1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,520 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:08,640 Speaker 2: We're on from one until four at then after four 4 00:00:08,640 --> 00:00:11,200 Speaker 2: o'clock John Cobelt's show on demand. 5 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:13,720 Speaker 1: It's the podcast version. You could hear what you missed. 6 00:00:13,720 --> 00:00:17,279 Speaker 2: Actually, there's a reason that happened because I was just 7 00:00:17,320 --> 00:00:20,680 Speaker 2: looking through our list of guests and in the three 8 00:00:20,720 --> 00:00:23,960 Speaker 2: o'clock hour, we're going to talk to Cheryl Poindexter. And 9 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:27,960 Speaker 2: Cheryl had her ranch burned down in the Bobcat fire 10 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:32,120 Speaker 2: back in twenty twenty. Another fire started by Southern California Edison, 11 00:00:32,440 --> 00:00:34,960 Speaker 2: and I was going through her letter and she wrote, 12 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:37,560 Speaker 2: you may remember me. You had me on your show 13 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:40,400 Speaker 2: John and Ken back in twenty twenty. And I was 14 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:43,280 Speaker 2: just reading that, so my part of my mind was 15 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:45,720 Speaker 2: recalling her appearance on the show. 16 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:48,360 Speaker 1: And all right, let's get back to the present. 17 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:53,360 Speaker 2: Okay, but very good though. You jumped right on me. 18 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:56,400 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's that's what you're here for, all right. 19 00:00:57,960 --> 00:01:01,080 Speaker 2: And the reason I wanted to start out by mentioning 20 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:07,520 Speaker 2: her case because there is it looks like it's almost 21 00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:11,679 Speaker 2: assured now that Southern California Edison started the eaton fire 22 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:19,360 Speaker 2: in Alta, Dina, which killed seventeen people. So this southern 23 00:01:19,440 --> 00:01:23,720 Speaker 2: California edison crowd is a deadly crowd. These executives, they 24 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:26,800 Speaker 2: don't take care of their electrical system and they keep 25 00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:30,600 Speaker 2: repeatedly having these problems that burns hundreds of thousands of 26 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:33,120 Speaker 2: acres and burns people to death. 27 00:01:33,160 --> 00:01:34,800 Speaker 1: There's no other way to put it. 28 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:38,319 Speaker 2: And Cheryl wrote to us a few days ago saying, 29 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:41,880 Speaker 2: in twenty twenty we had her on. She had an 30 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:47,080 Speaker 2: eleven acre ranch in Juniper Hills and she has a 31 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:52,440 Speaker 2: non profit animal rescue. Her home, a cabin, all over 32 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:58,120 Speaker 2: horse stall, the guesthouse, motorhome, and trailer all were lost. 33 00:01:58,520 --> 00:02:00,520 Speaker 1: The barn they had was one hundred years old. 34 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:03,000 Speaker 2: And the reason we're having her on is five years 35 00:02:03,080 --> 00:02:07,760 Speaker 2: later she still can't get into her house. We are 36 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:10,880 Speaker 2: she has a newly built house, but she can't get 37 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:13,880 Speaker 2: into it. And she's going to go through all the 38 00:02:13,919 --> 00:02:17,040 Speaker 2: problems that she is still having with the government to 39 00:02:17,120 --> 00:02:20,240 Speaker 2: this day. And you people in Altadena and in Pacific 40 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:23,040 Speaker 2: Palisades ought to listen to Cheryl coming up in the 41 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:26,200 Speaker 2: three o'clock hour, because I don't care what cheerleaders like 42 00:02:26,639 --> 00:02:31,240 Speaker 2: Steve Soberoff tell you it's going to be a terrible hassle. 43 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:34,640 Speaker 2: And you have morons running the city and morons running 44 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:38,800 Speaker 2: the county, absolute brainstem morons. So you're in for it. 45 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:40,880 Speaker 2: And I am not going to go along with all 46 00:02:40,919 --> 00:02:44,480 Speaker 2: of the sober Off's happy rah rah talk. I don't 47 00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:47,600 Speaker 2: care if I'm on the bus to know. The bus 48 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:50,720 Speaker 2: to know is the reality bus. So we'll get into 49 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:52,720 Speaker 2: that with Cheryl. Now, what I want to tell you 50 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:57,440 Speaker 2: about so Cal Edison with this Altadena fire two weeks 51 00:02:57,480 --> 00:02:59,800 Speaker 2: after the fire, and this is from the New York Times, 52 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:03,200 Speaker 2: and this story came out just a few hours ago, 53 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:06,120 Speaker 2: and they updated the story eight minutes ago. So you 54 00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:09,760 Speaker 2: got you got the freshest, the freshest loaf out of 55 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:10,120 Speaker 2: the oven. 56 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:10,320 Speaker 1: Here. 57 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:16,680 Speaker 2: Two weeks after the fire broke out on January nineteenth, 58 00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:23,160 Speaker 2: Southern California, Edison technicians began testing electrical equipment near where 59 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:28,280 Speaker 2: the fire started and they noticed small white flashes appearing 60 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:33,360 Speaker 2: on the high voltage transmission lines when power was restored, 61 00:03:34,280 --> 00:03:41,120 Speaker 2: signs that the system was functioning abnormally, and it's one 62 00:03:41,160 --> 00:03:46,280 Speaker 2: of seven irregularities that Edison has been reviewing. The flashes 63 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:50,880 Speaker 2: are similar to the ones captured on video near electrical 64 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:54,960 Speaker 2: equipment just moments before the fire broke out on January seventh, 65 00:03:56,120 --> 00:03:58,440 Speaker 2: And it adds to what the Time says is a 66 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:02,680 Speaker 2: growing pool of evidence linking the origin of the fire 67 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:08,480 Speaker 2: which killed seventeen, destroyed more than ninety four hundred homes 68 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:17,280 Speaker 2: in businesses, linking utility to the fire. And California has 69 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:21,440 Speaker 2: been trying to reduce the wildfires set off by electrical equipment. 70 00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:25,599 Speaker 2: And this is what must be done now in Altaden 71 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:28,800 Speaker 2: and the Palisades. The wires have to go underground. They 72 00:04:28,839 --> 00:04:33,400 Speaker 2: should have gone underground one hundred years ago. They're going 73 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:39,240 Speaker 2: to have to install weather stations to track storms and 74 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:45,200 Speaker 2: cut power to customers during dangerous conditions. That's what they've 75 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:49,000 Speaker 2: been slowly doing, but it's what everybody must do now. 76 00:04:50,279 --> 00:04:52,600 Speaker 1: Edison is looking. 77 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:54,840 Speaker 2: Through the data and is seeing that the system was 78 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:59,560 Speaker 2: understrained from those strong winds, but claimed it did not 79 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:04,200 Speaker 2: initially find any direct evidence suggesting its equipment was at fault. 80 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:09,160 Speaker 2: Now this is like not getting it that the uh 81 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:14,120 Speaker 2: that the Wuhan uh uh in Wuhan, you had you 82 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:18,880 Speaker 2: had the virus erupt in the same city as where 83 00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:23,080 Speaker 2: they were doing research on enhancing the virus. Remember that nonsense. 84 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:27,360 Speaker 2: What are the odds that the COVID virus would would 85 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:31,040 Speaker 2: originate in the town where they were doing COVID research 86 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:33,919 Speaker 2: on enhancing it? And yet you had much of the 87 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:37,240 Speaker 2: world that refused to believe it. Well, it's the same 88 00:05:37,320 --> 00:05:41,440 Speaker 2: thing here. If you have a fire start right below 89 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:46,160 Speaker 2: a transmission tower, Gee, it's very likely that the electrical 90 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:48,720 Speaker 2: system had something to do with starting the fire. I 91 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:51,680 Speaker 2: don't but do you know why they deny this or 92 00:05:51,760 --> 00:05:55,359 Speaker 2: pretend that it didn't happen, is because the liability is 93 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:57,480 Speaker 2: going to crush so Cal Edison. 94 00:05:58,200 --> 00:05:58,320 Speaker 3: Uh. 95 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:03,840 Speaker 2: The utility expanded its investigation after The New York Times 96 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:08,000 Speaker 2: published a video came from outside an Arco gas station 97 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:11,839 Speaker 2: in Altadena, and it captured the flashes in the area 98 00:06:11,880 --> 00:06:16,520 Speaker 2: of transmission towers in Eaton Canyon. The flashes occurred in 99 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:21,040 Speaker 2: short succession, one at six ten pm, another three seconds 100 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:26,440 Speaker 2: later before the flames burst out below the towers. So 101 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:33,600 Speaker 2: that anomaly, that aberration, whatever happened. Pedro Pizarro is the 102 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:38,160 Speaker 2: president and CEO of so Cal Edison's parent company, and 103 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:40,240 Speaker 2: he says, well, after we saw the video, we went 104 00:06:40,279 --> 00:06:41,480 Speaker 2: back and said, hey. 105 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:42,000 Speaker 1: Are there things. 106 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:44,600 Speaker 2: We just don't understand here, and should we bring it 107 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:46,640 Speaker 2: back into the fold. 108 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:50,280 Speaker 1: They see. 109 00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:55,280 Speaker 2: The thing is they had they had electrical faults recorded 110 00:06:56,320 --> 00:06:59,240 Speaker 2: miles from the start of the fire, and they didn't 111 00:06:59,279 --> 00:07:02,640 Speaker 2: understand how the electrical problems far from the fire would 112 00:07:02,640 --> 00:07:05,880 Speaker 2: play a role at igniting it until they found this 113 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:10,440 Speaker 2: ARCO video and said, oh, there were electrical problems directly 114 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:18,760 Speaker 2: over where the fire started. How about that? And so 115 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:26,760 Speaker 2: now the so now investigators are demanding that Edison come clean. 116 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:30,480 Speaker 2: Jamie Court is president of Consumer Watchdog, which is a 117 00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:36,560 Speaker 2: nonprofit group that represents taxpayers and consumers, and Court said, 118 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:39,720 Speaker 2: clearly Edison should have known that when you experience flashes 119 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:42,040 Speaker 2: on a line that could cause a fire in the 120 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:45,200 Speaker 2: exact place where the fire started. I don't understand how 121 00:07:45,200 --> 00:07:48,720 Speaker 2: they could not put two and two together. They do 122 00:07:48,800 --> 00:07:51,640 Speaker 2: that on purpose. They'll put two and two together because 123 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:54,800 Speaker 2: nobody admits guilt, nobody tells the truth and public anymore. 124 00:07:55,200 --> 00:08:01,120 Speaker 2: Least of all, least of all corporate executives, corporate executives 125 00:08:01,160 --> 00:08:04,360 Speaker 2: of energy companies that kill people by the dozens and 126 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:07,920 Speaker 2: hundreds and cause billions of dollars worth of damage. 127 00:08:08,440 --> 00:08:10,760 Speaker 1: No, because they know that's gonna. 128 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:13,679 Speaker 2: Uh, that's gonna come out of their profits, it's gonna 129 00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:15,640 Speaker 2: come out of their stock price, it's gonna come out 130 00:08:15,640 --> 00:08:16,720 Speaker 2: of their hides. 131 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:20,440 Speaker 1: You know, they might actually get get fired, So of. 132 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:23,360 Speaker 2: Course they're not gonna I mean, it's exactly like the 133 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:30,200 Speaker 2: Wuhan situation. And this this willful suspension of believing what 134 00:08:30,280 --> 00:08:32,120 Speaker 2: you see with your own eyes. This is this is 135 00:08:32,360 --> 00:08:35,120 Speaker 2: clearly a case where just look with your own eyes. 136 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:37,640 Speaker 1: Look on the video. You see the flashes. 137 00:08:37,800 --> 00:08:40,640 Speaker 2: Oh well, yeah, I guess so that's where the fire 138 00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:44,320 Speaker 2: would have started, right, Look at that. The fire started 139 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:47,600 Speaker 2: right below the wires where the flashes flared. 140 00:08:47,720 --> 00:08:48,679 Speaker 1: I mean, it's just. 141 00:08:50,240 --> 00:08:55,559 Speaker 2: And they are looking at a tremendous, tremendous liability now. 142 00:08:56,160 --> 00:08:58,240 Speaker 1: But so cal Edison has started a lot of fires. 143 00:08:58,240 --> 00:08:59,120 Speaker 1: So is PG and E. 144 00:09:00,480 --> 00:09:03,319 Speaker 2: And what happens is they get bailed out by taxpayers, 145 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:07,479 Speaker 2: they get bailed out by rape pairs, they get protected 146 00:09:07,520 --> 00:09:11,840 Speaker 2: by corrupt politicians like Gavin Newsom. Remember Gavin Newsom's wife 147 00:09:11,880 --> 00:09:13,920 Speaker 2: was getting money from PG and E so she could 148 00:09:13,920 --> 00:09:16,560 Speaker 2: make a bunch of annoying feminist films that nobody watched. 149 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:21,439 Speaker 2: That's how the business runs. All right, Well, we come back. 150 00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:24,400 Speaker 2: I'm gonna switch gears for a second because you may 151 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:28,320 Speaker 2: have heard that in Aurora, Colorado, the trend de Ragua 152 00:09:28,520 --> 00:09:33,040 Speaker 2: gang is slowly getting busted up by Trump and Tom 153 00:09:33,080 --> 00:09:38,000 Speaker 2: Holman at ICE and Homeland Security, and Bill Mlusion from 154 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:44,199 Speaker 2: Fox News went along on the trip to roused up 155 00:09:44,440 --> 00:09:47,800 Speaker 2: these gang members and there weren't as many as they thought. 156 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:53,800 Speaker 2: Looks like somebody is leaking word of these raids to 157 00:09:53,960 --> 00:09:56,920 Speaker 2: the bad guys. It's got to be somebody in government 158 00:09:56,960 --> 00:09:58,960 Speaker 2: that is sympathetic to murderous gang members. 159 00:09:59,000 --> 00:09:59,400 Speaker 1: I don't know. 160 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:04,960 Speaker 4: Next you're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI 161 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:06,079 Speaker 4: Am six forty. 162 00:10:07,520 --> 00:10:11,080 Speaker 2: Bill llushan our friend over at Fox News. He gets 163 00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:14,000 Speaker 2: a lot of cool assignments. He was stationed at the 164 00:10:14,040 --> 00:10:17,880 Speaker 2: border for years and he's been going on ice raids. 165 00:10:17,960 --> 00:10:21,440 Speaker 2: He went on one in Boston the day after Trump 166 00:10:21,520 --> 00:10:24,760 Speaker 2: was inaugurated, and this week he got to go on 167 00:10:24,840 --> 00:10:28,680 Speaker 2: the ice raid in Aurora, Colorado, going after Trendy Arago 168 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:31,800 Speaker 2: gang members, a raid that didn't get them as many 169 00:10:32,240 --> 00:10:36,200 Speaker 2: criminals as they wanted. Because it looks like somebody in 170 00:10:36,280 --> 00:10:40,520 Speaker 2: government is leaking the details of these raids. Bill has 171 00:10:40,559 --> 00:10:42,400 Speaker 2: a complete report here from Fox News. 172 00:10:42,440 --> 00:10:45,120 Speaker 3: Row it God, bless y'all. Let's take the bad guys 173 00:10:45,160 --> 00:10:48,719 Speaker 3: off the street. Send the GITMO come home safe, every 174 00:10:48,760 --> 00:10:49,160 Speaker 3: one of them. 175 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:50,600 Speaker 1: You guys, we can row you up. 176 00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:53,880 Speaker 5: Orders are Tom Homan rallying the troops ahead of a 177 00:10:53,960 --> 00:11:00,560 Speaker 5: massive federal operation in Aurora, Colorado Wednesday morning. Said got 178 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:06,640 Speaker 5: several hundred federal agents from ICE, HSI, d EA, FBI. 179 00:11:06,520 --> 00:11:09,319 Speaker 1: At F, and CBP all. 180 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:12,680 Speaker 5: Targeting alleged members of the Venezuelan gang TRENDEA. 181 00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:15,560 Speaker 1: Ronquo, Tom, you guys have hundreds of people out here. 182 00:11:15,720 --> 00:11:16,600 Speaker 1: What's the goal today? 183 00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:17,800 Speaker 6: To go today? 184 00:11:17,840 --> 00:11:20,720 Speaker 3: Sent a messages to TDA that we're going to eradicate 185 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:24,320 Speaker 3: from this country. There's no safe harbor, there's no saints 186 00:11:24,360 --> 00:11:24,719 Speaker 3: for fun. 187 00:11:24,800 --> 00:11:27,120 Speaker 4: Fox thanks. 188 00:11:28,720 --> 00:11:31,240 Speaker 5: Fox News joined as one team of agents arrived at 189 00:11:31,280 --> 00:11:34,880 Speaker 5: the Aurora apartment complex that went viral last summer when 190 00:11:34,920 --> 00:11:44,920 Speaker 5: TDA gang members were seen on security video with guns. 191 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:48,280 Speaker 5: As the team went door to door, they found blood 192 00:11:48,280 --> 00:11:52,800 Speaker 5: stained walls, but no gang members. The entire complex was 193 00:11:52,920 --> 00:11:57,080 Speaker 5: virtually empty. At a second trend of Rockwallink complex, ICE 194 00:11:57,240 --> 00:12:08,800 Speaker 5: was met by activists who taunted them and others who 195 00:12:08,880 --> 00:12:20,280 Speaker 5: used megaphones to coach those living inside. DEA agents used 196 00:12:20,280 --> 00:12:24,400 Speaker 5: flash bangs inside while serving a warrant that led to 197 00:12:24,440 --> 00:12:28,080 Speaker 5: a handful of arrests, but no TDA gang members. A 198 00:12:28,120 --> 00:12:32,600 Speaker 5: stop at another apartment complex netted no arrests. It seems 199 00:12:32,640 --> 00:12:35,280 Speaker 5: like they were tipped off. They knew this was coming. 200 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:38,720 Speaker 7: So yeah, I do get the impression that there were 201 00:12:38,720 --> 00:12:41,600 Speaker 7: some intellleagues here and I think that that probably they 202 00:12:41,640 --> 00:12:44,000 Speaker 7: didn't know we were coming. But we're still coming, and 203 00:12:44,440 --> 00:12:46,720 Speaker 7: just because something leaks now and then doesn't, it's not 204 00:12:46,760 --> 00:12:50,079 Speaker 7: going to stop us. 205 00:12:50,679 --> 00:12:55,520 Speaker 5: We have a warrant also on their radar. This previously 206 00:12:55,559 --> 00:13:01,200 Speaker 5: deported Honduran illegal alien with pending local charges for stranguling, kidnapping, 207 00:13:01,520 --> 00:13:09,840 Speaker 5: and possession of fentanyl. While activists yelled outside agents recovered 208 00:13:09,840 --> 00:13:12,640 Speaker 5: this stolen rifle from inside the man's. 209 00:13:12,320 --> 00:13:14,559 Speaker 1: Home and guys. 210 00:13:14,559 --> 00:13:17,640 Speaker 5: Officials told us they were planning to net triple digit 211 00:13:17,760 --> 00:13:20,480 Speaker 5: arrests as a result of this operation, possibly upwards of 212 00:13:20,520 --> 00:13:23,120 Speaker 5: two hundred people. Ice officials told me at the end 213 00:13:23,120 --> 00:13:25,480 Speaker 5: of the At the end of the day yesterday they 214 00:13:25,480 --> 00:13:28,280 Speaker 5: only had thirty arrests, only one of which was a 215 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:32,439 Speaker 5: confirmed Trendy Arragua gang member. It certainly felt like everybody 216 00:13:32,520 --> 00:13:34,160 Speaker 5: knew this was coming, including. 217 00:13:33,800 --> 00:13:36,520 Speaker 1: The targets and the local media. We'll send it back 218 00:13:36,520 --> 00:13:36,720 Speaker 1: to you. 219 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:40,400 Speaker 8: And did the local media did they get ahead of 220 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:41,080 Speaker 8: the operation. 221 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:43,960 Speaker 5: They were everywhere we were sometimes ahead of us, it 222 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:46,440 Speaker 5: felt like along with some of the local activists. This 223 00:13:46,559 --> 00:13:49,800 Speaker 5: raid was initially supposed to happen last week, guys, but 224 00:13:50,480 --> 00:13:53,600 Speaker 5: two media outlets wrote articles announcing it. 225 00:13:53,600 --> 00:13:54,360 Speaker 1: It got leaked to them. 226 00:13:54,400 --> 00:13:56,599 Speaker 5: They wrote articles announcing that ICE was coming to the 227 00:13:56,640 --> 00:13:59,000 Speaker 5: Aurora area to conduct the huge operation. 228 00:13:59,400 --> 00:14:00,680 Speaker 1: Ice Can't Raid. 229 00:14:01,040 --> 00:14:03,960 Speaker 5: Moved it to this week, and everywhere we went, the 230 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:07,760 Speaker 5: local media was there, followed quickly by those anti ICE activists. 231 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:11,000 Speaker 5: It definitely felt like people knew it was coming, and 232 00:14:11,080 --> 00:14:12,440 Speaker 5: ICE officials told us the same. 233 00:14:14,920 --> 00:14:20,520 Speaker 2: Well, that's bill mallusion with Fox News is this is 234 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:24,560 Speaker 2: really like disgusting, isn't it. You have the progressive media 235 00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:32,360 Speaker 2: now fouling up federal investigations for murderous gangs. Trendy I 236 00:14:32,440 --> 00:14:38,960 Speaker 2: Ragua is an extremely deadly Venezuelan gang, and we've let 237 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:43,760 Speaker 2: so many illegal aliens in that they have their own 238 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:47,960 Speaker 2: lobbying groups. Their are their own advocacy groups that are 239 00:14:48,040 --> 00:14:53,280 Speaker 2: working with local media to give a heads up signal 240 00:14:54,200 --> 00:14:59,840 Speaker 2: to these murderous criminals. These people aren't. They're not just 241 00:14:59,880 --> 00:15:06,120 Speaker 2: like bouncing checks here. They kill people, they ripe women, 242 00:15:07,160 --> 00:15:13,440 Speaker 2: They have incredible drug smuggling and human smuggling operations. They 243 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:18,200 Speaker 2: have women in sexual captivity, buying and selling these young girls. 244 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:22,480 Speaker 1: And this is what these activists are doing. All these activists, 245 00:15:22,520 --> 00:15:23,040 Speaker 1: I don't care. 246 00:15:22,920 --> 00:15:26,080 Speaker 2: If they're American citizens, like those screaming women, they to 247 00:15:26,160 --> 00:15:28,600 Speaker 2: all be shipped to Guantanamo Bay. 248 00:15:29,240 --> 00:15:29,520 Speaker 1: Now. 249 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:33,440 Speaker 2: Eventually, Tom Holman and Ice is going to crack this nut. 250 00:15:34,240 --> 00:15:36,640 Speaker 2: They're not going to get away with this forever. But 251 00:15:36,760 --> 00:15:40,360 Speaker 2: it just shows you that this progressive movement in this 252 00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:44,960 Speaker 2: country really is about bringing down the US, is about 253 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:49,440 Speaker 2: destroying our way of life and our civilization. And you 254 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:53,040 Speaker 2: always have people in the media belonging to this progressive 255 00:15:53,040 --> 00:15:57,800 Speaker 2: cult who are willing, who are willing to be part 256 00:15:57,880 --> 00:16:01,480 Speaker 2: of the part of the conspiracy. Like can you imagine 257 00:16:01,640 --> 00:16:08,200 Speaker 2: reporters in any generation blown blowing the whistle and warning 258 00:16:08,240 --> 00:16:12,280 Speaker 2: the criminals so they can get away, warning people that 259 00:16:12,360 --> 00:16:16,720 Speaker 2: they know have murdered and raped and are smuggling humans 260 00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:19,640 Speaker 2: and drugs. And this is These are the kind of 261 00:16:19,720 --> 00:16:22,040 Speaker 2: journalists that they have in the local media, in the 262 00:16:22,040 --> 00:16:28,840 Speaker 2: Denver area. They're hardcore progressives, they're sick, and I'd be 263 00:16:28,840 --> 00:16:31,920 Speaker 2: happy shipping shipping them all to Cuba. They should all 264 00:16:31,920 --> 00:16:35,880 Speaker 2: go to gwandanamal Day, no trials. I don't care what 265 00:16:35,960 --> 00:16:39,720 Speaker 2: happens to them, because the people, it was innocent people 266 00:16:39,760 --> 00:16:44,680 Speaker 2: suffering in those apartment complexes, including some including innocent illegal aliens. 267 00:16:46,240 --> 00:16:51,120 Speaker 2: This is crazy. You talk about treason, Absolutely crazy, But 268 00:16:51,600 --> 00:16:53,280 Speaker 2: you know, the good guys are going to win ultimately. 269 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:56,240 Speaker 2: And I and I think if they find any any 270 00:16:56,240 --> 00:16:59,120 Speaker 2: political you know, if they find any journalists or any 271 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:04,320 Speaker 2: politicians involved in tipping off, in tipping off the gang 272 00:17:04,359 --> 00:17:07,960 Speaker 2: members to ice coming in, then I think home and 273 00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:10,760 Speaker 2: ought to go after them, filed federal charges. You know, 274 00:17:10,760 --> 00:17:13,520 Speaker 2: if we see a few journalists and a few politicians 275 00:17:13,800 --> 00:17:17,119 Speaker 2: going to federal prison, then maybe this crap will stop. 276 00:17:17,800 --> 00:17:20,080 Speaker 1: All right, We got more coming up. 277 00:17:21,160 --> 00:17:25,600 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFII. 278 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:28,560 Speaker 2: We're on every day from one until four and then 279 00:17:28,560 --> 00:17:31,639 Speaker 2: after four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand on the 280 00:17:31,680 --> 00:17:35,119 Speaker 2: iHeart app coming up after two o'clock. Oh, I'm so 281 00:17:35,200 --> 00:17:38,000 Speaker 2: glad we're getting this man on. His name is Sayed 282 00:17:38,119 --> 00:17:43,160 Speaker 2: Koshawnee sayed Koshane was the resident who lost his home 283 00:17:43,320 --> 00:17:48,560 Speaker 2: in Pacific Palisades and went to the DWP Commissioner's meeting 284 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:53,480 Speaker 2: in downtown LA last week wanting to know what the 285 00:17:53,520 --> 00:17:58,200 Speaker 2: hell went on here? Why was there no water in 286 00:17:58,240 --> 00:18:03,240 Speaker 2: the reservoir. And he spoke for about six minutes. And 287 00:18:03,880 --> 00:18:06,120 Speaker 2: we are going to have say ed Koshanion right after 288 00:18:06,160 --> 00:18:09,240 Speaker 2: two o'clock, and in the final segment of this hour, 289 00:18:09,520 --> 00:18:13,120 Speaker 2: we are going to play again his appearance before the DWP. 290 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:18,239 Speaker 2: He went after, he went after Genie Kinoniez, who's the 291 00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:24,520 Speaker 2: idiot CEO of the DWP. She's the one who is 292 00:18:24,560 --> 00:18:29,240 Speaker 2: obsessed with diversity, equity and inclusion. And in fact, she 293 00:18:29,400 --> 00:18:34,560 Speaker 2: said she approaches everything on every aspect of her job 294 00:18:35,040 --> 00:18:38,840 Speaker 2: and looks at it through the lens, through the equity lens. 295 00:18:39,520 --> 00:18:41,320 Speaker 1: Yes, the equity lens. 296 00:18:42,119 --> 00:18:46,600 Speaker 2: And she never filled up the one hundred and seventeen 297 00:18:46,640 --> 00:18:50,639 Speaker 2: million gallon reservoir all year. That thing has been sitting empty, 298 00:18:50,800 --> 00:18:55,320 Speaker 2: still empty. But that's what an equity lens does to 299 00:18:55,359 --> 00:18:58,000 Speaker 2: your eyesight. You can't notice one hundred and seventeen million 300 00:18:58,040 --> 00:19:01,480 Speaker 2: gallons missing out of the reservoir. So we're going to 301 00:19:01,520 --> 00:19:06,159 Speaker 2: play you say Ed's appearance before the DWP in the 302 00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:08,960 Speaker 2: next segment, and then after two o'clock En Dever's news 303 00:19:09,160 --> 00:19:10,520 Speaker 2: he's going to be on Live with Us. 304 00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:10,840 Speaker 1: Now. 305 00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:17,119 Speaker 2: Another aspect to this is and I'm confounded by this. 306 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:20,600 Speaker 2: I haven't seen anything that explains it. If you're going 307 00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:24,800 Speaker 2: to end up with an enormous amount of toxic waste, 308 00:19:25,520 --> 00:19:28,880 Speaker 2: would you put it right next to the ocean? Would 309 00:19:28,880 --> 00:19:31,879 Speaker 2: you put it right next to the beach. That's what 310 00:19:31,920 --> 00:19:37,439 Speaker 2: they're doing. The EPA and FEMA is taking all the 311 00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:42,679 Speaker 2: toxic waste, all the paints, you know, the lead paints, 312 00:19:42,760 --> 00:19:50,359 Speaker 2: the chemicals, the lithium batteries, the asbestos, and they're going 313 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:56,320 Speaker 2: to sort them out, package them and stack them up 314 00:19:57,240 --> 00:20:00,479 Speaker 2: until it's time to take them elsewhere. And they're going 315 00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:04,320 Speaker 2: to do it at the will Rogers Beach parking lot, 316 00:20:05,480 --> 00:20:11,840 Speaker 2: which is adjacent to the beach and to the Pacific Ocean. 317 00:20:11,960 --> 00:20:16,800 Speaker 9: But the EPA says it's safe, John, The EPA says 318 00:20:16,920 --> 00:20:20,359 Speaker 9: that it's going to be contained and we're all going 319 00:20:20,440 --> 00:20:22,240 Speaker 9: to be okay. 320 00:20:22,320 --> 00:20:26,359 Speaker 2: Yeah, That's what scares me is they if they would say, look, 321 00:20:26,440 --> 00:20:28,480 Speaker 2: this might be a little risky. But here's what we're 322 00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:31,200 Speaker 2: doing to mitigate the risk, but just to flat outside, 323 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:31,480 Speaker 2: I don't know. 324 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:32,360 Speaker 1: Everything's going to be okay. 325 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:34,359 Speaker 2: It's like it can't mean that's the biggest red f 326 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:35,960 Speaker 2: How could you say that? 327 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:41,000 Speaker 9: How can you definitively say that it's safe. 328 00:20:40,520 --> 00:20:44,439 Speaker 2: You can't and nobody believes it. But why are you 329 00:20:44,520 --> 00:20:49,800 Speaker 2: taking the risk next to the ocean and the beach one? 330 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:52,840 Speaker 2: I mean, we're going to have big rainstorms this week 331 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:56,600 Speaker 2: and maybe next week, and one big tidal wave comes 332 00:20:56,640 --> 00:20:59,600 Speaker 2: in is going to wipe all that toxic waste into 333 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:05,520 Speaker 2: the ocean. And man, we have so many environmental groups. Look, 334 00:21:05,560 --> 00:21:09,000 Speaker 2: you noticed there's no protests for this. We're the environmental 335 00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:13,080 Speaker 2: groups unless they were bought off. Maybe they were, but 336 00:21:13,119 --> 00:21:16,760 Speaker 2: why wouldn't you protest this one the worst toxic waste imaginable? 337 00:21:17,280 --> 00:21:19,520 Speaker 1: And they're going to build build their big. 338 00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:23,760 Speaker 2: Mountain of of of toxic garbage. And what is it 339 00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:28,240 Speaker 2: with that will Rogers parking lot? Because the idiot Mike Bonden, 340 00:21:28,520 --> 00:21:31,560 Speaker 2: the councilman, wanted to put a homeless village there. 341 00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:33,200 Speaker 1: Remember that. 342 00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:37,880 Speaker 2: Homeless village and now it's going to be a toxic waste. 343 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:41,120 Speaker 1: We used to bike there all the time. I don't 344 00:21:41,119 --> 00:21:46,280 Speaker 1: think you're going to be going there. No, no, well 345 00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:46,840 Speaker 1: we can't. 346 00:21:46,840 --> 00:21:49,200 Speaker 2: We can't drive in that area because of all the 347 00:21:49,240 --> 00:21:50,439 Speaker 2: homeless people on the beach. 348 00:21:51,359 --> 00:21:51,679 Speaker 1: See that. 349 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:54,520 Speaker 2: That's the thing that the the the atmosphere is already 350 00:21:54,560 --> 00:21:57,880 Speaker 2: toxic with crazy drug addicts and mental patients, and now 351 00:21:57,920 --> 00:22:02,879 Speaker 2: it's going to be chemically toxic. The Tracy Park is 352 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:06,639 Speaker 2: against this, the West Side councilwoman who replaced bond It, 353 00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:09,200 Speaker 2: but she apparently doesn't have a say in what's going 354 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:12,600 Speaker 2: on here. And let me play you this a little 355 00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:18,120 Speaker 2: bit of this story that Channel four did and you'll 356 00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:20,959 Speaker 2: get an idea what Tracy's trying to do to stop this. 357 00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:26,200 Speaker 8: Since this fire, since this fire started, Will Rogers Safe 358 00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:28,600 Speaker 8: each year has really been the hub of resources for 359 00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:31,639 Speaker 8: first responders. We've been live out here, plenty of mourning, 360 00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:34,199 Speaker 8: showing you the fire trucks and the National Guard and 361 00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:37,320 Speaker 8: the communications centers. Well, now this parking lot is going 362 00:22:37,359 --> 00:22:40,280 Speaker 8: to serve a new purpose as well. It will also 363 00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:44,720 Speaker 8: become another temporary site for hazardous household materials removed from 364 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:47,720 Speaker 8: the homes impacted by the Palisades fire. In addition to 365 00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:51,400 Speaker 8: the staging area space at pch Into Panga the EPA says, 366 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:56,520 Speaker 8: all those paints, chemicals, lithium batteries will be consolidated, securely packaged, 367 00:22:56,560 --> 00:22:59,360 Speaker 8: and safely loaded here, and then we'll go to permanent 368 00:22:59,359 --> 00:23:02,960 Speaker 8: disposal and recycling facilities outside of the burn area. The 369 00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:06,040 Speaker 8: EPA says it shows will rogers because its parking lot 370 00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:08,800 Speaker 8: is on flat open land that's close to the damage 371 00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:12,080 Speaker 8: and destroyed homes, some of those homes just across the highway. 372 00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:14,639 Speaker 8: Although the EPA thinks this is a great spot and 373 00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:17,080 Speaker 8: it will constantly monitor the air to make sure everything 374 00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:20,680 Speaker 8: is safe. Council Member Tracy Park says she has her concerns. 375 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:24,360 Speaker 2: My concerns about it are that we are removing it 376 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:25,800 Speaker 2: from an area. 377 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:30,480 Speaker 10: That is already toxic and contaminated and taking it. 378 00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:34,040 Speaker 1: Down to sort and sore at the. 379 00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:41,359 Speaker 10: Beach, which is our most sensitive environmental area and habitat 380 00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:43,200 Speaker 10: in the entire region. 381 00:23:43,359 --> 00:23:45,920 Speaker 8: But Doug Stewart, the Mayor of Malibu, says he commends 382 00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:47,640 Speaker 8: the new side to stave in from a city says, 383 00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:50,320 Speaker 8: in part, the City of Malibu is grateful to California 384 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:53,240 Speaker 8: State Parks and the EPA for working together to accelerate 385 00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:57,560 Speaker 8: wildfire recovery efforts. The addition of a second temporary EPA 386 00:23:57,640 --> 00:24:01,240 Speaker 8: processing site at will Rogers is important step in ensuring 387 00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:05,720 Speaker 8: hazardous materials or removed safely and efficiency, helping impacted residents 388 00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:08,320 Speaker 8: move forward in rebuilding their homes. That I got to 389 00:24:08,359 --> 00:24:10,240 Speaker 8: hear live. We do know that at some point today 390 00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:12,280 Speaker 8: Mayor Karen Bass will be here in the Palisades and 391 00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:15,960 Speaker 8: meeting with the EPA and federal officials looking at removal 392 00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:16,760 Speaker 8: process and. 393 00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:18,480 Speaker 1: The propress so far. 394 00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:22,040 Speaker 2: That's well. Oh, Karen Bass is coming to meet with 395 00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:23,080 Speaker 2: the EPA. 396 00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:24,920 Speaker 1: She ought to be disposed of too. 397 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:27,520 Speaker 2: They should put her in one of those containers and 398 00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:29,439 Speaker 2: take her out to a toxic dump. 399 00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:33,200 Speaker 1: What Tracy said is is correct. 400 00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:37,720 Speaker 2: Uh, they must have open flat areas in the Palisades 401 00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:41,320 Speaker 2: that have already burned. Why not collect all the toxic 402 00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:47,240 Speaker 2: material there? Why are you taking it to a sensitive 403 00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:52,919 Speaker 2: environment like a beach, the ocean with all the wildlife. 404 00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:56,359 Speaker 2: Why would you do that? That's incredibly stupid. Now you 405 00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:59,720 Speaker 2: heard there was support from the Mayor of Malibu, Doug Stewart. 406 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:03,160 Speaker 2: Of course there is, because two days ago they were 407 00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:06,840 Speaker 2: bringing the toxic waste to Malibu and they were going 408 00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:09,720 Speaker 2: to lay it out next to city Hall where Doug 409 00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:12,800 Speaker 2: Stort goes to work every day. And then the people 410 00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:17,760 Speaker 2: in Malibu understandably went nuts because not only is that 411 00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:22,840 Speaker 2: you have all those government to offices there, you also 412 00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:26,679 Speaker 2: have a lot of schools in that district. There are 413 00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:29,840 Speaker 2: several schools within a half mile or a mile, and 414 00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:33,120 Speaker 2: so everybody was screaming and yelling, get this out of Malibu. 415 00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:35,360 Speaker 2: The DA said, fine, we'll take it out of Malibu. 416 00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:39,560 Speaker 2: Now you put it in a beach area in the Palisades. Well, 417 00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:41,800 Speaker 2: what would you do that for? That's stupid too. It's 418 00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:47,840 Speaker 2: not either or I mean, I don't understand this. The 419 00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:52,400 Speaker 2: Palisades is all completely poisoned, toxified, burned out. Just lay 420 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:55,000 Speaker 2: out the waste in, you know, like Darouse's parking lot 421 00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:57,760 Speaker 2: for the Galston's parking lot. What you know, you can't 422 00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:00,800 Speaker 2: you can't damage the area any worse. The hell are 423 00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:03,919 Speaker 2: they doing? Why would you spread all this toxicity to 424 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:09,080 Speaker 2: the beach of all places. I I just I'm completely 425 00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:15,160 Speaker 2: flabbergasted by the the e p A and FEMA. It's 426 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:18,399 Speaker 2: just another Karen Basset is gonna go and what are 427 00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:19,000 Speaker 2: they gonna. 428 00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:20,320 Speaker 1: Tell her, Oh, it's gonna be safe. 429 00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:22,400 Speaker 2: And then she's gonna say, I've been assured that it's 430 00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:27,640 Speaker 2: gonna be safe. Okay, Moron to moron, everything's gonna be safe. 431 00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:36,080 Speaker 2: That's ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous. When we come back, we're gonna 432 00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:39,720 Speaker 2: we're gonna play you a clip. And it's funny how 433 00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:42,800 Speaker 2: just regular residents you hear, you hear some of them 434 00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:45,520 Speaker 2: speak and they make perfect sense, and then you hear 435 00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:50,439 Speaker 2: official speak and it's total garbage and nonsense. We're gonna 436 00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:54,840 Speaker 2: play Sayid Kashani played this over a week ago, maybe 437 00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:58,679 Speaker 2: a week and a half ago, and he uh, he 438 00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:01,280 Speaker 2: went to a board the the Water and Power Commissioners 439 00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:04,080 Speaker 2: meeting in downtown LA. He's totally burned out of his house. 440 00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:06,720 Speaker 2: He's got nothing but the clothes on his back, literally, 441 00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:10,800 Speaker 2: and he went there and he had a tape recording 442 00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:15,600 Speaker 2: of Genie Kenonez, the CEO of the DWP, where she 443 00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:21,359 Speaker 2: was asserting some gobbledegook about diversity. And he did his 444 00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:25,080 Speaker 2: own investigation into how much the DWP had been discussing 445 00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:27,080 Speaker 2: the empty reservoir in the last year. 446 00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:28,040 Speaker 1: It's was. 447 00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:32,960 Speaker 2: It was a great, great presentation that he gave. We're 448 00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:34,680 Speaker 2: going to play it back for you in the next 449 00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:37,560 Speaker 2: segment and then after Debra's news at two o'clock, uh 450 00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:39,600 Speaker 2: Sayed Kashani is going to be on with us live. 451 00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:40,560 Speaker 1: So that's all ahead. 452 00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:46,359 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Kobels on demand from KFI Am sixty. 453 00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:49,640 Speaker 2: All right, so I want to play this. Uh this 454 00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:52,520 Speaker 2: is this is say Ed Kashani. He is a resident 455 00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:56,480 Speaker 2: who got burned out in Pacific Palisades and he did 456 00:27:56,520 --> 00:28:00,639 Speaker 2: what very few do even after the government threw its competence, 457 00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:04,720 Speaker 2: burns you out of your town. He actually went to 458 00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:10,000 Speaker 2: the DWP commissioners meeting in downtown LA and demanded to 459 00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:13,560 Speaker 2: know what the hell happened here, especially why was the 460 00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:17,760 Speaker 2: one hundred and seventeen million gallon Senti Inez Reservoir empty. 461 00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:24,000 Speaker 2: And he was particularly upset with the DWP CEO, Janie Keinons. 462 00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:25,760 Speaker 1: By the way, Kenonees, who. 463 00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:28,919 Speaker 2: Makes seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year and 464 00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:32,800 Speaker 2: is obsessed with diversity and equity, we are now paying, 465 00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:35,120 Speaker 2: on top of the seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, 466 00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:40,760 Speaker 2: we are paying for her police security detail because she 467 00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:44,240 Speaker 2: is getting a lot of threats against her and other 468 00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:48,000 Speaker 2: DWP employees. And so there is now now She has 469 00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:53,240 Speaker 2: a twenty four to seven LAPD detail, according to Fox News, 470 00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:56,400 Speaker 2: and the DWP says, we can confirm the threats have 471 00:28:56,400 --> 00:28:59,360 Speaker 2: been made against our employees, including incidents in the field. 472 00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:05,440 Speaker 2: We're now going to play you, say ed Kashani at 473 00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:07,560 Speaker 2: the DWP public meeting. 474 00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:11,479 Speaker 11: My name is said Kashani. Until January seventh, I lived 475 00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:15,720 Speaker 11: in the Pacific Palisades operative term being lived till my 476 00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:16,520 Speaker 11: house burned down. 477 00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:19,000 Speaker 6: I apologize. I come to you dress like this. 478 00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:21,360 Speaker 11: I'm not used to going on in public dress like this, 479 00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:25,640 Speaker 11: but this is all I have to wear, so I apologize. 480 00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:27,400 Speaker 6: I would I. 481 00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:30,480 Speaker 11: Would like to remind the commissioners of a little history. 482 00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:35,320 Speaker 11: When the Saint Francis Dan collapsed, your director, William Mulholland 483 00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:40,960 Speaker 11: immediately resigned. He took full responsibility as leader of this organization. 484 00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:44,880 Speaker 11: And I'm addressing miss Quinonas. I call on this board 485 00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:49,000 Speaker 11: to ask Pis Quinonas also to resign now to honor 486 00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:54,360 Speaker 11: the history of this organization and resign for her culpability 487 00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:59,280 Speaker 11: in not delivering sufficient water to the Palisades. Why, as 488 00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:03,520 Speaker 11: we know this Antenna's reservoir is I believe one hundred 489 00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:07,000 Speaker 11: and fifteen million gallons. There's the principal source of water 490 00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:12,840 Speaker 11: for that area. That reservoir was drained by the department 491 00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:16,920 Speaker 11: about a year ago. In all the meetings since then, 492 00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:21,720 Speaker 11: the Department CEO never reported as this commission regarding either 493 00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:24,400 Speaker 11: the reservoir, its status. 494 00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:27,760 Speaker 6: Or any effort to repair. What did you report on? 495 00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:34,680 Speaker 11: Well, I have here per comments made to this board 496 00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:38,600 Speaker 11: in November, and what happened to report. 497 00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:44,960 Speaker 10: We're about forty Kismanic and the organization and so that's 498 00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:50,520 Speaker 10: a huge number for our diversity metrics. LA's about forty 499 00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:54,800 Speaker 10: eight percent Latino, So we're getting close to representing the 500 00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:56,000 Speaker 10: communities that we're serving. 501 00:30:57,640 --> 00:31:05,680 Speaker 11: Sonine days later, the city burned out. Your director is 502 00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:12,000 Speaker 11: more interested in filling racial quotas than filling reservoirs, and 503 00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:15,520 Speaker 11: that was clear from her own comments to this commission. Now, 504 00:31:15,520 --> 00:31:19,520 Speaker 11: what is the Commission's responsibility in this? When you appointed 505 00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:23,240 Speaker 11: When you approve the appointment of Miss Cornonas to direct 506 00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:26,280 Speaker 11: the Department of Water and Power, you had not completed 507 00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:27,880 Speaker 11: her background check. 508 00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:29,640 Speaker 6: What would that check have shown. 509 00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:34,920 Speaker 11: Miss Cornonas, among her other positions, was placed in charge 510 00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:40,560 Speaker 11: of re electrification of Puerto Rico after the Hurricane Ria 511 00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:44,760 Speaker 11: one year after appointment, eighty percent of the island was 512 00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:49,280 Speaker 11: still without electricity. To this day, there are still blackouts 513 00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:52,360 Speaker 11: electricity on Puerto Rico. This is the legacy of Miss 514 00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:57,640 Speaker 11: Cornona's work. She went from there to pged E, which 515 00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:01,000 Speaker 11: we all know is a bankrupt utility down half the state, 516 00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:06,080 Speaker 11: and you appointed her as the director of the Department 517 00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:10,280 Speaker 11: of Water and Power at double the prior director's salary 518 00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:14,120 Speaker 11: and a housing allowance without completing any background check. 519 00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:16,840 Speaker 6: Now, let's talk about the reservoir. 520 00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:20,440 Speaker 11: I've looked at your agendas since Mss Quernonos was appointed. 521 00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:24,040 Speaker 11: The reservoir never came up once. You never discussed it, 522 00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:27,760 Speaker 11: even though it's a critical piece of infrastructure. 523 00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:30,040 Speaker 6: Let's look at history. 524 00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:33,640 Speaker 11: In twenty twenty one May, there was a major brush 525 00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:37,080 Speaker 11: fire in the Palisades, but the reservoir at that time 526 00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:40,680 Speaker 11: was full. It provided water and the fire was controlled. 527 00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:45,480 Speaker 11: There was very little structural damage. Why because there was 528 00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:49,959 Speaker 11: water this time there was no water without the reservoir. 529 00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:52,920 Speaker 11: The three tanks you have supplying the area, which I 530 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:56,360 Speaker 11: believe someone can crack them wrong, only a million gallons 531 00:32:56,400 --> 00:33:02,120 Speaker 11: each are insufficient for any emergency situation. You need one 532 00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:05,040 Speaker 11: hundred and eleven million gallons of water in the reservoir 533 00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:08,640 Speaker 11: in order to supply the area that was drained. It 534 00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:11,600 Speaker 11: was empty, there was no water, and your director never 535 00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:16,040 Speaker 11: reported to you this situation or its urgency, instead again 536 00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:19,560 Speaker 11: filling racial quotas instead of filling the reservoir. 537 00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:23,200 Speaker 6: Let's look at money. 538 00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:26,760 Speaker 11: The excuse given was that you needed some kind of 539 00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:29,400 Speaker 11: delay to get money together. I don't know, contract whatever 540 00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:31,880 Speaker 11: to fix some tear in the cover of the reservoir. 541 00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:36,040 Speaker 11: That cost was one hundred and forty thousand dollars. You 542 00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:39,760 Speaker 11: drained the reservoir in February, didn't even approve the contract, 543 00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:43,000 Speaker 11: not you, not the commission, but the DWP did not 544 00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:46,840 Speaker 11: even approve the contract to repair until November. It's a 545 00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:50,160 Speaker 11: gap of eight months. Reservoir was sitting empty all that time. 546 00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:55,320 Speaker 11: Costs of repairs only one hundred and forty thousand dollars. 547 00:33:56,160 --> 00:34:01,520 Speaker 11: That is less than one fifth of on a salary, 548 00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:04,120 Speaker 11: and you wouldn't pay it to repair the reservoir. I 549 00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:07,040 Speaker 11: get the water back online. What did you spend money 550 00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:09,520 Speaker 11: on during that time. Well, one of the things you 551 00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:15,400 Speaker 11: spent money on is you approved five million dollars due 552 00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:19,840 Speaker 11: as a board, you approved five million dollars to pay 553 00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:24,759 Speaker 11: to out of state colleges to transfer students from California 554 00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:29,319 Speaker 11: universities to out of state's colleges, including the alma mater 555 00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:33,279 Speaker 11: of one of your commissioners. Why are you paying five 556 00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:36,479 Speaker 11: million dollars to out of state colleges and you won't 557 00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:39,960 Speaker 11: pay one hundred thousand dollars to fix our reservoir. These 558 00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:46,840 Speaker 11: questions have to be answered. So until satisfactory explanation is 559 00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:50,719 Speaker 11: provided for these things, I suggest, and I call on 560 00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:53,799 Speaker 11: this board to at the very least put miss cornonus 561 00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:57,560 Speaker 11: on leave, unpaid leave. Take away your house that you're 562 00:34:57,560 --> 00:35:01,640 Speaker 11: paying for, and let it prove herself and she can 563 00:35:01,719 --> 00:35:04,960 Speaker 11: start or refully the reservoir, which, as I understand, the 564 00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:07,040 Speaker 11: sole empty. 565 00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:08,759 Speaker 6: So what is the explanation for this? 566 00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:11,680 Speaker 11: There's been no explanation offered to the people of Palisades 567 00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:15,760 Speaker 11: whose house is burned out. My neighbor on my street 568 00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:19,960 Speaker 11: was fighting to save his house until four o'clock that 569 00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:24,319 Speaker 11: afternoon when the water shut off. Why again, because the 570 00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:27,160 Speaker 11: reservoir was a thank you, your time has expired. 571 00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:30,480 Speaker 2: That's all you get at the end. Thank you, your 572 00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:33,960 Speaker 2: times expired. Well, we're going to talk to sayed Kashani 573 00:35:34,239 --> 00:35:38,000 Speaker 2: live on the phone coming up in just a few 574 00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:42,759 Speaker 2: minutes after Debora's news. It's it's it's just stunning. And 575 00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:47,279 Speaker 2: Janice Knonez is still in power, getting paying, getting paid 576 00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:50,120 Speaker 2: seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year, and now 577 00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:54,359 Speaker 2: there's a twenty four to seven LAPD detail protecting her 578 00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:58,080 Speaker 2: because she's getting a lot of threats. So the Jennie 579 00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:01,320 Speaker 2: Canon is cost to LA Tech expairs. This keeps growing 580 00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:04,480 Speaker 2: and growing, and the reservoir is still empty. And remember 581 00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:10,440 Speaker 2: when we we listened to Steve Soberoff, he says, well, 582 00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:13,040 Speaker 2: you know, there'll be a report, you know, in about 583 00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:15,680 Speaker 2: four or five months that'll explain, you know, why the 584 00:36:15,719 --> 00:36:20,239 Speaker 2: reservoir was empty, you know, and we're not going to 585 00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:22,000 Speaker 2: be talking it's political. We don't want to talk about 586 00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:24,439 Speaker 2: political stuff. That's the bus to know. They just want 587 00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:26,440 Speaker 2: to dismiss all this, they don't want to examine it. 588 00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:29,239 Speaker 2: We got to take a break. Debor Mark live the 589 00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:32,040 Speaker 2: KFI twenty for our newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to 590 00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:34,600 Speaker 2: the John Cobalt Show podcast. 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