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Speaker 2: I am six forty you're listening to the John Cobel

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Speaker 2: podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We're gonna have Carl Demayo

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Speaker 2: on the Republican Assemblyman from San Diego next hour.

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Speaker 1: Last week, he exposed at.

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Speaker 2: A budget hearing he's on the budget subcommittee, that Gavin

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Speaker 2: Newsom and the Democratic leaders were spending twenty five million

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Speaker 1: And it turns out it was a total scam.

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Speaker 2: He found out it was seventy six political activist organizations

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Speaker 2: who were getting slush fund money.

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Speaker 1: And as soon as.

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Speaker 2: The Democratic Assembly Speaker Robert Reevis heard what Carl was exposing,

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Speaker 2: he kicked Carl off the committee. And what Carl exposed

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Speaker 2: is true. Newsom and Revis, we're spending twenty five million

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Speaker 2: dollars on a slush fund to enrich seventy six left

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Speaker 2: wing political organizations and lying that it was COVID money

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Speaker 2: and there's no need to be spending anything on COVID anyway.

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Speaker 2: But they weren't. Because there's no need to spend money

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Speaker 2: on COVID, they weren't. They were blowing the money on

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Speaker 2: things like ballot harvesting. So it's a major scandal. And

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Speaker 2: Robert Reeves, the Democratic Assembly leader, kicked a mile off

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Speaker 2: the committee, which is why none of the other Republicans

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Speaker 2: ever brought this stuff up. They knew, they knew this

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Speaker 2: stuff was going on, but they were afraid, and Tomio

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Speaker 2: wasn't afraid. All right, we'll talk to Carl coming up.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, this is one tiny little sliver.

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Speaker 2: There is a huge, overwhelming amount of corruption and theft

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Speaker 2: and moneylaws going on. Sacramento is a is a criminal

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Speaker 2: money laundering and theft operation funded by your tax money.

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Speaker 2: Eventually everyone's going to get it. Eventually they will. They're

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Speaker 2: you know where I think much of the country has

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Speaker 2: figured out. That's what Washington, DC is about. It's a

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Speaker 2: big corrupt theft and money laundering operation. We'll get to

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Speaker 2: that at three o'clock hour. Here's something that's been going on, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: that sanctuary city policy here in Los Angeles that Karen

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Speaker 2: bass is so enamored with. Federal agents today arrested two

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Speaker 2: men from Guatemala, Eduardo Domingo Renojes Matul and Cristobal Mehehi

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Speaker 2: Mahea Shaj. They are accused of You're not going to

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Speaker 2: believe this moving twenty thousand illegal immigrants, the largest human

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Speaker 2: smuggling operation in the United States, twenty thousand illegal immigrants

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Speaker 2: based here in LA. There's your sanctuary city, huh. The

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Speaker 2: acting US Attorney Joseph mcdonnely said, the smuggling organizations have

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Speaker 2: no regard for human life. Their conduct kills. The indictment

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Speaker 2: and arrests have dismantled one of the country's largest and

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Speaker 2: He's described as a lieutenant in the smuggling operation. His

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Speaker 2: name is Helmer obispo Hernandez. Last week he threatened to

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Speaker 2: cut the head off of a federal agent. Yeah, but

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Speaker 2: we give him sanctuary here in Los Angeles. Karen Bass

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Speaker 2: gives sanctuary to a guy who wants to cut a

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Speaker 2: federal agent's hat off. Those other two other guys they

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Speaker 2: charged jose pakstor ox Lage. He's actually prison in Oklahoma

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Speaker 2: a car crash two years ago that killed seven illegal aliens,

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Speaker 1: See, this is what they do.

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Speaker 2: They smuggle these poor people over and some of them

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Speaker 2: die brutal deaths. But it's all protected by Carrot Vass's

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Speaker 2: sanctuary city policy. Renoje Mattoul, whose nickname is Turco, was

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Speaker 2: the ringleader. He worked with others in Guatemala who had

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Speaker 2: they got here to be transported to other cities across

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Speaker 1: Moved to at least twenty states. In Washington, d C.

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Speaker 2: Migrants who did not pay were held hostage in a

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Speaker 2: You imagine that these characters were holding many hostages in

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Speaker 2: In one incident last year, the ringleader again, his name

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Speaker 2: protected by Karen Vass's sanctuary policies. And they're still looking

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Speaker 2: That the that the you know, this is this is

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Speaker 2: for so long with her sweet little grandma smile, but

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Speaker 2: the last segment that she seemed to have no curiosity

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Speaker 2: know what time, but but Kristin Crowley is going to

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Speaker 2: and uh the council, the council is probably gonna want

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Speaker 2: But well, I hope she I hope she goes scorched

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Speaker 2: to earth and just tells the truth that Bass and

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Speaker 2: the city council wildly underfunded the police department, and that

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Speaker 2: Bass showed no interest in the fire, never poked her

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Speaker 2: head up. Just dis beard Africa, see it the President's calling.

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Speaker 2: President Biden wants me in Africa. Okay, it's all right,

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Speaker 2: we'll just watch the palisades burn.

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Speaker 1: Karen, no problem.

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Speaker 2: And Crowley, of course has plenty of blame on her

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Speaker 2: shoulders too, clearly from these text messages. In fact, if

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Speaker 2: nobody knew what they were doing, nobody was prepared, nobody

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Speaker 2: need to go. They really all need to go, and

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Speaker 2: not replaced by the b team that's currently inhabiting the

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Speaker 1: There's got to.

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Speaker 2: Be like an outside change here and start running things normally.

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Speaker 2: These people are human disasters, every one of them. In fact,

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Speaker 2: as long as we're on this subject, today's bombshell story

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Speaker 2: from the La Times. The fire Department, again run by

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Speaker 2: Kristin Crowley, did not tell the DWP that a thousand

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Speaker 2: fire hydrants were broken. A thousand fire hydrants were broken,

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Speaker 2: and Crowley never told Jennie Kinonie is about it? What

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Speaker 2: do these people do all day? What are they doing? Hey?

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Speaker 3: John, I have a little info on Crowley for tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: So the city Council is going to meet at ten

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Speaker 3: tomorrow morning. Yeah, and Crowley her hope. Well whatever her appeal,

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Speaker 3: her appeal, yeah, is the last thing on the agenda.

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Speaker 3: But we will break in. We will go to it

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Speaker 3: live as soon as we have.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, are they gonna is there gonna be audio and

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Speaker 3: I'm sure we have Michael Monks that's going to be there,

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Speaker 4: But we are on it, and we are gonna.

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Speaker 2: Well, she's got nothing to lose, she should she should go.

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Speaker 2: And that's this is what I would do. Of course,

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Speaker 2: I don't think I would be this incompetent. But but

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Speaker 2: between Bass, mar Keith, Harris, Dawson, Canoniez, there's there's a

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Speaker 2: lot of targets here. The lady run in the emergency center.

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Speaker 2: Go read the text, Go to ABC seven their reporter

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Speaker 2: had the uh had the news.

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Speaker 1: Go read some of the texts.

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Speaker 2: You get the idea totally incompetent, totally inept, overwhelmed, useless,

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Speaker 2: zero zero zero zero. All of them. Tell you about

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Speaker 2: the fire hydrants. Can you imagine, let's say you're running

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Speaker 2: the fire department. You know there's a thousand fire hydrants.

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Speaker 2: Would you tell the d WP, since they have a

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Speaker 5: six forty.

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Speaker 2: You can follow us at John Cobilt Radio on social media.

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Speaker 2: So everything I'm about to tell you is true. If

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Speaker 2: you haven't heard about this, you're not going to believe this.

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Speaker 2: But this is from Channel two KCBS and also the

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Speaker 2: Los Angeles Times. The LA Fire Department, the DWP has.

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Speaker 2: The DWP has jurisdiction over fire hydrants, but they pay

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Speaker 2: millions of dollars to the fire department to do the inspections.

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Speaker 2: So the fire department is supposed to do the inspections,

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Speaker 2: see which hydrants are broken, report back to the DWP.

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Speaker 2: There were more than one thousand five fire hydrants broken.

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Speaker 2: This is as of mid February. This is as of

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Speaker 2: two and a half weeks ago. A thousand fire hydrants broken.

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Speaker 2: The Los Angeles Fire Department didn't tell the DWP about

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Speaker 2: any of them. Who runs the Los Angeles Fire Department?

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Speaker 2: Uh oh, Kristin Crowley, right, a thousand fire How do

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Speaker 2: a thousand fire hydrants break? And the DWP doesn't hear

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Speaker 2: about how does that happen? There must be a fire

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Speaker 2: hydrant bureau at the at the fire department.

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Speaker 3: I was going to say, aren't these checked repeatedly? I

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Speaker 3: mean this is such an important I mean so important.

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Speaker 2: If the fire hydrants are busted, there's no way to

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Speaker 2: put out the fire, obviously. You see how this happened

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Speaker 2: for those idiots out there, and you know there's still

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Speaker 2: a couple of trolls online.

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Speaker 1: Are you a ralli? There's nothing you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, right, reservoir empty, thousand fire hydrants don't work. Nobody

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Speaker 1: All right, I wouldn't it matter.

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Speaker 2: I'm guessing it's somebody in Karen Bass's office and they

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Speaker 2: write under pseudonyms and they go on these neighborhood these

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Speaker 2: Karen Bass yourself under an assumed name. It starts fighting

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Speaker 2: No sane person could possibly have that opinion. This is

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Speaker 2: The fire department discovered the damage to the hydrants during

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Speaker 2: inspections in the months before the Palisades fire. So some

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Speaker 2: of these hydrants were in the Palisades. Remember, the firefighters

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Speaker 2: had low water pressure, you know it really it wasn't

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Speaker 2: because of the low water pressure.

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Speaker 1: Low water pressure came from the.

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Speaker 2: Broken hydrants that the fire department did not flag and

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Speaker 2: tell to the DWP. February twelfth is when Channel two

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Speaker 2: reported that there was one thousand, three hundred and fifty

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Speaker 2: flagged as early as January of twenty twenty four, a

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Speaker 2: year ago. They have been sitting busted for a year,

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Speaker 2: but those.

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Speaker 4: Were reported, No, they were not reported.

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Speaker 2: Some of these repairs were flagged by the fire department,

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Speaker 2: but nobody told the DWP.

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Speaker 4: Oh, okay, okay.

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Speaker 2: So this thirteen hundred and fifty fire hydrants. That's the

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Speaker 3: But they didn't tell the DWP to get the DWP

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Speaker 3: a chance to go fix them.

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Speaker 2: Yes, okay, and by the way, this was publicly available information.

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Speaker 2: public records request. Now inside the DWP, the Channel two

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Speaker 2: report was met with surprise and alarm. The DWP relies

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Speaker 2: One thousand, three hundred and fifty. Think about that. One

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Speaker 2: The report received on the fourteenth was completely different than

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Speaker 3: I hope somebody is going all around la and checking

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the Santa Ana winds will blow yep. Each year,

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Speaker 1: Listen to this.

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Speaker 2: And semol Collin and said, in twenty twenty one we

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Speaker 2: Here is Joe Romalo, chief of Communications for the DWP.

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Speaker 2: Carl Demio said, Hey, there's twenty five million dollars for

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Speaker 1: What the hell is that?

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Speaker 2: Well, he investigated and found out it's a slush fund

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Speaker 1: They don't have money for the wildfires. Oh, this is rich.

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Speaker 2: Now, there's a lawyer named Roger Booth who's representing eighty clients,

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Speaker 1: Are pretty bad to begin with.

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Speaker 1: Who's going to.

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Speaker 2: Allow the most victims to get some kind of compensation?

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Speaker 2: And everybody understands why. But I don't think anybody knew

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Speaker 2: That's why they take That's why they take jobs. Who

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Speaker 1: I believe I have I have an animal story.

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Speaker 2: And we're gonna have Carl Demyo on Carla Bio kicked

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Speaker 2: organizations nonprofits. It's just out and out corruption.

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Speaker 1: And once.

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Speaker 2: Carl start talking about it, Robert Reefis, the Assembly speaker,

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Speaker 2: freaked out and kicked.

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Speaker 1: Kick Carl off.

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Speaker 2: The committee five o'clock on Friday, which is when they

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Speaker 2: do things like that hoping the media doesn't notice.

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Speaker 1: So we'll talk about that, all right. I promised you

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Speaker 1: an animal story. He did.

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Speaker 2: I didn't exactly know how to pitch this to you

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Speaker 2: because it starts out as a terrible story.

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Speaker 4: I don't like terrible.

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Speaker 2: It's really terrible, terrible, but there is a conclusion to it.

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Speaker 2: Do you remember this has gone on for almost ten

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Speaker 2: years in northern California. Do you remember when baby harbor

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Speaker 2: seals were washing on shore and they were missing their heads? No? Yes, yes,

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Speaker 2: I remember this. Carcasses of headless baby harbor seals. They

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Speaker 2: started washing up on the coastline and for years the

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Speaker 2: rocks near Fort Bragg spattered with blood because the bodies

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Speaker 2: had been dragged along the rocks. There were tracks in

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Speaker 2: the sand. Somebody was killing the baby seals. And this

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Speaker 2: goes back to twenty fifteen, and the seals were all

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Speaker 2: appearing on the same stretch of beach. Each showed signs

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Speaker 2: of massive hemorrhaging around the head and neck, puncture wounds

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Speaker 2: in the skull. They'd been hunted down. And the sightings

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Speaker 2: kept increasing, you know, because they always do seal counts right,

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Speaker 2: And they said they couldn't figure out, like who's doing this?

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Speaker 1: Is it an animal? Is it a person?

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Speaker 2: Is And by twenty twenty three they put a camera

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Speaker 2: out there, a timed camera trap. Took them that long

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Speaker 2: to do that, Yeah, and they thought maybe we'd have

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Speaker 2: to run this camera for months or years. But in

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Speaker 2: two nights on an April evening in twenty twenty three,

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Speaker 2: a coyote came onto the screen, hauling one of the

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Speaker 2: pupps through the brush, its eyes glowing in the darkness,

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Speaker 2: it circled its prey for gnawing off its eggs oh gosh,

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Speaker 2: and digging in for the meal its brain. Ew John

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Speaker 2: coyotes liked to eat seal brains, and that is why

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Speaker 2: these maybe seals were washing up dead headless blood all

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Speaker 2: over the rocks. There's now a report in the journal

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Speaker 2: Ecology describing how wide spread the hunting behavior is, and.

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Speaker 1: One kill means many meals.

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Speaker 2: Between twenty sixteen and twenty twenty four of these researchers

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Speaker 2: documented fifty nine of these of these kills across three

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Speaker 2: sites in northern California, Marin County. They were sort of sneaky.

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Speaker 2: They would try to approach, and this is the coyotes

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Speaker 2: trying to approach larger groups of seals and then grabbing

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Speaker 2: the slowest or the closest one, killing them with bites

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Speaker 2: to the back of the head. And they'd lug the

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Speaker 2: body around, find a place for safe keeping so god

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Speaker 2: wouldn't get washed away by the tide, and then they'd

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Speaker 2: snack on the rest later. They would like have a

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Speaker 2: little brain now, a little more brain later.

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Speaker 4: Okay, John, we get it.

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Speaker 2: And going for brains might seem unusual, but it's a

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Speaker 2: matter of convenience. And they've seen this before. Hyenas do this,

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Speaker 2: wolves in Alaskan, British Columbia, and this is widespread behavior.

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Speaker 3: Is So if they had put a camera back in

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Speaker 3: twenty fifteen, I don't know, maybe we wouldn't have so

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Speaker 3: many baby seals murdered. That's right, Okay, So when that

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Speaker 3: happens again, remember to put a camera.

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Speaker 1: Took them eight years to think of it camera.

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Speaker 4: I know, I'm surprised coyotes. I mean, I don't know.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I know some dogs like to get wet.

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Speaker 2: You think that's right, that's why you be wary walking

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Speaker 2: your dog. I am every day, not letting your cats

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Speaker 2: out of the house. Don't leave a baby unattended, all right,

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Speaker 2: because very obvious the brains taste good. That's what the

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Speaker 2: seals like. You think my you think my diet?

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Speaker 1: It is awful? Right?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I do, Actually, I know you do.

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Speaker 1: All right? That coyote that's worse.

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Speaker 4: Are we're comparing yourself to a coyote?

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Speaker 1: Now, okay, a carnivore? The predator.

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Speaker 4: Oh, you're a predator too, imator?

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Speaker 1: All right.

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Speaker 2: Carl Demayo is coming on. He got you got kicked

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Speaker 2: off the Budget committee in Sacramento because he told the truth.

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Speaker 2: They're spending twenty five million dollars on a slush fund.

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Speaker 2: They claim it's for COVID outreach. It's actually payouts to

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Speaker 2: wacky left wing political groups. Carl Demio kicked off by

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Speaker 2: Robert Reeves, the Assembly speaker. That's next.

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Speaker 1: Got to listen to this.

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Speaker 2: There's so much of this. Debora Mark live in the

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