1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,520 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobel Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:08,600 Speaker 2: We're on every day from one until four o'clock. 4 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:11,680 Speaker 1: Run right. We're streaming live on the air. 5 00:00:12,600 --> 00:00:15,480 Speaker 2: You can also listen to us on the podcast, which 6 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:18,639 Speaker 2: posts after four o'clock. John Cobelt Show on demand, same 7 00:00:18,760 --> 00:00:23,040 Speaker 2: as the radio show. Well, today was supposed to be 8 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:26,439 Speaker 2: I didn't know this was coming today, but I thought 9 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:28,240 Speaker 2: when it came it would really be a big deal. 10 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:30,200 Speaker 1: And it is the. 11 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:36,720 Speaker 2: After action report of the fires in Palisades and in Altadena, 12 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:41,760 Speaker 2: done by the McCrystal group. You may remember the four 13 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:45,400 Speaker 2: star General Stanley McCrystal. Well, this is his consulting company, 14 00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:49,000 Speaker 2: and so they unveiled the report today and I don't know, 15 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:51,800 Speaker 2: I don't want to characterize it. I'll let Michael Muntz 16 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:54,120 Speaker 2: describe what's in this thing. 17 00:00:54,440 --> 00:00:56,440 Speaker 3: Well, there are some key takeaways. This is not a 18 00:00:56,520 --> 00:00:58,960 Speaker 3: report that will tell you what started the fires. I 19 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:01,400 Speaker 3: know that's a question that we'd all like an answer to. 20 00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:03,440 Speaker 3: That's what I thought would be in there. Yeah, that's 21 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:05,920 Speaker 3: not what this was. This was mainly an analysis of 22 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:10,360 Speaker 3: how County and the agencies within the County responded, got 23 00:01:10,360 --> 00:01:15,520 Speaker 3: people prepared and got people out. Turns out not great, Yeah, 24 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:16,360 Speaker 3: I think badly. 25 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:18,240 Speaker 1: So when you think. 26 00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:22,760 Speaker 3: About those days in January when both the Palisades and 27 00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:26,360 Speaker 3: Altadna caught on fire, if you're somebody living in that 28 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:29,600 Speaker 3: area and the flames are coming, you're probably not immediately 29 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:33,360 Speaker 3: thinking did we do a good job maintaining the fuel 30 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:36,040 Speaker 3: sources around the area? Is the water where it's supposed 31 00:01:36,040 --> 00:01:37,960 Speaker 3: to be? Those are questions that need to be answered, 32 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:39,760 Speaker 3: but maybe not in the moment. What you want to 33 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:41,319 Speaker 3: know is what are you supposed to do? 34 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:42,039 Speaker 1: Where are you. 35 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:45,080 Speaker 3: Supposed to go? Who's supposed to tell me what, when 36 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:48,960 Speaker 3: and where? And there were a lot of breakdowns in 37 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:52,280 Speaker 3: that regard. The notification system was really bad. This report 38 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:55,400 Speaker 3: by the McCrystal Group, General Stanley Mcrystal's consulting firm, that 39 00:01:55,480 --> 00:01:59,600 Speaker 3: found there were communications that didn't arrive at all. There 40 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:03,640 Speaker 3: weremunications that were too late. There were communications that people 41 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:07,120 Speaker 3: like you and I received John about warnings when we 42 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:09,480 Speaker 3: were not in the line of danger, and so the 43 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:13,160 Speaker 3: whole thing was very chaotic. So this report points to 44 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:17,320 Speaker 3: those communication efforts as having been stymied, and there were 45 00:02:17,320 --> 00:02:22,160 Speaker 3: also issues with the interagency collaboration. So when you think 46 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:25,119 Speaker 3: about the different law enforcement, different fire departments, different emergency 47 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:29,160 Speaker 3: management type organizations, the communication between them all was not 48 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:29,840 Speaker 3: great either. 49 00:02:31,160 --> 00:02:33,720 Speaker 1: Does the report go into why it was so bad? 50 00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:37,920 Speaker 2: I mean, see what I just reading new summaries, But 51 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:40,000 Speaker 2: I'm reading this today, I'm thinking, well, I knew that. 52 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:40,480 Speaker 1: I knew that. 53 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:44,360 Speaker 2: I knew that was obvious to the eye. Where's the why? 54 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:47,680 Speaker 2: Where the names? Where's the description of how the process 55 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:48,400 Speaker 2: is broke down? 56 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:50,639 Speaker 3: The county's hosting a news conference in about an hour 57 00:02:50,760 --> 00:02:53,720 Speaker 3: two o'clock, so we should get some more perspective from 58 00:02:53,760 --> 00:02:57,960 Speaker 3: county leaders about their interpretation and what steps might need 59 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:00,400 Speaker 3: to be taken next. We have already heard from Sheriff 60 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:03,079 Speaker 3: Luna through a statement that basically says this is a 61 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:05,520 Speaker 3: good tool for us to learn from. They now have 62 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:07,639 Speaker 3: a document that says that's it. 63 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:09,480 Speaker 4: Wow, that's pretty weak. 64 00:03:10,320 --> 00:03:15,320 Speaker 3: Well, considering the litigiousness of these fires, I think if 65 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:18,600 Speaker 3: you're a public official, you really have to be careful 66 00:03:18,639 --> 00:03:20,200 Speaker 3: with what you say about these things. 67 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:23,440 Speaker 2: Because no one's going to take responsibility and nobody's going 68 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:26,560 Speaker 2: to blame anyone by name. Hopefully, what we get out 69 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:31,840 Speaker 2: of this as citizens, is that there are learning opportunities 70 00:03:31,960 --> 00:03:35,120 Speaker 2: so that the next time a big fire like this happens, 71 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:39,600 Speaker 2: the warnings are better, the evacuation plans are better. 72 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:44,200 Speaker 4: What they also learned was they were they were less 73 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:46,920 Speaker 4: prepared for what happened with the Eton fire and Altadena 74 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:50,800 Speaker 4: than they were in Palisades, because the Palisades, that area Malibu, 75 00:03:51,240 --> 00:03:54,280 Speaker 4: they know wildfires unfortunately too well, not as bad as. 76 00:03:54,160 --> 00:03:55,360 Speaker 1: This sea had a bad one. 77 00:03:55,480 --> 00:03:58,720 Speaker 2: First year we were here, we were in a helicopter 78 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:02,560 Speaker 2: broadcasting fly over the Altadena fire. So they had one 79 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:04,880 Speaker 2: with in recent enough memory that there should have been 80 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:05,600 Speaker 2: a battle plan. 81 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:09,280 Speaker 3: If you're referencing the nineteen nineties ninety three, yeah, enough 82 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:11,480 Speaker 3: time has passed where you know, there could have been 83 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:15,040 Speaker 3: generational turnover in a community like Altadena, where folks who 84 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:18,960 Speaker 3: were living there never really had those recurring threats of 85 00:04:18,960 --> 00:04:20,520 Speaker 3: a fire in the area and to just keep a 86 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:23,200 Speaker 3: lookout for it, so they didn't really know what to do. 87 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:27,719 Speaker 2: But the government, the fire and police and the emergency management, 88 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:32,320 Speaker 2: those people should there should be like the big handbook, Yeah, 89 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:34,280 Speaker 2: well this happens, here's what you do. 90 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:36,600 Speaker 3: The onnus shouldn't be on the neighbors, right, I mean, 91 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:38,560 Speaker 3: if you live an Altadena, it should not be your 92 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:41,200 Speaker 3: responsibility for what to do. You know, have a go 93 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:42,440 Speaker 3: bag if they tell you, I have a go bag 94 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:44,760 Speaker 3: and those sorts of thing, that's on you. But residents 95 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:47,600 Speaker 3: in Altadena, according to this report, they say they received 96 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:52,039 Speaker 3: little or no warning before the fire reached their neighborhoods. 97 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:55,440 Speaker 3: Not just that, hey, there's a fire looming over the horizon, 98 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:58,200 Speaker 3: keep an eye out for this. We're talking about flames 99 00:04:58,200 --> 00:05:02,640 Speaker 3: being on your street. Neighbors there did not seem to 100 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:07,160 Speaker 3: understand that. The report sites outdated and inconsistent policies, protocols, 101 00:05:07,160 --> 00:05:13,560 Speaker 3: and standard operating procedures which created ambiguity around evacuation authority Responsibility's. 102 00:05:12,920 --> 00:05:14,960 Speaker 1: Responsible for that, the la KANDIC supervisors. 103 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:18,800 Speaker 3: This is what the report identifies is people did not 104 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:23,320 Speaker 3: seem to know who was the proper authority in various 105 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:27,440 Speaker 3: incidents because there are multiple jurisdictions involved here and the 106 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:29,480 Speaker 3: communication between them all was not great. 107 00:05:29,480 --> 00:05:31,480 Speaker 4: The report does say. 108 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:34,000 Speaker 2: There are there in this or is there again? Stating 109 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:37,680 Speaker 2: the obvious. Now I could have produced this report. 110 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:40,599 Speaker 3: One of the main takeaways as far as the wise 111 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:44,080 Speaker 3: go as you identify them equipment and personnel shortages were 112 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:48,479 Speaker 3: magnified under the extreme conditions of this incident. Compounding this, 113 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:53,120 Speaker 3: the report says, were gaps in situational awareness tools and 114 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:59,960 Speaker 3: communications interoperability, which impaired real time coordination and so that 115 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:04,320 Speaker 3: led to confusion and frustration from from residents, even as 116 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:06,440 Speaker 3: in the media we were not under threat like folks 117 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:08,560 Speaker 3: who were living on these streets. But you're getting a 118 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:12,160 Speaker 3: message that says one thing, then you're getting all other message. 119 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:13,000 Speaker 4: I got a. 120 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:15,960 Speaker 3: Notification in downtown LA that we had to evacuate, and 121 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:18,640 Speaker 3: we thought, oh, there's bumfires outside my apartment building. All 122 00:06:18,640 --> 00:06:25,400 Speaker 3: the time. I've never had to evacuate yet. Technical I 123 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:27,120 Speaker 3: don't know if the crystal would have said that, but 124 00:06:27,440 --> 00:06:32,280 Speaker 3: that's kind of how we colloquially refer to them. 125 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:34,960 Speaker 1: Every time. 126 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:40,560 Speaker 2: You always have one that me so I it's this 127 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:42,920 Speaker 2: it now, This is the this is the report, and 128 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:43,800 Speaker 2: we're all done. 129 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:44,200 Speaker 1: Huh. 130 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:47,360 Speaker 3: This is the big report about the county's response. Again, 131 00:06:47,440 --> 00:06:50,680 Speaker 3: this is not the big report on we found the 132 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:53,479 Speaker 3: cause of both of these fires. We're going to prosecute people. 133 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:56,440 Speaker 3: This was how do we do better next time? If 134 00:06:56,480 --> 00:06:57,480 Speaker 3: there is because. 135 00:06:57,240 --> 00:07:01,279 Speaker 2: Any of us explained the DWP situation in the no again, 136 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:03,600 Speaker 2: I mean the well, who's supposed to explain that or 137 00:07:03,839 --> 00:07:07,159 Speaker 2: is that a separate investigators? Investigations are ongoing of that, 138 00:07:07,279 --> 00:07:09,880 Speaker 2: So those are other investors. These are other investigations we 139 00:07:09,920 --> 00:07:12,840 Speaker 2: will learn. This was the county's participation in both fires, 140 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:15,760 Speaker 2: that's right, the county and the jurisdictions within the county. 141 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:17,880 Speaker 4: So this did evaluate some of the cities. 142 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:19,800 Speaker 3: I mean, the Palisades was in the city of Los 143 00:07:19,840 --> 00:07:23,240 Speaker 3: Angeles mostly, and right Altadena is unincorporated in the county, 144 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:25,520 Speaker 3: So this evaluated all of that. Doesn't talk about the 145 00:07:25,560 --> 00:07:28,960 Speaker 3: lack of fire preparation in the Palace Sades by La 146 00:07:29,440 --> 00:07:31,440 Speaker 3: the La fire. Yeah, that's what we don't know yet, 147 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:33,960 Speaker 3: except for the fact that they're saying some staffing shortages, 148 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:36,160 Speaker 3: some equipment, and they don't flat out say the fire 149 00:07:36,240 --> 00:07:38,960 Speaker 3: chief should have had more people here. Those thousand firefighters 150 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:40,760 Speaker 3: that were saying it didn't get into that type of 151 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:43,040 Speaker 3: minutia that you talk about on this pro. 152 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:45,480 Speaker 2: Is anybody going to or it's up to you and 153 00:07:45,520 --> 00:07:46,880 Speaker 2: me to do that. Yeah, I think we're gonna have 154 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:49,680 Speaker 2: to keep those conversations going. So nobody else in government's 155 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:50,160 Speaker 2: going to do this. 156 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:52,000 Speaker 3: Hopefully we'll be able to get some questions in during 157 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:54,200 Speaker 3: the press conference that's coming up at about two o'clock. 158 00:07:54,280 --> 00:07:57,280 Speaker 2: Okay, if anything useful comes out of that, please come 159 00:07:57,320 --> 00:07:59,200 Speaker 2: back here, run here like there's a bum fire in 160 00:07:59,240 --> 00:08:03,440 Speaker 2: the hallway. All right, Very good, Michael Monks KFI News 161 00:08:03,480 --> 00:08:06,720 Speaker 2: on this after action investigative. 162 00:08:06,040 --> 00:08:07,320 Speaker 1: Report, which I don't know. 163 00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:11,000 Speaker 2: It's kind of disappointing if this is all there is, 164 00:08:11,040 --> 00:08:14,440 Speaker 2: and it looks like nobody's gonna take responsibility. And I 165 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:17,880 Speaker 2: don't know how you have staffing shortages in the police 166 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:20,920 Speaker 2: department or the emergency department when we play billions and 167 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:26,000 Speaker 2: billions of dollars in tax money, maybe for blowing billions 168 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:27,280 Speaker 2: and billions of dollars. 169 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:31,360 Speaker 1: On the bums. Who knows. All right, well, we'll continue 170 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:33,200 Speaker 1: about all this coming up. 171 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:38,320 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 172 00:08:38,360 --> 00:08:38,880 Speaker 5: six forty. 173 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:45,079 Speaker 2: We have the Moistline on Friday, which is tomorrow one 174 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:48,600 Speaker 2: eight seven seven Moist eighty six eight seven seven Moist 175 00:08:48,640 --> 00:08:52,040 Speaker 2: eighty six, or use the talkback feature on the iHeart 176 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:53,160 Speaker 2: radio app. 177 00:08:53,320 --> 00:08:53,520 Speaker 1: Eric. 178 00:08:53,760 --> 00:09:00,320 Speaker 2: We have room on the Moistline still for people. No, 179 00:09:01,480 --> 00:09:02,880 Speaker 2: I didn't know if that was a yes or no 180 00:09:02,960 --> 00:09:05,560 Speaker 2: if you're just talking to me in sound effects now, no, no, No, 181 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:09,600 Speaker 2: it's actually pretty packed. Oh it is, yes, yesterday yesterday 182 00:09:09,760 --> 00:09:12,240 Speaker 2: was a little low. I honestly haven't even gone through 183 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:15,520 Speaker 2: yesterday's yet. Oh okay, all right, but yeah we're pretty packed. 184 00:09:15,559 --> 00:09:18,520 Speaker 2: So but hey, hey, feel free. If you're good, he'll 185 00:09:18,520 --> 00:09:19,000 Speaker 2: put you in. 186 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:20,440 Speaker 3: Right, trust me. I listened to all of them. He 187 00:09:20,520 --> 00:09:22,360 Speaker 3: listens to all of them. And if you make the 188 00:09:22,440 --> 00:09:24,200 Speaker 3: cut means you really performed. 189 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:24,800 Speaker 1: All right. 190 00:09:24,840 --> 00:09:28,320 Speaker 3: So that's the moistline for here's things I here's some 191 00:09:28,760 --> 00:09:29,800 Speaker 3: crazy things about me. 192 00:09:30,480 --> 00:09:31,640 Speaker 4: I kind of I kind of missed. 193 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:32,680 Speaker 1: Are you sure about that? 194 00:09:33,360 --> 00:09:33,840 Speaker 6: Yeah? 195 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:39,040 Speaker 2: You should just one week, one week play all the 196 00:09:39,040 --> 00:09:41,760 Speaker 2: stuff about her, no matter what they say, just let it, 197 00:09:41,840 --> 00:09:42,440 Speaker 2: let it rip. 198 00:09:43,360 --> 00:09:47,760 Speaker 1: There's gonna be a lot of leaps. I need some 199 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:49,720 Speaker 1: comic relief in my life. How could she get people? 200 00:09:49,760 --> 00:09:51,840 Speaker 1: Let upset? But she does? 201 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:55,440 Speaker 4: Her dogs, the vegans, the earthquake fear or where. 202 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:55,680 Speaker 1: Do I begin? 203 00:09:56,480 --> 00:09:56,720 Speaker 2: Hate? 204 00:09:56,800 --> 00:10:03,720 Speaker 4: Hunters, fain leather, wow to wear? Sometimes? 205 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:04,760 Speaker 1: Yeah you do? 206 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:12,319 Speaker 2: And everyone notices, Oh yeah, this after action report, you know, 207 00:10:12,360 --> 00:10:14,240 Speaker 2: I knew, I knew this was going to be a dude. 208 00:10:14,800 --> 00:10:16,800 Speaker 1: This is a dud. They got. 209 00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:21,040 Speaker 2: They got a four star General Stanley McCrystal. He's retired 210 00:10:21,040 --> 00:10:23,559 Speaker 2: now and he has a consulting firm called the McCrystal Group, 211 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:28,800 Speaker 2: and the LA County Board of Supervisors paid this McCrystal 212 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:32,240 Speaker 2: group to tell us what we already know, what we 213 00:10:32,320 --> 00:10:36,520 Speaker 2: knew on like day one and day two, and what's 214 00:10:36,559 --> 00:10:39,480 Speaker 2: not in here is how could this happen? Why could 215 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:47,480 Speaker 2: this happen? The alerts were late or wrong, sent to 216 00:10:47,520 --> 00:10:49,800 Speaker 2: the wrong sections of town. 217 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:53,439 Speaker 1: Or we're vague. 218 00:10:54,600 --> 00:10:58,800 Speaker 2: Evacuations orders were slow or non existence. The escape routes 219 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:03,840 Speaker 2: along PCH were congested, and not enough resources. 220 00:11:03,880 --> 00:11:04,720 Speaker 1: Not enough resource. 221 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:08,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, as far as the city is concerned, Karen Bass 222 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:16,480 Speaker 2: Eric Arcetti defunded the fire department, and so you don't 223 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:20,360 Speaker 2: have enough, uh firefighters, you don't have enough engines because 224 00:11:20,400 --> 00:11:24,319 Speaker 2: they defunded it. Because I said this, you know, a 225 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:29,280 Speaker 2: thousand times during the height of the controversy earlier this year. 226 00:11:29,960 --> 00:11:32,800 Speaker 2: But we only have half the fire department we should. 227 00:11:34,080 --> 00:11:39,040 Speaker 2: There is some kind of National Fire Bureau call it. 228 00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:41,679 Speaker 2: I forgot the exact name of this, but what they 229 00:11:41,720 --> 00:11:49,440 Speaker 2: do is they analyze metropolitan area to see if the 230 00:11:49,480 --> 00:11:56,760 Speaker 2: firefighting staff and equipment meets the standard that's necessary to 231 00:11:56,880 --> 00:12:00,960 Speaker 2: fight the fires in a city of any particular size, 232 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:03,680 Speaker 2: and generally you're supposed to have I think it's like 233 00:12:03,840 --> 00:12:05,680 Speaker 2: two firefighters per. 234 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:09,559 Speaker 1: One thousand people, something. 235 00:12:09,240 --> 00:12:12,839 Speaker 2: Like that, right, and we have one whatever the standard is. 236 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:16,800 Speaker 2: We have half the standard half fifty percent. So we're 237 00:12:16,880 --> 00:12:21,800 Speaker 2: fifty percent funded. And by now, you know, we don't 238 00:12:21,800 --> 00:12:26,320 Speaker 2: have enough fire engines, and many of the ones we 239 00:12:26,360 --> 00:12:28,960 Speaker 2: have are broken and they're not fixed because we don't 240 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:34,000 Speaker 2: have the mechanics. And there's been no major increase in 241 00:12:34,040 --> 00:12:38,840 Speaker 2: funding since this happened. Now I don't have all the 242 00:12:38,880 --> 00:12:43,280 Speaker 2: details on how the county budgeted for the fire department. 243 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:47,960 Speaker 2: Oh and it's absurdly strained by the homeless, by the 244 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:52,040 Speaker 2: bumfires this Michael described them, because they start thousands and 245 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:56,320 Speaker 2: thousands of fires every year. So, and the thing is, 246 00:12:56,360 --> 00:12:59,080 Speaker 2: nobody publicly is talking about this terrible tragedy. 247 00:13:00,240 --> 00:13:00,680 Speaker 1: Nobody. 248 00:13:00,760 --> 00:13:06,000 Speaker 2: Karen Best doesn't talk about it. She talks about she 249 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:08,920 Speaker 2: talks about how many, how many, how few vagrants she 250 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:12,520 Speaker 2: got off the street. She talks about how evil Ice is. 251 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:14,040 Speaker 2: I wonder if she's going to keep that up now 252 00:13:14,040 --> 00:13:15,600 Speaker 2: that we had another shooting yesterday. 253 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:17,080 Speaker 4: She knew someone are they're going to. 254 00:13:17,160 --> 00:13:21,720 Speaker 2: Keep encouraging the uh, the rioters and the assassins to 255 00:13:21,800 --> 00:13:22,439 Speaker 2: keep firing. 256 00:13:25,200 --> 00:13:26,559 Speaker 4: And what else does she talk about? 257 00:13:26,760 --> 00:13:32,720 Speaker 2: Nothing to talk about at this whole city, this whole 258 00:13:32,760 --> 00:13:36,640 Speaker 2: county is still in grave danger. You can have a 259 00:13:36,679 --> 00:13:40,920 Speaker 2: second fire in a year easily. It's not gonna be 260 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:43,280 Speaker 2: in the exact same place because everything in the Palace 261 00:13:43,320 --> 00:13:46,240 Speaker 2: Aine's burned, so there's very little to burn now, the 262 00:13:46,280 --> 00:13:49,679 Speaker 2: same thing in that section of Altadena, West Altadena. But 263 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:53,880 Speaker 2: there's there's plenty of other areas here in Los Angeles 264 00:13:55,320 --> 00:13:59,640 Speaker 2: and in the San Gabriel Valley that can burn and 265 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:03,800 Speaker 2: we'll have half a fire department. You still have a 266 00:14:03,880 --> 00:14:07,920 Speaker 2: shortage resources. I mean, all these vague bureaucratic terms, and 267 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:11,640 Speaker 2: you know, it's shockings. They really don't care. I'm kind 268 00:14:11,640 --> 00:14:13,920 Speaker 2: of pissed off at every adult I knew as a kid, 269 00:14:14,480 --> 00:14:18,400 Speaker 2: because we were told that all these people care. Right, 270 00:14:19,160 --> 00:14:22,760 Speaker 2: everybody in government cares. Your council members, right, the mayor, 271 00:14:22,800 --> 00:14:27,960 Speaker 2: the government, everybody cares. You elect these public servants. Every 272 00:14:27,960 --> 00:14:31,600 Speaker 2: time these people are under attack, it's like, well, actually, 273 00:14:31,640 --> 00:14:33,920 Speaker 2: she's a dedicated public service. It's like, no, they're not 274 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:38,560 Speaker 2: dedicated public servants. They're thieves and grifters, and they're narcissists 275 00:14:38,560 --> 00:14:42,960 Speaker 2: and sociopaths, dedicated. Who who in their right mind would 276 00:14:42,960 --> 00:14:45,800 Speaker 2: only fund fifty percent of a fire department for the 277 00:14:45,800 --> 00:14:48,480 Speaker 2: city of Los Angeles? Why would you do that? Who 278 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:53,280 Speaker 2: would underfund the county fire department? But they do, they do, 279 00:14:55,800 --> 00:14:59,240 Speaker 2: And nobody knows this because nobody's paying attention. 280 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:00,600 Speaker 1: It's not ported on. 281 00:15:04,920 --> 00:15:08,040 Speaker 2: One of these one of these reports. I guess this 282 00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:11,720 Speaker 2: was for Yeah, this is for Altadena. In the county response, 283 00:15:13,560 --> 00:15:17,480 Speaker 2: the review notes long standing challenges in staffing and training. 284 00:15:17,720 --> 00:15:20,720 Speaker 2: So why are their long standing challenges? So why don't 285 00:15:20,760 --> 00:15:23,760 Speaker 2: you hire enough people and train them properly? How does 286 00:15:23,840 --> 00:15:26,040 Speaker 2: this go on for years and years and decades and decades? 287 00:15:26,080 --> 00:15:29,120 Speaker 2: Why is this? Is everybody in government stupid and lazy 288 00:15:29,440 --> 00:15:32,840 Speaker 2: and corrupt? Is that the answer? What else would the 289 00:15:32,880 --> 00:15:35,280 Speaker 2: answer be? If they're not all stupid, lazy and corrupt? 290 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:37,080 Speaker 1: How could you go. 291 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:44,960 Speaker 2: Years and years without enough staffing and enough training? Some 292 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:48,960 Speaker 2: Office of Emergency Management personnel, we're still learning to operate 293 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:54,240 Speaker 2: the new alert system. January is kind of late in 294 00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:58,000 Speaker 2: the fire season. I mean, I know these people go 295 00:15:58,040 --> 00:16:00,640 Speaker 2: to a lot of meetings there's a lot of seminars 296 00:16:00,680 --> 00:16:05,360 Speaker 2: and assemblies and zoom conferences and what how long does 297 00:16:05,360 --> 00:16:12,040 Speaker 2: it take to learn an alert system? Agencies report inconsistent 298 00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:17,360 Speaker 2: training around wildfire evacuations, no standardized surge staffing model. That 299 00:16:17,440 --> 00:16:20,800 Speaker 2: means when something bad really happens, they don't know who 300 00:16:20,800 --> 00:16:23,440 Speaker 2: they're supposed to call to send in on an emergency. Well, 301 00:16:23,440 --> 00:16:26,840 Speaker 2: what else are these people doing? If you're an emergency management, 302 00:16:27,160 --> 00:16:30,200 Speaker 2: aren't you planning for emergencies. 303 00:16:29,480 --> 00:16:33,480 Speaker 1: All the time. Here's what we do in a fire, 304 00:16:33,560 --> 00:16:34,920 Speaker 1: Here's what we do in an earthquake. 305 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:39,240 Speaker 2: Here's what happens if the fire happens here or there 306 00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:39,880 Speaker 2: or there. 307 00:16:40,120 --> 00:16:46,080 Speaker 4: What do they do all year? Or is it stupid, lazy, corrupt? 308 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:51,760 Speaker 1: Is that it the Sheriff's Department aging? 309 00:16:52,480 --> 00:16:57,800 Speaker 2: The Sheriff's Department's aging dispatch system added another layer of difficulty. 310 00:16:57,880 --> 00:17:01,080 Speaker 1: Why is it aging? Why didn't they install a new one? 311 00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:03,200 Speaker 1: What do they do with the money? 312 00:17:04,080 --> 00:17:07,240 Speaker 2: Is it all gone to everybody's uh, everybody's brother in 313 00:17:07,320 --> 00:17:11,919 Speaker 2: law and they're nonprofit? You give it to drug addicts 314 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:16,399 Speaker 2: and mental patients who then, you know, offer their thanks 315 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:18,920 Speaker 2: by taking a crap on the sidewalk every day. What 316 00:17:19,560 --> 00:17:22,000 Speaker 2: do you what are you doing with the money? You're 317 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:27,880 Speaker 2: spending billions of dollars that to me, you have a government. 318 00:17:27,960 --> 00:17:29,639 Speaker 2: First thing they're supposed to do is get the police 319 00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:33,560 Speaker 2: and fire department fully funded. Then later on we could 320 00:17:33,600 --> 00:17:35,760 Speaker 2: move on to the to the bums and the mental 321 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:39,680 Speaker 2: patients and the drug addicts. But police and fire first. 322 00:17:42,520 --> 00:17:44,880 Speaker 2: Why doesn't if somebody ran on that, would they win? 323 00:17:44,920 --> 00:17:49,200 Speaker 2: They probably would lose, right if somebody said, well, I'm 324 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:51,040 Speaker 2: going to tear up this budget, and what we're gonna 325 00:17:51,040 --> 00:17:52,960 Speaker 2: do is fully fund the police and fire department in 326 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:56,600 Speaker 2: the city and in the county first, and all other 327 00:17:56,640 --> 00:18:00,040 Speaker 2: departments could fight over over the crumbs left over. I 328 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:02,320 Speaker 2: don't really care about after you get police and fire. 329 00:18:02,440 --> 00:18:04,040 Speaker 2: I'm trying to think what else would I care about 330 00:18:04,040 --> 00:18:09,960 Speaker 2: the government doing. I just want to know that the 331 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:12,800 Speaker 2: cops will come if my neighborhood is getting looted. But 332 00:18:12,840 --> 00:18:15,040 Speaker 2: of course my neighborhood was getting looted during the fire 333 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:20,480 Speaker 2: and nobody came. And of course the fire department didn't 334 00:18:20,520 --> 00:18:24,840 Speaker 2: come to Palisades for hours and hours. So I don't 335 00:18:24,880 --> 00:18:31,080 Speaker 2: know what did the money go for exactly. Oh, we'll 336 00:18:31,080 --> 00:18:34,919 Speaker 2: talk more later on in the show. Michael Monks is 337 00:18:34,960 --> 00:18:38,000 Speaker 2: going to be covering the I guess the supervisors are 338 00:18:38,040 --> 00:18:40,920 Speaker 2: having some kind of press conference up two o'clock we 339 00:18:41,040 --> 00:18:47,120 Speaker 2: come back. We played a lot of Newsom yesterday. Jd 340 00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:52,360 Speaker 2: Vance really went after Newsom because Newsom is openly inciting 341 00:18:52,440 --> 00:18:55,240 Speaker 2: people to go and harm ICE agents, and that's the 342 00:18:55,280 --> 00:18:55,960 Speaker 2: governor you have. 343 00:18:57,119 --> 00:19:01,439 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI AM 344 00:19:01,480 --> 00:19:02,000 Speaker 5: six forty. 345 00:19:02,840 --> 00:19:05,480 Speaker 2: We are on from one until four o'clock and then 346 00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:09,640 Speaker 2: you have the podcast after four John Cobelt's show on demand. 347 00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:10,199 Speaker 1: Go to that. 348 00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:14,080 Speaker 2: Whatever you missed, We've had Michael monksun already this hour 349 00:19:14,440 --> 00:19:18,440 Speaker 2: going into detail about this absurd after action report. 350 00:19:19,119 --> 00:19:21,800 Speaker 4: Jesus, they hired a. 351 00:19:21,080 --> 00:19:23,719 Speaker 2: Forced our general and his consulting company to tell us 352 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:30,880 Speaker 2: what we already knew that La County was completely unrepaired, unprepared, 353 00:19:31,119 --> 00:19:37,200 Speaker 2: unresponsive and just stupid and it's reaction to the fire. 354 00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:41,639 Speaker 2: And we'll have more on this later. Now, speaking of 355 00:19:41,720 --> 00:19:49,560 Speaker 2: stupid Newsome, he's continuing on his crusade against Ice. Although 356 00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:51,840 Speaker 2: I wonder when he woke up this morning and saw 357 00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:55,199 Speaker 2: that there was well, there was a press conference this 358 00:19:55,240 --> 00:19:59,560 Speaker 2: morning about the shooting and the guy who did the 359 00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:05,120 Speaker 2: shooting in Dallas of the ICE detention center, remember this yesterday, 360 00:20:05,160 --> 00:20:08,840 Speaker 2: And he actually killed one of the immigrants being detained, 361 00:20:09,040 --> 00:20:12,360 Speaker 2: wounded two others. But he was going after ICE agents 362 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:13,720 Speaker 2: and he. 363 00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:18,840 Speaker 1: Was looking up. He was looking up. 364 00:20:18,800 --> 00:20:21,320 Speaker 4: The on Google, the Charlie Kirk video. 365 00:20:23,520 --> 00:20:27,520 Speaker 2: In the days before he climbed the ladder, got on 366 00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:32,560 Speaker 2: the roof and started taking aim at everybody at this 367 00:20:32,680 --> 00:20:38,520 Speaker 2: detention center. There's this area where I guess the ICE 368 00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:43,040 Speaker 2: vans pull up. It's like a staging area, and then 369 00:20:43,080 --> 00:20:45,360 Speaker 2: they take the immigrants out of the vans or out 370 00:20:45,359 --> 00:20:49,720 Speaker 2: of the cars and they're in handcuffs or in shackles 371 00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:52,800 Speaker 2: of some kind and they're taking inside to get processed. 372 00:20:52,840 --> 00:20:56,360 Speaker 2: So this is where all the business is done. Outside. Well, 373 00:20:56,600 --> 00:21:00,960 Speaker 2: there was a roof next door across the street, and 374 00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:03,840 Speaker 2: this guy climbs up on the roof and he's got 375 00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:07,000 Speaker 2: a rifle and he just starts shooting. His name's Joshua 376 00:21:07,080 --> 00:21:10,480 Speaker 2: jan and he plotted this whole thing for quite some time. 377 00:21:12,119 --> 00:21:16,119 Speaker 2: And here's what he wrote in the note. Hopefully this 378 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:18,480 Speaker 2: will give ICE agents real terror. 379 00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:20,240 Speaker 1: To think. 380 00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:24,199 Speaker 2: Is there a sniper with ap armor piercing rounds on 381 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:24,720 Speaker 2: that roof? 382 00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:31,679 Speaker 1: So it could have been even worse. 383 00:21:34,119 --> 00:21:36,439 Speaker 2: He was shooting at a car and I believe like 384 00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:40,120 Speaker 2: the immigrant inside the car was killed, but he assumed. 385 00:21:40,119 --> 00:21:44,440 Speaker 2: I guess there were officers inside the car. And this 386 00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:48,560 Speaker 2: is what all this violent fight ICE record rhetorica is spawning. 387 00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:53,000 Speaker 1: Here's what Newsom said just a couple of days. 388 00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:56,480 Speaker 2: Ago when he announced this stupid anti mask bill is 389 00:21:56,520 --> 00:21:57,200 Speaker 2: going to be signed. 390 00:21:57,359 --> 00:22:01,280 Speaker 1: I'll be signing a bill first in the nation saying 391 00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:05,000 Speaker 1: enough ICE unmasked. What are you afraid of? 392 00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:13,000 Speaker 2: Well, maybe armor piercing bullets, you dumb clock, Maybe armor 393 00:22:13,080 --> 00:22:16,040 Speaker 2: piercing bullets, maybe brain piercing bullets. Is do some really 394 00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:22,679 Speaker 2: the stupid who would do this? You're the governor? So 395 00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:28,600 Speaker 2: now do you know why they wear masks? I mean 396 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:32,600 Speaker 2: they wear masks, and officials talked about this today. They're 397 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:36,520 Speaker 2: getting docked like crazy. Some of the ICE agents who 398 00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:43,160 Speaker 2: do get identified, these terrorists from these activist groups show 399 00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:49,760 Speaker 2: up at people's homes or they send you nasty email, 400 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:54,639 Speaker 2: bad phone calls. It's death threats to you, your spouse 401 00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:59,080 Speaker 2: and your family. Whys the kids are getting this and 402 00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:03,920 Speaker 2: do some as cheering on the terrorists, domestic terrorists. That's 403 00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:05,320 Speaker 2: what things are I mean, the guy wrote it in 404 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:09,959 Speaker 2: his own words, this Joshua John. Hopefully this will give 405 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:15,720 Speaker 2: ice agents real terror. And I heard one expert today 406 00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:20,879 Speaker 2: describing how from a legal standpoint, how stupid newsomes anti 407 00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:28,720 Speaker 2: mask is, and this one's easy. I was saying a 408 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:33,199 Speaker 2: couple of days ago, who's going to arrest them? And 409 00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:39,080 Speaker 2: this analyst said, well, if a state patrol officer, a 410 00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:43,680 Speaker 2: CHP officer tries to arrest a federal agent for wearing 411 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:49,840 Speaker 2: a mask, that state officer will be arrested and put 412 00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:56,800 Speaker 2: in federal prison. That's what's going to happen. It's literally 413 00:23:56,840 --> 00:24:02,800 Speaker 2: impossible for state or local law enforcement to enforce this 414 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:08,680 Speaker 2: law because once you do, you're violating federal law. You're obstruction. 415 00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:13,600 Speaker 2: You're obstructing an ice officer. If any of these state 416 00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:17,240 Speaker 2: or local officers give a federal ice officer crap about 417 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:23,159 Speaker 2: a mask, then that federal ice officer, who's got a 418 00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:27,000 Speaker 2: few buddies with him, he's going to put the local 419 00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:32,040 Speaker 2: cop or the state patrolman in the back of a 420 00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:36,919 Speaker 2: car and that guy's going to prison. That's what Newsom 421 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:40,600 Speaker 2: is encouraging. That's how dumb this law is that was 422 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:44,400 Speaker 2: passed by the vast majority of the Senate in the Assembly. 423 00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:50,959 Speaker 2: I assume almost every Democrat. They want state and local 424 00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:55,080 Speaker 2: police that risk being thrown in a federal prison. That's 425 00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:57,600 Speaker 2: what it is. They have no right to enforce a 426 00:24:57,640 --> 00:24:58,240 Speaker 2: mask law. 427 00:24:58,440 --> 00:24:59,240 Speaker 1: None. Zero. 428 00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:05,160 Speaker 3: Constitution says that federal law reigns supreme over state law. 429 00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:09,200 Speaker 2: This is how stupid Newsom is. Have you seen any 430 00:25:09,359 --> 00:25:13,600 Speaker 2: reporter ask them about it? Are that bozo Stephen Colbert, 431 00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:14,400 Speaker 2: any of them? 432 00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:14,600 Speaker 6: No? 433 00:25:16,119 --> 00:25:20,520 Speaker 2: Jade Vance went after Newsom. Uh, let's play cut number one. 434 00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:23,480 Speaker 6: The very people who keep us safe ought to be 435 00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:28,760 Speaker 6: honored and protected and praised by Democrats and Republicans alike. 436 00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:32,400 Speaker 6: It is time to stop the rhetorical assault. 437 00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:34,840 Speaker 1: On law enforcement because here's what happens. 438 00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:43,240 Speaker 6: Because here's what happens when Democrats like Gavin Newsom did 439 00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:47,080 Speaker 6: say that these people are part of an authoritarian government. 440 00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:50,320 Speaker 6: When the left wing media lies about what they're doing, 441 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:52,640 Speaker 6: when they lie about who they're arresting, when they lie 442 00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:56,320 Speaker 6: about the actual job of law enforcement, what they're doing 443 00:25:56,440 --> 00:26:00,080 Speaker 6: is encouraging crazy people to go and commit violence. You 444 00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:02,600 Speaker 6: don't have to agree with my immigration policies. 445 00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:04,000 Speaker 1: You don't have to agree with. 446 00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:08,960 Speaker 6: Donald Trump's immigration policies. But if your political rhetoric encourages 447 00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:12,520 Speaker 6: violence against our law enforcement, you can go straight to 448 00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:13,000 Speaker 6: hell and. 449 00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:15,280 Speaker 1: You have no place in the political. 450 00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:16,880 Speaker 6: Conversation of the United. 451 00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:17,640 Speaker 1: States of America. 452 00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:22,080 Speaker 2: Well that's what Newsom is doing, and he's number one 453 00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:24,480 Speaker 2: on the list, and Karen Bass is right behind him. 454 00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:27,000 Speaker 2: We got the two beauties out here because we have 455 00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:29,520 Speaker 2: the most illegal aliens. So there's been a lot of 456 00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:32,879 Speaker 2: federal enforcement. I don't know who Knewsom and Bass are 457 00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:36,880 Speaker 2: playing to, but they're inciting terrorists to go kill ICE 458 00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:42,520 Speaker 2: agents and that's what we meantime. Look what's happened in 459 00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:49,000 Speaker 2: California this year, just the fires right by themselves, Palli said, 460 00:26:49,119 --> 00:26:52,840 Speaker 2: left unattended by Karen Bass vacationing in Ghana. 461 00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:55,679 Speaker 3: Oh no, no, she was on a diplomatic trip. This is 462 00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:56,440 Speaker 3: what we've got here. 463 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:02,440 Speaker 2: And she's out in the streets shaking with rage every 464 00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:07,080 Speaker 2: time ICE arrest somebody. Holy mackerel. She's like about Kano, 465 00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:12,480 Speaker 2: that's what she cares about. More coming up, I got 466 00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:15,040 Speaker 2: more from Vance and Trump too. 467 00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:20,280 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM sixty. 468 00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:25,800 Speaker 2: Coming up after two o'clock. Take another whack at Mike Bonnen, 469 00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:32,040 Speaker 2: the failed loser who was the West Side councilman for years, 470 00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:39,320 Speaker 2: who just had this enormous attraction to homeless people, and 471 00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:45,280 Speaker 2: he just would give homeless people enormous I mean, the 472 00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:51,240 Speaker 2: whole corrupt nonprofit homeless complex. He would just shovel tons 473 00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:54,560 Speaker 2: of money that way and allowed them to take over many, 474 00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:59,200 Speaker 2: many blocks and many sections of the West Side. Now 475 00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:01,480 Speaker 2: we have Tracy Park and she has cleaned much of 476 00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:05,520 Speaker 2: it up. Absolutely the worst local politician I've ever seen 477 00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:11,760 Speaker 2: in my life. One failed project he left behind was 478 00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:16,719 Speaker 2: an old Ramada inn in Marina del Rey City has 479 00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:19,439 Speaker 2: spent twenty million dollars was supposed to be converted to 480 00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:23,000 Speaker 2: low income housing and nothing's happened. And this has gone 481 00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:25,959 Speaker 2: on for years. And we're going to talk to Angela 482 00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:30,400 Speaker 2: McGregor from the Westside Current dot com about it. Let's continue. 483 00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:33,919 Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom has been on the East Coast in New 484 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:39,480 Speaker 2: York and he's on his tour to continue demonizing ICE 485 00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:45,080 Speaker 2: agents and inciting terrorists who want to kill them. And 486 00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:49,760 Speaker 2: Jade Vance went after him and he gave a speech 487 00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:52,400 Speaker 2: in count Concord, North Carolina, and he told him the 488 00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:56,360 Speaker 2: last clip he actually told him, said that politicians like 489 00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:59,960 Speaker 2: Newsom can go straight to hell. Here's some more jade 490 00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:02,400 Speaker 2: advance about all this violence. 491 00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:06,680 Speaker 6: Let me just leave you with one final thought here. Look, 492 00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:09,000 Speaker 6: I was asked earlier today by a reporter, a reporter 493 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:11,960 Speaker 6: I actually like, but a reporter who said, well, don't 494 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:15,480 Speaker 6: both sides have crazy people? And of course, obviously count 495 00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:19,120 Speaker 6: three hundred and thirty million people. Of course both sides 496 00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:21,920 Speaker 6: have crazy people. But if you look at the political 497 00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:24,480 Speaker 6: violence in our country over the last couple of months, 498 00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:26,920 Speaker 6: the last couple of years, it is not a both 499 00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:30,640 Speaker 6: sides problem. It is primarily on one side of the 500 00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:34,600 Speaker 6: political aisle. So if we are going to truly go 501 00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:38,479 Speaker 6: after the political violence in this country, we need the 502 00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:42,120 Speaker 6: democratic leadership of Washington, d C. To look in the mirror. 503 00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:45,720 Speaker 6: We need them to renounce all political violence. When a 504 00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:49,040 Speaker 6: poor kid like Charlie Kirk is gunned down in cold blood, 505 00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:52,600 Speaker 6: we need them to start with condemning the violence instead 506 00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:55,680 Speaker 6: of condemning something that Charlie Kirk said that they disagreed with. 507 00:29:56,480 --> 00:30:00,600 Speaker 6: When you have when you have an entire network of 508 00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:07,360 Speaker 6: left wing organizations that encourage, that promote, and that apologize 509 00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:09,080 Speaker 6: for violence, you know what you're gonna get out of it. 510 00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:12,800 Speaker 6: You're gonna get political violence. So here's my sacred obligation 511 00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:15,680 Speaker 6: to you, to all the law enforcement, but every person, 512 00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:18,720 Speaker 6: whether they wear a uniform or not. Over the next 513 00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:21,240 Speaker 6: couple of years, the Trump administration is going to do 514 00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:25,800 Speaker 6: everything that we can to dismantle the networks, to destroy 515 00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:28,840 Speaker 6: the funding, and to make it harder for people to 516 00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:32,360 Speaker 6: kill one another just because they disagree with what somebody says. 517 00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:34,280 Speaker 1: That is what we're going to do. We're gonna fight 518 00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:34,640 Speaker 1: for it. 519 00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:38,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, well, come to Los Angeles because we have a 520 00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:43,400 Speaker 2: network of anti ICE groups and Karen Bass and Gavin 521 00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:47,760 Speaker 2: Newsom promote them. In some cases they're funded by tax money. 522 00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:51,960 Speaker 2: Proof of that is Turla. They got to thirty four 523 00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:56,200 Speaker 2: million dollars from the state from Gavin Newsom and they 524 00:30:56,240 --> 00:31:01,080 Speaker 2: were a leading instigator of the rioting. Remember the rioting 525 00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:04,400 Speaker 2: back in June. You remember when they were standing on 526 00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:07,160 Speaker 2: an overpass on the one on one and dropping concrete 527 00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:12,800 Speaker 2: blocks onto patrol cars. Yeah, those guys there is Antifa 528 00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:16,960 Speaker 2: characters involved in this. And just my opinion, I suspect 529 00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:24,000 Speaker 2: that see Bass and Newsom and these these agitators and 530 00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:28,400 Speaker 2: these anti ICE nonprofits who are living off our tax money. 531 00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:32,400 Speaker 2: They know this is a lost cause. They know that 532 00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:35,400 Speaker 2: Bass and Newsom have no power on the immigration issue. 533 00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:38,760 Speaker 2: ICE is going to do whatever their order to do 534 00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:42,560 Speaker 2: within the law and the constitution, and they will, they'll execute, 535 00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:46,200 Speaker 2: and they're going to keep doing it. It's entirely a 536 00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:53,960 Speaker 2: federal issue, federal responsibility. States and towns have zero, zero 537 00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:59,360 Speaker 2: responsibility for this, zero role. Bass and Newsom have no votes, 538 00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:04,520 Speaker 2: and so everybody's frustrated. And what always happens from a 539 00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:07,720 Speaker 2: toddlers on up. When people are frustrated and nobody they 540 00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:10,320 Speaker 2: have no power, nobody's listening to them. Because nobody has 541 00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:13,000 Speaker 2: to listen to them, they resort to violence. 542 00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:14,200 Speaker 1: So that's what you're seeing. 543 00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:18,120 Speaker 2: It's the violence from the losers, the violence with no 544 00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:26,120 Speaker 2: power because they don't have a constituency. There's nobody taken 545 00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:29,920 Speaker 2: to the streets to say, hey, let's have more criminal, 546 00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:36,560 Speaker 2: illegal aliens running around. You just have There's nobody on 547 00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:41,840 Speaker 2: the side of these activist groups, these violent groups except 548 00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:46,160 Speaker 2: get Bass A Newsom. Well, Well, sorry, you guys lost. 549 00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:50,760 Speaker 1: You guys lost. You're not in charge. 550 00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:55,880 Speaker 2: Debra mark Slide in the KFI twenty four Our newsroom. 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