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

I'm Phil Schumann from Fox 11 News. In for John Cobalt this afternoon. One to four. Thanks for the opportunity to sit in John's chair.

It's a big task and hopefully we'll be up to it over the next few hours.

We have a lot to talk about. What's the latest in Washington?

What that means for us here in Southern California?

As always, the issue of homelessness, which is at the top of almost everybody's list of concerns.

Breaking news there, we're going to talk to one of the reporters and editors that broke a major story, which unfortunately is not a surprising story about the state of care for the homelessness and homelessness funding here in Southern California.

Also, as we speak, I'm keeping an eye on a couple of the monitors here in the KFI News Studios.

Officials are on now with a live update from

Santa Fe, New Mexico, into the mysterious deaths, their words last week of Gene Hackman,

or suspicious, perhaps is more accurate, of Gene Hackman and his wife, we're keeping an eye on

that and we'll have that information for you

as soon as we get a chance to summarize it.

I want to talk with you today over the next few hours about leadership.

Who is it here in Southern California that we look to for leadership?

The way our governments work with local government, county government, city government, and

of course looking to Gavin Newsom and state government.

There's a lot of opportunities for people to lead and I don't know that anyone has really risen

to the task. Now, say what you will about

Donald Trump, he does seem to be exerting a strong leadership role with his co-president

Elon Musk. So much news is about the Department of Government Efficiency Doge. And we're going to

start off this afternoon talking about that.

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