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Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty.

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Speaker 2: We spent much of the first hour on the incredible,

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Speaker 2: absolute failure the City of Los Angeles, including management, LA

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Speaker 2: Fire Department, LA Police, the emergency services. Just a total

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Speaker 2: lack of planning, a total lack of preparation, and everybody

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Speaker 2: was left on their own and that's why things were

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Speaker 2: so difficult when it came to evacuation out of the Palisades.

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Speaker 2: And you know, we haven't even touched all the usual stories.

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Speaker 2: But by the way, nobody in the fire department, nobody

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Speaker 2: To this day it's been three weeks, has commented three weeks,

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Speaker 2: four weeks now has said one word about all the failures.

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Speaker 2: Nobody has even acknowledged the failures. Nobody is talking about

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Speaker 2: the reservoir. Yet every time I go through these various

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Speaker 2: news stories, it's LA City Fire refuses to comment. LA

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Speaker 2: County Fire refuses to comment. The emergency management refuses to comment.

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Speaker 2: Everybody's refusing to comment. Karen Bass hasn't said one word

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Speaker 2: about the massive failures. Instead, she put a cherry on

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Speaker 2: the cake over the weekend by deciding they were going

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Speaker 2: to open up the palisades, no more checkpoints. And you

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Speaker 2: heard David Howard, or CAFI sales manager who lost his home.

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Speaker 1: He said that everybody went berserk.

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Speaker 2: Everybody went crazy because the looters are out there by

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Speaker 2: the hundreds, maybe a thousands. You cannot believe how many

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Speaker 2: looters are out on the West Side, especially during this fire.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what is wrong with Karen Bass.

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Speaker 2: And he said nobody, nobody in that area has any

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Speaker 2: confidence at all in her, the city council or anybody

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Speaker 2: at city Hall. Zero confidence. Nobody's even pretending. I don't

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Speaker 2: see one supporting quote from anyone, because everybody knows that

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Speaker 2: she's a disaster here. Really, for the good of everyone's lives,

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Speaker 2: she really ought to go. I don't know if there's

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Speaker 2: an emergency way to appoint a new mayor from the outside,

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Speaker 2: because it can't be any of the city council people

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Speaker 2: except for Tracy Park. Everybody else is just as bad

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Speaker 2: or worse. We'll get back to that, but let's talk

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Speaker 2: now about another absurdity. Yesterday and today, the city of

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Speaker 2: Los Angeles is allowing protesters by the thousands to shut

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Speaker 2: down major freeways because they're protesting ilegal immigration and deportations

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Speaker 2: by Trump. Let's get the former sheriff of La County,

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Speaker 2: Alex Vhanaweva on Alex, how are.

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Speaker 3: You not too bad? John? How are you doing?

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Speaker 1: I'm good?

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Speaker 2: Let me before we get into the immigration thing, let

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Speaker 2: me let me ask you something. I'm I was just

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Speaker 2: absolutely appalled by the response of La City and La

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Speaker 2: and lack of organization. What was your reaction watching all

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Speaker 2: this chaos the fire, Given that.

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Speaker 3: The fire started the conditions, it was going to have

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Speaker 3: it ran out of fuel. And that's pretty much what happened. Regardless.

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Speaker 3: Set that aside, the absolute incompetence of pre planning to

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Speaker 3: get people out in a timely fashion costs people their lives,

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Speaker 3: and those are deliberate and incompetence from both city and

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Speaker 3: county leaders hands down.

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Speaker 2: I mean, what happened and now out to Dina where

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Speaker 2: people did not get notifications for nine hours after the

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Speaker 3: Yes, I mean, and coming out there was nobody in charge.

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Speaker 3: Remember when I was unceremoniously fired as a director of

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Speaker 3: emergency management during the pandemic, they appointed the CEO as

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Speaker 3: Literally nobody searched. No one was saying, hey, this is

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Speaker 3: doing our evacuations in an orderly fashion. None of that happened.

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Speaker 3: It was kind of like, well, let's put our finger

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Speaker 1: And they were sitting out, Yeah, go ahead.

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Speaker 3: They did not have the personnel on the ground because

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Speaker 3: the Sheriff's Department is responsible for the evacuations fire to

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Speaker 3: fight the fire. But when you have a skeleton crew

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Speaker 3: They started doing the heroic thingle that I think, we

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Speaker 2: What about this deportation rally they were having in downtown

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Speaker 2: did it again today, yep.

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Speaker 3: And guess what, They're going to keep doing it all

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Speaker 3: through the summer. Mark my word on this. That's going

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Speaker 3: to be the topic of the and all these little

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Speaker 3: activist circles, the Antifa circles, they're going to get more

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Speaker 1: Why won't.

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Speaker 2: Why won't the city and the county step in here

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Speaker 2: and shut these things down? Why let them go on

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Speaker 2: for hours and hours and ruin everybody's day. I don't understand,

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Speaker 2: because they're fighting, they're fighting for illegal actions here, yep.

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Speaker 3: They're terrified of being accused of not being woke, So

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Speaker 3: they have to tolerate people breaking the law in the

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Speaker 3: name of supporting and supporting immigrants, and they lump all

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Speaker 3: the immigrants together, if they you could lump them all

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Speaker 3: together into oppose Trump. I mean, it's it's asinine.

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Speaker 1: Who are they afraid of exactly.

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Speaker 3: They're afraid of Democratic Party, yep, Democratic Socialists of America.

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Speaker 3: Everyone who's going to be rallying to get more of

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Speaker 3: these wackos into La City Council is that they don't

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Speaker 3: have enough already and they don't want to give them

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Speaker 2: Is there that much support out there among voters for

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Speaker 2: the Democratic Socialists of America. I mean, it's already destroying

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Speaker 2: the city. I don't understand where is where Where is

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Speaker 2: the ground swallow support for the destruction of La.

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Speaker 3: You know what, until they see their house burned down.

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Speaker 3: I think that is changing in the palisade. That's changing

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Speaker 3: in Alcidena, for sure, But other people haven't experienced that yet.

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Speaker 3: So it's gonna be an evolutionary process. It'll take a while.

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Speaker 2: So you think that these protest groups are going to

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Speaker 2: keep going on and on all year, Oh.

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Speaker 3: They are, and they're fed by inaction of your leaders,

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Speaker 3: because with that they realize, wow, no one's in charge.

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Speaker 3: We can continue doing more. And there's a number one

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Speaker 3: rule I think I've figured out for all these type

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we've seen that over and over again

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Speaker 2: with all these issues. By never addressing homelessness at the beginning,

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Speaker 2: we ended up with seventy thousand, but not addressing illegal immigration,

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Speaker 3: Yep, there you go, and you can repeat yourself over

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Speaker 3: and over again. Because people are unwilling to make decisions

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Speaker 3: based on values, based on principles. It's all about let

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Speaker 3: me put my finger in the political wins and see

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Speaker 3: which way they're blowing. How's this going to make me look?

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Speaker 3: And you know that's not going to come up with

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Speaker 3: a good decision.

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Speaker 1: All right, Thanks for coming on, Alex.

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Speaker 3: You got to do on anything?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Former La County Sheriff Alex Vanueva. We'll continue with

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Speaker 2: more just to I'm going to describe what was going

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Speaker 2: on yesterday because he's right, I cannot believe how everybody

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Speaker 2: in city and county government gives in to all the lunatics.

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Speaker 2: They know that the police are compromised right now because

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Speaker 2: they're they're overtaxed on the west side with the fire,

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Speaker 2: So this is the perfect time to go storming and

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Speaker 2: shutting down the one oh one or shutting down downtown streets.

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Speaker 1: More coming up.

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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 2: We continue covering the just the complete destruction of lawlessness.

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Speaker 2: We have no government, We've got nobody in charge. We've

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Speaker 2: got the police and the Sheriff's department not even bothering

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Speaker 2: one on one freeway, and today thousands were downtown.

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Speaker 1: Now the organizers know that lapd.

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Speaker 2: Is and and the National Guard and CHP is tied

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Speaker 2: So they know there's a great shortage of cop So

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Speaker 2: what do they do. They pick yesterday to start rallying

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Speaker 2: the way, wearing Mexican and Salvadoran flags. So some of

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Speaker 2: you silly fools who flinch when Trump talks about an invasion.

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Speaker 2: They're They're not They're not trying to They're not trying

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Speaker 2: to hide it anymore. This is about taking land from America.

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Speaker 2: This is about controlling a big piece of Los Angeles.

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Speaker 2: This is not about coming here to work. No, it's

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Speaker 2: not if if if if you. If you want to

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Speaker 2: American government, you don't drape yourself in the salvadorn or

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Speaker 2: the Mexican flag. That's not a that's not a way

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Speaker 2: from what it sounded like during the protest yesterday. The

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Speaker 2: stupid drums again, All these dumb ass protests used drums.

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Speaker 1: Boom boom, boom, boom boom. Very good. That's sophisticated music there.

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Speaker 2: So they're dressed in their Mexican and Salvadoran flags. They

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Speaker 2: blocked traffic at the Spring and Temple streets, honking horns,

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Speaker 2: Why did they Why did they let them do it

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Speaker 2: all day. Why don't shut it down immediately? A tear

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Speaker 2: gas the hell out of them, Shut it down, get

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Speaker 1: Chase them out till ten o'clock.

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Speaker 2: Well, actually it was past ten o'clock. As of ten o'clock,

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Speaker 2: there were no reports of arrests. So this became an

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Speaker 2: all day festival. With our blessing. This is what you're

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Speaker 2: paying tax money for. Palisades is burning and nobody came

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Speaker 2: to rescue those poor people. Meantime, I don't understand why

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Speaker 2: no plan to deal with the fire and to rescue

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Speaker 1: Zero plan.

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Speaker 2: Meantime, we sent half the police force to watch illegal

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Speaker 2: and deported. Yeah, they got a lot of cute signs.

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Speaker 2: One of them says, Maga Mexicans always get across. I

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Speaker 2: drink my horse Shota warm. Because f Ice spelled it out.

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Speaker 2: And let me see that that was yesterday's that today's

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Speaker 2: hundreds of demonstrators in downtown La same thing. They were

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Speaker 2: as well. They started on the steps of City Hall

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Speaker 1: It's just it's just shocking.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you know what, I I wish to God,

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Speaker 2: I would would swoop in there with about ten thousand

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Speaker 2: officers and just part everybody up, take them right to

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Speaker 2: Lax on a plane, take them back to their homeland.

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Speaker 2: This is just an unlivable, ungovernable time in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 1: That was a good decision.

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Speaker 2: We're on every day from one until four and then

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Speaker 2: with Todd Benzman. He writes for the Center for Immigration

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Speaker 2: He's been a journalist at the Border, and he has

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Speaker 2: it's it's simply going to zero real fast. And Todd's

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Speaker 1: And what it what it's done is is.

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Speaker 2: They're revolting because Trump is enforcing the law and now

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Speaker 2: They are doing credible pieces investigating the massive non response,

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Speaker 1: Those nine hundred would.

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Speaker 2: A thousand firefighters should have been kept for a second shift.

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Speaker 2: this didn't help in Alta Dina. I'll explain, But Maroney says,

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Speaker 2: I think we viewed the risk differently than La City. Boy,

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Speaker 2: Maroney's county firefighters poured into the Palisades that morning to

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Speaker 5: We've never had wins like that, right, I mean, I

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Speaker 2: It was in the forecast. In fact, there is an

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Speaker 2: Partly because you had so many county firefighters in the Palisades,

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Speaker 1: See people kind of glide.

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Speaker 2: Over all the details to suit their their bias, their

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Speaker 2: It winds like nobody's ever seen, not in the morning

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Speaker 5: But we also knew that we had low humidity. Right,

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Speaker 2: I'm standing in the Palisades an hour before, an hour

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Speaker 2: they weren't, and Crowley sent everybody home, and Maroney tries

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Speaker 2: out to Dana, this is just a badly, badly run.

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Speaker 2: The whole area is badly run. We paid for these people,

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Speaker 1: No it's not.

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Speaker 2: It says here at seven twenty am on January seventh,

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Speaker 2: The county fire officials apparently read the forecasts. What's Kristin

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Speaker 1: That morning? All you had to do is look up

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Speaker 1: You have help. You had a thousand firefighters, you said.

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Speaker 2: Home, that was your help. I need help. I got

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Speaker 1: Is it me? Am I crazy?

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Speaker 5: Well you are, but not in this case.

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Speaker 2: Just to finish up on the Altadena situation, because I

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Speaker 1: It's impossible.

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Speaker 2: And everybody in that region has every right to think

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Speaker 2: Town council member named John Carmody says, why didn't anyone

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Speaker 1: Allowed to live east.

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Speaker 2: They weren't allowed to live east of Lake Avenue decades ago.

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Speaker 2: That's where redlining came in. The insurance companies wouldn't even

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Speaker 2: And Carmody said, the area has definitely fell undervalued and

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Speaker 2: It doesn't have its own city government. It relies on

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Speaker 2: I said, was on their own. Maroney, the LA Fire Chief,

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Speaker 2: I'm going to seem foolish, right like, look at morony

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Speaker 2: So what nothing lost? I don't understand that attitude, say

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Speaker 2: a fire. But from twelve fifty one am to three

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Speaker 2: that went out. Noticeably absent were warnings or orders for

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Speaker 2: interviews and plenty of radio calls that the Times heard,

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Speaker 2: and it was clear that they were burning on the

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Speaker 2: They never issued evacuation warnings west of Lake, including on

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Speaker 2: the blocks where the homes were actively burning, and they

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Speaker 2: officials could not explain the gap. He just said his

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Speaker 2: agency wasn't responsible. Yeah, nobody comments, and nobody's responsible. But

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Speaker 2: you know, I'm just I'm just letting everybody know we're

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Speaker 2: the names. The La Times is going to find out

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Speaker 2: the names. They're gonna find out who's responsible. So if

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Speaker 2: you think you're gonna slink slink back into this foggy,

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Speaker 2: bureaucratic haze that you're accustomed to living in, not gonna

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Speaker 2: happen this time. Not gonna happen for Karen Bass and

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Speaker 2: the rest of the clowns on the City Council. Not

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Speaker 2: going to happen. Management of La Fire, La County Fire. Oh,

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Speaker 2: those god awful supervisors on La County Board of Supervises,

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Speaker 2: all these people, some of them are just impossibly dreadful,

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Speaker 2: awful people. But you know what you keep you keep

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Speaker 2: carrying on with your DEI debates. Don't bother putting plans

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Speaker 1: We wouldn't want you to do that.

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Speaker 2: Don't bother filling up reservoirs, don't bother checking to see

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Speaker 2: if hydrants work. Just make sure you had the latest

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Speaker 2: DEI plan in place so everything's equitable. But it looks

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Speaker 2: like you know, you ruined Black neighborhoods and white neighborhoods. Congratulations,

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Speaker 2: a lot of equity there. We come back an to

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Speaker 2: talk to Todd Bensman. Christy Noam, the Homeland Security Secretary

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Speaker 2: is officially cutting off money to the UN plus US

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Speaker 2: tax money. No more for all these agencies and non

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Speaker 2: governmental organizations that were financing the illegal alien caravan that

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Speaker 2: They were financing the entire southern border invasion. You work,

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Speaker 2: if you work for a living. If you don't work

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Speaker 2: for a living, it was our buddy that went in.

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Speaker 2: If you work, it was your money. That's next. Debor

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