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Speaker 2: after four o'clock. We've had a lot today. In the

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Speaker 2: first hour, we did quite a bit on Gavin Newsom

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Speaker 2: wanted to wanting to give another twelve billion dollars for

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Speaker 2: free illegal alien healthcare. Million and a half illegal aliens,

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Speaker 2: twelve billion dollars of free healthcare. Tony Strickland was on

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Speaker 2: last hour about how they want ten more billion dollars

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Speaker 2: for high speed rail just to run it from Mercet

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Speaker 2: to Bakersfield. This hour we're going to be talking about

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Speaker 2: We're gonna have Roger Bailey come on now. He's the

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Speaker 2: attorney for fourteen hundred Palisades residents who want to rebuild

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Speaker 2: their homes after Karen Bass let the place burn. Also,

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Speaker 2: we have in studio David Howard, who's sales manager here

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Speaker 2: at KFI and iHeart, and he's been on frequently chronicling

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Speaker 2: his frustration trying to get his house rebuilt. Uh and

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Speaker 2: and Roger represents you right in this overall lawsuit. Let's

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Speaker 2: start with with Roger on welcome again to the show,

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Speaker 2: Thanks for coming on, see.

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Speaker 3: You bet Hi, John, Hi, David, Hey, Roger, how are you?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: David's just gonna sit in here and chime in. Let me,

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Speaker 2: let me talk about the La Times yesterday had a

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Speaker 2: story as La rebuilt from the fires, residents ask what's

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Speaker 2: the plan, And it seems like the average victim of

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Speaker 2: the fires has no idea who's in charge. They don't

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Speaker 2: know who to go to to get anything done. Very

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Speaker 2: little is getting done, and they're they're getting they're hitting

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Speaker 2: a brick wall, a brick wall of silence and confusion.

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Speaker 1: For the most part.

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Speaker 2: Try to describe what life is like from from your view,

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Speaker 2: from the view of your clients, including David.

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Speaker 3: Well, most of the people are still in what I

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Speaker 3: refer to as the shock phase. Their entire life has

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Speaker 3: been upended and they're trying to figure out what to

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Speaker 3: do going forward. And those that have chosen to rebuild

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Speaker 3: are looking to the city to provide them a path

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Speaker 3: to that process, and they're getting no answers. They're being

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Speaker 3: told things that aren't accurate timelines that aren't accurate, and

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Speaker 3: it's just adding to the frustration. And as you said,

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Speaker 3: they don't know who to go to, who is in charge,

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Speaker 3: who should they be listening to, and right now nobody

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Speaker 2: But this has been going now four and a half months.

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Speaker 2: It's long past the fog of the fire and the

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Speaker 2: initial confusion and setting up the bureaucracy.

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Speaker 1: It's four and a half months.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it should be everything, the whole structure, are

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Speaker 2: to be settled into place by now and should be

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Speaker 2: running at full speed, don't you think.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well we were told, remember the press conference that

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Speaker 3: Karen did, was that you know, everything was going to

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Speaker 3: be on hyperdrive and we're expedite things and you know

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Speaker 3: you're going to have permits in twenty four hours. And

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Speaker 3: none of that's proven to be true. I mean, the

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Speaker 3: statistics on how many permits they've issued is stunning. I

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Speaker 3: think it may be ten eight. I mean, it's silly.

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Speaker 3: Everything that they told Palisades residents would be happening hasn't happened.

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Speaker 3: It isn't happening.

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Speaker 2: As a writer for the National Review, Jim Garrity, he

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Speaker 2: wrote a piece the other day and said, at this

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Speaker 2: current rate, it's going to take four hundred and sixty

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Speaker 2: one years to rebuild the Palisades in Altadena. Four hundred

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Speaker 2: and sixty you're twenty four eighty six. We can all

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Speaker 2: have a big party. And he wasn't kidding.

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Speaker 1: That's how the math works out.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's optimistic. I don't think that's probably doable.

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Speaker 2: All right, So now there's a deadline. There's an upcoming

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Speaker 4: Yes.

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Speaker 3: So one of the things we want to make sure

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Speaker 3: everybody's aware of is because the government, the City of

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Speaker 3: Los Angeles, is the defendant, the law requires that claimants

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Speaker 3: submit claims by the seventh of July, and we're just

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Speaker 3: and many people, thousands will be unaware that they have

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Speaker 3: be sure everybody knows mark on your calendar July seven.

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Speaker 3: And of course we're good to get with a lawyer

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Speaker 3: because they'll be sure to help you navigate the process.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, by July the seventh, those claim forms they're

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Speaker 3: not file with the court, they just go to the city.

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Speaker 3: But that preserves your rights to make a formal claim

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Speaker 3: in the court. But I will tell you we've been

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Speaker 3: working with the city to try to streamline this process,

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Speaker 3: them that need to do this. That's make it as

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Speaker 3: easy as we can, and we've been met with nothing

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Speaker 3: but more complication, confusion, things that aren't required. Again, it

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Speaker 3: seems to be that they're trying to make this process

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Speaker 2: That's cruol, that really is bass and knew SOMEO booths

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Speaker 2: stood up and said they were going to streamline it

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Speaker 3: It's the reverse that they're making it more difficult than

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Speaker 3: it needs to be. There's actually very little that you

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Speaker 3: have to submit but the city, and if you go

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Speaker 3: online and try to do this, they've got all kinds

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Speaker 3: seems to be to make it so complicated in encumbersome

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Speaker 3: that people just don't do it, which is their goal.

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Speaker 3: I suspect, well, yeah, but we can eliminate the people

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Speaker 3: we save money.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it tamps down the claims. Now the DWP is

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Speaker 2: also trying to make it as.

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Speaker 1: Difficult as possible.

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Speaker 2: Or is that a separate set of forms for the

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Speaker 2: DWP or this is what you're talking about.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's all City of Los Angeles. DWP is the

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Speaker 3: But yes, it all gets processed through the city, but

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Speaker 3: just one claim form for the DWP. But we're also

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Speaker 3: you know, we're bringing the State of California in, so

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Speaker 3: there's a separate form for them, and then those people

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Speaker 3: so there's some other government entities that need to have

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Speaker 3: claim forms for people that are in those areas. The

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Speaker 3: key though, is July seventh. Just mark your calendar that

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Speaker 3: they should not go by for anybody that wants to

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Speaker 3: participate in these cases. That's critical.

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Speaker 2: And you have some information on how the DWP knew

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Speaker 2: it was supposed to de energize the Palisades power grid,

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Speaker 2: but they did not, and that led to more fires.

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Speaker 2: The night of the of the Big One twelve hours later,

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Speaker 2: there were there were all these other fires in the

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Speaker 2: northern side of the Palisades. We talked about that on

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Speaker 2: the show at length. But now you found some proof

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Speaker 2: that they were supposed to de energize it and they didn't.

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Speaker 3: You're right. When we were laughed together, we talked about

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Speaker 3: how other fires started spotfiars all over the place. And

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Speaker 3: now we've obtained copies of the laed Towp's owned logbooks

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Speaker 3: from their technicians that were manned in these what are

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Speaker 3: and the logbook shows that as early as about one

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Speaker 3: forty five in the afternoon on January seventh, the request

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Speaker 3: is made by a technician, Hey, we ought to de energize.

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Speaker 3: Let's turn off all the power. Later that afternoon, at

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Speaker 3: four o'clock, the answer is given, we don't need to

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Speaker 3: de energize. The response from the people in the distribution

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Speaker 3: fires getting closed. Finally, a few minutes later the order

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Speaker 3: comes in, Hey, all right, go ahead and deenergize. Then

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Speaker 3: and they left and all of the power remain active.

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Speaker 3: And as you remember, we have videos of these power

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Speaker 3: And because of the power was active and should have

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Speaker 3: been the energized, should have been de energized right away

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Speaker 3: when they said, hey, let's turn it off, and they

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Speaker 3: and people had to evacuate, leaving the power on.

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Speaker 5: David Howard, Yes, I left it four forty five on

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Speaker 5: the seventh, and when I left, my lights were on

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Speaker 5: and the ring cameras are working. In fact, when my

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Speaker 2: Well that was so you got a live stream of

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Speaker 2: your house burning down, right, Yeah?

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Speaker 6: Right?

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Speaker 2: So wouldn't it be automatic or I mean, maybe I'm

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Speaker 2: being an idiot. Wouldn't it be automatic you've got a

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Speaker 2: massive fire burning, you would de energize everything in sight.

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Speaker 2: Wouldn't that be step one in the emergency manual?

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Speaker 3: That's the protocol? Edison follows that protocol, DWP does not.

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Speaker 3: And even when they had a request from somebody on

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Speaker 3: Took two hours and they said no, we don't need

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Speaker 3: to de energize anything. Then it makes absolutely no sense.

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Speaker 2: What would possibly be the reason, because by this time

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Speaker 2: the whole town is engulfed in flames, and now you

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Speaker 2: have the people who were working at the substation saying

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Speaker 2: like who sends out this order? I mean eventually you're

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Speaker 2: going to have to depose all these people, that's right.

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Speaker 3: I mean, as we read it, it makes absolutely no sense.

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Speaker 3: The request has made, let's de energize. There's no response

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Speaker 3: to de energize. Why There's no explanation, but that's the

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Speaker 1: Do they have phones? Do they text?

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Speaker 1: Wouldn't there be a hotline?

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Speaker 2: So you call up and start screaming, Hey, the fire

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Speaker 2: is just down the block. I think we ought to

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Speaker 2: de energize, or maybe somebody should have flip the switch themselves.

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Speaker 3: Well, this particular substation was built in nineteen thirty six,

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Speaker 3: and my guess is they may not have phones in it.

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Speaker 1: Just again, all right?

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Speaker 2: All right, So July seventh is the government claim deadline

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Speaker 2: in the city of Los Angeles for the Palisade residents.

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Speaker 3: That's right now, just an important date. We just want

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Speaker 3: to be sure that people are informed. Whether you call

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Speaker 3: us or somebody else or do it on your own,

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Speaker 3: just don't let that date go by if you choose

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Speaker 3: to participate in this. And I encourage everybody that lost

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Speaker 3: a home or sustain damage to participate. They really should,

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Speaker 3: all right.

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Speaker 2: Roger talking Roger Bailey, he's the attorney. He's representing fourteen

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Speaker 2: hundred frustrated Palisades residents.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for coming on.

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Speaker 3: No, you're welcome, talk to you soon, all right.

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Speaker 2: Talk about with David Howard, who's going through it. He

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Speaker 2: watched his home burn on the ring camera and we

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Speaker 2: were going to see what it's like now in the

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Speaker 2: process after four and a half months.

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Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM

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Speaker 4: six forty.

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Speaker 1: All right, we just had Roger Bailey on.

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Speaker 2: He's representing fourteen hundred Palisades homeowners who are suing the

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Speaker 6: Huh. Can you rephrase I have a lot of fire

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Speaker 5: No, But if you know, especially if the if the

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Speaker 6: That if those people are on our property.

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Speaker 5: The only way we can get rid of them is

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Speaker 5: we have to have these trespassing signs posts. Yeah. And

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Speaker 5: I went to the UH station in person on Saturday

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Speaker 5: and he's saying that, yeah, he's sorry that they have

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Speaker 2: I don't know, it's your property when your house was there,

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Speaker 2: I don't have signs notifying that this is private property.

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Speaker 1: And we know what. It almost goes back.

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Speaker 5: It almost goes back to the hiking trails all through

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean, you got it now that I

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Speaker 6: They have been, they've been showing up already.

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Speaker 5: So yeah, it's just again more things to worry about today.

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Speaker 5: You'll love this from just going back to Roger for

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Speaker 5: It's done so the state and the DWP and the

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Speaker 5: For instance, this morning, I'm trying to collect my debris

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Speaker 6: But that doesn't count the four feet.

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Speaker 5: Of debris that I had on a you know, a

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Speaker 6: There's a lot of things that were inside the house.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 5: The other part that they're claiming is that some of

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Speaker 5: These are actual claims that the insurance company is telling.

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Speaker 1: Me and my justice they just make stuff up.

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Speaker 6: It's like it blew away in the fire. Okay, well,

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Speaker 5: So it's all these people that you know, we're nowhere

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Speaker 5: I understand human nature, and I unders because I've been

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Speaker 2: But we all pay for the government to help ease

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Speaker 2: That's what they're supposed to do, and they seem to

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Speaker 5: Yes and then yesterday and I did not see it.

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Speaker 6: I saw a blurb on it.

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Speaker 5: it's gone from ten permits issued to I think a

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Speaker 5: I'm part of this, but she's really not, and she

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Speaker 5: it should be insulting to the residents, but quite honestly,

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Speaker 5: and who's paying for it?

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Speaker 1: We're going to be down to eighty four hundred cops.

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Speaker 5: Eighty four hundred cops and you know, but you'll have

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Speaker 5: It's time to stop. People have to wake up, I know,

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Speaker 5: and you know, I use the term with you. I

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Speaker 5: don't like the term justice warrior because I don't like

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Speaker 2: And yes, that's what that's you, that's me, and that's

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Speaker 2: we'll keep talking. Thank you for coming on, David. Karen

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Speaker 2: Bass may have to testify in court over the homeless disaster.

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Speaker 1: We'll tell you that coming up next.

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Speaker 2: Side Current. It's interesting getting the most useful news not

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Speaker 2: the big media operations, but from a Sacramento TV reporter,

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Speaker 2: story today. There's an ongoing lawsuit which we've talked about

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Speaker 2: City of Los Angeles, US, and the LA Alliance is

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Speaker 2: filing a lawsuit claiming that a lot of this money

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Speaker 2: because LASA, la Homeless Services Authority, is a bust. The

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Speaker 2: After the audit by a company called Alvarez and Marcel.

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Speaker 2: The audit found that neither the city nor LASSA properly

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Speaker 2: The homeless industry is a complete racket filled with politically

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Speaker 2: proof of performance. In some cases, the audit firm Alvarez

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Speaker 2: turns out Adam Kellems was ordering her staff at LASA

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Speaker 2: want Karen Bass to look bad. You are paying, if

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Speaker 2: you're in Los Angeles for Los Angeles city attorneys who

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Speaker 2: The city attorneys that you're paying for said Bass should

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Speaker 2: people know what's going on. No, her testimony should be

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Speaker 1: So you're stuck. It's the beauty of the system. You

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Speaker 2: You tell the truth and you fall on your sword,

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Speaker 2: or you lie and face perjury charges. But Bass has

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Speaker 2: screwed up royally, and she knows it, and everybody around

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Speaker 2: her knows it. Everybody knows it except the thirty two

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Speaker 2: percent of morons who would still vote for her again.

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Speaker 2: But at least it's only thirty two percent. She will

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Speaker 2: especially if she has some of her associates altering the documents.

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Speaker 2: Why can't she make those claims in court because they

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Speaker 2: are fake. She's not going to repeat in court what

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Speaker 2: she says on a podium in a microphone in front

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Speaker 2: of a TV camera. Her smile isn't going to get

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Speaker 2: her out of trouble with David Carter. He's onto this.

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Speaker 2: So the question is, if LASA has been defunded and

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Speaker 2: disbanded and Karen Bass is clearly in over her head,

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Speaker 2: who's going to run the homeless in the City the program?

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Speaker 1: The judge is being.

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Speaker 2: Asked to create a receivership an outside ent, which he's

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Speaker 2: reluctant to do. The lead auditor for Alvarez and Marcel,

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Speaker 2: Diane Rafferty, seemed to support the idea of a receiver.

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Speaker 2: She told the court, all of this needs to be

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Speaker 2: looked at in a different way. We've got to review

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Speaker 2: the homeless services from the ground up. He wants to

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Speaker 2: make sure a receivership is the only option. Judge Carter like,

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Speaker 2: there's no other way to salvage this. There's nobody who's competent,

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Speaker 2: who has the information, who's got the intellectual ability to

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Speaker 2: pull this off. He's doesn't really want to have an

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Speaker 2: unelected outsider running a multi billion dollar government industry. But

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Speaker 2: the thing has so much fraud in it, so much

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Speaker 2: money has been stolen, so much incompetence, that it looks

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Speaker 2: like it's the only.

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Speaker 1: Option for Judge Carter Lasa.

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Speaker 2: According to the West Side Current, the city and the

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Speaker 2: county have good reason to avoid a public hearing if

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Speaker 2: there's going to be a deep dive into the numbers.

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Speaker 2: City and county officials use controlled press events to touts

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Speaker 2: supposed success, but they have been much more reticent to

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Speaker 2: respond to audits. And you know what Karen Bess said

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Speaker 2: about the audit in the lawsuit. She claimed the audit

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Speaker 2: was just about administration. She was more concerned with people.

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Speaker 2: Oh isn't that sweet of her? She's concerned with people.

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Speaker 2: This audit is about administrative things, you know, math, it's

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Speaker 2: just money being stolen by my friends.

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Speaker 1: It's just corruption, massive corruption.

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Speaker 2: That has infiltrated the entire homeless industry under her watch.

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Speaker 2: And so that's just administration. Let's talk about the people

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Speaker 2: I'm helping. Yeah, I he I'm helping anybody. There's five

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Speaker 2: people a night that die in the streets. There's thousands

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Speaker 2: every year that die in the streets. Neither the city

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Speaker 2: nor LOSSA has submitted any response to the audit company

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Speaker 2: refuting its findings. So Alvarez and Marcel was quite damning

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Speaker 2: in its audit report, and there's been no response from

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Speaker 2: the city or LASSA. Nobody has refuted the findings. Bast

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Speaker 2: just dismissed it by saying, well, it's administration, whatever that means.

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Speaker 2: So westside current Tim Campbell, as the writer said, holding

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Speaker 2: hearings in court will force local officials to answer publicly. Well,

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Speaker 2: that's going to be quite an entertaining show when it

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Speaker 2: comes about. And apparently Judge Carter is going to begin

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Speaker 2: testimony on May twenty seventh.

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Speaker 1: The schedule hold, I got more coming up.

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Speaker 2: We got charges against a congresswoman for interfering with ICE agents.

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Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM sixty.

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Speaker 2: Podcast is going to be posted shortly after four o'clock.

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Speaker 1: We had a lot on today and we covered how

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Speaker 1: the the.

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Speaker 2: There's Democrats in the legislature who want to pass a

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Speaker 2: new tax to pay for legal alien health care. Yeah really.

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Speaker 2: And we had Tony Stricklan on about the ten billion

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Speaker 2: dollars needed to further fund high speed rail into oblivion.

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Speaker 2: And we also played some clips of Megan Kelly roasting

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Speaker 2: alive Jake Tapper over covering up Joe Biden's senility all

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Speaker 2: those years. So if you missed all that, you should

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Speaker 2: listen to all that. And that's on the podcast John

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Speaker 2: Cobalts Show on demand on the iHeart app. Finally, we

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Speaker 2: have a congresswoman and this is just too good to

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Speaker 2: be true, a New Jersey Democrat named La Monica McIver, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: law Monica mc iver, and she has been charged for

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Speaker 2: assaulting law enforcement officers outside an ICE detention facility. She

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Speaker 2: was one of these elected officials who are interfering with

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Speaker 2: ICE as they try to round up the legal aliens

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Speaker 2: and deport them. The US Attorney Alina Haba said that

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Speaker 2: Lamonica McIver is going to be charged with assaulting and

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Speaker 2: impeding a law enforcement officer. She was there with other

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Speaker 2: members of Congress and the mayor of Newark, Ross Baraco,

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Speaker 2: who's running for governor New Jersey. They were protesting outside

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Speaker 2: of Delaney Hall, which is an ice detention facility, and

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Speaker 2: there was pushing and shoving and according to the US

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Speaker 2: attorney representatives, Lamonica mc ivor assaulted, impeded, and interfered with

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Speaker 2: law enforcement. That's a violation a Title eighteen United States Code,

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Speaker 2: Section one eleven a one. This conduct cannot be overlooked

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Speaker 2: by the chief federal law enforcement official in the state

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Speaker 2: of New Jersey. And it's my constitutional obligation to ensure

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Speaker 2: that our federal law enforcement is protected. No one is

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Speaker 2: above the law. Politicians are or otherwise. And Trump was

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Speaker 2: in support of this. I have no idea who she is,

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Speaker 2: but that woman was out of control. She was shoving

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Speaker 2: federal agents out of control. The days of that crapp

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Speaker 2: are over in this country. We're going to have law

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Speaker 2: and over a law and order to thwart the arrest

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Speaker 2: of the Newark mayor Baraka. She was told to leave

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Speaker 2: the area. It was a secured area of the facility,

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Speaker 2: and the other the congress people were allowed to be there,

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Speaker 2: but not Baraka, And because it was a federal facility,

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Speaker 2: and so she made forcible contact with law enforcement, slamming

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Speaker 2: your forearm, slamming your forearm into a Homeland Security agent

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Speaker 2: and pushing and using each of her forearms forearms to

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Speaker 2: strike forcibly an ice officer. They have pictures of it,

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Speaker 2: body camera footage. Multiple attempts to forcibly assault, resist, oppose, impede, intimidate,

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Speaker 2: and interfere with the agents. So hope she goes Hope

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Speaker 2: she goes to prison.

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Speaker 1: Nothing this nonsense.

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Speaker 2: The law is these people are here legally, and the

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Speaker 2: government is supposed to deport them, and you're not supposed

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Speaker 2: to have elected officials getting in the way of arrests

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Speaker 2: of agents trying to enforce federal law. Otherwise, you should

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Speaker 2: go to jail for a while, and maybe we could

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Speaker 2: put you on the deportation plane.

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Speaker 1: That would be even better. All right, Conway's up next.

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Speaker 2: We've got Michael Kurzer with the news live in the

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Speaker 2: KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to

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Speaker 2: the John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear the

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Speaker 2: show live on KFI Am six forty from one to

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