WEBVTT - Spencer Pratt Sits Down With Elex Michaelson 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:03.240 And very happy Thursday to you. At twelve oh six 0:00:03.360 --> 0:00:06.360 in the West live from Las Vegas, It's the John 0:00:06.400 --> 0:00:09.399 Phillips Show. Mister Randy Weggs in Culver City. 0:00:09.640 --> 0:00:14.400 John Caltrans is exploring a brand new idea of how 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:18.720 to get people quickly and safely from Los Angeles to 0:00:18.760 --> 0:00:23.200 San Francisco. They'll look it into high speed buses. 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:28.320 I love the bus driver. Now, are these buses that 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:30.760 are expected to go like one hundred miles an hour 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:34.320 or are these just buses that they anticipate are going 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:35.800 to get hijacked at some point? 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:40.479 They say they're looking into buses that can go as 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:43.320 fast as one hundred and forty miles an hour in 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:47.200 their own dedicated lanes on existing freeways, and if people 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:50.160 aren't comfortable with that, maybe eighty miles an hour. 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:51.920 What could go wrong? 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:56.880 Meanwhile, it takes about forty five minutes to fly from 0:00:57.000 --> 0:01:02.680 melax to SFO. Could you imagine being in a bus 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:04.839 that's going one hundred and forty miles an hour? 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:07.440 It sounds super scary. 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:12.039 Okay, maybe this is just because I'm an angel fan 0:01:12.280 --> 0:01:15.840 and a bus accident almost took out our entire team once, 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:20.280 But being on a bus that goes one hundred and 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:22.840 forty miles an hour does not seem like a good 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:31.000 idea to me. When I was in school, I played basketball, 0:01:32.080 --> 0:01:35.840 and we used to go on road games in the 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:40.000 big yellow school buses. And it's one thing to play 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:44.320 your crosstown rivals or whatever, but sometimes when you're playing 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:47.280 your non conference games, you play schools that are out 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:50.000 in the middle of nowhere. So we would play the 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:52.480 school in Big Bear, and we would play the school 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:56.560 in Ridgecrest, and we would go all over southern California 0:01:57.000 --> 0:02:01.560 playing all of these small schools. I don't know if 0:02:01.560 --> 0:02:04.240 you've ever been in a yellow school bus going up 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:06.720 the hill to Big Bear in the middle of winter, 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:11.040 but you take your life into your own hands. 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:14.800 And if something does go wrong, it's not like you 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:16.480 even have a seat belt on that thing. 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:20.960 I am not kidding. There was one time we were 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:23.359 going to a basketball game in one of those big 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:26.639 yellow school buses and the bus could not get up 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:30.560 the hill, and the bus driver had many of us 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:33.760 get out of the bus to take the weight out 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:36.360 of the bus so the bus was lighter so the 0:02:36.440 --> 0:02:38.919 bus could get up the hill, and then we were 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:41.760 allowed to walk up to the bus and get back in. 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:50.399 I love the bus driver, not me. Eight hundred two 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:54.000 two two five two two two is jellphone number one 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:57.480 eight hundred two two two five two two two. Well, 0:02:57.520 --> 0:02:59.920 we have some new palls out in the La mayor 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:03.880 race and Randy Spencer Pratt is on a roll. 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:07.600 It now looks like there is just a three point 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:12.000 difference between Karen Bass and Spencer Pratt in the latest poll. 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:15.639 She's pulling around twenty five, he's polling around twenty two. 0:03:16.360 --> 0:03:18.320 Nithia is not looking great if you look at those 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:21.560 prediction markets which everyone's looking at nowadays. Have you seen 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:24.120 that since the debate, Nythia went from like a forty 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:27.600 six percent chance of becoming the mayor to about eight percent? 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:30.359 Oh yeah, it's like betting on the angels. 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:33.160 She was failure at launch. 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:36.800 Couldn't happen to a better person. 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:41.200 But people everywhere. 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:45.280 My entire feed at this point on social media is 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:48.280 nothing but people talking about Spencer Pratt. 0:03:48.560 --> 0:03:50.640 This race is getting so much attention. 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:54.760 Once again, the California governor's race is being ignored. 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:59.880 And here's something else to consider. People aren't paying attention 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:03.360 to him because he's a train wreck. People are paying 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:08.240 attention to him because he is slick. His ads are slick. 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:12.320 His performance in the debate was slick. His performance when 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:15.520 he does sit down interviews is slick. For a first 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:19.120 time candidate, this guy comes off like a pro. I mean, 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:23.080 he does have a lifetime experience being in the television 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:27.719 world doing interviews. The guy understands communications, and you combine 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:31.480 that with a political science degree, he actually has some chops. 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:33.880 And when he puts out these policy proposals, like he 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:38.480 just put out this nine minute video explaining his homeless policy, 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:42.880 it's really well done. Well think about it. Look at 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:45.680 all of the people who have been successful in politics 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:50.480 in the modern era. Spencer Pratt came out of reality TV. 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:54.200 He knows how to frame a story, he knows how 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:58.640 to give an interview. He's quick on his feet. Donald Trump, 0:04:58.760 --> 0:05:01.479 before he became president cident of the United States, was 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:04.159 not a senator or a governor, or a member of 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:09.000 Congress or a big city mayor. He was a television personality. 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:15.080 He spent his career on David Letterman's couch. And because 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:18.000 of that, he knows how to handle himself when he's 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:21.640 out campaigning. He knows how to keep it interesting. Keep 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:28.160 it entertaining, and communicate basic arguments with the public in 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:32.480 ways that they can understand and digest. I think the 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:36.880 old way of doing politics is almost over, where you 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:39.600 get elected to your school board or your city council, 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:42.320 then you move up to the state legislature, and you 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:45.159 keep moving up the food chain. That's the crowd that's 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:48.279 running for governor, with the exception of Steve Hilton, who 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:51.880 comes from cable news. And guess what when they have 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:55.400 the debates, when he does a sit down interview, that 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:58.680 guy shines when all of the others look like buffoons 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:02.640 because this isn't his first time at the track. This 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:05.280 guy has been doing this for a long time. I 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:08.880 think we may have stumbled on the new model for politics. 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:12.880 People are looking for the outsider. You look at Daniel 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:16.159 Lurry's success in San Francisco. Was just voted the most 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:20.040 popular mayor in America, and he ran in a race 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:24.200 against a lot of indoctrinated politicians and wan handily. 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:28.880 Look at that woman who Nancy Pelosi just endorsed for Congress, 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:32.040 Connie she could contie chan that's right, Not the one 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:34.919 that's married to Mary Polvitch, a different one that's Connie Chung. 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:40.720 Connie Chung, Yes, Cottie chan She can barely string two 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:46.360 sentences together to form a thought. Absolutely, and this woman 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:51.039 is going to Congress. Compare that to Spencer Pratt. It's 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:52.880 like comparing ice cream to horse manure. 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:57.080 So much of the job of politics is communication, and 0:06:57.120 --> 0:07:00.240 we have a lot of terrible communicators in off this 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:05.000 Spencer Pratt, Whether whatever you think about him, he is 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:08.800 a great communicator and unlike almost every other candidate for 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:13.640 any office, understands social media better than pretty much anybody 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:14.560 who's doing it. 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:16.320 And because completely. 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:18.960 Turning the whole model of how you do a campaign 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:21.960 upside down, and you know what's going to happen. 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:25.680 It's just like when Trump went on with THEO Vaughn 0:07:25.760 --> 0:07:28.920 and the Undertaker and Rogan and now all of the 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:32.360 other politicians are trying to copy him by coming up 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:35.160 with their own formula for the podcast to try to 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:39.480 benefit from it. Because his ai ads are so slick, 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:42.080 and they're so in the moment, and they're so timely, 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:45.440 and the message that they get across is so sharp. 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:49.440 You're gonna see a bunch of politicians try to copy 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:53.160 him and do the same thing. But it's not going 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:55.520 to look like his because they're not as smart as 0:07:55.600 --> 0:07:58.120 him and they're not as savvy as him. It's gonna 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:00.720 be like some sort of Russian version of what the 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:01.840 United States does. 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:07.840 Also, depending on the candidate, it's not gonna make any sense. 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:15.840 No, it's gonna be totally backwards. So Spencer Pratt did 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:19.440 a sit down interview with CNN's Alex Michaelson, and, like 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:22.960 the interview he conducted on this show, boy did he shine. 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:28.720 Elex Michaelson posted on his YouTube channel the entire forty 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:32.640 seven minute interview, which I listened to on the way here, 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:35.160 which I'm gonna tell you two things about that. One, 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:38.920 the interview is definitely worth your time, and two, it 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:44.200 took me forty seven minutes to go fourteen miles in LA. 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:50.240 Let's listen to the beginning of Spencer Pratt's sit down 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:52.640 with CNN's Alex Michaelson. 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:55.880 Spencer, welcome to the story is and congrats on the run. 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:58.720 Amazing. Thank you for having me and for greeting me 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:01.360 in the parking lot as a first out of any 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:04.320 media hit I've done. What a gentleman. 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:05.839 Alex is a class act. 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:08.840 He is talk to us about. 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:11.120 I don't know if he moved to CNN, if his 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:13.360 mom is still making brownies for all the guests, but 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:15.160 that was his thing on Fox eleven. 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:17.720 Oh and they were great, and he also sent me 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:18.680 some for Christmas. 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:23.280 Talk to us about the most basic question, why are 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:24.400 you doing this? Why are you running? 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:28.079 That is a very simple answer. We can go back 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:31.959 to when my house burned down and my parents' house burnout, 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:36.040 and my whole neighborhood burned down, and I started investigating 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:39.400 how this happened, and I find out the level of 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:43.760 negligence on our city officials, our state, and when I 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:46.800 started exposing it with whistleblowers, and then even the La 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:51.840 Times exposed this, and these same city officials just lied 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:54.720 and lied and nothing was going to happen. And then 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:57.520 in two weeks from now, on June second, Mayor Bass 0:09:57.520 --> 0:10:01.160 would have got automatically reelected. And so so I had 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:03.240 to just get in the race in the sense to 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:06.600 just counter these like, hello people, this what do you. 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:09.120 Think this race would even look like? If Pratt did 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:10.160 not get into. 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:15.119 It, it would be Nithya versus Karen. Because Rick Caruso 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:17.959 was the one everyone was expecting to get in Rick 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:21.280 Caruso was to La what Kamala was to the governor's race. 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:25.520 A lot of people who could have been viable took 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:29.439 a pass on it because they thought that a big, 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:33.000 boldface name would jump in and clear the field. And 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:35.040 to run for an office like this, it takes a 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:37.720 lot of planning. You just can't wake up one morning 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:39.920 and decide you're going to run for governor or mayor. 0:10:40.280 --> 0:10:42.680 You have to work on it for a really long time. 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:46.600 And because those two took forever to decide, a lot 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:50.280 of the traditional candidates who could have posed a threat 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:53.600 to these people decided to do something else with their time. 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:57.280 Apparently, a week before the filing deadline, Lindsey Horvath was 0:10:57.320 --> 0:10:59.600 texting back and forth with Rick Caruso, being. 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:02.199 Like, are you gonna run? Are you gonna run? Are 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:03.600 you gonna run? 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:06.840 She would be worse than Karen Bass, she would be, 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:09.880 But she was one of those people considering running, but 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:12.640 she wasn't gonna do it if Rick Russo ran. And 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:15.080 then she decided not to do it anyway and keep 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:18.120 her safe seat in the Board of Supervisors. Oh, it 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:22.520 would be like having the legally blonde woman as mayor 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:27.000 of Los Angeles only just as incompetent as Karen Bass. 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:29.120 Yeah, el Woods is fairly competent. 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:32.959 This person should be in jails. Twelve people burned alive, 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:36.440 and you cannot just move on and act like, oh 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:39.640 I was in Ghana Whoopsie Daisy's like, no, you should 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:42.480 have resigned, You should have admitted to your failures, and 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:45.480 you didn't. And so I just had to for my community. 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:48.640 And then once I got in the game and saw that, oh, 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:52.880 our whole city is on fire. Literally, I mean, it's 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:54.800 it's crazy, you know. 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:57.400 So that's why I mean when you say Karen Bass 0:11:57.400 --> 0:11:59.000 burned down my house, you don't mean she actually threw 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:01.480 a mat, but you're talking of that this fire you, 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:03.520 in your view, was preventable. 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:07.040 Not in my view. And now multiple judges have thrown 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:10.640 out the appeals by the city's two thousand dollars an 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:14.360 hour Monger and Tolls lawyers that we have five hundred 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:17.920 city attorneys on salary with our text mequ now we're paying, 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:21.760 you know, the people that sue Apple and stuff. 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:24.400 We have them saying the city is spending and the 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:27.560 county and the state tons of money on attorneys fighting 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:30.720 the lawsuits from the victims of these fires, and every 0:12:30.760 --> 0:12:33.200 single time they try to get these lawsuits thrown out, 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:34.840 they're getting overruled. 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:38.640 Well, the city doctored up the after action report to 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:41.720 make it look like they weren't as responsible as they were. 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:46.360 How could you treat them like they are an honest broker. 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:49.120 They're not an honest broker. They're part of a cover up. 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:52.600 And because of these lawsuits, through the process of discovery, 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:55.200 we have seen all kinds of text messages from on 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:59.599 the line firefighters on the Lochman fire that show negligence 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:02.400 at this city leveled the county level, and especially at 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:03.160 the state level. 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:06.360 It was really a fight between the city and the 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:10.320 state because it was an uber driver. Just to go 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:13.400 over the details, because a lot of people, for whatever reason, 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:17.360 don't know what happened in that fire. An uber driver 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:21.280 with Trump derangement syndrome went on some sort of screed 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:24.400 against Donald Trump and then he lit a fire. I 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:28.000 guess he wanted to be the next Luigi MANGIONI. Well, 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:31.960 that fire was attacked by the LA Fire Department and 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:34.319 they were doing a good job at putting it out, 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:38.000 and then the fire spread to state land. And after 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:41.160 the fire spread to state land. The state said, you 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:44.720 don't have jurisdiction to be here, and the on the 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:49.000 line firefighters said to their political leadership, which goes all 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:51.800 the way up to the mayor, the fire is not 0:13:52.000 --> 0:13:55.880 fully extinguished. We cannot walk away from this. We need 0:13:55.920 --> 0:13:59.400 to continue fighting this fire or else something bad can happen. 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:02.960 And Karen Bass did not want to fight with Galvin 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:05.600 Newsom because the state was telling them to stand down. 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:10.360 So the city leadership, the political leadership in the city, 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:15.480 told the firefighters to stand down. The fire was never 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:19.080 fully extinguished, and then the winds picked up on New 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:22.720 Year's and that's what burned down the Pacific Palisades. Well, 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:27.280 of course she doesn't want that storyline out there because 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:31.000 that makes her look bad. It makes the city look bad, 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:34.080 it makes the state look bad, it makes Gavin look bad. 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:38.920 So let's doctor up the report to make it climate change. 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:42.600 Oh no, we have no responsibility, and multiple judges have 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:45.280 now said, oh no, this is moving forward. We have 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:48.560 full discovery, so it's not Spencer saying it. The evidence 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:52.960 is there of the negligence, just adding up so long 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:54.800 the list. We can spend an hour and I will 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:56.200 if you like it. I know you have a lot 0:14:56.200 --> 0:14:59.560 of questions, but I will break down exactly how she's responsible. 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:03.760 In your view, then what does accountability look like for 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:06.000 those involved with the fire. If you're a mayor, what 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:07.400 does accountability look like? 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:10.520 Well, accountability is moving forward to make sure all these 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:13.680 other communities don't catch on fire, because right now we 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:16.000 have accountability where the mayor will say we're ready for 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:16.760 the next fire. 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:19.600 We are not not even clothes. 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:22.840 We have forty five less firefighters right now than we 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:26.280 did January seventh. That's a lie. Go on the website 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:27.960 and look at the list of all the things the 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:31.880 firefighters ask for in this last budget. Deny deny, deny, 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:35.280 deny denied. So for me, accountability as the mayor is 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:38.160 actually making sure of it was safe. We can't get 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:42.120 the accountability except for in court with actually Mayor Bass, 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:46.920 State Parks LADWB. That's the only accountability there. But everybody's 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:49.680 already lost everything. So I can't go back in time 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:52.440 and undo the failures of Mayor Bass. But I can 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:56.440 prevent this because all this is preventable. Yeah, I'm fine 0:15:56.560 --> 0:15:59.000 with saying that climate change like they'll blame it, but 0:15:59.080 --> 0:16:01.520 we knew the climate that has been changing, and we 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:05.760 didn't prepare. We have sixty years of dead fuels surrounding 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:09.080 all these communities. We knew for three months that this 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:13.800 was the driest weather event, no rain anticipated. All the 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:15.240 maps show bright red. 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:17.239 The fire chief. 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:20.480 Warren Mayor Bas about this and didn't even Maybas didn't 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:22.920 even tell the fire chief she was leaving the country. 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:26.440 And remember Karen Bass deleted her text messages when she 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:27.840 got back from Ghana. 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:31.880 And her liaison, the public safety including fire was out 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:34.720 on administrative leave for making fake bomb threads. 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:37.280 She lied and since she was leaving this out of 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:39.880 the state and the chief said this is in the 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:44.000 Chief Chief Crowley's lawsuit against Marybach, she said all this, 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:46.880 this is not the time to leave, and we didn't predeploy. 0:16:47.600 --> 0:16:50.280 We just found out this week the LEDWP CEO this 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:53.240 Mickey seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year. Jidis 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:55.800 Quinionas didn't even know the reservoirs were empty. 0:16:57.160 --> 0:17:01.280 Apparently those reservoirs are empty again, by the way, YEP. 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:05.720 In the extreme fire season. So the list of just 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:09.960 failures is so crazy. And you know it was always 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:13.000 so hard for me to watch before I was ever running. 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:14.919 You know, these people would come on your show, your 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:17.200 past show, and they just lie to you, lie to you. 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:19.720 They would tell you about you know, this one hundred 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:22.520 mile per hour wins and this is all not true, 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:25.080 and they just keep that because if they tell everybody 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:29.360 there was one hundred mile prior wins, it's climate change. Oh, 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:33.159 it's unprecedented. No, it's not the reason why there was 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:37.160 no fixed wing aircraft ready Lacit never called in fixed 0:17:37.160 --> 0:17:40.040 wing because they couldn't reach Mayor Bass. And that CBS 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:43.640 journalist just reported this week that when they told Mayor 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:46.520 Bass in Ghana that there was a Palisades fire, she 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:48.560 was then not a They couldn't We could reach her 0:17:48.560 --> 0:17:51.520 for an hour because she was having drinks in Ghana. 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:52.400 At the party. 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:56.080 I want to know how obliterated she was over there 0:17:57.480 --> 0:18:00.119 and what was her bac M. 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:04.679 There is a lot more of this interview and it 0:18:04.840 --> 0:18:08.120 is pretty damn good and it's getting featured all day 0:18:08.160 --> 0:18:08.840 on CNN. 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:12.280 Eight hundred two two two five two two two is 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:15.720 a telephone number one eight hundred two two two five 0:18:15.840 --> 0:18:18.560 two two two. 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Now, we're not going 0:19:06.520 --> 0:19:09.280 to be live on Monday, Memorial Day, but we do 0:19:09.359 --> 0:19:11.440 have a best of the John Phillips Show that will 0:19:11.480 --> 0:19:16.160 air from noon to three on KABC and KSFO and Johnny. 0:19:16.200 --> 0:19:18.240 The first hour is going to be a replay of 0:19:18.280 --> 0:19:22.160 your interview with Spencer Pratt, No Kidding, and the third 0:19:22.200 --> 0:19:25.600 hour is going to be Katie Porter going to the 0:19:25.640 --> 0:19:26.480 Tijuana River. 0:19:29.600 --> 0:19:33.600 You really are putting together a holiday treat. You call 0:19:33.680 --> 0:19:35.919 it a best of for nothing? Oh, I think the 0:19:36.000 --> 0:19:38.760 one o'clock hour is Tom Steyer when he went on 0:19:38.800 --> 0:19:46.919 Real ninety two to three is a good one. All right. 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:49.919 Right now we're going through the sound of Spencer Pratt 0:19:49.960 --> 0:19:52.399 and to sit down, we'll see it ends. Alex Michaelson, 0:19:52.960 --> 0:19:57.440 this is a This comes from Alex posting the full 0:19:57.680 --> 0:20:01.000 unedited forty eight minute video, which I the prop. I 0:20:01.040 --> 0:20:05.000 love the idea of putting out full unedited videos, but 0:20:05.040 --> 0:20:07.920 he's also putting clips of this up online and it's 0:20:07.960 --> 0:20:11.359 going everywhere. Let's continue to listen to Spencer Pratt with 0:20:11.520 --> 0:20:13.480 CNN's Alex Michaelson. 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:16.680 And they never called in fixed wing air support to 0:20:16.800 --> 0:20:18.320 drop water. It was never called. 0:20:18.359 --> 0:20:20.879 This is factual, right, and so it wasn't because of 0:20:20.920 --> 0:20:24.360 the win well, and she said during the debate that 0:20:24.400 --> 0:20:27.879 the winds were so high that they couldn't have planes 0:20:27.920 --> 0:20:31.600 come in, which is not true, and so that is 0:20:31.640 --> 0:20:32.879 not actually what happened. 0:20:32.920 --> 0:20:36.000 And what you said in the debate was true about 0:20:36.000 --> 0:20:37.560 what happened in that situation. 0:20:37.760 --> 0:20:41.400 I received at least one thousand videos of everyone showing 0:20:41.680 --> 0:20:45.840 the planes, the helicopters. I even posted the shunook that's 0:20:46.160 --> 0:20:48.800 you know, these helicopters can't fly in a certain level 0:20:48.880 --> 0:20:51.760 win that she's describing. They're all flying. The issue that 0:20:51.880 --> 0:20:55.480 people don't realize the reason the policies fire got so 0:20:55.520 --> 0:20:57.720 out of hand. First, let's forget the state parks and 0:20:57.760 --> 0:21:01.119 the dead brush. For the first six hours of the fire, 0:21:01.240 --> 0:21:03.960 that's the crucial time. Like everybody saw yesterday, how they 0:21:04.000 --> 0:21:07.240 were able to contain that fire. First in Semi Valley 0:21:07.280 --> 0:21:09.240 they have the fire bricks, so that helps. But they 0:21:09.240 --> 0:21:12.000 were able to get to the water. Since the Palisse 0:21:12.080 --> 0:21:15.040 reservoirs again maribasklid and so there's only one, there's two. 0:21:15.200 --> 0:21:17.760 I live next door to one Palisades Reservoir and there's 0:21:17.760 --> 0:21:20.320 Sandy and As Reservoir. Since there was no water in those, 0:21:20.520 --> 0:21:23.959 the helicopters had to fly to Pepperdine and Malbu and 0:21:24.000 --> 0:21:27.280 do Encino to get water. They spent sixty percent of 0:21:27.320 --> 0:21:30.600 their time in the air instead of flying little thirty 0:21:30.640 --> 0:21:33.560 seconds from the Sandy and Nez reserve over to Lockman 0:21:33.920 --> 0:21:36.440 drop drop, That's when they have the chance to put 0:21:36.480 --> 0:21:37.080 out the fire. 0:21:38.119 --> 0:21:41.800 He is spitting out facts that can make Karen Bass 0:21:41.840 --> 0:21:44.960 have to relive how much of a failure this city 0:21:45.200 --> 0:21:46.320 was during that fire. 0:21:46.960 --> 0:21:51.040 And these facts are easy to understand, indigestible. We're not 0:21:51.080 --> 0:21:54.639 getting stuck in the weeds here. This is just the basics. 0:21:54.960 --> 0:21:56.560 And if they would have pulled out the weeds, that 0:21:56.600 --> 0:21:57.240 would have helped. 0:22:00.240 --> 0:22:03.320 So this isn't like, it's not a conspiracy. You know, 0:22:03.359 --> 0:22:05.159 I used to when I was younger, I used to 0:22:05.359 --> 0:22:08.920 believe in conspiracies. You realize it's they're not conspiracies, they're 0:22:08.960 --> 0:22:12.119 just negligence. They're people that we pay with our tax money. 0:22:12.480 --> 0:22:15.840