1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,280 --> 00:00:08,480 Speaker 2: We're on from one until four and if you miss 4 00:00:08,480 --> 00:00:12,800 Speaker 2: stuff after four o'clock, John Cobelt's show on demand on 5 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:15,080 Speaker 2: the iHeart app. It's the podcast and you could hear 6 00:00:15,120 --> 00:00:18,240 Speaker 2: what you missed, and we have a lot of fascinating 7 00:00:18,239 --> 00:00:21,319 Speaker 2: stuff today. We are going to have Rick Caruso coming 8 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:26,120 Speaker 2: on at two thirty. There's also a poll that says 9 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:32,720 Speaker 2: if there was an election today, Caruso would get significantly 10 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:36,960 Speaker 2: more votes than Karen Bass. The people were in a 11 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:40,440 Speaker 2: sour mood, and we're going to talk to him about 12 00:00:40,720 --> 00:00:43,720 Speaker 2: what needs to be done to get the palisades built 13 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:48,760 Speaker 2: up more quickly they would normally happen, and to talk 14 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:52,320 Speaker 2: about this some of the huge mistakes made by the 15 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:56,000 Speaker 2: government in their preparations. So that's all ahead. We're also 16 00:00:56,080 --> 00:00:59,480 Speaker 2: going to talk with Owen Brennan, president of Madison McQueen. 17 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:03,600 Speaker 2: That's the company that commissioned the poll. So that's that's 18 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:04,200 Speaker 2: coming up. 19 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:07,559 Speaker 1: By first. Trump is landing in. 20 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:10,720 Speaker 2: Los Angeles about three point thirty and is going to 21 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:13,639 Speaker 2: take a tour of the Palisades, and we have Alex 22 00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:17,080 Speaker 2: Stone on the case. ABC News correspondent here on KFI 23 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:21,080 Speaker 2: Alex God, Yeah, he's inbound right now, coming in from 24 00:01:21,120 --> 00:01:24,199 Speaker 2: Ashville Air Force One. He is flying here and they're 25 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:26,520 Speaker 2: going to be landing in about two hours or so, 26 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:30,040 Speaker 2: and then he's gonna chop her over to the Santa 27 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:32,640 Speaker 2: Monic area and then go on to Pacific Palisades. And 28 00:01:33,080 --> 00:01:34,760 Speaker 2: we know he's going to be on the ground in 29 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:37,760 Speaker 2: the burn zone for about two hours before he heads 30 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:41,160 Speaker 2: out to Vegas. He's going to meet with fire victims, 31 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:45,480 Speaker 2: first responders, political leaders. One of those political leaders we 32 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:50,000 Speaker 2: now know will be Governor Newsom, the two being political foes. 33 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:52,400 Speaker 2: The Newsom is going to greet him at lax. 34 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:55,240 Speaker 3: And there were questions until half an hour or so 35 00:01:55,320 --> 00:01:58,240 Speaker 3: ago because Newsom was not invited to any of this. 36 00:01:58,720 --> 00:02:01,080 Speaker 3: His name is not on any the attendee list. And 37 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:04,120 Speaker 3: Newsom said yesterday, well, they hadn't been talking to anybody. 38 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:06,800 Speaker 4: I haven't we haven't had any contact with the White House. 39 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:09,840 Speaker 3: And it still appears he's not invited to the stops 40 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:12,240 Speaker 3: that President Trump is going to be making. You know, 41 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:15,440 Speaker 3: we've seen on a lot of these lists where you go, okay, 42 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:17,840 Speaker 3: there's a lot of Democrats on here, White sides, it's 43 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:19,600 Speaker 3: on here, Karen bass is on here. 44 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:22,520 Speaker 1: No Gavin Newsom. But what he gotta stalk. 45 00:02:22,280 --> 00:02:25,800 Speaker 2: Trump, Well, he made it seem that, no matter what, 46 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:28,720 Speaker 2: he's going to be at Lax to greet him and 47 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:32,200 Speaker 2: the cree there. So the governor's office put out a 48 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:35,320 Speaker 2: statement in the last half an hour saying, in consultation 49 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:38,160 Speaker 2: with the White House, he will be greeting President Trump. 50 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:40,040 Speaker 2: So we assume that they have come to some kind 51 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:42,480 Speaker 2: of an agreement where at least at Lax he'll be 52 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:44,960 Speaker 2: there as governors typically are as. Trump comes down the 53 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:48,080 Speaker 2: stairs and the governor Newsom will be there, but not 54 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:53,000 Speaker 2: go to these briefings and meetings Pacific Palisades. But you 55 00:02:53,040 --> 00:02:54,640 Speaker 2: got to remember these two had kind of a weird 56 00:02:54,760 --> 00:02:58,639 Speaker 2: romance a couple of years ago during the Palisades fire 57 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:02,880 Speaker 2: and the wolves he and COVID and Newsom is saying 58 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:05,040 Speaker 2: he wants to get back to that with Trump. That 59 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:08,440 Speaker 2: you remember that Trump even praised Newsom a little bit 60 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:11,480 Speaker 2: at one time. He was talking fairly highly up until 61 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:14,480 Speaker 2: the last couple of years with the Biden in office, 62 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:18,320 Speaker 2: that he would talk somewhat highly of Newsom. They were 63 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:20,400 Speaker 2: kind of buddy buddy. It was a little weird because 64 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:21,240 Speaker 2: then they would. 65 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:23,520 Speaker 3: Trash talk each other at other times, but talk about 66 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:25,120 Speaker 3: how much that they were getting along. 67 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:27,480 Speaker 1: So he is saying. Newsom is saying he wants to 68 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:27,960 Speaker 1: get back to that. 69 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:31,440 Speaker 4: We had a great relationship during COVID, well established, well defined. 70 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:33,600 Speaker 4: I don't think there was a democratic governor in the 71 00:03:33,639 --> 00:03:36,520 Speaker 4: country that worked more collaborative with the President United States. 72 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:39,640 Speaker 4: That's my mindset when it comes to mergencies and disasters. 73 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:40,960 Speaker 1: So we'll see how this goes. Today. 74 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:43,160 Speaker 3: Apparently he's going to be at Lax, Newsom will be 75 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:45,280 Speaker 3: and then it does not appear that he's going to 76 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:48,360 Speaker 3: go into Pacific Palisades for the meetings with the President, 77 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:50,680 Speaker 3: But we'll see. And Newsom Osco John is not liking 78 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:53,920 Speaker 3: that President Trump today was saying that, and he's been 79 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:56,080 Speaker 3: kind of hinting at this last couple of days, threatening 80 00:03:56,120 --> 00:03:59,400 Speaker 3: withholding emergency aid if voter ID rules don't change in 81 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:02,400 Speaker 3: California and if water rules don't change that. Newsom is 82 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:06,839 Speaker 3: arguing that during an emergency shouldn't be contingent on politics. 83 00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:10,160 Speaker 3: But either way, the President will be on the ground 84 00:04:10,240 --> 00:04:13,360 Speaker 3: in about two hours. He's gonna go over to the 85 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:16,320 Speaker 3: Pacific Palisades, look around, meet with the fire victims and 86 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:18,000 Speaker 3: the firefighters, and then he's out of here. 87 00:04:18,080 --> 00:04:19,040 Speaker 1: Is he going out to Diana? 88 00:04:19,279 --> 00:04:22,000 Speaker 3: No, not unless there's some surprise, nothing on the schedule 89 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:22,760 Speaker 3: going down to Dina. 90 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:26,839 Speaker 1: All right, Uh, well we'll maybe we'll talk later. You 91 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:27,159 Speaker 1: got it? 92 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:30,520 Speaker 2: All right, he's going to be touring, he's gonna be 93 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:33,400 Speaker 2: landing what about three thirty, and then quickly going off 94 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:37,360 Speaker 2: to Pacific Palisades. You know, putting all these random h 95 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:39,880 Speaker 2: I said, I don't take Trump seriously like a lot 96 00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:42,640 Speaker 2: of people, do they They Oh my god, there's gonna 97 00:04:42,640 --> 00:04:45,440 Speaker 2: be strings attached. That's in humane, that's terrible. Oh he 98 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:49,880 Speaker 2: wants he wants voter ID and it's he put all 99 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:52,599 Speaker 2: that aside because that's Trump, just says stuff. 100 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:52,840 Speaker 1: Right. 101 00:04:53,839 --> 00:04:57,160 Speaker 2: What he should do this is if this is what 102 00:04:57,200 --> 00:05:01,560 Speaker 2: I would demand, is look how much money Newsom and 103 00:05:01,640 --> 00:05:05,800 Speaker 2: Bass have wasted on everything else, and know that if 104 00:05:05,839 --> 00:05:11,240 Speaker 2: you promise X billions of dollars to them, unless there's 105 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:15,120 Speaker 2: extreme oversight by the Trump administration, that money is going 106 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:18,479 Speaker 2: to get squandered. And there's three easy examples, and we've 107 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:22,280 Speaker 2: talked about them all many times. But there's the there's 108 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:27,880 Speaker 2: the twenty four million dollars in state homeless money that 109 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:32,960 Speaker 2: Newsom admitted they lost track of. They don't know exactly 110 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:35,360 Speaker 2: where it went, and they don't know if anything worked. 111 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:41,520 Speaker 2: That's twenty four million. There's thirty to fifty million. They 112 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:47,080 Speaker 2: couldn't track this exactly either. When when COVID happened and 113 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:52,560 Speaker 2: they had federal money for unemployment benefits, much of that 114 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:58,400 Speaker 2: money was accessed by fraudsters. Newsom did not have any 115 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:02,560 Speaker 2: security measures place to make sure that the people applying 116 00:06:02,560 --> 00:06:07,159 Speaker 2: for the money and getting the checks really were California citizens. 117 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:12,240 Speaker 2: Eighty five percent of the fraudulent payouts went to people 118 00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:17,040 Speaker 2: living out of the country. Now, now that's thirty to 119 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:18,160 Speaker 2: fifty billion. 120 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:19,840 Speaker 1: All right. 121 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:22,760 Speaker 2: So now at the low end of things, we're talking 122 00:06:22,839 --> 00:06:27,960 Speaker 2: fifty four billion wasted. Add another ten to fifteen billion 123 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:33,960 Speaker 2: high speed rail. Now you're up to about sixty five 124 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:39,640 Speaker 2: billion conservatively, conservatively a lot more. When somebody blows sixty 125 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:43,320 Speaker 2: five billion dollars some of its state money, some of 126 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:46,720 Speaker 2: its federal money, and can't tell you where the money 127 00:06:46,760 --> 00:06:49,520 Speaker 2: went because when they do the high speed rail audits, 128 00:06:49,960 --> 00:06:52,680 Speaker 2: they found out that the trail went cold. It's like, yeah, 129 00:06:52,720 --> 00:06:54,560 Speaker 2: they spent the money, but we don't know who it 130 00:06:54,640 --> 00:06:58,520 Speaker 2: went to, let alone weather did any good. So you 131 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:03,159 Speaker 2: have three big examples there, sixty five billion dollars. So 132 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:09,160 Speaker 2: I wouldn't give do some the money. He's like your 133 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:12,640 Speaker 2: smarmy brother in law who's got a gambling problem and 134 00:07:12,680 --> 00:07:14,880 Speaker 2: a drinking problem and a drug problem and can't hold 135 00:07:14,920 --> 00:07:18,080 Speaker 2: a job. Yeah, he hits you up for a five 136 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:20,480 Speaker 2: hundred here and a thousand there. At some point it's like, buddy, 137 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:23,520 Speaker 2: that's it. I'm not giving you any more money. Newsom 138 00:07:23,640 --> 00:07:27,960 Speaker 2: cannot handle money. He's not responsible. You might have somebody 139 00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:30,240 Speaker 2: in your family, you might have a kid where you 140 00:07:30,440 --> 00:07:34,840 Speaker 2: just don't finance them because they don't take care of money. Well, 141 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:38,840 Speaker 2: and that's what you have with Newsom, and it's our money. 142 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:44,400 Speaker 2: So I'm all for Trump sequestering the money in a 143 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:47,640 Speaker 2: way so that Newsom and Karen Bass. His Karen Bass 144 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:51,200 Speaker 2: has spent so much money that La is actually insolvent. 145 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:52,760 Speaker 1: It's broke. 146 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:57,320 Speaker 2: She gave away the store and employee salaries and benefits, 147 00:07:57,760 --> 00:08:02,680 Speaker 2: and they're gonna have to borrow money to deal with 148 00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:06,720 Speaker 2: the fire before the federal government reimburses them. They don't 149 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:10,520 Speaker 2: have any cash lying around. So Newsom and Bass are 150 00:08:10,720 --> 00:08:13,960 Speaker 2: financial disasters. You can go look it up yourself. It's true, 151 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:16,160 Speaker 2: and I wouldn't trust them, but you know they're going 152 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:18,480 Speaker 2: to be asking for god knows how many billions of dollars. 153 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:20,560 Speaker 1: You can't. You can't give it to them. I don't 154 00:08:20,560 --> 00:08:21,280 Speaker 1: know who to give it to. 155 00:08:21,440 --> 00:08:24,640 Speaker 2: Be nice that they both resigned and somebody intelligent and 156 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:27,560 Speaker 2: responsible took over the city in the state. But all right, 157 00:08:27,640 --> 00:08:31,400 Speaker 2: more coming up when we come back, we're going to 158 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:37,440 Speaker 2: talk about, Well, we're gonna we're gonna talk about how 159 00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:44,560 Speaker 2: little La was prepared, was prepared. Excuse me, I have 160 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:48,440 Speaker 2: a very irritated system. Uh, oh, well I told you 161 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:49,000 Speaker 2: what this is. 162 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:49,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. 163 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:53,280 Speaker 2: My system is irritated from all the smoke and dirt 164 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:55,679 Speaker 2: on my side of town. Yeah, and the allergens from 165 00:08:55,679 --> 00:08:57,520 Speaker 2: the winds and the three percent humidity. 166 00:08:57,640 --> 00:08:57,880 Speaker 4: Yeah. 167 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:01,160 Speaker 2: I don't do well with with sant Ana wins and 168 00:09:02,200 --> 00:09:02,880 Speaker 2: I'm wheezing. 169 00:09:03,280 --> 00:09:05,960 Speaker 1: I don't actually have a cold. I have all this 170 00:09:06,440 --> 00:09:09,679 Speaker 1: discomfort in my system. You better not have a cold, 171 00:09:09,679 --> 00:09:12,520 Speaker 1: because I don't want to get sick. And it's all 172 00:09:12,559 --> 00:09:15,040 Speaker 1: about you, it is, It is all about me. That's right, 173 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:15,720 Speaker 1: I know, you know. 174 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:20,880 Speaker 2: Anyway, we'll get to all the things that the city 175 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:23,520 Speaker 2: was told that they should have done for years and 176 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:27,120 Speaker 2: years and years and never did to deal with a 177 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:30,320 Speaker 2: fire of this magnitude, to deal with the water issues 178 00:09:30,640 --> 00:09:33,880 Speaker 2: that they had during the fire. This has been documented 179 00:09:33,920 --> 00:09:37,960 Speaker 2: for many years. Everybody who's run the city just didn't 180 00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:40,199 Speaker 2: do anything about it. And I'll tell you about it. It 181 00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:42,520 Speaker 2: was in the LA Times today, extensive story. 182 00:09:42,559 --> 00:09:43,079 Speaker 1: That's next. 183 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:48,160 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 184 00:09:48,160 --> 00:09:49,000 Speaker 5: six forty. 185 00:09:50,200 --> 00:09:53,360 Speaker 2: Later on, Rick Caruso is coming on, and we're also 186 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:56,880 Speaker 2: going to talk to a polster who released a poll 187 00:09:56,960 --> 00:10:01,440 Speaker 2: today some polsters do, which shows that Caruso would beat 188 00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:05,440 Speaker 2: by about seven points if there was an election today. 189 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:09,960 Speaker 2: It looks like it took a fire, and it took 190 00:10:10,240 --> 00:10:13,520 Speaker 2: six thousand homes burning to finally shake people up in 191 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:15,800 Speaker 2: LA County that maybe we ought to do something different. 192 00:10:17,520 --> 00:10:21,920 Speaker 2: We'll get to that later on. Now Los Angeles Times, 193 00:10:21,960 --> 00:10:23,800 Speaker 2: and I will give credit to the LA Times. Last 194 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:27,920 Speaker 2: couple of weeks, between two extensive stories on the empty 195 00:10:27,960 --> 00:10:31,760 Speaker 2: reservoir and then this one today, they are digging out 196 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:35,199 Speaker 2: the truth and some people get uncomfortable when they hear 197 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:38,680 Speaker 2: this truth. But I told you this is the department 198 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:43,960 Speaker 2: of blame, fingerpointing, Monday morning quarterbacking, and there was a 199 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:49,080 Speaker 2: fourth department I forgot. But those departments are operating full 200 00:10:49,080 --> 00:10:52,400 Speaker 2: blast here because the only way to change things is 201 00:10:52,440 --> 00:10:56,520 Speaker 2: to make life uncomfortable for those who were either negligent 202 00:10:57,280 --> 00:11:02,199 Speaker 2: or made stupid decisions. So we're gonna name names, and 203 00:11:02,280 --> 00:11:04,400 Speaker 2: we're gonna tell you specifically what they did wrong. 204 00:11:05,080 --> 00:11:06,240 Speaker 1: You're not going to believe this. 205 00:11:06,240 --> 00:11:11,600 Speaker 2: This is Connor Sheets wrote this story, and he writes 206 00:11:12,040 --> 00:11:16,360 Speaker 2: Records show that La County missed dozens of opportunities for 207 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:21,239 Speaker 2: what are infrastructure improvements that would have likely helped firefighters 208 00:11:21,320 --> 00:11:22,520 Speaker 2: during the Palisades fire. 209 00:11:23,960 --> 00:11:28,040 Speaker 1: Dozens dozens, twenty. 210 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:30,920 Speaker 2: Four, thirty six, forty eight didn't get a specific number here. 211 00:11:32,320 --> 00:11:35,480 Speaker 2: Some of the long delayed projects were specifically aimed at 212 00:11:35,520 --> 00:11:42,520 Speaker 2: improving fireflow, actually the water flow to put out fires, 213 00:11:43,040 --> 00:11:47,920 Speaker 2: and ensuring enough water during emergencies. One county official said 214 00:11:47,960 --> 00:11:55,080 Speaker 2: the water system performed as designed, but the design was 215 00:11:56,320 --> 00:12:03,080 Speaker 2: way inadequate for modern life and real wildfires. I bet 216 00:12:03,080 --> 00:12:06,040 Speaker 2: you everybody in the Palisades and in Ballibu had no 217 00:12:06,200 --> 00:12:10,000 Speaker 2: idea that a water system that would make it easy 218 00:12:10,760 --> 00:12:15,040 Speaker 2: to fight a wildfire didn't exist because the idiots that 219 00:12:15,040 --> 00:12:18,640 Speaker 2: have run this city and county for decades never built it. 220 00:12:20,040 --> 00:12:20,760 Speaker 1: That's the truth. 221 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:25,600 Speaker 2: And not only did they never built they never built 222 00:12:25,640 --> 00:12:30,839 Speaker 2: the thing even though various commissions and investigations and recommendations 223 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:34,560 Speaker 2: were made to saying, hey, you need this and that, 224 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:42,920 Speaker 2: and nobody did anything about it. I saw a graphic 225 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:50,280 Speaker 2: somebody was going through the federal budget and Biden administration 226 00:12:50,559 --> 00:12:56,679 Speaker 2: spent in one year a trillion dollars on climate change programs. 227 00:12:57,200 --> 00:13:01,520 Speaker 2: Climate change programs, trillion dollars. I'd like to see how 228 00:13:02,440 --> 00:13:06,240 Speaker 2: many climate change programs we wasted enormous amounts of money 229 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:10,400 Speaker 2: here in La City and county, and also how many 230 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:15,840 Speaker 2: DEI programs we wasted money on, how much we wasted 231 00:13:15,920 --> 00:13:22,600 Speaker 2: on excess salary for government workers. We waste a lot 232 00:13:22,640 --> 00:13:25,960 Speaker 2: of money. And it's about directing the money to the 233 00:13:25,960 --> 00:13:35,080 Speaker 2: most important needs of our town. Thousands of pages of state, county, 234 00:13:35,080 --> 00:13:38,120 Speaker 2: and municipal records reviewed by the Times, thousands of pages 235 00:13:39,520 --> 00:13:43,320 Speaker 2: said the disaster was years in the making. Red tape, 236 00:13:43,640 --> 00:13:48,440 Speaker 2: budget shortfalls, government and action repeatedly stymied plans for water 237 00:13:48,520 --> 00:13:52,959 Speaker 2: system improvements, including some that specifically cited the need to 238 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:57,920 Speaker 2: boost firefighting capacity. So you people were living happily in 239 00:13:57,960 --> 00:14:02,520 Speaker 2: the Palisades, happily in Malibu, having no idea. You had 240 00:14:02,600 --> 00:14:07,079 Speaker 2: an antiquated system built in the middle of the last 241 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:12,480 Speaker 2: century or well before, and it was rotting away. Yeah, 242 00:14:12,559 --> 00:14:17,000 Speaker 2: the system's underground, it's out of sight. And you trusted 243 00:14:18,679 --> 00:14:23,120 Speaker 2: LA County supervisors or LA City council people to keep 244 00:14:23,160 --> 00:14:27,040 Speaker 2: the system, make it larger, bring it up to date, and. 245 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:27,640 Speaker 1: They failed you. 246 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:34,920 Speaker 2: Whoever you voted for repeatedly for decades wasn't interested in it. Literally, 247 00:14:34,960 --> 00:14:38,240 Speaker 2: they didn't care if you died in a fire. They 248 00:14:38,240 --> 00:14:40,440 Speaker 2: didn't care. That's the only conclusion. 249 00:14:40,640 --> 00:14:42,840 Speaker 1: I know. It sounds harsh, but it's true. 250 00:14:43,040 --> 00:14:46,440 Speaker 2: Otherwise they'd spend the money they do the construction, because 251 00:14:46,520 --> 00:14:48,640 Speaker 2: what's the consequence for not spending the money and doing 252 00:14:48,640 --> 00:14:53,560 Speaker 2: the doing the construction. You die in a fire. And 253 00:14:53,600 --> 00:14:57,640 Speaker 2: we had some of that. Many projects are on a 254 00:14:57,680 --> 00:15:03,160 Speaker 2: list of about three dozen highest priority upgrades compiled by 255 00:15:03,160 --> 00:15:06,760 Speaker 2: county officials in twenty thirteen. They have yet to break ground. 256 00:15:07,640 --> 00:15:11,600 Speaker 2: This is twelve years later. Highest priority twelve years later, 257 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:20,440 Speaker 2: and they've yet to break round. The County wrote that 258 00:15:20,480 --> 00:15:25,320 Speaker 2: the upgrades would achieve critical goals, including the ensuring that 259 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:28,240 Speaker 2: the system had enough water to meet fireflow needs. You 260 00:15:28,280 --> 00:15:32,760 Speaker 2: know what, The cost was only fifty seven million dollars. 261 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:36,960 Speaker 2: Fifty seven million, you've heard what the estimates of the 262 00:15:37,040 --> 00:15:40,640 Speaker 2: damage are two hundred and fifty billion. 263 00:15:42,480 --> 00:15:43,160 Speaker 1: For petties. 264 00:15:45,840 --> 00:15:47,920 Speaker 2: They could have built a system that would have mitigated 265 00:15:47,920 --> 00:15:52,040 Speaker 2: some of the damage, maybe not everything, but some of it, 266 00:15:54,080 --> 00:16:00,560 Speaker 2: and they wouldn't spend your tax money on upgrading the system. 267 00:16:00,680 --> 00:16:03,120 Speaker 2: They had plans to build tanks that would have provided 268 00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:05,680 Speaker 2: more than a million gallons of water in Malibou and 269 00:16:05,680 --> 00:16:11,200 Speaker 2: Topanga left on the drawing board. Replacements of aging and 270 00:16:11,320 --> 00:16:16,360 Speaker 2: severely deteriorated water tanks were postponed, along with upgrades to 271 00:16:16,440 --> 00:16:21,800 Speaker 2: pumping stations and leak prone water lines. The water system 272 00:16:21,840 --> 00:16:27,240 Speaker 2: is run by the DWP. No, this water system is 273 00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:32,400 Speaker 2: run by the DPW, the county Department of Public Works. 274 00:16:33,080 --> 00:16:34,160 Speaker 1: I'll tell you more about this. 275 00:16:34,160 --> 00:16:36,840 Speaker 2: This was quite a story worth reading if you can 276 00:16:36,880 --> 00:16:41,040 Speaker 2: get into the La Times. Quite shocking how people in 277 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:45,920 Speaker 2: elected officials in La County don't care if you die 278 00:16:45,960 --> 00:16:46,400 Speaker 2: in a fire. 279 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:51,680 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on Demand from KFI A 280 00:16:51,960 --> 00:16:52,720 Speaker 5: six forty. 281 00:16:53,320 --> 00:16:55,120 Speaker 1: Coming up at two o'clock. 282 00:16:55,160 --> 00:16:59,320 Speaker 2: We're going to talk with Owen Brennan, president of Madison McQueen. 283 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:03,120 Speaker 2: This is a company that commissioned to poll who do 284 00:17:03,160 --> 00:17:06,640 Speaker 2: you want if you're an LA voter, you want Rick 285 00:17:06,680 --> 00:17:09,439 Speaker 2: Caruso or Karen Bass. 286 00:17:09,880 --> 00:17:10,200 Speaker 1: He asked. 287 00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:13,520 Speaker 2: Eleven hundred people will tell you what the outcome is. 288 00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:16,880 Speaker 2: And then we're going to have ricos on after two 289 00:17:16,920 --> 00:17:20,800 Speaker 2: thirty to talk about a number of things, obvious things. 290 00:17:20,840 --> 00:17:24,679 Speaker 2: How quickly this is going to how quickly can they 291 00:17:24,720 --> 00:17:32,040 Speaker 2: start rebuilding? And what we have here is a disaster 292 00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:34,800 Speaker 2: years in the making. According to the Los Angeles Times 293 00:17:36,240 --> 00:17:43,800 Speaker 2: that LA County missed dozens of opportunities for water infrastructure improvements, dozens. 294 00:17:44,320 --> 00:17:44,639 Speaker 3: And. 295 00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:50,560 Speaker 2: They would various commissions would draw up lists of projects 296 00:17:51,440 --> 00:17:55,600 Speaker 2: that you need to have. La was always growing, always 297 00:17:55,640 --> 00:18:01,480 Speaker 2: sprawling out, and you had this antiquated system. And if 298 00:18:02,080 --> 00:18:06,639 Speaker 2: I mean my house wasn't affected by the fire. And 299 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:11,800 Speaker 2: I'm furious because this lack of water infrastructure affects everybody, 300 00:18:12,440 --> 00:18:16,760 Speaker 2: everybody in the city and county. They have not spent 301 00:18:17,320 --> 00:18:21,280 Speaker 2: the money in decades to upgrade the system. 302 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:25,760 Speaker 1: What did they spend it on the other day. I 303 00:18:25,760 --> 00:18:29,480 Speaker 1: told you you want local government. 304 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:35,480 Speaker 2: To provide you with police on fire, and transmit water 305 00:18:35,560 --> 00:18:42,520 Speaker 2: and transmit power. Those are top four things for modern civilization. 306 00:18:44,119 --> 00:18:47,520 Speaker 2: An LA city in La County fail at all that miserably, 307 00:18:48,080 --> 00:18:50,240 Speaker 2: even though they have billions and billions and billions of 308 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:53,200 Speaker 2: dollars in tax money, and these water projects weren't even 309 00:18:53,240 --> 00:18:59,760 Speaker 2: that expensive. That's what really really is is heartbreaking. If 310 00:18:59,800 --> 00:19:02,520 Speaker 2: they spent just a little bit of money, they could 311 00:19:02,520 --> 00:19:06,000 Speaker 2: have saved many more homes. They'll never admit it. I 312 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:07,879 Speaker 2: see quotes in all these stories. I'm not sure that 313 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:10,640 Speaker 2: would have made a difference. Yes it would. You still 314 00:19:10,640 --> 00:19:12,879 Speaker 2: have people trying to say one hundred and seventeen million 315 00:19:12,920 --> 00:19:16,200 Speaker 2: gallons of water from the dry reservoir wouldn't have made 316 00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:22,480 Speaker 2: a difference. Yes it would. People aren't idiots. They know 317 00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:25,160 Speaker 2: one hundred and seventeen million gallons would have put. 318 00:19:24,960 --> 00:19:28,119 Speaker 1: Out somebody's house. God, I can't believe. 319 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:30,320 Speaker 2: And then you got people writing columns in the La 320 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:32,960 Speaker 2: Times along along those lines, what's wrong with you? 321 00:19:34,040 --> 00:19:36,280 Speaker 1: One hundred and seventeen million gallons. 322 00:19:35,880 --> 00:19:39,639 Speaker 2: Oh, it wouldn't have done anything. Oh my god, just 323 00:19:39,680 --> 00:19:41,200 Speaker 2: get out of the business. And like a lot of 324 00:19:41,240 --> 00:19:44,480 Speaker 2: people should just get out of the business of journalism, media, 325 00:19:44,480 --> 00:19:47,600 Speaker 2: get out of the business and government because you just stink, 326 00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:50,639 Speaker 2: you just lie, or you're stupid. I don't know which. 327 00:19:54,920 --> 00:19:59,520 Speaker 2: So let me continue with all these upgrades. I told 328 00:19:59,560 --> 00:20:02,639 Speaker 2: you there were three dozen highest priority upgrades compiled by 329 00:20:02,640 --> 00:20:05,360 Speaker 2: the county in twenty thirteen, and. 330 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:09,080 Speaker 1: A lot of the projects they never broke around on. 331 00:20:09,400 --> 00:20:14,719 Speaker 2: From twelve years ago, they were going to build tanks 332 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:17,879 Speaker 2: that would have provided another million gallons of water in 333 00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:18,959 Speaker 2: Malibou and to Panga. 334 00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:19,840 Speaker 1: Never did it. 335 00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:26,760 Speaker 2: Replacements of aging and severely deteriorated water tanks postponed. Now 336 00:20:26,760 --> 00:20:29,800 Speaker 2: I looked up to see who the La County supervisor 337 00:20:30,080 --> 00:20:32,080 Speaker 2: has been in that district, the third district, and it's 338 00:20:32,080 --> 00:20:35,800 Speaker 2: Lindsey Horvath now, who's a far left wing progressive nut. 339 00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:39,520 Speaker 2: And the woman before her was somebody we've kicked all 340 00:20:39,520 --> 00:20:43,840 Speaker 2: over the place for years, Sheila cule Shit. 341 00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:45,000 Speaker 1: I mean, this is. 342 00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:50,280 Speaker 2: What I and people voted for her repeatedly, Sheila Kle 343 00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:59,480 Speaker 2: And before that, zev Yaroslavsky, one of the biggest, most 344 00:20:59,480 --> 00:21:03,720 Speaker 2: incomp did blowhards that I've ever dealt with. And his 345 00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:07,280 Speaker 2: daughter in law now is an LA City council and 346 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:11,320 Speaker 2: Zev R. Slavsky once hung up on us some years ago. 347 00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:12,800 Speaker 1: Why what did you do to insult him? 348 00:21:12,960 --> 00:21:13,959 Speaker 2: I just called him? 349 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:16,040 Speaker 1: What you just you called him? What you just called him? 350 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:21,400 Speaker 2: I don't remember, I don't recall your honor. I remember, though. 351 00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:26,760 Speaker 2: What it was about is that I said, why are 352 00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:29,360 Speaker 2: you spending money on X? You should be spending money 353 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:34,080 Speaker 2: on why? And he got really mad because I was right, 354 00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:36,880 Speaker 2: he was wrong, and he goes, well, well, why don't 355 00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:38,679 Speaker 2: you run for office and. 356 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:39,959 Speaker 1: You do the budget? And hung up. 357 00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:45,560 Speaker 2: Okay, I should run for office and do the budget 358 00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:49,160 Speaker 2: because you apparently can't add or you can't put together 359 00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:50,560 Speaker 2: proper priorities. 360 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:53,000 Speaker 1: Zev. Let me say, I'm looking at this thing. 361 00:21:53,040 --> 00:21:58,040 Speaker 2: He was elected in ninety four, twenty fourteen, so twenty years, 362 00:21:58,080 --> 00:22:01,280 Speaker 2: twenty years, and it covers the period that the La 363 00:22:01,359 --> 00:22:05,120 Speaker 2: Times has been discussing where there were dozens of these 364 00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:10,080 Speaker 2: water projects for Pacific Palisades in Malibu and they never 365 00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:12,359 Speaker 2: never got off the ground. The money was never spent 366 00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:17,040 Speaker 2: and nothing was ever built. And he was the supervisor. 367 00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:23,800 Speaker 2: I haven't heard him talk in the last three weeks. Zev, 368 00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:25,960 Speaker 2: what were you doing? What did you spend the money on? 369 00:22:26,359 --> 00:22:30,840 Speaker 2: Because the amounts of small potatoes compared to the two 370 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:35,199 Speaker 2: hundred and fifty billion dollars worth of damages. Then they 371 00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:38,400 Speaker 2: have this county public Works director quoted named Mark Bistrella. 372 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:43,200 Speaker 2: He's trying to say that the water system performed as designed. 373 00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:48,199 Speaker 2: It just was only built to supply enough water to 374 00:22:48,280 --> 00:22:52,720 Speaker 2: fight fires in individual homes or structures, not massive wildfires. 375 00:22:53,359 --> 00:22:55,359 Speaker 1: Well, let me go back to zeb Raslovsky. 376 00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:57,439 Speaker 2: Why didn't you Why didn't you spend the money on 377 00:22:57,440 --> 00:23:00,960 Speaker 2: a water system that would deal with wired wildfires. Palisades 378 00:23:01,040 --> 00:23:05,680 Speaker 2: is built in wildfire land, as is all the other 379 00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:08,240 Speaker 2: cities on the foot in the foothills, on both sides 380 00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:09,440 Speaker 2: of the Santa Monica Mountains. 381 00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:11,360 Speaker 1: Nobody. 382 00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:14,680 Speaker 2: It means we're all still exposed in all these towns. 383 00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:18,840 Speaker 2: You go from the Palisades to Brent went to bel Air, 384 00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:24,600 Speaker 2: to Westwood, to Beverly Hills, to Hollywood, West Hollywood, out 385 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:28,480 Speaker 2: to Lost Phelis at the uh anything in the hills, 386 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:31,960 Speaker 2: and on the other side, Studio City in Sherman Oaks, 387 00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:37,399 Speaker 2: and Ensino in Tarzana and Woodland Hills. They never upgraded 388 00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:39,679 Speaker 2: the water system on both sides of the mountain. 389 00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:49,560 Speaker 1: We've had wildfires since for decades and decades. What did 390 00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:50,480 Speaker 1: sevier O Scott? 391 00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:52,520 Speaker 2: And this is exactly the kind of argument I had 392 00:23:52,560 --> 00:23:54,919 Speaker 2: with him when he hung up. You spend money on 393 00:23:54,960 --> 00:23:58,600 Speaker 2: stupid stuff, you don't prioritize the right thing. How could 394 00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:01,639 Speaker 2: you not prioritize fire and water projects? How do you 395 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:08,240 Speaker 2: do that? It's police, fire, water and power. Just do 396 00:24:08,359 --> 00:24:22,400 Speaker 2: those Costrella said that they had a a that list 397 00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:24,959 Speaker 2: in twenty thirteen. Wasn't a promise to build, it's a 398 00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:30,320 Speaker 2: master plan. Well, but when the cost became an issue, 399 00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:31,919 Speaker 2: it kept getting delayed. 400 00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:34,640 Speaker 1: Why was there a cost? This cost we're looking. 401 00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:36,840 Speaker 2: At the thirteen upgrades on the list was fifty nine million, 402 00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:41,320 Speaker 2: again compared to two hundred and fifty billion in damage. 403 00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:44,600 Speaker 1: Here's one the. 404 00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:49,320 Speaker 2: A pipe to connect to the Las Virgines Water District 405 00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:54,840 Speaker 2: were to cost four million dollars. Never built four million dollars. 406 00:24:56,119 --> 00:25:01,520 Speaker 2: And then Pastrella was blaming the people in Malibu. The 407 00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:04,280 Speaker 2: community is not demanding it, he said, when asked by 408 00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:05,960 Speaker 2: so many projects failed to move forward. 409 00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:07,320 Speaker 1: They're not pro development. 410 00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:10,280 Speaker 2: They're still utilizing the water system as a way to 411 00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:13,440 Speaker 2: restrict development Malibu. That's the bottom line. That's why it's 412 00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:16,359 Speaker 2: not happening. At the pace it could happen at. He's saying, 413 00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:21,879 Speaker 2: every time they brought them an idea to upgrade the 414 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:23,959 Speaker 2: water system, people didn't want to do it because then 415 00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:25,719 Speaker 2: they thought, well, that's going to bring more development, more 416 00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:29,639 Speaker 2: people are going to use it. So it's your fault 417 00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:33,119 Speaker 2: if your house burned in the fire, it's your fault 418 00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:37,480 Speaker 2: if you died in the fire, or it's your neighbor's fault. 419 00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:38,760 Speaker 1: He won't take no. 420 00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:38,639 Speaker 6: No. 421 00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:42,280 Speaker 2: I've yet to see a single person in government after 422 00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:46,399 Speaker 2: almost three weeks, I've yet to see one person take responsibility. 423 00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:51,000 Speaker 2: They're all fraid to because you know, there's probably gonna 424 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:57,480 Speaker 2: be hundreds of lawsuits and and so they're they're all 425 00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:04,520 Speaker 2: going underground. And anyway, since when do you listen to 426 00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:08,000 Speaker 2: a few ninnies who don't want development and use that 427 00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:13,200 Speaker 2: as an excuse for creating a dangerous situation for everybody. 428 00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:16,680 Speaker 2: There's a lot of anti police people in the world, 429 00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:19,760 Speaker 2: but you don't disband the police department because they don't 430 00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:24,920 Speaker 2: like it, although they tried a few years ago. You 431 00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:28,000 Speaker 2: get the work done because it has to be done 432 00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:31,679 Speaker 2: for everybody's safety. You need the water system developed so 433 00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:33,720 Speaker 2: you can fight the fire. It doesn't matter if a 434 00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:38,760 Speaker 2: few people don't like it. Yes, and there's more in 435 00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:40,800 Speaker 2: this thing. You ought to read it. It's in the 436 00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:45,560 Speaker 2: La Times. Trump is going to be landing about three thirty. 437 00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:49,040 Speaker 2: Rick Caruso's on our show at two thirty, and we're 438 00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:53,439 Speaker 2: gonna have a poster on at two o'clock. Who did 439 00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:56,600 Speaker 2: a series of questions? Versus Caruso? Who'd you vote for? 440 00:26:56,680 --> 00:26:57,239 Speaker 2: Tell you about that? 441 00:26:57,240 --> 00:26:57,639 Speaker 1: Coming up? 442 00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:03,359 Speaker 5: You're listening to John on demand from KFI Am sixty. 443 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:07,520 Speaker 1: I think I have smoke damage in my system. Are 444 00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:08,399 Speaker 1: you coughing again? 445 00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:13,160 Speaker 2: It's very dry. My whole system is very dry. Owen 446 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:16,120 Speaker 2: Brennan's coming on, President of Madison McQueen. That's a firm 447 00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:18,280 Speaker 2: that commissioned a poll. I'm going to tell you about 448 00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:22,600 Speaker 2: after Debra's news Bass versus Caruso, who do you want? 449 00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:27,280 Speaker 2: Tell you about the poul we'll talk to Owen Brennan. 450 00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:32,119 Speaker 2: Coming up, we gon spend a few minutes on the 451 00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:36,800 Speaker 2: on the ice raids. As of this morning, according to 452 00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:42,359 Speaker 2: New York Post, the Feds have arrested five hundred thirty 453 00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:44,960 Speaker 2: eight criminal illegal aliens. 454 00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:48,399 Speaker 1: They did that in what three days? Tuesday? 455 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:54,000 Speaker 2: Wednesday Thursday. They have arrested pedophiles, gang members, and a 456 00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:58,320 Speaker 2: suspected terrorist in New York. Now, these people are here 457 00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:01,600 Speaker 2: in Los Angeles, but Karen Bass wants. 458 00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:02,080 Speaker 1: To protect them. 459 00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:06,440 Speaker 2: These people are all over California, but Gavin Newsom wants 460 00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:13,800 Speaker 2: to protect them. Think about that digest that we told 461 00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:16,080 Speaker 2: you earlier this hour, that you had all these LA 462 00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:22,320 Speaker 2: City and county politicians who never ever bothered to spend 463 00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:24,879 Speaker 2: the money and build the water projects that were recommended 464 00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:27,080 Speaker 2: that could have made a difference in the Palisades fire 465 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:33,000 Speaker 2: and somebody's lost, six thousand homes and elet. 466 00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:33,440 Speaker 1: Of people died. 467 00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:38,840 Speaker 2: Now you have a governor and a mayor who do 468 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:46,760 Speaker 2: not even want convicted violent criminals arrested by ice. They 469 00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:50,880 Speaker 2: don't want to help cooperate. Why is that we would 470 00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:54,080 Speaker 2: be wrong with Karen Bass that you wouldn't want pedophiles, 471 00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:56,800 Speaker 2: gang members, and suspected terrorists to be arrested. 472 00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:03,520 Speaker 1: They had. 473 00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:08,840 Speaker 2: They arrested five people just yesterday convicted of sexual crimes 474 00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:19,280 Speaker 2: against children. They arrested Gokhan Dreguzol from Turkey, a known 475 00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:25,760 Speaker 2: suspected terrorist. They also took in a known MS thirteen 476 00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:32,280 Speaker 2: gang bang gang banger won Francisco Sanchez Contreras from al 477 00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:37,600 Speaker 2: Savador MS thirteen gang member living illegally in the United States. 478 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:43,440 Speaker 2: Uh in Buffalo, Ice took three minute to custody Pedro 479 00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:50,520 Speaker 2: Julio Maha from Dominican Republic, previously previously convicted of sexual 480 00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:57,800 Speaker 2: sexual conduct against the child. These people that Biden and 481 00:29:57,880 --> 00:30:00,160 Speaker 2: Kamala led into the country and kept him in the 482 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:03,280 Speaker 2: country were sexually assaulting young children. 483 00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:07,960 Speaker 1: And you may have voted for them. 484 00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:16,960 Speaker 2: Luis Alberto Espinoza Bocasaka from Ecuador convicted of rape. 485 00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:18,360 Speaker 1: They nailed him in Buffalo. 486 00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:23,600 Speaker 2: Albert Mills from Canada, convicted of endangering the welfare of 487 00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:25,840 Speaker 2: a child criminal possession of stolen property. 488 00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:27,200 Speaker 1: Also nailed in Buffalo. 489 00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:31,240 Speaker 2: Two other individuals known to be members of South American gangs, 490 00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:38,080 Speaker 2: member of trend Uragua, the Venezuelan gang, Jose Mata Ribeci 491 00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:44,280 Speaker 2: and heyesus Alberto Baron Lavin, another Mexican national with the 492 00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:53,400 Speaker 2: gang Barrio Azteca. Why well and why do we have 493 00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:58,320 Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom and Careen Bass not doing the work of 494 00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:05,920 Speaker 2: protecting and bonding from the fires to the fires, not 495 00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:08,480 Speaker 2: protecting us from the fires, not responding to the fires. 496 00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:11,920 Speaker 2: They were incompetent at that. But what they're really good 497 00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:17,800 Speaker 2: at is not cooperating with ICE to go after pedophiles, 498 00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:19,160 Speaker 2: gang members and terrorists. 499 00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:20,360 Speaker 1: Why is that? 500 00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:26,120 Speaker 2: And you keep voting for them? Listen to the Chicago 501 00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:32,320 Speaker 2: mayor here. This is Brandon Johnson on MSNBC, and he's 502 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:35,560 Speaker 2: also defiant telling his people not to go along with 503 00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:36,880 Speaker 2: ICE's deportation. 504 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:40,200 Speaker 6: Listen to this not or find it unconscionable that this 505 00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:45,120 Speaker 6: administration would attempt to create not just a vision, but 506 00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:47,280 Speaker 6: fear within our public schools. 507 00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:48,640 Speaker 1: I have directed all of. 508 00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:51,640 Speaker 6: Our sister agencies, as well as all of our departments, 509 00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:56,200 Speaker 6: to stand firm and to uphold the local ordinance. 510 00:31:56,560 --> 00:32:02,160 Speaker 2: Terrorists, gang bangers, pedophiles, and Brandon Johnson is directing his 511 00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:06,600 Speaker 2: agencies not to cooperate with ICE so that the terrorist, 512 00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:10,200 Speaker 2: gang bangers and pedophiles can be protected and live freely 513 00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:13,720 Speaker 2: in his city. Not making it up. That's exactly what's 514 00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:17,600 Speaker 2: been going on for four years. When we come back, 515 00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:21,920 Speaker 2: we're going to talk to It's hard to believe people's 516 00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:23,760 Speaker 2: brains freeze them. I guess they don't want to believe it. 517 00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:27,960 Speaker 2: It's so absurd and frightening. They just own Brandan's coming 518 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:31,320 Speaker 2: on President of Madison McQueen. It's a polling firm that 519 00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:34,920 Speaker 2: had a poll on whether LA residents would want Rick 520 00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:37,120 Speaker 2: Caruso or Karen Bass. 521 00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:38,400 Speaker 1: How did that turn out? 522 00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:41,640 Speaker 2: We'll tell you after Debora Mark Live in the KFI 523 00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:44,080 Speaker 2: twenty four hour Newsroom. 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