1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:03,200 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John 2 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:07,080 Speaker 1: Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We're on every day 3 00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:10,520 Speaker 1: from one till four o'clock. After four o'clock, it's the 4 00:00:10,600 --> 00:00:14,080 Speaker 1: podcast on the iHeart app, John Cobelt's show on demand. 5 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:17,400 Speaker 1: It's the same as the radio show designed so whatever 6 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:21,080 Speaker 1: you miss you can catch up on fairly quickly, So 7 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:24,279 Speaker 1: in case you're not around for the whole program, you 8 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:28,600 Speaker 1: could listen to the podcast. After four o'clock. There was 9 00:00:28,640 --> 00:00:31,800 Speaker 1: supposed to be a press conference about the murder of 10 00:00:31,960 --> 00:00:38,560 Speaker 1: Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle, scheduled for noon. Obviously, 11 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:42,080 Speaker 1: it's over an hour late. If they have the press 12 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:46,800 Speaker 1: conference anytime soon, we'll bring it to you. We will 13 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:50,640 Speaker 1: talk with Alex Stone from ABC News who's stationed outside 14 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:54,480 Speaker 1: the Brentwood home of the Winers, and he's going to 15 00:00:54,560 --> 00:00:57,640 Speaker 1: come on with us in about fifteen minutes or so. 16 00:00:58,680 --> 00:01:02,920 Speaker 1: You're probably familiar with with the basics. As the day 17 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:06,080 Speaker 1: has worn on, there's more and more stories coming out 18 00:01:06,319 --> 00:01:14,319 Speaker 1: about the really disturbing private life of Rob Reiner's son, Nick, 19 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:23,280 Speaker 1: thirty two years old, and he's the suspect in the 20 00:01:23,360 --> 00:01:27,880 Speaker 1: murder of Rob and Michelle Reiner. Their throats were slit. 21 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:31,920 Speaker 1: It must have been a really awful scene. Adding to 22 00:01:31,959 --> 00:01:38,520 Speaker 1: the awfulness is that Robin Michelle Reiner's daughter romy found 23 00:01:38,959 --> 00:01:43,959 Speaker 1: the bodies about three thirty in the afternoon yesterday, and 24 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:50,320 Speaker 1: everybody immediately thought it was Nick. He had a very 25 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:55,320 Speaker 1: long history of drug addiction and erratic behavior. Some friends 26 00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:59,480 Speaker 1: are saying there were other violent episodes. The Nick and 27 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:03,000 Speaker 1: Rob Ryan and apparently had a fight at Conan O'Brien's 28 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:07,320 Speaker 1: Christmas party over the weekend on Saturday night, and then 29 00:02:07,520 --> 00:02:10,880 Speaker 1: something must have spilled over into Sunday. Don't know the 30 00:02:10,960 --> 00:02:15,360 Speaker 1: time of the stabbings. Apparently there was multiple wounds in 31 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:20,000 Speaker 1: addition to the throat slitting. Of the next seventy eight 32 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:23,440 Speaker 1: and sixty eight, We're driving home last night from Santa 33 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:28,160 Speaker 1: Monica and I noticed helicopters hovering in the air Police 34 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:31,760 Speaker 1: helicopter at that time, and then more came, and that's 35 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:39,960 Speaker 1: always a sign something bad happened. Nick Ryder did a 36 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:44,000 Speaker 1: movie with his father about ten years ago, chronicling the 37 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:47,040 Speaker 1: struggles of his drug addiction, which started when he was fifteen, 38 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:53,120 Speaker 1: and he has since done interviews where he talked about 39 00:02:53,120 --> 00:02:58,760 Speaker 1: his homelessness everywhere from Maine, New Jersey to Texas, and 40 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:04,240 Speaker 1: he went into treatment. He says, at least seventeen times 41 00:03:04,280 --> 00:03:12,720 Speaker 1: seventeen trips to rehab, and when something doesn't work seventeen times, 42 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:16,280 Speaker 1: it just shows you that maybe in some cases you 43 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:21,440 Speaker 1: can't fix it, and maybe a lot of rehab is quackery, 44 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:26,840 Speaker 1: which I've always thought, because a lot of people lapse 45 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:30,960 Speaker 1: back into addiction, and I think a lot of these 46 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:34,960 Speaker 1: rehab centers are fly by night, emotionally manipulative, with all 47 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:39,480 Speaker 1: kinds of questionable methods that they use, and it's really 48 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:41,720 Speaker 1: awful the way they lure people in who have a 49 00:03:41,720 --> 00:03:45,440 Speaker 1: lot of problems. I would think, based on what I know, 50 00:03:47,440 --> 00:03:51,160 Speaker 1: one of the most difficult things to deal with is 51 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:56,200 Speaker 1: dealing with somebody who's got mental illness or drug addiction 52 00:03:56,320 --> 00:04:00,880 Speaker 1: in the family and you can't hard for the parents 53 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:05,000 Speaker 1: to do anything about it. And unfortunately that ends up 54 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:08,040 Speaker 1: being a lot of the cases of homeless people in 55 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:12,080 Speaker 1: the streets, whacked out on what drug or another, and 56 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:15,800 Speaker 1: then they end up homeless because the families can't deal 57 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:18,360 Speaker 1: with it, don't know what to do, and throw them out, 58 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:22,159 Speaker 1: and often the attics are impossible to be with, they 59 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:26,039 Speaker 1: do get violent, they do start stealing things, They just 60 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:29,160 Speaker 1: exhaust every ounce of energy, and it goes on and 61 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:31,720 Speaker 1: on and on. In this case, you know, he's thirty two, 62 00:04:32,040 --> 00:04:41,120 Speaker 1: he's seventeen years into his addictions. And it's horrible. And 63 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:45,080 Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of parents who probably have 64 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:49,280 Speaker 1: were taken aback by this news because they wonder, you know, 65 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:52,680 Speaker 1: is their guy going to come back and do something 66 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:55,039 Speaker 1: like this. I mean, just you look outside and you 67 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:57,640 Speaker 1: see all the especially the young men on the streets, 68 00:04:58,200 --> 00:05:01,080 Speaker 1: they all have some version of this story, some addiction 69 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:04,240 Speaker 1: that went on and on and either nobody in the 70 00:05:04,279 --> 00:05:08,800 Speaker 1: family cared, or they tried and nothing worked, or they 71 00:05:08,839 --> 00:05:12,600 Speaker 1: weren't listened to. And then a lot of these addiction 72 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:16,440 Speaker 1: rehab centers are Yeah, there's just a bunch of a 73 00:05:16,520 --> 00:05:21,599 Speaker 1: bunch of quacks. I mean, there's just really, really a 74 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:27,039 Speaker 1: difficult situation. According to the New York Posts, they interviewed 75 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:31,279 Speaker 1: friends and neighbors, and Reiner's son, Nick was notorious for 76 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:34,400 Speaker 1: being violent, they said, and those around him instantly knew 77 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:37,240 Speaker 1: he was the one who may have murdered his parents. 78 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:40,000 Speaker 1: This is not the first time their son has been violent, 79 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:43,920 Speaker 1: said one of the neighbors. I know of another incident 80 00:05:43,960 --> 00:05:45,479 Speaker 1: in a few years back with Nick, but I won't 81 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:48,880 Speaker 1: say more than that. I just never thought it would 82 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:51,880 Speaker 1: get to this point. Rob was always heartbroken that his 83 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:54,880 Speaker 1: son couldn't beat his addiction. I know they wanted him 84 00:05:54,880 --> 00:05:56,800 Speaker 1: to get help, go to rehab, but he wanted to 85 00:05:56,800 --> 00:05:58,839 Speaker 1: get help while at home. He did not want to 86 00:05:58,839 --> 00:06:02,080 Speaker 1: go treatment at office, and they argued about that for years. 87 00:06:02,560 --> 00:06:05,760 Speaker 1: Nick had demons for the longest time. It's such a 88 00:06:05,880 --> 00:06:13,480 Speaker 1: nightmare and Uh. Rob Reiner admitted an interview that they 89 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:17,039 Speaker 1: should have listened to his son. They were very insistent 90 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:19,720 Speaker 1: about going to a rehab center, and he said, I 91 00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:24,320 Speaker 1: wish we'd listened to him. But there's there's no there's 92 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:27,719 Speaker 1: no further detail, and there might not ever be further detail. 93 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:35,440 Speaker 1: What what Michelle, the wife said, Now, this is from Rob. Uh. 94 00:06:36,360 --> 00:06:39,320 Speaker 1: Rehab works for some people, but it can't work for everybody. 95 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:42,080 Speaker 1: When Nick would tell us it wasn't working for him, 96 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:44,680 Speaker 1: we wouldn't listen. We were desperate, and because people had 97 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:47,120 Speaker 1: diplomas on their wall, we listened to them when we 98 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:50,080 Speaker 1: should have been listening to our son. So I'm in there. 99 00:06:50,120 --> 00:06:53,800 Speaker 1: There's there's a deep rooted story there that goes back 100 00:06:54,120 --> 00:06:59,880 Speaker 1: almost two decades and uh, finally boils over. It's just 101 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:05,000 Speaker 1: the terrible, awful thing. There's really nothing else to say 102 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:09,680 Speaker 1: about it. But we're gonna have Alex Stone from ABC 103 00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:14,160 Speaker 1: News to come on with a report in a few minutes, 104 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:20,400 Speaker 1: and yeah again that news conference as well. Later on 105 00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:23,880 Speaker 1: in the show, we're gonna have John Alley back on. 106 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:30,080 Speaker 1: John Alley's a businessman and he owns business in MacArthur 107 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:37,360 Speaker 1: Park and also in Santa Monica, and he's been trying 108 00:07:37,480 --> 00:07:40,040 Speaker 1: sometimes it seems he's trying to do everything by himself 109 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:44,960 Speaker 1: to get MacArthur Park cleaned up and that neighborhood, Santa Monica, 110 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:48,320 Speaker 1: cleaned up. Two different governments, all of them run by 111 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:55,040 Speaker 1: hardcore progressives who have zero interest in getting the drug 112 00:07:55,040 --> 00:08:01,280 Speaker 1: addicts and the mental patients off the street. Our city, 113 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:06,000 Speaker 1: our county, and state are our country gets a zero 114 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:11,840 Speaker 1: for dealing with public drug addiction and public mental illness. 115 00:08:12,640 --> 00:08:17,400 Speaker 1: There is just next to nothing in terms of effective 116 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:20,960 Speaker 1: services and effective laws to force them to go in 117 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:26,120 Speaker 1: and get treatment. And it's gotten worse and worse. And 118 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:29,120 Speaker 1: this is because of all the progressives that people elect 119 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:35,360 Speaker 1: here in Los Angeles. It's funny because I know plenty 120 00:08:35,360 --> 00:08:41,680 Speaker 1: of people who vote for these kinds of politicians who 121 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:46,600 Speaker 1: have orderly lives. They go to work, their kids go 122 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:51,720 Speaker 1: to school, they have clean homes, clean properties. Nobody's on drugs, 123 00:08:51,800 --> 00:08:57,360 Speaker 1: nobody is homeless and disruptive, and they're really upset over 124 00:08:57,400 --> 00:09:01,280 Speaker 1: the degradation of the city. And they don't connect their 125 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:06,760 Speaker 1: votes to the conditions that we all see. And I 126 00:09:06,840 --> 00:09:12,240 Speaker 1: just marvel at this. And maybe there's other issues they 127 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:16,040 Speaker 1: vote on. Maybe they hate Republicans, I whatever. You know, 128 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:20,840 Speaker 1: everybody's got their reasons. But the most important, most important 129 00:09:20,840 --> 00:09:23,880 Speaker 1: issue to our way of life here in LA and 130 00:09:23,920 --> 00:09:27,360 Speaker 1: in California is getting the mental patients and the drug 131 00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:30,280 Speaker 1: addicts off the street and getting them into treatment. And 132 00:09:31,080 --> 00:09:36,960 Speaker 1: we've created this monstrous nonprofit empire where people are getting 133 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:43,160 Speaker 1: fabulously wealthy on our tax money. And there's thousands of 134 00:09:44,240 --> 00:09:46,760 Speaker 1: drug addicts and mental patients dying in the streets every 135 00:09:46,840 --> 00:09:51,679 Speaker 1: year just in Los Angeles, literally thousands, and nobody connects 136 00:09:51,720 --> 00:09:55,040 Speaker 1: their votes to the conditions on the ground. And I 137 00:09:55,080 --> 00:09:57,840 Speaker 1: don't know what it is, doesn't make it. There's very 138 00:09:57,920 --> 00:10:00,520 Speaker 1: few people you talk into are happy with what's going on. 139 00:10:00,559 --> 00:10:04,160 Speaker 1: In the streets, but they voted for the same people 140 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:06,840 Speaker 1: over and over. Are the same version of person. You know, 141 00:10:06,960 --> 00:10:09,560 Speaker 1: a lot of these progressives running on the West Side, 142 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:18,760 Speaker 1: it's basically the same person. I'm absolutely baffled by it. 143 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:21,360 Speaker 1: I have never been more baffled by human nature than 144 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:24,040 Speaker 1: where I'm seeing. My experience in life up until the 145 00:10:24,160 --> 00:10:29,880 Speaker 1: last ten years is when any population was sick of 146 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:33,320 Speaker 1: the way things were going, and when and when the 147 00:10:33,400 --> 00:10:38,000 Speaker 1: bad things happening were in direct control, well, we're directly 148 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:42,040 Speaker 1: controlled by government policies, they would switch. They just would 149 00:10:42,160 --> 00:10:45,640 Speaker 1: could be economic, could be crime, could be these these 150 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:50,080 Speaker 1: these homeless, vagrant situations, they would switch and put in 151 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:56,440 Speaker 1: different candidates. I saw it back East when everybody got 152 00:10:56,520 --> 00:10:59,520 Speaker 1: fed up with all the crime and the drug addicts 153 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:02,400 Speaker 1: and the institutes in New York City back in the 154 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:06,720 Speaker 1: mid nineties, and they switched from a progressive mayor David 155 00:11:06,760 --> 00:11:09,760 Speaker 1: Dinkins and they went to Rudy Giuliani, and Giuliani got 156 00:11:09,760 --> 00:11:13,600 Speaker 1: a clean up in about five minutes. Shy, It's you know, 157 00:11:13,640 --> 00:11:17,520 Speaker 1: even New York City did that got out here though, 158 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:25,400 Speaker 1: I'd rather wake up and walk through all the needles 159 00:11:25,440 --> 00:11:29,000 Speaker 1: and the feces and Dodge all the crazy murderous people. 160 00:11:29,080 --> 00:11:34,720 Speaker 1: I don't know, don't know what that is. When we 161 00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:39,520 Speaker 1: come back, We're going to talk with Alex Stone from 162 00:11:39,520 --> 00:11:44,880 Speaker 1: ABC News and find out if there's any new details 163 00:11:44,960 --> 00:11:48,080 Speaker 1: in the killing of Rob and Michelle Reiner on the 164 00:11:48,080 --> 00:11:48,560 Speaker 1: West Side. 165 00:11:49,400 --> 00:11:54,080 Speaker 2: You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI AM six. 166 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:58,640 Speaker 1: Forty moistline for Friday. That'd be the last bar of 167 00:11:58,679 --> 00:12:00,960 Speaker 1: the year. Eight seven seven mois eighty six eight seven 168 00:12:01,040 --> 00:12:04,400 Speaker 1: seven Moist eighty six or usual the talkback feature on 169 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:09,280 Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app. All right, standing in Brentwood outside the 170 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:13,440 Speaker 1: home of Robin Michelle Reiner. They were murdered yesterday. Police 171 00:12:13,440 --> 00:12:16,520 Speaker 1: say the son Nick did it. Alex. How are you. 172 00:12:18,440 --> 00:12:22,160 Speaker 3: Doing well, John? Yeah? And the investigation, even though we 173 00:12:22,320 --> 00:12:25,040 Speaker 3: know that an arrest has been made, the investigation and 174 00:12:25,160 --> 00:12:27,440 Speaker 3: in full force right now. Talking to a number of 175 00:12:27,960 --> 00:12:30,959 Speaker 3: LAPD investigators who say that they are still trying to 176 00:12:31,040 --> 00:12:35,920 Speaker 3: understand what went on yesterday afternoon. That yeah, mental healthy 177 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:41,120 Speaker 3: addiction has been something that has plagued Nick Ryder for many, 178 00:12:41,160 --> 00:12:43,040 Speaker 3: many years, even made a movie about it, he and 179 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:46,800 Speaker 3: his dad. But what was it in the last twenty 180 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:51,120 Speaker 3: four hours or so that set him off allegedly to 181 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:54,760 Speaker 3: kill his parents, and that they're not yet clear on 182 00:12:54,920 --> 00:12:57,320 Speaker 3: of what that was as far as we know, but 183 00:12:57,679 --> 00:13:01,080 Speaker 3: we know it was the writer's dot who arrived here. 184 00:13:01,160 --> 00:13:03,280 Speaker 3: They went into this home in front of me, and 185 00:13:03,280 --> 00:13:05,520 Speaker 3: I gotta tell you, John, I mean, you know, Brentwood 186 00:13:05,559 --> 00:13:07,800 Speaker 3: is incredible with the homes that are in this area. 187 00:13:08,320 --> 00:13:12,880 Speaker 3: But it is a scene of holiday joy at this home. 188 00:13:12,920 --> 00:13:16,080 Speaker 3: That they've got holiday ess up on the front gate. 189 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:18,840 Speaker 3: There are ornaments that are hanging from a tree. Right 190 00:13:18,840 --> 00:13:22,400 Speaker 3: behind the gate. There are Christmas lights that are winding 191 00:13:22,440 --> 00:13:25,840 Speaker 3: up the trees as you come in to their large home. 192 00:13:26,320 --> 00:13:29,240 Speaker 3: We know that they had had parties in recent days, 193 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:31,960 Speaker 3: that they had hosted a lot of people, that this 194 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:35,320 Speaker 3: was a home of a lot of joy until yesterday afternoon. 195 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:39,360 Speaker 3: But what changed and then their daughter going in and 196 00:13:39,400 --> 00:13:43,040 Speaker 3: finding her mom and dad stabbed to death inside this home. 197 00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:45,760 Speaker 3: And there's still a lot we don't know. It seems 198 00:13:45,840 --> 00:13:49,280 Speaker 3: investigators don't know it all yet, but they do believe 199 00:13:49,400 --> 00:13:52,120 Speaker 3: that the Nick Reiner killed his parents. 200 00:13:52,920 --> 00:13:55,480 Speaker 1: So they don't have a time as to when this happened, 201 00:13:55,480 --> 00:14:00,200 Speaker 1: whether it happened late after because you'd probably seen the 202 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:02,679 Speaker 1: story in the New York Post. They supposedly had an 203 00:14:02,760 --> 00:14:06,559 Speaker 1: argument Rob and Nick Reiner at a Christmas party and 204 00:14:06,720 --> 00:14:09,640 Speaker 1: did that spill over when they get got home or 205 00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:12,000 Speaker 1: it happened during the day on Sunday. 206 00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:15,880 Speaker 3: We don't have clarity on that right now. That yeah, 207 00:14:16,360 --> 00:14:19,960 Speaker 3: there are those who were at a party on Friday 208 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:23,000 Speaker 3: or Saturday who say that that they had been arguing 209 00:14:23,040 --> 00:14:25,480 Speaker 3: that that they had been heard at Conan O'Brien's party, 210 00:14:25,480 --> 00:14:29,000 Speaker 3: But the timeline on when they were killed we don't 211 00:14:29,040 --> 00:14:32,760 Speaker 3: know yet. It's unclear if investigators know that. What The 212 00:14:33,080 --> 00:14:35,800 Speaker 3: timeline that we've been able to uncover at this point 213 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:39,600 Speaker 3: is around three forty yesterday. That's when the call came in. 214 00:14:39,760 --> 00:14:43,640 Speaker 3: LAFD got it as a ambulance investigation, which is, you know, 215 00:14:43,760 --> 00:14:46,680 Speaker 3: essentially a medical aid call. Did they arrived here They 216 00:14:46,760 --> 00:14:50,880 Speaker 3: very quickly knew when LAFD got here this was police investigation. 217 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:55,640 Speaker 3: Police came, they could tell immediately that the two victims, 218 00:14:55,640 --> 00:14:58,280 Speaker 3: who turned out to be Rob and Michelle Reiner, that 219 00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:01,640 Speaker 3: they had been stabbed today and then everything was locked 220 00:15:01,680 --> 00:15:05,080 Speaker 3: down at that point and investigators from the Robbery Homicide 221 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:08,720 Speaker 3: Division were called in at that point. So what happened 222 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:11,760 Speaker 3: before three point four yesterday when they were discovered by 223 00:15:11,960 --> 00:15:15,680 Speaker 3: their daughter. That's not clear yet, but it could have 224 00:15:15,680 --> 00:15:19,040 Speaker 3: been some time. But if it was right then and 225 00:15:19,120 --> 00:15:22,720 Speaker 3: she happened to come in and discovered them, I don't 226 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:24,600 Speaker 3: know yet. I don't know if they know yet either. 227 00:15:25,160 --> 00:15:28,479 Speaker 1: Where did they capture Nick Reiner? Has that been publicized? 228 00:15:29,920 --> 00:15:31,680 Speaker 3: No, we don't know that yet either. It was around 229 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:35,640 Speaker 3: nine to fifteen last night when they took him into custody. 230 00:15:35,800 --> 00:15:38,360 Speaker 3: And you know, there was a lot at play as 231 00:15:38,600 --> 00:15:43,040 Speaker 3: Deputy Chief Allen Hamilton was briefing last night and didn't 232 00:15:43,040 --> 00:15:47,680 Speaker 3: answer a lot and there was a lot of confusion 233 00:15:47,720 --> 00:15:51,200 Speaker 3: among the reporters who were in the gaggle there of 234 00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:54,200 Speaker 3: what was going on. And now we know that as 235 00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:58,000 Speaker 3: he was briefing that they were narrowing down on Nick Reiner, 236 00:15:58,080 --> 00:16:01,120 Speaker 3: even though we had some medication that the Nick Reiner 237 00:16:01,400 --> 00:16:04,640 Speaker 3: was a likely suspect in this and that they were 238 00:16:04,680 --> 00:16:07,680 Speaker 3: talking to a family member. But shortly after that news 239 00:16:07,680 --> 00:16:11,520 Speaker 3: conference that the Chief Hamilton gave, then they went and 240 00:16:11,960 --> 00:16:14,840 Speaker 3: they made the arrest. So they already had that ball 241 00:16:14,960 --> 00:16:18,320 Speaker 3: rolling while they were briefing, saying well, we don't know, 242 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:21,240 Speaker 3: we don't know who it is. We don't have a 243 00:16:21,280 --> 00:16:24,160 Speaker 3: suspect at this point. Very clearly they did because then 244 00:16:24,200 --> 00:16:25,160 Speaker 3: they went and made the arrest. 245 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:27,400 Speaker 1: There was supposed to be a press conference at noon, 246 00:16:28,760 --> 00:16:31,960 Speaker 1: obviously didn't happen, and it's not going to happen anytime soon. 247 00:16:34,040 --> 00:16:36,520 Speaker 3: Yeah, now we understand there's not going to be one 248 00:16:36,520 --> 00:16:41,040 Speaker 3: today because Chief McDonald spoke about this earlier today when 249 00:16:41,240 --> 00:16:44,160 Speaker 3: he was at an event talking about a terror arrest. 250 00:16:44,640 --> 00:16:47,160 Speaker 3: That because he made a comment then that they're not 251 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:49,160 Speaker 3: going to do a news conference today. That could change, 252 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:51,000 Speaker 3: but the last up day we got they're not going 253 00:16:51,080 --> 00:16:51,360 Speaker 3: to do that. 254 00:16:51,680 --> 00:16:56,760 Speaker 1: So have the police left the site, because yeah, we 255 00:16:56,800 --> 00:17:01,480 Speaker 1: don't see them here, so they the investigation that the 256 00:17:01,520 --> 00:17:02,320 Speaker 1: scene is over. 257 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:05,240 Speaker 3: With, It would seem that it is. Is not to 258 00:17:05,240 --> 00:17:08,040 Speaker 3: say that they're not going to come back. The home 259 00:17:08,200 --> 00:17:11,240 Speaker 3: is very much secured. There are security guards all the 260 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:13,280 Speaker 3: way around it. There are signs that have gone up 261 00:17:13,320 --> 00:17:18,280 Speaker 3: today saying no trespassing, no entry, but the gate is closed. 262 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:21,360 Speaker 3: This morning, before the sun came up, there was one 263 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:24,840 Speaker 3: light on downstairs. The rest of the home was dark. 264 00:17:26,240 --> 00:17:29,359 Speaker 3: Rob Reiner's assistant came by, looked like he was trying 265 00:17:29,359 --> 00:17:31,520 Speaker 3: to get in but couldn't get ahold of anybody inside, 266 00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:34,159 Speaker 3: So we haven't seen anybody coming in or out. The 267 00:17:34,280 --> 00:17:37,160 Speaker 3: LAPD could go back in if they need to, but 268 00:17:37,160 --> 00:17:39,439 Speaker 3: but they cleared out this morning and then open up 269 00:17:39,480 --> 00:17:39,879 Speaker 3: the street. 270 00:17:40,320 --> 00:17:43,760 Speaker 1: All right, Alex, thanks very much, you got it. Thanks 271 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:48,600 Speaker 1: Jean Alex Stone, ABC News reporting for KFI from the 272 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:52,080 Speaker 1: Brentwood home of the Reiner family. Rob Reiner Michelle Reiner 273 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:57,840 Speaker 1: stabbed to death. Please say their son Nick, who's for 274 00:17:57,880 --> 00:18:02,840 Speaker 1: a long time had drug addiction issues and has been 275 00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:06,719 Speaker 1: homeless and went in and out of rehab by his 276 00:18:06,800 --> 00:18:10,280 Speaker 1: own count in one of these interviews seventeen times. Maybe 277 00:18:10,320 --> 00:18:14,119 Speaker 1: it's been more homeless all over the country, living in 278 00:18:14,160 --> 00:18:20,840 Speaker 1: the streets. And the family could not with all the 279 00:18:20,920 --> 00:18:23,760 Speaker 1: money that they have and all the contacts they have, 280 00:18:25,040 --> 00:18:29,480 Speaker 1: nobody could heal whatever was going on with Nick Reiner. 281 00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:33,199 Speaker 1: And now it came to this double murderer last night. 282 00:18:33,320 --> 00:18:37,160 Speaker 1: I mean, that's probably just incredibly sad, tragic story. And 283 00:18:37,800 --> 00:18:40,359 Speaker 1: the daughter, one of their daughter is the one who 284 00:18:40,400 --> 00:18:43,800 Speaker 1: has to find the bodies, which makes it even worse. 285 00:18:43,840 --> 00:18:48,080 Speaker 1: It's just really, really terrible, and you know, maybe there's 286 00:18:48,080 --> 00:18:50,320 Speaker 1: not a whole lot more. You know, maybe he had 287 00:18:50,840 --> 00:18:55,600 Speaker 1: mental issues and violent tendencies, and one friend said he'd 288 00:18:55,600 --> 00:19:01,440 Speaker 1: been living with his parents in recent times. You know 289 00:19:01,560 --> 00:19:05,480 Speaker 1: some sometimes some problems can't be fixed. Sometimes there's nothing 290 00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:10,040 Speaker 1: you can do. When we when we come back. The 291 00:19:10,119 --> 00:19:14,840 Speaker 1: other big story here in Los Angeles in the last 292 00:19:14,840 --> 00:19:19,000 Speaker 1: twenty four hours is the FBI has busted up a 293 00:19:19,040 --> 00:19:24,000 Speaker 1: plot and they've arrested four people. They were going to 294 00:19:24,640 --> 00:19:30,720 Speaker 1: on New Year's Eve plant explosive devices all over the city. 295 00:19:32,160 --> 00:19:37,480 Speaker 1: And here's a new group terrorist group, the Turtle Island 296 00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:41,359 Speaker 1: Liberation Front. Tell you about that. Tell you about what 297 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:43,479 Speaker 1: they were going to do here in LA. But they 298 00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:47,720 Speaker 1: were caught eleven days before the planned explosions. 299 00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:53,240 Speaker 2: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am 300 00:19:53,280 --> 00:19:54,760 Speaker 2: sixty on. 301 00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:57,679 Speaker 1: Every day from one to four, and if you miss something, 302 00:19:57,800 --> 00:20:00,439 Speaker 1: you go to the podcast John cobelts Show on demand 303 00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:04,320 Speaker 1: on the iHeart app, and we released that after four o'clock. 304 00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:07,560 Speaker 1: Could follow us at John Cobelt Radio, on social media 305 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:11,800 Speaker 1: at John coblt Radio, and on YouTube. 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He's a businessman 309 00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:30,160 Speaker 1: in Santa Monica and Los Angeles, and he's fighting at 310 00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:34,840 Speaker 1: least a two front war with both governments because the 311 00:20:34,880 --> 00:20:40,480 Speaker 1: neighborhoods that he has his investments in have really got 312 00:20:40,520 --> 00:20:49,120 Speaker 1: to hell, and there's such there's such powerful entrenched interests 313 00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:53,119 Speaker 1: that want to keep the homeless people in the street, 314 00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:57,639 Speaker 1: which leads to all kinds of crime and terrible things 315 00:20:58,160 --> 00:21:01,560 Speaker 1: that people have to put up with. And and you 316 00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:04,520 Speaker 1: know that those those interests are that all the all 317 00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:07,280 Speaker 1: these nonprofits that are making enormous amounts of money and 318 00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:11,800 Speaker 1: the bureaucracies that are also sucking in enormous amounts of 319 00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:14,520 Speaker 1: tax money. And they like the way life is. They 320 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:17,840 Speaker 1: like the money that they have, and so they're not 321 00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:19,800 Speaker 1: they don't they don't want to go out of business. 322 00:21:20,359 --> 00:21:22,240 Speaker 1: You know, if you got rid of homelessness in la 323 00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:25,480 Speaker 1: like you know ninety nine percent of the cities in 324 00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:28,320 Speaker 1: this country they don't have this, well, all that money 325 00:21:28,359 --> 00:21:33,040 Speaker 1: would disappear. And these are their careers. But he's fighting on. 326 00:21:33,119 --> 00:21:39,560 Speaker 1: We're going to talk with John Ally coming up after two. Now. 327 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:44,840 Speaker 1: The other big story in southern California was this terrorist 328 00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:48,920 Speaker 1: group Bill Saley had a press conference. He's the lead 329 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:54,800 Speaker 1: prosecutor for the US Central District here in California, and 330 00:21:56,160 --> 00:21:59,880 Speaker 1: they arrested four people. This is described as a left 331 00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:04,320 Speaker 1: anti government group that was out in the Mohave Desert. 332 00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:08,640 Speaker 1: They got arrested in Lucerne Valley near twenty nine BOMs 333 00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:13,080 Speaker 1: and out in the desert. They were making and testing 334 00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:17,719 Speaker 1: bombs and it was a terror plot and they were 335 00:22:17,760 --> 00:22:21,600 Speaker 1: aiming for New Year's Eve here in Los Angeles as 336 00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:24,000 Speaker 1: soon as midnight hit. There were going to be five 337 00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:30,680 Speaker 1: locations where these bombs would go off. They were complicated 338 00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:36,800 Speaker 1: pipe bombs from what the reports say, and as Sale said, 339 00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:43,840 Speaker 1: the plot was organized, sophisticated, and extremely violent. They belonged 340 00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:50,359 Speaker 1: to something called Turtle Island Liberation Front, which sounds like 341 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:55,320 Speaker 1: a weird name. But somebody was explaining what the phrase 342 00:22:55,400 --> 00:23:04,840 Speaker 1: Turtle Island means. And by the way, what it originally 343 00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:08,200 Speaker 1: means and what this group are doing is two different things. 344 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:12,360 Speaker 1: Turtle Island is a name for Earth or North America. 345 00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:18,760 Speaker 1: Some American Indian tribes use it to describe the whole 346 00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:25,160 Speaker 1: North American continent. It's based on Indian folklore passed from 347 00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:30,840 Speaker 1: one generation to the next. And the Turtle Islands creation 348 00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:37,480 Speaker 1: story is one of the great tales that is told. 349 00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:41,680 Speaker 1: It was first recorded by the Europeans in the sixteen hundreds, 350 00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:48,840 Speaker 1: and they believe that the Lenape tribe believe that before 351 00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:52,159 Speaker 1: creation there was nothing, an empty dark space. But in 352 00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:56,240 Speaker 1: this emptiness there existed a spirit of their creator. And 353 00:23:56,480 --> 00:23:59,680 Speaker 1: eventually I won't go through the whole thing, but it 354 00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:03,640 Speaker 1: leads to Turtle Island or Earth being formed, or in 355 00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:07,720 Speaker 1: some interpretations, North America. And it seems like if you 356 00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:11,200 Speaker 1: were going to describe these these these protest groups, these 357 00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:15,440 Speaker 1: terrorist groups, you know, they are against all the colonialists, 358 00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:19,600 Speaker 1: all the invaders. I guess they want all the peoples 359 00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:26,160 Speaker 1: of North America, who are now mostly Europeans and other 360 00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:29,480 Speaker 1: people who've migrated here to get off, to get out. 361 00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:38,280 Speaker 1: And the Turtle Island Liberation Front, this is a radical 362 00:24:38,359 --> 00:24:44,400 Speaker 1: faction called Order of the Black Lotus. A one FBI 363 00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:50,560 Speaker 1: spokesperson called the faction a violent, homegrown anti government group. 364 00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:54,679 Speaker 1: Now where they were going to blow up what they 365 00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:57,600 Speaker 1: were going to blow up It was supposed to be 366 00:24:57,600 --> 00:25:03,440 Speaker 1: around businesses, logistics centers, something similar to what Amazon might have, 367 00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:10,159 Speaker 1: you know, where packages are sent off to destinations, didn't 368 00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:16,800 Speaker 1: say any specifically about Amazon. The people involved include two women, 369 00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:23,600 Speaker 1: Audrey I, Leen Carol and Tina Lai or Tina Lay. 370 00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:30,880 Speaker 1: Two men, Zachary Aaron Page and Dante Gaffield, and they've 371 00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:33,080 Speaker 1: been jar charged with various crimes. They were going to 372 00:25:33,119 --> 00:25:39,920 Speaker 1: plant backpacks with these improvised explosive devices IEDs, targeting two 373 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:42,560 Speaker 1: companies at five locations. They all were going to go 374 00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:47,440 Speaker 1: off at midnight on New Year's Eve, complex pipe bombs, 375 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:52,920 Speaker 1: and what they found is instructions how to manufacture them, 376 00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:56,720 Speaker 1: how to assemble them, and instructions that had to leave 377 00:25:57,160 --> 00:26:01,639 Speaker 1: evidence to avoid leaving evidence behind. And they tracked the 378 00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:10,160 Speaker 1: group since November all the way to December twelfth, when 379 00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:14,960 Speaker 1: then they went to a location the FBI did near 380 00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:21,960 Speaker 1: twenty nine Palms and found them with their bomb making materials. 381 00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:31,240 Speaker 1: FBI intervened, arrested everyone, and you know, obviously the investigation 382 00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:34,000 Speaker 1: was continuing. They found a lot of ingredients to make 383 00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:39,960 Speaker 1: the bombs and PVC pipe glass bottles. These could be 384 00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:45,200 Speaker 1: used to make the IEDs or the Molotov cocktails, and 385 00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:48,199 Speaker 1: that would have been New Year's Eve at midnight, but 386 00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:51,520 Speaker 1: they got to it looks like somebody shared the plans 387 00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:55,280 Speaker 1: with the FBI, somebody maybe connected to the group or 388 00:26:55,320 --> 00:27:02,000 Speaker 1: aware of the group, and the group says they post well. 389 00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:05,800 Speaker 1: The FBI says that the group posts content that advocates 390 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:11,000 Speaker 1: for violence against US officials and they are against peaceful protests. 391 00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:16,280 Speaker 1: They want people to rise up and fight back. It 392 00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:20,720 Speaker 1: looks like they also arrested somebody in the New Orleans 393 00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:25,560 Speaker 1: area connected to the investigation. And this was the FBI, 394 00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:31,080 Speaker 1: LPD Sheriff's Department, Palm Springs Police, San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department. 395 00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:35,160 Speaker 1: So all those organizations work together. And when I first 396 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:37,280 Speaker 1: heard New Year's Eve, I thought the bombs were supposed 397 00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:42,040 Speaker 1: to go off, maybe at celebration sites all over the area. 398 00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:47,960 Speaker 1: And did you hear that in Paris they're canceling the 399 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:51,720 Speaker 1: New Year's Eve celebrations along the Chancelse. They've had so 400 00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:57,919 Speaker 1: many Islamic terrorist activities and crime that they're not chanceing it. 401 00:27:58,119 --> 00:28:02,560 Speaker 1: So near a Eve is canceled along the Chancelse in Paris, 402 00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:06,720 Speaker 1: which is just a terrible thing. I mean, this, this 403 00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:11,840 Speaker 1: Islamic terrorist invasion is all over the world now, and 404 00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:16,440 Speaker 1: with Christmas and Honikkah uh Well, Honkah is here, Christmas 405 00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:19,840 Speaker 1: is just days away. Uh this this, this is, this 406 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:22,520 Speaker 1: is what what they attack? You know that how many 407 00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:26,440 Speaker 1: times we had attacks at Christmas festivals in Germany by 408 00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:31,200 Speaker 1: these Islamic terrorists. It's like the season now to celebrate 409 00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:35,760 Speaker 1: religious holidays has become the season for Islamic terrorism and 410 00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:38,800 Speaker 1: everybody's got to be on alert. Oh and then you 411 00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:44,320 Speaker 1: had you had the shooting, uh terrible shooting down in Australia, Sydney. 412 00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:48,680 Speaker 1: We had all those people shot and killed Jewish people 413 00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:53,080 Speaker 1: celebrating on the first night of Hanukkah. It's it's all 414 00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:57,360 Speaker 1: over the place. I mean, you know, I'm telling you 415 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:02,840 Speaker 1: all cultures are not compatible with each other. I don't 416 00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:06,240 Speaker 1: believe we could all live together. I think there's a 417 00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:11,040 Speaker 1: reason that there were always separate nations, separate cultures, borders 418 00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:16,720 Speaker 1: on land, and I think that's the only only way 419 00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:19,120 Speaker 1: to go, because this chaos is spreading all over the place, 420 00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:21,520 Speaker 1: and it really comes down to who are you letting 421 00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:27,320 Speaker 1: into the country, Because you let one person in two, three, five, 422 00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:31,320 Speaker 1: and soon you have a group and they've organized and 423 00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:35,400 Speaker 1: they don't like your way of life and they want 424 00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:40,640 Speaker 1: to kill everybody. And the only way to police it 425 00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:43,320 Speaker 1: is to have extremely strict immigration laws. I don't see 426 00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:46,640 Speaker 1: any other way around it. We come back. We're gonna 427 00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:50,960 Speaker 1: play you. We're gonna play your report. Well, it's a 428 00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:54,240 Speaker 1: video actually John Ally posted where he and an LAPD 429 00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:57,800 Speaker 1: officer are trying to speak to a homeless couple. This 430 00:29:57,880 --> 00:30:01,840 Speaker 1: couple was brought to California from out of state. It 431 00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:07,080 Speaker 1: turns out there's a human trafficking ring or rings, very active, 432 00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:12,760 Speaker 1: and it's affecting Los Angeles in Santa Monica. They're traffic 433 00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:18,040 Speaker 1: traffic across state borders. It's funded by a Los Angeles 434 00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:22,640 Speaker 1: drug rehab facility and it's assisted by a well known 435 00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:28,880 Speaker 1: insurance company. We'll play you this video. We come back. 436 00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:34,240 Speaker 2: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am 437 00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:34,800 Speaker 2: six forty. 438 00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:38,080 Speaker 1: We're on every day from one until four o'clock and 439 00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:41,280 Speaker 1: you could follow us at John Cobelt Radio on social media. 440 00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:46,320 Speaker 1: We're gonna play you audio from a video that John 441 00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:48,920 Speaker 1: Alley has posted. John's going to be with us right 442 00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:53,520 Speaker 1: after Brigida's two o'clock news. He's a businessman who's been 443 00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:59,120 Speaker 1: fighting all the destructive sick policies that the Karen bass 444 00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:03,920 Speaker 1: government and the Santa Monica government have insisted upon by 445 00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:07,600 Speaker 1: allowing mental patients and drug addicts to run wild on 446 00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:11,960 Speaker 1: the streets. And there's many other crimes that flow from 447 00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:16,800 Speaker 1: that policy. Here in this audio, you're going to hear 448 00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:23,600 Speaker 1: John Ally, an LAPD officer, speaking to a homeless couple. Now, 449 00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:29,080 Speaker 1: this homeless couple was trafficked across state borders. There's human 450 00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:35,680 Speaker 1: trafficking going on, and there's a drug rehab facility in 451 00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:40,520 Speaker 1: LA that flew them to LA and they're helped out 452 00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:46,960 Speaker 1: by a well known insurance company and they were kicked 453 00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:52,880 Speaker 1: out eventually from the rehab because the payments dried up, 454 00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:55,920 Speaker 1: I guess from the insurance company. They were kicked out 455 00:31:55,960 --> 00:32:02,840 Speaker 1: and dropped off in La County. And uh, listen, listen 456 00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:05,960 Speaker 1: to this conversation. When was the last time you saw 457 00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:14,320 Speaker 1: your kids here? So say it again one more time. 458 00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:16,880 Speaker 2: It's gonna be how tough it is dated. 459 00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:21,320 Speaker 1: It's gonna be extremely tough. And like I said, if 460 00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:23,880 Speaker 1: it was easy, everyone else can be doing it. 461 00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:28,040 Speaker 3: But I know there's something in you guys that you. 462 00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:31,280 Speaker 1: Guys can put through because you had each other as well. Okay, 463 00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:33,200 Speaker 1: it's gonna take a whole This is the comment for 464 00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:36,400 Speaker 1: here all right. I know someone's gonna be hurting more 465 00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:39,560 Speaker 1: than others another day. You know what I'm talking about 466 00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:43,040 Speaker 1: when you have to overcome what brought you down here 467 00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:45,880 Speaker 1: in the first place. Right, And I wish you could 468 00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:49,640 Speaker 1: see that tap there, old But he's got a because 469 00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:52,760 Speaker 1: we're gonna send him a picture. Yeah, we're gonna send 470 00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:53,160 Speaker 1: a picture. 471 00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:57,400 Speaker 2: Brow send you updates, good, such good updates and stuff. 472 00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:01,600 Speaker 1: Stare with your family, your family and can trust absolutely 473 00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:17,040 Speaker 1: UK tomorrow. Well, I'm glad that we bring the FOI 474 00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:21,680 Speaker 1: police officers, but you know what, it's come with the job. 475 00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:25,360 Speaker 1: What we've got here are these these rehab facilities and 476 00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:30,160 Speaker 1: they're funded with your tax money, and and they're flying 477 00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:36,040 Speaker 1: people in from out of state. And then the rehab 478 00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:43,600 Speaker 1: facilities can get insurance money. And then eventually the insurance 479 00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:48,480 Speaker 1: money runs out and this couple is left out of 480 00:33:48,520 --> 00:33:51,440 Speaker 1: the street. There they're kicked out of the rehab facility. 481 00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:54,720 Speaker 1: There's nobody left to pay it, so they're not off 482 00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:59,280 Speaker 1: the drugs. But everybody else has made the money. This 483 00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:02,800 Speaker 1: rehab facility has gotten the money from the insurance company. 484 00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:08,080 Speaker 1: They get funded by the government. It is an incredible racket, 485 00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:11,879 Speaker 1: and that's why the homeless situation ever gets any better, 486 00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:15,439 Speaker 1: because people in the homeless industry keep bringing in more 487 00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:21,040 Speaker 1: and more vagrants from the outside, from other states. So 488 00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:24,240 Speaker 1: when you hear that idiot Karen Bass talk about Inside 489 00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:28,840 Speaker 1: Safe taking people off the streets, the numbers aren't going down, 490 00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:33,560 Speaker 1: and they're not going down because there's replacements. And eventually 491 00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:36,399 Speaker 1: the tax money runs out for Inside Safe. It already has, 492 00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:40,120 Speaker 1: so they're going to have to let people go out 493 00:34:40,160 --> 00:34:46,560 Speaker 1: of the motels that they purchased. The money eventually runs out, 494 00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:50,839 Speaker 1: but they make as much as they can for as 495 00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:55,560 Speaker 1: long as they can. Most of the public doesn't understand 496 00:34:55,640 --> 00:35:01,680 Speaker 1: the whole thing is a scam. It's a rack. They 497 00:35:01,719 --> 00:35:07,000 Speaker 1: take tax money, they take insurance money, they take donations 498 00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:15,080 Speaker 1: from well intentioned progressive people. In the meantime, thousands of 499 00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:18,560 Speaker 1: die in the streets, but thousands of new ones come in. 500 00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:25,680 Speaker 1: Karen Bass intentionally lies about the homeless numbers. When you 501 00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:30,200 Speaker 1: look at her report, the county report, and then compare 502 00:35:30,239 --> 00:35:33,000 Speaker 1: it to what the RAND Corporation did an independent count 503 00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:38,279 Speaker 1: it's not even close. Some of the districts RAND discovered 504 00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:44,760 Speaker 1: the county undercounted. Karen Bass undercounted by up to forty percent. 505 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:48,440 Speaker 1: So the whole thing's a lie. The whole thing is 506 00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:51,399 Speaker 1: a racket and a scam. They make numbers up. There's 507 00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:54,640 Speaker 1: a story out of Washington d C. Today, you know, 508 00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:58,440 Speaker 1: the police chief of Washington d C just left. Turned 509 00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:01,640 Speaker 1: out she was lying about the number of crimes. They 510 00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:04,840 Speaker 1: were making up numbers so they could say, well, we 511 00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:08,080 Speaker 1: don't need any help from the federal government. Crime numbers 512 00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:11,440 Speaker 1: are already down. Well, they were fake crime numbers. LAPD 513 00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:14,200 Speaker 1: has done this with fake crime numbers that's been reported 514 00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:22,360 Speaker 1: on here. We have fake homeless count numbers. They're getting 515 00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:26,080 Speaker 1: wealthy people running these organizations. They're making money. We're gonna 516 00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:28,880 Speaker 1: talk more with John Alley about this and about his 517 00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:32,760 Speaker 1: fight in MacArthur Park as well. In for Debor Markets 518 00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:36,200 Speaker 1: Brigida di Agostina live in the CAFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, 519 00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:39,040 Speaker 1: you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You 520 00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:41,680 Speaker 1: can always hear the show live on KFI Am six 521 00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:44,480 Speaker 1: forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, 522 00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:47,759 Speaker 1: and of course anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.