“$4 Billion Later” - CBS Exposes Newsom High Speed Rail FAILURE

**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
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**Pat** (0:30)
Newsom blamed Trump for high-speed rail $4 billion funding. Records show California never bought the trains it promised.
This is a CBS news story. Not Fox, not Daily Caller, not Daily Wire, but Fox, not Breitbart, but CBS.

**Tom** (0:48)
Not Vinny.

**Pat** (0:48)
Let me read it to you. Thanks, Tom. California's high-speed rail authority repeatedly missed key deadlines to buy its trains. A federal official cited when they paid $4 billion in funding a year ago. More than a year and a half later, the original deadline, the authority still cannot say when it expects to award the contract. The date remains to be determined. And Governor Newsom called the federal withdrawal a political stunt to punish California. Again, blaming Trump. So who does it get? You know this guy's name. Attorney General Rob Bonteff. You don't know who he is. Pull him up. Everybody should know who this guy is.
Sued to stop what he called Trump's politically motivated attack. Yet, six months later, California quietly dropped the lawsuit. You know when? Two days before Christmas with no press release and no explanation. Because no one's paying attention to what's going on.

**SPEAKER_5** (1:35)
They're shopping.

**Pat** (1:35)
Grant documents signed during the Biden administration required the rail authority to execute a train-set contract. By December 31st, 2024, California missed the deadline. In sworn court filings, the authority issued a federal judge. It would execute a contract by December 1st, which is 12 months later in 2025 But missed that deadline, too. Cancelling the board meeting where the contract was expected to be approved, multiple sources said missing the revised deadline undercuts California's legal argument that it could be trusted to meet future deadlines. By missing the deadline, it set itself in court. The state had effectively proven the federal government point. The project was not on track. And this is when it gets nasty. This year, January, Newsom boasted that California is finally laying the tracks of the nation's first high-speed rail system, laying.
When the governor says laying, what does it mean?

**SPEAKER_5** (2:28)
They're doing construction. They're starting.

**Pat** (2:30)
Or he's hanging out with the wife of his campaign manager. Does it mean we're starting or we're going to?

**SPEAKER_5** (2:35)
We're laying the tracks.

**Pat** (2:36)
We are laying. We are finally laying the tracks. His words, quote, finally laying the tracks of the nation's first high-speed rail system, but the state had not actually laid anything.

**SPEAKER_5** (2:46)
So he's lying.

**Pat** (2:47)
High-speed rail track. What it built was a railhead, a logistics depot to receive and stage materials. Newsom is losing CBS and mainstream media, that you are not keeping your promises to Californians. How the hell are you going to keep your promises to Americans? And you say you want to be a president. Tom, your thoughts on the story?

**Tom** (3:07)
Well, first of all, the reason CBS is covering it, because they have permission to cover it. They spike other stories. We saw Dana Basch, we will talk about a little bit later, absolutely beside herself, cheerleading for the Dems. And now, they have permission, Pat. They have been given permission to hit, and they are hitting hard. The reason you can't buy train cars with 4 billion of the federal dollars, there was no track, so there's no place to put the train cars. What, do you buy them and put them in storage? I'm finally laying tracks instead of laying the wife of my campaign manager.

**Pat** (3:37)
Here it is.

**Tom** (3:38)
Whoa, there we go.

**Pat** (3:39)
Shots fired.

**SPEAKER_4** (3:40)
I mean, it's a back, bomb for the win.

**Tom** (3:43)
But the issue, Pat, is that it is now, mainstream media is now calling out Newsom for the gaps, calling him out for the fraud, and calling him out for these things. And they have permission to do so, because I believe-

**Pat** (3:58)
What do you mean when you say permission? You think- Do you think-

**SPEAKER_5** (4:00)
DNC would not let this go out.

**Pat** (4:02)
So you think CBS first contacts DNC and says, are you okay with us writing this?

**Tom** (4:08)
They talk, all the networks talk to the RNC, DNC. They talk to everybody. And they've got every presidential candidate has got someone-