1 00:00:00,840 --> 00:00:03,360 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John 2 00:00:03,440 --> 00:00:07,000 Speaker 1: Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. If you missed the 3 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:10,280 Speaker 1: one o'clock hour, we should listen to the podcast later 4 00:00:10,720 --> 00:00:14,480 Speaker 1: after four o'clock. As we went through the whole bullying 5 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:18,880 Speaker 1: situation thoroughly. They have failed dozens of government audits. Their 6 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:22,239 Speaker 1: factory floor, their whole procedure is just a mess. We 7 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:26,360 Speaker 1: talked with Alex Stone about that, and now we're going 8 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:30,320 Speaker 1: to talk to Flash Shelton. We're on Instagram Live if 9 00:00:30,360 --> 00:00:35,000 Speaker 1: you care. Flash Shelton calls himself the squatter Hunter and 10 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:37,519 Speaker 1: found this in the El Segundo Times this morning. This 11 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:40,920 Speaker 1: is a fascinating story if you have a squatter in 12 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:43,440 Speaker 1: your house, and this is increasingly common. Friends of ours 13 00:00:43,479 --> 00:00:45,440 Speaker 1: had a squatter. They were moving from one place to 14 00:00:45,479 --> 00:00:48,120 Speaker 1: the other. First house was empty for a time and 15 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:50,159 Speaker 1: they came back one day and yeah, the guy was 16 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:52,440 Speaker 1: living there. This is a big deal. There was a 17 00:00:52,479 --> 00:00:55,280 Speaker 1: story that there's twelve hundred squatters just in the Atlanta 18 00:00:55,320 --> 00:01:01,920 Speaker 1: metropolitan area and they are somewhat The way the legal 19 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:04,800 Speaker 1: system works, they can end up sitting there for months 20 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:07,880 Speaker 1: and months. It takes a long time to pry them out. 21 00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:14,080 Speaker 1: So Flash Shelton decided to well, eventually formed a business 22 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:18,240 Speaker 1: as the Squatter Hunter, and he will move into your 23 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:24,479 Speaker 1: house too, and eventually he convinces the squatter maybe it's 24 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:27,400 Speaker 1: a good idea to leave. How he does this, we're 25 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:30,640 Speaker 1: going to find out. Flash Shelton, Welcome to the show. 26 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:31,120 Speaker 1: How are you. 27 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:34,479 Speaker 2: I'm well, thanks for having me. 28 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:38,759 Speaker 1: Oh, I was really amused by this story. You got 29 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:42,320 Speaker 1: into the business because of a squatter in your mother's home. 30 00:01:44,720 --> 00:01:48,400 Speaker 2: Yes, twenty nineteen, after my dad had passed away, we 31 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:51,640 Speaker 2: were selling her house and moved her in with me. 32 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:54,760 Speaker 2: Squatters took over the house, and I did what everyone 33 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:59,680 Speaker 2: else does. I called the sheriff and said, neighbor reported 34 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:03,320 Speaker 2: a broke in the back door. And they responded and said, 35 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:05,000 Speaker 2: I thought you you know, I thought you told us 36 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:07,400 Speaker 2: that the house was empty. I said yeah, and they said, well, 37 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:11,720 Speaker 2: there's a house full of furniture here, so apparently you 38 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:13,680 Speaker 2: have a squatter and there's nothing we can do. 39 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:17,239 Speaker 1: So the guy moved in and brought his own furniture. 40 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:21,359 Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a couple of women and five guys 41 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:26,240 Speaker 2: when I arrived, and I had to I had to 42 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:31,840 Speaker 2: learn all about squatters very quickly and found that, you know, 43 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:34,440 Speaker 2: read a bunch of horror stories, and I just kind 44 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:37,640 Speaker 2: of dissected the laws and figured out loopholes and figured 45 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:42,040 Speaker 2: out that if I gained the squatter rights myself prior 46 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:45,840 Speaker 2: to them actually getting the rights, then I could switch 47 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:50,240 Speaker 2: places with them and essentially take over the home squat. 48 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:51,920 Speaker 1: In your own home. All right, So you said they 49 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:53,839 Speaker 1: had how many how many men and women were in there? 50 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:57,480 Speaker 2: There was two women and five men, and I witnessed 51 00:02:57,560 --> 00:02:58,600 Speaker 2: leaving that morning. 52 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:03,000 Speaker 1: Okay, So go through the process of how you got 53 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:06,400 Speaker 1: into your own house and stayed there and eventually got 54 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:08,280 Speaker 1: these seven unwanted guests out. 55 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:12,560 Speaker 2: So I think it's important to mention that it was 56 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:14,720 Speaker 2: not my house. And that's the key here, because the 57 00:03:14,880 --> 00:03:18,880 Speaker 2: laws are written to prevent homeowners from doing this. But 58 00:03:19,160 --> 00:03:22,000 Speaker 2: so the house was owned by my mom. I had 59 00:03:22,040 --> 00:03:25,200 Speaker 2: her right meal lease just in case. You know, a 60 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:27,280 Speaker 2: lot of squatters you hear up fake leases. So I 61 00:03:27,320 --> 00:03:29,840 Speaker 2: wanted to be armed with you know, I wanted to 62 00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:35,760 Speaker 2: be equal with them, and I, you know, cased out 63 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:38,440 Speaker 2: the house in the morning and waited for them to leave. 64 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:43,120 Speaker 2: And I immediately, you know, I fixed the back door. 65 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:46,360 Speaker 2: I just barricaded it, secured the home, put up cameras, 66 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:50,320 Speaker 2: and I waited for them to return. They never actually 67 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:53,160 Speaker 2: had a lease, so I didn't have to bring the 68 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:58,240 Speaker 2: lease out, but I basically on my channel outside the 69 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:03,119 Speaker 2: box with flash, I you know, videoed them and gave 70 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:07,640 Speaker 2: them basically the option was, uh, they leave with their 71 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:12,320 Speaker 2: furniture or without? Did so? 72 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:15,440 Speaker 1: Did this go peacefully? Because you were out numbered? It did? 73 00:04:16,520 --> 00:04:19,800 Speaker 2: It did go peacefully. I was I was ready. I 74 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:22,359 Speaker 2: was expecting, you know, just this just in case. I 75 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:25,880 Speaker 2: have to always be prepared for the worst. But you know, 76 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:30,200 Speaker 2: once they realized that the law was in my on 77 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:33,480 Speaker 2: my side, I have possession of the property, so I 78 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:37,040 Speaker 2: can defend my property. They were locked out before they 79 00:04:37,080 --> 00:04:40,040 Speaker 2: even knew I was there, Before they even knew I 80 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:43,880 Speaker 2: was even on my way there. You know, they they 81 00:04:43,880 --> 00:04:47,839 Speaker 2: had no ideas, So since I had possession, they would 82 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:51,440 Speaker 2: have just been, you know, making fools of themselves on camera. 83 00:04:51,760 --> 00:04:55,360 Speaker 2: And and in many cases the difference between a squatter 84 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:58,040 Speaker 2: being arrested or not comes down to possession. 85 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:02,280 Speaker 1: And were these people that had jobs, like you said, 86 00:05:02,279 --> 00:05:04,760 Speaker 1: they all left the house and that gave you an 87 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:07,160 Speaker 1: opening to come in. Were they going to work or 88 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:09,039 Speaker 1: I you know, I. 89 00:05:09,880 --> 00:05:12,279 Speaker 2: Do not know about the masses. I do know that 90 00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:16,120 Speaker 2: one of them I uncovered was a prison guard, and 91 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:18,640 Speaker 2: I actually show the prison uniform in my video. 92 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:23,239 Speaker 1: Yeah, you have a YouTube site right. 93 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:26,240 Speaker 2: Yes, outside the box with flash. 94 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:29,720 Speaker 1: Outside the box with flash. All right, Now, what what 95 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:33,520 Speaker 1: do you provide to like somebody like me? Right? Let's 96 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:35,520 Speaker 1: say I go off for two weeks on a vacation. 97 00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:38,240 Speaker 1: I come home and I've got mister squatter or a 98 00:05:38,279 --> 00:05:40,600 Speaker 1: group of squatters in there. I call you up. What 99 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:41,200 Speaker 1: do you do for me? 100 00:05:42,520 --> 00:05:45,159 Speaker 2: Well, the first thing is my main objective is to 101 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:48,640 Speaker 2: change squatter laws. So I start every situation with a 102 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:52,640 Speaker 2: with a zoom consultation where I would ask you to 103 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:56,480 Speaker 2: contribute one hundred and fifty dollars donation to squatd lot change, 104 00:05:57,000 --> 00:05:59,080 Speaker 2: and then I would spend forty minutes on a Zoom 105 00:05:59,080 --> 00:06:02,039 Speaker 2: with you and we would determine and personalize it and 106 00:06:02,080 --> 00:06:05,239 Speaker 2: I would simplify it for you. And in many cases 107 00:06:05,279 --> 00:06:08,400 Speaker 2: I'm just giving advice and helping a homeowner deal with 108 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:11,640 Speaker 2: the squatter, and mine might be consulting on it. In 109 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:15,240 Speaker 2: some cases I have a team and they will hire 110 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:19,080 Speaker 2: us to go out and deal with the squatters ourselves, 111 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:19,920 Speaker 2: and what do you do. 112 00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:22,160 Speaker 1: If you have to personally go out there with your team, 113 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:23,240 Speaker 1: what do you guys do? 114 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:26,840 Speaker 2: Well? While we start out with with a you know, 115 00:06:27,080 --> 00:06:29,840 Speaker 2: up to four days, you know, kind of at the 116 00:06:29,880 --> 00:06:32,960 Speaker 2: starting level, we will go out. We will find out 117 00:06:32,960 --> 00:06:35,480 Speaker 2: who the squatters are, do the background on them, and 118 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:38,320 Speaker 2: find out as much as information as we can. We'll 119 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:42,040 Speaker 2: scope it out. We'll you know, I did one last 120 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:44,599 Speaker 2: night where we are a couple of nights ago where 121 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:47,280 Speaker 2: we literally for five hours were sitting in a car 122 00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:51,760 Speaker 2: watching a house, and we'll we'll kind of figure out 123 00:06:51,800 --> 00:06:54,240 Speaker 2: what their routine is and if they're leaving the property 124 00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:56,919 Speaker 2: or not. And at that point we determine if I 125 00:06:56,960 --> 00:07:00,520 Speaker 2: can do a lockout, depending on how much if they have, 126 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:04,880 Speaker 2: or if we have to actually just knock on the 127 00:07:04,920 --> 00:07:08,119 Speaker 2: door and walk past them and hand them a lease 128 00:07:08,200 --> 00:07:11,760 Speaker 2: and say I'm home, this is my home now now. 129 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:15,040 Speaker 1: In the La Time story it said if if you 130 00:07:15,120 --> 00:07:17,720 Speaker 1: have to, you just live with them and you'll just 131 00:07:17,760 --> 00:07:20,200 Speaker 1: sit on the couch and you'll take the TV remote 132 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:22,480 Speaker 1: and you turn the music up loud and you start 133 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:25,880 Speaker 1: eating their food. Have you really done had to do 134 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:26,640 Speaker 1: that sort of thing? 135 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:30,960 Speaker 2: Well, I mean that I personally haven't seen the La 136 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:36,040 Speaker 2: Time story yet, so but the you know, I mean, 137 00:07:36,080 --> 00:07:39,400 Speaker 2: if if we move in, you know, it's more of okay, 138 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:42,720 Speaker 2: we're putting cameras up in every room. We're going to 139 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:45,240 Speaker 2: turn this into a reality show. I'm going to expose you. 140 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:47,880 Speaker 2: I'm going to make sure that American knows who you are, 141 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:50,720 Speaker 2: where you are, and that you're doing this. And the 142 00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:53,400 Speaker 2: next time you try to lease a property, they're going 143 00:07:53,480 --> 00:07:55,680 Speaker 2: to know that they probably shouldn't rent to you. 144 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:58,360 Speaker 1: Now, how long how long does it take before the 145 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:01,360 Speaker 1: squatter says I don't need this in my life. I'm 146 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:01,840 Speaker 1: getting out? 147 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:05,640 Speaker 2: You know, if we if we determined we have to 148 00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:09,320 Speaker 2: move in, I anticipate it's going to be anywhere from 149 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:12,680 Speaker 2: a day to four weeks, but you know, and that's 150 00:08:12,760 --> 00:08:15,600 Speaker 2: kind of the max. And and it's never gone four weeks. 151 00:08:16,640 --> 00:08:18,880 Speaker 1: So you really, you really have lived with some of 152 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:20,920 Speaker 1: the squatters. 153 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:24,040 Speaker 2: I I have not. I mean, you know, I would 154 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:26,160 Speaker 2: rather not live with we live with the squatters. I 155 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:28,040 Speaker 2: have a couple of teenagers at home that I'd rather 156 00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:32,080 Speaker 2: live with. But it, uh, you know, we have gone 157 00:08:32,080 --> 00:08:34,880 Speaker 2: in as if we're going to live and then they 158 00:08:34,920 --> 00:08:38,000 Speaker 2: call the cops, and the cops basically say he has 159 00:08:38,040 --> 00:08:40,360 Speaker 2: a light legal right to be here. And then they say, well, 160 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:43,320 Speaker 2: we don't want to be filmed, and they say, well, 161 00:08:43,559 --> 00:08:46,000 Speaker 2: legally he can film you in everywhere in the house 162 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:48,840 Speaker 2: except for your bedroom. And then you know, I have 163 00:08:48,880 --> 00:08:51,840 Speaker 2: a video with Adam Fleischman that says, well, you know, 164 00:08:51,880 --> 00:08:54,000 Speaker 2: all I want is privacy, and l A p D 165 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:58,480 Speaker 2: says if you want privacy, stay in your bedroom. 166 00:08:58,640 --> 00:09:01,360 Speaker 1: And so if if I hired you, would I have 167 00:09:01,480 --> 00:09:03,280 Speaker 1: to give you a temporary lease so you'd have the 168 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:04,440 Speaker 1: legal standing to do this. 169 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:09,920 Speaker 2: Yes, I get a lease on every property. I lease 170 00:09:10,040 --> 00:09:14,120 Speaker 2: the property as a renovation company so that we can 171 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:16,920 Speaker 2: go in and you know a lot of states have 172 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:20,000 Speaker 2: loopholes to get tenants out if you're doing major remodeling. 173 00:09:21,040 --> 00:09:22,400 Speaker 1: So what's the success rate? 174 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:27,000 Speaker 2: Well, I mean so far, you know, I have some 175 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:31,000 Speaker 2: ongoing that I can't really put in that statistic yet, 176 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:34,800 Speaker 2: but so far, I'm I'm one hundred percent. You know, 177 00:09:34,880 --> 00:09:38,080 Speaker 2: people aren't expecting me. They're expecting you to build civil 178 00:09:38,480 --> 00:09:42,960 Speaker 2: you know, take them to civil court. One of the 179 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:46,280 Speaker 2: things that I teach is flipping the process. So one 180 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:49,439 Speaker 2: of the things that I do is I My philosophy 181 00:09:49,559 --> 00:09:51,680 Speaker 2: is I would rather force them to fight me to 182 00:09:51,679 --> 00:09:54,520 Speaker 2: get back into a property than me spend my time 183 00:09:54,559 --> 00:09:55,480 Speaker 2: fighting to get them out. 184 00:09:56,320 --> 00:10:00,200 Speaker 1: All right, people need your services. How can they find you? 185 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:06,520 Speaker 2: Squatter Hunters dot com, squatters dot zoom, Yeah, and just 186 00:10:06,679 --> 00:10:09,560 Speaker 2: they can. They can sign the petition there, they can 187 00:10:09,640 --> 00:10:12,679 Speaker 2: contribute if they'd like to help out financially, and they 188 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:15,480 Speaker 2: can also email to schedule a zoom call. 189 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:19,720 Speaker 1: There's one more question. You're not nervous about having some 190 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:22,480 Speaker 1: kind of physical confrontation. They have weapons. I mean, some 191 00:10:22,520 --> 00:10:25,200 Speaker 1: of these people are crazy and they're whacked out on drugs. 192 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:26,040 Speaker 1: I would imagine. 193 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:29,880 Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I'm I'm. I do go into every 194 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:34,520 Speaker 2: situation expecting the worst. I am trained both physically and mentally. 195 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:38,920 Speaker 2: I am certified in de escalation, and I go in 196 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:43,520 Speaker 2: armed myself. So and I don't anymore. Out of the 197 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:47,680 Speaker 2: request of my daughter, I don't go in by myself anymore. 198 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:48,440 Speaker 2: All right. 199 00:10:48,800 --> 00:10:51,200 Speaker 1: All right, Well, Flash Shelton, thank you for coming on 200 00:10:51,280 --> 00:10:52,000 Speaker 1: with us. 201 00:10:52,640 --> 00:10:54,480 Speaker 2: All Right, I appreciate you having me. Thank you, and 202 00:10:54,600 --> 00:10:57,080 Speaker 2: just I'd like your listeners to sign the petition. 203 00:10:57,520 --> 00:11:00,880 Speaker 1: All right, Thank you very much, Flash Shelton, Squatter Hunter 204 00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:03,719 Speaker 1: or Debriet his get his name. 205 00:11:03,840 --> 00:11:05,200 Speaker 3: This gets me so mad. 206 00:11:05,320 --> 00:11:08,360 Speaker 4: How dare you squat in somebody's house and they have 207 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:09,280 Speaker 4: to go through all of them? 208 00:11:09,640 --> 00:11:12,760 Speaker 1: Have These people have no problem and it's really hard 209 00:11:12,800 --> 00:11:14,200 Speaker 1: to get them out. It takes it takes them. 210 00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:18,840 Speaker 5: While legally you're listening to John Cobelt on demand from 211 00:11:18,920 --> 00:11:20,800 Speaker 5: KFI A M. Six forty. 212 00:11:22,040 --> 00:11:23,959 Speaker 1: On from one till four and then after four o'clock 213 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:29,600 Speaker 1: John Cobelt Show on demand the podcast. Still we're talking 214 00:11:30,200 --> 00:11:35,240 Speaker 1: during the commercial break about this squatter epidemic. Really there's 215 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:37,520 Speaker 1: more people squatting, and you know, I had no idea. 216 00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:39,280 Speaker 1: I think it was just a drug addict crawling in 217 00:11:39,400 --> 00:11:42,240 Speaker 1: looking for shelter. They actually move in with their furniture 218 00:11:42,280 --> 00:11:46,960 Speaker 1: and families and friends out. Ah, I gotta this guy 219 00:11:47,040 --> 00:11:49,400 Speaker 1: is a video site. I gotta go look at it. 220 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:54,880 Speaker 1: Flash Slash Shelton is his name. So he started out 221 00:11:54,920 --> 00:11:58,760 Speaker 1: as a handyman and put together like a handyman trade organization. 222 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:04,680 Speaker 1: Interesting guy anyway, well kind of connected to all this. 223 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:08,360 Speaker 1: You know. We I've been telling you that there's this 224 00:12:08,880 --> 00:12:13,120 Speaker 1: constant drum beat that we have to slow traffic down 225 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:18,080 Speaker 1: here in Los Angeles because pedestrian fatalities are way up, 226 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:22,960 Speaker 1: and that resulted in Measure HLA passing, which will be 227 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:25,520 Speaker 1: a disaster if it ever really gets off the ground. 228 00:12:25,559 --> 00:12:27,800 Speaker 1: And this is a road diet for all the major 229 00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:30,880 Speaker 1: boulevards in Los Angeles and people. I guarantee you people 230 00:12:30,960 --> 00:12:33,400 Speaker 1: don't know what the hell they were voting on when 231 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:35,839 Speaker 1: they approved this thing last week. It's going to be 232 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:40,719 Speaker 1: terrible now. The claim that more people are getting run 233 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:47,720 Speaker 1: over comes from really screwed statistics. It's it's homeless people 234 00:12:47,720 --> 00:12:53,199 Speaker 1: getting run over. Homeless people, not normal pedestrians. Most people 235 00:12:53,280 --> 00:12:56,240 Speaker 1: who aren't whacked out in drugs and alcohol know how 236 00:12:56,240 --> 00:13:01,280 Speaker 1: to cross the street, and they do. And the innocent 237 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:04,280 Speaker 1: people who get run over get run over by somebody 238 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:07,040 Speaker 1: who's whacked out on drugs and alcohol. And it doesn't 239 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:09,040 Speaker 1: matter how you can figure the roads and how many 240 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:11,720 Speaker 1: laws you have. If they take in too much booze 241 00:13:11,840 --> 00:13:14,080 Speaker 1: or too many drugs, then yeah, they might run you over. 242 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:16,160 Speaker 1: But most of the time we all know how to 243 00:13:16,160 --> 00:13:19,600 Speaker 1: cross the street. It starts with just looking both ways. 244 00:13:19,720 --> 00:13:24,920 Speaker 1: Although I notice now in the age of the screen addicts, 245 00:13:25,720 --> 00:13:29,960 Speaker 1: the social media addicts, scrolling, scrolling, scrolling, I can't tell 246 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:33,440 Speaker 1: you how many people wander into the street because they're 247 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:36,000 Speaker 1: not paying any attention at all. They don't stop at 248 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:40,240 Speaker 1: the curb and look both ways. They never do. They 249 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:44,800 Speaker 1: just keep walking and they just walk right in front 250 00:13:44,840 --> 00:13:48,880 Speaker 1: of cars all the time. Now there is another twist 251 00:13:48,920 --> 00:13:51,400 Speaker 1: to this and it involves homeless people. What do you 252 00:13:51,480 --> 00:13:55,400 Speaker 1: do if somebody decides to spend the night squatting underneath 253 00:13:55,440 --> 00:13:58,560 Speaker 1: your car? Sleeping under your car does not end well. 254 00:13:58,720 --> 00:14:01,920 Speaker 1: Let's play this clip from Box eleven reporter Gigi Grassiet. 255 00:14:02,240 --> 00:14:05,040 Speaker 6: Tragic is the word all the way around. We're on 256 00:14:05,160 --> 00:14:09,240 Speaker 6: receipt A boulevard between Devonshire and Lassen, and take a 257 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:12,440 Speaker 6: look at the video. Per police, So woman got into 258 00:14:12,480 --> 00:14:15,000 Speaker 6: her car early this morning. She was heading off to 259 00:14:15,080 --> 00:14:17,880 Speaker 6: work and as she pulled out onto receip A boulevard 260 00:14:17,880 --> 00:14:20,800 Speaker 6: where she had been parked, she felt a thump of 261 00:14:20,880 --> 00:14:22,920 Speaker 6: sorts and thought she had hit something. 262 00:14:22,960 --> 00:14:24,240 Speaker 3: So she immediately got. 263 00:14:24,080 --> 00:14:27,600 Speaker 6: Out of her car to look and realized it was 264 00:14:27,720 --> 00:14:28,160 Speaker 6: a man. 265 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:31,280 Speaker 3: Police say they believe the man who is homeless. 266 00:14:30,880 --> 00:14:33,480 Speaker 1: And had been sleeping underneath her car. 267 00:14:33,880 --> 00:14:37,480 Speaker 6: Sadly, that man was pronounced dead here at this scene. Now, 268 00:14:37,600 --> 00:14:41,760 Speaker 6: traffic between Lassen and may Al On RECEIPA boulevard is 269 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:43,560 Speaker 6: closed for this investigation. 270 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:45,040 Speaker 3: But right now, the. 271 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:48,320 Speaker 6: Working theory is this is just a tragic accident. That 272 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:50,920 Speaker 6: woman had no way of knowing there was a man 273 00:14:51,120 --> 00:14:52,080 Speaker 6: underneath her car. 274 00:14:52,280 --> 00:14:54,680 Speaker 1: This is Karen bessis Los Angeles. We got to stick 275 00:14:54,720 --> 00:14:57,600 Speaker 1: our head under our car when we park in the street. 276 00:14:57,600 --> 00:15:00,680 Speaker 1: And probably if they have an open driveway too, probably 277 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:04,400 Speaker 1: if you're in a garage. This this is this is 278 00:15:04,440 --> 00:15:08,240 Speaker 1: what we have to deal with. Now, some some whacko 279 00:15:08,640 --> 00:15:12,280 Speaker 1: drug addict crawls under the car and then they close 280 00:15:12,360 --> 00:15:17,120 Speaker 1: the street for an investigation. What's to investigate? Just you know, 281 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:19,920 Speaker 1: scrape them up and let's let's move on with things. 282 00:15:21,320 --> 00:15:24,760 Speaker 1: That's just that's just out. But you see, that's another 283 00:15:24,800 --> 00:15:28,359 Speaker 1: statistic of they're gonna say, oh, look at that. Pedestrian 284 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:32,320 Speaker 1: deaths are up. It's stuff like this. It's it's the 285 00:15:32,440 --> 00:15:37,760 Speaker 1: drug zombies stumbling into the street. And then at night, 286 00:15:38,240 --> 00:15:40,520 Speaker 1: especially in the bad neighborhoods, you have all sorts of 287 00:15:40,720 --> 00:15:44,800 Speaker 1: crazy criminal types and enough drunk people and those street 288 00:15:44,840 --> 00:15:47,920 Speaker 1: takeover guys. Of course they're going to hit more homeless 289 00:15:47,920 --> 00:15:52,240 Speaker 1: people who are moping around. You know, it's a it's 290 00:15:52,280 --> 00:15:55,360 Speaker 1: a convergence of lawlessness, and then who do they punish 291 00:15:55,560 --> 00:15:59,880 Speaker 1: the rest of us trying to manipulate our emotion, saying 292 00:16:01,320 --> 00:16:04,480 Speaker 1: the pedestrian deaths or skyrocket. We must do something to 293 00:16:04,520 --> 00:16:07,880 Speaker 1: slow down to Los Angeles. It's pretty slow in Los Angeles. 294 00:16:07,920 --> 00:16:11,160 Speaker 1: I'll tell you. You know what I to get to my house, 295 00:16:11,560 --> 00:16:14,760 Speaker 1: I make a left turn off Sunset Boulevard onto a 296 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:19,160 Speaker 1: side street. The side street eventually winds to where I live. Right, 297 00:16:20,360 --> 00:16:22,240 Speaker 1: you know how many cars were waiting in line to 298 00:16:22,240 --> 00:16:25,000 Speaker 1: make a right turn on Sunset? How many as I 299 00:16:25,040 --> 00:16:27,760 Speaker 1: was making the left. There's a long line on my 300 00:16:27,880 --> 00:16:32,440 Speaker 1: left yesterday and there were seventy eight cars at five 301 00:16:32,440 --> 00:16:36,560 Speaker 1: o'clock in the afternoon in line snaked down the road, 302 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:41,320 Speaker 1: bend to the right across another intersection. Seventy eight cars. 303 00:16:42,880 --> 00:16:45,040 Speaker 1: And what they want to do is add road diet 304 00:16:45,080 --> 00:16:49,520 Speaker 1: and eliminate lanes. And part of it is because they 305 00:16:49,560 --> 00:16:52,240 Speaker 1: close the pch because of the rock slide. And you 306 00:16:52,280 --> 00:16:54,080 Speaker 1: know the rule on the west side of Los Angeles, 307 00:16:54,120 --> 00:16:58,160 Speaker 1: if one thing goes wrong, all the main roads are 308 00:16:58,680 --> 00:17:01,320 Speaker 1: blocked for hours an hour, And that's what happened. pH 309 00:17:01,480 --> 00:17:04,960 Speaker 1: was block going north and at seventy eight cars in 310 00:17:04,960 --> 00:17:08,720 Speaker 1: my neighborhood. We're talking a real side street there. There's 311 00:17:08,760 --> 00:17:12,639 Speaker 1: no painted lane in the middle of the road. Nothing. 312 00:17:13,160 --> 00:17:15,240 Speaker 1: In fact, he could I could barely get down this 313 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:18,399 Speaker 1: road because they park on both sides, and it's residential 314 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:20,919 Speaker 1: homes and it could barely squeeze through because of all 315 00:17:20,960 --> 00:17:24,320 Speaker 1: the cars backed up. All right, we come back today. 316 00:17:24,520 --> 00:17:30,080 Speaker 1: Was Robert Hurr. Robert Hurr was the special counsel who 317 00:17:30,359 --> 00:17:31,879 Speaker 1: and asked a few weeks ago he was not going 318 00:17:31,920 --> 00:17:36,000 Speaker 1: to charge Joe Biden with any crimes for mishandling classified documents, 319 00:17:36,040 --> 00:17:37,880 Speaker 1: even though there were a lot of documents all over 320 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:41,800 Speaker 1: his various properties, because Biden was just a will well 321 00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:46,280 Speaker 1: meaning old man with a bad memory loss. And this 322 00:17:46,320 --> 00:17:50,920 Speaker 1: started a huge firestorm. And so he was before the UH, 323 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:54,560 Speaker 1: before the House today having to explain himself, what the 324 00:17:54,560 --> 00:17:57,000 Speaker 1: hell are you doing? Tell him the truth. We'll get 325 00:17:57,040 --> 00:17:57,720 Speaker 1: to that coming up. 326 00:17:58,720 --> 00:18:03,040 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI AM 327 00:18:03,080 --> 00:18:05,040 Speaker 5: six forty this morning. 328 00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:07,520 Speaker 1: Oh by the way, coming up in a half an hour, 329 00:18:07,560 --> 00:18:11,280 Speaker 1: we're gonna have Lora Angle on from NewsNation, the cable 330 00:18:11,320 --> 00:18:15,000 Speaker 1: news network. She is back covering the Scott Peterson case again. 331 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:17,480 Speaker 1: She did that over twenty years ago when she was 332 00:18:17,480 --> 00:18:22,040 Speaker 1: a reporter here on KFI, and she's back covering the 333 00:18:22,040 --> 00:18:24,399 Speaker 1: same story, and we're gonna bring you the same story 334 00:18:24,440 --> 00:18:28,560 Speaker 1: because the Innocence Project LA has made an appeal to 335 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:32,320 Speaker 1: a judge to reopen the case. They claim there's DNA 336 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:35,600 Speaker 1: evidence to test and they have a wacky theory involving 337 00:18:35,640 --> 00:18:38,520 Speaker 1: the Brown van again where if you remember that far, 338 00:18:38,680 --> 00:18:41,040 Speaker 1: it was Scott Garregos who claimed that there was some 339 00:18:41,160 --> 00:18:44,280 Speaker 1: kind of satanic cult inside the brown van who I 340 00:18:44,320 --> 00:18:47,000 Speaker 1: don't know, wanted to sacrifice Lacey and her unborn child 341 00:18:47,080 --> 00:18:50,320 Speaker 1: or some nonsense like that. Well, there was a bloody 342 00:18:50,359 --> 00:18:53,439 Speaker 1: mattress in that van. It was from a group of 343 00:18:53,480 --> 00:18:59,480 Speaker 1: burglars who had stolen from a home in the area. Anyway, 344 00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:02,960 Speaker 1: his project has got it before judge and the judge said, okay, 345 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:04,680 Speaker 1: I'll listen to it. And there was a hearing today. 346 00:19:04,840 --> 00:19:07,800 Speaker 1: We'll see if anything happened. Lor Angele coming on after 347 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:10,280 Speaker 1: three o'clock. Now, today was the day that Robert Hurr 348 00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:16,040 Speaker 1: appeared before Congress, before the House and in front of 349 00:19:16,040 --> 00:19:18,119 Speaker 1: the House Judiciary Committee. And you may not be familiar 350 00:19:18,160 --> 00:19:20,959 Speaker 1: with the name, but he was the special prosecutor who 351 00:19:21,080 --> 00:19:26,960 Speaker 1: investigated what Joe Biden did with all those documents, And 352 00:19:27,080 --> 00:19:29,520 Speaker 1: as it turns out, he had a lot of documents 353 00:19:29,960 --> 00:19:34,120 Speaker 1: and there was a motivation for keeping the documents. Part 354 00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:38,480 Speaker 1: of HER's testimony involved his investigation into a ghost writer 355 00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:43,520 Speaker 1: that Biden had contracted with to write Biden's memoir his 356 00:19:43,640 --> 00:19:47,240 Speaker 1: time as vice president, and he was getting eight million 357 00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:51,000 Speaker 1: dollars for this book, so he wanted to keep the 358 00:19:51,040 --> 00:19:53,679 Speaker 1: files that had the secrets that would show that he 359 00:19:53,840 --> 00:19:57,399 Speaker 1: Joe Biden was right about the war in Afghanistan and 360 00:19:57,680 --> 00:20:00,400 Speaker 1: other controversies going on in the Obama had been restration 361 00:20:00,920 --> 00:20:04,600 Speaker 1: because apparently back then there was a great dispute over 362 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:07,479 Speaker 1: whether to send a surge of troops into Afghanistan or not. 363 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:11,840 Speaker 1: Obama wanted to, Biden did not, And so he kept 364 00:20:12,119 --> 00:20:16,440 Speaker 1: the paperwork, which was all classified documents, and took it 365 00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:19,919 Speaker 1: home with him and then started reading them over the 366 00:20:19,960 --> 00:20:23,800 Speaker 1: phone to the ghostwriter. And you know, need other documents 367 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:30,520 Speaker 1: scattered about from various times what Robert Hurt did and 368 00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:32,359 Speaker 1: I did like this guy. He seemed to be a 369 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:36,520 Speaker 1: straight shooter. Is he looked at the case and a prosecutor, 370 00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:40,800 Speaker 1: district attorney at Deputy DA. Their bar is do I 371 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:45,320 Speaker 1: have enough evidence that will convict a jury beyond a 372 00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:49,560 Speaker 1: reasonable doubt? Not only is the evidence strong enough, but 373 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:54,280 Speaker 1: there isn't any counter evidence that will somehow weaken the case. 374 00:20:55,720 --> 00:21:01,399 Speaker 1: And he looked at Biden's demeanor and we got the 375 00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:05,919 Speaker 1: transcripts are out now and during his deposition with Robert 376 00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:10,199 Speaker 1: Hurr and the other Justice Department attorneys, Biden had some 377 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:15,040 Speaker 1: memory problems. In fact, her famously wrote in his report 378 00:21:15,119 --> 00:21:19,160 Speaker 1: that he's a well meaning elderly man with a poor memory. 379 00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:22,879 Speaker 1: And part of the rationale for not charging him was 380 00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:28,120 Speaker 1: he didn't think that the jury would convict a guy 381 00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:33,359 Speaker 1: with a bad memory, because that bad memory could overwhelm 382 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:36,160 Speaker 1: the case. You know that maybe he forgot how important 383 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:38,679 Speaker 1: the documents are, He forgot where the documents were, he 384 00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:40,600 Speaker 1: forgot he brought him to the home right, You could 385 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:43,720 Speaker 1: see that if you've got a witness who is failing, 386 00:21:44,320 --> 00:21:47,840 Speaker 1: who's near eighty years old, the jury may be reluctant 387 00:21:48,119 --> 00:21:55,480 Speaker 1: to accuse him of malevolent intentions. Let's say, well, by 388 00:21:55,520 --> 00:21:58,960 Speaker 1: writing that, which is the truth, I think we've seen 389 00:21:59,040 --> 00:22:02,320 Speaker 1: enough of Biden is that, yes, he could be at 390 00:22:02,359 --> 00:22:06,440 Speaker 1: times a well meaning elderly man with poor memory. It's 391 00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:09,680 Speaker 1: it's it's clearly he's got he's got cognitive issues. I'm 392 00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:12,840 Speaker 1: so sick of his stupid debate. If it was your dad, 393 00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:15,399 Speaker 1: my dad, Yeah, that's what you'd be saying. Okay, you 394 00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:18,119 Speaker 1: wouldn't be letting him back out of the driveway, you 395 00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:20,240 Speaker 1: wouldn't let him drive your kids around. And you know, 396 00:22:20,320 --> 00:22:24,439 Speaker 1: everybody knows that. That's what's irritating about this. But the 397 00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:28,840 Speaker 1: her was getting it from both sides. From one side, 398 00:22:29,359 --> 00:22:33,080 Speaker 1: it was idiots like Adam Schiff. God forbid, it's going 399 00:22:33,119 --> 00:22:36,359 Speaker 1: to be the next California senator unless Steve Garvey can 400 00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:42,679 Speaker 1: beat him. But Schiff, you know, thought all these democrats 401 00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:45,840 Speaker 1: and I realized they're play acting. They're pretending that it 402 00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:50,040 Speaker 1: was unnecessary, it was mean, it was unwarranted, it was rude. 403 00:22:50,040 --> 00:22:51,840 Speaker 1: Well blah blah blah blah. Just tell him the truth. 404 00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:54,320 Speaker 1: The only way you get a lot of criticism in 405 00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:57,360 Speaker 1: life is you tell the truth. And Schiff knows it's 406 00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:01,680 Speaker 1: the truth. But Schiff is a professional. He lied about 407 00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:05,640 Speaker 1: Trump's Russian hoax, he's lying now about Biden's sanility problems. 408 00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:08,479 Speaker 1: That's what he does for a living. He lies, and 409 00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:10,800 Speaker 1: you know he gets a fair amount of votes for Lyne. 410 00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:13,200 Speaker 1: That's just the way the world is. On the other hand, 411 00:23:13,359 --> 00:23:17,680 Speaker 1: the Republicans are beating on her for not bringing official 412 00:23:17,760 --> 00:23:22,640 Speaker 1: charges against Biden, and her said, it's about whether there's 413 00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:27,560 Speaker 1: reasonable doubt, and part of it is his his cognitive issues, 414 00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:33,560 Speaker 1: which is legitimate. If you can't, you're not going to 415 00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:36,600 Speaker 1: go and prosecute the president of the United States unless 416 00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:39,600 Speaker 1: it's one hundred percent slammed duck, no doubt about a victory. 417 00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:42,200 Speaker 1: Nobody's gonna do that. And if you've got a guy 418 00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:45,080 Speaker 1: whose memory is failing badly, then then your your your 419 00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:48,399 Speaker 1: case sinks. Any event, let let's play the Adam Adam 420 00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:52,359 Speaker 1: shift Cliff Cliff Adam Schiff climp and you'll get an 421 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:54,520 Speaker 1: idea of what her was dealing with. 422 00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:57,640 Speaker 7: Mister Her, you cannot tell me you're so naive as 423 00:23:57,680 --> 00:24:01,240 Speaker 7: to think your words would not have raided a political firestorm. 424 00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:03,560 Speaker 7: You understood that, didn't you When you wrote those words, 425 00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:05,960 Speaker 7: When you decided to include those words, when you decided 426 00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:10,080 Speaker 7: to go beyond specific references to documents, you understood how 427 00:24:10,119 --> 00:24:13,399 Speaker 7: they would be manipulated by by my colleagues here on 428 00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:15,200 Speaker 7: the GOP side of the island by President Trump. 429 00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:16,439 Speaker 1: You understood that, did you not? 430 00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:20,320 Speaker 8: Congressmand What I understood is the regulations that govern my 431 00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:21,960 Speaker 8: conduct as special counsel. 432 00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:24,480 Speaker 7: And those regulations thoations. 433 00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:26,320 Speaker 8: A confidential report for the Attorney General, which you knew 434 00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:28,520 Speaker 8: would not be and that's what I did. 435 00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:30,560 Speaker 2: Congressman, you knew it. 436 00:24:30,560 --> 00:24:33,719 Speaker 7: Would not be confidential. You knew would not be confidential, 437 00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:34,680 Speaker 7: didn't you? 438 00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:37,800 Speaker 8: So the regulations required me to write a confidential report 439 00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:40,200 Speaker 8: explaining my decision to the Attorney General. 440 00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:41,320 Speaker 7: Which you knew would be released. 441 00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:44,080 Speaker 8: It was up to the Attorney General's Terman. 442 00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:45,240 Speaker 1: Understood it would be released. 443 00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:47,639 Speaker 8: Did you not release consistent with DOJ policy? 444 00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:50,120 Speaker 7: You understood it would be at least you understood be released. 445 00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:52,919 Speaker 8: I understood from the Attorney General's public comments that he 446 00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:55,679 Speaker 8: would make as much of my report public as he could, 447 00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:57,399 Speaker 8: consistent with legal requirements and d. 448 00:24:57,600 --> 00:25:01,919 Speaker 1: Do you also understand? But it was true. And I 449 00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:04,600 Speaker 1: don't know how you do a report like this and 450 00:25:04,920 --> 00:25:08,119 Speaker 1: not release it publicly ultimately, and again it was the 451 00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:11,080 Speaker 1: Attorney General Merrick Gardland died in the world Democrat, and 452 00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:14,320 Speaker 1: you really made the Supreme Court from the Obama years 453 00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:17,960 Speaker 1: and there was a legitimate reason to do the investigation, 454 00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:21,520 Speaker 1: as there is a legitimate reason to do an investigation 455 00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:24,520 Speaker 1: and possible trial with Trump as well. Over the documents, 456 00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:26,800 Speaker 1: you're not supposed to take them home. You're simply not 457 00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:29,600 Speaker 1: supposed to do that. And so if you take classified 458 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:31,800 Speaker 1: documents home, it doesn't matter who you are. Now when 459 00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:33,760 Speaker 1: it comes to charging, you got to have a case 460 00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:36,479 Speaker 1: beyond a reasonable doubt, especially when it's a present. I 461 00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:40,680 Speaker 1: don't think this is complicated. I play one more clip. 462 00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:46,800 Speaker 1: This is her talking to Primila Jayapal. Another this length Yeah, 463 00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:50,040 Speaker 1: this is another democratic representative. They start fighting over the 464 00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:52,440 Speaker 1: word exonerates. Listen to this. 465 00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:56,359 Speaker 9: So, this lengthy, expensive and independent investigation resulted in a 466 00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:59,960 Speaker 9: complete exoneration of President Joe Biden. For every document you 467 00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:03,280 Speaker 9: discussed in your report, you found insufficient evidence that the 468 00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:08,080 Speaker 9: president violated any laws about possession or retention of classified materials. 469 00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:12,119 Speaker 9: The primary law that you analyze for potential prosecution was 470 00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:15,880 Speaker 9: part of the Espionage Act eighteen Usc. Seven ninety three E, 471 00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:20,960 Speaker 9: which criminalizes will for retention or disclosure of national defense information. 472 00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:24,000 Speaker 8: Is that correct, Congressman, That is one statute that we analyzed. 473 00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:26,480 Speaker 8: I need to go back and make sure that I 474 00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:29,680 Speaker 8: take note of a word that you use, exoneration. 475 00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:31,920 Speaker 1: That is to the word I'm going to continue with 476 00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:33,080 Speaker 1: my question to ask us. 477 00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:34,560 Speaker 9: I'm going to continue with my questions. 478 00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:36,919 Speaker 10: I know that it's the term I ultimately reach. I 479 00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:39,000 Speaker 10: know that they're sorry, let's just stop this here. So 480 00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:42,480 Speaker 10: this is what she does. She uses an incorrect word. 481 00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:46,280 Speaker 10: He did not exonerate Biden. She is is an incorrect word. 482 00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:49,040 Speaker 10: Her says, well, I can't let that stand. And then 483 00:26:49,119 --> 00:26:51,160 Speaker 10: when he tries to explain, she talks over the top 484 00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:54,440 Speaker 10: because what she wants to do is get the SoundBite 485 00:26:54,480 --> 00:27:01,040 Speaker 10: on TV. Exonerate has a specific definition. It means absolve 486 00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:07,720 Speaker 10: someone from blame. Her did not absolve Biden. What he 487 00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:12,280 Speaker 10: said is the case wasn't good enough to take the trial, 488 00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:17,159 Speaker 10: in part because Biden's memory was so faulty. That is 489 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:21,720 Speaker 10: a difference. And everybody there, most of these congress people 490 00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:25,080 Speaker 10: are lawyers. They know what exonerate means. They know that 491 00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:29,240 Speaker 10: was not an exoneration. That Biden got a senility pass. 492 00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:32,840 Speaker 10: That's the truth. But again, you tell the truth and 493 00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:33,720 Speaker 10: you get piled on. 494 00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:41,280 Speaker 1: We have there was something. Yes, yes, I'm going to 495 00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:43,600 Speaker 1: read a line here and you try to figure out 496 00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:48,280 Speaker 1: what this might mean. I'd rather die hot than live ugly. 497 00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:52,320 Speaker 1: What does that mean? I'll tell you we come back. 498 00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:57,840 Speaker 5: You're listening to John cobelts on demand from KFI AM. 499 00:27:57,560 --> 00:28:01,160 Speaker 1: Six forty John Cobel Show, I Am six forty Live 500 00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:06,960 Speaker 1: everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Also Moist Line. 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After three o'clock, Scott Peterson 508 00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:39,080 Speaker 1: another hearing, they want to reopen the case from the 509 00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:43,080 Speaker 1: La Innocence Project, and we have Lore Ango back there 510 00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:47,000 Speaker 1: covered it for CAFI many years ago, and she's working 511 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:51,560 Speaker 1: now for News Nation, the cable TV outlet. And what 512 00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:53,840 Speaker 1: went on today in court as they try to reopen 513 00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:58,000 Speaker 1: the case and get DNA testing of evidence. We'll tell you, 514 00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:03,520 Speaker 1: all right, this headline jumped out at me. Debor you 515 00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:06,840 Speaker 1: want to hear this, tell Chris Little to hit the hallway. 516 00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:10,040 Speaker 1: All right, we're trying to work here. I just told 517 00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:15,280 Speaker 1: you just go do something. No, no, no, don't don't interrupt, 518 00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:19,800 Speaker 1: Just go away there, how about that? 519 00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:23,720 Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, not on my ship. 520 00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:27,760 Speaker 1: All right. So in a Washington Post there was a 521 00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:31,680 Speaker 1: headline I'd rather die hot than live ugly, all right. 522 00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:32,720 Speaker 1: So that grabbed my attention. 523 00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:34,680 Speaker 3: Yeah, that would grab my attention to And. 524 00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:40,360 Speaker 1: It turns out that tanning your body deep tanning is back. 525 00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:42,200 Speaker 1: It's hot, it's all over social media. 526 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:45,880 Speaker 4: It's not good for your body, it's terrible for your skin. 527 00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:47,320 Speaker 1: These young women don't care. 528 00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:49,440 Speaker 3: There's tanning sprays. 529 00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:54,840 Speaker 1: Well, that is part of the story as well. And 530 00:29:56,040 --> 00:30:00,440 Speaker 1: apparently people showed up at the oscars with extreme tans. 531 00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:02,600 Speaker 1: Uh whose tan did you notice? 532 00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:06,040 Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, all the women in those strapless gowns. 533 00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:08,600 Speaker 4: Almost all the women, I should say. 534 00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:13,520 Speaker 1: How about the guys, it said Matthew McConaughey and Bradley Cooper. 535 00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:20,160 Speaker 4: Well, Matthew McConaughey, yes, that was that was a little outrageous. Well, 536 00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:21,280 Speaker 4: I forgot about that. 537 00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:25,360 Speaker 1: Yeah. The uh, if you go online and search for tanning, 538 00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:29,560 Speaker 1: you could find two hundred different tanning products on Sophora 539 00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:34,000 Speaker 1: or Alta just by themselves. There is now bronzing powders, 540 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:39,120 Speaker 1: bronzing creams, mits, and tobbles. I don't know what that is. Well, look, 541 00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:40,600 Speaker 1: you actually know this stuff. 542 00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:41,440 Speaker 3: Full disclosure. 543 00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:43,880 Speaker 4: No, I've never gone to a tanning salon, but I 544 00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:47,160 Speaker 4: have bought tanning sprays. And sometimes they turn your skin 545 00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:50,120 Speaker 4: orange or they have this horrible smell or your youth 546 00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:54,200 Speaker 4: you look like Trump exactly, or you miss spots. Right, 547 00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:56,360 Speaker 4: So if I put it on my legs, then maybe 548 00:30:56,400 --> 00:31:00,240 Speaker 4: part of my leg looks nice in tan, and then there's. 549 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:02,600 Speaker 3: There's white spots. So I've given up on that. 550 00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:05,320 Speaker 1: I knew somebody on the West Side and used to 551 00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:08,000 Speaker 1: have a tanning bed, but like a guy would come 552 00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:12,920 Speaker 1: over and spray her body and uh, that's what she 553 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:13,560 Speaker 1: did all day. 554 00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:16,400 Speaker 4: Well that is better than going to a tanning salon 555 00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:17,440 Speaker 4: with the UV rates. 556 00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:18,480 Speaker 1: But she looked orange. 557 00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:19,640 Speaker 3: Well, I know you have to. 558 00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:23,080 Speaker 4: Some people do it and they look they look really good, 559 00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:24,680 Speaker 4: and then others look orange. 560 00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:29,800 Speaker 1: There's lotions and serums words, there are pills that will 561 00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:31,640 Speaker 1: dye your skin from the inside out. 562 00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:32,880 Speaker 3: Oh, I would never do that. 563 00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:38,640 Speaker 1: Isn't that creepy You're gonna die your skin? Yeah, yeah, 564 00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:41,280 Speaker 1: I'm sure there's no bad side effects from that. There's 565 00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:46,880 Speaker 1: nasal sprays that increase your body's ability to produce melanin. 566 00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:48,960 Speaker 1: Then that darkens your skin. 567 00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:50,440 Speaker 10: You know. 568 00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:53,960 Speaker 4: Look, everybody does look good with a tan, but you 569 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,800 Speaker 4: know what, I'm okay with my white legs. 570 00:31:56,920 --> 00:32:02,120 Speaker 1: There's tanning oils and self tanning mooses, all kinds of goop. 571 00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:05,800 Speaker 1: What I remember girls used to do when I was 572 00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:08,800 Speaker 1: in high school. They would rub baby oil all over there. 573 00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:12,000 Speaker 1: But you did that, that really burns your body. Oh yeah. 574 00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:14,400 Speaker 4: If I showed you pictures, and I don't have them anymore, 575 00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:18,600 Speaker 4: I destroyed them, destroy because I looked horrible. But I 576 00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:21,000 Speaker 4: used to go to the beach in the summer almost 577 00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:23,400 Speaker 4: every day and I would do that. I would put 578 00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:27,440 Speaker 4: baby oil on and other oils, and I my skin 579 00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:28,920 Speaker 4: was black. 580 00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:32,040 Speaker 3: I hate to see. What's gonna happen to my skin? 581 00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:36,160 Speaker 3: Is that age? I stopped that relatively at all. 582 00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:40,200 Speaker 1: Well, if you see grizzled middle aged women, that's what happened. 583 00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:40,680 Speaker 10: I know. 584 00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:44,120 Speaker 1: They cooked themselves on the beach and then they're all 585 00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:47,400 Speaker 1: they're all they look like leather, they look like footballs. 586 00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:50,680 Speaker 3: But you know what, back in the day, we didn't 587 00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:52,040 Speaker 3: know how bad it was. 588 00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:54,920 Speaker 1: But it's coming back. See. That's that's what I don't understand. 589 00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:57,440 Speaker 1: That's what was amazing about it is all all this 590 00:32:57,520 --> 00:32:59,400 Speaker 1: is coming on? What else? What else do I remember? Oh? 591 00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:02,200 Speaker 1: They were they would like aim mirrors at their bodies 592 00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:06,320 Speaker 1: that are going to concentrate the sunlight, and and they'd 593 00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:10,240 Speaker 1: lay on they'd lie on aluminum foil. They were literally 594 00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:13,600 Speaker 1: cooking themselves. You'd walk along the beach and there'd be 595 00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:20,720 Speaker 1: smoke rising women. They look like overcooked hot dogs. But 596 00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:24,400 Speaker 1: but you know what, it's all it's because of social media. 597 00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:28,000 Speaker 1: And that that headline that I told you about, let 598 00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:32,120 Speaker 1: me find out, okay it was. It was a post 599 00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:36,160 Speaker 1: on social media. A video woman described herself as a 600 00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:40,120 Speaker 1: tanning addict, and she wrote, it's a problem, but I'd 601 00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:45,120 Speaker 1: rather die hot than live ugly. Well that's and then 602 00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:50,480 Speaker 1: she had a series of hashtags hashtag yolo you only 603 00:33:50,520 --> 00:33:55,760 Speaker 1: live ones l O L and sundead. This is what 604 00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:58,920 Speaker 1: I love about social media. It exposes the stupid in 605 00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:05,320 Speaker 1: spectacular action. Wait sun bed or son dead sun bed? Oh? Okay, 606 00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:11,320 Speaker 1: okay had to clarify the hashtag tenning has generated four 607 00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:16,160 Speaker 1: point one billion views from people cooking and browning their bodies, 608 00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:22,640 Speaker 1: even after all those decades warnings, God knows what a 609 00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:27,440 Speaker 1: tail that dies your skin? What dead? Does we come back? 610 00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:35,160 Speaker 1: Lacy Peterson? Scott Peterson. Scott killed Lacey, but they keep trying, 611 00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:37,239 Speaker 1: They keep trying to find a way to get him 612 00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:42,600 Speaker 1: out of prison. And now they're looking at they claim 613 00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:46,520 Speaker 1: new DNA evidence from the Los Angeles Innocence Project and 614 00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:48,719 Speaker 1: they got a judge to do a hearing. We have 615 00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:51,799 Speaker 1: Loura Engel who covered the original trial way back on 616 00:34:51,960 --> 00:34:54,520 Speaker 1: KFI and she works for Newstation Now and she's going 617 00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:56,200 Speaker 1: to tell us what went on today in the courtroom 618 00:34:56,239 --> 00:34:59,160 Speaker 1: with anything Deborah Mark live in the caf I twenty 619 00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:01,560 Speaker 1: four our newsroom. Eight. You've been listening to The John 620 00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:04,279 Speaker 1: Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear the show live 621 00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:07,160 Speaker 1: on KFI Am six forty from one to four pm 622 00:35:07,239 --> 00:35:10,200 Speaker 1: every Monday through Friday, and of course anytime on demand 623 00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:11,720 Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app.