Speaker 1: And we continue at one oh five in the afternoon
Speaker 1: on the John Phillips Show, Mister Randy wangs in Culver City.
Speaker 2: John, coming up, we have one of the strangest crime
Speaker 2: blodder stories of all time. A man crashes his Chevy
Speaker 2: Tahoe into a Semi Valley donut shop because it wasn't open.
Speaker 1: That is a man that likes his maple bars. Eight
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Speaker 1: two two two. It is our pleasure to welcome our
Speaker 1: next guest to the program. He is a former speech
Speaker 1: writer for Presidents Nixon and Ford and Reagan. He's also
Speaker 1: author of Behind Closed Doors in the Room with Reagan
Speaker 1: and Nixon. You can get him online at Reagan and
Speaker 1: Nixon dot com and follow him on x at ken
Speaker 1: Kachigian Ken Kachigian.
Speaker 3: Welcome, Hey, John, thank you. It's great to be here.
Speaker 1: All right. Let's start out with the governor's race here
Speaker 1: in the state of California, where it looks like in
Speaker 1: first place, there's a statistical tie between former California Attorney
Speaker 1: General Javier Bessera and former Fox News host Steve Hilton.
Speaker 1: With Tom Steyer, Chad Bianco and Katie Porter behind them.
Speaker 1: Does that surprise.
Speaker 3: You, No, not necessarily, it's I mean, it's such a
Speaker 3: weak filled all around. It's like, you know, it's pick
Speaker 3: and choose. You know, Porter had some name recognition she's
Speaker 3: writing on her name recognition from having run for the
Speaker 3: Senate and being in the Congress, so she's got a
Speaker 3: lot of support in southern California. And Bessarah's like, you know,
Speaker 3: who do you choose after the dregs from the Democratic
Speaker 3: Party are left? And and then of course uh uh
Speaker 3: the poor uh the Thurman. Tony Thurman is sitting in
Speaker 3: at one present because nobody knows who he is or
Speaker 3: what he does or where he's been. And and then
Speaker 3: Tony uvier rigosas.
Speaker 4: Had his best.
Speaker 3: Days gone behind him. Although he's he's certainly one of
Speaker 3: the most qualified candidates running for governor on the Democratic side.
Speaker 3: He's much more qualified than Sarva here. Uh be Sarah,
Speaker 3: by the way, would be much more qualified than Sarah
Speaker 3: running the state.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: And and then of course, uh, Matt Mayhan is just
Speaker 3: there's a saying we have in in my ethnic community
Speaker 3: called the cold cold oatmeal and that's that's what Matt
Speaker 3: Mayhon is. And uh, he just he's nobody. He couldn't
Speaker 3: break through it because nobody knew who he was or
Speaker 3: and he's uh, he's just blann.
Speaker 4: So but s here is all that's left.
Speaker 3: And and you have a very high Hispanic voting block
Speaker 3: as well, and and the Democrats have sort of coalesced
Speaker 3: behind him because there's no one left to go with.
Speaker 3: So I'm not surprised. I guess that that's where it
Speaker 3: all is. And stire stires ads. He's put over two
Speaker 3: hundred million dollars into this race, and and uh, there
Speaker 3: are probably some of the worst political ads I've ever seen. Uh,
Speaker 3: he's he's not a very attractive person, and he's probably
Speaker 3: insisted that he appear in most of his ads, and
Speaker 3: he's he's unattractive, he's he's an unpleasant to look at.
Speaker 3: And his ads are they don't have any polish to them.
Speaker 3: Their message, their message is awkward and and and they
Speaker 3: go in all kinds of different directions. So you don't
Speaker 3: know what is what single message he has other than
Speaker 3: their shooting off in all kinds of different directions. And
Speaker 3: so but Sarah's left with, you know, the other guys
Speaker 3: are all I'm just better than the other guys, and
Speaker 3: I'm all that's left.
Speaker 1: What do you make of the fact that before Bessara
Speaker 1: became the front runner, it was clear to me that
Speaker 1: Swallwell was supposed to be the guy in that position,
Speaker 1: that he was the one that they were all going
Speaker 1: to get behind. Adam Schiff, the senior US senator here
Speaker 1: in California, was one of the first ones to endorse him.
Speaker 1: Certainly he was supported by the California Teachers Association in
Speaker 1: the SEIU, two of the most influential unions here in
Speaker 1: the state of California. Members of the state legislature were
Speaker 1: falling in line. It looked like he was going to
Speaker 1: be the guy, and then the allegation started coming out
Speaker 1: of the woodwork, where now it appears the guy might
Speaker 1: be a rapist and a certainly unethical on a variety
Speaker 1: of levels. We can say that with great certainty the
Speaker 1: rape allegations, they'll be litigated. I guess another day, however,
Speaker 1: he had a million in one red flags, and they
Speaker 1: should have been able to tell at an absolute minimum,
Speaker 1: he didn't know anything about state government. He didn't know
Speaker 1: anything about state politics. According to one report, he showed
Speaker 1: up to Sacramento where the Capital NX project is going on.
Speaker 1: He looked at it and he said, oh, are they
Speaker 1: building condos? He didn't even know that there was an
Speaker 1: ANX project that was in the works. He was that
Speaker 1: ignorant of what was going on. And you look at
Speaker 1: Javier Bessera and many of those same red flags are
Speaker 1: now popping up with Basera where you have any number
Speaker 1: of members of the Biden administration, some of whom are
Speaker 1: going out by name, like Susan Rice who was a
Speaker 1: former top advisor in that administration, Lo Rosa, who was
Speaker 1: Jill Biden's top EID, saying that Javier Besserra was an
Speaker 1: embarrassment in that administration, that he would show up to
Speaker 1: these meetings totally unprepared, that Biden would ask him questions
Speaker 1: he had answers to nothing, that they were embarrassed to
Speaker 1: be in the same room as him, and under no
Speaker 1: circumstances should this guy become governor of California. Nancy Pelosi,
Speaker 1: the longtime Speaker of the House, has a bad relationship
Speaker 1: with him because he threw her under the bus in
Speaker 1: a Democratic Caucus meeting when they were trying to pass Obamacare.
Speaker 1: In addition to all of that, this is a guy
Speaker 1: who can't answer any questions at all with any specifics.
Speaker 1: When he's talking about California politics or California policy, it's
Speaker 1: we're going to get it done. We're going to roll
Speaker 1: up our sleeves, we're going to do the hard work.
Speaker 1: We're going to make things better. He can only talk
Speaker 1: about subjects in those terms. And I say to myself,
Speaker 1: there's no introspection that's going on within this party as
Speaker 1: to what mistakes you made getting behind Eric Swallwell, and
Speaker 1: you're about ready to repeat the same thing with this guy,
Speaker 1: Javier Basseerra, who's about ready to sell you out, and
Speaker 1: he's about ready to cause all kinds of problems for
Speaker 1: that party. But it seems like they're ready to get
Speaker 1: on board with him despite what just happened with Smallwell.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 3: The other thing about Bessas is that that his own.
Speaker 4: Chief of staff.
Speaker 3: Was there were stealing money from Bassara's campaign fund, and
Speaker 3: it wasn't even it didn't even seem to be aware
Speaker 3: of it. He didn't even know they were stealing money
Speaker 3: from him. He was blind of them stealing money from him.
Speaker 3: I mean, he was asleep with the switch. It's he
Speaker 3: didn't even know what was going on in his own campaign.
Speaker 3: So that was add that to the list. And then
Speaker 3: I saw him. He talked about the bullet train. He said, well,
Speaker 3: you know, we're going to get that going again, but
Speaker 3: he didn't explain how he was going to do it.
Speaker 3: He was going to stop the way it was being done,
Speaker 3: the way it is done. Now we're going to quit
Speaker 3: wasting money. But we're going to quit wasting money, but
Speaker 3: we're going.
Speaker 4: To get it done.
Speaker 3: And then he's gonna and then he said he was
Speaker 3: going to help the farmers and get water to him.
Speaker 3: But he said, we're going to find a middle way
Speaker 3: to do it. But I don't quite know how we're
Speaker 3: going to do it quite yet. He's just playing vanilla.
Speaker 3: He's running the campaign in the precise way Joe Biden
Speaker 3: lan his presidential campaign in twenty twenty. He's hiding a
Speaker 3: way as best as he can. But that may work
Speaker 3: on the primer, but you know, I don't think it'll
Speaker 3: work in the general when he's when he has to
Speaker 3: answer in a partisan way. We worked for swallwell was
Speaker 3: he was anti Trump and he was conspicuously the anti Trump,
Speaker 3: and he had all the Dems going for him, and
Speaker 3: they thought that they could ride him even though he had.
Speaker 4: All these red flags.
Speaker 5: And they didn't.
Speaker 3: Maybe they didn't think they would it would all come out.
Speaker 3: But with but Sarah, I think they may be a
Speaker 3: little shocked if he The problem is John is that
Speaker 3: they just don't have any.
Speaker 4: Other horse to ride. They all have baggage. Styre has baggage, Porter.
Speaker 3: Has baggage, and Matt Mayhon doesn't have his bland and
Speaker 3: doesn't have anything to show for himself, and poor Via
Speaker 3: Rugosa doesn't have much of a public image anymore.
Speaker 4: So they're left with BASERA.
Speaker 1: You wrote about this election recently in the American Spectator
Speaker 1: and in Silicon Valley. The titans of the tech industry
Speaker 1: got behind Matt Mayhon in a big way, and they
Speaker 1: thought he was going to be the Democrat who would
Speaker 1: keep the train on the tracks. He was the sanest
Speaker 1: one in the room. He was electable because he had
Speaker 1: a D next to his name and not an R.
Speaker 1: He had a good track record in San Jose. He
Speaker 1: was an attractive guy with an attractive family. That was
Speaker 1: the horse they decided to run with. And then it
Speaker 1: just never worked out. He was pulling in single digits.
Speaker 1: I think there were maybe one or two polls where
Speaker 1: he pulled in double digits, but it was the low
Speaker 1: double digits. At no point in this race was see
Speaker 1: in the first or second place slot. Why didn't they
Speaker 1: cut bait with him sooner and try for a Democratic
Speaker 1: lockout on the November ballot so they would end up
Speaker 1: with a candidate who would make sure the state didn't
Speaker 1: go off the cliff right as AI is exploding at
Speaker 1: a critical time for that industry.
Speaker 3: You know, it's it's just bizarre. The problem with Silicon
Speaker 3: Valley billionaires and is that they just are politically amateurs.
Speaker 3: They're politically inept. I don't know where they get their advice,
Speaker 3: their political advice.
Speaker 4: Maybe they get.
Speaker 3: It from the same class of political consultants that keep
Speaker 3: doing losing campaigns throughout California over the last twenty twenty
Speaker 3: five years. But they're just politically juvenile. And as I
Speaker 3: argued in my column in The American Spectator, is that
Speaker 3: if the billionaire class really wants to make a difference
Speaker 3: and instead of getting trod upon and beaten upon as
Speaker 3: they do all the time, and they want to put
Speaker 3: their money into use, like George Soros does. That they
Speaker 3: should have gotten behind the two Republican candidates in.
Speaker 4: This race and.
Speaker 3: Tried to manipulate the process as best they could and
Speaker 3: raise up the two Republican candidates and suppress the Democrat
Speaker 3: vote and work it to get Bianco and and Steve
Speaker 3: Hilton to be one and two in this race and
Speaker 3: end up with a Republican candidates being one two in
Speaker 3: the general and then convince themselves guarantee themselves to have
Speaker 3: Republican governor. Instead, they put their money behind a man,
Speaker 3: and there would have made some sense to that if
Speaker 3: they also spread their money around to let's say, elevate
Speaker 3: Chad Bianco along with Steve Hilton, and elevate Antonio Rigoso
Speaker 3: and along with Mayhan, and maybe put some money behind
Speaker 3: Katie Porter and put money against Vaserah. So you get
Speaker 3: my point. You split that Democratic vote and elevate the
Speaker 3: vote for Hilton and Chad Bianco. You might have had
Speaker 3: two Republicans running one and two and had the worst
Speaker 3: worst nightmare of the Democrats. But again, I just think
Speaker 3: they're politically naive and and Appton, you could have had
Speaker 3: the billionaires really putting their money in a good place.
Speaker 3: But maybe next time, John, Not this time.
Speaker 1: We're speaking with Ken Kachigian, author of Behind Closed Doors.
Speaker 1: In the Room with Regagae and Nixon available online at
Speaker 1: Reagan and Nixon dot com. Let's shift gears here and
Speaker 1: talk about the LA Mayor's race for a second. Earlier
Speaker 1: in the week, I posed the question to the audience,
Speaker 1: which candidate, out of all the candidates on your ballot
Speaker 1: is exciting you the most? And almost to a person,
Speaker 1: the answer was Spencer Pratt. What do you make of
Speaker 1: him as a candidate in that LA Mayor's race.
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm really I've been watching this. I watched him
Speaker 3: again this morning on CNBC. He's exciting, he's articulate. Yet
Speaker 3: the main thing about Spencer Pratt is that all the
Speaker 3: other candidates and that don't have He has a message,
Speaker 3: and he has a singular message, and that's cleaning up,
Speaker 3: making l a sparkle again, cleaning the streets, making them safe,
Speaker 3: taking the homeless off, making it a LA business friendly.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: Cleaning uh it up in a way that the young
Speaker 3: people going to school and don't have to see the
Speaker 3: homeless naked. And as he pointed out, pooping in the streets.
Speaker 3: I mean, he makes he makes the he creates visual
Speaker 3: pictures of what's going on in l A. I mean
Speaker 3: that's as he has such a great message in that respect,
Speaker 3: and he's he's so counterintuitive to the to the political
Speaker 3: pap you get from normal candidates of of.
Speaker 4: You know, we're going to have vision and hope and
Speaker 4: we're gonna.
Speaker 3: Help, uh help, We're going to help people, and we're
Speaker 3: going to help the poor. We're going to make things
Speaker 3: great for the working class.
Speaker 4: That's that's political path.
Speaker 3: What he does is he's going to the heart of
Speaker 3: the sickness in Los Angeles. And I don't live there,
Speaker 3: but I anytime I drive through that and I see
Speaker 3: what a miserable place downtown Los Angeles is, and I
Speaker 3: I just I'm I don't know. I just don't understand
Speaker 3: how people can vote for.
Speaker 4: Karen bass or.
Speaker 3: Or I can't pronounce their first name, miss Rahman, and
Speaker 3: and understand how they see all the all the graffiti
Speaker 3: and the homeless and and the dirty streets and and
Speaker 3: of course it's driven away the Hollywood, the production there,
Speaker 3: and you see restaurants and he points out restaurants are
Speaker 3: closing it down. People are afraid to walk the streets.
Speaker 3: And that's so Pratt has this great message and that's
Speaker 3: what I think. It's sparkling about his and he has
Speaker 3: such high energy, and that's what you don't That's the
Speaker 3: other thing you don't get from a bass or Raman
Speaker 3: is they don't have energy. And if if he can
Speaker 3: project that energy as mayor, which they don't have, then
Speaker 3: he'll be a great mayor. Regardless of the so called
Speaker 3: lack of experience. He doesn't need to have experiences in
Speaker 3: mayor because he can bring in dozens and dozens of
Speaker 3: people that know how to run things. That's not the issue.
Speaker 3: What he has is sparkal and drive and energy that's
Speaker 3: gonna say, hey, we're gonna make a La wonderful place
Speaker 3: to live again.
Speaker 1: Ken Kachigian author of Behind Closed Doors in the Room
Speaker 1: with Reagan and Nixon, available online at Reagan and Nixon
Speaker 1: dot com. You can follow him on x at ken Kachigian.
Speaker 1: Ken Kachigian, thanks so much for stopping by you Bet John, thank.
Speaker 4: You very much.
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Speaker 1: to open up the California Crime Blodder. It's up and
Speaker 1: yet again, nye see time for the California Crime Blodder
Speaker 1: and Randy. This edition involves the donut shop and not the.
Speaker 2: Donut shop from Sacramento. If you're thinking that this involves
Speaker 2: our donut guy, it does not involve this lovely individual.
Speaker 1: Please go on your chain now. Okay, you got, Okay,
Speaker 1: you got leave onlin. I'm just still head donut hole.
Speaker 2: Different donut shop owner. This time it was a donut
Speaker 2: shop owner in Siemi Valley who pissed off an irate
Speaker 2: customer by not being open yet.
Speaker 1: Uh oh, and that.
Speaker 2: Irate customer decided to ram his Chevy Tahoe into the
Speaker 2: donut shop.
Speaker 1: That's going to leave a mark. For more on this,
Speaker 1: we got ABC seven Eyewitness News.
Speaker 6: A man in seem Valley is in custody accused of
Speaker 6: crashing his.
Speaker 1: Car Ventura County arrested. I'm noticing a pattern here.
Speaker 6: A man in Seemi Valley is in custody, accused of
Speaker 6: crashing his car into a donut shop and then into
Speaker 6: patrol cars. Police say it's all because he was mad
Speaker 6: the donut shop was closed.
Speaker 2: I wonder if alcohol was involved. Guy had quite the
Speaker 2: jones for a bear cloth.
Speaker 1: We can call him angry. Eyewitness news reporter Leo Stalworth
Speaker 1: is live at the scene where the man is now
Speaker 1: facing felony charges, including attempted murder.
Speaker 7: Leo and know, Philip, just when I thought I had
Speaker 7: covered every story on the planet that could shock me,
Speaker 7: here we go again.
Speaker 2: Leo's been around for a really long time, So if
Speaker 2: he's in shock, that'll tell you this is the crime,
Speaker 2: Madlibs that you just never expected.
Speaker 7: Here we go again, and you're right that suspect indeed
Speaker 7: facing a mountain of charges. The damage to the donut shop,
Speaker 7: as you can see significant. The owner of the donut
Speaker 7: shop keeping the business open and dozens of donut eating
Speaker 7: customers have flocked in.
Speaker 2: The donuts must be really good at this place, because
Speaker 2: even though the shop has a giant hole in it,
Speaker 2: people are still showing up.
Speaker 1: Now, you're going to have an entire population of people
Speaker 1: who are going to show up to the donut shop
Speaker 1: and they're going to see a car right in the
Speaker 1: middle of it, and they're going to be forced to
Speaker 1: eat healthy.
Speaker 7: Of the donut chop keeping the business open, and dozens
Speaker 7: of donut eating customers have flocked in. The business owner
Speaker 7: telling us he did not know the suspect, Police saying
Speaker 7: the investigation determining the suspect had allegedly intensatively driven his
Speaker 7: vehicle into the donut shop after becoming upset that it
Speaker 7: was closed.
Speaker 1: You could tell just by the tone in his voice
Speaker 1: that he thinks this guy is a complete and total idiot.
Speaker 7: Surveillance video from the donut shop captures the chaos unfolding
Speaker 7: around three thirty this morning. The suspectives first scene walking
Speaker 7: toward the front entrance.
Speaker 2: You know the phrase, time to make the donuts. That's
Speaker 2: why they don't open til four.
Speaker 1: When we work morning drive, we learn the hours of
Speaker 1: the donut shop like the back of our hand. You
Speaker 1: learn two things when you work morning drive at this
Speaker 1: radio station. You learned that the donut shops when they open,
Speaker 1: and you also knew that if you brought a box
Speaker 1: of donuts into the radio station, you better pick the
Speaker 1: one you want quick because less Siegel was going to
Speaker 1: touch every single one. God bless them.
Speaker 7: Surveillance video from the donut shop captures the chaos unfolding
Speaker 7: around three thirty this morning. The suspectives first scene walking
Speaker 7: toward the front entrance, picking up an object from a
Speaker 7: nearby and violently slamming it onto the ground before walking away.
Speaker 7: Moments later, he returns.
Speaker 1: If someone was made so this guy had a full
Speaker 1: on meltdown. Yes, and the only thing that was going
Speaker 1: to cause that meltdown to go down was some sweet,
Speaker 1: sweet sugar.
Speaker 7: He returns, appearing agitated, yanking repeatedly underlocked front door of
Speaker 7: the business. But it doesn't stop there. Video shows the man.
Speaker 2: Gets so he hasn't figured it out yet. I can't
Speaker 2: get in there. The donuts are there, this door is
Speaker 2: blocking my way. What should I do about this?
Speaker 1: Okay? I don't even think this is alcohol. This guy
Speaker 1: had to be on drugs.
Speaker 7: Video shows the man getting into an suv parked outside,
Speaker 7: then suddenly flooring it, smashing straight into the front entrance
Speaker 7: of the donut shop. The driver then backs up, accelerates again,
Speaker 7: and repeatedly rams the business over and over.
Speaker 2: Well that'll tell you this was no accidentase. Okay, But
Speaker 2: here here's the problem. Let's think this through here for
Speaker 2: a minute.
Speaker 1: If the donut shop isn't open yet because the baker
Speaker 1: hasn't made the donuts. Just because you ran your car
Speaker 1: through doesn't mean you're going to get any donuts if
Speaker 1: they haven't been made yet. Maybe there's some dyeld's in
Speaker 1: there he can scavenge.
Speaker 7: Apparently trying to force the suv completely inside.
Speaker 1: Bang bang bang so many tens. And just to be clear,
Speaker 1: he's not talking about gunfire.
Speaker 7: Bang bang bang so many tens, donut shop owner Hang now.
Speaker 2: Usually when the victims of crime describe gunfire, it's pop
Speaker 2: pop pop. If it's car slamming into you, it's bang bang.
Speaker 1: Bang, duly noted bang bang bang. Well, I gotta save you. Congratulations, sir,
Speaker 1: you just made the board. I'm gonna call this different.
Speaker 1: Donut guy, bang bang bang so many times.
Speaker 7: Donut chop owner Hang Chow says he was in the
Speaker 7: back of the business.
Speaker 1: Your last name is Choo, and you make food. I
Speaker 1: love it. Sometimes your name is your destiny.
Speaker 7: Donut chop owner Hang Chow says he was in the
Speaker 7: back of the business when he heard the terrifying sound
Speaker 7: of the suv crashing into his shop again and again.
Speaker 8: Cooking fry the doughnut in inside the dry a truck
Speaker 8: and the run to the valley.
Speaker 7: Seemi Valley Police say they received calls about a vehicle
Speaker 7: slamming into the donut shop just.
Speaker 1: By the way.
Speaker 2: The one town you don't want to do this, see
Speaker 2: Me Valley, where not only do they have a well
Speaker 2: staffed police department, but every single resident is a police
Speaker 2: officer of a different city, so they all know where
Speaker 2: the donut shop is and it's close to their hearts.
Speaker 7: Seemi Valley Police say they received calls about a vehicle
Speaker 7: slamming into the donut shop just after three point thirty
Speaker 7: this morning in the seventeen hundred bloc of Erringer Road.
Speaker 7: Officers arriving at the scene quickly spotting a gray Chevrolet
Speaker 7: Tahoe with major front end damage driving away from the business.
Speaker 7: Police say the driver refused to stop, leading officers on
Speaker 7: a short pursuit. Investigator say the suspect rammed up a
Speaker 7: trow so.
Speaker 2: He's running away from the cops with his crumpled hood.
Speaker 1: Okay, you're not that hard to identify in Seemi Valley
Speaker 1: at that time of the day. If your front end
Speaker 1: is smashed in and there's a donut shop with a
Speaker 1: hole in it in the shape of the front of
Speaker 1: your car.
Speaker 7: Investigator say the suspect rammed up a trolled vehicle before
Speaker 7: crashing into a wall at a nearby home. Officers then
Speaker 7: arrested the driver, identified as Frank Blessing. A person who
Speaker 7: asked not to be identified.
Speaker 1: Tells, I think he's cursed. I think so too.
Speaker 7: A person who asked not to be a tells Iwaness
Speaker 7: News Blessing is a professional MMA fighter.
Speaker 1: Okay, so he just has anger issues, possibly a little
Speaker 1: roid rage. But if you're an MMA fighter, what are
Speaker 1: you doing going after those empty calories. Well it's a
Speaker 1: good thing he took off because if he stuck around,
Speaker 1: hang would have been hung.
Speaker 7: A person who asked not to be identified tells Iwaness
Speaker 7: News Blessing is a professional MMA fighter.
Speaker 1: Police, I don't think there's a lot of protein donuts, no.
Speaker 7: Though police have not confirmed that information. Child says during
Speaker 7: the violent destruction of his business, he stayed hidden in
Speaker 7: the back, terrified for his safety and.
Speaker 1: Don't want you scared.
Speaker 7: Now. When police say they attempted to arrest Blessing, he
Speaker 7: was combatant on with a knife. They had to tase
Speaker 7: him to get him under compliance and arrest him and again.
Speaker 7: As for the business, despite the significant damage, it remains
Speaker 7: open and Blessing is facing a mountain of charges, including
Speaker 7: attempted murder, resisting arrest, and a host of other charges. Yeah,
Speaker 7: he's in a.
Speaker 1: Lot of trouble, to say the least.
Speaker 7: Live in SeeMe Valley, Leo Storworth, ABC seven Eye Witness News.
Speaker 1: All right, that might be my favorite crime blodder of
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Speaker 5: Guys, how you doing good? I uh I saw the
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Speaker 2: Which is surprising considering the makeup of the residents.
Speaker 5: Well, I know, I have actually friends that are police
Speaker 5: officers in Sigbey Valley and I was a bit surprised too,
Speaker 5: But yeah, this place, so this was a hole in
Speaker 5: the wall and oh that's about all.
Speaker 1: Well, maybe you should give him another try, I hear
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Speaker 3: Bang bang bang so many times.
Speaker 5: I guess I should. You guys have a good one.
Speaker 1: Thank you for the call, sir. Let's go to Chris
Speaker 1: in San Francisco. Chris, Hey, I just wanted to get
Speaker 1: your opinion on the Battle of the Beards between Chad
Speaker 1: Bianco and Steve.
Speaker 9: Hilton, where Chad criticized Steve for growing a beard to
Speaker 9: try to gain an advantage in the governor's race. Do
Speaker 9: you think a beard can make a difference? And do
Speaker 9: have we ever had a mayor with faithful hair? I
Speaker 9: mean a governor?
Speaker 1: Maybe that's what Katie Porter's missing.
Speaker 9: She's got four days to grow one.
Speaker 1: Oh a little lady Stash. Thank you for the call, sir.
Speaker 1: The battle of the beards, that could mean a totally
Speaker 1: different thing in a different context. Yeah, well it's not
Speaker 1: Corey Booker versus Tim Scott, is it. Let's go to
Speaker 1: Steve in Woodland Hill. Steve, Hello, Steve, Steve, are you there? Share?
Speaker 1: Are you on mute? Did you go potty? Going? Once?
Speaker 1: Going twice? All right, let's reopen the blodder. It's happened
Speaker 1: yet again. This Wow, Wow, what's up here?
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Speaker 1: Reached the Califonia crime blodder.
Speaker 3: With John.
Speaker 1: All right, this one involves illegal fireworks.
Speaker 2: The LAPD did a big bust of illegal fireworks in
Speaker 2: South LA and this time they didn't blow up the
Speaker 2: neighborhood doing it.
Speaker 1: Now that's progress.
Speaker 2: For more on this, we go to Fox eleven in
Speaker 2: Los Angeles.
Speaker 10: After Fox loaded into multiple trucks LAPD seusing a massive
Speaker 10: amount of illegal fireworks in South LA.
Speaker 2: Gavery prompting, you guys gotta pot down. The music could
Speaker 2: barely hear. Christine sounds like she's at a disco, Gavery.
Speaker 10: Prompting evacuations as the bomb squad work to remove a danger.
Speaker 10: Welcome to the Fox eleven News at five sammilcast on
Speaker 10: Fox eleven Plus. I'm Christine Devine took five truckloads to
Speaker 10: clear all the illegal fireworks, estimated to be worth up
Speaker 10: to two hundred thousand dollars Fox eleven's Rachel Aerondred.
Speaker 2: And knowing the makeup of the idiots that live in
Speaker 2: Los Angeles, they were going to sell every single one
Speaker 2: by July fourth.
Speaker 1: Oh, yes, particularly in the fire zones.
Speaker 10: Fox eleven's Rachel Aerondred is live the update there, Rachel.
Speaker 1: Now, Christine, how's you know?
Speaker 11: Fireworks right now? Of course, in the city of Los
Speaker 11: Angeles are in fact illegal, but they shared.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we can totally tell that by the explosions
Speaker 2: that rattle my neighborhood every single day in the summer.
Speaker 1: It sounds like Falujah.
Speaker 11: Sheered number of fireworks found as at this one residence
Speaker 11: here in South LA was deeply concerning and also concerning
Speaker 11: thinking what could have happened if LAPD did not seize them.
Speaker 1: It would concern me.
Speaker 2: Up well, last time the problem was laped did seize
Speaker 2: them and then put them in the bomb disposal unit
Speaker 2: and then the whole neighborhood exploded.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but look at how much they're dealing with this
Speaker 1: time though. I mean, they could implode the Mirage in
Speaker 1: Las Vegas. It would concern me.
Speaker 9: I'm a mother of two children.
Speaker 11: Residents in South Los Angeles breathing a sigh of relief
Speaker 11: after police discovered over one hundred and fifty thousand dollars
Speaker 11: worth of consumer fireworks stashed inside a home off East
Speaker 11: eighty fifth Street.
Speaker 5: And affects this community.
Speaker 1: If everything would have exploded, it would affected a lot
Speaker 1: of people that lived on this block.
Speaker 11: Butthori discovered the massive count shade of fireworks at the
Speaker 11: South La home while in the process of serving a
Speaker 11: search warrant related to a domestic violence incident involving a firearm.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's fantastic. They weren't even looking for fireworks.
Speaker 2: They were just serving a warrant on a domestic and
Speaker 2: found out that every the single corner of his house
Speaker 2: was filled with explosives.
Speaker 1: Okay, so this guy had a domestic dispute. They found
Speaker 1: the firearms correct, Yes, okay with all of the explosives. Yes.
Speaker 1: How much damage can you do with the pistol if
Speaker 1: you have no fingers to pull the trigger.
Speaker 11: While in the process of serving a search warrant related
Speaker 11: to a domestic violence incident involving a firearm.
Speaker 8: Every room was filled with boxes and boxes of fireworks.
Speaker 8: Of an abundance of caution, we evacuated the metate area
Speaker 8: and notified our bomb squad. Just to make sure that
Speaker 8: what happened last time doesn't happen again. Let's get everyone
Speaker 8: out before we start moving these highly volatile explosives.
Speaker 1: Probably a good idea.
Speaker 8: We evacuated the metate area and notified our bomb squad.
Speaker 11: That bomb squad looting up at least five white box
Speaker 11: trucks of consumer fireworks. The amount even taken LPD by surprise.
Speaker 8: This is a very dangerous situation in that if there
Speaker 8: was a house fire or something that ignited those fireworks,
Speaker 8: that could be very dangerous for the occupants and their
Speaker 8: community members.
Speaker 2: Onpolic do you think any of the local residents in
Speaker 2: La care. No, we all know what the fire danger is,
Speaker 2: and yet every idiot in my block is going to
Speaker 2: light them up.
Speaker 1: On July fourth and it police came and said for safety,
Speaker 1: they wanted everybody to evacuate.
Speaker 11: Five years ago, a mass explosion.
Speaker 2: South Laia, Oklahoma. There you go, they seized the fireworks
Speaker 2: and nothing blew up.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, we're better off this time than we
Speaker 1: were the last time.