Speaker 1: And we continue at two oh five in the afternoon
Speaker 1: on the Jihan and Phillips Show. Mister Randy wags in
Speaker 1: Culver City.
Speaker 2: John in health news, Gavin Newsom's former chief of staff,
Speaker 2: Dana Williamson, successfully got a liver transplant, so she'll be
Speaker 2: ready for trial this April.
Speaker 1: Wait, now, that was her excuse not to show up
Speaker 1: in court.
Speaker 2: They had to push back the dates a little.
Speaker 1: So what is she going to do if she doesn't
Speaker 1: want to show up to court anymore? Say that she
Speaker 1: needs another organ? Well, how quickly can you blow out
Speaker 1: the new lever Well? I would imagine it doesn't take long.
Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is
Speaker 1: the telephone number one. Eight hundred two two two five
Speaker 1: two two two. It is our pleasure to welcome our
Speaker 1: next guest to the program. He is the congressman representing
Speaker 1: much of northern California, rural northern California. You can follow
Speaker 1: him on exit. Tom mcclintalk Congressmanlintock, Welcome, Hi.
Speaker 3: John, how are you.
Speaker 1: I'm good, Thank you so much for stopping by this afternoon.
Speaker 3: Well, it's a pleasure, thanks for having me so.
Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom has released his new biography or autobiography. I
Speaker 1: guess it is assuming he wrote it to members of
Speaker 1: the press and they've written about it. And the book
Speaker 1: includes a number of tidbits that I don't think really
Speaker 1: surprised many of us here in California. But one of
Speaker 1: the tidbits, I honestly have to say, did catch me
Speaker 1: by surprise, and that is that Gavin Newsom admits that
Speaker 1: he has modeled his life after Tony Robbins, the self
Speaker 1: help buru from Late Night Television that according to Gavin Newsom,
Speaker 1: he had a rough childhood and he didn't have a
Speaker 1: lot of self confidence and watching Tony Robbins, he after
Speaker 1: watching Tony Robbins, he decided that this is the guy
Speaker 1: I'm going to model my life life after.
Speaker 3: Okay, I have to tell you, I'm a fan of
Speaker 3: Tony Robbins. I am not a fan of Gavin Newsom. Frank,
Speaker 3: you don't see any comparison between the two of them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, something definitely went haywire there. But Newsom clearly thinks
Speaker 1: that this book and putting these stories out there. Although
Speaker 1: he didn't mention a lot of different things, or didn't
Speaker 1: go into detail about a lot of different things, that
Speaker 1: we know have wrecked the state of California because he
Speaker 1: can't run on his record. If he would run on
Speaker 1: his record in California, he wouldn't make it out of
Speaker 1: the Iowa caucuses. So he's trying to create this image
Speaker 1: of someone who had one parent that came from the
Speaker 1: wrong side of the tracks, one parent who came from privilege,
Speaker 1: and he's all things to all people and he is
Speaker 1: the savior of the Democratic Party.
Speaker 3: Well, if that's the case, the Democratic Party is in
Speaker 3: very big trouble of And I think the biggest problem
Speaker 3: that he's going to have is explain how he and
Speaker 3: years of leftist policies took the most beautiful, wealthiest, most
Speaker 3: prosperous state in the country and turned it into a
Speaker 3: socialist hellhole where millions of people are now fleeing from
Speaker 3: UH to UH to states with lower taxes, UH, better schools,
Speaker 3: lower regulations. I mean, what what Gavin Newsom and the
Speaker 3: left have done to California. They've done wherever they've they've
Speaker 3: seized control of a jurisdiction for for more than a
Speaker 3: decade or so, you see exactly the same pathologies. You
Speaker 3: see sky high taxes, of failing schools, rampant crime, rampant homelessness, UH,
Speaker 3: basic necessities and unaffordable prices for basic necessities like housing
Speaker 3: and water and electricity and gasoline of UH, and ultimately
Speaker 3: of failing businesses and leeing families. You've seen the left
Speaker 3: destroy our most beautiful cities like San Francisco, Baltimore, Detroit,
Speaker 3: Saint Louis, you name it, and you've seen them destroy beautiful.
Speaker 3: Are the most beautiful and prosperous states that we had
Speaker 3: in the country of the twentieth century, California, Illinois, and
Speaker 3: New York. So that's the question that people are going
Speaker 3: to have to answer as we approach these elections, and
Speaker 3: the votes they cast are going to determine their quality
Speaker 3: of life for generations to come.
Speaker 1: What's wild to me is that Gavin Newsom never accepts
Speaker 1: responsibility for anything where for example, we raised one hundred
Speaker 1: million dollars in fire aid for the fire victims in
Speaker 1: Pacific Palace. It's in Altadena, and you talk to the
Speaker 1: fire victims. I've had many of them on this program
Speaker 1: and they say that they've received none of that money.
Speaker 1: When they call that organization, they cannot get a call returned.
Speaker 1: The money did not go to the fire victims, even
Speaker 1: though they advertised that it would. They put the fire
Speaker 1: victims on the telethon that motivated people to whip out
Speaker 1: their checkbooks and write checks to the cause, and then
Speaker 1: the money ends up going to all of these non
Speaker 1: for profits that don't have anything to do with helping
Speaker 1: the fire victims. It's akin to what's going on right
Speaker 1: now in Minnesota with the graph that's going on on
Speaker 1: Tim Walls's watch. But Gavin Newsom says, well, hey, I'm
Speaker 1: the governor of California. This is a non for profit.
Speaker 1: I don't have anything to do with it. Don't ask
Speaker 1: me any questions. What kind of leadership is that when
Speaker 1: you have someone who's at the top of the food chain,
Speaker 1: at the top of the pyramid, you have a tragedy
Speaker 1: like this, an avoidable tragedy, by the way, because now
Speaker 1: that we're learning that it was arson that started it
Speaker 1: from an anti Trump lunatic and then the city got
Speaker 1: into a fight with the state over who had jurisdiction,
Speaker 1: and they just decided to leave the fire still going.
Speaker 1: And then the winds brought came up, and the mayor
Speaker 1: was in Africa, and no water in the fire, hydrants
Speaker 1: and then the governor to take a step back and go, well,
Speaker 1: it's not my fault that none of the money is
Speaker 1: going to the fire victim. Stop asking me questions, stop
Speaker 1: blaming me, Blame someone else.
Speaker 3: Well, I don't think that's going to get them very far,
Speaker 3: because people are going to be asking fundamental questions. You know,
Speaker 3: it was Abraham Lincoln, the city of the voters or everything.
Speaker 3: If the voters get their backsides too close to the fire,
Speaker 3: they'll just have to sit on the blisters a while.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's a painful experience, but it's a learning experience,
Speaker 3: and then they usually come away with it sadder but wiser,
Speaker 3: and I think that's what's happening in California right now.
Speaker 3: It must be. You know, it's both a blessing and
Speaker 3: a curse in a democracy, but it's always true. You
Speaker 3: get the government you vote for. And what has happened
Speaker 3: to California is not some random act of God. It
Speaker 3: is acts of government determined by the votes that Californias
Speaker 3: have cast in so many past elections. I mean, you
Speaker 3: look at this beautiful state with everything going for it,
Speaker 3: most echoo climate in the entire Western hemisphere, the most
Speaker 3: bountiful resources anywhere in the continental United States were poised
Speaker 3: on the Pacific women in a position to dominate world trade.
Speaker 3: And yet look at the census data. In the last decade,
Speaker 3: two and a half million more people have fled California
Speaker 3: than have come to California. That is a dramatic reversal
Speaker 3: of the trends that we saw throughout the twentieth century
Speaker 3: when people were flocking to the opportunities of this state.
Speaker 3: And if you ask the census data, where are people
Speaker 3: going to? The most popular destinations for California's patriots are
Speaker 3: Nevada and Arizona. Now you tell me what conceivable act
Speaker 3: of God could turn California into a less desirable place
Speaker 3: for people to live in the middle of the Nevada
Speaker 3: nuclear test range. I can't think of one. Acts of
Speaker 3: God can't do that much damage, but acts of government can,
Speaker 3: and they have. And that is a choice that we
Speaker 3: make at the ballot box. And unfortunately, Gavin Newsom is
Speaker 3: simply an instrument of that choice. And we've got to
Speaker 3: be a lot more careful in the future if we
Speaker 3: don't want to continue down the past.
Speaker 1: We've been to that point. Gavin Newsom is prohibited by
Speaker 1: state term limit laws from running for governor again, and
Speaker 1: California will have an opportunity to select a new governor
Speaker 1: in the upcoming election. We have a primary in June
Speaker 1: than the general in November. And so far, with the
Speaker 1: exception of Matt Mahan, the mayor of San Jose, all
Speaker 1: of the Democratic candidates who are running for governor are
Speaker 1: running almost exclusively on federal issues. They're running against Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: they're running against Ice, They're running on issues of international consequence,
Speaker 1: what's going on right now in Ukraine or whatever, and
Speaker 1: they will not talk about issues that face people here
Speaker 1: in California. Now, if you're a governor, you don't have
Speaker 1: a say over what goes on in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1: You don't have a vote in the House, you don't
Speaker 1: have a vote in the Senate. You're not running the
Speaker 1: executive branch of the federal government. You are the governor
Speaker 1: of California. And they seem disinterested in state issues. It
Speaker 1: seems like they haven't thought about these things, they haven't
Speaker 1: read about these things, they don't have any ideas on
Speaker 1: how to fix any of these things. And when the
Speaker 1: subject comes up, they almost dismiss it as a distraction
Speaker 1: of what's truly important, which is hating on Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: and so far they're getting away with it. So far,
Speaker 1: it seems like those are the only subjects that they
Speaker 1: talk about. But it just seems nuts to me that
Speaker 1: you would run for an office that you don't have
Speaker 1: any interest in the subject matter that the office has
Speaker 1: influence over.
Speaker 3: Well, the national issues. You're basically hating on Donald Trump
Speaker 3: certainly motivates they radical democratic base, which has shifted more
Speaker 3: and more to the left in recent years. But I
Speaker 3: think it is going to hit a sour note with
Speaker 3: a lot of independence who are asking the fundamental question,
Speaker 3: and that is, do I want to continue to to
Speaker 3: live under the additions the chronic shortages and the most
Speaker 3: water rich regions of the country of rampant crime and homelessness.
Speaker 3: I mean, look at the amount of money that's been
Speaker 3: squadned on the homeless, and all we get is more
Speaker 3: of them. Because the policies that the left offers us
Speaker 3: does do not work. They never have, and again you
Speaker 3: can see very consistent results wherever they're applied. We're about
Speaker 3: to get a graduate level course in the failures of
Speaker 3: socialism from New York, but California is not far behind,
Speaker 3: and people are going to have to again. As a
Speaker 3: very simple question, what path do you want to take.
Speaker 3: Do you want to continue down the road we're on
Speaker 3: that has turned the most beautiful state in the country
Speaker 3: into the most impoverished and resource scarce regions of the country,
Speaker 3: or do you want to restore the California that we
Speaker 3: used to take for granted a generation ago, when we
Speaker 3: had much lower taxes and we pay today, and yet
Speaker 3: we had the finest highway system in the country. We
Speaker 3: had the finest university system in the world. We had
Speaker 3: the finest public school system is certainly in the country
Speaker 3: of We were producing electricity and water so cheaply. Some
Speaker 3: communities weren't even metering their water supply, and there was
Speaker 3: a discussion over getting rid of electricity meters because it
Speaker 3: was becoming so cheap those you know, if that's not
Speaker 3: some fantasy, that's the state we lived in until the
Speaker 3: left began to take it over in the nineteen seventies.
Speaker 3: And we can get back to that state. It's the
Speaker 3: same state right under our feet, but we've got to
Speaker 3: change the policies, and so far the people of California
Speaker 3: have chosen to continue down this road. I can't imagine
Speaker 3: them continuing down much further.
Speaker 1: Are you concerned about the Olympics? And I say that
Speaker 1: because the condition of Los Angeles right now is appalling.
Speaker 1: There is trash everywhere, there is graffiti everywhere. Copper wire
Speaker 1: is being stolen out of neighborhoods, out of the of
Speaker 1: the telephone lines and everything else in neighborhoods all over
Speaker 1: the region. Neighborhoods are in the dark. Neighborhoods are without internet.
Speaker 1: The city says that in certain areas they won't even
Speaker 1: replace it because it'll just get stolen again. And what's
Speaker 1: the point of replacing it, Including on the Third Street bridge,
Speaker 1: by the way, which is a bridge that we just
Speaker 1: spent a gazillion dollars on that's supposed to be one
Speaker 1: of these bridges that attracts people to come here from
Speaker 1: other parts of the country to see the beautiful bridge. Well,
Speaker 1: the bridge is in the dark because the copper wire
Speaker 1: all gets stolen. The copper wire gets stolen on public transit,
Speaker 1: It shuts public transit down. We certainly have retail theft
Speaker 1: that has the shampoo behind the bulletproof class. I can't
Speaker 1: imagine what the world is going to say when they
Speaker 1: come to Los Angeles and see the city in its
Speaker 1: current condition. And I don't know how much influence the
Speaker 1: federal government can have over what goes on in Los
Speaker 1: Angeles as it pertains to the Olympics. But there needs
Speaker 1: to be adult supervision because the people who are in
Speaker 1: charge of the city right now don't seem to care,
Speaker 1: and I don't think they're aware of what kind of
Speaker 1: embarrassment is coming our way if things don't change quickly.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, the embarrassment is the lease of our problems.
Speaker 3: Is the condition we're living in day by day. That's
Speaker 3: the problem. And again, that's a policy choice that we've
Speaker 3: made through the votes we cast. It's not that complicated.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: Cicero has said that he didn't He says, I don't
Speaker 3: blame Caesar, I blame those who cheered for Caesar. Well,
Speaker 3: the politicians who have made these bad choices have been
Speaker 3: elected by voters. Voters ultimately have got to change those
Speaker 3: decisions at the ballot box.
Speaker 1: The SEIU is promoting a wealth confiscation tax for the
Speaker 1: November ballad that has already caused over a trillion dollars
Speaker 1: of wealth to leave the state to California. Those who
Speaker 1: are leaving the state of California aren't doing so quietly.
Speaker 1: They're explaining just exactly why they're leaving California for other states.
Speaker 1: There is a new poll that was just released that
Speaker 1: said that if this initiative gets the number of signatures
Speaker 1: that they need to make the ballot, it would likely pass.
Speaker 1: What do you make of that poll.
Speaker 3: If that's true, then the people of California still have
Speaker 3: not learned their lesson unfortunately. I think you know, as
Speaker 3: people wise up, there comes a point where it's just
Speaker 3: a lot easier to move to another state. And that's
Speaker 3: what that's what people are doing. So you're seeing the
Speaker 3: people who are leaving California know why they're leaving. It's
Speaker 3: up to those of us who are staying in California
Speaker 3: to change the course of the state. And again, the
Speaker 3: only way we can do that is at the ballot box.
Speaker 3: You know, Arthur Laughers often said that that there's nothing
Speaker 3: in this world that is more portable than money and rich.
Speaker 3: You raise taxes beyond a certain point, capital flees, and
Speaker 3: up until now it's been the middle class. It's been
Speaker 3: hallowed up. I had a friend who advises companies on
Speaker 3: relocating out of California, and his rule of thumb is,
Speaker 3: if you make under fifty thousand dollars, your taxes are
Speaker 3: relatively low and there's lots of free stuff. If you
Speaker 3: make over five hundred thousand dollars, well then you can
Speaker 3: afford the nice weather. But if you make anywhere between
Speaker 3: fifty and five hundred, you need to get out while
Speaker 3: you still can. And that's what the middle class has
Speaker 3: been doing. But now it's that top one percent that
Speaker 3: is fleeing the state. And that top one percent pays
Speaker 3: about half of all California income taxes. So it only
Speaker 3: takes a few of those people to relocate out of
Speaker 3: state before you have a major negative impact on your
Speaker 3: state revenues. And I'm afraid that's what has now been
Speaker 3: set in motion. I remember a story of a group
Speaker 3: of business people being called together so that Jerry Brown
Speaker 3: could sell them on his latest tax increased proposal, and
Speaker 3: one of them said, you know, Governor, I don't think
Speaker 3: you understand. You raised my taxes last year, and before
Speaker 3: you raised my taxes, I used to give you five
Speaker 3: million dollars a year when you raised my taxes, I
Speaker 3: now give you zero. Do you understand that. And I
Speaker 3: was told Brown looked completely confused, and this guy says,
Speaker 3: you know, and don't think I have deprived myself my
Speaker 3: beautiful view of the Pacific Ocean. I've simply rearranged my
Speaker 3: schedule so that I'm out of the state more than
Speaker 3: half of the year. So it's not that hard for
Speaker 3: money and rich people to leave inhospitable environments. And that's
Speaker 3: what they're doing in California and that's going to be
Speaker 3: felt big time as our revenues implode in the days ahead.
Speaker 1: Well, and it also shows you who calls the shots
Speaker 1: in Sacramento, because the governor, at least on paper, says
Speaker 1: that he's opposed to this initiative. He does not want
Speaker 1: to be labeled as a tax and spender when he
Speaker 1: runs for president in twenty twenty eight. The SCIU wants it.
Speaker 1: In a one party state, you're the governor, you can
Speaker 1: tell just about any interest group you want, don't do
Speaker 1: that or else. And either he did that and they
Speaker 1: called his bluff, or he is so out to lunch
Speaker 1: running for president that no one is minding the store
Speaker 1: and the SEIU is calling the shots.
Speaker 3: Well, it really doesn't matter because he has been backing
Speaker 3: such policies for many, many years. He might be now
Speaker 3: opposing this one because this is the one that's really
Speaker 3: going to break the back of California. But these are
Speaker 3: the same policies that he has advocated during his entire career,
Speaker 3: higher taxes, more and more burdensome regulations. I many years
Speaker 3: ago represented Tahoe in Congress, and my first trip up there,
Speaker 3: I met with the Tahoe Chamber and I said, well,
Speaker 3: just to break the ice, and I said, well, tell
Speaker 3: me what it's like to do business in a community
Speaker 3: it's divided between two states. And one of them quickly responds, oh,
Speaker 3: it's very simple here in Tahoe. On the Nevada side,
Speaker 3: they asked, how can we help you? On the California side,
Speaker 3: they ask how can we stop you? And you might
Speaker 3: notice all of the economic development in Tahoe is largely
Speaker 3: on the Nevada side for that very reason. So, I mean, again,
Speaker 3: these pollen is not just the It's not just Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 3: It is all of the politicians that who have imposed
Speaker 3: these policies of higher and higher taxes, of more and
Speaker 3: more burdensome regulation that has absolutely broken the back of
Speaker 3: the California economy that used to be the strongest in
Speaker 3: the country. I mean it wasn't long ago when we
Speaker 3: would we would always run well below the national unemployment level.
Speaker 3: Now we are leading the country in unemployment as as
Speaker 3: jobs flee the state and his families flee the state.
Speaker 1: California Congressman Tom McClintock. You can follow him on exit.
Speaker 1: Tom McClintock, Congressman, keep fighting the good fight. Thanks so
Speaker 1: much for joining us.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Johnny, you too. Take care.
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Speaker 1: On Friday, we're gonna be eating some seafood and Long Beach.
Speaker 2: Oh those poke nachos. I can't wait. I love Gladstones
Speaker 2: in Longbeach. You love Gladstones in Long Beach. And we're
Speaker 2: all gonna be at Gladstones in Long Beach this Friday
Speaker 2: from noon to three. We're heading to Gladstones in Long
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Speaker 1: And right now it's time to open up the California
Speaker 1: Crime Blodder.
Speaker 5: It's happened yet again.
Speaker 1: This wow, Wow, what's up here?
Speaker 5: Dun dun dunk, dunn, dun dun dun preached the Carliponia
Speaker 5: Crime Blodder with John.
Speaker 1: Well. The first one has a happy ending of swords.
Speaker 2: Not that kind of story, but here's what happened. Everyone
Speaker 2: on social media was making a big fuss about what
Speaker 2: they thought was ice busting some teenager. Turns out no,
Speaker 2: it was the cops going after a smash and grabber
Speaker 2: that drove through a jewelry store in Anaheim last month.
Speaker 1: And because it was Orange County, a suspect is in custody.
Speaker 2: For more, here's ABC seven Eyewitness News in Los Angeles.
Speaker 6: Video exploding on social media this weekend of a team
Speaker 6: being punched and taken down by officers. It had many
Speaker 6: commenting that federal agents need to be stopped, but these
Speaker 6: were not federal agents.
Speaker 2: How many people post things on social media without ever
Speaker 2: paying attention to what the video is or what the
Speaker 2: article is.
Speaker 1: I just saw some jackass flight attendant post something on
Speaker 1: social media claiming that ice was at the airport and
Speaker 1: now they're going to cause all kinds of problems at
Speaker 1: the airport and people are going to miss their flights.
Speaker 6: But undercover local police officers, they had been tracking that
Speaker 6: team who was wanted for a violent crime.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you saw this story. It was
Speaker 2: last week, but out in Lynnwood at this shopping center,
Speaker 2: there was a TSA agent eating dinner somebody thought they
Speaker 2: were ICE, so they called the Rapid Response Network to
Speaker 2: start protesting over a TSA agent.
Speaker 1: This is organized. This is if every dumb person on
Speaker 1: planet Earth got on the same text message spread I.
Speaker 6: Win this new Supporterly and Sudor As More on that
Speaker 6: viral video and the surprising story behind it, Leanne.
Speaker 1: Mark.
Speaker 7: That is right, that teen at the center of more
Speaker 7: than one viral video, the most recent showing what many thought,
Speaker 7: including witnesses themselves, was him being detained by ICE agents,
Speaker 7: but Anaheim police speaking out tonight saying it was their
Speaker 7: undercover officers who were taking him into custody, all because
Speaker 7: of a smash and grab robbery captured on camera.
Speaker 2: Just your good old fashioned California born criminal.
Speaker 1: And if it's a smash and grab robbery, what do
Speaker 1: you think the odds are? It also involves a stolen kiah,
Speaker 1: a dramatic.
Speaker 2: Scene, somebody screaming why did you hit him like that?
Speaker 2: After the cops arrested him for carjacking someone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a member of mensa.
Speaker 7: Scene as a seventeen year old suspect attemps to carjack.
Speaker 2: Oh, of course he's a juvenile.
Speaker 7: Scene as a seventeen year old suspect attemps to carjack
Speaker 7: a vehicle before being punched and take and down. The
Speaker 7: tense arrest unfolding in Lindwood on Friday. Angry witness once
Speaker 7: again Lynnwood.
Speaker 1: They're making the news a lot lately.
Speaker 7: Angry witnesses moving in on the officers thinking they were
Speaker 7: Ice agents. But this was not an immigration detention. According
Speaker 7: to Anaheim Police, it was the arrest of a wanted
Speaker 7: smash and grab suspect. The entire crime captured on cameras.
Speaker 7: The crew of thieves cleared out Classic Jewelers in Anaheim
Speaker 7: Hills last month.
Speaker 2: Oh, I remember this one.
Speaker 7: The suspects smashing an suv through the door before launching
Speaker 7: their ambush, grabbing everything in the cases as well as
Speaker 7: the owner's weapon.
Speaker 2: So the person that the protesters wanted to protect from
Speaker 2: arrest was the guy who drove an suv into a
Speaker 2: jewelry store.
Speaker 1: Well, the people they're trying to protect in Minnesota are
Speaker 1: the people who have been convicted of all kinds of
Speaker 1: crimes who are being sent back to their country of origin.
Speaker 1: It makes no sense. Then I said, I have a gun,
Speaker 1: get out, I have a gun.
Speaker 5: Saw my gun on the counter.
Speaker 2: Why weren't you holding it?
Speaker 1: See this is a teachable moment. If you're going to
Speaker 1: try to use a gun to chase out a bad guy,
Speaker 1: you better have it in your hand like Katie did
Speaker 1: with the knife.
Speaker 5: They grabbed it.
Speaker 7: The thieves escaping in two vehicles with a gun and
Speaker 7: three quarters of a million dollars worth of custom jewels,
Speaker 7: but their getaway came to a crashing end in two
Speaker 7: separate collisions a few miles away in Fullerton, after being
Speaker 7: spotted by Anaheim police who were following along.
Speaker 8: This is not their first time doing it. By the
Speaker 8: looks in the video that I've seen, this is somebody
Speaker 8: that had a plan. They attempted that plan, but the
Speaker 8: outstanding police work from the Anaheim Police Department was definitely
Speaker 8: not going to let that plan go through.
Speaker 2: Was in their first time. So this kid's seventeen? When
Speaker 2: did you start bumping off jewelry store? Is it thirteen?
Speaker 1: Maybe when he was in kindergarten.
Speaker 7: Seven of the eight suspects were arrested, the last one
Speaker 7: on the run until undercover officers cornered him in Linwood.
Speaker 2: I love knowing that Anaheim PD did not give up
Speaker 2: on guy they've been chasing this guy for weeks.
Speaker 1: No, you have to be aggressive if you're going to
Speaker 1: catch these guys, Otherwise they're gonna get away and do
Speaker 1: it again.
Speaker 2: Also, should we just point out the obvious crime committed
Speaker 2: at Orange County, but John, where was the criminal from
Speaker 2: La County?
Speaker 1: Of course yep.
Speaker 7: Detectives say a gun, ski mask, and burglary tools were
Speaker 7: all found in his vehicle.
Speaker 2: You don't say.
Speaker 7: Anaheim police say they try to use a taser on.
Speaker 2: By the way, seventeen years old committing all these kinds
Speaker 2: of crimes has burglary tools in his car. I think
Speaker 2: we're gonna lock up his parents too. They should have
Speaker 2: never procreated.
Speaker 1: How many brothers and sisters do you think he has?
Speaker 7: Anaheim police say they try to use a taser on
Speaker 7: that team first, but they say it didn't work. Detectives
Speaker 7: also say that he was not only wanted for that
Speaker 7: smash and grab robbery, but they say he also had
Speaker 7: a felony warrant out for his arrest out of La County.
Speaker 1: Sounds like a real winner.
Speaker 7: Recording Live Lehan suitor ABC seven Eyewitness News.
Speaker 2: How about that he had a felony warrant out for
Speaker 2: his arrest in La County before the smashing grab, but
Speaker 2: it was Anaheim PD that got him.
Speaker 1: Well. Fortunately the DA in Orange County, Todd Spitzer, will
Speaker 1: be the one who gets to prosecute him, so LA
Speaker 1: can't screw that up too.
Speaker 2: There you go, yet another fantastic outstanding teenager in southern California.
Speaker 1: And Randy, it's time to reopen the blotter.
Speaker 5: It's happened yet again. Nice see, time for the California
Speaker 5: crime blodder.
Speaker 1: And this edition takes us to the latrine.
Speaker 2: I don't know why this is a thing, but apparently
Speaker 2: whenever you're using a public bathroom in Southern California or
Speaker 2: northern California, check for hitting cameras so gross. For more,
Speaker 2: here's ABC ten in San Diego.
Speaker 9: After discovering a hidden camera recording her in a market
Speaker 9: bathroom on Sunday, Rebecca Johnston told.
Speaker 2: Me, how is that somebody's fetish?
Speaker 1: Ever since the Internet became a thing, bizarre fetishes are
Speaker 1: now something that the rest of us are aware.
Speaker 9: Of, and told me she felt a pit in her
Speaker 9: stomach and while she spotted and removed that camera immediately,
Speaker 9: not every device is that obvious, And if you're not
Speaker 9: paying attention, small cameras can be recording you while hidden
Speaker 9: in plain sight.
Speaker 1: It was absolutely sickning.
Speaker 9: Rebecca Johnston was celebrating her birthday at Alboa Park and
Speaker 9: stop by a nearby market to use the restroom. It
Speaker 9: was there, she says, she found a camera.
Speaker 2: I don't even want to know the target demographic that
Speaker 2: this creepad of the grocery store bathroom.
Speaker 1: I want to take a shower. Just after hearing about this,
Speaker 1: it was there.
Speaker 9: She says she found a camera hidden inside a cardboard
Speaker 9: box with a hole cut out of it. Her and
Speaker 9: her boyfriend called nine to one one and then reached
Speaker 9: out to ABC ten News to break the story.
Speaker 5: I mean, there was a pit in my stomach.
Speaker 9: It's far from the first time a recording device was
Speaker 9: hidden in plain sight here in San Diego County. In December,
Speaker 9: Carlsbad police found a camera in the restroom of a
Speaker 9: popular shopping center, and in April, I cover the story
Speaker 9: of four women taking legal action after they discovered their
Speaker 9: alarm clock and charging block were secretly recording them.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, can't you trace these devices to whoever it
Speaker 1: is that's using them and enjoying the contents that they're producing.
Speaker 2: Hopefully you can although sometimes yeah, it's transmitting the video
Speaker 2: or sometimes it's just recording it and then they come
Speaker 2: back to the location it's point and swap out the
Speaker 2: SD card for today's footage I see.
Speaker 10: Unfortunately, they're extremely common. You can you can buy them
Speaker 10: in many places, all kinds of hidden cameras.
Speaker 2: Yes, all this spy equipment is readily available on Amazon,
Speaker 2: as well as a whole bunch of other things that
Speaker 2: you can use to commit crimes like Wi Fi jammers.
Speaker 9: Tom Ham and Bart Santos both own investigation companies that
Speaker 9: identify hidden cameras.
Speaker 10: I think they're made to look like every common device
Speaker 10: you could ever imagine, and that's what makes them almost
Speaker 10: invisible to the average user is they've been placed inside
Speaker 10: of things that we're used to using on a daily basis.
Speaker 10: So just by that familiarity they become in dismal.
Speaker 9: But there's still ways to spot them without the high
Speaker 9: tech equipment.
Speaker 5: You have to look around for things that don't look You've.
Speaker 2: Got to do a screening of your stall before you
Speaker 2: even think about dropping trial.
Speaker 1: Just think about where society is gone, where you have
Speaker 1: to search a stall for bugs before you leave yourself.
Speaker 10: Look out of the ordinary, a statue or something that
Speaker 10: doesn't belong there, Get yourself a really good flashlight, take
Speaker 10: your time, be systematic and asks.
Speaker 2: Usually people that have to use the grocery store bathroom
Speaker 2: are kind of in a hurry.
Speaker 1: And also you don't want to see what's there because
Speaker 1: then you won't use it.
Speaker 9: And ask yourself the question.
Speaker 10: Where would you put a camera where it would have
Speaker 10: a visible line of sight to what it is they're
Speaker 10: actually looking for?
Speaker 2: So while you're sitting there on the toilet, you got
Speaker 2: to say, all right, where would be a direct line
Speaker 2: of sight to my you know what?
Speaker 1: Who is going to do that?
Speaker 9: The San Diego Police Department is investigating the hidden camera
Speaker 9: claims in Banker's Hill, Avia Kershner ABC ten News.
Speaker 2: So there you go, a grocery store near Balboa Park
Speaker 2: in San Diego is where some one thought to put
Speaker 2: up a hidden camera because they wanted to watch what
Speaker 2: was going on in there.
Speaker 1: And this is why, and I know people think I'm crazy.
Speaker 1: I avoid public restrooms at all costs.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's several reasons for that.
Speaker 1: This is just nothing good in there. The eight hundred
Speaker 1: two two two five two two two is the telephone number.
Speaker 1: What eight hundred two two two five two to two
Speaker 1: two and right now it's time to reopen the California
Speaker 1: cry blatter.
Speaker 2: If the catch it is dummy.
Speaker 5: We couldn't make this stuff up if we tried.
Speaker 1: I said, hell no, very boy, let me get up
Speaker 1: one out of here.
Speaker 5: It's the California crime Blowder.
Speaker 1: And Raandy the e bikes have made the blotter yet again.
Speaker 2: Get this, somebody in San Francisco is just sitting in
Speaker 2: his car and then and an e bike crashes into him.
Speaker 2: The e biker claims it's his fault, and then a
Speaker 2: mob of them start beating him relentlessly.
Speaker 1: Well, that's another reason why everyone hates the e bikers.
Speaker 2: For more on these jackass kids, here's ABC seven in
Speaker 2: the Bay.
Speaker 4: It was a normal Sunday drive for John Hidalgo through
Speaker 4: Sina Clara until it wasn't.
Speaker 11: On my left side. I have a fractured rib number
Speaker 11: twelve and my number two lumbar vertebrate was fractured. You know,
Speaker 11: it might not look like I'm severely injured, but you
Speaker 11: know I am in pain.
Speaker 2: Uh, it doesn't look like you're in pain when you've
Speaker 2: got broken ribs, But believe you me he's in excruciating pain.
Speaker 2: When he does anything, he's going to need.
Speaker 1: To go to the chiropractor and get a ring dinger.
Speaker 4: Hidalgo says his car was hit by someone on an
Speaker 4: e bike who ran a light. A larger group, also
Speaker 4: on bicycles arrived and blamed him for the accident.
Speaker 2: Again, how was this his fault?
Speaker 1: Because they're teenagers and their critical thinking skills are awful.
Speaker 2: And somehow when you give them a defecto motorcycle, they
Speaker 2: turn into a little monster.
Speaker 4: Hidalgo found this video of his attack on social media
Speaker 4: and posted it to his account. It shows the group
Speaker 4: brutally beating, kicking, and jumping on Hidalgo and destroying his car.
Speaker 11: I was just fighting for my life, you know. I mean,
Speaker 11: you don't really have time to think. It is unbelievable,
Speaker 11: but it's starting to become kind of the norm now.
Speaker 2: Yep, this is what he bikes are all about. You
Speaker 2: thought they were about saving the planet. No, they're about
Speaker 2: teens turning into little biker gangs.
Speaker 1: An adult having a pack of teens go nuts on them.
Speaker 1: You know what this reminds me of Remember that episode
Speaker 1: of Seinfeld when Kramer was in the karate class.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
Speaker 4: Hidalgo believes this group was part of a rideout, an
Speaker 4: informal bike gathering where riders take over streets, sometimes doing
Speaker 4: dangerous stunts.
Speaker 5: Our cameras captured.
Speaker 4: Video of another ride out on Highway one oh one
Speaker 4: in San Jose, bikers completely slowing traffic behind them. We've
Speaker 4: also reported on other rideouts that turned violent, including one
Speaker 4: where a man was attacked near San Francisco's Aquatic Park.
Speaker 11: It's disheartening.
Speaker 2: You don't hear a whole lot of good stories about
Speaker 2: e bikes. They're only used to irritate people.
Speaker 1: And it's one of these things where it's just teenagers
Speaker 1: who are totally out of control. Where are the parents.
Speaker 1: Why would you buy one of your kids these bikes?
Speaker 1: What are these bikes and then provide zero supervision? What
Speaker 1: do you think is going to happen?
Speaker 2: Well, the whole point of buying them the bike is
Speaker 2: so you don't have to spend time with them, that's true.
Speaker 11: It's disheartening when you think about innocent people that are
Speaker 11: getting effected by this. The next time it happens, are
Speaker 11: they going to kill someone? Is somebody going to be
Speaker 11: tired of what they're doing and run them over.
Speaker 4: Santa Clara police say they are investigating this incident as
Speaker 4: well as others like it throughout the city.
Speaker 11: We got to put a stop to it. When people
Speaker 11: are getting injured and violent crimes are happening, I don't
Speaker 11: think that's too much passed for it.
Speaker 2: Well, unfortunately, California's criminal justice system doesn't do anything to
Speaker 2: juvenile So maybe we have to go settle with this.
Speaker 2: Maybe he needs to lawyer up and sue the parents
Speaker 2: of every single one of those snot nosed brats.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't that be great?
Speaker 2: Hidalgo says he if you buy an e bike for
Speaker 2: your kid, you should be held financially responsible for all
Speaker 2: the damage they do. There are some cities that are
Speaker 2: actually working on ordinances like that. They're doing that in
Speaker 2: Ocean Side.
Speaker 4: Hidalgo says he was lucky and worries the next person
Speaker 4: may not be in Santa Clara. Dustin Dorsey, ABC seven News.
Speaker 2: So there you go, just the latest tale of e
Speaker 2: bike kids doing all kinds of destruction. How many cars
Speaker 2: have these e bikes taken off the road? Oh?
Speaker 1: Zero?
Speaker 2: That's right?
Speaker 1: Well, and how often do we do stories where it
Speaker 1: involves a pack of them beating someone senseless.
Speaker 2: And her mosta beach. It happened when someone had the
Speaker 2: gall to say, you're going too fast.
Speaker 1: Here's some interesting breaking news. Eighty seven year old Congresswoman
Speaker 1: Maxine Waters says that she's running for reelection because of course,
Speaker 1: why not.
Speaker 2: She'll win.
Speaker 1: Listen to this, though, Democrat Mila Robbin, who was elected
Speaker 1: to be the Carson City clerk back in twenty twenty one,
Speaker 1: has just filed FEC paperwork to run in California forty
Speaker 1: three against Maxine Waters.
Speaker 2: She getting primaried. She'll still win.
Speaker 1: She's getting primaried.
Speaker 2: She wins that district in like eighty twenties every single time.
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: But that's against a Republican. If another Democrat runs against her,
Speaker 1: who knows. That's how Swalwell got in. He ran against
Speaker 1: Pete Stark, who had been in Congress since Hector was
Speaker 1: a pop overstayed is welcome, lost his mind, and Smallwell
Speaker 1: was able to win that seat.
Speaker 2: It would be interesting if that's what knocks out mad Max.
Speaker 1: Crazier things have happened, So we'll definitely be keeping an
Speaker 1: eye on that one for you. All right, that's going
Speaker 1: to do it