1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app, 3 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:09,400 Speaker 2: run every day from one until four after four o'clock. 4 00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:11,960 Speaker 2: John Cobelt Show on demand on the iHeart app. It's 5 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:14,480 Speaker 2: the podcast, so you get to listen to whatever you 6 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:16,680 Speaker 2: missed and you could do that all weekend long. You 7 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:20,599 Speaker 2: want to see me on TV, on video or other. 8 00:00:21,040 --> 00:00:24,000 Speaker 2: My wife has a video podcast, it's Deborah Cobelt Live 9 00:00:24,520 --> 00:00:26,920 Speaker 2: and it's on YouTube and Facebook. So go to Debora 10 00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:30,920 Speaker 2: Cobelt Live. And we just did a half hour show 11 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:33,800 Speaker 2: talking about all the big news of the week. And 12 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:38,600 Speaker 2: again that's on Facebook and YouTube. Now we're going to 13 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:43,960 Speaker 2: get to carl Demyo the Republican Assemblyment from San Diego, 14 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:49,280 Speaker 2: and he ferreted out another big Gavin Newsom Lie Carlos. 15 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:50,600 Speaker 2: Two things I want to talk to you about. I 16 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:54,000 Speaker 2: want to talk about the reversal by the Pervert Caucus 17 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:58,320 Speaker 2: on making sex with teenagers a felony again. But first 18 00:00:58,480 --> 00:01:04,360 Speaker 2: this Gavin Newsome. Why he made headlines this week because 19 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:07,399 Speaker 2: he claimed that he was going to be cutting spending 20 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:12,240 Speaker 2: on illegal alien healthcare, and you have found proof that 21 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:14,399 Speaker 2: the opposite will happen. 22 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:19,399 Speaker 3: Yeah, let me just say, whenever Gavin Newsom's mouth is moving, 23 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:22,840 Speaker 3: just know that you're being lied to. Whether he's blaming 24 00:01:22,880 --> 00:01:25,440 Speaker 3: oil companies for the high gas prices when in fact 25 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:29,120 Speaker 3: he did it, or he's somehow trying to blame utility 26 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:32,280 Speaker 3: companies for high utility rates when again he did it, 27 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:36,760 Speaker 3: or Trump Trump the Trump slump is to blame for 28 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:39,000 Speaker 3: his budget deficit. That's what he said this week. 29 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:41,560 Speaker 2: I saw that on TV and I actually broke up 30 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:43,880 Speaker 2: laughing when I saw the graphic. 31 00:01:44,720 --> 00:01:48,360 Speaker 3: It's his reckless spending because remember, the tariffs have not 32 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:52,600 Speaker 3: even kicked into effect yet, and Florida has a massive surplus. 33 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:55,880 Speaker 3: And I'm sorry, but I think they're subjected to the 34 00:01:55,880 --> 00:01:58,760 Speaker 3: same sort of international trade issues as we are. But 35 00:01:58,960 --> 00:02:03,120 Speaker 3: here's the deal. The deficit is twelve billion dollars, right, 36 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:07,040 Speaker 3: that's what he admits. The state budget deficit is twelve 37 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:11,440 Speaker 3: billion dollars. Well, guess what we are spending twelve point 38 00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:15,720 Speaker 3: one billion dollars. I'm getting free healthcare to illegal immigrants 39 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:18,640 Speaker 3: and that is in his budget proposals. He stood up 40 00:02:18,639 --> 00:02:20,040 Speaker 3: there at the podium and said, you know, we have 41 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:22,160 Speaker 3: a budget deficit of twelve billion so we're going to 42 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 3: have to cut the illegal immigrant coverage on healthcare. And 43 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:29,239 Speaker 3: that was difficult, but I've got to do it, you know, 44 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:32,280 Speaker 3: I got to put priorities of citizens first. Well, guess 45 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:34,960 Speaker 3: what the guy lied through his teeth. He spent nine 46 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:39,160 Speaker 3: point five billion this year. He's actually increasing to twelve 47 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:42,160 Speaker 3: point one billion. The amount of money that he's spending 48 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:44,520 Speaker 3: on illegal immigrant health care. What he says is a 49 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:49,760 Speaker 3: cut is actually an absolute increase. And no one in 50 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:52,440 Speaker 3: the media actually challenged him, and they went forward with 51 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:57,079 Speaker 3: all of these headlines saying news Civil pauses to spend 52 00:02:58,160 --> 00:03:02,640 Speaker 3: health care for legal immigrants lie. The media absolutely fell 53 00:03:02,760 --> 00:03:04,640 Speaker 3: for it. And it's time that the voters know the 54 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:06,200 Speaker 3: truth and. 55 00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:12,760 Speaker 2: They the office. Newsom's office released numbers that match what 56 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:16,320 Speaker 2: you've been saying, right, I mean, they basically confirmed your 57 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:17,240 Speaker 2: story here. 58 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:20,360 Speaker 3: That's right. I went through the budget with the fine 59 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:23,800 Speaker 3: two comb and the numbers were very clearly hidden in 60 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:27,040 Speaker 3: plain sight, as I like to say, and I said, no, 61 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:31,640 Speaker 3: he's a liar. He's not cutting this benefit. It's actually 62 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:34,920 Speaker 3: increasing in terms of the financial outlays. And so the 63 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:39,160 Speaker 3: Department of Finance late yesterday had to admit YEP, it's 64 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:42,840 Speaker 3: true the budget is spending more money on this, And 65 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:46,240 Speaker 3: so I cautioned the media, this guy has lied to 66 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:49,080 Speaker 3: you for six years. Why do you think you are 67 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:53,480 Speaker 3: going to get into a single sintilla of truth out 68 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:56,480 Speaker 3: of him? He always wants to blame everyone else for 69 00:03:56,560 --> 00:03:58,600 Speaker 3: the failures that he has caused. 70 00:03:59,720 --> 00:04:04,920 Speaker 2: I don't understand why the media reporters aren't as upset 71 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:08,560 Speaker 2: with what California has become as everyone else is. I 72 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:11,280 Speaker 2: don't understand why they're not reporting on behalf of their 73 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:14,400 Speaker 2: listeners and viewers and readers, Like, what's in it for 74 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:17,080 Speaker 2: them to keep polishing his image? 75 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:21,520 Speaker 3: Well, I think partly they're culpable in the scam. Remember 76 00:04:21,520 --> 00:04:25,400 Speaker 3: they're liberal and lazy, and they've allowed this to happen 77 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:28,560 Speaker 3: or encouraged it to happen, and they can't admit that 78 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:31,000 Speaker 3: what they did was wrong. Look how they're having so 79 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:33,880 Speaker 3: much trouble right now trying to reconcile all the stuff 80 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:36,320 Speaker 3: they did for Joe Biden to cover up his nonsense, 81 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:40,880 Speaker 3: his incapacity in capabilities. And now they're, of course they're 82 00:04:40,920 --> 00:04:44,560 Speaker 3: tiptoeing around saying, oh, we never knew Davin k News 83 00:04:44,560 --> 00:04:47,000 Speaker 3: Some they're not there yet they're not there at the 84 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:49,159 Speaker 3: point where they're trying to blame someone else for the 85 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:52,359 Speaker 3: fact that the La Times, the Sacramento b the San 86 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:56,800 Speaker 3: Francisco Chronicle, all of them, NBCLA, all of them are 87 00:04:56,960 --> 00:05:01,960 Speaker 3: absolutely negligent darrel of duty. And it's why media has 88 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:03,119 Speaker 3: an all time low rating. 89 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:06,760 Speaker 2: I mean, no, I don't think any other state has 90 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:11,640 Speaker 2: given out illegal alien healthcare for free, no guaranteed birth 91 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:12,520 Speaker 2: to death this. 92 00:05:13,400 --> 00:05:15,960 Speaker 3: No one else is doing this. And on the second topic, 93 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:19,480 Speaker 3: no one else, no other state in the nation allows 94 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:23,200 Speaker 3: minors sixteen or seventeen years old to be purchased for 95 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:26,000 Speaker 3: sex and not consider it to be a felony. 96 00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:30,279 Speaker 2: Prime So, a couple of weeks ago, the first vote 97 00:05:30,520 --> 00:05:35,160 Speaker 2: fifty five, which you forced, fifty five Democrats voted against 98 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:40,160 Speaker 2: making buying teenagers for sex a felony seen. 99 00:05:39,360 --> 00:05:42,520 Speaker 3: Two weeks ago. That was two weeks ago yesterday, and 100 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:46,040 Speaker 3: they weren't expecting us to force the vote, and so 101 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:49,680 Speaker 3: they voted basically their way. They actually believe. They're like, oh, 102 00:05:49,839 --> 00:05:54,280 Speaker 3: we got to vote against this, and within moments of 103 00:05:54,279 --> 00:05:56,680 Speaker 3: that vote being done, you put it up on the internet. 104 00:05:57,160 --> 00:06:00,880 Speaker 3: We started a campaign to educate voters. Came on your show. 105 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:05,600 Speaker 3: Literally moments after the deal, the Dirney deed was done, 106 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:09,040 Speaker 3: and we started lighting a fire with the people. And 107 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:14,080 Speaker 3: let me tell you, if we had this massive public outrage, 108 00:06:14,839 --> 00:06:17,560 Speaker 3: the backlash was so off the chart. And I know 109 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:22,480 Speaker 3: you encouraged your listeners to go to Assembly Member Nick 110 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:26,280 Speaker 3: Schultz town hall the next day, and boy, you got 111 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:29,360 Speaker 3: a lot of people in that room fired up and angry, 112 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:33,520 Speaker 3: and they gave them, gave him a piece of their mind. Well, 113 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:37,840 Speaker 3: fast forward to the following Tuesday. They tried running, you know, 114 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:40,680 Speaker 3: just looting this leading ads blaming us. 115 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:44,120 Speaker 4: For the bill not passing. The Speaker's office reached out 116 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:45,480 Speaker 4: and said, what will it take? 117 00:06:45,520 --> 00:06:49,640 Speaker 3: And now my response was nothing but a full capitulation 118 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:50,400 Speaker 3: and surrender. 119 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:53,720 Speaker 2: What wait wait wait wait so this is this is 120 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:55,760 Speaker 2: Robert Reeves's office, he's the speaker. 121 00:06:55,960 --> 00:06:59,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, and it was totally committed to blocking this. 122 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:03,440 Speaker 3: What will it take to get you guys to back down? 123 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:07,520 Speaker 3: And I said, only one capitulation is what we will 124 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:11,240 Speaker 3: accept because these girls and boys, these sixteen and seventeen 125 00:07:11,280 --> 00:07:16,160 Speaker 3: year old minors, deserve to be protected. Both stop. This 126 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:19,520 Speaker 3: is not a political game. It's not about saving faith. 127 00:07:20,120 --> 00:07:22,960 Speaker 3: You get your blank on that floor you get your 128 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:25,800 Speaker 3: blank on that floor and you reverse the vote that 129 00:07:25,880 --> 00:07:27,880 Speaker 3: you just took and make dis a felony. 130 00:07:27,920 --> 00:07:31,200 Speaker 4: And that's exactly what they did yesterday. And they sat 131 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:34,640 Speaker 4: there trying to take credits, and honestly, you know whatever, 132 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:36,920 Speaker 4: you know, the only credit. 133 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:38,640 Speaker 3: That she did give it out, she gave to the 134 00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:43,040 Speaker 3: people of California, who rightfully held the piece of the 135 00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:44,840 Speaker 3: fire of these politicians. 136 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:52,360 Speaker 2: Just the way that's phrased. What what can we do 137 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:57,200 Speaker 2: to make it stop? It's obvious you may you may 138 00:07:57,320 --> 00:08:00,760 Speaker 2: find sixteen year olds for sex a felon. There's no 139 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:04,960 Speaker 2: middle ground on that. It's either a serious crime or 140 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:07,720 Speaker 2: it's not. There's no hass on that. 141 00:08:07,880 --> 00:08:11,000 Speaker 3: Yeah. So now the hot potato goes to the Senate, 142 00:08:11,240 --> 00:08:13,160 Speaker 3: the California State Senate, And so I hit a press 143 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:15,920 Speaker 3: conference after the vote, and I made it quite clear. 144 00:08:15,960 --> 00:08:19,800 Speaker 3: I said, you put the state senators on notice. Don't 145 00:08:19,880 --> 00:08:24,160 Speaker 3: you dare try to water down a single word, a 146 00:08:24,280 --> 00:08:28,640 Speaker 3: single comma in this piece of legislation, because if you do, 147 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:31,360 Speaker 3: we're coming for you, and you're going to get the 148 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:34,040 Speaker 3: same treatment that the Assembly members had to suffer for 149 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:36,520 Speaker 3: the period of time that they were holding out. And 150 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:39,640 Speaker 3: I'm telling you right now is sure that people power 151 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:43,559 Speaker 3: can work in the state of California. These politicians need 152 00:08:43,720 --> 00:08:47,599 Speaker 3: to be held accountable for their extremism, and we have 153 00:08:47,679 --> 00:08:49,400 Speaker 3: a fight on our hands in the sense. 154 00:08:49,080 --> 00:08:52,400 Speaker 4: That may no mistake about it. These state senators think 155 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:54,280 Speaker 4: that they're a little more untouchable because they are four 156 00:08:54,320 --> 00:08:57,960 Speaker 4: year terms and people don't necessarily remember. So we have 157 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:00,800 Speaker 4: a lot of hard work left to do to make 158 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:03,319 Speaker 4: sure we're protecting kids from these special predators. 159 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:05,960 Speaker 2: All right, well, you let me know if there's resistance 160 00:09:06,040 --> 00:09:09,959 Speaker 2: and who's responsible for the resistance, and our listeners will 161 00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:15,120 Speaker 2: go to work real fast. Carl, excellent work there should be. 162 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:17,640 Speaker 2: I wish there was one hundred of you in the legislature. 163 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:19,920 Speaker 1: Thanks for coming on again, more are coming. 164 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:25,959 Speaker 2: All right, it's Carl Demil, the Republican. He's the assemblymen 165 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:28,800 Speaker 2: down in the San Diego I love that. What do 166 00:09:28,880 --> 00:09:33,520 Speaker 2: we have to do make I don't know, what do 167 00:09:33,559 --> 00:09:39,200 Speaker 2: you think? So they didn't want to vote for it 168 00:09:41,080 --> 00:09:45,520 Speaker 2: to make it a felony to buy teenagers for sex. 169 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:48,679 Speaker 2: That's not the reason they would vote. They voted for 170 00:09:48,720 --> 00:09:54,520 Speaker 2: it to make all the outrage stop. They were tired 171 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:57,480 Speaker 2: of being yelled at Okay, I'll vote for it just 172 00:09:57,559 --> 00:10:01,960 Speaker 2: to stop all the yelling. But they didn't vote for 173 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:07,680 Speaker 2: it because buying sixteen year olds for sex ought to 174 00:10:07,679 --> 00:10:11,440 Speaker 2: get you in prison. That's the reason you vote, because 175 00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:13,679 Speaker 2: you're buying sixteen year olds for sex. I mean, it's 176 00:10:13,679 --> 00:10:15,680 Speaker 2: self evident. We don't have to we don't have to 177 00:10:15,679 --> 00:10:19,760 Speaker 2: explain the morality of this. But that's not why they 178 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:22,599 Speaker 2: voted for it. It's like, well, everybody keeps yelling at me. 179 00:10:24,880 --> 00:10:29,559 Speaker 2: All right, two thirty, we're gonna have Loura Angel on 180 00:10:29,640 --> 00:10:34,400 Speaker 2: from News Nation. She's been covering the Ditty trial. Oh, 181 00:10:34,480 --> 00:10:38,040 Speaker 2: I bet you these these Democratic Assembly people, they're probably 182 00:10:38,080 --> 00:10:38,840 Speaker 2: big Didty fans. 183 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:41,440 Speaker 1: Huh. I bet you. 184 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:45,520 Speaker 2: They're all ordering their own thousand bottle supply of baby oil. 185 00:10:47,520 --> 00:10:54,559 Speaker 2: All Right, more coming up, and also, well there's a 186 00:10:54,600 --> 00:10:56,400 Speaker 2: lot of good stories and we'll get to it next. 187 00:10:57,120 --> 00:11:01,480 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 188 00:11:01,480 --> 00:11:02,000 Speaker 5: six forty. 189 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:06,560 Speaker 2: We We have lor Engel coming up just after two 190 00:11:06,600 --> 00:11:10,560 Speaker 2: thirty about the Ditty trial. More testimony from his former 191 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:15,760 Speaker 2: girlfriend that he forced into sexual freak offs for. 192 00:11:15,679 --> 00:11:18,360 Speaker 1: Many years and beat her regularly. 193 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:24,920 Speaker 2: Apparently they made her Probably the defense attorneys for Ditty, 194 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:29,440 Speaker 2: made her read all the loving texts that she wrote 195 00:11:29,880 --> 00:11:36,480 Speaker 2: to Ditty over the years. We told you last hour 196 00:11:36,679 --> 00:11:44,520 Speaker 2: that what ought to be a five alarms scandal is 197 00:11:44,880 --> 00:11:48,320 Speaker 2: getting some notice, but not enough. Something like this ordinarily 198 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:52,760 Speaker 2: would should destroy somebody's political career. But then, hey, you know, 199 00:11:53,480 --> 00:11:58,200 Speaker 2: pal States Fire didn't do anything with Karen Bass, at 200 00:11:58,280 --> 00:11:58,960 Speaker 2: least not now. 201 00:11:59,080 --> 00:11:59,280 Speaker 1: Right. 202 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:05,480 Speaker 2: She still has her job. Janie Kinonia still has her job. Okay, 203 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:12,680 Speaker 2: how about homeless people getting eaten by dogs that happened 204 00:12:12,760 --> 00:12:17,160 Speaker 2: in the Westlake District this week. Two people in a tent. 205 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:22,160 Speaker 2: I guess they were doing drugs. This woman forty six, 206 00:12:22,320 --> 00:12:26,080 Speaker 2: she's got six kids, she was a military veteran. She 207 00:12:26,200 --> 00:12:29,280 Speaker 2: ends up dead in the tent with the guy and 208 00:12:29,640 --> 00:12:36,440 Speaker 2: she's eaten by dogs. And this encampment has been around 209 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:40,480 Speaker 2: for a long long time, and unys Hernandez, who's the 210 00:12:41,559 --> 00:12:45,120 Speaker 2: dangerous idiot socialist councilwoman for the district, does nothing about it. 211 00:12:45,200 --> 00:12:48,679 Speaker 2: Karen Bass does nothing about it. LAPD does nothing about it. 212 00:12:48,679 --> 00:12:52,920 Speaker 2: It's been reported many, many times to various authorities and 213 00:12:54,120 --> 00:12:57,400 Speaker 2: the vagrants, many of them. You know, when the vagrant 214 00:12:57,480 --> 00:13:03,360 Speaker 2: crisis started exploding, it was about ten years ago. And 215 00:13:03,400 --> 00:13:06,880 Speaker 2: it was shortly after Jerry Brown emptied the prisons, and 216 00:13:06,920 --> 00:13:13,320 Speaker 2: it makes perfect sense. They released thousands of felons who 217 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:17,560 Speaker 2: hit the streets, had nowhere to live, didn't have a job, 218 00:13:17,960 --> 00:13:21,120 Speaker 2: wouldn't be able to get a job, and had a 219 00:13:21,120 --> 00:13:22,199 Speaker 2: lot of drug addictions. 220 00:13:22,640 --> 00:13:23,280 Speaker 1: So there you go. 221 00:13:24,120 --> 00:13:28,240 Speaker 2: You got violent drug addicts in the streets and they 222 00:13:28,280 --> 00:13:31,400 Speaker 2: have to steal in order to feed their drug habit 223 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:35,240 Speaker 2: And that's why life changed or began to change about 224 00:13:35,280 --> 00:13:40,280 Speaker 2: ten years ago. And now there's a new report that 225 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:46,760 Speaker 2: covers forty one states from the Cicero Institute and. 226 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:51,600 Speaker 1: They have found that there. 227 00:13:51,480 --> 00:13:56,880 Speaker 2: Is a significant percentage of sex offenders on state registries. 228 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:03,240 Speaker 2: What they did is they compared sex offenders with the 229 00:14:05,160 --> 00:14:11,679 Speaker 2: homeless database count and according to their calculation, sex offenders 230 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:15,000 Speaker 2: account for more than twenty percent of the street homeless 231 00:14:15,040 --> 00:14:21,120 Speaker 2: in twenty states. In some states, more than fifty percent 232 00:14:21,720 --> 00:14:29,160 Speaker 2: of the street homeless is on the sex offender registry. 233 00:14:30,240 --> 00:14:35,720 Speaker 2: On average, the shrif of sex offenders among the street 234 00:14:35,800 --> 00:14:44,160 Speaker 2: homeless was twenty percent. You know, these idiot progressives and 235 00:14:44,200 --> 00:14:48,440 Speaker 2: the idiot media that amplifies the progressive activists always say, well, 236 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:53,560 Speaker 2: there's families and there's children, only five percent of the 237 00:14:53,600 --> 00:14:57,280 Speaker 2: street homeless. Are families five percent ninety five percent or not. 238 00:14:57,760 --> 00:15:01,040 Speaker 2: But it's the elderly, No, that's fine. Five percent. Well 239 00:15:01,080 --> 00:15:06,640 Speaker 2: it's veterans, No, that's five percent. Well it's transgenders, Well 240 00:15:06,640 --> 00:15:07,720 Speaker 2: that's one percent. 241 00:15:08,120 --> 00:15:11,640 Speaker 1: Well it's it's AIDS patients. No, that's one percent. 242 00:15:12,120 --> 00:15:17,600 Speaker 2: Yet up families and elderly, veterans and transgenders and AIDS 243 00:15:17,720 --> 00:15:23,240 Speaker 2: patients and you get twenty two percent. Sex offenders by 244 00:15:23,240 --> 00:15:27,040 Speaker 2: themselves are twenty percent. So one out of you see 245 00:15:27,080 --> 00:15:29,720 Speaker 2: five guys on the street in an encampment, one out 246 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:33,160 Speaker 2: of five is probably a sex offender. If you see 247 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:36,320 Speaker 2: twenty of them, you've had four sex offenders there. Remember 248 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:44,440 Speaker 2: all the encampments you see around schools. According to the study, 249 00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:48,640 Speaker 2: tells you what we already know. But Basi and Newsoen 250 00:15:48,680 --> 00:15:51,000 Speaker 2: will not admit to these. 251 00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:52,280 Speaker 1: Uh. 252 00:15:52,720 --> 00:15:58,440 Speaker 2: These sex offenders have cognitive impairments, they're drug addicted, they 253 00:15:58,440 --> 00:16:05,480 Speaker 2: have severe mental illness. Many shelters refuse to admit sex offenders. Well, 254 00:16:05,520 --> 00:16:09,040 Speaker 2: at least they have some sense, so they're more likely 255 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:11,800 Speaker 2: than any other group to be living on the streets, 256 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:21,680 Speaker 2: and sociologists often claim that sex offenders are not especially dangerous. 257 00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:32,080 Speaker 2: These are people who have raped or sexually molested, including children. 258 00:16:33,120 --> 00:16:37,080 Speaker 2: And then you have I don't know what sociologists should 259 00:16:37,120 --> 00:16:42,440 Speaker 2: not exist, all the sociology departments in this country. Those 260 00:16:42,480 --> 00:16:47,440 Speaker 2: people ought to be defunded, fired and deported. I hope 261 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:50,760 Speaker 2: Trump gets to that that will pass some kind of 262 00:16:51,120 --> 00:16:55,080 Speaker 2: law banning sociology departments because this is what they come 263 00:16:55,160 --> 00:17:01,800 Speaker 2: up with. Sex offenders are not especially dangerous. Vagrants are 264 00:17:01,880 --> 00:17:05,159 Speaker 2: generally more likely to commit crimes than non homeless people. 265 00:17:05,440 --> 00:17:06,200 Speaker 1: There's a shock. 266 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:10,400 Speaker 2: San Diego Di Die's office found that homeless individuals were 267 00:17:10,560 --> 00:17:13,840 Speaker 2: hundreds of times more likely than the general population to 268 00:17:13,880 --> 00:17:17,359 Speaker 2: commit crimes like robbery, arson, and assault. What did we 269 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:20,080 Speaker 2: tell you last hour? Since the first of January in 270 00:17:20,160 --> 00:17:24,920 Speaker 2: South LA, the vagrants have started one thousand fires. How 271 00:17:24,920 --> 00:17:29,840 Speaker 2: many fires have you started this year? A thousand fires? 272 00:17:29,840 --> 00:17:37,720 Speaker 2: They started trash fires. Study of homelessness by UC San 273 00:17:37,760 --> 00:17:42,080 Speaker 2: Francisco found eight and ten homeless people had gone to jail. 274 00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:50,960 Speaker 2: More than thirty percent had been in state prison. So 275 00:17:51,080 --> 00:17:53,640 Speaker 2: that's what's on the streets. Just so you know, don't 276 00:17:53,640 --> 00:17:55,800 Speaker 2: go near them, don't talk to them, don't give them money, 277 00:17:56,560 --> 00:18:00,400 Speaker 2: don't listen to this crap. Of our fellow Andreline, our 278 00:18:00,440 --> 00:18:07,440 Speaker 2: brothers and sisters. No, that's all garbage. They're always lying 279 00:18:07,480 --> 00:18:10,240 Speaker 2: to you. We come back Laura Ingle and she's gonna 280 00:18:10,280 --> 00:18:13,400 Speaker 2: do a report on the Ditty trial. They were making 281 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:19,760 Speaker 2: Cassie the girlfriend read all the love texts she sent 282 00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:20,920 Speaker 2: to Ditty over the years. 283 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:26,920 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI Am sixty. 284 00:18:27,640 --> 00:18:30,200 Speaker 2: Whatever you miss you can pick up on the podcast 285 00:18:30,240 --> 00:18:32,920 Speaker 2: John Cobelt Show on demand on the iHeart app that's 286 00:18:32,920 --> 00:18:37,320 Speaker 2: posted shortly after four o'clock. Another day in the Sean 287 00:18:37,359 --> 00:18:40,960 Speaker 2: Ditty Combs trial, and in a couple of minutes, we're 288 00:18:40,960 --> 00:18:43,960 Speaker 2: going to get Laura Angele on from News Nation to 289 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:50,800 Speaker 2: tell us what happened. His girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, had to 290 00:18:50,840 --> 00:18:55,480 Speaker 2: testify again today, and it was a lot about the 291 00:18:55,640 --> 00:18:59,199 Speaker 2: sex that she was forced into for those freak offs 292 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:04,000 Speaker 2: and how he how he beat her up, and then 293 00:19:04,040 --> 00:19:09,359 Speaker 2: she was forced to read hundreds of sexually explicit and 294 00:19:09,640 --> 00:19:14,760 Speaker 2: loving texts that she exchanged with Ditty over the years. 295 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:18,320 Speaker 2: They made her do that because they're trying to discredit her, 296 00:19:18,840 --> 00:19:26,320 Speaker 2: and because the whole defensiers centered around that everything was consensual. Now, 297 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:30,320 Speaker 2: remember he's Also, whatever he did to her is not 298 00:19:31,560 --> 00:19:40,360 Speaker 2: the charges. The charges are are sex trafficking, trafficking prostitutes 299 00:19:40,440 --> 00:19:43,200 Speaker 2: bringing them in to have these freak offs. That that's 300 00:19:43,240 --> 00:19:45,640 Speaker 2: where the criminal charges are. But they want to set 301 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:48,520 Speaker 2: the scene as to what was going on in the 302 00:19:48,520 --> 00:19:53,000 Speaker 2: ditty house and give people a good idea of what 303 00:19:53,119 --> 00:19:55,720 Speaker 2: his character is about. So as soon as lawyer was ready, 304 00:19:56,119 --> 00:19:59,480 Speaker 2: we're gonna we're gonna put her on. Coming up after 305 00:19:59,480 --> 00:20:02,320 Speaker 2: three o'clock, We're going to have David Howard, who's the 306 00:20:02,320 --> 00:20:05,480 Speaker 2: sales manager here at KFI and iHeart, and he's in 307 00:20:05,520 --> 00:20:09,840 Speaker 2: the thick of it in the Palisades. His home was destroyed. 308 00:20:09,920 --> 00:20:12,400 Speaker 2: He's been on with us a few times before, and 309 00:20:13,560 --> 00:20:18,360 Speaker 2: he's had to experience just all kinds of frustration, and 310 00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:22,119 Speaker 2: it's making everybody crazy. There was a story in the 311 00:20:22,240 --> 00:20:25,720 Speaker 2: New York Times today that maybe we'll get to later 312 00:20:25,800 --> 00:20:28,080 Speaker 2: and if not, on Monday, because it's a pretty extensive, 313 00:20:28,119 --> 00:20:32,280 Speaker 2: long story and it was just published a short time ago. 314 00:20:34,280 --> 00:20:37,920 Speaker 2: They tried to track where everybody in the Palisades and 315 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:45,680 Speaker 2: everybody in Altadena where they've gone. And they actually contacted 316 00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:50,320 Speaker 2: some people to see, well where are you and and 317 00:20:50,359 --> 00:20:52,159 Speaker 2: where did you go? And what is it like and 318 00:20:52,200 --> 00:20:57,560 Speaker 2: what are your struggles now? Alta Dina. It is obviously 319 00:20:57,640 --> 00:21:01,200 Speaker 2: much less wealthy than the Palace. So what they found 320 00:21:01,280 --> 00:21:06,120 Speaker 2: is people in the Palisades moved farther away because they could, 321 00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:10,639 Speaker 2: were people in Altadena generally stuck, more likely to be 322 00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:15,280 Speaker 2: in the immediate area. A lot of them relocated to Pasadena. 323 00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:20,400 Speaker 2: The fires between the two of them, thirty seven thousand acres, 324 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:24,800 Speaker 2: sixteen thousand structures that includes homes, schools, libraries, and businesses. 325 00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:31,159 Speaker 2: Thirty people were killed. And reading these stories, because they 326 00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:34,800 Speaker 2: did highlight some of the personal stories, it really is heartbreaking. 327 00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:40,040 Speaker 1: And all I can keep thinking of is I'm sorry. 328 00:21:40,119 --> 00:21:45,280 Speaker 2: Karen Bass flies to Africa after she was warned extremely 329 00:21:45,359 --> 00:21:52,080 Speaker 2: dangerous fires are coming to Los Angeles and she half 330 00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:56,879 Speaker 2: funded the fire department and the city council half. It 331 00:21:56,920 --> 00:22:01,680 Speaker 2: was fifty percent funded. And none of these people say 332 00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:05,880 Speaker 2: boo about the tragedy. And then I'm reading how difficult 333 00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:08,639 Speaker 2: it is for all these families because not only they 334 00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:14,000 Speaker 2: lost their homes and they're dealing with the incredibly stupid bureaucracy, 335 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:19,160 Speaker 2: but they lost seeing their friends, and their children lost 336 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:22,400 Speaker 2: their schools, and they lost seeing their friends and all 337 00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:25,320 Speaker 2: their daily habits and all the thing they things they loved, 338 00:22:25,359 --> 00:22:29,800 Speaker 2: whether out to Dina or the Palisades, the things they 339 00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:34,360 Speaker 2: enjoyed about their little villages, you know, family members split up, 340 00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:41,280 Speaker 2: and tremendous you know, financial displacement, especially for the people 341 00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:45,320 Speaker 2: in Alta Dina who are significantly less worth it, less, 342 00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:51,640 Speaker 2: have less money, less wealthy than the people in the Palisades. 343 00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:56,040 Speaker 1: And you just just read this stuff. 344 00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:57,639 Speaker 2: And I was reading it during lunch and I was 345 00:22:57,680 --> 00:23:00,439 Speaker 2: just getting it's just getting so upset. It makes you 346 00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:04,000 Speaker 2: emotional because it didn't have to be this way, you know, 347 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:07,000 Speaker 2: like if Karen Bassett I want. What I noticed about 348 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:10,800 Speaker 2: her is that there's there's something important missing in her, 349 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:14,639 Speaker 2: like the and in the city council. There's actually no humanity, 350 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:19,720 Speaker 2: there's no there's no care. They don't talk about it 351 00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:23,879 Speaker 2: at all. The loss is enormous and will be with 352 00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:27,560 Speaker 2: them for the rest of their lives. And it's everything 353 00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:33,160 Speaker 2: short of their lives, but everything. It's not just the possessions. 354 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:35,280 Speaker 2: Of course, you could buy new stuff, you can rebuild 355 00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:40,159 Speaker 2: the house if your insurance covers you. But it's you know, 356 00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:42,680 Speaker 2: going to the local coffee shop or bakery it's meeting 357 00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:46,520 Speaker 2: your friends at the restaurant. It's your your your kids 358 00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:50,240 Speaker 2: going you know, to playing soccer or baseball at the 359 00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:53,720 Speaker 2: field after school. It's it's going to the library with 360 00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:58,480 Speaker 2: with your your toddler, and and now and now everything 361 00:23:58,560 --> 00:24:05,920 Speaker 2: is a struggle. Everybody is separated and scattered. They actually 362 00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:11,320 Speaker 2: have a map showing that some of well, well you know, 363 00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:16,080 Speaker 2: most people displaced into the immediate LA area. There's people 364 00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:23,280 Speaker 2: that scattered to San Francisco, Denver, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Austin, Chicago, Tampa, 365 00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:28,280 Speaker 2: New York City. You know, these are singles in families 366 00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:33,440 Speaker 2: that are now separated by tens, hundreds, thousands of miles, 367 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:36,720 Speaker 2: and then trying to trying to find that. You know, 368 00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:38,679 Speaker 2: what they did. I don't want to get into the 369 00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:44,960 Speaker 2: details of how they did this, but they tracked the 370 00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:52,000 Speaker 2: address changes. They have a database of change of address 371 00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:56,679 Speaker 2: counts by the census. And there's also a company that 372 00:24:56,800 --> 00:25:00,480 Speaker 2: studies the movement of people use its postal records and 373 00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:04,480 Speaker 2: things of that nature, and they've gotten a pretty good 374 00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:06,440 Speaker 2: idea of where everybody went. 375 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:09,920 Speaker 1: And I just. 376 00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:17,639 Speaker 2: There's so much pain out there and there's almost no help. 377 00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:22,520 Speaker 2: I mean, there's really a zero help. Coming from Karen 378 00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:28,480 Speaker 2: Bass's office the other day. I've played you the audio 379 00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:31,960 Speaker 2: of an Instagram video that Rick Caruso put out and 380 00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:37,159 Speaker 2: he had an announcement how they have linked up with 381 00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:42,879 Speaker 2: an artificial intelligence company that should be able to process 382 00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:49,439 Speaker 2: permitting very rapidly. And give Gavin new some credit on 383 00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:54,439 Speaker 2: this one because he helped get this deal going, because 384 00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:57,040 Speaker 2: he said the current pace of issuing permits is not 385 00:25:57,240 --> 00:26:02,960 Speaker 2: meeting the magnitude of the challenge. And there's an Australian 386 00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:09,000 Speaker 2: tech firm named Archiestar and they have donated it. Well, actually, 387 00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:18,080 Speaker 2: archer Star sold this software to Wildlife wildfire recovery foundations, 388 00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:25,840 Speaker 2: I think, including Caruso's Steadfast LA, who in turn donated 389 00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:29,399 Speaker 2: it to the city and county. So when property owners 390 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:34,480 Speaker 2: submit applications the software, the software will examine them for 391 00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:39,800 Speaker 2: basic compliance with zoning and building codes, suggest corrections, and 392 00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:44,320 Speaker 2: provide a standardized report. And LA City and County officials 393 00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:49,920 Speaker 2: hope this will dramatically cut the time that employees now 394 00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:53,480 Speaker 2: use performing a lot of menial tasks. They've got to 395 00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:58,240 Speaker 2: measure building height, count parking spaces, they have to calculate setbacks, 396 00:26:59,119 --> 00:27:02,119 Speaker 2: and they do it very very slowly because generally government 397 00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:05,439 Speaker 2: workers aren't very bright and they're not very motivated. Remember 398 00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:08,440 Speaker 2: it's not their home, it's not their lives, and they 399 00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:11,160 Speaker 2: get paid no matter what. They generally can't be fired, 400 00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:16,119 Speaker 2: and there is no expectation of output. And that's the truth. 401 00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:18,760 Speaker 2: Everybody says, oh, it's so harsh. Well, that's the truth. 402 00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:22,440 Speaker 2: That's what human beings. Human beings respond to carrots and sticks. 403 00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:27,680 Speaker 2: In government work, there are no sticks and often there's 404 00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:30,440 Speaker 2: no There aren't carrots either. You don't get more money 405 00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:33,320 Speaker 2: for doing a better job. You get more money if 406 00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:36,720 Speaker 2: you last longer. They pay on seniority, they don't pay 407 00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:40,840 Speaker 2: on quality of work. Or we're going to get loweringal 408 00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:44,080 Speaker 2: on next segment to do the diddy thing. This is 409 00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:49,640 Speaker 2: the first large scale use of artificial intelligence permitting technology 410 00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:53,960 Speaker 2: nationwide and Caruso did a lot to a broker this 411 00:27:54,080 --> 00:28:01,960 Speaker 2: deal because bastard nothing. Caruso took the lead on getting 412 00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:08,000 Speaker 2: the archer Star software and Caruso is covering much of 413 00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:12,359 Speaker 2: the two million dollar tab for its implementation. I don't 414 00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:16,560 Speaker 2: repeat that Caruso took the lead to get the software 415 00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:20,199 Speaker 2: from this Australian company and is covering much of the 416 00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:24,800 Speaker 2: two million dollar tab through Steadfast LA. Not just him personally, 417 00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:29,480 Speaker 2: but Steadfast LA is his non profit operation. Again, you 418 00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:33,119 Speaker 2: compare that to Caruso, that dope Steve sober Off that 419 00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:34,840 Speaker 2: they were going to hire for a half million dollars 420 00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:38,800 Speaker 2: a year, that consulting firm Haggarty that they're paying a 421 00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:47,440 Speaker 2: fortune to, and and the the La County Supervisors. They 422 00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:52,120 Speaker 2: are a total fail on this. We're just living in 423 00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:56,640 Speaker 2: an area where there's no functioning government. So that's the 424 00:28:56,680 --> 00:29:02,080 Speaker 2: good news. The artificial intelligence should accelerate things. Newsome, it 425 00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:04,960 Speaker 2: seems to the way I'm reading this kind of forced 426 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:09,360 Speaker 2: it on Bass. She probably haven't doesn't have the slightest 427 00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:12,000 Speaker 2: idea how any of this works. Anyway, all right, we'll 428 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:14,760 Speaker 2: have Laura will come on to talk about the ditty trial. 429 00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:18,320 Speaker 2: Cassie Ventura, another day of brutal testimony. 430 00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:24,960 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM sixty. 431 00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:27,520 Speaker 2: Moist lines coming up at three twenty and three point 432 00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:31,560 Speaker 2: fifteen next hour, right after Heather's three o'clock news, it's 433 00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:35,000 Speaker 2: we're going to talk to David Howard, who's a sales 434 00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:38,160 Speaker 2: manager here at KFI and iHeart and He's going through 435 00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:42,520 Speaker 2: all the terrible nonsense in the Pacific Palisades, trying to 436 00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:46,320 Speaker 2: get his home rebuilt after the fire. It's extremely frustrating. 437 00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:49,920 Speaker 2: David's gonna come on and talk about it when right 438 00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:51,960 Speaker 2: after Heather's News, let's get Laura Angel on. 439 00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:52,320 Speaker 1: Now. 440 00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:56,719 Speaker 2: Laura is covering the Ditty trial Sean Ditty Combs, and 441 00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:59,959 Speaker 2: it was another day of testimony from his former girlfriend 442 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:02,520 Speaker 2: Cassie Ventura. She had to talk about the sex that 443 00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:05,640 Speaker 2: did he forced her into for these freak costs, had 444 00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:11,080 Speaker 2: to read hundreds of text messages, sexual and alleged loving 445 00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:13,840 Speaker 2: text messages that the two of them exchanged. She had 446 00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:18,520 Speaker 2: to talk about the beatings. Laura tell us a rundown 447 00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:19,760 Speaker 2: specifically what went on. 448 00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:23,840 Speaker 6: Hey, John, Well, it was another roller coaster kind of 449 00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:27,240 Speaker 6: day inside of federal court here in Lower Manhattan. You're 450 00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:31,120 Speaker 6: ride Cassa Ventura back on the stand under cross examination, 451 00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:35,560 Speaker 6: redirect from prosecutors back with defense, and you know, she 452 00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:38,640 Speaker 6: we covered a lot of ground. They're talking about multiple 453 00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:42,360 Speaker 6: years of abuse and what happened in certain frea cofts 454 00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:45,080 Speaker 6: and one moment that I came in the court for 455 00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:48,080 Speaker 6: I witnessed Cassie on the stand and she was being 456 00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:53,040 Speaker 6: asked by prosecutors how she felt, specifically when she was 457 00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:56,040 Speaker 6: being beaten during the freak co ops, which is something 458 00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:59,440 Speaker 6: that apparently happened quite often. She testified to and she 459 00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:03,280 Speaker 6: starts to cry, and she said, I felt worthless. I 460 00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:05,760 Speaker 6: felt like dirt, like I was nothing. I felt like 461 00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:09,160 Speaker 6: I was absolutely nothing. She was then asked, how did 462 00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:14,240 Speaker 6: you feel if you said no to the freak off safety. 463 00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:16,840 Speaker 6: If she said no, she was worried about her career, 464 00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:19,480 Speaker 6: her singing career, but she said, I was also in 465 00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:22,200 Speaker 6: love with him, so I was worried that he wouldn't 466 00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:24,880 Speaker 6: want to be with me if I didn't do it. So, 467 00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:29,040 Speaker 6: you know, that kind of inside information about how this 468 00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:33,120 Speaker 6: all went on, and again the prosecution working to lay 469 00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:39,720 Speaker 6: down this relationship, the coersion, the intimidation. She testified that 470 00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:43,120 Speaker 6: he took her passport and her phone away many times. 471 00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:45,920 Speaker 6: This goes into some of the charges that sham Combs 472 00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:48,080 Speaker 6: is saying because a lot of people are saying, you know, 473 00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:50,240 Speaker 6: we're talking a lot about freak offs and baby oil, 474 00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:50,720 Speaker 6: but what. 475 00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:51,520 Speaker 3: About the charges. 476 00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:53,520 Speaker 6: But this is the foundation that is going to lead 477 00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:55,520 Speaker 6: to some of the charges because one of the stories 478 00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:58,360 Speaker 6: that she also told was about getting on a plane 479 00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:01,680 Speaker 6: and going across the country after a freak off, and 480 00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:04,200 Speaker 6: then he showed her video on an iPad saying, if 481 00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:06,480 Speaker 6: you know, if you leave or if you do anything, 482 00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:08,960 Speaker 6: this video is going to come out. She was intimidated. 483 00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:12,480 Speaker 6: They got to LA across state lines did another freak off, 484 00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:14,640 Speaker 6: So that is where a lot of. 485 00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:16,120 Speaker 3: This testimony is going. 486 00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:19,760 Speaker 6: And then suddenly she was off the stand, and then 487 00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:23,280 Speaker 6: we had a special agent from Homeland Security kind of 488 00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:25,760 Speaker 6: fill in a gap and give some foundation about what 489 00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:28,320 Speaker 6: the arrest was like, how he was involved in that. 490 00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:31,360 Speaker 6: And then the big bang, if you will, at the 491 00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:34,600 Speaker 6: end of testimony today came the witness we actually were 492 00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:36,440 Speaker 6: expecting to be right after Cassie. 493 00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:38,640 Speaker 3: And her name is don Richard, and. 494 00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:40,960 Speaker 6: A lot of people especially there in LA will probably 495 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:42,840 Speaker 6: know that name. This is a woman who was in 496 00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:46,600 Speaker 6: an all grown band on all female band called Danny Kane. 497 00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:50,400 Speaker 6: But before that, she was also in this MTV reality 498 00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:53,040 Speaker 6: show that Diddy was, you know, an instructor on and 499 00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:55,440 Speaker 6: a big part of called Making the Band. And she 500 00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:58,360 Speaker 6: testified just at the end of the day near five 501 00:32:58,360 --> 00:33:01,600 Speaker 6: o'clock that back in two thousand and nine, she witnessed 502 00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:04,960 Speaker 6: Sean Colmes hit Cassie over the head with a skillet 503 00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:07,120 Speaker 6: when he came down the stairs of the la home 504 00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:10,160 Speaker 6: that they were all at, saying where's my food? Smacks 505 00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:12,000 Speaker 6: her over the head with a skillet, She goes to 506 00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:14,560 Speaker 6: the floor, he hits her again, and she's in the 507 00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:18,600 Speaker 6: fetal position. And so Don Richard is talking about being 508 00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:22,600 Speaker 6: an eyewitness to this violence and the lifestyle that was 509 00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:25,440 Speaker 6: at hand. So that was kind of those are the 510 00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:28,800 Speaker 6: big chunks of testimony that we heard today, John. 511 00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:31,600 Speaker 2: And she also had to read a lot of the 512 00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:35,640 Speaker 2: text messages that she and Diddy exchanged over the years, 513 00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:41,520 Speaker 2: sexually explicit text messages and quote loving text messages. I mean, 514 00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:44,680 Speaker 2: that must have been terribly uncomfortable, Oh. 515 00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:47,080 Speaker 3: So uncomfortable, I think for everybody in the room. 516 00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:50,800 Speaker 6: I mean she was talking about, you know, really at 517 00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:54,320 Speaker 6: the heart of it, John, it's just that she really 518 00:33:54,520 --> 00:33:56,400 Speaker 6: loved him. She talked about how much she loved him. 519 00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:59,840 Speaker 6: In fact, during testimony today she said, in this moment, 520 00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:02,840 Speaker 6: I don't hate him, she said, she said, I don't 521 00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:05,520 Speaker 6: hate him, and I remember being in love with him. 522 00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:08,759 Speaker 6: And at the end of the day, after they did 523 00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:11,200 Speaker 6: talk about text messages, and you're right. They went over 524 00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:13,399 Speaker 6: you know the freak constin do you want it? And 525 00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:15,239 Speaker 6: I can't wait to do it again, I can't wait 526 00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:17,920 Speaker 6: to see you get hot, and I want to be uncontrollable, 527 00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:21,320 Speaker 6: and all of that was read again when her attorney 528 00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:25,480 Speaker 6: came out afterwards, she read a statement from Cassi to 529 00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:28,360 Speaker 6: the public and saying that you know, she hopes that 530 00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:32,560 Speaker 6: her voices given other survivors the courage to speak up. 531 00:34:32,640 --> 00:34:35,200 Speaker 6: In part and said for me, the more I heal, 532 00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:38,000 Speaker 6: the more I can remember, and the more I can remember, 533 00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:40,799 Speaker 6: the more I will never forget. She was asked a 534 00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:43,120 Speaker 6: lot about her drug use and about you know, if 535 00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:45,680 Speaker 6: she couldn't remember something specific, the defense would say, well, 536 00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:46,440 Speaker 6: is that because. 537 00:34:46,239 --> 00:34:47,040 Speaker 3: You were so high? 538 00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:50,359 Speaker 6: Do you even really remember how this all played out? 539 00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:52,920 Speaker 6: So not about the drug use, a lot about Sean 540 00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:56,160 Speaker 6: Comb's drug use, about being an addict, about as the 541 00:34:56,360 --> 00:34:59,359 Speaker 6: overdose it she says he had in twenty twelve. So 542 00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:01,799 Speaker 6: we we were kind of all over the place in 543 00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:07,640 Speaker 6: terms of sex and drugs and lies and going back 544 00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:10,600 Speaker 6: and forth was cheating. They both were seeing other people. 545 00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:14,320 Speaker 6: And what was really interesting is we saw Alex Fine 546 00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:17,640 Speaker 6: the way he left court today that is Cassie Venture's husband. 547 00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:20,280 Speaker 6: We expect him to be called by the defense because 548 00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:23,200 Speaker 6: one of the things that was revealed in testimony today 549 00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:27,880 Speaker 6: was that after Cassie Ventura said that she was allegedly 550 00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:32,440 Speaker 6: raped by Combs in twenty eighteen, she saw him again 551 00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:36,120 Speaker 6: and had another sexual encounter with him. And during that 552 00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:41,000 Speaker 6: post alleged rape encounter, Alex Fine, who she was seeing, 553 00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:44,200 Speaker 6: face timed and she sent it to voicemail essentially, you know, 554 00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:48,319 Speaker 6: she rejected the call. So there's questions about Okay, so 555 00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:50,960 Speaker 6: he raped you. And look, domestic violence, we've talked about 556 00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:52,839 Speaker 6: this before, John, I mean, you know, people go back, 557 00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:55,840 Speaker 6: they do things that we don't understand, going back to 558 00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:58,239 Speaker 6: the person that hurt them. But that is going to 559 00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:00,319 Speaker 6: come into play as we when we finally you get 560 00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:01,279 Speaker 6: to the defense side. 561 00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:02,600 Speaker 3: But we've got another. 562 00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:04,640 Speaker 6: Full week, Week two coming up on Monday, back with 563 00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:05,320 Speaker 6: doh Nasharda. 564 00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:08,400 Speaker 2: What's her demeanor as she goes through all these horrible 565 00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:11,880 Speaker 2: scenarios and reading the text messages and recounting the beatings 566 00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:15,480 Speaker 2: and recounting, you know, the sex freak offs. I mean, 567 00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:17,600 Speaker 2: what does she do this matter of factly? Is she 568 00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:20,600 Speaker 2: numb to it? All, or does she get emotional and breakdown. 569 00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:24,640 Speaker 6: She The one time I saw her britt down today 570 00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:26,840 Speaker 6: was when she was saying that she felt like dirt 571 00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:29,080 Speaker 6: and that that was the really essentral theme about when 572 00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:32,279 Speaker 6: she was talking about kim Porter Sean Combe's ex and 573 00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:34,960 Speaker 6: who is the one who died, and she was talking 574 00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:37,839 Speaker 6: about how hurt she was that he referred to her 575 00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:39,520 Speaker 6: as you know, the love of his life of the 576 00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:43,799 Speaker 6: sultanate at her memorial, and you know she was. She 577 00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:48,080 Speaker 6: had texted Shawn Combs afterwards saying, where's the last eleven. 578 00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:50,040 Speaker 3: Years been about for us? What had last several years 579 00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:50,879 Speaker 3: been about for us? 580 00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:51,440 Speaker 5: You know? 581 00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:53,160 Speaker 3: I thought that I was more important to you. You make 582 00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:56,320 Speaker 3: me feel like I'm just the peace on the side. 583 00:36:56,600 --> 00:36:59,520 Speaker 3: And so but in terms of she broke down the 584 00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:01,040 Speaker 3: Shan talk about feeling like Derek. 585 00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:04,719 Speaker 6: But other than that, Sean, when she's shown stills of 586 00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:07,799 Speaker 6: the freak coughs. When she's reading these text messages, she 587 00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:09,000 Speaker 6: is very matter of. 588 00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:12,480 Speaker 3: Fact, Yeah that was me, Yep, that happened. Yep, I 589 00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:14,359 Speaker 3: wrote that, Yep, I said that. 590 00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:16,360 Speaker 6: You know, so it was just kind of very matter 591 00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:19,319 Speaker 6: of fact through all of it, all. 592 00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:24,000 Speaker 2: Right, Laura Engel. News Nation Senior corresponded covering the Diddy trial. 593 00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:26,520 Speaker 2: Thanks very much for coming on. And Laura has a 594 00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:29,000 Speaker 2: YouTube channel called the Ingle Edit with a lot of 595 00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:31,360 Speaker 2: behind the scenes information for all the crime stories she 596 00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:33,839 Speaker 2: covered News Nation. It's where you can see it all. 597 00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:36,920 Speaker 2: Thanks for coming on. Talk with you again, sir. All right, 598 00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:39,839 Speaker 2: well we come back after three o'clock. Heather Brooker's going 599 00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:41,040 Speaker 2: to have the news, and then we're going to have 600 00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:44,759 Speaker 2: David Howard on. He's one of the sales managers here 601 00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:48,480 Speaker 2: at KFI lost everything. He and his family lost everything 602 00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:51,440 Speaker 2: in the Palisades fires, and he's really been on the 603 00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:56,560 Speaker 2: front lines, going to meetings, contacting officials, trying to see 604 00:37:57,000 --> 00:38:00,120 Speaker 2: if anything could be done quicker than it is. I 605 00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:04,200 Speaker 2: understand how they're responding to this, because really the mass 606 00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:11,000 Speaker 2: administration is doing a just a spectacularly bad job, not 607 00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:15,440 Speaker 2: only aiding the rebuilds, but communicating with people. We'll talk 608 00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:18,520 Speaker 2: to David Howard coming up and in for Debor Mark. 609 00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:20,839 Speaker 2: We got Heather Brooker live in the KFI twenty four 610 00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:23,640 Speaker 2: our newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the John Covelt 611 00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:26,040 Speaker 2: Show podcast. You can always hear the show live on 612 00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:29,040 Speaker 2: KFI AM six forty from one to four pm every 613 00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:32,040 Speaker 2: Monday through Friday, and of course anytime on demand on 614 00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:33,320 Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio app.