, you just can't tell. You just don't know.
>> Yeah.
>> And I'm not going to go look to find out. But uh she's giving off an impersonation at least of a female. That that would be the first thing you think of. Uh, and and you know, I'm I'm surprised that nobody's identified her yet. I wonder if she's from out of town.
>> If she's like some kind of uh like some kind of strike force >> that uh >> it could be it. I didn't mean to cut you off, John. That could be. But here's why I think no. She's probably somebody from the neighborhood because she's out walking. She was holding what looked like an energy drink in her hand. It was between 12:00 and 1:00 a few days ago.
So, she's walking around this very nice part of Sherman Oak Studio City, Valley Village, in the middle of the day, which makes me think that because she wasn't thinking that those tattoos could be readily identified, and they will be, that she probably assumed nobody was watching and nobody was recording. So, she could be from a strike force from somewhere else. My money says that she lives very close to this area. And by the way, everybody who's out this weekend at Starbucks and Noah's Bagels and Ralph Supermarket and the gym or wherever you go on a holiday weekend, look for those tattoos and reach out to me. There's a thousand reward with your name on it.
>> Well, we're going to sick the whole KFI audience on this case and and explain where they can see all the photos again, your sites.
>> Sure. It's danielgus.substack.com.
It's free. There's a lot of good stuff there about all of this stuff that I genuinely believe Spencer Pratt is gonna uh confront directly and immediately.
Also on Twitter at the Gus Report, >> let me ask you one one more question.
Since you're you talk to a million people and you're you're out there all the time, you actually show up to city hall meetings. Does it feel like like like Pratt's got enough to make the runoff?
>> Absolutely. Uh there is no question in my mind, but voters, please don't take that for granted. Get the ballots in this weekend.
>> Yes, it's it's re this is really important. Uh so I I don't want anyone because he's getting a tremendous amount of attention and I'm I'm assuming it translates into votes. Uh I I don't know if it's enough to win outright or just make the runoff, but he's got to make the runoff because then we got six months and all hell's going to break loose.
Right. And let me point out to you that if we can get Spencer Pratt into the runoff, undoubtedly, most likely against Karen Bass, as bizarre as that seems, he's 30 years younger than Karen Bass.
And she still has to be mayor. So, she's going to be running against a guy who's in in in the prime of his life. Young and and nothing but but time to campaign against a 72year-old Karen Bass. And it's going to show.
Let's get him into the runoff. If we can't get him to win in 10 days on on on June 2nd, let's get him into the runoff and he's going to be running against a much much older and elderly Karen Bass and it'll show >> someone completely out of touch with everything. What's going on daily life in the streets? What's going on culturally? I mean, the ads that that his fans are making for him, the AI ads are are so hysterical. And I could tell when she's been on television lately, she's really flustered. She she doesn't know how to respond to them, >> right? And and I'm telling you, I'm working on a story that's going to be eyepopping next week. Um my First Amendment attorney, a fantastic guy by the name of Paul Nicholas Boland up in um in Davis. We are working on a story where we're going to show you that crime stats in Los Angeles have been falsified, artificially lowered. Uh, and the reason that I'm going to report why they're falsifying the the crime stats the LAPD has been doing this and my belief it's because of Karen Bass.
>> Oh, yeah. You're going to be shocked at why they are claiming >> uh that they can't report uh you know truthfully and transparency about crime stats. Watch my Substack next week. I'll report it for you.
>> All her stats are phony. Her crime stats or homo stats. It's all a pile of crap.
Steaming crap. All right, Daniel. We'll we'll talk next week when you get this other story out. All right. Thank you for coming on.
>> Great. Thank you everybody. Have a great barbecue except Nathia Ramen.
>> Okay.
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Uh now he is running for attorney general to replace Rob Bont. And we're going to have Michael uh to come on in uh in just a few minutes to talk about uh his campaign against Bont who's running for reelection. Oh, and that guy's a slime bag, let me tell you.
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Uh, all right. I I I it always goes back to just how much basic intelligence you have, your IQ. And as you know, Gavin Newsome's IQ is about 93.
based on his admitted 960 SAT score. Uh I went on chat GPT and that's the calculation. Now 93 is really on the low end of average.
89 you'd be below average. You'd be you'd be getting into vegetable range.
So he's not very bright there. Uh this is the biggest driving weekend of the year. The gas is well over $6 in California and it's two bucks more than the rest of the country. And he is blaming Chevron. He has this fixation on Chevron and he's he's lying. Uh I mean this is part of his narcissistic psychopathic pathological lying demeanor that apparently is is hardwired into his brain.
So on on on social media he put be sure to avoid Chevron. Avoid in capital letters saying that the branded Chevron gas costs drivers more at the pump than unbranded gas which we all know if you go to those generic stations. The gas is cheaper. And he thinks he's taken a big bite out of Chevron. Now, this is a guy who's successfully shut down most of the oil production in the state and the oil the the m the biggest oil pipeline in the state and has helped close down well really it's his fault they closed down a number of refineries.
Chevron's still standing and he wants to destroy them and he blames Chevron for the, you know, the 650 gas when we're two bucks more than the rest of the country. Now you're asking why.
It's because uh they he claims they support Iran's war and they make money off it.
Now, because he only has a 93 IQ, he he missed an important point.
Um, many of your local gas stations are owned by local business owners.
Chevron, they drill for the oil, they may refine the gas, they may distribute the gas to the service stations. The service stations pay for that franchise name, but the actual service station is owned by local people.
Just like McDonald's or Carl's Jr. or any number of chains, the parent companies don't own many of their own restaurants or gas stations or anything else.
And that that that is well known and he should know and he probably does know, but he he figures you're stupid and you're going to get all whipped up.
Chevron's bad.
Stop it.
Most of the gas station, you're just hurting local business people.
He's so stupid.
Just stupid.
I mean, like the business owners in this state haven't suffered enough from him.
and he likes to pass himself off as a small business owner because the Getty family gifted him all these wineries and hotels and restaurants.
Do you know the Getty started 10 out of his 11 businesses, which contributes to his lack of self-esteem because he he knows basically he's a grifter.
He just takes the Getty money.
And here's here's the post from Ross Allen, a spokes a spokes for Chevron.
Most Chevron stations are independently owned and operated. And in many cases, including this one, it's run by small business owners. Um, apparently signs at a Chevron station, somebody put up signs that said Sacramento policies did this. Now you pay more.
These are signs at the pumps paid for by Chevron. And so he got so pissed at it, he's lashing out at Chevron.
But he's a [ __ ] And the majority of uh the majority of citizens in the state have been pleased having a [ __ ] run things, especially the women. He gets 65% of the women vote. Apparently, they're happy having a goodlooking stoogge and a a handsome vegetable running the state. More coming up and we're going to talk with Michael Gates who's running for attorney general against Rob Bont who's Newsome's mini stoogge. Deborah Mark is live in the KFI 24-hour newsroom.
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I'm Deborah Mark live from the KFI 24-hour newsroom. Officials warn a chemical tank could explode in Garden Grove, forcing evacuation orders for about 40,000 people. The Orange County Fire Authority says the 34,000galon tank at GKN Aerospace contains a toxic and highly flammable chemical used to make acrylic plastics. Division Chief Craig CVY says fire crew spent hours trying to cool the tank, but officials say conditions got worse overnight.
>> That tank when it heated up on the first day actually bulged. It got to a point where it it does what we call a blevy, which is a boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion.
>> He says other possibility uh the other possibility is that the tank will just rupture and spill 7,000 gallons of the chemical. A situation he says they are ready for. There's no active gas leak or plume in the area, but he did warn residents to heed the evacuation warnings and stay out of the area. The overall population of homeless people in three neighborhoods in LA, Hollywood, Skidro, and Venice, remain flat in 2025, according to a Rand study that came out today. But homeless people sleeping on the streets without camps, known as rough sleepers, reached the highest level in four years. That study found the number of those homeless individuals rose by 20% last year. A Trump administration lawyer has been fired for cherrypicking jurors against ICE protesters.
>> Senator Dick Durban has fired Sher Mecklinburgg as an attorney for the Senate Judiciary Committee. A judge in Illinois accused her of vindictive prosecution with a grand jury over a confrontation between protesters and ICE agents in September. All charges were dropped in what became known as the Broadview 6 case. Transcripts showed a grand jury refused to indict the defendants, but Meckllinmberg excused the jurors who disagreed with the government's case and kept the ones in favor of indictment. Attorneys for the Broadview 6 say they intend to file a claim with President Trump's new anti-weaponization fund for people targeted by the government. Michael Croer, KFI News.
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Noah le hurricane season forecaster Matt Rose says a strong El Nino system of South America will interfere with tropical storm formation.
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but even a tropical storm, right, that can bring flash flooding and really be, you know, destructive to a lot of places.
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This is why you can't trust homeless counts.
Uh Karen Bass makes a big deal about uh homeless counts and her inside safe program where they cleared tent encampments. Well, it turns out a lot of people who were uh kicked out of their tents are now rough sleeping. Have you seen this big story in the Los Angeles Times, City Nerve Service, rough sleeping? These are people who just lay out on the sidewalk, maybe on a bed roll. Uh men, women, children, and uh they're not counted as part of the tent encampment anymore.
And so that number goes down, but the number of people sleeping without tents is going way up. We'll explain all this coming up after 5:30. Uh let's go to Michael Gates. Michael Gates has been on with us many times. He was always fighting Sacramento as the uh city attorney of Huntington Beach, which he was there for 10 years. And then he was a deputy assistant attorney general uh at the Department of Justice and the Trump administration. Now he's running for attorney general against Rob Bont.
Michael Gates, welcome. How are you?
>> Good, good. Thank you for having me.
>> Um well, it's good to have you on. Well, how's the campaign going? Amazing. We uh we've la we launched our campaign in January. It's been about whatever it is 15 16 weeks. We've already raised a million dollars. We have a long list of endorsements. Rick Grenell, Ambassador Rick Grenell just endorsed me about a week and a half ago. And you know that's an important that's an important endorsement.
>> He's very very close to the Trump administration.
>> Yeah. And he uh he knows politics and he knows uh he told me point blank, look, I'm endorsing you. I don't endorse in a lot of statewide races, but I'm endorsing you because I know you can win. Rob Bont, um, as he puts it, is a crook. Um, he's infinitely beatable, and you're a good candidate. And so, um, so let's do this. We we're going to get you across the finish line. We're we're going to win this race.
>> So, you feel good about the runoff then next, uh, on June 2nd.
>> Yeah. Um, the top two vote getters um, in on June 2nd go to the general in November. And so Rob Bont and I are really the the two top candidates.
There's a third Green Party candidate, but she's going to take a few percentage points from Rob Bont. Um I should be fine. I've got all the uh Republican endorsements. I've got a lot of independent endorsements. I've even got some Democrat endorsements. So I've got I've got plenty plenty of support. I think I'm top two vote getters. I I uh I've been shocked and I shouldn't be shocked but when all the news broke and continues to break about the massive Medicaid fraud going on with the hospices as example number one that other than one brief uh press conference he did claiming well I found some too you know Dr. and all those journalists found hundreds and hundreds.
>> Uh he's gone into hiding again and there seems to be still no investigation or accounting for the massive fraud that went on. And it can't just be hospice programs. It's got to be everything that uh that uses Medicaid as their funding mechanism.
>> Every everything, the homeless industrial complex, everything in home healthcare, hospice. And let let's let's be clear about this. Rob Bontto was a career politician. He was in the legislature for 10 years. In 2021, Nuome plucked him out of obscurity and plucked him in as our attorney general. So, he was a professional politician, then appointed in 2021 as our attorney general. Uh, and he's been acting as a professional politician ever since. So, he's been in office for five years. And the waste, fraud, and abuse that we're hearing about, nearly$500 billion, as you're talking about, nearly$500 billion dollars has amassed over the the same fiveyear time period. And so I maintain that um Rob Bontto was put there by Nuome to run cover for corruption. As you mentioned, he announced one short small little pathetic, hey, we found 14 fraudulent hospice companies. But what he missed were the hundreds and hundreds. We now know there's over 800.
They're saying now there's thousands of fraudulent hospice company companies in the state of California. And for 5 years, Rob Bont literally did nothing about it. And what's more, John, this is really important. The state auditor just came out with a report a couple weeks ago that indicated that well actually reported that the state leadership including Rob Bont knew about the waste fraud and abuse for years and chose nothing to do not chose not to do anything about it. So Rob Bont has quite literally been running cover for corruption. He's known about it and has not investigated for years.
>> I saw that report. I mean the the the uh it's the state auditor and so this is this is this the Sacramento watchdog and he's saying that Nome and Bont knew about all this fraud. They were warned about it as explained to them and they shrugged it off and just went uh went about their business.
>> Didn't even I mean it's hard to believe.
>> He is literally he was literally put there not as a lawyer but as a political operative for Newsome. They knew this was happening. He's Bont has been running cover for corruption. Two of his friends were federally indicted. By the way, former mayor of Oakland, Shangta, was indicted by the federal government on multiple counts. And now we're hearing too the former mayor of Arcadia, Mayor Wang. She was the Chinese operative who was supposed to be here on behalf of China, excuse me, to influence government leaders like Rob Bont. So he's his friends are all being federally indicted. He's been running cover for corruption. Look, John, the the environment right now where 65% of Californians believe that California is headed in the wrong direction. We can absolutely win the seat because we have Democrats, independents, and Republicans alike really pissed off, frankly, at our leadership. And and Rob Bont, he's got his fingerprints all over the corruption and frankly the lawlessness in California. He doesn't enforce our criminal laws because he thinks that criminals are the victims. And so everybody keeps pointing the finger at Newsome for what we're experiencing in California, but we're they're missing it. It's Rob Bont. He's our top law enforcement officer. He's the one that's supposed to be enforcing the criminal laws and keeping us safe, keeping our streets safe. And also, he's supposed to be the watchdog on the fraud, waste, and abuse. He's the one that should be have it launched these investigations years ago. It probably had he done that, it probably would have stemmed the waste, fraud, abuse. I mean, obviously, it seems. and we wouldn't have nearly $500 billion in waste run abuse. It would be far less if he actually did his job.
>> What is the motivation? What is the motivation for not going after the obvious fraud? I mean, you had random uh uh independent reporters walking literally off the street and getting the goods in about 40 minutes worth of video. So, it wasn't even hard to do.
Why would he not want to do it and look like a hero and use that as ammunition in the campaign?
because he knows who was getting the money. It's his political connections.
There are other political operatives. We heard other stories and we just have to connect the dots. Other stories about how partisan groups like Chura and a lot of these other groups were getting taxpayer money. So Bont knew that if he covered for this kind of corruption, it would help the Democrat party because they would be able to get millions if not billions of dollars. So, it's all purely politics, partisan politics.
That's why I say he's been covering for corruption and he's been acting as a a professional politician or a political operative. He has not been acting or conducting himself as the state's top law enforcement officer. This is all this is all going to come out. It's all dirty business. It's corruption like we've never seen corruption before. A lot of people are calling California a criminal enterprise. And it's because of Rob Bont who has been lawless and has allowed this corruption to occur. He has known it has been occurring and he's done nothing about it. Shame on him.
>> And they all feel politically bulletproof. So they don't even do the minimum. They don't even do it for cosmetic reasons just to have a talking point because it's it would have been so easy to have a lot of these anti-fraud prosecutions. And they didn't bother to do anything. And that was puzzling to me. It's like what's the upside of completely ignoring it?
>> We we are counting on Californians in this election to break this one party rule because when I am attorney general, uh the attorney general is not just the lawyer for the governor. The attorney general has a lot of independent authority. I am going to be fighting this corruption. I am going to not just investigate, but I'm going to put people behind bars and I'm going to get the money back. You know, that money's out there in the form of small islands, yachts, mansions, bank accounts. I'm going to liquidate it through the criminal justice system. I can get that money back and return it to the taxpayer. So, we're going to be we're going to set California straight. And if anybody uh remembers me for anything when I leave office as attorney general that I want them to remember that man returned California to a law and order state and I'm ready to do it. I was tough on crime in Huntington Beach. I worked for the federal government and fought crime. I'm ready for this job.
John, I can tell you absolutely I know how to do this. I have a record of being tough on crime and we're going to return California to a law and order state. you have a a a great record, a great resume.
Uh you are desperately needed as attorney general. I Well, we'll talk again. Thank you, Michael Gates, for coming on.
>> Thank you.
>> Running for attorney general against Rob Bontto. When we come back, round two, no, round one of the moist line. Can't get ahead of myself. And we will introduce you to the concept of rough sleeping. Who needs a tent? If they're clearing out tent encampments, you don't need no stinking tent. Just lay out there in the open.
Deborah Mark live in the KFI 24-hour newsroom.
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>> I don't get it. We passed Prop 36 and Nuome doesn't want to fund it. I don't get it. It should be required by law. We passed it. He has to fund it. We passed it. He funds it. He can't get away from that. Why doesn't someone like sue him?
>> He boss has been completely exposed by firefighters Spencer Pratt, Nick Per, next lady, Dr. Oz, and Billy. She ought to be facing criminal charges. Instead of running for mayor, she should be running for the border.
>> When will the media stop calling them encampments and start calling what they really are, slums? There are slums in Los Angeles.
>> If these drug abusers were found dead in the street around that park, which the government distributes needles and pipes to, then why doesn't somebody make a citizen's arrest?
>> It does reduce the homeless count, so they should get some points for that.
Hey Deborah, on your sleep issue, uh, you should get tested for sleep after the uh, >> you think the city would get their together. Over a year since the last Palisades fired, that reservoir is still empty. Those poor people are in pins and needles worrying once again for their entire lives. This is just ridiculous.
And go Spencer.
It just occurs to me as I sit here and listen to all these poor people that live in LA just so incredibly perplexed.
They just can't figure out what the they want to do. So they all come up with all these crazy ideas. But the bottom line is nobody knows what the to do. This is uncharted water. Could you imagine how many homeless people they could have housed and made a complete facility with all of the health needs that they need to get them on the right track if they bought the graffiti building. You know, I'm just trying to uh unwind and watch the Dodger game and uh parent comes on my TV. Now I feel like I have to smudge my whole house.
Disgusting. I don't know why you're shocked about the way the libraries are because I can remember two years ago when they were mandating that the librarians and the clerks whomever worked there had to learn how to apply naron.
>> Karen dad sounds like she's talking about a six-year-old when she's talking about the meth addict's teeth. How will little Johnny succeed if he doesn't know how to read? We have to get him a tutor.
We have to get him a tutor now. We have to get the meth dentist. Hey, Deborah.
Mark. Hey, if you got time to honk the horn, you got time to hit the brakes. Be safe out there.
>> Most of the homeless are from out of state. They're from other places. It's not fair that we got to pay for the rest of the homeless that somehow are getting here. There should be a mechanism where we can get some of that money back.
Don't forget that part of the reason crime is down is because ICE has been doing a hell of a good job getting rid of all the people that are living off people's fear and dollar here in uh California. So yeah, they're not reporting it. That's why crime is down.
>> Hey, Newsome should be breaking glass now.
>> Newsome is either pretending to be a tough guy again and he's not going to do anything or he's admitting that he's going to do something illegal. Either way, he's a joke. If the Republican party had any leadership in California, they would have figured out a way to get Biano and Hilton won two in the jungle primary. But the problem is in November there'll be a Democrat on that ballot and that's going to be who wins. Bakaria diarrhea. It's a sad state of affairs here. People do not change their vote.
Felt the highspeed rail bull. I haven't listened since the early 2000s when this was proposed. It was supposed to go from LA to San Francisco. All for it. I was saying, "Yeah, let's do that." Couple billion dollars, whatever it is. Now it's like twice as much and it's going from one pod dunk town to the other and not even get there. When does it end, brother? When does it end?
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>> Well, it ends when you vote these people out. It ends when you change your vote to something else. That's when it ends.
You have the power. People shouldn't stand around helpless.
Now, the woman who was yelling about the empty reservoir, just think about that one issue alone.
Karen Bass allowed the Palisades to burn and one of the big reasons was the empty 117 million gallon reservoir. She's running for reelection and the reservoir is still empty.
And you're going to vote to give her another four years.
This is what's baffling. This is not This is inexplicable to me. I don't I don't understand.
And finally, sleep apnnea. Is that the reason you're not sleeping?
Now you're not even talking. Look at it.
She lost.
>> I was talking. My my mic is on. I don't know. There was something. Yeah, Tony.
Tony is taking the blame for it. See, it was not me.
>> So, you have sleep at >> No, I don't. I wake up not because I can't breathe. I haven't It's It's >> You're not snorting and snoring. It's my brain. It's my brain. And it's it's on overdrive. I think >> always, huh?
>> Yes.
>> That's exhausting.
>> Why do you think I yawn throughout your show?
>> I just didn't think you like the show.
>> Well, I've been on it for many, many, many years.
>> I figured you're just tired of it. Um, all right. We've got Deborah Mark uh coming up. Uh, rough sleeping. Wait till wait till I explain to you. This is another reason why you don't trust all these these homeless numbers. There's this concept called rough sleeping when you've been kicked out of your tent.
I'll tell you about it when we come back. Round two of the moist line coming up as well. Deborah Mark live in the KFI 24-hour newsroom.
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This is on the westbound side and it has to do with that pazmat situation in Garden Grove because Beach Boulevard is shut down as well. All the way from about Cerritos Avenue is all the way back towards the 22 freeway. And I'm also seeing that the ramps at the at Beach Boulevard off of the 22 are shut down as well. So people are not able to exit there and that's what's causing this big backup on the 22 westbound.
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It's on YouTube right now. Deborah Coobel Live. Deborah Coobel Live on YouTube. She had Spencer Proud. It was a really really good interview. So you you you will enjoy it. So go watch it when you get a chance. Deborah Coobel Live.
Also, the audio is on the iHeart Radio app as well. It's all in the family here. Two families. All right. Rough sleepers. Now, this morning, early morning, I flagged this LA Times story.
Uh, and it's about people who um as when the city does remove tents or clear out encampments, uh, what happens to the people? Well, a lot of them stay out on the street. They just sleep directly on the street.
you know, they have some blankets or a bed roll or something. They don't have a tent anymore over their heads, but they lay on the street. And it starts out with one of these long- winded soba stories about a mother and daughter from North Carolina that came here and uh daughter's pregnant and the mother ankles are swollen and you know, it's it's it's a whole long story and it's all about emotional manipulation to make you feel sorry, right? This is all pretext for I'm sure their incoming campaign that Spencer Pratt is is a is a horrible mean person.
Except I don't understand why we have to accept everybody's personal problems from states that are 2500 miles away.
Christopher Rufo, the journalist for City Journal, you should go read it, did his own study, he and his staff, and found that 64% of the street homeless in Hollywood, Skidro, and Venice, 64% are from out of state or out of the city, 46% out of state, rest of them out of the city. Which leads me to rough sleeper story number two, which Deborah found from uh the city news service.
It's based on the same thing the LA Times covered, but the LA Times left out all the numbers.
They just they just mostly wrote about the the this North Carolina motheraughter team. Listen to this because Karen Bass was on Alex Michaelson's show the other night and claimed that that homelessness is down by whatever percent, whatever number she made up, 17%. And it's not true.
Rand. The Rand Corporation is a research organization out of Santa Monica.
They found a few years ago or a couple of years ago that that Bass had severely undercounted some of the biggest homeless districts in the city. Those three I mentioned. So, Rand has done another study that covers most of uh 2025. Yeah.
They found that the combined homeless population, street homeless, street homeless in Hollywood, Skidro, and Venice was statistically unchanged between December of 2024 and January 2026, 14 months.
And they found while the tent encampments were down, the rough sleeping was up by 20%. And was at its highest level in four years.
So what Karen Bass did is engaged in these theatrics where they cleared out some encampments to say, "Hey, look, we cleared out the encampments."
But it looks like most of those people stayed living on the sidewalk just without a tent over their heads.
and they're just laying flat on the ground, maybe on a bed roll or a sleeping bag or something.
Lewis Abramson is the lead author of the study and an adject researcher at Rand.
And his statement was the total count held steady in 2025, but the makeup of the population continued to shift.
Not only do they sleep on the streets without a tent or they'll sleep in their car or they'll sleep under something, right? Sometimes there's a there's an awning, an overhang, an alleyway, but they're still there. Same people.
Ran's report showed that tensson encampments have decreased but those gains has been have been offset by the growth in rough sleeping.
I'll give you an example. The tent the tents are down 23%.
Rough sleeping is up 20%.
Vehicle sleeping is up 11%.
It all adds up to a wash.
Data showed that nearly 90% of the tents remain in Skid Row.
In fact, Skid Row's homeless population increased again last year, reaching record high numbers before decreasing late in the year.
It was the only neighborhood out of the three that increased, but Venice and Hollywood were flat. They called it stall progress.
Rad says that removing tents and encampments just lead to the rough sleeping.
What a term, rough sleeping.
This is stupid. So, it's all the same number. They've just rearranged the number into different categories. And and Bass apparently doesn't even count that.
What a And again, this goes back to the first story we did today. We had Billy on, first assistant US attorney. They busted a guy.
They busted a guy at MacArthur Park, Christopher Johnson.
He's working for one of these nonprofits.
People assisting the homeless is the name of the nonprofit. PATH. Well, they caught him. He had fentinyl and meth on him in his car.
He was supposed to be a substance use disorder specialist. Not making this up.
Turns out he had passed in in the past had been arrested for drugs. They hired him to hand out meth pipes and crack pipes and needles. That's what PA did. They hired Christopher Johnson. He not only did that, he was selling drugs to the homeless people, too. This is all from tax money. This is our tax money.
Path gets millions of dollars. They've been around for over 40 years.
This is the racket, which is why it never ends.
It's like I said about the reservoir.
You find out that the homeless number is the same.
It's just that people are now sleeping without a tent or they're sleeping in a car, they're sleeping in a box or they're sleeping uh just in a bed roll.
Skid Row has the greatest concentration of need, followed by Hollywood and Venice.
Sarah Hunter, another co-author of this Rand report, said the continued increase in rough sleeping is concerning because our data shows that this population can be harder to engage and often has greater clinical needs. Harder to engage. Of course, they ripped the tent off these people AND THESE PEOPLE STILL WANT TO STAY OUTSIDE.
That's insanity. They're severely mentally ill. The drugs have destroyed many of their brains. And Karen Bass is giving money to a nonprofit that hands more drugs to these people.
And there are thousands who want to give her another four years.
This is just astonishing.
We'll keep following this up next week.
All right. When we come back, round two of the moist line and uh a final newscast.
>> Yes, it's my final newscast.
>> No, it's not. Just for today. Don't don't upset people. Deborah Mark live 24-hour newsroom.
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The John Cobel Show. Uh we're going to release the podcast coming up shortly after six o'clock. John Coelt Show on Demand. Uh we are still live streaming.
That'll end at 6 and then it gets recorded and posted at youtube.comjoncoelt show. All right. Uh let's play the moist line part two here. See what's left.
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>> Hilton has it right. Jail, rehab, or a mental hospital. But first, you ask them for ID. If they're from out of state, they get a bus ride home or a trip to jail.
>> The legislature doesn't want to repeal the gas tax temporarily. Why can't we get an initiative when I repeal the gas tax and screw the legislature?
>> The definition of insanity, reelecting Karen Bass and expecting different results. I'd put money on it that the reason why they're not running the train station to and having an actual stop there at the end in the city is because they did not legally acquire or they cannot now legally acquire the property there. When Karen Bass gets Nia Ramen's votes after the primaries, she will be trapped 60 to 40, if not worse. I'm afraid when John finds out, he's going to have a stroke right there on set.
Maybe you have an EMT close by in November.
>> We took highspeed rail and turned it into the Amtrak, another government subsidized rail system that nobody wants to ride. These politicians are still running on hate Trump. Hate Trump. It didn't work in 2024. And I hope in California it doesn't work this time around because we are failing. We are a failure. And Pratt and Hilton, give them a chance. Just go outside the box for once. go outside the box and see what happens. It can't get any worse, can it?
>> I think that it is bad, bad, bad fast.
She is horrible. But it is Trump, Trump, Trump, too. He is also horrible. He is responsible for things that are federally done that she cannot be responsible for. So, I think they both suck.
>> So, what Karen Bass is saying, yeah, superheroes aren't real. So just deal with mediocre government that's going to do nothing for you except take all your money. So just deal with it. We don't want anybody that's going to rise above and try to help. No, just deal with what you have. Don't worry about it. There's nobody that's going to help us.
>> Wow. How generous is she with her time teaching a dumb people civics? Well, hey, maybe they're stupid because your schools are so bad. They never learned civics.
>> A tant here, a tant there. Here, a tant there. A tant everywhere. A tent tent.
Old Karen Bass had some tents. E I E I O.
>> I mean, this whole election for mayor in LA is such a clown show. Nipia the communist ramen says that she doesn't want us to have backyard barbecues.
I want my backyard barbecue.
>> B talking about you can't see without teeth. I wonder if anybody tried to correct her about George Washington. The guy had dental problems. What in the are they talking about raising sales tax by half a cent? That money is not going to go to the fire department. They are going to put it someplace else. Thank you for trying to educate the public about the parole commissioners and the decisions they make which impact public safety, let alone justice. Very disheartening for mothers of murdered children to have to look forward to a parole board hearing in California these days.
>> Don't let Karen Bass hear you say manhole cover. It's a person hole cover.
Get straight. Okay.
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>> I don't care what you think about Donald Trump.
>> You can hate him all you want. He has got nothing to do with the homeless situation here in LA. That is entirely Karen Bass's responsibility and has been for three and a half years. And she ran and said she'd eliminate it. And you just heard the statistics.
It has not gotten any better in the three major homeless areas, Venice, Skidro, and in uh and in Hollywood. And whatever tents she cleared out, a lot of the people are still on the street. In fact, they they did a count of the unsheltered people and it's the same count before they started clearing the tents, which means the people she put into Inside Safe, that's extra homeless. the homeless numbers are actually up because she took 3,000 people off the streets and then 40% of those returned, but you still ended up with the same count on the streets. There's more homeless people. That's got nothing to do with Trump or anybody else or any other politician, Republican or Democrat. That's her policies. That was her promise. That's her failure. The vote is between her and Pratt. Nobody else.
If Pratt doesn't fix it, it's going to be his fault, not Kla Harris's fault.
It's the fault of the mayor that's in charge and the city council. Period.
It's like everybody's eight years old.
All right. More uh coming up uh next week. I think we got uh reruns on uh Monday. We'll be back live Tuesday at 3.
Conway's next. Michael Croer live in the KFI 24-hour newsroom.
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