KFI a.m. 640. You're listening to the John Cobalt podcast on the IHeart Radio app.

We're back again. Another day. We are on every day from one until four o'clock and then after four o'clock John Coblech show on demand, the podcast version.

It's the same as the radio show. But if you missed anything, after four, you can catch up on that.

I would urge you to listen in the 3 o'clock hour because we're going to have Susan Crabtree on.

She has co-written a book on Gavin Newsom.

And it's entitled, Fool's Gold, the Radicals, Cot Artists, and Traders who killed the California Dream and now threaten us all.

It's not just about Newsom, but Newsom is a central figure in this.

We told you the other day that in the book, they discovered that Newsom donated $10,000 to pay for his own bronze bust,

which he's vehemently denying. It really, really pissed him off. His denial is pretty funny.

Also, there's stories about how during COVID, Newsom let out a lot of prisoners, and that may have been why

we had that huge surge in crime and the smash and grab robberies a couple of years after

COVID. We'll cover all this in the 3 o'clock hour. Now, the big ruckus of the day in Trump land is him deporting.

And I can't even believe this is sometimes even I get blindsided.

I can't believe it's controversial that Trump ordered the deportation of hundreds of vicious,

violent, illegal alien gang members.

I did not see that this was going to be a big deal.

I thought everybody was upset that maybe if they have a drag net wide enough,

it might scoop up some women and children who are here illegally, but

just minding their own business, right?

That's what they were squawking about when he took over.

I remember even being on Fox News talking about it because I was saying it's like,

no, no, they're going after the criminals, largely criminals

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