1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:00,880 Speaker 1: Can't. 2 00:00:00,960 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 2: I am six forty. 3 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,520 Speaker 3: You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 4 00:00:06,320 --> 00:00:10,160 Speaker 3: We got the podcast running after four o'clock. In case 5 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:11,879 Speaker 3: you missed any part of the radio show, it's the 6 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:16,360 Speaker 3: same thing. There is a tremendous amount going on. We 7 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:19,759 Speaker 3: opened the show because Trump was holding one of his 8 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:24,639 Speaker 3: press conferences from the Oval office, and he was just 9 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:27,200 Speaker 3: ruminating on all kinds of things, and he got on 10 00:00:27,240 --> 00:00:29,440 Speaker 3: California's high speed route and said it was the worst 11 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:31,479 Speaker 3: project he's ever seen, and he's seen a lot of 12 00:00:31,480 --> 00:00:34,760 Speaker 3: bad projects, and he's right. It's been seventeen years, it's 13 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:37,120 Speaker 3: been at least ten and a half billion dollars, with 14 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:41,880 Speaker 3: billions more to be spent. Nothing. There's no track was 15 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:44,320 Speaker 3: supposed to be. It was supposed to be originally Sacramento 16 00:00:44,360 --> 00:00:48,720 Speaker 3: to San Diego. They kept emphasizing La to San Francisco. 17 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:54,720 Speaker 3: And right now they say, well, maybe Merced to Bakersfield, 18 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:59,600 Speaker 3: and it's not even that. And we've got an assembly 19 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:03,600 Speaker 3: woman from the Central Valley in t laure Alexandra at Messito, 20 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:07,200 Speaker 3: who says, you know it's time we shut off the funding. 21 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:10,600 Speaker 2: We could use the two. 22 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:16,039 Speaker 3: Billion dollars and use it for wildfire prevention and water infrastructure. 23 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:17,680 Speaker 2: Look at all that's happened. 24 00:01:18,319 --> 00:01:22,760 Speaker 3: Why do we have this situation here in Altadida and 25 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:27,640 Speaker 3: in the Palisades. Two biggest causes were a lack of water, 26 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:33,600 Speaker 3: including that empty reservoir and a lack of water infrastructure 27 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:41,119 Speaker 3: such as such as a modern modern piping, modern fire hydrants. 28 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:45,400 Speaker 3: And then fire prevention. There was so much dry brush 29 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:49,080 Speaker 3: all over the place waiting to burn on government land 30 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:52,440 Speaker 3: that they never cleared out. Billions of dollars ought to 31 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:55,680 Speaker 3: be spent on water infrastructure and unclearing the brush. 32 00:01:55,920 --> 00:01:57,120 Speaker 2: That's the government's job. 33 00:01:57,480 --> 00:02:03,400 Speaker 3: This stupid, absurd high speed ran which I know, I guarantee. 34 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:03,800 Speaker 2: You it's criminal. 35 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:06,800 Speaker 3: If they do a criminal investigation, they should be putting 36 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:10,880 Speaker 3: people in prison. Well, let's talk with Alexandra Mescito. She's 37 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:15,480 Speaker 3: the assembly woman and to Lauria Republican in the Central Valley. Alexandra, welcome, 38 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:18,600 Speaker 3: how are you, hi, John, I'm doing well. 39 00:02:18,639 --> 00:02:19,799 Speaker 4: Thanks for having me on today. 40 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:28,160 Speaker 3: Talk about what you'd like done. There's an Inspector General 41 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:32,480 Speaker 3: report and what did the Inspector General find and what 42 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:33,680 Speaker 3: is your response to it? 43 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:39,920 Speaker 4: So before this report even came out, let me preface 44 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:42,840 Speaker 4: this by saying, I am a lifelong Central Valley resident 45 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:45,959 Speaker 4: that has first hand witnessed the failures of the High 46 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:48,520 Speaker 4: Seed Rail project, and the Central Valley has been used 47 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:52,360 Speaker 4: as a poster child for why this project is necessary 48 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:54,680 Speaker 4: when the people from the Central Valley are saying, I 49 00:02:54,760 --> 00:02:58,320 Speaker 4: don't think that's quite right. So very quickly, I am 50 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:01,360 Speaker 4: a freshman legislator, and that I put forward to simply 51 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:04,800 Speaker 4: build TO sixty seven, which will take the continuous funding 52 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:07,400 Speaker 4: given each year to the California High Seed Rail and 53 00:03:07,440 --> 00:03:12,000 Speaker 4: instead appropriate it to things like wildfire prevention, water infrastructure projects. 54 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:14,680 Speaker 4: And today, the High Speed Rail has spent thirteen point 55 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:18,760 Speaker 4: seven billion dollars, including one point six billion on professional 56 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:22,280 Speaker 4: marketing materials and consultants. And the only thing that's been 57 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:27,000 Speaker 4: even kind of completed is or could be completed, is 58 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:30,480 Speaker 4: from an orchard to a field in the Central Valley. 59 00:03:30,520 --> 00:03:34,160 Speaker 4: But zero track speed of track have been laid. And 60 00:03:34,639 --> 00:03:36,720 Speaker 4: this is something that I did the research, and I 61 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:39,720 Speaker 4: found that there was really no viability in this project, 62 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:42,960 Speaker 4: especially considering I don't believe federal funding is going to 63 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:45,680 Speaker 4: be an option, and I can't touch some of the 64 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:48,200 Speaker 4: state funding because it was voted in by the voters, 65 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:50,240 Speaker 4: and I think they were misled to believe that this 66 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:53,520 Speaker 4: project that originally was quoted at thirty billion dollars would 67 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:56,160 Speaker 4: ever inflate itself to over one hundred billion dollars with 68 00:03:56,280 --> 00:03:59,320 Speaker 4: really not much to show. And so we decided to 69 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:02,440 Speaker 4: find where discretionary funding is and we found that in 70 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:05,720 Speaker 4: the cap and trade negotiations that a billion dollars each 71 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:08,760 Speaker 4: year is going to high speed rail. And with the 72 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:13,600 Speaker 4: state Californias in we cannot spend billions of dollars on 73 00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:16,920 Speaker 4: a failed project. We have not made investments in wildfire 74 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:20,960 Speaker 4: prevention or water infrastructure. For now, we're paying the price 75 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:23,640 Speaker 4: for it, and a billion dollars doesn't even start to 76 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:26,440 Speaker 4: cover the amount of investment necessary, but it at least 77 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:29,880 Speaker 4: is starting a conversation, with the STAFE budget being completely 78 00:04:29,960 --> 00:04:32,480 Speaker 4: upside down, that we had to get creative and make 79 00:04:32,520 --> 00:04:36,040 Speaker 4: sure that the investments we are making are high impact investments. 80 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:39,200 Speaker 4: I think a lot of people were curious how my 81 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:42,400 Speaker 4: bill would be received, and when the Inspector General report 82 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:44,680 Speaker 4: came out yesterday saying no, you know what, this project 83 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:47,480 Speaker 4: really does not have a chance of being a reality. 84 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:50,560 Speaker 4: It only confirms that what I had already researched and 85 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:53,880 Speaker 4: found out, which was this has been a gross waste 86 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:56,479 Speaker 4: of money. There's been a gross mismanagement of the funds. 87 00:04:56,920 --> 00:05:00,880 Speaker 4: That's what President Trump was talking about today his PET conference, 88 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:03,600 Speaker 4: and that's why this investigation of where this money has 89 00:05:03,640 --> 00:05:06,400 Speaker 4: been going, I think is something long overdue and hopefully 90 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:09,240 Speaker 4: we can get some answers to the taxpayers, who ultimately 91 00:05:09,279 --> 00:05:10,320 Speaker 4: we should all be answering to. 92 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:13,400 Speaker 3: I want to read one line from the report, which 93 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:17,599 Speaker 3: you also put in your press release. The Inspector General said, 94 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:21,919 Speaker 3: it is increasingly unlikely that the authority will complete the 95 00:05:22,080 --> 00:05:28,000 Speaker 3: Merceaid to Bakersfield segment. So the one segment that they 96 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:30,800 Speaker 3: had been pushing now for years as saying we're going 97 00:05:30,839 --> 00:05:33,120 Speaker 3: to get done, it looks like they're not going to 98 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:35,560 Speaker 3: get it done. And even if they did, it's Bakersfield. 99 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:38,279 Speaker 3: To Mer said, there's virtually no market for a train, 100 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:41,760 Speaker 3: let alone a high speed train to go from one's 101 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:45,679 Speaker 3: from Bakersfield. To Mer said, I mean, it's it's a joke. 102 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:50,040 Speaker 4: It's an absolute joke. And that's why I said, as 103 00:05:50,040 --> 00:05:52,960 Speaker 4: somebody who lives in the Central Valley, they're not really 104 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:56,159 Speaker 4: taking into account the people of the Central Valley that 105 00:05:56,240 --> 00:05:59,760 Speaker 4: they would hope to use this train. Additionally, from my mask, 106 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:02,839 Speaker 4: I'm not a mathematician. This train would go two hundred 107 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:05,240 Speaker 4: miles per hour, and I'm not really sure unless you 108 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:09,360 Speaker 4: slingshot backwards to launch forward how that would work going 109 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:13,200 Speaker 4: Mercea to Bakersfield. But regardless, we're not a place that 110 00:06:13,320 --> 00:06:15,880 Speaker 4: this is going to be a benefit for. And the 111 00:06:15,920 --> 00:06:18,240 Speaker 4: project that was sold to the voters many years ago 112 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:21,080 Speaker 4: is not the project it is today, and it's time 113 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:23,000 Speaker 4: to pull the plug and put it towards things that 114 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:26,120 Speaker 4: actually benefit the people of California. 115 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:31,160 Speaker 3: Why has this project been protected for seventeen years. I mean, 116 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:33,800 Speaker 3: it's clear a long time ago this thing was a disaster. 117 00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:35,920 Speaker 3: Why does it have special protection. 118 00:06:37,839 --> 00:06:40,800 Speaker 4: Well, once again, there is some protection for this project 119 00:06:40,880 --> 00:06:45,200 Speaker 4: because it was voted in on the ballot. So for 120 00:06:45,279 --> 00:06:47,880 Speaker 4: that reason, as legislators, there's not a lot that we 121 00:06:47,920 --> 00:06:50,560 Speaker 4: can do. I personally believe that Gavin Newsom doesn't care 122 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:55,000 Speaker 4: for this project either, but he has some constraints. So truly, 123 00:06:55,240 --> 00:06:57,640 Speaker 4: if I was the ruler of the free world, this 124 00:06:57,680 --> 00:06:59,760 Speaker 4: would go back to the ballot and let's let the 125 00:06:59,839 --> 00:07:02,919 Speaker 4: vot vote on this again. As the project stands, I 126 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:06,719 Speaker 4: think President Trump's investigation will probably show a lot of 127 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:11,080 Speaker 4: why this project has continued to have any momentum. And 128 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:13,640 Speaker 4: that's where you know, I'm really grateful that we have 129 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:16,880 Speaker 4: both state and federal attention on this issue. I think 130 00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:21,520 Speaker 4: there's local attention as well, but the state funding is 131 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:23,600 Speaker 4: up to the legislature and the governor. 132 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:27,520 Speaker 3: All right, Alexandra Messido, thank you for coming on with 133 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:32,120 Speaker 3: US assembly woman from Tallara much all right. On the 134 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:36,080 Speaker 3: high speed rail, she says it is time to stop 135 00:07:36,240 --> 00:07:39,720 Speaker 3: spending state money. She's got an Assembly bill because that's 136 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:44,680 Speaker 3: another two billion dollars would be spent on what And 137 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:47,480 Speaker 3: the Inspector General says it's never going to be even 138 00:07:47,520 --> 00:07:50,640 Speaker 3: completed to run from Merced to Bakersfield. And Trump said 139 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:53,480 Speaker 3: today there ought to be a criminal investigation looking into this. 140 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:55,960 Speaker 2: This has just got to stop here. 141 00:07:56,400 --> 00:07:59,840 Speaker 3: When we come back the fire hydrant scandal in the Palisades, 142 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:03,160 Speaker 3: What you got two billion dollars, maybe we ought to 143 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:03,600 Speaker 3: spend it. 144 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:05,800 Speaker 2: On fire hydrants. We'll tell you about it coming up. 145 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:10,840 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 146 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:11,400 Speaker 5: six forty. 147 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:13,400 Speaker 2: If I. 148 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:17,800 Speaker 3: Asked you to guess how old a lot of the 149 00:08:17,840 --> 00:08:20,120 Speaker 3: fire hydrants in the Palisades are what would you. 150 00:08:20,080 --> 00:08:28,320 Speaker 6: Think fifty years for fifty fifty years old? Now, not fifty, 151 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:34,720 Speaker 6: not sixty, not seventy. Would you believe eighty years old? 152 00:08:36,640 --> 00:08:37,959 Speaker 2: That's old. 153 00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:43,079 Speaker 3: That they're running on a water system, on an infrastructure 154 00:08:43,360 --> 00:08:47,679 Speaker 3: from the nineteen forties. Well, no wonder they ran out 155 00:08:47,679 --> 00:08:50,280 Speaker 3: of water, No wonder the hydrants did work. Is there 156 00:08:50,400 --> 00:08:54,280 Speaker 3: any appliance that you would use from the nineteen forties? 157 00:08:54,320 --> 00:08:57,959 Speaker 3: Would you drive a nineteen forties car that hasn't been upgraded? 158 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:00,240 Speaker 7: But isn't there somebody that goes around to all the 159 00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:02,800 Speaker 7: hydrants making sure they're full and in working condition. 160 00:09:04,040 --> 00:09:06,920 Speaker 3: No, it turns out they're not. No, that was another 161 00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:09,280 Speaker 3: thing I found out a few days ago. There is 162 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:12,440 Speaker 3: nobody to do that the Department of Water and Power 163 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:18,360 Speaker 3: has We're looking at eighty plus year old fire hydrants. Well, 164 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:22,319 Speaker 3: the Genie Kona is babbling about diversity and equity. 165 00:09:23,520 --> 00:09:25,360 Speaker 2: By the way, she's still in. 166 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:28,840 Speaker 3: Office, she's still getting paid by the taxpayers. 167 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:31,880 Speaker 2: She still hasn't quit, and nobody's fired her. 168 00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:37,400 Speaker 3: Tarenbats still hasn't fired Genis Quinonias, even after leading leaving 169 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:42,240 Speaker 3: that that reservoir empty and as it turns out never 170 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:45,880 Speaker 3: nobody ever upgraded the hydrants from the nineteen forties. New 171 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:49,160 Speaker 3: York Times is a story today Mike Baker and Robert 172 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:57,640 Speaker 3: gibble Off, and it says these these there's dozens of 173 00:09:57,760 --> 00:10:04,920 Speaker 3: aging hydrants across several city blocks, and the firefighters needed 174 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:07,840 Speaker 3: water from these hydrants, and each one of them has 175 00:10:07,880 --> 00:10:10,440 Speaker 3: a single two and a half inch outlet to attach 176 00:10:10,520 --> 00:10:17,040 Speaker 3: the hose. And the older hydrants with these single two 177 00:10:17,080 --> 00:10:20,160 Speaker 3: and a half inch outlets, quote, are not considered to 178 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:24,920 Speaker 3: be suitable for normal fire protection service, according to the 179 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:29,800 Speaker 3: American Waterworks Association, which establishes the industry standards for fire 180 00:10:29,880 --> 00:10:34,400 Speaker 3: hydrants across the country. But in New York Times investigation 181 00:10:34,880 --> 00:10:39,000 Speaker 3: found them present and in many cases the only source 182 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:42,680 Speaker 3: of water for firefighting in several areas of the Palisades 183 00:10:42,720 --> 00:10:49,120 Speaker 3: and other neighborhoods in Los Angeles. The standard is now 184 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:53,240 Speaker 3: four inches, and you could get a greater volume of 185 00:10:53,280 --> 00:10:57,280 Speaker 3: water from a four inch outlet compared to two and 186 00:10:57,320 --> 00:11:03,920 Speaker 3: a half inches. Fire chief from Michigan, Michael Fronamos, he's 187 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:08,680 Speaker 3: been pushing for fire departments to assess their hydrant systems. 188 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:15,240 Speaker 3: He was surprised to see these old, small hydrants operating 189 00:11:15,280 --> 00:11:21,920 Speaker 3: in the Palisades. Hydrants with larger outlets are preferable because 190 00:11:21,920 --> 00:11:24,920 Speaker 3: water volume is more important than pressure when trying to 191 00:11:24,920 --> 00:11:27,840 Speaker 3: put out a blaze. Remember you had firefighters complaining about 192 00:11:27,840 --> 00:11:33,760 Speaker 3: a lack of pressure. Well, even more important is the waterflow. 193 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:36,960 Speaker 3: Having a wide waterflow. Of course you have to have 194 00:11:37,040 --> 00:11:40,760 Speaker 3: water for that, And since all their reservoirs and tanks 195 00:11:40,760 --> 00:11:45,120 Speaker 3: were dry, I guess it really didn't matter. Do you 196 00:11:45,160 --> 00:11:49,200 Speaker 3: realize the city council has been passing budgets for eighty 197 00:11:49,280 --> 00:11:53,880 Speaker 3: years and never upgraded these fire hydrants. That's another thing 198 00:11:53,960 --> 00:11:57,839 Speaker 3: Karen Bass didn't do. I've got a story Michael Munks 199 00:11:57,920 --> 00:12:00,600 Speaker 3: is going to be on after two thirty about a 200 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:06,360 Speaker 3: group of these socialists, illegal aliens supporting council people who 201 00:12:06,360 --> 00:12:09,360 Speaker 3: want a new package of laws to protect the legal aliens. 202 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:14,520 Speaker 2: They want to spend money on that. I haven't these people. 203 00:12:14,800 --> 00:12:16,440 Speaker 7: I have any idea, John, you want to hear it? 204 00:12:17,440 --> 00:12:18,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, the DWP. 205 00:12:18,760 --> 00:12:22,240 Speaker 7: You know how the DWP goes to people's homes and 206 00:12:22,280 --> 00:12:24,520 Speaker 7: you know, checks the meter to see how much? 207 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:25,080 Speaker 2: Yes? 208 00:12:25,160 --> 00:12:27,520 Speaker 7: Right, Well, why don't they check all the hydrants as well? 209 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:31,560 Speaker 2: Oh there's some money in that? 210 00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:33,840 Speaker 7: Well that that should be part of their job checking 211 00:12:33,880 --> 00:12:37,000 Speaker 7: the meters, right, and then alongside. 212 00:12:36,520 --> 00:12:39,080 Speaker 2: Check they check our water meters and our power meters. 213 00:12:39,400 --> 00:12:41,520 Speaker 7: Yes, so let's check the fire hydrants. 214 00:12:42,520 --> 00:12:45,240 Speaker 3: And there's often hydrants right in front of people's homes 215 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:47,600 Speaker 3: and they never stopped to say, hey, is this working. 216 00:12:50,679 --> 00:12:54,840 Speaker 3: So the IT says having additional outlets with modern hydrants 217 00:12:54,840 --> 00:12:58,120 Speaker 3: can provide firefighters with the ability to attach more than 218 00:12:58,160 --> 00:13:03,080 Speaker 3: one homes. The outdated hydrants, they're known as red top 219 00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:09,040 Speaker 3: hydrants or wharf hydrants, were installed in La neighborhoods in 220 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:13,480 Speaker 3: the nineteen forties. Twenty four percent of those within the 221 00:13:13,520 --> 00:13:16,719 Speaker 3: Palisades Fire twenty four percent had only a two and 222 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:19,559 Speaker 3: a half inch outlet, and seventeen percent of all the 223 00:13:19,679 --> 00:13:24,280 Speaker 3: hydrants in the city. 224 00:13:25,520 --> 00:13:26,599 Speaker 2: This is astonishing. 225 00:13:29,880 --> 00:13:32,400 Speaker 3: Terry O'Connell, who worked in the hydrants program during his 226 00:13:32,480 --> 00:13:40,800 Speaker 3: time at the fire department, has said the unusual design 227 00:13:41,840 --> 00:13:46,560 Speaker 3: made firefighters aware that hydrants in those cases produced high pressure, 228 00:13:47,920 --> 00:13:50,840 Speaker 3: requiring some precaution, but it doesn't produce as high. 229 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:53,240 Speaker 2: A water flow, which is what they need. More. 230 00:13:54,720 --> 00:13:57,600 Speaker 3: The Department of Water and Power is control is in 231 00:13:57,640 --> 00:14:01,840 Speaker 3: control of each hydrant. Fire department is supposed to conduct 232 00:14:01,920 --> 00:14:07,400 Speaker 3: tests but the water Department, the Water and Power Department. 233 00:14:07,480 --> 00:14:11,280 Speaker 3: The DWP declined to discuss with The New York Times 234 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:16,680 Speaker 3: the hydrant system, but it's welcoming a review of the 235 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:22,080 Speaker 3: whole water system and will address any needed updates to 236 00:14:22,160 --> 00:14:23,440 Speaker 3: city codes. 237 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:24,880 Speaker 2: This is this is the thing. 238 00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:30,920 Speaker 3: They're trying to black out all news, all information from 239 00:14:30,960 --> 00:14:34,200 Speaker 3: coming from the inside so that the public could know. 240 00:14:34,440 --> 00:14:37,880 Speaker 3: How incompetent Conunas and Bass did they ever have a 241 00:14:37,880 --> 00:14:41,440 Speaker 3: meeting in the last two years about having antique fire hydrants? 242 00:14:41,560 --> 00:14:46,560 Speaker 3: These fire hydrants should have been in a museum. They 243 00:14:46,560 --> 00:14:48,720 Speaker 3: should have been in the Museum of Fire Hydrants to 244 00:14:48,760 --> 00:14:51,800 Speaker 3: show little school kids what it was like to fight 245 00:14:51,880 --> 00:14:55,880 Speaker 3: fires during World War II? How could you have hydrants 246 00:14:55,880 --> 00:14:57,600 Speaker 3: in the palisades from. 247 00:14:57,400 --> 00:14:58,160 Speaker 2: World War II? 248 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:05,440 Speaker 3: Never upgraded, never discussed, never spent any money on. 249 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:07,760 Speaker 2: You believe this World War Two. 250 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:17,080 Speaker 3: Luke Millik, a former captain, said many of the hydrants 251 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:22,320 Speaker 3: in the city were ancient, ancient. During his years with 252 00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:25,680 Speaker 3: the city, there was no money for major upgrades. We 253 00:15:25,760 --> 00:15:31,760 Speaker 3: couldn't even get people to paint the hydrants. By the way, 254 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:34,360 Speaker 3: there's a lot of other neighborhoods such as bel Air, 255 00:15:34,560 --> 00:15:38,440 Speaker 3: bell Air, more than sixty percent of hydrants have a 256 00:15:38,480 --> 00:15:41,400 Speaker 3: single small outlet. So those of you in bel Air, 257 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:44,800 Speaker 3: you're next. You've just been warned. You have hydrants from 258 00:15:44,840 --> 00:15:49,400 Speaker 3: World War two? How much described as ancient. 259 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:52,960 Speaker 7: Make against seven fifty. 260 00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:55,160 Speaker 3: Seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year. Seven hundred 261 00:15:55,160 --> 00:15:58,080 Speaker 3: and fifty thousand dollars they had for Genie Kenonias. They 262 00:15:58,080 --> 00:16:01,080 Speaker 3: didn't have seventy five cents to great fire hydrant in 263 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:06,400 Speaker 3: the Palisades and bel Air, which you ever been there? 264 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:16,080 Speaker 3: Dense forest, God forbid if fire breaks out in that area, 265 00:16:17,640 --> 00:16:19,200 Speaker 3: there is so much fuel to burn. 266 00:16:21,320 --> 00:16:22,000 Speaker 2: I take a break. 267 00:16:22,960 --> 00:16:27,000 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A 268 00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:28,080 Speaker 5: six forty. 269 00:16:28,680 --> 00:16:30,760 Speaker 3: Round from one until four and then after four o'clock 270 00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:33,480 Speaker 3: John Cobelt Show on demand on the iHeart app, and 271 00:16:33,560 --> 00:16:35,440 Speaker 3: you can hear what you missed. It's the podcast same 272 00:16:35,480 --> 00:16:39,440 Speaker 3: as the radio show. The La City Council they have 273 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:43,680 Speaker 3: no shame. They don't care about anyone's life unless you're 274 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:45,480 Speaker 3: an illegal alien or. 275 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:47,360 Speaker 2: A criminal or a homeless person. 276 00:16:47,680 --> 00:16:50,960 Speaker 3: But the people in Palisades, as far as the La 277 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:54,280 Speaker 3: City Council can just go f off because they want 278 00:16:54,320 --> 00:16:57,840 Speaker 3: to spend money. They want to spend money protecting illegal 279 00:16:57,880 --> 00:17:03,560 Speaker 3: aliens from the Trump immigration orders. Michael Monks from KFI 280 00:17:03,640 --> 00:17:05,240 Speaker 3: News has been covering this story. 281 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:07,399 Speaker 2: Michael, good afternoon to you. John. 282 00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:11,760 Speaker 8: Yes, City Hall has been graffited with a lot of 283 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:16,600 Speaker 8: foul language aimed towards the President and immigration enforcement officials 284 00:17:16,680 --> 00:17:19,840 Speaker 8: as part of a Sunday and Monday's protests down there. 285 00:17:19,880 --> 00:17:21,920 Speaker 8: There is of course a protest happening today involving a 286 00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:24,080 Speaker 8: lot of high school students, but so far it doesn't 287 00:17:24,119 --> 00:17:26,080 Speaker 8: look like any vandalism has taken place. So this press 288 00:17:26,080 --> 00:17:29,760 Speaker 8: conference today took place between two pillars that had been 289 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:33,360 Speaker 8: graffeited with swear words directed at Washington as Council member 290 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:35,719 Speaker 8: Hugo Soda Martinez and a few other members of council 291 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:43,080 Speaker 8: called for additional protections for illegal immigrants right here in La. 292 00:17:43,160 --> 00:17:46,920 Speaker 8: Among those include the Know Your Rights campaign. They call 293 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:49,840 Speaker 8: this a citywide public education effort. They want to tell 294 00:17:49,920 --> 00:17:53,119 Speaker 8: immigrants about what their rights are, how they can avoid 295 00:17:53,119 --> 00:17:56,560 Speaker 8: being discriminated against, and what to know about the sanctuary 296 00:17:56,600 --> 00:18:00,720 Speaker 8: city policy. They also want to explore policies that would 297 00:18:00,920 --> 00:18:06,159 Speaker 8: ensure that businesses that have ICE enforcement taking place on 298 00:18:06,320 --> 00:18:09,720 Speaker 8: their sites to alert the city so that the city 299 00:18:09,800 --> 00:18:13,800 Speaker 8: can then work with those employees to get legal support 300 00:18:13,960 --> 00:18:15,199 Speaker 8: so that they know their rights. 301 00:18:16,760 --> 00:18:18,680 Speaker 2: Are you aware of how much money this is supposed 302 00:18:18,720 --> 00:18:19,080 Speaker 2: to cost? 303 00:18:19,560 --> 00:18:22,720 Speaker 8: Right right now? This is a proposal, and so it 304 00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:24,920 Speaker 8: was not in it was introduced to it. It's like 305 00:18:24,960 --> 00:18:26,679 Speaker 8: these formalities you know at City Hall. So it was 306 00:18:26,760 --> 00:18:29,359 Speaker 8: introduced in the system, but it's not on the floor 307 00:18:29,359 --> 00:18:31,680 Speaker 8: for a vote yet. So it will go through committees 308 00:18:31,760 --> 00:18:35,480 Speaker 8: and be vetted. But the things that are related to money, 309 00:18:35,480 --> 00:18:38,320 Speaker 8: it basically says we want a report on how much 310 00:18:38,359 --> 00:18:40,600 Speaker 8: it would cost. For example, they want to bring funding 311 00:18:40,640 --> 00:18:43,600 Speaker 8: back to legal services that they think may have been 312 00:18:43,680 --> 00:18:46,560 Speaker 8: frozen by the Trump administration. So what they're asking for 313 00:18:46,640 --> 00:18:49,600 Speaker 8: is an immediate report on how the city can support 314 00:18:49,640 --> 00:18:52,880 Speaker 8: maintaining immigration legal services that have been frozen. 315 00:18:52,960 --> 00:18:54,359 Speaker 2: Yeah, I've got I know. 316 00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:56,720 Speaker 3: Like Times reports said they're asking for five hundred and 317 00:18:56,720 --> 00:19:00,719 Speaker 3: forty thousand dollars for that to pay for three months 318 00:19:00,760 --> 00:19:04,840 Speaker 3: for immigration legal service providers whose federal support was frozen 319 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:07,719 Speaker 3: by Trump. And therefore that's the only number that I 320 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:11,520 Speaker 3: saw in these stories exactly. So there may be some 321 00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:15,320 Speaker 3: money that is available through the various council members' offices 322 00:19:15,359 --> 00:19:17,360 Speaker 3: there's a lot of weird funds. 323 00:19:17,119 --> 00:19:20,359 Speaker 2: In government and much fund call. Yeah. 324 00:19:20,359 --> 00:19:23,400 Speaker 8: So the council members themselves even get a certical term, yeah, 325 00:19:23,520 --> 00:19:26,160 Speaker 8: slush fund, And so they can sometimes use their own 326 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:30,040 Speaker 8: council money to help certain issues of pet projects or 327 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:33,879 Speaker 8: even infrastructure situations in their own districts. But this was 328 00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:39,399 Speaker 8: council Member Hugo Soto Martinez, Councilwoman Amenc's Hernandez, and the 329 00:19:39,720 --> 00:19:44,640 Speaker 8: councilwoman Emaileda Padilla and the newest member of council, Councilwoman 330 00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:48,440 Speaker 8: Isabelle Herado, who have spoken in support of this. And 331 00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:50,199 Speaker 8: we'll see how quickly it comes to the floor there 332 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:53,160 Speaker 8: at City Hall. Oh, that's going to go quickly, right. 333 00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:56,239 Speaker 3: But as far as explaining what went on in the 334 00:19:56,240 --> 00:20:01,040 Speaker 3: Palisades to lab at horrific fire, we're not. Have they 335 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:04,000 Speaker 3: had a public meeting on any of this? Well about 336 00:20:04,119 --> 00:20:08,360 Speaker 3: you know, for example, the the reservoir being empty. Has 337 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:11,480 Speaker 3: anybody said anything in a public setting about the reservoir 338 00:20:11,480 --> 00:20:12,439 Speaker 3: being empty? 339 00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:13,400 Speaker 2: Just for starters. 340 00:20:13,520 --> 00:20:17,440 Speaker 8: Part of the immediate request by members of council, particularly 341 00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:20,560 Speaker 8: from Tracy Park, who represents the Palisades at City Hall, 342 00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:24,639 Speaker 8: was to ensure that there will be some conversation, some 343 00:20:24,680 --> 00:20:30,360 Speaker 8: public hearings involving LEDWP and what their infrastructure situation is 344 00:20:30,359 --> 00:20:33,160 Speaker 8: is like, and to ensure that they are having more 345 00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:37,720 Speaker 8: regular conversations with the fire department about the water situation. 346 00:20:37,880 --> 00:20:40,399 Speaker 8: So there has been a lot of city level of 347 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:44,240 Speaker 8: legislation adopted already and some still moving through the process 348 00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:46,720 Speaker 8: related to the fire response. 349 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:47,040 Speaker 2: Including today. 350 00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:50,560 Speaker 3: All right, very good, Michael Munks, thank you my pleasure, 351 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:53,639 Speaker 3: John for coming on there. Michael Munks cant finds this 352 00:20:54,240 --> 00:20:59,080 Speaker 3: is what Hugo Soda Martinez and those those other council 353 00:20:59,119 --> 00:21:02,399 Speaker 3: people that he mentioned. They have zero interest unless you're 354 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:05,320 Speaker 3: an illegal alien, criminal, or a homeless person. 355 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:05,879 Speaker 2: Zero. 356 00:21:06,040 --> 00:21:09,919 Speaker 3: They don't represent you. You're a taxpayer, you are a fool. 357 00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:15,960 Speaker 3: This is what happened because we let in so much 358 00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:22,760 Speaker 3: illegal immigration. There are now power bases for politicians to 359 00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:27,600 Speaker 3: take our tax money and directed towards illegal alien representation. 360 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:32,880 Speaker 3: They don't want to help get the criminal aliens right. 361 00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:37,439 Speaker 3: They claim, well, that's a federal issue, except it's a 362 00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:40,280 Speaker 3: local issue. When they spend local money, suddenly it's not 363 00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:42,800 Speaker 3: a federal issue anymore. When they want to try to 364 00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:47,040 Speaker 3: protect the illegal aliens from. 365 00:21:46,840 --> 00:21:49,440 Speaker 2: The law, from enforcement of federal law. 366 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:52,480 Speaker 3: Now they're willing to spend at least five hundred and 367 00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:57,840 Speaker 3: forty thousand dollars on interfering with the enforcement of federal law. 368 00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:04,360 Speaker 3: They don't want to help because it's basically not their business, 369 00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:11,160 Speaker 3: but instead they want to interfere. It's just outrageous, and 370 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:14,920 Speaker 3: you know, I hope, I hope Tom Holman goes after 371 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:18,639 Speaker 3: some of these officials because this is about aiding and 372 00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:22,480 Speaker 3: abetting illegal aliens. You're setting up you're setting up a 373 00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:28,359 Speaker 3: immigration legal Service fund for what if they're here illegally. 374 00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:32,000 Speaker 3: That means they're breaking the law and they can be deported. 375 00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:36,439 Speaker 3: That's the way the law works. That this constant drumbeat 376 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:40,639 Speaker 3: that well, basically, what there's things we shouldn't enforce the law. 377 00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:42,640 Speaker 3: It doesn't work that way anymore. 378 00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:46,640 Speaker 2: That's over. We had an election. We tried it their 379 00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:47,679 Speaker 2: way for four years. 380 00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:51,120 Speaker 3: Longer than four years, but the Biden years certainly there 381 00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:56,679 Speaker 3: was no immigration law and it was disastrous. Eighty seven 382 00:22:56,800 --> 00:23:02,879 Speaker 3: percent of the public wants criminal aliens deported. Eighty seven percent. 383 00:23:03,760 --> 00:23:07,080 Speaker 3: You go look it up, it's a New York Times poll. 384 00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:09,440 Speaker 3: I save it on my iPad. I have a tab 385 00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:12,399 Speaker 3: devoted to that page because nobody wants to believe it. 386 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:19,200 Speaker 3: Big majorities of Democrats want criminal aliens deported. So Hugo 387 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:23,080 Speaker 3: Sodo Martinez is living in twenty twenty. That era is 388 00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:26,439 Speaker 3: over now and the rest of the time. Let me 389 00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:28,960 Speaker 3: let me have a minute here. No, I don't want 390 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:32,720 Speaker 3: to come back. I want to tell you. The governor 391 00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:36,520 Speaker 3: of New Jersey, Phil Murphy, another guy living in twenty twenty. 392 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:39,440 Speaker 3: He shut off his mouth and claimed that he has 393 00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:42,639 Speaker 3: an illegal immigrant living with his family, and he dared 394 00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:46,640 Speaker 3: the Feds to come and get him. Murphy and then 395 00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:50,040 Speaker 3: Tom Holman, Trump's border guy, said Okay, we'll come and 396 00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:52,280 Speaker 3: get you. You got to listen to these clips when 397 00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:52,920 Speaker 3: we come back. 398 00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:58,159 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Kobels on demand from KFI AM 399 00:23:58,200 --> 00:23:58,760 Speaker 5: six forty. 400 00:23:59,480 --> 00:24:02,640 Speaker 3: Coming up after three o'clock, we are going to talk 401 00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:07,560 Speaker 3: with Oaks from ABC News. Trump is as you are 402 00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:13,200 Speaker 3: trying to stop birthright citizenship. It is the Supreme Court 403 00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:17,960 Speaker 3: over the years has interpreted the Fourteenth Amendment as saying 404 00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:21,159 Speaker 3: that anybody who is born in the United States is 405 00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:27,680 Speaker 3: automatically a citizen. Well, there's also a clause within that 406 00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:31,000 Speaker 3: amendment which has led a lot of legal scholars to 407 00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:35,399 Speaker 3: believe that that's not necessarily true. Specifically, if you have 408 00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:39,760 Speaker 3: two parents here illegally and they drop a baby, is 409 00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:46,880 Speaker 3: that baby really constitutionally a US citizen? Trump says no. 410 00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:51,640 Speaker 3: He's got legal analysts who say no, and Trump's trying 411 00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:54,320 Speaker 3: to create a Supreme Court case out of it. Ultimately, 412 00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:57,080 Speaker 3: we're going to talk to royal oaks about the legal 413 00:24:57,160 --> 00:25:00,439 Speaker 3: arguments on both sides. It does seem a little that 414 00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:03,760 Speaker 3: two people could come here illegally, have a baby, and 415 00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:07,000 Speaker 3: suddenly the baby has citizenship and then we have to 416 00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:11,160 Speaker 3: pay for it. I've always thought that was wrong. We'll 417 00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:12,920 Speaker 3: see where that case goes. 418 00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:13,280 Speaker 2: Now. 419 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:17,320 Speaker 3: Phil Murphy, you may not know him. He's the new 420 00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:20,800 Speaker 3: Jersey governor. He's been there for two terms, and he's 421 00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:25,920 Speaker 3: a whack job progressive. He's got Newsom's politics, same guy, 422 00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:30,719 Speaker 3: and he is losing his grip on reality. He's so 423 00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:36,439 Speaker 3: upset over Ice enforcing the law and deporting criminal illegal aliens. 424 00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:37,320 Speaker 2: This upset. 425 00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:41,040 Speaker 3: This upsets a governor of a major state that the 426 00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:46,680 Speaker 3: federal government is enforcing federal law regarding criminal aliens, which 427 00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:50,600 Speaker 3: eighty seven percent of the public supports. So he decided 428 00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:53,560 Speaker 3: that he was going to challenge Tom Holman and Trump 429 00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:58,200 Speaker 3: and blurted out on television that he has an illegal 430 00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:01,080 Speaker 3: alien living with him. Play cut number one. 431 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:04,080 Speaker 1: I don't want to get into too much detail, but 432 00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:09,640 Speaker 1: there's someone in our broader universe whose immigration status is 433 00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:13,439 Speaker 1: not yet at the point that they are trying to 434 00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:16,240 Speaker 1: get it to. And we said, you know what, let's 435 00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:19,840 Speaker 1: have her live at our house above our garage, and 436 00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:22,359 Speaker 1: good luck to the Fed's coming in to try to 437 00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:22,800 Speaker 1: get her. 438 00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:28,880 Speaker 3: Daring Trump and Holman to come get this illegal alien 439 00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:32,320 Speaker 3: that Murphy is harboring, and that is a federal crime. 440 00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:36,320 Speaker 3: And Holman went on Fox News to respond and point 441 00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:37,359 Speaker 3: out the relevant law. 442 00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:38,160 Speaker 2: Play cut two. 443 00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:41,479 Speaker 9: I think the governments pretty FOOLI same way said, because 444 00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:44,840 Speaker 9: I've gotten hold of it, we'll let it go. We'll 445 00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:48,680 Speaker 9: look into it. And if he's normally normally harboring, concealing 446 00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:51,639 Speaker 9: and illeguelian, that's a violation tie the way, and I 447 00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:54,600 Speaker 9: stays called thirteen twenty four. I would seek prosecution or 448 00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:58,840 Speaker 9: the secretary would seek prosecution. So maybe he's buffing. If 449 00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:00,800 Speaker 9: he's not, we'll deal with that. Yeah, And as far 450 00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:02,880 Speaker 9: as soon and sanctuary cities will get in line, because 451 00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:05,520 Speaker 9: the Trump administration is going to do that. Already, Sanctuary 452 00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:09,280 Speaker 9: cities are sanctuary for criminals. There's one example, right if 453 00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:13,560 Speaker 9: the Young Sanctuarius Cities in New York City, if they 454 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:16,399 Speaker 9: would have gave us over the killer of lakeln Riman 455 00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:17,840 Speaker 9: when he got the rest in New York City for 456 00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:20,600 Speaker 9: endangerous child, he would have been in jail and he 457 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:23,040 Speaker 9: would have never killed Lake and Riley sans furry cities 458 00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:28,080 Speaker 9: are responsible for deaths of thousands, thousands of young children 459 00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:30,640 Speaker 9: throughout my career. And we're going soon and we're going home. 460 00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:32,640 Speaker 9: And look if he's got going Supreme Court, that's what 461 00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:35,639 Speaker 9: President Trump wanted to do. He will end sancstorry cities. 462 00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:44,240 Speaker 3: Sanctuary cities harbor violent murderers and sexual predators. That's the truth. 463 00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:48,440 Speaker 3: And for Phil Murphy to claim that, you know, he's 464 00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:53,520 Speaker 3: going to have a sanctuary room in his over his garage. 465 00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:58,160 Speaker 3: The Daily Mail has a story following up and Murphy 466 00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:01,879 Speaker 3: is starting to back off after seeing Homan said that 467 00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:06,440 Speaker 3: they'll come and arrest Murphy. I don't even understand this, 468 00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:13,280 Speaker 3: this new explanation. But Murphy got his director of communications, 469 00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:22,480 Speaker 3: Mahen Gunaratna Mahen and she came out and said that 470 00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:26,600 Speaker 3: no one moved into the Murphy's home. The individual in 471 00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:35,000 Speaker 3: their orbit is a legal resident. Mahen says that Murphy 472 00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:39,280 Speaker 3: was only sharing a conversation that he was having with 473 00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:44,640 Speaker 3: his wife when he claimed that he invited an undocked 474 00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:53,120 Speaker 3: an illegal alien. Mahen Gunaratna says no offer was ever 475 00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:56,640 Speaker 3: made to them, and Murphy and his wife only had 476 00:28:56,640 --> 00:29:00,480 Speaker 3: the discussion because the woman was concerned about the general climate. 477 00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:06,640 Speaker 3: Murphy's neighbors in Red Bank, New Jersey, are saying that 478 00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:12,960 Speaker 3: Murphy's lied, that he was just trying to show off, 479 00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:14,479 Speaker 3: you know, virtue signal. 480 00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:17,600 Speaker 2: One neighbor said that was all lie. 481 00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:20,120 Speaker 3: I think he was rubbing the president the wrong way, 482 00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:23,920 Speaker 3: giving him the business. I don't know what he was 483 00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:26,040 Speaker 3: expecting as a result of it, that they were going 484 00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:27,760 Speaker 3: to go storm the house and look for her. 485 00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:30,120 Speaker 2: It's been a proven a lie at this point. 486 00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:33,040 Speaker 3: It's fictional, said Jerry Hurley, a firefighter who lives on 487 00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:35,560 Speaker 3: the same block. By the way, Murphy has a nine 488 00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:38,800 Speaker 3: million dollar home. Oh, just like Gavin Newsom, another nine 489 00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:40,480 Speaker 3: million dollar homeowner. 490 00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:42,400 Speaker 2: He says. 491 00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:46,640 Speaker 3: Hurley says, it doesn't make sense she's waiting for citizenship 492 00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:50,680 Speaker 3: and if that's the impression he gave. Why would you 493 00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:53,520 Speaker 3: do that? Now it's proven it's a fictional person. So 494 00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:56,360 Speaker 3: now the neighbors are saying that this this person doesn't 495 00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:59,400 Speaker 3: even exist. So first it was an illegal alien they 496 00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:01,880 Speaker 3: were harboring. Then it was somebody who was a legal 497 00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:05,720 Speaker 3: resident awaiting their citizenship. Now the person doesn't exist at all. 498 00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:17,400 Speaker 3: Is everybody insane? I think we know the answer. Anyway, 499 00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:21,720 Speaker 3: Trump is going to keep pushing on this idea of 500 00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:28,640 Speaker 3: birthright citizenship not being in the constitution, and Rol Oaks 501 00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:30,640 Speaker 3: for ABC News is going to come on and explain 502 00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:32,959 Speaker 3: it next hour. We're also going to talk to you 503 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:36,480 Speaker 3: in detail. We did part of this early in the show. 504 00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:38,760 Speaker 3: We'll quickly review the first part and then give you 505 00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:45,120 Speaker 3: the second part. Steve Soberoff, who's promoted Karen Bass for years, 506 00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:48,680 Speaker 3: is trying to bail Bass out. Now he's a civic 507 00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:51,000 Speaker 3: leader who's in charge of the recovery effort for the 508 00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:54,440 Speaker 3: time being in the Palisades, and he was giving inside 509 00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:58,719 Speaker 3: information to his wealthy friends in the entertainment industry about 510 00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:01,280 Speaker 3: how they could end up tripping the value of their 511 00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:05,280 Speaker 3: home or their lot if they live in the Palisades. 512 00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:08,360 Speaker 3: And also he was giving his advice as to whether 513 00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:11,920 Speaker 3: they could believe the Department of Water and Power in 514 00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:15,120 Speaker 3: regards the safe drinking water. This is information that the 515 00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:17,320 Speaker 3: rest of the public doesn't have privy too. But Steve 516 00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:20,960 Speaker 3: Soberoff is giving all this information to his rich buddies 517 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:26,440 Speaker 3: in Hollywood because they don't care about you. Believe me, 518 00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:30,160 Speaker 3: they don't. They can help their friends, they will, but 519 00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:32,760 Speaker 3: sober Off doesn't give a rats ass about you and 520 00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:36,760 Speaker 3: the Palisades if you're not rich, Hollywood connected and influential. 521 00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:40,760 Speaker 3: And there's proof because the Washington Free Beacon got a 522 00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:44,280 Speaker 3: hold of this private zoom audio to prove it. Deborah 523 00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:46,800 Speaker 3: Mark is live in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hey, 524 00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:49,640 Speaker 3: you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You 525 00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:52,240 Speaker 3: can always hear the show live on KFI Am six 526 00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:55,080 Speaker 3: forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, 527 00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:58,360 Speaker 3: and of course, anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.