1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,320 --> 00:00:08,240 Speaker 1: How are you? It's good that you're here. 4 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:10,479 Speaker 2: We are on every day from one until four o'clock, 5 00:00:10,520 --> 00:00:12,680 Speaker 2: and then after four o'clock. Whatever you missed, you go 6 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:15,920 Speaker 2: to John Cobelt's show on demand on the iHeart app 7 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:19,959 Speaker 2: at same as the radio show, and that's where you 8 00:00:20,040 --> 00:00:25,120 Speaker 2: catch up. We next hour are going to have John Allion. 9 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:29,920 Speaker 2: He's a businessman who owns a lot of businesses in 10 00:00:30,280 --> 00:00:34,800 Speaker 2: Santa Monica and the MacArthur Park neighborhood in Los Angeles, 11 00:00:34,840 --> 00:00:39,160 Speaker 2: two areas that have been cursed by all the left 12 00:00:39,159 --> 00:00:45,200 Speaker 2: wing incompetence that runs LA in Santa Monica and which 13 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:50,920 Speaker 2: has led to entire neighborhoods getting destroyed by criminals, vagrants, 14 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:57,440 Speaker 2: mental patients, drug addicts, the whole lot. It's turned both 15 00:00:58,080 --> 00:01:03,960 Speaker 2: parts of Santa Monica and MacArthur Park neighborhood into hellhols. 16 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:09,200 Speaker 2: And yesterday we told you that John Alley had arranged 17 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:16,480 Speaker 2: for divers to use scanning technology to see what's on 18 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:21,360 Speaker 2: the bottom of the lake in MacArthur Park because strong 19 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:24,720 Speaker 2: suspicion from John and a lot of people is that 20 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:26,960 Speaker 2: there are a lot of dead bodies floating in there 21 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:33,839 Speaker 2: and weapons and other criminal evidence. And there is a 22 00:01:33,959 --> 00:01:37,759 Speaker 2: organization called Safe Cities USA. They were going to use 23 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:42,840 Speaker 2: a remotely operated vehicle to scour the lake to look 24 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:46,360 Speaker 2: for bodies, and they were about to start it on Monday, 25 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:52,520 Speaker 2: and then La City councilwoman Communist Eunice Hernandez shut it 26 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:56,640 Speaker 2: down and the park rangers told the search organizers to 27 00:01:57,040 --> 00:02:00,000 Speaker 2: pack up and go home. So now why did you 28 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:03,320 Speaker 2: And this is Harry She she doesn't want the bodies 29 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:04,320 Speaker 2: dredged out of the lake. 30 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:08,840 Speaker 1: She doesn't want to know if there are bodies and 31 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:09,840 Speaker 1: how many of them. 32 00:02:11,639 --> 00:02:15,600 Speaker 2: People disappear around MacArthur Park Lake from time to time 33 00:02:16,880 --> 00:02:22,560 Speaker 2: because there it's it's it's largely inhabited by criminals, gang 34 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:27,160 Speaker 2: members and drug pushers and you know, every every matter 35 00:02:27,240 --> 00:02:30,239 Speaker 2: of devian So we're gonna talk to John Alley next hour. 36 00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:34,160 Speaker 2: You're gonna want to hear that big news today is 37 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:38,560 Speaker 2: that Donald Trump we has decided to take over the 38 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:46,200 Speaker 2: permitting process here in uh Pacific Palisades. We have a 39 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:50,520 Speaker 2: complete failure of government, as you know, especially when it 40 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:53,720 Speaker 2: comes to the Palisades. Over the last year uh and 41 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:57,440 Speaker 2: even before the fire, just a total failure of Karen 42 00:02:57,480 --> 00:03:00,440 Speaker 2: Bass and Gavin Newsom. And there's really a large vam 43 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:04,519 Speaker 2: and people are lost and they can't get their permits 44 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:08,200 Speaker 2: done very quickly, if at all, and people have been 45 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:11,640 Speaker 2: complaining about it for a year and Trump has finally 46 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:18,320 Speaker 2: said enough and issued in executive order today on rebuilding permits, 47 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:24,040 Speaker 2: So thousands of residents who can't get the permits. The 48 00:03:24,040 --> 00:03:28,959 Speaker 2: Trump administration is going to take over the process for 49 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:34,120 Speaker 2: homeowners who have received federal funds, so all the state 50 00:03:34,160 --> 00:03:36,840 Speaker 2: and local red tape is going to be cut through. 51 00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:42,160 Speaker 2: And the thing is that the federal government, whatever they've 52 00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:45,760 Speaker 2: done for the Palisades clean up, they've been very quick 53 00:03:45,840 --> 00:03:49,760 Speaker 2: and effective. Ari carve engineers thought it was going to 54 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:53,200 Speaker 2: take eighteen months to clear all the debris. They finished 55 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:57,600 Speaker 2: an eight Small business administration came in with federal loans 56 00:03:57,600 --> 00:04:03,560 Speaker 2: for those who lost everything, and things got done. And 57 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:06,960 Speaker 2: then they turned it over to the King of fraud, 58 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:14,000 Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom and the idiot Karen Bass, and nothing's been 59 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:15,760 Speaker 2: done and they don't even want to talk about it 60 00:04:16,440 --> 00:04:23,440 Speaker 2: because they don't care. Newsom and the legislature makes behind 61 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:26,040 Speaker 2: the scenes moves to try to seize some of the 62 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:30,480 Speaker 2: land for affordable housing. Believe me, that is still active 63 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:32,760 Speaker 2: and on the table, no matter how much they deny it. 64 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:37,440 Speaker 2: They would love to rezone the Palisades and turn it 65 00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:42,880 Speaker 2: into some kind of third world hell hole. So Newsom 66 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:47,040 Speaker 2: is pissed off about this and he's trying to change 67 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:55,600 Speaker 2: the subject. So his office's response was, as usual, snarky 68 00:04:56,600 --> 00:05:00,760 Speaker 2: it seems that's all they do, claiming that an executive 69 00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:05,000 Speaker 2: order to rebuild Mars would be just as useful, and 70 00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:09,920 Speaker 2: then they switched gears and started begging Trump for money. 71 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:13,960 Speaker 2: The main obstacle is communities not having the money to rebuild. 72 00:05:14,279 --> 00:05:17,359 Speaker 2: The FEDS need to release funding, not take over the 73 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:24,080 Speaker 2: local approval speed. Well, the permit approval system is slow 74 00:05:24,440 --> 00:05:27,760 Speaker 2: to the point of it stops for a lot of people. 75 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:32,479 Speaker 2: I've seen multiple news reports, I've talked to multiple people 76 00:05:32,480 --> 00:05:35,800 Speaker 2: in the Palisades, and it is a gigantic pain in 77 00:05:35,839 --> 00:05:36,320 Speaker 2: the ass. 78 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:42,080 Speaker 1: And Bass and Newsom will play a trick. 79 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:45,120 Speaker 2: They'll say, well, we have X number of permits already approved, 80 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:48,760 Speaker 2: grossly inflating the number of homes that are being helped. 81 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:52,839 Speaker 2: Because each home has to get a number of permits. 82 00:05:53,960 --> 00:05:58,040 Speaker 2: So it's not just one permit for a home, it's several. 83 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:02,880 Speaker 2: And so if the whole package is approved, Bassin Newsom 84 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:06,440 Speaker 2: count each individual permit, but it doesn't mean that many 85 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:10,200 Speaker 2: homes are being are being approved of. 86 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:15,000 Speaker 1: And so. 87 00:06:16,839 --> 00:06:22,600 Speaker 2: The Newsome press office wrote, mister President, please actually help us. 88 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:26,320 Speaker 2: We are begging you release the federal disaster aid you're withholding. 89 00:06:26,760 --> 00:06:27,520 Speaker 2: Please help us. 90 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:27,880 Speaker 1: Please. 91 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:36,080 Speaker 2: Now that's probably a sarcastic please please call for help, 92 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:42,760 Speaker 2: not genuine. Newson wants thirty four billion dollars in federal 93 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:46,680 Speaker 2: disaster funds. None of that has been appropriated in a 94 00:06:46,760 --> 00:06:53,880 Speaker 2: request to Congress. And the truth is Trump and most 95 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:58,240 Speaker 2: people you shouldn't trust Gavin Newsom with thirty four billion dollars. 96 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:00,839 Speaker 1: That's what it comes down to. 97 00:07:01,839 --> 00:07:05,880 Speaker 2: Newsom has run enough cons and most people and government 98 00:07:05,920 --> 00:07:12,920 Speaker 2: are onto him because he blew. He blew twenty four 99 00:07:12,920 --> 00:07:16,880 Speaker 2: billion dollars in homeless money. Some of that was federal money. 100 00:07:17,760 --> 00:07:24,880 Speaker 2: He blew over thirty billion dollars on the California Unemployment 101 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:29,480 Speaker 2: Department during COVID, A lot of that was federal money too. 102 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:37,120 Speaker 2: High Speed Rail seventeen billion blown federal money for some 103 00:07:37,240 --> 00:07:40,960 Speaker 2: of that. So he's been given federal money over and 104 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:45,720 Speaker 2: over again, and all that happened is for the unemployment situation. 105 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:50,240 Speaker 2: Criminals around the world stole it. They were giving it away, 106 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:56,720 Speaker 2: no vetting, no questioning, no security. You fill out the form, 107 00:07:57,520 --> 00:08:02,239 Speaker 2: you get the unemployment money. Fill out the form, your 108 00:08:02,600 --> 00:08:07,480 Speaker 2: nonprofit gets the homeless money. Massive scam going on with 109 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:11,880 Speaker 2: high speed rail and goes, you know, goes on and 110 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:17,800 Speaker 2: on and on, and you see the fraud's really simple. 111 00:08:17,840 --> 00:08:19,760 Speaker 2: I mean, the guy in Westwood we've been talking about 112 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:22,840 Speaker 2: since last week, twenty twenty three million dollars in Westward, 113 00:08:22,960 --> 00:08:25,960 Speaker 2: he just filled out forms, came up with a fake charity, 114 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:29,160 Speaker 2: abundant blessings. Next thing you know, this guy has got 115 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:32,600 Speaker 2: a seven million dollar mansion, puts his wife on the payroll, 116 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:38,680 Speaker 2: he's enjoying Hawaii, he's got an expensive car, and he's 117 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:41,000 Speaker 2: living the life you'd live if you suddenly came into 118 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:44,880 Speaker 2: a twenty three million dollar lottery ticket. So you cannot 119 00:08:44,920 --> 00:08:47,360 Speaker 2: trust Gavin, he said, you cannot trust Karen Bass. They 120 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:51,560 Speaker 2: squandered a lot of money, their friends and associates reaped 121 00:08:51,559 --> 00:08:54,240 Speaker 2: the benefits. I mean, Newsom's own wife has a scam 122 00:08:54,280 --> 00:08:58,520 Speaker 2: going on. She's got a nonprofit that she somehow gets 123 00:08:58,600 --> 00:09:02,520 Speaker 2: millions of dollars funding from the school system. No less, 124 00:09:03,160 --> 00:09:05,480 Speaker 2: there are so many rackets and scams. They've been telling 125 00:09:05,480 --> 00:09:08,000 Speaker 2: you about this for years. So Trump has said, well, 126 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:11,240 Speaker 2: basically he's saying, it's like, no, Gavin, you're not gonna 127 00:09:11,240 --> 00:09:13,320 Speaker 2: be trusted with any more money. You've been cut off. 128 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:16,920 Speaker 2: You're like the kid who blew all his allowance on 129 00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:19,880 Speaker 2: bearn Pot. You're cut off. 130 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:21,520 Speaker 3: Now. 131 00:09:22,240 --> 00:09:24,240 Speaker 2: I had no idea if Trump could do what he 132 00:09:24,320 --> 00:09:28,720 Speaker 2: does when it comes to streamlining and overruling the permit 133 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:32,439 Speaker 2: process of a local city or a state. However, if 134 00:09:32,440 --> 00:09:36,839 Speaker 2: there's federal money involved, that does give the administration a 135 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:40,720 Speaker 2: lot of leeway and he'll probably do stuff, and even 136 00:09:40,760 --> 00:09:43,640 Speaker 2: if he gets sued, he'll get tied up in court 137 00:09:43,679 --> 00:09:46,400 Speaker 2: for months. In the meantime, the permits will be handed out. 138 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:51,240 Speaker 2: So I think if you've got a home in Limbo 139 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:54,240 Speaker 2: in the Palisades, whether you hate Trump or not, or 140 00:09:54,240 --> 00:09:56,559 Speaker 2: whether you voted for him or not, you're going to 141 00:09:56,640 --> 00:10:01,760 Speaker 2: welcome the dam finally bursting and permit it's flowing, because 142 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:04,200 Speaker 2: that should have been done immediately. I mean, Bass out 143 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:06,440 Speaker 2: and out lied to the whole world when she said 144 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:08,599 Speaker 2: she was going to streamline the permit process. So the 145 00:10:08,760 --> 00:10:11,600 Speaker 2: News them they both lied because they don't care. They 146 00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:13,920 Speaker 2: don't want the homes rebuilt. They want to turn it 147 00:10:13,960 --> 00:10:25,320 Speaker 2: into affordable housing. That's their plan. So the more you 148 00:10:25,480 --> 00:10:30,199 Speaker 2: have the incompetence of Bass and Newsom, the more there's 149 00:10:30,240 --> 00:10:33,640 Speaker 2: a vacuum in the leadership, the more Trump is going 150 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:40,600 Speaker 2: to take over because this is too good to resist. 151 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:44,720 Speaker 2: California has got so many problems and they rely on 152 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:48,360 Speaker 2: so much federal money that He's simply going to take 153 00:10:48,440 --> 00:10:53,200 Speaker 2: control issue by issue, piece by piece, and that federal 154 00:10:53,240 --> 00:10:56,079 Speaker 2: money gives him the legal leverage. 155 00:10:55,840 --> 00:10:56,360 Speaker 1: To do it. 156 00:10:59,520 --> 00:11:01,840 Speaker 2: And some in Bass, as much as they hate it, 157 00:11:01,880 --> 00:11:04,280 Speaker 2: as much as they fume, as much as they put 158 00:11:04,280 --> 00:11:07,960 Speaker 2: out their stupid little Twitter posts, they're gonna have to 159 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:13,280 Speaker 2: answer to him. And more and more people are gonna say, Yeah, 160 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:15,720 Speaker 2: I can't stand Trump, and look he's getting it done. 161 00:11:16,040 --> 00:11:20,400 Speaker 2: He's getting it done. Can't stand his attitude, can't stand 162 00:11:20,440 --> 00:11:24,000 Speaker 2: his face, can't stand his politics, but he's getting it done. 163 00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:29,200 Speaker 2: And Newsom and Bass get nothing done. We come back. 164 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:36,080 Speaker 2: Trump also is going to force California to drive down 165 00:11:36,120 --> 00:11:40,120 Speaker 2: the price of gasoline. He wants California's gas to be 166 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:44,040 Speaker 2: two fifty not four and a quarter. We'll tell you 167 00:11:44,080 --> 00:11:50,240 Speaker 2: about how he plans to do that, and he's going 168 00:11:50,280 --> 00:11:53,040 Speaker 2: to set up some kind of structure to become the 169 00:11:53,080 --> 00:11:55,160 Speaker 2: shadow government of the state. 170 00:11:55,320 --> 00:11:56,240 Speaker 1: More coming up. 171 00:11:57,080 --> 00:12:01,400 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 172 00:12:01,440 --> 00:12:02,000 Speaker 4: six forty. 173 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:06,520 Speaker 2: Coming up at one thirty after Debors News, We're gonna 174 00:12:06,559 --> 00:12:11,560 Speaker 2: have Luke Barr, ABC News Law enforcement reporter because the 175 00:12:11,679 --> 00:12:16,840 Speaker 2: Customs and Border Protection Commander at Large, Greg Bovino has 176 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:22,600 Speaker 2: left Minneapolis. He was running that operation and you know 177 00:12:22,679 --> 00:12:29,200 Speaker 2: all about the shooting of Alexander pretty over the weekend 178 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:33,319 Speaker 2: and Tom Holman the Borders are is arriving to take over. 179 00:12:33,760 --> 00:12:38,040 Speaker 2: Belvino is now returning to El Centro, California to resume 180 00:12:39,080 --> 00:12:40,920 Speaker 2: He used to be chief of that sector and he's 181 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:43,200 Speaker 2: going back to that job. So we're gonna have Luke 182 00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:45,120 Speaker 2: Barr coming on from ABC to explain this. 183 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:47,760 Speaker 1: Now. 184 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:51,120 Speaker 2: First segment, I told you that Trump as an executive 185 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:55,280 Speaker 2: order out and if newsomit, Bar don't want to help 186 00:12:55,440 --> 00:12:58,480 Speaker 2: the people in the Palisades by streaminglining the permit process, 187 00:12:58,760 --> 00:13:01,640 Speaker 2: Trump is going to do it because there's federal money 188 00:13:01,640 --> 00:13:05,720 Speaker 2: involved here, and he's going to overrule the state and 189 00:13:05,760 --> 00:13:09,839 Speaker 2: local bureaucracy and open up the floodgates so people can 190 00:13:09,880 --> 00:13:13,959 Speaker 2: get permits and start to rebuild because Nuseman Bass don't 191 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:16,200 Speaker 2: seem to have any interest in it, and they're lying 192 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:16,679 Speaker 2: about it. 193 00:13:17,920 --> 00:13:19,439 Speaker 1: Here's another thing he wants to do. 194 00:13:21,640 --> 00:13:25,760 Speaker 2: According to the California Post, which by the way, is 195 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:33,640 Speaker 2: tremendous californiapost dot com, tremendous the number of stories, first 196 00:13:33,679 --> 00:13:37,920 Speaker 2: of all, that are relevant and addressing things that really 197 00:13:37,960 --> 00:13:42,360 Speaker 2: matter in our lives. Compared to the La Times, I'd 198 00:13:42,360 --> 00:13:46,160 Speaker 2: say five to one in terms of articles useful articles 199 00:13:46,440 --> 00:13:52,080 Speaker 2: about things affecting your life that matter to you here 200 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:56,920 Speaker 2: in California. For every one article in the La Times 201 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:03,280 Speaker 2: is probably five in the California Post. The Times gave 202 00:14:03,400 --> 00:14:07,600 Speaker 2: up doing news for normal people. Like to me, the 203 00:14:07,640 --> 00:14:11,000 Speaker 2: permit process is news for normal people because it was 204 00:14:11,040 --> 00:14:13,560 Speaker 2: normal people who got burned out in the Palisades and 205 00:14:13,640 --> 00:14:17,280 Speaker 2: now they're fighting this faceless, useless bureaucracy that Bass a 206 00:14:17,360 --> 00:14:23,120 Speaker 2: Newsom run. And again, normal people are really pissed off 207 00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:26,600 Speaker 2: about gasoline being on average four to twenty five a 208 00:14:26,680 --> 00:14:31,560 Speaker 2: gallon here in California, where around the country it's as 209 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:37,240 Speaker 2: low as two twenty five to two fifty. And Trump 210 00:14:37,320 --> 00:14:40,240 Speaker 2: says he can get California prices down to two fifty 211 00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:44,560 Speaker 2: because most of the difference is taxes. And you're saying, well, 212 00:14:44,600 --> 00:14:50,240 Speaker 2: how could he do that, Well, he's uh thinking about 213 00:14:50,280 --> 00:14:55,920 Speaker 2: an executive order or he's thinking about legislation. And let 214 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:59,520 Speaker 2: me give you the precedent for this. Back in nineteen 215 00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:04,720 Speaker 2: eighty four, Congress passed the law that said states have 216 00:15:04,800 --> 00:15:08,880 Speaker 2: to adopt a minimum age, a minimum drinking age of 217 00:15:08,920 --> 00:15:13,600 Speaker 2: twenty one. People old enough may remember when you could 218 00:15:13,640 --> 00:15:19,760 Speaker 2: drink at eighteen. They wanted to raise it to twenty one. 219 00:15:20,240 --> 00:15:24,800 Speaker 2: Some states wouldn't do it, and Congress passed the law 220 00:15:24,800 --> 00:15:28,240 Speaker 2: that said, well, okay, you can keep it at eighteen 221 00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:31,600 Speaker 2: or nineteen, but you're not getting any federal highway money. 222 00:15:32,440 --> 00:15:36,480 Speaker 2: Soath Dakota was still allowing nineteen year olds to buy alcohol, 223 00:15:37,640 --> 00:15:40,080 Speaker 2: and they challenged the law, saying, well, you've got no 224 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:44,400 Speaker 2: right to tell us to deny us highway funds. You 225 00:15:44,520 --> 00:15:48,600 Speaker 2: got no right to force us to have a twenty 226 00:15:48,640 --> 00:15:52,160 Speaker 2: one year old drinking age. Went all the way to 227 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:58,120 Speaker 2: the Supreme Court. Soath Dakota lost. You know, maybe the 228 00:15:58,160 --> 00:16:01,080 Speaker 2: federal government can't tell you as a state what the 229 00:16:01,160 --> 00:16:03,840 Speaker 2: drinking age should be, but they don't have to send 230 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:09,640 Speaker 2: you highway money. And the federal government cut the money 231 00:16:09,680 --> 00:16:13,240 Speaker 2: off to South Dakota, and then South Dakota lost in 232 00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:16,840 Speaker 2: the Supreme Court, and so that would be that would 233 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:22,320 Speaker 2: be the precedent for this. You want to tax gasoline, 234 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:25,680 Speaker 2: so it's four and a quarter a gallon five dollars 235 00:16:25,680 --> 00:16:28,960 Speaker 2: in some areas, go ahead, but you're not getting federal 236 00:16:29,040 --> 00:16:29,720 Speaker 2: highway money. 237 00:16:29,880 --> 00:16:33,800 Speaker 1: Who would we? But look what's gonna happen to the roads? 238 00:16:35,040 --> 00:16:36,080 Speaker 1: Breads are garbage. 239 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:41,800 Speaker 2: Whatever federal highway money they're getting, now, is it be 240 00:16:42,040 --> 00:16:44,720 Speaker 2: you know again, it's being siphoned off. Somebody stealing it. 241 00:16:46,280 --> 00:16:49,160 Speaker 2: You see you see the roads? I mean, oh my god. 242 00:16:49,440 --> 00:16:51,240 Speaker 2: I mentioned the other day there's a pothole on the 243 00:16:51,280 --> 00:16:53,400 Speaker 2: four or five on a Saturday morning. I was listening 244 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:57,360 Speaker 2: to traffic on kfive that morning and there were four 245 00:16:57,440 --> 00:17:00,280 Speaker 2: cars pulled off in the South Bay on the four 246 00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:02,120 Speaker 2: or five South four in a row. They all hit 247 00:17:02,160 --> 00:17:02,880 Speaker 2: the same pothole. 248 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:07,120 Speaker 5: So now can we go to our insurance company and say, 249 00:17:07,280 --> 00:17:09,520 Speaker 5: you know what, I'm not going to fix this. 250 00:17:09,760 --> 00:17:11,960 Speaker 6: California needs to fix this. They need to pay it. 251 00:17:12,760 --> 00:17:15,320 Speaker 5: Why am I going to pay to get my tires 252 00:17:15,440 --> 00:17:17,720 Speaker 5: or my brakes or what have you fixed because of 253 00:17:17,720 --> 00:17:18,280 Speaker 5: the potholes. 254 00:17:18,359 --> 00:17:20,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, it seems like there ought to be a class 255 00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:20,960 Speaker 1: action lawsuit for that. 256 00:17:21,160 --> 00:17:25,160 Speaker 2: Yes, they really should, because I'm hitting potholes every day 257 00:17:25,960 --> 00:17:29,360 Speaker 2: on the freeways or on the main roads like Sunset Bulevard. 258 00:17:29,359 --> 00:17:34,560 Speaker 2: Holy mackerel, Sunset Boulevard is like driving through Kabul. I mean, 259 00:17:34,640 --> 00:17:41,960 Speaker 2: it's just horrible. And independently, California has been judged to 260 00:17:42,040 --> 00:17:46,119 Speaker 2: have the worst roads in the country fiftieth or fiftieth 261 00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:47,119 Speaker 2: or first, and a lot. 262 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:49,720 Speaker 6: Of things we weren't the roads supposed to be fixed. 263 00:17:49,960 --> 00:17:54,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean they're stealing the money. And so 264 00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:55,840 Speaker 2: Trump is saying, well, you're not going to get federal 265 00:17:55,880 --> 00:17:58,760 Speaker 2: highway funds unless you knock off, you know, the buck 266 00:17:58,840 --> 00:18:04,800 Speaker 2: fifty in extra taxes. And you could do an executive 267 00:18:04,880 --> 00:18:07,679 Speaker 2: order and you can go ahead and sue. They can 268 00:18:07,760 --> 00:18:12,159 Speaker 2: do federal legislation, but you know, the Senate has that 269 00:18:12,280 --> 00:18:15,160 Speaker 2: filibuster rule, so you need sixty votes in the Senate 270 00:18:15,200 --> 00:18:18,879 Speaker 2: and Republicans only have fifty three. However, and not to 271 00:18:18,920 --> 00:18:22,280 Speaker 2: get too arcane with these details, every year they have 272 00:18:22,320 --> 00:18:25,720 Speaker 2: a budget reconciliation package. It's a once a year chance 273 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:30,160 Speaker 2: to pass policies related to federal spending under special rules 274 00:18:30,359 --> 00:18:33,359 Speaker 2: and you only need a regular majority in the Senate. 275 00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:35,399 Speaker 2: They did it this year to get that big tax 276 00:18:35,400 --> 00:18:39,160 Speaker 2: bill through, and they could do it in the next year. 277 00:18:39,480 --> 00:18:42,000 Speaker 2: And they could slip in a provision that says California 278 00:18:43,440 --> 00:18:48,000 Speaker 2: or any state that has excessive taxes doesn't get highway money. 279 00:18:50,560 --> 00:18:53,560 Speaker 2: And that's another way to do it. Or issue an 280 00:18:53,600 --> 00:18:59,399 Speaker 2: executive order and then let Newsom go to court to 281 00:18:59,480 --> 00:19:02,520 Speaker 2: keep the It's a real trap produce them because he's 282 00:19:02,560 --> 00:19:05,040 Speaker 2: running for president. He's going to go to court demanding 283 00:19:05,040 --> 00:19:08,800 Speaker 2: the right to add an extra buck fifty in taxes 284 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:12,200 Speaker 2: on a gallon of gas, which is you know why 285 00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:14,359 Speaker 2: we're at four and a quarter and the rest of 286 00:19:14,400 --> 00:19:16,200 Speaker 2: the country the average and the rest of the country 287 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:18,520 Speaker 2: is too eighty three and we're four and a quarter. 288 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:21,800 Speaker 2: The difference is entirely in Newsome taxes one hundred percent. 289 00:19:23,240 --> 00:19:27,400 Speaker 2: Every independent agency that's looked at it said, yeah, it's 290 00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:30,119 Speaker 2: all the taxes and fees whatever they call it, So 291 00:19:30,160 --> 00:19:34,720 Speaker 2: it's two eighty three a gallon. And Trump said, well, 292 00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:38,760 Speaker 2: I would cap it. It's unfair and it isn't fair, 293 00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:41,200 Speaker 2: he says. You know, in Alabama, we have a lot 294 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:43,560 Speaker 2: of stations right now that are around two dollars. Nobody 295 00:19:43,600 --> 00:19:48,920 Speaker 2: can believe it. We're drilling like crazy. And California raises 296 00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:51,960 Speaker 2: its tax. The tax on gas goes up every year 297 00:19:52,119 --> 00:19:55,600 Speaker 2: on July first. July first is gas tax Day, and 298 00:19:55,640 --> 00:19:59,159 Speaker 2: it's calibrated to the rate of inflation. And you know 299 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:02,359 Speaker 2: what that's been like in the last five years. So again, 300 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:07,280 Speaker 2: there's no leadership here. There's you don't have Newsom working 301 00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:10,840 Speaker 2: for regular people, normal people to make life more affordable. 302 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:14,400 Speaker 1: All right, time's up. 303 00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:18,440 Speaker 2: Let Trump take over, and he's going to take over, 304 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:21,840 Speaker 2: and he's gonna completely cut the legs out from under 305 00:20:21,840 --> 00:20:24,879 Speaker 2: Newsom's presidential campaign because Newsom is going to be quartered 306 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:27,359 Speaker 2: into positions or I was like, no, no, no, we 307 00:20:27,480 --> 00:20:29,359 Speaker 2: need that dollar fIF Can you imagine what the rest of. 308 00:20:29,359 --> 00:20:30,080 Speaker 1: The country thinks. 309 00:20:30,720 --> 00:20:34,960 Speaker 2: Dollar fifty gas got dollar fifty gas tacts four twenty 310 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:40,919 Speaker 2: five total. Yeah, that's gonna get newso votes back in 311 00:20:40,960 --> 00:20:42,040 Speaker 2: the normal world. 312 00:20:42,280 --> 00:20:43,040 Speaker 1: All right, we come back. 313 00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:47,760 Speaker 2: We're gonna have Luke barr on to talk about the 314 00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:51,680 Speaker 2: customs and border protection, Commander Greg Bolvino leaving Minneapolis where 315 00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:54,720 Speaker 2: he was in charge, coming back to his old job 316 00:20:54,760 --> 00:20:55,439 Speaker 2: in El Centro. 317 00:20:56,800 --> 00:21:01,680 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI AM sixty. 318 00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:05,560 Speaker 2: Moistline is eight seven seven Moist eighty six on Friday 319 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:09,399 Speaker 2: eight seven seven Moist eighty six or usually talkback feature 320 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:11,800 Speaker 2: in the iHeartRadio app. And you could let it out, 321 00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:16,360 Speaker 2: let it rip. We go now to Luke Barr, ABC 322 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:22,280 Speaker 2: News Law Enforcement reporter and Greg Bovino is the Customs 323 00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:25,760 Speaker 2: and Border Protection Commander at large who was in Minneapolis 324 00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:29,160 Speaker 2: and he is now going back to his old job 325 00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:33,200 Speaker 2: in El Centro and borders are Tom Holman seems to 326 00:21:33,240 --> 00:21:37,280 Speaker 2: be in control in Minnesota. We'll talk to Luke Barr 327 00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:41,200 Speaker 2: about all that. Luke, welcome, How are you hey good? 328 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:41,720 Speaker 3: How are you? 329 00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:42,560 Speaker 1: I'm good? 330 00:21:43,800 --> 00:21:47,840 Speaker 2: Was Greg Bovino calling the shots day to day, hour 331 00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:52,640 Speaker 2: to hour about the ice response and the border patrol response. 332 00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:54,679 Speaker 2: I know there was like a mix of agencies up 333 00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:58,399 Speaker 2: there as part of that three thousand person force that 334 00:21:58,560 --> 00:21:59,200 Speaker 2: was sent in. 335 00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:00,880 Speaker 1: Was bovin know the top guy. 336 00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:05,239 Speaker 3: Bavino was the top guy. And it is h it 337 00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:10,320 Speaker 3: is kind of shocking in a way. That he was 338 00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:12,800 Speaker 3: you know, basically sent back to the El Centro sector, 339 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:16,680 Speaker 3: and now Tom Holman is in is in charge, you know, Bavino, 340 00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:19,520 Speaker 3: if you if your listeners remember he was in charge 341 00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:23,240 Speaker 3: of all of these major operations, even right there in 342 00:22:23,280 --> 00:22:27,919 Speaker 3: Los Angeles, right, if you remember, it seems like it's 343 00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:30,119 Speaker 3: like a long time ago, but it was only just 344 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:32,840 Speaker 3: you know, in the summer months that that that he 345 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:35,480 Speaker 3: was in Los Angeles, right, So he had been in 346 00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:38,879 Speaker 3: charge of all these operations, and now that he's just 347 00:22:38,920 --> 00:22:41,000 Speaker 3: going to be returning to his job in the Al 348 00:22:41,040 --> 00:22:43,679 Speaker 3: Central sector is kind of certainly a shakeup. 349 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:48,280 Speaker 1: And and have you heard was there criticism? 350 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:51,640 Speaker 2: I mean, he's being sent because the outcome was bad, right, 351 00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:53,359 Speaker 2: you had two people killed? 352 00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:55,640 Speaker 1: Uh, but was there. 353 00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:57,920 Speaker 2: Criticism of the way he was handling it, the way 354 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:00,520 Speaker 2: he was using his troops. 355 00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:05,320 Speaker 3: Well, you know, not so much criticism, I think, but 356 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:09,160 Speaker 3: it's certainly you know, the White House and the President 357 00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:13,280 Speaker 3: is pretty you know, adept to seeing what's going on 358 00:23:13,520 --> 00:23:15,560 Speaker 3: right in front of him, and and you know he 359 00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:18,959 Speaker 3: made the decision to send Tom Holman there, who is 360 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:22,600 Speaker 3: more of a career you know, though he is full 361 00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:25,120 Speaker 3: of bluster, right, I mean you know everybody who's come 362 00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:26,960 Speaker 3: home and speak, but he does have a lot of 363 00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:30,640 Speaker 3: respect for the guys and the men and women there 364 00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:33,800 Speaker 3: on the ground. So so you know, it's this weird 365 00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:36,600 Speaker 3: kind of chain of command that's going on. It's not 366 00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:39,000 Speaker 3: typical that you have somebody from the White House being 367 00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:42,320 Speaker 3: deployed to oversee operations with Ice, and you know, I mean, 368 00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:45,120 Speaker 3: it's just it doesn't it's it's a very weird structure. 369 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:48,240 Speaker 3: But clearly, you know, the President wanted to shake things up, 370 00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:49,320 Speaker 3: and this is what he did. 371 00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:53,439 Speaker 2: Now, Normally, Holman and I guess Bovino was reporting to 372 00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:57,840 Speaker 2: the Homeland Security Secretary, Christy Nol but now she's going 373 00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:01,320 Speaker 2: to get bypassed, right, and and Homan reporting directly to Trump. 374 00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:05,639 Speaker 3: Yeah, Homan is reporting directly to the President, and you know, 375 00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:08,879 Speaker 3: it leaves kind of you know, time out if you 376 00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:11,879 Speaker 3: would for for Secretary Omen. And as you mentioned, you know, 377 00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:14,399 Speaker 3: and this is something that Bovino has said on the 378 00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:18,960 Speaker 3: record in court depositions, but he reported directly to the secretary, right. Yeah, 379 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:23,199 Speaker 3: So that in itself was unusual because typically you know 380 00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:26,280 Speaker 3: that that person would report to Rodney Scott, who's the 381 00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:29,000 Speaker 3: head of the Border Patrol the entire Border Patrol, Customs 382 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:31,960 Speaker 3: of Border Protection and CBP, you know that, and then 383 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:34,200 Speaker 3: they would work its way up the chain. Right, This 384 00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:37,440 Speaker 3: is a little bit that arrangement was different, and it 385 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:40,600 Speaker 3: just kind of showed how much and how involved the 386 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:44,280 Speaker 3: Secretary and to a certain say Corey Lewandowski are involved 387 00:24:44,359 --> 00:24:46,080 Speaker 3: in the day to day sort of planning of all 388 00:24:46,119 --> 00:24:48,879 Speaker 3: these highly staged border operations. 389 00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:54,679 Speaker 2: Are they going to change their procedure their approach in Minneapolis. 390 00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:58,000 Speaker 3: Now, well, you know that remains to be seen, though 391 00:24:58,040 --> 00:25:00,199 Speaker 3: I do think that there will at some point be 392 00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:01,000 Speaker 3: a tone shift. 393 00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:01,199 Speaker 1: Right. 394 00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:03,960 Speaker 3: If you remember we were we were in Chicago, we 395 00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:06,240 Speaker 3: did it right along with ICE in Chicago, uh, the 396 00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:10,359 Speaker 3: ten days prior to Border Patrol and Bavino getting into 397 00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:13,320 Speaker 3: the city. And what we heard was that, like, you know, 398 00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:17,080 Speaker 3: the ICE goes after these folks, right and most of 399 00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:20,119 Speaker 3: the time they have either finals or final or removal 400 00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:23,920 Speaker 3: or you know, they're they're there, they've got some heinous 401 00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:26,960 Speaker 3: crime that's that they've either been accused of or convicted of, 402 00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:29,320 Speaker 3: and ICE will just make a priority to say, hey, look, 403 00:25:29,359 --> 00:25:31,960 Speaker 3: we've been sitting on their house for you know, a day. 404 00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:34,679 Speaker 3: We know their pattern, we know that he goes to 405 00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:37,320 Speaker 3: work at x amount of time. They do these targeted 406 00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:38,840 Speaker 3: and I mean we've been on them. They do these 407 00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:42,560 Speaker 3: targeted enforcement operations to really go after some of the 408 00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:46,160 Speaker 3: the the criminals that you know, either have been convicted 409 00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:49,080 Speaker 3: or accused of being convicted. So, you know, it depends 410 00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:52,400 Speaker 3: on what ultimately happens, I think, but certainly there will 411 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:54,440 Speaker 3: be a tone shift given the fact that you've got 412 00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:56,720 Speaker 3: you know, Tom Holman there and and and even even 413 00:25:56,720 --> 00:25:58,840 Speaker 3: you're seeing it even today, right he's he's meeting with 414 00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:01,199 Speaker 3: the Mayor's me with the governor to see, you, you know, 415 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:02,159 Speaker 3: figure out a way forward. 416 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:08,000 Speaker 2: Trumpet administration has insisted that they're primarily, not exclusively, but 417 00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:11,520 Speaker 2: primarily going after really bad guys, guys with criminal records, 418 00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:15,199 Speaker 2: are accused of crime, or people with deportation orders that 419 00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:20,600 Speaker 2: weren't followed up on. And all these angry activists are 420 00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:25,480 Speaker 2: making it sound at least as if innocent illegal allience 421 00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:28,760 Speaker 2: minding their own business or being plucked off their front lawns. 422 00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:31,760 Speaker 2: Do you have a sense of where the truth is. 423 00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:35,239 Speaker 3: You know, it's it's very hard to tell. I mean, 424 00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:39,399 Speaker 3: the administration has consistently said that they are going after 425 00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:41,440 Speaker 3: the works of the worst. But then you you hear 426 00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:44,640 Speaker 3: sometimes these stories that are in court filings or you know, 427 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:50,520 Speaker 3: through local politicians, right you hear kind of what they 428 00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:53,719 Speaker 3: what they what has happened, or what they lege has happened. So, 429 00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:55,640 Speaker 3: you know, I don't know, it's it's it's it's kind 430 00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:58,399 Speaker 3: of somewhere in the middle, but you know, certainly it 431 00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:02,560 Speaker 3: is it's something that administration uh, you know, tries to 432 00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:03,520 Speaker 3: tries to push back on. 433 00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:07,160 Speaker 2: But they haven't sent any US citizens out of the country. 434 00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:10,639 Speaker 2: I mean, I haven't heard that. I'm sure they've made 435 00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:12,320 Speaker 2: a few mistakes and who they picked up on the 436 00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:16,640 Speaker 2: street and detained, but it seems like nobody's been deported 437 00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:18,920 Speaker 2: who wasn't here illegally. 438 00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:22,520 Speaker 3: Well, and it remains to be seen kind of where 439 00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:26,879 Speaker 3: where the administration is or what they're going to do. 440 00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:28,640 Speaker 3: I mean, you certainly, there's just there's just so much 441 00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:32,840 Speaker 3: litigation involved in all these instances, right that that you know, 442 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:35,880 Speaker 3: I mean, even you know in Minneapolis there's i mean 443 00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:38,199 Speaker 3: just about the search there in Chicago, there's just so 444 00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:41,080 Speaker 3: much litigation and all of these, uh in all of 445 00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:44,880 Speaker 3: these arrests sor board or operations that you know, water 446 00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:47,080 Speaker 3: patrol and a nice uh, you know, I have to 447 00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:48,000 Speaker 3: keep track of all of it. 448 00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:50,800 Speaker 2: I you know, because I saw there's there's a court 449 00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:55,040 Speaker 2: case right now whether the the illegal immigrants got due 450 00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:59,760 Speaker 2: process and how much process does somebody get if they're 451 00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:03,600 Speaker 2: in the country illegally and it's like it's not really 452 00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:06,960 Speaker 2: disputed like that. You know, they don't have a visa, 453 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:08,479 Speaker 2: they don't have a green card, they don't have any 454 00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:10,320 Speaker 2: kind of paperwork that says yeah, I could be here. 455 00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:13,080 Speaker 2: If you don't have that, how much do process do 456 00:28:13,119 --> 00:28:13,480 Speaker 2: you get? 457 00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:16,360 Speaker 3: Do you do? 458 00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:16,720 Speaker 4: Well? 459 00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:18,560 Speaker 3: You do have to go in front of a you know, 460 00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:22,760 Speaker 3: either an immigration judge or you know, sometimes a you know, 461 00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:26,320 Speaker 3: a magistrate judge. It depends on There's so much circumstance. 462 00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:28,919 Speaker 3: You know. I've been covering immigration for almost ten years, 463 00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:31,520 Speaker 3: and there is so much circumstance that goes into one 464 00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:34,760 Speaker 3: of these cases. And oftentimes one case is not like 465 00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:37,840 Speaker 3: the other. So you know, at a certain point, if 466 00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:40,320 Speaker 3: you do have if you you know, let's say, for example, 467 00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:43,360 Speaker 3: I arrest you and you have a final order removal 468 00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:46,120 Speaker 3: like that's already been adjudicated, right, But if it's the 469 00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:49,600 Speaker 3: first time offender, you know, then the process begins. So 470 00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:52,640 Speaker 3: it's it's just so circumstantial in almost every one of 471 00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:53,120 Speaker 3: these cases. 472 00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:56,480 Speaker 2: And do they get detained until then or set free 473 00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:58,120 Speaker 2: and told to come back for a hearing. 474 00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:01,600 Speaker 3: So it depends on see the administration, right, you know, 475 00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:04,480 Speaker 3: in the administer the prime administration would look at alternatives 476 00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:07,640 Speaker 3: to detention, which means an ankle monitor or a check in. 477 00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:11,640 Speaker 3: Now that those policies have changed, and by and large 478 00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:13,920 Speaker 3: most of the most of the people that are arrested 479 00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:15,920 Speaker 3: are now in some sort of detention. 480 00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:19,560 Speaker 2: And this stuff is going on in all fifty states 481 00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:23,400 Speaker 2: all over the country, these these these ICE activities. I mean, 482 00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:26,600 Speaker 2: you would think that Minneapolis was the only place where 483 00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:33,080 Speaker 2: they were arresting illegals, but everywhere else it's been peaceful 484 00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:36,200 Speaker 2: outside of the La riot that we had in June, 485 00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:38,160 Speaker 2: but much of the rest of the country. I mean, 486 00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:40,320 Speaker 2: they must have been rounded up thousands of thousands of 487 00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:41,680 Speaker 2: people without incident. 488 00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:46,320 Speaker 3: Yeah, there has been a lot of ICE operations and 489 00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:49,840 Speaker 3: especially you know when you when you know, there's a 490 00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:53,720 Speaker 3: lot of also local agencies that are participating all over 491 00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:55,640 Speaker 3: the country. I mean, I'm looking at some numbers here 492 00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:59,800 Speaker 3: that DHS put out that said you know, over twelve thousand, 493 00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:03,000 Speaker 3: five one hundred local agents have completed two eighty seven 494 00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:08,520 Speaker 3: g program training which allows for you know, local police 495 00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:11,880 Speaker 3: to be basically like immigration agents and hold some of 496 00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:13,640 Speaker 3: these people for ice. 497 00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:22,920 Speaker 2: All right, Luke, thanks for coming on. Luke, Well we're 498 00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:26,800 Speaker 2: disconnected anyway. That was Luke Barr, She News law enforcement reporter. 499 00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:30,240 Speaker 2: Thank you when we come back. What are the most 500 00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:37,160 Speaker 2: disgusting beaches in California? Well, some of them are right 501 00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:40,719 Speaker 2: here in southern California, very close by. We'll tell you 502 00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:42,200 Speaker 2: which ones are the grossest. 503 00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:42,880 Speaker 1: That's next. 504 00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:49,360 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am sixty. 505 00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:50,640 Speaker 1: John Cobelt Show. 506 00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:53,240 Speaker 2: You can follow us at John Cobelt Radio, on social 507 00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:56,440 Speaker 2: media at John Cobelt Radio, or you can subscribe to 508 00:30:56,480 --> 00:31:01,200 Speaker 2: our video clips on youtubetube dot com, slash at John 509 00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:05,040 Speaker 2: Cobelt Show YouTube dot com, slash at John Cobelt's show. 510 00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:09,440 Speaker 2: I'm going to give you a health tip. Do not 511 00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:13,520 Speaker 2: drink the water from the lake at MacArthur Park. There 512 00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:16,360 Speaker 2: may be a lot of dead bodies in MacArthur Park 513 00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:18,960 Speaker 2: that have been rotting and decomposing for a long time. 514 00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:24,080 Speaker 2: And businessman John Alley would like to do a search 515 00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:28,560 Speaker 2: of the lake bottom to see how many dead bodies 516 00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:33,160 Speaker 2: there are there and weapons and all kinds of other debris. 517 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:37,200 Speaker 2: And he had a company ready to do that on Monday. 518 00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:40,720 Speaker 2: He's a businessman in the area. And this is Hernandez, 519 00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:45,000 Speaker 2: the Communist La City Council have been stopped it. She 520 00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:49,320 Speaker 2: doesn't want to know how many bodies are sunk to 521 00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:53,480 Speaker 2: the bottom of the lake. And we're going to talk 522 00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:57,160 Speaker 2: to John Alley coming up why his project was stopped 523 00:31:58,440 --> 00:31:59,120 Speaker 2: on Monday. 524 00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:00,720 Speaker 1: I mean, everybody was and ready to. 525 00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:05,960 Speaker 2: Go, and Unicus Hernandez got the park rangers. She doesn't 526 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:07,800 Speaker 2: want to know how many bodies are in the lake. 527 00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:08,560 Speaker 2: Why would that be. 528 00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:10,719 Speaker 1: Anyway? 529 00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:13,240 Speaker 2: I would say that's a bad, bad water quality at 530 00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:14,120 Speaker 2: MacArthur Park. 531 00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:16,360 Speaker 6: I mean, I didn't know people actually drank that water, 532 00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:16,760 Speaker 6: do they. 533 00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:19,560 Speaker 2: Well, you know, there's a lot of homeless people there, 534 00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:24,400 Speaker 2: and it wouldn't be I wouldn't surprise me. Here's another place. 535 00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:29,000 Speaker 2: Don't don't drink the water. When's the last time you 536 00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:30,840 Speaker 2: actually went in the Pacific Ocean out here? We went 537 00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:31,520 Speaker 2: to the beach and. 538 00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:36,360 Speaker 6: I can't even remember. I do not step foot in 539 00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:36,840 Speaker 6: the water. 540 00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:37,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, you're you're here. 541 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:41,360 Speaker 6: Yeah, other places I love, I love going into the ocean. 542 00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:41,800 Speaker 6: Not here. 543 00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:46,880 Speaker 2: No, Santa Monica Pier. According to Heal, the bay is 544 00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:51,800 Speaker 2: the grossest beach in California. It got an F and 545 00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:54,280 Speaker 2: it gets an F every week they test the water 546 00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:57,040 Speaker 2: and Santa Monica Pier is always an F. 547 00:32:57,360 --> 00:32:59,520 Speaker 6: But you see people in the water all the time. 548 00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:02,760 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, surfers and swimmers, little kids. 549 00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:03,520 Speaker 3: Uh. 550 00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:07,640 Speaker 2: One of the reasons is the amusement park on the 551 00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:11,960 Speaker 2: pier attracts hordes of seabirds. You know, they come to 552 00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:16,680 Speaker 2: pick at the leftover food right that's on the boardwalk. Well, 553 00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:20,320 Speaker 2: after they eat, they relieve themselves in the ocean. So 554 00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:25,120 Speaker 2: you've got lots of bird poop bacteria that's floating into 555 00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:26,400 Speaker 2: Santa Monica peer beaches. 556 00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:29,440 Speaker 5: Sometimes that water does go up our nose into our mouths. 557 00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:31,680 Speaker 5: You know, we're not intending that to happen. 558 00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:33,840 Speaker 1: A lot of a lot of surfers there. 559 00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:37,000 Speaker 2: Uh. And if you take a snortful of Santa Monica 560 00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:41,160 Speaker 2: pure water, you get e coal, eie and terra kakai, 561 00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:51,040 Speaker 2: all kinds of germs which would lead to infections, skin rashes, dysentery. Yeah, 562 00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:55,360 Speaker 2: distant when your whole insides, come out, come flying out. 563 00:33:57,320 --> 00:33:59,960 Speaker 2: They talked to one surf guy and he said, well, 564 00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:02,200 Speaker 2: it's just water. I go take a shower afterwards. 565 00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:05,320 Speaker 6: Well what about the water that gets into your body? Yeah, 566 00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:08,319 Speaker 6: I know, I mean I get it's you know, on 567 00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:10,120 Speaker 6: your skin. If you have a little poop. 568 00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:12,680 Speaker 1: You get it off, big mouthful of bird poop. 569 00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:18,319 Speaker 2: Huh uh Yeah, it's it's uh cleanest beaches in La 570 00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:24,520 Speaker 2: County Manhattan Beach, her Mosa Beach, Dockweiler State Beach, thirty 571 00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:26,880 Speaker 2: four beaches in Orange County. Why is Orange County so 572 00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:29,440 Speaker 2: clean and Lay County so discussed? 573 00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:31,320 Speaker 6: I'm thinking of moving to Orange County One. 574 00:34:31,200 --> 00:34:33,440 Speaker 2: Day I was we were visiting friends a couple of 575 00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:37,040 Speaker 2: weeks ago. I mean, it is so nice there, and 576 00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:41,160 Speaker 2: it's so clean and orderly and organized, and in the 577 00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:43,880 Speaker 2: normal suburban areas, like I can't speak for Santa Ana, 578 00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:48,080 Speaker 2: but in the civilized areas, there are zero homeless people, 579 00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:56,680 Speaker 2: zero tents, encampments, needle collections. There's no dead bodies floating around. 580 00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:01,279 Speaker 2: One day, yeah, Orange County could be an escape. So 581 00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:05,560 Speaker 2: we spent much of the first part of the hour. 582 00:35:06,040 --> 00:35:07,719 Speaker 2: A new story has just come in just a few 583 00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:12,440 Speaker 2: minutes ago. Trump has issued an executive order to bypass 584 00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:17,520 Speaker 2: Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom and install a new process 585 00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:22,960 Speaker 2: for permitting. And because there's federal money involved in this 586 00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:26,479 Speaker 2: whole Palisades disaster, and he's decided he's got the legal 587 00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:31,160 Speaker 2: right to overrule Bass and Newsom with their clotted up 588 00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:34,239 Speaker 2: permit system, and builders are going to be able to 589 00:35:34,239 --> 00:35:39,800 Speaker 2: self certify and that should make the permit process quite rapid. 590 00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:42,640 Speaker 1: Bass is angry about this. 591 00:35:42,719 --> 00:35:45,200 Speaker 2: Well, of course she would be, because Trump keeps pointing 592 00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:48,399 Speaker 2: out what an incompetent boob she is, and says that 593 00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:52,839 Speaker 2: Trump lacks the authority to do this, and we don't 594 00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:55,720 Speaker 2: need it anyway, because the problem is the insurance company 595 00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:59,439 Speaker 2: insurance companies, and he ought to go after the insurance companies. Hey, 596 00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:04,080 Speaker 2: the insurance problem was caused by Newsom and calpart Lara. 597 00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:08,600 Speaker 2: They made a deal with insurance companies two months before 598 00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:14,680 Speaker 2: the Palisades fire, which led to the companies dropping thousands 599 00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:19,840 Speaker 2: and thousands of homeowners, thousands just in the Palisades and 600 00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:24,440 Speaker 2: in Altadena. Because Newsom and Lara thought they had a 601 00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:27,480 Speaker 2: deal that was going to protect homeowners. But they're so 602 00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:33,880 Speaker 2: stupid they let these giant loopholes survive, and the insurance 603 00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:37,920 Speaker 2: companies took advantage of them and started canceling policies by 604 00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:41,719 Speaker 2: the thousands. People get tossed into the fair plan where 605 00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:43,640 Speaker 2: you get a fraction of the money that you should 606 00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:46,359 Speaker 2: for your house, and that is another reason that people 607 00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:49,640 Speaker 2: can't rebuild, in addition to the slow permitting. So it's 608 00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:53,920 Speaker 2: not either or it's both. But Bass was responsible for 609 00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:57,960 Speaker 2: streamlining the process. She promised she would on national television. 610 00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:01,799 Speaker 2: She lied, and Newsom promised, and Heat lied. And they 611 00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:04,200 Speaker 2: want to get affordable housing. They want people to get 612 00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:07,640 Speaker 2: exhausted and give up so that the state or the 613 00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:12,799 Speaker 2: city can take over and put up apartments for the homeless. Absolutely, 614 00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:14,799 Speaker 2: that's their plan. They'll never admit to it, but that's 615 00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:17,880 Speaker 2: what they want to do. If you hook them up 616 00:37:17,880 --> 00:37:21,440 Speaker 2: to a lie detector test, you'd find out. So the 617 00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:25,200 Speaker 2: insurance process is in Newsome and Lara And where is Lara? 618 00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:28,440 Speaker 1: Where is he? 619 00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:30,560 Speaker 6: He's the one who's he's on vacation. 620 00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:33,839 Speaker 2: Yeah, right, he's probably in Fiji or something. All right, 621 00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:36,640 Speaker 2: So that's the update there. I just came across less 622 00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:38,600 Speaker 2: than twenty minutes ago. John Alley is next. He's the 623 00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:43,319 Speaker 2: businessman got a lot of businesses in MacArthur Park and 624 00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:49,240 Speaker 2: he wanted to have this company go and scan the 625 00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:51,759 Speaker 2: bottom because he and a lot of people believe there's 626 00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:55,680 Speaker 2: all kinds of bodies and weapons and garbage down there 627 00:37:56,160 --> 00:37:58,880 Speaker 2: and it should be cleaned. But unic Is Hernandez, the 628 00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:00,120 Speaker 2: Communist council woman. 629 00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:01,760 Speaker 1: Blocked it. On Monday. 630 00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:05,000 Speaker 2: We'll talk about it with John Alley next Debra Mark 631 00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:06,800 Speaker 2: live in the KFI twenty four our newsroom. 632 00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:09,880 Speaker 1: Hey, you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. 633 00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:12,440 Speaker 2: You can always hear the show live on KFI Am 634 00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:15,480 Speaker 2: six forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, 635 00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:18,760 Speaker 2: and of course anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.