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Speaker 2: radio station Last who broke an unbelievable story about the

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Speaker 2: head of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority LASA. The

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Speaker 2: two whistleblowers telling the truth about what's going on. This

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Speaker 2: angered Valisia Kellem's Valicia Adams Kellum, the head of LASSA.

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Speaker 2: They paid the whistle blowers eight hundred thousand dollars to

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Speaker 2: go away, but by law we get to hear what's

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Speaker 2: in there, what's in their claims, We get to understand

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Speaker 2: what the charges are, and the charges are pretty detailed,

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Speaker 2: involving hiring friends and paying high salaries withholding data about

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Speaker 2: the failures of Karen Bass's Inside Safe program, inappropriate unethical

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Speaker 2: behavior by Adams Kellen Kellum at a conference in Washington,

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Speaker 2: d C. And how she wanted to spend desperately public

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Speaker 2: money on an open bar at Lassa's holiday party and

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Speaker 2: got angry when she was told you can't spend tax

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Speaker 2: money on an open bar. It sounds like LASA has

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Speaker 2: been run by a Luna tick. Now she's finally on

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Speaker 2: her way out. In case you're wondering where the two

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Speaker 2: billion dollars that's missing, where it might where it might

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Speaker 2: have gone. I think there are some clues here. Just

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Speaker 2: connect the dots. Hasn't done anything for the homeless in

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Speaker 2: the streets, and we know they're lying about Inside Safe,

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Speaker 2: and we know that they're already had of money for

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Speaker 2: that program, and they have blown so much money on

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Speaker 2: homelessness that now they're cutting money from all the other

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Speaker 2: departments in the city. There's sixteen hundred people being laid off.

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Speaker 2: And where's the money going? Because Adams Callum wanted to

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Speaker 2: tie one on at a holiday party, how much is

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Speaker 2: gone for booze? How many times does she want taxpayer

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Speaker 2: money to pay for booze? And she wasn't talked down

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Speaker 2: now in an alter universe. Can you imagine if we

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Speaker 2: didn't have this crew of mental patients and criminals and

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Speaker 2: grifters running everything, whether it's city Hall, city council, Las,

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Speaker 2: the DWP, all of this, the fire department. It is

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Speaker 2: run by people who look like they escape from a

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Speaker 2: mental institution. None of these people are qualified, None of

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Speaker 2: these people know what they're doing, and they don't care

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Speaker 2: because they're raking it big money and they don't care

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Speaker 2: that the city has gone to hell.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't matter to them.

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Speaker 2: So Rick Caruso, who is one of the most successful

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Speaker 2: people in the city of Los Angeles. He owns all

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Speaker 2: these great shopping centers. Millions and millions of people have

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Speaker 2: wonderful experiences every day going to his properties. He ran

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Speaker 2: for mayor and inexplicably, the majority pick Karen Bass. It'll

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Speaker 2: go down as one of the stupidest decisions ever in

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Speaker 2: the history of the City of Los Angeles. Because maybe

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Speaker 2: some elections it's inconsequential who wins.

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Speaker 1: This was a big one.

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Speaker 2: I guarantee you, Palace the Palisades fire would not have

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Speaker 2: played out the way it did if for Caruso is

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Speaker 2: in charge. He has set up steadfast La dot com.

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Speaker 2: This is a public private partnership to try to dramatically

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Speaker 2: streamline the rebuilding price sas you want to learn all

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Speaker 2: the details steadfast la dot com. I don't want to

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Speaker 2: get into all that here. But he's really trying to

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Speaker 2: do a good thing. He's not taking any money for it.

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Speaker 2: He's not like Steve Sobroth, who wanted a half billion

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Speaker 2: dollars and ultimately did nothing well. Chris is in a

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Speaker 2: funny position because he's certainly thinking about running for mayor

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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty six, and they're certainly huge numbers of

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Speaker 2: people that would like him to run. But he wants

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Speaker 2: to see through steadfast LA and so he doesn't want

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Speaker 2: to make all his public pronouncements about steadfast La. He

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Speaker 2: doesn't want to make it sound political, right, because then

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Speaker 1: Or Bass's crowd will have an excuse to.

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Speaker 2: Dismiss and say, well, that's just a political statement, that's

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Speaker 2: just partisanship there, that's it. So you know, he's trying

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Speaker 2: but he has been trying really hard to break through

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Speaker 2: Nobody of any importance in the city is cooperating very much.

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Speaker 2: And when we come back, I'm going to want to

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Speaker 2: the idea of what kind of projects he wants to

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Speaker 2: Got thousands of people suffering, not only in Palisdays but

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Speaker 2: bass and city council brick walls. Maybe they're too busy

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Speaker 2: counting their money. So I'm going to play you that clip,

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Speaker 2: and then I'm going to read to you parts of

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Speaker 2: his op ed piece he wrote, which is at steadfast

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Speaker 2: la dot com. And you could understand the incredible frustration

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Speaker 2: that the people in the Palisades are going through and

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Speaker 2: and and something's got to give here. We just can't

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Speaker 2: go on like this. That's coming up next.

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Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelt on Demand from KFI AM

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Speaker 3: six forty.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So I'm going to play quickly this Rick Caruso

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Speaker 2: Instagram post from week or two ago where he's laying

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Speaker 2: out this this new tool that he and Governor News

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Speaker 2: have supported it that's going to dramatically streamline the rebuilding

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Speaker 2: process for people in the Palisades and Altadena. So listen

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Speaker 2: to how he speaks, Listen to the detail here and

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Speaker 2: what he's trying to do.

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Speaker 4: Let me tell you what isn't working. What isn't working

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Speaker 4: is the amount of time it takes to plan check

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Speaker 4: plans people can rebuild their homes or repair them. Let

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Speaker 4: me tell you what is working. Public private partnerships. Steadfast

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Speaker 4: LA came up with a big idea that we're going

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Speaker 4: to go to the best and the brightest in the

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Speaker 4: tech industry develop an AI model that will quickly process

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Speaker 4: your plans and approve them in the city of Los

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Speaker 4: Angeles and the county. That's going to get you in

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Speaker 4: your homes faster and a lot less expensive. It's going

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Speaker 4: to save a lot of money. I want to give

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Speaker 4: a big shout out in thanks to Mike Hopkins of Amazon,

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Speaker 4: to Arkasar who came together and created this concortible AI

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Speaker 4: application that we're going to be using. And another big

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Speaker 4: shout out to Gavin Newsom for his leadership and pushing

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Speaker 4: this along, owning it and making sure it gets adopted

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Speaker 4: by the city and by the county. And again when

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Speaker 4: you see this, it is so cool. But it's right

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Speaker 4: in line what steadfast LA does. We're all about getting

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Speaker 4: you back home and getting you back home quickly.

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Speaker 1: Have a good night.

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Speaker 2: Steadfast La dot com. You can go read about it yourself.

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Speaker 2: And it's the nonprofit. He's not taken a salary, and

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Speaker 2: it's to expedite the rebuilding process and how he described

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Speaker 2: and Newsom's actually been helpful. Now here's what Caruso wrote today,

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Speaker 2: because who hasn't been helpful is Karen Bass and the

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Speaker 2: rest of the impenetrable city government. So he wrote an

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Speaker 2: op ed today entitled We're at a Tipping Point and

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Speaker 2: he writes, nearly four months to the day since wildfires

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Speaker 2: ripped through four communities, our city, Los Angeles continues to

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Speaker 2: suffer from failing leadership, and he takes issue with Bass

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Speaker 2: constantly saying this is the fastest recovery in modern California history.

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Speaker 2: He says that's like comparing apples to monkey wrenches. Because

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Speaker 2: the cost of the palisades and eaten fires and outa

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Speaker 2: dina maybe fifteen times times more than say the campfire

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Speaker 2: up in Paradise, and these fires destroyed fifteen thousand more

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Speaker 2: structures than the Woolsey fire up in Ventura County, and

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Speaker 2: rebuilding is still going on in Paradise in Ventora County

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Speaker 2: after six years. This can't be the barometer for our success.

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Speaker 2: We can't measure the response against past disasters. Rather than conducting,

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Speaker 2: what is really needed a clear eyed assessment of where

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Speaker 2: the mistakes were. We're management failed. Who are we talking

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Speaker 2: about here? Talking about Bass, talking about Kristin Crowley ran

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Speaker 2: the fire department, Genie Kinoniez, who still runs the DWP,

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Speaker 2: the city council ally county supervisor. He writes how a

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Speaker 2: better process can be can be created so hard listed

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Speaker 2: lessons can be learned. We need to be forward looking,

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Speaker 2: reimagine the city's respond in a way that disaster recovery

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Speaker 2: and brightest companies, executives and workers of anywhere in the world.

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Speaker 2: They're all eager to contribute, but instead of embracing this

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Speaker 2: invaluable resource as the X factor that can make our

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Speaker 2: recovery both different and better, the city read Karen Bass,

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Speaker 2: has shunned it. Caruso says, they don't return calls. There

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Speaker 2: hasn't been an effort to proactively engage. There are no

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Speaker 2: signs that the city wants to leverage this wealth of

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Speaker 2: knowledge and ideas to drive the response, even though it's

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Speaker 2: impossible to execute a rebuild of this size without the

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Speaker 2: private sector taking a significant portion of off the government's plate.

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Speaker 1: See you hear that Bass is providing nothing. They don't

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Speaker 2: There hasn't been an effort to engage, no signs that

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Speaker 2: they want to use all the wealth they have here

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Speaker 2: in the private sector, all the companies, all the experience,

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Speaker 2: this AI, this AI innovation that he discussed in that

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Speaker 2: centric model developed and funded by best in class private

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Speaker 2: which is a huge pinch point in rebuilding, so it

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Speaker 2: takes only hours or days instead of weeks and months.

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Speaker 1: So Caruso and his associates want to use AI.

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Speaker 2: To drastically speed up the permitting process, and the.

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Speaker 1: City is not engaged.

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Speaker 2: They won't return a phone call Newsom is pushing them.

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Speaker 2: Despite this step forward, meaning when Newsom and the state

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Speaker 2: city will formally make this model available to those who

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Speaker 2: want to rebuild. The city has claimed that over a

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Speaker 2: thousand properties have been cleared, but only thirty one permits

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Speaker 2: have been issued thirty one, and they are not offering

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Speaker 2: real time updates so the public can see how many

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Speaker 2: permits are being issued and they get this. This veil

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Speaker 2: of secrecy extends to the Chief Recovery Officer position. There

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Speaker 2: is still no guidance about who inside the city is

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Speaker 2: dedicated to overseeing the recovery strategy. They don't have anybody

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Speaker 2: in Los Angeles City Hall in charge of the recovery.

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Speaker 2: The job is vacant almost a month.

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Speaker 1: They don't know.

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Speaker 2: He says, there's no indication will be filled, what qualifications

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Speaker 2: are being considered. The first go around with Steve Soberoff

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Speaker 2: was an epic debacle. Based on his comments out the door,

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Speaker 2: the city refuses to offer the public any voice in

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Speaker 2: the hiring process. There's also the role of Haggarty consulting

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Speaker 2: the taxpayer funded disaster recovery firm that they allocated ten

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Speaker 2: million dollars to. So far, Haggarty hasn't provided any clarity.

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Speaker 2: They're not sharing any details about what they're doing. Why

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Speaker 2: is the city so hesitant to communicate how this process

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Speaker 2: being managed? Who's in charge? Instead of having to plead

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Speaker 2: for answers, there should be a daily effort to provide

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Speaker 2: real time updates about what is happening. We need a

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Speaker 2: public permitting dashboard with updated metrics. All the agreements the

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Speaker 2: city makes should be disclosed immediately. There should be weekly

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Speaker 2: performance audits and reports about the work of these groups.

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Speaker 2: Coming up after Dever's news after three o'clock. The FBI

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Speaker 2: is just supposed to go along and not bitch about it. Caucus,

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Speaker 2: think it's about trading sex for a taco. It doesn't

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Speaker 2: sound convincing to me. All Right, we come back. So,

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Speaker 2: there was an Orthodox Jewish man in Chicago who was

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Speaker 2: shot and wounded by an illegal alien from an Islamic country,

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Speaker 2: and the FBI was not interested in investigating.

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Speaker 1: Now that's changed with Trump taking over, but.

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Speaker 2: It's been declared a terror attack from an illegal alien,

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Speaker 2: first of its kind that one of these people formally charged.

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Speaker 2: Todd Bensman Center for Immigration Studies, who has done years

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Speaker 2: illegal immigration and the order. He's gonna come come on

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Speaker 2: with us next to explain this story. Temper Mark is

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