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KFI AM 640, more stimulating talk radio. John Cobalt Show. It's good to have you here. Ron from 3 to 6, and after 6 o'clock, it's the podcast, John Cobalt Show on demand. And if you missed the first hour, we spent a lot on Anthony Fauci's non-testimony today before Senator Rand Paul's committee. 111 times he invoked the Fifth Amendment. Even though he'd already gotten a pardon from Jill Biden, a preemptive pardon. It's very curious, which is what we're going to talk about with the Royal Oaks here from ABC News. Oh, and we're live on YouTube now so you can watch this on your video screen. We're also live on X. And Royal Oaks, ABC News. How are you? Hey, good, John. Before we talk about how students are cheating in college are handing in their essays that were written by AI, it got me to thinking, what's to stop teachers from just copying and pasting exams into AI and saying, hey, what grade should I give each of these kids and why? I mean, isn't they going to just take all of the duties away from teachers if they want to cheat? Yeah. Then we wouldn't need teachers and we wouldn't need students. That's true. Everybody can just stay home and play with their AI, play with their imaginary friend, their AI. Right. Whatever. On Anthony Fauci, yeah, it wasn't exactly the love boat in D.C. this morning. I mean, Anthony Fauci comes out and he says, you know what? I know you, Senator Rand Paul, you're obsessed with me. You want to put me in prison. So guess what? I'm not going to answer any of your questions. But as you've pointed out, He got to get out of jail free card. Anthony Fauci got a full pardon from Joe Biden when he was going out the door. And so he can't be prosecuted. So why would you have a problem with the Fifth Amendment? You wouldn't worry about prosecution. I think the answer is Anthony Fauci's position as well. That was then, if I allegedly lie to you today, Senator Paul, you're going to put me in prison for perjury. So I think that was the reason that he said, I'm clamming up. I'm not answering any of your questions. So to answer it truthfully. would be to expose himself, would be to indict himself at least before the public, if not legally. Well, that's right, especially since, you know, you've got 1,100 pages of his diaries that were disclosed. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.. apparently at Health and Human Services, he spent eight months. searching 11 government servers, and he found this over 1,000 pages of Anthony Fauci's diaries. Now, you know, a diary you think of some 13-year-old girl with a pink book with a lock on it. It's hidden under a mattress. No, he actually used the government servers. So in that sense, it's fair game to get the information. So what Rand Paul wanted to do was say, hey, you said X in your diary, but you said why publicly can you explain yourself? You know, what about this gain of function research? Were they cooking it up in the Wuhan lab trying to weaponize COVID? All sorts of questions he wanted to pose. But as to each of the questions, Dr. Anthony Fauci said, sorry, on advice of counsel, I'm not going to be answering your question. Let me ask you this. And this may be a technical legal question.

The Fifth Amendment was designed so you don't have to testify against yourself during an investigation or during a trial, correct? Right. This hearing wasn't that. You're allowed to invoke the Fifth Amendment when you're just testifying before Congress because there's no criminal penalty at stake here. There's no threat of incarceration. Well, there is in the sense that you take an oath to tell the truth, and therefore you're subject to perjury penalties in California. It's five years behind bars if you're found guilty of perjury. So in that sense, yeah, theoretically, you always have a right. to take the fifth if you've taken an oath to tell the truth. So in that sense, he certainly has the right to do that. But it's so frustrating because, you know, one of the purposes Rand Paul had was to get to the bottom of, you know, why were you so aggressive and just shutting down the nation? Countless kids lost countless days of school. Let's get into it and find out, you know, if we ever have something like this happen again, you know, shall we look back and learn some lessons? Now, next week, Rand Paul is going to want his committee by majority vote to vote to find Anthony Fauci in congressional contempt. If that happens in the full Senate says, yeah, we urge congressional contempt. Then that's a referral, criminal referral to the U.S. Attorney's Office in D.C. if they seek an indictment, Anthony Fauci could wind up behind bars for a year if he is convicted of congressional contempt. For not talking. He could end up in. Exactly right. Now, so if he did talk, let's say he let it all hang out. I know that's never going to happen. But he lets it all hang out. If Joe Biden already gave him a pardon, what's the practical cost to him? I mean, his reputation, obviously, right? And maybe that's what he's protecting here, although I think that's shot. But there's going to be no cost in terms of being imprisoned or getting fined. Well, the remote risk is this. His lawyer is whispering in Anthony Fauci's here and he's saying, look, let's get out of jail free card you got from Joe Biden. It related to everything you did as, you know, the czar of COVID while you were a governmental employee during the pandemic. But the pardon is only effective through the date it was issued a couple of years ago by Joe Biden. Therefore, if today in 2026 separately. Anthony Fauci takes a note, says, I'm going to tell the truth to you, Senator Rand Paul in the Senate committee. And if he lies, if it's established, he committed perjury, intentionally lied. That's not protected by the pardon. And so theoretically, he could be in deep trouble. Is the pardon legal because it was an auto pen pardon? I've read so many articles on this. You have an opinion on this? I'm confused.

Absolutely. And of course, Donald Trump has made a big deal out of this because, you know, they've done handwriting analysis and so on. And it looks very much like a lot of the orders signed by Joe Biden. We're not by his hand, but by the auto pen. Now, some people say, well, that's okay because as long as the president knew what was doing and he authorized, you know, my hand gets tired, let's use this automatic pen machine to sign, then it's okay. But if there, you could develop evidence to suggest that the president didn't really authorize it, didn't really know what was going on. not that would anybody say anything like that about Joe Biden, then yes, you could try to void it. It would be an uphill battle, but you could definitely have a fight and say, you know, all of this stuff that Joe Biden did, it's void, and we've got to have a big do-over, because, you know, if he didn't really know what was going on, the fact that his aide said, hey, let's fire up the auto pen machine. That's not anything that we should be subjected to. Just seems like Anthony Fauci... As a public servant has a duty to explain to America why he did what he did all these years since it had one of the largest impact on our lives, probably that anything has had since World War II. Oh, absolutely. One of the big questions Senator Paul wanted to ask was, look, the National Institutes of Health funded this gain of functional research. It kind of helped the Chinese who were looking into the COVID virus in the Wuhan lab. And a lot of people are wondering, well, okay, it's one thing to just know more about the virus. But what if what they were really doing is trying to weaponize it, get some sort of military advantage using COVID? We don't know for sure if that happened or not. But we want to know why the National Institutes of Health were funding this kind of stuff. And what did Anthony Fauci know about the research and did his public statements about what he knew, which is kind of exonerated China, is that different from what you see in the 1100 pages of his diary that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.. spilled? And did he try to wrongly influence the scientific debate over COVID's origins? And what was he doing? he was so excited about being on the cover of the Washington Post and talking on the phone with Barbara Streisand. All of this stuff was what Rand Paul was very eager to quizzing about, but it didn't happen. Now, a year or so ago, you remember Bill and Hillary Clinton were threatened with congressional contempt because they wouldn't talk, and then in the next week or so, you know, Congress sat down with their lawyers and they worked it out and had some guardrails. So that's... probably what will happen in the next week. Or maybe Anthony Fauci feels lucky, and he says, bring it on. You know, I'm not going to be found guilty of contempt. Try to prove your case. All right. Thank you very much, Royal Oaks, ABC News Legal Analyst. Your best, thank you. All right. Vital doesn't always mean visible. Across America, advanced technology is working behind the scenes, strengthening our nation. It protects our war fighters, advances life-saving health care, combat cyber threats, and defends the critical infrastructure that keeps our country moving. At GDIT, we power the systems that help America operate, connect, and stay secure. Every hour, every mission, every day. GDIT, behind America's invisible advantage.

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I just got the story. I'm not finished with it yet. I'm about halfway through, but by the time we come back into the next segment, I'll have digested the whole thing. And it looks like they have 200 clients already, including some real businesses like Whole Foods. And... What they do? How they do it? I'm going to read the second half of the story, but maybe you don't want to know. You have to read it like a gangster. Yeah. I mean, the thing is, I don't care anymore. Some people are saying it's vigilanteism. It's like good. I think we need vigilanteism. We've given the city enough. Enough time. And everything is a disaster. So if Karen Bass and the city council are not interested in governing the city properly, maybe we do all have to decide what's what. And maybe we got to hire some of the former bad guys to enforce the law. Because if the police won't enforce the law and Vass's government and the city council won't enforce the law, we still don't have to live like this. I mean, I see revolts going on all over the world, right? There's all kinds of groups pushing back on an oppressive government. Because oppression is not just what Gavin Newsom did in taking away our rights to live normally, like you did during the lockdown. But oppression is also when you don't enforce the law and allow either the bad guys or the crazy people to create the environment that we have to live under. There's absolutely no reason. That if you got a job and you're paying your taxes, you, in the city of Los Angeles, that we have to live in fear of these crazy people and see all their insane behavior and deal with all their crimes and all their drugs and the feces and the needles and all that. We should never have put up with this for a day. And then it's gone on for over 10 years. Yeah, I'm happy to hire a whole army of gang members and just go to town on the homeless encampments. Do what you have to do. I'm going to go hide under my bed. You tell me when it's over. Really, aren't you there? You don't tell me. I don't want to have, I want plausible deniability. I'll give you some cash. Take care of what you have to take care of. Because who else am I going to go to here? Everybody else has failed us. Everybody has failed us. And I think when a government has failed the people, as long as they have, I think the people have a right to hire kind of an outside consultants. How much cash are we talking?

I'd be curious. I'm going to see how much these people are making. But they have placards all over, for example, Venice, to let the vagrants know and other bad guys. It's like, hey, ghost town's in charge here. I'll tell you more about it. Coming up in just a few minutes. You're listening to John Cobalt on demand from KFI AM 640. Can't find AM 640 live everywhere on the iHeart radio app. John Cobalt show. We're on every day from three to six. We're right in the middle of things now. After six o'clock, the podcast, John Cobalt show on demand, same as the radio show, for whatever you missed. And we did a lot on Anthony Fauci. invoking the Fifth Amendment 111 times before Rand Paul's Senate Committee today. That was in the first hour. And then a little while ago, we talked with Whirl Oaks from ABC News about it. So you can hear that on the podcast tonight. We're live on X, live on YouTube right now. So we have our video transmission operating. And now I will tell you the story of Ghost Town. I just discovered this story a few minutes ago, and it is in the new website, L.A.material.com. This is a good news site, and we had one of the reporters on just a few days ago. Ghost Town is a local security company that is made up of... Retired gang members. Original gangsters. Oh, geez. And they have been informally hired by hundreds of people in Venice because the police don't show up and do their job. And Karen Bass's bureaucracy doesn't show up and do their job. And there are so many unpleasant, crazy people. Mental patients and drug addicts that make life hell in Venice that a lot of the locals are saying, well, the heck with this. We'll get the gangsters and whatever they do, they do. Apparently these gangsters, they're no longer with a gang supposedly. They're out of prison. But this is their new job. And somehow they end up persuading these vagrants to get out. Now, there's no specific destination. This is not placing them in supportive housing. This is get out, which is what I, which I think ultimately is the only way you can handle all this. Because they're never going to build housing. And most of these people don't want to go. So just get out. In fact, if I had a company, that's what I'd call it. Where are they going to go? As long as they're not in my neighborhood, not in my section of town. So they might go from neighborhood to neighborhood, and these people will follow them. Yes. She'll keep telling them to get out. That's right. Go a little farther and little farther, and then eventually you reach the desert. I'll give me an example. And this stuff, to me, is intolerable. It makes me crazy. Anna Petrova is one of the Venice residents. She's 84 years old. And her husband has cancer. And Anna is his caregiver.

But there's so much noise and drug use and tent fires at a big encampment in front of their house that he can't go to his cancer treatments because they're scared. They're scared to come out of their house. Now, that is intolerable. And she was connected. She was on the LAPD citizen advisory board for 20 years. So she would text her local senior lead officer. And she would call the division captains. She knew these guys, right? Did they come and take care of her? No. All the cops kept saying was their hands are tied. That is... Almost like a religious invocation from police officers in Los Angeles. Their hands are tied, which means Karen Bass won't let us enforce the law. And that more than anything should require her removal from the city. She ought to be chased into the desert. That's why she deserves zero votes. Zero votes. You imagine you have a mayor who tells the entire police department. Hey, just say, your hands are tied. You can't do this. And it doesn't matter if you have an 84-year-old woman and her husband's got cancer and they can't go to the cancer treatments. How sick is that? How sick is Karen Bass? So she hired Ghost Town consultants. She'd heard that they help resolve homeless issues. And the writer of this piece, Hayes Davenport, said, walk around Venice, it can feel like ghost town consultants are everywhere. If you look at concrete walls outside expensive homes, you look at the perimeter fences on shopping centers. Even the palm trees are plastered with placards that say protected by ghost town signs. The company logo is a midnight blue image on a white shield, which looks a little bit like a skyline or maybe a skull, which is true. I'm looking at the logo. It's hard to describe. But when you look at it, you could think skyline or you could think skull. For most part, clients, for the most part, clients hire Ghost Town when the homelessness crisis shows up at their front door. If you have an encampment where somebody parks an RV on your block, Ghost Town will get them to move. None of this, my hands are tied nonsense that you get from Jim McDonald's Police Department. If people are lingering around your storefront or shopping center, you as a store can hire Ghost Town, they'll get them to move. If somebody graffities your house or stole something, Ghost Town can figure out who did it and get them to move. I'm sold. You don't know how much they charge? I don't think I saw a price on this, but they have 200 clients. They're all OGs, former members of Venice gangs. And the Venice gangs were notorious years ago. But now they are reformed. They went to prison. They came out of prison.

They don't have security certification from the state. You're supposed to get a license. But the residents feel much safer with Ghost Town than any of the traditional security services. Because the security service has had their hands tied too. I think this is the way to go. Now, the homeless apparently don't give Ghost Town. That's glowing a review. Oh, no? No. They say that the ghost town workers unfairly harassed and intimidate them. Oh, isn't that too bad? That's terrible. That's not right. They get pushed around the neighborhood, but don't do anything to access services and move indoors. Stop it. We've got billions of dollars of services. If you wanted to, you'd be indoors. You're full of it. And some have alleged that the ghost town employees have used physical force. Well, that's not nice. No, that's not nice. And they may end up back in jail. I mean, I don't know why they would do something like that. At this point, you got to do what you got to do. That's my philosophy. But didn't you say these people used to be in jail or prison? Yeah. So they have to be careful. They don't want to go back. No, they don't want to go back. Well, you know, you do it without witnesses. Besides, they don't prosecute things anymore. They went to jail back when crimes were prosecuted. Remember? Yeah. Now their hands are tied. And if you go to the traditional route.

There's somebody living in a tent on the street. They can be there for months, and they might get an outreach visit from homeless services, a government employee or one of those crooked nonprofits, but often nobody ever comes. It says here that neighbors watch from their homes as police, fire, sanitation, and case management workers visit an encampment dozens of times. Each visit ends with the encampment still intact. You get Ghost Town, and they're gone, which is all you want, that they're gone. Do more when we come back. Deborah Mark, this is Ghost Town, this private company that gets rid of homeless people. in your neighborhood. Vital doesn't always mean visible. Across America, advanced technology is working behind the scenes, strengthening our nation. It protects our war fighters, delivers mission-ready intelligence, advances life-saving health care, and defends the critical infrastructure that keeps our country moving. At GDIT, we power the systems that help America operate, connect, and stay secure. Every hour, every mission, every day. GDIT, behind America's invisible advantage. This is Tony A.O. from The Real Report with Tony A.O. and Uncle Murder. You ever notice how everything keeps going up? rents going up, streaming services are going up, even your favorite burrito spot suddenly thinks salsa should cost extra. But with Boost Mobile, you and your phone bill don't have to play the Willis Go Up Soon game because Boost Mobile has an unlimited talk, text, and data plan at a price that'll never go up. It's the same price you'll pay for life, meaning you're set to never worry about your bill increasing again for as long as you're on the plan. While the world keeps finding new ways to nickel and dime you, Boost Mobile gives you unlimited wireless at one set price for life. Imagine something in your budget actually staying the same. You'll pay the same for unlimited wireless when you're posting mirror selfies in your 20s and when you're posting mirror selfies in retirement. Some things never change. Switch now for unlimited wireless at a price that will never go up, only at Boost Mobile. After 30 gigabytes, customers may experience slower speeds. Customers will pay $25 a month as long as they remain active on a boost unlimited plan. The future won't wait, and neither should you. That's why American Public University offers master's programs designed for momentum, affordable, high quality, and flexible so you keep moving forward. With career-relevant programs in business, health care, education, IT, and more, you can gain skills you can use right away and the confidence to power your next move. American Public University, made for what's next. Learn more at APU.apus.edu. Hi, it's Kyle McLaughlin, host of What Are We Even Doing? You know, I've always believed the way you start your morning sets the tone for everything that follows.

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By December of 2023, the footprint had grown much larger. Now there are five tents, makeshift shelters, baby carriages, bikes, shopping carts, and a dog. You know how this goes. So here's what Ghost Town did because somebody who's involved with a blog called Santa Monica Closeup followed a Ghost Town employee and took video. Now, here's the setting. There was a city cleanup done in March of 2024. But in the video, a burly man in a black ghost town hoodie paces up and down the newly cleared sidewalk, watching the sanitation workers throw items into a garbage truck. And the guy in the hoodie starts talking to the vagrants whose stuff is being thrown away. And the guy in the hoodie from Ghost Town says, you find a spot? He asks a guy who's got a bicycle loaded up with possessions with the dog in the basket. The man mumbles something. And the Ghost Town employee says, yeah, well, regardless of what he says, you can't come back here. It's not going to work out. This is my spot now. Then he starts talking to another woman. And the woman says, well, where's everybody supposed to go? And the ghost town guy says, I don't know. She says, she says, he says, we're not cleaning. We're talking to the people living here, and we got them out of here. We got them to go. Then he looks at a woman and says, I see what you were smoking. That doesn't make you think straight. You probably could do a hell of a lot more if you just put that bleak down for a couple of days. And there were no tents in sight on the perimeter of Whole Foods as of a recent Wednesday. So they got rid of the encampment just by saying you're out of here. The magic of saying, get out of here. The magic of saying, no, you can't live here. You got to go. Some of the homeless people think that the ghost town guys get pretty violent and hands on. One guy says he was physically manhandled by a ghost town employee. Good. Move along. Go to a place where you won't get manhandled. The people that live in the suburbs appreciate them. according to this guy, but most people in the homeless community, oh, they think they have a community, have had some kind of negative interaction with Ghost Town. Well, that's just too bad. I have an idea. Why don't you go take a shower and get a job? Then you won't have any more negative interactions. Good Lord. It's a much longer article. They've got about 10 employees and a couple of hundred clients. And we're going to be doing more on this. This is the future here. We have no government, so this is the future. You know, I don't know. Somebody's got to get all the gang members that are wandering around. And we've got to make this work financially. People pay the money. And then the ghost town guys make the homeless guys disappear. And I really don't care how.

I'm done with empathy and compassion. That is an all-time failed experiment. And you all know it's true. Empathy and compassion have failed as a strategy in this city and state. All right, we come back. We're going to talk Gloria Romero, running for Lieutenant Governor on Steve Hilton's ticket, and she didn't talk about Xavier Becerra and this disgusting migrant child abuse camp, a set of camps that he was running when he was in charge of health and human services. Deborah Mark is live in the KFI 24-hour newsroom. You've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear the show live on KFI AM 640 from 3 to 6 p.m. every Monday through Friday. And of course, anytime on demand on the IHeart Radio app. KFI AM 640. More stimulating talk. Vital doesn't always mean visible. Across America, advanced technology is working behind the scenes, strengthening our nation. It protects our war fighters, delivers mission-ready intelligence, advances life-saving healthcare, and defends the critical infrastructure that keeps our country moving. At GDIT, we power the systems that help America operate, connect, and stay secure. Every hour, every mission, every day. GDIT, behind America's invisible advantage. This is Tony A.O. from The Real Report with Tony A.O. and Uncle Murder. You haven't noticed how everything keeps going up, rent, streaming, even extra social at your favorite burrito spot. But with Boost Mobile, you don't have to play the Willis Go Up soon game. Boost Mobile offers an unlimited talk, text, and data planned at a price that'll never go up. It's the same price you'll pay for life. Switch now for unlimited wireless at a price that'll never go up only at Boost Mobile. After 30 gigabytes, customers may experience slower speeds. Customers will pay $25 a month as long as they remain active on the Boots Unlimited. plan. The future won't wait, and neither should you. That's why American Public University offers master's programs designed for momentum, affordable, high quality, and flexible so you keep moving forward. With career-relevant programs in business, health care, education, IT, and more, you can gain skills you can use right away and the confidence to power your next move. American Public University, made for what's next. Learn more at APU.apus.edu. Hi, it's Kyle McLaughlin, host of the What Are We Even Doing Podcast? You know, my favorite part of the morning is that first cup of coffee? A small, quiet ritual that sets the rhythm for my day. That's why I appreciate DeLongi. For over 50 years, they've combined Italian craftsmanship and thoughtful design, and as the number one espresso machine brand in the world, they make it effortless. Just a damn fine cup of coffee in your own kitchen. Right now, you can save 10% off your purchase at DeLongi.com with code Kyle at checkout. After all, if it's not Italian, is it even espresso?