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Speaker 4: Leaving California means fixing, and John Phillips is just the
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Speaker 2: two two two. It is our pleasure to welcome our
Speaker 2: next guest to the program. He hosts the afternoon drive
Speaker 2: program on our sister station KMJ five eighty in Fresno
Speaker 2: from two to six in the afternoon Monday through Friday.
Speaker 2: He also joins us each and every election night, both
Speaker 2: in the primary and in the general election, on KABC
Speaker 2: and la KSFO in San Francisco and KMJ in the
Speaker 2: Central Valley. You can follow him on x at Philip Teresi.
Speaker 2: Philip Teresi, welcome, good afternoon. Well, thanks so much for
Speaker 2: stopping by.
Speaker 3: I appreciate you including me. I'm looking forward to finding
Speaker 3: out how we're going to fix California today.
Speaker 2: Well, let's start out with the guy who's breaking California,
Speaker 2: and by that I mean Gavin Newsom, who is doing
Speaker 2: what he loves to do best, which is travel to
Speaker 2: any place that's not California. This time it's to the
Speaker 2: state of Michigan, where he is campaigning with Abdul Alsayed,
Speaker 2: the DSA friendly candidate who won the Democratic nomination for
Speaker 2: the US Senate in that state. He was the guy
Speaker 2: who was campaigning all over with Hassan Piker, who has
Speaker 2: tweeted and said all kinds of interesting things about all
Speaker 2: kinds of different people, and Gavin Newsom seems to be
Speaker 2: all in with this wing of the party of the
Speaker 2: Democratic Party as we approach the twenty twenty eight Democratic primary.
Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom, prior to recently, was trying to portray himself
Speaker 2: as the number one Trump hater on planet Earth and
Speaker 2: more of a standard partisan Democrat, And now it seems
Speaker 2: like he wants to play foot see with the DSA
Speaker 2: and the left wing of the party. What do you
Speaker 2: make of what he's doing over there.
Speaker 3: I think that he's I think he's trying to serve
Speaker 3: three masters. I think one he is trying to mitigate
Speaker 3: the fallout of coming out against Prop forty here in
Speaker 3: California and suggesting we should have the National Billionaire's Tax instead.
Speaker 3: I think that he is trying to cozy up to
Speaker 3: the far left in a way that's safe, in a
Speaker 3: way that doesn't require him to abandon the old guard
Speaker 3: the base, because right now, Gavin Newsom I think very
Speaker 3: likely has the DNC support, possibly to the extent that
Speaker 3: Hillary Clinton would have in twenty fifteen twenty sixteen, and
Speaker 3: he needs to do something to get the far left
Speaker 3: on his side. Buddying up to this guy a lot
Speaker 3: safer than AOC. He's too new to have that ingrained
Speaker 3: knee jerk rage freak out every time his face turns
Speaker 3: up on TV for folks in the center, but for
Speaker 3: folks on the far left, it's a code for we
Speaker 3: are DSA friendly.
Speaker 2: Do you think anyone in the DSA and the DSA
Speaker 2: can be quite dogmatic about what they believe in where
Speaker 2: there's not a lot of room for nuance. Do you
Speaker 2: think that they look at him and they see a
Speaker 2: fellow traveler or do they look at him and see
Speaker 2: an opportunist who is trying to exploit what he sees
Speaker 2: as an open lane.
Speaker 3: Interestingly, I think for those in the DSA they see
Speaker 3: the opportunists, they recognize him for what it is, because
Speaker 3: while that they may be wrong headed and misguided. I
Speaker 3: think the folks out on the far left are more engaged.
Speaker 3: I think that this is going to fly under the
Speaker 3: radar of the centrists, but I don't think it's going
Speaker 3: to be enough for the progressive left.
Speaker 2: What do you think Gavin Newsom believes into his core?
Speaker 2: And I say that because I am of the belief
Speaker 2: that if he was raised in Boise, Idaho, instead of
Speaker 2: Marin County, California, or he was raised in I don't know, Houston, Texas,
Speaker 2: he would be a Republican politician in a red state
Speaker 2: who wants to be the guy in the room making
Speaker 2: the decisions, and political philosophy political ideology is just something
Speaker 2: that's not that important to him. He is extremely malleable.
Speaker 2: He looks in the mirror and sees a rock star,
Speaker 2: he looks in the mirror and sees a president, and
Speaker 2: his faith and his belief is in himself and not
Speaker 2: in any particular worldview.
Speaker 3: Oh, John, I think that you've hit the nail right
Speaker 3: on the head. Gavin Newsom is whatever the moment requires
Speaker 3: him to be. What Gavin Newsom wants to be is powerful.
Speaker 3: Gavin Newsom wants to be is a statement. I think
Speaker 3: what Gavin Newsom, in his heart of hearts, wants is
Speaker 3: to be Jack Kennedy. But absent the opportunity for that
Speaker 3: brand of politics to sell, Gavin Newsom will do whatever
Speaker 3: is expedient for his campaign, and this is why he's
Speaker 3: in Michigan campaigning for aes.
Speaker 2: What kind of candidate do you think he's going to
Speaker 2: make for president? Because I don't think he's going to
Speaker 2: make a good one at all. I don't think he's
Speaker 2: going to be the Democratic nominee. I don't think he's
Speaker 2: going to have a good showing. I think it's going
Speaker 2: to be a really humiliating process for him.
Speaker 3: In his mind more than anyone's. Whenever we talk about
Speaker 3: Gavin Newsom campaigning at the national level, the thing that
Speaker 3: goes through my head is the Target incident. You remember,
Speaker 3: right after the pandemic. We were still wearing our face diapers.
Speaker 3: We were all six feet apart in the grocery store
Speaker 3: and Gavin Newsom goes into Target. Everybody's got their phones
Speaker 3: up because, oh my god, the governor's here and the
Speaker 3: cashier made a comment to him about the shutdowns and
Speaker 3: he lost it. On a minimum wage, part time employee,
Speaker 3: the governor couldn't take critique. It wasn't even criticism of
Speaker 3: him personally. If anything, the criticism was probably directed more
Speaker 3: at Fauci and Newsom couldn't hang. And now he's going
Speaker 3: to go into a campaign where the primary is going
Speaker 3: to be brutal. The genuinely progressive left is going to
Speaker 3: hit him for his failings there, moderates and the right
Speaker 3: are going to hit him for his failings everywhere else.
Speaker 3: And I think we're going to see a very peevish,
Speaker 3: very spoiled man reveal himself.
Speaker 2: What I am looking forward to is the debate where
Speaker 2: he's standing on stage with Kamala Harris, because so far
Speaker 2: the two of them have been frontemies for a very
Speaker 2: long time, but they've always bent over backwards to make
Speaker 2: sure they never directly took each other on. She was
Speaker 2: da he was mayor of San Francisco. When they went
Speaker 2: to state one, she became the attorney general, he became
Speaker 2: lieutenant governor. When they wanted to move up to the
Speaker 2: top of the ticket, she took the Senate seat, he
Speaker 2: took the governor's seat. They've never run against each other,
Speaker 2: despite the fact that they're of similar age, they're from
Speaker 2: the same part of the state, they've always gone in
Speaker 2: different lanes, and they've always endorsed each other publicly and
Speaker 2: publicly been fond of one another privately. I think it's
Speaker 2: probably a different story. But when those two go at
Speaker 2: each other for the first time on that stage, I
Speaker 2: think she is a unique threat to him because she
Speaker 2: could say he was a bad governor in California, and
Speaker 2: he was the one in charge of the bullet train
Speaker 2: that turned into the disaster. He was the reason that
Speaker 2: Shampau is locked up behind bulletproof class at the target
Speaker 2: in California. He's the reason we have all of these
Speaker 2: homeless encampments up and down the state. He was the
Speaker 2: one said he was going to solve that and he didn't.
Speaker 2: And the fact that she comes not only from the
Speaker 2: same state, but from the same city as him, she
Speaker 2: can hit him and speak in ways where she has
Speaker 2: credibility that the other candidates do not. And we know
Speaker 2: what happened with her and Grampy Joe the last time around,
Speaker 2: when she essentially declared him to be part of the Klan.
Speaker 2: She could be effective. I mean, I'm not a big
Speaker 2: fan of hers, and I thought she was an awful
Speaker 2: general election candidate, but she did damage to him in
Speaker 2: that primary to Grampy Joe, and I think she can
Speaker 2: do the same thing to Gavin Oh one hundred percent.
Speaker 3: Look, I don't like Kamala as a candidate. I don't
Speaker 3: like Kamala as a statesman, but as a debater, she's effective.
Speaker 3: The fact of the matter is she knows how to
Speaker 3: argue and he doesn't know how to manage his temper,
Speaker 3: so there's a real opportunity for her to knock him
Speaker 3: down a peg. But I just think that the that
Speaker 3: proved that it's possible to be less popular than Hillary
Speaker 3: Clinton ultimately isn't going to be the standard bearer for
Speaker 3: the party. But I think that she's going to cost
Speaker 3: him some votes. I think she's going to cost him
Speaker 3: some peace of mind, and I know she's going to
Speaker 3: cost him money.
Speaker 2: Whereas speaking with Philip Teresi, who you can follow on
Speaker 2: x at Philip Teresi, let's switch gears here and talk
Speaker 2: about the governor's race, because it seems like the strategy
Speaker 2: that Javier Bessera is going to employ is going to
Speaker 2: be very similar to what Grampy Joe did back in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty, which is to hide in the basement, not
Speaker 2: come out, do as few interviews as possible, debate as
Speaker 2: little as possible, and just hope that people forget that
Speaker 2: your name is even on the ballot, and just exploit
Speaker 2: the registration advantage to win and then take your seat.
Speaker 2: It seems like he has very minimal interest in actively
Speaker 2: campaigning up and down the state. There was just a
Speaker 2: press event that he participated in in Sacramento where the
Speaker 2: reporters literally chased him to the car and he wouldn't
Speaker 2: talk to them about anything. But that's par for the
Speaker 2: course with him, and whenever he does interviews it seems
Speaker 2: to be crash and burn. We know that he showed
Speaker 2: up to those cabinet meetings with the Biden administration totally unprepared,
Speaker 2: didn't do the reading before he'd have to sit down
Speaker 2: with the president. I guess those meetings became embarrassing because
Speaker 2: of him, and many of his colleagues have a very
Speaker 2: low opinion of him. Do you think he's going to
Speaker 2: be able to get away with that in this election?
Speaker 3: Unfortunately? Yeah. I think that I think that if Bessarah
Speaker 3: positions himself with the attitude of look, we need adults
Speaker 3: in the room. We need people who are here to manage,
Speaker 3: not people who are here to grandstand and seek social
Speaker 3: media followings. He's going to have an opportunity not to
Speaker 3: attack Hilton on the issues, but to attack him on style.
Speaker 3: And I do think that there is a measure of
Speaker 3: fatigue that could play well to that. Not with conservative voters,
Speaker 3: not with people that are sick with the stalemate that
Speaker 3: is Sacramento as it is. But I actually think that
Speaker 3: this strategy one The one thing that remains to be
Speaker 3: seen is does he have the cash on hand to
Speaker 3: effectively advertise, to remember people, to remind people that he
Speaker 3: exists when we get to October.
Speaker 2: What how has Besarah received in the Central Valley right now?
Speaker 3: Oh, big iyrolls. He does not have fans here. He's
Speaker 3: perceived as weak, he is perceived as a supplicant to
Speaker 3: the DNC agenda. That the expectation is that if Bessera wins,
Speaker 3: and there's no false misconception that that's out of the question.
Speaker 3: That the belief is that he is going to be
Speaker 3: Gavin Newsome third term and he's going to be as
Speaker 3: status quo governor, which is not what we want. But
Speaker 3: unfortunately there is an air of resignation in this.
Speaker 2: I think he would be worse than Gavin Newsom because
Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom has always been a very politically ambitious guy.
Speaker 2: We knew from the moment he got elected lieutenant governor
Speaker 2: that he wanted to be president of the United States,
Speaker 2: maybe even going all the way back to mayor of
Speaker 2: San Francisco. It was just obvious. So he wasn't going
Speaker 2: to do anything too reckless because he wanted to preserve
Speaker 2: his credibility as a national figure and a national candidate.
Speaker 2: And I think that his presidential ambitions played a role
Speaker 2: in many of the decisions that he made with Bisarah.
Speaker 2: This is the last stop on the subway for him.
Speaker 2: I don't see him moving up the food chain at all,
Speaker 2: because I guess after being governor of California, it's president
Speaker 2: or vice president or bust. I don't see either one
Speaker 2: of those things happening. And I see him as being
Speaker 2: kind of uniquely incompetent. Where you look at his performance
Speaker 2: as Secretary of Health and Human Services during COVID that
Speaker 2: was a complete disaster. In fact, they had such a
Speaker 2: low opinion of him they cut him out of all
Speaker 2: the health related press conferences that the president participated in.
Speaker 2: You look at his time as ag here in California.
Speaker 2: He was chasing headlines trying to sue the Trump administration.
Speaker 2: But outside of that, I guess that office was a
Speaker 2: complete basket case. He's demonstrated zero ability to run a
Speaker 2: big organization if God forbid, we were to have a
Speaker 2: big earthquake or some kind of natural disaster. I don't
Speaker 2: see him being a competent leader through the crisis. I
Speaker 2: see him as being someone who's going to tread water
Speaker 2: at best and be a slow motion train wreck at worst.
Speaker 3: Well, and I think that that treading water is that's
Speaker 3: one hundred percent right. Javier Basera will be the deferred
Speaker 3: maintenance governor. He will come in, he will accomplish us
Speaker 3: nothing new. He will maintain the status quo. He will
Speaker 3: avoid the media. He will rubber stamp whatever's popular with
Speaker 3: the party coming out of the Capitol. He's not going
Speaker 3: to innovate and he's not going to solve problems. Hilton
Speaker 3: has a plan to deal with high speed rail. Hilton
Speaker 3: has a plan to deal with the cost of housing.
Speaker 3: Hilton has a plan to deal with the medical issue.
Speaker 3: But Sarah's articulated none of that, and it's only going
Speaker 3: to get worse. If we elect a governor that sits
Speaker 3: on his hands, and I think that's the guy. But
Speaker 3: Sarah is in no small part because he doesn't have
Speaker 3: that network that Newsom has managed to build.
Speaker 2: Proposition forty, which is the billionaire wealth confiscation tax, just
Speaker 2: to earn the endorsement of the California Democratic Party. The
Speaker 2: California Nurses Association just came out in favor of it,
Speaker 2: as did the California Federation of Labor heavy hitters in
Speaker 2: state politics. The polls say that this thing would pass
Speaker 2: if the election were held today. When I look at this,
Speaker 2: I say to myself, if I'm Silicon Valley, if I'm
Speaker 2: the high tech industry, if you want this thing to fail.
Speaker 2: Outside of kicking into the no campaign, which I'm sure
Speaker 2: they will do, one of the ways that you can
Speaker 2: assure that this thing will fail is if you make
Speaker 2: sure that Hilton is a viable candidate that has the
Speaker 2: resources that he needs to get his message out. Because
Speaker 2: if he gets crushed by twenty plus percent, my guess
Speaker 2: is Prop forty passes, and it's not particularly close. If
Speaker 2: he can get closer to Bisserah than what Republicans usually
Speaker 2: do do better than John Cox do better than Brian Dolly.
Speaker 2: He may not be able to win the election, but
Speaker 2: he might be able to sink Prop forty. But so
Speaker 2: far we just Tadam on the podcast last week, he
Speaker 2: said that Silicon Valley is not coming in in a
Speaker 2: big way quite yet. What do you see the Silicon
Speaker 2: Valley Titans doing and do you believe that they will
Speaker 2: ultimately line up behind Hilton in a way that makes
Speaker 2: a difference.
Speaker 3: Silicon Valley is extremely mercenary and there's not going to
Speaker 3: be any hesitation to back Hilton if they believe he's
Speaker 3: got a real shot. They'll play nice with Bisera if
Speaker 3: they believe, like I think he does, that the registration
Speaker 3: advantages the end of the story, if Hilton is able
Speaker 3: to show that he has got popular support, and I
Speaker 3: think that he can, Hilton's got the charisma to draw
Speaker 3: a crowd, He's got the charisma of fundraise well. Silicon
Speaker 3: Valley will fall in line behind him, especially if he's
Speaker 3: emphasizing removing roadblocks for AI development and taking that stand
Speaker 3: against Prop forty, promising to litigate against it, getting Michael
Speaker 3: Gates to step in and intervene. Hilton can win their support,
Speaker 3: but it's gonna come down to which way they think
Speaker 3: is going to best serve their interests for the next
Speaker 3: four years.
Speaker 2: Philip Teresi afternoon drive host at our sister station KMJ
Speaker 2: in the Central Valley from two to six in the
Speaker 2: afternoon on Monday through Friday. You can also listen to
Speaker 2: him on Election Night on KABC in La KSFO in
Speaker 2: the Bay Area and KMJ in the Central Valley. You
Speaker 2: can follow him on Exit Philip Teresi, Philip Teresi, thanks
Speaker 2: so much for stopping by.
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Speaker 2: All right, it's now time to open up the California
Speaker 2: Crime bladder.
Speaker 5: If the cat shit is dumby.
Speaker 1: We couldn't make this stuff up if we tried.
Speaker 2: I said, hell no, very boy, let me get up
Speaker 2: one out of here.
Speaker 1: It's the California Crime Bloader.
Speaker 2: And to the surprise of no one, Steve cluebec is
Speaker 2: making the blotter yet again.
Speaker 6: Don't bust the trust.
Speaker 5: Steven Klubeck is in a whole lot of trouble because
Speaker 5: he started threatening his friends who fell victim to his
Speaker 5: ex fiance scam. That's right, it's another update on Adva
Speaker 5: Laville also known as mia Ventura for more on all
Speaker 5: this madness. And remember this guy who was dating this
Speaker 5: scam artist thought he was gonna be the next governor.
Speaker 2: And I love the only thing that caused him to
Speaker 2: drop out of the race was because Swalwell got in,
Speaker 2: and he held Swalwell in such high regard that he
Speaker 2: thought that he didn't need to be a candidate anymore
Speaker 2: because the perfect candidate was already in the race.
Speaker 5: He was taking Swalwell on vacations. He had Swawell hold
Speaker 5: up in his house during the initial blow up. With
Speaker 5: all of the rape allegations, it's been an interesting downfall
Speaker 5: for mister timeshare Steve Glueback.
Speaker 6: Don't bust the trust.
Speaker 5: Here's a great explainer on where we are now in
Speaker 5: this bizarre case with Glenn Walker and Fox eleven.
Speaker 7: An OnlyFans, model and a billionaire former gubernatorial candidate are
Speaker 7: at the center of it.
Speaker 5: Is the most Beverly Hill story you've ever heard.
Speaker 7: A high profile case. Steven Klueback, the timeshare tycoon behind
Speaker 7: Diamond Resorts International, now faces serious charges and potential jail
Speaker 7: time for a lesson.
Speaker 5: Someone got a little sunburn, I can tell maybe he
Speaker 5: was on that yacht again.
Speaker 7: Actually interfering in a criminal case against his ex fiance.
Speaker 5: Wait a second, I never bothered to check out his
Speaker 5: website when he was running for governor. What does it
Speaker 5: say there on the top California get a clue.
Speaker 2: I love how he always has the dress shirt unbuttoned down.
Speaker 2: Luck he's Donald Sterling.
Speaker 5: Oh boy, you know it takes a special type of
Speaker 5: breed of political consultant to convince this guy and his
Speaker 5: wallet that yes, you should totally run for.
Speaker 7: Governor Adva Levie also known as Mia Ventura. It was
Speaker 7: quite the wedding announcement.
Speaker 5: That might be one of the creepiest things I've ever seen.
Speaker 2: I wonder what the pictures they didn't choose look like.
Speaker 5: Now he created a save the date wedding announcement with
Speaker 5: Ai and for some reason, with Ai, Stephen Kluback looks
Speaker 5: like Paul Reser.
Speaker 2: That looks like it could be the logo for a
Speaker 2: Hallmark movie, doesn't it. Yes?
Speaker 5: But it also if you would look at that image,
Speaker 5: you would imagine that is a picture of a father
Speaker 5: giving his daughter away. No, no, no, no no, that
Speaker 5: was the couple to be and that is creepy as hell.
Speaker 2: Well have you ever seen the photo booth on a
Speaker 2: cruise ship before?
Speaker 5: I have not. Please tell us all about it.
Speaker 2: Okay, you wait in a very long line to get
Speaker 2: in front of the backdrop, and then they have some
Speaker 2: guy from Indonesia as the photographer, and all of the
Speaker 2: poses are exactly the same. They have the woman looking
Speaker 2: at the camera, and they have the woman's husband look
Speaker 2: like a leering rapist. And sometimes it's couples that have
Speaker 2: been together like fifty years, and you go, why would
Speaker 2: anyone want to pose like that? But I guess that's
Speaker 2: what the style guide tells him to do.
Speaker 7: Ai generated a local real estate magnet and is much
Speaker 7: younger fiance model and social media.
Speaker 5: There was a little judgment in there, Glenn, I could
Speaker 5: hear it.
Speaker 7: Idiot personality. Ottava Levie were getting married in Israel. Cancel
Speaker 7: that the loving couple broken up due to legal troubles
Speaker 7: for both.
Speaker 2: And just to be clear, mia Ventura is in no
Speaker 2: relation to Jesse the body.
Speaker 5: If you're married and you're both in prison, do you
Speaker 5: get like a special conjugal visit where you meet in
Speaker 5: a mutual place.
Speaker 2: Nope? I learned that from the chrislies.
Speaker 5: Oh really yep, no love for Todd huh.
Speaker 2: They couldn't even talk to each other.
Speaker 7: Last year, Levie was charged with seducing wealthy older men
Speaker 7: and younger women she met through data gaps.
Speaker 5: The women one is interesting, so what she's bisexual? Yeah,
Speaker 5: but you're typically you are not surprised when you hear
Speaker 5: that an only fans model is tricking men into thinking
Speaker 5: that she's into them so she can rob them. How
Speaker 5: is that also working on young women? So here's what
Speaker 5: I think.
Speaker 2: I think she is bisexual where you buy her stuff
Speaker 2: and she gets real sexual.
Speaker 5: It's pretty good.
Speaker 7: Using her other name Mia Ventura prosecutor to say she
Speaker 7: posed as a girlfriend a travel companion, targeting victims living
Speaker 7: in Westlake Village, West Hollywood, Los Angeles, and Beverly Hills.
Speaker 5: What it was totally legit, the love that she had
Speaker 5: for clueback.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, she was the alcoy in his eye.
Speaker 5: She wasn't scamming him at all.
Speaker 6: Don't bust the trust.
Speaker 7: Once in she stole jewelry, watches, design, her bags, gold,
Speaker 7: and a whole lot of cash.
Speaker 2: Boy, she took everything that wasn't nailed down.
Speaker 5: And this was the woman that she went on a
Speaker 5: Vegas pod cast and I don't understand why she'd be
Speaker 5: booked as a guest on one. But she goes into
Speaker 5: the green room and after she says she's going to
Speaker 5: the bathroom, she steals from all the purses of all
Speaker 5: the other guests and then goes back and finishes the interview.
Speaker 7: Clubec before the breakup, allegedly tampered with witnesses in that case,
Speaker 7: creating his own criminal case.
Speaker 5: What do you think those phone calls were?
Speaker 2: Like? How many scotches into the night do you think
Speaker 2: he was before he started dialing.
Speaker 5: Before he started contacting people who would be on the
Speaker 5: witness list because they were a victim to her crimes,
Speaker 5: and him trying to intimidate them to not speak up
Speaker 5: about this. Don't bust the trust, don't bust the trust.
Speaker 5: This guy thought he would be governor. He spent money
Speaker 5: on being governor, and then, just to show you how
Speaker 5: great his judgment was, he then went all in on
Speaker 5: Swallwell and.
Speaker 8: The one hand, a penthouse pet model who's an influencer,
Speaker 8: and you have a billionaire, a former Grumbinatoria candidate charge.
Speaker 8: So it is very crazy, but in the criminal law
Speaker 8: word world, it's not unusual.
Speaker 7: In late April, Klubec was charged with two felon accounts
Speaker 7: of attempting to dissuade a witness slash victim by force
Speaker 7: or threat, in one count of preventing or dissuating a
Speaker 7: witness or victim from attending or testifying at a trial
Speaker 7: or proceeding against his infiance. Annoying phone.
Speaker 5: So what did he do?
Speaker 2: That's what I'd like to know.
Speaker 5: Okay, actually we're going to get into it right here.
Speaker 5: What did Klubec do to tamper with witnesses?
Speaker 2: Say?
Speaker 7: Annoying phone calls to one of the victims' attorneys.
Speaker 5: So he's calling and harassing the lawyer that's representing I'm
Speaker 5: assuming one of his friends that got victimized by her.
Speaker 5: Oh boy, it just goes to show you just because
Speaker 5: you have a lot of money doesn't mean you're smart.
Speaker 7: Added a mister meaner count. This morning, in a van
Speaker 7: nice courtroom, the billionaire pleaded not guilty.
Speaker 8: Perhaps his conduct was a little bit misguided, but he
Speaker 8: is facing the risk of prison time, and I'm sure
Speaker 8: his defense is going to have some sort of argument
Speaker 8: to say, Look, he was just trying to get these
Speaker 8: witnesses to tell the truth. He wasn't trying to intimidate him.
Speaker 8: At the end of the day, words matter, and his
Speaker 8: conduct was not illegal.
Speaker 7: Along with the Los Angeles County charges, Leville is also
Speaker 7: charged with grand theft in Riverside County, Indio. Police say
Speaker 7: a man invited her to his home during the Cachella
Speaker 7: Music Festival and now accuses her of stealing an eighty
Speaker 7: six hundred dollars Rolex watch, a seven hundred dollars pair
Speaker 7: of Louis Vauton aviator glasses, and a Louis Vuitton card
Speaker 7: holder wallet.
Speaker 5: That was the stuff she stole out of the cyber
Speaker 5: truck when she got mad that the friend of the
Speaker 5: friend that invited her to this house in India so
Speaker 5: didn't have a free Coachella wristband for her.
Speaker 2: Do you think that she is a kleptomaniac or do
Speaker 2: you think she's just entitled to the nth degree?
Speaker 5: Oh, I think it's the latter. I think she's super
Speaker 5: entitled and she thinks she deserves all of this and
Speaker 5: that's why she robs from everybody.
Speaker 7: Free on bail, she removed an ankle monitoring device and
Speaker 7: was rearrested last week.
Speaker 5: Now, this is the part of the story that I
Speaker 5: think is actually in my opinion, even though this is
Speaker 5: a very funny case and Klubec deserves everything that he's
Speaker 5: getting for hitching his wagon to this one, the most
Speaker 5: important part of the story in my opinion, is that
Speaker 5: she removed her ankle monitor and nobody know nobody knew
Speaker 5: that it was not notified. That's not how she got rearrested.
Speaker 5: She got rearrested because of the riverside charges that came out.
Speaker 5: She was at dinner with Clue and she had no
Speaker 5: ankle monitor on. And it is just a reminder that
Speaker 5: in La County, we have understaffed our probation department to
Speaker 5: the point where there are so few field deputies left
Speaker 5: because they all have to go work in the juvenile
Speaker 5: halls because George Gascunn put all the gang members in
Speaker 5: there and they're starting boy fights that there actually isn't
Speaker 5: anybody to monitor anyone on an ankle monitor.
Speaker 2: Nobody's minding the store.
Speaker 8: Multiple victims, multiple witnesses. Her case appears on the surface
Speaker 8: to be pretty air tight.
Speaker 7: Coupled with his relationship with Levie, Klubec was also close
Speaker 7: and now disgraced California Democrat Congressman Eric.
Speaker 5: Swolwell, Oh, it's just a it's just a cavalcade of
Speaker 5: the best of the best.
Speaker 2: I love the disgrace is now part of the bio.
Speaker 7: YEP forced to resign from Congress.
Speaker 5: Another guy with all the stuff that went on with
Speaker 5: him for years and years and years. He had the
Speaker 5: hubris to think that none of that was going to
Speaker 5: come out. I'm going to run for governor and win.
Speaker 2: Well, had it not come out right before the election,
Speaker 2: maybe he would have.
Speaker 7: And suspending his gubernatorial campaign. Swollwell was a house guest
Speaker 7: of Klubec when alligation surface that he drugged and sexually
Speaker 7: assaulted a woman in twenty eighteen at a West Hollywood hotel.
Speaker 7: He also denies the woman's account.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, he shot the video from Klubec's house where
Speaker 5: he was trying to deny all this on the first night.
Speaker 6: Don't bust the trust.
Speaker 2: Who do you think did the cooking?
Speaker 7: Another Eli well gaitions of sexual assault.
Speaker 8: It's interesting he has perhaps a poor judgment in some
Speaker 8: of the relationships he has made. But at the same time,
Speaker 8: he hasn't proven guilty. He's presumed innocent and maybe evidence
Speaker 8: will come out to exonerate him.
Speaker 1: There's not no.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would bet against that, not.
Speaker 8: Yet been proof beyond a reasonable valade that he did
Speaker 8: anything wrong.
Speaker 7: Clubec remains free on three hundred thousand dollars bond posted
Speaker 7: within hours of his arrest on May twelfth by the
Speaker 7: Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. He'll be back in court
Speaker 7: October seventh. We're hearing to determine if there is enough
Speaker 7: evidence to allow this case to move forward to a trial.
Speaker 7: Adva Levie is due back in court on Monday for
Speaker 7: a pre trial conference.
Speaker 5: And the last time she was in court last week,
Speaker 5: it was kind of a wild scene. Even though she
Speaker 5: speaks perfect English, she asked for a Israeli translator. And
Speaker 5: then in the pre trial hearing, when someone was on
Speaker 5: the witness s Dend, testifying about all the stuff she's done,
Speaker 5: she just starts screaming, you can't believe her, she's a drunk.
Speaker 2: Well, these sound like classy people, you know.
Speaker 5: With a story like this, TMZ might need to come
Speaker 5: back to.
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Speaker 5: the California crime bladder.
Speaker 8: Dummy.
Speaker 1: We shouldn't make the stuff up. If we tried, I said.
Speaker 2: Hell no, baby boy, let me get up, boat out
Speaker 2: of here.
Speaker 1: It's the California Crime blow there.
Speaker 2: And this edition takes us to East LA where an
Speaker 2: AutoZone was looted after a street takeover, not once, but twice.
Speaker 5: It happened one night, and then it happened the next night.
Speaker 5: Crime is definitely down for more. Here is Fox eleven
Speaker 5: in Los Angeles, and you guessed it. Matthew Seedorf a.
Speaker 9: New tonight an auto parts shop hit by burglars from
Speaker 9: a street takeover twice in twenty four hours.
Speaker 5: It looks like it got hit by a tornado.
Speaker 2: Now I don't want to make any accusations without having
Speaker 2: my ducks in a row. But do you think it
Speaker 2: could have been the Pep boys.
Speaker 5: I think it was the downass kids.
Speaker 9: It happens Saturday and Sunday mornings. The AutoZone near Olympic
Speaker 9: and Atlantic Fox ups Matthew Schidorf there tonight with more
Speaker 9: for us.
Speaker 5: Look how many officers are there after the fact, after
Speaker 5: they arrested nobody doing a heck of a job.
Speaker 10: The windows tonight boarded up exactly like they were last night,
Speaker 10: but tonight they also have added extra security workers here
Speaker 10: hoping this stops now.
Speaker 5: When you drive past the AutoZone that's got boarded up
Speaker 5: doors and windows, are you going in?
Speaker 2: No, because if you leave your car there to go
Speaker 2: shopping in that establishment, you're not going to be leaving
Speaker 2: with your catalytic converter.
Speaker 10: Another break in, another night, boarding up windows and doors
Speaker 10: at this East La AutoZone.
Speaker 5: I don't know why I were open, and guys says,
Speaker 5: I don't even know how we're open.
Speaker 2: I feel for them.
Speaker 10: My cell phone video shows looters swarming the store Sunday morning.
Speaker 5: Arn think those are Nithia voters or Bass voters.
Speaker 2: If they voted all they're definitely for Nythia round a.
Speaker 10: Door already boarded up from the night before.
Speaker 5: This is just kids. Get why is there a woman there?
Speaker 5: What the hell?
Speaker 2: I'll tell you. If you're a parent and you see
Speaker 2: one of your kids looting this AutoZone, you failed, yepsectomy.
Speaker 10: Hands full of stone, batteries, oil mats, whatever they do.
Speaker 5: There's a surprising amount of females in this scene looting
Speaker 5: the AutoZone. What the hell?
Speaker 2: One with pink hair. She looks like a real prize.
Speaker 6: Good grab.
Speaker 4: I come here all the time, and there should be
Speaker 4: no reason why people do this.
Speaker 7: Gonna they're gonna.
Speaker 5: Get caught, No they're not.
Speaker 2: It's la lady.
Speaker 5: There are no arrests made for these things, over and over,
Speaker 5: and there are places where there's the crackdown, and the
Speaker 5: crackdown is real, and they arrest and tow every single
Speaker 5: vehicle that does not happen in Los Angeles County. And
Speaker 5: you have your elected leaders to blame for this.
Speaker 10: First break in early Saturday morning during a street takeover
Speaker 10: involving at least one hundred cars at Olympic in.
Speaker 2: Atlantic See, this is what happens. The cops are outnumbered,
Speaker 2: so they don't even show up until it's done, and
Speaker 2: they just write a report.
Speaker 5: It's not safe for them to interfere when it's that huge.
Speaker 5: We would need back up from the CHP, neighboring agencies.
Speaker 5: Heck the National Guard. I don't know, but they're not
Speaker 5: gonna do it.
Speaker 10: Then twenty four hours later, another takeover, another break in,
Speaker 10: no arrest, and then in Watson, almost identical scene Sunday
Speaker 10: morning at a different AutoZone.
Speaker 2: Oh, come on, okay, if you hit the same shop
Speaker 2: that many times though they don't even have an opportunity
Speaker 2: to reach stock.
Speaker 10: It Another street takeover, another store looted, even a waymo
Speaker 10: set on fire.
Speaker 5: What did the weimo do the robots remember.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they're gonna kill us all someday.
Speaker 10: And now this worker boarding up the store again, but
Speaker 10: wearing a bullet resistant vest.
Speaker 2: So crime is down, huh, that's what they say.
Speaker 5: Just another insane day in Los Angeles County. I gotta
Speaker 5: get out, hit the like button so I can afford
Speaker 5: to move to San Francisco.