Cal Thomas on Gavin Newsom's Electability

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Speaker 1: And we continue at two oh five in the afternoon on the John Phillips Show. Mister Randy Wangs in Culver City.

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Speaker 2: John San Jose mayor and goodn Ontario candidate Matt Mayhan is calling on Sacramento and Gavin Newsom to suspend the guest X and I don't think they're going to listen to him.

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Speaker 1: Well, Gavin Newsom isn't even in the state, so if we set it on a local radio or television program, he definitely didn't see or hear it. Ugh eight hundred two two two five two two two is telephone number one. Eight hundred two two two five two two two. It is our pleasure to welcome our next guest to the program. He is a long time syndicated columnist, formerly of the La Times. You used to be able to read him. Will you ate your morning breakfast and drink your morning coffee. He also is the author of the book A Watchman in the Night, What I've Seen, What I've Seen over in over fifty years of reporting on America, available online at Amazon dot com. You can find him online at cal Thomas dot com and follow him on X at cal Thomas cal Thomas Welcome.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, John. Always good to hear your voice.

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Speaker 1: Well, thanks so much for stopping by. Now I want to read for you a statement that was made on a podcast by Chris Hayes. He's the host on MSNBC who looks like Rachel Maddow but isn't Rachel Maddow. He is, in fact a guy. And here is what he said on this podcast regarding our very governor Gavin Newsom. Quote. I think Newsom has a Hillary Clinton problem, which is that Hillary Clinton was perceived outside the Democratic Party and the Democratic Coalition as the quote ultimate Lib, like the libyus lib whoever lived and was never actually like that much of a Lib. And that's like the worst uncanny valley for a Democratic politician to be in, where the base doesn't trust you because you don't have that kind of organic relationship with the left parts of the party, and then the swing voter just thinks like, oh, that's a lip end. Quote.

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Speaker 4: Well, I do think that Gavin Newsom and Hillary Clinton do have one important thing in common, the lack of authenticity, and I think that's what killed Hillary's campaign, And if Newsom is stupid enough to run for president, I think.

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Speaker 3: It will kill his campaign. As well.

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Speaker 4: You mentioned just a moment ago before I came on that you didn't think that Newsom would give up the gas tax to lower gasoline prices. Well, you know, asking a Democrat to give up any tax is like asking Dracula to swear all blood.

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Speaker 3: That just didn't going to happen.

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Speaker 1: Well, your point on authenticity, I think is the nail on the head, because whenever a politician, Rick Caruso had this problem when he ran from Los Angeles, he is a hard charging Republican businessman who could build things and get things done, and then someone convinced him that to get elect did he had to get rid of his party registration, become a Democrat and try to convince them that he was one of them. And I don't know of anyone Republican or Democrat who believed that Rick Caruso was a legit Democrat. They all knew what he was doing, and that inauthenticity I think cost him the mayoral election the last time around. That's one thing that voters can do. Voters may not read the newspaper front to back every day, they may not understand the issues in depth, but they can sniff out someone who's not authentically themselves. And I think that that's Galvinism's biggest problem.

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Speaker 4: Well, you look back to Ronald Reagan and a lot of Democrats who wound up voting for Reagan. Not only is California governor, but when he ran and won both presidential elections in eighty and eighty four.

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Speaker 3: They said a lot.

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Speaker 4: Of them in polling that they might not have agreed with all of his policies, but they believed that he was authentic, that he really believed them. And I think that's what's lacking. And so any of today's politicians, including a lot of Republicans, frankly, they take polls, they go to focus groups, they determine what words are the trigger words that will energize people to vote for them, But once they get an office, they're totally different.

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Speaker 3: I look what John Cornyn just did.

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Speaker 4: For years, he was against doing away with a filibuster, the Republican senator from Texas who's running for reelection. Now he's flipped on that because he wants Trump's endorsement. So this is not necessarily a one party or other thing.

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Speaker 3: This is why I think we need.

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Speaker 4: A Convention of States. We're not going to get term limits, because the people who would vote for the term limits have be voting for themselves. But I think a convention of states to balance the budget, to limit the members of Congress from no more than two terms in the Senate and maybe three or four.

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Speaker 3: In the House is the only way we can take back the power.

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Speaker 1: Again, well to that point, and you mentioned that currently we have a lot of older people in Congress, a lot of people who have been there a long time. Certainly when Joe Biden ran for reelection and Diane Feinstein died in office, those two people put that issue to the forefront more than arguably anyone else. But part of the reason I think why we don't have term limits is because when the politics of the electorate changes, it's not always a good thing to have the elected's changed right along with them. I mean, take for example, the issue of Israel, where on the Democratic Party New Deal Democrats were staunch supporters of Israel. You go back and you listen to what the old timers used to say about that that was an important plank and they were important part of the coalition of FDR's New Deal coalition that the Democrats, I guess, to a certain extent still rely on to this day. But those politicians are aging out, and the new crop of Democratic politicians are overtly hostile in many cases to the state of Israel. I mean, take Gavin Newsom, for example, who just came out called them an apartheid state, something that Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro came out this weekend and said that that was over the line. What do you make of where the Democratic Party is going right now? And I guess to a certain extent, not so much with the electeds, but with the online crowd on the right, where you have a lot of people who are right now turning against Israel.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, let's begin where we ought to begin.

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Speaker 4: I can't tell you where the Democrat Party is headed because they can't tell where the Democrat Party is headed. They don't know if you ask them for policies, what are they for? What are they against? Well, they're against ice. They don't mind long lines at airports around the country. They don't mind putting the country in jeopardy because the Secret Service and other people who are supposed to defend us are now leaving work and trying to find other jobs so they can pay their rent. They can make payments on their cars, they can put food on the table. Are just shameless now with respect to Israel. What you're seeing, I think is the product of a lot of our universities who have professors that are anti Semitic. We've seen that at Columbia, We've seen it at some of the California universities. They teach young people, and this feeds the anti Semitism that has unfortunately been writing underneath in this country and in Europe still for many, many years. It's given them permission to say these things. Israel is not a apartheid nation. Israel is the target of those nations around her and in other places in Europe too, that want to eliminate her. And I think it's a new form of sophisticated anti Semitism that they were afraid to speak before, but now it's out in the open.

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Speaker 1: And to be clear, it's okay to criticize the government of any nation on planet Earth. That you can do that without being a bigod or someone who has a hostility towards certain groups. But when you look at the definition of what Newsom said, he called it an apartheid state, that's not a criticism of net and Yahoo. That's a criticism of the state of Israel. When you think about what apartheid government is, that's what you have. Essentially, an occupying force move in to take something that doesn't belong to them, to exploit the land, to exploit the people, to discriminate based on race and religion to their own personal financial benefit. That's what he's saying about Israel. If that's not an anti Semitic statement, I don't know what is.

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 4: You also just described Iran. Iran took over the Iatolas took over in nineteen seventy nine thanks to Jimmy Carter.

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Speaker 3: Who over threw the shaw. They went in. They imposed a twisted religion and.

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Speaker 4: A twisted political life that put women in certain costumes and denied men certain rights. I mean, it's just Israel is the only democracy in the region. Israel was created in the modern state after the Holocaust so that the Jewish people would have a homeland to which they could flee if they were ever targeted again. And I would say that it was their ancient homeland and they have a right to be there. Israel under Ben Gurion tried to make a deal with the so called Palestinians the Arab nations around him to give him about half of the land there, and they rejected it because they wanted.

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Speaker 3: All of the land.

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Speaker 4: And from then and Yasir Arafont and all of the other people who who have been regarded as.

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Speaker 3: Terrorists and are terrorists or were terrorists.

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Speaker 4: Their goal, if you read the Palestinian Covenant and a lot of these others, with a complete eradication of Israel and the Jewish people. They said so they say so openly, a little more sophisticated now, but that's what their ultimate goal is. The Muslim brotherhood care all of these other Muslim groups are completely anti Semitic and eddie Israel. And Newsom is totally wrong on this. I'm not sure he could spell apart much less to find it.

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Speaker 1: We're speaking with cal Thomas, so you can follow on x at cal Thomas and Calsonce you brought up John Cornyn in Texas, let's talk about that Senate race, because he is a guy who's essentially a Bush Republican. He's been in Texas politics for a very long time before the state moved to the right, and the state is now a Trump state, a state that voted for Donald Trump in three consecutive elections. He has an opponent who has tried to brand himself as the Maga Maga candidate in the race. He's got a lot of personal problems, whether it comes to his marriage or corruption. People I know in the state of Texas tell me that the guy is about as corrupt as it gets, so certainly that is one line you don't want to cross. However, on the Democratic side of the isle, they nominated a guy who's not what you would regard as a blue dog Democrat by any stretch of the imagination. He is essentially a woke Jimmy Swaggert who has said some true nutty things in clothing, that there's six different genders, that prison is violence, we need to welcome mat at the southern border. There should be abortions at the post office. I mean, you name it. The guy who said it, and not just in tweets, but in videos where you can play the audio where you can see him saying it in real time. What do you make of that missive Senate race?

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Speaker 4: Well, well, tillericho is is you know, he's described by the most of the media as a seminarian and a Christian well, I did the first column on this. There have been three others since, including the Wall Street Journal that had pointed out some of the things you just mentioned. He also says God is binary and one of my favorites, or it could be my favorite. He said that the virgin Mary had a choice. She didn't have to accept what the Angel said about the Holy Spirit impregnating her with Jesus. She had a choice, and therefore that legitimizes abortion. You know, even a secularist knows the difference on these things, and you just shake your head that they get away with it, but the media never call them out. I'm glad to see that some of my colleagues are now calling him out. Texas is a basically still as you mentioned, conservative state, has a lot of Baptists there.

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Speaker 3: I don't think he's going to win, but.

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Speaker 4: You know, this just shows what the condition of our theology is these days in America. Well, you can get away with some people of saying that kind of thing.

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Speaker 1: What do you think is going to happen on the Republican side, because that's not resolved yet.

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Speaker 4: Well, I think the Republicans are in a better shape than the Democrats, and if this war turns out to be a victory.

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Speaker 3: And Trump just.

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Speaker 4: Said another one of his little meetings in the Oval office, where Peter Deucy asked him, how soon do you think this is going.

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Speaker 3: To be wrapped up? This week?

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Speaker 4: He said, well, no, but I think very soon, and we're going to you know, you're going to be very happy. The oil prices going to go back down, the stock market is going to go back up. And if that happens, which seems more likely then maybe it did a few weeks ago. If that happens, then I think the Democrats are just going to be totally without any issues at all, because they've been completely against this war. They have been on record opposing it. Nobody's asked them, really, nobody in the media. Well, okay, so let's say the war didn't start it, would you have been okay with Iran getting nuclear weapons and threatening not only Israel but at least the East coast of the United States. Nobody asked them that question. You got Rohana out there who thinks that the whole war was illegitimate, and I think I saw he was asked the very question that I just posed.

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Speaker 3: Would you be okay with a nuclear weapon?

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Speaker 4: In Iran, and I believe he said, well, it would only be used in that region. Please excuse me. It wouldn't just be used in that region. They've already said they want to come out to the Great Satan.

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Speaker 3: That's us.

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Speaker 1: Jill Biden has a book that's going to come out before the midterm elections where she is expected to settle any number of scores. The first score at the top of the list has to be with the former Speaker the House, your former neighbor, Nancy Pelosi. Joe Biden at some point is going to have his own book out. I would imagine that he's going to tell many of the same stories as doctor Jill. What do you make of those books coming out before the election and relitigating those old wars.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I noticed that doctor Jill is not going to have doctor as part of her title on the book.

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Speaker 3: That's kind of an interesting concession.

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Speaker 4: So golly, who knew? I mean, you were supposed to. I thought that was her first name for a long time, you know, like some people had three names. Doctor Joe Budd doctor was the first name. I think some score settling the media are going to treat it as if not gospel then at least I think, actually I.

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Speaker 3: Think to ignore it. The reviews are going to be bad.

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Speaker 4: I'm sure somebody's writing it for Joe, somebody's writing it for Jill, and I don't think it's going to have any effect whatsoever. I think they're just going to be trying to explain themselves, and.

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Speaker 3: When you get to the point of.

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Speaker 4: Explaining yourself in politics, you've lost the argument.

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Speaker 1: Last night was the Oscars. It used to be a big night in America. People would watch it, not quite like the Super Bowl, but a lot of people. Millions of people would gather around televisions to watch it. They did exactly what you would expect to do. They started out by thanking whatever Indian tribe it was that once occupied the space of the theater where they were hosting the event. Jimmy Kimmel was out there to take shots at Republicans. They took shots at CBS for hiring Barry Weiss and all of those sorts of things. It's so crazy to me that this crowd doesn't understand that they've lost the country. It's wild to me that they don't connect the dots of a dropping ticket sales and them hosting events where they do things like what they did last night and alienating half of the country. I think due to technology and other things, their sales would be down anyway, but for them to just keep their foot on the gas pedal, Boy, are they toned deaf?

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Speaker 4: Well, that's why they're moving to YouTube in a couple of years. The ratings are down. People are watching. As you said, it's become so predictable. My favorite part of last night was a kind of mini catfight between Barbara Streisand and Jane Fonda. Jane brought it up on the Robert Redford tribute reel. Jane said that she'd done more movies with Robert Redford than Barbara Streisand did. She'd only done one, and I think Jane had done three or four, So it was kind of a tongue in cheek thing. The implication was that I should have been I being Jane, should have done the tribute, not Barbara Streisand. Well, maybe if Jane could see as well as Barbara strous.

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Speaker 3: I said, maybe so, but otherwise, and I thought, for me, the best dress was Anne Hathaway. I've always liked her.

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Speaker 4: She had a beautiful dress on, great earrings, and that's about all that I watched. I flipped a you know you mentioned about the quality of movies. I've got Turner Movie Classics and the AMC movies, these old movies that are on they're running a bunch of them, the thirties and forties now black and white. On Turner Classic movies, there's no foul language, there's no nudity. The scripts were a whole lot better. Some of them are really funny. And I stopped going to movies years ago. And I'm just careful on what I tune in her live streaming or on some of these channels because everyone, my wife and I have a bet on how much time will pass before the first use of the F word, and I counted one that was about a dozen in the first ten minutes of the film.

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Speaker 3: Recently, I just can't watch that.

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Speaker 4: That's not creative writing that, it's not the old Hollywood. There's you know, anybody can cur anybody can blow up a car, anybody can shoot somebody. But give me a good storyline that holds my attention.

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Speaker 1: Very sad cal Thomas, syndicated columnist and author of the book A Watchman in the Night. What I've seen in over fifty years of reporting on America available online at Amazon dot com. You can get Cal online at cal Thomas dot com and follow him on x at cal Thomas Cal Thanks so much for stopping by.

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Speaker 3: Always a pleasure. Thank you, John.

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Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is telephone number one. Eight hundred two two two five two two two. Right now, it's time to open up the California crime Blodder.

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Speaker 5: It's happened yet again.

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Speaker 1: This wow, Wow, what's up here?

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Speaker 6: Dun Dun dun dun, dundun dundun.

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Speaker 5: Dun reached the Califonia crime Blodder with Jun.

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Speaker 1: And this edition takes us to the bank in San Diego County.

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Speaker 2: Be real careful when you're taking money out of the ATM or going to make a big withdrawal, because sometimes people like to follow you home and and then they take your money.

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Speaker 1: For more. Here's Fox five in San Diego.

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Speaker 7: A strong warning from a North County family after a loved one was followed home from a bank. The thieves ended up stealing thousands of dollars from the victim. It's a crime Sheriff's investigators called bank jugging. Tony Shinn is Live and Fallbrooke with surveillance video of the suspects caught in that act.

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Speaker 8: Tony, Yeah, you know, Christina. In this case, the victim had just left this bank that you see behind me. He had no idea someone was watching him, and no idea thieves were following him home.

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Speaker 2: Gotta be real careful when you're taking out cash these days.

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Speaker 1: I wonder if this is a big problem in Las Vegas, because people go to Las Vegas and if you want to play the tables, you're gonna need cash, and you're gonna need a lot of it, because now the table minimums are so high. So people go to the ATM, they go to the teller at the bank, whatever bank they do business with, they probably have a branch in southern Nevada. You take out your money and you go straight to the casino. I wonder if this is a major problem there.

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Speaker 9: He doesn't have any kind of suspicion that anything's going on.

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Speaker 10: One and his sister Carol are closely reviewing the surveillance video from their parents Fallbrook home. It shows their father, Ridolfo, coming home on February twenty fifth, after a trip to the nearby Chase Bank where he just withdrew thirty five hundred dollars in cash so he could buy his brother's car.

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Speaker 11: He's walking out with this white envelope from the bank and he's getting it into his stuffel bag that he has, not realizing that, you know, the white cheap turke he was following him all the way.

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Speaker 12: Home, Carol is talking about this.

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Speaker 1: Why you know what's so odd about this story, Randy? What's that he got robbed before he could buy the Kia, which then would get stolen.

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Speaker 12: There is that Carol is talking about this white jeep chair.

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Speaker 10: In the video, you can see it slowly pass by Ridolfo's home. He doesn't notice it as he gets out of his truck to go inside and eat lunch. Meantime, that white Cherokee continues to go back and forth outside.

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Speaker 11: They literally are just driving like a fish in the tank, you know, just waiting for their time to hit.

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Speaker 10: That's when the Cherokee backs into Ridolpho's parking spot, and someone wearing a hoodie quickly jumps out of the back seat. The thief opens up the passenger door of Rodolpho's truck and grabs the Duffel bag with the thirty five hundred dollars in cash.

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Speaker 1: Oh, no, no car for Rodolfo.

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Speaker 12: The Cherokee then drives off.

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Speaker 11: He had a lot of apartment documents in there, he had, spear.

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Speaker 2: Boy, if only the person selling that car would have taken a check.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what kind of credit does Ridolfo have? Where your brother won't take a check from you, then drives off.

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Speaker 11: He had a lot of apartment documents in there. He had spa keys for work, he had his work phone in there, checkbooks.

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Speaker 10: Shriff's investigators call this type of crime bank jugging. That's when thieves sit outside banks watching for customers who are leaving with deposit bags or envelopes that could be filled with a lot of cash.

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Speaker 2: They then see everything connected with cash as a liability.

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Speaker 1: These days, my Chase branch has a bunch of those dumb, dumb lollipops. So if anyone ever sees me leaving a bank, just so you know, the only thing that I have in my possession is about seven or eight stolen lollipops.

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Speaker 10: They then secretly follow the customer until they get an opportunity to take that bag of money.

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Speaker 12: This really hurts the family, doesn't it It does?

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Speaker 5: It sure does.

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Speaker 10: Carol doesn't want another family to experience this type of financial loss, which is why he wants the public to see what happened to her father and to be aware of their surroundings, especially when walking out of a bank with a lot of cash, even.

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Speaker 1: For a little cash.

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Speaker 2: I only go to the bank when I need cash because I know I'm gonna have to pay for parking somewhere and they won't let me do it through Venmo. But even when I'm taking forty bucks out, I'm freaking out.

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Speaker 1: Well, I could say this at least this didn't have it happened in December, so Ridolfo the red nosed Reindeer wouldn't come home with no gifts under the tree.

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Speaker 12: With a lot of cash.

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Speaker 11: Be so cautious and be mindful of your surroundings. Make sure you take that money and it goes right away to where it needs to go.

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Speaker 12: Carol says.

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Speaker 13: Right now, Shares investigators are still trying to find more surveillance video to hopefully identify those suspects. If you have any information about this case, call crime Stoppers reporting live in Falbrook.

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Speaker 12: I'm Tony schin Christina will send it.

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Speaker 5: Back to you there.

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Speaker 2: You go, be real careful when you're taking big sums out of the bank because someone could follow you home.

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Speaker 1: Here's my suggestion. That white jeep that's at the Luxor right now in Las Vegas. All right, Randy, it's time to reopen the blotter. He's to catch his dummy.

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Speaker 5: We shouldn't make this stuff up.

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Speaker 1: If we tried, I said, hell no, baby boy, let me get up one out of here.

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Speaker 5: It's the California crime Bloater.

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Speaker 1: Well, another jewelry store got hit, this time in Fremont. Fromre on this, we got a kron.

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Speaker 9: For tonight, we are getting a first look at a brazen smash and grab robbery in Fremont. That's our top story on Crown four News at nine, streaming on Crown four Plus.

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Speaker 1: I'm Dan Thorn.

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Speaker 9: The video just released by the Department of Justice shows a mob of thieves crashing into a jewelry store and stealing lots of expensive jewelry.

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Speaker 1: Crawnfo's Jack Momot.

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Speaker 5: That's our top story tonight.

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Speaker 14: This shocking robbery may have happened last year, but it's only now that we're getting into the complete picture into what happened here in Fremont, including a group of businesses here on this strip banding together to make sure that they're not the next target. Dramatic video shows the moments a car filled with robbers smashes into a Fremont jewelry store. The mast thieves Russian and raid the shop as the store owners run for cover.

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Speaker 15: Trauma tized.

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Speaker 3: Wait.

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Speaker 2: I don't know when it happened, but robbers elevated from sledgehammers to just using the car as a battering ram. And I think it's because it's so easy to steal a car in California. They're practically worthless.

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Speaker 1: And you know what's going to happen now that all the jewelry stores are being hit in California, We're going to be left with no wedding ring left to buy, which means all of us are going to end up living in sin.

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Speaker 14: Dramatic video shows the moments a car filled with robbers smashes into a Fremont jewelry store. The mast thieves Russian and raid the shop as the store owners run for cover.

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Speaker 5: We feel very unsafe.

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Speaker 14: This national Grab robbery happened at Kumar Jewelers at the Maori East shopping Center last June. The store's owner did not want to go on camera, but told us they've been trying hard to keep their business open since the brazen robbery across the way at Niche business.

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Speaker 2: I mean, and remember, part of the reason it's so difficult, especially as a jeweler, after you get robbed, is most jewelers do not have insurance.

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Speaker 1: I would like to do this topic sometime when it's a slow news day. I think it's just not jewelers. I think there are tons of small businesses in California that have no insurance because it's either super expensive or not even available to them.

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Speaker 14: Across the way at Niche Business Cafe, se Vona Nishkati says, the entire strip of businesses has felt the ripple effects.

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Speaker 5: Of this crime.

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Speaker 15: Like after I got these thinks to the metal verson up, reinstalled and outlet, I feel a little bit more safe.

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Speaker 2: And while four why nothing is as inviting as a jewelry star that's got black metal bars on it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I keep moving.

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Speaker 15: I feel a little bit more safe.

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Speaker 14: And while four of the more than a dozen thieves were arrested last year, the threat of robberies and burglaries has not gone away.

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Speaker 15: A lot of shops in this shopping center got broken in. The pizza shop they got broken in twice. The jewelry shop got broken in, and a lot of the places got broken in.

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Speaker 14: Niche Business Cafe has also fallen victim to smash and grabs.

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Speaker 15: They still the create bad machine and they hagged into the bank account.

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Speaker 5: The trauma is trumendous.

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Speaker 15: So when we get to traumatized, that that healing from that, like the like the you.

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Speaker 2: Probably look at every single customer shifty eyed for months and months and months.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's not going to be good for.

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Speaker 15: Sales violation, that my privacy being validated.

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Speaker 5: That is that is quite a.

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Speaker 14: Lot businesses along the shopping center have installed gates and ballards to curb future break in, many saying that security patrols have made them feel safer, but they still notice people hanging around the area late at night.

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Speaker 15: You see the police patrolling. But also, I think it'll be good to have programs for the people who are very unfortunate so.

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Speaker 5: That wait what.

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Speaker 1: She buys into it too? You see this is the problem. I can tell you right now. She votes the wrong way. None of this is going to change until you start voting differently. So in order to prevent the burglars from crashing into your business with a car, we need some after school programs. Okay, I'm less sympathetic than I was two minutes ago.

00:29:38
Speaker 15: But also I think it'll be good to have programs for the people who are very unfortunate so that they can be involved and.

00:29:50
Speaker 2: The You know, it's worth pointing out when people make this insane argument. California has the most people in pover in the entire country, and the vast, vast, vast majority of those poor people do not steal.

00:30:09
Speaker 1: No, no, But she's been brainwashed. So even as the victim of the crime, she has to bend the need to the criminal.

00:30:16
Speaker 15: The crime rate can go down, and then it's good for everybody community in the businesses.

00:30:21
Speaker 14: We reached out to the Fremont Police Department to talk about the general safety in this shopping center, some of the stats that are related to that safety and any improvements they could make or are planning to make to this shopping center, and have yet to hear back reporting here in Fremont, Jack mulmud Crawn four News.

00:30:37
Speaker 2: There you go, that's what happened when yet another jewelry store got smashed and grabbed, this time in Fremont.

00:30:45
Speaker 1: Keep voting the same way, sweetheart. The only inventory you'll be left with the ring pops. Let's go to Dave and WHITTI or Dave, Hello.

00:30:56
Speaker 16: Hi guys, two things all right, we need to get rid of this Attorney General Bonta in this election and get Michael Gates in there. That's a huge problem. This guy, because he caddles the criminals, doesn't want to prosecute them. But let me tell you another problem, and it's locally. It's called community policing. When you hear a city council woman or a city councilman say that on their website that they want community policing, thatsine a buzzword, a stealth word for defunding the police. We have three people in Whittier who are Democrats who are running. Okay, we have a majority Republican on our city council. These people Vicki Fantana District too Democrat. We have Ada Mecedo in district for running. Then we have James Vissarah running premiere. He won't win. But these people, they are stealthy. They will put police, defunding the police, a new sales tax, and uh you name it, the whole gamut. So you got it. Folks, locally, you gotta run against You gotta help your Republicans keep your majorities on your city council, can help the Republicans win building for your city of these Democrats.

00:32:14
Speaker 1: Thank you for the call, Sir, I appreciate it. Eight hundred two two two five two two two is the telephone number one eight hundred two two two five two two two. If you'd like to email the show, you can do so at Johnny don't like show at gmail dot com. That's Johnny don't like show at gmail dot com. And right now it's time to reopen the California crime Blodder.

00:32:36
Speaker 2: It's happened yet again, Nye see time for the California crime Blodder and Randy.

00:32:46
Speaker 1: This one involve more Jackgass teens on e bikes.

00:32:50
Speaker 2: This time in the Marina District in San Francisco, where a man just trying to get around town gets accosted by a mob of teen e bikers. For more, tale is old as time, here's ABC seven in the.

00:33:07
Speaker 17: Bay Trapped and terrified. There's some alliteration for you, trapped and terrified.

00:33:18
Speaker 7: Cry.

00:33:19
Speaker 6: I still am a little shook up about it, to be honest, but again, I'm just lucky that me and my friends are all okay.

00:33:31
Speaker 17: The moments a ride out in San Francisco turned violent shared in a social media video that's now part.

00:33:36
Speaker 12: Of a SFPD investigation.

00:33:38
Speaker 17: Isaac Auerbach says dozens of teens on bicycles surrounded his car after he and his friends were leaving the Red Bull event in the Marina District on Saturday.

00:33:46
Speaker 6: One of these random kids decides to grope one of my friend's breasts.

00:33:51
Speaker 1: WHOA, whoa, aren't you a little young for that boy?

00:33:55
Speaker 2: She then I'm telling you there's something about the e bikes that turns these kids into invincible monsters.

00:34:03
Speaker 1: Or maybe what they're doing is they're looking at the news and they're saying, Okay, the airports are all shut down. Maybe I have a shot at being a TSA agent. What do I have to do to have the skill set to do that job? I do grow up a bunch of women.

00:34:21
Speaker 6: She then turns around and throws a drink at him, and another one rolls up on me, spits in my face, and then the first guy that rolled up on me socks me in the face, and they just start destroying my car.

00:34:33
Speaker 17: Broken glass, visible damage, and even a shoeprint left behind.

00:34:38
Speaker 2: Well, now we know who did it, Puma.

00:34:43
Speaker 1: We even know the size.

00:34:45
Speaker 17: A nightmare scenario for our back's mother, Jasmine Freeman.

00:34:48
Speaker 18: He must have been so scared.

00:34:50
Speaker 6: All these kids are just looking for trouble. They want to hurt people, They want to cause trouble.

00:34:56
Speaker 2: I wonder how many of these kids got e bikes thanks to the California the Air Resources Boards voucher program where we gave parents two thousand dollars off of these things to quote take cars off the road. That really does add insult to injury, doesn't it. Where this guy now knows that his tax dollars funded this.

00:35:17
Speaker 6: It's ridiculous and it's getting really out of hand.

00:35:19
Speaker 18: You know when your son, who is a good kid and who is responsible and respectful, who doesn't get in trouble, calls you in absolute panic. Yeah, it was really scary.

00:35:32
Speaker 17: Freeman says. She reached out to us because of our reporting on similar incidents, including another in San Francisco and one in Santa Clara. John Hidalgo suffered broken ribs in Vertebrae after that attack, which was also shared by the writers on social media. We talked to him Thursday and he told us he still has yet to hear an update from Santa Clara police about the incident. Freeman hopes raising awareness of the attacks will lead to safer streets for all.

00:35:55
Speaker 18: It seems like these kids are in every city. So I'm just hopeful that by getting more exposure.

00:36:01
Speaker 2: And how much damage has been done based on you know, just in the last twelve months, based on the California Air Resources Board giving out these e bikes like Candy.

00:36:13
Speaker 1: Well, and there has to be something about the sociology of a pack of teenagers on fast moving bicycles where you put them together in a group. Individually, they're probably fine, but you put them together in a group and suddenly they become the Hell's Angels.

00:36:30
Speaker 18: It seems like these kids are in every city, So I'm just hopeful that by getting more exposure and you know, people finding out more about it, that people will start reporting it more.

00:36:41
Speaker 17: Freeman says she reached out to Mayor Daniel Lurry's office, who connected her with SFPD. Police confirmed our Back's accountant said the investigation is ongoing, but no arrests have been made. Anyone with information should contact SFPD.

00:36:55
Speaker 2: Well, good luck going after the juveniles, because we don't really do that in the state to California, which leads to the fact that they think they're invincible. Part of the reason that the teens are so out of control is because a lot of them are smart enough to know that they're not really going to get in trouble for anything that they do.

00:37:15
Speaker 1: No, and if you know you can't punish them, and you know you're not going to change the psychology of these kids when they get on these bikes, what you have to do is you just have to take the bikes away. You have to start regulating them like their motorcycles and say you need a driver's license to be able to ride them. You need to make sure that teenagers, if they're caught doing that, you find the parent, so the parents feel the pain in their pocketbook, And for heaven's sake, you need to stop subsidizing it. Because if putting these teenagers on these e bikes allows you to patch yourself on the back and say that you're being green and you're spending cap and trade money appropriately, you're not. You're financing these little terrorists to all around harassing people. And I don't understand why the parents don't put their foot down.

00:38:08
Speaker 2: Well, these are probably parents that don't spend a lot of time with their kids, which is why they got them the e byke.

00:38:13
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, could you show your face in public if your kid was harassing all the elderly people on your block. These parents need to get with the program, all right. That's it for us today