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I'm here 11 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:37,280 Speaker 1: with Debra Mark keeping you updated into the little KFI 12 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:40,680 Speaker 1: twenty four hour news center. The big story today the 13 00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:44,680 Speaker 1: Amtrak derailment in Missouri of a train that was traveling 14 00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:49,400 Speaker 1: to Chicago that started in la We got an update 15 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:53,880 Speaker 1: last hour that at the moment, three people have been 16 00:00:53,880 --> 00:00:57,120 Speaker 1: pronounced dead, two on the train, one in the dump truck. 17 00:00:57,360 --> 00:01:00,600 Speaker 1: How this happened was the train hit a truck that 18 00:01:00,680 --> 00:01:03,480 Speaker 1: was at a crossing what they call an uncontrolled crossing 19 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:06,760 Speaker 1: in a little town in Missouri, and most of the 20 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:11,280 Speaker 1: cars fell on their side. There are a number of injuries, 21 00:01:11,319 --> 00:01:13,200 Speaker 1: but they could not give us that number more than 22 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:16,560 Speaker 1: two hundred passengers on the train. If they have more, 23 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:19,160 Speaker 1: we'll bring it to you from Missouri here on the 24 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:21,760 Speaker 1: John and Ken show your chance. That's some money is 25 00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:24,520 Speaker 1: coming up. In about fifteen minutes. There's another keyword that'll 26 00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:26,959 Speaker 1: be put out there. Did you just enter at the 27 00:01:26,959 --> 00:01:30,160 Speaker 1: website kf I am six forty dot com. Find out 28 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:32,399 Speaker 1: what that is in about fifteen minutes, and we'll do 29 00:01:32,440 --> 00:01:35,160 Speaker 1: it one more time at five twenty we're gonna check 30 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:38,880 Speaker 1: in with Alex Stone. The travel period for July fourth 31 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:42,760 Speaker 1: is coming soon, probably beginning by tomorrow, Wednesday or Thursday. 32 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:44,959 Speaker 1: A lot of people will be taken off for the 33 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:49,520 Speaker 1: big holiday weekend air travel. Are the airlines ready for this? Well, 34 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:53,000 Speaker 1: they continue to cancel flights. Let's bring on Alex for 35 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:55,880 Speaker 1: the latest on this story. Hey, there can yeah, not 36 00:01:56,040 --> 00:01:58,320 Speaker 1: a good day again today. And then we talked about 37 00:01:58,320 --> 00:02:00,000 Speaker 1: it on Friday and they were doing a little bit 38 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:02,480 Speaker 1: better and boom, I was just hitting the updated numbers here. 39 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:06,880 Speaker 1: So in the last ten minutes, about fifteen more flights 40 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:10,720 Speaker 1: have been canceled in the US. So that's fifteen groups 41 00:02:10,720 --> 00:02:13,400 Speaker 1: of people who are getting the bad news that tonight. 42 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:15,520 Speaker 1: They're not going where they want to go. Eight hundred 43 00:02:15,639 --> 00:02:19,040 Speaker 1: forty six flights today in the US canceled five thousand, 44 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:23,240 Speaker 1: five hundred seventy three that have been delayed, many of 45 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:28,280 Speaker 1: them pretty heavily. So another messy day today, and this 46 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:30,720 Speaker 1: is today. A lot of it comes down to weather. 47 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:33,919 Speaker 1: Atlanta was hit, the East Coast was hit. But all 48 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:35,919 Speaker 1: we need is that little tiny thing to go over 49 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:38,880 Speaker 1: the edge. And with the labor problems and not enough 50 00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:42,640 Speaker 1: pilots ongoing, not enough air traffic controllers, then you add 51 00:02:42,639 --> 00:02:45,399 Speaker 1: in the weather and boom, it all begins to unravel 52 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:47,919 Speaker 1: like this. And the airlines are telling us they are 53 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:52,040 Speaker 1: they're trying. They're upping the pay of regional pilots so 54 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:55,160 Speaker 1: they don't bail and go to bigger airlines. They're trying 55 00:02:55,200 --> 00:02:58,480 Speaker 1: to cut flights. But Edgar Hernandez, he's at the airport, 56 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:00,720 Speaker 1: nowhere to go. Got to the airport, was told the 57 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:02,560 Speaker 1: flight was on time, and then a push alert to 58 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:05,760 Speaker 1: his phone that Nope, it's canceled. They're not going anywhere. 59 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:07,639 Speaker 1: He's on time the whole time, and then next thing 60 00:03:07,639 --> 00:03:10,959 Speaker 1: you know, I get a notification on my phone plays canceled. Yeah, 61 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:13,520 Speaker 1: and So he's message for the airlines this do more 62 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:16,840 Speaker 1: of stop offering. Yeah, demand is high, but stop opera 63 00:03:16,919 --> 00:03:19,600 Speaker 1: offering so many flights. If you don't have the pilots 64 00:03:19,639 --> 00:03:22,919 Speaker 1: with the pilot shortage right now labor problems to fly them, 65 00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:25,800 Speaker 1: he says, then just be honest and keep your end 66 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:27,840 Speaker 1: of the bar. For me, I think, if you can't 67 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:31,120 Speaker 1: handle these flights, then just don't book them, because this 68 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:34,200 Speaker 1: is very frustrating stranded at the airport, and the airline say, yeah, 69 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:36,040 Speaker 1: they're trying to do that. United's cutting some out of 70 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:39,560 Speaker 1: new work their main hub, They're American cutting back Southwest 71 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:42,600 Speaker 1: has but then you get the summer weather demand wise, 72 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:46,680 Speaker 1: Tsa saying Sunday was the busiest day that they have 73 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:50,880 Speaker 1: seen at airport checkpoints since February of twenty twenty. Everybody 74 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:52,320 Speaker 1: wants to travel, we all want to do it, we're 75 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:54,760 Speaker 1: all doing it, and it's making it really busy. So 76 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:58,920 Speaker 1: there are people ken like Matt Fall deciding he's gonna 77 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:02,119 Speaker 1: drive instead fly that they just don't want to deal 78 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:03,320 Speaker 1: with it. You can't do it if you're gonna go 79 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:06,720 Speaker 1: to Cancoon or London or somewhere for the holiday weekend. 80 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:09,400 Speaker 1: But if you're driving six or seven hours. He says 81 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:11,920 Speaker 1: he would rather drive than fly, because then he knows 82 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:14,800 Speaker 1: he's gonna go when he once bring as much luggage 83 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:17,120 Speaker 1: as he wants, eat whatever he wants, and not be 84 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:20,080 Speaker 1: sitting in an airboard. I would rather have a guaranteed vacation, 85 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:22,680 Speaker 1: spend a little bit more time getting there than risk 86 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:25,000 Speaker 1: not having a vacation because my flight gets can And 87 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:26,200 Speaker 1: a lot of people are feeling that way if they're 88 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:27,480 Speaker 1: going to Vegas, or they're going to go to the 89 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:29,760 Speaker 1: Bay Area of you know what, they're going to Phoenix, 90 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:31,520 Speaker 1: But you do have to wait to cost. Sometimes it 91 00:04:31,640 --> 00:04:34,520 Speaker 1: is cheaper. I booked last night flight from Mumberbank to 92 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:37,440 Speaker 1: Snoba County seventy nine bucks. So sometimes you go, well, 93 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:40,000 Speaker 1: it's gonna stink if I get stuck and they cancel 94 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:43,120 Speaker 1: my flight. But costwise, seventy nine dollars is a lot 95 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:46,360 Speaker 1: less than driving up to the Northern Bay Area. You're 96 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:48,240 Speaker 1: gonna pay a lot more in gas. So I wasn't 97 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:50,440 Speaker 1: in some of this greed because the airlines knew there 98 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:52,800 Speaker 1: was pent up demand, so they just decided, let's just 99 00:04:52,839 --> 00:04:55,640 Speaker 1: take all these bookings and take all this money in 100 00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:57,599 Speaker 1: for flights that well, we may or may not be 101 00:04:57,640 --> 00:04:59,920 Speaker 1: able to staff, but what the hell we might have, 102 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:02,200 Speaker 1: we'll be ready for the big flying season as people 103 00:05:02,200 --> 00:05:04,719 Speaker 1: returned to the skies. I mean, it seems like this 104 00:05:04,920 --> 00:05:07,920 Speaker 1: was very poorly planned. Yeah, well they planned, They knew 105 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:10,000 Speaker 1: months ago they were going to have shortages. Yeah, it 106 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:11,599 Speaker 1: seems like that they thought that they would be able 107 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:13,400 Speaker 1: to figure it out by the time that they got here, 108 00:05:13,400 --> 00:05:15,880 Speaker 1: when they were putting them on the schedule six months ago, 109 00:05:16,040 --> 00:05:18,760 Speaker 1: seven months ago, that they would get here and they 110 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:21,919 Speaker 1: would have the pilots that they need, or the demand 111 00:05:21,960 --> 00:05:25,480 Speaker 1: wouldn't be this high. They keep claiming that demand far 112 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:29,360 Speaker 1: exceeds anything that they were expecting, that Delta and United 113 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:34,120 Speaker 1: have been reporting sales records NonStop of people booking flights, 114 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:35,640 Speaker 1: and that they didn't think that they were going to 115 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:38,679 Speaker 1: get here, but maybe it wasn't realistic what they were 116 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:41,400 Speaker 1: planning on doing. And then that you hit the again, 117 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:45,040 Speaker 1: the regional carriers where these pilots are bailing at an 118 00:05:45,080 --> 00:05:49,080 Speaker 1: incredible rate. So if you're flying on United Express or 119 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:52,920 Speaker 1: Alaska on a smaller plane, if you're flying on any 120 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:54,680 Speaker 1: of the smaller planes that you think you're going on 121 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:58,640 Speaker 1: the mainline carrier. You're going on a regional carrier SkyWest 122 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:02,640 Speaker 1: flight usually in California, and that six months ago they 123 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:04,960 Speaker 1: thought they had a lot more pilots. But if they 124 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:08,520 Speaker 1: can make one hundred and fifty grand or more over 125 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:11,840 Speaker 1: at the main line when they begin versus twenty five 126 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:14,719 Speaker 1: grand or thirty grand, depending on not necessarily SkyWest, but 127 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:18,359 Speaker 1: at some regional carriers, that they're going to make that jump. 128 00:06:18,440 --> 00:06:21,400 Speaker 1: So they are going quickly over to the main line 129 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:24,520 Speaker 1: and then these regional carriers, or you're technically on United 130 00:06:24,520 --> 00:06:28,400 Speaker 1: into Denver, but that's really a SkyWest flight, and then 131 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:31,360 Speaker 1: it gets canceled. It's canceled as your United flight got canceled, 132 00:06:31,400 --> 00:06:35,240 Speaker 1: but really it's because SkyWest pilots bailed and went to 133 00:06:35,279 --> 00:06:38,240 Speaker 1: another to a mainline airline. So there's a lot to it. 134 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:40,360 Speaker 1: They say that they thought they would be better off, 135 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:43,359 Speaker 1: but they're not. Are they picking up enough pilots in 136 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:45,400 Speaker 1: the profession. I saw a story though, the day that 137 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:48,359 Speaker 1: the mandatory retirement age is sixty five and then a 138 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:51,320 Speaker 1: lot of baby boomer pilots are going to get hit 139 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:53,520 Speaker 1: by that. They're starting to lead the profession. I mean, 140 00:06:53,839 --> 00:06:56,000 Speaker 1: is this a field that they're finding a lot of 141 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:57,960 Speaker 1: good recruitment in or is this just become tougher than 142 00:06:58,040 --> 00:06:59,920 Speaker 1: it was years ago. Well, I think it's yeah, tougher. 143 00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:02,600 Speaker 1: So many bailed during the pandemic that they were given 144 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:06,120 Speaker 1: early retirement and they got rid of a lot. Others 145 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:11,040 Speaker 1: were furloughed or laid off and they just disappeared a 146 00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:13,600 Speaker 1: lot of You think of old pilots where they came 147 00:07:13,640 --> 00:07:16,240 Speaker 1: from the Air Force and they had military background. You 148 00:07:16,280 --> 00:07:18,640 Speaker 1: don't always get as much of that anymore. So you're 149 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:21,600 Speaker 1: going to flight schools. United now has its own flight 150 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:25,040 Speaker 1: school in Arizona where they will subsidize a big portion 151 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:27,960 Speaker 1: of it. It is a resident flight school where you 152 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:30,520 Speaker 1: go and you live there, kind of like foreign airlines 153 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:33,880 Speaker 1: typically have done. They're trying to get very creative. Some 154 00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:35,640 Speaker 1: of the airlines want to bring down the number of 155 00:07:35,680 --> 00:07:38,720 Speaker 1: hours that you need to get into the right seat, 156 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:41,920 Speaker 1: the first officers seat. That's going to be debatable. Do 157 00:07:41,960 --> 00:07:45,320 Speaker 1: you want your pilots to have fewer hours in training? Yeah, 158 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:47,440 Speaker 1: may get them there quicker, and it's still a lot 159 00:07:47,520 --> 00:07:49,800 Speaker 1: of hours that they would need, But do you want 160 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:53,440 Speaker 1: them to have a fewer on that aircraft type or 161 00:07:53,480 --> 00:07:59,080 Speaker 1: in flying in general? SkyWest is getting interesting. They're proposing 162 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:02,880 Speaker 1: something to the effect of, and I may get the 163 00:08:02,920 --> 00:08:06,920 Speaker 1: details wrong on this, but removing seats out of some 164 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:12,280 Speaker 1: of their regional aircraft to lower the requirements for the 165 00:08:12,320 --> 00:08:15,520 Speaker 1: pilots up front, and then making it more like a 166 00:08:15,640 --> 00:08:19,720 Speaker 1: Jet X. You know, the kind of quasi charter slash 167 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:22,440 Speaker 1: airline deal out of Burbank where you go out of 168 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:25,040 Speaker 1: the charter hanger and you don't go into the terminal 169 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:27,760 Speaker 1: and everything is better on board. That they want to 170 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:30,680 Speaker 1: do something like that to keep planes flying with pilots 171 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:33,600 Speaker 1: that have fewer hours because they're not flying for the 172 00:08:33,640 --> 00:08:36,520 Speaker 1: airline and they're flying fewer passengers in the back. So 173 00:08:36,559 --> 00:08:38,520 Speaker 1: they're all trying to get very creative with it, but 174 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:42,000 Speaker 1: bottom line, they need pilots, people who are qualified. You 175 00:08:42,040 --> 00:08:44,480 Speaker 1: don't go down to Wendy's and say, you know who 176 00:08:44,480 --> 00:08:47,880 Speaker 1: wants to fly to Denver tonight, let's go. So it 177 00:08:47,960 --> 00:08:50,360 Speaker 1: takes a while, and they got to ramp up what 178 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:52,839 Speaker 1: happens when they cancel your flight. I know they try 179 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:54,560 Speaker 1: to rebook you, but do you get to get any 180 00:08:54,559 --> 00:08:56,960 Speaker 1: compensation for that? These days it depends on what it is. 181 00:08:57,040 --> 00:09:00,360 Speaker 1: Whether they don't have to compensate you anything. So you 182 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:03,320 Speaker 1: could argue sometimes that it always gets blamed back to 183 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:07,680 Speaker 1: being weather if it is mechanical or they're doing I 184 00:09:07,679 --> 00:09:12,079 Speaker 1: would assume staffing comes into that, crew management and crew scheduling. 185 00:09:12,440 --> 00:09:14,600 Speaker 1: Then if it's an overnight, they got to get you 186 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:17,720 Speaker 1: a hotel, they got to compensate you over a certain 187 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:20,880 Speaker 1: number of hours to get food. There are some things 188 00:09:20,880 --> 00:09:23,520 Speaker 1: they have to do, but in a lot of the cases, 189 00:09:23,559 --> 00:09:26,000 Speaker 1: if it's weather, they say, sorry, we can try to 190 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:28,040 Speaker 1: get you out tomorrow, but then that's all we can do. 191 00:09:28,640 --> 00:09:30,640 Speaker 1: All right, Alex, thank you very much for that update. 192 00:09:30,760 --> 00:09:33,000 Speaker 1: You got it. Thanks Ken. All Right, Alex, don't ABC 193 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:36,240 Speaker 1: News for KFI the latest in the horrendous air travel 194 00:09:36,280 --> 00:09:41,120 Speaker 1: picture with staff shortages and summer weather problems. They always 195 00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:43,920 Speaker 1: have weather problems, but this staff shortest thing, especially with 196 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:46,520 Speaker 1: the pilots and the crew, is new and it's still 197 00:09:46,559 --> 00:09:48,960 Speaker 1: causing headaches for people trying to get someplace for the 198 00:09:49,040 --> 00:09:52,920 Speaker 1: upcoming July fourth weekend. All right, when I come back, 199 00:09:53,320 --> 00:09:55,880 Speaker 1: I'll give Deborah Mark some advice, something she might be 200 00:09:55,920 --> 00:09:57,880 Speaker 1: able to take on the plane to make her feel 201 00:09:57,880 --> 00:10:01,520 Speaker 1: a little better or worse about her potential for COVID 202 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:05,360 Speaker 1: spreading around sides wearing her big heavy mask. 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If 212 00:10:36,120 --> 00:10:39,640 Speaker 1: you have not signed the petition, you're an LA County 213 00:10:39,679 --> 00:10:43,280 Speaker 1: registered voter, and you go there and you download the petition, 214 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:46,040 Speaker 1: it's too late to mail it in. You're gonna have 215 00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:48,240 Speaker 1: to drop it off at a drop off site, which 216 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:52,319 Speaker 1: you can learn from the website. This is it. July 217 00:10:52,600 --> 00:10:54,720 Speaker 1: sixth is the day they have to turn in all 218 00:10:54,840 --> 00:10:58,560 Speaker 1: the signatures to the LA County Registrar of Voters and 219 00:10:58,640 --> 00:11:00,400 Speaker 1: they have to have time to sort through them and 220 00:11:00,440 --> 00:11:02,400 Speaker 1: do what they have to do with them before they 221 00:11:02,440 --> 00:11:05,520 Speaker 1: hand them over. So that's why we're at a deadline now. 222 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:08,400 Speaker 1: We passed the mailing deadline because it could take a week. 223 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:10,720 Speaker 1: You saw what happened with the mail in balance from 224 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:13,000 Speaker 1: the June seventh primary. They're still coming in. I think 225 00:11:13,160 --> 00:11:15,920 Speaker 1: there's another vote count and Karen Bass is pulling further ahead. 226 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:20,960 Speaker 1: But anyway, it could take too long before they get 227 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:22,679 Speaker 1: your petitions, so they don't want you putting it in 228 00:11:22,760 --> 00:11:25,920 Speaker 1: the mail anymore. 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So you mentioned because your husband 264 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:26,320 Speaker 1: took a plane to Vegas and we don't know how 265 00:13:26,360 --> 00:13:28,080 Speaker 1: he got COVID, but he got COVID, and whether it's 266 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:30,680 Speaker 1: on the plane or somewhere in Vegas, that you're going 267 00:13:30,760 --> 00:13:33,240 Speaker 1: to continue to wear your what KA ninety five mask 268 00:13:33,320 --> 00:13:36,120 Speaker 1: on the planet Before he didn't wear a mask coming 269 00:13:36,160 --> 00:13:38,600 Speaker 1: home from Vegas. I said, I'm always going to wear 270 00:13:38,640 --> 00:13:44,040 Speaker 1: a mask while on a plane, forever and ever and ever. Yes, okay, 271 00:13:44,360 --> 00:13:46,880 Speaker 1: and more specifically a KA ninety five, that's the one 272 00:13:46,920 --> 00:13:50,800 Speaker 1: you like? Yes, okay. So I don't know whether or 273 00:13:50,800 --> 00:13:53,040 Speaker 1: not this will make most people feel better or worse. 274 00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:57,640 Speaker 1: Trevor use as a reporter for USA Today, and he 275 00:13:57,800 --> 00:14:01,480 Speaker 1: wrote the story because, like you, I can't help but 276 00:14:01,640 --> 00:14:06,800 Speaker 1: shudder every time someone coughs or sneezes as they board 277 00:14:06,840 --> 00:14:12,640 Speaker 1: the plane. Yes, so what he did, He's gotten himself 278 00:14:12,679 --> 00:14:17,160 Speaker 1: a carbon dioxide detector and he balanced it on his knee. 279 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:22,280 Speaker 1: Experts say that the level of carbon dioxide and indoor 280 00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:26,400 Speaker 1: air is an easy way to tell your potential COVID 281 00:14:26,520 --> 00:14:31,520 Speaker 1: nineteen exposure and now that masks are voluntary on planes, 282 00:14:33,440 --> 00:14:35,600 Speaker 1: and people, of course from outside the US don't have 283 00:14:35,640 --> 00:14:39,080 Speaker 1: to test anywhere to come here. Trevor wanted to do 284 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:42,320 Speaker 1: something a little above wearing a mask. So he's sitting 285 00:14:42,360 --> 00:14:45,280 Speaker 1: there in his seat wearing a mask. And here's how 286 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:49,400 Speaker 1: it works. Outdoor air typically has less than four hundred 287 00:14:49,480 --> 00:14:53,600 Speaker 1: parts per million of carbon dioxide, and he says, the 288 00:14:53,720 --> 00:14:56,720 Speaker 1: level of CO two on my plane never reached anything 289 00:14:56,800 --> 00:15:01,600 Speaker 1: considered even mildly unhealthy. The numbers it suggest that he 290 00:15:01,760 --> 00:15:07,200 Speaker 1: might be exposed to coronavirus on the plane. He said, 291 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:10,560 Speaker 1: this is what he bought, this detector one hundred and 292 00:15:10,680 --> 00:15:16,120 Speaker 1: forty dollars. It's called a ko PuO ko PuO tester 293 00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:20,000 Speaker 1: on Amazon, and he said an expert told him that's 294 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:22,320 Speaker 1: one of the cheapest but accurate detectors you can find, 295 00:15:22,760 --> 00:15:26,360 Speaker 1: and I don't think it's very big. He says, here, 296 00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:30,120 Speaker 1: an area with high CO two levels may put you 297 00:15:30,160 --> 00:15:33,960 Speaker 1: at higher risk for infection, while a space with low 298 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:38,640 Speaker 1: CO two levels can be considered safer. He talked to 299 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:42,440 Speaker 1: a researcher at the University of Colorado Boulder named Jose 300 00:15:42,960 --> 00:15:46,920 Speaker 1: Luis Himenez. He's an expert on how particles and gases 301 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:49,600 Speaker 1: move around a room, and he tested a lot of 302 00:15:49,680 --> 00:15:53,360 Speaker 1: inexpensive CO two detectors and found out that they're actually 303 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:58,600 Speaker 1: remarkably accurate compared to real laboratory equipment. So you may 304 00:15:58,640 --> 00:16:00,440 Speaker 1: want to invest in one of these to feel better 305 00:16:00,520 --> 00:16:03,800 Speaker 1: or worse about your flight. So he says, it's the 306 00:16:03,880 --> 00:16:06,760 Speaker 1: only thing we found that approximate having this information. It's 307 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:11,800 Speaker 1: not perfect because everyone exhales carbon dioxide, but not everyone 308 00:16:11,920 --> 00:16:16,720 Speaker 1: who exhales has COVID. He found, for instance, in a library, 309 00:16:17,400 --> 00:16:20,360 Speaker 1: if an influx of people make COO two levels double 310 00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:23,640 Speaker 1: from like eight hundred parts per million to sixteen hundred 311 00:16:24,120 --> 00:16:28,720 Speaker 1: COVID nineteen, transmission risk triples. And if the CO two 312 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:31,840 Speaker 1: levels in a gym were to drop from twenty eight 313 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:35,040 Speaker 1: the gym is a tough place between the sweat and 314 00:16:35,160 --> 00:16:38,600 Speaker 1: the twenty eight hundred parts per million to a thousand, 315 00:16:39,120 --> 00:16:44,200 Speaker 1: the risk can drop by seventy five percent. Now, the 316 00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:46,720 Speaker 1: next thing he gets into is something we've talked about 317 00:16:47,520 --> 00:16:51,840 Speaker 1: that the airplanes have HEPPI filters, and HEPA stands for 318 00:16:52,040 --> 00:16:57,040 Speaker 1: high efficiency particulate air. Most large airplanes made by Boeing 319 00:16:57,080 --> 00:17:04,200 Speaker 1: an Airbus have them installed there very effective of moving dust, pollen, bacteria, 320 00:17:04,400 --> 00:17:07,960 Speaker 1: and yes, virus particles from the air, but they don't 321 00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:11,360 Speaker 1: remove carbon dioxide because it's a dissolved gas with far 322 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:18,159 Speaker 1: smaller molecules. Now, multiple studies have shown that airlines and 323 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:21,280 Speaker 1: aircraft manufacturers, and other research have concluded that air travel 324 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:25,960 Speaker 1: debramark poses a relatively low risk of COVID nineteen infection, 325 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:30,159 Speaker 1: in large part because the HEPA filters do remove the 326 00:17:30,359 --> 00:17:34,359 Speaker 1: virus particles. So you're probably in a worse shape if 327 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:37,200 Speaker 1: you spend that long in any other room or place, 328 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:40,080 Speaker 1: maybe even in your little news center booth. I know 329 00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:43,120 Speaker 1: you're by yourself, but yes, there could be stuff left 330 00:17:43,160 --> 00:17:48,920 Speaker 1: there from the previous anchor. But that's only when when 331 00:17:48,960 --> 00:17:51,159 Speaker 1: the aircraft is pumping air through the filter. Okay, so 332 00:17:51,280 --> 00:17:54,040 Speaker 1: what happens when you're just sitting around waiting, when everybody 333 00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:56,280 Speaker 1: is trying to get into their seats and they're lucking 334 00:17:56,400 --> 00:17:59,439 Speaker 1: up the baggage and you're just sitting around. Yes, they 335 00:17:59,480 --> 00:18:02,320 Speaker 1: do say the systems completely replace cabin air every two 336 00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:06,920 Speaker 1: to three minutes while they're actually flying. But you're right. 337 00:18:07,600 --> 00:18:11,200 Speaker 1: He said that his CO two measurements skyrocketed during the boarding. 338 00:18:12,320 --> 00:18:14,240 Speaker 1: So that's when you really lay low and high, you 339 00:18:14,240 --> 00:18:18,960 Speaker 1: should go into the seat. Yeah, even I can't fit 340 00:18:19,080 --> 00:18:21,960 Speaker 1: under the seat, but that indicated But during the flight 341 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:25,480 Speaker 1: things remained unchanged. He says, the pilot of the ground 342 00:18:25,520 --> 00:18:27,520 Speaker 1: crew were doing something different at boarding that kept the 343 00:18:27,560 --> 00:18:30,640 Speaker 1: air fresh or even though both flights were similarly full 344 00:18:30,680 --> 00:18:32,840 Speaker 1: and I was seated in almost the same place in 345 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:36,560 Speaker 1: both directions. So he calls up United Airlines and they 346 00:18:36,600 --> 00:18:39,159 Speaker 1: only sent them a statement there's always fresh air in 347 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:43,120 Speaker 1: the aircraft. The primary HEPA benefits are when airborne because 348 00:18:43,160 --> 00:18:45,880 Speaker 1: significant outdoor air is circulated through the cabin and jet 349 00:18:45,960 --> 00:18:49,760 Speaker 1: bridge on the ground anyway. Oh so that's their answer 350 00:18:50,359 --> 00:18:52,960 Speaker 1: that when the plane is sitting there and boarding their 351 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:54,840 Speaker 1: air because he got the door open at the front 352 00:18:54,880 --> 00:18:57,560 Speaker 1: and there's just the ground air right there when you're 353 00:18:57,600 --> 00:19:01,040 Speaker 1: so So, I mean, when you think about this, in 354 00:19:01,119 --> 00:19:04,520 Speaker 1: the last year or so, I haven't heard about any 355 00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:07,600 Speaker 1: big COVID outbreak being traced to a flight. That's the 356 00:19:07,680 --> 00:19:11,639 Speaker 1: thing that makes me feel more comfortable about flying and COVID. So, 357 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:14,800 Speaker 1: but it's not just COVID. I just look at all 358 00:19:14,840 --> 00:19:17,240 Speaker 1: the times that John when he would go on a plane, 359 00:19:17,320 --> 00:19:21,159 Speaker 1: he'd always come back sick. Right, So I don't know 360 00:19:21,280 --> 00:19:24,120 Speaker 1: what to believe. I just feel that when you're trapped 361 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:26,600 Speaker 1: in an airplane and people are coughing and sneezing and 362 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:29,320 Speaker 1: doing all that growth stuff, that you're more apt to 363 00:19:29,560 --> 00:19:32,879 Speaker 1: getting whatever is out there. I don't know. I'm not 364 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:37,000 Speaker 1: saying that the Heppa filters aren't working, but I'm still 365 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:40,639 Speaker 1: going to wear a mask. Yeah, I have to admit 366 00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:43,680 Speaker 1: when I've flown over the years, it's more likely than not. 367 00:19:43,920 --> 00:19:46,159 Speaker 1: If I've gotten sick in any one year with a cold, 368 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:48,960 Speaker 1: It's probably been after I've taken a trip somewhere. Yeah. 369 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:51,200 Speaker 1: That could be not just from the plane though, that 370 00:19:51,240 --> 00:19:53,240 Speaker 1: could be all the people you're into acted with, because 371 00:19:53,280 --> 00:19:55,200 Speaker 1: often you take a trip to see family and friends, 372 00:19:55,240 --> 00:19:57,679 Speaker 1: and you go places and you do things that are 373 00:19:57,760 --> 00:20:00,520 Speaker 1: more crowded because you're like a tourist. Yeah, so that 374 00:20:00,560 --> 00:20:04,920 Speaker 1: could be from a variant of reasons. He said that 375 00:20:05,040 --> 00:20:07,920 Speaker 1: aboard the plane, the CEL two levels hit one thousand, 376 00:20:08,560 --> 00:20:14,160 Speaker 1: five hundred and twenty parts per million when flight attendants 377 00:20:14,200 --> 00:20:16,960 Speaker 1: closed the boarding door, rose to eighteen hundred when the 378 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:19,399 Speaker 1: pilot appeared to turn on a different vent system, but 379 00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:22,320 Speaker 1: dropped to sixteen hundreds. We taxi to the runway. Jump 380 00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:24,479 Speaker 1: back to nineteen hundreds of approaches. You sitting there one 381 00:20:24,520 --> 00:20:26,560 Speaker 1: kant as it will meter the whole time a nineteen 382 00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:28,720 Speaker 1: hundred were approached the end of the runway for takeoff. 383 00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:31,959 Speaker 1: That the levels began dropping immediately as the engine spooled up, 384 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:34,760 Speaker 1: and we leveled off at around twelve hundred when the 385 00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:38,119 Speaker 1: seatbelt sign came off at twenty eight thousand feet. So, 386 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:41,440 Speaker 1: but I can't figure out from this story as well. 387 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:43,879 Speaker 1: It's just a measuring relative risk. It's not saying, oh, 388 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:46,600 Speaker 1: if it's above a thousand parts per million, you're really 389 00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:48,840 Speaker 1: at high risk of COVID. It's just giving you an 390 00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:50,840 Speaker 1: idea of what's in the air. And if you're ken, 391 00:20:50,920 --> 00:20:53,280 Speaker 1: if you're at risk and you're you're already on the plane, 392 00:20:53,320 --> 00:20:56,280 Speaker 1: what are you gonna do about it? I mean, if 393 00:20:56,320 --> 00:20:58,680 Speaker 1: it shows that you're at this high risk, there's nothing 394 00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:01,120 Speaker 1: you can do. You're locked up on an airplane. Yeah, 395 00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:03,400 Speaker 1: I know, he just wanted to get a comfortable feeling 396 00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:07,000 Speaker 1: as to whether or not we had less carbon dioxide 397 00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:08,800 Speaker 1: and there's nothing you can do about it. But he 398 00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:11,120 Speaker 1: was just looking for a way to feel either better 399 00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:14,280 Speaker 1: rewards about the situation. All right, When I come back, 400 00:21:14,320 --> 00:21:16,520 Speaker 1: We'll be at the gas gold recall desk. He made 401 00:21:16,520 --> 00:21:20,520 Speaker 1: an appearance on Channel five Saturday Morning News to once 402 00:21:20,560 --> 00:21:24,200 Speaker 1: again try to explain that he's the right DA for 403 00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:26,640 Speaker 1: the job and to be asked the usual questions about 404 00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:29,600 Speaker 1: are we safe more coming up KF. I am six 405 00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:34,639 Speaker 1: forty and we need to move our criminal justice system 406 00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:37,040 Speaker 1: into the direction of the twenty first century. And his 407 00:21:37,160 --> 00:21:40,920 Speaker 1: special directives that he's enacted has given criminals kind of 408 00:21:40,920 --> 00:21:43,080 Speaker 1: a get out of jail free card. We need to 409 00:21:43,280 --> 00:21:46,439 Speaker 1: use science and data in order to address public safety 410 00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:50,360 Speaker 1: on violent crimes. His data and science is completely flawed. 411 00:21:50,640 --> 00:21:53,119 Speaker 1: Nobody's faith in Los Angeles because of a different attorney 412 00:21:53,160 --> 00:21:55,040 Speaker 1: gap on. You will see that not only have I 413 00:21:55,320 --> 00:22:01,080 Speaker 1: hands public safety, I am absolutely out race at the 414 00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:04,520 Speaker 1: life that the suggest zone is feeling. He has no 415 00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:08,399 Speaker 1: business implementing laws of his own personal choice, which we 416 00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:10,760 Speaker 1: voted against. We've done so in a way that it's 417 00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:14,000 Speaker 1: much more well physically and socially responsible. Not only is 418 00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:16,000 Speaker 1: he breaking the law, but he is not doing what 419 00:22:16,119 --> 00:22:18,240 Speaker 1: he is supposed to do as a district attorney, and 420 00:22:18,359 --> 00:22:21,119 Speaker 1: that is protective victim. He is in the wrong office. 421 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:24,320 Speaker 1: He should have been a public defender. Each voted in, 422 00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:27,639 Speaker 1: he can be voted out, celebrating us going home on 423 00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:30,200 Speaker 1: his gasking direct crime and is out of historic blow 424 00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:32,800 Speaker 1: and the stations of historic laws and say that's a 425 00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:35,840 Speaker 1: bunch of bone. And now for an update on the 426 00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:40,680 Speaker 1: recall of La County District Attorney George Gascon years John 427 00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:43,119 Speaker 1: and kid Well. Like I said, we're getting down to 428 00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:45,960 Speaker 1: crunch time. KF I am six forty to John and 429 00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:49,680 Speaker 1: Ken show. They have to have all the signatures turned 430 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:53,040 Speaker 1: in on July sixth, that is right after the big 431 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:56,400 Speaker 1: Fourth of July weekend. They are looking for a cushion. 432 00:22:57,200 --> 00:22:59,600 Speaker 1: They have enough signatures, but a percentage you're going to 433 00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:02,359 Speaker 1: be thrown out, so they would like to pick up 434 00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:06,440 Speaker 1: one hundred two hundred thousand extra signatures for that cushion. 435 00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:10,520 Speaker 1: You can still go to recall da George Gascon dot 436 00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:13,440 Speaker 1: com and it's a great website. You can read about 437 00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:16,160 Speaker 1: all the victims and their families and all their stories 438 00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:19,600 Speaker 1: and all the reasons that George Gascon has been an 439 00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:22,840 Speaker 1: outrage as LA County District Attorney had started the day 440 00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:26,080 Speaker 1: he took office with his directives that he issued, which 441 00:23:26,359 --> 00:23:31,399 Speaker 1: among other things, has led to very little punishment and 442 00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:33,920 Speaker 1: an attempt to get people who are already being punished 443 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:37,720 Speaker 1: out of prison. So you go to the website, you 444 00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:40,520 Speaker 1: can still download a petition, but you're going to have 445 00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:44,359 Speaker 1: to drop it off at certain sites because it's too 446 00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:47,639 Speaker 1: late to put it in the mail. On Saturday morning, 447 00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:51,760 Speaker 1: he went on the KTLA Morning News. The two were 448 00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:55,320 Speaker 1: asking the questions or Mark Mester and Lynette Romero, and 449 00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:57,600 Speaker 1: we'll start with question number one. It's the one he 450 00:23:57,720 --> 00:24:01,960 Speaker 1: was asked by Lester Holt NBC Nightly News. Are things 451 00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:04,600 Speaker 1: safer with you? Is da? Let's listen. Do you feel 452 00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:06,760 Speaker 1: like La County is a safer place because of what 453 00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:09,199 Speaker 1: you've done? Yeah, you know, some areas it is. I mean, 454 00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:11,439 Speaker 1: you know, look, I think it's important to start by 455 00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:13,399 Speaker 1: saying that, you know, I was a police officer for 456 00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:19,240 Speaker 1: many years before it was the district attorneys. Community is safe. 457 00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:20,800 Speaker 1: I think some of the things that we're doing that 458 00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:25,159 Speaker 1: are working really well is our community violence intervention we 459 00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:28,040 Speaker 1: have that is rolling around different parts of the county. 460 00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:32,080 Speaker 1: We're looking for repeat offenders, We're making good arrests, We'll 461 00:24:32,119 --> 00:24:33,800 Speaker 1: be bringing in a lot of guns. We're doing a 462 00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:36,720 Speaker 1: lot of good work around it. Another area that I 463 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:39,760 Speaker 1: think is you know, doing really well is we have 464 00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:43,760 Speaker 1: increased the number of prosecutions and sexual assaults. That is 465 00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:45,520 Speaker 1: an area that I wanted to put a lot of 466 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:47,800 Speaker 1: concentration in. We've got a lot of criticism in the 467 00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:51,359 Speaker 1: office in the past that we're increasing the prosecutions of 468 00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:56,720 Speaker 1: those that are assaulting others sexually. We started a centralized 469 00:24:56,760 --> 00:25:01,920 Speaker 1: filing system, which is modernize the way link system. All right, 470 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:04,760 Speaker 1: stop this here, this is just a filibuster. We're probably 471 00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:07,840 Speaker 1: gonna move on to the next one. But I don't 472 00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:11,320 Speaker 1: think people feel safer. I think while the crime numbers 473 00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:14,240 Speaker 1: haven't been rising as fast as they really would be 474 00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:17,119 Speaker 1: if we were keeping an accurate count, I remember the 475 00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:20,159 Speaker 1: way they gained the system. It's always worth talking about this. 476 00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:22,520 Speaker 1: It began with a B one O nine back in 477 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:25,919 Speaker 1: twenty eleven. We call it the prisoner dumping Bill. Because 478 00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:30,399 Speaker 1: these state felons are released and they're given local the 479 00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:33,800 Speaker 1: local counties take over looking after them, and that they 480 00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:38,520 Speaker 1: reoffend their sent for flash incarceration. They're not sent back 481 00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:41,159 Speaker 1: to state prison, which means it doesn't show up on 482 00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:45,080 Speaker 1: their record. There are in no way a state criminal recidivist. 483 00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:47,479 Speaker 1: This is how they gain the system so they can 484 00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:49,960 Speaker 1: tone down the numbers. So when they're lackeys at the 485 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:53,239 Speaker 1: Al Segundo times say, oh, crime numbers are not been 486 00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:56,080 Speaker 1: going up. Plus you know, with Prop forty seven and 487 00:25:56,320 --> 00:25:59,840 Speaker 1: making shoplifting basically legal up to almost a thousand dollars, 488 00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:02,840 Speaker 1: a lot of people aren't reporting these crimes. You're seeing 489 00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:05,080 Speaker 1: it all the time. You're seeing things we haven't seen, 490 00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:08,400 Speaker 1: these smash and grabs, these follow homes. I don't even 491 00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:10,520 Speaker 1: know if these happened back in the nineties when we're 492 00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:13,520 Speaker 1: at the all time high with crime and homicides. And 493 00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:16,600 Speaker 1: by the way, homicides in La are higher this year 494 00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:19,440 Speaker 1: than last year, and last year they were the highest 495 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:23,040 Speaker 1: in years. So you can listen to him babble here 496 00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:27,080 Speaker 1: about his filing system and all the other nonsense he's 497 00:26:27,080 --> 00:26:30,280 Speaker 1: putting out there, but it's crap. All right, We'll move 498 00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:37,040 Speaker 1: on to the second clip that we have. Let's listen. Look, 499 00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:40,480 Speaker 1: I mean we're coming out of you know, the pandemic, 500 00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:43,520 Speaker 1: you know, the set of tremendous impact not only in 501 00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:46,800 Speaker 1: La County but throughout the nation. The reality is that 502 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:49,680 Speaker 1: crime is around the nation. In fact, some more neighboring 503 00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:53,040 Speaker 1: counties or capital are having higher levels of violence that 504 00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:56,600 Speaker 1: we are. So there is no question that we have 505 00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:01,880 Speaker 1: a impact, not only in while on crime. We see 506 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:04,280 Speaker 1: homelessness around our city. You know, there are a lot 507 00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:07,119 Speaker 1: of things that don't thanks for the obvious recap. Frustrated 508 00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:10,600 Speaker 1: as much as the next person. It is a national problem. 509 00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:14,120 Speaker 1: It's not just an LA problem, but LA in many 510 00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:17,160 Speaker 1: ways is actually beginning to come out of it. Are 511 00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:19,960 Speaker 1: we okay, of course we're now coming out of It's 512 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:24,320 Speaker 1: a streets every day. I am frustrated what we see, 513 00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:27,639 Speaker 1: and you know, this is an area that we need 514 00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:29,680 Speaker 1: to come out together. We need to do a lot 515 00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:33,320 Speaker 1: better and certainly pushing really hard to ensure that we 516 00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:37,720 Speaker 1: increase the number of homeless capacity that we're not. Let's 517 00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:40,520 Speaker 1: stop this clip. This is more filibustering. First of all, 518 00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:44,080 Speaker 1: let's talk about the national situation, and people only care 519 00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:46,800 Speaker 1: about what's going on here, and as I just told 520 00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:50,200 Speaker 1: you about the homicide numbers and the crime numbers, things 521 00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:52,879 Speaker 1: are not good. I don't care what's going on around 522 00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:56,240 Speaker 1: the country, all right. Plus a lot of the times 523 00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:58,800 Speaker 1: what we're talking about around the country are places at 524 00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:00,840 Speaker 1: the same policies we do some of these big cities. 525 00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:03,439 Speaker 1: You should see the homicide numbers from Chicago from over 526 00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:06,960 Speaker 1: the weekend. But this guy came into office with the 527 00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:09,120 Speaker 1: idea that if you commit a crime, I don't want 528 00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:11,960 Speaker 1: you to serve much time. Took away all the enhancements, 529 00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:15,399 Speaker 1: all the sentencing enhancements in case of the story we 530 00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:17,440 Speaker 1: just talked about it a couple of weeks ago, took 531 00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:20,200 Speaker 1: away a guy strike from the three strikes law. He 532 00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:22,800 Speaker 1: wants to do everything he can to reduce the amount 533 00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:25,080 Speaker 1: of prison time for people, and they go out of 534 00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:27,399 Speaker 1: their way in his office to release people that have 535 00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:29,399 Speaker 1: already been sentenced, to try to figure out ways to 536 00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:33,359 Speaker 1: get them resentenced. Well, the next clip kind of touches 537 00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:35,080 Speaker 1: on what I was just saying. He was asked here 538 00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:38,560 Speaker 1: why he's citing all these national statistics when it comes 539 00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:40,440 Speaker 1: to what's going on here? Why do you bring up 540 00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:43,000 Speaker 1: national Because you're not the disc attorney of America, You're 541 00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:45,640 Speaker 1: the disc attorney of La County. So what does it 542 00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:47,720 Speaker 1: matter what's going on in the rest of the country. Well, 543 00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:49,480 Speaker 1: do you know what, Mark, I think it's a really 544 00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:52,040 Speaker 1: it's a really interesting question. I'm glad you ask it. 545 00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:54,200 Speaker 1: I bring the national picture because we're not on the 546 00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:57,000 Speaker 1: back of right. We have neighboring counties that are per 547 00:28:57,080 --> 00:29:00,840 Speaker 1: capital having more violent crime than we had. We're having 548 00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:04,040 Speaker 1: a tremendous problem with guns and this is only going 549 00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:07,719 Speaker 1: to work. So you don't add gun enhanced. Anybody can 550 00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:11,000 Speaker 1: carry a concealed weapon, So this is not anything that 551 00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:13,959 Speaker 1: is sold an LA problem. We are aggrest in LA. 552 00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:17,880 Speaker 1: We are working very aggressively to deal with the problems 553 00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:20,480 Speaker 1: in LA. But we have to understand when gas prices 554 00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:23,720 Speaker 1: go up, they don't just go up in LA. Right 555 00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:26,240 Speaker 1: when crime is going up. The way that is going 556 00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:28,479 Speaker 1: up is going up around the country, and we need 557 00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:32,600 Speaker 1: to understand or while we're aggresting the local issues, we're 558 00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:34,880 Speaker 1: not in a vacuum. You know, we're not in island. 559 00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:38,160 Speaker 1: This would have been a great point for these anchors, 560 00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:40,080 Speaker 1: and maybe they did, because I don't have the whole 561 00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:42,000 Speaker 1: interview here and I did not watch it. And this 562 00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:45,680 Speaker 1: is Mark Mester and Lynette Romero to say, all right, 563 00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:48,200 Speaker 1: so you're complaining about too many guns, and you're complaining 564 00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:50,800 Speaker 1: about the Supreme Court decision that allowed people to carry 565 00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:55,040 Speaker 1: concealed weapons. How come you took away gun enhancements for crimes. 566 00:29:56,080 --> 00:30:00,320 Speaker 1: Isn't that a way to get see this crowd leaves 567 00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:03,120 Speaker 1: him just punishing everybody and trying to take away all 568 00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:05,479 Speaker 1: the guns. More gun control bills, more gun But when 569 00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:08,400 Speaker 1: you have a chance, with a criminal right in front 570 00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:11,840 Speaker 1: of you, we've got a gun, then add the enhancement 571 00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:14,360 Speaker 1: so that we have a longer sentence. So this person 572 00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:16,360 Speaker 1: they think next time, maybe I shouldn't have a gun. 573 00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:20,000 Speaker 1: Also that criminal I was just talking about a couple 574 00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:21,800 Speaker 1: of minutes ago, the guy that had a strike on 575 00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:26,480 Speaker 1: his record and gascoonne went light on him and it 576 00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:28,960 Speaker 1: ended up that he killed a homeless man in Pacoima. 577 00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:32,760 Speaker 1: That's another case where he was arrested for being on 578 00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:36,959 Speaker 1: probation for having a gun. Isn't that where the focus 579 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:40,480 Speaker 1: should be When you have a criminal, he's got a 580 00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:43,880 Speaker 1: record and now he's got a gun, Let's go as 581 00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:46,640 Speaker 1: far as we can to punish him for that. That's 582 00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:50,800 Speaker 1: where you have the most effect, not this overall overarching 583 00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:53,360 Speaker 1: broad sense that we just need to reduce the guns. 584 00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:57,760 Speaker 1: All right, Let's get to the next clip where he 585 00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:02,600 Speaker 1: is asked about the monthy police officer's deaths. Look, let me, 586 00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:05,280 Speaker 1: let me begin by saying, and I've said this over 587 00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:08,880 Speaker 1: and over again, my heart goes out to the parts 588 00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:12,360 Speaker 1: and sometime I found, as you well mentioned, I am 589 00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:15,320 Speaker 1: an ex police officer. I have been to more police 590 00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:20,240 Speaker 1: funerals that I character me. I have been in hospitals 591 00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:24,640 Speaker 1: where people are dying. But it's important to realize that, 592 00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:28,880 Speaker 1: first of all, this individual actually had been released from 593 00:31:29,080 --> 00:31:32,720 Speaker 1: jail before I came to office. He was released in bail. 594 00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:35,920 Speaker 1: He was autumn bailed for many months before I came 595 00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:39,000 Speaker 1: into office. And the other reason for that was because 596 00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:43,800 Speaker 1: the courts and even this office determined that he was 597 00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:48,800 Speaker 1: not dangerous. His conviction were the strike that you mentioned 598 00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:52,960 Speaker 1: was for burgerizing his grandparents home. He stole the TV, 599 00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:56,880 Speaker 1: he was highed, His history was one of substance abuse. 600 00:31:57,640 --> 00:32:01,000 Speaker 1: When he was arrested, he had a gun in the car, 601 00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:05,360 Speaker 1: and he had possession of leth and failing for personal use, 602 00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:10,120 Speaker 1: and the cords without any opposition from my office releasing 603 00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:14,520 Speaker 1: on bail for many months. Probably the reality is that 604 00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:19,160 Speaker 1: he had There was no predictability that he was going 605 00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:21,880 Speaker 1: to get involved in violence. There was no known history 606 00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:24,760 Speaker 1: of violence, and the outcome in this case was an 607 00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:27,840 Speaker 1: outcome that commonly happens. You know, his strife was about 608 00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:32,080 Speaker 1: a ten year old strife. Since then he stops being 609 00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:36,800 Speaker 1: for driving without a license, for all improbation checks and 610 00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:41,200 Speaker 1: again no violence, no history of weapons. So we have 611 00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:45,160 Speaker 1: to understand that we are never going to get at 612 00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:48,080 Speaker 1: one hundred percent right. There was nothing predictable of what 613 00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:52,800 Speaker 1: occurred in this case, and we have to be careful 614 00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:57,520 Speaker 1: that we don't over react to a tragedy horrandous strategedy 615 00:32:57,640 --> 00:33:01,280 Speaker 1: like this and the end to hold on a path 616 00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:04,800 Speaker 1: that is something like wed any more safety for us, well, 617 00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:06,960 Speaker 1: I think we would have been safer if this guy 618 00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:08,920 Speaker 1: was in state prison like he should have been for 619 00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:11,160 Speaker 1: two and a half to three years as a one 620 00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:16,320 Speaker 1: striker who had a gun, you know, to write off 621 00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:19,520 Speaker 1: the death of these two Almondi police officers as well, 622 00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:24,000 Speaker 1: it's just something we can't predict. This guy had a 623 00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:27,000 Speaker 1: gun and he's a known gang member. Doesn't that tell 624 00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:29,440 Speaker 1: you that he's going in the wrong direction and deserves 625 00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:32,880 Speaker 1: more punishment instead of saying, oh, he's just a drug user. 626 00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:37,640 Speaker 1: It's a sad thing. It only burglarized his grandparents homes 627 00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:41,640 Speaker 1: and by the way, and this is the part that 628 00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:44,440 Speaker 1: gas go lied about last week. Is he tried to 629 00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:46,200 Speaker 1: make it sound like we took a look at all 630 00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:48,959 Speaker 1: of these factors, but the truth was that he had 631 00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:52,000 Speaker 1: a policy that person as a strike on the record, 632 00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:55,120 Speaker 1: you ignore it, so it really probably doesn't matter what 633 00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:58,440 Speaker 1: the strike was for. He told his deputy Das just 634 00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:02,600 Speaker 1: ignore the strike and prosecute based on the current crime, 635 00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:04,280 Speaker 1: which is, well, you know, he's just got a gun 636 00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:08,040 Speaker 1: on him, that's all, so let's go light. Let's give 637 00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:11,480 Speaker 1: him easy jail sentence and some probation. And so he 638 00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:13,360 Speaker 1: was out on the streets to kill those police officers. 639 00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:16,560 Speaker 1: There's one more clip coming up where it looks like 640 00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:19,759 Speaker 1: there was a back and forth between one of the 641 00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:24,080 Speaker 1: Channel five hosts and Gascon about the recall. John and 642 00:34:24,160 --> 00:34:26,960 Speaker 1: Ken Show on kf I Am sixty will be joined 643 00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:30,880 Speaker 1: after five o'clock by Status seventy member Kevin Kylie to 644 00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:35,040 Speaker 1: talk about Newsom in the legislature's budget deal and the 645 00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:39,200 Speaker 1: money that will be coming in inflation relief the high 646 00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:43,080 Speaker 1: cost of things. They did finally reach an agreement and 647 00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:47,200 Speaker 1: it leans towards the Progressive Democrat legislator's way, which is 648 00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:50,399 Speaker 1: give money to the poorer people and don't give money 649 00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:55,200 Speaker 1: to a percentage of the California taxpayers who probably actually 650 00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:57,440 Speaker 1: use the gasoline. The cost so much, which is why 651 00:34:57,480 --> 00:35:01,600 Speaker 1: this has been repackaged as helping people with the high 652 00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:04,960 Speaker 1: cost of living. So that'll come up at five oh five, 653 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:07,920 Speaker 1: and they'll talk about one of the real contributors to 654 00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:12,640 Speaker 1: this is the refineries. We are losing refineries in the 655 00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:16,160 Speaker 1: United States and we're not really opening up any new ones. 656 00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:18,880 Speaker 1: Other parts of the world are. I think you can 657 00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:22,120 Speaker 1: probably guess where those are. And by the way, one 658 00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:25,480 Speaker 1: of the reasons that the Russians aren't suffering from the 659 00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:28,640 Speaker 1: sanctions for invading Ukraine is the fact that they do 660 00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:31,399 Speaker 1: have a lot of oil and natural gas to sell, 661 00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:33,359 Speaker 1: and even if Europe's not buying it, we're not buying 662 00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:35,800 Speaker 1: it other countries are, and the prices have gone so 663 00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:40,080 Speaker 1: high that the Russian economy is not suffering too much 664 00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:41,960 Speaker 1: from all of this. So all of this will come 665 00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:44,799 Speaker 1: up in the five o'clock hour, along with one more 666 00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:48,320 Speaker 1: keyword and your chance to win it about five twenty. 667 00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:50,959 Speaker 1: You'll hear that keyword here on the Johnny Ken Show, 668 00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:53,719 Speaker 1: and all you have to do is enter it at 669 00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:56,560 Speaker 1: the website KFI AM sixty dot com for a chance 670 00:35:56,640 --> 00:36:01,080 Speaker 1: to win. Let's finish off what we've been playing. Channel 671 00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:05,200 Speaker 1: five Saturday Morning News. The anchors were Mark Mester and 672 00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:09,200 Speaker 1: Lynette Romero. They had the La County District Attorney George 673 00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:12,279 Speaker 1: Guest going on zoom, where he just sounds even worse 674 00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:15,240 Speaker 1: than usual with his kermit voice, very kind of muffled. 675 00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:18,439 Speaker 1: Why can't people at this point just come into studios again? 676 00:36:18,520 --> 00:36:20,279 Speaker 1: Are we really is this going to be forever that 677 00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:23,040 Speaker 1: people are on zoom being interviewed, and then they get 678 00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:25,919 Speaker 1: to have the little background with the bookcase and he's 679 00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:27,920 Speaker 1: got flags and so forth to make it look like, 680 00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:32,960 Speaker 1: you know, really patriotic and well read. Anyway, this is 681 00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:36,359 Speaker 1: a reckless district attorney. One of the big takeawakes here 682 00:36:36,440 --> 00:36:38,640 Speaker 1: is that he had a little rant on guns. This 683 00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:41,080 Speaker 1: is a guy that does not believe in sentencing enhancements 684 00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:43,560 Speaker 1: for guns. So when you actually have a criminal who 685 00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:46,000 Speaker 1: committed a crime with a gun, even though the law 686 00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:48,560 Speaker 1: say you can add a sentencing enhancement for more prison time, 687 00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:53,160 Speaker 1: not going to do it. It's remarkably weird this disconnect 688 00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:56,319 Speaker 1: between this crowd that's really after gun control and then 689 00:36:56,320 --> 00:36:58,360 Speaker 1: when they have an actual criminal committing a crime with 690 00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:01,520 Speaker 1: a gun. They want to go soft. They want to pretend, 691 00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:03,600 Speaker 1: oh no, we're not getting any enhancements for having a gun. 692 00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:08,520 Speaker 1: All right. This last clip we have, apparently is a 693 00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:11,040 Speaker 1: back and forth between one of the anchors, Mark Mesterter 694 00:37:11,719 --> 00:37:15,960 Speaker 1: and Gascone concerning the recalling who's behind it. First of all, 695 00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:19,840 Speaker 1: I'm concentrated. I'm doing my work, kid. I was a 696 00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:22,960 Speaker 1: police officer for over thirty years. Again, with that, I 697 00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:25,200 Speaker 1: know how to keep in the end of the say 698 00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:29,400 Speaker 1: this is a Republican powergram. You know this is the 699 00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:32,040 Speaker 1: same playbook. In fact, the same people that were involving 700 00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:36,120 Speaker 1: the Lario talking that we're going after governors are the 701 00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:39,120 Speaker 1: same people that are driving this name. This are the 702 00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:43,000 Speaker 1: some people that are driving so many problems. They're around 703 00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:46,400 Speaker 1: the country. We're not unique and have I if this 704 00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:52,000 Speaker 1: is about crime, there are many jurisdictions near US where 705 00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:55,840 Speaker 1: the crime rates are rush hiring that are Republican control. 706 00:37:55,960 --> 00:37:58,919 Speaker 1: And you don't see the do some talking point called 707 00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:04,400 Speaker 1: Republican district attorneys, mister, mister Gascon. There are there are 708 00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:07,960 Speaker 1: plenty of people who are not Republicans who want you 709 00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:13,760 Speaker 1: to be recalled. Is Ela County, Ela County Supervisor Katherine Barger. 710 00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:16,719 Speaker 1: She's not a Republican. There are many Democrats there. WHOA, WHOA, 711 00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:19,640 Speaker 1: What do you mean she's not a Republican. She is 712 00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:25,560 Speaker 1: a registered Republican. Well, listening, follow follow the money, mark, 713 00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:30,200 Speaker 1: follow the money. The money that is supporting this recall 714 00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:35,280 Speaker 1: is a Republican recall. They are, so who's signing? Who signing? 715 00:38:36,160 --> 00:38:38,759 Speaker 1: I get all of them. But for you to say 716 00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:41,480 Speaker 1: that Catherine Barrier is not an excuse me, excuse me. 717 00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:43,759 Speaker 1: I meant to say Rick Caruso, and he was a 718 00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:46,280 Speaker 1: Republican at one point, but he he's a registered Democrat. 719 00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:48,800 Speaker 1: There are plenty of Democrats out here. Listen, listen. He 720 00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:52,240 Speaker 1: registered Democrat weeks before he was going to run for office. 721 00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:55,560 Speaker 1: He's been putting money to Republican Kent things. He supported 722 00:38:55,640 --> 00:39:02,800 Speaker 1: awortion UNTI awortion causes. Come on, please, let's be real. Well, so, yeah, okay, 723 00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:04,920 Speaker 1: that's fair. Let's be real. You said that you know 724 00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:07,240 Speaker 1: how to make communities safe. You were the district attorney 725 00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:09,920 Speaker 1: in San Francisco. If you look at a book just 726 00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:14,239 Speaker 1: published by Michael Schellenberger, he's documented what's happened in the 727 00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:16,680 Speaker 1: city of San Francisco. It's turned into a mess. And 728 00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:19,120 Speaker 1: now look at the crime numbers here in La County. 729 00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:22,600 Speaker 1: Our crime numbers up since you've taken office, because if 730 00:39:22,640 --> 00:39:24,560 Speaker 1: they've are I don't know if you can say that 731 00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:26,480 Speaker 1: you know how to keep communities safe. Is that an 732 00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:29,600 Speaker 1: accurate thing to say? Well, look, crime numbers started to 733 00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:32,080 Speaker 1: go up in LA in twenty twenty before I was 734 00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:36,400 Speaker 1: a District attorney. Prime numbers in San Francisco actually are lower, 735 00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:39,759 Speaker 1: and we're lower under the past VA than the work 736 00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:44,759 Speaker 1: when I left. Again. You know, look, I give the frustration, 737 00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:47,400 Speaker 1: and I get that there is certainly a level of 738 00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:51,920 Speaker 1: violence that has increased around the country in LA. But 739 00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:55,279 Speaker 1: what I'm telling you is that when you compar us 740 00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:59,919 Speaker 1: to all the jurisdictions, we're actually on part we're doing better. 741 00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:03,080 Speaker 1: This is not driven by crime. This is driven by 742 00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:08,600 Speaker 1: people that are capitalizing in the fear and the vulnerabilities 743 00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:11,600 Speaker 1: of our community. Another are trying to address the relations. 744 00:40:11,680 --> 00:40:14,239 Speaker 1: If this is about Buyns for instant, San Francisco would 745 00:40:14,239 --> 00:40:16,880 Speaker 1: continue to have the send Thissic go a journey. Violence 746 00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:21,720 Speaker 1: in San Francisco is down. They just recalled the District 747 00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:23,719 Speaker 1: attorney in San Francisco, and we're going to do the 748 00:40:23,800 --> 00:40:26,120 Speaker 1: same to you. And when you listen to the beginning 749 00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:28,840 Speaker 1: part of that, Mark should have probably stepped up with 750 00:40:29,080 --> 00:40:33,760 Speaker 1: the people signing the petitions are not Republicans. La County 751 00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:36,680 Speaker 1: doesn't even have that many registered Republicans, and hundreds of 752 00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:39,080 Speaker 1: thousands are signing this petition. A lot of people on 753 00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:42,800 Speaker 1: the West Side that are concerned about this. The murder 754 00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:46,920 Speaker 1: of the woman in Beverly Hills, Jacqueline Avant from one 755 00:40:46,960 --> 00:40:50,080 Speaker 1: of those home invasion robberies, really worked up people to 756 00:40:50,160 --> 00:40:52,160 Speaker 1: look around and say, and every day there's a smashing 757 00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:54,560 Speaker 1: grab story. There was just a smashing grab not far 758 00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:56,759 Speaker 1: from where I live in Manhattan Beach. Like ten guys 759 00:40:56,760 --> 00:40:58,840 Speaker 1: who go into a jewelry store take a bunch. This 760 00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:01,879 Speaker 1: is like seven o'clock, there's still daylight. People took video 761 00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:06,279 Speaker 1: of it. Nobody's seen that before. So can we hold 762 00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:09,200 Speaker 1: you responsive over this, yes, because you and the state 763 00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:13,160 Speaker 1: legislature are allowing more and more of these criminals to 764 00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:16,600 Speaker 1: be out amongst us with your light sentencing. You know, 765 00:41:16,719 --> 00:41:22,560 Speaker 1: he never really talks about effective rehabilitation programs. He never 766 00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:25,520 Speaker 1: tells us well, you know, along with the fact that 767 00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:29,919 Speaker 1: I've decided that long term incarceration leads to more recidivism. 768 00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:31,759 Speaker 1: And he claims he has the studies to show that. 769 00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:33,880 Speaker 1: But we told you last week this of federal study 770 00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:36,719 Speaker 1: that says the opposite. He never says, and you know 771 00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:39,040 Speaker 1: to go along with that, these are not going to 772 00:41:39,080 --> 00:41:42,959 Speaker 1: be criminals. Again, the recidivism rate lowers because they've been rehabilitated. 773 00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:45,200 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, what are these magic programs? Give us more 774 00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:48,279 Speaker 1: details and more specifics about how that works. You are 775 00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:51,640 Speaker 1: just adding to the danger element out there with your policies. 776 00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:56,919 Speaker 1: All right, recall da George gascone dot com, crunch time 777 00:41:57,000 --> 00:42:00,200 Speaker 1: there and getting the signatures. And again, as I said, 778 00:42:00,239 --> 00:42:01,960 Speaker 1: if you are going to sign you're an LA County 779 00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:04,680 Speaker 1: registered voter, you're going to have to drop it off 780 00:42:04,880 --> 00:42:07,080 Speaker 1: at a location rather than put it in the mail. 781 00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:10,440 Speaker 1: Coming up next, they did reach a deal to give 782 00:42:10,560 --> 00:42:16,000 Speaker 1: people money, Sacramento did. They're not calling it gas refunds anymore. 783 00:42:16,080 --> 00:42:19,239 Speaker 1: It's all about inflation fighting. Coming up next, they'll be 784 00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:22,279 Speaker 1: talking to Assemblyman Kevin Kylie about this. John and Ken's 785 00:42:22,280 --> 00:42:25,120 Speaker 1: show on AM six forty KFI and Deborah Mark has 786 00:42:25,160 --> 00:42:27,439 Speaker 1: the news. 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