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Speaker 1: We have a lot of good stuff last night, and

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Speaker 1: La Times unleashed the Karen Bass texts.

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Speaker 2: Some of them, a few of them.

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Speaker 1: Do you remember The Times had issued a I don't

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Speaker 1: know if it's a Freedom of Information Act requests something

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Speaker 1: to see certain government records, certain communications, and certainly texts

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Speaker 1: leading up well, texts starting with the fire, preparation and

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Speaker 1: the reaction of the fire are fair game. And Bass's

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Speaker 1: people said, oh, well, she had auto delete on. You know,

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Speaker 1: they disappear after thirty a sorry, no texts. Well, suddenly

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Speaker 1: they found some of the texts, some extraordinary technological miracle.

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Speaker 1: But they only released a little bit. And so we'll

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Speaker 1: after three thirty. Now, yesterday they had a hearing in

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Speaker 1: there is a woman with the California Legislative Analyst Office.

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Speaker 1: Her name is Helen Kerstein. And this is supposed to

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Speaker 1: just simply explain the math. We either have the money

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Speaker 2: High speed rail.

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Speaker 1: And she came to the legislature and said, there's a

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Speaker 1: months from now. They have to find seven billion dollars. Now,

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Speaker 1: if you remember, the state is already got a seventy

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Speaker 1: where you're gonna find the money for this most embarrassing preer.

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Speaker 1: Do you know, in the history of the civilized world,

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Speaker 1: Egyptian Pyramids, to ancient Greece, to Stonehenge, there has never

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Speaker 1: been a project more costly and more botched than this thing.

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Speaker 1: This is the biggest boondoggle in human history. In fact,

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Speaker 1: I'd say the Egyptians were far more successful. They actually

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Speaker 1: spent seventeen years building nothing. And they spent seventeen billion

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Speaker 2: Well, this was maybe the match.

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Speaker 1: I've thought this before, but maybe this time this is

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Speaker 1: Democrats good point continue to fund this project with so

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Speaker 1: many other critical priorities in the state going underfunded. Wait,

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Speaker 1: there's more. One Republican assembly Woman, Alexandra Messito said, I

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Speaker 1: was in middle school when this happened. We don't have

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Speaker 1: the time, we don't have the money. We just need

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Speaker 1: to pull the plug on this project. As the voters

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Speaker 1: You weren't in middle school, were you?

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Speaker 1: It was originally estimated to cost thirty three billion dollars.

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Speaker 1: years ago. Now the true cost, and this is according

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Speaker 1: to California Globe. Some estimates dating back to the Jerry

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Speaker 1: fifty billion dollars. Because right now they talk about one

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Speaker 1: Well in Jerry Brown's days, and I guess this they

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Speaker 1: here's what's fascinating. Newsom talked about this on his latest

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Speaker 1: the New York Times, and he's lecturing Democrats saying, if

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Speaker 1: you guys want to win, how about being successful at

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Speaker 1: building something? And he picked on high speed rail.

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Speaker 2: He's picked on a.

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Speaker 1: Lot of like Democratic projects, especially construction projects, because the

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Speaker 1: construction projects that should be in the Democrats wheelhouse considering

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Speaker 1: Well, here you have the ultimate mass transit project, total botch,

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Speaker 2: And it looks like client putting Newsom on the defenses.

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Speaker 1: He Newsom says, we did the railhead, we're starting to

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Speaker 1: This is classic used car salesman.

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Speaker 3: I'd rather pay less money for gas.

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Speaker 1: Yeah about how many you take all the high speed

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Speaker 1: rail money, give it back to us? No, take it

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Speaker 1: off the gas tax?

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Speaker 3: Yes?

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Speaker 2: Oh oh, In fact, it was.

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Speaker 1: There's a legislator who proposed that, and I think his

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Speaker 1: stop the high speed rail spending and take that money

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Speaker 1: to lower the gas tax.

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Speaker 4: Do you know how many screwed up sidewalks are in

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Speaker 4: in my my neighborhood.

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Speaker 3: What it was, it wasn't the money.

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Speaker 4: Seriously, wasn't some of the money from the gas tax

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Speaker 2: Yeah? They totally lied. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I was actually going to take a picture there were

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Speaker 3: so many and bring it in.

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Speaker 1: Show you should We'll put it up on the website.

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Speaker 1: Crazy now, we'll put it up on the website. And

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Speaker 1: that's that specifically, would be a Karen Bass failure. And

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Speaker 1: that's what's causing a lot of the lawsuits that we're

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Speaker 3: Yes, and I may be one of them one day.

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Speaker 2: Well, you're not gonna have far to fall. But thanks John,

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Speaker 2: You're will uh.

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Speaker 1: Newsom says, at the end of the day, we've got

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Speaker 1: these constraints that are well established and existing constraints.

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Speaker 2: Oh man, Eric, we do you get a chance? We

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Speaker 1: We've got these constraints that are well established in existing constraints.

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Speaker 2: What does that mean? I need an English translation.

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Speaker 1: There's not a high speed rail system that doesn't have

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Speaker 1: some popularity and success. Most are wildly popular. Well, you

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Speaker 1: that's popular if it's not built. He's kind of missing

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Speaker 1: the point. He's still cheering. We already agreed to build it.

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Speaker 1: We already gave you the money. You didn't build anything,

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Speaker 1: ya moron, seventeen years, seventeen billion dollars. Well, you know,

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Speaker 1: when we build this thing, it's going to be really popular.

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Speaker 1: Oh man, people are going to be cheering.

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Speaker 2: Look.

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Speaker 1: Look the Bakersfield to Merced train it's rolling.

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Speaker 2: Yay everybody.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to her said better yet, let's then take

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Speaker 1: one has had in the United States, said Newsom. At

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Speaker 1: least we're out there daring.

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Speaker 2: I got the constraints. Clip if you want it, Oh,

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Speaker 5: I mean the end of the day, we've got these

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Speaker 5: constraints that are well established already, these pre existing constraints.

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Speaker 5: There's not a high speed railing system that's not enjoyed

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Speaker 5: Are wildly popular. It's an experience no one's had in

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Speaker 5: the United States of America. At least we're out there daring.

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Speaker 2: We're out there daring, daring.

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Speaker 1: What daring to not build it, daring to blow tens

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Speaker 1: of billions of dollars I not actually build it?

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Speaker 2: What I'm not?

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Speaker 1: Boy, he is the oilist, oiliest snake, isn't he classic

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Speaker 1: con man? You changed the subject. You start talking optimistic.

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Speaker 1: Oh at least we're daring. You know, well, there's not

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Speaker 1: a high speed rail system that isn't popular. Yeah, except

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Speaker 1: we never built ours. All right, we come back. Remember

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Speaker 1: after one thirty, we're gonna reveal some of the Karen

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Speaker 1: Bass texts as she was on the plane. Oh, actually

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Speaker 2: What were the texts.

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Speaker 1: And it's a very selective, but there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: other texts they didn't release. We'll tell you about it

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Speaker 1: Zach Rosen has put together some progressive group called Abundant SF.

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Speaker 1: There's nothing progressive about deep blue cities. The way they're governed.

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Speaker 2: Wake Up.

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Speaker 1: We're being judged here at a different level. And and

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Speaker 1: Klein says, we have run government badly and we can't

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Speaker 1: It would be nice if both parties became competent, both

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Speaker 2: And this stupid train.

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Speaker 1: It's only gonna be baker Fieldmer said I in ten

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Speaker 1: We'll have to live with that. That's our consequences taxpayers

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Speaker 2: But he's actually trying to pull the routine.

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Speaker 1: It's like, oh no, you know, it's just about to start.

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Speaker 1: They should should be it should be a unanimous vote

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Speaker 1: That's what's got to be done here. All right, we

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Speaker 1: come back another incompetent boob, Karen Bass. Oh, the texts,

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Speaker 3: Well then I thought, you know what, you know what happens?

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Speaker 4: I mean, you know this that when you say something

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Speaker 3: With b L M t V. I know Okay, I

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Speaker 2: I don't know what's on b l M TV.

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Speaker 1: Maybe housing suggestions, Yeah, live radio, a tour all their

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Speaker 3: All right, thanks guys, I love you, sure thing.

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Speaker 2: Now on to Karen bassuh.

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Speaker 1: About a few weeks ago, the La Times asked Karen

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Speaker 1: La Times said, well, give us your text messages. Since

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Speaker 1: She said, wow, oh you know they were deleted. I

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Speaker 1: Just before eleven am LA time, January seventh, that's seven

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Speaker 1: He was being investigated for calling in bomb threats to

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Speaker 2: So this Celine Cordero.

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Speaker 1: And I'm sure she was well qualified, wrote to Bass

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Speaker 1: but Gavin Newsom is coming to a command post. Woo,

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Speaker 1: that woman I think her name was Kelly, who jumped

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Speaker 2: She was jamped.

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Speaker 1: Yes, tell me if you can find Yeah, give you

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Speaker 1: a minute, okay, because I want to play it. And

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Speaker 1: just remember that Bass is, uh, it's having a drink

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Speaker 1: at this moment. For the next four hours, the Gulf

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Speaker 1: String jet cruised above Western Africa and the Atlantic Ocean,

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Speaker 1: and Bass repeatedly reminded her staff that.

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Speaker 2: I can make calls from the plane.

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Speaker 1: I have phone access on the plane, she wrote, with

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Speaker 1: exclamation points. If you see a strange number, it's me

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Speaker 1: capital letters, exclamation point three. Oh one will show us

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Speaker 1: a military base. This is now an two hours after

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Speaker 1: the fire started. She I guess you know, people went

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Speaker 1: about trying to respond to the fire, and she wasn't.

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Speaker 2: Nobody was. She wasn't getting any calls. Oh.

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Speaker 1: Here here's the clip of this woman, Kelly, jumping out

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Speaker 1: of her car while she's talking to us on air.

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Speaker 5: Governor, you got it?

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Speaker 2: Oh not that one.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, we'll play it when we get it.

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Speaker 2: I thought you wanted the one confronting newsom no, no.

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Speaker 1: No, Cordero addressed Bass in a group text. So the

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Speaker 1: celine Cordero is now running the city, asking for permission

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Speaker 1: to put together a meeting of the city's general managers. See,

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Speaker 1: that's the thing. So much time is wasted. Because Celine

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Speaker 1: Cordero is a deputy chief of staff, she doesn't have

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Speaker 1: the authority to call the general managers together for a meeting.

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Speaker 1: So she's got a contact that who's up on a

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Speaker 1: plane somewhere. Who's then got to give the permission. Meantime,

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Speaker 1: homes are burning. Cordero wrote, it'd be great to put

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Speaker 1: together a GM call and have you join stress urgency,

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Speaker 1: importance of all hands on deck.

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Speaker 2: A half hour late.

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Speaker 1: An hour and a half later, Bass appeared to be

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Speaker 1: on a zoom call with her staffers, and she's writing,

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Speaker 1: I am listening. Don't know why you can't tell me

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Speaker 1: hear me, she corrected, So she's on a zoom call,

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Speaker 1: but they can't hear her. More homes are burning, but no,

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Speaker 1: she was right on top of the fire every minute

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Speaker 1: of the way. Cordero responds, Oh, no, okay, no, we

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Speaker 1: can't hear you. Yeah, I don't know if zoom works

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Speaker 1: when you're on a plane. Meantime, back in Los Angeles,

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Speaker 1: Kristin Crowley, the fire chief, Gavin Newsom, and the council

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Speaker 1: President Marquise Harris Dawson had all gathered together.

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Speaker 2: We'll get to that next. Boy.

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Speaker 1: This is riveting, isn't it. This is I'm on the

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Speaker 1: edge meantime. How many people's homes have burned? Well, these

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Speaker 1: people are foxing around with their phones and zoom and

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Speaker 1: text messages.

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Speaker 6: You're listening to John cobelts on demand from KFI Am sixty.

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Speaker 1: Follow us at John Cobelt Radio on social media. John

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Speaker 1: Cobelt Radio. We've been going through some of the Karen

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Speaker 1: Bess text messages that the La Times got a hold of,

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Speaker 1: very selective messages. She was at the cocktail party when

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Speaker 1: she got word that the fire had started raging in

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Speaker 1: the Palisades. She continued at the cocktail party for a time,

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Speaker 1: and you had all these aids floundering around.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: When we last left, it was clear that Bass had

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Speaker 1: trouble staying in touch because she was on the military

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Speaker 1: plane and she was trying to be on a zoom

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Speaker 1: call with her staffers, and she's writing, I am listening.

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Speaker 1: Don't know why you can't tell me hear me? She corrected,

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Speaker 1: Oh no, okay, we can't hear you. Cordero Selene Cordero,

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Speaker 1: the deputy chief of staff, responded. So that's when Newsom

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Speaker 1: and Marquise Harris Dawson, the fake acting mayor, assembled outside

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Speaker 1: for a hastily assembled news conference at will Rogers State Beach.

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Speaker 1: Because now now Harris Dawson, I guess he's in charge

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Speaker 1: and Selene Cordero's in charge, and they were holding news

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Speaker 1: conferences and having meetings. Now what I notice in this

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Speaker 1: story no text about hey.

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Speaker 2: Does the fire department have enough wader?

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Speaker 1: I don't hear anybody saying to Karen Bass, Hey, you

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Speaker 1: know two big reservoirs are bone dry. Hey we got

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Speaker 1: a thousand fire hydrants not working. Hey, we have one

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Speaker 1: hundred fire engines that are in the shop. Hey, we

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Speaker 1: don't have mechanics to fix the fire engines. And the

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Speaker 1: firefighters were sent home by the chief. Anyway, I don't

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Speaker 1: see any of that these text messages. Instead, it's Karen

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Speaker 1: Besk going hello, can you hear me?

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Speaker 2: We can't hear you. Can you hear me now? On text?

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Speaker 1: And then she started getting texts from all kinds of

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Speaker 1: odd ball characters, such as the new US editor Adam Schiff.

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Speaker 1: He wrote, and here's Captain obvious to the rescue. The

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Speaker 1: fires are just awful. Please let me know whatever I

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Speaker 1: can do to help, Right you grab a hose, Shift,

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Speaker 1: Why don't you fill up the reservoir?

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Speaker 2: What can I do that do anything to help you?

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Speaker 1: Boob an a half Oh, then the other fake senator Alex Padilla.

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Speaker 1: He reached out a few minutes later, Karen, I imagine

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Speaker 1: you're incredibly busy at the moment.

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Speaker 2: Another genius Texan. Just want to check in.

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Speaker 1: My staff is in touch with oh esk cal fire

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Speaker 1: and other emergency personnel.

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Speaker 2: Good.

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Speaker 1: Maybe they have some water to fill the reservoir with.

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Speaker 1: Maybe they can fix some of the fire engines. Maybe

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Speaker 1: they can call the firefighters back to work themselves. Let

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Speaker 1: us know how we can support to lay you guys.

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Speaker 1: Blew it already, there's nothing to support. She wrote back

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Speaker 1: to Alex Padia. Thank you, Alex. Actually I'm on a

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Speaker 1: plane rushing back from Africa. I should be in town

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Speaker 1: by noon. Thanks a million. I want to call you

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Speaker 1: in a day or so. I know we'll need support. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: well so balsads will be flattened. She wrote pretty much

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Speaker 1: the same thing to Adam Shift. Thanks so much. I'm

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Speaker 1: actually in the air headed home from Ghana. I think

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Speaker 1: I mentioned I intended the inauguration.

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Speaker 5: I am.

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Speaker 1: I am following it the fire while I make my

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Speaker 1: way home. But I know disaster aid.

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Speaker 2: Will be needed.

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Speaker 4: Well, okay, at least she's on top of things.

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Speaker 1: What was needed was water, firefighters, fire engines. You needed

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Speaker 1: the DWP to turn off the electricity because their power

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Speaker 1: poles were going to collapse in a few hours and

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Speaker 1: set a huge fire north of the village. All over again,

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Speaker 1: that's what you needed. All right, we come back. Well,

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Speaker 1: by the way, I didn't read one line in there.

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Speaker 1: I assume that Bass released the text that made her

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Speaker 1: look okay. I didn't read one line in there that

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Speaker 1: should give anybody confidence that she had any idea what

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Speaker 1: was going on or what to do, and just a

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Speaker 1: bunch of these political boobs.

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Speaker 2: Can I help?

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Speaker 1: You must be very busy. Yeah, we're busy. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: talk to Alex Stone.

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Speaker 2: Oh.

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Speaker 1: This run of attack attacks on Tesla vehicles, there was

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Speaker 1: an arrest made in Las Vegas. Guys thirty six years old.

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Speaker 1: He was throwing molotov cocktails at Tesla's dope thirty six

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Speaker 1: years old. There's a success. It's always the losers who

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Speaker 1: do this stuff. Alex will beyond Next stepber Mark Live,

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