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Like yesterday, we got news just 11 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:39,720 Speaker 1: bulging bull jan of the show here. In an hour, 12 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:43,879 Speaker 1: we're gonna have Steve Gregory on from KFI News and 13 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:46,240 Speaker 1: he is going to give us all the details about 14 00:00:47,440 --> 00:00:53,800 Speaker 1: the dean of the usc Social Work School, the School 15 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:58,440 Speaker 1: of Social Work. Excuse me, Marilyn Flynn. She's eighty three 16 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:02,720 Speaker 1: years old and she is pleading guilty to one count 17 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:09,640 Speaker 1: of bribing taking a bribe from Mark Ridley Thomas. Mark 18 00:01:09,720 --> 00:01:13,319 Speaker 1: Ridley Thomas is the former La County supervisor turned La 19 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:19,120 Speaker 1: City councilman, and he has been insisting that he's innocent 20 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:24,119 Speaker 1: of these bribery charges. Boy, it really sucks when you kept, 21 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:27,040 Speaker 1: when you howl for months and months that you're innocent, 22 00:01:27,440 --> 00:01:29,960 Speaker 1: and then the person that you sent the bribe to 23 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:36,840 Speaker 1: admits that yeah, I took it. Now what do you do? 24 00:01:38,080 --> 00:01:42,880 Speaker 1: So it's going to be really interesting to see what 25 00:01:42,959 --> 00:01:48,560 Speaker 1: Ridley Thomas does because now both sides have to agree 26 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:51,920 Speaker 1: to stick to a story. They had a big paper 27 00:01:51,960 --> 00:01:57,160 Speaker 1: trail though, and there was a lot of complexity to 28 00:01:57,200 --> 00:02:00,760 Speaker 1: the case, and we're gonna get into that with Steve 29 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:04,760 Speaker 1: Gregory next hour, but just to go through the highlights here, 30 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:08,560 Speaker 1: she was the dean of the School of Social Work, 31 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:12,160 Speaker 1: This Marilynd Frinn from A Flynn from nineteen ninety seven 32 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:17,040 Speaker 1: to twenty eighteen. That's twenty one years and the trial 33 00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:21,040 Speaker 1: is supposed to be in November. What's interesting here is 34 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:27,639 Speaker 1: we just found out a few days ago that prosecutors 35 00:02:27,760 --> 00:02:32,880 Speaker 1: against Flynn and Ridley Thomas, we're going to submit evidence 36 00:02:33,639 --> 00:02:37,240 Speaker 1: that Flynn gave a similar deal to Karen Bass, the 37 00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:44,480 Speaker 1: congresswoman running from mayor against Rick Caruso, and that details 38 00:02:44,639 --> 00:02:47,400 Speaker 1: of the Karen Bass deal would get a public airing 39 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:54,119 Speaker 1: at a trial. Now suddenly there's no trial, at least 40 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:58,920 Speaker 1: not for Marilyn Flynn. Ridley Thomas's trial is supposed to 41 00:02:58,919 --> 00:03:02,519 Speaker 1: go on in November. Don't know if Flynn's going to 42 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:07,320 Speaker 1: testify against him, don't know if they're gonna Maybe the 43 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:09,720 Speaker 1: Bass thing won't even come up, right, because this, this 44 00:03:09,960 --> 00:03:14,840 Speaker 1: this Bass story was evidence against Flynn. She had said 45 00:03:15,840 --> 00:03:19,960 Speaker 1: that the deal she was giving Ridley Thomas was similar 46 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:21,959 Speaker 1: to the ones she gave to Karen Bass ten years ago. 47 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:26,480 Speaker 1: And if you don't know what these deals are, Karen 48 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:31,840 Speaker 1: Bass got a freak scholarship to get a master's in 49 00:03:31,919 --> 00:03:36,680 Speaker 1: social work. It was worth about ninety five thousand dollars. Now, 50 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:41,040 Speaker 1: this is a woman who's been making six figure salaries 51 00:03:41,160 --> 00:03:45,880 Speaker 1: for decades, serving in Congress, serving in the state legislature. 52 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:52,440 Speaker 1: There's no reason that she couldn't afford tuition. She could 53 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:55,360 Speaker 1: have taken out a loan and would have had part 54 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:59,800 Speaker 1: of the loan forgiven already. So here's a woman of means, 55 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:03,680 Speaker 1: a woman making a six figure salary for many years, 56 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:08,160 Speaker 1: and she gets a free to wishing from USC and 57 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:14,520 Speaker 1: specifically the same woman, Marilyn Flynn. And it just shows 58 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:18,680 Speaker 1: you how incredibly greedy these people are. I mean, if 59 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:21,320 Speaker 1: there's one hundred thousand dollars or ninety five thousand dollars 60 00:04:21,400 --> 00:04:29,520 Speaker 1: line around USC. I'm sure there's thousands of kids in 61 00:04:29,760 --> 00:04:33,800 Speaker 1: LA probably hundreds of kids, and Karen Bass's different a 62 00:04:33,960 --> 00:04:37,440 Speaker 1: district who would have loved had that would have loved 63 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:41,040 Speaker 1: to get that money for their own scholarship, but they 64 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:43,800 Speaker 1: didn't get the money for the scholarship Karen Bass did. 65 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:51,560 Speaker 1: And what I'm stumped about here is if this bribery 66 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:56,839 Speaker 1: case involving Ridley Thomas has led to both Ridley Thomas 67 00:04:56,839 --> 00:05:01,280 Speaker 1: and Marilyn Flynn going to trial and Flynn pleading guilty 68 00:05:01,320 --> 00:05:05,280 Speaker 1: before the trial, why were there never charges against Karen 69 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:08,320 Speaker 1: Bass When Flynn is saying that Ridley Thomas got the 70 00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:12,359 Speaker 1: same deal as Bass. I don't think that's such a 71 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:17,520 Speaker 1: provocative question. It makes sense, doesn't it. Now. I don't 72 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:23,000 Speaker 1: know if they didn't have the level of evidence, or 73 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:27,040 Speaker 1: if Karen Bass is untouchable in a way that Ridley 74 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:32,080 Speaker 1: Thomas isn't untouchable. I just think that well, the prosecutors 75 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:37,679 Speaker 1: ought to answer for that. Bass ought to explain why 76 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:43,320 Speaker 1: the person who gave her the free degree said, Hey, 77 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:45,880 Speaker 1: same deal I gave to Ridley Thomas, and now she's 78 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:50,479 Speaker 1: pleading guilty to bribery with Ridley Thomas. I mean, this 79 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:52,680 Speaker 1: is not that complicated. I mean, some of this case 80 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:55,520 Speaker 1: is complicated. We'll get to that later, but the part 81 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:59,640 Speaker 1: with Karen Bass isn't complicated. If Marilyn Flynn says it's 82 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:02,200 Speaker 1: the same deal, well shouldn't it be the same charges? 83 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:10,320 Speaker 1: Why is it not the same charges? I mean, how 84 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:14,119 Speaker 1: did Karen Bass get away with this? Why would Karen 85 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:19,320 Speaker 1: Bass get away with a free tuition for a degree 86 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:21,919 Speaker 1: she could afford to get. And by the way, if 87 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:23,840 Speaker 1: you're wondering what the other end of the deal was, 88 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:32,760 Speaker 1: Karen Bass voted upon Marilyn Flynn's request. She voted for 89 00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:37,440 Speaker 1: a bill sponsored a bill that would give a number 90 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:41,440 Speaker 1: of universities federal funding for one thing or another, and 91 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:44,800 Speaker 1: USC is one of those one of those that would benefit. 92 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:52,320 Speaker 1: So there was definitely an exchange there, and one side 93 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:54,400 Speaker 1: is admitting to the exchange and the votes are on 94 00:06:54,520 --> 00:07:01,679 Speaker 1: the record. I don't understand what the special protection Karen 95 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:05,200 Speaker 1: Bass has that Mark Ridley Thomas didn't get. I mean, 96 00:07:05,279 --> 00:07:10,160 Speaker 1: Ridley Thomas is a colossal buffoon. We've been covering him 97 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:13,920 Speaker 1: forever here and it is just one clown show after 98 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:17,840 Speaker 1: another with him, and it did not surprise us in 99 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:24,680 Speaker 1: the least that he finally got nailed. And I don't 100 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:26,920 Speaker 1: know how Bass could be part of the Ridley Thomas 101 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:30,240 Speaker 1: corruption case and not part of the Karen Bass corruption case, 102 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:38,120 Speaker 1: and that should be delved into deeply if anybody's interested. 103 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:40,440 Speaker 1: By the way, it's the La Times who's been reporting 104 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:45,080 Speaker 1: on the Karen Bass connection with Marilyn Frelett Flint, so 105 00:07:45,680 --> 00:07:48,800 Speaker 1: we'll have more on that coming up. I'll give you 106 00:07:48,840 --> 00:07:51,360 Speaker 1: some details on that case, and of course Steve Gregory's 107 00:07:51,400 --> 00:07:54,880 Speaker 1: going to lay out the whole thing at three o'clock 108 00:07:55,280 --> 00:07:58,800 Speaker 1: what led to this plea deal. See John and Ken Show, Ki, 109 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:01,080 Speaker 1: John and Ken Show, John Cope Belt and Ken Champo. 110 00:08:01,160 --> 00:08:04,040 Speaker 1: It's caf I Am six forty live everywhere on the 111 00:08:04,120 --> 00:08:06,400 Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app and we're gonna have Steve greg around at 112 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:09,920 Speaker 1: three o'clock to talk about the Ridley Thomas case. Mark 113 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:14,360 Speaker 1: Ridley Thomas, the La County City councilman and former La 114 00:08:14,440 --> 00:08:20,000 Speaker 1: County supervisor who is really in a pickle now because 115 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:22,840 Speaker 1: he was involved in a bribery deal with the Dean 116 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:28,200 Speaker 1: of USC's School of Social Work, Maryland Flynn, Marilyn Flynn 117 00:08:28,440 --> 00:08:33,840 Speaker 1: is made a plea agreement with federal prosecutors saying, yeah, 118 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:36,440 Speaker 1: she took a one hundred thousand dollars payment from Mark 119 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:42,160 Speaker 1: Ridley Thomas. In return, Ridley Thomas was going to direct 120 00:08:42,320 --> 00:08:47,000 Speaker 1: millions of dollars to USC in a separate contract, And 121 00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:51,480 Speaker 1: it was all to benefit Ridley Thomas's dud son, Sebastian, 122 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:54,959 Speaker 1: who had gotten flushed out of the legislature for sexual 123 00:08:55,000 --> 00:09:00,400 Speaker 1: harassment problems and was out of money, in debt, out 124 00:09:00,440 --> 00:09:03,880 Speaker 1: of work and needed a lifeline. So he was going 125 00:09:03,920 --> 00:09:06,080 Speaker 1: to get a fake degree and some kind of fake 126 00:09:06,120 --> 00:09:11,120 Speaker 1: professorship from USC. And they also launched some money from 127 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:16,760 Speaker 1: Ridley Thomas's campaign account through Marilyn Flynn's accounts at USC 128 00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:21,520 Speaker 1: and then to another fake nonprofit that Sebastian Ridley Thomas 129 00:09:21,720 --> 00:09:25,040 Speaker 1: was going to earn money from. Which this is what's 130 00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:28,760 Speaker 1: going on all day long, every day with numerous other people. 131 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:32,000 Speaker 1: It just hasn't been publicized yet. This is what all 132 00:09:32,040 --> 00:09:35,920 Speaker 1: these people do for business. And again Steve Gregor will 133 00:09:35,920 --> 00:09:37,920 Speaker 1: talk more about that after three o'clock. But I wanted 134 00:09:37,920 --> 00:09:41,840 Speaker 1: to focus on the Karen Bass issue here because according 135 00:09:41,840 --> 00:09:45,400 Speaker 1: to the La Times, and this came out last week 136 00:09:47,520 --> 00:09:50,240 Speaker 1: during I'll just read the opening paragraph and you tell 137 00:09:50,360 --> 00:09:53,520 Speaker 1: me why bashtouldn't be in the same trouble as Ridley Thomas. 138 00:09:54,240 --> 00:09:59,200 Speaker 1: During the last decade, two influential LA politicians were awarded 139 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:04,200 Speaker 1: full to scholarships valued at nearly one hundred thousand dollars 140 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:08,720 Speaker 1: from the USC Social Work Program. One of those scholarships 141 00:10:08,760 --> 00:10:12,200 Speaker 1: led to the indictment of Mark Ridley Thomas and Marilyn Flynn, 142 00:10:12,559 --> 00:10:17,160 Speaker 1: the dean the other recipient. Karen Bass, is the leading 143 00:10:17,160 --> 00:10:23,320 Speaker 1: contender to be LA's next mayor. Huh so, Marilyn Flynn, 144 00:10:23,559 --> 00:10:24,719 Speaker 1: by the way, they're not going to put her in 145 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:27,280 Speaker 1: prison because he's eighty three. She's going to be on 146 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:31,320 Speaker 1: house arrest for a while. Ridley Thomas, though, could go 147 00:10:31,320 --> 00:10:35,880 Speaker 1: to prison, but Cara Bass is gonna become mayor perhaps 148 00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:44,440 Speaker 1: cornel La Times prosecutors have declared that Bass's scholarship and 149 00:10:44,559 --> 00:10:48,120 Speaker 1: her dealings with USC are critical to their bribery case 150 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:53,400 Speaker 1: involving Ridley Thomas and to the broader portrayal of corruption 151 00:10:54,040 --> 00:10:57,560 Speaker 1: in the USC Social Work program. So again, now that 152 00:10:57,800 --> 00:11:00,679 Speaker 1: Flynn has pleaded guilty, is we're not going to get 153 00:11:00,679 --> 00:11:13,719 Speaker 1: the airing of Bass's scholarship scholarship bride convenient timing there huh. 154 00:11:14,120 --> 00:11:18,040 Speaker 1: By worrying free tuition to Bass in twenty eleven, Flynn 155 00:11:18,520 --> 00:11:24,360 Speaker 1: hoped to obtain Bass's assistance in passing coveted legislation. This is, 156 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:29,680 Speaker 1: according to prosecutors, this is public. Bass did sponsor a 157 00:11:29,679 --> 00:11:34,240 Speaker 1: bill in Congress that would have expanded USC's and other 158 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:38,160 Speaker 1: universities access to federal funding for social work, just as 159 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:45,160 Speaker 1: defendant Flynn wanted. According to the filing, now Flynn is 160 00:11:45,160 --> 00:11:48,360 Speaker 1: being charged for a deal with Ridley Thomas for that 161 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:54,480 Speaker 1: scholarship to his son in exchange for county contracts and 162 00:11:54,559 --> 00:11:58,640 Speaker 1: to bolster the case. Prosecutors pointed to an email from 163 00:11:58,679 --> 00:12:04,360 Speaker 1: Flynn in which she noted doing quote the same sort 164 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:09,520 Speaker 1: of scholarship for funding with Bass. So what you have 165 00:12:09,640 --> 00:12:12,280 Speaker 1: here is Flynn giving a scholarship to Ridley Thomas's son 166 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:17,719 Speaker 1: to get county tax money, and Flynn giving a scholarship 167 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:22,679 Speaker 1: to Bass to get federal tax money. Now, Bass's name 168 00:12:22,760 --> 00:12:26,599 Speaker 1: is redacted in much of the court filings, which prosecutors 169 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:30,880 Speaker 1: say is Department of Justice policy. Doesn't explain why there's 170 00:12:30,920 --> 00:12:35,200 Speaker 1: day policy, but the La Times confirmed her identity through 171 00:12:35,280 --> 00:12:43,560 Speaker 1: case records. And sources and copies of emails. In June, 172 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:49,839 Speaker 1: Flynn's lawyer subpoened USC. Flynn's lawyer subpoened USC for correspondence 173 00:12:49,840 --> 00:12:54,280 Speaker 1: pertaining to Bass's scholarship and any honors or benefits given 174 00:12:54,320 --> 00:13:00,880 Speaker 1: to Bass. So the prosecutors wanted to get the dirt 175 00:13:00,920 --> 00:13:04,560 Speaker 1: on Bass, and Flynn and her attorneys wanted to get 176 00:13:04,559 --> 00:13:11,720 Speaker 1: the dirt on Bass. Interesting. LA Times mentions a story 177 00:13:11,800 --> 00:13:14,080 Speaker 1: that they had done last year about the Bass scholarship. 178 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:17,560 Speaker 1: Said full time tuition awards like the ones she received 179 00:13:17,640 --> 00:13:23,200 Speaker 1: were not publicized, generally had no formal application process, and 180 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:26,920 Speaker 1: were more generous than grants given to other students. I'll say, 181 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:31,840 Speaker 1: any of you know anybody who got a ninety five 182 00:13:32,760 --> 00:13:36,520 Speaker 1: ninety five thousand dollars scholarship from USC and didn't even 183 00:13:36,520 --> 00:13:42,280 Speaker 1: ask for it? Flynn approached Bass. If you believe this story, 184 00:13:42,640 --> 00:13:46,080 Speaker 1: anyone else get a phone call from Marilyn Flynn or 185 00:13:46,160 --> 00:13:50,240 Speaker 1: any other dean at USC saying, hey, would your son 186 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:53,520 Speaker 1: or daughter like a ninety five thousand dollars scholarship? Anybody 187 00:13:53,520 --> 00:14:00,280 Speaker 1: get this call? No application necessary, That's the thing. Everybody 188 00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:07,080 Speaker 1: else has got to apply for the scholarship. In an interview, 189 00:14:08,559 --> 00:14:11,440 Speaker 1: Bass said she did not apply for the social work program. 190 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:14,760 Speaker 1: Flynn made the decision to admit her after learning of 191 00:14:14,760 --> 00:14:17,640 Speaker 1: her interest in getting a graduate degree. Well had she 192 00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:25,280 Speaker 1: learned that? Just through the grape vine? So she heard 193 00:14:25,480 --> 00:14:29,120 Speaker 1: Bass wants a graduate degree and calls up and said, Hey, Karen, 194 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:32,760 Speaker 1: how about a free one from USC? What the hell? 195 00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:37,200 Speaker 1: Anybody ever get a call out of the blue from 196 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:39,880 Speaker 1: the dean at USC saying hey, I hear your son. 197 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:43,200 Speaker 1: I hear your daughter is interested in X. Want a 198 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:50,160 Speaker 1: free deal? I heard? Oh boy, the smells huh. And 199 00:14:50,360 --> 00:14:53,680 Speaker 1: Bass claims she wrote to the House Committee on Ethics 200 00:14:53,680 --> 00:14:58,479 Speaker 1: in twenty eleven requesting an exemption on the rule prohibiting 201 00:14:58,520 --> 00:15:06,480 Speaker 1: gifts members of Congress. So this would normally violate policy. Now, 202 00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:10,080 Speaker 1: she taught ethics officials that the graduate degree were deep 203 00:15:10,080 --> 00:15:13,960 Speaker 1: in her knowledge of child welfare policy. Well, that's fine, 204 00:15:14,040 --> 00:15:19,600 Speaker 1: but pay for it yourself. The two leading members of 205 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:27,920 Speaker 1: the Ethics Committee at the time, including Linda Sanchez, the 206 00:15:27,960 --> 00:15:31,000 Speaker 1: sister of Lorraine of Sanchez, you remember that whack job, 207 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:35,080 Speaker 1: And they said, yeah, the scholarship was clearly a gift, 208 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:39,880 Speaker 1: and bassis status as a congresswoman clearly a factor in 209 00:15:39,960 --> 00:15:46,400 Speaker 1: receiving it. It's an unusual case, but it justifies an exception. Huh. 210 00:15:46,720 --> 00:15:52,520 Speaker 1: Now complicating this, she got this originally in twenty eleven, 211 00:15:54,080 --> 00:15:59,800 Speaker 1: She never she never was, she never listed it in 212 00:15:59,840 --> 00:16:06,160 Speaker 1: her annual financial disclosures until twenty nineteen. Should she hid 213 00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:10,440 Speaker 1: this ninety five thousand dollars scholarship from her financial records? 214 00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:18,000 Speaker 1: Of course, blamed it on one of her staffers. Prosecutors 215 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:21,720 Speaker 1: say that Maryland Flynn had plans for Bass, That's why 216 00:16:21,760 --> 00:16:25,960 Speaker 1: she gave bassless scholarship, Pointing to emails and documents, Prosecutors 217 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:30,360 Speaker 1: say Flynn hoped that Bass would advance legislation that would 218 00:16:30,360 --> 00:16:33,840 Speaker 1: provide more funding for the Social Work School at USC. 219 00:16:35,520 --> 00:16:38,920 Speaker 1: To allow private universities to receive matching grants for certain 220 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:42,960 Speaker 1: type of services. Seems to line up with the Child 221 00:16:43,160 --> 00:16:48,480 Speaker 1: Welfare Workforce Partnership Act, which Bass sponsored in twenty fourteen, 222 00:16:49,480 --> 00:16:53,120 Speaker 1: because that bill allowed private universities like USC to get 223 00:16:53,160 --> 00:16:57,880 Speaker 1: the same federal reimbursement to train social workers. At the time, 224 00:16:57,920 --> 00:17:01,320 Speaker 1: public universities could that get that deal, but not private ones. 225 00:17:07,119 --> 00:17:16,200 Speaker 1: And finally, prosecutors wrote that in Flynn's email about Ridley 226 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:22,320 Speaker 1: Thomas and his son, Flynn expressly acknowledges the deal that 227 00:17:22,480 --> 00:17:25,720 Speaker 1: she intends to offer the benefit of a full scholarship 228 00:17:26,600 --> 00:17:30,720 Speaker 1: to Ridley Thomas and the son in exchange for funds 229 00:17:30,880 --> 00:17:35,760 Speaker 1: for the School of Social Work. Beyond that, she claims 230 00:17:35,760 --> 00:17:42,600 Speaker 1: to have done the exact same with Bass. La Times 231 00:17:42,600 --> 00:17:44,399 Speaker 1: called Bass and she goes, well, I don't know what 232 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:47,840 Speaker 1: that means. Just know what means. She got a ninety 233 00:17:47,840 --> 00:17:50,720 Speaker 1: five thousand dollars scholarship out of the blue. She didn't 234 00:17:50,720 --> 00:17:55,560 Speaker 1: even ask for it. Flynn called her up and said, 235 00:17:55,600 --> 00:18:00,320 Speaker 1: you want one. And then next thing you know, Mass 236 00:18:01,160 --> 00:18:05,600 Speaker 1: is sponsoring and getting past a bill so that Flynn's 237 00:18:05,600 --> 00:18:10,520 Speaker 1: department can get big money grants from the federal government. 238 00:18:12,760 --> 00:18:18,399 Speaker 1: Now that's bribery. It's what she did with Ridley Thomas. 239 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:21,800 Speaker 1: And Flynn is now admitting that she committed bribery with 240 00:18:21,880 --> 00:18:26,639 Speaker 1: Ridley Thomas. Well, she said, it's the exact same thing 241 00:18:26,720 --> 00:18:34,760 Speaker 1: she did with Bass. Her words, where's the prosecution? Doesn't 242 00:18:34,760 --> 00:18:39,240 Speaker 1: seem that complicated, doesn't Why didn't she skate for over 243 00:18:39,320 --> 00:18:42,960 Speaker 1: ten years on this and now it's coming out, and 244 00:18:43,040 --> 00:18:45,440 Speaker 1: now just as it's going to be aired public, Flynn 245 00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:52,920 Speaker 1: suddenly leans guilty after her lawyer insisted that she was innocent. 246 00:18:55,600 --> 00:18:57,720 Speaker 1: All right. More coming up John and Ken Show K 247 00:18:57,920 --> 00:19:00,399 Speaker 1: five three o'clock, we're going to be talking with Steve 248 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:02,960 Speaker 1: Gregory and we're going to talk about the Mark Ridley 249 00:19:03,119 --> 00:19:07,960 Speaker 1: Thomas case, the LA County supervisor. And today Marilyn Flynn, 250 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:10,600 Speaker 1: the USC Dean of Social Work eighty three years old, 251 00:19:10,880 --> 00:19:13,800 Speaker 1: led guilty of engaging in a bribery deal with him. 252 00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:20,440 Speaker 1: So now he's screwed else under times. The story today 253 00:19:20,480 --> 00:19:23,639 Speaker 1: this is we've been talking about this for some reason 254 00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:25,200 Speaker 1: this week. A lot of things that Kenna I have 255 00:19:25,320 --> 00:19:29,080 Speaker 1: been discussing for years are finally coming to a head, 256 00:19:29,160 --> 00:19:31,720 Speaker 1: and it turns out we were right. I really do 257 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:35,920 Speaker 1: feel like doing Oh we were right dance. I wanted 258 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:39,840 Speaker 1: to do it several times this week because as everybody's 259 00:19:39,840 --> 00:19:46,120 Speaker 1: been babbling about climate change, I wondered, well, if you're 260 00:19:46,119 --> 00:19:49,160 Speaker 1: convinced climate change is coming and we're gonna have long 261 00:19:49,320 --> 00:19:54,400 Speaker 1: droughts and high heat, then why aren't you developing massive 262 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:59,840 Speaker 1: new sources of water, such as building desalination plants up 263 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:05,119 Speaker 1: down the coast? Right there was supposedly going to be 264 00:20:05,160 --> 00:20:08,760 Speaker 1: one built in Huntington Beach twenty years in the planning, 265 00:20:09,680 --> 00:20:18,280 Speaker 1: and some commission killed it. Well, why would you kill it? 266 00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:24,960 Speaker 1: Because we've talked about how the history of California, as 267 00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:28,560 Speaker 1: far as it can be tracked, shows that we can 268 00:20:28,640 --> 00:20:33,160 Speaker 1: have up to two hundred year droughts. I mean, it's 269 00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:36,040 Speaker 1: it's a scientific fact. You know, follow the science. I 270 00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:39,879 Speaker 1: think was that was? Wasn't that? But those irritating people 271 00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:42,520 Speaker 1: kept preaching, well, if you follow the science, you could 272 00:20:42,560 --> 00:20:46,000 Speaker 1: see it is not unprecedented for us to have a 273 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:48,000 Speaker 1: two hundred years drought. Well, then what are you going 274 00:20:48,040 --> 00:20:55,560 Speaker 1: to do? We passed a bond measure in twenty fourteen 275 00:20:56,160 --> 00:21:01,679 Speaker 1: to spend seven billion dollars developing new water sources, like 276 00:21:01,840 --> 00:21:05,640 Speaker 1: build new reservoirs. They haven't done anything with the money. 277 00:21:05,680 --> 00:21:09,600 Speaker 1: It's for eight years. They haven't spent anything. You know 278 00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:12,480 Speaker 1: how They divert tons of water into the ocean to 279 00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:18,639 Speaker 1: try to protect some of the delta smelt, which is 280 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:22,719 Speaker 1: an ugly fish. You know, we flush billions and billions 281 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:26,000 Speaker 1: of gallons into the ocean. And then of the water 282 00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:29,400 Speaker 1: that is used, eighty percent of it is used for farming, 283 00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:33,040 Speaker 1: eleven percent of the water is used for almonds, which 284 00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:37,480 Speaker 1: are mostly sold in China. And then we're constantly getting 285 00:21:37,520 --> 00:21:40,840 Speaker 1: lectured as you know about us wasting water. It's like 286 00:21:40,840 --> 00:21:43,520 Speaker 1: I've been talking to the almond farmers who are making 287 00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:48,960 Speaker 1: a fortune off China, and it's not just farmers, it's 288 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:56,960 Speaker 1: these huge farming conglomerates. Well, now suddenly saw this coming. 289 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:00,439 Speaker 1: What happens if we can serve all the order that 290 00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:03,680 Speaker 1: we reasonably can do in our homes and it's still 291 00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:07,080 Speaker 1: not enough, because what happens if the drought does go 292 00:22:07,119 --> 00:22:11,560 Speaker 1: on for a long long time, And that's the title 293 00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:14,800 Speaker 1: of the article. LA is conserving water record levels, but 294 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:22,440 Speaker 1: it's not enough as drought worsens, drought worsens. It's only September. 295 00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:26,320 Speaker 1: Just wait, wait, when we're near one hundred and ninety 296 00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:32,240 Speaker 1: six of this and it says that LA residence conserving 297 00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:38,400 Speaker 1: water at an impressive pace. The usage in August drop 298 00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:42,159 Speaker 1: below a record low. But it's become clear that this 299 00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:46,320 Speaker 1: alone is not going to be enough. Colorado rivers drawing up, 300 00:22:48,560 --> 00:22:51,639 Speaker 1: and suddenly the director of research at the Pacific Institute, 301 00:22:51,880 --> 00:22:55,119 Speaker 1: Heather Cooley, said, we have to acknowledge these droughts are 302 00:22:55,160 --> 00:22:59,400 Speaker 1: becoming more frequent and severe. Of course, nobody knows, right, 303 00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:03,240 Speaker 1: you know, we could end up with five years of 304 00:23:03,359 --> 00:23:09,399 Speaker 1: torrential downpourse. Nobody knows. But as anytime a drought starts 305 00:23:09,440 --> 00:23:14,160 Speaker 1: to deepen and lengthen everybody starts to panic. What if 306 00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:17,639 Speaker 1: this is the big one? What are we going to do? Well? 307 00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:22,359 Speaker 1: Desalination plants have been around for decades and there's hundreds 308 00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:25,480 Speaker 1: of them around the world. And that's what you do. 309 00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:29,200 Speaker 1: You take the ocean water and you cycle it through, 310 00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:32,320 Speaker 1: remove the salt, and you've got perfectly good drinking water. 311 00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:35,480 Speaker 1: It's what desert countries in the Middle East have been 312 00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:39,200 Speaker 1: doing for decades. It's not a big deal. It's not revolutionary, 313 00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:45,000 Speaker 1: it's not some kind of unusual technology. It's not hard 314 00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:51,560 Speaker 1: really to remove salt from water. So in La residents 315 00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:55,280 Speaker 1: use ten percent less water in August then last August. 316 00:23:55,920 --> 00:24:01,480 Speaker 1: Even though this August was several degrees hotter, it was 317 00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:05,840 Speaker 1: third month in a row of record low usage. It's 318 00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:16,360 Speaker 1: been about a ten percent reduction since June. Now here's 319 00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:19,720 Speaker 1: the only plan I saw in this story. They want 320 00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:23,879 Speaker 1: to dramatically increase the amount of recycled water that we drink. 321 00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:30,760 Speaker 1: Let's see if this sounds tasty to you, Eric, we 322 00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:33,240 Speaker 1: should be following this up with a life source water commercial, 323 00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:37,520 Speaker 1: right now, recycled water makes up two percent of the 324 00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:42,080 Speaker 1: city's drinking water, and officials want to increase that number 325 00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:48,520 Speaker 1: to thirty five percent by taking the city's oldest wastewater 326 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:55,239 Speaker 1: treatment plan. That phrase bothers me, wastewater treatment. Here a 327 00:24:55,240 --> 00:25:00,560 Speaker 1: glass of wastewater, would you like ice with that? They 328 00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:04,959 Speaker 1: want thirty five percent of our water supply by converting 329 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:08,879 Speaker 1: the city's oldest wastewater treatment plant into an advanced water 330 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:14,280 Speaker 1: purification facility. I like that. It's the oldest wastewater plant too. 331 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:19,080 Speaker 1: What is that going to taste like? Because the water 332 00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:25,119 Speaker 1: tastes really bad now and it's not recycled. So after 333 00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:28,359 Speaker 1: they recycle one third of our water, what's that going 334 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:31,760 Speaker 1: to be coming out of the faucet? And listen to this. 335 00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:37,520 Speaker 1: The goal is to recycle all available treated wastewater from 336 00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:41,320 Speaker 1: the Hyperion Water Reclamation plant and turn that into drinkable 337 00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:46,800 Speaker 1: water by twenty thirty five, and then that will greatly 338 00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:55,880 Speaker 1: reduce LA's reliance on imported water. And they awoke Eric 339 00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:59,439 Speaker 1: Garcetti out of his coma to speak about this. I 340 00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:03,199 Speaker 1: didn't know he was still alive. He never got that 341 00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:08,240 Speaker 1: India job, did he. That's too bad. I certainly hope 342 00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:10,600 Speaker 1: my successor will ensure that we bring that number to 343 00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:13,679 Speaker 1: thirty five percent. Anyone running fromera would be silly not 344 00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:18,199 Speaker 1: to ensure that actually happens. And they're also working on 345 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:22,600 Speaker 1: a project in the San Fernando Groundwater basin groundwater for 346 00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:26,240 Speaker 1: La Burbank in Glendale, which has sat unused for years 347 00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:30,399 Speaker 1: because of pollution. Doesn't really explain what the pollution is 348 00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:33,359 Speaker 1: and how the water got polluted, but apparently the water 349 00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:36,879 Speaker 1: has been sitting underground underneath the San Fernando Valley for 350 00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:39,600 Speaker 1: a long time and they've never bothered with it. It's 351 00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:42,960 Speaker 1: an aquifer, so they're still trying to cleaning it up 352 00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:46,359 Speaker 1: and use that for long term water storage, which is 353 00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:49,800 Speaker 1: which is a great idea. But you know, again, they 354 00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:52,359 Speaker 1: could have been working on this many years ago. They 355 00:26:52,359 --> 00:26:55,200 Speaker 1: could have been working on building desalination plants many years ago. 356 00:26:56,359 --> 00:26:59,840 Speaker 1: I don't know what they've done with all our money. 357 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:03,520 Speaker 1: I mean, you could see the roads are crumbling. You 358 00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:05,200 Speaker 1: could see we're out of water, you can see we're 359 00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:11,000 Speaker 1: out of electricity. Except our governor, according to a poll today, 360 00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:15,800 Speaker 1: is winning his race by twenty seven points. Twenty seven 361 00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:19,560 Speaker 1: points for a guy who runs a state that's out 362 00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:25,240 Speaker 1: of water and out of energy. Wow, if we had 363 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:27,760 Speaker 1: water and energy probably went by off fifty two points. 364 00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:32,320 Speaker 1: I wonder what people vote on. What are what are 365 00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:36,480 Speaker 1: they considering against? Jawline is air. We're out of water 366 00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:41,560 Speaker 1: and we're at electricity because of stupid actions or lack 367 00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:46,960 Speaker 1: of actions all these years, and we're not even talking 368 00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:50,160 Speaker 1: about all the disgusting record homeless and all the frightening 369 00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:55,680 Speaker 1: record crime we have. Do you take those four issues water, electricity, 370 00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:59,760 Speaker 1: crime and homelessness and the highest taxes in the country 371 00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:03,560 Speaker 1: and you're going to elect a guy by twenty seven points? Oh, 372 00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:07,119 Speaker 1: I forgot. He doesn't have an opponent. I bet you 373 00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:14,880 Speaker 1: couldn't find five people. You couldn't find five people at Disneyland. 374 00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:18,359 Speaker 1: Talk to all the Californians and Disneyland this week, and 375 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:20,520 Speaker 1: I bet she can't fight five people who know Newsom 376 00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:25,000 Speaker 1: is running against what up is our state? This is 377 00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:29,359 Speaker 1: It's not like this elsewhere. When we come back. The 378 00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:33,800 Speaker 1: cows are being chased out of California. This is another absurdity. 379 00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:39,479 Speaker 1: You know, we've lost almost all our cows and a 380 00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:42,320 Speaker 1: few cows that are left are getting out. John and 381 00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:46,800 Speaker 1: ken kfine, Well, there's a lot of corruption and they're 382 00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:49,479 Speaker 1: spending a lot of your tax money on dirty deeds. 383 00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:51,840 Speaker 1: And we are getting going to get into the case 384 00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:55,160 Speaker 1: of the USC Dean of Social Work Marilyn Flynn pleading 385 00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:58,560 Speaker 1: guilty for her role in the bribery scandal involving La 386 00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:05,200 Speaker 1: County supervisor Mark where Thomas former supervisor and involved him 387 00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:10,000 Speaker 1: and his son Sebastian Ridley Thomas. And same deal at 388 00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:14,880 Speaker 1: Karen Bascott free scholarship from this Marilynd Flint. So Steve 389 00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:18,160 Speaker 1: Gregory will be here to discuss all that coming up. 390 00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:26,120 Speaker 1: I really was disheartened here to find out that there's 391 00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:30,840 Speaker 1: hardly uh, there's not that many cows left in California. 392 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:34,720 Speaker 1: Do you know in nineteen fifty there are twenty thousand 393 00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:40,880 Speaker 1: dairy farms twenty thousand, and now there's only twelve hundred. 394 00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:49,440 Speaker 1: We have lost ninety four percent of our dairies in 395 00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:54,680 Speaker 1: the last seventy years, ninety and now more and more 396 00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:59,640 Speaker 1: cows are leaving. Just like a lot of people are 397 00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:03,880 Speaker 1: drive and down the ten relocating to Texas and Arizona, 398 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:08,400 Speaker 1: the cows are marching that way too. The state is 399 00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:15,440 Speaker 1: down to about a million seven cows that's one hundred 400 00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:19,640 Speaker 1: and sixty thousand less in the last fourteen years. Every 401 00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:23,880 Speaker 1: year we lose another one percent. Dairy cows are going 402 00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:29,320 Speaker 1: off to Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, South Dakota, Kansas, Idaho, 403 00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:33,080 Speaker 1: states that normally didn't have a lot of dairy farming, 404 00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:41,560 Speaker 1: But it looks like regulations here in California have choked 405 00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:46,000 Speaker 1: the dairy industry. Plus developers are coming in and buying 406 00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:48,920 Speaker 1: the land and putting housing and commercial buildings on the 407 00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:54,160 Speaker 1: old farmland. So I guess they offer a great price. 408 00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:59,400 Speaker 1: The dairy farmers sell, and that's another business. Another thing 409 00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:02,240 Speaker 1: is is they regulate. They had these you know, stupid 410 00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:09,880 Speaker 1: global warming laws in California. So the dairies, the farmers, 411 00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:16,680 Speaker 1: they get out and they moved to another state, and 412 00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:22,600 Speaker 1: then the cow farts moved from here to Texas. The 413 00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:30,440 Speaker 1: methane ends up in the atmosphere anyway. Dairy and livestock 414 00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:36,400 Speaker 1: is responsible for half of the state's methane emissions, and 415 00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:48,920 Speaker 1: they state mandates dairy digesters and the digestors, I guess 416 00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:56,360 Speaker 1: get rid of some of the methane. But the digesters 417 00:31:56,440 --> 00:32:01,400 Speaker 1: create ammonia, which causes air pollution, and that endangers public health. 418 00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:11,040 Speaker 1: And the point is the farms, the dairy farms are 419 00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:16,200 Speaker 1: just sick at dealing with all the regulation, and so 420 00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:21,080 Speaker 1: the cows are stampeding to other states. But because of that, 421 00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:24,240 Speaker 1: all we're doing is losing the business and it's not 422 00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:28,320 Speaker 1: affecting the climate at all. I mean, we go round 423 00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:30,080 Speaker 1: and round with this. They did this to a lot 424 00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:34,400 Speaker 1: of industries as well. Factories, factories just moved to other states. 425 00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:40,280 Speaker 1: And I don't really understand the virtue signaling here of saying, well, 426 00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:46,080 Speaker 1: we've eliminated these carbon dioxide sources and these greenhouse gases 427 00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:49,400 Speaker 1: and this methane. Well, no you didn't, you just moved it. 428 00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:55,920 Speaker 1: It's the same the same thing with all the businesses 429 00:32:55,920 --> 00:33:01,840 Speaker 1: that went to China. China has no pollution rules, so 430 00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:06,360 Speaker 1: we had all these intensive, costly regulations drove businesses to 431 00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:10,840 Speaker 1: China where it's much cheaper to manufacture things and there 432 00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:15,360 Speaker 1: they have no rules. So you've seen pictures of the 433 00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:19,040 Speaker 1: air in China, the air in Beijing. Air in Beijing 434 00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:23,880 Speaker 1: is sometimes brown or black. Spend a week there, you'll 435 00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:28,160 Speaker 1: you'll end up with black lung. But doesn't save the 436 00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:31,560 Speaker 1: planet at all. And I just don't understand all we 437 00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:40,320 Speaker 1: do is we shrink our economy. Like here, here's one 438 00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:44,080 Speaker 1: company called Hillmar Cheese. They opened a facility in Texas. 439 00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:51,040 Speaker 1: Another cheese plant is in Kansas. Loprino Foods dairy manufacturing 440 00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:59,640 Speaker 1: company is building a new facility in Lubbock, Texas. Seen 441 00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:04,920 Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, they passed in California the short lived Climate 442 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:09,880 Speaker 1: Pollution Reduction Act, setting a goal to reduce methane emissions 443 00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:13,720 Speaker 1: from dairy and livestock by forty percent below twenty thirteen levels. 444 00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:16,640 Speaker 1: They want to suck out nine million metric tons of 445 00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:21,920 Speaker 1: carbon dioxide, and if they don't hit the target by 446 00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:26,440 Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, California Air Resources Board is going to 447 00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:31,920 Speaker 1: implement regulations. And that's where you get these these these 448 00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:39,720 Speaker 1: methane digesters devices that control manure decomposition and convert methane 449 00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:43,080 Speaker 1: to de clean energy. But they're really expensive. So the 450 00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:46,239 Speaker 1: dairy farmers the saying, well, to hell with this, and 451 00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:50,239 Speaker 1: they go to states that aren't forcing them to buy 452 00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:54,480 Speaker 1: the digesters that don't have these wacky goals, and the 453 00:34:54,520 --> 00:35:01,640 Speaker 1: same methane is going into the air anyway. I just 454 00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:08,600 Speaker 1: like here's a quote. The methane still gets produced. They 455 00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:11,719 Speaker 1: don't have to deal with it, and that's they call 456 00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:16,480 Speaker 1: it leakage. You don't have to deal with the regulations 457 00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:18,520 Speaker 1: in the other states, and all the methane leaks into 458 00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:26,640 Speaker 1: the air anyway, So the dairy industry will be gone 459 00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:33,000 Speaker 1: in a reasonable amount of time. Now coming out, we're 460 00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:35,919 Speaker 1: gonna talk with Mark Ridley Thomas. I'm sorry, We're gonna 461 00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:39,239 Speaker 1: talk with Steve Gregory about Mark Ridley Thomas and Mark 462 00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:44,040 Speaker 1: Ridley Thomas's a partner in bribery. Marilyn Flinton, the dean 463 00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:49,080 Speaker 1: of social work at USC Entered, is entering a plea agreement. 464 00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:57,600 Speaker 1: She's pleading guilty for bribery, which is interesting because early 465 00:35:57,640 --> 00:36:02,160 Speaker 1: on her lawyer insisted that she did no such thing, 466 00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:09,840 Speaker 1: but now she claims that she did such thing. And 467 00:36:10,719 --> 00:36:13,439 Speaker 1: this puts Mark Ridley Thomas at a hole because how 468 00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:15,840 Speaker 1: do you declare yourself innocent in front of a judge 469 00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:19,560 Speaker 1: and a jury if your partner said, no, I did this. 470 00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:23,160 Speaker 1: I mean Martin, she got the money from somebody. She 471 00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:26,560 Speaker 1: got it from Ridley Thomas. Ridley Thomas's son got a 472 00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:31,640 Speaker 1: free scholarship from somebody. Flynn says, yeah, for me, you know, 473 00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:38,160 Speaker 1: it was a deal. Professorship free scholarship in exchange, Ridley 474 00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:43,800 Speaker 1: Thomas was sending county money to fund programs. Those programs 475 00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:50,640 Speaker 1: being funded very important programs. So now that she has 476 00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:56,040 Speaker 1: fallen on her sword, what's Ridley Thomas to do? And 477 00:36:56,120 --> 00:37:00,640 Speaker 1: where's Karen Bass? Since Karen Bass got the same according 478 00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:05,040 Speaker 1: to Flynn, for her free scholarship, Who's going to investigate that, 479 00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:09,680 Speaker 1: who's going to prosecute that? Or is everybody going to 480 00:37:09,719 --> 00:37:12,560 Speaker 1: pretend it didn't happen? Is everyone going to pretend it 481 00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:15,840 Speaker 1: doesn't matter? As she continues running from Mayor, there's a 482 00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:18,560 Speaker 1: lot of questions here. I don't forgot any answers. Oh 483 00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:22,040 Speaker 1: and Steve also has a second story because it looks 484 00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:26,920 Speaker 1: like the county has terminated the La Sheriff's Department lawyer 485 00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:33,799 Speaker 1: a day after Sheila Kuell got her house rated by 486 00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:39,640 Speaker 1: Sheriff's deputies. There's all kinds of connections, some of them 487 00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:42,239 Speaker 1: you don't see yet, but you will John and Ken 488 00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:45,719 Speaker 1: Kfi and Mark Runner as the news KFI am six 489 00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:50,160 Speaker 1: sporting it's never been more important to diversify your financial portfolio. Well, 490 00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:53,239 Speaker 1: that's right. 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