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I think we've mentioned 20 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:07,840 Speaker 1: this before, but they did decide once and for all, 21 00:01:07,959 --> 00:01:10,440 Speaker 1: not to expand the seven ten Freeway, and that's of 22 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:13,160 Speaker 1: course we're heads down to the ports, so a lot 23 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:16,119 Speaker 1: of the goods are shipped that way. But the big explanation, 24 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:19,600 Speaker 1: and he also canto times, is it's racist. So stop him. 25 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:30,759 Speaker 1: You keep expanding highways, that's racist. You divide and hurt neighborhoods. Well, 26 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:34,319 Speaker 1: those neighborhoods need all the deliveries coming from the port. Yeah. 27 00:01:34,319 --> 00:01:37,479 Speaker 1: And speaking of the port, wow, what a stinker. The 28 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:41,039 Speaker 1: least efficient ports in the world, or La Sports the 29 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:44,200 Speaker 1: least efficient. Yeah, yeah, what does that tell you, especially 30 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:47,480 Speaker 1: when we had the big supply snags sort of the pandemic. 31 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:51,360 Speaker 1: We'll get to all this stuff coming up, but we 32 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:54,000 Speaker 1: have a special guest again, Alex being a wave La 33 00:01:54,080 --> 00:01:57,480 Speaker 1: County sheriff running for reelection less than two weeks. You're 34 00:01:57,480 --> 00:02:01,080 Speaker 1: going to vote on the sheriff, either him or I 35 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:04,840 Speaker 1: believe he has what eight other eight opponents. Let's get 36 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:08,160 Speaker 1: the sheriff on. How are you? Oh, not too bad? 37 00:02:08,200 --> 00:02:10,960 Speaker 1: How are you guys doing great? Good? We saw you 38 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:15,160 Speaker 1: throughout the special on Fox eleven last night Los Angeles 39 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:19,240 Speaker 1: all about homelessness. You're one of the very few making 40 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:23,240 Speaker 1: any sense. You and me, we were there too, making 41 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:28,160 Speaker 1: a lot of sense. You know, that's the least thing 42 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:31,200 Speaker 1: we could do right now. But if we don't point 43 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:33,760 Speaker 1: out the fact that what's happened to date has been 44 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:36,920 Speaker 1: an absolute failure, we're going to keep repeating the failure. 45 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:40,120 Speaker 1: So let's stop with the nonsense. Let's start figuring out 46 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:43,520 Speaker 1: what does work and go that way. Imagine that. Well, 47 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:46,200 Speaker 1: I think you've made some inroads with your attempts here 48 00:02:46,320 --> 00:02:49,480 Speaker 1: with convincing some of the architects of failure to get 49 00:02:49,480 --> 00:02:53,640 Speaker 1: on board. Wow, it looks like I'm gonna have to 50 00:02:53,639 --> 00:02:56,160 Speaker 1: convince a whole new board of supervisors because the current 51 00:02:56,200 --> 00:03:00,360 Speaker 1: one is dead. Said on housing first policy, which we 52 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:03,400 Speaker 1: know is an absolute failure. It has to be emergency 53 00:03:03,480 --> 00:03:06,959 Speaker 1: shelter first, And now we have a leg up on 54 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:12,320 Speaker 1: cobbling those resources together. Get the encampments broken up, get 55 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:15,119 Speaker 1: people into shelter and on their way back to where 56 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:18,440 Speaker 1: they came from us they didn't want to take shelter. Well, 57 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:21,480 Speaker 1: what was striking in the special last night is that 58 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:25,840 Speaker 1: I know firsthand because as I've said a thousand times, 59 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:30,520 Speaker 1: I lived near the VA, lived near the homeless encampment 60 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:32,920 Speaker 1: that was there for about four years, and then you 61 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:35,640 Speaker 1: came in and just a matter of a few weeks, 62 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:40,200 Speaker 1: you did all the outreach, you did all the relocation, 63 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:43,440 Speaker 1: and really in about twenty four hours or so, you 64 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:47,160 Speaker 1: completely dismantled the entire encampment and hold it away. It 65 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:50,320 Speaker 1: happened just like that same thing on the Venice boardwalk. 66 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:54,440 Speaker 1: So it gave it showed everything else was such a 67 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:56,440 Speaker 1: life like, well, we can't move it, it's too hard. 68 00:03:56,680 --> 00:03:58,520 Speaker 1: When you get up in the morning, decide to do it, 69 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:01,080 Speaker 1: it actually moves very swiftly. And a lot of those 70 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:04,440 Speaker 1: people are veterans, and they got relocated behind the gates 71 00:04:04,760 --> 00:04:06,920 Speaker 1: onto the VA property, which is where they should have 72 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:11,600 Speaker 1: been to begin with, exactly. And you know what, if 73 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:14,160 Speaker 1: a lack of political will, that's it. And I heard 74 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:17,240 Speaker 1: all I saw the same special I heard all these 75 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:21,279 Speaker 1: subject matter experts that we know that housing works, but 76 00:04:21,400 --> 00:04:24,920 Speaker 1: they can't. They're just they're so myopic because they're only 77 00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:28,599 Speaker 1: looking at what works for one individual. They're not looking 78 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:31,000 Speaker 1: at the aggregate picture. They're not looking that if you 79 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:34,360 Speaker 1: keep offering eight hundred thousand dollars condos with a beach view, 80 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:37,120 Speaker 1: you're attracting ten more people from the rest of the 81 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:40,240 Speaker 1: country who want that same condo. Yeah, until you understand 82 00:04:40,279 --> 00:04:43,560 Speaker 1: the big picture, you'll never solve the small picture. Yeah, 83 00:04:44,080 --> 00:04:46,440 Speaker 1: I don't think that was addressed. Much like what kind 84 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:48,839 Speaker 1: of magnet do you to create when you start promising 85 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:52,280 Speaker 1: eight hundred thousand dollars condos, You're going to get a 86 00:04:52,279 --> 00:04:56,480 Speaker 1: lot more customers for it. Hey, what about this situation 87 00:04:56,600 --> 00:04:59,839 Speaker 1: in Texas? You know, the big controversy today is that 88 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:03,640 Speaker 1: at the local police department sat there for an hour 89 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:06,320 Speaker 1: until the Border patrol came in and stormed. And I 90 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:09,120 Speaker 1: know it's very difficult from this far away and not 91 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:12,920 Speaker 1: knowing all the details, but I mean, if you your 92 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:16,280 Speaker 1: your sheriff's department were confronted with this kind of situation, 93 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:18,520 Speaker 1: what is it you're supposed to do when you have 94 00:05:18,520 --> 00:05:23,000 Speaker 1: a guy barricaded and he just you know, killed twenty people? 95 00:05:23,839 --> 00:05:25,440 Speaker 1: How do you how do you deal with something like 96 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:28,800 Speaker 1: that so it doesn't go on for an hour? Well, 97 00:05:28,839 --> 00:05:32,400 Speaker 1: we do active shooter drills all the time throughout the county. 98 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:35,800 Speaker 1: We just did one last month at Pierce College and 99 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:38,760 Speaker 1: all of our patrol personnel, heck, all of our personnel 100 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:43,560 Speaker 1: are taught. It's swift, decisive, intervention right out the gate, 101 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:47,680 Speaker 1: whoever shows up. Your only goal in life is to 102 00:05:47,839 --> 00:05:51,440 Speaker 1: engage with the shooter. And that means if you're stepping 103 00:05:51,480 --> 00:05:53,440 Speaker 1: over people that have been wounded, you're going to step 104 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:57,200 Speaker 1: over people, but you your soule mission life is engaged 105 00:05:57,240 --> 00:06:00,240 Speaker 1: with a shooter. Neutralize a shooter so there are no 106 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:03,479 Speaker 1: more victims, and that is what needs to happen. That's 107 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:07,920 Speaker 1: a lesson that was learning Columbine. And we have very 108 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:10,680 Speaker 1: conflicting information coming out of Texas, so I don't want 109 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:13,000 Speaker 1: to be second guessing what they did or didn't do. 110 00:06:13,279 --> 00:06:15,960 Speaker 1: Hopefully we'll get a good picture down the road. But 111 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:19,240 Speaker 1: what we learned from Columbine is there's no perfect scenario. 112 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:22,080 Speaker 1: You got the gun, go in there, act like your 113 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:25,280 Speaker 1: kids are in that classroom. Right. It's hard to say 114 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:28,359 Speaker 1: what they did wrong, but I guess I was wondering, 115 00:06:28,480 --> 00:06:31,200 Speaker 1: what is it that they're supposed to do? Right? What 116 00:06:31,279 --> 00:06:33,680 Speaker 1: are the police supposed to do? Since there's so many 117 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:36,880 Speaker 1: variations in a situation, and you're saying, just go find 118 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:39,920 Speaker 1: the guy and take care of them, that is it. 119 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:42,000 Speaker 1: And that's the first pardon that shows up, maybe the 120 00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:45,400 Speaker 1: first two people you're going straight to where the gunfire 121 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:47,840 Speaker 1: is and you're going to engage the shooter. That is 122 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:52,080 Speaker 1: your sole responsibility. People that start coming in behind you, 123 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:55,760 Speaker 1: we'll start taking care of they're critically wounded and everything else. 124 00:06:55,839 --> 00:06:59,440 Speaker 1: Because time is blood, blood is life, and so the 125 00:06:59,520 --> 00:07:03,120 Speaker 1: clock is ticking. As soon as people start being you know, 126 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:07,039 Speaker 1: morally wounded as lives, it can be saved. So there's 127 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:09,400 Speaker 1: no such thing as a perfect scenario where you have 128 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:12,680 Speaker 1: all the resources, you know, at your leisure, you're gonna 129 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:15,520 Speaker 1: go in now. This is not a so like a 130 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:19,080 Speaker 1: hostage crisis where you have one victim and one person barricaded, 131 00:07:19,640 --> 00:07:22,320 Speaker 1: where you have the luxury of time on your side. 132 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:25,400 Speaker 1: But even in those scenarios, when they make the call 133 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:28,600 Speaker 1: that okay, where's a crisis, then all bets are off 134 00:07:28,640 --> 00:07:31,280 Speaker 1: and they're gonna go in like anbusters. Where do you 135 00:07:31,320 --> 00:07:33,640 Speaker 1: stand on all the things that are being thrown out 136 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:38,120 Speaker 1: there now in terms of gun control, background checks, red 137 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:41,000 Speaker 1: flag lists, where do you see this going and where 138 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:45,640 Speaker 1: do you personally stand on all these ideas well? Legislators 139 00:07:45,640 --> 00:07:48,000 Speaker 1: always want to throw out laws because that's all they 140 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:50,760 Speaker 1: know how to do. I'd be more impressive people actually 141 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:53,480 Speaker 1: start enforcing the law, like we have a DA that 142 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:56,960 Speaker 1: won't enforce gun enhancement tech. We had a shooting, a 143 00:07:57,080 --> 00:07:59,840 Speaker 1: deputy involved shooting with the CHP and East LA just 144 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:03,440 Speaker 1: the day before yesterday where the guy actually ambushed the 145 00:08:03,760 --> 00:08:08,480 Speaker 1: HP THHP officers shot at him, shot at the deputy's 146 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:12,800 Speaker 1: exchange fire that personnel. The is not going to file 147 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:16,440 Speaker 1: gun enhancements on that one who attempted to murder the 148 00:08:16,720 --> 00:08:20,880 Speaker 1: police officers. That is a problem right there. We have 149 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:23,400 Speaker 1: all these guns, these gun laws on the books, they're 150 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:26,560 Speaker 1: not being used because they have das that refused to prosecute. Yeah, 151 00:08:26,560 --> 00:08:29,160 Speaker 1: it's kind of interesting that that this crowd that believes 152 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:33,319 Speaker 1: in more gun control is against gun enhancement sentencing. It's hard, 153 00:08:33,480 --> 00:08:38,280 Speaker 1: it's mind boggling. Yeah, they're not they're not compatible the 154 00:08:38,360 --> 00:08:41,160 Speaker 1: two ideas. It just goes, this is a baby collection. 155 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:45,320 Speaker 1: Let's go after more gun legislation. I said. Now, let's 156 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:48,720 Speaker 1: prosecute with the laws we already have on the books. 157 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:54,120 Speaker 1: Right now, can you hang on sure? Okay? What I 158 00:08:54,160 --> 00:08:57,760 Speaker 1: ask this is Sheriff Alex Viennuavea is our guest. He 159 00:08:57,880 --> 00:09:00,400 Speaker 1: is running for reelection as LA County Share on your 160 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:03,640 Speaker 1: ballot with eight opponents. He's on our voter guide. An 161 00:09:03,640 --> 00:09:06,840 Speaker 1: easy pick because we found out, especially the last couple 162 00:09:06,840 --> 00:09:09,800 Speaker 1: of years, this is about all we have in terms 163 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:12,520 Speaker 1: of a large public official that does something about crime 164 00:09:12,520 --> 00:09:15,240 Speaker 1: and homelessness. More coming up, John and kenk Fine. We 165 00:09:15,280 --> 00:09:19,920 Speaker 1: continue with La County Sheriff Alex Vieneueva running for reelection, 166 00:09:20,800 --> 00:09:23,079 Speaker 1: and less than two weeks he'll be on the ballot 167 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:27,000 Speaker 1: along with eight opponents, and we've endorsed him. He's on 168 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:30,440 Speaker 1: the voter guide and said before, he's about the only 169 00:09:30,840 --> 00:09:35,559 Speaker 1: major figure in Southern California, probably in all of southern California. 170 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:37,520 Speaker 1: Maybe you know there's some in the Inland Empire that 171 00:09:37,640 --> 00:09:41,040 Speaker 1: stand up on crime and homelessness. Sheriff, I wanted to 172 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:45,119 Speaker 1: ask you this stories of running around concerning your reelection 173 00:09:45,559 --> 00:09:50,080 Speaker 1: that are using a term buyer's remorse. Back in twenty eighteen, 174 00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:52,400 Speaker 1: they said you ran as a Democrat, You had a 175 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:55,840 Speaker 1: lot of these progressive, woke people supporting your candidacy, and 176 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:59,120 Speaker 1: now they're scratching their heads and saying what happened. It's 177 00:09:59,160 --> 00:10:01,560 Speaker 1: almost like the reverse universe from us and not us, 178 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:04,120 Speaker 1: but some voters in Gascon who didn't realize he'd be 179 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:07,839 Speaker 1: this crazy with his directives. I mean, what's your response 180 00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:11,160 Speaker 1: to that about when you ran then versus your four 181 00:10:11,240 --> 00:10:15,280 Speaker 1: years a sheriff. Those are the party bosses of the 182 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:18,959 Speaker 1: Democratic Party in La County who are making that claim. 183 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:22,640 Speaker 1: When I campaigned in twenty eighteen, and I've been a 184 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:26,600 Speaker 1: lifelong Democrat, I'm still a Democrat, but I'm also not crazy. 185 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:29,679 Speaker 1: I believe in law and order, a secure boarder. I 186 00:10:29,720 --> 00:10:33,240 Speaker 1: think ICE and federal immigration has a role, but not 187 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:37,400 Speaker 1: with local law enforcements. I've separated the two. That was 188 00:10:37,440 --> 00:10:40,560 Speaker 1: a huge thing for the Progressive movement to remove Ice 189 00:10:40,559 --> 00:10:43,960 Speaker 1: out of the jails. LA Times refused to even covered 190 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:46,000 Speaker 1: or mention it to this day. They had an article 191 00:10:46,040 --> 00:10:47,560 Speaker 1: the other day and never even mentioned it when they're 192 00:10:47,559 --> 00:10:52,640 Speaker 1: supposed to, and because it really it alters, it harms 193 00:10:52,679 --> 00:10:56,520 Speaker 1: their false narratives at painting me as some rogue trumpster, 194 00:10:56,720 --> 00:10:58,959 Speaker 1: which is what they want to do for LA. It 195 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:02,960 Speaker 1: doesn't fit the warned cameras. That's all about accountability. Today. 196 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:05,280 Speaker 1: I signed two more terminations. Now it's up to one 197 00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:08,560 Speaker 1: hundred and forty eight. Hold people accountable to the rule 198 00:11:08,640 --> 00:11:12,640 Speaker 1: of law. We've done everything possible to reform the organization 199 00:11:13,160 --> 00:11:16,360 Speaker 1: and make it accountable I've done ninety seven town halls today. 200 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:20,240 Speaker 1: You want to talk about transparency, tell me any political 201 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:24,880 Speaker 1: leaders faced ninety seven different townhouse throughout the county and 202 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:32,240 Speaker 1: taking questions directly from community members with no filters, heads 203 00:11:32,320 --> 00:11:37,040 Speaker 1: up warning, nothing unscripted. I've done that for four years now. 204 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:39,480 Speaker 1: So what are they going to do. Let's create this 205 00:11:39,559 --> 00:11:43,120 Speaker 1: false narrative that he's rogue, or there's deputy gangs or 206 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:48,120 Speaker 1: buyer's remorse. But the elites want you to believe that 207 00:11:48,520 --> 00:11:51,000 Speaker 1: what matters is that matters to people. Know that people 208 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:54,920 Speaker 1: care about homelessness, they care about violent crime. For the 209 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:58,680 Speaker 1: immigrant communities, it was very important waste stuff task force 210 00:11:58,760 --> 00:12:01,720 Speaker 1: for a thing. These are safety on our metro system. 211 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:04,240 Speaker 1: Those are things that are important to real people. To 212 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:08,560 Speaker 1: the elites, it's all about appearances because they're protecting the 213 00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:11,360 Speaker 1: fact that they don't want to have the checks and 214 00:12:11,400 --> 00:12:14,920 Speaker 1: balance of the sheriff against the board of supervisors. That's 215 00:12:14,960 --> 00:12:16,920 Speaker 1: all the game that's being played. So so, the only 216 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:20,920 Speaker 1: progressive issue that you ran on was getting ice out 217 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:25,520 Speaker 1: of the county jails. Pretty while that in the body 218 00:12:25,559 --> 00:12:28,959 Speaker 1: worn cameras. I think in terms of law enforcement accountability, 219 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:34,200 Speaker 1: I think that's important diversity, breaking down the good old 220 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:39,680 Speaker 1: point network and diversifying the workforce, making it accountable to 221 00:12:39,840 --> 00:12:43,080 Speaker 1: the community. Why did they interpret it that you signed 222 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:48,920 Speaker 1: on for the whole crazy agenda. I have no idea, 223 00:12:49,080 --> 00:12:51,840 Speaker 1: because I told them exactly what I was going to do. 224 00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:56,240 Speaker 1: I even told them that due process and is an 225 00:12:56,280 --> 00:13:00,839 Speaker 1: important thing. So if we had wrongful terminations, wrong convictions, 226 00:13:00,960 --> 00:13:03,920 Speaker 1: we need to make sure we examine them and if 227 00:13:03,960 --> 00:13:07,280 Speaker 1: there's something that was done wrong, let's address that. And 228 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:09,520 Speaker 1: they even bought into that. They said, oh, yeah, it 229 00:13:09,520 --> 00:13:11,480 Speaker 1: sounds great an idea until I did it, and then 230 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:14,000 Speaker 1: they were running around like, oh my god, how dare you? Well? 231 00:13:14,520 --> 00:13:18,040 Speaker 1: The facts are the facts. They speak for themselves. If 232 00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:21,360 Speaker 1: there's a miscarriage of justice, we have a moral and 233 00:13:21,480 --> 00:13:25,079 Speaker 1: legal obligation to right the wrong. We don't keep seeing 234 00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:29,680 Speaker 1: someone condemned or wrongfully terminated because we don't like the person. 235 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:32,559 Speaker 1: Doesn't work that way. Now, Sheriff's Department has about a 236 00:13:32,559 --> 00:13:37,400 Speaker 1: month left under contract with the Metro for you to 237 00:13:37,480 --> 00:13:40,680 Speaker 1: police the trains and the buses, and you've said for 238 00:13:40,720 --> 00:13:44,400 Speaker 1: that month you are going to like double the number 239 00:13:44,520 --> 00:13:47,720 Speaker 1: of deputies on board and they're going to be armed 240 00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:52,880 Speaker 1: and they're going to be enforcing a lot. What's been 241 00:13:52,880 --> 00:13:55,880 Speaker 1: the response from the Metro board, which is made up 242 00:13:55,880 --> 00:13:58,800 Speaker 1: of a lot of La City Council people, Garcetti, the 243 00:13:58,920 --> 00:14:03,199 Speaker 1: La County Provisors. Have they gotten back to you and said, 244 00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:08,360 Speaker 1: don't you dare good, good idea anything at all? Well, 245 00:14:08,440 --> 00:14:12,680 Speaker 1: they released a statement that was featured in all these 246 00:14:12,679 --> 00:14:17,000 Speaker 1: news coverage on our position, and surprisingly they were actually 247 00:14:17,120 --> 00:14:19,920 Speaker 1: very well, we want to work together seeing Kumbayai and 248 00:14:20,280 --> 00:14:23,280 Speaker 1: keep the place safe for everyone. Great, but they don't 249 00:14:23,320 --> 00:14:26,120 Speaker 1: acknowledge the harm they did with their previous decisions. So 250 00:14:26,160 --> 00:14:29,320 Speaker 1: our goal is to get those fifty seven hundred homeless 251 00:14:29,360 --> 00:14:32,880 Speaker 1: people off of the system because they're harming themselves, they're 252 00:14:32,880 --> 00:14:37,280 Speaker 1: harming their writers, and they're not compatible the two groups. 253 00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:43,000 Speaker 1: So what happens on July first, when the contract runs down, Well, 254 00:14:43,040 --> 00:14:46,600 Speaker 1: we've agreed to two six months six month extensions the 255 00:14:46,680 --> 00:14:50,840 Speaker 1: board MTA board voted on it, and they want us 256 00:14:50,880 --> 00:14:54,560 Speaker 1: to complete those two six months while they're entertaining our 257 00:14:54,560 --> 00:14:58,040 Speaker 1: proposal to take over the entire system. But what we're 258 00:14:58,080 --> 00:14:59,880 Speaker 1: not going to do is we're not going to revert 259 00:15:00,040 --> 00:15:03,320 Speaker 1: to the past MTA practice of well, we're just going 260 00:15:03,400 --> 00:15:06,160 Speaker 1: to wait to private security tells us one to do 261 00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:10,880 Speaker 1: our job in law enforcement. That was an absolute idiotic 262 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:15,880 Speaker 1: way to handle law enforcement and be proactive. So now 263 00:15:15,920 --> 00:15:19,320 Speaker 1: we're changing that. We're going back to being proactive, identifying 264 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:22,760 Speaker 1: problems at the start before the devolvement to where it 265 00:15:22,840 --> 00:15:26,040 Speaker 1: reaches a crisis. Force has to be used and then 266 00:15:26,080 --> 00:15:28,560 Speaker 1: we have really bad outcomes. So do you think that 267 00:15:28,880 --> 00:15:33,800 Speaker 1: video montage that Steve Gregory uncovered of the shootings, the stabbings, 268 00:15:34,640 --> 00:15:38,760 Speaker 1: the rape, the recent incident where a guy was burned 269 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:41,680 Speaker 1: alive by a homeless woman, this finally has had an 270 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:44,280 Speaker 1: impact on them and they've decided to let you do 271 00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:48,480 Speaker 1: your thing. I sure hope so because just from a 272 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:52,120 Speaker 1: liability standpoint, oh my god, imagine every single person has 273 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:57,920 Speaker 1: been harmed because of their policies. That's deliberate indifference to 274 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:01,040 Speaker 1: the plight of passengers. You can't opt out. Once you're 275 00:16:01,040 --> 00:16:03,960 Speaker 1: a passenger, you're stuck in the metal tube. You're there 276 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:06,800 Speaker 1: with whoever there with you. And if their policies are 277 00:16:06,840 --> 00:16:10,080 Speaker 1: putting people that are potentially dangerous there and they do 278 00:16:10,120 --> 00:16:13,160 Speaker 1: not do anything about it, they're just gonna eat it. 279 00:16:13,680 --> 00:16:17,960 Speaker 1: I think they have to realize that our direction, which 280 00:16:18,040 --> 00:16:21,520 Speaker 1: is what we had before from twenty seventeen before where 281 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:25,000 Speaker 1: we kept everything in check. There was no homeless living 282 00:16:25,040 --> 00:16:27,840 Speaker 1: on the trains or on the platforms. We did fair 283 00:16:27,880 --> 00:16:33,360 Speaker 1: evasion enforcement and code of conduct enforcement. The place was 284 00:16:33,400 --> 00:16:36,440 Speaker 1: secure and that's the way we want to return it 285 00:16:36,480 --> 00:16:38,320 Speaker 1: to and that is my goal of sheriff, and we're 286 00:16:38,360 --> 00:16:40,600 Speaker 1: going to get there. So you're going to police the 287 00:16:41,040 --> 00:16:46,520 Speaker 1: smaller violations to create a different climate. We're gonna anything 288 00:16:46,560 --> 00:16:49,120 Speaker 1: that we can enforce, we are going to enforce. And 289 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:52,160 Speaker 1: we're going to be working with our host team to 290 00:16:52,280 --> 00:16:54,680 Speaker 1: get the people, do the outreach to get the people 291 00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:58,200 Speaker 1: off the system and into shelter. But there's no option 292 00:16:58,280 --> 00:17:01,400 Speaker 1: where they can be sheltered on the transit platforms or 293 00:17:01,480 --> 00:17:06,560 Speaker 1: the trains, like Sheila Quell said, that is absolutely irresponsible 294 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:10,720 Speaker 1: and dangerous. We're not going to allow that. She said 295 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:13,959 Speaker 1: they could shelter on the trains, just sit in the 296 00:17:13,960 --> 00:17:16,000 Speaker 1: trains all day and night, going up and down. That's 297 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:19,400 Speaker 1: going to be their home, and that's fine with her. Yes, 298 00:17:19,560 --> 00:17:23,080 Speaker 1: she said it was their sanctuary. I didn't know she 299 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:27,600 Speaker 1: said that. That's really crazy. Always found this out about 300 00:17:27,600 --> 00:17:31,520 Speaker 1: a week ago. I was astonished too. I mean that 301 00:17:31,640 --> 00:17:35,720 Speaker 1: number fifty seven hundred people living on them on the metros, 302 00:17:36,240 --> 00:17:39,320 Speaker 1: you know, and you also there's no riders money. You 303 00:17:39,359 --> 00:17:41,879 Speaker 1: also pointed out that most of the victims are people 304 00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:46,080 Speaker 1: of color, because that's most of the ridership. Yes, And 305 00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:50,240 Speaker 1: these people claim that they're being anti racist and protecting 306 00:17:50,280 --> 00:17:54,320 Speaker 1: minorities from you know, over policing by aggressive arm They 307 00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:57,560 Speaker 1: always talk about armed law enforcement. Well they're actually screwing 308 00:17:57,560 --> 00:18:01,280 Speaker 1: over the same people they claim they're protecting. All right, 309 00:18:01,359 --> 00:18:03,280 Speaker 1: Sheriff ev and A Wuave always good to talk to 310 00:18:03,320 --> 00:18:05,520 Speaker 1: you anytime. I want to come back on. Let us 311 00:18:05,520 --> 00:18:08,840 Speaker 1: know before June seventh, the vote is coming up. All right, 312 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:12,960 Speaker 1: you got it, folks. La County Sheriff Alex vien Auava 313 00:18:12,960 --> 00:18:14,600 Speaker 1: on the John and Ken's show our pick on the 314 00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:17,879 Speaker 1: voter guide for re election, repeating again he was not 315 00:18:17,920 --> 00:18:19,960 Speaker 1: our choice in twenty eighteen, but he has proven to 316 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:22,199 Speaker 1: be a leader and there aren't really any in La 317 00:18:22,280 --> 00:18:26,159 Speaker 1: County on crime a homeless one our choice now. Sheila 318 00:18:26,200 --> 00:18:29,080 Speaker 1: Kila actually thinks that the homeless ought to live on 319 00:18:29,119 --> 00:18:31,400 Speaker 1: the trains all day and night, on the moving train. 320 00:18:31,560 --> 00:18:33,320 Speaker 1: That's where they want to shelter. That's what she has 321 00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:37,159 Speaker 1: to get him inside. How do these people get They 322 00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:39,720 Speaker 1: won't have a lot of other writers. Geez, that that 323 00:18:39,920 --> 00:18:43,800 Speaker 1: takes That takes it, John and Ken Cafight. Well, we're 324 00:18:43,800 --> 00:18:46,200 Speaker 1: gonna open that door, John on the five o'clock hour, 325 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:50,159 Speaker 1: and I don't know what's gonna happen. Which door the 326 00:18:50,280 --> 00:18:57,160 Speaker 1: door of listeners? Do we want to have a free 327 00:18:57,160 --> 00:19:01,719 Speaker 1: for all on what happened in Texas and what you 328 00:19:01,760 --> 00:19:04,600 Speaker 1: think needs to be done. You can come from any 329 00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:08,159 Speaker 1: angle you want to. Oh boy, I know, well, I 330 00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:11,480 Speaker 1: knew you'd have that reaction of I'm up for it. 331 00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:14,439 Speaker 1: That'll be five o'clock. We'll do it as long as 332 00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:17,960 Speaker 1: it makes sense and the calls makes sense, which lasts longer. 333 00:19:18,640 --> 00:19:21,320 Speaker 1: Then what do we do at five o eight? Yes, 334 00:19:21,560 --> 00:19:24,360 Speaker 1: we'll have a plan. Okay, they'll be back up there 335 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:28,120 Speaker 1: always is gonna have a rip chord. Now, we got 336 00:19:28,119 --> 00:19:31,720 Speaker 1: this email for you. He didn't say you, but he 337 00:19:31,760 --> 00:19:35,280 Speaker 1: said there's a new encampment forming on Barrington, just south 338 00:19:35,280 --> 00:19:38,080 Speaker 1: of San Vicente. This man says it's started out as 339 00:19:38,119 --> 00:19:41,040 Speaker 1: one tent, now it's several tents. Is that right right 340 00:19:41,080 --> 00:19:43,920 Speaker 1: by the coffee bean? Do you know where this is? Oh? Yeah, 341 00:19:43,960 --> 00:19:46,320 Speaker 1: we're earlier this month on a nice Sunday where people 342 00:19:46,359 --> 00:19:50,000 Speaker 1: were sitting outside. This guy writes, I guess, sarcastically, an 343 00:19:50,040 --> 00:19:53,560 Speaker 1: unhoused neighbor started screaming at people and through chairs to 344 00:19:53,600 --> 00:19:57,359 Speaker 1: shatter the outside seating glass barriers. Oh that's nice. Maybe 345 00:19:57,359 --> 00:20:01,640 Speaker 1: you didn't know this happened, This happened when last Sunday. 346 00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:03,560 Speaker 1: Oh no, I just said this month on a nice 347 00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:08,359 Speaker 1: Sunday before. I haven't heard about it, did I didn't 348 00:20:08,359 --> 00:20:11,440 Speaker 1: see it on the next door app feed? No? Oh, 349 00:20:11,440 --> 00:20:13,960 Speaker 1: he says. If Tracy Park doesn't win the council seat, 350 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:17,160 Speaker 1: we're leaving council District eleven, my wife and I. That's 351 00:20:17,160 --> 00:20:19,919 Speaker 1: what he writes. So, yeah, she's got somewhere in your 352 00:20:19,960 --> 00:20:22,560 Speaker 1: neighborhood and he's fed up. Yeah, so you need to 353 00:20:22,560 --> 00:20:24,159 Speaker 1: go look and tell us if this is real, if 354 00:20:24,160 --> 00:20:28,920 Speaker 1: there really are tsforming on Barrington an ongoing an ongoing encampment. 355 00:20:29,119 --> 00:20:33,359 Speaker 1: Because I just drove past their walk past in that 356 00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:38,320 Speaker 1: area yesterday. Yeah, so I but I'll go look. I mean, 357 00:20:38,359 --> 00:20:40,520 Speaker 1: that's not far from the VA and not far from 358 00:20:40,560 --> 00:20:44,439 Speaker 1: where I live. Now, a story like this would be 359 00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:47,320 Speaker 1: just a story, but when it's presented in the eel 360 00:20:47,359 --> 00:20:50,760 Speaker 1: Segundo Times, oh Man, a whole other agenda comes out 361 00:20:51,359 --> 00:20:56,680 Speaker 1: by Rachel Rachel Rangaurranga, a staff writer. This is the 362 00:20:56,720 --> 00:20:59,720 Speaker 1: story that broke today that they have given up after 363 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:02,879 Speaker 1: de Gates. If you've heard this before, you're right. But 364 00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:07,760 Speaker 1: this apparently officially is the end of the planned expansion 365 00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:11,119 Speaker 1: for the seven ten freeway. It was a six billion 366 00:21:11,119 --> 00:21:13,840 Speaker 1: dollars plan that apparently fire on the table for the 367 00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:19,880 Speaker 1: planning board for decades. They have finally decided. Now, think 368 00:21:19,920 --> 00:21:24,080 Speaker 1: about the seven ten freeway. That's a lot of port traffic. Yeah, 369 00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:26,600 Speaker 1: all right, the ports. So what brings our goods into 370 00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:32,760 Speaker 1: the country. We need the trucks to convey the goods 371 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:35,440 Speaker 1: to the stores wherever else you want to get them, well, 372 00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:38,440 Speaker 1: even to the packages to your house or whatever is 373 00:21:38,480 --> 00:21:41,600 Speaker 1: coming through the ports. That ends up on the trucks that, 374 00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:44,840 Speaker 1: as it says here, barrel along the seven ten. They're 375 00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:47,360 Speaker 1: loaded into trains headed to the rest of the country. 376 00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:52,040 Speaker 1: It's our economy. But here's the great part. The freeway 377 00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:55,040 Speaker 1: and the working class communities ills became a potent symbol 378 00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:58,200 Speaker 1: of a larger effort playing out across the state to 379 00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:02,120 Speaker 1: stop freeways that shape, divide and hurt neighborhoods, especially those 380 00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:05,240 Speaker 1: of people where people of color live. The Times found 381 00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:08,000 Speaker 1: that more than two hundred thousand people nationwide have lost 382 00:22:08,040 --> 00:22:10,920 Speaker 1: their homes because of federal road projects over three decades. 383 00:22:11,359 --> 00:22:15,280 Speaker 1: The latest recent highway expansions, including in California, have forced 384 00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:18,359 Speaker 1: out residents in black and Latino neighbors neighborhoods at a 385 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:24,040 Speaker 1: disproportionately high rate. You know, um, this is another example 386 00:22:24,119 --> 00:22:28,280 Speaker 1: of they don't want us to live. The seven ten 387 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:33,440 Speaker 1: freeway gets enormously congested because as you said, that's it, 388 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:35,480 Speaker 1: that's that's the leading to the ports. What are you 389 00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:38,680 Speaker 1: gonna do? The port takes in a third of all 390 00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:42,119 Speaker 1: the merchandise here in the country. Doesn't the fact that 391 00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:44,840 Speaker 1: people have to live and get these items take priority? 392 00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:47,399 Speaker 1: I mean, don't live along the freeway. We're sorry, but 393 00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:49,960 Speaker 1: it's been there a long time. Why does the Why 394 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:53,040 Speaker 1: does their color matter? Like they say, it's eighty three 395 00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:56,919 Speaker 1: percent black and Latino. So because people don't want to 396 00:22:56,920 --> 00:22:59,119 Speaker 1: live near freeways. And they're saying the people of color 397 00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:00,959 Speaker 1: are at the lower end of economic scale and they 398 00:23:01,040 --> 00:23:05,560 Speaker 1: end up having to live there. But not because you 399 00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:08,760 Speaker 1: can you can make your color of your skin or 400 00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:12,320 Speaker 1: your ethnicity doesn't. You can make money, but you have 401 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:15,159 Speaker 1: to make the decisions in life to get to a 402 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:17,840 Speaker 1: place where you make money. This is what's all backwards 403 00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:21,359 Speaker 1: about this. There are millions and millions of black and 404 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:25,080 Speaker 1: Latino people who do well in life, and they succeed 405 00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:27,240 Speaker 1: in America and they make money and they move up. 406 00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:31,840 Speaker 1: What they're saying is just they're terribly racist. That is 407 00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:36,280 Speaker 1: a terribly racist theory, um right, because it makes it 408 00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:39,119 Speaker 1: sound like they have no other choice. They cannot better themselves, 409 00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:42,280 Speaker 1: so we have to make sure they're protected. That's what 410 00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:44,960 Speaker 1: it sounds like. It says here, to assume they can't 411 00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:48,320 Speaker 1: better themselves. This is the nation's largest port complex. The 412 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:51,440 Speaker 1: seven ten is the main artery, carries almost a third 413 00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:55,879 Speaker 1: of the imported goods. Um It says here, a crush 414 00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:59,360 Speaker 1: of goods, electronics, auto parts, and shoes clog the road. Well, 415 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:02,320 Speaker 1: that's why they need the lanes. Are we not supposed 416 00:24:02,359 --> 00:24:06,320 Speaker 1: to buy electronics or shoes and the trains to take 417 00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:08,080 Speaker 1: them to the rest of the country. That's just part 418 00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:10,480 Speaker 1: of the economy. And then it says activists call it 419 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:14,080 Speaker 1: the diesel death zone. But Americans, with their appetite for 420 00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:18,879 Speaker 1: click shopping. Yeah, you see, that's that's a lifestyle. But 421 00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:22,000 Speaker 1: what is it? But wait a second. If we're if 422 00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:26,520 Speaker 1: we buy online, we're not driving to the shopping balls store. 423 00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:29,359 Speaker 1: We're gonna buy the same amount of stuff. If you 424 00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:31,280 Speaker 1: clog up the trucks on the freeway, they're going to 425 00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:33,600 Speaker 1: spe more and more pollution because they'll be idling and 426 00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:35,880 Speaker 1: stuck in traffic for hours. God, you know how much 427 00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:41,160 Speaker 1: pollution comes from traffic congestion, especially trucks idling. This image 428 00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:47,680 Speaker 1: decid this is ridiculous. So I guess the bottom line 429 00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:50,760 Speaker 1: is they want you to just buy less and live 430 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:53,520 Speaker 1: more frugally. Isn't that kind of what They're trying to 431 00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:57,760 Speaker 1: force us into some other lifestyle than the one we have. 432 00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:02,040 Speaker 1: They don't think black and Latino p bully collect shop 433 00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:05,920 Speaker 1: and rely on these these trucks. In fact, all over 434 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:08,679 Speaker 1: the country they do. You don't think they work in 435 00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:14,600 Speaker 1: these industries many ways that shape divide and hurt neighborhoods. 436 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:17,159 Speaker 1: We heard this from peat Bootage. Awhile back to the 437 00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:21,240 Speaker 1: same highways a race they have some out added the 438 00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:27,000 Speaker 1: word racist to virtually everything. I saw. Something about our 439 00:25:27,040 --> 00:25:31,880 Speaker 1: water system in California is racist, something about I've got 440 00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:34,080 Speaker 1: to go find the article, like the reservoirs, the water 441 00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:38,760 Speaker 1: storage that's racist too. This is crazy, I tell you, 442 00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:42,840 Speaker 1: this is insane. You can't debate this stuff. There's nothing 443 00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:46,280 Speaker 1: to debate. There's nothing racist about a freeway. They used 444 00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:48,040 Speaker 1: to fold their arms and say, we don't want freeways 445 00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:49,920 Speaker 1: because we're tired of all the cars out there. We 446 00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:52,880 Speaker 1: hate the car culture. But if this is about the economy, 447 00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:55,200 Speaker 1: and I'm sorry until you come up with something better 448 00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:56,879 Speaker 1: than a truck to move some of the goods to 449 00:25:56,920 --> 00:25:59,359 Speaker 1: the trains, what else are we gonna do? If the 450 00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:02,240 Speaker 1: port is where it is right, we can't move the 451 00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:06,360 Speaker 1: port and the seven ten is the main way out 452 00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:09,720 Speaker 1: of the port. Just because there happens to be black 453 00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:13,040 Speaker 1: and Latino people living along the seven ten, Well, there's 454 00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:15,320 Speaker 1: no other way to get the goods out of the part. 455 00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:18,359 Speaker 1: If they're traveling by truck, what what else are you 456 00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:22,520 Speaker 1: gonna do? Find them a better place to live. If 457 00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:26,680 Speaker 1: you can do that, I don't really know the answer. Instead, 458 00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:31,080 Speaker 1: they just have collapsed on expanding that. That just means 459 00:26:31,119 --> 00:26:33,680 Speaker 1: trucks will be stuck in traffic. We think if those 460 00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:35,679 Speaker 1: people were bought out by the government, right, we have 461 00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:38,560 Speaker 1: to expand lanes. We're gonna have to bulldoze some homes 462 00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:41,760 Speaker 1: if the air. If the air is that bad, maybe 463 00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:44,640 Speaker 1: these people would be happy if the government paid them 464 00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:46,520 Speaker 1: off for their house so they could move somewhere else. 465 00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:49,040 Speaker 1: All right, when we come back, we'll talk about the 466 00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:51,679 Speaker 1: other side of this, which is the ports. Do you 467 00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:55,280 Speaker 1: know that the LA ports we're talking about San Pedro 468 00:26:55,440 --> 00:27:01,159 Speaker 1: and Long Beach, they are all US containerized. Trade with 469 00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:05,600 Speaker 1: East Asia comes through those ports, and we learn today 470 00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:10,320 Speaker 1: that they are the least efficient in the world according 471 00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:14,159 Speaker 1: to a new report. Not surprising, and we think we 472 00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:16,960 Speaker 1: know why. We'll talk about it coming up. Govern ourselves anymore. 473 00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:21,960 Speaker 1: We can't manage ourselves. John and Ken show caf Oh 474 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:26,120 Speaker 1: the El Segundo Times today, what a harvest of bad 475 00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:29,040 Speaker 1: news articles. We'll get to two of them in the 476 00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:31,040 Speaker 1: four o'clock hour, but I'll give you a hint on 477 00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:33,720 Speaker 1: one of them. A lot of stinkweeds. Well, we may 478 00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:37,720 Speaker 1: have to rethink our voter guide. Seriously, Why the LA 479 00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:40,960 Speaker 1: mayor's race we picked Rick Caruso. I don't know. Now 480 00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:43,800 Speaker 1: the Times is informing us he doesn't have a climate plan. 481 00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:49,640 Speaker 1: Holy crap. Well, that's a big overset and that may 482 00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:52,280 Speaker 1: be unforgivable. I don't know you, but the thing is 483 00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:54,320 Speaker 1: that you clear at the homeless people. Think of all 484 00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:56,960 Speaker 1: the methane that you're going to take out of the atmosphere. 485 00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:59,080 Speaker 1: It's a good point from all the all the poop 486 00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:01,880 Speaker 1: line in the street, a lot of methane fumes coming 487 00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:06,399 Speaker 1: out of there, and also the marijuana fumes and whatever 488 00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:13,040 Speaker 1: crack pipe stuff, the meth fumes. God climate plan for 489 00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:16,040 Speaker 1: as if LA has a separate climate from the rest 490 00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:22,680 Speaker 1: of the globe. Oh, I know, I'm saying this every 491 00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:24,720 Speaker 1: five minutes. I need I don't know. Well, it's another 492 00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:29,080 Speaker 1: word for crazy, insane lunacy. I mean, there's too many, 493 00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:33,480 Speaker 1: that's all it is. Mayor having a climate plan. What 494 00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:36,280 Speaker 1: I just I just saw the headline and read the story. 495 00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:40,560 Speaker 1: It's like the the world atmosphere temperature record high twenty 496 00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:43,160 Speaker 1: twenty one, and I, you know, just slapped my forehead 497 00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:45,080 Speaker 1: and I said, that just can't be with all the 498 00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:50,640 Speaker 1: climate plans out there, you mean none of them worked? Huh. 499 00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:53,400 Speaker 1: All right, so we've been talking about remember the supply 500 00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:56,600 Speaker 1: chain problems. Remember the big topic last year, in the 501 00:28:56,680 --> 00:29:00,360 Speaker 1: year before was our ports, that's right. The port at 502 00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:05,480 Speaker 1: San Pedro, the port of La horrible, big backups. I 503 00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:06,960 Speaker 1: don't know if they haven't told us how many ships 504 00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:09,560 Speaker 1: are hanging out there these days, have they? There are 505 00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:13,360 Speaker 1: quite a few within sight, is that right? We took 506 00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:16,440 Speaker 1: a bike ride down towards El Segundo the other day, 507 00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:20,400 Speaker 1: just passed the airport and there were plenty of ships 508 00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:25,280 Speaker 1: out well to see. There are three hundred and seventy 509 00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:30,280 Speaker 1: members in the container port some organization three hundred and 510 00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:34,960 Speaker 1: seventy members. This is worldwide ports according to the World 511 00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:39,440 Speaker 1: Bank and S and P Global Market Intelligence. They ranked 512 00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:43,240 Speaker 1: them all. Guess who are number three sixty nine and 513 00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:48,360 Speaker 1: three seventy. That's right, our ports, the Port of Los Angeles, 514 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:51,120 Speaker 1: the Port of Long Beach, right at the bottom, three 515 00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:53,880 Speaker 1: sixty nine and three seventy. They are the worst, the 516 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:58,200 Speaker 1: least efficient in the world right now. Honestly, it says 517 00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:00,600 Speaker 1: you're a majority of the US port or in the 518 00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:04,280 Speaker 1: bottom half of the list. Savannah, Georgia, New York, New Jersey, 519 00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:10,320 Speaker 1: California's Oakland. However, are two Long Beach in LA the 520 00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:14,360 Speaker 1: bottom of the list, And it's explained pretty well. Compared 521 00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:17,640 Speaker 1: with US ports those in Asia and parts of Europe 522 00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:21,520 Speaker 1: here we go tend to be more modern and they 523 00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:25,240 Speaker 1: have the capacity to handle more cargo and they work 524 00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:28,680 Speaker 1: around the clock. That means when ships reach the other 525 00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:31,960 Speaker 1: side of the Pacific Ocean, US gateways can't keep up 526 00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:34,520 Speaker 1: with that level of efficiency. In other words, that's why 527 00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:37,280 Speaker 1: the ships are sitting out there. They're working more efficiently 528 00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:39,240 Speaker 1: in other parts of the world. They're getting the stuff 529 00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:41,400 Speaker 1: on the ships. It's headed toward the US, and they 530 00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:45,400 Speaker 1: sit there because we don't want to work or we 531 00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:47,520 Speaker 1: don't want any more automation here to make this more 532 00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:50,480 Speaker 1: efficient and fast, and that means you'll let us off. 533 00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:54,480 Speaker 1: We're union. Yeah, that's the union. Horse crap it is. Yeah, 534 00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:57,360 Speaker 1: the union just refuses. This is how they write it. 535 00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:00,680 Speaker 1: Terminal automation continues to be an issue for the La 536 00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:03,959 Speaker 1: Long Beach ports, where there is resistance from the workforce, 537 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:07,760 Speaker 1: which stands to lose workers from such a changeover. Yeah, 538 00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:10,040 Speaker 1: no kidding, those are six figures. That's why we don't 539 00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:12,480 Speaker 1: have the horse and buggy because the guys that would 540 00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:15,320 Speaker 1: shoot the horses are out of work. But we have 541 00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:19,560 Speaker 1: a government including Garcetti and the buggy whip guys lost 542 00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:22,840 Speaker 1: their jobs. Well that was tragic, right, Well say it 543 00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:26,840 Speaker 1: probably was somebody. You're against the automobile because yes, you're 544 00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:29,800 Speaker 1: putting out the horse and buggy worker. You your livelihood 545 00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:32,520 Speaker 1: didn't depend on buggy whips, so you don't care, you 546 00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:35,000 Speaker 1: don't have any investment in that. Seems silly, doesn't it. 547 00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:37,320 Speaker 1: No for mother still talking about things like this with 548 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:39,560 Speaker 1: this kind of resistance. What I understand that was another 549 00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:43,320 Speaker 1: huge Garcetti failing, as he always caved in to the 550 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:47,720 Speaker 1: port union worker. We did constantly. Yes, I know a 551 00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:50,920 Speaker 1: couple of people who work in the whole system there 552 00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:53,400 Speaker 1: and they said, yeah, Garcetti would say one thing in 553 00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:56,960 Speaker 1: a meeting and then always cave in because he was afraid. 554 00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:01,080 Speaker 1: He was afraid of the union. Well, he's he's very 555 00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:06,280 Speaker 1: cowardly and he backstabs. He'll tell you one thing in 556 00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:08,760 Speaker 1: a meeting and do the opposite because he's he's afraid 557 00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:13,920 Speaker 1: of confronting a union official. Yeah, it's explained with News 558 00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:15,560 Speaker 1: of the Obvious. At the end of the article is 559 00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:18,200 Speaker 1: a quote by somebody named Mooney. Well, you have twenty 560 00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:20,719 Speaker 1: four seven operations at the loading ports in China. If 561 00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:23,040 Speaker 1: you're loading twenty four seven there and you're not loading 562 00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:25,720 Speaker 1: twenty four seven at the destination ports. Yeah, you're gonna 563 00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:28,520 Speaker 1: have some choke points and some backlogs, no kidding, And 564 00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:30,680 Speaker 1: that's why they're at the bottom in efficiency. 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