1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:03,160 Speaker 1: And we continue at two oh five in the afternoon 2 00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:06,840 Speaker 1: on the John Phillips Show. Mister Randy Wangs in Culver City. 3 00:00:06,760 --> 00:00:10,039 Speaker 2: John San Jose mayor and goodn Ontario candidate Matt Mayhan 4 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:13,680 Speaker 2: is calling on Sacramento and Gavin Newsom to suspend the 5 00:00:13,720 --> 00:00:16,440 Speaker 2: guest X and I don't think they're going to listen 6 00:00:16,440 --> 00:00:17,280 Speaker 2: to him. 7 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:20,440 Speaker 1: Well, Gavin Newsom isn't even in the state, so if 8 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:23,200 Speaker 1: we set it on a local radio or television program, 9 00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:27,720 Speaker 1: he definitely didn't see or hear it. Ugh eight hundred 10 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:31,160 Speaker 1: two two two five two two two is telephone number one. 11 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:34,280 Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two. It 12 00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:36,840 Speaker 1: is our pleasure to welcome our next guest to the program. 13 00:00:37,159 --> 00:00:40,000 Speaker 1: He is a long time syndicated columnist, formerly of the 14 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:42,080 Speaker 1: La Times. You used to be able to read him. 15 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:45,360 Speaker 1: Will you ate your morning breakfast and drink your morning coffee. 16 00:00:45,720 --> 00:00:48,800 Speaker 1: He also is the author of the book A Watchman 17 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:52,160 Speaker 1: in the Night, What I've Seen, What I've Seen over 18 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:56,000 Speaker 1: in over fifty years of reporting on America, available online 19 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:58,600 Speaker 1: at Amazon dot com. You can find him online at 20 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:01,400 Speaker 1: cal Thomas dot com and follow him on X at 21 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:04,000 Speaker 1: cal Thomas cal Thomas Welcome. 22 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:07,960 Speaker 3: Thank you, John. Always good to hear your voice. 23 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:11,200 Speaker 1: Well, thanks so much for stopping by. Now I want 24 00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:14,920 Speaker 1: to read for you a statement that was made on 25 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:19,720 Speaker 1: a podcast by Chris Hayes. He's the host on MSNBC 26 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:22,880 Speaker 1: who looks like Rachel Maddow but isn't Rachel Maddow. He is, 27 00:01:22,880 --> 00:01:26,160 Speaker 1: in fact a guy. And here is what he said 28 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:31,200 Speaker 1: on this podcast regarding our very governor Gavin Newsom. Quote. 29 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:34,840 Speaker 1: I think Newsom has a Hillary Clinton problem, which is 30 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:39,040 Speaker 1: that Hillary Clinton was perceived outside the Democratic Party and 31 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:43,360 Speaker 1: the Democratic Coalition as the quote ultimate Lib, like the 32 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:46,480 Speaker 1: libyus lib whoever lived and was never actually like that 33 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:49,920 Speaker 1: much of a Lib. And that's like the worst uncanny 34 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:53,320 Speaker 1: valley for a Democratic politician to be in, where the 35 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:56,440 Speaker 1: base doesn't trust you because you don't have that kind 36 00:01:56,440 --> 00:01:59,880 Speaker 1: of organic relationship with the left parts of the party, 37 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:03,360 Speaker 1: and then the swing voter just thinks like, oh, that's 38 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:04,480 Speaker 1: a lip end. Quote. 39 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:10,080 Speaker 4: Well, I do think that Gavin Newsom and Hillary Clinton 40 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:14,080 Speaker 4: do have one important thing in common, the lack of authenticity, 41 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:18,360 Speaker 4: and I think that's what killed Hillary's campaign, And if 42 00:02:18,760 --> 00:02:21,720 Speaker 4: Newsom is stupid enough to run for president, I think. 43 00:02:21,639 --> 00:02:23,840 Speaker 3: It will kill his campaign. As well. 44 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:27,320 Speaker 4: You mentioned just a moment ago before I came on 45 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:30,320 Speaker 4: that you didn't think that Newsom would give up the 46 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:34,160 Speaker 4: gas tax to lower gasoline prices. Well, you know, asking 47 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:37,880 Speaker 4: a Democrat to give up any tax is like asking 48 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:39,760 Speaker 4: Dracula to swear all blood. 49 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:41,240 Speaker 3: That just didn't going to happen. 50 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:46,040 Speaker 1: Well, your point on authenticity, I think is the nail 51 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:49,480 Speaker 1: on the head, because whenever a politician, Rick Caruso had 52 00:02:49,480 --> 00:02:52,400 Speaker 1: this problem when he ran from Los Angeles, he is 53 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:56,160 Speaker 1: a hard charging Republican businessman who could build things and 54 00:02:56,200 --> 00:02:59,480 Speaker 1: get things done, and then someone convinced him that to 55 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:01,280 Speaker 1: get elect did he had to get rid of his 56 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:05,399 Speaker 1: party registration, become a Democrat and try to convince them 57 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:07,800 Speaker 1: that he was one of them. And I don't know 58 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:11,480 Speaker 1: of anyone Republican or Democrat who believed that Rick Caruso 59 00:03:11,639 --> 00:03:14,240 Speaker 1: was a legit Democrat. They all knew what he was doing, 60 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:18,720 Speaker 1: and that inauthenticity I think cost him the mayoral election 61 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:22,200 Speaker 1: the last time around. That's one thing that voters can do. 62 00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:26,240 Speaker 1: Voters may not read the newspaper front to back every day, 63 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:29,919 Speaker 1: they may not understand the issues in depth, but they 64 00:03:29,960 --> 00:03:33,880 Speaker 1: can sniff out someone who's not authentically themselves. And I 65 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:36,720 Speaker 1: think that that's Galvinism's biggest problem. 66 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:39,840 Speaker 4: Well, you look back to Ronald Reagan and a lot 67 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:42,840 Speaker 4: of Democrats who wound up voting for Reagan. Not only 68 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:46,520 Speaker 4: is California governor, but when he ran and won both 69 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:48,760 Speaker 4: presidential elections in eighty and eighty four. 70 00:03:49,280 --> 00:03:50,360 Speaker 3: They said a lot. 71 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:52,800 Speaker 4: Of them in polling that they might not have agreed 72 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:55,120 Speaker 4: with all of his policies, but they believed that he 73 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:58,120 Speaker 4: was authentic, that he really believed them. And I think 74 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:02,240 Speaker 4: that's what's lacking. And so any of today's politicians, including 75 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:06,320 Speaker 4: a lot of Republicans, frankly, they take polls, they go 76 00:04:06,440 --> 00:04:10,920 Speaker 4: to focus groups, they determine what words are the trigger 77 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:14,920 Speaker 4: words that will energize people to vote for them, But 78 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:17,360 Speaker 4: once they get an office, they're totally different. 79 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:19,120 Speaker 3: I look what John Cornyn just did. 80 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:22,160 Speaker 4: For years, he was against doing away with a filibuster, 81 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:26,640 Speaker 4: the Republican senator from Texas who's running for reelection. Now 82 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:29,479 Speaker 4: he's flipped on that because he wants Trump's endorsement. So 83 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:32,160 Speaker 4: this is not necessarily a one party or other thing. 84 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:33,960 Speaker 3: This is why I think we need. 85 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:37,919 Speaker 4: A Convention of States. We're not going to get term limits, 86 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:40,960 Speaker 4: because the people who would vote for the term limits 87 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:43,560 Speaker 4: have be voting for themselves. But I think a convention 88 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:46,400 Speaker 4: of states to balance the budget, to limit the members 89 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:49,080 Speaker 4: of Congress from no more than two terms in the 90 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:50,640 Speaker 4: Senate and maybe three or four. 91 00:04:50,440 --> 00:04:52,400 Speaker 3: In the House is the only way we can take 92 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:53,040 Speaker 3: back the power. 93 00:04:53,080 --> 00:04:58,719 Speaker 1: Again, well to that point, and you mentioned that currently 94 00:04:58,760 --> 00:05:00,680 Speaker 1: we have a lot of older people in Congress, a 95 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:02,719 Speaker 1: lot of people who have been there a long time. 96 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:06,600 Speaker 1: Certainly when Joe Biden ran for reelection and Diane Feinstein 97 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:09,919 Speaker 1: died in office, those two people put that issue to 98 00:05:09,960 --> 00:05:14,520 Speaker 1: the forefront more than arguably anyone else. But part of 99 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:16,840 Speaker 1: the reason I think why we don't have term limits 100 00:05:16,880 --> 00:05:20,240 Speaker 1: is because when the politics of the electorate changes, it's 101 00:05:20,279 --> 00:05:22,919 Speaker 1: not always a good thing to have the elected's changed 102 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:25,840 Speaker 1: right along with them. I mean, take for example, the 103 00:05:25,839 --> 00:05:29,919 Speaker 1: issue of Israel, where on the Democratic Party New Deal 104 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:33,839 Speaker 1: Democrats were staunch supporters of Israel. You go back and 105 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:35,920 Speaker 1: you listen to what the old timers used to say 106 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:38,560 Speaker 1: about that that was an important plank and they were 107 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:42,720 Speaker 1: important part of the coalition of FDR's New Deal coalition 108 00:05:42,839 --> 00:05:45,839 Speaker 1: that the Democrats, I guess, to a certain extent still 109 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:49,960 Speaker 1: rely on to this day. But those politicians are aging out, 110 00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:54,640 Speaker 1: and the new crop of Democratic politicians are overtly hostile 111 00:05:54,680 --> 00:05:57,280 Speaker 1: in many cases to the state of Israel. I mean, 112 00:05:57,320 --> 00:06:00,360 Speaker 1: take Gavin Newsom, for example, who just came out called 113 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:04,960 Speaker 1: them an apartheid state, something that Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro 114 00:06:05,600 --> 00:06:07,960 Speaker 1: came out this weekend and said that that was over 115 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:10,960 Speaker 1: the line. What do you make of where the Democratic 116 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:13,560 Speaker 1: Party is going right now? And I guess to a 117 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:16,400 Speaker 1: certain extent, not so much with the electeds, but with 118 00:06:16,440 --> 00:06:19,560 Speaker 1: the online crowd on the right, where you have a 119 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:22,239 Speaker 1: lot of people who are right now turning against Israel. 120 00:06:23,960 --> 00:06:27,320 Speaker 3: Yeah, well, let's begin where we ought to begin. 121 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:30,520 Speaker 4: I can't tell you where the Democrat Party is headed 122 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:33,640 Speaker 4: because they can't tell where the Democrat Party is headed. 123 00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:36,080 Speaker 4: They don't know if you ask them for policies, what 124 00:06:36,960 --> 00:06:39,480 Speaker 4: are they for? What are they against? Well, they're against ice. 125 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:42,960 Speaker 4: They don't mind long lines at airports around the country. 126 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:46,800 Speaker 4: They don't mind putting the country in jeopardy because the 127 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:51,039 Speaker 4: Secret Service and other people who are supposed to defend 128 00:06:51,160 --> 00:06:54,200 Speaker 4: us are now leaving work and trying to find other 129 00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:56,520 Speaker 4: jobs so they can pay their rent. They can make 130 00:06:56,920 --> 00:06:59,400 Speaker 4: payments on their cars, they can put food on the table. 131 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:03,279 Speaker 4: Are just shameless now with respect to Israel. What you're seeing, 132 00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:05,440 Speaker 4: I think is the product of a lot of our 133 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:09,560 Speaker 4: universities who have professors that are anti Semitic. We've seen 134 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:11,560 Speaker 4: that at Columbia, We've seen it at some of the 135 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:15,600 Speaker 4: California universities. They teach young people, and this feeds the 136 00:07:15,640 --> 00:07:20,920 Speaker 4: anti Semitism that has unfortunately been writing underneath in this 137 00:07:21,040 --> 00:07:24,280 Speaker 4: country and in Europe still for many, many years. It's 138 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:27,080 Speaker 4: given them permission to say these things. Israel is not 139 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:32,239 Speaker 4: a apartheid nation. Israel is the target of those nations 140 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:35,360 Speaker 4: around her and in other places in Europe too, that 141 00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:39,000 Speaker 4: want to eliminate her. And I think it's a new 142 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:43,280 Speaker 4: form of sophisticated anti Semitism that they were afraid to 143 00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:46,040 Speaker 4: speak before, but now it's out in the open. 144 00:07:47,400 --> 00:07:50,520 Speaker 1: And to be clear, it's okay to criticize the government 145 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:53,000 Speaker 1: of any nation on planet Earth. That you can do 146 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:56,840 Speaker 1: that without being a bigod or someone who has a 147 00:07:56,920 --> 00:08:00,040 Speaker 1: hostility towards certain groups. But when you look at the 148 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:02,840 Speaker 1: definition of what Newsom said, he called it an apartheid state, 149 00:08:03,320 --> 00:08:06,640 Speaker 1: that's not a criticism of net and Yahoo. That's a 150 00:08:06,640 --> 00:08:09,560 Speaker 1: criticism of the state of Israel. When you think about 151 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:13,240 Speaker 1: what apartheid government is, that's what you have. Essentially, an 152 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:17,000 Speaker 1: occupying force move in to take something that doesn't belong 153 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:20,160 Speaker 1: to them, to exploit the land, to exploit the people, 154 00:08:20,440 --> 00:08:23,520 Speaker 1: to discriminate based on race and religion to their own 155 00:08:23,640 --> 00:08:27,920 Speaker 1: personal financial benefit. That's what he's saying about Israel. If 156 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:30,760 Speaker 1: that's not an anti Semitic statement, I don't know what is. 157 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:32,560 Speaker 3: Well. 158 00:08:32,679 --> 00:08:36,080 Speaker 4: You also just described Iran. Iran took over the Iatolas 159 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:38,800 Speaker 4: took over in nineteen seventy nine thanks to Jimmy Carter. 160 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:41,439 Speaker 3: Who over threw the shaw. They went in. They imposed 161 00:08:42,160 --> 00:08:44,040 Speaker 3: a twisted religion and. 162 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:49,559 Speaker 4: A twisted political life that put women in certain costumes 163 00:08:50,120 --> 00:08:53,920 Speaker 4: and denied men certain rights. I mean, it's just Israel 164 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:58,240 Speaker 4: is the only democracy in the region. Israel was created 165 00:08:58,280 --> 00:09:03,000 Speaker 4: in the modern state after the Holocaust so that the 166 00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:06,120 Speaker 4: Jewish people would have a homeland to which they could 167 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:10,000 Speaker 4: flee if they were ever targeted again. And I would 168 00:09:10,080 --> 00:09:12,800 Speaker 4: say that it was their ancient homeland and they have 169 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:16,480 Speaker 4: a right to be there. Israel under Ben Gurion tried 170 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:18,920 Speaker 4: to make a deal with the so called Palestinians the 171 00:09:18,960 --> 00:09:21,800 Speaker 4: Arab nations around him to give him about half of 172 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:24,520 Speaker 4: the land there, and they rejected it because they wanted. 173 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:25,000 Speaker 3: All of the land. 174 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:28,960 Speaker 4: And from then and Yasir Arafont and all of the 175 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:32,120 Speaker 4: other people who who have been regarded as. 176 00:09:32,160 --> 00:09:35,439 Speaker 3: Terrorists and are terrorists or were terrorists. 177 00:09:35,480 --> 00:09:38,360 Speaker 4: Their goal, if you read the Palestinian Covenant and a 178 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:41,160 Speaker 4: lot of these others, with a complete eradication of Israel 179 00:09:41,400 --> 00:09:45,200 Speaker 4: and the Jewish people. They said so they say so openly, 180 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:48,240 Speaker 4: a little more sophisticated now, but that's what their ultimate 181 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:52,360 Speaker 4: goal is. The Muslim brotherhood care all of these other 182 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:56,360 Speaker 4: Muslim groups are completely anti Semitic and eddie Israel. And 183 00:09:56,760 --> 00:09:59,040 Speaker 4: Newsom is totally wrong on this. I'm not sure he 184 00:09:59,080 --> 00:10:02,280 Speaker 4: could spell apart much less to find it. 185 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:05,720 Speaker 1: We're speaking with cal Thomas, so you can follow on 186 00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:09,160 Speaker 1: x at cal Thomas and Calsonce you brought up John 187 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:12,760 Speaker 1: Cornyn in Texas, let's talk about that Senate race, because 188 00:10:12,840 --> 00:10:15,520 Speaker 1: he is a guy who's essentially a Bush Republican. He's 189 00:10:15,559 --> 00:10:18,439 Speaker 1: been in Texas politics for a very long time before 190 00:10:18,480 --> 00:10:21,440 Speaker 1: the state moved to the right, and the state is 191 00:10:21,520 --> 00:10:23,920 Speaker 1: now a Trump state, a state that voted for Donald 192 00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:28,080 Speaker 1: Trump in three consecutive elections. He has an opponent who 193 00:10:28,120 --> 00:10:31,920 Speaker 1: has tried to brand himself as the Maga Maga candidate 194 00:10:32,040 --> 00:10:34,520 Speaker 1: in the race. He's got a lot of personal problems, 195 00:10:34,679 --> 00:10:38,360 Speaker 1: whether it comes to his marriage or corruption. People I 196 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:40,160 Speaker 1: know in the state of Texas tell me that the 197 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:43,680 Speaker 1: guy is about as corrupt as it gets, so certainly 198 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:46,760 Speaker 1: that is one line you don't want to cross. However, 199 00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:49,640 Speaker 1: on the Democratic side of the isle, they nominated a 200 00:10:49,679 --> 00:10:52,319 Speaker 1: guy who's not what you would regard as a blue 201 00:10:52,320 --> 00:10:55,840 Speaker 1: dog Democrat by any stretch of the imagination. He is 202 00:10:56,760 --> 00:10:59,880 Speaker 1: essentially a woke Jimmy Swaggert who has said some true 203 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:03,640 Speaker 1: nutty things in clothing, that there's six different genders, that 204 00:11:03,760 --> 00:11:06,480 Speaker 1: prison is violence, we need to welcome mat at the 205 00:11:06,520 --> 00:11:10,280 Speaker 1: southern border. There should be abortions at the post office. 206 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:12,520 Speaker 1: I mean, you name it. The guy who said it, 207 00:11:12,920 --> 00:11:15,480 Speaker 1: and not just in tweets, but in videos where you 208 00:11:15,520 --> 00:11:18,200 Speaker 1: can play the audio where you can see him saying 209 00:11:18,240 --> 00:11:20,520 Speaker 1: it in real time. What do you make of that 210 00:11:20,640 --> 00:11:21,760 Speaker 1: missive Senate race? 211 00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:26,920 Speaker 4: Well, well, tillericho is is you know, he's described by 212 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:30,880 Speaker 4: the most of the media as a seminarian and a 213 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:33,120 Speaker 4: Christian well, I did the first column on this. There 214 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:36,120 Speaker 4: have been three others since, including the Wall Street Journal 215 00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:38,640 Speaker 4: that had pointed out some of the things you just mentioned. 216 00:11:38,760 --> 00:11:42,120 Speaker 4: He also says God is binary and one of my favorites, 217 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:44,520 Speaker 4: or it could be my favorite. He said that the 218 00:11:44,559 --> 00:11:48,640 Speaker 4: virgin Mary had a choice. She didn't have to accept 219 00:11:48,679 --> 00:11:53,679 Speaker 4: what the Angel said about the Holy Spirit impregnating her 220 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:59,280 Speaker 4: with Jesus. She had a choice, and therefore that legitimizes abortion. 221 00:11:59,559 --> 00:12:03,520 Speaker 4: You know, even a secularist knows the difference on these things, 222 00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:05,960 Speaker 4: and you just shake your head that they get away 223 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:08,200 Speaker 4: with it, but the media never call them out. I'm 224 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:10,840 Speaker 4: glad to see that some of my colleagues are now 225 00:12:10,880 --> 00:12:14,559 Speaker 4: calling him out. Texas is a basically still as you mentioned, 226 00:12:14,640 --> 00:12:17,080 Speaker 4: conservative state, has a lot of Baptists there. 227 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:19,280 Speaker 3: I don't think he's going to win, but. 228 00:12:20,120 --> 00:12:22,439 Speaker 4: You know, this just shows what the condition of our 229 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:26,319 Speaker 4: theology is these days in America. Well, you can get 230 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:29,280 Speaker 4: away with some people of saying that kind of thing. 231 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:31,480 Speaker 1: What do you think is going to happen on the 232 00:12:31,520 --> 00:12:34,360 Speaker 1: Republican side, because that's not resolved yet. 233 00:12:36,360 --> 00:12:39,800 Speaker 4: Well, I think the Republicans are in a better shape 234 00:12:39,840 --> 00:12:42,440 Speaker 4: than the Democrats, and if this war turns out to 235 00:12:42,480 --> 00:12:43,200 Speaker 4: be a victory. 236 00:12:43,280 --> 00:12:44,079 Speaker 3: And Trump just. 237 00:12:44,040 --> 00:12:47,319 Speaker 4: Said another one of his little meetings in the Oval office, 238 00:12:47,880 --> 00:12:51,600 Speaker 4: where Peter Deucy asked him, how soon do you think 239 00:12:51,600 --> 00:12:52,080 Speaker 4: this is going. 240 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:53,559 Speaker 3: To be wrapped up? This week? 241 00:12:53,920 --> 00:12:56,560 Speaker 4: He said, well, no, but I think very soon, and 242 00:12:56,920 --> 00:12:59,199 Speaker 4: we're going to you know, you're going to be very happy. 243 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:01,559 Speaker 4: The oil prices going to go back down, the stock 244 00:13:01,640 --> 00:13:04,679 Speaker 4: market is going to go back up. And if that happens, 245 00:13:05,080 --> 00:13:08,640 Speaker 4: which seems more likely then maybe it did a few 246 00:13:08,679 --> 00:13:11,760 Speaker 4: weeks ago. If that happens, then I think the Democrats 247 00:13:11,800 --> 00:13:14,679 Speaker 4: are just going to be totally without any issues at all, 248 00:13:14,720 --> 00:13:18,480 Speaker 4: because they've been completely against this war. They have been 249 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:22,960 Speaker 4: on record opposing it. Nobody's asked them, really, nobody in 250 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:25,959 Speaker 4: the media. Well, okay, so let's say the war didn't 251 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:29,000 Speaker 4: start it, would you have been okay with Iran getting 252 00:13:29,080 --> 00:13:32,000 Speaker 4: nuclear weapons and threatening not only Israel but at least 253 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:34,719 Speaker 4: the East coast of the United States. Nobody asked them 254 00:13:34,720 --> 00:13:38,320 Speaker 4: that question. You got Rohana out there who thinks that 255 00:13:38,360 --> 00:13:43,640 Speaker 4: the whole war was illegitimate, and I think I saw 256 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:46,600 Speaker 4: he was asked the very question that I just posed. 257 00:13:46,640 --> 00:13:48,840 Speaker 3: Would you be okay with a nuclear weapon? 258 00:13:48,840 --> 00:13:51,560 Speaker 4: In Iran, and I believe he said, well, it would 259 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:54,880 Speaker 4: only be used in that region. Please excuse me. It 260 00:13:54,880 --> 00:13:57,600 Speaker 4: wouldn't just be used in that region. They've already said 261 00:13:57,640 --> 00:13:59,160 Speaker 4: they want to come out to the Great Satan. 262 00:13:59,280 --> 00:13:59,760 Speaker 3: That's us. 263 00:14:01,840 --> 00:14:04,280 Speaker 1: Jill Biden has a book that's going to come out 264 00:14:04,280 --> 00:14:07,400 Speaker 1: before the midterm elections where she is expected to settle 265 00:14:07,440 --> 00:14:10,840 Speaker 1: any number of scores. The first score at the top 266 00:14:10,880 --> 00:14:13,079 Speaker 1: of the list has to be with the former Speaker 267 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:18,000 Speaker 1: the House, your former neighbor, Nancy Pelosi. Joe Biden at 268 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:20,280 Speaker 1: some point is going to have his own book out. 269 00:14:20,520 --> 00:14:22,600 Speaker 1: I would imagine that he's going to tell many of 270 00:14:22,640 --> 00:14:26,280 Speaker 1: the same stories as doctor Jill. What do you make 271 00:14:26,360 --> 00:14:29,800 Speaker 1: of those books coming out before the election and relitigating 272 00:14:29,880 --> 00:14:31,480 Speaker 1: those old wars. 273 00:14:32,360 --> 00:14:34,760 Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I noticed that doctor Jill is not going 274 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:36,880 Speaker 4: to have doctor as part of her title on the book. 275 00:14:36,920 --> 00:14:39,560 Speaker 3: That's kind of an interesting concession. 276 00:14:39,640 --> 00:14:41,880 Speaker 4: So golly, who knew? I mean, you were supposed to. 277 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:44,160 Speaker 4: I thought that was her first name for a long time, 278 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:47,240 Speaker 4: you know, like some people had three names. Doctor Joe 279 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:51,320 Speaker 4: Budd doctor was the first name. I think some score 280 00:14:51,400 --> 00:14:55,240 Speaker 4: settling the media are going to treat it as if 281 00:14:55,280 --> 00:14:59,480 Speaker 4: not gospel then at least I think, actually I. 282 00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:01,800 Speaker 3: Think to ignore it. The reviews are going to be bad. 283 00:15:02,040 --> 00:15:05,520 Speaker 4: I'm sure somebody's writing it for Joe, somebody's writing it 284 00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:08,440 Speaker 4: for Jill, and I don't think it's going to have 285 00:15:08,480 --> 00:15:10,720 Speaker 4: any effect whatsoever. I think they're just going to be 286 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:12,840 Speaker 4: trying to explain themselves, and. 287 00:15:13,160 --> 00:15:14,640 Speaker 3: When you get to the point of. 288 00:15:14,560 --> 00:15:17,200 Speaker 4: Explaining yourself in politics, you've lost the argument. 289 00:15:19,080 --> 00:15:21,360 Speaker 1: Last night was the Oscars. It used to be a 290 00:15:21,360 --> 00:15:24,280 Speaker 1: big night in America. People would watch it, not quite 291 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:26,560 Speaker 1: like the Super Bowl, but a lot of people. Millions 292 00:15:26,600 --> 00:15:30,760 Speaker 1: of people would gather around televisions to watch it. They 293 00:15:30,800 --> 00:15:33,440 Speaker 1: did exactly what you would expect to do. They started 294 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:36,200 Speaker 1: out by thanking whatever Indian tribe it was that once 295 00:15:36,240 --> 00:15:39,960 Speaker 1: occupied the space of the theater where they were hosting 296 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:43,160 Speaker 1: the event. Jimmy Kimmel was out there to take shots 297 00:15:43,160 --> 00:15:46,880 Speaker 1: at Republicans. They took shots at CBS for hiring Barry 298 00:15:46,880 --> 00:15:50,200 Speaker 1: Weiss and all of those sorts of things. It's so 299 00:15:50,680 --> 00:15:56,480 Speaker 1: crazy to me that this crowd doesn't understand that they've 300 00:15:56,680 --> 00:16:00,480 Speaker 1: lost the country. It's wild to me that they don't 301 00:16:01,040 --> 00:16:04,920 Speaker 1: connect the dots of a dropping ticket sales and them 302 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:07,760 Speaker 1: hosting events where they do things like what they did 303 00:16:07,840 --> 00:16:11,200 Speaker 1: last night and alienating half of the country. I think 304 00:16:11,280 --> 00:16:14,600 Speaker 1: due to technology and other things, their sales would be 305 00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:17,360 Speaker 1: down anyway, but for them to just keep their foot 306 00:16:17,400 --> 00:16:19,720 Speaker 1: on the gas pedal, Boy, are they toned deaf? 307 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:23,480 Speaker 4: Well, that's why they're moving to YouTube in a couple 308 00:16:23,520 --> 00:16:26,760 Speaker 4: of years. The ratings are down. People are watching. As 309 00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:30,160 Speaker 4: you said, it's become so predictable. My favorite part of 310 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:33,640 Speaker 4: last night was a kind of mini catfight between Barbara 311 00:16:33,640 --> 00:16:37,600 Speaker 4: Streisand and Jane Fonda. Jane brought it up on the 312 00:16:37,680 --> 00:16:42,040 Speaker 4: Robert Redford tribute reel. Jane said that she'd done more 313 00:16:42,680 --> 00:16:46,400 Speaker 4: movies with Robert Redford than Barbara Streisand did. She'd only 314 00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:49,280 Speaker 4: done one, and I think Jane had done three or four, 315 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:51,240 Speaker 4: So it was kind of a tongue in cheek thing. 316 00:16:51,440 --> 00:16:55,160 Speaker 4: The implication was that I should have been I being Jane, 317 00:16:55,440 --> 00:16:58,360 Speaker 4: should have done the tribute, not Barbara Streisand. Well, maybe 318 00:16:58,400 --> 00:17:00,240 Speaker 4: if Jane could see as well as Barbara strous. 319 00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:03,240 Speaker 3: I said, maybe so, but otherwise, and I thought, for me, 320 00:17:03,480 --> 00:17:06,080 Speaker 3: the best dress was Anne Hathaway. I've always liked her. 321 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:09,600 Speaker 4: She had a beautiful dress on, great earrings, and that's 322 00:17:09,600 --> 00:17:11,680 Speaker 4: about all that I watched. I flipped a you know 323 00:17:11,840 --> 00:17:14,119 Speaker 4: you mentioned about the quality of movies. I've got Turner 324 00:17:14,720 --> 00:17:20,040 Speaker 4: Movie Classics and the AMC movies, these old movies that 325 00:17:20,080 --> 00:17:21,800 Speaker 4: are on they're running a bunch of them, the thirties 326 00:17:21,840 --> 00:17:25,359 Speaker 4: and forties now black and white. On Turner Classic movies, 327 00:17:25,640 --> 00:17:29,520 Speaker 4: there's no foul language, there's no nudity. The scripts were 328 00:17:29,560 --> 00:17:32,320 Speaker 4: a whole lot better. Some of them are really funny. 329 00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:36,240 Speaker 4: And I stopped going to movies years ago. And I'm 330 00:17:36,320 --> 00:17:38,480 Speaker 4: just careful on what I tune in her live streaming 331 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:42,320 Speaker 4: or on some of these channels because everyone, my wife 332 00:17:42,359 --> 00:17:45,440 Speaker 4: and I have a bet on how much time will 333 00:17:45,480 --> 00:17:48,800 Speaker 4: pass before the first use of the F word, and 334 00:17:49,720 --> 00:17:52,080 Speaker 4: I counted one that was about a dozen in the 335 00:17:52,119 --> 00:17:53,920 Speaker 4: first ten minutes of the film. 336 00:17:53,960 --> 00:17:55,600 Speaker 3: Recently, I just can't watch that. 337 00:17:55,600 --> 00:17:58,359 Speaker 4: That's not creative writing that, it's not the old Hollywood. 338 00:17:58,359 --> 00:18:01,320 Speaker 4: There's you know, anybody can cur anybody can blow up 339 00:18:01,359 --> 00:18:03,919 Speaker 4: a car, anybody can shoot somebody. But give me a 340 00:18:03,920 --> 00:18:05,800 Speaker 4: good storyline that holds my attention. 341 00:18:06,560 --> 00:18:10,639 Speaker 1: Very sad cal Thomas, syndicated columnist and author of the 342 00:18:10,680 --> 00:18:12,800 Speaker 1: book A Watchman in the Night. What I've seen in 343 00:18:12,840 --> 00:18:16,520 Speaker 1: over fifty years of reporting on America available online at 344 00:18:16,560 --> 00:18:19,600 Speaker 1: Amazon dot com. You can get Cal online at cal 345 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:22,600 Speaker 1: Thomas dot com and follow him on x at cal 346 00:18:22,720 --> 00:18:24,920 Speaker 1: Thomas Cal Thanks so much for stopping by. 347 00:18:26,520 --> 00:18:28,120 Speaker 3: Always a pleasure. Thank you, John. 348 00:18:28,680 --> 00:18:31,440 Speaker 1: It's the eight hundred two two two five two two 349 00:18:31,440 --> 00:18:34,840 Speaker 1: two is telephone number one. 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Right now, it's time to open up the 367 00:19:29,440 --> 00:19:30,920 Speaker 1: California crime Blodder. 368 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:33,480 Speaker 5: It's happened yet again. 369 00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:35,199 Speaker 1: This wow, Wow, what's up here? 370 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:38,840 Speaker 6: Dun Dun dun dun, dundun dundun. 371 00:19:38,560 --> 00:19:43,000 Speaker 5: Dun reached the Califonia crime Blodder with Jun. 372 00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:48,680 Speaker 1: And this edition takes us to the bank in San 373 00:19:48,680 --> 00:19:49,600 Speaker 1: Diego County. 374 00:19:50,119 --> 00:19:53,600 Speaker 2: Be real careful when you're taking money out of the 375 00:19:53,600 --> 00:19:57,200 Speaker 2: ATM or going to make a big withdrawal, because sometimes 376 00:19:57,680 --> 00:20:00,360 Speaker 2: people like to follow you home and and then they 377 00:20:00,359 --> 00:20:01,119 Speaker 2: take your money. 378 00:20:01,840 --> 00:20:05,440 Speaker 1: For more. Here's Fox five in San Diego. 379 00:20:05,480 --> 00:20:08,159 Speaker 7: A strong warning from a North County family after a 380 00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:10,919 Speaker 7: loved one was followed home from a bank. The thieves 381 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:14,160 Speaker 7: ended up stealing thousands of dollars from the victim. It's 382 00:20:14,200 --> 00:20:18,040 Speaker 7: a crime Sheriff's investigators called bank jugging. Tony Shinn is 383 00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:21,240 Speaker 7: Live and Fallbrooke with surveillance video of the suspects caught 384 00:20:21,240 --> 00:20:21,800 Speaker 7: in that act. 385 00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:28,520 Speaker 8: Tony, Yeah, you know, Christina. In this case, the victim 386 00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:31,199 Speaker 8: had just left this bank that you see behind me. 387 00:20:31,359 --> 00:20:35,320 Speaker 8: He had no idea someone was watching him, and no 388 00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:38,240 Speaker 8: idea thieves were following him home. 389 00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:42,520 Speaker 2: Gotta be real careful when you're taking out cash these days. 390 00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:45,560 Speaker 1: I wonder if this is a big problem in Las Vegas, 391 00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:47,920 Speaker 1: because people go to Las Vegas and if you want 392 00:20:47,920 --> 00:20:50,440 Speaker 1: to play the tables, you're gonna need cash, and you're 393 00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:52,480 Speaker 1: gonna need a lot of it, because now the table 394 00:20:52,520 --> 00:20:55,919 Speaker 1: minimums are so high. So people go to the ATM, 395 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:58,760 Speaker 1: they go to the teller at the bank, whatever bank 396 00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:01,080 Speaker 1: they do business with, they probably have a branch in 397 00:21:01,520 --> 00:21:04,040 Speaker 1: southern Nevada. You take out your money and you go 398 00:21:04,119 --> 00:21:07,479 Speaker 1: straight to the casino. I wonder if this is a 399 00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:08,680 Speaker 1: major problem there. 400 00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:13,200 Speaker 9: He doesn't have any kind of suspicion that anything's going on. 401 00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:17,080 Speaker 10: One and his sister Carol are closely reviewing the surveillance 402 00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:20,960 Speaker 10: video from their parents Fallbrook home. It shows their father, Ridolfo, 403 00:21:21,119 --> 00:21:23,960 Speaker 10: coming home on February twenty fifth, after a trip to 404 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:28,000 Speaker 10: the nearby Chase Bank where he just withdrew thirty five 405 00:21:28,119 --> 00:21:32,240 Speaker 10: hundred dollars in cash so he could buy his brother's car. 406 00:21:32,480 --> 00:21:34,520 Speaker 11: He's walking out with this white envelope from the bank 407 00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:37,800 Speaker 11: and he's getting it into his stuffel bag that he has, 408 00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:41,320 Speaker 11: not realizing that, you know, the white cheap turke he 409 00:21:41,560 --> 00:21:43,160 Speaker 11: was following him all the way. 410 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:45,040 Speaker 12: Home, Carol is talking about this. 411 00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:47,439 Speaker 1: Why you know what's so odd about this story, Randy? 412 00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:51,320 Speaker 1: What's that he got robbed before he could buy the Kia, 413 00:21:51,560 --> 00:21:52,920 Speaker 1: which then would get stolen. 414 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:59,960 Speaker 12: There is that Carol is talking about this white jeep chair. 415 00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:03,320 Speaker 10: In the video, you can see it slowly pass by 416 00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:06,760 Speaker 10: Ridolfo's home. He doesn't notice it as he gets out 417 00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:10,560 Speaker 10: of his truck to go inside and eat lunch. Meantime, 418 00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:15,600 Speaker 10: that white Cherokee continues to go back and forth outside. 419 00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:20,359 Speaker 11: They literally are just driving like a fish in the tank, 420 00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:23,080 Speaker 11: you know, just waiting for their time to hit. 421 00:22:23,280 --> 00:22:26,720 Speaker 10: That's when the Cherokee backs into Ridolpho's parking spot, and 422 00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:30,399 Speaker 10: someone wearing a hoodie quickly jumps out of the back seat. 423 00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:34,520 Speaker 10: The thief opens up the passenger door of Rodolpho's truck 424 00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:38,080 Speaker 10: and grabs the Duffel bag with the thirty five hundred 425 00:22:38,119 --> 00:22:39,320 Speaker 10: dollars in cash. 426 00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:42,000 Speaker 1: Oh, no, no car for Rodolfo. 427 00:22:42,840 --> 00:22:45,240 Speaker 12: The Cherokee then drives off. 428 00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:48,400 Speaker 11: He had a lot of apartment documents in there, he had, spear. 429 00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:51,840 Speaker 2: Boy, if only the person selling that car would have 430 00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:52,680 Speaker 2: taken a check. 431 00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:56,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, what kind of credit does Ridolfo have? Where your 432 00:22:56,520 --> 00:23:00,080 Speaker 1: brother won't take a check from you, then drives off. 433 00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:02,240 Speaker 11: He had a lot of apartment documents in there. He 434 00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:06,640 Speaker 11: had spa keys for work, he had his work phone 435 00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:08,000 Speaker 11: in there, checkbooks. 436 00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:12,760 Speaker 10: Shriff's investigators call this type of crime bank jugging. That's 437 00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:16,520 Speaker 10: when thieves sit outside banks watching for customers who are 438 00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:21,560 Speaker 10: leaving with deposit bags or envelopes that could be filled 439 00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:23,360 Speaker 10: with a lot of cash. 440 00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:26,800 Speaker 2: They then see everything connected with cash as a liability. 441 00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:30,760 Speaker 1: These days, my Chase branch has a bunch of those dumb, 442 00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:35,880 Speaker 1: dumb lollipops. So if anyone ever sees me leaving a bank, 443 00:23:36,359 --> 00:23:38,720 Speaker 1: just so you know, the only thing that I have 444 00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:42,200 Speaker 1: in my possession is about seven or eight stolen lollipops. 445 00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:47,040 Speaker 10: They then secretly follow the customer until they get an 446 00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:50,639 Speaker 10: opportunity to take that bag of money. 447 00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:52,800 Speaker 12: This really hurts the family, doesn't it It does? 448 00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:53,600 Speaker 5: It sure does. 449 00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:57,520 Speaker 10: Carol doesn't want another family to experience this type of 450 00:23:57,560 --> 00:24:01,119 Speaker 10: financial loss, which is why he wants the public to 451 00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:04,280 Speaker 10: see what happened to her father and to be aware 452 00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:08,200 Speaker 10: of their surroundings, especially when walking out of a bank 453 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:10,800 Speaker 10: with a lot of cash, even. 454 00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:11,520 Speaker 1: For a little cash. 455 00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:13,680 Speaker 2: I only go to the bank when I need cash 456 00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:15,439 Speaker 2: because I know I'm gonna have to pay for parking 457 00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:17,919 Speaker 2: somewhere and they won't let me do it through Venmo. 458 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:22,359 Speaker 2: But even when I'm taking forty bucks out, I'm freaking out. 459 00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:26,160 Speaker 1: Well, I could say this at least this didn't have 460 00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:30,360 Speaker 1: it happened in December, so Ridolfo the red nosed Reindeer 461 00:24:30,359 --> 00:24:32,800 Speaker 1: wouldn't come home with no gifts under the tree. 462 00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:35,040 Speaker 12: With a lot of cash. 463 00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:39,439 Speaker 11: Be so cautious and be mindful of your surroundings. Make 464 00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:42,600 Speaker 11: sure you take that money and it goes right away 465 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:43,600 Speaker 11: to where it needs to go. 466 00:24:44,359 --> 00:24:44,960 Speaker 12: Carol says. 467 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:47,840 Speaker 13: Right now, Shares investigators are still trying to find more 468 00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:51,560 Speaker 13: surveillance video to hopefully identify those suspects. If you have 469 00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:56,880 Speaker 13: any information about this case, call crime Stoppers reporting live 470 00:24:56,920 --> 00:24:57,480 Speaker 13: in Falbrook. 471 00:24:57,520 --> 00:24:59,080 Speaker 12: I'm Tony schin Christina will send it. 472 00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:00,199 Speaker 5: Back to you there. 473 00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:04,280 Speaker 2: You go, be real careful when you're taking big sums 474 00:25:04,359 --> 00:25:07,000 Speaker 2: out of the bank because someone could follow you home. 475 00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:12,840 Speaker 1: Here's my suggestion. That white jeep that's at the Luxor 476 00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:18,520 Speaker 1: right now in Las Vegas. All right, Randy, it's time 477 00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:20,760 Speaker 1: to reopen the blotter. He's to catch his dummy. 478 00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:24,280 Speaker 5: We shouldn't make this stuff up. 479 00:25:24,359 --> 00:25:27,440 Speaker 1: If we tried, I said, hell no, baby boy, let 480 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:28,440 Speaker 1: me get up one out of here. 481 00:25:30,119 --> 00:25:32,159 Speaker 5: It's the California crime Bloater. 482 00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:36,960 Speaker 1: Well, another jewelry store got hit, this time in Fremont. 483 00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:39,160 Speaker 1: Fromre on this, we got a kron. 484 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:41,320 Speaker 9: For tonight, we are getting a first look at a 485 00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:44,600 Speaker 9: brazen smash and grab robbery in Fremont. That's our top 486 00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:46,920 Speaker 9: story on Crown four News at nine, streaming on Crown 487 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:47,600 Speaker 9: four Plus. 488 00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:48,760 Speaker 1: I'm Dan Thorn. 489 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:51,520 Speaker 9: The video just released by the Department of Justice shows 490 00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:54,679 Speaker 9: a mob of thieves crashing into a jewelry store and 491 00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:56,680 Speaker 9: stealing lots of expensive jewelry. 492 00:25:56,920 --> 00:25:58,080 Speaker 1: Crawnfo's Jack Momot. 493 00:25:58,200 --> 00:25:59,600 Speaker 5: That's our top story tonight. 494 00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:04,040 Speaker 14: This shocking robbery may have happened last year, but it's 495 00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:06,520 Speaker 14: only now that we're getting into the complete picture into 496 00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:09,560 Speaker 14: what happened here in Fremont, including a group of businesses 497 00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:12,240 Speaker 14: here on this strip banding together to make sure that 498 00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:15,399 Speaker 14: they're not the next target. Dramatic video shows the moments 499 00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:19,320 Speaker 14: a car filled with robbers smashes into a Fremont jewelry store. 500 00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:22,359 Speaker 14: The mast thieves Russian and raid the shop as the 501 00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:23,760 Speaker 14: store owners run for cover. 502 00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:24,600 Speaker 15: Trauma tized. 503 00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:25,680 Speaker 3: Wait. 504 00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:29,200 Speaker 2: I don't know when it happened, but robbers elevated from 505 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:32,640 Speaker 2: sledgehammers to just using the car as a battering ram. 506 00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:35,520 Speaker 2: And I think it's because it's so easy to steal 507 00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:38,240 Speaker 2: a car in California. They're practically worthless. 508 00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:41,320 Speaker 1: And you know what's going to happen now that all 509 00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:43,959 Speaker 1: the jewelry stores are being hit in California, We're going 510 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:46,040 Speaker 1: to be left with no wedding ring left to buy, 511 00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:48,080 Speaker 1: which means all of us are going to end up 512 00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:48,760 Speaker 1: living in sin. 513 00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:52,440 Speaker 14: Dramatic video shows the moments a car filled with robbers 514 00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:56,400 Speaker 14: smashes into a Fremont jewelry store. The mast thieves Russian 515 00:26:56,560 --> 00:26:59,320 Speaker 14: and raid the shop as the store owners run for cover. 516 00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:02,440 Speaker 5: We feel very unsafe. 517 00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:05,679 Speaker 14: This national Grab robbery happened at Kumar Jewelers at the 518 00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:09,240 Speaker 14: Maori East shopping Center last June. The store's owner did 519 00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:11,280 Speaker 14: not want to go on camera, but told us they've 520 00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:13,639 Speaker 14: been trying hard to keep their business open since the 521 00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:16,480 Speaker 14: brazen robbery across the way at Niche business. 522 00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:19,720 Speaker 2: I mean, and remember, part of the reason it's so difficult, 523 00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:23,080 Speaker 2: especially as a jeweler, after you get robbed, is most 524 00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:25,600 Speaker 2: jewelers do not have insurance. 525 00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:28,920 Speaker 1: I would like to do this topic sometime when it's 526 00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:32,399 Speaker 1: a slow news day. I think it's just not jewelers. 527 00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:36,880 Speaker 1: I think there are tons of small businesses in California 528 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:41,639 Speaker 1: that have no insurance because it's either super expensive or 529 00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:43,280 Speaker 1: not even available to them. 530 00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:49,440 Speaker 14: Across the way at Niche Business Cafe, se Vona Nishkati says, 531 00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:52,520 Speaker 14: the entire strip of businesses has felt the ripple effects. 532 00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:52,760 Speaker 5: Of this crime. 533 00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:56,160 Speaker 15: Like after I got these thinks to the metal verson up, 534 00:27:56,400 --> 00:27:59,119 Speaker 15: reinstalled and outlet, I feel a little bit more safe. 535 00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:01,840 Speaker 2: And while four why nothing is as inviting as a 536 00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:04,320 Speaker 2: jewelry star that's got black metal bars on it. 537 00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:06,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I keep moving. 538 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:08,359 Speaker 15: I feel a little bit more safe. 539 00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:10,480 Speaker 14: And while four of the more than a dozen thieves 540 00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:13,680 Speaker 14: were arrested last year, the threat of robberies and burglaries 541 00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:14,600 Speaker 14: has not gone away. 542 00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:18,080 Speaker 15: A lot of shops in this shopping center got broken in. 543 00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:21,640 Speaker 15: The pizza shop they got broken in twice. The jewelry 544 00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:23,960 Speaker 15: shop got broken in, and a lot of the places 545 00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:24,639 Speaker 15: got broken in. 546 00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:28,119 Speaker 14: Niche Business Cafe has also fallen victim to smash and grabs. 547 00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:30,680 Speaker 15: They still the create bad machine and they hagged into 548 00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:31,480 Speaker 15: the bank account. 549 00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:32,879 Speaker 5: The trauma is trumendous. 550 00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:36,320 Speaker 15: So when we get to traumatized, that that healing from that, 551 00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:38,680 Speaker 15: like the like the you. 552 00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:41,840 Speaker 2: Probably look at every single customer shifty eyed for months 553 00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:43,160 Speaker 2: and months and months. 554 00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:45,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's not going to be good for. 555 00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:49,120 Speaker 15: Sales violation, that my privacy being validated. 556 00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:50,840 Speaker 5: That is that is quite a. 557 00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:53,400 Speaker 14: Lot businesses along the shopping center have installed gates and 558 00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:56,520 Speaker 14: ballards to curb future break in, many saying that security 559 00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:59,200 Speaker 14: patrols have made them feel safer, but they still notice 560 00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:01,240 Speaker 14: people hanging around the area late at night. 561 00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:06,160 Speaker 15: You see the police patrolling. But also, I think it'll 562 00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:10,320 Speaker 15: be good to have programs for the people who are 563 00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:11,640 Speaker 15: very unfortunate so. 564 00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:12,720 Speaker 5: That wait what. 565 00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:17,400 Speaker 1: She buys into it too? You see this is the problem. 566 00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:20,560 Speaker 1: I can tell you right now. She votes the wrong way. 567 00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:23,360 Speaker 1: None of this is going to change until you start 568 00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:29,520 Speaker 1: voting differently. So in order to prevent the burglars from 569 00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:32,880 Speaker 1: crashing into your business with a car, we need some 570 00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:36,800 Speaker 1: after school programs. Okay, I'm less sympathetic than I was 571 00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:37,600 Speaker 1: two minutes ago. 572 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:43,200 Speaker 15: But also I think it'll be good to have programs 573 00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:46,440 Speaker 15: for the people who are very unfortunate so that they 574 00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:50,320 Speaker 15: can be involved and. 575 00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:53,960 Speaker 2: The You know, it's worth pointing out when people make 576 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:59,880 Speaker 2: this insane argument. California has the most people in pover 577 00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:04,680 Speaker 2: in the entire country, and the vast, vast, vast majority 578 00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:07,680 Speaker 2: of those poor people do not steal. 579 00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:12,480 Speaker 1: No, no, But she's been brainwashed. So even as the 580 00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:14,880 Speaker 1: victim of the crime, she has to bend the need 581 00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:15,600 Speaker 1: to the criminal. 582 00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:19,080 Speaker 15: The crime rate can go down, and then it's good 583 00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:20,960 Speaker 15: for everybody community in the businesses. 584 00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:23,840 Speaker 14: We reached out to the Fremont Police Department to talk 585 00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:26,960 Speaker 14: about the general safety in this shopping center, some of 586 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:29,440 Speaker 14: the stats that are related to that safety and any 587 00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:32,040 Speaker 14: improvements they could make or are planning to make to 588 00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:34,720 Speaker 14: this shopping center, and have yet to hear back reporting 589 00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:37,080 Speaker 14: here in Fremont, Jack mulmud Crawn four News. 590 00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:41,000 Speaker 2: There you go, that's what happened when yet another jewelry 591 00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:44,640 Speaker 2: store got smashed and grabbed, this time in Fremont. 592 00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:48,480 Speaker 1: Keep voting the same way, sweetheart. The only inventory you'll 593 00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:53,040 Speaker 1: be left with the ring pops. Let's go to Dave 594 00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:54,520 Speaker 1: and WHITTI or Dave, Hello. 595 00:30:56,080 --> 00:30:59,960 Speaker 16: Hi guys, two things all right, we need to get 596 00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:04,680 Speaker 16: rid of this Attorney General Bonta in this election and 597 00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:08,120 Speaker 16: get Michael Gates in there. That's a huge problem. This guy, 598 00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:12,239 Speaker 16: because he caddles the criminals, doesn't want to prosecute them. 599 00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:15,120 Speaker 16: But let me tell you another problem, and it's locally. 600 00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:18,840 Speaker 16: It's called community policing. When you hear a city council 601 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:22,719 Speaker 16: woman or a city councilman say that on their website 602 00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:26,800 Speaker 16: that they want community policing, thatsine a buzzword, a stealth 603 00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:31,560 Speaker 16: word for defunding the police. We have three people in 604 00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:35,880 Speaker 16: Whittier who are Democrats who are running. Okay, we have 605 00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:39,680 Speaker 16: a majority Republican on our city council. These people Vicki 606 00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:46,360 Speaker 16: Fantana District too Democrat. We have Ada Mecedo in district 607 00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:49,960 Speaker 16: for running. Then we have James Vissarah running premiere. He 608 00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:55,000 Speaker 16: won't win. But these people, they are stealthy. They will 609 00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:59,720 Speaker 16: put police, defunding the police, a new sales tax, and 610 00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:03,920 Speaker 16: uh you name it, the whole gamut. So you got it. Folks, locally, 611 00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:06,840 Speaker 16: you gotta run against You gotta help your Republicans keep 612 00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:09,920 Speaker 16: your majorities on your city council, can help the Republicans 613 00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:13,800 Speaker 16: win building for your city of these Democrats. 614 00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:17,040 Speaker 1: Thank you for the call, Sir, I appreciate it. Eight 615 00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:19,880 Speaker 1: hundred two two two five two two two is the 616 00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:23,320 Speaker 1: telephone number one eight hundred two two two five two 617 00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:25,840 Speaker 1: two two. If you'd like to email the show, you 618 00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:28,200 Speaker 1: can do so at Johnny don't like show at gmail 619 00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:32,680 Speaker 1: dot com. That's Johnny don't like show at gmail dot com. 620 00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:36,560 Speaker 1: And right now it's time to reopen the California crime Blodder. 621 00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:43,880 Speaker 2: It's happened yet again, Nye see time for the California 622 00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:46,600 Speaker 2: crime Blodder and Randy. 623 00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:50,600 Speaker 1: This one involve more Jackgass teens on e bikes. 624 00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:55,080 Speaker 2: This time in the Marina District in San Francisco, where 625 00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:59,640 Speaker 2: a man just trying to get around town gets accosted 626 00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:04,400 Speaker 2: by a mob of teen e bikers. For more, tale 627 00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:07,280 Speaker 2: is old as time, here's ABC seven in the. 628 00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:15,960 Speaker 17: Bay Trapped and terrified. There's some alliteration for you, trapped 629 00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:16,920 Speaker 17: and terrified. 630 00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:19,040 Speaker 7: Cry. 631 00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:26,240 Speaker 6: I still am a little shook up about it, to 632 00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:29,760 Speaker 6: be honest, but again, I'm just lucky that me and 633 00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:31,360 Speaker 6: my friends are all okay. 634 00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:34,320 Speaker 17: The moments a ride out in San Francisco turned violent 635 00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:36,880 Speaker 17: shared in a social media video that's now part. 636 00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:38,520 Speaker 12: Of a SFPD investigation. 637 00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:42,280 Speaker 17: Isaac Auerbach says dozens of teens on bicycles surrounded his 638 00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:44,400 Speaker 17: car after he and his friends were leaving the Red 639 00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:46,720 Speaker 17: Bull event in the Marina District on Saturday. 640 00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:50,360 Speaker 6: One of these random kids decides to grope one of 641 00:33:50,360 --> 00:33:51,320 Speaker 6: my friend's breasts. 642 00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:55,200 Speaker 1: WHOA, whoa, aren't you a little young for that boy? 643 00:33:55,520 --> 00:33:58,240 Speaker 2: She then I'm telling you there's something about the e 644 00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:02,160 Speaker 2: bikes that turns these kids into invincible monsters. 645 00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:06,040 Speaker 1: Or maybe what they're doing is they're looking at the 646 00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:09,479 Speaker 1: news and they're saying, Okay, the airports are all shut down. 647 00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:13,160 Speaker 1: Maybe I have a shot at being a TSA agent. 648 00:34:14,160 --> 00:34:17,000 Speaker 1: What do I have to do to have the skill 649 00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:19,640 Speaker 1: set to do that job? I do grow up a 650 00:34:19,640 --> 00:34:20,320 Speaker 1: bunch of women. 651 00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:24,560 Speaker 6: She then turns around and throws a drink at him, 652 00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:27,360 Speaker 6: and another one rolls up on me, spits in my face, 653 00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:28,920 Speaker 6: and then the first guy that rolled up on me 654 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:32,880 Speaker 6: socks me in the face, and they just start destroying 655 00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:33,520 Speaker 6: my car. 656 00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:37,080 Speaker 17: Broken glass, visible damage, and even a shoeprint left behind. 657 00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:42,960 Speaker 2: Well, now we know who did it, Puma. 658 00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:44,840 Speaker 1: We even know the size. 659 00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:48,560 Speaker 17: A nightmare scenario for our back's mother, Jasmine Freeman. 660 00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:49,920 Speaker 18: He must have been so scared. 661 00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:53,960 Speaker 6: All these kids are just looking for trouble. They want 662 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:55,800 Speaker 6: to hurt people, They want to cause trouble. 663 00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:58,400 Speaker 2: I wonder how many of these kids got e bikes 664 00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:02,480 Speaker 2: thanks to the California the Air Resources Boards voucher program 665 00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:06,439 Speaker 2: where we gave parents two thousand dollars off of these 666 00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:10,640 Speaker 2: things to quote take cars off the road. That really 667 00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:13,719 Speaker 2: does add insult to injury, doesn't it. Where this guy 668 00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:16,000 Speaker 2: now knows that his tax dollars funded this. 669 00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:19,520 Speaker 6: It's ridiculous and it's getting really out of hand. 670 00:35:19,719 --> 00:35:22,840 Speaker 18: You know when your son, who is a good kid 671 00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:27,720 Speaker 18: and who is responsible and respectful, who doesn't get in trouble, 672 00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:32,000 Speaker 18: calls you in absolute panic. Yeah, it was really scary. 673 00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:34,319 Speaker 17: Freeman says. She reached out to us because of our 674 00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:38,200 Speaker 17: reporting on similar incidents, including another in San Francisco and 675 00:35:38,239 --> 00:35:41,360 Speaker 17: one in Santa Clara. John Hidalgo suffered broken ribs in 676 00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:44,319 Speaker 17: Vertebrae after that attack, which was also shared by the 677 00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:47,000 Speaker 17: writers on social media. We talked to him Thursday and 678 00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:49,160 Speaker 17: he told us he still has yet to hear an 679 00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:52,360 Speaker 17: update from Santa Clara police about the incident. Freeman hopes 680 00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:55,280 Speaker 17: raising awareness of the attacks will lead to safer streets 681 00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:55,680 Speaker 17: for all. 682 00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:57,960 Speaker 18: It seems like these kids are in every city. So 683 00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:01,719 Speaker 18: I'm just hopeful that by getting more exposure. 684 00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:05,080 Speaker 2: And how much damage has been done based on you know, 685 00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:09,480 Speaker 2: just in the last twelve months, based on the California 686 00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:12,960 Speaker 2: Air Resources Board giving out these e bikes like Candy. 687 00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:16,480 Speaker 1: Well, and there has to be something about the sociology 688 00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:22,279 Speaker 1: of a pack of teenagers on fast moving bicycles where 689 00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:25,880 Speaker 1: you put them together in a group. Individually, they're probably fine, 690 00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:28,600 Speaker 1: but you put them together in a group and suddenly 691 00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:30,200 Speaker 1: they become the Hell's Angels. 692 00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:32,759 Speaker 18: It seems like these kids are in every city, So 693 00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:36,640 Speaker 18: I'm just hopeful that by getting more exposure and you know, 694 00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:40,160 Speaker 18: people finding out more about it, that people will start 695 00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:41,040 Speaker 18: reporting it more. 696 00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:43,919 Speaker 17: Freeman says she reached out to Mayor Daniel Lurry's office, 697 00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:47,800 Speaker 17: who connected her with SFPD. Police confirmed our Back's accountant 698 00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:51,440 Speaker 17: said the investigation is ongoing, but no arrests have been made. 699 00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:54,359 Speaker 17: Anyone with information should contact SFPD. 700 00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:58,719 Speaker 2: Well, good luck going after the juveniles, because we don't 701 00:36:58,719 --> 00:37:02,080 Speaker 2: really do that in the state to California, which leads 702 00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:05,480 Speaker 2: to the fact that they think they're invincible. Part of 703 00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:08,520 Speaker 2: the reason that the teens are so out of control 704 00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:10,759 Speaker 2: is because a lot of them are smart enough to 705 00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:13,320 Speaker 2: know that they're not really going to get in trouble 706 00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:14,520 Speaker 2: for anything that they do. 707 00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:18,279 Speaker 1: No, and if you know you can't punish them, and 708 00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:21,560 Speaker 1: you know you're not going to change the psychology of 709 00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:24,560 Speaker 1: these kids when they get on these bikes, what you 710 00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:25,960 Speaker 1: have to do is you just have to take the 711 00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:29,160 Speaker 1: bikes away. You have to start regulating them like their 712 00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:31,840 Speaker 1: motorcycles and say you need a driver's license to be 713 00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:36,000 Speaker 1: able to ride them. You need to make sure that teenagers, 714 00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:38,719 Speaker 1: if they're caught doing that, you find the parent, so 715 00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:41,520 Speaker 1: the parents feel the pain in their pocketbook, And for 716 00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:45,560 Speaker 1: heaven's sake, you need to stop subsidizing it. Because if 717 00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:49,520 Speaker 1: putting these teenagers on these e bikes allows you to 718 00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:51,839 Speaker 1: patch yourself on the back and say that you're being 719 00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:56,000 Speaker 1: green and you're spending cap and trade money appropriately, you're not. 720 00:37:56,880 --> 00:38:01,480 Speaker 1: You're financing these little terrorists to all around harassing people. 721 00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:06,400 Speaker 1: And I don't understand why the parents don't put their 722 00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:06,959 Speaker 1: foot down. 723 00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:10,319 Speaker 2: Well, these are probably parents that don't spend a lot 724 00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:12,040 Speaker 2: of time with their kids, which is why they got 725 00:38:12,080 --> 00:38:12,759 Speaker 2: them the e byke. 726 00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:15,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, could you show your face in public 727 00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:18,160 Speaker 1: if your kid was harassing all the elderly people on 728 00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:24,320 Speaker 1: your block. These parents need to get with the program, 729 00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:26,000 Speaker 1: all right. That's it for us today