Fire Aid Fraud & Minneapolis Shooting Update (01/08)
The John Kobylt Show
Premiere Networks
4.3 • 799 Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (01/08) - US Congressman Kevin Kiley comes on the show to talk about the latest going on with where all of the Fire Aid concert money went that was supposed to go to fire victims. The Employment Development Department in California has been subject to an immense amount of fraud and it is all Julie Su's fault. Brad Garrett comes on the show to talk about the latest going on with the shooting in Minneapolis yesterday where an ICE agent killed a woman. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey cursed multiple times during a press conference and in an interview with Anderson Cooper when talking about not wanting ICE in Minneapolis.
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| 0:17.7 | We have a narrow window here, so we're gonna put Congressman Kevin Kiley on immediately. |
| 0:23.4 | He's a congressman from Northern California, and he released a report on what happened |
| 0:31.2 | with the fire aid money. |
| 0:32.9 | You remember the fire aid money, the big concert with all the music stars, and they raised $100 million, |
| 0:40.5 | and it was supposed to go the way they sold it and marketed it, it was supposed to go to |
| 0:49.6 | fire victims. |
| 0:51.3 | Most of the fire victims said, we didn't get anything. |
| 0:58.4 | Well, Kevin Kiley's committee here, |
| 1:03.2 | or this report, has tracked a lot of the money. Let's get Kevin on. How are you? |
| 1:10.1 | Hey, doing well, John. How are you? This, some of this stuff actually made me laugh out loud, except this is not funny. |
| 1:12.1 | This is like worse than stealing tax money. |
| 1:14.8 | This is stealing donated money from people who had so much sympathy for the fire victims. |
| 1:23.1 | Yeah, it's really unbelievable. |
| 1:25.6 | I mean, some of the uses that you saw this funding put towards, you know, political podcasts, you know, political advocacy groups. |
| 1:35.3 | You had one voter outreach group that received funding. And, you know, the funding didn't go towards directly towards victims, really in any case. And so, you know, I want to be fair, and, you know, the funding didn't go directly towards victims, really in any case. |
| 1:45.9 | And so, you know, I want to be fair in acknowledging that there were a number of worthy |
| 1:49.4 | nonprofits that received the grants as well. But, you know, I asked for this investigation, |
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