1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:03,400 Speaker 1: And we continue at two oh five in the afternoon 2 00:00:03,480 --> 00:00:07,400 Speaker 1: on the John Phillips Show, Mister Randy Weggs in Culver City. 3 00:00:07,320 --> 00:00:10,920 Speaker 2: John, despite multiple calls to the LA City Council and 4 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:15,840 Speaker 2: the LAPD, the city did nothing about another squatter house 5 00:00:15,960 --> 00:00:20,000 Speaker 2: en Larchmont that burned to the ground and then burned 6 00:00:20,120 --> 00:00:21,440 Speaker 2: the neighbor's house down. 7 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:26,440 Speaker 1: If only they could have known that that was going 8 00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:27,320 Speaker 1: to be a problem. 9 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:32,360 Speaker 2: Seriously, whoever's running against Hugo Soto Martinez just put together 10 00:00:32,440 --> 00:00:34,920 Speaker 2: a graphic of all the homes that have burned down 11 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:37,680 Speaker 2: because he won't do anything about squatters. 12 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:41,720 Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is 13 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:45,200 Speaker 1: the telephone number? What eight hundred two two two five 14 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:48,920 Speaker 1: two two two. There is a battle of bruin in 15 00:00:49,040 --> 00:00:55,560 Speaker 1: Sacramento between California Governor Gavin Newsom and the ruling Democrats 16 00:00:55,680 --> 00:01:00,280 Speaker 1: in the legislature, and Randy correct me if I'm wrong here, 17 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:05,040 Speaker 1: but the battle is over medical and the legislature, as 18 00:01:05,080 --> 00:01:09,680 Speaker 1: I understand it, wants to make it so that legal 19 00:01:09,800 --> 00:01:14,320 Speaker 1: American citizens in California have to prove that they're working 20 00:01:14,360 --> 00:01:17,679 Speaker 1: to get medical but illegal aliens do not. 21 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:23,760 Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom to deal with the fact that medical was 22 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:27,720 Speaker 2: going way over budget. Last year, announced some changes to 23 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:33,400 Speaker 2: medical for people in the country illegally, most notably cutting 24 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:36,440 Speaker 2: off people that can get into that program. Entry was 25 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:41,240 Speaker 2: frozen as of twenty twenty six and charging people on 26 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:45,440 Speaker 2: that program a thirty dollars a month premium. Well, there 27 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:49,559 Speaker 2: are members in the California legislature that say enough is enough. 28 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:53,160 Speaker 2: You need to unfreeze that and we need to give 29 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:57,840 Speaker 2: free healthcare to everyone that wants it in the country illegally. 30 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:03,760 Speaker 2: Great for more, here's Fox forty in Sacramento. 31 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:06,880 Speaker 3: Governor Newsom is facing some heat from some in his 32 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:11,959 Speaker 3: own party over healthcare cuts impacting undocumented Californians. Several Democratic 33 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:14,520 Speaker 3: lawmakers are calling him out, demanding that he end the 34 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:18,240 Speaker 3: freeze on new medical enrollment for undocumented adults. 35 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:20,760 Speaker 2: How many times did Gavin have to get a loan 36 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:24,960 Speaker 2: from the state reserves last year to deal with this many? 37 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:27,000 Speaker 3: Thanks for joining us here for Fox forty News at 38 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:29,080 Speaker 3: five thirty, I Americ carryman a Nikki has the night 39 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:32,399 Speaker 3: off Fox forty Capital reporter Aton Wallace as their message 40 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:34,960 Speaker 3: and the Newsom's Administration's response to. 41 00:02:34,880 --> 00:02:38,079 Speaker 4: It, Governor reverse these cuts. 42 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:41,880 Speaker 5: Los Angeles Democratic State Senator Madia Elena Dorrosso and other 43 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:45,760 Speaker 5: Democrats with that message for Governor Gavin Newsom, urging him 44 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:49,560 Speaker 5: to reverse a freeze on new medical enrollment for low 45 00:02:49,639 --> 00:02:51,480 Speaker 5: income undocumented adults. 46 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:54,639 Speaker 2: They are not a burden on California. 47 00:02:54,760 --> 00:02:56,359 Speaker 6: They are contributors. 48 00:02:56,080 --> 00:03:02,720 Speaker 2: They're Contributors'll go with that. They are contributors. Is that 49 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:06,040 Speaker 2: like you contribute, but you do it in a fun way. 50 00:03:09,960 --> 00:03:11,120 Speaker 2: They are contributors. 51 00:03:11,320 --> 00:03:12,560 Speaker 4: They are taxpayers. 52 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:15,240 Speaker 5: The public debate on this matter was in the spotlight 53 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:18,280 Speaker 5: last year when the news administration announced the state had 54 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:21,040 Speaker 5: to take out more than six billion dollars in loans 55 00:03:21,240 --> 00:03:24,200 Speaker 5: to ensure it had enough money to keep funding Medical, 56 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:27,880 Speaker 5: the publicly funded program providing healthcare for more than fourteen 57 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:29,880 Speaker 5: million low income Californians. 58 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:32,440 Speaker 2: Now you want to know what the indictment of California 59 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:35,520 Speaker 2: is a third of the state is on medical. 60 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:37,840 Speaker 1: Well, because we lead the nation. 61 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:41,200 Speaker 5: In poverty, including undocumented residents. 62 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:45,480 Speaker 2: Now you come to this weird situation where medical is 63 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:50,800 Speaker 2: such a generous program that there is almost an incentive 64 00:03:50,880 --> 00:03:53,960 Speaker 2: for you to never get out of poverty, because there's 65 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:57,680 Speaker 2: a big difference between being poor enough to qualify for 66 00:03:57,800 --> 00:04:00,880 Speaker 2: medical and being just above that line. And now you're 67 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:03,960 Speaker 2: out thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars a year 68 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:06,760 Speaker 2: because you have to buy your own health insurance. 69 00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:09,240 Speaker 1: Which is one of the reasons that program is such 70 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:10,040 Speaker 1: a drain. 71 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:15,960 Speaker 5: On the budget, including undocumented residents. The Newsom administration blamed 72 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:19,679 Speaker 5: Medical's financial strain on a number of issues, including higher 73 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:23,640 Speaker 5: healthcare costs and increasing number of seniors, and the state's 74 00:04:23,640 --> 00:04:27,880 Speaker 5: decision to expand medical benefits to undocumented Californians. 75 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:31,279 Speaker 7: There are investments that we are making that we simply 76 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:32,479 Speaker 7: cannot continue to make. 77 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:35,920 Speaker 5: To help balance the budget, Newsom agreed to freeze new 78 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:39,560 Speaker 5: medical enrollment starting January first of this year, and the 79 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:43,080 Speaker 5: undocumented adults who had enrolled by twenty twenty six will 80 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:46,520 Speaker 5: have to pay thirty dollars monthly premiums beginning next summer. 81 00:04:46,760 --> 00:04:50,320 Speaker 2: Thirty dollars a month. And they'd balked at that and said, 82 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:52,760 Speaker 2: how dare they? They can't do that to us. It 83 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:56,320 Speaker 2: should be free. Apparently they're not familiar with the phrase. 84 00:04:56,360 --> 00:04:59,800 Speaker 2: There's no such thing as a free lunch. Oh there is, 85 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:03,440 Speaker 2: if you're impoverished. In California, everything is free. 86 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:07,400 Speaker 5: And the undocumented adults who had enrolled by twenty twenty 87 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:10,760 Speaker 5: six will have to pay thirty dollars monthly premiums beginning 88 00:05:10,880 --> 00:05:11,480 Speaker 5: next summer. 89 00:05:11,640 --> 00:05:13,719 Speaker 2: This is not a budget solution. 90 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:18,159 Speaker 5: Doroso's new bill SB fourteen twenty two would reverse Newsom's 91 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:19,160 Speaker 5: enrollment freeze. 92 00:05:19,279 --> 00:05:20,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, but where are you gonna get the money? 93 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:21,880 Speaker 1: They don't care. 94 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:25,039 Speaker 5: She's also calling on the governor to reverse a decision 95 00:05:25,080 --> 00:05:29,280 Speaker 5: that would see medical stop covering non emergency dental services 96 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:33,400 Speaker 5: for undocumented adults and some Green card holders starting this July. 97 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:36,400 Speaker 5: She and others here also want the governor to throw 98 00:05:36,440 --> 00:05:39,120 Speaker 5: out a proposal that could see refugee. 99 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:40,080 Speaker 2: Free medical and free dental. 100 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:44,040 Speaker 1: Does she actually represent Californians or does she only represent 101 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:45,039 Speaker 1: illegal aliens? 102 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:46,160 Speaker 2: Where's her district? 103 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:52,040 Speaker 1: I think that was the former Kevin Dailey owned district. 104 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:55,599 Speaker 5: Actually, She and others here also want the governor to 105 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:59,160 Speaker 5: throw out a proposal that could see refugees and assilis 106 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:02,479 Speaker 5: lose Medica cal coverage as well. That also believes in 107 00:06:02,520 --> 00:06:05,799 Speaker 5: the long run the cuts will ultimately cost taxpayers more 108 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:09,760 Speaker 5: as they fund an increasing number of emergency room visits. 109 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:12,640 Speaker 2: Here we go the myth that if you just give 110 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:16,320 Speaker 2: everyone free healthcare, the emergency rooms won't be packed. But John, 111 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:18,280 Speaker 2: are the emergency rooms packed. 112 00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:22,560 Speaker 1: They are completely packed. And I've got to say I've 113 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:25,039 Speaker 1: told the story on the air before I'll say it again. 114 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:29,680 Speaker 1: Rancho Mirage, California is a town of seventeen thousand people. 115 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:35,200 Speaker 1: It's almost entirely elderly and almost entirely white. A friend 116 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:38,719 Speaker 1: of mine went to the emergency room over at Eisenhower 117 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:42,000 Speaker 1: with one hundred and four degree fever and it took 118 00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:45,240 Speaker 1: them something like I don't know seven hours to see him. 119 00:06:45,760 --> 00:06:48,240 Speaker 1: And he said he was one of two people in 120 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:50,160 Speaker 1: that er who spoke English. 121 00:06:51,279 --> 00:06:53,599 Speaker 5: Sat also believes in the long run, the cuts will 122 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:58,040 Speaker 5: ultimately cost taxpayers more as they fund an increasing number 123 00:06:58,279 --> 00:06:59,679 Speaker 5: of emergency room visits. 124 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:03,039 Speaker 4: People cannot see a primary care doctor. They do not 125 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:04,640 Speaker 4: stop getting six. 126 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:11,200 Speaker 2: They wait sixes. Does she have a speech impediment? What 127 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:12,240 Speaker 2: is going on with her? 128 00:07:12,520 --> 00:07:13,080 Speaker 1: I don't know. 129 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:16,080 Speaker 4: They do not stop getting six. 130 00:07:20,840 --> 00:07:23,880 Speaker 1: You know, she used to run the La County Federation 131 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:25,600 Speaker 1: of Labor before she got elected. 132 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:28,280 Speaker 2: Not surprised she. 133 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:30,840 Speaker 1: Was probably more powerful than that job that she is 134 00:07:30,840 --> 00:07:31,800 Speaker 1: in the legislature. 135 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:35,880 Speaker 4: They wait, and then when they can wait no longer, 136 00:07:36,160 --> 00:07:39,600 Speaker 4: they show up in the emergency room. At ten times. 137 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:41,480 Speaker 4: The cost of a routine visit. 138 00:07:41,720 --> 00:07:45,200 Speaker 5: Newsom's office says it does not comment on pending legislation, 139 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:47,640 Speaker 5: but the governor puts part of the blame on President 140 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:51,040 Speaker 5: Donald Trump for his HR one law, the Newsom administration 141 00:07:51,120 --> 00:07:53,960 Speaker 5: says will lead to at least sixteen billion dollars in 142 00:07:54,040 --> 00:07:58,040 Speaker 5: federal health care cuts for California. Newsom has long maintained 143 00:07:58,080 --> 00:08:00,720 Speaker 5: he will do what he can to promote for all, 144 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:04,000 Speaker 5: something he expressed during this Capital interview last year. 145 00:08:04,120 --> 00:08:07,640 Speaker 4: I believe in universal health care and just a core principle. 146 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:12,400 Speaker 1: Okay, then Jack, tax is up to pay for it, 147 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:16,000 Speaker 1: and watch your presidential ambitions go right down the toilet. 148 00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:18,600 Speaker 5: The Republicans say it's unaffordable. 149 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:22,200 Speaker 4: The reality is our fiscal house is on the brink 150 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:22,920 Speaker 4: of collapse. 151 00:08:23,240 --> 00:08:26,880 Speaker 2: She's mad stop. 152 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:30,520 Speaker 5: And negotiations over the governor's budget proposals are ongoing. 153 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:34,360 Speaker 2: There you go. There is the latest on Marina Elena 154 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:39,520 Speaker 2: Dorazo going after Gavin for limiting access to medical for 155 00:08:39,640 --> 00:08:43,520 Speaker 2: people in the country illegally because we could not afford it. 156 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:45,920 Speaker 1: Okay, I want to go back to the beginning of 157 00:08:45,920 --> 00:08:48,880 Speaker 1: the segment when I referenced that Gavin is fighting the 158 00:08:48,960 --> 00:08:52,760 Speaker 1: legislature on whether or not. Illegals need to prove that 159 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:56,720 Speaker 1: they have a job to get medical because right now 160 00:08:56,800 --> 00:09:00,840 Speaker 1: American citizens have to do that. Here is an article 161 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:06,040 Speaker 1: from Politico that dropped this morning quote on healthcare. As 162 00:09:06,080 --> 00:09:10,440 Speaker 1: with most issues, Gavin Newsom has positioned himself as Donald 163 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:15,679 Speaker 1: Trump's chief antagonist, expanding access to insurance and deriding the 164 00:09:15,720 --> 00:09:19,440 Speaker 1: red tape the President and Republicans in Congress have wrapped 165 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:24,359 Speaker 1: around treatment. But new eligibility rules Trump imposed on Medicaid 166 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:29,959 Speaker 1: patients put the California governor in a bind. California provides 167 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:35,720 Speaker 1: healthcare for one point seven million illegal aliens, not impacted 168 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:40,160 Speaker 1: by an upcoming federal requirement that Americans prove their employed 169 00:09:40,559 --> 00:09:44,720 Speaker 1: or meet other criteria to remain enrolled in the government's 170 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:49,160 Speaker 1: free health care program. That left Newsom with a choice 171 00:09:49,880 --> 00:09:53,840 Speaker 1: follow the president's lead or have a two tiered system 172 00:09:54,280 --> 00:09:59,400 Speaker 1: in which citizens must prove their working but illegal aliens 173 00:09:59,640 --> 00:10:06,400 Speaker 1: do not. Newsom chose equity, albeit quietly buried in a 174 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:10,000 Speaker 1: state budget plan, he included plans to impose the same 175 00:10:10,080 --> 00:10:15,520 Speaker 1: work requirements on all recipients of medical the state's Medicaid program, 176 00:10:15,840 --> 00:10:20,839 Speaker 1: including immigrants living in the country illegally. The decision marked 177 00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:24,920 Speaker 1: a reversal for Newsom, a likely twenty twenty eight presidential 178 00:10:24,920 --> 00:10:28,120 Speaker 1: contender who has been a vocal critic of Medicaid work 179 00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:32,280 Speaker 1: requirements in the month since Trump approved them. A reflection 180 00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:35,920 Speaker 1: of both California's budget woes and the fraud national climate 181 00:10:35,960 --> 00:10:39,680 Speaker 1: around immigration, the move was another step back in a 182 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:43,439 Speaker 1: retreat by the governor, who, in his final year in office, 183 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:47,199 Speaker 1: has rolled back gains he made over two terms expanding 184 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:53,160 Speaker 1: healthcare coverage regardless of a person's immigration status, and that, 185 00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:58,360 Speaker 1: of course, upset legislative Democrats who don't want illegal aliens 186 00:10:58,400 --> 00:11:00,640 Speaker 1: to have to prove that they're working to gain medical 187 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:04,800 Speaker 1: When she first saw the work requirements in the budget proposal, 188 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:09,400 Speaker 1: Assembly Member Yes you know who, Mia Banta said it 189 00:11:09,520 --> 00:11:14,319 Speaker 1: quote hurt my heart to be honest with you. Bonta, 190 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:18,240 Speaker 1: who chairs the Assembly Health Committee, said that work requirements 191 00:11:18,400 --> 00:11:21,520 Speaker 1: are part of a strategy to lower costs by keeping 192 00:11:21,559 --> 00:11:25,800 Speaker 1: eligible people out of the program. She introduced a bill 193 00:11:25,840 --> 00:11:28,960 Speaker 1: in February that would block the governor from implementing them 194 00:11:29,280 --> 00:11:33,040 Speaker 1: in the undocumented program. Quote, we're not living true to 195 00:11:33,080 --> 00:11:35,920 Speaker 1: the values of California in our health care for all, 196 00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:38,880 Speaker 1: which we fought so hard to be able to get 197 00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:47,040 Speaker 1: Bonta said, So the fight right now is that they 198 00:11:47,160 --> 00:11:49,960 Speaker 1: don't want illegals to have to prove that they're working, 199 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:53,040 Speaker 1: but they want American citizens to be forced to do that, 200 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:55,839 Speaker 1: and that is equitable to them. 201 00:11:56,040 --> 00:11:59,040 Speaker 2: And of course Mia Banta is the wife of. 202 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:06,480 Speaker 1: That is very true. And Newsom, who has been all 203 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:10,839 Speaker 1: for free health care for illegals, is suddenly reversing himself 204 00:12:11,520 --> 00:12:13,840 Speaker 1: only because he doesn't want to be the guy who 205 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:18,280 Speaker 1: is branded as giving free health care to illegals while 206 00:12:18,480 --> 00:12:21,440 Speaker 1: not forcing them to prove that they're working, while having 207 00:12:21,559 --> 00:12:26,840 Speaker 1: a different standard for American citizens, because he knows that 208 00:12:26,840 --> 00:12:29,680 Speaker 1: would prevent him from winning a general election for president. 209 00:12:32,320 --> 00:12:38,400 Speaker 1: And that's the only thing that's motivating Gavin Newsom right now, 210 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:44,800 Speaker 1: hence him spending state money to promote himself and combat 211 00:12:44,920 --> 00:12:50,480 Speaker 1: disinformation around the country in other states, which he says 212 00:12:51,360 --> 00:12:54,720 Speaker 1: is supposed to help California tourism. And none of us 213 00:12:55,200 --> 00:13:00,400 Speaker 1: believe what the governor is saying because it's obviously not true. 214 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:04,640 Speaker 1: But this could be his achilles heel of all of 215 00:13:04,679 --> 00:13:08,880 Speaker 1: the insane positions that Gavin Newsom has taken as governor. 216 00:13:10,360 --> 00:13:15,000 Speaker 1: I think the state's las a fair attitude about illegal 217 00:13:15,040 --> 00:13:19,080 Speaker 1: immigration and the fact that a broke state is willing 218 00:13:19,120 --> 00:13:23,760 Speaker 1: to provide services for people who are not here legally 219 00:13:24,760 --> 00:13:28,520 Speaker 1: is going to be as big as political liability. Because 220 00:13:28,559 --> 00:13:30,880 Speaker 1: you go back to when Donald Trump ran in twenty 221 00:13:30,920 --> 00:13:34,720 Speaker 1: sixteen and when he won in twenty twenty four, immigration 222 00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:39,360 Speaker 1: was his number one issue in both elections, and the 223 00:13:39,520 --> 00:13:44,200 Speaker 1: permissive attitude that Democrats had regarding the border was something 224 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:48,720 Speaker 1: that hurt them more than anything else. Don't forget Kamala Harris, 225 00:13:48,760 --> 00:13:51,680 Speaker 1: as Vice president of the United States, was put in 226 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:55,800 Speaker 1: charge of the border by Joe Biden, and that blew 227 00:13:55,880 --> 00:14:01,319 Speaker 1: up in her face like a hillbilly's rifle. And what 228 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:03,880 Speaker 1: the Democrats did in that election was just say, well, 229 00:14:03,920 --> 00:14:07,440 Speaker 1: we have the border under control, and nobody believed them 230 00:14:07,480 --> 00:14:09,400 Speaker 1: because all of us could see it with our own 231 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:13,079 Speaker 1: two eyes that it wasn't true. And Trump just hammered 232 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:16,760 Speaker 1: them over and over and over again. And if you're 233 00:14:16,880 --> 00:14:20,920 Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom and you are giving away the store to 234 00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:23,400 Speaker 1: people who shouldn't even be here in the first place, 235 00:14:23,880 --> 00:14:26,560 Speaker 1: and you don't have enough money to meet your own budget, 236 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:30,960 Speaker 1: how do you think that's going to play nationally? That 237 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:36,240 Speaker 1: could be his Achilles heel more than anything else, and 238 00:14:36,280 --> 00:14:39,080 Speaker 1: he knows it, and right now he's trying to cover 239 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:42,600 Speaker 1: his tracks. Otherwise, the last thing he tried to do 240 00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:46,680 Speaker 1: right now is pick a fight with the legislature. He 241 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:49,440 Speaker 1: doesn't need that. He has a million and one problems 242 00:14:49,520 --> 00:14:52,840 Speaker 1: right now. He went out and called Israel in apartheid state. 243 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:56,560 Speaker 1: He insulted blacks in the South by saying that he's 244 00:14:56,680 --> 00:14:59,480 Speaker 1: just like them because he had low SAT scores. The 245 00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:02,360 Speaker 1: last thing he needs is another fight on the home front, 246 00:15:02,720 --> 00:15:05,160 Speaker 1: and that's what he has right now because he knows 247 00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:08,680 Speaker 1: that this issue is a massive liability if he were 248 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:12,960 Speaker 1: to become the Democratic nominee in the general election. Eight 249 00:15:13,040 --> 00:15:16,560 Speaker 1: hundred two two two five two two two is telephone 250 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:20,400 Speaker 1: number one. Eight hundred two two two five two two two. 251 00:15:21,160 --> 00:15:23,160 Speaker 1: If you'd like to email the show, you can do 252 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:26,000 Speaker 1: so at Johnny don't like show at gmail dot com. 253 00:15:26,160 --> 00:15:30,800 Speaker 1: That's Johnny don't like Show at gmail dot com. And Randy, 254 00:15:30,880 --> 00:15:33,200 Speaker 1: if you want to listen to us on Saturdays in 255 00:15:33,280 --> 00:15:35,160 Speaker 1: northern California, that's easy to. 256 00:15:35,160 --> 00:15:40,280 Speaker 2: Do well in Central California and probably Northern California as well. 257 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:43,800 Speaker 2: So here's the thing. We're here every single day noon 258 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:49,480 Speaker 2: to three Southern California on seven ninety KABC, Northern California 259 00:15:49,560 --> 00:15:53,200 Speaker 2: on eight ten KSFO. That's a big old signal that 260 00:15:53,240 --> 00:15:56,320 Speaker 2: you can hear all throughout Northern California. We're so happy 261 00:15:56,400 --> 00:15:59,280 Speaker 2: to be there, but we wanted more. How can we 262 00:15:59,320 --> 00:16:01,520 Speaker 2: get to the Central Valley. Well, I'll tell you how 263 00:16:01,560 --> 00:16:05,080 Speaker 2: we can get to the Central Valley on Saturdays. So 264 00:16:05,920 --> 00:16:09,080 Speaker 2: we do a special version of the Fixed California Hour. 265 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:13,200 Speaker 2: It's a replay of it where I combine stories that 266 00:16:13,280 --> 00:16:17,040 Speaker 2: I think the central Valley, Fresno and Bakersfield would like. 267 00:16:17,520 --> 00:16:20,880 Speaker 2: Sometimes stories that involve Fresno in the central Valley, like 268 00:16:20,920 --> 00:16:23,680 Speaker 2: that sex offender that was trying to run for Fresno 269 00:16:23,840 --> 00:16:28,240 Speaker 2: City Council, and I package it all together and it 270 00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:32,120 Speaker 2: airs for that big audience in the central Valley on 271 00:16:32,280 --> 00:16:35,600 Speaker 2: Saturdays at noon. You can listen to it if you're 272 00:16:35,640 --> 00:16:39,000 Speaker 2: driving through by going to five eighty on the AM dial. 273 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:42,280 Speaker 2: What a five point nine FM. You can also stream 274 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:48,920 Speaker 2: it at kmjnow dot com. That's kmjnow dot com. 275 00:16:49,320 --> 00:16:52,800 Speaker 1: As we told you earlier in the program, the fees 276 00:16:52,960 --> 00:17:00,840 Speaker 1: at LAX are potentially doubling for rideshare passengers. We know 277 00:17:00,960 --> 00:17:03,680 Speaker 1: that a lot of people love to take uber or 278 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:06,960 Speaker 1: lyft to the airport and when they land back at 279 00:17:07,040 --> 00:17:09,480 Speaker 1: LAX to take uber or left back home. That way 280 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:12,280 Speaker 1: you don't have to fool around with parking. Well, the 281 00:17:12,280 --> 00:17:15,520 Speaker 1: city knows that, so they see you as a sitting duck, 282 00:17:15,960 --> 00:17:19,280 Speaker 1: as an opportunity to get more money from the general 283 00:17:19,320 --> 00:17:22,239 Speaker 1: public or from the flying public, so that they can 284 00:17:22,320 --> 00:17:25,880 Speaker 1: dump that money into mass transit that of course nobody 285 00:17:25,960 --> 00:17:27,240 Speaker 1: uses because it's awful. 286 00:17:27,880 --> 00:17:30,600 Speaker 2: For more on the LAX fees that, by the way, 287 00:17:30,880 --> 00:17:33,840 Speaker 2: just passed. Here's NBC four new tonight. 288 00:17:33,880 --> 00:17:37,119 Speaker 6: Getting to LAX could soon cost you more money. The 289 00:17:37,200 --> 00:17:40,960 Speaker 6: airport is proposing fee increases for ride shares, which could 290 00:17:41,040 --> 00:17:43,920 Speaker 6: drastically increase the cost of your ride to or from 291 00:17:43,960 --> 00:17:46,840 Speaker 6: the airport. NBC four is Starshah Phillips joins us now 292 00:17:46,880 --> 00:17:52,680 Speaker 6: from LAX with how travelers are reacting to this Darsha, Yeah. 293 00:17:52,560 --> 00:17:55,920 Speaker 8: Carolyn, these are proposed fees that could be voted on 294 00:17:55,960 --> 00:17:59,679 Speaker 8: by the Board of Airport Commissioners as early as Tuesday, 295 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:02,240 Speaker 8: And we spoke to many people here at the airport 296 00:18:02,280 --> 00:18:05,960 Speaker 8: and they are not happy about the possibility of travel 297 00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:07,679 Speaker 8: getting even more expensive. 298 00:18:08,520 --> 00:18:10,960 Speaker 2: It is so expensive to go in and out of 299 00:18:11,040 --> 00:18:14,560 Speaker 2: lax with Ridehair, especially because unless you want to deal 300 00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:18,720 Speaker 2: with the purgatory hell that is the Laxit lot, you 301 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:20,679 Speaker 2: get to pay for black to get picked up at 302 00:18:20,720 --> 00:18:21,119 Speaker 2: the curb. 303 00:18:22,960 --> 00:18:26,920 Speaker 8: Lax proposing a significant increase in fees for ride share 304 00:18:26,960 --> 00:18:30,040 Speaker 8: pickup and drop off. If approved, your ride to the 305 00:18:30,119 --> 00:18:34,679 Speaker 8: airport could cost significantly more. Here's the breakdown. Currently, the 306 00:18:34,760 --> 00:18:37,080 Speaker 8: ride share fee for pickup and drop off at the 307 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:40,880 Speaker 8: Laxit lot is four dollars. The proposed fee would increase 308 00:18:40,920 --> 00:18:45,040 Speaker 8: to six dollars for ridehair taxis and limos. And if 309 00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:47,280 Speaker 8: you want to be dropped off or picked up from 310 00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:50,000 Speaker 8: the central terminal, that would really cost you under the 311 00:18:50,040 --> 00:18:53,640 Speaker 8: proposed fee, going from five dollars to twelve dollars. 312 00:18:53,840 --> 00:18:55,520 Speaker 2: And of course they say they need to do this 313 00:18:55,680 --> 00:18:59,359 Speaker 2: to encourage people to ride the people mover, which is 314 00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:02,960 Speaker 2: not finished being built something they said would be finished 315 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:03,840 Speaker 2: three years ago. 316 00:19:04,160 --> 00:19:06,679 Speaker 1: And if you take it coming and going, that's a 317 00:19:06,880 --> 00:19:09,919 Speaker 1: twenty four dollars increase in your fees. 318 00:19:10,480 --> 00:19:13,000 Speaker 8: This means a round trip ride to the airport with 319 00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:17,200 Speaker 8: curbside drop off an Laxit pickup would cost you eighteen 320 00:19:17,320 --> 00:19:19,480 Speaker 8: dollars in airport fees. Alone. 321 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:22,199 Speaker 2: It is always worth it to pay for black Laxit 322 00:19:22,359 --> 00:19:25,400 Speaker 2: is one of the dumbest ideas ever conceived at an airport. 323 00:19:25,480 --> 00:19:27,439 Speaker 2: You notice how no other airport does that. 324 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:32,400 Speaker 1: Nope, they're smarter than us. 325 00:19:33,240 --> 00:19:37,920 Speaker 2: So there you go. LAX has voted to approve the fees. 326 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:41,840 Speaker 2: So it just got even more expensive to go to LAX. 327 00:19:42,640 --> 00:19:47,280 Speaker 1: Fly out Ontario Kids eight hundred two two two five 328 00:19:47,359 --> 00:19:50,719 Speaker 1: two two two. Earlier in the week, we told you 329 00:19:50,920 --> 00:19:55,480 Speaker 1: that a district attorney in northern California was aggressively going 330 00:19:55,640 --> 00:19:59,840 Speaker 1: after a company that exists to remove squatters from homes 331 00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:04,960 Speaker 1: they don't belong in. The DA said that these companies 332 00:20:05,040 --> 00:20:07,520 Speaker 1: do not have the right to use physical force to 333 00:20:07,560 --> 00:20:10,320 Speaker 1: force squatters out, that they needed to go to court, 334 00:20:10,359 --> 00:20:12,800 Speaker 1: and I guess just full around with that process for 335 00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:15,600 Speaker 1: a couple of years and hope to get the squatters 336 00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:19,399 Speaker 1: out of their home. Well, in Los Angeles there was 337 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:22,920 Speaker 1: a case of squatters who took over a home, and 338 00:20:23,080 --> 00:20:25,880 Speaker 1: I guess they decided to just let the process play 339 00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:30,840 Speaker 1: itself out and hope that the government eventually did something 340 00:20:30,880 --> 00:20:34,359 Speaker 1: about it. Well, the government didn't, and now the home 341 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:37,080 Speaker 1: burned down and part of the neighborhood burned down with it. 342 00:20:37,760 --> 00:20:43,679 Speaker 2: For more on yet another preventable tragedy in Hollywood, in 343 00:20:43,720 --> 00:20:47,240 Speaker 2: the Larchmont neighborhood. Here is CBSLA. 344 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:51,040 Speaker 7: A massive fire gutted a vacant home in Larchmont yesterday 345 00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:51,919 Speaker 7: and neighbors. 346 00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:56,160 Speaker 2: By the way, vacant homes don't just catch fire. 347 00:20:57,160 --> 00:20:59,560 Speaker 1: Nope, there were some people cooking some meth. 348 00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:03,560 Speaker 7: A massive fire gutted a vacant home in Larchmont yesterday, 349 00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:06,200 Speaker 7: and neighbors say the situation that led out to it 350 00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:08,240 Speaker 7: has been a problem for years. 351 00:21:08,560 --> 00:21:12,639 Speaker 6: And cbsla's Lose Delia Cabaletto joins us live from Marchmont, 352 00:21:12,680 --> 00:21:14,760 Speaker 6: near the scene of that fire, and Lose Delia. 353 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:16,360 Speaker 4: Neighbors are frustrated, right. 354 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:22,159 Speaker 9: Not only do they say they're frustrated, they quite frankly. 355 00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:24,560 Speaker 1: Tell me, you got one. 356 00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:29,320 Speaker 2: It's been a while, but it happens. 357 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:34,960 Speaker 9: Quite frankly, quite frankly, not only do they say they're frustrated, 358 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:37,600 Speaker 9: they quite frankly tell us they are fed up. They 359 00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:38,480 Speaker 9: say they're fed up. 360 00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:42,320 Speaker 2: What did that add to what she was saying? It 361 00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:45,119 Speaker 2: might be the most meaningless thing that people say. 362 00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:47,920 Speaker 1: It did put a smile on your face, though. 363 00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:51,560 Speaker 2: Quite frankly that's the og. 364 00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:55,360 Speaker 9: Not only do they say they're frustrated, they quite frankly 365 00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:57,800 Speaker 9: tell us they are fed up. They say they're fed 366 00:21:57,880 --> 00:22:01,360 Speaker 9: up with homeless encampments popping up in their neighborhood. 367 00:22:01,359 --> 00:22:04,960 Speaker 2: And Larchmont is a very expensive part of Hollywood. 368 00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:07,919 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's right there next to Hancock Park. 369 00:22:08,119 --> 00:22:12,080 Speaker 9: Popping up in their neighborhood. And most recently, this fire 370 00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:15,800 Speaker 9: that tore through this home in this vacant lot. They 371 00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:18,239 Speaker 9: tell us squatters had been coming in and out of 372 00:22:18,280 --> 00:22:21,160 Speaker 9: this vacant home. They called the city a law enforcement 373 00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:23,639 Speaker 9: and they say not much was done. Well, eventually this 374 00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:26,000 Speaker 9: fire caught the next. 375 00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:28,439 Speaker 1: Door home one and by the way, when that DA 376 00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:31,120 Speaker 1: in Northern California said you have to let the process 377 00:22:31,160 --> 00:22:35,200 Speaker 1: play itself out, this is what he means. Well, if 378 00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:38,199 Speaker 1: the neighborhood burns down, we can't save them all. But 379 00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:41,120 Speaker 1: that's what you're supposed to do. That's the attitude. 380 00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:46,240 Speaker 2: This is how ass backwards California's tenant protection rights are. 381 00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:50,000 Speaker 2: That you can declare yourself as a squatter and you 382 00:22:50,040 --> 00:22:52,080 Speaker 2: can't get kicked out of a place that you were 383 00:22:52,119 --> 00:22:53,320 Speaker 2: trespassing on. 384 00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:57,600 Speaker 9: The next door home on fire that a family was 385 00:22:57,800 --> 00:23:01,200 Speaker 9: living in and they say, this is just devastating. 386 00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:04,439 Speaker 4: We've had problems with homeless encampments for years. 387 00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:05,400 Speaker 9: That's how NAT. 388 00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:08,000 Speaker 2: Please do not vote for four more years of Hugo. 389 00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:11,760 Speaker 1: No, but they do because these people don't elect themselves, 390 00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:15,520 Speaker 1: the district has to elect them. You have to understand 391 00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:19,199 Speaker 1: that there is a direct connection between how you vote 392 00:23:19,359 --> 00:23:21,040 Speaker 1: and what kind of government you get. 393 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:26,320 Speaker 9: That's how neighbor Heather Fonsega describes the ongoing issue of 394 00:23:26,359 --> 00:23:29,719 Speaker 9: homeless encampments and squatters in her Larchmont neighborhood. 395 00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:33,360 Speaker 4: We call the city, we call our city councilmen. They 396 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:36,120 Speaker 4: send out people to talk to them, and then conventionally 397 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:37,720 Speaker 4: they leave and then another group comes in. 398 00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:42,440 Speaker 2: What do they offer the squatters? Social services? 399 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:45,080 Speaker 1: Probably drug paraphernalia. 400 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:49,280 Speaker 2: Sunday afternoon, you remember the other home in Hugo's district 401 00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:51,919 Speaker 2: that burned down last year where the neighbor said that 402 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:54,000 Speaker 2: they were shooting snuff films in there. 403 00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:56,040 Speaker 1: Oh yes, how could I forget that? 404 00:23:56,080 --> 00:24:01,080 Speaker 9: One Sunday afternoon, those concerns turned into a rightening reality. 405 00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:03,679 Speaker 4: Walked outside and looked up and there was this huge 406 00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:04,679 Speaker 4: plume of smoke. 407 00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:08,800 Speaker 9: More than one hundred firefighters battled the flames for over 408 00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:10,040 Speaker 9: an hour before get. 409 00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:12,959 Speaker 2: This is, by the way, yet another circumstance where the 410 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:16,840 Speaker 2: firefighter should be billing the homeless department for this. 411 00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:20,280 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, because if we're going to spend money on 412 00:24:20,359 --> 00:24:24,119 Speaker 1: worthless services like homeless services, and we're going to starve 413 00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:27,919 Speaker 1: the fire department to do it, whatever homeless services falls 414 00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:30,320 Speaker 1: on their face, they should have to pay up. 415 00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:32,520 Speaker 2: You know, I'll go further than that, because this is 416 00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:35,399 Speaker 2: a straight up dereliction of Hugo not doing his job. 417 00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:39,280 Speaker 2: The fire department should be billing Hugo's discretionary funds. 418 00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:40,800 Speaker 1: I like that idea. 419 00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:44,720 Speaker 9: Flames for over an hour before getting the blaze under control. 420 00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:48,080 Speaker 4: This was a abandoned house, or it was a derelict 421 00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:50,400 Speaker 4: house was empty. There were squatters living here as well. 422 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:52,760 Speaker 2: For as much as we talk about a housing crisis 423 00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:55,520 Speaker 2: in California, they're sure a hell of a lot of 424 00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:56,560 Speaker 2: abandoned homes. 425 00:24:57,160 --> 00:24:59,720 Speaker 1: Oh, because there's neighborhoods that people just don't want to 426 00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:02,119 Speaker 1: live in, or there's streets that people don't want to 427 00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:05,720 Speaker 1: live on because we've allowed blight to just take over. 428 00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:11,200 Speaker 1: I forget who it was. There was someone a billionaire, 429 00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:14,520 Speaker 1: maybe it was Palmer Lucky. Palmer Lucky put something on 430 00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:19,200 Speaker 1: Twitter not long ago saying that part of the housing 431 00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:22,639 Speaker 1: problem in California is that there are so many neighborhoods 432 00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:25,439 Speaker 1: due to a lack of public safety, that are just 433 00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:28,879 Speaker 1: no go zones for most normal people. And if we 434 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:32,320 Speaker 1: were to reclaim those neighborhoods, many of them are central 435 00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:35,320 Speaker 1: to the city centers, and we were to make them 436 00:25:35,359 --> 00:25:39,359 Speaker 1: safe again and make them desirable again, people would have 437 00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:43,359 Speaker 1: no problem moving into those neighborhoods and populating them again. 438 00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:46,600 Speaker 4: Or it was a derrel lachtause was empty. There were 439 00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:49,240 Speaker 4: squatters living here as well. They were definitely stealing. We 440 00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:51,520 Speaker 4: saw them stealing electricity. 441 00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:54,680 Speaker 2: And how is that never something that we can arrest 442 00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:59,000 Speaker 2: somebody for stealing from the power grid and creating a 443 00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:01,800 Speaker 2: fire hazard. No one ever seems to be going to 444 00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:02,600 Speaker 2: jail for that. 445 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:07,120 Speaker 1: Nope, because that's a crime associated with poverty electricity. 446 00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:10,680 Speaker 9: But the flames didn't stop there. Next door, the fire 447 00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:12,960 Speaker 9: destroyed Fonseka's neighbor's home. 448 00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:14,800 Speaker 4: They're devastated. I don't know what they're going to do. 449 00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:17,440 Speaker 4: They've lost everything. I mean, you can see there's nothing left. 450 00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:21,159 Speaker 2: Here's a family that is now literally homeless because of 451 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:25,320 Speaker 2: LA's inaction to do anything about squatters. Their home burned down. 452 00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:27,960 Speaker 1: Well, could you imagine what the day to day life 453 00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:31,000 Speaker 1: must be like living next to a home that's abandoned 454 00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:33,480 Speaker 1: and taken over by squatters stealing electricity. 455 00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:37,320 Speaker 9: Two of the family's dogs also died in the fire, 456 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:42,760 Speaker 9: and Fonseka is now caring for three of their surviving dogs. 457 00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:45,960 Speaker 4: There were three dogs inside and only one of them survived. 458 00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:49,520 Speaker 9: She says. What makes this situation more frustrating is that 459 00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:52,960 Speaker 9: her neighbor who lost his home has called law enforcement 460 00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:56,440 Speaker 9: for help to clear squatters multiple times. 461 00:26:56,680 --> 00:27:00,320 Speaker 2: And law enforcement is not allowed to do anything about it. 462 00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:04,720 Speaker 1: Nope, it's not an LAPD problem. It's a Karen Bass problem. 463 00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:08,680 Speaker 1: It's a city council problem. It's a Galvin Noosom problem. 464 00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:12,000 Speaker 1: It's a Rob Bonta problem. They know that the powers 465 00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:14,359 Speaker 1: that be don't want them to go in with a 466 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:16,200 Speaker 1: heavy hand and take care of it. 467 00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:18,560 Speaker 2: Who's Rob bot Bonta? 468 00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:20,960 Speaker 1: I stand corrected. 469 00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:25,280 Speaker 4: And just kind of not getting anywhere. Was this an 470 00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:28,000 Speaker 4: accident waiting to happen or a problem? Yeah? 471 00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:30,600 Speaker 9: Maybe it probably was, adding she hopes the city can 472 00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:33,439 Speaker 9: fix the situation before things get worse. 473 00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:36,080 Speaker 2: Not with the current management of the city. 474 00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:36,959 Speaker 1: Nope. 475 00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:40,119 Speaker 2: If you don't like this, you have an opportunity to 476 00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:45,639 Speaker 2: change management. Hugo is up for election this June. Karen 477 00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:49,199 Speaker 2: is up for election this June. If you would like 478 00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:53,240 Speaker 2: to see a different version of Larchmont and Hollywood, where 479 00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:56,679 Speaker 2: squatters don't take over homes and let them burn to 480 00:27:56,720 --> 00:28:00,280 Speaker 2: the ground, you have an opportunity to make that change. 481 00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:03,760 Speaker 1: You have to start voting different. You can throw coins 482 00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:08,080 Speaker 1: in a well, you can I don't know, rub Buddhist belly. 483 00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:12,199 Speaker 1: None of that is gonna help unless and until you 484 00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:14,680 Speaker 1: start voting different the city. 485 00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:17,760 Speaker 9: You can fix the situation before things get worse. 486 00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:20,000 Speaker 4: We're very worried that we could be next. 487 00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:23,800 Speaker 9: The office of council Member Ugo Soto Martinez. 488 00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:28,680 Speaker 1: The most useless person on that council. 489 00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:30,520 Speaker 9: The office of council Member Ugo. 490 00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:34,639 Speaker 2: So I have long thought that Unices was the worst 491 00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:38,560 Speaker 2: member on the council, and over the last year it 492 00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:43,520 Speaker 2: is Hugo, by leaps and bounds, the worst member of 493 00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:46,240 Speaker 2: the La City Council. You know, let's criminalize kind of 494 00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:48,760 Speaker 2: least the converters. Let's criminalize Copper. 495 00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:50,400 Speaker 1: No question about it. 496 00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:54,600 Speaker 9: The office of Council Member Ugo Soto Martinez says, there 497 00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:56,880 Speaker 9: isn't much the city can do when it comes to 498 00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:57,920 Speaker 9: private property. 499 00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:03,560 Speaker 1: But they say, sure, they're breaking the law, they're stealing electricity. 500 00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:04,920 Speaker 1: You can't shut that down. 501 00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:08,120 Speaker 9: Nope, there isn't much the city can do when it 502 00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:10,880 Speaker 9: comes to private property. But they say they're going to 503 00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:13,160 Speaker 9: ask Building and Safety to reach out to the property 504 00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:15,520 Speaker 9: owner and request they make changes. 505 00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:16,520 Speaker 4: We're also told. 506 00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:18,520 Speaker 2: That's the same thing he said about the other house 507 00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:21,400 Speaker 2: in Hollywood, and then the next day it burned to 508 00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:22,960 Speaker 2: the ground. 509 00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:29,480 Speaker 1: How is it the homeowner's fault. The homeowner didn't light 510 00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:30,000 Speaker 1: the fire. 511 00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:32,200 Speaker 10: Changes. 512 00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:34,240 Speaker 1: No, there have been calls to the city to do 513 00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:37,040 Speaker 1: something about it, at a minimum from the people in 514 00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:38,240 Speaker 1: the neighborhood. 515 00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:46,160 Speaker 2: If our laws have become so towards tenant protections that 516 00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:49,320 Speaker 2: this is something the city and the county and law 517 00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:54,000 Speaker 2: enforcement cannot do anything about, we have to change those laws. 518 00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:56,880 Speaker 1: You know what I wonder. I wonder when you have 519 00:29:57,000 --> 00:30:00,120 Speaker 1: cases of squatters who have moved into a home and 520 00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:03,160 Speaker 1: the homeowner doesn't do anything about it. They don't complain 521 00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:05,320 Speaker 1: to the city, they don't go to court, they don't 522 00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:08,680 Speaker 1: hire one of these firms to remove the squatters. I 523 00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:11,200 Speaker 1: wonder how many of them are owned by foreigners where 524 00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:12,400 Speaker 1: they're just parking money. 525 00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:14,560 Speaker 2: Oh, that happens all the time. 526 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:18,240 Speaker 9: Changes. We're also told that the family that lived inside 527 00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:21,680 Speaker 9: this property was actually at church when the fire broke out, 528 00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:24,920 Speaker 9: so none of them were hurt. They have started an 529 00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:29,400 Speaker 9: online fundraiser to immediately help with living expenses, and within 530 00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:32,520 Speaker 9: the last hour or so they've already raised more than 531 00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:37,200 Speaker 9: one thousand dollars reporting live in Larchmont, Lustelli yak Abadito CBSLA. 532 00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:41,680 Speaker 2: So there you go. A family Enlargemont is now homeless 533 00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:45,280 Speaker 2: because Hugo doesn't want to upset the squatters. 534 00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:49,160 Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is 535 00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:52,720 Speaker 1: the telephone number one? Eight hundred two two two five 536 00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:56,160 Speaker 1: two two two. All right, Randy, I think we have 537 00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:59,200 Speaker 1: time for one more addition to the California Crime Bladder. 538 00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:02,520 Speaker 2: It's up and yet again this WOA WHOA What's up with? 539 00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:06,080 Speaker 1: Dum dumb thumb dunk dun dun dumb tun. 540 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:09,520 Speaker 4: Dumb beats the Califonia Crime Bladder. 541 00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:16,240 Speaker 1: With Junk and Randy. This edition takes us to northern California. 542 00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:20,640 Speaker 2: There was a string of breakings in Alameda for mar 543 00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:23,080 Speaker 2: Here's ABC seven in the Bay. 544 00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:25,840 Speaker 11: You know, hitting all the windows, Lina. 545 00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:31,240 Speaker 1: My god, what a way to start a report. 546 00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:32,880 Speaker 4: You know, hitting all the windows. 547 00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:36,200 Speaker 11: Lena Limb's been working hard to get repairs done after 548 00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:38,400 Speaker 11: Malaya tea room was broken into. 549 00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:39,120 Speaker 4: They got it. 550 00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:41,120 Speaker 2: What are you getting out of a tea shop? 551 00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:44,200 Speaker 11: Caffeine room was broken into. 552 00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:47,360 Speaker 4: They got in, couldn't find any cash, rumm, it's true, 553 00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:48,680 Speaker 4: and then they left. 554 00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:52,120 Speaker 11: Hers is one of nine businesses hit last week in Alameda. 555 00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:53,920 Speaker 4: People are just getting out of control. I don't know 556 00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:58,840 Speaker 4: what they're looking for because small businesses nowadays, everyone knows 557 00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:01,800 Speaker 4: we don't keep cash. 558 00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:04,720 Speaker 1: Well, apparently not everyone. 559 00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:10,440 Speaker 2: This travailance a soundtrack to the State of California. 560 00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:14,760 Speaker 1: Wait, Gavin's gonna spend millions of dollars saying you're a liar. 561 00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:20,000 Speaker 11: This surveillance video shows the moment thieves broke into one 562 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:22,080 Speaker 11: of the other businesses, doodle. 563 00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:26,880 Speaker 2: Cakes, Not doodle Cakes, them too, doodle Cakes. 564 00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:29,640 Speaker 11: The owners of the bakery say just ten dollars was 565 00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:32,880 Speaker 11: taken from the tip jar, but replacing windows and potentially 566 00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:36,080 Speaker 11: missing out on business hours does cost. 567 00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:38,400 Speaker 2: It took a tenor out of the tip jar. How 568 00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:39,640 Speaker 2: low can you go? 569 00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:43,080 Speaker 1: Well, there's no liability from the point of view of 570 00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:45,960 Speaker 1: the crook if you don't believe you're going to be caught, 571 00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:48,719 Speaker 1: and if for some reason you are caught, you know 572 00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:51,160 Speaker 1: you're not going to go to jail. What do you 573 00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:51,920 Speaker 1: have to lose? 574 00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:55,560 Speaker 4: I think we got to do something, definitely more patrols 575 00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:56,480 Speaker 4: or anything like that. 576 00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:59,600 Speaker 11: And it's not just these break ins that are raising concerns. 577 00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:03,760 Speaker 11: Let me a police Wednesday warning that vandalism incidents are up, 578 00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:05,360 Speaker 11: with vehicles being a target. 579 00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:07,360 Speaker 12: We went from sixteen in a two week period to 580 00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:10,320 Speaker 12: twenty one in a two week period. Very small change 581 00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:13,120 Speaker 12: and it might be a very low level type of crime, 582 00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:15,680 Speaker 12: but to us it's important to trust all types of crime. 583 00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:18,600 Speaker 2: How many of those BIPs were at Pamela Price's expense. 584 00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:22,720 Speaker 1: She was the gift that keeps on given. 585 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:25,200 Speaker 10: I've been bipped several times. 586 00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:28,960 Speaker 12: Crime, But to us, it's important to trust all types 587 00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:29,320 Speaker 12: of crime. 588 00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:33,000 Speaker 11: Police say these vandalism incidents aren't specific to one area. 589 00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:35,200 Speaker 11: Rather they are spread throughout the city. 590 00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:38,960 Speaker 13: Police are asking people to have some extra awareness. Right now, 591 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:41,880 Speaker 13: make sure you're parking your car in a lit area, 592 00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:45,959 Speaker 13: don't leave anything in your vehicle and be aware of 593 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:46,840 Speaker 13: your surroundings. 594 00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:50,000 Speaker 2: There's a lot more officers live every single day like 595 00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:51,520 Speaker 2: you're being followed by the mob. 596 00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:54,160 Speaker 1: What a way to live. 597 00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:59,160 Speaker 12: There a lot more officers that are allocated to the streets. 598 00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:02,120 Speaker 12: We also have increase the number of traffic officers to 599 00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:03,320 Speaker 12: help our visibility. 600 00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:08,160 Speaker 11: It's worrying to have our community at risk like this. 601 00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:11,439 Speaker 11: Theresa Garino lives in Alameda and owns a business here 602 00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:14,200 Speaker 11: and says it's helpful when police keep them informed. 603 00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:16,240 Speaker 4: I think a lot of us live in this bubble 604 00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:18,759 Speaker 4: in Alameda, So maybe just let the residents know. 605 00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:22,200 Speaker 2: Hey, yeah they figure crime that's an Oakland thing, not here. 606 00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:25,400 Speaker 1: Well, guess what, the criminals in Oakland could move to 607 00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:28,000 Speaker 1: Alameda any time they wont. 608 00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:29,560 Speaker 4: Hey, you know, be extra diligent. 609 00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:32,000 Speaker 11: Police were able to make arrest in the spat of 610 00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:35,200 Speaker 11: break ins last week. They say evidence collected at several 611 00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:37,560 Speaker 11: of the crime scenes linked back to the same car, 612 00:34:37,680 --> 00:34:41,319 Speaker 11: which they tracked down within hours, along with several suspects. 613 00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:43,920 Speaker 2: And I'm sure they use the license plate reading cameras 614 00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:46,520 Speaker 2: to do that, the same license plate reading cameras that 615 00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:51,040 Speaker 2: all the activists want the cities to break contracts with that's. 616 00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:53,680 Speaker 1: Right, because they don't want you to have information that 617 00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:55,960 Speaker 1: would lead to criminals being arrested. 618 00:34:56,440 --> 00:34:59,480 Speaker 11: Tara Campbell ABC seven Eyewitness News. 619 00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:03,960 Speaker 2: They played the glass breaking under her lockout. That's fabulous. 620 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:12,000 Speaker 2: There you go. They spayed a break ins in Alameda, California. 621 00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:16,920 Speaker 1: Let's go to Jim in San Jose. Jim, Hello, Hey. 622 00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:17,720 Speaker 4: How you doing today? 623 00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:20,239 Speaker 1: Good? Good? 624 00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:23,880 Speaker 10: A couple couple of comments. Abraham Lincoln said, all you 625 00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:26,040 Speaker 10: have to do to get rid of a bad law 626 00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:29,040 Speaker 10: is enforce it. If they wan't enforce a good law, 627 00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:32,800 Speaker 10: then give them what they want. So if you're in Turlock, 628 00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:35,320 Speaker 10: they take you out of town. There's no homeless in Turlock. 629 00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:37,560 Speaker 10: They have a spot for you out in the country. 630 00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:39,399 Speaker 10: You can stay here all you want, and they put 631 00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:42,919 Speaker 10: you know, they provide services in Santa Clara. They drop 632 00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:46,280 Speaker 10: you off in santase So why not instead of hiring 633 00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:48,319 Speaker 10: an attorney and going through all the rigam roll with 634 00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:51,640 Speaker 10: these bureaucrats that aren't going to do anything, why don't 635 00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:54,720 Speaker 10: you just gather the people up and say, look, here's 636 00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:56,960 Speaker 10: o the people that are having the problems, have them 637 00:35:56,960 --> 00:35:58,920 Speaker 10: put their money together and pay the homeless to go 638 00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:02,239 Speaker 10: hang out with these people's else, these undesirables, and do that. 639 00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:05,319 Speaker 10: When you're in San Francisco as a contractor, you have 640 00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:08,279 Speaker 10: to pay a homeless person to watch your vehicle so 641 00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:10,880 Speaker 10: nobody breaks in and steals stuff or takes your vehicle. 642 00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:12,759 Speaker 10: So you give them twenty bucks. I said, when I 643 00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:15,800 Speaker 10: come back, I'll give you another twenty or whatever. Because 644 00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:18,279 Speaker 10: you're not going to do anything. They're not affected. So 645 00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:21,200 Speaker 10: how do you get them affected? You make them take 646 00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:24,279 Speaker 10: the medicine that they're making you take. I don't think 647 00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:26,040 Speaker 10: you're going to get this result in any other way, 648 00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:28,600 Speaker 10: because these people are too stupid to do the obvious. 649 00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:34,280 Speaker 1: What's wild to me is that the majority in the state, 650 00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:37,200 Speaker 1: and these are people who are educated. These are people 651 00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:39,440 Speaker 1: who make good money. It does cost a fortune to 652 00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:42,839 Speaker 1: live here. These are the people who run the industries 653 00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:46,200 Speaker 1: that make this state go, that they're willing to live 654 00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:51,200 Speaker 1: like this. I do not understand why any adult who 655 00:36:51,239 --> 00:36:54,120 Speaker 1: has a choice would be willing to live like this, 656 00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:59,919 Speaker 1: But for whatever reason, the people who decide who wins 657 00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:04,239 Speaker 1: the elections, they decide who's in charge of our institutions. 658 00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:07,760 Speaker 1: They decide all of the important questions in the state. 659 00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:12,080 Speaker 1: They seem to be fine living like this, and then 660 00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:15,360 Speaker 1: what they do when you challenge them on it is 661 00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:19,040 Speaker 1: they just deny it. They just say that you're spreading misinformation. 662 00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:23,000 Speaker 1: They say that you're repeating right wing talking points. They 663 00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:26,800 Speaker 1: say that you're taking one bad example and you're blowing 664 00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:29,879 Speaker 1: it up and making it seem like that happens all 665 00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:34,200 Speaker 1: the time, and they just continue to allow it to happen. 666 00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:38,680 Speaker 1: And for the life of me, I can't figure that out. 667 00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:41,719 Speaker 1: I know that they hate Donald Trump, that I'm aware of, 668 00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:45,239 Speaker 1: and before that, they hated George W. Bush. I was 669 00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:49,360 Speaker 1: well aware of that too, But state and local government 670 00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:52,759 Speaker 1: is different than the federal government. You can still make 671 00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:55,000 Speaker 1: it so that you live in a nice place where 672 00:37:55,160 --> 00:37:58,719 Speaker 1: you're safe to roam about and do what you want 673 00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:03,080 Speaker 1: to do. Yet, for whatever reason, the Trump derangement syndrome 674 00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:07,320 Speaker 1: that these people have is so severe that they think 675 00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:11,600 Speaker 1: that living like this is altruistic, that they are more 676 00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:16,200 Speaker 1: compassionate than the other states, that they care more about 677 00:38:16,239 --> 00:38:19,200 Speaker 1: their fellow neighbor than the other states, and they're so 678 00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:24,759 Speaker 1: compassionate and so caring, they're willing to live it assesspool. 679 00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:28,040 Speaker 1: They're willing to live in filth where criminals can do 680 00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:31,439 Speaker 1: whatever they want and there are no consequences, and that's 681 00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:34,960 Speaker 1: just the way it is, un lessen until those people 682 00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:38,160 Speaker 1: change their mind and get their head screwed on straight, 683 00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:41,640 Speaker 1: I don't see any of it changing, and that's really sad.