1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,520 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,559 --> 00:00:09,520 Speaker 2: We are on every day from one until four, but 4 00:00:09,640 --> 00:00:12,760 Speaker 2: actually we're on continuously. If you go to the podcast 5 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:15,080 Speaker 2: John Cobelt Shawn Demand anytime in the day or night, 6 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:18,079 Speaker 2: you could download the latest episode we posted shortly after 7 00:00:18,079 --> 00:00:21,840 Speaker 2: four o'clock and you could listen. We had Bill Asalion 8 00:00:22,040 --> 00:00:26,840 Speaker 2: last hour to talk about that lunatic Lindsay Horvat, the 9 00:00:26,920 --> 00:00:30,840 Speaker 2: La County supervisor who thinks that La County sheriffs have 10 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:37,720 Speaker 2: the right to arrest ice agents. Lindsay Horvath either she 11 00:00:38,120 --> 00:00:41,760 Speaker 2: was asleep when she was in class and is not 12 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:45,279 Speaker 2: familiar with the Constitution, or maybe she can't read. But 13 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:48,519 Speaker 2: I think Assale set her straight if she was listening. 14 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:56,280 Speaker 2: It's simply not constitutional for local law enforcement to interfere 15 00:00:56,320 --> 00:01:00,320 Speaker 2: with federal law enforcement. The Supremacy Clause says the that 16 00:01:00,720 --> 00:01:06,160 Speaker 2: federal laws are superior to local and state laws. That's 17 00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:08,240 Speaker 2: that's the way it's worked for two hundred and fifty 18 00:01:08,319 --> 00:01:10,520 Speaker 2: years and it has not been changed. 19 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:11,480 Speaker 1: So well. 20 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:13,960 Speaker 2: You can listen to that on the podcast. In the 21 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:16,480 Speaker 2: first hour. Let's go to more in immigration, we turned 22 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:20,600 Speaker 2: to Minneapolis, which is just absolutely nuts with protests and 23 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:24,760 Speaker 2: demonstrations and violence and Brad Garrett, ABC News Crime and 24 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:26,920 Speaker 2: Terror analysts, Terrorism analyst. 25 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:27,640 Speaker 1: Brad, how are you? 26 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:29,959 Speaker 3: I'm good, John, Thank you. 27 00:01:30,800 --> 00:01:31,600 Speaker 1: So what do you. 28 00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:36,120 Speaker 2: Think about the way ICE is handling things in Minneapolis? 29 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:38,880 Speaker 1: The go ahead, go. 30 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:43,679 Speaker 4: Ahead, Okay, So I think they could handle it in 31 00:01:43,720 --> 00:01:47,440 Speaker 4: a much better way. I get what they're trying to do. 32 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:51,280 Speaker 4: I understand that they've got a mandate to arrest apparently 33 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:55,080 Speaker 4: X number of people a day, and I think the number. 34 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:56,279 Speaker 3: Might be fairly thick. 35 00:01:57,320 --> 00:02:03,040 Speaker 4: And so the problem is if you looked at immigration 36 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:08,400 Speaker 4: enforcement like I used to look at homicide cases and 37 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:12,079 Speaker 4: sexual assault cases and kidnapping cases of Okay, I get 38 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:15,679 Speaker 4: X number of people to go at because they're part 39 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:18,920 Speaker 4: of the sphere. I've got probable cause developed around. 40 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:19,680 Speaker 3: Some of them. Some are not. 41 00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:23,440 Speaker 4: I mean, if the goal was to go after john 42 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:30,680 Speaker 4: people who have done bad things, you know, domestic violence, drugs, gangs, 43 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:34,240 Speaker 4: I mean, I think anybody's not going to complain about 44 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:36,960 Speaker 4: skipping up those folks and. 45 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:38,040 Speaker 3: To support them. 46 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:40,880 Speaker 4: But if you're looking at large numbers, which I think 47 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:45,160 Speaker 4: is accurate, then you're going to arrest a lot of people, yes, illegal, 48 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:47,960 Speaker 4: but no, they may live down the street from you 49 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:51,600 Speaker 4: or I that have been here thirty years and have 50 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:54,760 Speaker 4: a job and have kids, go to church and you 51 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:56,640 Speaker 4: know this don't cause any problems. 52 00:02:57,080 --> 00:03:01,079 Speaker 3: Now, are the illegal The answer is yes. But when 53 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:02,480 Speaker 3: you pull them into this. 54 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:07,040 Speaker 4: Sphere of people that you end up arresting, uh, you 55 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:09,200 Speaker 4: have to use an approach that I think they're using 56 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:12,560 Speaker 4: to a certain extent of nothing. They don't do target arrest, 57 00:03:12,639 --> 00:03:16,120 Speaker 4: but they go to locations and you know, whether it 58 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:18,560 Speaker 4: be a home depot or whatever, it might be an 59 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:23,239 Speaker 4: immigrant immigrant neighborhood with San Los Angeles, and they go lookie, 60 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:25,200 Speaker 4: and they start stopping people. 61 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:27,880 Speaker 3: And I think a lot of this. 62 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:35,840 Speaker 4: Disruption demonstrations, you know, some of them have turned in 63 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:38,720 Speaker 4: obviously to unlawful assemblies where they start throwing stuff with 64 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:45,080 Speaker 4: the ice, et cetera. Is could that be turned down? 65 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:47,480 Speaker 4: I guess is a short answer, And the answer is yes. 66 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:51,400 Speaker 4: I just don't think it's going to happen. And you know, 67 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:53,560 Speaker 4: the president is sort of a guy that's driven by 68 00:03:53,720 --> 00:03:56,280 Speaker 4: might make right, and I just think he's going to 69 00:03:56,280 --> 00:03:58,800 Speaker 4: add more people and he may that we'll have to 70 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:03,080 Speaker 4: see a man military which could turn it into potentially 71 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:05,520 Speaker 4: a bigger problem than it already is. 72 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:09,360 Speaker 1: Who, though, is ICE fighting right now? 73 00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:12,840 Speaker 2: Are they fighting regular citizens, you know, at ten o'clock 74 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:16,840 Speaker 2: in the morning when it's practically zero degrees in Minnesota? 75 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:20,760 Speaker 2: Or are these all paid professional agitators? 76 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:22,440 Speaker 5: Well? 77 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:26,000 Speaker 3: Is it a combination of both? Yes. 78 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:28,760 Speaker 2: I have a hard time believing that the average person 79 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:33,280 Speaker 2: cares enough about who's being deported to leave his job 80 00:04:33,320 --> 00:04:37,360 Speaker 2: all day and go and stand out in sub freezing weather, don't. 81 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:40,320 Speaker 2: I just can't imagine that there's that many people interested. 82 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:44,520 Speaker 4: Well, I think a lot of those people that end 83 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:47,080 Speaker 4: up in those which you just described are like from 84 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:50,680 Speaker 4: that immediate neighborhood. They're coming out of their houses at 85 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:54,480 Speaker 4: seven o'clock in the morning, if that's if that's relevant. 86 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:58,240 Speaker 4: But the point being is, are some of them as 87 00:04:58,279 --> 00:04:59,000 Speaker 4: you described? 88 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:04,880 Speaker 3: Maybe? And again, because it's we don't really know who 89 00:05:04,960 --> 00:05:06,800 Speaker 3: ICE arrest right, I mean, they. 90 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:09,720 Speaker 4: Don't tell us, you know that if they arrested five 91 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:14,760 Speaker 4: hundred people yesterday, how many of them are actually you know, 92 00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:18,200 Speaker 4: bad people, and how many of them were everyday people 93 00:05:18,279 --> 00:05:22,680 Speaker 4: that work and have families We don't know? Or to 94 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:27,200 Speaker 4: your point, are some of them professional agitators. I assume 95 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:29,520 Speaker 4: they would just if they're legal, turn them over to 96 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:33,040 Speaker 4: a local police to deal with. But you know, that's 97 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:36,559 Speaker 4: that's the real It's a good question. I think trying 98 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:39,440 Speaker 4: to define that will be difficult. 99 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:45,920 Speaker 2: If they arrest anybody, there's a horde of these demonstrators, 100 00:05:45,960 --> 00:05:49,839 Speaker 2: and they immediately take videos and they send out messages 101 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:53,920 Speaker 2: across the internet, which attracts more people in these organizations. 102 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:58,239 Speaker 2: So it seems to me there's nobody Ice could arrest 103 00:05:58,320 --> 00:06:02,920 Speaker 2: right now in Minneapolis where it's a criminal, just an 104 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:07,520 Speaker 2: illegal alien who has deportation papers, or just somebody who 105 00:06:07,880 --> 00:06:11,480 Speaker 2: looks like they should be departed, doesn't matter the category. 106 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:15,200 Speaker 2: You've got these agitators coming out and they're ready to 107 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:17,080 Speaker 2: mix it up immediately. So I don't know what I 108 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:20,679 Speaker 2: is supposed to do other than keep enforcing the law, 109 00:06:20,880 --> 00:06:22,600 Speaker 2: which is kind of overlooked. 110 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:24,960 Speaker 1: I think in a lot of the debate that goes. 111 00:06:24,760 --> 00:06:28,159 Speaker 4: On, Oh, there's no doubt they need to enforce the law, 112 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:28,920 Speaker 4: don't get me wrong. 113 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:30,000 Speaker 3: I just think that. 114 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:35,320 Speaker 4: A different approach more. You know, going to arrest three people, 115 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:38,360 Speaker 4: go arrest them and get out of there. Don't go 116 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:43,039 Speaker 4: into these neighborhoods and stay long periods of time. I mean, 117 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:47,520 Speaker 4: I never did exclude immigration cases. Well, you know, there's 118 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:49,840 Speaker 4: some super bad neighborhoods in DC, just like there is 119 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:52,640 Speaker 4: in Los Angeles. You know, I would go into arrest 120 00:06:52,640 --> 00:06:56,200 Speaker 4: people with SWAT teams and the police in the background 121 00:06:56,640 --> 00:07:00,320 Speaker 4: protecting us via the side streets, and then we would leap. 122 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:05,320 Speaker 4: All I'm suggesting is a little softer approach, but a 123 00:07:05,320 --> 00:07:10,840 Speaker 4: solid approach and use targeted arrest of people that you 124 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:13,040 Speaker 4: and I are talking about, not the guy down the 125 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:18,000 Speaker 4: street that's hard working, could turn this around. 126 00:07:18,360 --> 00:07:19,840 Speaker 3: I just don't think. 127 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:24,320 Speaker 4: That upper management in the government wants to do that, 128 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:29,040 Speaker 4: and so their lies the problem. So we'll see, but 129 00:07:29,080 --> 00:07:30,880 Speaker 4: it's hard to think this is going to get better. 130 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:34,920 Speaker 2: One more thing, Trump is talking about using the Insurrection Act. 131 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:37,560 Speaker 2: Explain that most people don't know what it is. 132 00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:45,120 Speaker 4: Okay, So back in eighteen oh seven, I think Jefferson 133 00:07:45,200 --> 00:07:51,400 Speaker 4: was president, they passed the law that allows the president 134 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:58,920 Speaker 4: to basically allow the military, the uniform military, to become 135 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:03,040 Speaker 4: law enforcement office. So if you invoke the Insurrection Act, 136 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:07,600 Speaker 4: let's say he did that tonight tomorrow, he could move 137 00:08:08,960 --> 00:08:12,560 Speaker 4: troops in an Army, Navy, Marine Corps whoever it might be, 138 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:17,680 Speaker 4: you know, into Minneapolis, and they would have I mean, 139 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:21,680 Speaker 4: they don't have blanket you law enforcement powers like a 140 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:25,640 Speaker 4: local copper federal agent might have, but they would be 141 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:28,200 Speaker 4: able to arrest people. And if they came in in 142 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:33,240 Speaker 4: large numbers. I mean, if you think the demonstrations are bad, 143 00:08:33,280 --> 00:08:37,400 Speaker 4: now just think but that could turn into And that's 144 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:40,480 Speaker 4: why it's not invoked very often for obvious reasons. I 145 00:08:40,480 --> 00:08:44,000 Speaker 4: think the last time it was invoked was in your 146 00:08:44,040 --> 00:08:48,080 Speaker 4: neck of the woods in Rodney, king in nineteen ninety 147 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:50,800 Speaker 4: two when the officers were found not guilty, right, and 148 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:58,000 Speaker 4: you had riots goalore, and they invoked the Insurrection Act 149 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:00,960 Speaker 4: at that point and it didn't like you know, it 150 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:04,640 Speaker 4: was one of those went in, it settled down, and 151 00:09:04,640 --> 00:09:08,920 Speaker 4: it moved on because it was a singular, isolated incident. 152 00:09:09,240 --> 00:09:11,560 Speaker 4: It wasn't like you and I are talking about, which 153 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:17,080 Speaker 4: is across the country an issue. So we'll see. I 154 00:09:17,120 --> 00:09:19,240 Speaker 4: hope he doesn't do that because I just don't see 155 00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:21,600 Speaker 4: any good coming of it, but he just might. 156 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:25,360 Speaker 2: All Right, very good, Brad Garrett, ABC News, thank you 157 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:25,840 Speaker 2: for coming on. 158 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:28,520 Speaker 3: You're welcome. See John all right. 159 00:09:28,679 --> 00:09:32,320 Speaker 1: Brad is the crime and Terrorism analyst for ABC we 160 00:09:32,400 --> 00:09:32,920 Speaker 1: come back. 161 00:09:35,040 --> 00:09:38,120 Speaker 2: We have a clip from Fox News this week where 162 00:09:38,679 --> 00:09:42,680 Speaker 2: one of the protesters admitted she's getting paid for her work, 163 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:44,480 Speaker 2: and we'll play that for you when we come back. 164 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:49,920 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am 165 00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:50,760 Speaker 5: six forty. 166 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:54,439 Speaker 2: Which I said Brad Garrett on he's the crime and 167 00:09:54,520 --> 00:09:57,679 Speaker 2: terrorism analyst for ABC News, and he says he understands 168 00:09:57,720 --> 00:10:00,679 Speaker 2: what ICE is doing, but there's a way to do this, 169 00:10:01,280 --> 00:10:04,160 Speaker 2: and it always comes down to like just a philosophy, 170 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:10,400 Speaker 2: philosophical difference. All the illegal aliens are here illegally, they're 171 00:10:10,440 --> 00:10:15,120 Speaker 2: all on notice that they can be deported. And I 172 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:22,840 Speaker 2: can't imagine breaking into another country living illegally. And then 173 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:26,040 Speaker 2: when it's clear there's a new guy in charge of 174 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:29,280 Speaker 2: the government and he maybe going door to door with 175 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:31,719 Speaker 2: his troops to get me out. 176 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:33,400 Speaker 1: I think I'm going voluntarily. 177 00:10:34,840 --> 00:10:37,920 Speaker 2: I think eventually you have to you have to just 178 00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:41,640 Speaker 2: get the message and go. And this is why you 179 00:10:41,679 --> 00:10:44,160 Speaker 2: don't create these situations. But they have families and they 180 00:10:44,160 --> 00:10:46,680 Speaker 2: have See that's why you don't go to a foreign 181 00:10:46,679 --> 00:10:49,880 Speaker 2: country and have a family, or bring your family or 182 00:10:49,880 --> 00:10:52,959 Speaker 2: create roots or this or that, because there's a lot 183 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:55,680 Speaker 2: of people in the country that never wanted you. There 184 00:10:55,720 --> 00:11:00,000 Speaker 2: was never a majority for open borders. There was never 185 00:11:00,160 --> 00:11:05,120 Speaker 2: for even a slim minority for open borders. This was 186 00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:10,360 Speaker 2: the province of extreme left wing progressives, many of whom 187 00:11:10,679 --> 00:11:12,559 Speaker 2: wanted to stabilize the democracy. 188 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:15,679 Speaker 1: They do it is. 189 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:21,439 Speaker 2: It is a deep rooted political belief that they find 190 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:25,880 Speaker 2: America to be illegitimate, immoral, wrong to exist the way 191 00:11:25,920 --> 00:11:29,839 Speaker 2: it does, and they feel it's their mission from God 192 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:35,920 Speaker 2: to undermined, disrupt and ruin what we have. And they're 193 00:11:35,960 --> 00:11:40,400 Speaker 2: quite organized and they're well funded. It's amazing how many 194 00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:43,800 Speaker 2: wealthy people who've made a fortune here want to see 195 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:48,120 Speaker 2: the whole place come down. Can't explain human nature, I've realized. 196 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:50,400 Speaker 2: One of the things took me a long time to 197 00:11:50,400 --> 00:11:55,559 Speaker 2: realize is just how fundamentally irrational the human species is, 198 00:11:55,640 --> 00:12:01,960 Speaker 2: like basically irrational. And everybody doesn't think like me or you. 199 00:12:02,240 --> 00:12:04,800 Speaker 6: Oh, I encounter that on a daily basis. 200 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:07,560 Speaker 2: When you were when you were a kid, didn't you think, well, everybody, 201 00:12:08,160 --> 00:12:10,199 Speaker 2: I don't mean everybody's the same opinion, but you kind 202 00:12:10,200 --> 00:12:12,920 Speaker 2: of process the world the same, Yes, Like what makes 203 00:12:12,960 --> 00:12:14,880 Speaker 2: sense to you should make sense to everybody else. 204 00:12:15,280 --> 00:12:19,520 Speaker 6: I'm baffled, just like you, John, I can't believe certain 205 00:12:19,559 --> 00:12:22,600 Speaker 6: people that I deal with on a daily basis, how 206 00:12:22,640 --> 00:12:25,600 Speaker 6: they react to things, what they think, what they don't think. 207 00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:30,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, hence this term common sense, and there 208 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:33,319 Speaker 2: used to be I think common sense was was very 209 00:12:33,360 --> 00:12:38,240 Speaker 2: common and now it seems rarer and rarer, and you 210 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:40,920 Speaker 2: end up with people like like this person. This is 211 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:44,640 Speaker 2: from Fox News. One of the hosts, Laura Ingram, went 212 00:12:44,679 --> 00:12:48,000 Speaker 2: to Minneapolis to do her show and talk to a 213 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:50,880 Speaker 2: protester to the Human Rights. 214 00:12:50,640 --> 00:12:53,199 Speaker 1: Why you were in a mask? Why you were in 215 00:12:53,280 --> 00:12:53,600 Speaker 1: a mask? 216 00:12:54,040 --> 00:12:54,079 Speaker 3: No? 217 00:12:54,480 --> 00:12:56,200 Speaker 6: Cool you here for wearing a mask. 218 00:12:56,200 --> 00:12:57,400 Speaker 1: I'm just curious. There's a question. 219 00:12:59,280 --> 00:13:04,199 Speaker 6: This is a crowd and they apparently are polic borders, 220 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:08,040 Speaker 6: so they're policing their borders here, which is fascinating. 221 00:13:08,280 --> 00:13:12,720 Speaker 5: Shame shame, Oh well, so boring. Shame shame. 222 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:14,840 Speaker 1: Do you have a job? Do you have a job? 223 00:13:15,559 --> 00:13:21,520 Speaker 1: Same right now? I'm getting paid right now. That's all 224 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:22,200 Speaker 1: you need to know. 225 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:26,800 Speaker 2: Most of these people get paid for most of these protests. 226 00:13:27,080 --> 00:13:30,960 Speaker 2: You know, when something doesn't make sense, it's because there's 227 00:13:30,960 --> 00:13:33,959 Speaker 2: a story behind it, and maybe it's hard to believe, 228 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:38,439 Speaker 2: but there's a lot of people who work for these organizations, 229 00:13:38,840 --> 00:13:40,760 Speaker 2: and they go from protests to protest. 230 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:43,080 Speaker 1: And if you notice the protests. 231 00:13:42,960 --> 00:13:48,760 Speaker 2: Last for a time and then they disappear, you've had 232 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:53,240 Speaker 2: you know what was it last year Palestine protests. Those 233 00:13:53,240 --> 00:13:57,680 Speaker 2: were everywhere, and then they stopped. And then there was 234 00:13:58,280 --> 00:14:03,160 Speaker 2: homeless protests and those were popular for a while, and 235 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:07,880 Speaker 2: then they stopped. Anti Trump, No King's protest. That's a 236 00:14:07,920 --> 00:14:10,480 Speaker 2: big deal. It's almost like hit songs, right, they go 237 00:14:10,559 --> 00:14:13,839 Speaker 2: up the charts and everybody's singing the song, and then 238 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:16,640 Speaker 2: everybody gets tired of it, and then there's something else 239 00:14:16,679 --> 00:14:23,320 Speaker 2: to go on. So as one controversy dies out, people 240 00:14:23,320 --> 00:14:25,880 Speaker 2: get tired of it, or it just ceases to become 241 00:14:25,920 --> 00:14:29,040 Speaker 2: a news story. There's no follow up to keep it 242 00:14:29,080 --> 00:14:33,440 Speaker 2: in the headlines. These organizations look for the next But 243 00:14:33,440 --> 00:14:36,920 Speaker 2: remember global warming protests. That was really hot for a while. 244 00:14:37,440 --> 00:14:41,400 Speaker 2: You don't hear anybody talking about it. Trump shut off 245 00:14:41,440 --> 00:14:46,600 Speaker 2: the global warming spigot. These groups aren't getting tax money 246 00:14:46,640 --> 00:14:53,320 Speaker 2: anymore to finance their scams. I mean, one of the 247 00:14:53,360 --> 00:14:56,680 Speaker 2: original protests in the modern era was the occupy protest, 248 00:14:57,720 --> 00:15:00,200 Speaker 2: and again it involved human waste. So often the these 249 00:15:00,240 --> 00:15:08,560 Speaker 2: progressive protests occupied they took over the the the front 250 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:12,160 Speaker 2: lawn a city hall, and the camp there, and all 251 00:15:12,200 --> 00:15:15,440 Speaker 2: they did is defecated all over the place. And then 252 00:15:15,440 --> 00:15:18,760 Speaker 2: they defend the homeless is right to defecate everywhere, and again, 253 00:15:19,280 --> 00:15:22,720 Speaker 2: nothing ruins your day like stepping into a steaming pile 254 00:15:22,760 --> 00:15:23,480 Speaker 2: of human poop. 255 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:25,240 Speaker 1: But that's what they want. 256 00:15:25,360 --> 00:15:29,840 Speaker 2: They want normal people walking to work, walking to the restaurant, 257 00:15:30,040 --> 00:15:32,600 Speaker 2: taking their kids to school. Even better, if the kid 258 00:15:32,640 --> 00:15:36,440 Speaker 2: steps in the poop too, makes you mad and angry, 259 00:15:36,480 --> 00:15:39,320 Speaker 2: and that's what they wanted because they don't think we 260 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:42,280 Speaker 2: should have a right to all our contentment and happiness 261 00:15:42,560 --> 00:15:46,720 Speaker 2: here in free America. So their idea is to ruin 262 00:15:46,920 --> 00:15:51,880 Speaker 2: our life and they get paid for doing it. It's 263 00:15:51,920 --> 00:15:56,640 Speaker 2: like full employment for the mentally ill. The mentally ill. 264 00:15:56,760 --> 00:15:59,200 Speaker 2: There's a whole group of mental ill people who are homeless. 265 00:15:59,640 --> 00:16:02,880 Speaker 2: And then and these aren't slightly functional, mentally ill people 266 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:07,040 Speaker 2: who maybe do go to a home, but this is 267 00:16:07,040 --> 00:16:10,440 Speaker 2: what they do all day. Now, I have a feeling 268 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:17,280 Speaker 2: these aren't accountants or stockbrokers. These aren't people who work 269 00:16:17,280 --> 00:16:23,200 Speaker 2: in department stores, auto mechanics. There aren't doctors or these 270 00:16:23,200 --> 00:16:28,080 Speaker 2: are just crazy people. And they go online and they 271 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:30,400 Speaker 2: sign up with a group, and the group says, hey, 272 00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:33,240 Speaker 2: you know, we'll give you whatever the going rate is. 273 00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:36,600 Speaker 2: I don't know what the money is. And I've said 274 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:38,560 Speaker 2: this a lot, but years ago I think it was 275 00:16:38,640 --> 00:16:45,440 Speaker 2: Joe quantikay if our reporter covered a living wage protest 276 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:49,400 Speaker 2: against McDonald's right they wanted a minimum wage increase, and 277 00:16:49,480 --> 00:16:54,360 Speaker 2: she interviewed seventeen protesters, and fourteen of the seventeen did 278 00:16:54,400 --> 00:16:57,480 Speaker 2: not work for any fast food restaurants. They were hired 279 00:16:57,520 --> 00:17:01,320 Speaker 2: by the union to screen and schant and carry Pickett 280 00:17:01,360 --> 00:17:03,800 Speaker 2: signs these A lot of this stuff is fake. Normal 281 00:17:03,840 --> 00:17:07,880 Speaker 2: people don't do this. Why and over this issue got 282 00:17:07,920 --> 00:17:11,400 Speaker 2: more coming up about the people they've arrested in Minneapolis. 283 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:17,800 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM sixty. 284 00:17:18,280 --> 00:17:21,560 Speaker 2: And Moistline is tomorrow eight seven seven, Moist Stadty six 285 00:17:21,600 --> 00:17:24,400 Speaker 2: eight seven seven, Moist Steady six, or use the talkback 286 00:17:24,440 --> 00:17:28,000 Speaker 2: feature on the iHeartRadio app. Coming up after three o'clock, 287 00:17:28,040 --> 00:17:30,600 Speaker 2: we're gonna have Susan Shelley on. She's with the Howard 288 00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:35,439 Speaker 2: Jarvis Taxpayers Association, also a newspaper columnist, and Susan is 289 00:17:35,480 --> 00:17:38,680 Speaker 2: gonna tell us about the petition you could sign to 290 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:40,919 Speaker 2: get a referendum on the ballot to give us some 291 00:17:42,480 --> 00:17:47,800 Speaker 2: more protections against all the crazy taxes that they're trying 292 00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:54,040 Speaker 2: to impose on our lives. Courts have weakened Prop thirteen 293 00:17:54,119 --> 00:18:00,440 Speaker 2: over the years, and this particular, this particular referenced them 294 00:18:00,760 --> 00:18:04,480 Speaker 2: would strengthen it and prevent some of these random taxes 295 00:18:04,920 --> 00:18:08,000 Speaker 2: from applying. I'll explain the details, Susan. I'll explain coming 296 00:18:08,080 --> 00:18:11,240 Speaker 2: up after three o'clock. But it's really important that you listen, 297 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:15,240 Speaker 2: all right. So we were talking about the illegal immigrants 298 00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:19,200 Speaker 2: in Minneapolis. Now there was a huge flare up last 299 00:18:19,280 --> 00:18:23,360 Speaker 2: night and today, and I suspect a lot of professional protesters. 300 00:18:24,440 --> 00:18:26,439 Speaker 1: I mean, do you know anybody who protests anything? 301 00:18:26,640 --> 00:18:26,880 Speaker 6: Yes? 302 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:27,159 Speaker 5: I do. 303 00:18:27,800 --> 00:18:28,720 Speaker 1: What do they protest? 304 00:18:29,320 --> 00:18:32,240 Speaker 6: I know, remember the what was it? The pink pussy hats? 305 00:18:32,280 --> 00:18:36,680 Speaker 6: They know a lot of people they used to I'm 306 00:18:36,720 --> 00:18:37,600 Speaker 6: allowed to say that, right. 307 00:18:37,800 --> 00:18:38,800 Speaker 1: I was like, should I have dumped that? 308 00:18:40,800 --> 00:18:41,639 Speaker 6: I mean that's what it was. 309 00:18:41,760 --> 00:18:44,520 Speaker 1: No, No, that's that's what That's what they called it. Yes, 310 00:18:45,359 --> 00:18:46,040 Speaker 1: they're referring to. 311 00:18:46,080 --> 00:18:48,320 Speaker 6: Cats, right, sure. 312 00:18:49,280 --> 00:18:52,080 Speaker 2: I mean I ran into that crowd, the whole million 313 00:18:52,080 --> 00:18:55,399 Speaker 2: of them in Washington because that happened the day after 314 00:18:55,440 --> 00:18:58,600 Speaker 2: the Trump inauguration, and Ken and I went to Washington 315 00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:01,320 Speaker 2: to cover that, and we were leaving the city the 316 00:19:01,359 --> 00:19:05,480 Speaker 2: next morning and they were coming in by the trainloads 317 00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:08,520 Speaker 2: from all over because we were I was leaving by train, 318 00:19:08,920 --> 00:19:10,160 Speaker 2: they were coming in by train. 319 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:11,359 Speaker 1: Yikes. 320 00:19:11,560 --> 00:19:14,359 Speaker 6: And the no Kings protest. I know Kings, Well, I 321 00:19:14,400 --> 00:19:16,040 Speaker 6: know a lot of people that get involved in that. 322 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:18,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, did you ever ask him? It's like, isn't Trump 323 00:19:18,080 --> 00:19:18,720 Speaker 1: still president? 324 00:19:19,400 --> 00:19:21,119 Speaker 6: I didn't ask that particular. 325 00:19:21,440 --> 00:19:23,720 Speaker 1: What do just say? Well, what does it do? 326 00:19:23,960 --> 00:19:24,120 Speaker 3: Still? 327 00:19:24,480 --> 00:19:25,560 Speaker 1: Excuse me? He's still king? 328 00:19:25,640 --> 00:19:27,320 Speaker 6: Well, I think I told you the other day from 329 00:19:27,320 --> 00:19:30,040 Speaker 6: what people tell me. Because I don't go to I don't. 330 00:19:30,160 --> 00:19:32,880 Speaker 6: I don't protest, but I'm not saying that it's wrong 331 00:19:32,920 --> 00:19:35,359 Speaker 6: for other people to do that. But people have told 332 00:19:35,359 --> 00:19:38,400 Speaker 6: me that they feel that they feel they don't if 333 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:43,840 Speaker 6: they don't go to these protests, they feel that they're 334 00:19:43,840 --> 00:19:48,159 Speaker 6: they're not they're not letting others know that something that 335 00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:50,399 Speaker 6: they think is wrong is wrong. 336 00:19:50,600 --> 00:19:54,520 Speaker 2: Well, I'm glad we know now. I'm glad these people 337 00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:57,000 Speaker 2: have told us that they think it's wrong. And the 338 00:19:57,119 --> 00:20:00,520 Speaker 2: Trump has continued to doing is continue doing his thing now. 339 00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:05,800 Speaker 2: Yesterday last night, the protest erupted an ICE agent ended 340 00:20:05,880 --> 00:20:08,880 Speaker 2: up shooting an illegal alien in the leg. And here's 341 00:20:08,880 --> 00:20:13,240 Speaker 2: what happened, and I'll read to you from the Department 342 00:20:13,280 --> 00:20:19,240 Speaker 2: of Homeland Security news release back January of last year, 343 00:20:22,040 --> 00:20:26,040 Speaker 2: Federal law enforcement officers were conducting a targeted traffic stop 344 00:20:26,119 --> 00:20:34,960 Speaker 2: in Minneapolis for Julio Caesar Sosa Celeus, who was released 345 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:40,840 Speaker 2: into the country by Biden in twenty twenty two. I 346 00:20:40,840 --> 00:20:43,320 Speaker 2: guess they have the wrong date here, it's twenty twenty six. Now, 347 00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:48,720 Speaker 2: attempting to evade arrest, Sosa Salise fled the scene in 348 00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:52,760 Speaker 2: his vehicle, crashed into a parked car, fled on foot. 349 00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:56,879 Speaker 2: They pursued Sola Salicse caught up to him and tried 350 00:20:56,920 --> 00:21:01,840 Speaker 2: to apprehend him. Salise began to resist and violently assaulted 351 00:21:01,880 --> 00:21:06,199 Speaker 2: the officer. So now Sosa Salice and law enforcement ere 352 00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:08,760 Speaker 2: in a struggle on the ground. Two others, and these 353 00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:13,280 Speaker 2: are all Venezuelans, came at a nearby apartment and attacked 354 00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:16,159 Speaker 2: the officer and beat him with a snow shovel and 355 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:21,679 Speaker 2: a bruin handle smashed in the face if it was 356 00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:27,159 Speaker 2: a snow shovel in the face. So the officer was ambushed. 357 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:31,480 Speaker 2: It's three on one. Sosa Salice got loosed and started 358 00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:37,159 Speaker 2: striking the officer. Fearing for his life, he fired a 359 00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:41,280 Speaker 2: shot to defend his life and Social Slice was hitting 360 00:21:41,320 --> 00:21:44,120 Speaker 2: the leg I'm sorry, he wasn't hitting the head. 361 00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:46,040 Speaker 4: Man. 362 00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:53,080 Speaker 2: You're you're assaulting law enforcement with a snow shovel, and uh, 363 00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:54,880 Speaker 2: I guess we're going to be told that this guy 364 00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:59,199 Speaker 2: was Oh, he was a little priority. He wasn't a 365 00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:06,720 Speaker 2: threat to societ. He was previously convicted for driving without 366 00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:09,520 Speaker 2: a license, arrested for two counts of giving a false 367 00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:12,760 Speaker 2: name to an officer, and he was targeted. They were 368 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:16,520 Speaker 2: going after him specifically. He was released by Minnesota authorities 369 00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:23,080 Speaker 2: before Ice could even lodge a detainer. Social Selice entered 370 00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:26,720 Speaker 2: the US under the Biden administration. The other two suspects, 371 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:32,879 Speaker 2: Alfredo Alejandro Ajorna, Gabriel Alejandro Hernandez led Zima. Is that 372 00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:38,879 Speaker 2: enough names all here illegally. They all look like gang members, 373 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:43,399 Speaker 2: highly unpleasant looking people, and they've been charged with the 374 00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:46,399 Speaker 2: tempted murder of federal law enforcement. So this is what 375 00:22:47,640 --> 00:22:50,520 Speaker 2: ICE officers are dealing with, these guys. 376 00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:53,280 Speaker 1: And these aren't even the worst of the worst. 377 00:22:55,359 --> 00:22:59,240 Speaker 2: These are kind of low level criminals, and look how 378 00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:03,920 Speaker 2: they act. And if yeah, I'm sure they've committed many 379 00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:08,840 Speaker 2: felonies that in Minnesota, because Minnesota is like California, they 380 00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:13,040 Speaker 2: just don't prosecute stuff. So this is what I asked 381 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:16,600 Speaker 2: ask the protesters, I mean, if they were legitimate protesters 382 00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:21,879 Speaker 2: and not the paid lunatics for these guys. And and 383 00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:25,600 Speaker 2: don't tell me about a gardener or a maid. I'm 384 00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:31,080 Speaker 2: talking about these guys. And as far as the gardener 385 00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:35,280 Speaker 2: and the maid, maybe you should tell them to go home. 386 00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:37,760 Speaker 2: Maybe that would be a good idea, don't you think 387 00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:42,920 Speaker 2: after all this, it's like Renee good, Oh she's a mom. 388 00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:44,840 Speaker 1: It's like, well, maybe she should be home with her kids. 389 00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:48,080 Speaker 1: You always laugh when I say that. 390 00:23:48,119 --> 00:23:51,520 Speaker 6: Because it just seems again, it just seems so old fashioned. 391 00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:54,600 Speaker 6: Go home and be with your kids. Yes, your place 392 00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:55,800 Speaker 6: is in the home, ladies. 393 00:23:56,040 --> 00:23:59,120 Speaker 2: It's it's not trying to kill an IF officer. That's 394 00:23:59,160 --> 00:23:59,680 Speaker 2: all I'm saying. 395 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:03,040 Speaker 6: Okay, I'm glad that you I'm glad that you clarify that. Yeah, right, 396 00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:05,119 Speaker 6: that's what I'm Let's say a woman's place is in 397 00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:05,520 Speaker 6: the home. 398 00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:08,240 Speaker 2: Well, yes, to some extent it is if you decide 399 00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:10,720 Speaker 2: to have kids, somebody's got to go home. 400 00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:12,800 Speaker 1: A dad's place is in the home too. He shouldn't 401 00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:14,000 Speaker 1: be out there trying. 402 00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:16,040 Speaker 6: To kill I'm okay, thank you for saying that. 403 00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:19,200 Speaker 1: But we we depend on women. We depend on women 404 00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:23,560 Speaker 1: to civilize. Yeah, the civilization. 405 00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:26,359 Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean that's a good pat you're going to 406 00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:27,159 Speaker 6: leave it to guys. 407 00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:31,080 Speaker 2: We'll just all get drunk and beat the hell out 408 00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:33,320 Speaker 2: of each other guys. 409 00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:36,840 Speaker 1: When left alone. Yeah, never turns out. Well, do not 410 00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:38,040 Speaker 1: leave Menal, it's all. 411 00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:40,199 Speaker 6: For us women. We have to do everything. 412 00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:40,959 Speaker 1: Yeah, you do. 413 00:24:41,119 --> 00:24:41,919 Speaker 6: It's exhausting. 414 00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:43,680 Speaker 1: Well, they don't have kids. 415 00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:47,199 Speaker 2: But she had three kids, and then she spends the 416 00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:49,600 Speaker 2: day trying to run over an ice age. 417 00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:52,680 Speaker 6: Look, I had two kids. I still worked part time 418 00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:53,600 Speaker 6: when my kids were growing. 419 00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:56,600 Speaker 1: But you didn't jump into a car and try to 420 00:24:56,680 --> 00:24:57,160 Speaker 1: kill a cop. 421 00:24:57,280 --> 00:25:00,160 Speaker 6: No, I didn't do that. 422 00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:01,600 Speaker 1: Well, what did you do? 423 00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:06,800 Speaker 6: Nothing? Okay, No felonies, No, I have not a single fellow. 424 00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:10,199 Speaker 1: I should have done a run on you, like a 425 00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:11,080 Speaker 1: background check. 426 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:15,359 Speaker 6: So you would find nothing, absolutely nothing. No, nothing against 427 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:15,800 Speaker 6: the law. 428 00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:20,399 Speaker 2: All right, nothing against the law. I don't know what 429 00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:23,440 Speaker 2: is Okay, that's an interesting clarification. 430 00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:26,760 Speaker 6: I mean, I've never gone to jail. I've never been arrested, all. 431 00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:30,760 Speaker 2: Right, I guess that's the standard. When we come back. 432 00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:36,480 Speaker 2: We had the LA union chief for the firefighters on 433 00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:40,560 Speaker 2: the other day, Freddie Escobar, and a story has popped 434 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:46,439 Speaker 2: up on this same subject about this tax increase, another 435 00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:49,360 Speaker 2: referendum they're putting on the ballot. Talk about it when 436 00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:50,000 Speaker 2: we come back. 437 00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:56,240 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobbels on demand from KFI A sixty. 438 00:25:57,200 --> 00:25:59,639 Speaker 2: You know, as I have. I've been talking to my 439 00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:07,560 Speaker 2: friend chat GPT during the commercial break because I want 440 00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:08,800 Speaker 2: to talk a little bit about this now, but if 441 00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:10,800 Speaker 2: I'm going to talk about it more later later on 442 00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:14,560 Speaker 2: in the hour. We had Freddy Escobar from the firefighters 443 00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:17,760 Speaker 2: Union coming on the other day, and he was reacting 444 00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:19,720 Speaker 2: to our interview with the fire chief. 445 00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:20,320 Speaker 1: I I mee Moore. 446 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:25,200 Speaker 2: Now they went public today to start a signature gathering 447 00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:30,479 Speaker 2: campaign half sent sales tax in the city of Los Angeles. Well, 448 00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:33,719 Speaker 2: this is a really going to be a fascinating campaign 449 00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:37,560 Speaker 2: and issue, and they want to half sent sales tax 450 00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:41,960 Speaker 2: in order to provide money for the fire department. And 451 00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:50,160 Speaker 2: he says correctly that the number of firefighters in nineteen 452 00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:55,840 Speaker 2: sixty five, and the number of fire stations is almost 453 00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:59,600 Speaker 2: exactly the same as it is in twenty twenty five. 454 00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:03,680 Speaker 2: In nineteen sixty five, the department had thirty three hundred 455 00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:08,920 Speaker 2: and seventy nine firefighters. In twenty twenty five they had 456 00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:15,399 Speaker 2: thirty four hundred and twelve, a difference of thirty three firefighters. 457 00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:20,879 Speaker 2: Except now we have five times more emergency calls for services, 458 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:24,560 Speaker 2: and the population went from about two and a half 459 00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:32,879 Speaker 2: billion to four million, and the number of fire stations 460 00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:37,760 Speaker 2: is almost exactly the same, but the number of fire 461 00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:43,440 Speaker 2: calls has increased by a factor of five. So we 462 00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:46,280 Speaker 2: have five times as many fire calls with roughly the 463 00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:49,360 Speaker 2: same number of fire stations and the same number of firefighters. 464 00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:53,080 Speaker 2: And so they want another half sent sales tax. And 465 00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:55,960 Speaker 2: this stuff really fries me. I understand where the firefighters 466 00:27:56,000 --> 00:28:00,280 Speaker 2: are coming from, because I've said this a million times times. 467 00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:04,560 Speaker 2: LA fire Department's only fifty percent funded. Okay, so here's 468 00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:10,000 Speaker 2: what fries me. Talk to my friend chet GPT and 469 00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:16,280 Speaker 2: at first I asked how much does the City of 470 00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:20,560 Speaker 2: Los Angeles spend on the fire department, And in the 471 00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:27,159 Speaker 2: latest budget it was spending eight hundred and nineteen million 472 00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:31,439 Speaker 2: dollars and then a little more was added later on 473 00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:39,600 Speaker 2: in the most recent budget year. How much are they 474 00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:45,040 Speaker 2: spending on homelessness? Well, a year ago it was one 475 00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:48,720 Speaker 2: point three billion, So it was one point three billion 476 00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:54,360 Speaker 2: for fiscal year twenty twenty four for homelessness and only 477 00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:56,200 Speaker 2: eight hundred million for firefighters. 478 00:28:56,960 --> 00:28:59,920 Speaker 6: Why can't we rescind that homeless tax and just trans 479 00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:02,160 Speaker 6: for that money over to the fire department. 480 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:08,320 Speaker 2: Then yes, because we've only got more homeless people, and 481 00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:14,240 Speaker 2: the homeless people are starting thousands of fires. So instead 482 00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:20,160 Speaker 2: of financing these corrupt homeless programs, end them, spend the 483 00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:23,720 Speaker 2: money on the fire department and just really throw the 484 00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:31,280 Speaker 2: homeless out. Get them out of here, most of them 485 00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:32,800 Speaker 2: from out of the city and out of the state. 486 00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:37,960 Speaker 2: We've tried this for ten years. It's time to just 487 00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:42,400 Speaker 2: get out out. Put them on trains, put them on buses, 488 00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:46,960 Speaker 2: send them east out, send them to Mexico, send them, send. 489 00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:47,520 Speaker 1: Them to Greenland. 490 00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:52,440 Speaker 2: But how in the hell are we supposed to pay 491 00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:55,720 Speaker 2: another half cent sales tax? That's going to make sales 492 00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:58,520 Speaker 2: tax in La City ten and a quarter percent. Ten 493 00:29:58,600 --> 00:29:59,560 Speaker 2: and a quarter. 494 00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:03,760 Speaker 6: That's right, ten and a quarter the homeless situation is 495 00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:07,160 Speaker 6: not any better. Our streets in the potholes, they're still there, 496 00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:10,800 Speaker 6: right there, the cracks on the sidewalk, no repairs, and 497 00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:16,360 Speaker 6: people keep everybody just ugh, people keep buying it. 498 00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:19,520 Speaker 2: So they've increased the fire department budget for the coming 499 00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:23,560 Speaker 2: fiscal year to about eight hundred and ninety seven million, 500 00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:27,920 Speaker 2: but we're still going to be spending about a billion. 501 00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:30,880 Speaker 1: Homelessness. 502 00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:34,520 Speaker 2: You can't do this. We can't spend a billion dollars 503 00:30:34,520 --> 00:30:36,800 Speaker 2: in homelessness anymore. It's got to stop. It's got to 504 00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:41,240 Speaker 2: absolutely positively stop. It's a failure. There's no way to 505 00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:45,200 Speaker 2: spend this, no way to present it any other way. 506 00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:49,680 Speaker 2: A billion dollars a year, total failure. More homeless and 507 00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:53,840 Speaker 2: they start fires like crazy. 508 00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:57,320 Speaker 1: All right, so we're got to talk more about this later. 509 00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:01,160 Speaker 2: I'm going to ask mister chat Chee how many fires 510 00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:04,080 Speaker 2: the homeless people start. I don't think people know this stuff. 511 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:07,160 Speaker 1: Well, I guess we need the money. No, you don't 512 00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:07,880 Speaker 1: need the money. 513 00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:11,560 Speaker 2: Stop spending it on the corrupt sore because it's just 514 00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:15,560 Speaker 2: going to those criminal nonprofits. All right, we come back 515 00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:21,480 Speaker 2: Susan Shelley and she's got some tax news here Howard 516 00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:26,000 Speaker 2: Jarvis Taxpayers Association wants to get this referendum on the 517 00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:30,360 Speaker 2: ballot that's going to strengthen Prop thirteen. We'll explain this 518 00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:33,560 Speaker 2: all next Debra, Mark lid and the CAFI twenty four 519 00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:36,680 Speaker 2: hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the John Cobalt 520 00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:39,120 Speaker 2: Show podcast. You can always hear the show live on 521 00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:42,160 Speaker 2: KFI AM six forty from one to four pm every 522 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:45,120 Speaker 2: Monday through Friday, and of course, anytime on demand on 523 00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:46,360 Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio app.