1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:03,680 Speaker 1: I am six forty. You're listening to the John Cobelt 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:08,160 Speaker 1: podcast on the iHeartRadio app. It is the John Cobelt Show. 3 00:00:08,680 --> 00:00:14,000 Speaker 1: I Am six forty and Michael is here because there. 4 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:16,360 Speaker 1: You probably didn't know this. There is a boycott going on. 5 00:00:16,680 --> 00:00:21,120 Speaker 1: There's a community stoppage started at midnight. It's by the 6 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:25,639 Speaker 1: immigrants rights organizations here in Los Angeles and they have 7 00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:29,560 Speaker 1: events planned throughout the day into the evening. And you 8 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:32,640 Speaker 1: know what, I heard about it vaguely last week and 9 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:34,800 Speaker 1: forgot about it and didn't notice it today. 10 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:36,839 Speaker 2: Yeah, they announced it last week in the wake of 11 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:41,920 Speaker 2: those immigration enforcement actions at the home Depot stores in Westlake, 12 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:45,920 Speaker 2: Van Nys, San Bernardino. Just yesterday there was a home 13 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:49,839 Speaker 2: Depot that was hit in North Hollywood. So they decided 14 00:00:49,880 --> 00:00:52,199 Speaker 2: that they needed to get back to the streets. We 15 00:00:52,280 --> 00:00:54,760 Speaker 2: haven't seen a lot of immigration enforcement. We haven't seen 16 00:00:54,760 --> 00:00:58,200 Speaker 2: a lot of protests since the court order narrowed the 17 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:00,920 Speaker 2: focus of what the federal immigration agents could could do. 18 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:03,480 Speaker 2: And now it seems to be picking up again on 19 00:01:03,520 --> 00:01:04,400 Speaker 2: both sides of that. 20 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:09,560 Speaker 1: And what was the point of this, I mean, this 21 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:12,880 Speaker 1: is about as feeble a protest or just workstop. I 22 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:15,319 Speaker 1: just have to say what work stopped exactly. 23 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:20,479 Speaker 2: Well, they've asked immigrant workers, maybe a varying legal status, 24 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:24,679 Speaker 2: to not go to work today. And also they've called 25 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:26,800 Speaker 2: for a twenty four hour boycott of some of the 26 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:32,160 Speaker 2: larger businesses that serve folks here like home depot, Target, walmarts, 27 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:35,760 Speaker 2: and fast food restaurants because their position is that these 28 00:01:35,959 --> 00:01:40,840 Speaker 2: are organizations that benefit from immigrant labor, immigrant dollars, but 29 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:43,480 Speaker 2: they're not speaking out in support of them. In fact, 30 00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:47,360 Speaker 2: the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights LA also known as 31 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:50,960 Speaker 2: cheer LA, surely and Helica Salas the executive director, that 32 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:53,240 Speaker 2: explains why they're in the streets today. 33 00:01:53,440 --> 00:01:57,360 Speaker 3: Those ice agents that want us to hide, that want 34 00:01:57,440 --> 00:01:57,920 Speaker 3: us to. 35 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:00,160 Speaker 1: Hide away, we. 36 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:04,919 Speaker 3: Are here because we're courageous people who are willing to 37 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:08,560 Speaker 3: say for our families, fight for our city, and fight 38 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:13,600 Speaker 3: for our nations. So thank you so much, our courageous community. 39 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:17,679 Speaker 1: Oh, she's got to be a lot of fun at breakfast. WHOA, Well, 40 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:18,680 Speaker 1: I don't know. 41 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:21,079 Speaker 2: They're not eating breakfast today, they're not going to those 42 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:23,680 Speaker 2: restaurants today. They're on the boycott list, and so fast 43 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:25,560 Speaker 2: food workers were supposed to not go. 44 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:26,239 Speaker 1: To work today. 45 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:29,320 Speaker 2: As of midnight, and then the boycott is supposed to 46 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:31,280 Speaker 2: last for twenty four hours. She was speaking at a 47 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:33,440 Speaker 2: rally at MacArthur Park, and this thing is supposed to 48 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:35,440 Speaker 2: sneak its way through parts of the city all the 49 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:39,000 Speaker 2: way into the evening. Any sense of how many people 50 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:43,880 Speaker 2: didn't show up for work, No, not any numbers directly 51 00:02:43,919 --> 00:02:46,000 Speaker 2: related to who may or may not. We know some 52 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:48,680 Speaker 2: people who have spoken to the media on the scene 53 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:50,560 Speaker 2: of these things have said that they did skip out 54 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:52,200 Speaker 2: on work today. Now I don't know if they made 55 00:02:52,320 --> 00:02:54,440 Speaker 2: proper arrangements to do that or if they just went 56 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:57,119 Speaker 2: on strike, but yeah, some people did. 57 00:02:57,120 --> 00:02:59,200 Speaker 1: But I don't have any exact numbers on that. I 58 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:03,480 Speaker 1: can't imagine there'd be. There's gonna be no effect from this. 59 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:06,440 Speaker 1: This is not exactly gonna stop Trump and Holman here. 60 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:09,640 Speaker 2: If the federal courts couldn't stop what appears to be 61 00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:12,480 Speaker 2: the exact type of enforcement that is that you can't 62 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:12,920 Speaker 2: be doing. 63 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:14,799 Speaker 1: No, I don't think that this protest will either. 64 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:19,000 Speaker 2: Jorge Mario Cabrera is a spokesperson for CHEERLA, and you're 65 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:20,720 Speaker 2: gonna hear him explain a couple of things here. 66 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:23,480 Speaker 4: They know better, They know that this is a very 67 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:27,120 Speaker 4: peaceful activity, that this is within our rights to let 68 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:30,600 Speaker 4: our officials know that there's a better way to enforce 69 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:33,800 Speaker 4: our laws. In one way or another, they either have 70 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:37,760 Speaker 4: not come out and spoken against these raids or they're 71 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:43,520 Speaker 4: in a way complicitly participating in these actions. 72 00:03:43,640 --> 00:03:45,000 Speaker 1: That was a person or a robot. 73 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:49,240 Speaker 2: That was a cheerless spokesperson Orgete Mario Cabrera. The first 74 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:52,040 Speaker 2: part he's saying he doesn't expect immigration agents to show 75 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:55,200 Speaker 2: up at these rallies today in spite of maybe some 76 00:03:55,600 --> 00:04:01,040 Speaker 2: abnormally large targets that they might incarcerate Barrow. And the 77 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:03,600 Speaker 2: second was an explanation of why they are targeting these 78 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:06,200 Speaker 2: large corporations. He's just saying that they are not speaking 79 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:09,240 Speaker 2: up on our behalf and because of that, we are 80 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:10,680 Speaker 2: out here boycotting them. 81 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:14,640 Speaker 1: Well, it's not really the political climate to do that. 82 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:19,320 Speaker 1: You don't want to get into Trump's sites that. 83 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:23,080 Speaker 2: That's really at the foundation of this entire argument. We 84 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:24,560 Speaker 2: saw what's happened in Washington, D C. 85 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:24,960 Speaker 1: This week. 86 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:27,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, President Trump didn't like what he was seeing with crime. 87 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:30,000 Speaker 2: Regardless of what statistics have been presented to say, no, 88 00:04:30,080 --> 00:04:32,600 Speaker 2: crime is actually down in Washington, D C. And of 89 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:34,800 Speaker 2: course there's some debate over the accuracy of those numbers, 90 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:38,560 Speaker 2: but he did an unpresidented move and sent, you know, 91 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:41,200 Speaker 2: federalized the DC police. 92 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:43,080 Speaker 1: We's had a whole lot of pushback from the mayor 93 00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:44,200 Speaker 1: or the police chief. 94 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:46,400 Speaker 2: Because they're in a different situation than we are here 95 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:50,040 Speaker 2: at Washington, d C is a federal district. They do 96 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:53,520 Speaker 2: have some municipal control, but Congress can strip that away 97 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:57,159 Speaker 2: whenever they want. The question is whether the executive can 98 00:04:57,200 --> 00:04:59,200 Speaker 2: do what he did. But yes, there was not as 99 00:04:59,279 --> 00:05:02,320 Speaker 2: much pushback from Mayor Muriel Bowser in Washington, d C. 100 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:05,960 Speaker 2: As we saw here in Los Angeles when the National 101 00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:09,719 Speaker 2: Guard was sent in. But because the president is willing 102 00:05:09,760 --> 00:05:13,360 Speaker 2: to do what he wants when he wants, I don't 103 00:05:13,400 --> 00:05:16,760 Speaker 2: know that any protests would do anything except antagonize them 104 00:05:16,760 --> 00:05:18,000 Speaker 2: further and invite further action. 105 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:20,320 Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't know. I just find the whole thing 106 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:25,200 Speaker 1: to be silly and it doesn't accomplish it. And you know, 107 00:05:25,279 --> 00:05:27,279 Speaker 1: if I was here legally, the last thing I'd be 108 00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:29,600 Speaker 1: doing is showing up at an immigration rally. Well that 109 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:31,800 Speaker 1: I don't want to piss off my bosses either. It's 110 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:34,240 Speaker 1: an interesting point. Yeah, you know this is where you 111 00:05:34,320 --> 00:05:36,680 Speaker 1: keep your head down and keep moving along and hope 112 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:36,960 Speaker 1: for the. 113 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:41,880 Speaker 2: Best, especially because if the immigration agents do agree at 114 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:44,440 Speaker 2: some point that the court order has to be abided 115 00:05:44,440 --> 00:05:46,520 Speaker 2: by that we cannot just go up to people because 116 00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:49,240 Speaker 2: we assume they're legal immigrants because they're in place where 117 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:53,200 Speaker 2: illegal immigrants tend to be. They're going to use better 118 00:05:53,279 --> 00:05:56,000 Speaker 2: intelligence for more targeted enforcement. I mean, that's clear. And 119 00:05:56,279 --> 00:05:58,680 Speaker 2: one way to do that is to find businesses that 120 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:02,680 Speaker 2: they suspect of hiring people without doing THEE verify appropriately 121 00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:05,600 Speaker 2: and then going in that way and making sure the restaurants, 122 00:06:05,640 --> 00:06:08,120 Speaker 2: the hotels and all of these businesses that probably do 123 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:11,679 Speaker 2: hire illegal immigrants even if they don't know for sure, 124 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:13,839 Speaker 2: they could be targeted and have these folks. 125 00:06:14,080 --> 00:06:16,039 Speaker 1: Not that you'd have the answer to this, but what 126 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:19,279 Speaker 1: occurred to me just reading some analysis because the Trump 127 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:22,880 Speaker 1: crowd put together a briefing to appeal to the Supreme 128 00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:29,440 Speaker 1: Court about well, and then that raid happened in the 129 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:33,159 Speaker 1: Home Depot, right the Trojan Horse raid, and they arrested sixteen, 130 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:35,840 Speaker 1: and I thought, well, how many of those sixteen were 131 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:39,000 Speaker 1: they wrong on? Were they sixteen for sixteen not hitting 132 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:42,640 Speaker 1: illegal aliens? And it is it discrimination when you're right 133 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:46,440 Speaker 1: on every single person you pick up, not necessarily. 134 00:06:46,760 --> 00:06:50,680 Speaker 2: But what we know is the federal government will often 135 00:06:50,760 --> 00:06:53,560 Speaker 2: tell us after the fact, h three or four of 136 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:56,719 Speaker 2: these folks or more, depending on how large the arrest 137 00:06:56,839 --> 00:07:02,520 Speaker 2: group is, had serious criminal records. Rapist, d multiple DUIs, 138 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:05,920 Speaker 2: armed robberies, murderers, those sorts of things. In this case, 139 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:10,560 Speaker 2: I believe they had six that had criminal records. But again, 140 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:14,120 Speaker 2: we don't know what the intelligence was, We don't know 141 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:17,960 Speaker 2: what the impetus was right for that stop, and if 142 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:21,080 Speaker 2: it was out of compliance with the court order, you 143 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:23,160 Speaker 2: can bet that it will be used as evidence. 144 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:25,840 Speaker 1: Six out of the sixteen had a criminal record. That's 145 00:07:25,840 --> 00:07:28,440 Speaker 1: a pretty good hit rate, that's more than twenty five percent. Yeah, 146 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:32,440 Speaker 1: but did they haven't been picking up any citizens by 147 00:07:32,520 --> 00:07:36,640 Speaker 1: mistake or even Green cardholders by mistake, anybody with legal status. 148 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:39,480 Speaker 2: No, they have, at least that's been the argument from 149 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:43,560 Speaker 2: some folks. You know, it's very difficult to determine the status, 150 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:46,640 Speaker 2: especially because it's a sensitive topic that you know, you're 151 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:47,160 Speaker 2: a liminitous. 152 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:49,320 Speaker 1: I just figured if it was if there was an 153 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:52,440 Speaker 1: American citizen picked up in one of these big races, 154 00:07:52,560 --> 00:07:55,240 Speaker 1: you have had claims of folks who say they've caught 155 00:07:55,240 --> 00:07:57,360 Speaker 1: our dad, they've caught our brother, they caught our son 156 00:07:57,960 --> 00:08:01,760 Speaker 1: and he has documentary that he is either a citizen 157 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:07,360 Speaker 1: or is here lawfully. So it has happened, and that's 158 00:08:07,760 --> 00:08:08,679 Speaker 1: when they get released. 159 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:14,400 Speaker 2: Usually ideal or no, that's right, they are supposed to 160 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:17,680 Speaker 2: be released, but it does take take a court to 161 00:08:17,840 --> 00:08:20,400 Speaker 2: evaluate that. What you will see today with this community 162 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:23,679 Speaker 2: stoppage that I know you're excited about, is they started 163 00:08:23,760 --> 00:08:26,840 Speaker 2: with this take Back our Park rally at MacArthur Park. 164 00:08:26,880 --> 00:08:31,760 Speaker 2: This was the scene take it I KNOWHOI which it 165 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:37,040 Speaker 2: would be cleaned up, but they go ahead, so they 166 00:08:37,040 --> 00:08:38,720 Speaker 2: started with their take back our Park. This has been 167 00:08:38,720 --> 00:08:41,640 Speaker 2: the scene of some strange immigration activity. We saw that 168 00:08:41,720 --> 00:08:46,280 Speaker 2: weird horseback display earlier in the summer that did not 169 00:08:46,679 --> 00:08:50,359 Speaker 2: involve any enforcement action, just a present a big showcase. 170 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:51,360 Speaker 1: It was a big show. 171 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:53,839 Speaker 2: They had their rally at ten o'clock and then they 172 00:08:53,840 --> 00:08:55,920 Speaker 2: have they have since marched down to the La County 173 00:08:55,960 --> 00:08:59,679 Speaker 2: Board of Supervisors meeting that's going on currently at five o'clock. 174 00:08:59,679 --> 00:09:02,080 Speaker 2: They're going to a rally at overa Street and to 175 00:09:02,160 --> 00:09:03,800 Speaker 2: El Pueblo and then they're going to march over to 176 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:06,959 Speaker 2: the Federal detention center at six o'clock. They'll have a 177 00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:09,480 Speaker 2: vigil at seven fifteen, so they're going to be busy 178 00:09:09,640 --> 00:09:13,240 Speaker 2: all day. And there have been modest protests every day 179 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:16,160 Speaker 2: outside these detention centers. I don't know if you're aware 180 00:09:16,160 --> 00:09:17,400 Speaker 2: of the La Music Festival. 181 00:09:18,679 --> 00:09:20,320 Speaker 1: Well, I've heard of it. Yeah. 182 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:24,240 Speaker 2: This is the code word on social media for the 183 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:29,280 Speaker 2: immigration protests. Now it's I'm going to the La Music Festival. Oh, 184 00:09:29,320 --> 00:09:34,319 Speaker 2: I see, And that's that's that's their new slangognito not 185 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:36,760 Speaker 2: so secret apparently. I mean it's out there online and 186 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:38,120 Speaker 2: then you look at the video and that doesn't look 187 00:09:38,160 --> 00:09:39,200 Speaker 2: like a music festival to me. 188 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:40,920 Speaker 1: Is there an La Music Festival? I don't. 189 00:09:41,160 --> 00:09:44,199 Speaker 2: That's not cool, you know, well, and I have to 190 00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:45,679 Speaker 2: go upstairs and ask the FMS. 191 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:48,199 Speaker 1: But for us, no, I have no idea. That's why 192 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:50,560 Speaker 1: they have down here in the base on the fourth floor, 193 00:09:50,559 --> 00:09:53,520 Speaker 1: the uncool people. All right, Michael, thank you for coming 194 00:09:53,559 --> 00:10:01,320 Speaker 1: on My Pleasures News. And uh, we we've got because 195 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:04,040 Speaker 1: I'm just sitting down and getting everything together when we 196 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:09,240 Speaker 1: come back. How about this the let me get this 197 00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:12,680 Speaker 1: math right. The amount of money that the city of 198 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:18,760 Speaker 1: La pays out in lawsuits has gone up eightfold. It 199 00:10:18,880 --> 00:10:23,280 Speaker 1: used to be thirty five million in six now it's 200 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:28,360 Speaker 1: two hundred and eighty six million. This is people suing 201 00:10:28,400 --> 00:10:32,040 Speaker 1: the city of Los Angeles and getting these massive settlements. 202 00:10:32,720 --> 00:10:34,040 Speaker 1: Tell you about it. We come back. 203 00:10:34,920 --> 00:10:39,240 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 204 00:10:39,280 --> 00:10:39,800 Speaker 5: six forty. 205 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:45,640 Speaker 1: Just had Michael Monks on telling us about I who knew? Right? 206 00:10:45,760 --> 00:10:48,560 Speaker 1: Did you know what this was going on today? Is 207 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:54,960 Speaker 1: a legal alien community work stoppage. That's that's what's supposed 208 00:10:55,000 --> 00:11:02,400 Speaker 1: to be going on. Those those those immigration groups that 209 00:11:02,559 --> 00:11:08,640 Speaker 1: take our tax money, like Churla Churla thirty four million 210 00:11:08,720 --> 00:11:14,280 Speaker 1: dollars in tax money they got from the state. Good lord, 211 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:19,480 Speaker 1: they were they're the ones who helped facilitate the riot. 212 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:23,120 Speaker 1: They're back in action trying to get illegal aliens to 213 00:11:23,240 --> 00:11:26,199 Speaker 1: not show up for work, and they're trying to organize 214 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:32,760 Speaker 1: a boycott against home depot, target Walmart and fast food restaurants. 215 00:11:33,920 --> 00:11:39,320 Speaker 1: What the hell? How many how many illegal aliens are 216 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:41,800 Speaker 1: actually going I mean, I haven't seen the video. I'd 217 00:11:41,800 --> 00:11:44,240 Speaker 1: be curious to see this. Maybe there's a lot. I 218 00:11:44,280 --> 00:11:47,280 Speaker 1: don't know, but boy, if you're here illegally, and you 219 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:51,640 Speaker 1: go to a demonstration that's rigged by an organization that's 220 00:11:51,720 --> 00:11:57,120 Speaker 1: taking American tax money to facilitate the protest. Boy, that's 221 00:11:57,200 --> 00:11:59,280 Speaker 1: that's gaul. That is really nerve. 222 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:01,280 Speaker 3: You know what. 223 00:12:02,360 --> 00:12:05,480 Speaker 1: See, I'd be more ruthless than Trump at home, and 224 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:09,439 Speaker 1: I would definitely have done a raid at the rally because, 225 00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:12,120 Speaker 1: like I was saying, when they did the Trojan Horse raid, right, 226 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:14,800 Speaker 1: it was sixteen guys they got at home depot, I 227 00:12:14,880 --> 00:12:17,200 Speaker 1: bet you they were sixteen for sixteen there when it 228 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:21,400 Speaker 1: comes to illegal aliens. So how's that stereotyping? How's that discrimination? 229 00:12:21,800 --> 00:12:25,880 Speaker 1: They were right? I don't know what methods they're using, 230 00:12:26,280 --> 00:12:29,880 Speaker 1: but they're right on with them. They're correct. Why else 231 00:12:29,920 --> 00:12:32,920 Speaker 1: would you be there standing in the parking lot. Legal 232 00:12:32,960 --> 00:12:35,720 Speaker 1: citizens don't do that. Of course they don't do that. 233 00:12:36,640 --> 00:12:40,400 Speaker 1: It's a ridiculous way to run your life and earn 234 00:12:40,440 --> 00:12:44,920 Speaker 1: a living. Who would do that? So the I mean, 235 00:12:45,040 --> 00:12:48,880 Speaker 1: you go work for a real construction company. Certainly there's 236 00:12:49,240 --> 00:12:52,320 Speaker 1: plenty of construction companies in action right now, especially on 237 00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:55,839 Speaker 1: the West Side. So I don't I don't I think 238 00:12:55,880 --> 00:13:00,000 Speaker 1: I'd be going up to these I'd be applying every 239 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:03,840 Speaker 1: construction company in southern California right now because they've got 240 00:13:03,840 --> 00:13:06,160 Speaker 1: so much work that they've got to do. No need 241 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:08,560 Speaker 1: to stand at a home depot near MacArthur Park of 242 00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:14,600 Speaker 1: all places. Jeez, and this is all like it's weird. 243 00:13:15,240 --> 00:13:19,320 Speaker 1: A midnight fast food worker strike near MacArthur Park. Who 244 00:13:19,360 --> 00:13:22,280 Speaker 1: the hell is going out for a cheeseburger at MacArthur 245 00:13:22,360 --> 00:13:26,360 Speaker 1: Park at midnight? Why would you do that? That's a 246 00:13:26,360 --> 00:13:29,000 Speaker 1: good place to take the family. Yeah, kids, let's all 247 00:13:29,040 --> 00:13:35,199 Speaker 1: go to MacArthur Park. There's a Burger King. What kind 248 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:37,400 Speaker 1: of a fast food strike? Is that? Who you're hurting? 249 00:13:40,160 --> 00:13:45,880 Speaker 1: And then they have a coffee and breakfast at five am, 250 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:49,839 Speaker 1: a take back our park coffee and break Honestly, are 251 00:13:49,880 --> 00:13:54,040 Speaker 1: these things really drawing a crowd that is feeble, that 252 00:13:54,480 --> 00:13:57,720 Speaker 1: is silly a week and I wouldn't care, except Charla 253 00:13:58,200 --> 00:14:01,080 Speaker 1: my tax money. I'm paying for the coffee and breakfast. 254 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:03,960 Speaker 1: I'm paying for the midnight at Burger King work stoppage. 255 00:14:04,640 --> 00:14:09,200 Speaker 1: I'm paying for all this, so are you? Yea, here's 256 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:15,760 Speaker 1: another thing you're paying for. La is compulsively settling lawsuits 257 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:20,440 Speaker 1: for for in total, hundreds of millions of dollars. 258 00:14:21,920 --> 00:14:22,040 Speaker 4: Uh. 259 00:14:22,960 --> 00:14:27,480 Speaker 1: They've got They've got a city attorney called Heidi Feldstein 260 00:14:27,840 --> 00:14:32,680 Speaker 1: hyphen Soto or is it Heidi Soto Feldstein or is 261 00:14:32,720 --> 00:14:35,160 Speaker 1: it Soto Heidi Feldt. I don't know what it is. 262 00:14:36,040 --> 00:14:41,560 Speaker 1: She's just she's this thing, and she's signing off on 263 00:14:41,680 --> 00:14:46,320 Speaker 1: lawsuits left and right. In two thousand and six, two 264 00:14:46,360 --> 00:14:50,800 Speaker 1: thousand and six, city at La paid thirty five million 265 00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:55,640 Speaker 1: dollars in liability claims. You know what, this year is 266 00:14:55,640 --> 00:14:58,880 Speaker 1: going to be minimum two hundred and eighty six million, 267 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:07,120 Speaker 1: two one hundred and eighty six million dollars. That is 268 00:15:07,920 --> 00:15:10,480 Speaker 1: at least seven times as much as it was twenty 269 00:15:10,560 --> 00:15:18,840 Speaker 1: years ago. And for what to settle lawsuits? We're bankrupt 270 00:15:19,040 --> 00:15:22,160 Speaker 1: and we're going bankrupt because Heidi Feldstein Soto is giving 271 00:15:22,200 --> 00:15:24,960 Speaker 1: away hundreds of millions of dollars to anybody who bitches 272 00:15:24,960 --> 00:15:27,520 Speaker 1: and complaints. I don't know what their problem is. I 273 00:15:27,520 --> 00:15:31,920 Speaker 1: guess they're tripping on sidewalks. Maybe a couple of criminals 274 00:15:31,920 --> 00:15:34,200 Speaker 1: got beat a little too hard by the police. You know, 275 00:15:34,240 --> 00:15:36,640 Speaker 1: I didn't really care anymore about all this stuff. Two 276 00:15:36,760 --> 00:15:40,160 Speaker 1: hundred and eighty six million dollars. By the way, the 277 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:45,600 Speaker 1: roads around my neighborhood are disastrous. My wife and I 278 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:48,040 Speaker 1: were driving around this morning, and it was like being 279 00:15:48,120 --> 00:15:52,160 Speaker 1: on a rickety wooden roller coaster from the from the 280 00:15:52,320 --> 00:15:59,960 Speaker 1: nineteen seventies. The roads are a disaster in Los Angeles. 281 00:16:00,560 --> 00:16:04,360 Speaker 1: They're not spending any money on paving the roads. But wow, 282 00:16:04,480 --> 00:16:07,080 Speaker 1: two hundred and eighty six million for every jackass who 283 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:10,960 Speaker 1: files a lawsuit. Heidi Feldstein Soto is that her name, 284 00:16:11,240 --> 00:16:15,320 Speaker 1: he Soto Felstein. I don't know what order that name 285 00:16:15,400 --> 00:16:19,560 Speaker 1: is in. I know there's hyphens and things. Just shoveling 286 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:21,360 Speaker 1: our money out the door. You go to work, I 287 00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:23,520 Speaker 1: go to work, ends up in her office. She's got 288 00:16:23,520 --> 00:16:26,720 Speaker 1: her big money shovel and she opens the door, shovels 289 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:28,920 Speaker 1: it out into the hallway, and there's just a line 290 00:16:28,920 --> 00:16:33,840 Speaker 1: of people with grievances and claims and fake injuries, and oh, 291 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:36,440 Speaker 1: whate is me? Oh I suffered, Oh I fell? Oh, 292 00:16:36,640 --> 00:16:41,960 Speaker 1: for God's sakes, what a culture we have here. There's 293 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:47,120 Speaker 1: something called the Los Angeles City Claims Board. On May 294 00:16:47,160 --> 00:16:52,880 Speaker 1: the fifth, they had a meeting to settle eleven lawsuits. 295 00:16:53,440 --> 00:16:57,480 Speaker 1: Two weeks before that, they had a meeting to settle 296 00:16:57,720 --> 00:17:04,880 Speaker 1: forty other lawsuits. Wait before that, in other sessions twenty 297 00:17:05,720 --> 00:17:10,040 Speaker 1: so right, there. It's seventy one lawsuits as of early 298 00:17:10,119 --> 00:17:19,320 Speaker 1: May seventy one. The money comes not from the city 299 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:26,359 Speaker 1: departments responsible for the liability costs. Well, it's like like 300 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:32,639 Speaker 1: the Bureau of a Bureau of City Streets should be 301 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:38,119 Speaker 1: responsible for the streets of the sidewalks. Somebody trips cuts 302 00:17:38,160 --> 00:17:41,560 Speaker 1: their knee, they got one hundred and seventy thousand dollars 303 00:17:41,560 --> 00:17:48,800 Speaker 1: for that. Well, the money should come from the streets Bureau, 304 00:17:50,440 --> 00:17:53,080 Speaker 1: and it does it. It comes from the general fund. 305 00:17:54,440 --> 00:17:58,879 Speaker 1: Property taxes thirty five percent of that revenue, and then 306 00:17:58,920 --> 00:18:02,680 Speaker 1: it's also sales taxes, business utility, all kinds of taxes, 307 00:18:03,680 --> 00:18:06,679 Speaker 1: and that's more than seventy percent of the income for 308 00:18:06,760 --> 00:18:12,040 Speaker 1: the general fund. And they and these lawsuit claims eat 309 00:18:12,119 --> 00:18:15,640 Speaker 1: up a huge amount and nobody's doing anything. First of all, 310 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:21,600 Speaker 1: you could like solve whatever legitimate issues are behind these claims. 311 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:26,439 Speaker 1: You could actually pay the road fix the sidewalks. You 312 00:18:26,480 --> 00:18:33,800 Speaker 1: could do that and take it out of that department's budget. 313 00:18:33,840 --> 00:18:36,000 Speaker 1: In fact, take it out of the salary of the 314 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:41,000 Speaker 1: people responsible. Imagine if the guy in charge of scheduling 315 00:18:41,040 --> 00:18:45,919 Speaker 1: sidewalk repair had to he zeroed out his paycheck for 316 00:18:45,960 --> 00:18:50,600 Speaker 1: a few weeks Betsy, he's got crews all over now, 317 00:18:51,119 --> 00:18:53,680 Speaker 1: and they'll be fixing the sidewalks, and they'll skip over 318 00:18:53,760 --> 00:18:58,080 Speaker 1: their their poured break every day at lunch, or their 319 00:18:58,480 --> 00:19:01,960 Speaker 1: stripper party break in the after noon. Betcha they will 320 00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:07,920 Speaker 1: if the guy running the department got his paycheck vacuumed. 321 00:19:10,320 --> 00:19:15,080 Speaker 1: According to Kenneth Mahea, who's a socialist, is the LA 322 00:19:15,119 --> 00:19:18,600 Speaker 1: City Controller. He said they're going to do an audit 323 00:19:18,720 --> 00:19:23,720 Speaker 1: of how the city manages their risk management. He says 324 00:19:23,760 --> 00:19:26,520 Speaker 1: liability payouts are a major reason that the city is 325 00:19:26,520 --> 00:19:30,240 Speaker 1: in a fiscal emergency. Behind each payout is an example 326 00:19:30,320 --> 00:19:33,000 Speaker 1: of the city government failing to serve and meet the 327 00:19:33,040 --> 00:19:36,440 Speaker 1: expectations of its constituents. It is just a total disaster 328 00:19:36,720 --> 00:19:42,080 Speaker 1: inside the carried Bass administration, a total freaking disaster. Every department, 329 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:46,080 Speaker 1: every facet in a Los Angeles government is a complete failure. Here. 330 00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:51,360 Speaker 1: They had a billion dollar deficit that they had to 331 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:55,000 Speaker 1: fix most recently, and they're blowing out a quarter of 332 00:19:55,000 --> 00:20:00,280 Speaker 1: a billion dollars just on lawsuit settlements. It's on a 333 00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:04,600 Speaker 1: more than five hundred percent in two decades, more than 334 00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:12,040 Speaker 1: five hundred percent your money. You know, I guess you know. 335 00:20:12,080 --> 00:20:13,760 Speaker 1: In La if you don't feel like work and just 336 00:20:13,800 --> 00:20:16,280 Speaker 1: walk outside, trip over a sidewalk, and there you go. 337 00:20:16,640 --> 00:20:18,000 Speaker 1: You're set for the next ten years. 338 00:20:19,080 --> 00:20:23,399 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 339 00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:24,000 Speaker 5: six forty. 340 00:20:24,760 --> 00:20:26,960 Speaker 1: We are on every day from one and till four 341 00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:30,399 Speaker 1: o'clock and then after four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand. 342 00:20:31,560 --> 00:20:35,680 Speaker 1: That's the podcast Moistline eight seven seven Moist eighty six. 343 00:20:36,119 --> 00:20:39,320 Speaker 1: Let's get it going for Friday eight seven seven Moist 344 00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:42,760 Speaker 1: eighty six or usually talkback feature on the ihout I 345 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:47,560 Speaker 1: Heart Radio app. So hard, so hard to do this 346 00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:53,920 Speaker 1: job when you can't speak clearly. All right, So yesterday 347 00:20:54,000 --> 00:21:00,280 Speaker 1: Big rockets in Washington Trumps taking over the Metropolitan Police Department. Washington, 348 00:21:00,359 --> 00:21:05,000 Speaker 1: d C has had an extraordinary crime rate, and not 349 00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:09,000 Speaker 1: only the murder rate, but just at crime in general. 350 00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:14,199 Speaker 1: It's kind of like Los Angeles. There's certain Los Angeles neighborhoods. 351 00:21:14,600 --> 00:21:17,840 Speaker 1: They got tons of holmeless people. They have roving gangs 352 00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:21,359 Speaker 1: and criminals, and they have a city council made up 353 00:21:21,359 --> 00:21:26,200 Speaker 1: of vegetables who have made it impossible to put any 354 00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:29,120 Speaker 1: of the violent criminals away for any length of time 355 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:33,800 Speaker 1: if they happen to be teenagers, and which, by the way, 356 00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:37,199 Speaker 1: is the only thing that at the moment Trump can't fix, 357 00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:42,439 Speaker 1: is these local laws or these state laws that allow 358 00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:48,640 Speaker 1: teenagers to even kill people without getting a serious sentence. 359 00:21:50,480 --> 00:21:58,240 Speaker 1: It's it's it's this idiocy and this insanity of city 360 00:21:58,280 --> 00:22:02,480 Speaker 1: council members. It's happened in New York, it's happened in Chicago, 361 00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:05,680 Speaker 1: here in Los Angeles and Washington, d C. But let's 362 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:09,439 Speaker 1: just focus on Washington, d C. Because there's always a 363 00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:13,800 Speaker 1: predictable arc to these stories. Trump comes on and says, 364 00:22:14,040 --> 00:22:18,480 Speaker 1: you know, Washington is a hellscape. Crime is through the roof, 365 00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:21,840 Speaker 1: blah blah blah. He's going to take it over. And then, well, 366 00:22:21,920 --> 00:22:26,919 Speaker 1: you know, here's the response from the progressives, and the 367 00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:31,400 Speaker 1: news made it. Well, actually that's incorrect. Crime is actually 368 00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:38,639 Speaker 1: down on twenty seven percent, and even with start at 369 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:43,399 Speaker 1: the beginning. Crime exploded in Washington D C. In twenty twenty, 370 00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:47,120 Speaker 1: as it did in most of the big cities, and 371 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:52,000 Speaker 1: in Washington they had four really really bad years from 372 00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:56,280 Speaker 1: twenty twenty to twenty twenty three. Finally got so bad 373 00:22:56,840 --> 00:23:01,720 Speaker 1: they had to give in. Eventually, people start getting so 374 00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:07,360 Speaker 1: angry and so fed up that a government will go, okay, okay, 375 00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:11,240 Speaker 1: let's calm the peasants down here. Fine, we'll arrest some people. 376 00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:15,639 Speaker 1: You know, they think, they think in Washington, d C. 377 00:23:16,280 --> 00:23:21,280 Speaker 1: It's it's a small number of criminals that caused sixty 378 00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:26,720 Speaker 1: to seventy percent of the crimes. I remember. I remember 379 00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:30,240 Speaker 1: seeing FBI statistics maybe twenty years ago, had had the 380 00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:34,679 Speaker 1: same proportion. They said that like six percent of the 381 00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:40,840 Speaker 1: criminals commit seventy percent of the of the offenses. There 382 00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:46,600 Speaker 1: is a select group of hardcore violent psychotics. If you 383 00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:49,920 Speaker 1: just get rid of those people, the crime will fall 384 00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:54,240 Speaker 1: by seventy percent. And that's exactly the group that city 385 00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:59,600 Speaker 1: council's here in La in California and Washington, d C. 386 00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:04,080 Speaker 1: Should ye. They won't do that. They won't do that. 387 00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:09,600 Speaker 1: They don't think the government has the right to put 388 00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:14,000 Speaker 1: anybody behind bars. They don't think there's any crime that 389 00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:19,000 Speaker 1: can be committed by a juvenile that should result in 390 00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:25,240 Speaker 1: long prison terms. So all these gangsters running the streets, 391 00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:29,960 Speaker 1: these goons, these thugs, these people who basically grew up 392 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:34,240 Speaker 1: without parents, they all band together on the streets. Some 393 00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:37,639 Speaker 1: of them are like twelve years old and they go 394 00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:41,400 Speaker 1: running around and they just randomly attack people like that 395 00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:47,560 Speaker 1: government employee. That kid who worked for Doge got all beaten, 396 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:53,720 Speaker 1: bloodied up. They do this for sport at night. And 397 00:24:56,480 --> 00:24:59,879 Speaker 1: you always get these these these jackasses in the media 398 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:05,639 Speaker 1: and these jackasses public officials who start quoting statistics. I'll 399 00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:12,800 Speaker 1: tell you statistics. This stuff gets under reported. The Metropolitan 400 00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:17,840 Speaker 1: Police Department in Washington, d C. On July eighteenth, probably 401 00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:25,440 Speaker 1: didn't hear this story, confirmed that a police commander named 402 00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:29,720 Speaker 1: Michael Pulliam was placed on paid administrative leave in May 403 00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:38,280 Speaker 1: because Pulliam had filed a complaint against an assistant chief 404 00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:46,639 Speaker 1: and accused them of deliberately falsifying crime data. The union 405 00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:51,000 Speaker 1: is claiming police supervisors in the department manipulate crime data 406 00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:54,560 Speaker 1: to make it up here that violent crime has fallen 407 00:25:54,680 --> 00:26:03,639 Speaker 1: considerably compared to last year. That you have a police 408 00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:10,520 Speaker 1: commander who screws with the statistics, puts out false statistics, 409 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:24,520 Speaker 1: and somebody ratted him out deliberately falsifying crime data he was. 410 00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:31,480 Speaker 1: William Is, the former commander of the third District in Washington, 411 00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:34,120 Speaker 1: was placed on leave with pay, told he was under 412 00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:39,520 Speaker 1: investigation for questionable changes to crime data. Union officials said 413 00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:44,600 Speaker 1: there is a larger trend of manipulating crime statistics in Washington. 414 00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:52,080 Speaker 1: The union chairman Greg Pemberton described what's done. When our 415 00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:55,200 Speaker 1: members respond to the scene of a felony offense where 416 00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:59,880 Speaker 1: there's a victim claiming a felony occurred, there inevitably will 417 00:26:59,920 --> 00:27:02,320 Speaker 1: be a lieutenant or a captain that will show up 418 00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:05,840 Speaker 1: and direct these members to take a report for a 419 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:10,600 Speaker 1: lesser offense. So instead of taking a report for a 420 00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:14,399 Speaker 1: shooting or a stabbing or a carjacking, they'll order that 421 00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:19,280 Speaker 1: the officer take a report for theft, or it's a 422 00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:23,000 Speaker 1: report for an injured person to take it to the hospital, 423 00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:32,280 Speaker 1: or an assault charge, which is not the same as 424 00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:35,879 Speaker 1: the original felony that the criminals should be involved with. 425 00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:40,119 Speaker 1: All right, So I understand here they're talking about a 426 00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:44,560 Speaker 1: systemic issue in the Washington Police Department where lieutenants or 427 00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:47,280 Speaker 1: captains show up at the scene of a crime and 428 00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:52,360 Speaker 1: take over the investigation and decide to downgrade whatever happened. 429 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:06,160 Speaker 1: And somebody ratted them out, and that's why the crime 430 00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:09,840 Speaker 1: statistics are phoning because the police are under a lot 431 00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:14,399 Speaker 1: of pressure from the from the insane city Council to 432 00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:18,760 Speaker 1: lie about the crime rate, and so they do because 433 00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:23,159 Speaker 1: what are they going to do? So they do. I 434 00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:24,960 Speaker 1: know this goes on in Los Angeles. It was a 435 00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:27,720 Speaker 1: story a few years back in the LA Times, same thing. 436 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:35,080 Speaker 1: LAPD was manipulating the crime rate numbers. I mean, this 437 00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:39,800 Speaker 1: is the way business is conducted. Progressives cannot afford to 438 00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:47,240 Speaker 1: admit that their policies are disastrous, so they need people 439 00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:50,680 Speaker 1: that they can fire to get on board and say, Okay, 440 00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:54,560 Speaker 1: well we'll screw it the statistics. And then they need, 441 00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:59,480 Speaker 1: like the Los Angeles Times to repeat the false statistics. 442 00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:03,680 Speaker 1: That's how the game works. When we come back, let 443 00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:05,840 Speaker 1: me tell you part two. What's going on in Washington, 444 00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:11,800 Speaker 1: d C. About one of the loudest voices against Trump 445 00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:15,240 Speaker 1: right now, angry that he's taken over the police department, 446 00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:20,960 Speaker 1: is a guy named Treyon White who's facing federal bribery charges. 447 00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:26,080 Speaker 1: And even after he got kicked off the city council 448 00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:29,720 Speaker 1: by other council members, the voters in his district put 449 00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:35,320 Speaker 1: him back in office. He's the guy shouting the loudest 450 00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:37,040 Speaker 1: about Trump. 451 00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:41,560 Speaker 5: Right now, you're listening to John Cobels on demand from 452 00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:43,280 Speaker 5: KFI A six forty. 453 00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:46,360 Speaker 1: There's a lot of squealing going on in Washington, d C. 454 00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:49,840 Speaker 1: And I wish so bad Trump would find an excuse 455 00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:55,160 Speaker 1: to declare an emergency here and take over the city 456 00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:57,280 Speaker 1: of Los Angeles. Just take over the government. I mean, 457 00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:01,520 Speaker 1: enough of this garbage, noth of the seventy thousand homeless people, 458 00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:06,360 Speaker 1: and enough with all the criminals. I just their way 459 00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:11,240 Speaker 1: hasn't worked. It's a failure. Nobody seems to want to 460 00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:14,080 Speaker 1: force them out of office. So maybe we need an 461 00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:18,480 Speaker 1: outsider to bulldoze his way through LA because this is 462 00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:21,960 Speaker 1: just ridiculous that we have to live like this in Washington, 463 00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:25,800 Speaker 1: d C. Here's why he has to take over the 464 00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:29,280 Speaker 1: police department. The loudest critic of Trump over this is 465 00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:36,400 Speaker 1: a guy named Treyon White. Treyon White was a councilman 466 00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:43,840 Speaker 1: and early this year, actually in twenty twenty four, he 467 00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:50,760 Speaker 1: was arrested charged with accepting or agreeing to accept one 468 00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:55,440 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty six thousand dollars in bribes. One hundred 469 00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:57,560 Speaker 1: and fifty six thousand dollars in bribes. That happened in 470 00:30:57,640 --> 00:31:05,320 Speaker 1: August of twenty four and his trials scheduled for January 471 00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:11,400 Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. Now the city council booted him out. 472 00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:18,240 Speaker 1: They voted to expel him in February, but he ran 473 00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:21,840 Speaker 1: in the special election in July. He was allowed to 474 00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:24,320 Speaker 1: run because he hadn't been convicted of the federal felony yet, 475 00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:30,840 Speaker 1: and he won. He won. The voters in his district 476 00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:36,080 Speaker 1: put him back in office, even though he's facing federal 477 00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:38,880 Speaker 1: trial for taking one hundred and fifty six thousand dollars 478 00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:43,080 Speaker 1: in broads And it's just. And the thing is, you 479 00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:45,120 Speaker 1: may say, well, it's their district. You know, they got 480 00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:47,960 Speaker 1: the right to vote, but he's one of the votes 481 00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:54,960 Speaker 1: that has made it impossible to put teenage violent felons 482 00:31:56,120 --> 00:32:04,440 Speaker 1: in jail. You see, say his vote affects the entire city. 483 00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:09,280 Speaker 1: His trial, he's pleading not guilty, even though there's video 484 00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:17,000 Speaker 1: of him stuffing envelopes filled with cash into his pockets. 485 00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:20,200 Speaker 1: But he'd fit in with the La City Council just 486 00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:24,160 Speaker 1: Greg wouldn't Heddy that's got actual video of him taking 487 00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:28,640 Speaker 1: envelopes of cash, putting it in his pocket. He's claiming 488 00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:31,920 Speaker 1: that he's been unfairly targeted by the FBI. That was 489 00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:39,720 Speaker 1: his campaign in July and he won. He's claiming that 490 00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:44,120 Speaker 1: we don't need Trump. Washington's leaders are already responsible. A 491 00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:48,600 Speaker 1: federal takeover would cripple the city. If you saw the 492 00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:50,480 Speaker 1: crime I'm not gonna waste a lot of time reading 493 00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:53,000 Speaker 1: a bunch of numbers on the radio. You saw the 494 00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:55,959 Speaker 1: crime numbers in Washington, d C. From twenty twenty to 495 00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:59,240 Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, your eyes would fall out. And yet 496 00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:02,040 Speaker 1: it's down so in twenty twenty four. But they're still really, 497 00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:06,240 Speaker 1: really high. And that's what makes me crazy about the 498 00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:09,200 Speaker 1: way news is reported in headlines. It's like crime is 499 00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:13,320 Speaker 1: down in the last it's still extremely high. It's still 500 00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:18,560 Speaker 1: the fourth worst murder rate in the nation. Good lord, 501 00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:25,160 Speaker 1: Why is everyone so resistant to printing the truth and 502 00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:32,120 Speaker 1: putting in the proper context. All these cities need a 503 00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:38,360 Speaker 1: federal takeover, they really do. I I heard somebody carrying 504 00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:41,400 Speaker 1: on about, Oh, Trump just wants a federal police force. Yeah, 505 00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:44,440 Speaker 1: I think so. I think a federal police force to 506 00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:49,120 Speaker 1: invade Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, and Washington. That'd be 507 00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:53,720 Speaker 1: a great start. Because if you're voting for a guy 508 00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:57,600 Speaker 1: who's on video taking one hundred and fifty six thousand 509 00:33:57,600 --> 00:33:59,640 Speaker 1: dollars brides, you got to have your vote taken away. 510 00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:04,080 Speaker 1: I think start time to start disenfranchising people. All right, 511 00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:08,600 Speaker 1: we come back. We're going to talk with Sue Pasco. 512 00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:12,840 Speaker 1: She's a journalist out of Pacific Palisades. She's the editor 513 00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:16,400 Speaker 1: of Circling the News, which you can read online. Circling 514 00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:21,040 Speaker 1: the News. There was an LA County supervisor, Lindsay Horvath, 515 00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:25,880 Speaker 1: who did an interview on an LA Times podcast about 516 00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:31,120 Speaker 1: rebuilding Altadena in the Palisades after the fire. We'll talk 517 00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:36,080 Speaker 1: about that coming up with Sue Pasco, and in for 518 00:34:36,160 --> 00:34:39,040 Speaker 1: Debor Mark, we got Brigida Diagostino live in the KFI 519 00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:41,600 Speaker 1: twenty four our newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the 520 00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:44,319 Speaker 1: John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear the show 521 00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:47,120 Speaker 1: live on KFI AM six forty from one to four 522 00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:50,000 Speaker 1: pm every Monday through Friday, and of course anytime on 523 00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:52,000 Speaker 1: demand on the iHeartRadio app.