KFI AM 640. You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the IHeart Radio app.

Sitting in for John Cobalt. Thank you so much. Ten years ago or more, maybe 11 years ago,

who remembers the name Neil Cash Carey? Neil Cash Carey was a Republican candidate for governor,

who ended up getting beaten badly by Jerry Brown.

You remember Jerry Brown.

And so I remember interviewing him in the newsroom at Fox 11.

And we were talking about the high speed rail.

And he said, you know, I travel across California all the time.

And people say to me, you know, how can I get from Los Angeles to San Francisco faster? But not one person

ever said to me, this is Cash Carey talking, I wish I could get on a train in Anaheim and end up

in San Francisco, for example, as opposed to, you know, going to the airport and hopping on Southwest

and getting there in a fraction of the time.

So since then, we've spent countless billions on the high speed rail project.

It's something that President Trump and his new administration is reviewing.

This week, California Congressman Kevin Kiley, formally requested that the FBI opened an investigation into it.

So I'm joined by Michael Monks from KFI News,

who's been covering this story. What is the latest on where things stand with this project?

Well, the board of the California High Speed Rail Authority met yesterday. And this was their first board meeting since the Fed showed up at Union Station in downtown L.A. and said, we think we're going to shut down this gravy train that you've been enjoying for many years. In fact, the latest amount of money that was promised by the Biden administration was about $4 billion. Money that the rail authority says is needed to continue work just in the Central Valley portion of this long project.

That's as far as they've gotten, by the way. We are not going from Anaheim to San Francisco yet.

We are not even going anywhere in the middle.

But just to remind our listeners, right, it was back in 2008,

Proposition 1A it was called,

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