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We have a congressman Tim Birchett
from Tennessee's Republican.
And he's the chairman of the subcommittee
on delivering government efficiency.
And he's launching investigation into Los Angeles
about where the billions of dollars
specifically the federal money went
that was supposed to be spent on homelessness.
And as we know, there's a tremendous amount
of theft and corruption.
And there's more and more people
living and dying in the streets.
The hearing is called and it's gonna be on Tuesday.
Fixing fraud and failure
in federally funded homelessness services.
Nice alliteration there.
Yeah, it's supposed to be Tuesday
and Carrie Bass is supposed to testify
at in front of this committee next week
but she's refusing to.
Told them no, she's busy.
She's out of the things to do.
'Cause she is trying very hard
to avoid any intensive questioning
as to where all the money went
and why everything's getting worse.
So let's get Tim Birchett on.
How are you?
Welcome.
Well, I'm well, thank you all so much for having me on.
What do you suspect is going on out here?
We cover this story nearly every day.
I mean, I have read hundreds of articles.
What are you aware of?
And what are you trying to get to the bottom of?
I'd just like to know where the money went.
It's our money.
It's the last day out of us, the taxpayers' money.
They've had roughly a billion dollars
in federal funding since 2021.
And you know you've had the problems where
one of the agencies was investigators found out
that the CEO of the LAHFA Law Service Authority,
the CEO, her husband was involved with a company
that received roughly $2.1 million.
That, to me, is a signal right there of the arrogance
and callousness towards the taxpayer.
You never do that.
I mean, who do I think they are, Congress?
I mean, that's what somebody would do in Congress almost.
Oh, and that's the best.
By the way, it was close friends with that CEO,
the T.C. Adams County.
Yeah, it always ends the work that way.
And we just can't keep doing this.
We're having communities basically stealing more money
than we can print in Washington, D.C. and that model
just doesn't work or $40 trillion in debt.
And I know everybody's gonna say this is partisan,
but you know, it's like I told the Democrat ranking member
or co-chair as I call her.
I said, if we can eliminate some of this waste abuse
and fraud, you know, you can channel that money
towards the projects that you want
or what I want is to pay down debt.
It's to not create the programs in the first place.
And you know, it's just all over government.
You can't shake a stick without hitting some of this.
You turn over a rock and it crawls right out from under
every dead gum time.
And we're saying this in the homeless thing especially
because people are passionate about it.
You see them every day, oh, we got to throw money at it.
And you know, you've seen your numbers actually go up
in Los Angeles.
I believe they're almost 4% over the last year's estimate.
Yeah, not just the numbers.
You actually have to experience this.
It is overwhelming.
It's so disgusting.
It's so scary.
There are mental patients running in the streets.
There are meth heads running in the streets screaming
and assaulting people and terrorizing people.
And some there's large areas like in the downtown area
and Skid Row, there are no go zones.
Like nobody wants to walk or drive there.
It's crazy land and dogs.
They're experimenting on dogs.
They're testing the drugs out on the dogs first
and then killing them.
I have no idea.
Well, I used to be in the U-Haul business.
I had a little truck in trailer business.
We sold trailers, welded some.
And we rent a few U-Hauls.
And it was always tough to get the big trucks
because they were always leaving the state.
Now, guess what?
I don't know in the U-Haul business anymore.
But you go buy U-Haul dealers.
And it's all big trucks that have moved here
and where are their tags from?
California.
And it's crazy.
The number of people that are moving here to Tennessee
because we're a low-tax state, a right to work state.
We don't put up with this kind of nonsense.
At least in our more of our rural areas, we sure don't.
And you just see it, but it's happening all over the country
in these blue communities.
And they allow for this.
And then they run off all their legitimate businesses.
And there's a model there.
I don't want to get labeled McCarthy or whatever.
But the truth is, is that there is a model there
to delete all the funds, to throw it out
to all these social services, collapse your government
and start over with their own little woke utopia.
And I think you're seeing a pretty good view
of what it's going to be like right there in Los Angeles.
I mean, with 40--
I've got the statistics because the numbers I got
are over 45,000 homeless people in the city of Los Angeles.
That's true.
2026.
And to me, it's hard to file them as a taxpayer
that they were continuing this.
And it doesn't seem that they care.
I mean, Bass has heard this criticism for years.
And the media surprisingly covers a lot of the fraud
in detail.
I know you had access to some of the news stories
that I think helped to instigate this investigation.
It's all true.
Forget partisan.
The thing is, it's true.
It's really happening.
Now, why they're letting it happen?
Yeah, maybe it's to ruin the government
and set up their own woke utopia.
And it also takes, obviously, takes care of their friends
as well.
And you're seeing that over and over again,
and whether in Minneapolis or Minnesota
with all the fraud there, the leering centers and things
like that.
And you just see it on and on and on.
And the main problem you've got is the voters don't,
at least not enough of them.
You always say you've got to put enough points on the board
so they can't steal it.
And obviously, you haven't been able to do that
in your old community yet.
But the voters have got to start paying attention.
This is not your--
This is not--
I mean, this is sure as heck not John F Kennedy's Democrat Party.
And it's not even.
Bill Clinton's, it might be Hillary's, I'm not sure, but this bunch is so far to the
left. It's, to me, and this is what's running the Democrat Party now. It's a, you know,
socialism is a socialism, the communism, they say, socialism's delivered at the ballot
box and communism's delivered at the point of the bayonet. And, you know, and where we
add in this whole thing, because it just never ends.
We, that, a lot of this is criminal behavior. I mean, I, I'm convinced a lot of the people
in local government, city council, uh, and, and, and, and bureaucrats, they've got to be
getting a cut on the back end. They have to be. They know that all these programs don't work.
It's clear. I, I, I know they know none of this works, which means they must be profiting
from this. That's why I asked the president just to eliminate them all and let's start all over.
Are these so-called, um, they're just a bunch of big editors as all they are.
And they throw this money at these problems they've been overseas.
And we see the money has gone back. I had a great conversation with even on musk.
A while back and he said, they said, I'm convinced that the money goes right back to Washington.
And it goes back in the form of dark money and these campaigns. And I always say, you
know, these, these so-called charitable organizations, somebody's, uh, in Washington,
somebody's wife and/or girlfriend probably works for these organizations.
You know, they're getting a billion dollars. And the way they operate in Washington is
you start an organization and then a terrible group. And, and they go overseas. And then they,
they might be start off with a little bit of money, federal money. But then, but a billionaire
will drop a million dollars into one of these things. And then some federal bureaucrat sees it.
And there's why this thing's got a million dollars. Let's start funding it. And you know,
we find in almost a trillion dollars in this kind of waste throughout the government. And yet,
we can't get Congress to do anything about it. If there may, that is just, that's the,
that's really a major crime. And it's, and then unfortunately it's both parties. The other party
is a lot worse than ours. But, but, um, we're not, we're not going to walk away from this thing
with a clean conscience either. The talk about Congress from Tim Burchette,
Burchette from Tennessee. Karen Bass, uh, was summoned to testify. And she's not coming. And I can tell you,
she's not going to come. I know she worded it very politely. She's, so what do you do next?
I always to paint on her. We could actually bring her in. And then, um, she can play the fifth.
What we've got to have is a justice department that goes after these people because that's where
it's got to go until you see somebody drug from the capital and, and, and chains. I don't think it'll
ever clear up watching it. And until you see some big city operators get, get arrested, charged,
arrested and convicted. And, and that's the other thing, of course, you worry about going before
some judge, you get some probation or, um, you know, or text away their gangboy for the weekend
or something. And, and that's, that's kind of what you're looking at with a lot of these weak judges.
The El Salvador model is a great model. You know, they got rid of all the judges,
and they put cops on the street. They did put a dead gun camera on every corner.
They put cops on the street and they enforce their laws and they back their law enforcement.
And they put all the criminals in prison. So, so if she never appears, you will subpoena her.
100%. 100%. I know her. I knew her in Congress, but, um, you know, I, I don't care if it's my, it's my
next four neighbors. They're gonna fund their nose. The United States Congress. We've got to,
we've got to take this serious. In America, it's sick of it, really. There's sick of us cobbling
these people. There's sick of us, you know, oh, we're gonna ride a tough ladder to somebody. I'm sick
of that stuff, man. Um, I'm just not, I'm not gonna put up with it. And, you know, the difference
in the way I run this committee and a lot of the other committees is every, every committee
hearing, we come up with legislation to fix the problem. Um, and we try and we, we put it out.
And it's just very difficult to get it through the committees because these, um,
the lobbyists are so embedded with your, with your staff members that you can't get
bills out of the committee. And, and leadership's about staying in power. Unfortunately,
and we've got to change that mentality. It's just, it's, I've been in Congress. That's always,
they want the suburban, they want the entourage. They want to meet with the movie stars and, um,
and sit at the great seats at the concert, at the sporting events. And we've got to have people
that are not worried about re-election for their egos. But again, I want to bust some ass and do
it's right for our country. All right. Thank you for coming on. I hope we can talk again soon
about this because I hope we have a good resolve of this. Yeah. All right. I hope so too. Tim
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feature on the I heart radio app. Our interview with Tim Bercher went long. So we just have a couple
of minutes here. And he said definitively that if carabass doesn't come and testify before
his committee, then he's going to subpoena her and he expects that she would take the fifth amendment.
Which implies that he thinks she may be guilty of crimes when it comes to explaining where the
billion dollars in federal homeless money has has gone. And this doesn't even scratch the surface
on the amount of money that's been spent over the last five years on homelessness in the last
four years under her rule, because you have city money, county money, state money, you know,
the tax money that came from various propositions that jacked up the sales tax and all for nothing.
Everything got worse. Now I am telling you, I know that all these fraud stories that I read,
the only way they would allow and enable these massive fraud, all these massive fraud schemes to
exist is if it's their friends, relatives or they themselves are benefiting on the back end in a
way that's hard to trace. And because our attorney general is not going to prosecute a fellow
Democrat and our news media is mostly progressive Democrats. They are not ever going to try to
quarter her. She will not, she would not testify before the federal judge. And David Carter,
in that civil case, she would, she's not, she's refusing to testify with Tim Birchett. Don't believe
The garbage that well you know we have a scheduling
conflict here. No, she's not testify. She knows what she was involved with. She knows
what her friends have been involved with. She knows why it's worse. And just care, but
she isn't going to incriminate herself. So it's fifth amendment time after she gets
subpoenaed because these, these, this is criminal activity. Shame on everybody in the
news business here in Los Angeles for not pursuing this every single freaking day. Because
these reporters know this is criminal activity. It's billions of dollars. It's like just stop
it. Why don't you just come out and admit you're all fanboys and fangirls and you got
to do what's best for the team and that you're not going to lay a glove on Karen bass.
The lady won't testify before judge and hire 15 lawyers to insulator. She won't testify
before this committee. She's not coming on this show. Obviously. Why is that? She'll promote
this show when Tracy Park comes on and pops off about Nithya ramen, but Karen bass is
not coming on and she's not testify not in court, not before a committee. Not if anybody's
going to ask her about where the homeless money went. Now she's resigning from the, from
Loser from the board. Talk about that when we come back.
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X or YouTube. We had Republican Congressman Kim Birchit on in the first 15 minutes. He
is the chairman of the fix of the subcommittee on delivering government efficiency. And there's
a hearing on the fraud going on in the Los Angeles homeless industry. And the mixture of
the fraud is Karen bass here in the city. And she's refusing to testify. This comes after
she refused to testify in a civil trial regarding where the homeless money went. That was
a federal trial run by a federal judge named David Carter. So she won't talk to the judge.
She will not talk to this congressional committee. Birchit said if she's not coming, we'll
subpoena her and she'll probably take the fifth amendment. So he thinks that she's been
up to no good and doesn't want to talk about it. Now curiously, while Birchit has been
trying to get bass to come to Washington and tell the truth, she suddenly resigns from
the board of law. And it turns out she appointed herself. She does these things. And she and
her political staff, they think they're really clever and nobody notices this crap. But
she appoints herself. She is responsible for half the people on the loss of commission.
And now as she's running desperately for reelection, she's saying, well, loss is really messed
up. It's really screwed up. It's dysfunctional. And you are lost. Losses is you when you're
on board on the board and you have selected half of the board members or re approved half
the board members. Then it's then you are lost. You're responsible when you're one of
your best friends is running losses. The CEO. And it's forced off because she's given
away $2 million to her husband's non-profit, Alicia Adams-Kellum. Stop it. Bass is a complete
and total fraud on this. That's why she doesn't come on the show. God, I'd hit her with
this right in the first few seconds. How is it your best friend gave away $2 million
to her husband? How is it that you're on the on the commission? You appointed or reappointed
for others. And you call it dysfunctional. Like it's like it's your fault. And now that
you're getting investigated by a congressional committee, suddenly you're resigning so you
can blame them. Here's no little quirk. There's a loss of commissioner and Justin Salasa. He
was pushing for stronger auditing and oversight. Well, he got removed as the chairman of the
agency's audit committee by the new chair, another ally of bass. So bass is friend who's
the chairman of a chairperson, Salasa, removed the commissioner from running the audit committee
because he done covered, for example, one non-profit being paid to operate more homeless spaces
that actually existed. LAS reported this. Nick Urda, we just had them on the show yesterday.
So you have, as biased as the media is, the fraud is so widespread that LAS is covering
it. LAS has been covering the stuff California post has. It needs some television. But I
watched some local news last night. It's like, dude, it's going to be hot today. I turned
on the news last night. It at nine o'clock. It's 10 minutes of, it's going to be hot tomorrow.
You believe how hot it is. Oh, my God. Is it hot? Oh, the heat's coming from the south
and it's coming from the west and it said the humidity. Oh, humidity. It's heat and humidity.
Well, I have been doing those stories as well. I admit it. I, but everybody knows it's hot.
I know, but it's so humid. This is unusual for Los Angeles. I've given this speech a thousand
times. Yes, I grew up in New Jersey. I know. And I've strenght a lot of time in Florida.
This is nothing. Okay. But there's not everybody is like you that have lived in New Jersey
or spent a lot of time in Florida. This is every, every day of my childhood was this seriously.
I get it. You know, I've been to Florida. Yeah. Well, in Jersey, I grew up in, you know,
I wait in the summertime between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. None of us went outside. I watched television
game shows every summer for hours, every day, because you couldn't go out. There's also
not a lot of news. Apparently, yes, apparently. But everybody's talking about it, though.
It is true, though, John, everybody's talking about how hot and humid it is. That's not news,
though. That's, that's whether that's, but it is a table conversation. I, I understand.
Remember storm watch. Yeah, I know. I know. It's just making sense. But this is what's
wrong with the, the television newscast here. They do 10 minutes on the obvious that nobody,
nobody, nobody's, nobody's dying of the heat here in LA. Nobody can change the heat in LA.
I don't you tell us what's going on with Karen Bass and the billions of dollars of our
tax money disappearing. And we have to step over all the drug addicts and mental patients
in the heat and the heat. They're all dying in the heat right now. Tim Purchitt in his announcement
of the hearing. He says left wing policies that refuse to bar behavior like drug abuse
in public housing only perpetuate the cycle of homelessness. Most of the nation's homeless
suffer from drug addiction, mental illness or both. And Karen Bass knows this. All these
left wing progressives know this. They know that giving them needles and pipes so they
can smoke and snort and inject. They know that makes the drug addiction worse. They don't
care because they're all making money. Karen Bass knows that Felicia Adams Kelem was
making a lot of money running loss and funneling the money to Felicia's husband. So they're
not going to stop the gravy train. This is what has to be investigated. He wrote Tim
Purchitt that LA is a case study of failed policy fraud and mismanagement that has been
left unchecked for too long. It's a shame that Mayor Karen Bass refuses to show up to testify
about her role in all this. Well, the reason is when she finally gets subpoenaed is she's
going to take the fifth amendment. She'll never answer these questions. She doesn't answer
him here. She doesn't answer him. In that federal courtroom with judge Carter, not going
to answer him in front of this government efficiency committee and Tim Purchitt. Now when
we come back, you know where she is?
appears. She appeared on the Scotty and Friends podcast, who I will give credit to Scotty
or the friends. They actually brought up the mayor of Santa Ana, Valerie Amescuah, who
we had on the show recently, who announced on social media that from now on, nobody
gets to sleep on the streets. You go to drug or mental health treatment, or you go find
your family, or you go to jail. That's it. Why don't we do it here? Well, play with
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Cobalt on demand from KFI AM 640. Okay, if I am 640 live everywhere on the I heart radio
app, John Cobalt show, we've been unraveling the Karen Bass situation. She's refusing to
testify in Congress before the this house subcommittee. The hearing is fixing fraud and
failure and federally funded homelessness services. Yeah, she is the poster child
for that. But she won't talk about it. And we had Tim Birchett on the chairman of that
committee, Republican from Tennessee. And he says he's going to subpoena her then he
invited her nicely. She says no. Here comes the subpoena and she he expects her to invoke
the fifth amendment because she doesn't want to talk about all the criminal activity that
goes on in this homeless industry that we fund with our tax money. And like I said, she
wouldn't talk. She wouldn't talk at that trial at civil trials. She won't come on our
show. She did go on this podcast called Scotty and friends. I've never heard of this.
Somebody asked her about the Santa Ana mayor of Valerie, a Mezqua who we had on the
show mayor of Mezqua of Santa Ana has a different policy than the failed Karen Bass. You can't
sleep on the streets or in the parks ever. You have to then go to mental health treatment,
drug treatment, we'll send you back to your family or you got a jail and we'll just keep
arresting you and sending to jail, whatever's necessary.
This has asked about this on this Scotty and friends podcast. So play it a little bit
edited just to clear up some spots, but to let it roll.
You see the mayor of Santa Ana, they were saying like they'll go out, they'll offer you services.
If you don't want to service, they'll put you in jail. I know. And I think she criticized
me and said, why don't you do this? First of all, if you talk to Sheriff Luna who's in charge
of the jails, he will tell you that I had a room, right? Yeah. So you can't do that anyway.
And the majority of the people that are in jail today at Twin Towers are mentally ill.
So what we've decided to do is the society instead of taking care of them, we lock them
up. That costs more money. They get less services and they cycle in and out of jail.
For her to criticize you and say, I didn't know she criticized you by the way, but I see
it's like you. You're the mayor of LA. It's different. This is a different ballgame.
You can't just say, why don't you do this? Cause it ain't you this ain't that like this
ain't Santa Ana. It's no disrespect. Santa Ana is his thing, but like this ain't the
same. So I don't like Santa Ana is a tiny city anyway. But he could put Santa. Yeah.
Well, Gito, you could put Santa Ana in a neighborhood. Okay. And so we are the nation's
second largest city, as you said, 3.8 million people. We are a complex city where this
system to deal with homeless is a combination of the city and the county. I don't think
it should be that anymore. The city needs to have complete control. I frankly want to break
away from those bureaucrats that say, it's okay for you to be on the street. But when
the people on the street look like me, I'm sorry. The people on the street that thinks
it's okay for me to be on the street. What is she talking about? What does that mean?
The people that look like her aren't too many 72 year old women out of the street. That
made no sense. And it also makes completely no sense about about the jails. They've been
trying to close down the county jails. They should be building a county jail to accommodate
this. That's how you treat the problem. Don't give me this. Well, you know, the jails
are all full. The jails are all full because we don't have enough jail space built. We don't
have jail space built because we blow so much money on homelessness. They steal money
on homelessness. They steal it. And then like, oh, I mean, money to build another jail.
They need to be forced by voting people out of office so that instead of blowing money
on fake homelessness programs, you build a jail. And after a while, people will get tired
of getting arrested. And then they'll either leave the area or go back to their family
or accept treatment. That is total nonsense. But now it's not her fault. Now it's not
her fault. Even though she was on the loss of board for three years, she appointed herself.
She's responsible for five of the seats. Now suddenly, loss is a bad thing. She's quitting
because she's got a, all kinds of investigations going on as to where the money went. Nobody
written a sky. If she wins, at least for my end, I'm going to keep asking every day,
where did the money go? Where's the money? What did you do with it? Who has it? Is there
any more of that? You see, this is suddenly Santa Ana, Santa has 300,000 people. It's not
tiny. It's a decent sized city. And there are a lot of big cities in this country where
you can't sleep on the streets. Like in New York, they have a law. Everybody's got
a right to shelter. And shelter means a bed. And the homeless people have a mandate to
take the shelter. That's what they do in New York. You don't see stuff like this in New
York City. I'm sure there are little pockets, nothing like L.A. There's nothing like L.A.
It's full of it. She's been in charge. She has been loss. Her best friend was running
loss as the CEO. Her friend was sending money to her husband.
Alicia Adams, Kellan, your friend is running.
Lassa, you're on the board.
You appointed yourself.
I'll pull that crap.
I don't like Scotty and friends.
Do any of that.
Robert, Robert Luna doesn't have any room.
They're doing a federal investigation to Luna's jails.
I'm gonna tell you about that when we come back.
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Podcast Summary
Key Points:
Odoo is promoted as an all-in-one business platform that unifies CRM, accounting, inventory, e-commerce, and HR into a single, easy-to-use system to eliminate software overload.
The podcast highlights the urgent issue of childhood cancer, noting that a child is diagnosed with cancer every 36 minutes in the U.S., and encourages support for Hyundai Hope On Wheels, which has raised over $300 million for childhood cancer research.
A critical investigation is underway into mismanagement and fraud in Los Angeles’ federally funded homelessness programs, with Republican Congressman Tim Birchett accusing Mayor Karen Bass of hiding financial misconduct, including her friend’s nonprofit receiving $2.1 million and her role in appointing key officials; Birchett threatens to subpoena her and expects her to invoke the Fifth Amendment.
Summary:
The podcast features a mix of business, social, and political content. It promotes Odoo as a comprehensive, all-in-one solution for small businesses to avoid software fragmentation and reduce operational complexity. It also highlights the rising crisis of childhood cancer, urging listeners to support Hyundai Hope On Wheels, which has contributed over $300 million to research since 1995.
A major political segment focuses on allegations of fraud and corruption in Los Angeles’ homelessness programs, with Republican Congressman Tim Birchett leading a federal investigation into mismanagement and financial misuse. 1 million donation to her friend’s nonprofit—and of appointing key officials, leading to a subpoena threat. Bass has refused to testify, citing a scheduling conflict, and is now resigning from the board, raising concerns about accountability.
The podcast criticizes the failure of media and local government to investigate or report these systemic issues, emphasizing that the fraud may involve criminal behavior and personal profit. It concludes with a call for public vigilance, urging citizens to demand transparency and accountability in government spending. The content also includes promotions for other products, such as hero bread, resort passes, and Boost Mobile, but these are secondary to the central themes of personal responsibility, transparency, and civic action.
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Odoo is an all-in-one platform that integrates CRM, accounting, inventory, e-commerce, and HR into a single system. It eliminates software overload by replacing multiple disjointed apps with one easy-to-use, fully integrated solution that grows with your business.
You can try Odoo for free by visiting odoo.com. The platform offers a risk-free trial, allowing you to explore its features and see how it can streamline your business operations.
The podcast notes that every 36 minutes, a child in the U.S. is diagnosed with cancer. This highlights the ongoing fight of young patients and the importance of supporting cancer research and awareness.
Hyundai Hope On Wheels is a nonprofit that has contributed over $300 million to childhood cancer research since 1995, helping save more than 40,000 children. Support from Hyundai dealers and every new Hyundai sold funds this mission.
Birchett is investigating whether billions of federal funds intended for homelessness have been mismanaged, stolen, or fraudulently used. He suspects corruption, such as money being funneled to friends or nonprofits, and blames systemic failure in federal programs.
Her refusal to testify may indicate an attempt to avoid accountability. Congressman Birchett suspects she is involved in fraud and may invoke the Fifth Amendment, which would protect her from answering questions about potential criminal activity.
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