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John has taken 11 00:00:33,159 --> 00:00:37,000 Speaker 1: some time off. He doesn't have COVID. Stop that rumor, 12 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:39,800 Speaker 1: Deborah Mark, I know he's been spreading around the hallway. 13 00:00:40,040 --> 00:00:44,199 Speaker 1: I have somebody somebody went down with COVID though in KFI, Right, 14 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:46,840 Speaker 1: is that what I hear? You can't talk about that. Well, 15 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:49,440 Speaker 1: there's been quite a few Piers's not produce a ray 16 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:52,640 Speaker 1: for the third time. I hope, I hope not. He's 17 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:55,080 Speaker 1: wandering around here. I spoke with him today. I got 18 00:00:55,080 --> 00:00:58,040 Speaker 1: really close to him. It better not be him. No, 19 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:01,400 Speaker 1: I think he's past being in axious. I mean they 20 00:01:01,480 --> 00:01:04,200 Speaker 1: also Gundo Times actually came around today with the big 21 00:01:04,240 --> 00:01:06,600 Speaker 1: story what do you know, lots of cases, but this 22 00:01:06,680 --> 00:01:09,160 Speaker 1: time not so serious. It's like, how long have we 23 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:11,199 Speaker 1: been with this? What is this variant called? This latest 24 00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:16,040 Speaker 1: to be one two like that whatever they're called. We've 25 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:19,520 Speaker 1: been watching for months. Nothing's really happening with hospitalizations, any 26 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:22,319 Speaker 1: serious illnesses. And they just ignored that and continued on 27 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:25,120 Speaker 1: with their cautious stories. And we may go back to 28 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:29,680 Speaker 1: indoor masking and the Bride of Frankenstein. Barbara Ferrere says, 29 00:01:29,720 --> 00:01:32,760 Speaker 1: perhaps we have to go back to our very cautious person. 30 00:01:32,959 --> 00:01:36,080 Speaker 1: And now they run the full page front page story today. Finally, 31 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:38,960 Speaker 1: what we all know that this latest round of variants, 32 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:42,640 Speaker 1: nobody's getting very sick. People are coming down with COVID 33 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:44,640 Speaker 1: and they're going, oh, yeah, I guess so it's like 34 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:47,000 Speaker 1: a mild called or something. I felt a little bit 35 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:51,200 Speaker 1: of my chest, But this thing is played out anyway. 36 00:01:51,240 --> 00:01:53,200 Speaker 1: I hear it's going to rain. This is the first 37 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:56,040 Speaker 1: day of summer. Yeah, day is the first day. Is 38 00:01:56,080 --> 00:01:59,400 Speaker 1: the longest day of the year in terms of daylight. 39 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:01,840 Speaker 1: I enjoy it. I think the sunset by me is 40 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:05,720 Speaker 1: like eight fifteen, eight thirty that's nice, but it's all 41 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:09,080 Speaker 1: downhill from here, and then we slowly moved back to 42 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:13,440 Speaker 1: early darkness. Yeah, but there's a chance of rain. I 43 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:14,800 Speaker 1: heard you read that, and I just looked it up 44 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:17,919 Speaker 1: in the weather dot com and there is a chance 45 00:02:17,919 --> 00:02:19,960 Speaker 1: of rain overnight and in the morning. You doubted me, 46 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:22,840 Speaker 1: ken No, I just wanted to see if it's because 47 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:25,320 Speaker 1: you're reading the forecast that you know how big Calfies 48 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:27,720 Speaker 1: reaches and all the different climates we have. Yeah, you 49 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:29,400 Speaker 1: have the mountains, and you got the valley, and you 50 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:31,320 Speaker 1: got the basin, you got the coast, and you got that. 51 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:37,560 Speaker 1: So everybody might get at around chance every every every day, 52 00:02:37,720 --> 00:02:41,080 Speaker 1: yes forty, you know, maybe somebody might get thirty. But 53 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:45,200 Speaker 1: it's it's it's around that, Okay, Yeah, I know it's 54 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:48,320 Speaker 1: I think they're talking about the return of the monsoonal 55 00:02:48,919 --> 00:02:51,280 Speaker 1: weather where we kind of have those humid and then 56 00:02:51,320 --> 00:02:53,560 Speaker 1: there's a thunderstorm or two sort of in the mountains 57 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:55,799 Speaker 1: or maybe in the inland Empire. Remember sometimes you have 58 00:02:55,880 --> 00:02:58,680 Speaker 1: those flood warnings or something. That could be what's going 59 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:01,160 Speaker 1: on for the rest of this week. And they've also 60 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:05,919 Speaker 1: predicted long term that Lanina will continue, which basically means dry. 61 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:07,880 Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. If it rains overnight, is the 62 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:10,359 Speaker 1: drought over? Is that of no, But at least our 63 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:14,080 Speaker 1: plants will get some water. Yeah, how many plants do 64 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:16,200 Speaker 1: you have? Well, I have a lot of succulents, but 65 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:19,680 Speaker 1: you know, I can't have my my sprinklers on that 66 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:22,440 Speaker 1: often anymore. I have to be careful. So there's a 67 00:03:22,440 --> 00:03:25,320 Speaker 1: lot of outdoor things. Yeah, oh you do. Yeah, I 68 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:29,000 Speaker 1: have a lot of potted plants. And oh, we didn't 69 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:32,840 Speaker 1: get to this story last week, but apparently there are 70 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:35,880 Speaker 1: two places that the Los Angeles Department of Water and 71 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:39,640 Speaker 1: Power serves which you're getting the most complaint about water wasters. 72 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:42,760 Speaker 1: And number two was John's neighborhood, which I thought was 73 00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:45,360 Speaker 1: pretty funny. Number one I think was mid Wilshire. You're 74 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:47,880 Speaker 1: in the valley though, right, Yes, okay, are you paying 75 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:54,360 Speaker 1: attention to this thing about watering depending on your address? Otters? Absolutely, yes, 76 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:56,680 Speaker 1: You've really worked out the days and you've got it. 77 00:03:56,720 --> 00:04:03,240 Speaker 1: You've got the schedule, and really nobody's turned you in 78 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:07,400 Speaker 1: for not yet for wasting water. Okay, so you got 79 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:09,760 Speaker 1: big summer plans, you're going anywhere exciting. I'm not going 80 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:13,680 Speaker 1: anywhere until September. So you're stuck with me until September. 81 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:15,480 Speaker 1: Well that's and you'll take like you're a week or 82 00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:17,920 Speaker 1: two off. I'm going to take two weeks off in September. 83 00:04:17,960 --> 00:04:19,720 Speaker 1: I was going to go to Japan, but there's too 84 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:24,120 Speaker 1: many restrictions because of COVID, so we nixed that. So 85 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:27,760 Speaker 1: I'm gonna do some other places. You want to know, 86 00:04:27,839 --> 00:04:31,280 Speaker 1: you want me to bore you with what? Nothing could 87 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:33,640 Speaker 1: be more exotic than Turks and Keikos. That was my 88 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:36,120 Speaker 1: favorite that you went there. That's like whether the really 89 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:38,919 Speaker 1: rich people go or people go hide money there. No, 90 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:42,360 Speaker 1: there are other places in the Caribbean that like Saint Bart's, 91 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:45,520 Speaker 1: that's where the true rich and famous go. I've never 92 00:04:45,560 --> 00:04:47,880 Speaker 1: been there. Turks and Caicos is you know, kind of 93 00:04:47,920 --> 00:04:50,200 Speaker 1: down on the list. But but yeah, I'm gonna go 94 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:53,560 Speaker 1: spend a couple of days in Venice, Italy, in a 95 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:57,400 Speaker 1: couple of days in Paris. I'm gonna go to Scotland 96 00:04:57,640 --> 00:05:01,200 Speaker 1: and Ireland. Wow, people must be thinking you're making millions 97 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:04,640 Speaker 1: reading the news. Yeah, no I'm not. And we use 98 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:07,200 Speaker 1: miles and I do have a husband who works, So 99 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:10,960 Speaker 1: I'm just gonna throw all that out there when I 100 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:13,480 Speaker 1: think of you, like I think last night commercial showed 101 00:05:13,560 --> 00:05:15,240 Speaker 1: up on TV for one of those little blue pills 102 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:18,000 Speaker 1: from Men. Yeah, I still think of you, I see 103 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:20,240 Speaker 1: that because those ads you did for Yes, well I do. 104 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:23,279 Speaker 1: I actually do voice over work and I and you 105 00:05:23,320 --> 00:05:25,680 Speaker 1: can hear my voice on movie in movies and TV 106 00:05:25,760 --> 00:05:29,200 Speaker 1: shows too, so I do make extra money that way. Yeah, 107 00:05:29,279 --> 00:05:33,000 Speaker 1: all right, that's pretty cool. Yeah, we are not letting 108 00:05:33,080 --> 00:05:35,640 Speaker 1: go of the biggest story we have going on the 109 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:38,400 Speaker 1: John and Ken Show, and that is, of course, the 110 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:43,120 Speaker 1: recall of the Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascone. 111 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:45,839 Speaker 1: We're gonna play for you coming up in a few minutes. 112 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:49,119 Speaker 1: He was on the ten night at the NBC Nightly 113 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:53,560 Speaker 1: News and that Drone Lester Holt, the anchor, interviewed gascon. 114 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:56,000 Speaker 1: Now you know how worried they are, so they reached 115 00:05:56,040 --> 00:05:58,440 Speaker 1: out to one of the most liberal networks they could find. 116 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:02,400 Speaker 1: You know that, I guess Scoon is recalled criminal justice reform. 117 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:05,960 Speaker 1: That'll be a big setback. It'll be reverberating around the country. 118 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:08,680 Speaker 1: We already lost the San Francisco District Attorney. We cannot 119 00:06:08,760 --> 00:06:11,960 Speaker 1: use the Los Angeles district attorney. Please let him get 120 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:14,640 Speaker 1: on there and make his case. So he was interviewed 121 00:06:14,640 --> 00:06:18,960 Speaker 1: by Lestro Hold. It's supposedly next hour Gascone is going 122 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:21,920 Speaker 1: to hold some sort of news conference to clear up 123 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:25,120 Speaker 1: the information concerning the shooting deaths of these two El 124 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:30,200 Speaker 1: Monty police officers. We learned over the weekend the grim 125 00:06:30,279 --> 00:06:35,400 Speaker 1: details of their deaths. The officers, and it's Joseph Santana, 126 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:39,800 Speaker 1: and we talked to his mother, Olga Garcia, who is very, 127 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:44,000 Speaker 1: very grief stricken and really worked up about Gascone's policies. 128 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:48,480 Speaker 1: He was followed into the hotel room by his training officer, 129 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:52,039 Speaker 1: and that's Corporal Michael Parades. The guy in that room 130 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:55,599 Speaker 1: was justin Flores. They were called there for a domestic 131 00:06:55,720 --> 00:07:00,880 Speaker 1: violence report, something to do with a possible stabbing, So 132 00:07:01,440 --> 00:07:04,200 Speaker 1: is it possible They go there and don't really think 133 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:06,160 Speaker 1: that they're going to face a man but the gun. 134 00:07:06,839 --> 00:07:08,840 Speaker 1: But the next thing we learn is that when they 135 00:07:08,839 --> 00:07:12,000 Speaker 1: get to the hotel room, the woman comes out. This 136 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:16,640 Speaker 1: is the strange separated wife of Floris, and supposedly she 137 00:07:16,760 --> 00:07:20,760 Speaker 1: tells them he's got a gun, and they go into 138 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:22,840 Speaker 1: the hotel room and he's in the bathroom and he 139 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:25,960 Speaker 1: comes right out of the bathroom immediately firing, and he 140 00:07:26,080 --> 00:07:28,760 Speaker 1: shot both officers, apparently in the head, and they were 141 00:07:28,840 --> 00:07:32,920 Speaker 1: down in that hotel room. There's another man on scene, 142 00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:35,600 Speaker 1: it's a sergeant. They haven't named him because apparently he 143 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:38,760 Speaker 1: did take a gunshot wound. But Floris makes his way 144 00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:40,400 Speaker 1: out to the parking lot and there's more of a 145 00:07:40,440 --> 00:07:44,360 Speaker 1: police response there and there's a gunfight and he's six 146 00:07:44,440 --> 00:07:49,120 Speaker 1: foot two, three hundred pounds Floris. He falls to the 147 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:52,600 Speaker 1: ground but continues to fire, and they're saying that he 148 00:07:52,640 --> 00:07:57,240 Speaker 1: eventually shot himself, that he committed suicide. You see how 149 00:07:57,240 --> 00:08:00,880 Speaker 1: committed he was to this, just like any other mass 150 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:03,520 Speaker 1: shooter that we've heard in those stories that some eventually 151 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:07,040 Speaker 1: just killed themselves rather because that's really the whole reason 152 00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:10,320 Speaker 1: for this. Thanks to George Gascone's policies, he was not 153 00:08:10,720 --> 00:08:15,400 Speaker 1: in state prison, and to keep himself from being arrested 154 00:08:15,440 --> 00:08:18,640 Speaker 1: again because this time the domestic violences, he's got it 155 00:08:18,680 --> 00:08:23,920 Speaker 1: a gun again, maybe, but not necessarily with George Gascone, 156 00:08:23,960 --> 00:08:25,560 Speaker 1: he might have been sent back to state prison. So 157 00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:27,600 Speaker 1: he was having none of that, so he decided to 158 00:08:27,640 --> 00:08:29,720 Speaker 1: try to shoot his way out of this and that 159 00:08:29,760 --> 00:08:32,760 Speaker 1: didn't work. But of course, in case she missed George 160 00:08:32,800 --> 00:08:36,200 Speaker 1: Gascone's policies or what led this man to be free 161 00:08:36,240 --> 00:08:38,920 Speaker 1: to be in that hotel room because he's a striker. 162 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:41,679 Speaker 1: He had a strike against him, and after an arrest 163 00:08:41,679 --> 00:08:43,360 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, there was a plea deal made in 164 00:08:43,360 --> 00:08:45,680 Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, right after George Gascone took over his 165 00:08:45,920 --> 00:08:49,200 Speaker 1: Los Angeles County District attorney, which allowed this guy to 166 00:08:49,280 --> 00:08:53,240 Speaker 1: avoid certain state prison time or two and a half 167 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:55,920 Speaker 1: to three years. You know, is he also going to 168 00:08:56,080 --> 00:08:58,360 Speaker 1: Times pointed out, well, if you've got that sentence, knowing 169 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:00,719 Speaker 1: our prison policies, he might have been out anyway here 170 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:03,480 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two. I guess that's possible. We'll take 171 00:09:03,480 --> 00:09:06,520 Speaker 1: our chances. And what people are forgetting about this case 172 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:10,040 Speaker 1: is this is probably not the only time that George 173 00:09:10,040 --> 00:09:13,360 Speaker 1: gascons allowed these dangerous people to slip through without any 174 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:18,360 Speaker 1: prisoner jail time. It's just not as studied as closely 175 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:21,160 Speaker 1: because two police officers don't always get killed by these guys. 176 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:24,920 Speaker 1: But maybe they hurt somebody else, Maybe they killed somebody 177 00:09:24,960 --> 00:09:27,480 Speaker 1: in a gang fight, maybe they killed an innocent bystander. 178 00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:30,360 Speaker 1: I mean, who's digging into this to find out who's 179 00:09:30,400 --> 00:09:33,439 Speaker 1: benefited from Gascon's policies. All right, when I come back, 180 00:09:33,480 --> 00:09:36,920 Speaker 1: I'll play some of the clips of Gascon on the 181 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:41,920 Speaker 1: NBC Nightly News with that dull anchor Lestra Halt. I 182 00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:44,480 Speaker 1: would imagine some of them were softball questions. We have 183 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:47,280 Speaker 1: a few clips to play coming up here on the 184 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:50,240 Speaker 1: John and Ken Show on KFI. So I'm looking now 185 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:53,959 Speaker 1: at the at the video that accompanies the story. A 186 00:09:54,040 --> 00:09:56,920 Speaker 1: lot of people don't watch the network nightly news anymore. 187 00:09:56,920 --> 00:09:59,240 Speaker 1: There's just too many other sources for news and to 188 00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:02,120 Speaker 1: sit down at six thirty go whenever to watch these 189 00:10:02,240 --> 00:10:05,280 Speaker 1: twenty something minute long newscasts which are just littered with 190 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:10,160 Speaker 1: the commercials for drugs, basically all drug commercials during the breaks. 191 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:15,800 Speaker 1: But NBC Nightly News is anchored by Lester Holt, and 192 00:10:15,920 --> 00:10:18,560 Speaker 1: I guess maybe they tried to give a lift to 193 00:10:18,640 --> 00:10:22,880 Speaker 1: the La County District Attorney, George Gascone. This is how 194 00:10:22,880 --> 00:10:26,160 Speaker 1: they accompanied the story, LA District Attorney under pressure from 195 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:30,160 Speaker 1: rising violent crimes. Violent crime is spiking in the streets 196 00:10:30,200 --> 00:10:33,480 Speaker 1: of Los Angeles as robberies and broad daylight heists on 197 00:10:33,559 --> 00:10:36,480 Speaker 1: train tracks and homicides are on the rise. Oh and 198 00:10:36,559 --> 00:10:38,120 Speaker 1: by the way, I'll get to that story later. But 199 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:40,640 Speaker 1: La is among the cities which is going to see 200 00:10:40,679 --> 00:10:43,640 Speaker 1: more homicides this year than last year, and last year 201 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:46,640 Speaker 1: was a high that was not seen in years. Put anybody, oh, 202 00:10:46,679 --> 00:10:50,280 Speaker 1: but not like the nine two nine. Many long time 203 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:54,079 Speaker 1: residents or more worried than ever. La District Attorney George 204 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:57,480 Speaker 1: Gascon took office in late twenty twenty riding a wave 205 00:10:57,559 --> 00:11:02,280 Speaker 1: of support for criminal justice Reformed, but now that support 206 00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:07,280 Speaker 1: seems to have eroded as the crime surge continues. And 207 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:10,920 Speaker 1: it's interesting that this aired Friday night, just days after 208 00:11:10,960 --> 00:11:13,960 Speaker 1: the death of the two al Monte police officers at 209 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:15,959 Speaker 1: the hands And I don't have a clip here where 210 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:17,440 Speaker 1: he was asked about that. It may have been too 211 00:11:17,520 --> 00:11:19,480 Speaker 1: fresh a story from them. They may have interviewed him 212 00:11:19,880 --> 00:11:23,280 Speaker 1: days earlier. But supposed the next hour, Gascone is going 213 00:11:23,320 --> 00:11:25,959 Speaker 1: to hold his own little news event and he's weak, 214 00:11:26,280 --> 00:11:28,680 Speaker 1: And then we make the joke he sounds like Kermit 215 00:11:28,760 --> 00:11:31,040 Speaker 1: the Frog, But what comes with that as sort of 216 00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:35,079 Speaker 1: a cartoon character, he doesn't really make any passionate case 217 00:11:35,880 --> 00:11:40,199 Speaker 1: for his directives and his whole idea of criminal justice reform. 218 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:43,520 Speaker 1: So this interview, I don't know how long it actually 219 00:11:43,520 --> 00:11:46,160 Speaker 1: aired on the nightly news. They edit all these things, 220 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:49,240 Speaker 1: but we'll begin with this clip, which kind of made 221 00:11:49,240 --> 00:11:52,800 Speaker 1: headlines and got my attention over the weekend. Lester Holt 222 00:11:52,840 --> 00:11:56,040 Speaker 1: ask gascon if he thinks that La County is any 223 00:11:56,520 --> 00:12:00,920 Speaker 1: less or more safe since he became Da Angeles County 224 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:06,280 Speaker 1: annual less or more safe since you took office. So 225 00:12:06,480 --> 00:12:09,600 Speaker 1: it's like complgate a question. Right, I'm not sure we're 226 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:13,960 Speaker 1: cipher than we were twenty If you're looking at what 227 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:16,400 Speaker 1: has occur maybe in the last three or four years, 228 00:12:17,320 --> 00:12:22,079 Speaker 1: then it's a higher level of insecurity today. Yeah, did 229 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:24,120 Speaker 1: you hear that right out of the book of the 230 00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:28,840 Speaker 1: Elsagundo Times. Let's just flashback to the nineteen nineties and 231 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:31,240 Speaker 1: let people know it's not as bad as it was. 232 00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:35,160 Speaker 1: Who cares about thirty years ago. People care about now. 233 00:12:35,679 --> 00:12:38,000 Speaker 1: And when you see rising crime, you got to go 234 00:12:38,080 --> 00:12:41,079 Speaker 1: after it. You can't have somebody like this in charge. 235 00:12:41,120 --> 00:12:44,640 Speaker 1: And he's been aided by, of course, the state policies 236 00:12:44,760 --> 00:12:47,480 Speaker 1: which we've seen, including Assembly Bill one O nine, which 237 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:51,200 Speaker 1: releases these felons from the state prisons into the hands 238 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:55,080 Speaker 1: of county officials and probation officers there who if they 239 00:12:55,120 --> 00:12:58,240 Speaker 1: do something bad wrong, violate the terms of their release, 240 00:12:58,679 --> 00:13:00,680 Speaker 1: they go into a county jail for a couple of 241 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:03,920 Speaker 1: days and they're back out in the streets. Criminals know 242 00:13:04,080 --> 00:13:06,120 Speaker 1: when these things are going on, and they will take 243 00:13:06,480 --> 00:13:09,480 Speaker 1: advantage of it. So you heard him try to talk 244 00:13:09,520 --> 00:13:13,319 Speaker 1: about thirty years ago, and then when asked about today 245 00:13:13,400 --> 00:13:17,520 Speaker 1: or the last several years, that's a complicated question. No, 246 00:13:17,640 --> 00:13:22,440 Speaker 1: it's not. People are less safe and nobody cares about 247 00:13:22,440 --> 00:13:25,079 Speaker 1: the murders and the robberies from thirty years ago. Those 248 00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:28,440 Speaker 1: stats don't matter. As I point out, every time on 249 00:13:28,480 --> 00:13:33,120 Speaker 1: this show, for years they came out bragging about the 250 00:13:33,240 --> 00:13:37,400 Speaker 1: all time low crime statistics. I remember whoever the mayor was, 251 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:41,040 Speaker 1: Tony Vellard Garcetti, more recently the police chief. They would 252 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:43,720 Speaker 1: come out and proudly announce, in the latest round of 253 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:47,480 Speaker 1: crime statistics, we are again at all time lows. And 254 00:13:47,520 --> 00:13:50,120 Speaker 1: then as things began to go up, those news events 255 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:53,880 Speaker 1: didn't occur anymore. They had nothing to say because people 256 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:56,719 Speaker 1: are aware when the rates are going up. I mean, 257 00:13:56,760 --> 00:14:00,120 Speaker 1: you can even sometimes watch the nightly local news at 258 00:14:00,160 --> 00:14:02,160 Speaker 1: the crime lat of report, but there'll be more of 259 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:05,080 Speaker 1: it when crime is spiking and the crimes are just 260 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:09,840 Speaker 1: more horrendous. Police shootings and these robberies where people are 261 00:14:09,880 --> 00:14:13,360 Speaker 1: followed home or are tackled on a sidewalk for their watch. 262 00:14:14,160 --> 00:14:16,640 Speaker 1: Five ten years ago, we weren't talking about that when 263 00:14:16,640 --> 00:14:18,600 Speaker 1: they were bragging about the low crime rates. And they 264 00:14:18,640 --> 00:14:21,440 Speaker 1: were bragging about the low crime rates because we got 265 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:25,040 Speaker 1: tough in the nineties into the two thousands with tough 266 00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:28,720 Speaker 1: laws like three strikes, which again, and I think you're 267 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:30,800 Speaker 1: going to hear this guy say next hour and Gascon 268 00:14:30,920 --> 00:14:34,840 Speaker 1: appears at this press conference had scheduled, He's probably going 269 00:14:34,920 --> 00:14:38,120 Speaker 1: to say, the way we handled justin Floris, the man 270 00:14:38,200 --> 00:14:41,120 Speaker 1: that killed the two police officers in Almonte was not 271 00:14:41,240 --> 00:14:44,080 Speaker 1: out of the norm, Okay, even though he had a strike, 272 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:46,280 Speaker 1: we consider it to be a non violent strike, and 273 00:14:46,360 --> 00:14:48,760 Speaker 1: what it was was a burglary. But this guy's been 274 00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:52,280 Speaker 1: found with the gun as recently as twenty twenty, affiliations 275 00:14:52,280 --> 00:14:55,600 Speaker 1: with a gang. This man hasn't changed. And when you 276 00:14:55,720 --> 00:14:58,960 Speaker 1: know that, you have a responsibility to put that guy 277 00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:02,000 Speaker 1: back in prison to keep them away from people, that's 278 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:05,120 Speaker 1: where you failed. I think that's probably what we're going 279 00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:07,320 Speaker 1: to hear part of what we're going to hear when 280 00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:12,640 Speaker 1: Gascon speaks. This next question is kind of right out 281 00:15:12,680 --> 00:15:14,880 Speaker 1: of the all right, So he wants to ask if 282 00:15:14,920 --> 00:15:18,840 Speaker 1: these criminal justice reform prosecutors is leading to more crime. 283 00:15:19,200 --> 00:15:22,760 Speaker 1: We're seeing crime going up in many cities across the country. 284 00:15:22,800 --> 00:15:27,400 Speaker 1: We're seeing progressive prosecutors like yourself under fired. Do you 285 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:32,840 Speaker 1: think that that's an accurate representation that progressive prosecutors equal 286 00:15:33,560 --> 00:15:37,160 Speaker 1: rises in crime. I mean, here's a problem someone working. 287 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:41,520 Speaker 1: Several other colonies here in California have higher per capital 288 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:45,000 Speaker 1: violence that we do. But you never see anybody blaming 289 00:15:45,080 --> 00:15:50,160 Speaker 1: those prosecutors for the increase in violence there is. It's 290 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:53,040 Speaker 1: it's called look over there. And Newsom tried this the 291 00:15:53,080 --> 00:15:56,240 Speaker 1: other day. Newsom said, well, the murder per capita rates 292 00:15:56,360 --> 00:15:58,360 Speaker 1: in some of the red states are the highest in 293 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:01,840 Speaker 1: the country. But in those states or cities, and in 294 00:16:01,880 --> 00:16:06,240 Speaker 1: those cities run by Democrats and sometimes prosecutors like this Gascone, 295 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:09,480 Speaker 1: we're seeing a lot of the murders that fill the 296 00:16:09,520 --> 00:16:13,840 Speaker 1: state numbers. Now, Gascon wasn't specific they're about here in California. 297 00:16:13,920 --> 00:16:16,040 Speaker 1: What he's talking about. I've heard people talk about Current 298 00:16:16,080 --> 00:16:19,040 Speaker 1: County and places like that where some of the per 299 00:16:19,040 --> 00:16:21,960 Speaker 1: capita murder rates are high, but per capita again, I mean, 300 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:23,600 Speaker 1: if you have a town of one hundred people, in 301 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:26,360 Speaker 1: one person it's killed, that may seem like a lot 302 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:30,320 Speaker 1: compared to a big city where dozens are murdered, but 303 00:16:30,480 --> 00:16:33,360 Speaker 1: the impact in big city safety is much more severe. 304 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:39,000 Speaker 1: The next clip, apparently Lester Holt is asking, oh yeah, 305 00:16:39,040 --> 00:16:42,200 Speaker 1: about the fact that his deputy das don't support him. 306 00:16:42,440 --> 00:16:44,680 Speaker 1: If you can't get through to your own deputies, what 307 00:16:44,760 --> 00:16:48,560 Speaker 1: does that say about your leadership? Well, actually, we also 308 00:16:48,640 --> 00:16:52,160 Speaker 1: have mean it's complicated. You have a very strong driving 309 00:16:52,280 --> 00:16:56,600 Speaker 1: force that is very committed not only to try to 310 00:16:57,600 --> 00:17:00,840 Speaker 1: remove them from office, but more important, only very committed 311 00:17:00,880 --> 00:17:03,840 Speaker 1: to keeping the system the way that it was now. 312 00:17:03,880 --> 00:17:05,280 Speaker 1: They didn't think that they were going to have a 313 00:17:05,280 --> 00:17:09,880 Speaker 1: public defender take over as their county DA. That's why 314 00:17:09,920 --> 00:17:12,680 Speaker 1: they're resisting you. And they're the ones that have to 315 00:17:12,720 --> 00:17:15,520 Speaker 1: carry out your directives on a day to day basis, 316 00:17:16,040 --> 00:17:20,199 Speaker 1: and it's hurting them. Many have left the job. The 317 00:17:20,280 --> 00:17:24,120 Speaker 1: problem with that is Gascon's filling them with his if flunkeys, 318 00:17:24,119 --> 00:17:26,600 Speaker 1: who are other public defenders and people that are like 319 00:17:26,840 --> 00:17:31,160 Speaker 1: minded in releasing all the criminals and not prosecuting many 320 00:17:31,240 --> 00:17:33,960 Speaker 1: crimes and not sending people to prison for very long. 321 00:17:34,280 --> 00:17:37,159 Speaker 1: And my favorite, which doesn't get as much coverage as 322 00:17:37,200 --> 00:17:40,360 Speaker 1: it should. He wants to release people that he thinks 323 00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:42,439 Speaker 1: have been in prison too long. Got to matter what 324 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:46,120 Speaker 1: the crime was, even if it's murder. Fifteen years is enough. 325 00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:48,520 Speaker 1: This guy's decided. So let's go back and dig into 326 00:17:48,520 --> 00:17:50,320 Speaker 1: the records and find all the people that have been 327 00:17:50,320 --> 00:17:53,160 Speaker 1: in prison for at least fifteen years, and let's find 328 00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:57,720 Speaker 1: a way to release them. This is absolute madness, all right. 329 00:17:57,760 --> 00:18:01,679 Speaker 1: The last clip I have is pretty sure, and this 330 00:18:01,760 --> 00:18:04,840 Speaker 1: is Lesterholt talking to Gascon about how people don't feel safe. 331 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:07,720 Speaker 1: There's a lot of perception that things are getting worse 332 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:10,679 Speaker 1: perception if they don't get better, is that all going 333 00:18:10,760 --> 00:18:15,280 Speaker 1: to come be late defeat of progressives and criminal justice 334 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:20,440 Speaker 1: reform efforts. I'm very fearful that is happening already. Yeah, 335 00:18:20,480 --> 00:18:24,360 Speaker 1: and hopefully it will lead to your removal from office. 336 00:18:24,920 --> 00:18:27,360 Speaker 1: Can't say it enough. If you haven't signed a petition 337 00:18:27,760 --> 00:18:30,640 Speaker 1: and you're at LA County registered voter, go to recall 338 00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:34,000 Speaker 1: da George Gascon dot com, get ahold of that petition 339 00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:37,200 Speaker 1: and send it in. They need a cushion. It's easy 340 00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:39,400 Speaker 1: for people to think it's over because the big news 341 00:18:39,480 --> 00:18:42,439 Speaker 1: last week is that they've reached the signature threshold. They 342 00:18:42,520 --> 00:18:45,480 Speaker 1: need to get us a recall vote. But they need 343 00:18:45,560 --> 00:18:48,240 Speaker 1: a big cushion, maybe one hundred and fifty thousand to 344 00:18:48,320 --> 00:18:51,360 Speaker 1: two hundred thousand signatures. So do that all right. We're 345 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:53,720 Speaker 1: coming up on the John and Ken Show on KFI. John, 346 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:56,280 Speaker 1: it's got some vacation time. I'll be carrying you through 347 00:18:56,320 --> 00:18:58,640 Speaker 1: this week with Deborah More coming up after three o'clock, 348 00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:03,200 Speaker 1: we're expecting to sit in on a George Gascon news event. 349 00:19:03,240 --> 00:19:07,080 Speaker 1: The La County District Attorney apparently is set to explain 350 00:19:07,160 --> 00:19:10,080 Speaker 1: more of his side concerning the shooting deaths of those 351 00:19:10,080 --> 00:19:12,960 Speaker 1: two al Monty police officers at the hands of a 352 00:19:13,040 --> 00:19:17,600 Speaker 1: man who benefited from Gascone's directives, specifically that as a 353 00:19:17,840 --> 00:19:20,240 Speaker 1: striker that's right, three strikes law, he had a strike 354 00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:23,760 Speaker 1: on his record. They did not prosecute him to the 355 00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:26,040 Speaker 1: fullest and would have ended up with him being back 356 00:19:26,080 --> 00:19:28,000 Speaker 1: in state president probably for two and a half to 357 00:19:28,080 --> 00:19:31,560 Speaker 1: three years for possessing a gun. So we'll see what 358 00:19:31,640 --> 00:19:35,240 Speaker 1: that brings and maybe we'll bring somebody on from the 359 00:19:35,359 --> 00:19:39,040 Speaker 1: La County DA's office, my deputies that to oppose Gascon's 360 00:19:39,040 --> 00:19:44,320 Speaker 1: policies to analyze his response coming up, we hope. In 361 00:19:44,359 --> 00:19:47,480 Speaker 1: the three o'clock hour, I got another one of those 362 00:19:47,520 --> 00:19:52,760 Speaker 1: scam texts today? Scary? Do people fall for these? This 363 00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:54,760 Speaker 1: was like someone was trying to tell me that my 364 00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:57,639 Speaker 1: Netflix account has been blocked. You need to take action 365 00:19:57,760 --> 00:20:02,240 Speaker 1: right away. That would be terrible, terrible and terrifying. Yeah, 366 00:20:02,280 --> 00:20:04,840 Speaker 1: it's either change your password or give us your credit 367 00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:08,680 Speaker 1: card information so we can reset everything. Do people I mean, 368 00:20:08,720 --> 00:20:10,920 Speaker 1: because it's a text, does that convince people that there's 369 00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:14,760 Speaker 1: something more technologically real about it? You fall for that? Well? 370 00:20:14,840 --> 00:20:18,080 Speaker 1: I get nervous sometimes and there have been times where 371 00:20:18,160 --> 00:20:21,320 Speaker 1: I question it and I ask other people I investigate, 372 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:25,119 Speaker 1: since nobody answers their landlines anymore. So they gave up 373 00:20:25,160 --> 00:20:27,960 Speaker 1: with those those the robot calls where there's like an 374 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:32,240 Speaker 1: IRS agent there. You need to respond immediately. Your accounts 375 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:35,000 Speaker 1: can be frozen by the bank. You do ohe the 376 00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:37,920 Speaker 1: IRS money. But now that that does network and they're 377 00:20:37,960 --> 00:20:40,879 Speaker 1: trying this texting thing where they're trying to fish for 378 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:45,520 Speaker 1: people to possibly respond to give ways, says Netflix is 379 00:20:45,560 --> 00:20:47,320 Speaker 1: going to do more layoffs by the end of the week. 380 00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:51,199 Speaker 1: I know. Also making news this afternoon, and we'll have 381 00:20:51,320 --> 00:20:55,159 Speaker 1: more on it later. Uvaldi, Texas the Department of Public 382 00:20:55,240 --> 00:20:57,600 Speaker 1: Safety held to hearing in front of the States Senate 383 00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:00,960 Speaker 1: and they couldn't have painted did it more worse. An 384 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:04,600 Speaker 1: abject failure by police that means on all levels, complete 385 00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:09,200 Speaker 1: total horrified response by the police. They couldn't. They did 386 00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:12,440 Speaker 1: almost everything wrong that they could do wrong and responding 387 00:21:12,760 --> 00:21:16,880 Speaker 1: to the mass shooter at the school, which is really heartbreaking. 388 00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:19,440 Speaker 1: We already knew that seventy five minutes was too long 389 00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:23,080 Speaker 1: before they made their way into that classroom, but we've learned, 390 00:21:23,119 --> 00:21:25,840 Speaker 1: among other things today that maybe the door wasn't locked. 391 00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:28,920 Speaker 1: In fact, the man with the Department of Public Safety, 392 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:32,080 Speaker 1: Steve mccross, says it was not locked. They could have 393 00:21:32,119 --> 00:21:34,800 Speaker 1: gotten in there in seconds, but they were too chicken 394 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:37,639 Speaker 1: and that's really what explains it. They did put the 395 00:21:37,720 --> 00:21:40,560 Speaker 1: lives of the police officers over the lives of the children. 396 00:21:41,119 --> 00:21:42,800 Speaker 1: And the one thing we may never know is how 397 00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:45,479 Speaker 1: many could have been saved if they charged into that 398 00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:49,320 Speaker 1: classroom anytime within the first few minutes, but certainly within 399 00:21:49,359 --> 00:21:52,679 Speaker 1: the first seventy five minutes, So I'll have a report 400 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:57,560 Speaker 1: on that later in the show yesterday. Oh and by 401 00:21:57,600 --> 00:22:00,560 Speaker 1: the way, Deborah Mark, what's our average gas price Lake County? 402 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:02,399 Speaker 1: Is it kf I AM six forty. That's what I 403 00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:05,399 Speaker 1: heard this morning. Uh, the average price is at kf 404 00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:08,800 Speaker 1: I AM six forty. The average price is six thirty eight. Okay, 405 00:22:08,840 --> 00:22:10,840 Speaker 1: I heard six dollars and forty cents this morning. Did 406 00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:13,159 Speaker 1: you come down two cents from this morning? Let me 407 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:16,800 Speaker 1: check and see or maybe they were sighting a different maybe, yeah, 408 00:22:16,880 --> 00:22:21,639 Speaker 1: because I your prices for southern California, for La County 409 00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:24,959 Speaker 1: or city of La which one is your price? This 410 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:27,199 Speaker 1: one was for La County allegedly, but I don't know. 411 00:22:27,359 --> 00:22:31,280 Speaker 1: La County is six okay, So La County is six forty, 412 00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:36,119 Speaker 1: Orange County is six thirty three, and then California is 413 00:22:36,119 --> 00:22:39,119 Speaker 1: six thirty eight. Yeah, okay, so for La County it's 414 00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:42,680 Speaker 1: kf I AM six forty. Imagine saying that like ten 415 00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:46,000 Speaker 1: years ago, that, oh you know, someday the price of 416 00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:49,520 Speaker 1: gasoline is going to match cafi's position on the dial 417 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:53,280 Speaker 1: six forty. Are you out of your mind? Crazy? Well? 418 00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:55,000 Speaker 1: I know, look at you. You have a little commute 419 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:57,960 Speaker 1: to work. I cost in you. Yes, yes, I pay 420 00:22:57,960 --> 00:22:59,760 Speaker 1: a lot more. You go to the bosses and ask 421 00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:03,280 Speaker 1: for a race. Oh wait yeah? Oh wait right here. Okay, Ken, 422 00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:04,960 Speaker 1: you come back and tell me how it went down 423 00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:07,080 Speaker 1: the hole. I'm gonna tell you it didn't go well. 424 00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:10,840 Speaker 1: Oh you did already? Oh yeah, about the gas or 425 00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:15,399 Speaker 1: about this. It's about everything. I am worth it. Don't 426 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:22,400 Speaker 1: you think answer that? Yeah? Yeah, I think you're fine. Fine, 427 00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:26,040 Speaker 1: that's the worst. That is such a bad word. It 428 00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:28,959 Speaker 1: is fine. I should have said something like your excellent. 429 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:31,880 Speaker 1: You're the best we've ever had. I think so too, 430 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:36,280 Speaker 1: thanks Ken. Yesterday the Democrats in Sacramento marched out. They 431 00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:39,239 Speaker 1: had a news conference and rather than announced they're going 432 00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:41,760 Speaker 1: to do something to help the Californians who are paying 433 00:23:41,760 --> 00:23:46,200 Speaker 1: these high gas prices deal with these high gas prices seriously, 434 00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:50,239 Speaker 1: they announced theyre going to investigate the gas prices. They 435 00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:52,960 Speaker 1: also announced this in twenty nineteen or Newsom did that 436 00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:56,560 Speaker 1: ended up going nowhere. This is also going to go nowhere, 437 00:23:56,760 --> 00:23:58,439 Speaker 1: but they said this time it's going to be a 438 00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:02,359 Speaker 1: legislative investigation. We're gonna bring in the oil company executives 439 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:04,480 Speaker 1: and we're gonna question them and we're gonna get to 440 00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:07,639 Speaker 1: the bottom of this. You want to truth this. They're glad, 441 00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:10,960 Speaker 1: but they can't say that publicly because it may anger 442 00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:13,560 Speaker 1: some of even their own voters, who if you saw 443 00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:17,240 Speaker 1: from the June seventh primary, they really do stick with 444 00:24:17,280 --> 00:24:20,760 Speaker 1: these people despite so many big problems in the state 445 00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:24,600 Speaker 1: of California. But they're worried a little bit that gas 446 00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:29,280 Speaker 1: prices could shake some of their core Democratic constituency who 447 00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:31,919 Speaker 1: keeps voting for these people, So they had to do 448 00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:35,920 Speaker 1: or say something. Now, Republicans and sacrament have been saying, 449 00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:39,600 Speaker 1: why don't you give them a relief with the California 450 00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:41,920 Speaker 1: state gas tax? Why don't you suspend that? Other states 451 00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:45,119 Speaker 1: have done that. Oh no, no, no, the oil companies 452 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:47,760 Speaker 1: won't pass that along. Well, guess what, there was a 453 00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:51,439 Speaker 1: study done and states that have done that suspended the 454 00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:54,520 Speaker 1: state gas tax. The gas prices did go down, and 455 00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:57,359 Speaker 1: they went down almost in line with the sales tax. 456 00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:01,679 Speaker 1: So no, the oil companies, we're not absorbing that and 457 00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:04,680 Speaker 1: not they did pass along the increase, they didn't bother 458 00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:06,560 Speaker 1: with it. In other words, they're going to charge what 459 00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:08,960 Speaker 1: they're going to charge. But if the state gas tax 460 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:11,640 Speaker 1: goes down, you'll see an improvement at the pump price. 461 00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:15,240 Speaker 1: So that stupid argument got debunked. Not that I bought 462 00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:17,120 Speaker 1: it anyway, but that's just what they throw out there. 463 00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:20,440 Speaker 1: So rather than do anything, because they got all these 464 00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:23,000 Speaker 1: ideas on the table that we might all just get 465 00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:25,640 Speaker 1: the debit cards or checks in the mail to give 466 00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:28,160 Speaker 1: us some relief, or maybe just low income people will 467 00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:30,440 Speaker 1: get this, they didn't do it. They didn't do anitherthing. 468 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:34,080 Speaker 1: They came out and announced we're going to do a 469 00:25:34,119 --> 00:25:39,439 Speaker 1: big investigation. So as I said, that's because this is 470 00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:42,200 Speaker 1: good for them. They do not want you to drive. 471 00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:45,120 Speaker 1: They do not want you to drive with a car 472 00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:48,280 Speaker 1: that uses gas a lean. If you're going to drive, 473 00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:51,760 Speaker 1: they prefer you use an electric vehicle. But it's fine 474 00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:54,760 Speaker 1: with them that gas prices are going up and hopefully 475 00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:57,080 Speaker 1: and there's always a lag. I'm starting to read that 476 00:25:57,359 --> 00:26:00,639 Speaker 1: people are cutting back a bit because if gas prices 477 00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:03,879 Speaker 1: in terms of their travel and it's affecting other parts 478 00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:06,720 Speaker 1: of their budget. But this is fine with the Hacks 479 00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:10,200 Speaker 1: and Sacramento. They just can't say that publicly, so they 480 00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:12,159 Speaker 1: were forced to do something. So they come out and 481 00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:20,080 Speaker 1: talk about another stupid gas price investigation, which is worthless. 482 00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:22,280 Speaker 1: It won't mean a thing. Oh and it may not 483 00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:25,440 Speaker 1: start for a while. There's another report that by October, 484 00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:28,160 Speaker 1: if you can believe it or not, October, they might 485 00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:31,840 Speaker 1: actually come up with some idea for a gas rebate. 486 00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:36,040 Speaker 1: Gas price rebate, And isn't that interesting October? Let's see, 487 00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:37,800 Speaker 1: that's just all that's around the time people are going 488 00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:41,320 Speaker 1: to start voting in the November elections, because most of 489 00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:45,080 Speaker 1: the legislature is up for reelection. Newsom is but that's 490 00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:47,920 Speaker 1: kind of a pass there. He's going to get reelected. 491 00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:50,360 Speaker 1: But this might be an issue in a few districts 492 00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:53,040 Speaker 1: where voters they are tired of the high gas prices 493 00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:55,439 Speaker 1: and they're tired of their state legislature doing nothing. So 494 00:26:56,040 --> 00:26:58,399 Speaker 1: if they come up with any money at all for 495 00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:00,560 Speaker 1: people that are being hit with these high gas prices, 496 00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:03,920 Speaker 1: it mightn't be until October. I'll be talking about all 497 00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:06,800 Speaker 1: this later on on the show with Assemblyman Vince Fong, 498 00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:09,639 Speaker 1: a Republican who's on the budget Committee. We'll give you 499 00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:13,840 Speaker 1: more detail on this ridiculous prop And by the way, 500 00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:15,879 Speaker 1: I watched some of the local news last night. They 501 00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:19,199 Speaker 1: just ate this up. Oh yes, they announced they're going 502 00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:22,280 Speaker 1: to convene a special investigation into high gas prices in California, 503 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:25,320 Speaker 1: and they're gonna they're gonna get to answers. And then predictably, 504 00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:26,840 Speaker 1: they went to the gas pump and talk to people 505 00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:30,080 Speaker 1: who said, Oh, it's awful. I can't pay this much longer. 506 00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:33,480 Speaker 1: It's a real headache, all right. To Johnny Ken Show 507 00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:35,879 Speaker 1: on KFI, it's quite a heat dome. Been called it 508 00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:38,320 Speaker 1: a heat dome. It's nothing term they come up with 509 00:27:38,359 --> 00:27:41,879 Speaker 1: all these weather terms to really get people's attention in 510 00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:45,399 Speaker 1: the last several years. But it's affecting other parts of 511 00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:48,520 Speaker 1: the country. I think Chicago has nearly a hundred degrees today. 512 00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:52,959 Speaker 1: Coming up after three o'clock, we're expecting a news conference 513 00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:56,879 Speaker 1: from hopefully the man without a Job by the end 514 00:27:56,920 --> 00:27:58,800 Speaker 1: of the year or early next year. The La County 515 00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:02,680 Speaker 1: District Attorney, George Gascone is going to meet with reporters 516 00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:07,879 Speaker 1: and give his side of the justin Florist case. That's 517 00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:10,560 Speaker 1: the evil man that killed two police officers in El 518 00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:13,960 Speaker 1: Monty last Tuesday when they came to a hotel room 519 00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:18,679 Speaker 1: to check on a domestic assault complaint and he just 520 00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:20,800 Speaker 1: opened fire and apparently shot them both in the head, 521 00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:23,000 Speaker 1: leaving them dead in the hotel room, and he ran 522 00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:26,400 Speaker 1: outside and started shooting some more with police, and eventually 523 00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:30,840 Speaker 1: they say he did shoot himself. But Gascon's involvement is 524 00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:32,760 Speaker 1: that he gave this guy a pass. He was a 525 00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:38,040 Speaker 1: striker Californias three strikes law. Under that law, you commit 526 00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:41,120 Speaker 1: a violation of the terms of your release, in this case, 527 00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:44,320 Speaker 1: the possession of a gun. You're going back to state prison, 528 00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:47,160 Speaker 1: you know, and that's not a small thing. Having a 529 00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:51,600 Speaker 1: gun convinces me you're not changed. Nope, you're probably still 530 00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:54,040 Speaker 1: a bad guy. Look at to do bad things. You're 531 00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:56,280 Speaker 1: gonna gotten two and a half years to three years 532 00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:59,840 Speaker 1: in state prison. But Gascon didn't do that, instead getting 533 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:04,120 Speaker 1: twenty days that was time served and put them back 534 00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:07,640 Speaker 1: on probation into the streets. So he was there and 535 00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:10,320 Speaker 1: he killed the two police officers. So a Gascon and 536 00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:13,080 Speaker 1: supposed he's going to explain something about this, concerning his 537 00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:15,400 Speaker 1: directives and what happened in this case. And we'll see 538 00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:18,479 Speaker 1: coming up in the three o'clock hour. Well, you know, 539 00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:20,320 Speaker 1: if I'm here with Deborah Mark, there's going to be 540 00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:24,440 Speaker 1: an animal story. Oh yeah, yeah, not good. In fact, 541 00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:27,040 Speaker 1: I got really sad when I saw this, and I 542 00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:31,840 Speaker 1: don't normally do that. Would you get sad? Apparently the 543 00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:35,440 Speaker 1: narcotics guys in Mexico have a fascination with exotic animals. 544 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:37,600 Speaker 1: Did you know that, Deborah mark It did not. They 545 00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:40,080 Speaker 1: like to show them off, They like to use them 546 00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:43,960 Speaker 1: as cartel mascots. So there was a big shootout with 547 00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:49,000 Speaker 1: Mexican police and a drug gang in Mexico recently, and 548 00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:53,000 Speaker 1: when they finally got inside to review the carnage, of course, 549 00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:55,960 Speaker 1: they found a lot of dead gang members, but they 550 00:29:56,000 --> 00:30:00,320 Speaker 1: also found dead a small spider monkey was actually wearing 551 00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:06,760 Speaker 1: a bulletproof vest. Yeah, a bulletproof vest. Yes. He was 552 00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:09,000 Speaker 1: dressed in a tiny camouflage jacket and he had a 553 00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:12,960 Speaker 1: tiny bulletproof vest. He was lying sprawled across the body 554 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:15,600 Speaker 1: of a dead gunman who was apparently his owner. Oh, 555 00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:19,960 Speaker 1: I told you I'd make you sad. It is very sad. 556 00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:22,160 Speaker 1: And I told you this made me sad that they 557 00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:25,800 Speaker 1: forced a little monkey into cartel work. They gave Hi 558 00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:27,520 Speaker 1: a little book. Maybe he was out there or stealing 559 00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:29,920 Speaker 1: stuff for them, because those those monkeys are quick and 560 00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:32,600 Speaker 1: they're sneaky, not cool. And he didn't have a choice. 561 00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:36,880 Speaker 1: So if he was whatever, not cool, not cool, no, 562 00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:40,040 Speaker 1: very sad. They don't know how the monkey died. It's 563 00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:42,440 Speaker 1: not clear whether or not he died, oh, also wearing 564 00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:45,880 Speaker 1: a diaper. Whether the monkey died in the hall of 565 00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:48,680 Speaker 1: bullets that killed his owner or not, they're not sure. 566 00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:52,120 Speaker 1: Now accompanying this story, apparently the other thing that the 567 00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:55,320 Speaker 1: cartel people liked to keep and find it of course 568 00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:58,760 Speaker 1: amusing to have them as mascots and also to show 569 00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:03,400 Speaker 1: their opposition. Some fear are Bengal tigers. And there was 570 00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:05,840 Speaker 1: a four hundred and fifty pound tiger which was wandering 571 00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:10,800 Speaker 1: the streets in one of the Mexican coastal states. Uh. 572 00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:14,640 Speaker 1: The good news about this tiger, it's fine and apparently 573 00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:17,640 Speaker 1: all you won't like this. It had been declawed and defense. 574 00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:23,640 Speaker 1: That's not gonna You're not gonna be very fierce, even 575 00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:25,320 Speaker 1: though you're big. If you've got no clause and you've 576 00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:29,520 Speaker 1: got no teeth, how is it supposed to protect itself? 577 00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:32,560 Speaker 1: It can't although it's still heavy, it's still big animal. 578 00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:35,800 Speaker 1: But you know it's not good. I imagine a good 579 00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:40,560 Speaker 1: rottweiler could probably tear in absolutely. Um says here that 580 00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:43,520 Speaker 1: a man later on the video casually tosses a rope 581 00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:47,440 Speaker 1: over the tiger's neck leads him away. But the story 582 00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:50,440 Speaker 1: that's similar to this, which did not have a good ending, 583 00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:53,680 Speaker 1: not for the animal but for the guy, concerns a 584 00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:57,800 Speaker 1: guy that apparently, well, the man is calling a tiger 585 00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:01,720 Speaker 1: who's inside a fence, and eventually the tiger comes over 586 00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:03,400 Speaker 1: and he puts his hand in there to pet it, 587 00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:06,640 Speaker 1: and you probably guess what happens neck next, the tiger 588 00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:10,000 Speaker 1: grabs ahold of the guy's arm. Well, that was stupid, 589 00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:14,200 Speaker 1: and eventually gets both arms and mauls them and they 590 00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:15,960 Speaker 1: pulled the guy out of there, but he died from 591 00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:18,240 Speaker 1: his injuries a few days later. I mean, I feel bad, 592 00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:22,320 Speaker 1: but really, you can keep exotic animals in Mexico if 593 00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:25,960 Speaker 1: you register them under strictly supervised conditions. You think the 594 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:29,640 Speaker 1: cartels are registered tigers and spider Moon, Yes, I really 595 00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:33,400 Speaker 1: seriously doubt that. But apparently this has become a custom. 596 00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:36,880 Speaker 1: They acquire exotic animals. Sometimes they set up private zoos. 597 00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:40,040 Speaker 1: This is considered just another mark of their wealth and 598 00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:43,800 Speaker 1: their prestige that they have these exotic animals. I know 599 00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:46,600 Speaker 1: you're not impressed. It's a turn off. Ye I know, 600 00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:48,440 Speaker 1: but they like to show them off. In the case 601 00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:52,080 Speaker 1: of a tiger, they're good for enforcement. What about those cars, 602 00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:55,120 Speaker 1: you know, the Lamborghinis and the Maserati's. I mean, why 603 00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:58,040 Speaker 1: don't you just stick to that stuff? But I know 604 00:32:58,320 --> 00:33:00,440 Speaker 1: you got to come up with something cooler, a newer. 605 00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:04,360 Speaker 1: All right. 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