1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:00,880 Speaker 1: Can't. 2 00:00:00,960 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 2: I am six forty. 3 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,520 Speaker 1: You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 4 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:09,879 Speaker 1: All right, so I signed the change dot org petition 5 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:16,119 Speaker 1: demanding the resignation of Karen Bass. It's let's see how 6 00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:18,400 Speaker 1: many signatures it's got. I normally don't do this, but 7 00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:21,120 Speaker 1: I'm fed up. I even put in a little money 8 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:24,160 Speaker 1: because the more money that gets donated, the more they're 9 00:00:24,200 --> 00:00:29,840 Speaker 1: going to spread. The spread the word that you can 10 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:35,080 Speaker 1: sign the petition. It's demand the immediate resignation of Mayor 11 00:00:35,159 --> 00:00:37,879 Speaker 1: Karen Bass. Go to change dot org. They have a 12 00:00:37,960 --> 00:00:41,199 Speaker 1: search box and putting Karen Bass and you'll see it, 13 00:00:41,240 --> 00:00:44,640 Speaker 1: and it's already got. Let's see how many signatures now, 14 00:00:44,680 --> 00:00:47,400 Speaker 1: three thirty seven, three hundred and sixty. So it's up 15 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:51,160 Speaker 1: about one thousand signatures just in the last fifteen minutes 16 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:54,320 Speaker 1: or so. This has got to end. You know, the 17 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:57,320 Speaker 1: more signatures it gets, the more media coverage it'll get. 18 00:00:57,400 --> 00:01:00,080 Speaker 1: And because she she has to be forced out no 19 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:02,800 Speaker 1: other way. The other person that has to be forced 20 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:06,119 Speaker 1: out is Gavin Newsom. And we're gonna we're gonna talk 21 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:09,480 Speaker 1: to Rachel Darvish, the woman who confronted Newsom in the 22 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:13,720 Speaker 1: Palisades yesterday outside his suv. But if you haven't heard 23 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:17,160 Speaker 1: or seen the moment, uh, we're gonna play it for 24 00:01:17,280 --> 00:01:21,440 Speaker 1: you here. She owns a home in the Palisades which 25 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:27,520 Speaker 1: did survive, but her daughter's school burned down, and Newsom 26 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:30,800 Speaker 1: immediately lies to her, claiming that he was on the 27 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:35,120 Speaker 1: phone with Joe Biden. Listen to this. This is really extraordinary, Governor. 28 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:36,480 Speaker 3: You got a second. 29 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:38,119 Speaker 2: Governor. 30 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:42,120 Speaker 4: Governor, I live here, Governor, that was my daughter's school. 31 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:44,720 Speaker 3: Governor, Please tell me what you're gonna do. But I'm 32 00:01:44,160 --> 00:01:45,280 Speaker 3: not hurt, my promise. 33 00:01:45,319 --> 00:01:49,080 Speaker 5: I'm literally talking to the President right now to specifically 34 00:01:49,560 --> 00:01:51,560 Speaker 5: answer the question of what we can do for you 35 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:52,200 Speaker 5: and your daughter. 36 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:54,600 Speaker 3: Can I hear it? Can I hear your call? Because 37 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:55,600 Speaker 3: I don't believe it? 38 00:01:57,080 --> 00:01:57,600 Speaker 2: I'm sorry. 39 00:01:57,840 --> 00:02:00,840 Speaker 1: Can I literally I've tried five That's why I'm walking 40 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:01,559 Speaker 1: around to make. 41 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:04,360 Speaker 2: Why is the President not taking your call because it's 42 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:06,480 Speaker 2: not going through. Why I have to get cell service, 43 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:07,880 Speaker 2: Let's get it, let's get it. 44 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:09,600 Speaker 3: I want to be here when you call the President. 45 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:10,320 Speaker 2: I appreciate it. 46 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:14,560 Speaker 6: I'm doing that right now, and it's to immediately get reimbursements, 47 00:02:14,639 --> 00:02:16,160 Speaker 6: individual assistance. 48 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:18,560 Speaker 2: And to help you o death looking for I'm so sorry, 49 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:21,320 Speaker 2: especially for your daughter. I have the four. 50 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:25,040 Speaker 3: Kids, everyone who went to school there. 51 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:26,120 Speaker 2: They lost their homes. 52 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:28,320 Speaker 3: They lost two homes because they were living in one 53 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:31,600 Speaker 3: and building another. Kevin, please tell me, tell me what 54 00:02:31,639 --> 00:02:32,920 Speaker 3: are you going to do with the president. 55 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:36,280 Speaker 5: Right now we're getting we're getting the resources to help rebuild. 56 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:38,679 Speaker 2: Why is there no water in the hydrants? 57 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:39,120 Speaker 1: Governor? 58 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:41,040 Speaker 5: It's all literally? 59 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:42,440 Speaker 3: Is it going to be different next time? 60 00:02:42,919 --> 00:02:43,560 Speaker 1: It has to be? 61 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:44,680 Speaker 2: It has to be. 62 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:47,079 Speaker 3: Of course, what are you going to do to fill 63 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:47,680 Speaker 3: the hydrants? 64 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:49,040 Speaker 2: I would fill them up personally. 65 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:49,720 Speaker 1: You know that. 66 00:02:49,919 --> 00:02:50,880 Speaker 2: I literally I. 67 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:52,760 Speaker 3: Would fill up the hydrants myself. 68 00:02:53,320 --> 00:02:55,680 Speaker 2: I understand, but would you do that? I would do 69 00:02:55,720 --> 00:02:56,679 Speaker 2: whatever I can. 70 00:02:56,520 --> 00:02:59,079 Speaker 3: But you're not. I see the Do you know there's 71 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:00,280 Speaker 3: water dripping of there? 72 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:00,800 Speaker 7: Governor? 73 00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:02,440 Speaker 3: There's water coming out there. 74 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:04,240 Speaker 2: You can use it. I appreciate it. 75 00:03:04,280 --> 00:03:07,360 Speaker 1: I'm going to make the call to address everything I 76 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:09,480 Speaker 1: can right now, including making sure. 77 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:12,960 Speaker 3: People can I have an opportunity to at least tell 78 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:16,080 Speaker 3: people you're doing what you're saying you're doing. Did somebody 79 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:17,240 Speaker 3: have a contact? 80 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:21,200 Speaker 2: Can I have your contact? Uh? 81 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:25,000 Speaker 1: This revealed Gavin Newsom's character. Under pressure, He'll say anything, 82 00:03:25,040 --> 00:03:28,120 Speaker 1: He'll lie. He told a whopper there. He's literally on 83 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:31,240 Speaker 1: the phone with Joe Biden right now. And when Rachel said, 84 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:35,119 Speaker 1: I want to hear it, well, I'm trying to call. 85 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:37,600 Speaker 1: That's why I'm walking around. I've tried to call five times. 86 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:40,240 Speaker 2: Oh, well you know, we'll go get a cell, We'll get. 87 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:42,640 Speaker 1: A cell signal. I want to hear this. And then 88 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:44,520 Speaker 1: all of a sudden, he wasn't calling Biden. Was he 89 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:50,560 Speaker 1: Let's get Rachel Darvish back on the line. Rachel, I'm here, Didvin? 90 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:51,960 Speaker 1: Did Gavin call you back yet? 91 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:58,880 Speaker 3: Gavin has never called me, does has not has not 92 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:01,960 Speaker 3: called me. I did get a contact information for someone 93 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:04,360 Speaker 3: who works in his office, and I was I did 94 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:06,400 Speaker 3: immediately get in touch with him. We've had a few 95 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:09,720 Speaker 3: back and forth. The very last one was at about 96 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:12,480 Speaker 3: eleven am today where I was informed he couldn't get 97 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:15,440 Speaker 3: back to me until the press conferency was that was over, 98 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:17,760 Speaker 3: and that was a couple of hours ago. So I 99 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:20,320 Speaker 3: have not heard back from them. They did ask me 100 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:24,200 Speaker 3: what I wanted. What do I want? And I want 101 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:26,200 Speaker 3: the schools back up. I need the kids need to 102 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:28,680 Speaker 3: go to school, and how are we going to do that? 103 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:31,520 Speaker 3: We don't have a town. We got no water, we 104 00:04:31,640 --> 00:04:34,039 Speaker 3: got even if you have a home. You know, my 105 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:36,760 Speaker 3: plan was, let's get the kids in our house if 106 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:39,560 Speaker 3: our house is up when I saw it yesterday. But 107 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:42,120 Speaker 3: there's no way to go back there. And yeah, the 108 00:04:42,160 --> 00:04:45,080 Speaker 3: governor lied to me about this, so I want to 109 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:47,719 Speaker 3: know what can we do with all of the obstacles. 110 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:50,159 Speaker 1: I think you're the first person ever called him on 111 00:04:50,279 --> 00:04:53,359 Speaker 1: his lie. It was so slick. I'm literally on the 112 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:56,240 Speaker 1: phone now, Oh yeah, I want to hear it. And 113 00:04:56,600 --> 00:04:59,280 Speaker 1: he got flustered. He didn't know what to do. Nobody 114 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:00,679 Speaker 1: ever done that him before. 115 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:04,599 Speaker 3: Well, look, you're you've got to take the situation. It 116 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:07,200 Speaker 3: was such a you know, a moment that you could 117 00:05:07,240 --> 00:05:11,279 Speaker 3: not manufacture. I'm leaving, you know. I was leaving when 118 00:05:11,279 --> 00:05:13,279 Speaker 3: a crew had taken me there. I asked him to 119 00:05:13,279 --> 00:05:14,920 Speaker 3: take me to see if the school was still up. 120 00:05:15,080 --> 00:05:16,880 Speaker 3: I had heard the playground had burned, but I wanted 121 00:05:16,920 --> 00:05:20,160 Speaker 3: to see for myself. And when we got there, we 122 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:25,160 Speaker 3: it was so devastating. I really couldn't even put myself together. 123 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:28,559 Speaker 3: And as we were leaving, I noticed him and I thought, 124 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:31,960 Speaker 3: that can't be. This is just a person walking around 125 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:36,840 Speaker 3: aimlessly and not doing anything. And then when I was 126 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:38,960 Speaker 3: walked up to him, I noticed he walked into his car. 127 00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:41,640 Speaker 3: He's trying to get into his car, So it was 128 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:43,760 Speaker 3: it was a very weird situation that he did show 129 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:46,680 Speaker 3: me his phone and that's when I knew. Okay, so 130 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:49,760 Speaker 3: they do call him a liar and he did lie 131 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:51,760 Speaker 3: to me, But you know what, those are not the 132 00:05:51,839 --> 00:05:54,279 Speaker 3: important things right now. I can. I can go past 133 00:05:54,279 --> 00:05:55,680 Speaker 3: it right now because I don't think he's gonna have 134 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:58,520 Speaker 3: a job very soon. But I want my town back. 135 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:01,479 Speaker 3: I want the kids to have a pool. And he's 136 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:02,359 Speaker 3: not going to do it for me. 137 00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:04,479 Speaker 2: No, he's not. 138 00:06:05,080 --> 00:06:07,280 Speaker 3: And I don't know who is in Neither is our 139 00:06:07,279 --> 00:06:09,640 Speaker 3: mayor and neither is our mayor. And I'm sad about that. 140 00:06:09,880 --> 00:06:12,919 Speaker 3: I'm sad about that because it's not about their d's 141 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:14,840 Speaker 3: and their rs. And I want to make that clear. 142 00:06:14,839 --> 00:06:17,159 Speaker 3: I don't want anyone thinking I'm in here for a 143 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:22,080 Speaker 3: political political position side shoes. No, do you think it 144 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:26,159 Speaker 3: mattered what sign was next to your name in your house? 145 00:06:26,240 --> 00:06:29,799 Speaker 1: That I bless there are mayors and governors from both 146 00:06:29,839 --> 00:06:35,240 Speaker 1: parties that can execute competently when there are and they 147 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:39,440 Speaker 1: also can provide the type of preparation that prevents or 148 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:43,960 Speaker 1: mitigates these disasters. It has nothing to do with politics. 149 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:46,839 Speaker 1: It has to do whether you execute the basics of 150 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:47,320 Speaker 1: your job. 151 00:06:48,440 --> 00:06:50,680 Speaker 3: And that's why I said, I think a couple of 152 00:06:50,760 --> 00:06:53,720 Speaker 3: days ago, my position was, you pick any mom. You 153 00:06:53,760 --> 00:06:56,600 Speaker 3: pick any mom in California, and man, that mom will 154 00:06:57,040 --> 00:07:01,760 Speaker 3: will tackle any of these problems in a much different approach. 155 00:07:02,839 --> 00:07:07,159 Speaker 1: Oh, I believe that I know a lot of Westside Monds. Absolutely, Yeah, 156 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:09,280 Speaker 1: they got a lot way more going for them than 157 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:13,600 Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom does, that's for sure. So you're I mean, 158 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:17,000 Speaker 1: are you involved in in any Are there any citizens 159 00:07:17,040 --> 00:07:19,920 Speaker 1: or organizations getting together right now to try to, you know, 160 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:20,880 Speaker 1: get a school open? 161 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:25,200 Speaker 2: What's the plan for your schools? Palisades Elementary? 162 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:26,960 Speaker 3: Right, that's gone? 163 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:30,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, so we're what's going to happen to the kids? 164 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:32,920 Speaker 3: She doesn't go there, she's my daughter's in preschool. She 165 00:07:32,960 --> 00:07:35,880 Speaker 3: goes to the preschool across the street from palais Elementary. 166 00:07:35,880 --> 00:07:39,080 Speaker 3: They both burned down. I went to Palisades Elementary, I 167 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:41,440 Speaker 3: went to Paul Revere Junior High. I went to Palisades 168 00:07:41,520 --> 00:07:46,600 Speaker 3: High School. Or all this is my history is gone, 169 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:51,640 Speaker 3: and I don't know, if there's really a future immediately 170 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:53,720 Speaker 3: in the Palistads, how long you think it's going to build, 171 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:56,680 Speaker 3: even if you have a house in the Palistas, how 172 00:07:56,720 --> 00:07:58,360 Speaker 3: long you think it's going to be until someone can 173 00:07:58,360 --> 00:07:59,280 Speaker 3: get into their house. 174 00:08:01,160 --> 00:08:01,680 Speaker 2: I don't know. 175 00:08:02,280 --> 00:08:07,240 Speaker 1: I I nobody in government knows how to answer any 176 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:09,400 Speaker 1: of those questions. They don't know what to do. They're 177 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:13,040 Speaker 1: not qualified to rebuild a town. They weren't qualified to 178 00:08:13,080 --> 00:08:16,240 Speaker 1: protect the town. They certainly had no idea how to 179 00:08:16,280 --> 00:08:16,800 Speaker 1: build one. 180 00:08:18,880 --> 00:08:22,880 Speaker 3: But you know, I think that in these types of 181 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:27,960 Speaker 3: situations there have to be ways to bypass the BTS 182 00:08:28,240 --> 00:08:31,920 Speaker 3: red tape that exists that we do not need in 183 00:08:31,960 --> 00:08:35,400 Speaker 3: particular times of need like this. How do you do that? 184 00:08:36,559 --> 00:08:41,319 Speaker 3: It's easy. We're humans. We know we can. We can judge. 185 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:45,160 Speaker 3: That's the difference between us. So that is something that 186 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:48,800 Speaker 3: we need in the person who is running Los Angeles 187 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:52,720 Speaker 3: with all the money we have, guys, come on, we 188 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:55,080 Speaker 3: can do better Los Angeleans. 189 00:08:55,559 --> 00:08:56,040 Speaker 2: Yeah. 190 00:08:56,320 --> 00:08:59,640 Speaker 1: Well, everyone's got to demand it. And people have been 191 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:02,120 Speaker 1: asleep for a real long time in this city, in 192 00:09:02,160 --> 00:09:06,880 Speaker 1: this state. And if this doesn't wait, yeah, all right, well, Rachel, 193 00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:09,960 Speaker 1: we will keep in touch. Excellent work. You did more 194 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:15,000 Speaker 1: to unmask newsome than all the media in the world 195 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:18,520 Speaker 1: has failed to unmask him over the last seven years, 196 00:09:18,520 --> 00:09:19,960 Speaker 1: and you did it in about two minutes. 197 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:22,439 Speaker 3: Just talk to a mom. 198 00:09:24,160 --> 00:09:25,360 Speaker 2: I hear that every day at. 199 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:28,600 Speaker 3: Home, exactly what I mean. 200 00:09:28,880 --> 00:09:29,320 Speaker 2: Oh, I know. 201 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:32,680 Speaker 1: I watched my wife build a home from the ground up, supervising. 202 00:09:32,760 --> 00:09:34,839 Speaker 1: It took a year. I know it can be done 203 00:09:34,960 --> 00:09:37,720 Speaker 1: very quickly. I know a year from now, all the 204 00:09:37,760 --> 00:09:40,280 Speaker 1: moms in the Pacific Palisades because have their all their 205 00:09:40,280 --> 00:09:43,240 Speaker 1: homes built in a year and the city would be better. Correct, 206 00:09:43,320 --> 00:09:45,720 Speaker 1: It's going to be the correct I've seen it with 207 00:09:45,760 --> 00:09:47,680 Speaker 1: my own eyes, and I just get out of the 208 00:09:47,679 --> 00:09:50,040 Speaker 1: way when that happens. All right, Rachel, talk with you 209 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:52,200 Speaker 1: again soon. Thank you for coming on, Thanks so much. 210 00:09:52,280 --> 00:09:53,600 Speaker 3: Thanks for okay bye. 211 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:58,680 Speaker 7: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 212 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:01,240 Speaker 7: six forty. 213 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:03,040 Speaker 1: Round from one until four, and then after four o'clock 214 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:06,680 Speaker 1: you listened to John Cobelt's show on demand on the iheartapp. 215 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:08,880 Speaker 2: There is a petition on change dot org. 216 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:11,800 Speaker 1: I can't remember the last time I told people to 217 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:15,280 Speaker 1: sign a petition, but this one you must. When you 218 00:10:15,320 --> 00:10:19,199 Speaker 1: go to change dot org, search for Karen Bass. It's 219 00:10:19,320 --> 00:10:22,920 Speaker 1: demand the immediate resignation of Mayor Karen Bass. It's got 220 00:10:22,960 --> 00:10:25,559 Speaker 1: thirty seven, eight hundred and fifty signatures. 221 00:10:27,360 --> 00:10:28,320 Speaker 2: Sign the petition. 222 00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:31,640 Speaker 1: Donate a few bucks so that they can send out 223 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:35,319 Speaker 1: more notices. She has to go and there has to 224 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:40,120 Speaker 1: be an overwhelming response here. We have posted the link 225 00:10:40,440 --> 00:10:43,200 Speaker 1: to change dot org to the Karen Bass petition on 226 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:47,760 Speaker 1: Twitter and on Instagram stories or simply do it yourself. 227 00:10:47,760 --> 00:10:51,720 Speaker 1: It's not that hard. Change dot org and typing Karen Bass. 228 00:10:51,880 --> 00:10:54,000 Speaker 1: And she has to go. And we have a lot 229 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:57,959 Speaker 1: more information why. Last hour we played a piece of 230 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:00,880 Speaker 1: an interview that Fox eleven's Gigi Grassi It did with 231 00:11:01,080 --> 00:11:07,320 Speaker 1: the LA Fire Chief Kristin Crowley, and Crowley said, yes, 232 00:11:08,120 --> 00:11:10,960 Speaker 1: the city failed the Los Angeles Fire Department. 233 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:12,640 Speaker 2: And we have more proof. 234 00:11:13,880 --> 00:11:18,320 Speaker 1: This is from an online journalist, I guess Chuck Colesto. 235 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:22,480 Speaker 1: He got a hold of a leaked memo showing that 236 00:11:22,720 --> 00:11:26,440 Speaker 1: LA Mayor Karen Bass ordered the fire department to cut 237 00:11:26,480 --> 00:11:31,920 Speaker 1: an additional forty nine million dollars just one week before 238 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:36,880 Speaker 1: the wildfires erupted. Okay, I've got more information on that here. Now, 239 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:43,240 Speaker 1: this memo is dated on January sixth, so she went 240 00:11:43,960 --> 00:11:46,439 Speaker 1: to Ghana and. 241 00:11:48,040 --> 00:11:49,199 Speaker 2: Whipped up a memo. 242 00:11:50,679 --> 00:11:54,960 Speaker 1: That went out to cut the fire department budget by 243 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:58,640 Speaker 1: forty nine million dollars. And then the fire happened two 244 00:11:58,720 --> 00:12:05,640 Speaker 1: days later. Wow, it would close sixteen more fire stations. 245 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:10,439 Speaker 1: Sixteen fire stations forty nine million dollars. She already had 246 00:12:10,520 --> 00:12:16,400 Speaker 1: cut seventeen point six million in her latest budget, and 247 00:12:16,480 --> 00:12:23,040 Speaker 1: now she wanted to slash more than double that. The 248 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:27,320 Speaker 1: memo was obtained from an LA Fire Department whistleblower who 249 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:32,880 Speaker 1: posts on social media under the name LAFD Watchdog. The 250 00:12:32,920 --> 00:12:35,280 Speaker 1: memo was sent and I have a copy of the 251 00:12:35,280 --> 00:12:36,840 Speaker 1: memo in front of me. This is a real thing. 252 00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:44,160 Speaker 1: I have something from the Operations Valley Bureau Department Update 253 00:12:44,240 --> 00:12:48,040 Speaker 1: January sixth, twenty twenty five. The LAFD is still going 254 00:12:48,080 --> 00:12:50,840 Speaker 1: through the fiscal year twenty twenty four twenty twenty five 255 00:12:51,320 --> 00:13:00,000 Speaker 1: process forty eight point eight million budget reduction. The fire chief, 256 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:03,240 Speaker 1: if the Board of Fire Commissioners and other organizations are 257 00:13:03,280 --> 00:13:06,840 Speaker 1: steadfast in their message of defending what resources we currently 258 00:13:06,880 --> 00:13:09,320 Speaker 1: have in place, the only way to provide a cost 259 00:13:09,320 --> 00:13:12,640 Speaker 1: savings would be to close as many as sixteen fire stations. 260 00:13:13,240 --> 00:13:16,880 Speaker 1: This would be at least one fire station per city 261 00:13:16,920 --> 00:13:22,920 Speaker 1: council district. So this is what she was doing. She 262 00:13:23,080 --> 00:13:28,920 Speaker 1: was cutting the fire department a big, a big cut 263 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:32,640 Speaker 1: just two days before the wildfires broke out. 264 00:13:34,640 --> 00:13:37,560 Speaker 2: When she said she was handling things from Ghana, is 265 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:38,760 Speaker 2: this how she handled things? 266 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:45,360 Speaker 1: Remember, on Thursday, the National Weather Service issued a warning 267 00:13:45,480 --> 00:13:49,680 Speaker 1: that we had extreme fire danger coming on Thursday. She 268 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:54,800 Speaker 1: goes on a plane on Saturday. On Monday, a memo 269 00:13:54,920 --> 00:14:00,000 Speaker 1: is issued to cut forty nine million, and then Tuesday 270 00:14:00,040 --> 00:14:04,520 Speaker 1: Civic Palisades burns. And now she's running around doing press 271 00:14:04,520 --> 00:14:07,520 Speaker 1: conferences saying, well, I have to look at the future. 272 00:14:08,120 --> 00:14:10,400 Speaker 1: I want to save lives and save property. 273 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:13,559 Speaker 6: Huh. 274 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:16,920 Speaker 1: We found out that a one hundred and seventeen gallon 275 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:19,880 Speaker 1: reservoir in the Palisades. 276 00:14:19,520 --> 00:14:20,480 Speaker 2: Is sitting empty. 277 00:14:21,320 --> 00:14:26,600 Speaker 1: DWP closed it for maintenance one hundred and seventeen million gallons. 278 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:30,080 Speaker 1: They only had three million gallons in the water tanks. 279 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:41,560 Speaker 1: This is like so outrageous. 280 00:14:42,040 --> 00:14:42,800 Speaker 2: She's got to go. 281 00:14:43,840 --> 00:14:48,400 Speaker 1: She was actively disemboweling the fire department during fire season, 282 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:52,760 Speaker 1: during an extreme fire warning from the National Weather Service. 283 00:14:53,680 --> 00:14:58,120 Speaker 2: Why to fund the homeless. 284 00:14:58,520 --> 00:15:01,720 Speaker 1: Who are starting fourteen thousand fires a year? 285 00:15:05,240 --> 00:15:08,840 Speaker 2: La is broke? La is broke. 286 00:15:08,760 --> 00:15:13,800 Speaker 1: Because we spend billions of dollars on the homeless. 287 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:17,040 Speaker 2: And illegal aliens. 288 00:15:18,200 --> 00:15:25,560 Speaker 1: And DEI initiatives, and the fire department gets screwed and 289 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:27,160 Speaker 1: the police department gets screwed. 290 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:31,680 Speaker 2: You know, there should be a pyramid of what the public. 291 00:15:31,360 --> 00:15:35,960 Speaker 1: Expects the government should do, and it starts with police 292 00:15:36,040 --> 00:15:36,600 Speaker 1: and fire. 293 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:42,080 Speaker 2: Is there anything more important than police and fire? Don't 294 00:15:42,080 --> 00:15:42,960 Speaker 2: we see this? Now? 295 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:48,120 Speaker 1: We've had a ridiculous crime wave that went on for years. 296 00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:55,520 Speaker 1: We now have the worst fire in Los Angeles history, 297 00:15:56,520 --> 00:16:01,960 Speaker 1: and we find out that the reservoir is empty. Bass 298 00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:06,080 Speaker 1: is trying to cut nearly fifty million dollars out of 299 00:16:06,080 --> 00:16:10,480 Speaker 1: the budget and close more fire stations, and she's getting 300 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:14,240 Speaker 1: all pissing indignanet reporters. And that's the first thing I 301 00:16:14,280 --> 00:16:16,920 Speaker 1: want to play when we come back, is an exchange 302 00:16:16,920 --> 00:16:22,080 Speaker 1: she had with again CBS News reporter Jonathan Vigliotti. He's 303 00:16:22,120 --> 00:16:26,080 Speaker 1: the one who pressed Bass yesterday, pressed her again and 304 00:16:26,120 --> 00:16:27,240 Speaker 1: she got upset again. 305 00:16:29,360 --> 00:16:33,680 Speaker 7: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 306 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:34,280 Speaker 7: six forty. 307 00:16:35,160 --> 00:16:35,360 Speaker 2: Yeah. 308 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:38,040 Speaker 1: I'm doing things I don't normally do because we are 309 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:41,000 Speaker 1: in a state of emergency here. I told you that 310 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:45,400 Speaker 1: I really really think everybody listening, whether you're in LA 311 00:16:45,560 --> 00:16:50,280 Speaker 1: or not, should ask demand that Karen Bass resigned. There 312 00:16:50,320 --> 00:16:54,200 Speaker 1: is a change dot org petition that demands she resigned 313 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:56,920 Speaker 1: for obvious reasons. So you go to change dot org, 314 00:16:57,240 --> 00:17:00,960 Speaker 1: type in Karen Bass in the search box and put 315 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:04,040 Speaker 1: your name to it, because the number of people signing 316 00:17:04,080 --> 00:17:08,520 Speaker 1: up is increasing rapidly. There's also, and I'm going to 317 00:17:08,560 --> 00:17:11,760 Speaker 1: put a caveat on this because I don't know this 318 00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:15,120 Speaker 1: to be true, but it's going around the internet. There 319 00:17:15,280 --> 00:17:18,400 Speaker 1: is a venture capitalist here in California named Sean McGuire. 320 00:17:18,480 --> 00:17:23,040 Speaker 1: You spell his name shau n. He's from Sequoia Capital. 321 00:17:23,840 --> 00:17:27,639 Speaker 1: He is saying sources from within the LAPD that that 322 00:17:27,840 --> 00:17:30,800 Speaker 1: Chilean crime syndicate you know that has been plaguing Los 323 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:36,520 Speaker 1: Angeles for years now. They fly in from Chile to 324 00:17:36,760 --> 00:17:41,200 Speaker 1: LAX they're on tourist visas, they call it tourist crime. 325 00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:46,359 Speaker 1: They come to LA and they start breaking into businesses, 326 00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:50,760 Speaker 1: breaking into wealthy people's homes. They have been terrorizing the 327 00:17:50,760 --> 00:17:52,080 Speaker 1: West Side at times. 328 00:17:52,600 --> 00:17:52,800 Speaker 2: Well. 329 00:17:52,840 --> 00:17:56,359 Speaker 1: Sean McGuire said he has sources from within LAPD that 330 00:17:56,480 --> 00:18:01,680 Speaker 1: this Chilean crime syndicate is now working the fires in California. 331 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:07,439 Speaker 1: They are starting fires in California to create chaos. Then 332 00:18:07,480 --> 00:18:10,560 Speaker 1: people have to evacuate, and then they go in and 333 00:18:10,600 --> 00:18:13,480 Speaker 1: loot the homes. And I know there's been on the 334 00:18:13,480 --> 00:18:16,760 Speaker 1: West Side a lot of looting going on, just based 335 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:22,040 Speaker 1: on all the neighborhood apps that exist and the crime 336 00:18:22,040 --> 00:18:24,800 Speaker 1: apps that exist. There are people reporting crimes. I don't 337 00:18:24,800 --> 00:18:27,879 Speaker 1: know if they get officially reported, but a lot of 338 00:18:27,920 --> 00:18:33,000 Speaker 1: crimes don't get reported or LAPD loses the reports. I'm 339 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:35,440 Speaker 1: not sure how, but he says there are gangs in 340 00:18:35,560 --> 00:18:38,879 Speaker 1: LA deliberately starting fires so that people evacuate and then 341 00:18:38,880 --> 00:18:41,240 Speaker 1: they can rob their homes. This is happening at a 342 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:44,680 Speaker 1: large scale, at least one hundred robbers, likely the Chilean 343 00:18:44,760 --> 00:18:47,320 Speaker 1: crime Syndicate, And there is a Chilean crime syndicate, and 344 00:18:47,359 --> 00:18:51,720 Speaker 1: they're often in Los Angeles, and they're also often burglarizing 345 00:18:51,720 --> 00:18:54,800 Speaker 1: homes and running off with large amounts of money and 346 00:18:55,280 --> 00:19:02,719 Speaker 1: jewels and other valuables. Just putting it out there that 347 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:04,879 Speaker 1: that could be going on. I don't know for sure, 348 00:19:05,560 --> 00:19:09,080 Speaker 1: but one thing I have come to realize is that 349 00:19:09,320 --> 00:19:12,600 Speaker 1: public officials either will not tell you the truth or 350 00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:14,960 Speaker 1: they're going to lie about it, and the media will 351 00:19:14,960 --> 00:19:16,479 Speaker 1: not tell you the truth or they're going to lie 352 00:19:16,480 --> 00:19:16,879 Speaker 1: about it. 353 00:19:17,359 --> 00:19:19,120 Speaker 2: So we're all on our own here. 354 00:19:22,280 --> 00:19:24,919 Speaker 1: Because because I think we're actually in a state of 355 00:19:24,920 --> 00:19:28,199 Speaker 1: collapse here in Los Angeles now, every press conference I 356 00:19:28,280 --> 00:19:31,880 Speaker 1: see makes me sick. I have no confidence in any 357 00:19:31,920 --> 00:19:35,840 Speaker 1: of these people. And if you do, bless you. I 358 00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:39,160 Speaker 1: don't see it at all. And here's an example. This morning, 359 00:19:39,200 --> 00:19:41,919 Speaker 1: we're going to play a cut for CBS News reporter 360 00:19:42,040 --> 00:19:46,800 Speaker 1: Jonathan Vigliotti, second day in a row, making Karen Bass uncomfortable. 361 00:19:47,640 --> 00:19:52,960 Speaker 1: Bass was asking for patients from LA residents yesterday. 362 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:56,920 Speaker 5: You asked for the public's patients. As you assess the response, 363 00:19:57,520 --> 00:20:02,280 Speaker 5: as you well know, then millionllions of people receive false alarms. 364 00:20:02,280 --> 00:20:05,480 Speaker 5: It's been acknowledged here in this room that many may 365 00:20:05,560 --> 00:20:09,199 Speaker 5: now be deactivating their alerts on their phones. I have 366 00:20:09,280 --> 00:20:13,000 Speaker 5: heard from many people who are ignoring them altogether. We 367 00:20:13,080 --> 00:20:16,040 Speaker 5: have red flag warnings still in effect. They will resume 368 00:20:16,080 --> 00:20:19,080 Speaker 5: again next week. There is no rate in the forecast. 369 00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:22,840 Speaker 5: What are you doing at this point to earn back 370 00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:26,760 Speaker 5: people's trusts and to make sure these mistakes don't happen again. 371 00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:29,600 Speaker 6: Well, first of all, I think that that was addressed 372 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:33,240 Speaker 6: at the beginning of the press conference by Kevin McGowan. 373 00:20:33,840 --> 00:20:37,480 Speaker 5: I would like that from you. I don't You're the opposition. 374 00:20:37,440 --> 00:20:40,320 Speaker 6: So let me just be clear. I am going to 375 00:20:40,320 --> 00:20:44,600 Speaker 6: spend every moment that I can making sure that I 376 00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:48,840 Speaker 6: am in as many areas as possible, meeting and talking 377 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:52,199 Speaker 6: to residents to see what is needed in the recovery. 378 00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:56,240 Speaker 6: But I also mentioned that we're moving into recovery mode 379 00:20:56,640 --> 00:21:00,320 Speaker 6: at the same time, meaning that we want to see 380 00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:04,520 Speaker 6: the city rebuilt. We want to see Los Angeles come together. 381 00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:08,080 Speaker 6: Let me finish, we want to see Los Angeles come together. 382 00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:10,199 Speaker 5: Who are deflect you from the question? Do you have 383 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:12,960 Speaker 5: millions of people here who get these alerts? 384 00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:14,400 Speaker 2: They are ignoring them. 385 00:21:15,119 --> 00:21:17,639 Speaker 5: You still have red flag warnings and up here is 386 00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:20,680 Speaker 5: a real threat here. What is your message to your 387 00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:22,760 Speaker 5: constituents who are losing faith? 388 00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:26,800 Speaker 6: Have you started as I want the residents of Los 389 00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:31,919 Speaker 6: Angeles region to have faith in what we are doing 390 00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:35,280 Speaker 6: twenty four hours a day, I can say on behalf 391 00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:39,760 Speaker 6: of our first responders, from the fire Department, the police department, 392 00:21:40,119 --> 00:21:43,160 Speaker 6: we are doing everything we can to bring the situation 393 00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:45,760 Speaker 6: under control, and success. 394 00:21:45,359 --> 00:21:46,720 Speaker 2: Has been reported. 395 00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:49,960 Speaker 6: We know that we're going to have a possible increase 396 00:21:50,280 --> 00:21:52,560 Speaker 6: in the force of the winds at the beginning of 397 00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:57,000 Speaker 6: next week, and getting Los Angeles prepared doing everything we 398 00:21:57,040 --> 00:21:59,960 Speaker 6: can to save lives. That is our number one job, 399 00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:04,359 Speaker 6: to protect people's homes, to protect people's businesses, and to 400 00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:08,840 Speaker 6: prepare to rebuild Los Angeles in a much better way. 401 00:22:08,840 --> 00:22:11,760 Speaker 6: We're going to stand united, We're going to stand together, 402 00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:16,160 Speaker 6: and we are not going to allow politics to interfere 403 00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:19,240 Speaker 6: and we're not going to allow people to divide us 404 00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:21,080 Speaker 6: for political gain. Thank you. 405 00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:24,760 Speaker 2: She's lying. As I told you a few minutes ago. 406 00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:30,200 Speaker 1: She put out a memo on Monday, two days before 407 00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:36,360 Speaker 1: the fires, and this said that forty eight million dollars 408 00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:39,800 Speaker 1: needs to be cut from the Los Angeles Fire Department 409 00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:43,000 Speaker 1: on top of the seventeen million she already cut in 410 00:22:43,080 --> 00:22:48,439 Speaker 1: the last budget. Forty eight million dollar budget reduction. It 411 00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:52,600 Speaker 1: would mean at least sixteen fire stations close. We had 412 00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:56,560 Speaker 1: the memo here from the Operations Valley Bureau because everyone 413 00:22:57,000 --> 00:23:00,440 Speaker 1: in the fire department was really pissed off. And earlier 414 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:03,280 Speaker 1: in the show, we played you a clip of the 415 00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:08,960 Speaker 1: LA Fire Chief Kristin Crowley, telling Gigi graciet that the 416 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:14,080 Speaker 1: city has failed the Los Angeles Fire Department. So no, 417 00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:17,160 Speaker 1: I don't have any faith and I don't know anybody 418 00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:20,600 Speaker 1: who has any faith in Karen Bass or the city. 419 00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:25,640 Speaker 1: This is what she's reduced to, cheap, lame, hollow platitudes. 420 00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:33,600 Speaker 1: She's trying to unite the city, the cities united, the 421 00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:39,800 Speaker 1: cities united, because we all know that you failed us 422 00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:42,720 Speaker 1: miserably and you had more damage that you were going 423 00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:44,560 Speaker 1: to do to the fire department. How are you going 424 00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:46,760 Speaker 1: to preserve life and property when you were going to 425 00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:50,159 Speaker 1: cut almost fifty million dollars out of the budget, And 426 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:54,400 Speaker 1: what were you going to do with the money? Give 427 00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:58,440 Speaker 1: it to the fire starters, the homeless? And how many 428 00:23:58,560 --> 00:24:01,120 Speaker 1: of these fires are started by arsonists? 429 00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:03,760 Speaker 2: Really? 430 00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:05,720 Speaker 1: I thought of this last night, even before I read 431 00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:09,840 Speaker 1: this Sean McGuire tweet. Are there Chilean gang members starting 432 00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:13,800 Speaker 1: these fires? Last night? My phone went off like two, three, four, 433 00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:16,560 Speaker 1: five times. All our phones went off. Got a new 434 00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:18,560 Speaker 1: fire here, a new fire there, a new fire there. 435 00:24:19,280 --> 00:24:21,640 Speaker 1: Fire department was able to put them out quickly because 436 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:24,960 Speaker 1: the winds had died down. But how could that many 437 00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:29,960 Speaker 1: fires go off at once? Nothing's happening? Power lines aren't 438 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:35,119 Speaker 1: down lightning isn't striking. It has to be humans. And 439 00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:39,000 Speaker 1: since the homeless start fourteen thousand a day, and since 440 00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:43,240 Speaker 1: criminals are running a mock all of a sudden you 441 00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:46,480 Speaker 1: have the sheriff Luna saying, well, oh, we're gonna rush 442 00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:51,200 Speaker 1: them and charge them. No sighting releases. I guess that's 443 00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:53,479 Speaker 1: all they've been doing, is sitan releases. Because you had 444 00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:55,600 Speaker 1: to make a point of saying, no, we're not going 445 00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:58,240 Speaker 1: to sit and release. Why would you even bring that up? 446 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:01,120 Speaker 1: In fact, I never used to hear anything about sight 447 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:03,520 Speaker 1: and release. I never knew there was a concept like that. 448 00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:12,200 Speaker 1: When it came to burglary robbery and Nathan Hoffman repeated 449 00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:16,239 Speaker 1: about three four times that anybody found looting is going 450 00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:18,240 Speaker 1: to be prosecuted to the fullist extent of the law. 451 00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:20,400 Speaker 1: He was particularly forceful, and I'm thinking, all right, what's 452 00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:24,840 Speaker 1: going on? Because he's repeating it over and over as 453 00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:28,720 Speaker 1: he should, Luna is suddenly insisting no sight and release. 454 00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:32,720 Speaker 1: There's a curfew now. You probably heard in the fire 455 00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:37,280 Speaker 1: areas and the mandatory evacuation areas. So there's a lot 456 00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:42,560 Speaker 1: of bad stuff going on. The neighborhood apps that are 457 00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:45,600 Speaker 1: blowing up everybody's posting all kinds of wild stuff. I 458 00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:47,639 Speaker 1: got a photo in front of me of a gas 459 00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:51,040 Speaker 1: can sending underneath an electrical poll on the west side. 460 00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:59,479 Speaker 1: There's vagrants and mental patients. There's low level burglars wandering 461 00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:02,200 Speaker 1: around like that do every day. There might be this 462 00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:09,159 Speaker 1: Chilean gang, there's pranksters, and everybody's going insane. And she 463 00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:13,960 Speaker 1: won't take any responsibility. She won't even take responsibility for 464 00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:16,159 Speaker 1: all the erroneous arms. 465 00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:16,440 Speaker 2: That went off. 466 00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:18,320 Speaker 1: I mean, I mean there was there's three of them 467 00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:20,640 Speaker 1: right because there was you guy, I. 468 00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:24,399 Speaker 4: Got one yesterday at four o'clock. There's one four this morning. 469 00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:27,320 Speaker 4: I don't know about the third. Those are the only 470 00:26:27,359 --> 00:26:28,280 Speaker 4: two I know, but I. 471 00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:30,600 Speaker 2: Well, there's one yesterday afternoon at four o'clock right. 472 00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:32,800 Speaker 4: Now, that the one that was about the fire near 473 00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:35,240 Speaker 4: me that was sent out to ten million people in 474 00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:37,280 Speaker 4: the county and it was only supposed to be for 475 00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:38,960 Speaker 4: the West Hills Calabasas area. 476 00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:40,640 Speaker 2: And Derek, you had one at four in the morning. Yeah, 477 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:42,000 Speaker 2: I'd won at three fifty seven this. 478 00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:44,040 Speaker 1: Morning, okay, And at news report I heard there was 479 00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:48,600 Speaker 1: one later this past morning. I don't know if I 480 00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:50,960 Speaker 1: I got that one maybe that was a more regional art. Anyway, 481 00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:53,199 Speaker 1: it was false. We come back on a play and 482 00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:54,919 Speaker 1: we got to do your story, Deborah, Yeah, I know, 483 00:26:55,359 --> 00:26:57,440 Speaker 1: we got to do that, And I want to play 484 00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:01,560 Speaker 1: you the clip of Fox eleven Bob de Castro questioning 485 00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:05,840 Speaker 1: the Department of Emergency Services Kevin McGowan over these false 486 00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:07,120 Speaker 1: alarms that they're sending out. 487 00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:09,480 Speaker 2: It's like, yeah, why should we believe these alarms? 488 00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:11,560 Speaker 4: Yeah, and then when it's real, people are not going 489 00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:12,760 Speaker 4: to be taking it seriously. 490 00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:15,560 Speaker 2: All right. So Deborah Mark has news now in the 491 00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:16,400 Speaker 2: CAFI News Center. 492 00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:21,600 Speaker 7: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am 493 00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:22,160 Speaker 7: six forty. 494 00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:24,600 Speaker 2: You're not going to believe this one. 495 00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:31,000 Speaker 1: The New York Post is reporting that Karen Bass rejected 496 00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:35,800 Speaker 1: an offer from the New York Fire Department to help 497 00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:42,400 Speaker 1: contain the fires, even though obviously, well they've admitted LA 498 00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:45,520 Speaker 1: Fire Department has admitted they don't have enough firefighters themselves. 499 00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:50,600 Speaker 1: They were asking for volunteers. Tuesday night, Channel eleven was 500 00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:55,359 Speaker 1: running a graphic with a phone number if I guess, 501 00:27:55,480 --> 00:28:00,520 Speaker 1: I don't know, out of work firefighters, retired firefighters, people 502 00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:05,679 Speaker 1: on vacation. They were looking for people to join the 503 00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:11,879 Speaker 1: LA Fire Department immediately, So the New York City Fire 504 00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:19,280 Speaker 1: Commissioner Robert Tucker made an offer to Bass, and Jet 505 00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:24,480 Speaker 1: Blue offered to pay for the firefighters flights across country 506 00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:28,040 Speaker 1: from New York to LA. According to sources, this is 507 00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:36,080 Speaker 1: again in the New York Post, but the offers were rejected. 508 00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:44,000 Speaker 1: Newsom accepted help from Mexico, and we have firefighters from Colorado, 509 00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:51,880 Speaker 1: New Mexico and Utah coming in. But people in the 510 00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:58,080 Speaker 1: New York Fire Department were stunned. LA Fire Chief Anthony 511 00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:01,920 Speaker 1: Moron had acknowledged Wednesday that his forces we're fighting a 512 00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:04,640 Speaker 1: losing battle, says the Post. When it came to enough staffing, 513 00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:09,160 Speaker 1: Maroone said, LA County and all twenty nine fire departments 514 00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:11,640 Speaker 1: in our county are not prepared for this kind of 515 00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:14,840 Speaker 1: widespread disaster, which. 516 00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:17,840 Speaker 2: Is why it's a really good idea. The Karen Bass. 517 00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:24,800 Speaker 1: Just on Monday send out a memo demanding forty nine 518 00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:30,520 Speaker 1: million dollars in cuts in the LA Fire Department. Forty 519 00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:34,600 Speaker 1: nine million dollars in cuts on Monday. All hell breaks 520 00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:42,719 Speaker 1: out on Tuesday, and now we have these these evacuation 521 00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:44,680 Speaker 1: alert system It's going haywire. 522 00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:50,560 Speaker 2: Let's play well, we've all right. Let me play the 523 00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:52,160 Speaker 2: apology first. How much time do I have? 524 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:56,360 Speaker 1: This is Kevin McGowan, director of the Office of Emergency Services. 525 00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:57,440 Speaker 2: Let's play cut three. 526 00:29:57,480 --> 00:30:00,680 Speaker 1: First starts the press conference apologizing for all the false 527 00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:01,959 Speaker 1: evacuation alarms. 528 00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:08,320 Speaker 8: There is an extreme amount of frustration, anger, fear with 529 00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:12,240 Speaker 8: regards to the erroneous messages that have been being sent 530 00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:16,520 Speaker 8: out through the wireless emergency alert system across LA County. 531 00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:21,959 Speaker 8: I can't express enough how sorry I am for this experience. 532 00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:25,080 Speaker 8: First of all, I want to clarify this is not 533 00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:29,000 Speaker 8: human driven. There is no one sitting at a desk 534 00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:33,600 Speaker 8: right now initiating emergency alerts. I want to restate that 535 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:34,800 Speaker 8: stop stop. 536 00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:38,239 Speaker 2: Is that supposed to make us feel better? Maybe there 537 00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:40,160 Speaker 2: should be? Does it make you feel better? I was 538 00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:41,040 Speaker 2: gonna say the same thing. 539 00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:43,960 Speaker 1: Okay, so you got some kind of algorithm has gone 540 00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:47,200 Speaker 1: hay wire in the computer and it keeps put out 541 00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:48,120 Speaker 1: at least three of these. 542 00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:52,400 Speaker 2: That's supposed to make us feel better? So there's no 543 00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:54,240 Speaker 2: human to blame. Be better. 544 00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:56,000 Speaker 1: If there was a human to blame, you could fire 545 00:30:56,080 --> 00:30:58,520 Speaker 1: him and find somebody better. But what are we supposed 546 00:30:58,560 --> 00:30:59,520 Speaker 1: to do with a machine gun? 547 00:30:59,560 --> 00:30:59,640 Speaker 5: Hey? 548 00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:04,840 Speaker 1: Wire. Why should we trust these anymore? Yesterday it was 549 00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:07,880 Speaker 1: almost exactly four o'clock and my phone went off. Conway 550 00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:10,320 Speaker 1: was in here, his phone went off. My wife is 551 00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:12,960 Speaker 1: calling me at the same time. Her phone went off, 552 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:15,680 Speaker 1: and she says, come home immediately, we have to evacuate. 553 00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:16,800 Speaker 2: And it didn't make sense to me. 554 00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:19,480 Speaker 1: I said, no, the palis a spire hasn't moved, because 555 00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:23,440 Speaker 1: we're about five miles away. I thought it was because 556 00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:26,520 Speaker 1: of the West Hills fire. That's why I went off 557 00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:27,320 Speaker 1: here in Burbank. 558 00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:32,960 Speaker 2: Well, that's what it was for. Only for that, only 559 00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:36,160 Speaker 2: for that. But everybody got this. Edward in the county 560 00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:38,360 Speaker 2: got this. Yes, ten million people. Where were we all 561 00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:39,120 Speaker 2: supposed to go? 562 00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:44,280 Speaker 1: What kind of alert is necessary for ten million people 563 00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:51,720 Speaker 1: to evacuate? Even if a nuclear bomb went off? What 564 00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:53,920 Speaker 1: good would it do to have ten million people all 565 00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:56,920 Speaker 1: go in the same direction at once? I all right, 566 00:31:56,960 --> 00:31:58,320 Speaker 1: let me let's play a little bit at Bob de 567 00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:02,960 Speaker 1: Castro Fox eleven should be cut five in interviewing McGowan. 568 00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:06,920 Speaker 9: Even after yesterday that errant message was sent out to 569 00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:11,680 Speaker 9: Los Angeles counties, some ten million people overnight, people were 570 00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:14,800 Speaker 9: still receiving many messages and we were even fielding calls 571 00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:17,400 Speaker 9: from our own newsroom, from people as far as San 572 00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:21,800 Speaker 9: Bernardino that were receiving calls. You had no idea why 573 00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:25,920 Speaker 9: people are getting these alerts and being startled in the 574 00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:28,480 Speaker 9: middle of the night when they're already on edge in 575 00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:31,479 Speaker 9: the Inland Empire. Why does that happened? You have no idea? 576 00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:34,840 Speaker 9: And you also asked that people verify and get onto 577 00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:37,640 Speaker 9: a website. Not everybody has the ability to jump on 578 00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:40,840 Speaker 9: a website when they're panicked to try and figure out 579 00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:42,880 Speaker 9: whether or not this is an actual. 580 00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:43,840 Speaker 2: Alert when you have no power. 581 00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:47,440 Speaker 8: I appreciate the thoughts you're sharing in the question. I 582 00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:50,400 Speaker 8: would take a second to explain how wait. 583 00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:53,520 Speaker 1: Stop, where did this wiinner come from? Person of all, he 584 00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:55,080 Speaker 1: sounds like he's gonna cry. 585 00:32:57,320 --> 00:32:59,800 Speaker 2: He's embarrassed. I start to have faith and confidence. 586 00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:03,840 Speaker 1: And this guy, he's in charge of emergency services, the director, 587 00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:05,120 Speaker 1: he's the director. 588 00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:09,680 Speaker 2: Holy hell, whirro on our own here? Aren't we? We 589 00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:15,640 Speaker 2: got nobody to help us? Not Bass Bass is in Africa. 590 00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:20,040 Speaker 1: Newsom is lying to a mother in the Palisades, claiming 591 00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:22,160 Speaker 1: he's talking to the president like he has some kind 592 00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:27,080 Speaker 1: of hallucination or delusion. The Office of Emergency Services director 593 00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:28,480 Speaker 1: is a puddle of tears. 594 00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:30,600 Speaker 2: What's going on. 595 00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:35,640 Speaker 1: The fire The fire chief says. 596 00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:37,600 Speaker 2: She got screwed by Karen Bass. 597 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:40,360 Speaker 1: They cut the money and we find out Bass was 598 00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:49,120 Speaker 1: cutting money as late as Monday. It's over. It's over. Yeah, 599 00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:52,600 Speaker 1: they're gonna rebuild. They're gonna rebuild out to Dina. They're 600 00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:56,000 Speaker 1: going to rebuild the Palisades. This crew, huh. 601 00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:58,360 Speaker 2: We have to have faith, we have to be united. 602 00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:00,800 Speaker 2: FN you stay. 603 00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:06,160 Speaker 1: Strong, stay strong, Let's stay Los Angeles strong. 604 00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:08,759 Speaker 2: All right, we come back. 605 00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:13,160 Speaker 1: We're gonna talk to Royal Oaks, are legal analyst from 606 00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:17,560 Speaker 1: ABC News. He's had to evacuate as well, and he's 607 00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:18,920 Speaker 1: got a story to tell. And then we've got to 608 00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:22,520 Speaker 1: hear Debor's story. Debra was the lead story on the 609 00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:26,480 Speaker 1: news last night. It was crazy. One of these possible 610 00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:28,160 Speaker 1: arsonists was loose in their neighborhood. 611 00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:29,839 Speaker 2: What's going on? 612 00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:32,560 Speaker 4: I'm ready to. 613 00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:36,800 Speaker 2: Leave the state. Yeah, maybe it's maybe it's time we 614 00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:37,120 Speaker 2: all go. 615 00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:37,759 Speaker 7: I think it is. 616 00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:41,520 Speaker 1: Deborah Mark live in the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey, 617 00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:44,400 Speaker 1: you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You 618 00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:47,000 Speaker 1: can always hear the show live on KFI AM six 619 00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:49,840 Speaker 1: forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, 620 00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:53,120 Speaker 1: and of course anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.