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It's 18 00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:01,040 Speaker 1: from Kevin de Leone, Los Angeles City councilman who ran 19 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:03,880 Speaker 1: from mayor and failed, who tried to recite the pledge 20 00:01:03,880 --> 00:01:10,280 Speaker 1: of allegiance and failed. He's bemoaning the rude, inexcusable, immature, 21 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:16,240 Speaker 1: self absorbed behavior that has forced multiple closures of the 22 00:01:16,319 --> 00:01:20,399 Speaker 1: downtown Los Angeles sixth Street Bridge. He says people need 23 00:01:20,600 --> 00:01:26,200 Speaker 1: to act more mature. Apparently Friday afternoon, he spoke to reporters, 24 00:01:26,360 --> 00:01:28,920 Speaker 1: We're not going to allow a small group of individuals 25 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:32,960 Speaker 1: to taint the image of the city or the bridge itself, 26 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:37,560 Speaker 1: saying that nine of the folks who've experienced that bridge 27 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:40,440 Speaker 1: loved that bridge. It fills them with a sense of pride. 28 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:44,199 Speaker 1: They're over the moon on that bridge right there. Let's 29 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:47,360 Speaker 1: bring on Steve Gregory to talk about what LAPD has 30 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:50,280 Speaker 1: discovered and what they might be doing to try to 31 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:54,520 Speaker 1: clamp down on this behavior. Steve, Yeah, Hey, Ken, you know, 32 00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:59,680 Speaker 1: it's funny listening to talk about daileone's comments from last week. 33 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:03,080 Speaker 1: It's not a single group of people, this is multiple 34 00:02:03,160 --> 00:02:07,160 Speaker 1: groups of people. And he was trying to make a 35 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:09,959 Speaker 1: point of saying that these are outsiders coming in causing 36 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:12,399 Speaker 1: this run. Yeah. I keep hearing that one outsiders. Yeah, 37 00:02:12,440 --> 00:02:14,280 Speaker 1: and it doesn't I mean, it doesn't really matter at 38 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:17,840 Speaker 1: this point. I mean, their driver licenses say California, and 39 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:20,440 Speaker 1: they say to Los Angeles. It doesn't really matter if 40 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:21,760 Speaker 1: they're from one side of the bridge or the other 41 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:24,200 Speaker 1: side of the bridge. The issue is people are causing 42 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:28,560 Speaker 1: problems on this Sixth Street bridge, which connects Boiled Heights 43 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:32,280 Speaker 1: to downtown Los Angeles. And it opened and reopened, as 44 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:35,160 Speaker 1: everyone might know, in the beginning of July after a 45 00:02:35,639 --> 00:02:39,440 Speaker 1: five hundred eighty eight million dollar retro fit and remodel. 46 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:42,200 Speaker 1: Now the problem has been and it was something to 47 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:45,680 Speaker 1: completely caught LAPD off guard, and that was these people, 48 00:02:45,720 --> 00:02:51,040 Speaker 1: these vehicle takeovers and then these bizarre acts of like 49 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:54,280 Speaker 1: cutting someone's hair in the middle of the where the 50 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:57,520 Speaker 1: median would be, people standing up on the very top 51 00:02:57,560 --> 00:03:01,120 Speaker 1: of the arches, just all kinds of odd behavior and 52 00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:02,919 Speaker 1: it was a lot of it precipitated by in his 53 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:06,280 Speaker 1: daily and also mentioned that this is the first time 54 00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:10,679 Speaker 1: a bridge is opened in the social media era as 55 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:14,080 Speaker 1: of somehow that you know, we have to blame social media, 56 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:17,040 Speaker 1: but you know how people are, and they see somebody 57 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:19,200 Speaker 1: posting pictures of themselves up there, and someone's got to 58 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:21,240 Speaker 1: top that, want or do that, you know, do something 59 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:24,400 Speaker 1: one better. But a lot of people are going out 60 00:03:24,440 --> 00:03:27,640 Speaker 1: there imposing for pictures. It's now become this and it 61 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:30,240 Speaker 1: used to be an iconic landmark for people to make 62 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:32,840 Speaker 1: movies and TV shows and you know, it was an actual, 63 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:35,400 Speaker 1: you know, an artery into downtown LA. Now it's just 64 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:38,560 Speaker 1: turned into this sort of I don't know, this sort 65 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:41,720 Speaker 1: of iconic place to go wreak havoc. Going all the 66 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:44,120 Speaker 1: way back to July twenty second, when the bridge was 67 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:47,280 Speaker 1: first closed after it had opened, and it had to 68 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:50,640 Speaker 1: literally close it down because there were too many takeovers, 69 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:55,839 Speaker 1: too much criminal behavior protests on the bridge. They had, 70 00:03:56,640 --> 00:03:59,160 Speaker 1: they had issues with people climbing up the sides of 71 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:01,280 Speaker 1: the bridge, they had all kinds of stuff. They would 72 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:04,520 Speaker 1: have to close it down, which was completely unexpected. The 73 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:07,120 Speaker 1: LAPD now is having to put together of these task 74 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:11,680 Speaker 1: forces Operations Central Bureau along with Holembic Division are having 75 00:04:11,680 --> 00:04:15,520 Speaker 1: to put these traffic enforcement programs together. One of the 76 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:17,880 Speaker 1: first big ones happened yesterday from two pm to ten 77 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:22,640 Speaker 1: pm and in just that eight hour period, just in 78 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:26,880 Speaker 1: an eight hour period, fifty six traffic stops on the bridge, 79 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:32,560 Speaker 1: forty four citations issued, eleven warnings issued, four vehicles impounded, 80 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:36,080 Speaker 1: one arrested for having an ATV on the bridge and 81 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:40,240 Speaker 1: one arrested for another vehicle violation. Then they had to 82 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:42,040 Speaker 1: shut down the bridge for at least twenty minutes because 83 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:47,159 Speaker 1: a group of bicyclists and skateboarders overran the bridge and 84 00:04:47,279 --> 00:04:49,279 Speaker 1: it got out of control and the cops had to 85 00:04:49,279 --> 00:04:51,320 Speaker 1: close the bridge on both sides until those groups got 86 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:54,320 Speaker 1: over to the other side. So that's what's going on. Well, 87 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:57,960 Speaker 1: two to ten pm. They did this yesterday. Now, they 88 00:04:57,960 --> 00:05:00,200 Speaker 1: were clearly a presence there. They could they could be 89 00:05:00,279 --> 00:05:02,760 Speaker 1: seen the police on the bridge. But these people came 90 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:05,800 Speaker 1: anywhere to do their stunts, to have their stupid fun 91 00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:08,279 Speaker 1: and to make their videos. They came anyway to do 92 00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:13,200 Speaker 1: this stuff too. I'm looking at a report here that 93 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:16,600 Speaker 1: removal crews have cleaned up an average of one thousand, 94 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:19,719 Speaker 1: two hundred and forty four square feet of graffiti. Yeah, 95 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:22,960 Speaker 1: each day since the bridge opened. They're spending an an 96 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:24,720 Speaker 1: average of twenty one and a half hours a day 97 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:27,680 Speaker 1: at the bridge. It's almost a complete day, to the 98 00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:30,279 Speaker 1: tune of a little over seven hundred thousand dollars in 99 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:33,680 Speaker 1: costs to remove that graffiti. And this is money that 100 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:36,800 Speaker 1: was not budgeted for that, And this is something it 101 00:05:36,839 --> 00:05:39,000 Speaker 1: wasn't even open a month and they're having to deal 102 00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:41,800 Speaker 1: with this. I heard talk the other day. I heard 103 00:05:41,880 --> 00:05:43,880 Speaker 1: some of the cops saying that there had been the 104 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:48,640 Speaker 1: term toll bridge being bandied about. I'm not sure if 105 00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:51,760 Speaker 1: that's oh yeah, codfruition or not, but that was something 106 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:54,280 Speaker 1: that was being discussed. Perhaps they might be shutting it 107 00:05:54,279 --> 00:05:56,599 Speaker 1: down at certain times of the night, certain times of 108 00:05:56,640 --> 00:05:59,080 Speaker 1: the day, whatever the case is. But they're reaching a 109 00:05:59,160 --> 00:06:01,640 Speaker 1: point now where and here's the big problem, ken, is 110 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:05,440 Speaker 1: that the LAPD does not have the resources to be 111 00:06:05,880 --> 00:06:08,560 Speaker 1: assigning a bridge task force. Yeah, not at all. There's 112 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:10,559 Speaker 1: enough crime in this Yeah, they they can't have somebody 113 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:13,320 Speaker 1: just standing around a bridge all day. That's ridiculous. In 114 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:15,880 Speaker 1: in in shifts, you know, in revolving shifts. They can't 115 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:18,440 Speaker 1: afford the manpower to be standing over their watch and 116 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:22,000 Speaker 1: make sure people aren't you know, doing Can't they get 117 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:26,480 Speaker 1: some ambassadors, some bridge ambassadors. Maybe Metro can lend them 118 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:29,760 Speaker 1: some of theirs. Yes, that's exactly right, you know, that's 119 00:06:29,760 --> 00:06:31,680 Speaker 1: a good idea. I'm not really sure. The problem is 120 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:34,200 Speaker 1: is that some of these things have turned violent, like 121 00:06:34,279 --> 00:06:37,440 Speaker 1: these protests and unruly crowds, so when LAPD tried to 122 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:39,320 Speaker 1: shut it down at one time, or they did successfully 123 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:44,080 Speaker 1: shut it down, they received so much pushback from people 124 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:46,920 Speaker 1: saying that this was racist and that you know, the 125 00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:50,440 Speaker 1: LAPD shutting it down was stopping you know, a certain 126 00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:53,719 Speaker 1: class of people from being able to access downtown Los Angeles, 127 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:57,320 Speaker 1: and LAPD's like, this is a safety issue, This is 128 00:06:57,360 --> 00:07:00,360 Speaker 1: not a racist issue. Plus, we want to make sure 129 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:02,480 Speaker 1: the bridge stays where it is. It's if it's full 130 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:04,960 Speaker 1: of graffiti and people doing all sorts of stunts on it, 131 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:08,920 Speaker 1: something terrible is about to happen. People climbing up those archways, 132 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:12,080 Speaker 1: somebody's going to fall off. The two largest groups right now, 133 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:15,000 Speaker 1: they're most concerned with other these vehicle takeovers, which you know, 134 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:18,360 Speaker 1: obviously full sized vehicles going up there's doing wheels and 135 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:21,000 Speaker 1: driving on the opposite side of the lanes. That's the 136 00:07:21,080 --> 00:07:24,880 Speaker 1: number one concern right now. Safety concern, followed by groups 137 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:28,040 Speaker 1: of bicyclists and one of them, you know, on July 138 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:31,640 Speaker 1: twenty sixth, one of the bicyclists had shined a laser 139 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:35,560 Speaker 1: pointer into an officer's eye, causing some damage. Offered anything 140 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:38,480 Speaker 1: to a hospital, and then they've got you know, they're 141 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:42,360 Speaker 1: trying to put these ballards up, these speed bumps and 142 00:07:42,480 --> 00:07:45,520 Speaker 1: all this stuff is not going to stop criminal behavior. 143 00:07:45,960 --> 00:07:48,920 Speaker 1: It's just a matter of what level and what severity 144 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:51,400 Speaker 1: of criminal behavior will be allowed. Some of the things 145 00:07:51,480 --> 00:07:54,640 Speaker 1: I'm hearing is, and you probably saw the Late Times editorial, 146 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:56,320 Speaker 1: they want to shut it down to cars. They think 147 00:07:56,320 --> 00:08:01,120 Speaker 1: it should be a pedestrian only bridge. Anybody throwing that idea, Um, well, 148 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:03,040 Speaker 1: and they've talked about that as well. I mean, but 149 00:08:03,080 --> 00:08:05,800 Speaker 1: then that can that completely defeats the purpose of the 150 00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:09,360 Speaker 1: five hundred eighty eight million dollar investment in that bridge. 151 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:11,000 Speaker 1: And it's for people to walk up right. It was 152 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:13,400 Speaker 1: funny exactly if it was just going to be a 153 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:16,160 Speaker 1: pedestrian bridge, they probably could have saved a lot of money. 154 00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:18,680 Speaker 1: But I don't think people realize this was going to happen. 155 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:21,480 Speaker 1: I don't think anyone expected this behavior on a bridge, 156 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:24,200 Speaker 1: no less so now it's been about three weeks since 157 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:26,400 Speaker 1: it opened, it they think this is gonna peter out, 158 00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:28,080 Speaker 1: that people are gonna get tired of doing this, and 159 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:30,680 Speaker 1: I know it's not the same people, but eventually will 160 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:33,800 Speaker 1: exhaust the supply of idiots that wants to come and 161 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:36,360 Speaker 1: do something on the bridge. That could happen in a 162 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:38,880 Speaker 1: month or two until the next big shiny thing comes along, 163 00:08:39,280 --> 00:08:41,480 Speaker 1: you know, and LAPD is they're going to have to 164 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:43,760 Speaker 1: put a full court press on this, and they will. 165 00:08:43,800 --> 00:08:47,120 Speaker 1: They'll eventually crack down hard enough to where it'll be 166 00:08:47,160 --> 00:08:49,439 Speaker 1: the deterrent, and then what will happen most likely is 167 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:51,600 Speaker 1: it does in other cases. It's the same thing with 168 00:08:51,679 --> 00:08:54,920 Speaker 1: these takeovers that happened in the San Fernando Valley. You know, 169 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:57,360 Speaker 1: they'll they'll be they'll be quiet for a couple of weeks, 170 00:08:57,360 --> 00:08:59,160 Speaker 1: you won't hear anything about it, and then things will 171 00:08:59,200 --> 00:09:01,680 Speaker 1: die down off there, will be redeployed in other areas. 172 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:05,000 Speaker 1: Then boom, out of nowhere, they'll resurface. And that's the 173 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:06,880 Speaker 1: thing they're going to have to contend with unless there's 174 00:09:06,880 --> 00:09:08,600 Speaker 1: a way to put some sort of deterrent or some 175 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:13,599 Speaker 1: sort of mechanical uh, something more permanent or semipermanent on 176 00:09:13,679 --> 00:09:15,760 Speaker 1: the bridge. Yeah, that's they say when they were laughing 177 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:17,480 Speaker 1: about saying get told, but that you know that would 178 00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:19,680 Speaker 1: never fly because if if they had to pay the 179 00:09:19,679 --> 00:09:21,200 Speaker 1: people had to pay for boil hids to come over 180 00:09:21,240 --> 00:09:23,920 Speaker 1: to La downtown La and pay a toll that would 181 00:09:23,920 --> 00:09:27,520 Speaker 1: not fly. It reminds me of remember sometimes when clubs 182 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:29,520 Speaker 1: get the wrong riff raff coming in, so they start 183 00:09:29,520 --> 00:09:32,360 Speaker 1: to charge yeah, fee to come into the club. Yeah, 184 00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:34,160 Speaker 1: it's the same thing the riff raff off the bridge. 185 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:36,000 Speaker 1: We charge a toll. Maybe they will try to get 186 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:37,600 Speaker 1: on the bridge. Well, or if you're gonna do it 187 00:09:37,640 --> 00:09:39,640 Speaker 1: like the club, then you say, ladies are free till ten. 188 00:09:40,559 --> 00:09:44,080 Speaker 1: Right where you come up with some other crazy guys 189 00:09:44,080 --> 00:09:45,640 Speaker 1: are free till ten. I don't remember how it is, 190 00:09:45,640 --> 00:09:47,280 Speaker 1: you know, guys get in free till ten. I don't 191 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:49,559 Speaker 1: remember how co Did anybody say that this weekend was 192 00:09:49,640 --> 00:09:51,720 Speaker 1: better or worse than the previous couple of weekends? Is 193 00:09:51,720 --> 00:09:53,560 Speaker 1: it starting to slow down? Or I know they did 194 00:09:53,559 --> 00:09:55,680 Speaker 1: that big enforcement operation yesterday and they still ended a 195 00:09:55,679 --> 00:09:57,520 Speaker 1: lot of tickets. Yeah. I mean you kind of think 196 00:09:57,559 --> 00:10:00,000 Speaker 1: if you look back here and looking at the timeline 197 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:02,520 Speaker 1: line of all the different things that happened, Yeah, there 198 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:05,640 Speaker 1: you've had issues worth people. Ambulance had to be called 199 00:10:05,640 --> 00:10:11,280 Speaker 1: in two instances the vehicle takeovers. Two handguns that were 200 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:14,040 Speaker 1: recovered as a part of one of these takeovers. That 201 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:16,080 Speaker 1: was on July twenty third to eleven o'clock at night. 202 00:10:17,280 --> 00:10:19,720 Speaker 1: Let's see group of trucks. This one caught me off guard. 203 00:10:20,040 --> 00:10:22,600 Speaker 1: On the twenty fourth, at six pm, a large group 204 00:10:22,640 --> 00:10:26,640 Speaker 1: of trucks showed up on the bridge, impeding traffic, and 205 00:10:26,679 --> 00:10:28,760 Speaker 1: they were setting up for a street takeover, and then 206 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:30,560 Speaker 1: the cops had to end up shutting down the bridge. 207 00:10:30,679 --> 00:10:34,199 Speaker 1: Another vaccine protesting. What was that about. The trucks are 208 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:37,120 Speaker 1: back the trucks, yeah, the Semis eighteen wheelers. And then 209 00:10:37,760 --> 00:10:39,959 Speaker 1: now the other thing too that they were worried about 210 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:42,040 Speaker 1: is that the bridge was becoming sort of a focal 211 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:45,280 Speaker 1: point of people protesting other things like the abortion rights 212 00:10:45,280 --> 00:10:47,720 Speaker 1: issue and those kinds of things. So yeah, you wonder 213 00:10:47,760 --> 00:10:49,120 Speaker 1: when that's going to happen. I mean, they showed up 214 00:10:49,160 --> 00:10:50,920 Speaker 1: at the museum of the LA Museum of Art the 215 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:54,160 Speaker 1: other day. They're stupid anti abortion by pro abortion protesting. 216 00:10:54,520 --> 00:10:56,520 Speaker 1: It's not right. Won't be very long before they show 217 00:10:56,600 --> 00:10:58,120 Speaker 1: up on the bridge to do these kind of things. 218 00:10:58,440 --> 00:11:00,880 Speaker 1: All right, Steve, thank you very much. Take care. It's 219 00:11:00,920 --> 00:11:03,920 Speaker 1: Steve Gregory with a full report about what LAPD is 220 00:11:04,040 --> 00:11:07,720 Speaker 1: trying to do about the downtown Los Angeles sixth Street bridge, 221 00:11:07,920 --> 00:11:10,520 Speaker 1: which opened up just a few weeks ago and continues 222 00:11:10,559 --> 00:11:14,840 Speaker 1: to be a place full of questionable behavior. When I 223 00:11:14,880 --> 00:11:17,240 Speaker 1: come back, I'll talk a bit more about this, because 224 00:11:17,720 --> 00:11:19,880 Speaker 1: none other than the El Segundo time sent a couple 225 00:11:19,920 --> 00:11:23,400 Speaker 1: of writers to talk to people who believe that there's 226 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:27,120 Speaker 1: probably nothing wrong with this. It's our bridge, it's our neighborhood. 227 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:29,320 Speaker 1: More coming up here on the John and Ken Show 228 00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:32,360 Speaker 1: on KFI, as you've been hearing, and we will have 229 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:36,760 Speaker 1: Joe Biden taken over KFI around four thirty. He's going 230 00:11:36,840 --> 00:11:39,200 Speaker 1: to do it from the balcony of one of the 231 00:11:39,280 --> 00:11:42,800 Speaker 1: rooms in the White House because he's tested positive for 232 00:11:42,880 --> 00:11:45,640 Speaker 1: COVID again. You probably heard that story over the weekend. 233 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:49,600 Speaker 1: Joe apparently had taken that medication packs Loavid, and as 234 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:52,720 Speaker 1: we heard, in some cases not all after you stop 235 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:56,200 Speaker 1: taking the medication, you can end up testing positive for 236 00:11:56,240 --> 00:11:59,240 Speaker 1: COVID again because it's not completely out of your body, 237 00:11:59,280 --> 00:12:02,480 Speaker 1: the viral level still high enough to be detected in 238 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:06,960 Speaker 1: a test. So he's isolating, but he's going to appear 239 00:12:07,240 --> 00:12:11,960 Speaker 1: before the American people at four thirty to announce this 240 00:12:13,040 --> 00:12:17,280 Speaker 1: that they have once again killed the leader of al Qaeda. 241 00:12:17,679 --> 00:12:20,840 Speaker 1: Remember that strike. It was May of twenty eleven when 242 00:12:20,840 --> 00:12:24,800 Speaker 1: Osama bin Laden was taken out through a military operation. 243 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:29,079 Speaker 1: The announcement today is that his successor, his name is 244 00:12:29,120 --> 00:12:35,040 Speaker 1: Ayman al Zawahiri, was killed in a drone strike in Afghanistan. 245 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:38,560 Speaker 1: That's what Biden's going to talk about, because obviously it's 246 00:12:38,920 --> 00:12:41,720 Speaker 1: if it's true, it's a victory lap And the reason 247 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:46,040 Speaker 1: I said again is not because we've killed the leader 248 00:12:46,040 --> 00:12:48,600 Speaker 1: of al Qaeda twice, that being been Laden and alzur HEII. 249 00:12:48,960 --> 00:12:52,760 Speaker 1: They thought that Darhiri was already dead, but he showed 250 00:12:52,840 --> 00:12:57,680 Speaker 1: up in a video in the eleventh anniversary of Osama 251 00:12:57,760 --> 00:13:00,880 Speaker 1: bin Laden's death, which apparently was just a couple of 252 00:13:00,960 --> 00:13:04,640 Speaker 1: months ago, so then they weren't sure though. You know, 253 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:11,120 Speaker 1: with these videos, they could be new, they could be old. Apparently, Biden, 254 00:13:11,960 --> 00:13:15,199 Speaker 1: when we pulled out of Afghanistan last year it was 255 00:13:15,240 --> 00:13:18,800 Speaker 1: August thirty first to twenty twenty one, he said that 256 00:13:18,880 --> 00:13:22,280 Speaker 1: al Qaida was gone. But many believed now that the 257 00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:27,000 Speaker 1: Taliban was running Afghanistan, that some of these terrorist organizations 258 00:13:27,040 --> 00:13:31,720 Speaker 1: could revive themselves and become stronger again. And maybe that's 259 00:13:31,760 --> 00:13:34,280 Speaker 1: the reason that there was a planned mission to take 260 00:13:34,320 --> 00:13:37,160 Speaker 1: out this leader, because maybe they thought al Qaida might 261 00:13:37,160 --> 00:13:41,199 Speaker 1: get stronger again with Afghanistan being run by the Taliban. 262 00:13:41,800 --> 00:13:44,560 Speaker 1: Biden said last year, what interest do we have in 263 00:13:44,559 --> 00:13:47,640 Speaker 1: Afghanistan at this point with al Qaida gone? We went 264 00:13:47,679 --> 00:13:50,000 Speaker 1: to Afghanistan for the express purpose of getting rid of 265 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:52,760 Speaker 1: al Qaida in Afghanistan as well as well as well 266 00:13:52,800 --> 00:13:57,000 Speaker 1: as getting Osama bin Laden, and we did. But there 267 00:13:57,040 --> 00:14:00,200 Speaker 1: was a warning from the military last September the horror 268 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:03,280 Speaker 1: groups like al Qaeda can grow much faster because of 269 00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:07,240 Speaker 1: the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. So around four thirty KFI 270 00:14:07,360 --> 00:14:11,080 Speaker 1: will carry Biden's remarks at some sort of press conference 271 00:14:11,559 --> 00:14:15,200 Speaker 1: to announce a drone strike that has taken out I'm 272 00:14:15,280 --> 00:14:19,800 Speaker 1: on al Zarhiri Zawahiri? Who is And if you've ever 273 00:14:19,840 --> 00:14:22,240 Speaker 1: seen this guy's pictures have been around for years. He's 274 00:14:22,520 --> 00:14:26,400 Speaker 1: shown many times posing with Bin Laden. He's got the 275 00:14:26,440 --> 00:14:28,880 Speaker 1: long beard. I think they used to call him doct 276 00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:30,840 Speaker 1: or something. I remember hearing his name back in the 277 00:14:30,920 --> 00:14:34,280 Speaker 1: days of nine to eleven, but I may be wrong, 278 00:14:34,320 --> 00:14:36,600 Speaker 1: and maybe not the first time they thought they took 279 00:14:36,680 --> 00:14:40,520 Speaker 1: him out, So maybe this time for certain. We'll find 280 00:14:40,520 --> 00:14:43,600 Speaker 1: out more. In about an hour here on KFI, we're 281 00:14:43,600 --> 00:14:47,120 Speaker 1: talking about the downtown Los Angeles six Street Bridge, or 282 00:14:47,160 --> 00:14:51,080 Speaker 1: as they call it, the sixth Street Viaduct, which opened 283 00:14:51,400 --> 00:14:54,800 Speaker 1: a few weeks ago in July, and ever since then, 284 00:14:54,880 --> 00:14:59,760 Speaker 1: particularly on weekends, it's been the scene of takeovers, cars 285 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:04,000 Speaker 1: do when donuts, people doing stunts, making videos, and of course, 286 00:15:04,160 --> 00:15:07,520 Speaker 1: really the worst of all is the graffiti, which has 287 00:15:07,560 --> 00:15:10,240 Speaker 1: cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to clean up. Already 288 00:15:11,320 --> 00:15:14,080 Speaker 1: the bridge is probably already looking disgusting. If you look 289 00:15:14,120 --> 00:15:15,640 Speaker 1: at the overhead shot, you can see where all the 290 00:15:15,680 --> 00:15:19,320 Speaker 1: donuts had made, all the skid marks on the roadway 291 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:22,280 Speaker 1: there the archers look nice. Imagine it's a nice looking bridge, 292 00:15:22,280 --> 00:15:25,440 Speaker 1: but it's a bridge. So here's what I'm trying to 293 00:15:25,480 --> 00:15:28,040 Speaker 1: tell you. The fact that you know, the Times did 294 00:15:28,080 --> 00:15:31,680 Speaker 1: this story. What day was it was last Thursday? It's 295 00:15:31,720 --> 00:15:36,320 Speaker 1: our bridge. A night of selfies, modelos, cops, dogs and 296 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:39,800 Speaker 1: a cat on the six Street Viaduct. The point that's 297 00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:42,360 Speaker 1: being made by the two writers here for the El 298 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:46,040 Speaker 1: Segundo Times is that people consider the bridge an extension 299 00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:49,280 Speaker 1: of their neighborhood. So to them, it's like a park. 300 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:52,000 Speaker 1: It's a place where they want to go and hang out, 301 00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:54,560 Speaker 1: and like every place else, there's going to be people 302 00:15:54,600 --> 00:15:58,600 Speaker 1: doing crazy things, right, you know, it'll go all the 303 00:15:58,600 --> 00:16:02,480 Speaker 1: way from just people partyings, smoking pot and drinking beer 304 00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:06,000 Speaker 1: to people doing donuts and people trying to do stunts 305 00:16:06,040 --> 00:16:08,680 Speaker 1: on the bridge. But I look at this and I 306 00:16:08,720 --> 00:16:12,640 Speaker 1: think people really don't have enough to do. I realize 307 00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:15,960 Speaker 1: that we're in the social media era where people love 308 00:16:16,040 --> 00:16:19,880 Speaker 1: the idea of trying to put a video on social 309 00:16:19,920 --> 00:16:22,400 Speaker 1: media and getting a lot of likes and isn't that cool? 310 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:25,240 Speaker 1: And would you like to one up me? But it 311 00:16:25,280 --> 00:16:28,920 Speaker 1: goes beyond that because not everybody's on this bridge making videos. 312 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:33,400 Speaker 1: It's just like sad that people would gravitate to a bridge. 313 00:16:33,880 --> 00:16:36,000 Speaker 1: I know it's new, it's a novelty. It's like the 314 00:16:36,040 --> 00:16:39,480 Speaker 1: new restaurant that opens in town. Everybody wants to go 315 00:16:39,560 --> 00:16:43,120 Speaker 1: to see what it is because it's it's this new gift, 316 00:16:43,840 --> 00:16:48,240 Speaker 1: this new shiny thing. But the story in the Elsa 317 00:16:48,280 --> 00:16:53,000 Speaker 1: Gondo Times just talks about these people and we're connecting. 318 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:56,560 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they talked to a a drummer. He goes 319 00:16:56,640 --> 00:16:59,280 Speaker 1: up there and beats the drums. I'm connecting with something, 320 00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:03,320 Speaker 1: the stars, the elements, the music gods, the drums from Africa. 321 00:17:03,680 --> 00:17:06,200 Speaker 1: He's an amateur drummer by the name of Jeff Jackson. 322 00:17:07,840 --> 00:17:09,959 Speaker 1: He says, I'm not into the audience part because then 323 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:12,719 Speaker 1: you lose the intent. If they like it, cool, but 324 00:17:12,760 --> 00:17:15,600 Speaker 1: it's more about your own experience. I don't need attention. 325 00:17:15,880 --> 00:17:19,600 Speaker 1: I just want to play for the bridge Hotly mackerel. 326 00:17:20,960 --> 00:17:25,080 Speaker 1: That's really bizarre and sad that a freaking bridge as 327 00:17:25,160 --> 00:17:28,080 Speaker 1: god people, What I'm thinking is that they just don't 328 00:17:28,119 --> 00:17:33,040 Speaker 1: have enough in their lives to keep them busy. I mean, 329 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:35,600 Speaker 1: you know, even go out and go for a run, 330 00:17:36,119 --> 00:17:39,080 Speaker 1: or go for a bike ride somewhere else, or you know, 331 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:42,840 Speaker 1: go hit a golf ball, or go shoot a basketball, 332 00:17:43,280 --> 00:17:45,600 Speaker 1: go do something with your friends, go read a book. 333 00:17:46,280 --> 00:17:48,679 Speaker 1: You have to all pile up on the bridge to 334 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:53,240 Speaker 1: be seen and to make a spectacle of everything. I honestly, 335 00:17:53,680 --> 00:17:57,040 Speaker 1: I don't understand this kind of personality. All Right, We 336 00:17:57,119 --> 00:17:59,120 Speaker 1: got more coming up here on the John and Ken 337 00:17:59,160 --> 00:18:02,760 Speaker 1: Show on KF Big Story this afternoon, and we're going 338 00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:04,960 Speaker 1: to hear more about it in about an hour from 339 00:18:04,960 --> 00:18:07,680 Speaker 1: Old Joe himself from the balcony at the White House, 340 00:18:08,080 --> 00:18:11,000 Speaker 1: the Blue Balcony. I think it's called because he's in isolation. 341 00:18:11,560 --> 00:18:14,040 Speaker 1: It's got the rebound case of COVID nineteen. Yes, the 342 00:18:14,080 --> 00:18:16,560 Speaker 1: Blue Room balcony of the White House at about seven 343 00:18:16,640 --> 00:18:20,480 Speaker 1: thirty pm Eastern, four thirty hard time. That apparently a 344 00:18:20,560 --> 00:18:23,199 Speaker 1: military operation, the US air strike has taken out the 345 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:26,920 Speaker 1: current al Qaida leader. Well, it's really only the second 346 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:31,200 Speaker 1: one took over for Bin Laden. I'm on al Zawahiri. 347 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:35,320 Speaker 1: It happened in Afghanistan over the weekend. So I don't 348 00:18:35,359 --> 00:18:37,480 Speaker 1: know what's left of al Qaida or how effective they are, 349 00:18:38,040 --> 00:18:40,640 Speaker 1: but I guess the theory was we better rub them 350 00:18:40,640 --> 00:18:42,800 Speaker 1: out or rub their leader out before they start to 351 00:18:42,840 --> 00:18:45,520 Speaker 1: get stronger again in a country that is run by 352 00:18:45,560 --> 00:18:49,359 Speaker 1: the Taliban. So we'll hear more about that from Joe 353 00:18:49,760 --> 00:18:53,800 Speaker 1: after four o'clock. That horrible fire up in northern California 354 00:18:53,920 --> 00:18:58,280 Speaker 1: southern Oregon. It is the largest wildfire so far in 355 00:18:58,320 --> 00:19:03,679 Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, affecting California residence. Alex Stone has the 356 00:19:03,840 --> 00:19:08,920 Speaker 1: details on that and other fires affecting the Western States 357 00:19:08,960 --> 00:19:13,760 Speaker 1: coming up at four o'clock. Deborah Mark. Apparently the dog 358 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:17,160 Speaker 1: adoption at Dodger Stadium was a hit. I know, isn't 359 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:23,560 Speaker 1: that awesome? Nearly a hundred dogs found homes Dodger Stadium 360 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:27,399 Speaker 1: was opened for a few hours on Saturday for people 361 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:31,080 Speaker 1: to come and take home. But dog Now, it wasn't free. 362 00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:33,840 Speaker 1: It cost fifty dollars and you did have to have 363 00:19:33,960 --> 00:19:36,480 Speaker 1: them spade or neutered and all the other rules that 364 00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:39,040 Speaker 1: come with that. But it was the first ever pet 365 00:19:39,040 --> 00:19:43,000 Speaker 1: adoption event at Dodger Stadium. They're calling it a big success, 366 00:19:43,680 --> 00:19:47,119 Speaker 1: a hundred dogs. So there you go. I'm so happy 367 00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:49,840 Speaker 1: to hear that that's one hundred down at about ten. 368 00:19:51,359 --> 00:19:53,440 Speaker 1: I know, what do you think the number of unclaimed 369 00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:55,480 Speaker 1: dogs is in La County? Have any idea what that 370 00:19:55,520 --> 00:19:58,040 Speaker 1: would be. I don't know how many of the shelters hold. 371 00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:01,480 Speaker 1: I was watching I was watching the Saturday morning news 372 00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:03,480 Speaker 1: and they have a feature where they have a dog 373 00:20:03,520 --> 00:20:05,960 Speaker 1: that they want somebody to adopt. And the woman was 374 00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:08,399 Speaker 1: standing there with this big black dog, and that's what 375 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:11,000 Speaker 1: they were saying, because he was big. People don't want 376 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:13,439 Speaker 1: to take the big dogs. I love big dogs. I 377 00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:15,280 Speaker 1: just don't have a yard for a big dog. But 378 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:17,680 Speaker 1: I think the dog big dog, no because I don't 379 00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:19,520 Speaker 1: have a yard for it. But if I did have 380 00:20:19,720 --> 00:20:21,920 Speaker 1: a big yard, I'd love to have a big dog. 381 00:20:23,320 --> 00:20:28,440 Speaker 1: All right. Now, this update and this was fantastic news 382 00:20:28,440 --> 00:20:30,399 Speaker 1: over the weekend. For those of you who listen to 383 00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:32,600 Speaker 1: the show for any amount of time, you know that 384 00:20:32,680 --> 00:20:35,800 Speaker 1: one after another, we've had the worst mayors in Los Angeles. 385 00:20:36,720 --> 00:20:40,360 Speaker 1: I mean, you have to go back many years to 386 00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:43,160 Speaker 1: find anybody that was competent enough to run the city 387 00:20:43,160 --> 00:20:45,240 Speaker 1: of la and fix the problems. They just get worse 388 00:20:45,359 --> 00:20:49,080 Speaker 1: one after another. Richard Reardon, of course, was the mayor 389 00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:52,680 Speaker 1: from nineteen ninety three to two thousand and one, and 390 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:54,760 Speaker 1: it looked like we had come a long way. It 391 00:20:54,840 --> 00:20:57,840 Speaker 1: was also that period of the nineties where crime was 392 00:20:57,840 --> 00:21:01,359 Speaker 1: out of control, particularly gang crime, and thanks to laws 393 00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:04,919 Speaker 1: passed in the state of California, things began to recede. 394 00:21:05,359 --> 00:21:08,359 Speaker 1: By the time Richard Reardon finished his term in office, 395 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:11,840 Speaker 1: he was followed by a dud named James Hahn, then 396 00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:14,800 Speaker 1: Tony Vlaar, and now the man that has been mayor 397 00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:20,480 Speaker 1: for nine freaking years, Eric Garcetti. We're supposed to say 398 00:21:20,520 --> 00:21:22,439 Speaker 1: goodbye to him, and we will. There will be a 399 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:25,280 Speaker 1: new mayor elected in November, but we're supposed to say 400 00:21:25,280 --> 00:21:27,879 Speaker 1: goodbye to him from the City of LA as he 401 00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:32,640 Speaker 1: takes off for his new job as ambassador to India. 402 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:34,920 Speaker 1: But as you know if you've been following the saga, 403 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:37,600 Speaker 1: he has not been confirmed by the US Senate. He 404 00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:39,960 Speaker 1: got passed a committee, but the full Senate has not 405 00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:44,360 Speaker 1: voted on his nomination yet, so he's stuck in limbo. Well, 406 00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:47,399 Speaker 1: the update from the El Segundo Times and something they 407 00:21:47,480 --> 00:21:52,640 Speaker 1: call la on the record, Dakota Smith and Ben Orescues 408 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:56,760 Speaker 1: did an update on the Garcetti story, and it's quite revealing. 409 00:21:57,600 --> 00:22:01,320 Speaker 1: Apparently the Senate is going to go on recess next week. 410 00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:04,800 Speaker 1: They do come back in September, but they probably have 411 00:22:05,760 --> 00:22:07,719 Speaker 1: very much a lot of big things to deal with. 412 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:10,800 Speaker 1: You've probably been hearing about this big climate bill that 413 00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:14,480 Speaker 1: Biden finally got Senator Joe Mansion on board with. That 414 00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:18,080 Speaker 1: includes tax hikes and corporations and the wealthy, and it's 415 00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:21,320 Speaker 1: supposedly a big victory from the Biden administration. So they're 416 00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:25,399 Speaker 1: gonna be focusing on that. And the thinking is that 417 00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:29,960 Speaker 1: the Senate majority leader for the Democrats, Chuck Schumer, will 418 00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:34,399 Speaker 1: he take up the vote next week or will he 419 00:22:34,520 --> 00:22:38,360 Speaker 1: wait until they come back in September. It says here 420 00:22:38,359 --> 00:22:42,359 Speaker 1: that Schumer is less likely to schedule controversial votes and 421 00:22:42,560 --> 00:22:47,040 Speaker 1: not ones where an I from every Democrat isn't assured. 422 00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:51,240 Speaker 1: So here's the stunner in the story. We've told you 423 00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:55,440 Speaker 1: that Garcetti has been going to Washington, DC to lobby 424 00:22:55,960 --> 00:23:00,159 Speaker 1: for his ambassador's position because it's definitely in doubt, and 425 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:03,560 Speaker 1: it looks like he's been visiting Republicans. He's trying to 426 00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:07,840 Speaker 1: find anybody that would support him. But there's a report 427 00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:11,640 Speaker 1: that during his trip last week, he attended the Congressional 428 00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:16,040 Speaker 1: Hispanic Caucus's business meeting was the group put out a statement. 429 00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:19,600 Speaker 1: The statement noted its full support for Garcetti for the 430 00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:23,920 Speaker 1: post to India and included a photo showing the mayor 431 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:28,640 Speaker 1: smiling alongside the group's chairman, who was Congressman Raoul Ruiz 432 00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:32,960 Speaker 1: from Coachella. The Hispanic Caucus is largely comprised of lawmakers 433 00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:36,639 Speaker 1: in the House, so they have no formal role in 434 00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:40,600 Speaker 1: the Senate confirmed positions such as the ambassadorship, so that 435 00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:43,680 Speaker 1: was merely for show. Who knows why, or maybe Garcetti 436 00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:44,840 Speaker 1: just thought this is a good thing for me to 437 00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:49,440 Speaker 1: do because I am going to run for president again someday. Yeah, right, Anyway, 438 00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:57,240 Speaker 1: A Congressman from Santa Barbara Salute Carbajal did not attend 439 00:23:57,240 --> 00:23:59,720 Speaker 1: the meeting, but told The Times he briefly bumped into 440 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:03,119 Speaker 1: Garca Seti at a social event last week. In addition 441 00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:07,480 Speaker 1: to Garcetti talking about his work for La Carba, Hall recalled, 442 00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:12,280 Speaker 1: we chatted about his confirmation. What that's looking like, and 443 00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:14,840 Speaker 1: by all accounts, I think there seems to be a 444 00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:18,720 Speaker 1: positive path forward for the most part. In recent weeks, 445 00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:20,880 Speaker 1: the mayor has been spotted by reporters at the White 446 00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:24,520 Speaker 1: House and trapsing around the Capital complex, and it does 447 00:24:24,560 --> 00:24:27,520 Speaker 1: sound like Garcetti trapsing around like tiptoe through the tulips. 448 00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:31,840 Speaker 1: The Senate Foreign Relations Committee advanced Garcetti's nomination in January, 449 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:35,879 Speaker 1: and then The Times reported in May, but several Democrats 450 00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:41,000 Speaker 1: are hesitant over backing Garcetti, suggesting by partisans support would 451 00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:44,240 Speaker 1: be necessary to get his nomination across the finish line. 452 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:49,040 Speaker 1: You all know by now that this deals with Garcetti's 453 00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:51,960 Speaker 1: former top aid, a man by the name of Rick Jacobs, 454 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:55,560 Speaker 1: who was accused of sexually harassing employees in the Mayor's 455 00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:59,119 Speaker 1: office and also including his lapd bodyguard, which is a 456 00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:04,320 Speaker 1: subject of a lawsuit. Garsetti's involved because he's denied having 457 00:25:04,359 --> 00:25:07,080 Speaker 1: any knowledge of this or seeing any of this, and 458 00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:09,879 Speaker 1: there are a number of aids to the mayor's office. 459 00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:12,439 Speaker 1: Most of the former aids now because you're not going 460 00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:15,960 Speaker 1: to stay round long if you don't tow the line 461 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:18,359 Speaker 1: with Garsetti. But a number of them have said that 462 00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:22,160 Speaker 1: he indeed saw what was happening, knew what was happening. 463 00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:28,040 Speaker 1: So Senator Tim Caine, Democrat Virginia, remember him, Hillary Clinton's 464 00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:31,440 Speaker 1: running mate, told The Times on Wednesday that there's an 465 00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:34,879 Speaker 1: effort to appeal to Republicans who could support Garcetti on 466 00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:37,880 Speaker 1: the Senate floor. He then added, though I've got nothing 467 00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:42,359 Speaker 1: to report on the status of the nomination. The mayor 468 00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:44,879 Speaker 1: declined to say which Republicans he was courting, saying I 469 00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:47,680 Speaker 1: have been open and excited to talk to all, whether 470 00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:52,400 Speaker 1: they're Democrat or Republican senators. When The Times reported Dakota 471 00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:55,639 Speaker 1: Smith asked whether it was now or never for his nomination, 472 00:25:56,440 --> 00:25:59,880 Speaker 1: Garcetti gave the usual response, I'm just focused right now 473 00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:03,720 Speaker 1: being mayor. That's my job. The meetings I took, I 474 00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:08,360 Speaker 1: wasn't in DC on this issue. I took three different meetings, 475 00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:12,960 Speaker 1: he said, about transportation, COVID nineteen and the summit of 476 00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:17,119 Speaker 1: the Americas. When the reporter pointed out that will you 477 00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:20,120 Speaker 1: all summed up with the Hispanic Caucus and said you're 478 00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:23,720 Speaker 1: not being truthful, Garcetti walked away. Look at that. That's 479 00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:26,639 Speaker 1: a big deal for the Elsagondo Times to report that 480 00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:30,160 Speaker 1: that Garcetti basically lied. He didn't include all the meetings 481 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:33,159 Speaker 1: that he took, and who knows the Hispanic Caucus he 482 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:35,159 Speaker 1: was probably trying, even though they're in the house. He 483 00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:37,880 Speaker 1: was probably trying to see if they could help him 484 00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:41,320 Speaker 1: get through to some senators to get his nomination passed. 485 00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:45,680 Speaker 1: The mayor was seen last week with Brilin Pete. That's 486 00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:49,640 Speaker 1: the lobbyists hired by Garcetti's parents, Suki and gil Garcetti, 487 00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:53,480 Speaker 1: to advocate for his nomination. The lobbying firm where she 488 00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:57,200 Speaker 1: works reported thirty thousand dollars an income during the second 489 00:26:57,240 --> 00:27:01,240 Speaker 1: quarter tied to Garcetti's parents. So now we know in 490 00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:04,400 Speaker 1: just one quarter how much money they have spent. These 491 00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:08,960 Speaker 1: two people are elderly, they're retired. What is Gilgarcetti still 492 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:11,480 Speaker 1: just doing photographs? Is he selling them? Does he have 493 00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:15,200 Speaker 1: a big pension? They put up thirty thousand dollars to 494 00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:18,960 Speaker 1: try to get his son to be ambassador to India. 495 00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:21,639 Speaker 1: The firm did lobby the White House, the Senate, and 496 00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:25,760 Speaker 1: the House, according to the firm's filings. The League of 497 00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:29,040 Speaker 1: Conservation Voters also reported that it lobbied for Garcetti's India 498 00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:33,959 Speaker 1: post in the second quarter. So that's two groups that 499 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:37,440 Speaker 1: are lobbying for Garcetti to get to India. Now here's 500 00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:42,680 Speaker 1: an interesting stat Right now, ninety five of Biden's ambassador 501 00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:46,880 Speaker 1: nominees have been confirmed. Garcetti is one of thirty four 502 00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:51,280 Speaker 1: nominations still being stuck, according to something called the Partnership 503 00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:55,359 Speaker 1: for Public Service. So that's a sizeable percentage of ambassador 504 00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:58,720 Speaker 1: nominees have been confirmed. Garcetti's on a smaller list of 505 00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:02,119 Speaker 1: those who are at uck. If it doesn't happen by 506 00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:06,359 Speaker 1: the time they take recess next week, they'll be gone 507 00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:10,200 Speaker 1: till after Labor Day, and by then they'll be thinking 508 00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:12,840 Speaker 1: about the coming elections. They'll be thinking about getting some 509 00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:17,400 Speaker 1: bills passed. It's very possible that Garciti goes bye bye, 510 00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:21,600 Speaker 1: and maybe somebody in the Biden administration decided, oh, the 511 00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:26,800 Speaker 1: India ambassadorship isn't that important that we can't push for 512 00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:30,120 Speaker 1: someone else right now, and tell GARCTI it's over, so, 513 00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:32,520 Speaker 1: you know, let him do this thing, let him lobby people. 514 00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:36,360 Speaker 1: Who knows, Maybe he'll he'll get lucky, all right, Moore 515 00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:38,440 Speaker 1: coming up here on the John and Ken Show on 516 00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:41,680 Speaker 1: kf I Am six forty well with Alex Stone, ABC 517 00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:45,280 Speaker 1: News for KFI, coming on the show at four oh 518 00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:48,680 Speaker 1: five to talk about this fire that is burning in 519 00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:52,719 Speaker 1: northern California, pretty much up there near the Oregon border, 520 00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:57,600 Speaker 1: Sisku County. It's consumed more than fifty five thousand acres. 521 00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:02,040 Speaker 1: It is California's largest fire. Why fire so far in 522 00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:06,120 Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, and the bad news two people were 523 00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:11,160 Speaker 1: found dead inside a burned out car. He'll have all 524 00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:15,840 Speaker 1: the details in this and other fires affecting the Northwest. 525 00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:20,040 Speaker 1: Coming up after the news at four o'clock at four thirty. 526 00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:23,200 Speaker 1: As we said, if you haven't heard, we're going to 527 00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:28,000 Speaker 1: have Joe Biden taken over the KFI airwaves to give 528 00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:32,400 Speaker 1: more details on this US military operation. Looks like it 529 00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:36,120 Speaker 1: was a drone strike that took out the leader of 530 00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:40,560 Speaker 1: al Qaeda. There's a throwback for you. Yes, the leader 531 00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:44,400 Speaker 1: of al Qaeda, that is Osama bin Laden's group. They're 532 00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:46,880 Speaker 1: still around you don't hear about him much anymore, and 533 00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:50,080 Speaker 1: then you don't hear much about Isis either, But these 534 00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:54,760 Speaker 1: terrorist groups still exist. His name is Ayman al Zahiri, 535 00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:58,120 Speaker 1: and he was killed in a CIA drone strike over 536 00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:02,320 Speaker 1: the weekend. So Joe, who's still isolating due to another 537 00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:06,480 Speaker 1: positive COVID test, what they call COVID rebound, after he 538 00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:10,680 Speaker 1: took medication to treat it, we'll still be speaking from 539 00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:13,480 Speaker 1: the Blue Room balcony, and we'll have that way on 540 00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:17,480 Speaker 1: KFI whenever it starts sometime around four thirty. Let's getting 541 00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:19,320 Speaker 1: late for Joe, so I imagine he'll be quick to 542 00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:23,480 Speaker 1: get out there and wrap it up pretty quickly. I 543 00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:27,160 Speaker 1: move over to the vegan lady. This story I thought 544 00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:29,840 Speaker 1: of you, but I was a little bit confused by it. 545 00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:35,080 Speaker 1: Apparently the Los Angeles School District has decided to go healthy, 546 00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:39,480 Speaker 1: but when you actually read the story, it's hard to 547 00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:42,480 Speaker 1: figure out where that is. And then I started to 548 00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:46,280 Speaker 1: look at the details and I thought, Okay, now I 549 00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:49,920 Speaker 1: know why they're doing this. As you know, one of 550 00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:52,480 Speaker 1: the most dreaded things for kids who go to school 551 00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:58,080 Speaker 1: is to eat the school cafeteria meal. Personally never bothered me, 552 00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:00,760 Speaker 1: but you know, no offense. My mother wasn't the best cook, 553 00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:05,200 Speaker 1: so therefore I didn't I didn't find the food gormand, 554 00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:08,000 Speaker 1: but I never really objected to it, and I used 555 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:12,000 Speaker 1: to eat it pretty much every day, whatever sludge they 556 00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:14,840 Speaker 1: were putting out. So when I saw the headline of 557 00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:19,560 Speaker 1: this story, it's like, well, what about smoothies, m berries? 558 00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:25,160 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, ramen? How healthy ramen is? It's pretty salty. Oh, 559 00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:30,360 Speaker 1: I get vegan ramen. It's delicious with kale noodles. Yeah, 560 00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:34,200 Speaker 1: but why wouldn't ram Ramen isn't vegan to begin with? 561 00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:37,360 Speaker 1: Or well, because it's it doesn't have chicken broth or 562 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:41,000 Speaker 1: beef broth. Oh, they're right, they do put their base 563 00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:44,800 Speaker 1: or pork broth. Whatever I and I get, I get 564 00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:48,480 Speaker 1: it with coconut milk and uh sometimes kale noodles. It's 565 00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:51,760 Speaker 1: really yummy. You're missing out. But before I looked into 566 00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:56,280 Speaker 1: this story too long, turkey hamond cheese, clissants for breakfast, 567 00:31:57,080 --> 00:32:02,520 Speaker 1: Nashville Hot chicken tenders, honey biscuits, meatball sub sandwiches, and 568 00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:07,360 Speaker 1: I'm like, wait a minute, that's not healthy, not necessarily, 569 00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:11,440 Speaker 1: So I didn't really understand that. But then as you 570 00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:15,040 Speaker 1: read along. In the article you find out why, you know, 571 00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:18,080 Speaker 1: what kids were doing instead because they didn't like the 572 00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:22,840 Speaker 1: school meals, reaching into their backpacks and eating flaming hot cheetos. 573 00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:30,080 Speaker 1: They were pretty much just eating junk snack food, candy bars, 574 00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:38,600 Speaker 1: potato chips, tortilla chips. So the schools decided, well, if 575 00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:41,400 Speaker 1: we try to go too far in the other direction 576 00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:46,080 Speaker 1: and just give them vegan food, kale and oh god 577 00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:49,280 Speaker 1: of avocados, what they're doing instead is just trying to 578 00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:53,800 Speaker 1: give them something more substantive, and that would explain. I 579 00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:58,080 Speaker 1: guess the turkey, ham and cheese croissants because of croissant. Man. 580 00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:01,479 Speaker 1: I mean, that's a that's full of calories right there, 581 00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:02,840 Speaker 1: and I don't think it say it's full of butter. 582 00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:06,440 Speaker 1: You can get them vegan. I had one over the weekend. 583 00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:09,040 Speaker 1: Then it's not a croissant, Yes it is. No, what 584 00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:11,720 Speaker 1: makes a quissant special is the fact that the butter 585 00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:14,360 Speaker 1: makes it very tasty and it gets the right crunch 586 00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:17,000 Speaker 1: to it. Okay, ken, I will have to bring you 587 00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:21,000 Speaker 1: one of these days some vegan croissants that I'll know 588 00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:23,600 Speaker 1: the difference. I don't know if you would actually yeah, 589 00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:26,320 Speaker 1: you say that everybody every time, because you're gonna know 590 00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:29,240 Speaker 1: for sure if I bring you one. So it's your head. 591 00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:31,400 Speaker 1: The last time you gave me something vegan, it was 592 00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:34,760 Speaker 1: a chocolate chip cookie. It was a freaking hockey puck. No, okay, 593 00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:37,280 Speaker 1: I could not chew it. I had to sit here 594 00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:39,120 Speaker 1: and smash it with my hand before I could eat 595 00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:41,360 Speaker 1: a piece. It got stale while it was way. Your 596 00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:44,680 Speaker 1: mouth wasn't bad. No, you put it to work one day, 597 00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:47,760 Speaker 1: right from the supermarket. Okay, Well, there are others that 598 00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:50,600 Speaker 1: are that are very I'm saying the taste wasn't bad, 599 00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:52,600 Speaker 1: but it was hard, as I couldn't believe how hard 600 00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:57,800 Speaker 1: it was it was to break a part um. Here's 601 00:33:57,840 --> 00:34:03,080 Speaker 1: the usual statistics. Eighty percent of students in LA Unified 602 00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:06,880 Speaker 1: are from low income families, and as only the times 603 00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:11,239 Speaker 1: we've put it grapple with food insecurity parents, long work 604 00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:15,160 Speaker 1: schedules can be an additional challenge for preparing meals, let 605 00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:19,640 Speaker 1: alone healthful ones. So every day in LA Unified they 606 00:34:19,640 --> 00:34:23,000 Speaker 1: serve more than three hundred thousand breakfasts, two hundred and 607 00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:27,560 Speaker 1: eighty five thousand lunches, and seventy thousand early dinners. Man, 608 00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:29,239 Speaker 1: you think about that when I went to school, the 609 00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:33,320 Speaker 1: only thing there was was lunch, and nobody served breakfast, 610 00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:35,839 Speaker 1: and certainly there wasn't early dinners. What time is that 611 00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:40,040 Speaker 1: thirty when they get done at school? Wow? One hundred 612 00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:43,160 Speaker 1: and eighty million dollars a year. And we've talked before 613 00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:46,080 Speaker 1: about how they actually have giveaways where you can drive 614 00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:49,919 Speaker 1: through and pick up food. This is what happens when 615 00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:54,840 Speaker 1: you build the state that relies on basically low wage 616 00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:59,400 Speaker 1: illegal immigrant, unskilled labor. The families can't support themselves, so 617 00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:01,319 Speaker 1: you have to come up with programs to feed them, 618 00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:03,920 Speaker 1: take care of their basic needs. We drove out the 619 00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:07,000 Speaker 1: middle class. All we have left is the very very wealthy, 620 00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:10,200 Speaker 1: and the next tier down and then the bottom tier. 621 00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:16,279 Speaker 1: During thirteen months of pandemic food for school closures, LA 622 00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:19,960 Speaker 1: Unified offered yet is the grab and go food for takers. 623 00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:23,319 Speaker 1: But now what they're trying to figure out is it 624 00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:26,080 Speaker 1: a way to get kids to eat. They keep calling 625 00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:32,480 Speaker 1: them nutritious, healthy food options. Cinnamon rolls. You like cinnamon rolls, 626 00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:37,360 Speaker 1: I do, that's but that's not that's kind of junk food. 627 00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:44,440 Speaker 1: Cinnamon depends on your icing, and well, I don't think 628 00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:47,279 Speaker 1: in this article they're doing them vegan or gluten free 629 00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:51,959 Speaker 1: or any probably not Kung paut chicken. Yeah, that's high 630 00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:55,280 Speaker 1: in sodium, that's all right. Honey glaze, O, honey glaze 631 00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:58,239 Speaker 1: with brown rice and broccoli. Well, there you go. That 632 00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:02,680 Speaker 1: got a good review from what the students. But basically 633 00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:08,600 Speaker 1: they're still serving food that some people would consider unhealthy 634 00:36:08,719 --> 00:36:11,520 Speaker 1: because they were afraid if they went too far, and 635 00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:16,440 Speaker 1: they tried to give the kids yogurt and fruit and 636 00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:19,879 Speaker 1: stuff like that, and then too many vegetables that would 637 00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:22,800 Speaker 1: be rejected too. We talked about how in other school 638 00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:25,560 Speaker 1: districts around the country that a lot of that food 639 00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:28,759 Speaker 1: gets thrown out. Yeah, I mean I trying to find 640 00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:32,279 Speaker 1: that sweet middle between the junk food, the cheetos, and 641 00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:34,759 Speaker 1: something that gives them some kind of real nutrition, right, 642 00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:37,920 Speaker 1: because you can get protein from from chicken nuggets and 643 00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:42,800 Speaker 1: and oh, oh my gosh, black bean burgers, keene wash salad. 644 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:46,840 Speaker 1: Oh that's the list. It said. They did try those 645 00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:51,880 Speaker 1: black bean burgers, keenewosh salad, vegetarian curry, and fresh pairs, 646 00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:55,040 Speaker 1: but fewer students ate those lunches, and they started reaching 647 00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:57,719 Speaker 1: into their backpacks for cans of soda and flame and 648 00:36:57,760 --> 00:36:59,960 Speaker 1: hot cheetos. I mean, look when I was a kid 649 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:02,200 Speaker 1: and I didn't love that stuff either, or I didn't 650 00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:05,520 Speaker 1: love vegetables, and here I am. My diet consists mainly 651 00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:08,279 Speaker 1: of vegetables. I think you just have to be I 652 00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:10,040 Speaker 1: don't know, you have to be told about them, you 653 00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:14,200 Speaker 1: have to be exposed to them. So I don't know, 654 00:37:14,239 --> 00:37:17,160 Speaker 1: it takes a while to develop the taste for those 655 00:37:17,239 --> 00:37:19,960 Speaker 1: types of things. But I think when it's exactly right. 656 00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:21,239 Speaker 1: So when you're an eight year old or a nine 657 00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:23,640 Speaker 1: year old and you get start getting served that stuff, 658 00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:26,239 Speaker 1: it's too early. They're probably not going to take to it. 659 00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:27,960 Speaker 1: And then they're going to reach into their backpack and 660 00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:30,160 Speaker 1: they're gonna eat the cheetahs. They're thinking, all right, if 661 00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:32,000 Speaker 1: we put a croissant in front of them with ham 662 00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:35,640 Speaker 1: and cheese on it, and we put a sinapon, right, 663 00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:39,960 Speaker 1: so it's a little better marginal, all right. Coming up next, 664 00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:42,480 Speaker 1: I will be talking to Alex Stone, ABC News for 665 00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:46,080 Speaker 1: KFI about the big fire burning in northern California. John 666 00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:48,520 Speaker 1: at Kenshaw and KF I am six forty. Debra Mark 667 00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:50,840 Speaker 1: has the news. 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