1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:03,200 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John 2 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:07,560 Speaker 1: Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app after four o'clock John 3 00:00:07,600 --> 00:00:11,000 Speaker 1: Cobelt Show on demand podcast, the whole show and podcast 4 00:00:11,039 --> 00:00:12,840 Speaker 1: for him, it's the same thing. So anything you missed 5 00:00:12,840 --> 00:00:15,920 Speaker 1: you get to listen to. We are now gonna talk 6 00:00:15,960 --> 00:00:21,120 Speaker 1: to Joel Pollack. We just played Joel's statement to Donald 7 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:25,720 Speaker 1: Trump at that public meeting on Friday. Joel is the 8 00:00:26,120 --> 00:00:29,480 Speaker 1: senior editor at large for Breitbart News and lives in 9 00:00:29,520 --> 00:00:33,919 Speaker 1: Pacific Palisades. His home was saved, but he did show 10 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:36,920 Speaker 1: up at the meeting, and he suggested that Trump to 11 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:39,520 Speaker 1: create a nine to eleven style commission to watch over 12 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:42,560 Speaker 1: where all the federal relief money goes once it comes 13 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:46,720 Speaker 1: here to California, because tens of billions of dollars has 14 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:49,520 Speaker 1: a way of disappearing without a trace when it's sent 15 00:00:49,640 --> 00:00:53,080 Speaker 1: to people like Gavin Dusom and Karen Bass. So let's 16 00:00:53,080 --> 00:00:55,440 Speaker 1: get to Joel Pollack on the line. 17 00:00:57,320 --> 00:01:02,000 Speaker 2: Good afternoon, Joel, how are you great. I'm in my 18 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:03,520 Speaker 2: neighborhood in Pacific Palisades. 19 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:05,920 Speaker 1: What's the view that you have? 20 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:11,600 Speaker 2: I am parked next to what used to be Ronnie's 21 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:16,360 Speaker 2: convenience store, the hot squat in town for all of 22 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:23,920 Speaker 2: your liquor, candy, newspapers, coffee. It's all burned down, but 23 00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:28,319 Speaker 2: Ronnie's all right. And I hope some of the business 24 00:01:28,319 --> 00:01:30,920 Speaker 2: owners come back and rebuild, because the homeowners certainly are 25 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:31,680 Speaker 2: interested in doing so. 26 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:34,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, it seems like there's a lot of energy to 27 00:01:34,319 --> 00:01:36,280 Speaker 1: do it and do it as quickly as possible. Now 28 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:40,360 Speaker 1: your house survived, Yes, I was. 29 00:01:40,319 --> 00:01:43,360 Speaker 2: Able to get in about twenty four hours after we 30 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:47,319 Speaker 2: first evacuated because they opened it up to the media, 31 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:51,440 Speaker 2: and on my way to the center of the neighborhood, 32 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:54,840 Speaker 2: I stopped at my house and to pick a long 33 00:01:54,840 --> 00:01:57,240 Speaker 2: story short, it was still standing. It was one of 34 00:01:57,280 --> 00:02:00,240 Speaker 2: the few homes still standing. But the fence was on fire. 35 00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:04,520 Speaker 2: So I grabbed a bucket and I found the only 36 00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:07,360 Speaker 2: water that I could find, which was first actually at 37 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:11,120 Speaker 2: my wife's flower vases and then in the gutter, and 38 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:13,040 Speaker 2: a couple guys drove up in a truck and the 39 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:16,000 Speaker 2: three of us basically put out the fire on my fence, 40 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:18,680 Speaker 2: on my neighbor's fence, my neighbor's trees, and there were 41 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:22,560 Speaker 2: hot spots just about every day right through Sunday. Which 42 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:25,920 Speaker 2: was five days after the first fire started. A colleague 43 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:28,640 Speaker 2: of mine was covering the news here with me, and 44 00:02:28,680 --> 00:02:30,680 Speaker 2: he noticed there was smoke coming from two doors down 45 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:33,080 Speaker 2: from where my house is, and sure enough, there was 46 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:36,200 Speaker 2: a wooden staircase on fire. So there were still fires 47 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:41,639 Speaker 2: going just about a week after the initial blaze, and 48 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:44,760 Speaker 2: we just had to keep putting out fires literally. But 49 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:48,480 Speaker 2: the house is still there. The fence is mostly gone, 50 00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:53,000 Speaker 2: and we have some smoke damage, some other damage probably, 51 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:54,440 Speaker 2: but the house is still there. 52 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:57,200 Speaker 1: I think very lucky. He must feel awfully grateful. 53 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:02,000 Speaker 2: I do, But at the same time, I feel really 54 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:05,120 Speaker 2: terrible for my neighbors who lost everything. And look, the 55 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:10,120 Speaker 2: neighborhood is mostly destroyed. I'm sitting here surrounded by this 56 00:03:10,639 --> 00:03:14,639 Speaker 2: post apocalyptic scene. They just opened Pacific Palisades to residents. 57 00:03:14,639 --> 00:03:17,640 Speaker 2: You have to go through this permit process. It's pretty efficient. Actually, 58 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:20,840 Speaker 2: down at Santa Monica parking lot number three, the LAPD 59 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:24,200 Speaker 2: is there to help out. But I was joking with 60 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:26,440 Speaker 2: a friend of mine who's coming up. I said, you know, 61 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:29,000 Speaker 2: enjoy the apocalypse. I've had it to myself for three weeks. 62 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:34,280 Speaker 2: But when this hits people, it's really hard because very 63 00:03:34,280 --> 00:03:37,880 Speaker 2: few people have ever seen destruction like this. It's just unimaginable. 64 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:44,080 Speaker 1: What you had a chance to address Trump on Friday 65 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:47,400 Speaker 1: and talk about your idea about setting up a type 66 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:50,119 Speaker 1: of commission to track all the money that comes in here, 67 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:52,960 Speaker 1: What do you fear will happen to the money if 68 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:57,440 Speaker 1: there isn't an outside entity keeping track of the whole thing? 69 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:02,360 Speaker 2: Well, how often does it happened that California gets money 70 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:05,120 Speaker 2: or cities in California get money from the federal government 71 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:07,160 Speaker 2: and suddenly the money's gone and you don't know what 72 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:13,040 Speaker 2: happened to it. San Francisco right now just had an election. 73 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:15,000 Speaker 2: They threw out their mayor, they elected a new one 74 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:19,280 Speaker 2: because they had six hundred seven hundred million dollars from 75 00:04:19,279 --> 00:04:21,839 Speaker 2: the federal government and it all disappeared. Where did it go? 76 00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:22,960 Speaker 1: What did it do? 77 00:04:23,839 --> 00:04:26,679 Speaker 2: And here in California, you know, I'm sitting here, parked 78 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:29,279 Speaker 2: in my car looking at someone else's abandoned car which 79 00:04:29,279 --> 00:04:32,640 Speaker 2: has an old sticker, you know, from twenty twenty four, 80 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:34,600 Speaker 2: not twenty twenty five. I've noticed a lot of those. 81 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:36,520 Speaker 2: I think a lot of people haven't really shifted over. 82 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:38,760 Speaker 2: And you know why, because it's so expensive to renew 83 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:41,279 Speaker 2: your registration. And where does that money go? That money 84 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:44,480 Speaker 2: was raised, That was a tax that was raised by Newsom, 85 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:47,800 Speaker 2: and they don't use it to fix the roads. They 86 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:49,760 Speaker 2: don't do what they're supposed to do with it. Where 87 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:52,080 Speaker 2: does that money go. It just goes into the general 88 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:53,360 Speaker 2: fund and they do whatever they want with it to 89 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:56,920 Speaker 2: give healthcare to people who are here illegally. They spend 90 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:00,400 Speaker 2: fifty million dollars on fighting the Trump administration with laws suits. 91 00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:03,920 Speaker 2: They basically wasted. If they don't steal it, they wasted. 92 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:06,840 Speaker 2: So what are we to do. We want to build 93 00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:11,320 Speaker 2: our community. And if there's federal assistance coming to compensate 94 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:13,760 Speaker 2: us for this, that's great, But we wanted to go 95 00:05:13,839 --> 00:05:16,480 Speaker 2: to rebuilding. We don't want it to go to Gavin 96 00:05:16,520 --> 00:05:20,640 Speaker 2: Newsom's friends and contractors who have lobby as Sacramento or whatever. 97 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:22,400 Speaker 2: We want to make sure that it gets spent right. 98 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:25,920 Speaker 2: So I just was thinking about this idea, and I thought, 99 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:27,440 Speaker 2: you know, we've got to find a man or a woman, 100 00:05:27,760 --> 00:05:30,440 Speaker 2: maybe even preferably a woman because women, because you women 101 00:05:30,440 --> 00:05:33,560 Speaker 2: can be much tougher negotiators sometimes. But then I thought, 102 00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:35,240 Speaker 2: let me leave gender out of it. You know, just 103 00:05:35,279 --> 00:05:38,000 Speaker 2: people have had too much of that, And then I thought, 104 00:05:38,279 --> 00:05:40,560 Speaker 2: I remember this guy named Kenneth Feinberg who ran the 105 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:43,680 Speaker 2: nine to eleven commission, and he had a tough job 106 00:05:43,680 --> 00:05:46,080 Speaker 2: because he had to deal with all these morning grieving families, 107 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:49,120 Speaker 2: but everybody respected him. He controlled the money, he made 108 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:52,520 Speaker 2: sure it went to the victims family, and nobody said afterward, hey, 109 00:05:52,520 --> 00:05:53,919 Speaker 2: I didn't get the money that was owed to me. 110 00:05:54,880 --> 00:05:57,400 Speaker 2: Everyone trusted him because it was a transparent process. It 111 00:05:57,440 --> 00:06:00,680 Speaker 2: was controlled by a qualified person, and we need the 112 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:02,839 Speaker 2: same in California. This is a nine to eleven scale 113 00:06:02,839 --> 00:06:05,680 Speaker 2: disaster in terms of property, not in terms of life 114 00:06:05,760 --> 00:06:08,640 Speaker 2: or motive. I mean, that's an important distinction. But we 115 00:06:08,839 --> 00:06:11,200 Speaker 2: have lost in the area here the size of Manhattan, 116 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:15,039 Speaker 2: and people have to rebuild their lives. And if we 117 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:17,880 Speaker 2: don't make sure the money is spent properly, this place 118 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:20,080 Speaker 2: is going to be a wasteland for a generation or two. 119 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:22,680 Speaker 2: I've actually seen that happen in other cities, with something 120 00:06:22,720 --> 00:06:25,360 Speaker 2: bad happens in a neighborhood and the money never gets there, 121 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:28,440 Speaker 2: and so if you missed out window of opportunity to rebuild, 122 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:30,760 Speaker 2: you're done. So we want to make sure the money 123 00:06:30,839 --> 00:06:32,919 Speaker 2: is properly spent and that every dollar is accounted for. 124 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:38,440 Speaker 1: The track record that Newsom has is atrocious. In recent years. 125 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:41,840 Speaker 1: He's admitted to twenty four billion dollars in homeless money 126 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:45,320 Speaker 1: that he can't account for. There's thirty to fifty billion 127 00:06:45,360 --> 00:06:48,159 Speaker 1: dollars in COVID unemployment funds that he got from the 128 00:06:48,200 --> 00:06:53,240 Speaker 1: federal government. That's god. Most of that was overseas fraudsters 129 00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:56,480 Speaker 1: accessing it. Not to mention the ten to fifteen billion 130 00:06:56,520 --> 00:07:00,400 Speaker 1: dollars for high speed rail which doesn't exist. I mean, 131 00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:04,200 Speaker 1: it is astonishing how much money's disappeared and there's no trace. 132 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:08,120 Speaker 1: There's no records, no receipts, no invoices, nobody to call, 133 00:07:08,320 --> 00:07:09,760 Speaker 1: nobody to indict, nothing. 134 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:15,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a story we have seen play out over 135 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:19,280 Speaker 2: and over and over again, and there's never enough for 136 00:07:19,360 --> 00:07:22,480 Speaker 2: the things that matter most because we're focused on all 137 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:26,320 Speaker 2: of these other ideological priorities. And it's enough already. So 138 00:07:26,320 --> 00:07:29,560 Speaker 2: we have to have somebody watch over the money. And 139 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:32,720 Speaker 2: the Trump administration also needs to have some leverage in 140 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:36,320 Speaker 2: California to say you have to follow a set of 141 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:39,880 Speaker 2: policies that make sure this doesn't happen again. Why should 142 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:41,960 Speaker 2: the American taxpayer I understand people to say, well, you 143 00:07:41,960 --> 00:07:43,560 Speaker 2: guys voted for this, you're on your own. I mean, 144 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:46,480 Speaker 2: I think that's cruel, but I get where it's coming from, 145 00:07:46,520 --> 00:07:49,320 Speaker 2: because they can't keep spending money on us if we 146 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:52,680 Speaker 2: don't change our policies to make the likelihood of these 147 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:55,720 Speaker 2: disasters a little lower. I mean, we had the Paradise 148 00:07:55,760 --> 00:07:59,560 Speaker 2: fire five six years ago. We've had this fire. How 149 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:04,560 Speaker 2: did LA not learn anything from Paradise. I'm speaking generally 150 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:06,720 Speaker 2: about the city government because certainly there were people who 151 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:10,600 Speaker 2: are hyper rigil but our systems failed, and they failed 152 00:08:10,640 --> 00:08:12,200 Speaker 2: at the little things, not just the big things you 153 00:08:12,200 --> 00:08:14,680 Speaker 2: can't control, like the wind. But we didn't have a 154 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:18,760 Speaker 2: reservoir with water. We didn't have police directing traffic, we 155 00:08:18,840 --> 00:08:22,400 Speaker 2: didn't have firefighters pre deployed. We didn't do the little things. 156 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:26,800 Speaker 2: So why should American taxpayers continue to bail out us, 157 00:08:27,520 --> 00:08:30,640 Speaker 2: bail out our losses if we're not going to change. 158 00:08:30,640 --> 00:08:32,720 Speaker 2: So I think Trump needs some leverage and the Special 159 00:08:32,760 --> 00:08:35,800 Speaker 2: Master can say I'm not giving you the money until 160 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:39,520 Speaker 2: you fill that reservoir. I'm not doing it, you know, 161 00:08:39,720 --> 00:08:41,200 Speaker 2: So things like that. 162 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:45,520 Speaker 1: Just you We've talked about the reservoir of on the show, 163 00:08:45,559 --> 00:08:49,280 Speaker 1: but just hearing it, you mentioned it's several times there, 164 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:52,120 Speaker 1: it just gets me in the gut each time that 165 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:55,959 Speaker 1: they actually let a one hundred million gallon reservoir sit 166 00:08:56,080 --> 00:09:00,640 Speaker 1: empty and it's fire season. I just I can't believe 167 00:09:00,679 --> 00:09:04,720 Speaker 1: that that's real, that they really did that and didn't 168 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:05,400 Speaker 1: seem to care. 169 00:09:07,640 --> 00:09:09,800 Speaker 2: I mean, they didn't seem to care, and I think 170 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:12,680 Speaker 2: they just decided that they could coast on their good fortune. 171 00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:15,560 Speaker 2: You know, we've got two wet winters in a row 172 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:19,199 Speaker 2: with reduced fire risk. The mayor thought it was fine 173 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:22,880 Speaker 2: to go out of town go to Ghana for his 174 00:09:23,040 --> 00:09:27,600 Speaker 2: presidential and augation thing, and she thought, I'm only going 175 00:09:27,679 --> 00:09:28,880 Speaker 2: to be away for a week or so, Well, what 176 00:09:28,920 --> 00:09:32,000 Speaker 2: could possibly go wrong? And it was an extreme wind event. 177 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:34,880 Speaker 2: But we've had a couple of those. Ah, nothing really 178 00:09:34,880 --> 00:09:37,800 Speaker 2: happens right in California. We have this bad habit of 179 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:40,679 Speaker 2: planning for the best case scenario, but the worst case 180 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:42,840 Speaker 2: scenario sometimes happens. You've got to be ready for it. 181 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:45,440 Speaker 2: And we really need a change of mindset in our 182 00:09:45,520 --> 00:09:50,840 Speaker 2: leaders and in our institutions not to be crazy risk averse. 183 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:54,560 Speaker 2: I mean, some things you have to try, and sometimes 184 00:09:54,559 --> 00:09:57,360 Speaker 2: you have to take some risks, but let's take smart risks, 185 00:09:57,520 --> 00:09:59,719 Speaker 2: and let's make sure we have systems in place that 186 00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:04,760 Speaker 2: can deal with disasters or potentially dangerous conditions so that 187 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:06,600 Speaker 2: we don't have the scale of destruction I'm looking at 188 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:07,040 Speaker 2: right now. 189 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:10,920 Speaker 1: Let's fund the fire department. We're funded for half a 190 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:15,040 Speaker 1: fire department. I'm just astonished that that is the case. 191 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:17,760 Speaker 1: Just do the basics at least. 192 00:10:18,880 --> 00:10:23,640 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, we have half the fire department we need. 193 00:10:24,480 --> 00:10:28,079 Speaker 2: We need dozens and dozens more stations, and we also 194 00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:33,480 Speaker 2: need to develop infrastructure that is appropriate for big events 195 00:10:33,520 --> 00:10:36,880 Speaker 2: like this. I mean talking to my neighbors. First of all, 196 00:10:37,080 --> 00:10:41,319 Speaker 2: one a volunteer fire department. We're organizing it, that's happening. 197 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:45,560 Speaker 2: We also want to install our own private fire hydrants 198 00:10:45,960 --> 00:10:48,880 Speaker 2: that the fire department can use, but where the tanks 199 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:50,920 Speaker 2: stay in the neighborhood, where they're not going to get 200 00:10:50,960 --> 00:10:54,880 Speaker 2: requisitioned or commandeered by the IFD when they decide to 201 00:10:54,880 --> 00:10:57,920 Speaker 2: need our resources. We want to take responsibility for defending 202 00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:02,160 Speaker 2: our neighborhood and we'll share the expense of doing it. 203 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:05,200 Speaker 2: Will make it happen, but we're never allowing this to 204 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:09,280 Speaker 2: happen again. And we also need investigations, local congression, whatever, 205 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:13,720 Speaker 2: into our emergency services, into our city leadership. Why weren't 206 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:16,600 Speaker 2: they ready for something like this? The neighbors have known 207 00:11:16,640 --> 00:11:18,720 Speaker 2: for a long time. That's as possible. You know. I 208 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:20,560 Speaker 2: live next to a large piece of land that's owned 209 00:11:20,559 --> 00:11:23,400 Speaker 2: by the l Department of Water and Power, and they 210 00:11:23,480 --> 00:11:26,800 Speaker 2: let the mass grow really long in twenty twenty and 211 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:28,920 Speaker 2: I called them and said, look, this is a fire hazard. 212 00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:31,480 Speaker 2: It's next to my property. Can you come and cut this? 213 00:11:31,640 --> 00:11:36,000 Speaker 2: And they did. But we shouldn't have to hope for 214 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:41,520 Speaker 2: the good will of city departments and the fact that 215 00:11:41,559 --> 00:11:44,400 Speaker 2: a neighbor might call it in. We need systems that 216 00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:47,880 Speaker 2: make sure there are fire breaks, that we remove fire hazards, 217 00:11:47,880 --> 00:11:50,760 Speaker 2: that we plant trees that are fire resistant. I think 218 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:52,920 Speaker 2: my house is partly saved because of the fighter's trees 219 00:11:53,240 --> 00:11:55,560 Speaker 2: that kept the wind off and that kept the burning 220 00:11:55,559 --> 00:11:57,560 Speaker 2: embers off the house. They're pretty water resistant. A few 221 00:11:57,600 --> 00:12:01,240 Speaker 2: of them died, but they saved the house. So all 222 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:03,240 Speaker 2: of these things go into it. But we need to 223 00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:07,840 Speaker 2: make it more efficient and more responsive to emergencies. And 224 00:12:07,880 --> 00:12:11,040 Speaker 2: it really wasn't this time around. We were really not prepared. 225 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:12,679 Speaker 2: We as a city, we were not prepared and our 226 00:12:13,040 --> 00:12:14,840 Speaker 2: leaders had other priorities. 227 00:12:15,480 --> 00:12:18,760 Speaker 1: Joel, thanks for coming on and sharing all that, and 228 00:12:18,960 --> 00:12:21,080 Speaker 1: let's let's keep in touch. If you've got more to say, 229 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:23,280 Speaker 1: or more that you think needs to be done, you 230 00:12:23,280 --> 00:12:24,440 Speaker 1: can come on the air anytime. 231 00:12:25,559 --> 00:12:27,080 Speaker 2: Thanks so much. I really appreciate it, all right. 232 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:30,200 Speaker 1: Joel Pollock, Breitbart's senior editor at large resident in the 233 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:30,760 Speaker 1: Battle Sades. 234 00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:35,800 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI am 235 00:12:35,840 --> 00:12:36,400 Speaker 3: six forty. 236 00:12:37,840 --> 00:12:41,720 Speaker 1: We just finished talking with Joel Pollock. Joel's with Breitbart 237 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:45,920 Speaker 1: dot com, Breitbart senior editor at large. He had to 238 00:12:46,520 --> 00:12:49,000 Speaker 1: he had to fight the fire with his own bucket 239 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:54,360 Speaker 1: of water, and his house survived. And he asked Trump 240 00:12:54,600 --> 00:13:00,719 Speaker 1: at that at that press briefing, that public meeting that 241 00:13:00,760 --> 00:13:03,640 Speaker 1: they had on Friday, whether Trump could create some kind 242 00:13:03,679 --> 00:13:07,000 Speaker 1: of nine to eleven style commission to make sure all 243 00:13:07,040 --> 00:13:09,959 Speaker 1: the federal money that comes here is spent properly, because 244 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:14,720 Speaker 1: spending is a disaster. Under Newsom in Bass, they blow 245 00:13:14,840 --> 00:13:19,400 Speaker 1: so many billions of dollars with nothing for it. It's 246 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:22,120 Speaker 1: it's astonishing and no record of where it went. And 247 00:13:22,280 --> 00:13:24,400 Speaker 1: you know, we went through the multiple categories where this 248 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:28,000 Speaker 1: has happened. This is not a wild eyed accusation. If 249 00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:30,160 Speaker 1: you look at all the build tens of billions of 250 00:13:30,160 --> 00:13:33,959 Speaker 1: homeless money, tens of billions of COVID unemployment money, tens 251 00:13:33,960 --> 00:13:36,640 Speaker 1: of billions in high speed rail money just for starters, 252 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:41,040 Speaker 1: you have probably one hundred billion dollars in money that 253 00:13:41,120 --> 00:13:45,160 Speaker 1: has evaporated with no trace and didn't know. Nobody can 254 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:50,080 Speaker 1: see any positive outcome for all the money. It's it's 255 00:13:50,160 --> 00:13:53,959 Speaker 1: really overwhelming. Now, one thing they didn't spend the money on, 256 00:13:54,840 --> 00:13:57,160 Speaker 1: and this is this is going to be the nub 257 00:13:57,200 --> 00:13:58,680 Speaker 1: of the debate. And we are going to keep this 258 00:13:58,760 --> 00:14:02,680 Speaker 1: debate going here because every politician who is in power 259 00:14:02,960 --> 00:14:06,120 Speaker 1: on January seventh would like this debate to be swept 260 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:10,440 Speaker 1: to the sidelines. And most of the media here is 261 00:14:10,640 --> 00:14:16,040 Speaker 1: frightened and feckless and really childlife because they will not 262 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:21,400 Speaker 1: challenge these people on their role in this huge tragedy. 263 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:25,120 Speaker 1: Believe me, the government had much a big role to 264 00:14:25,120 --> 00:14:27,840 Speaker 1: play here, and a lot of it was through their 265 00:14:28,040 --> 00:14:31,160 Speaker 1: neglect and ignorance. But we're going to keep it going here, 266 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:34,200 Speaker 1: and I just hope the people in the Palisades and 267 00:14:34,280 --> 00:14:39,480 Speaker 1: Altaden and Malibu understand what we're talking about here. You 268 00:14:39,640 --> 00:14:44,400 Speaker 1: were neglected, abandoned, screwed over. This should not have happened 269 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:47,280 Speaker 1: to this extent. And there is a circle of the 270 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:51,160 Speaker 1: wagon's mentality among public officials, and it's always amplified by 271 00:14:51,240 --> 00:14:53,640 Speaker 1: the media and the phrase as well, there's really nothing 272 00:14:53,640 --> 00:14:56,080 Speaker 1: we could have done about it. That is false, that 273 00:14:56,200 --> 00:14:59,800 Speaker 1: is wrong, It does not make any sense on its face. 274 00:15:00,760 --> 00:15:03,760 Speaker 1: Convinced me that one hundred and one hundred and seventeen 275 00:15:03,760 --> 00:15:06,400 Speaker 1: million gallons of water would not have made I mean, 276 00:15:06,440 --> 00:15:10,880 Speaker 1: you heard Joel Pollock, he had a bucket. With a bucket, 277 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:13,680 Speaker 1: he was able to put a fire out on his fence, 278 00:15:15,080 --> 00:15:19,280 Speaker 1: and he and his friends put put water, put fires 279 00:15:19,320 --> 00:15:23,640 Speaker 1: out on the nearby trees, and they were able to 280 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:28,480 Speaker 1: keep their homes from burning with a bucket. Well, one 281 00:15:28,520 --> 00:15:31,760 Speaker 1: hundred and seventeen million gallons, Now you need the fire engines, 282 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:34,640 Speaker 1: you need the firefighters. Well we had that too, but 283 00:15:34,720 --> 00:15:39,600 Speaker 1: the fire chief did not send the thousand firefighters up 284 00:15:39,640 --> 00:15:42,200 Speaker 1: there when she had them. She did not send the 285 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:46,000 Speaker 1: forty engines that she had available. And then there's one 286 00:15:46,040 --> 00:15:49,800 Speaker 1: hundred engines locked in the repair shop that Karen Bass 287 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:52,040 Speaker 1: and the city council didn't spend money on mechanics for 288 00:15:55,520 --> 00:15:59,040 Speaker 1: but here's the danger. Listen to a Malibu resident questioning 289 00:15:59,080 --> 00:16:03,160 Speaker 1: the La County Fire Chief Anthony Moroney over the bad response. 290 00:16:09,080 --> 00:16:10,080 Speaker 1: We had four. 291 00:16:09,960 --> 00:16:10,920 Speaker 4: Fires out there. 292 00:16:11,480 --> 00:16:15,640 Speaker 1: We never had these wins. This fire was different. We 293 00:16:15,680 --> 00:16:16,480 Speaker 1: could put four. 294 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:19,320 Speaker 4: Fire stations in the Santa Monica Mountains and we could 295 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:23,360 Speaker 4: put five fire trucks at every one of those stations. 296 00:16:22,800 --> 00:16:26,360 Speaker 1: And it still might not be enough. But might there's 297 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:27,480 Speaker 1: a cost to that. 298 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:31,120 Speaker 4: It was an impossible situation, but I'd seek for all 299 00:16:31,160 --> 00:16:34,120 Speaker 4: of my firefighters at Ela County Fire Department in my 300 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:37,720 Speaker 4: thirty nine years, have never been so proud of what 301 00:16:37,840 --> 00:16:41,920 Speaker 4: they did those days, trying to save people, trying to 302 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:43,040 Speaker 4: defend homes. 303 00:16:43,280 --> 00:16:47,320 Speaker 1: But we couldn't be every week. Stop classic, stop, stop. 304 00:16:47,400 --> 00:16:50,240 Speaker 1: This is the classic politician. Anthony Moroney, the La County 305 00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:53,000 Speaker 1: Fire Chief, give us about thirty seconds to saying, well, yeah, 306 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:54,320 Speaker 1: we could have had more of this and more of 307 00:16:54,320 --> 00:16:56,080 Speaker 1: that and more of this, and maybe it would have 308 00:16:56,080 --> 00:16:58,800 Speaker 1: made a difference. Boy, I bet you everybody in the 309 00:16:58,840 --> 00:17:01,800 Speaker 1: Pali sides would have liked to take and that maybe huh. 310 00:17:01,840 --> 00:17:07,720 Speaker 1: And then enough of that, let's go into praising everybody 311 00:17:07,720 --> 00:17:10,080 Speaker 1: who did fight the good fight and they should be praised. 312 00:17:10,160 --> 00:17:12,119 Speaker 1: They deserve to be praised. Do you see how it 313 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:17,159 Speaker 1: shifts your attention from how they screwed up. It's a 314 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:23,399 Speaker 1: subtle sign of hey, you're not criticizing firefighters, are you. 315 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:25,639 Speaker 1: You see how clever that is. And then you go 316 00:17:25,680 --> 00:17:28,760 Speaker 1: into long dissertation about how wonderful firefighters are. And they are, 317 00:17:29,840 --> 00:17:32,680 Speaker 1: but the management here screwed up, and the legislat, the 318 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:37,119 Speaker 1: mayor screwed up, and Kristin Crowley, the fire chief, screwed up, 319 00:17:37,200 --> 00:17:39,680 Speaker 1: and the city council screwed up because they never funded 320 00:17:39,880 --> 00:17:42,520 Speaker 1: the fire department to begin with. It really is half 321 00:17:42,520 --> 00:17:45,639 Speaker 1: a fire department. And yes, one hundred and seventeen million 322 00:17:45,640 --> 00:17:49,080 Speaker 1: gallons would have made a difference. Yes, another thousand firefighters. Yes, 323 00:17:49,640 --> 00:17:53,199 Speaker 1: you had five more fire stations and all those fire engines, 324 00:17:53,320 --> 00:17:55,440 Speaker 1: all that would have made a difference. I can't believe 325 00:17:55,480 --> 00:17:58,159 Speaker 1: I'm hearing a fire chief claiming that water would not 326 00:17:58,320 --> 00:18:00,720 Speaker 1: have made a difference. More firefighters would not have made 327 00:18:00,720 --> 00:18:04,160 Speaker 1: a difference, and more fire trucks would not have made 328 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:07,120 Speaker 1: a difference, or fire stations, everything would not have made 329 00:18:07,119 --> 00:18:11,280 Speaker 1: a difference. That is complete, absolute nonsense, And he knows it. 330 00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:14,520 Speaker 1: He knows that's nonsense. Of course, it would have made 331 00:18:14,520 --> 00:18:17,480 Speaker 1: a difference, even if it just saved a few blocks. 332 00:18:18,840 --> 00:18:22,960 Speaker 1: Oh my god. And if you had fire stations and 333 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:27,440 Speaker 1: you had a firewatch going on with with active firefighters, 334 00:18:27,720 --> 00:18:29,480 Speaker 1: you would have gotten to that fire in a matter 335 00:18:29,520 --> 00:18:32,600 Speaker 1: of minutes and maybe been able to snuff it out 336 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:37,400 Speaker 1: very quickly. And that should have been the procedure. All right, 337 00:18:37,400 --> 00:18:38,160 Speaker 1: I got to take a break. 338 00:18:39,119 --> 00:18:43,439 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobel's on Demand from KFI AM 339 00:18:43,480 --> 00:18:44,040 Speaker 3: six forty. 340 00:18:44,840 --> 00:18:47,200 Speaker 1: We are on from one until four and then after 341 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:51,119 Speaker 1: four o'clock John Cobelt's show on demand on the iHeart app. 342 00:18:55,040 --> 00:18:58,080 Speaker 1: Coming up after three o'clock we are going to talk 343 00:18:58,119 --> 00:19:04,239 Speaker 1: to Royal Oaks ABC legal analyst and but the all 344 00:19:04,320 --> 00:19:09,199 Speaker 1: the lawsuits that are coming because if you cut the 345 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:13,800 Speaker 1: fire department budget and you only have fifty percent of 346 00:19:13,840 --> 00:19:17,719 Speaker 1: what is recommended in terms of fire staff, you're short 347 00:19:18,119 --> 00:19:22,400 Speaker 1: dozens of fire stations. You don't deploy the fire department 348 00:19:23,320 --> 00:19:27,760 Speaker 1: while there's this extreme emergency that's being issued by the 349 00:19:27,840 --> 00:19:32,239 Speaker 1: National Weather Service. Is anybody liable when you lose your 350 00:19:32,560 --> 00:19:36,919 Speaker 1: your home, your neighborhood, your your town. What about the 351 00:19:36,960 --> 00:19:40,439 Speaker 1: Department of Water and Power, not filling that reservoir with 352 00:19:40,600 --> 00:19:45,160 Speaker 1: water one hundred and seventeen million yallos. Is anybody liable? Now, 353 00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:48,480 Speaker 1: what's going to happen is is these organizations, the City 354 00:19:48,560 --> 00:19:53,520 Speaker 1: of La, the DWP of La, County of La, if 355 00:19:53,560 --> 00:19:56,359 Speaker 1: it turns out they are liable in some way, and 356 00:19:56,400 --> 00:19:57,760 Speaker 1: we're going to talk to a royal to see if 357 00:19:57,760 --> 00:20:01,560 Speaker 1: that's even possible. It's tax money that's going to be 358 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:05,399 Speaker 1: used to settle the claims. But boy, I think Aaron 359 00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:11,639 Speaker 1: Bass and Genice Qiez they should be held liable. That 360 00:20:11,760 --> 00:20:14,439 Speaker 1: they should have they should have their lives liquidated for 361 00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:18,560 Speaker 1: all the damage they caused. But they're bad decisions. So 362 00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:26,800 Speaker 1: we'll we'll we'll get to that coming up after three o'clock. Now, 363 00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:33,919 Speaker 1: I wanted to spend some time on Trumph just steamrolling 364 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:39,320 Speaker 1: the whole world with his deportation policies. I mean, it's 365 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:42,600 Speaker 1: did you see what he did to the Colombian president yesterday? 366 00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:46,119 Speaker 1: They have a new Colombian president, who's you know, one 367 00:20:46,119 --> 00:20:50,360 Speaker 1: of these wacky socialists. I have no idea. I don't 368 00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:56,680 Speaker 1: understand the politics of Central America. In South America, they 369 00:20:56,800 --> 00:21:00,000 Speaker 1: they the country, many of the countries are always unstafe, 370 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:06,359 Speaker 1: they have erratic economies, they seem to the public seems 371 00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:11,359 Speaker 1: to enjoy socialists and dictators, and things are quite violent. 372 00:21:12,359 --> 00:21:16,359 Speaker 1: And then when all the problems boil over, they send 373 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:19,880 Speaker 1: all the bad guys here to America. We're a safety 374 00:21:19,960 --> 00:21:23,720 Speaker 1: valve for all the bad politics and bad policies in 375 00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:26,560 Speaker 1: Central and South America. And this is a classic one 376 00:21:26,840 --> 00:21:34,919 Speaker 1: with Colombia. So the President had said that he's not 377 00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:39,639 Speaker 1: going to allow US planes to land in Colombia with 378 00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:47,160 Speaker 1: Columbia illegal aliens, and then Trump said what And immediately 379 00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:54,040 Speaker 1: immediately he said, fine, then you are getting immediately twenty 380 00:21:54,080 --> 00:21:57,919 Speaker 1: five percent tariffs on all your goods, and in a 381 00:21:57,960 --> 00:22:03,919 Speaker 1: week it'll be fifty percent tariffs. And there's going to 382 00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:07,760 Speaker 1: be travel bands on everyone associated with the Colombian government, 383 00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:13,960 Speaker 1: including the diplomats, and they'll be visas restricted and denied 384 00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:19,080 Speaker 1: for everybody in Colombia. And it literally lasted only about 385 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:24,119 Speaker 1: half an hour. After about thirty minutes, the socialist president said, oh, nevermind, 386 00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:28,600 Speaker 1: and volunteered his presidential plane to carry some of the 387 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:33,960 Speaker 1: illegal aliens back to Colombia. And I'm thinking, well, this 388 00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:36,560 Speaker 1: is what you do when you're president of the United States. 389 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:42,240 Speaker 1: This is what you do some crackpot country who tries 390 00:22:42,280 --> 00:22:47,440 Speaker 1: to dump all their problems on us because every other 391 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:54,000 Speaker 1: president Biden, Bush, Obama, Well, we don't want to upset 392 00:22:54,119 --> 00:23:01,480 Speaker 1: one of our allies. The allies don't take advantage of 393 00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:06,760 Speaker 1: other allies. Allies don't dump all their criminal problems on 394 00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:12,879 Speaker 1: America and then get to be called an ally. I 395 00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:15,920 Speaker 1: mean he did it in a half an hour. The 396 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:21,520 Speaker 1: socialist president of Colombia is Gustavo Petro. I mean this 397 00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:24,320 Speaker 1: happened right before we were all sitting down to watch 398 00:23:24,359 --> 00:23:29,760 Speaker 1: the football game. He just had gotten elected, and I 399 00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:33,600 Speaker 1: guess he wanted to show off because cornating Jeffrey Blahar 400 00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:36,480 Speaker 1: in the National Review. He's the first socialist to lead 401 00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:40,800 Speaker 1: modern Colombia. And by the way, this guy's resume, he 402 00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:44,000 Speaker 1: used to be a gorilla fighter. It used to be 403 00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:46,440 Speaker 1: a revolutionary. He used to be a guy wanted to 404 00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:50,160 Speaker 1: overthrow the government. And now that he gets to run 405 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:52,320 Speaker 1: the government, he thought he was going to bully the 406 00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:55,520 Speaker 1: United States. And the thing is, under the old regime, 407 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:01,520 Speaker 1: when Biden's corpse ran things and all those progressive ninnies, 408 00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:05,560 Speaker 1: he would have gotten away with it. So he said, well, 409 00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:09,240 Speaker 1: I'm not taken any Colombian illegal immigrants who were returned here. 410 00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:15,520 Speaker 1: He actually Patro turned away two inbound flights from the US. 411 00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:19,600 Speaker 1: He wouldn't let the planes land. He was going to 412 00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:25,000 Speaker 1: prove that Trump can't treat Colombian migrants as criminals. And 413 00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:30,480 Speaker 1: that's when Trump immediately said twenty five to fifty percent tariffs, 414 00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:36,120 Speaker 1: travel band, visa revocation, all Colombian officials, sanctions on anyone 415 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:40,439 Speaker 1: and everyone in the Colombian government, family members, supporters, and 416 00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:47,720 Speaker 1: border inspections for anything, Colombian goods, people, international banking sanctions. 417 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:50,480 Speaker 1: It's about as much as you could do to a 418 00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:53,719 Speaker 1: country peacefully in a half an hour. And he did it, 419 00:24:55,119 --> 00:25:03,760 Speaker 1: and in seconds, Gustavo Patro backed down. This is the 420 00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:07,680 Speaker 1: way every American president ought to act on every issue 421 00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:13,200 Speaker 1: with everyone, friend or adversary. We are not being unfair 422 00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:16,800 Speaker 1: and abusive by saying we're not going to be taking 423 00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:21,439 Speaker 1: anybody's illegal aliens, especially the criminals, anymore. It is not 424 00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:24,240 Speaker 1: unfair and abusive to send them back to the home country. 425 00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:30,200 Speaker 1: And I don't I don't know. I mean, this is 426 00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:33,320 Speaker 1: almost comical. It's like it was like some kind of cartoon. 427 00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:37,280 Speaker 1: Oh never mind, sorry to upset you, Sorry to bother you, 428 00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:41,280 Speaker 1: because I want to play you this clip. Get cut 429 00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:49,359 Speaker 1: seven ready. This is the attitude among a lot of 430 00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:53,959 Speaker 1: these criminal alien types who've been able to come back 431 00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:56,480 Speaker 1: and forth over the border from Central and South America. 432 00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:59,639 Speaker 1: They had zero respect for our laws, zero respect for 433 00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:03,719 Speaker 1: our order, zero respect for our government officials. This is 434 00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:08,360 Speaker 1: a man who, uh, who actually thanked Trump for deporting 435 00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:10,359 Speaker 1: him because it gave him a one week vacation with 436 00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:11,359 Speaker 1: the drug cartels. 437 00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:15,640 Speaker 5: Listen, mister Trump, mister Trump, me want to say thank 438 00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:19,800 Speaker 5: you to you for deportation me to Mexico and give 439 00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:25,320 Speaker 5: me one week's vocation. My boss, never give me thank 440 00:26:25,359 --> 00:26:29,920 Speaker 5: you for deportation me back to my country. One week 441 00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:36,720 Speaker 5: I'll be back. And the US okay, one week I 442 00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:37,320 Speaker 5: be back. 443 00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:48,160 Speaker 6: My buddies over here, they give me my buddy's from 444 00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:49,920 Speaker 6: the c A R T. E. L. 445 00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:52,560 Speaker 5: They give me these. 446 00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:54,720 Speaker 7: Look I be back one week. 447 00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:57,879 Speaker 1: Look Look it's a fake passport. 448 00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:03,000 Speaker 5: Look look my buddies give me he's passport. You know 449 00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:07,560 Speaker 5: you tell my boss one week with vacation. Kay, I'll 450 00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:07,960 Speaker 5: be back. 451 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:12,679 Speaker 1: Got a smart ass, huh. Look at that snarky attitude. 452 00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:14,720 Speaker 1: This is how they feel it's saying, oh, you gave 453 00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:17,720 Speaker 1: me a week's vacation. I work for the drug cartel. 454 00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:20,399 Speaker 1: My drug boss never lets me off. That's okay. I 455 00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:22,919 Speaker 1: got these new passports. You don't have a system to 456 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:25,920 Speaker 1: check them. That's worth anything. So I'll be back and 457 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:29,639 Speaker 1: I'll be selling drugs and killing your kids, you know, 458 00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:35,000 Speaker 1: a week from Saturday. Just to hear the lighthearted confidence 459 00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:40,280 Speaker 1: that he had. This was just a temporary annoyance. But 460 00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:42,639 Speaker 1: he'll be back. He'll be selling drugs to your kids. 461 00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:49,119 Speaker 1: He's got the fake documents, apparently they're good enough to 462 00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:53,680 Speaker 1: get him through so far. Just complete lack of respect 463 00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:57,280 Speaker 1: for our laws in this country. And this is you know, 464 00:27:57,480 --> 00:28:01,600 Speaker 1: there's millions of these characters like this case. You wonder 465 00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:04,080 Speaker 1: how how did the drug cartels end up killing one 466 00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:08,160 Speaker 1: hundred thousand Americans a year because there's one hundred thousand 467 00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:11,560 Speaker 1: guys like him working in the industry. All Right, we 468 00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:12,920 Speaker 1: got more coming up. Rorel Oaks. 469 00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:17,840 Speaker 3: After three, you're listening to John Cobelts on demand from 470 00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:19,520 Speaker 3: KFI AM six forty. 471 00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:22,439 Speaker 1: We'ren from one until four and then after four o'clock 472 00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:25,200 Speaker 1: John Cobelts Show on demand the podcast and you could 473 00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:29,560 Speaker 1: listen to what you missed. Three o'clock. After Bridgeta does 474 00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:32,760 Speaker 1: the news, we're gonna have Royal Oaks on from ABC News. 475 00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:37,400 Speaker 1: He's a legal analyst and he's gonna describe whether all 476 00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:41,960 Speaker 1: the people affected by the wildfires here in La La 477 00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:45,920 Speaker 1: City and County can they sue? Can can? Can they 478 00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:50,120 Speaker 1: sue the city, the county, the fire departments? Karen Bass 479 00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:57,880 Speaker 1: for all the incompetence? I hope? So how does that work? 480 00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:01,800 Speaker 1: Of course taxpayers will have to pay, but uh uh uh, 481 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:08,360 Speaker 1: this there has to be some some kind of reparations here. Now. 482 00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:13,280 Speaker 1: You know a lot of people have suffered in Altadena 483 00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:16,680 Speaker 1: and the Palisades, and then there are people who have 484 00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:20,800 Speaker 1: never suffered in life. They've just they've been very lucky. 485 00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:24,440 Speaker 1: They have placid jobs. Maybe they've worked for the government 486 00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:28,080 Speaker 1: and they can't be fired. And they've got some mid 487 00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:31,120 Speaker 1: range or low level job and its paperwork or staring 488 00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:35,120 Speaker 1: at screens, and then they encounter just a little bit 489 00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:38,640 Speaker 1: of turbulence for the first time. Just a ripple going 490 00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:41,480 Speaker 1: to play for you a clip by a woman named 491 00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:47,920 Speaker 1: Genesis Quaesta. She works for the government, federal government and 492 00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:53,240 Speaker 1: in court services, an offender supervision he's an she's an 493 00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:57,760 Speaker 1: assessment specialist. I guess she decides whether prisoners are at 494 00:29:57,840 --> 00:30:00,680 Speaker 1: risk if they're on probation or parole. I'm just guessing 495 00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:06,600 Speaker 1: an assessment specialist at Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency. Well, 496 00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:09,760 Speaker 1: she was told that she has to go to work 497 00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:14,680 Speaker 1: in the office five days a week. Okay, so understand 498 00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:18,440 Speaker 1: the context of her distress here. She's been told you 499 00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:20,840 Speaker 1: have to show up for work five days a week. 500 00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:25,120 Speaker 1: Listen to Genesis, it happens. 501 00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:29,680 Speaker 7: What a way to end the week. Five o'clock on 502 00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:34,720 Speaker 7: a Friday. Got our notice. Effect of March tenth, we're 503 00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:40,880 Speaker 7: back in the office five days a week, no telework any. 504 00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:45,680 Speaker 7: And that's that's the moment is not only did you 505 00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:51,800 Speaker 7: issue this executive order Cheeto, but the executive order Trump's 506 00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:58,520 Speaker 7: unintended and resins any previously agreed upon tellwork agreements. So 507 00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:00,840 Speaker 7: before I was able to tell work once a week, 508 00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:04,520 Speaker 7: when I was in the office every day. Now, no, 509 00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:10,960 Speaker 7: no mores. I am so upset. I am so mad, 510 00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:16,800 Speaker 7: And honestly, I also feel for the parents. They're gonna 511 00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:19,719 Speaker 7: need to figure out child's care, They're gonna have to commute. 512 00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:22,160 Speaker 7: So many people don't live in DC and have to 513 00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:30,080 Speaker 7: drive so far every single day. Like this sucks. This sucks. 514 00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:34,600 Speaker 7: And the crazy thing is we've all need just be 515 00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:38,680 Speaker 7: good and we're just getting started on all of this. 516 00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:43,440 Speaker 1: Every time she was bleeped, it was an f bomb. 517 00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:47,880 Speaker 1: She's a young, attractive woman and the worst thing in 518 00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:51,680 Speaker 1: her life is by take hers literally here, she was 519 00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:54,400 Speaker 1: able to tell her work once a week and now 520 00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:59,480 Speaker 1: she can't, so she's got to go to work one 521 00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:04,840 Speaker 1: extra day a week than she used to. Boy, I 522 00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:08,760 Speaker 1: would love to deport this woman. I in fact, I would. 523 00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:12,760 Speaker 1: I would. I would trade every one of these whiny, 524 00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:18,920 Speaker 1: childish office workers, uh for some of the illegal aliens 525 00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:23,640 Speaker 1: we just deported. Let let let's keep some of the 526 00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:27,480 Speaker 1: people who crossed over the border and they do hard 527 00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:31,800 Speaker 1: labor jobs every day, and let's ship out these whiny 528 00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:36,840 Speaker 1: little twits. Oh my god, did she actually and the 529 00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:40,200 Speaker 1: narcissism to make a TikTok video on it and put 530 00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:44,280 Speaker 1: it out there. It sucks to have to drive to work. 531 00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:47,800 Speaker 1: It sucks to have to drive home. It effing sucks, 532 00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:53,480 Speaker 1: over and over again. This is what we have working 533 00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:56,360 Speaker 1: in the government. In case you wonder why things are 534 00:32:56,400 --> 00:33:00,000 Speaker 1: so screwed up. This is the mindset, and it looks 535 00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:04,160 Speaker 1: like she's in charge of assessing criminals as to whether 536 00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:08,960 Speaker 1: they should be Uh. I must have something to do 537 00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:16,320 Speaker 1: with with parole and supervision, probation conditions. I guess assessment specialists, 538 00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:20,560 Speaker 1: court services and offender supervision. So she's got something to 539 00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:29,080 Speaker 1: do with what criminals are released. Yikes. Trump should just 540 00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:34,280 Speaker 1: keep firing people and firing people and firing people. When 541 00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:38,840 Speaker 1: we come back, orrel Oaks, ABC News Legal analyst, There's 542 00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:42,800 Speaker 1: going to be so many lawsuits. I mean, there was 543 00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:47,440 Speaker 1: no water in the reservoir, no water for the firefighters, 544 00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:52,680 Speaker 1: not in the hydrants. All the messaging to Altadena especially 545 00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:56,720 Speaker 1: was way way late, and people died. You got the 546 00:33:56,800 --> 00:34:01,440 Speaker 1: electrical wires crossing that ignited the brush, possibly the Altadena fire. 547 00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:06,680 Speaker 1: Karen Bass and Hersha nanigans. How many of these lawsuits 548 00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:08,120 Speaker 1: are going to be real? How many of them can 549 00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:13,239 Speaker 1: actually make it to the end. We're gonna talk coming up, 550 00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:16,120 Speaker 1: Deborah mark is Off. We got Brigitta the Deegristina live 551 00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:18,600 Speaker 1: in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. 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