1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 1: Can't f I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,520 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:09,280 Speaker 3: It's the John Coel Show. Lou Penrose sitting in for 4 00:00:09,360 --> 00:00:12,880 Speaker 3: Cole Belt today. The numbers are in now. It's almost 5 00:00:12,920 --> 00:00:17,400 Speaker 3: been two weeks since President Trump assumed control under his 6 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:19,759 Speaker 3: federal authority of the Washington, d C. 7 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:21,200 Speaker 1: Police Department. 8 00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:25,040 Speaker 3: It's now under the jurisdiction of the US Department of Justice, 9 00:00:25,680 --> 00:00:32,640 Speaker 3: and the numbers have plummeted. Crime statistics are unbelievable and undeniable. 10 00:00:33,479 --> 00:00:36,560 Speaker 3: Robbery down forty six percent, assault with the deadly weapon 11 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:39,839 Speaker 3: down six percent, carjacking down twenty one percent. 12 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:42,200 Speaker 1: Carjacking is a big problem in DC. 13 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:47,440 Speaker 3: Violent crime overall down twenty two percent, property crime down 14 00:00:47,479 --> 00:00:48,120 Speaker 3: eight percent. 15 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:53,159 Speaker 1: So it's working and the people of DC are happier. 16 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:59,120 Speaker 3: And for whatever reason, major Democrat runs cities and their 17 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:03,080 Speaker 3: leaders refuse to give Trump credit for what he has accomplished. 18 00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:09,080 Speaker 3: But it's undeniable. Joe Colli from News Nation joins us Joe, 19 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:12,520 Speaker 3: these numbers are frankly unbelievable. 20 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:15,119 Speaker 1: I mean, I'm so happy for the residents of DC. 21 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:17,960 Speaker 3: I worked for three members of Congress, I lived there 22 00:01:18,480 --> 00:01:22,120 Speaker 3: and you know, there were areas Ward eight you could 23 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:26,120 Speaker 3: not go to in the daytime, let alone travel around 24 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:26,679 Speaker 3: at night. 25 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:30,560 Speaker 1: Now people are out jogging at night. It's unbelievable. 26 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:36,320 Speaker 4: Yeah, So the objectively, it's a good thing if we 27 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:40,120 Speaker 4: see crime numbers come down. For sure. We've seen numbers 28 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:42,160 Speaker 4: that the White House has put out. We've seen separate 29 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:46,280 Speaker 4: numbers that the DC Police Union have put out, and 30 00:01:45,959 --> 00:01:49,640 Speaker 4: they have shown that, you know, week to week, that 31 00:01:49,720 --> 00:01:52,160 Speaker 4: the crime has fallen, and you just worsted some of 32 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:54,240 Speaker 4: the statistics there. I think that the White House has 33 00:01:54,280 --> 00:01:56,640 Speaker 4: put out so that is good news. I would just 34 00:01:56,680 --> 00:02:00,440 Speaker 4: caution at this point what they are compared ring is 35 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:04,120 Speaker 4: the one week before the National Guard was in town 36 00:02:04,240 --> 00:02:06,560 Speaker 4: and then the one week that the National Guard has 37 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:08,680 Speaker 4: been in town. So it's a bit of a small sample, 38 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:12,560 Speaker 4: but you'd hope that that trend continues. So obviously, you know, 39 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:16,360 Speaker 4: if numbers objectively are going down, that's reason to be 40 00:02:17,120 --> 00:02:19,119 Speaker 4: reason to be happy and to feel safer in DC. 41 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:23,560 Speaker 3: Is that the criticism from the from from from the 42 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:27,040 Speaker 3: DC Mayor's office that it's just too small of a sample. 43 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:30,320 Speaker 3: The numbers the week before and the numbers the week 44 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:34,520 Speaker 3: of the occupation of the National Guard. Sure, sure, that's 45 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:37,919 Speaker 3: a small sample, but these are these are no. I mean, 46 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:41,000 Speaker 3: you know, robbery down forty six percent in a week. 47 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:44,040 Speaker 3: I mean, I guess they could have been a real 48 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:46,680 Speaker 3: big robbery spree going on the week prior that might 49 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:48,359 Speaker 3: spike those numbers a little bit and make it look 50 00:02:48,360 --> 00:02:48,960 Speaker 3: more dramatic. 51 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:51,200 Speaker 1: But they're going in the right direction, certainly. 52 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:54,200 Speaker 4: Yeah, And again, I mean, it's a good thing. And 53 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:57,200 Speaker 4: that is not a criticism coming from anybody in town. 54 00:02:57,280 --> 00:02:59,480 Speaker 4: That's just me trying to be a careful journalist and 55 00:02:59,520 --> 00:03:02,360 Speaker 4: make sure we keep everything in a perspective here, because 56 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:05,760 Speaker 4: you know, statistics are a little tricky. The criticism that 57 00:03:05,800 --> 00:03:08,480 Speaker 4: you do hear from the mayor's office and from a 58 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:11,720 Speaker 4: lot of folks that live in d C is you know. 59 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:13,720 Speaker 4: I was in Ward seven and Ward eight, as you 60 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:17,720 Speaker 4: mentioned for those not familiar, these are the southwest area 61 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:21,960 Speaker 4: of d C, or excuse me, Southeast d C, which 62 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:25,600 Speaker 4: is an area where statistically and historically you have higher crime. 63 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:28,080 Speaker 4: And it was interesting to talk to those folks because 64 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:30,200 Speaker 4: you had a lot of people there who were telling 65 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:35,600 Speaker 4: me that they would welcome seeing the National Guard patrolling 66 00:03:35,640 --> 00:03:38,520 Speaker 4: their neighborhoods. The National Guard is actually not in those 67 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:41,080 Speaker 4: neighborhoods right now. They're sort of in the like near 68 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:45,040 Speaker 4: Union Station, which is a big thoroughfare tourist coming in 69 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:48,480 Speaker 4: and out the White House. They are around the monuments, 70 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:50,839 Speaker 4: some of them. And you talk to those folks, they say, 71 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:53,120 Speaker 4: we do have a crime problem here. We would love 72 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:56,320 Speaker 4: to see the Guard, you know, in the high crime 73 00:03:56,400 --> 00:03:59,600 Speaker 4: areas as a deterrent. A lot of those folks said 74 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:02,440 Speaker 4: they're not sure the military is the answer, but they're 75 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:06,440 Speaker 4: very pro police. They like they want more policing done 76 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:09,800 Speaker 4: in their neighborhoods. So it's sort of an assumption here 77 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:12,960 Speaker 4: the National Guard can't be in DC forever. What they 78 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:16,839 Speaker 4: want to see is potentially more funding for more police officers, 79 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:18,880 Speaker 4: more sort of boots on the ground, if you will, 80 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:22,560 Speaker 4: not military boots, but you know, DC metro police in 81 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:23,360 Speaker 4: those neighborhoods. 82 00:04:23,520 --> 00:04:25,920 Speaker 3: We're talking about jo Khalil with News Nation about the 83 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:29,640 Speaker 3: unbelievable statistics that are coming out of Washington, d C. 84 00:04:29,960 --> 00:04:33,080 Speaker 3: Just less than two weeks after President Trump assumed authority 85 00:04:33,160 --> 00:04:36,240 Speaker 3: over the police department. This is an interesting little game 86 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:41,320 Speaker 3: that I'm watching Democrats on the City Council and the 87 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:45,719 Speaker 3: Mayor's office this like they want they're happy that crime 88 00:04:45,839 --> 00:04:46,360 Speaker 3: is going down. 89 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:47,600 Speaker 1: They want crime to go down. 90 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:51,039 Speaker 3: They don't want to use just these two weeks as 91 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:55,359 Speaker 3: a proof that it's all solved. They don't want the 92 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:59,279 Speaker 3: National Guard in Georgetown, but yet they. 93 00:05:01,640 --> 00:05:03,640 Speaker 1: It's very like who cares. 94 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:05,920 Speaker 3: Right, if you are a resident of DC and your 95 00:05:06,080 --> 00:05:09,640 Speaker 3: your car was not broken into this past week, whether 96 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:12,880 Speaker 3: you parked it the in Ward seven or you parked 97 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:16,760 Speaker 3: it in Georgetown, you're happy, Like there is a psychological 98 00:05:16,880 --> 00:05:21,200 Speaker 3: impact to the good when you hear about robberies coming down, 99 00:05:21,279 --> 00:05:23,680 Speaker 3: carjackings going down, and violent crime going down. 100 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:25,440 Speaker 2: Yeah. 101 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:27,720 Speaker 4: Sure. And you know, look here, I'm not gonna I 102 00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:30,880 Speaker 4: don't get paid enough to share my personal opinions, so 103 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:33,520 Speaker 4: you're not going to get those from me. But we've 104 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:35,719 Speaker 4: been reporting, We've been reporting for days on this. So 105 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:37,080 Speaker 4: what I'll tell you is this, this is what I'm 106 00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:40,240 Speaker 4: hearing from DC residents. Keeping in mind, Washington, d C. 107 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:43,000 Speaker 4: Is one of the most progressive areas in the country, 108 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:48,720 Speaker 4: and ninety six percent voted for both President Biden and 109 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:51,679 Speaker 4: for Vice President Harris when she ran right, So keeping 110 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:54,600 Speaker 4: that in mind, what we've heard is that they don't 111 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:59,800 Speaker 4: like seeing military presidents in their neighborhoods, so it makes 112 00:05:59,839 --> 00:06:03,279 Speaker 4: them uncomfortable to see tanks, to see armored vehicles, to 113 00:06:03,279 --> 00:06:07,440 Speaker 4: see Humby's with National Guard troops from West Virginia and 114 00:06:07,480 --> 00:06:12,080 Speaker 4: South Carolina and Ohio patrolling their streets. And again, you 115 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:15,280 Speaker 4: can disagree with the sentiment. I'm just reporting what I'm 116 00:06:15,279 --> 00:06:19,120 Speaker 4: hearing from peoples. The statistics over the last couple of 117 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:23,280 Speaker 4: years has shown that although DC's murder rate, for example, 118 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:26,719 Speaker 4: is too high objectively right, it is one of the 119 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:31,200 Speaker 4: top ten in the country, it has been coming down generally. 120 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:33,400 Speaker 4: Crime has been coming down over the last couple of years, 121 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:36,839 Speaker 4: and people who have talked to especially in Ward seven 122 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:39,479 Speaker 4: and eight, in those tougher crime areas, they have told 123 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:42,560 Speaker 4: me they've felt that like they they literally told me 124 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:44,680 Speaker 4: they felt safer now than they did ten years ago 125 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:48,040 Speaker 4: or twelve years ago. Now, having said all of that, 126 00:06:48,680 --> 00:06:52,040 Speaker 4: DC is obviously not close to perfect. It has a 127 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:55,599 Speaker 4: significant problem as it comes to crime relative to other 128 00:06:55,640 --> 00:06:58,080 Speaker 4: cities in the country. So, you know, I think the 129 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:03,240 Speaker 4: diagnosis is probably correct here, and I think there are 130 00:07:03,279 --> 00:07:05,599 Speaker 4: just probably questions from the people that live here about, 131 00:07:06,200 --> 00:07:08,640 Speaker 4: you know, whether this is the right solution. You know, 132 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:10,920 Speaker 4: there are obviously some people that will say, of course 133 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:13,440 Speaker 4: I'm gonna feel safer, but there are there are other 134 00:07:13,520 --> 00:07:15,760 Speaker 4: There is that sort of back and forth. So just 135 00:07:15,760 --> 00:07:17,360 Speaker 4: want to make that clear. That is what we hear 136 00:07:17,640 --> 00:07:20,520 Speaker 4: from the folks living in DC as they you know, 137 00:07:20,640 --> 00:07:22,080 Speaker 4: navigate their their day to day. 138 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:26,880 Speaker 3: Joe Khalil, have yourself a fantastic weekend. Appreciate your time, 139 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:30,800 Speaker 3: Joe Kayalil with News Nation. All right, so when we 140 00:07:30,840 --> 00:07:34,680 Speaker 3: come back, I want to address this. We are happy 141 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:37,000 Speaker 3: crime is going down, but we don't like to look 142 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:41,000 Speaker 3: at the National Guard and we're willing to like we're 143 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:42,800 Speaker 3: not willing to make that trade off. It's a very 144 00:07:42,840 --> 00:07:45,680 Speaker 3: interesting psychology, particularly from Democrats. 145 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:46,960 Speaker 1: So we'll talk about that next. 146 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:52,160 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 147 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:53,040 Speaker 5: six forty. 148 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:57,160 Speaker 1: Lou Penrose in for John Cobelt on the John Cobelt Show. 149 00:07:57,560 --> 00:08:00,480 Speaker 3: So that the crime statistics out of DC, just less 150 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:05,440 Speaker 3: than two weeks since President Trump assumed authority over the 151 00:08:05,440 --> 00:08:09,280 Speaker 3: police department, have been nothing short of staggering. I mean 152 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:13,480 Speaker 3: real reductions in really bad stuff robbery, assault with the 153 00:08:13,480 --> 00:08:18,040 Speaker 3: deadly weapon, carjacking, violent crime. And they're debating over whether 154 00:08:18,080 --> 00:08:22,040 Speaker 3: the numbers are as accurate. Maybe it's like it doesn't matter. 155 00:08:22,160 --> 00:08:24,480 Speaker 3: It's not so much what the numbers are, it's the 156 00:08:24,480 --> 00:08:27,160 Speaker 3: direction the numbers are going. And the numbers are going 157 00:08:27,240 --> 00:08:31,720 Speaker 3: down significantly, which means that you can. 158 00:08:32,960 --> 00:08:38,280 Speaker 1: Indeed control crime in a major city. You can do it. 159 00:08:38,360 --> 00:08:39,960 Speaker 1: You have to have the political will to do it. 160 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:43,520 Speaker 3: You have to not care about political correctness and what 161 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:46,160 Speaker 3: the color of the skin is of the guy in 162 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:52,120 Speaker 3: the back of the squad car. But if they committed crimes, 163 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:53,960 Speaker 3: they need to go to jail and it can be done. 164 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:57,960 Speaker 1: Now. You just heard from I mean, the report from 165 00:08:58,080 --> 00:08:59,760 Speaker 1: Joe Khalil, I think is accurate. 166 00:09:00,040 --> 00:09:03,080 Speaker 3: It is the same information that we're getting that DC 167 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:08,400 Speaker 3: residents and certainly DC Democrat leadership, they are not unhappy 168 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:11,200 Speaker 3: that crime is going down. They are unhappy with the 169 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:14,079 Speaker 3: militarization of it all. They don't like to look at 170 00:09:14,120 --> 00:09:16,000 Speaker 3: the National Guard bothers them. 171 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:18,000 Speaker 1: And I just don't understand this. 172 00:09:18,240 --> 00:09:22,679 Speaker 3: The same phenomenon was happening with Democrats in Los Angeles 173 00:09:22,920 --> 00:09:25,280 Speaker 3: and I didn't understand it at all, and I still 174 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:28,200 Speaker 3: to this day don't understand what the problem is. It's 175 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:32,880 Speaker 3: still a guy with a gun and comma. It's still 176 00:09:32,880 --> 00:09:33,839 Speaker 3: a person. 177 00:09:33,640 --> 00:09:37,840 Speaker 1: On our side. What's the I hear this all the 178 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:39,959 Speaker 1: time from democrats. Well, it's one thing to. 179 00:09:39,920 --> 00:09:42,920 Speaker 3: Have police officers, but when you militarize the streets, by golly, 180 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:49,480 Speaker 3: what's the difference? Like, forget the whole posse comma tatis nonsense, Like, 181 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:51,600 Speaker 3: what's the difference. It's still a guy with a gun 182 00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:54,800 Speaker 3: keeping the peace. It's still law and order. Whether it's 183 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:58,839 Speaker 3: a marine from twenty nine Palms or an LAPD or 184 00:09:58,920 --> 00:10:02,200 Speaker 3: a sheriff or a man from the National Guard or 185 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:06,240 Speaker 3: a woman from the National Guard, they're all on our side. 186 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:11,280 Speaker 3: They're all going after the bad guy or protecting somebody 187 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:12,840 Speaker 3: that's going after the bad guy. 188 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:18,280 Speaker 1: What is it about the National Guard that is upsetting 189 00:10:21,640 --> 00:10:24,160 Speaker 1: to these liberals in these democrat run cities. 190 00:10:26,320 --> 00:10:29,800 Speaker 3: It comes across quite silly, to be perfectly honest with you. 191 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:33,560 Speaker 3: Here's the White House Press spokesperson, Carolyn Levitt. 192 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:35,880 Speaker 6: According to the White House, law enforcement officials have made 193 00:10:35,960 --> 00:10:39,360 Speaker 6: six hundred and thirty total arrests. One missing child was recovered, 194 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:42,319 Speaker 6: eighty six firearms were seized, and also two hundred and 195 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:44,520 Speaker 6: fifty one people who are in the country illegally have 196 00:10:44,559 --> 00:10:48,440 Speaker 6: been arrested since August seventh, including three known gang members. 197 00:10:48,559 --> 00:10:49,600 Speaker 1: There are nearly two. 198 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:52,000 Speaker 6: Thousand National Guard soldiers now patrolling. 199 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:57,280 Speaker 3: Two thousand National Guard soldiers in DC. Two weeks, six 200 00:10:57,440 --> 00:11:02,240 Speaker 3: hundred plus arrests, illegal weapons off the street, two one 201 00:11:02,280 --> 00:11:04,360 Speaker 3: hundred illegals deported, some. 202 00:11:04,280 --> 00:11:07,839 Speaker 1: Of them gang members. This is wonderful. I mean, DC 203 00:11:08,040 --> 00:11:12,520 Speaker 1: is about seven hundred thousand people. LA is seven. 204 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:17,679 Speaker 3: Million people, depending on where you draw the line. So 205 00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:21,480 Speaker 3: extrapola up. Wouldn't you like to have that many guns 206 00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:23,640 Speaker 3: off the streets that were illegally in possession of some 207 00:11:23,840 --> 00:11:34,120 Speaker 3: somebody had illegally you know, thousands of people arrested, bad people, right, 208 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:36,400 Speaker 3: thousands of illegals picked up that are in gang members 209 00:11:36,679 --> 00:11:38,080 Speaker 3: like these are good numbers. 210 00:11:38,320 --> 00:11:43,120 Speaker 1: This is good news. And whether the people of. 211 00:11:43,160 --> 00:11:46,920 Speaker 3: DC like it or not, they're safer as a result 212 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:51,320 Speaker 3: of President Trump's actions. It was absolutely the right thing 213 00:11:51,360 --> 00:11:55,160 Speaker 3: to do, and it proves that it can be done. 214 00:11:55,240 --> 00:11:57,160 Speaker 3: It could be done in LA, It could be done 215 00:11:57,200 --> 00:12:00,680 Speaker 3: in Chicago. It could be done in Baltimore, Maryland. It 216 00:12:00,679 --> 00:12:04,479 Speaker 3: could be done in Birmingham, Alabama. All these murder capitals 217 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:09,360 Speaker 3: of the United States could be reversed. In two weeks 218 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:13,280 Speaker 3: if we really wanted to. And I think the problem is, 219 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:15,520 Speaker 3: I don't know when the last time you were in DC. 220 00:12:16,720 --> 00:12:18,680 Speaker 3: I worked for three members of Congress, so I was 221 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:21,840 Speaker 3: back in DC quite often. And what you see on 222 00:12:21,920 --> 00:12:25,480 Speaker 3: TV isn't really DC. What you see on House of 223 00:12:25,520 --> 00:12:29,760 Speaker 3: Cards or in West Wing, or if you chaperone your 224 00:12:30,520 --> 00:12:32,439 Speaker 3: middle school kid when they go back to d C 225 00:12:32,640 --> 00:12:35,720 Speaker 3: for a trip, or with the Boy Scouts, or maybe 226 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:38,760 Speaker 3: they're part of some kind of organization that does a 227 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:40,520 Speaker 3: trip back to the US Capitol. 228 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:44,600 Speaker 1: You know, my eighth grader did that once, and. 229 00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:48,120 Speaker 3: Like, that's that DC that you see isn't really what's 230 00:12:48,160 --> 00:12:50,320 Speaker 3: going on in Washington, DC all day and all night. 231 00:12:50,800 --> 00:12:54,000 Speaker 3: That is, you land at the airport, you get into 232 00:12:54,040 --> 00:12:58,240 Speaker 3: an air conditioned vehicle or a bus, a tour bus. 233 00:12:58,600 --> 00:13:01,120 Speaker 3: They take it to the hotel, they give you lanyards, 234 00:13:01,120 --> 00:13:02,839 Speaker 3: and then they take you on a sightseeing tour to 235 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:06,160 Speaker 3: the Lincoln Memorial, the Jefferson Memorial. Maybe you go to 236 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:08,160 Speaker 3: the Capitol or the White House, and then you go 237 00:13:08,240 --> 00:13:13,680 Speaker 3: over to Georgetown or yeah, some other area of town 238 00:13:13,760 --> 00:13:18,400 Speaker 3: that's close to where the capital is and their security everywhere, 239 00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:19,640 Speaker 3: and you have a nice dinner and you go back 240 00:13:19,679 --> 00:13:22,600 Speaker 3: to the hotel room and then you're off and you'd 241 00:13:22,640 --> 00:13:26,320 Speaker 3: think you saw DC. But that's just the DC that 242 00:13:26,360 --> 00:13:30,120 Speaker 3: they show you on TV. The real DC is a 243 00:13:30,160 --> 00:13:35,480 Speaker 3: third world hell hole, very dangerous, like to the point 244 00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:37,160 Speaker 3: where I would. 245 00:13:36,920 --> 00:13:39,840 Speaker 1: After having dropped off the congressman at the airport. 246 00:13:39,960 --> 00:13:42,840 Speaker 3: If I had to be in some of these areas, 247 00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:46,600 Speaker 3: especially at night, you wouldn't stop at a stop sign. 248 00:13:47,360 --> 00:13:48,960 Speaker 1: I mean you would roll through the stop sign. 249 00:13:48,960 --> 00:13:51,760 Speaker 3: You do not want to be stopped because you don't 250 00:13:51,760 --> 00:13:53,760 Speaker 3: see them when they come at you to carjack your car. 251 00:13:53,960 --> 00:13:55,800 Speaker 3: You won't stop at a red light, like if there's 252 00:13:55,800 --> 00:13:58,200 Speaker 3: not a copper round. If there's a copper round, you're 253 00:13:58,200 --> 00:14:00,760 Speaker 3: safe because there's a copper round. There's only so many 254 00:14:00,800 --> 00:14:04,839 Speaker 3: metroped If like you're it's nighttime and you're at a 255 00:14:04,880 --> 00:14:08,160 Speaker 3: red light, you'll roll through that red light because. 256 00:14:07,800 --> 00:14:12,520 Speaker 1: You're just you're not gonna have the car not moving like. 257 00:14:12,600 --> 00:14:15,400 Speaker 1: That's the reality of people. 258 00:14:15,080 --> 00:14:17,319 Speaker 3: That were and I worked there, so I can only 259 00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:19,720 Speaker 3: imagine people that live there and have to park their 260 00:14:19,760 --> 00:14:22,080 Speaker 3: car on the street only to wake up to see 261 00:14:22,120 --> 00:14:26,040 Speaker 3: their car broken into see stuff. Stolen crime is a 262 00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:30,600 Speaker 3: real measurement of a first world nation. Like, to me, 263 00:14:30,760 --> 00:14:35,280 Speaker 3: that's the big one, that government should provide public safety. 264 00:14:36,480 --> 00:14:42,280 Speaker 3: What separates like a good place to live and a 265 00:14:42,320 --> 00:14:48,600 Speaker 3: third world hell hole isn't the restaurants, It isn't the weather. 266 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:54,240 Speaker 3: It really it's it's at the quality of the education 267 00:14:54,360 --> 00:14:55,440 Speaker 3: of the public schools. 268 00:14:55,760 --> 00:14:59,320 Speaker 1: And it's not the culture, the arts or the theater. 269 00:14:59,760 --> 00:15:02,680 Speaker 3: What it separates a nice place and a third world 270 00:15:02,720 --> 00:15:05,360 Speaker 3: hell hole is whether or not you can park your 271 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:09,120 Speaker 3: car safely and somebody won't break the window to steal 272 00:15:09,520 --> 00:15:12,640 Speaker 3: whatever they can find, like pop your trunk and steal 273 00:15:12,680 --> 00:15:16,560 Speaker 3: whatever they can find. That's a real pain, Like that's 274 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:22,080 Speaker 3: a real boot. Nobody likes that. Nobody likes thinking that 275 00:15:22,240 --> 00:15:24,200 Speaker 3: if they want to run out at ten o'clock at 276 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:28,120 Speaker 3: night down to the corner market to get milk for 277 00:15:28,320 --> 00:15:30,960 Speaker 3: the kids, cereal tomorrow, or pick up a pack of 278 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:33,480 Speaker 3: cigarettes or I don't know, whatever you need to get 279 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:37,960 Speaker 3: at ten o'clock at night, and you might get mugged. 280 00:15:38,520 --> 00:15:41,200 Speaker 1: In DC, you'd be lucky if you just got mugged. 281 00:15:43,400 --> 00:15:46,840 Speaker 3: And again, there are people that live like that day 282 00:15:46,880 --> 00:15:50,280 Speaker 3: in and day out, and it's just it's it's not necessary. 283 00:15:52,960 --> 00:15:54,680 Speaker 1: And now it's come to a stop. 284 00:15:54,760 --> 00:15:57,240 Speaker 7: But with the guard on the ground. Crime is on 285 00:15:57,280 --> 00:15:59,920 Speaker 7: the decline. For the first time in a long time, 286 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:03,440 Speaker 7: DC has gone seven days without a homicide, and that's 287 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:07,560 Speaker 7: not all. Carjackings are down eighty three percent, robberies are 288 00:16:07,560 --> 00:16:11,680 Speaker 7: down forty six percent, cartheff's down twenty one percent, and 289 00:16:11,920 --> 00:16:15,120 Speaker 7: overall violent crime is down twenty two percent. 290 00:16:16,440 --> 00:16:19,080 Speaker 1: When you have these kind of numbers, yeah, when you 291 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:21,000 Speaker 1: have these kind of numbers, you can't deny them. 292 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:24,160 Speaker 3: I love the fact that we've gone seven days without 293 00:16:24,160 --> 00:16:30,080 Speaker 3: a homicide, and that's news, but that's the reality. So 294 00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:33,080 Speaker 3: why would we want to have that report for Los Angeles? 295 00:16:33,120 --> 00:16:35,200 Speaker 3: Why would we not want to have those numbers for 296 00:16:35,280 --> 00:16:36,120 Speaker 3: Los Angeles? 297 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:40,600 Speaker 1: Why would we not completely mirror what they're doing. 298 00:16:40,800 --> 00:16:43,960 Speaker 3: And scale it up for a city the size of 299 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:46,400 Speaker 3: Los Angeles and have the exact same results. 300 00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:47,400 Speaker 1: Why would we not want that? 301 00:16:50,320 --> 00:16:55,160 Speaker 3: Even if you are triggered somehow by the vision of 302 00:16:55,240 --> 00:16:59,240 Speaker 3: a National guardsman or a National Guard unit, couldn't you 303 00:16:59,840 --> 00:17:03,640 Speaker 3: be a grown up and you know, work through whatever 304 00:17:03,680 --> 00:17:07,320 Speaker 3: your problem is to have the rest of us have 305 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:10,080 Speaker 3: those crime statistics that DC is now enjoying. 306 00:17:10,920 --> 00:17:12,160 Speaker 1: Like, can you get over yourself? 307 00:17:13,040 --> 00:17:16,200 Speaker 3: I think you're gonna have to because President Trump suggested 308 00:17:16,560 --> 00:17:19,440 Speaker 3: this morning that la might be nest and we'll share 309 00:17:19,440 --> 00:17:21,800 Speaker 3: it with you coming up next. Lou Penrose, if of 310 00:17:21,880 --> 00:17:25,359 Speaker 3: John coblt on the John Cobelt Show on KFI AM 311 00:17:25,359 --> 00:17:25,960 Speaker 3: six forty. 312 00:17:27,080 --> 00:17:31,399 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 313 00:17:31,440 --> 00:17:32,000 Speaker 5: six forty. 314 00:17:32,800 --> 00:17:35,920 Speaker 3: Lou Penrose Info John Cobelt on the John Cobelt Show. 315 00:17:36,840 --> 00:17:39,320 Speaker 3: Eric Mendez, No, Lyle Menendez. 316 00:17:39,840 --> 00:17:42,200 Speaker 1: We have to wait and see. ABC News. 317 00:17:42,240 --> 00:17:45,040 Speaker 3: Legal analyst World Oakes will join us following the news 318 00:17:45,160 --> 00:17:48,920 Speaker 3: at two o'clock to give us a Menendez update right now, 319 00:17:48,960 --> 00:17:52,520 Speaker 3: talking about these statistics that are coming out of the 320 00:17:52,640 --> 00:17:57,960 Speaker 3: police union in Washington, d C. That show very dramatic 321 00:17:58,240 --> 00:18:02,879 Speaker 3: drops in crime in that very small area in a 322 00:18:02,960 --> 00:18:04,040 Speaker 3: very short amount of time. 323 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:05,680 Speaker 1: Everybody lost their mind. 324 00:18:05,760 --> 00:18:09,840 Speaker 3: Every Trump critic lost their mind when Trump made the 325 00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:14,960 Speaker 3: decision to use his federal authority and assume control of 326 00:18:14,960 --> 00:18:18,000 Speaker 3: the federal city. Now, he didn't take complete control over 327 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:21,760 Speaker 3: the federal city, which he's allowed to do. He only 328 00:18:21,880 --> 00:18:26,760 Speaker 3: wanted to run the police department, and he did. And 329 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:31,600 Speaker 3: now the crimes are going away and people are very happy. 330 00:18:31,640 --> 00:18:33,720 Speaker 1: I have friends that are still there. I have friends 331 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:36,440 Speaker 1: that are there still and they. 332 00:18:36,359 --> 00:18:38,119 Speaker 3: Said, look, for the first time I went for a 333 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:40,960 Speaker 3: summer jock. It's really fun to go run the mall. 334 00:18:41,280 --> 00:18:46,280 Speaker 3: The mall is the long green, rectangular football fieldish thing. 335 00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:50,600 Speaker 3: And the food in DC is so bad for you 336 00:18:50,880 --> 00:18:53,560 Speaker 3: that you have to constantly exercise. To say a thing, 337 00:18:53,600 --> 00:18:56,000 Speaker 3: you see members of Congress when they're candidates for Congress 338 00:18:56,040 --> 00:18:59,160 Speaker 3: for the first time, they're all smelt and four years 339 00:18:59,160 --> 00:19:01,360 Speaker 3: in they look like politicians. 340 00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:02,760 Speaker 1: Is a reason for that. 341 00:19:03,520 --> 00:19:07,280 Speaker 3: It's because it's uh, the food is no good and 342 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:11,120 Speaker 3: there's no place to exercise because you'll get mugged or stabbed. 343 00:19:11,600 --> 00:19:15,280 Speaker 3: Now you can go run, and that's what they're doing. 344 00:19:16,119 --> 00:19:18,879 Speaker 3: So two things are happening. One the quality of life, 345 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:22,320 Speaker 3: which is an important thing for Americans. The quality of life, 346 00:19:22,359 --> 00:19:28,960 Speaker 3: the freedom from crime, is falling expeditiously for the people 347 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:33,280 Speaker 3: that live in our nation's capital, and it is providing 348 00:19:33,359 --> 00:19:36,359 Speaker 3: a blueprint on how to do it. 349 00:19:36,359 --> 00:19:39,000 Speaker 1: It is, frankly quite simple. 350 00:19:40,080 --> 00:19:42,840 Speaker 3: The imposition of a police officer is the highest deterrent 351 00:19:42,880 --> 00:19:47,720 Speaker 3: to crime. So have people that are police officers or 352 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:51,520 Speaker 3: police officer esque, which is what the National Guard is 353 00:19:51,560 --> 00:19:56,439 Speaker 3: doing to deter crime. People see the National Guard and they. 354 00:19:56,320 --> 00:19:59,200 Speaker 1: Say, maybe not not a good day to card jack. 355 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:02,199 Speaker 3: They see the out there arresting people, Maybe not a 356 00:20:02,200 --> 00:20:05,280 Speaker 3: good time to break into a car. And I think 357 00:20:05,320 --> 00:20:08,680 Speaker 3: we should model this in Los Angeles and every other 358 00:20:08,720 --> 00:20:10,639 Speaker 3: major city that has a crime problem. 359 00:20:11,240 --> 00:20:19,120 Speaker 1: Now we know the recipe. Big guns and big vehicles. 360 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:25,080 Speaker 3: Scare the bad guys. So if we can just figure 361 00:20:25,119 --> 00:20:31,760 Speaker 3: out what therapy these liberal people that are somehow triggered 362 00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:34,560 Speaker 3: by the National Guard and get them the therapy they 363 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:37,240 Speaker 3: need so that they can too root for the good guys, 364 00:20:37,320 --> 00:20:40,919 Speaker 3: regardless of you know what platform, whether it's National Guard, 365 00:20:40,960 --> 00:20:43,600 Speaker 3: whether it's the US Marines, whether it's the police Department, 366 00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:47,359 Speaker 3: the sheriff's department, anybody that is deputy, anybody that we 367 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:48,400 Speaker 3: allow to carry a gun. 368 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:50,400 Speaker 1: Let them come and stand around. 369 00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:55,400 Speaker 3: I found it so interesting when Governor Gavenuwsen was criticizing 370 00:20:56,119 --> 00:20:59,800 Speaker 3: President Trump's taking over the California National Guard and putting 371 00:20:59,840 --> 00:21:02,680 Speaker 3: them in downtown Los Angeles, and he was saying, they're 372 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:06,280 Speaker 3: standing around doing nothing, And I thought, yes, that's what 373 00:21:06,320 --> 00:21:06,800 Speaker 3: we want. 374 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:09,960 Speaker 1: We want them to do nothing. They're doing nothing because 375 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:13,880 Speaker 1: nobody is attempting to break the law. That's a good thing. 376 00:21:15,320 --> 00:21:18,920 Speaker 3: You want them to impose themselves upon society, so that 377 00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:21,960 Speaker 3: because it doesn't bother me, I have no problem. I 378 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:24,440 Speaker 3: see a couple of guardsmen around a federal building, I'm like, good, 379 00:21:25,359 --> 00:21:30,399 Speaker 3: safe day to go in and get my passport. I 380 00:21:31,560 --> 00:21:36,160 Speaker 3: delightful to see marines in downtown Los Angeles. It's hot 381 00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:38,920 Speaker 3: in twenty nine palms. They probably had a really good time. 382 00:21:39,320 --> 00:21:43,439 Speaker 3: So I don't understand why it is so triggering for 383 00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:47,840 Speaker 3: Democrats to see the National Guard in DC. But if 384 00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:49,440 Speaker 3: we could figure out a way for them to get 385 00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:51,560 Speaker 3: over it, I think we could have the kinds of 386 00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:55,320 Speaker 3: crime statistics that President Trump is touting. Let me give 387 00:21:55,359 --> 00:21:56,240 Speaker 3: you an example. 388 00:21:57,359 --> 00:21:58,240 Speaker 1: It's so clear to me. 389 00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:02,920 Speaker 3: I gree grew up in New York, and I remember 390 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:10,359 Speaker 3: watching the Mets about to win the pennant at Chase Stadium, 391 00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:13,640 Speaker 3: and in the ninth inning, right before it was all 392 00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:15,440 Speaker 3: over and the Mets were gonna get the pen win 393 00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:20,960 Speaker 3: the pennant, New York Police Department mounted on horses would 394 00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:22,560 Speaker 3: come out of the bullpen. 395 00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:27,040 Speaker 1: And line the line Chase Stadium with. 396 00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:30,120 Speaker 3: The horses facing the stand. The horses weren't watching the game. 397 00:22:30,359 --> 00:22:35,920 Speaker 3: The horses were facing They were watching you. Now, why 398 00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:40,040 Speaker 3: did the NYPD do that they did it to send 399 00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:44,080 Speaker 3: a signal to everybody at Shay, Hey, we know you're 400 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:49,160 Speaker 3: very excited. The Mets don't win pennants very often. You're 401 00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:51,640 Speaker 3: gonna need to control yourself. You can cheer, you need 402 00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:54,440 Speaker 3: to stay in your seats up there, you cannot come 403 00:22:54,520 --> 00:23:02,119 Speaker 3: run on the field and guess what it worked. Imagine 404 00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:08,440 Speaker 3: that a police officer on a horse facing you got 405 00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:10,159 Speaker 3: people to second guests. 406 00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:12,640 Speaker 1: Whether you know, maybe I really. 407 00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:15,600 Speaker 3: Would love to jump on that field and grab myself 408 00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:17,920 Speaker 3: a souvenir like first base or something. 409 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:23,520 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do it. I may I bet like it. 410 00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:26,159 Speaker 3: Why do you think, why do law enforcement do those 411 00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:28,199 Speaker 3: kinds of things? And you see this at parades at 412 00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:29,199 Speaker 3: large gatherings? 413 00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:30,080 Speaker 1: Now? 414 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:34,720 Speaker 3: Is that militaristic or good law and order practices? 415 00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:41,439 Speaker 1: So more of this? President Trump said, Chicago is next, 416 00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:42,520 Speaker 1: and then we're. 417 00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:44,439 Speaker 8: Gonna make our country very safe. We're gonna make our 418 00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:47,840 Speaker 8: cities very very safe. So I think Chicago will be 419 00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:51,320 Speaker 8: our next, and then we'll help with New York, and 420 00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:52,480 Speaker 8: we're gonna help with. 421 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:56,200 Speaker 1: I think, Oh I heard a fight. I heard New York. 422 00:23:56,680 --> 00:23:58,080 Speaker 1: Trump didn't say Los Angeles. 423 00:23:58,119 --> 00:24:02,800 Speaker 3: Somebody said Los Angeles hit that again there with New 424 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:03,320 Speaker 3: York and. 425 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:04,800 Speaker 1: We're gonna help with Wesena. 426 00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:08,600 Speaker 3: I think with us, I I I think, yeah, somebody's 427 00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:10,840 Speaker 3: saying Los Angeles, we have to find out who is 428 00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:14,600 Speaker 3: speaking into the President's ear. But for me, I say 429 00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:18,200 Speaker 3: bring it, President Trump. We need the help. And I 430 00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:20,520 Speaker 3: love the California National Guard. You want to bring the 431 00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:23,440 Speaker 3: Marines back, that'll be fine too. Anything to get crime 432 00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:26,800 Speaker 3: out of control in the City of Angels. Lou Penrose 433 00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:30,160 Speaker 3: infa John Cobelt on KFI AM six forty live everywhere 434 00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:31,280 Speaker 3: on the iHeartRadio app. 435 00:24:32,119 --> 00:24:37,000 Speaker 5: You're listening to John cobelts on demand from KFI AM sixty. 436 00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:41,879 Speaker 3: Loke Penrose in for John Coblt today. Good to have 437 00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:44,600 Speaker 3: you along with us. Coming up following the news at two, 438 00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:48,440 Speaker 3: in just about ten minutes, ABC News legal analyst Royal 439 00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:51,560 Speaker 3: Oaks will join us to give us an update. Eric 440 00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:57,960 Speaker 3: Menendez denied parole. Now Lyle will be reviewed. This all 441 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:02,440 Speaker 3: goes back thirty six years and the California parole hearing 442 00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:05,960 Speaker 3: denial marks a significant development in this decade's long case. 443 00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:10,760 Speaker 3: Over three decades, and people are still fascinated by these two. 444 00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:11,280 Speaker 1: Now. 445 00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:14,359 Speaker 3: The interesting thing is the process and We'll get into 446 00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:17,760 Speaker 3: this with Gurel Oaks, like what makes you eligible for 447 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:22,159 Speaker 3: parole is like what factors come in? And there is 448 00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:26,840 Speaker 3: of course behavior while you're in prison, and that came up. 449 00:25:27,040 --> 00:25:30,520 Speaker 3: So apparently he wasn't a very good prisoner, or at 450 00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:32,919 Speaker 3: least I don't know how many shots you have to 451 00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:35,919 Speaker 3: get while in prison for to count against your parole. 452 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:38,760 Speaker 1: But he can reapply in three. 453 00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:41,280 Speaker 3: Years, and I suspect he will, and we'll talk about 454 00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:45,160 Speaker 3: it three years from now. Right now, President Trump said 455 00:25:45,359 --> 00:25:50,200 Speaker 3: that Chicago will likely be next. You'll finish fixing DC 456 00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:53,800 Speaker 3: and then Chicago's crime will go down, and then New 457 00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:55,920 Speaker 3: York and somebody mentioned LA. 458 00:25:56,160 --> 00:25:57,919 Speaker 8: We're going to make our country very safe. We're going 459 00:25:57,960 --> 00:26:00,840 Speaker 8: to make our cities very very safe. So I think 460 00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:03,520 Speaker 8: she Trago will be our next, and then we'll help 461 00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:06,480 Speaker 8: with New York and we're going to help with us. 462 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:09,760 Speaker 3: That you hear in the background, somebody mentioned Los Angeles. 463 00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:11,440 Speaker 3: I don't know if it was the Vice President. I 464 00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:14,600 Speaker 3: don't know who it was, but somebody brought up Los Angeles. 465 00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:17,959 Speaker 3: So it's Los Angeles is on the mind of somebody 466 00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:21,720 Speaker 3: in the Oval Office with respect to the strategy of 467 00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:25,320 Speaker 3: taking over the National Guard and placing the National Guard 468 00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:28,560 Speaker 3: in and around the city while the cops. 469 00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:31,560 Speaker 1: Go in and make arrests. And again the numbers are stunning. 470 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:34,040 Speaker 3: It's been less than two weeks, over six hundred arrests 471 00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:38,159 Speaker 3: of really bad guys, eighty six weapons removed from the 472 00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:42,360 Speaker 3: streets of DC. Two hundred of the arrests were eigal 473 00:26:42,359 --> 00:26:44,760 Speaker 3: aliens that were in and some of them were in gangs. 474 00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:49,199 Speaker 3: So you know, we were throwing a large net and 475 00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:52,280 Speaker 3: getting all kinds of bad guys and bad things. 476 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:53,800 Speaker 1: Out of a small area. 477 00:26:54,480 --> 00:27:00,200 Speaker 3: I think DC is really the perfect model for this experiments. 478 00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:03,639 Speaker 3: It's small enough that you can measure like you know 479 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:07,320 Speaker 3: at the Potomac there, and you have other states, so 480 00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:13,160 Speaker 3: it's it's a perfect place to see if a lot 481 00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:17,040 Speaker 3: of good guys will make the bad guys stay away. 482 00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:22,080 Speaker 3: And the first week the numbers were higher than they 483 00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:25,000 Speaker 3: are now. Like the very firsty, carjacking was down eighty 484 00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:28,200 Speaker 3: three percent in the DC metro area. 485 00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:32,119 Speaker 1: This week it's down twenty one percent. So word got. 486 00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:36,920 Speaker 3: Out that if you got caught carjacking, you were going 487 00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:40,160 Speaker 3: to be arrested and they'll put you somewhere. 488 00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:42,600 Speaker 1: Now they may run out of jail space. But who cares. 489 00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:45,679 Speaker 3: You'll be in a jail in Baltimore, Maryland, You'll be 490 00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:48,120 Speaker 3: in a jail in Delaware, somewhere. 491 00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:49,320 Speaker 1: You'll be somewhere. 492 00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:53,520 Speaker 3: You're not going to be free to go, and they 493 00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:56,240 Speaker 3: are in the process of doing away with bail. I mean, 494 00:27:56,359 --> 00:28:00,159 Speaker 3: it is the same progressive attitude toward crime that we 495 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:02,639 Speaker 3: have here in LA. 496 00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:04,119 Speaker 1: So it's not working. 497 00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:08,400 Speaker 3: Right. We have high crime statistics in Los Angeles, there 498 00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:10,320 Speaker 3: are high crime statistics in DC. 499 00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:13,600 Speaker 1: In the last ten days, those. 500 00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:16,840 Speaker 3: Statistics have dropped because of a different policy. 501 00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:19,399 Speaker 1: Why would we not at least take a look at it. 502 00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:23,560 Speaker 3: I already heard the mayor of Los Angeles, Mayor Karen Bass, 503 00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:28,200 Speaker 3: say that it is discriminatory because the people that are 504 00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:31,320 Speaker 3: being arrested are of color. All right, look, if she 505 00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:34,280 Speaker 3: wants to go there, make that case. All I know 506 00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:37,520 Speaker 3: is the crime rates are going down, so something's happening. 507 00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:43,920 Speaker 3: Anybody can commit a crime, but who they're grabbing have 508 00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:48,440 Speaker 3: committed crimes, had standing warrants, and were a possession of 509 00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:52,800 Speaker 3: firearms that they should not have. And now that's one 510 00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:57,000 Speaker 3: less bad guy on the street. I don't think President 511 00:28:57,040 --> 00:28:59,560 Speaker 3: Trump really cares about the color of the. 512 00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:00,640 Speaker 1: Skin the criminal. 513 00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:03,080 Speaker 3: He just wants all the criminals gone. And then, I 514 00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:05,000 Speaker 3: don't know if you heard this in the press conference today, 515 00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:09,160 Speaker 3: he is going to replant Washington d C. 516 00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:11,440 Speaker 8: Washington d C. One of the things we're going to 517 00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:13,600 Speaker 8: be redoing is your park. So I'm very good at 518 00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:15,520 Speaker 8: grass because I have a lot of golf courses all 519 00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:16,080 Speaker 8: over the place. 520 00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:21,720 Speaker 1: Is it just me or is that absolutely hilarious and 521 00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:23,000 Speaker 1: absolutely hilarious. 522 00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:27,200 Speaker 3: I know a lot about grass because I play a 523 00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:29,240 Speaker 3: lot of golf and I own a lot of golf courses. 524 00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:32,200 Speaker 3: So I'm the right guy to go to when it 525 00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:33,720 Speaker 3: comes to making DC green. 526 00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:35,960 Speaker 8: And we're going to be regressing all of your park 527 00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:39,000 Speaker 8: so all brand news sprinkless systems the best that you 528 00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:42,520 Speaker 8: can buy, just like the Augusta. Don't it'll look like Augusta. 529 00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:45,320 Speaker 3: I mean, love him or hate him, man, you gotta 530 00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:50,120 Speaker 3: admit that's very good. Like that's that is so amusing 531 00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:52,800 Speaker 3: to me that the President of the United States, who 532 00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:56,760 Speaker 3: also owns golf courses, is very concerned about getting the 533 00:29:56,800 --> 00:30:00,920 Speaker 3: graffiti off the bridges and overpasses, getting all the criminals 534 00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:04,320 Speaker 3: behind bars, getting all the homeless into homeless shelters. 535 00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:06,160 Speaker 1: In other areas. 536 00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:08,480 Speaker 3: He told the homeless they are gonna have to find 537 00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:12,960 Speaker 3: homeless shelters in Baltimore, in Maryland, in Delaware, Virginia. 538 00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:15,360 Speaker 1: I don't care where you go. Just pack your crap 539 00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:16,800 Speaker 1: and go. And they left. 540 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:21,680 Speaker 3: And now he's gonna replant the city because he knows 541 00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:22,520 Speaker 3: all about grass. 542 00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:24,840 Speaker 8: But we're gonna, look, we're gonna have all brand new 543 00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:27,840 Speaker 8: beautiful grass. You know, like everything else, Gress has a life. 544 00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:30,440 Speaker 8: Do you know that grass has a life? You know, 545 00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:32,960 Speaker 8: we have a life in Gress is a life. And 546 00:30:33,240 --> 00:30:36,600 Speaker 8: the grass here died about forty years ago. So we're 547 00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:38,560 Speaker 8: gonna be rebuilding all of your parks. 548 00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:41,480 Speaker 1: That's right, He's gonna rebuild all the parks. 549 00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:44,760 Speaker 3: The guys with the badgers and the guns are gonna 550 00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:47,760 Speaker 3: get all the bad guys, and everybody's gonna be able 551 00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:50,600 Speaker 3: to go out at night and walk around. And that 552 00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:52,959 Speaker 3: will be the huge success, and that will be the 553 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:57,520 Speaker 3: model for success going forward for major cities. And I 554 00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:02,080 Speaker 3: look forward to hearing from the Mayor of Los Angeles, 555 00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:04,800 Speaker 3: who is a Democrat in a large blue city with 556 00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:09,160 Speaker 3: a crime problem, with a graffiti problem, with a grass problem. 557 00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:13,520 Speaker 3: I want to hear her say that DC residents are 558 00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:15,080 Speaker 3: not better off. I want to hear the mayor of 559 00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:21,640 Speaker 3: Chicago make the case that no crime, no graffiti, and 560 00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:26,280 Speaker 3: green grass is no good. Same with San Francisco and 561 00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:29,840 Speaker 3: Baltimore and Birmingham, Alabama, like all. 562 00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:33,440 Speaker 1: These other hellholes of cities where it's unsafe. 563 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:37,280 Speaker 3: Have them all make the case that President Trump didn't 564 00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:40,800 Speaker 3: do the right thing by bringing in the National Guard. 565 00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:42,760 Speaker 1: And the National Guard is not going to be there forever. 566 00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:44,200 Speaker 1: So there is a short. 567 00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:49,120 Speaker 3: Runway for victory for President Trump. But he seems to 568 00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:51,120 Speaker 3: hit the numbers just right. 569 00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:54,160 Speaker 1: And we'll see if the. 570 00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:57,120 Speaker 3: Carjackers come back anytime soon to DC. 571 00:31:57,480 --> 00:32:00,680 Speaker 1: We'll wait and see. 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