Speaker 1: And we continue at two oh five in the afternoon
Speaker 1: on The John Phillips Show, broadcasting live from Claremont, California.
Speaker 1: As I said at the top of the show, the
Speaker 1: Land of Trees and PhDs, and we're here Randy for
Speaker 1: tonight's big gubernatorial debate.
Speaker 2: We were lucky enough to be invited by CBS News Investigates.
Speaker 2: Is Julie Watts, who's one of the moderators tonight of
Speaker 2: the debate that's being aired on all CBS stations in California,
Speaker 2: CBSLA Channel two, Channel nine, KPIX five in the Bay,
Speaker 2: CBS thirteen Sacramento, CBS eight in San Diego, and all
Speaker 2: the stations and all the smaller markets. The debate is
Speaker 2: at five thirty. It's going to go on for an
Speaker 2: hour and a half. They are also going to be
Speaker 2: streaming it on all the YouTube channels, whether it's CBSLA,
Speaker 2: CBS Sacramento, KPIX, which of course I subscribe to all
Speaker 2: of them. And this debate is going to be a
Speaker 2: little different from the others because it is going to
Speaker 2: have all eight of the current top candidates running, which
Speaker 2: means you're going to see Steve Hilton, you're going to
Speaker 2: see Tom Steyer.
Speaker 3: You're a big ass crisis.
Speaker 2: You're gonna see Javier Baccaria scrub it. You're gonna see
Speaker 2: Chad Bianco, You're gonna see Katie Porter out of my shot.
Speaker 2: You're gonna see Matt Mahon. You're gonna see Antonio via Ragosa.
Speaker 2: And you're going to see Tony Thurman, who just released
Speaker 2: this ad.
Speaker 4: We'll arrest ice agency, break our laws and then tell Trump.
Speaker 1: Did they catch that in San Francisco. Stop. So that
Speaker 1: is the debate that is going on tonight.
Speaker 2: It is we're literally a week away from people getting
Speaker 2: their ballots, so this could be one of the most
Speaker 2: important debates because by the time the other debates happened,
Speaker 2: some people they have already voted. You've got this debate
Speaker 2: on the CBS stations tonight. Next Tuesday, I believe you
Speaker 2: have the CNN debate hosted by Alex Michaelson. And then
Speaker 2: on Thursday. Next Thursday, NBCLA is going to do a
Speaker 2: debate where it's first an hour of la mayor debate.
Speaker 2: They haven't said who is attending that debate, and then
Speaker 2: the governor's debate.
Speaker 1: Well, if there's any race where you could make the
Speaker 1: argument that all of the lower polling candidates should be included.
Speaker 1: It's this one because there's been so much fluidity in
Speaker 1: the race where you've seen people in single digits pop
Speaker 1: up to double digits, most recently with Javier Bessera. You've
Speaker 1: seen candidates and single digits who have been able to
Speaker 1: raise large sums of money. That usually only happens when
Speaker 1: you're pulling well, pulling in first, second, or third. Matt
Speaker 1: Mahon has been able to do that. You have candidates
Speaker 1: pulling in single digits who have run statewide before, Vira
Speaker 1: Gosa and Tony Thurman. So you could make the argument
Speaker 1: that you would be better off having more people on
Speaker 1: stage as opposed to fewer. Now, if you have a
Speaker 1: contest where you have one candidate who's pulling way ahead
Speaker 1: of everyone else, or two candidates who are polling way
Speaker 1: ahead of everyone else, then yeah, it doesn't make sense
Speaker 1: to include the one percenters. But in this particular race,
Speaker 1: I think you should include them, and I think they're
Speaker 1: doing it the right way tonight. Well, and what's going to.
Speaker 2: Be great is you know, those lower polling candidates, this
Speaker 2: may be the last time they're ever on a debate stage.
Speaker 2: For certain candidates for any office ever, and they've got
Speaker 2: nothing to lose. If there's any ammunition you've been saving,
Speaker 2: if there's any opo you've been saving. The voting starts
Speaker 2: in a week, so this is your last chance to
Speaker 2: get it out there on a big stage. This is
Speaker 2: also this debate is going to be broadcast nationally on
Speaker 2: CBS's website, so a lot of people are going to
Speaker 2: be paying attention to this debate. So if any anybuddy
Speaker 2: is sitting on anything, we know that the campaign strategist
Speaker 2: who's connected to Antonio Viragosa keeps teasing all the things
Speaker 2: he has and all the other candidates. At some point,
Speaker 2: you got to put that stuff out there. One of
Speaker 2: the scandals that could be mentioned tonight, particularly since Xavier
Speaker 2: Bessera is starting to pop in the polls, is the
Speaker 2: Data Williamson scandal, former top aid to California Governor Gavin Newsom,
Speaker 2: former top aid to Javier Bisera before he became Secretary
Speaker 2: of Health and Human Services, who is now potentially looking
Speaker 2: at a plea deal with the Feds. And we have
Speaker 2: an update on the Dana Williamson scandal.
Speaker 1: Scrub it for more on this and by the way.
Speaker 2: You know what you have to do if you're a
Speaker 2: doctor before you give a liver transplant.
Speaker 1: Scrub it. Oh well, that seems reasonable.
Speaker 2: Here is case A three and Ashley Zavala because of course.
Speaker 5: Update right now in the case against Governor Gavin Newsom's
Speaker 5: ex chief of staff Dana Williamson, Williamson is facing nearly
Speaker 5: two dozen federal charges related to stolen political funds, falsifying documents,
Speaker 5: and tax fraud.
Speaker 6: That's a long list. Williamson was expected to be back.
Speaker 1: Inh Wait a minute, now that Dana Williamson has a
Speaker 1: new liver, do you think she's going to be watching
Speaker 1: the debate tonight or do you think she's going to
Speaker 1: be a happy hour?
Speaker 2: Don't they have to like give you a couple of
Speaker 2: months where you're not allowed to drink or do you
Speaker 2: have to like get that thing into high gear immediate?
Speaker 1: Listen, if you buy a brand new corvette, are you
Speaker 1: going to pay attention to the speed limit the first
Speaker 1: time you take that thing out for a spin? Or
Speaker 1: are you going to see what it has?
Speaker 2: But if you wreck the new one, will they give
Speaker 2: you yet another one?
Speaker 1: Well, you just go buy one from China.
Speaker 6: Expected to be back in court this week. Case Harry
Speaker 6: three political director ashues of Alla joins us.
Speaker 1: Now, maybe that's what all of those trips to Mexico
Speaker 1: are for? What scouting a new liver Dary.
Speaker 7: Three political director ashes of Alla joins US, now with
Speaker 7: what court filing show today?
Speaker 6: Lisa andre I.
Speaker 1: Told you at one point I knew someone who went
Speaker 1: to drug rehab in Mexico, didn't I, Oh, please tell
Speaker 1: me that story. Yeah, they went to drug rehab in Mexico,
Speaker 1: which when I found out about that, I thought, that's
Speaker 1: like going to fat camp in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 6: Lisa and Andrea court record show.
Speaker 8: Williamson's court date is getting pushed back again because her
Speaker 8: attorneys and the federal government appear to be negotiating a
Speaker 8: possible plea deal. Federal prosecutors have accused Williamson of various.
Speaker 2: Crimes and because he does seem to want to be
Speaker 2: stirring the pot all the time, didn't Trhio tweet out
Speaker 2: this story and being like, see what happened the day
Speaker 2: after I made allegations that Besarah knew more than he said.
Speaker 2: Now they're looking to make a deal.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, or maybe she's just ready to make a
Speaker 1: plea deal now because she's perfected the art of making
Speaker 1: toilet tank wine.
Speaker 2: Federal prosecute, I think they call it Bruno Johnny.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, She's going to be the Bartles and James
Speaker 1: in that penitentary.
Speaker 8: Federal prosecutors have accused Williamson of various crimes stemming from
Speaker 8: three separate incidents. That includes organizing a scheme to steal
Speaker 8: two hundred and twenty five thousand dollars in funds from
Speaker 8: an inactive political campaign account belonging to former US Health
Speaker 8: and Human Services Secretary Javier Bassetta.
Speaker 2: What does it say about not only Dana but her
Speaker 2: co conspirator in this that they knew that they could
Speaker 2: be running this scheme for years and Bessarah was not
Speaker 2: going to know any better.
Speaker 1: Now, when you do the scrub, this is where his
Speaker 1: explanation makes no sense. Hi, I want to be in
Speaker 1: charge of the largest state the Union and the fourth
Speaker 1: largest economy in the world, and i want to make
Speaker 1: sure that I'm in charge of the budget and the
Speaker 1: money and the spending, and I'm not going to let
Speaker 1: anyone steal from the state of California like what we
Speaker 1: saw happen with the EDD fraud or what's going on
Speaker 1: with those phony Bologne High hospice centers in the San
Speaker 1: Fernando Valley. At the same time, when you ask him, well,
Speaker 1: how come Dana Williamson was able to steal ten thousand
Speaker 1: dollars a month out of a dormant account that belonged
Speaker 1: to you? And the answer is, well, I'm the village idiot.
Speaker 1: How should I know?
Speaker 2: My favorite part of that interview, well, specifically that part
Speaker 2: of that interview is when Zabala says, so you were swindled.
Speaker 1: He was snookerd.
Speaker 6: Belonging to toad wings belonging to former.
Speaker 8: US Health and Human Services Secretary Javier Bassetta, who is
Speaker 8: also running for California governor.
Speaker 2: Now, if you didn't get to watch that entire thirty
Speaker 2: five minute interview, it is a great interview. Ashley Zabala
Speaker 2: does a wonderful job. But I have one piece of advice.
Speaker 2: If you're going to watch that interview, you do not
Speaker 2: play the HHS drinking game. If you take a shot
Speaker 2: every single time Javier Basera name drops that he was
Speaker 2: secretary of JHS, you will wake up in the emergency room.
Speaker 1: You're going to be like data and need a new liver.
Speaker 6: In separate incidents.
Speaker 8: The federal government also accuses her of falsifying documents as
Speaker 8: she was being investigated for taking small business loans during
Speaker 8: the pandemic, and she's also accused of tax fraud.
Speaker 1: She's just going after everybody. Boy, she just checked all
Speaker 1: the boxes, didn't she.
Speaker 2: And this is one of the most connected, most powerful
Speaker 2: people in Sacramento. Didn't she make the one of the
Speaker 2: didn't she make the California Democratic Party put a statue
Speaker 2: of her kid on the building?
Speaker 1: She did right out front. That is weird.
Speaker 8: Now, in a joint court filing today from both sides
Speaker 8: of this case, attorneys for Williamson and the federal government wrote, quote,
Speaker 8: the parties are engaged in active discussions toward resolving the case.
Speaker 8: If a plea agreement is not reached by May fourteenth,
Speaker 8: the parties intend to request at that status conference that
Speaker 8: the case be set for jury trial.
Speaker 9: Now.
Speaker 8: Authorities arrested Williamson back in November for the alleged crimes.
Speaker 6: Her coken be, who helped organize.
Speaker 8: The system to steal Bessera's funds, have pled guilty and
Speaker 8: had plea agreements in place at the time that Williamson's
Speaker 8: case was made public.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why she's working on a deal, because they
Speaker 2: already have the goods to go against her and put
Speaker 2: her away for a long time. Well, she's not exactly
Speaker 2: deft on covering her tracks. Wouldn't she stay up late
Speaker 2: at night, get loaded and then call everyone up and
Speaker 2: threaten them on behalf of the governor?
Speaker 1: That was her job.
Speaker 8: Now, Williamson not only served as Governor Gavin Newsom's chief
Speaker 8: of staff, but also as a campaign manager and advisor
Speaker 8: to Javier Bessetta, who is running for governor again.
Speaker 2: What does it say about Besarah's judgment that so many
Speaker 2: crooks were in his employ Yeah, Eddie.
Speaker 1: Goes, well, how could I tell she was stealing from me?
Speaker 10: Oh?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe red flag should have been going
Speaker 1: off when she'd call you at three in the morning
Speaker 1: and she'd start screaming at you in between glug glug, glug,
Speaker 1: glug glug glug glug.
Speaker 8: Did that in his capacity when he was running for
Speaker 8: Attorney General. Now, through the scheme, Williamson allegedly helped organize
Speaker 8: up to ten thousand dollars a month in payments were
Speaker 8: coming out of Bassera's account, which experts say is an
Speaker 8: outrageous amount of money. Bessera has said he was a
Speaker 8: victim and had no idea.
Speaker 6: I pressed him about it.
Speaker 2: I was just totally thought that ten thousand dollars a
Speaker 2: month payment was legit.
Speaker 1: Now this is apropos of nothing, and I don't want
Speaker 1: to insult anyone when I say this, but I've just
Speaker 1: noticed a pattern here. What's the deal with fat women
Speaker 1: and very expensive handbags? Do you think that if you
Speaker 1: have the handbag as an accessory it makes you look thinner?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 2: That's actually an old TV show trick. When an actress
Speaker 2: is pregnant but the character's not pregnant, they usually have
Speaker 2: a big handbag that they're always wearing or they're holding
Speaker 2: in front of their stomach.
Speaker 1: Because that's what she was buying with the money, right,
Speaker 1: she was buying the very expensive handbags. Yes, while she
Speaker 1: was down at the five star resorts.
Speaker 8: I pressed him about this when I interviewed him for
Speaker 8: California Politics through sixty last week. Through your congressional campaigns,
Speaker 8: I mean dating back to the nineties, like, never once
Speaker 8: did you pay that amount for this kind of maintenance
Speaker 8: for legal services for nothing? I mean, like, did you
Speaker 8: really not that wasn't. That didn't raise any flags for
Speaker 8: you that those payments.
Speaker 11: So we were paying for management of a dormant account,
Speaker 11: making sure that nothing was No laws were violated.
Speaker 1: Some laws were violated, Yeah, a whole bunch of them.
Speaker 1: We went through that at the beginning of the report.
Speaker 11: Because I was Secretary of Healthy Human Services a capital
Speaker 11: don't drink. Because I was Secretary of Healthy Human Service,
Speaker 11: as a cabinet member, I had to distance myself from
Speaker 11: anything that looked political or campaign related. I had ethics
Speaker 11: rules that were in place that required me to distance myself,
Speaker 11: and so I depended on people that I trust to
Speaker 11: be able to manage that the right way. We were
Speaker 11: going to pay for the management. You always pay for
Speaker 11: someone to oversee to file the right documents in the.
Speaker 1: Rest ten thousand dollars a month. If that's what he
Speaker 1: thought was a reasonable amount to pay for someone to
Speaker 1: fill out documents once a year on a dormant account.
Speaker 1: What do you think his attorneys were charging him.
Speaker 2: And what do you think he would be like negotiating
Speaker 2: with I don't know, the California Teachers Association.
Speaker 1: Oh well, I'll tell you something that wouldn't be coming
Speaker 1: out of your mouth way to bring them to their knees.
Speaker 11: There is, and I was willing to pay the price
Speaker 11: to make sure that I didn't have to worry about it.
Speaker 11: Low and behold, while I was willing to pay a price.
Speaker 11: And by the way, the attorneys of the campaign account
Speaker 11: signed off on all those payments as well.
Speaker 1: Wasn't as if so you also have terrible attorneys. Boy,
Speaker 1: he knows how to pick him, doesn't he.
Speaker 11: There wasn't someone who was checking.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm sure when we're talking about campaign attorneys, it's
Speaker 2: not like that you go seek out the best law firm.
Speaker 2: These are are friends of friends, These are sons of friends.
Speaker 2: These are all the connected people, all the people that
Speaker 2: can't get anywhere in real life, but they have a
Speaker 2: family member that's connected with somebody. So the no good
Speaker 2: kid gets a job as the campaign attorney.
Speaker 1: Okay, so this guy gets elected to be governor and
Speaker 1: the graft continues.
Speaker 11: There wasn't someone who was checking. The attorneys were checking,
Speaker 11: and they were saying, you know, everything seemed kosher. What
Speaker 11: happened was after the payments, the way the money was
Speaker 11: used is where the violation occurred. And there was no
Speaker 11: violation in terms of the payment. That's why I and
Speaker 11: my campaign were not implicated in the actual activities.
Speaker 2: I'm having a hard time understanding to use the term
Speaker 2: that's catching fire on the internet. The becceleration going on
Speaker 2: in the polls.
Speaker 1: Well at this point, that means he's the tallest building
Speaker 1: in Omaha.
Speaker 8: So those payments he's referring to, that money was used
Speaker 8: to funnel money away from Bassetra's campaign to the personal
Speaker 8: bank account of his longtime chief of staff.
Speaker 6: His name is Sean McCluskey.
Speaker 1: How do you not even do a Cayman Islands here?
Speaker 12: Come on.
Speaker 8: McCluskey is one of the co conspirators in this case
Speaker 8: that has pleaded guilty. We reached out to Williamson's attorney,
Speaker 8: McGregor Scott and the US Attorney's office.
Speaker 6: We have not yet heard back from.
Speaker 8: Williamson's attorney, but a spokesperson for federal prosecutors confirmed the
Speaker 8: discussions on that plea deal tonight are ongoing.
Speaker 6: Back to you, all right, glad you got to ask
Speaker 6: those questions, Ashley.
Speaker 13: Thank you.
Speaker 2: So there you go, Dana Williamson, Gavin Newsom's former chief
Speaker 2: of staff, Hobber Bessara's former chief of staff is in
Speaker 2: active negotiations for a plea deal in her corruption case
Speaker 2: where she stole a whole bunch of money from Beissara,
Speaker 2: and Besara had no idea. Now I'm not a lawyer,
Speaker 2: but I will make a prediction on this. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: think she's going to plead guilty because whenever you're talking
Speaker 2: about financial crimes, there is a memorialization every time funds
Speaker 2: you're transferred. It's why when corrupt politicians want to take
Speaker 2: bribe frequently they try to do it with something like
Speaker 2: poker chips or gold. Like we saw with Bob Menendez.
Speaker 2: The poker chips were used by I think two different
Speaker 2: members of the La City Council. Oh, that was Jose
Speaker 2: Wezar's thing where it was the pit boss at a
Speaker 2: Vegas casino that said your guy is compromised.
Speaker 1: But that's harder to track because these are items value
Speaker 1: that change hands all the time, and there's no electronic
Speaker 1: record every time a poker chip goes from a player
Speaker 1: to a dealer to another player. Those chips may change
Speaker 1: hands hundreds of times over the course of a day.
Speaker 1: But when you're electronically wiring money from a bank account
Speaker 1: from a dormant bank account, belonging to a politician, and
Speaker 1: you're putting it in your own bank account when the
Speaker 1: money wasn't supposed to be going to you, and then
Speaker 1: you're spending the money with a credit card, so you
Speaker 1: get your credit card points. They have you dead to rights.
Speaker 1: I mean, they can track where that money went from
Speaker 1: Monday to Tuesday, to Wednesday to Thursday. And I don't
Speaker 1: know what kind of defense you put out that can
Speaker 1: convince jury that you didn't do that if they have
Speaker 1: the electronic records.
Speaker 2: Well, not only that, how exactly do you put up
Speaker 2: any kind of a defense when it was a three
Speaker 2: person scam and the other two people already pled guilty.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, now she's gonna play guilty. What will be
Speaker 1: interesting to see is if she provides the FEDS with
Speaker 1: information on others in exchange for a lighter sentence. Because,
Speaker 1: don't forget, besides working for Bessera, she was also Galvin
Speaker 1: Newsom's top aid for many years. She may know where
Speaker 1: some bodies are buried. Oh yeah, and those bodies may
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Speaker 1: Coming up next, we're going to open up the California
Speaker 1: Crime blotder more trouble with the seven eleven one eight
Speaker 1: hundred two two two five two two two. We're broadcasting
Speaker 1: live from Claremont, California, where Randy. In just a few hours,
Speaker 1: we're gonna be at the Big Goobernatorial Debate.
Speaker 2: We've got to be there at three thirty, which is
Speaker 2: why we needed to be in Claremont to do this,
Speaker 2: because it would not be possible to get from either
Speaker 2: the Coachella Valley or Culver City to Claremont by then.
Speaker 2: But the debate starts at five thirty and you can
Speaker 2: watch it on your local CBS station, whether that's CBS
Speaker 2: two or nine in cal in Southern California, KPIX five
Speaker 2: in the Bay Area, CBS Sacramento, Channel thirteen in Sacramento,
Speaker 2: CBS eight in San Diego, or stream it on YouTube,
Speaker 2: which is I already have it saved so I can
Speaker 2: watch it later on tonight. But Johnny, we're gonna get
Speaker 2: to watch it in person unless you have a running
Speaker 2: with Katie Porter beforehand.
Speaker 1: Well, if I do, let me tell you every reporter
Speaker 1: in the California Press Corps is going to be in
Speaker 1: the room, so you may not have to wait until
Speaker 1: noon tomorrow to find out about it. If John is
Speaker 1: photographed with mashed potatoes on his head, that's gonna go everywhere. Well,
Speaker 1: hopefully there's no gravy. All right, it's time to open
Speaker 1: up the California Crime Blodder.
Speaker 12: It's happened yet again.
Speaker 3: Nice see time for the California Crime.
Speaker 1: Blodder and Randy. The first edition of The Blotterer takes
Speaker 1: us to the seven eleven. Multiple seven elevens were broken
Speaker 1: into last night. I feel like things are getting back
Speaker 1: to normal in Los Angeles. We're not talking about home
Speaker 1: burglaries yet, we're talking about good old fashioned seven eleven robberies.
Speaker 1: If bumby for more, here is kt LA. We begin
Speaker 1: with breaking news police looking into a pair of seven
Speaker 1: eleven stores that were robbed late last night. Katilizeron Myers
Speaker 1: is live in LA's Palm's neighborhood with those details eron
Speaker 1: good morning.
Speaker 2: That's right next to the radio station, and that's why
Speaker 2: you don't leave the building. So let's see the house
Speaker 2: that's two blocks away from me gets broken into over
Speaker 2: the weekend, and the seven eleven that's two miles from
Speaker 2: the radio station gets robbed. Yep, La County gotta love it.
Speaker 12: Good morning to you both.
Speaker 2: Although I do have to say Clairemont is one of
Speaker 2: those small cities in La County and it's just beautiful.
Speaker 6: Good morning to you both.
Speaker 9: We know at least two seven elevens were robbed late
Speaker 9: last night, and we are checking on a third location
Speaker 9: at this time.
Speaker 2: Now, if you're robbing that many seven elevens at once,
Speaker 2: do you bring your big goal with you to every
Speaker 2: location so you can refill it?
Speaker 1: So you're still in the slurpies too?
Speaker 2: Here in this spot, well, doing all that robin makes
Speaker 2: you thirsty, I guess.
Speaker 9: Here in this spot We did speak to the clerk
Speaker 9: and he said that the thieves got away with cash.
Speaker 9: Now you can see the seven eleven here behind me.
Speaker 9: It's located.
Speaker 1: I do not understand.
Speaker 2: When you've got twenty dollars an hour minimum wage for
Speaker 2: fast food in and out burgers starting at like twenty
Speaker 2: five dollars an hour, who's applying to work at seven eleven?
Speaker 1: Yeah? How is it that they can hire anyone to
Speaker 1: do any shift at all, let alone the overnight shift.
Speaker 1: I mean, what jobs out there are more dangerous than
Speaker 1: being a clerk at seven eleven? Maybe being in the
Speaker 1: military on the front lines of an act of war,
Speaker 1: and I don't know, making a movie with Alec Baldwin.
Speaker 9: Now you can see the seven eleven here behind me.
Speaker 9: It's located on the thirty one hundred block of Overland Avenue,
Speaker 9: right in your national we'll get to some video though
Speaker 9: from overnight. You can see troll vehicles outside of the
Speaker 9: convenience store officers inside. Early reports say this happened around
Speaker 9: ten to fifteen last night. We spoke to that clerk
Speaker 9: who was working at the time. He said two masked
Speaker 9: males came into the store and took both of the
Speaker 9: cash registers.
Speaker 2: Yes, but they didn't give you COVID, now, did they.
Speaker 9: Saying they got in and out very quickly. He wasn't
Speaker 9: hurt and said this hasn't happened to him while he
Speaker 9: has been working before. And about an hour and a
Speaker 9: half later, the LAPD was seen at another seven to eleven.
Speaker 9: This video from the Westlake District Patrol vehicles outside officers
Speaker 9: inside the store once again at that location. Early reports
Speaker 9: say police responded to this store around eleven forty last night.
Speaker 2: You know, it's a really unfortunate named part of town
Speaker 2: in southern California. Westlake Village is one of the most
Speaker 2: beautiful areas in just when you're getting into Ventura County
Speaker 2: in the Thousand Oaks area, you take Village off of
Speaker 2: Westlake Village and now you're in MacArthur Park.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, a very different part of town.
Speaker 9: Earlier reports they police responded to this store around eleven
Speaker 9: forty last night. The seven eleven located on the thirty
Speaker 9: one hundred block of Beverly Boulevard near Vendome Street. The
Speaker 9: clerk there confirmed they did have a robbery, but there
Speaker 9: isn't any information about a possible suspect or suspects or
Speaker 9: any information about any merchandise or cash that may have
Speaker 9: been taken.
Speaker 1: What was it? Just cigarettes? I guess we are trying
Speaker 1: to get well. The cancer will get them.
Speaker 9: We are trying to get more details from the LAPD
Speaker 9: now back here live. At this time, it's not known
Speaker 9: if these incidents are related. We know both stores do
Speaker 9: have surveillance cameras, so that could help with these investigations,
Speaker 9: and anyone who may know anything is encouraged to contact.
Speaker 2: I do know that some of these get solved, but
Speaker 2: at this point the LAPD should be doing like a
Speaker 2: everyone tuned to this press conference whenever they actually make
Speaker 2: an arrest in a seven to eleven robbery, just to
Speaker 2: let the robbers know at some point, at least one
Speaker 2: percent of you are going to get arrested.
Speaker 9: Help with these investigations, and anyone who may know anything
Speaker 9: is encouraged to contact the LAPD. Reporting live here in Palms,
Speaker 9: I'm Aaron Myers. I'll send it back to you both
Speaker 9: in Hollywood.
Speaker 1: There.
Speaker 2: You notice how they had to report live from the
Speaker 2: Palm's location and not the Westlake one.
Speaker 1: Well they don't want their camera stolen.
Speaker 2: There you go two different seven eleven's in the Los
Speaker 2: Angeles area got robbed last night?
Speaker 10: Is they cash's dummy?
Speaker 1: But the cashier lived to tell about it, Thank Heaven.
Speaker 1: All right, it's time to reopen the blotterer is the
Speaker 1: cashier's dumby.
Speaker 3: We couldn't make this stuff up if we tried.
Speaker 1: I said, hell no, very boy, Let me get up
Speaker 1: on out of here.
Speaker 3: It's the California crime blow there.
Speaker 1: And Randy, there were yet more burglaries in your part
Speaker 1: of town. So we are now at a point where
Speaker 1: there have been twenty four home burglaries since April fifteenth,
Speaker 1: which is not that long ago. And here's what's interesting
Speaker 1: about this last one. It also happened in the San
Speaker 1: Fernando Valley. But the San Fernando Valley is mostly the
Speaker 1: city of Los Angeles, but there are a few small
Speaker 1: cities in the valley that are still counted as the valley.
Speaker 1: But boy, to, the stories just ends so differently because
Speaker 1: this time when there was an attempted home burglary in Burbank,
Speaker 1: there was an arrest immediately.
Speaker 2: You don't say, why did I ever move from there?
Speaker 2: I mean, it's expensive and all the homes are really
Speaker 2: small and have one bathroom, but.
Speaker 1: I miss it.
Speaker 2: And you know what, when I moved out, I was
Speaker 2: in my early thirties and I thought, I want to
Speaker 2: move somewhere where everything's open past ten pm. And now
Speaker 2: I'm forty and I would never be out past ten pm.
Speaker 1: Well, all those homes that they built there are really old,
Speaker 1: and by really old, I mean California standards, So we're
Speaker 1: talking after World War Two. And you can tell that
Speaker 1: they're really old because they came with one bathroom, which
Speaker 1: means that they were built before Chipotle. For more on
Speaker 1: the Burbank burglary, here's NBCLA.
Speaker 14: More break ins in the San Fernando Valley over the weekend.
Speaker 6: This is surveillance video from the most recent one in Burbank.
Speaker 1: And we're also learning about a home invasion in Panorama City.
Speaker 2: All right, NBC Forest, Just to make sure that everyone's clear,
Speaker 2: because again, the naming of these neighborhoods is so unbelievably stupid.
Speaker 2: Burbank is its own city. Panorama City is a neighborhood
Speaker 2: in Los Angeles. Panorama City is not a city. It's
Speaker 2: pretty much the neighborhood where the Kaiser is. I know
Speaker 2: that because I was born there.
Speaker 6: Panorama City.
Speaker 2: All right, NBC Forest Shaathan Gazellez joins US Life from
Speaker 2: Burbank and Jonathan, this is what more than twenty break
Speaker 2: ins just in the past few weeks.
Speaker 13: Huh Yeah, we're approaching two dozen here, Mike, and it
Speaker 13: seems to be happening night after night.
Speaker 3: To your point, we.
Speaker 1: Did this again.
Speaker 2: Is now two weeks after Karen Bass announced a big crackdown.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you could tell the crooks are paying attention to her.
Speaker 13: We did just get some new information on this case because,
Speaker 13: unlike most of these cases, there were three people arrested
Speaker 13: here in this Burbank one that happened last night.
Speaker 1: Because it happened in Burbank. If it happened in Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: there would be a zero percent chance they would be arrested.
Speaker 2: Burbank PD doesn't tolerate this. The residents of Burbank don't
Speaker 2: tolerate this.
Speaker 13: We just got new information that the involve a man
Speaker 13: in his thirties and two men in their twenties, all
Speaker 13: for AZUSA, all facing residential.
Speaker 2: You know, the one part of southern California where they're
Speaker 2: not talking about studio closures, the studios in Burbank.
Speaker 13: We just got new information that the involve a man
Speaker 13: in his thirties and two men in their twenties, all
Speaker 13: for Azusa, all facing residential burglary charges. Meanwhile, the homeowner
Speaker 13: involved in this, the homeowner whose home was broken into
Speaker 13: last nights as he is grateful to his neighbor who
Speaker 13: saw something wrong and then called the police.
Speaker 2: And because it's BPD, you call the police and they
Speaker 2: answer right away and they show up right away. I
Speaker 2: actually had my car broken into once when I lived
Speaker 2: in Burbank and we parked on the street. Someone had
Speaker 2: one of those things where they can manipulate your keyfob.
Speaker 2: Because my car got broken into and my wife's car
Speaker 2: get broken into. The joke was on them because there
Speaker 2: was nothing of value in my car, so they stole
Speaker 2: my expired Magic Mountain season pass, and they looked at
Speaker 2: my wife's car and I guess they didn't think anything
Speaker 2: of the saddle that was in there. But if they
Speaker 2: would have stolen that, it would be worth quite a
Speaker 2: bit of money, but they thought it was too heavy.
Speaker 1: What a concept. Call a nine to one one and
Speaker 1: someone answers the phone and they come as opposed to, oh,
Speaker 1: I don't know, pressing one for English and then being
Speaker 1: told to fill out a FOURM online.
Speaker 2: So it's at Tuesday morning at nine am we call BPD.
Speaker 2: They show up with backup for a car break in
Speaker 2: in less than five minutes.
Speaker 1: That service with the Smile.
Speaker 13: Urgularies across the San Fernando Valley continued over the weekend,
Speaker 13: this time in Burbank. The owner of this home on
Speaker 13: Scott Road too afraid to talk to us on camera
Speaker 13: after his house was broken into Sunday night around seven
Speaker 13: point thirty, He gave us the surveillance video that shows
Speaker 13: two men running from Burbank police officers jumping over his
Speaker 13: backyard fence onto a different.
Speaker 1: Property they got to bring back cops.
Speaker 13: The homeowner saying no one was home at the time,
Speaker 13: but he began watching his cameras when this person appeared
Speaker 13: at his door pretending to be a food delivery driver.
Speaker 13: Moments later, that's when he says his neighbor across the
Speaker 13: street called nine one one after they saw three men
Speaker 13: breaking into his house through a side window.
Speaker 2: So the idea is, oh, I'm going to distract everyone
Speaker 2: by thinking that I'm door dash well.
Speaker 1: And this is also a difference. In Burbank, you have
Speaker 1: a population that's engaged, that's willing to call the cops
Speaker 1: when they see something that shouldn't be happening. In Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: everyone is totally apathetic and no one cares.
Speaker 13: After they saw three men breaking into his house through
Speaker 13: a side window, Burbank police quickly responded, using canines to
Speaker 13: take the three men into custody. It's still unclear what
Speaker 13: the men may have taken, but it's the latest case
Speaker 13: in a recent string of homebreakings and breaking attempts.
Speaker 2: Now, I don't think these were the same suspects that
Speaker 2: are going all around the San Fernando Valley. If anything,
Speaker 2: it sounds like these are some small time copycads that
Speaker 2: saw what was going on on the TV and thought, oh,
Speaker 2: this is real, easy to do. Didn't realize that when
Speaker 2: you get off on Scott Road, that's still Burbank, that's
Speaker 2: not North Hollywood.
Speaker 1: Well let's hope it's the same people that were doing
Speaker 1: it in LA because at least if it is, they're
Speaker 1: now in custody.
Speaker 13: In and around the valley this month. By our count,
Speaker 13: there have been at least twenty four since April tenth.
Speaker 13: In just hours after the Burbank incident in Panorama City,
Speaker 13: a family.
Speaker 1: Was left terrified after they say at least.
Speaker 13: Two men broke into their home along Citrus Avenue.
Speaker 2: And this one wasn't a burglary, this was a hot
Speaker 2: prow uh oh.
Speaker 13: The father telling NBC four he was in a bedroom
Speaker 13: with his daughters when he heard a noise from the
Speaker 13: other room. He said he called out to his wife,
Speaker 13: only to hear a man respond.
Speaker 1: The father said.
Speaker 13: The men threatened to shoot them if they left the room.
Speaker 1: Holy cow, that's aggressive.
Speaker 4: Goodf idiot, you can see whatever said.
Speaker 13: The men ransacked the place and took off, leaving behind
Speaker 13: this crowbar, which the LAPD took his evidence. The LAPD
Speaker 13: is also reviewing and investigating three other burglaries in the
Speaker 13: valley over the weekend, two in the Lake Balboa neighborhood.
Speaker 1: Wait, there were two in Lake Balboa. Your property value
Speaker 1: is declining by the second. Oh no, I got a
Speaker 1: check zilla during the.
Speaker 13: Break Two in the Lake Balboa neighborhood and one in
Speaker 13: West Hills reporting in Burbank, I'm Jonathan Gonzalez, ENDBC four News.
Speaker 2: There you go, Johnny. Even more break ins in the
Speaker 2: San Fernando Valley. But the big difference here is when
Speaker 2: you try this crap in Burbank. You do get arrested,
Speaker 2: and Randy, we have time for one more addition to
Speaker 2: the California crime bladder.
Speaker 12: It's happened yet again.
Speaker 1: This Wow Wow West.
Speaker 3: Dumb reached the Califonia crime blodder with John.
Speaker 1: And Randy. This one takes us all the way to
Speaker 1: Redwood City.
Speaker 2: John, there was a stabbing at a Mexican shrip joint
Speaker 2: in Redwood City. For more, here is KTVU and crime
Speaker 2: reporter Henry Lee.
Speaker 12: It's happened yet again.
Speaker 14: Broke out at a restaurant along the Peninsula over the weekend.
Speaker 14: Five people were hurt as a result of a stabbing
Speaker 14: and several suspects were arrested.
Speaker 6: Our crime reporter.
Speaker 14: Henry Lee is live at the scene near Redwood City
Speaker 14: with the very latest on this.
Speaker 2: Henry, I know the media industry is going through lots
Speaker 2: of setbacks, lots of cuts. KTVU is never getting rid
Speaker 2: of their crime reporter.
Speaker 1: Oh no, that is job security.
Speaker 12: Clad.
Speaker 7: You were along busy El Camino Real in North fear
Speaker 7: Oak neighborhood where people who live in work here say
Speaker 7: they're stunned by what happened. Snippets of yellow police tape
Speaker 7: still visible behind a Mexican bar and restaurant near Redwood City,
Speaker 7: where five people were hurt and three men were arrested
Speaker 7: after a stabbing over the weekend. The violence and sheer
Speaker 7: number of victims alarming many in the North fair Oaks neighborhood.
Speaker 4: Even if the uniont like the person, still there's no
Speaker 4: reason to do that. It's I can't believe.
Speaker 1: What if you did not like the person? Now here's
Speaker 1: a question. If someone gets stabbed at a Mexican restaurant,
Speaker 1: can you use one of the corn huts from one
Speaker 1: of the tamales as a tourniquet?
Speaker 4: Even if the uni't like the person, Still there's no
Speaker 4: reason to do that. It's I can't believe. I'm in shock,
Speaker 4: to be honest with you.
Speaker 7: It happened at Marisco's El San Nikita sense on eld
Speaker 7: Camino Reale just before two early.
Speaker 1: I can only translate a little bit of that. I'm
Speaker 1: only at level twelve on due Oldingo.
Speaker 7: It happened at Marisco's El San Nikita sense on eld
Speaker 7: Caminoreale just before two early Sunday morning. The Sanmontaeo County
Speaker 7: Sheriff's Office, which puts.
Speaker 2: Me this is what they told you. Nothing good happens
Speaker 2: after midnight. Nope, salmon definitely not at the Mariscos Joint,
Speaker 2: the Salonteo County Shriff's office, because you know who's going
Speaker 2: to the Marisco's Joint after midnight in San Mateo County,
Speaker 2: people that are wasted and trying to sober up.
Speaker 7: The Salmonio County Shrif's Office, which patrols the neighborhood, says
Speaker 7: a fight broke out, but what led up to it
Speaker 7: is unclear. The dispute spilled out into the parking lot
Speaker 7: behind the restaurant. Three suspects attacked five victims with glass
Speaker 7: shards and other objects.
Speaker 2: Like straight out of the Michael Jackson Beat It video.
Speaker 2: There's broken bottles and they're using shards of glass to
Speaker 2: stab each other.
Speaker 7: Deputies arrived and found three victims suffering from lacerations and
Speaker 7: puncture wounds at the scene. The other two victims ended
Speaker 7: up at hospitals on their own. All are expected to survive.
Speaker 7: The three suspects were found.
Speaker 2: Near You may handle your booze, but you don't want
Speaker 2: to be in a situation where you're around a lot
Speaker 2: of people who are very, very drunk, and you can
Speaker 2: be set off very easily.
Speaker 1: What Mexican joint is open past midnight? Anyway.
Speaker 7: The three suspects were found nearby and arrested on suspicion
Speaker 7: of assault. Frank Hernandez lives nearby and says he can't
Speaker 7: grasp what led to so many people getting hurt.
Speaker 4: I can't believe. You know, this thing is that this
Speaker 4: world is really coming to an end. You know what
Speaker 4: goes that.
Speaker 1: Might be a little much. Yeah, why did that many
Speaker 1: people get stabbed? I don't know. Have you ever been
Speaker 1: to the parking lot of Dodger Stadium before?
Speaker 4: What goes through a mind of a person to make
Speaker 4: him do that? You know, it's like some unbelievable boys.
Speaker 12: Like why Jeremiah aho Fono lives nearby.
Speaker 10: Like I heard like a lot of people yelling, but
Speaker 10: I just thought it was the neighbors just being crazy.
Speaker 1: I always didn't realize there was glass involved. A neighborhood
Speaker 1: is this?
Speaker 10: I always hear like music coming from that restaurant, so
Speaker 10: I know they have parties late at night.
Speaker 15: We are concerned. I mean, obviously there's a restaurant and
Speaker 15: the party sometime.
Speaker 12: Hog up to Toya.
Speaker 7: I know it's a lot in hardware shop nearby, and
Speaker 7: noted the restaurant pride itself for its vibrant nightlife.
Speaker 12: He says, crime in the you know.
Speaker 2: It probably happened is somebody accidentally poked somebody next to
Speaker 2: them with a shrimp skew and then escalated into a
Speaker 2: glass fight.
Speaker 1: Uh oh, He says.
Speaker 7: Crime in the immediate area is fairly uncommon.
Speaker 15: There used to be more homeless people, but they're not sourceful.
Speaker 15: I mean they were just homeless and walking around and
Speaker 15: other than that, I mean, we didn't have any sudents
Speaker 15: like this. It's the first time.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 7: Worker at the restaurant declined in common today, saying her
Speaker 7: boss won't be in until tomorrow. I've learned that all
Speaker 7: three suspects have since posted bail. The San Mateo County
Speaker 7: d'es office will review the case to determine whether they
Speaker 7: will formally face charges. Live near Redwood City, Henry le
Speaker 7: Katvu Fox two years.
Speaker 1: There you go the shellfish stabbing story flad for everyone
Speaker 1: that's going to do it for us today. But we're
Speaker 1: going to the big gubernatorial debate here in Clermont tonight.
Speaker 1: Watch it.
Speaker 2: See if John gets a shout out from Katie Porter
Speaker 2: It's on all CBS stations starting at five point thirty tonight.
Speaker 1: We'll see you tomorrow at noon, right here on The
Speaker 1: John Phillips Show.