1 00:00:00,760 --> 00:00:01,000 Speaker 1: Can't. 2 00:00:01,080 --> 00:00:02,160 Speaker 2: I am six forty. 3 00:00:02,240 --> 00:00:05,640 Speaker 3: You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 4 00:00:06,080 --> 00:00:10,200 Speaker 3: We are going to talk to Daniel Guss, the independent journalist, 5 00:00:10,280 --> 00:00:14,360 Speaker 3: coming up after two point thirty to discuss Jose Weezar, 6 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:19,160 Speaker 3: the La City councilman who got thirteen years in prison 7 00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:23,480 Speaker 3: on bribery. He would charge developers lots of money, made 8 00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:26,040 Speaker 3: a million and a half dollars in bribes, or they 9 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:29,200 Speaker 3: wouldn't get their towers built, their residential towers or their 10 00:00:29,240 --> 00:00:33,519 Speaker 3: office buildings, no go. He was in charge of that 11 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:36,600 Speaker 3: committee and his district was downtown, so he had a 12 00:00:36,640 --> 00:00:39,080 Speaker 3: lot of power and he milked them million and a 13 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:46,280 Speaker 3: half dollars. He got gambling chips, luxury hotels, hookers, expensive meals, 14 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:50,599 Speaker 3: more hookers. We'll talk to Daniel Guss about it. Coming up. 15 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:54,080 Speaker 3: David Milton is with us right now. David Milton minus 16 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:56,400 Speaker 3: seenm on TV the other day, are on the stream, 17 00:00:56,440 --> 00:00:59,920 Speaker 3: I should say, running for La County District Attorney again. 18 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:03,640 Speaker 3: It's the George Gascone and we are trying to have 19 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:06,320 Speaker 3: on everybody who's running against Gascon. 20 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:07,600 Speaker 2: There's a lot of them. 21 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:10,160 Speaker 3: I think there might be eleven people on the ballot 22 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:11,840 Speaker 3: if they want to come on. 23 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:15,160 Speaker 2: And I have David Milton here. Welcome. How are you. 24 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:17,360 Speaker 4: I'm doing fine, John, Thank you for having me on 25 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:17,760 Speaker 4: the show. 26 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:20,760 Speaker 3: Now you have been a judge of the Superior Court, 27 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:26,200 Speaker 3: the municipal court, judge, former deputy district attorney here in 28 00:01:26,319 --> 00:01:29,240 Speaker 3: La County, and now you've been a private judge for 29 00:01:29,319 --> 00:01:29,679 Speaker 3: about the. 30 00:01:29,760 --> 00:01:30,560 Speaker 2: Last ten years. 31 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:31,480 Speaker 4: That's correct. 32 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:37,560 Speaker 3: And tell me having being a private judge and handling 33 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:40,160 Speaker 3: cases privately people who don't want to go through the 34 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:44,240 Speaker 3: traditional court system, it is probably good work because you 35 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:46,920 Speaker 3: could set your own hours. It is yeah, you know 36 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:50,920 Speaker 3: that pays the bills. Well, I imagine why would you want 37 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:55,120 Speaker 3: to leave that comfortable arrangement and get in the fray 38 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:56,960 Speaker 3: as La County District attorney. 39 00:01:57,560 --> 00:01:59,720 Speaker 4: It is as just as simple. 40 00:01:59,760 --> 00:01:59,960 Speaker 2: Guy. 41 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:03,120 Speaker 4: Let me tell you something. I was in that DA's 42 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:05,280 Speaker 4: office for a number of years, as you know, and 43 00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:08,160 Speaker 4: I prosecuted some of the most difficult cases you can 44 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:12,760 Speaker 4: prosecute in any jurisdiction in this entire country, state or federal. 45 00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:16,400 Speaker 4: I know how that office ought to work. And so 46 00:02:17,320 --> 00:02:20,840 Speaker 4: to see that mister Gascon has been completely derelict in 47 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:25,920 Speaker 4: his executing the duties of the office. I feel compelled 48 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:28,880 Speaker 4: to return to public service after thirty six years of 49 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:32,280 Speaker 4: public service, I feel compelled return and to get that 50 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:35,320 Speaker 4: office back on its core mission, which is public safety. 51 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:41,240 Speaker 3: I'm looking through your resume here. Between your career as 52 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:45,120 Speaker 3: a judge and your career as a prosecutor, You've had 53 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:48,359 Speaker 3: a number of death penalty cases and many other life 54 00:02:48,360 --> 00:02:55,040 Speaker 3: without parole cases. You seem to have no problem taking 55 00:02:55,040 --> 00:02:56,680 Speaker 3: care of the real bad guys. 56 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:02,359 Speaker 4: Not whatsoever. It's about public protection, public safety. 57 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:06,040 Speaker 3: What do you think is the root of this current wave. 58 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:09,120 Speaker 3: It's not just in LA but in other cities where 59 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:13,640 Speaker 3: it's not just lenient sentences anymore. In a lot of cases, 60 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:17,519 Speaker 3: it's no sentences. It's no bail, it's no punishment. It's 61 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:19,400 Speaker 3: not like let's give them a break and let them 62 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:21,880 Speaker 3: out early after you know, ten or fifteen or twenty years. 63 00:03:22,639 --> 00:03:27,000 Speaker 3: It's they won't even charge like gascon who charge enhancements, 64 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:27,960 Speaker 3: no gun enhancements. 65 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:30,400 Speaker 2: What do you think is motivating this? 66 00:03:31,320 --> 00:03:36,160 Speaker 4: I believe gascone is just a part of a national 67 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:41,680 Speaker 4: movement to take away our constitutional, democratic republic. They're moving 68 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:47,080 Speaker 4: us toward socialism and then eventually communism. And I'll share 69 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:51,160 Speaker 4: a story with you about well, the most dangerous are 70 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:54,040 Speaker 4: probably the most dangerous people I've ever met in my 71 00:03:54,240 --> 00:03:56,040 Speaker 4: entire career, if you'd like me to do that all 72 00:03:56,080 --> 00:03:59,560 Speaker 4: this time, all right, This is when I was in 73 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:03,120 Speaker 4: the district. I was prosecuting this case. The individual I 74 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:07,680 Speaker 4: was prosecuting had just been released from prison for running 75 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:11,200 Speaker 4: over a person's head. He was released. Two weeks later, 76 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:15,280 Speaker 4: he went into a park where three boys with their 77 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:20,559 Speaker 4: girlfriends were smoking marijuana. The individual, the perpetrator, the killer, 78 00:04:21,520 --> 00:04:23,640 Speaker 4: told the boys to get out of the park, and 79 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:27,440 Speaker 4: they say, yeah, right, buddy. Well, he sprung to action, 80 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:30,440 Speaker 4: as he typically does. He has no mercy on anyone. 81 00:04:30,880 --> 00:04:34,000 Speaker 4: He takes the first young teenager, puts the gun to 82 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:37,520 Speaker 4: his eye socket and discharges the gun kills him instantly. 83 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:40,640 Speaker 4: He grabs a second young man and he puts the 84 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:44,160 Speaker 4: gun point touching his cheek and discharges it and then 85 00:04:44,200 --> 00:04:46,880 Speaker 4: again into his eye. The third boy is running away. 86 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:50,159 Speaker 4: This boy. He shoots at that young man and he 87 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:53,440 Speaker 4: hits him a couple of times, but this young man survived. 88 00:04:53,760 --> 00:04:56,839 Speaker 4: Two weeks later, on Halloween night, he goes to this 89 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:00,920 Speaker 4: young couple's home. He believed that this couple provides information 90 00:05:01,080 --> 00:05:04,720 Speaker 4: to law enforcement. Well, the evidence shows that this man 91 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:08,400 Speaker 4: was the victim husband was in a recliner chair and 92 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:12,200 Speaker 4: the defendant was stooped next to him whispering in his air. 93 00:05:12,279 --> 00:05:16,239 Speaker 4: We believe to catch him unawares. He puts the gun 94 00:05:17,080 --> 00:05:20,480 Speaker 4: to his skin and discharges it from his cheek and 95 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:23,560 Speaker 4: up the round went from down to up. He then 96 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:27,880 Speaker 4: stands over this man, the victim, and puts the gun, 97 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:29,880 Speaker 4: the tip of the gun touching the top of his 98 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:33,480 Speaker 4: head and discharges the gun again, killing him the third. 99 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:36,320 Speaker 4: Then the wife, we find her body at the door 100 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:42,080 Speaker 4: and she's got two gunshot wounds behind in the head. Later, 101 00:05:42,279 --> 00:05:48,520 Speaker 4: he threatened my witnesses all throughout this trial, and witness 102 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:51,239 Speaker 4: I had in custody. We had to bring the sheriff 103 00:05:51,320 --> 00:05:53,720 Speaker 4: brought him down from a state prison. We had to 104 00:05:53,760 --> 00:05:56,359 Speaker 4: hide him in the jail's infirmary because this guy was 105 00:05:56,360 --> 00:05:58,960 Speaker 4: trying hard to knock our witness out. The guy then 106 00:05:59,080 --> 00:06:02,440 Speaker 4: was convicted since death. He went up to prison and 107 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:06,159 Speaker 4: he started killing again inside prison. This is a dangerous man. 108 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:06,600 Speaker 1: And. 109 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:12,000 Speaker 4: He took a lot of appeals and finally, after rounds 110 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:15,000 Speaker 4: of appeals over years, his sentence was reduced to life 111 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:18,160 Speaker 4: in prison without the possibility parole. Now you ask me 112 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:22,120 Speaker 4: why did I tell you the story, because mister Gascone 113 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:26,240 Speaker 4: is attempting to get him out along what Yes, that's 114 00:06:26,279 --> 00:06:29,000 Speaker 4: a true story. Gascone has a move up in Sacramento 115 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:34,520 Speaker 4: and others attempting to get anyone who has served or 116 00:06:34,680 --> 00:06:38,280 Speaker 4: serving a life without the possibility of parole sentence. If 117 00:06:38,279 --> 00:06:41,559 Speaker 4: you've done twenty years or more, including this guy, yes, 118 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:44,080 Speaker 4: you're entitled to immediate release. So I got this guy 119 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:48,640 Speaker 4: convicted back in nineteen eighty seven. In two thousand and seven, 120 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:52,680 Speaker 4: he was under Gascon's policy. He's entitled to immediate release. 121 00:06:52,960 --> 00:06:55,920 Speaker 4: This is the most dangerous people I've ever met, and 122 00:06:55,960 --> 00:06:58,839 Speaker 4: you should never ever be released back on society. 123 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:01,839 Speaker 3: That policy has gone through yet, they're working on it 124 00:07:01,920 --> 00:07:05,680 Speaker 3: right now. They're working legislature and got it sobbing for it. 125 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:07,560 Speaker 4: He's lobbying for it up there in Sacramento. 126 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:12,360 Speaker 3: Oh my god, that's such a chilling, horrible story. I 127 00:07:13,880 --> 00:07:15,040 Speaker 3: didn't expect that ending. 128 00:07:15,320 --> 00:07:18,800 Speaker 4: Well, as you can see in my credentials, I've got 129 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:24,160 Speaker 4: a number of life without parole sentences well deserved, and 130 00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:28,960 Speaker 4: he's pushing for all of them to be released. As 131 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:32,640 Speaker 4: a Deputy DA. I was able to get two death verdicts. 132 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:36,520 Speaker 4: As a judge, I sentenced an individual to death. He's 133 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:39,640 Speaker 4: challenging these sentences or one of the death verdicts now, 134 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:43,400 Speaker 4: and he's challenging this death vert. He wants these people released. 135 00:07:47,840 --> 00:07:52,320 Speaker 3: I mean, he's like a cancer in the system. I mean, 136 00:07:52,520 --> 00:07:55,480 Speaker 3: there are so many cases that have not been prosecuted. 137 00:07:56,320 --> 00:07:58,960 Speaker 3: I don't know if you've heard, but allegedly there's fourteen 138 00:07:59,080 --> 00:08:04,080 Speaker 3: thousand cases sitting in the system unprosecuted. Yes, absolutely, yes, 139 00:08:04,120 --> 00:08:07,240 Speaker 3: which is mind boggling that there could be, first of all, 140 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:11,480 Speaker 3: that many crimes. And you know, just in his term 141 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:19,920 Speaker 3: and clearly he has completely abdicated his role as chief 142 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:21,040 Speaker 3: prosecutor for the county. 143 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:23,080 Speaker 4: Let me mention one thing. 144 00:08:25,560 --> 00:08:26,120 Speaker 2: We have. 145 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:32,440 Speaker 4: Three separate branches of government. He has he's the executive branch, 146 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:35,840 Speaker 4: as you know, and he's usurped the other branches. The 147 00:08:35,920 --> 00:08:39,760 Speaker 4: legislature says that certain things must be filed, including enhancements. 148 00:08:39,880 --> 00:08:44,080 Speaker 4: He refuses to do it, usurped the function of the 149 00:08:44,160 --> 00:08:47,880 Speaker 4: judiciary because he won't allow those cases to come to 150 00:08:47,920 --> 00:08:52,520 Speaker 4: the judiciary. This is his plan. He's emptying jails and 151 00:08:52,600 --> 00:08:55,640 Speaker 4: he refuses to put other people in prison. These are 152 00:08:55,720 --> 00:08:58,800 Speaker 4: dangerous people who should go there. He's ordered his deputies 153 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:01,920 Speaker 4: not the file and like use of a gun, go 154 00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:06,320 Speaker 4: to prison, serious infliction of great bodily injury, multiple victims, 155 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:11,360 Speaker 4: multiple prior convictions. He has ordered his deputies not defiled 156 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:12,360 Speaker 4: those enhancements. 157 00:09:12,640 --> 00:09:15,800 Speaker 2: Did you see this coming when he got elected? I 158 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:17,319 Speaker 2: seemed to sneak up on the world. 159 00:09:17,480 --> 00:09:20,559 Speaker 4: He did, he did. It's it's a national movement and 160 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:26,480 Speaker 4: in my view, and it's just not my view, it's 161 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:32,280 Speaker 4: from credible information. George Soros is funding these soft on 162 00:09:32,440 --> 00:09:36,760 Speaker 4: crime DA's and strategically they're being placed in our major 163 00:09:36,840 --> 00:09:40,120 Speaker 4: cities in this country. Gascon was up in San Francisco. 164 00:09:40,520 --> 00:09:43,240 Speaker 4: He's booted out. He comes down to San Francisco to 165 00:09:43,360 --> 00:09:46,480 Speaker 4: Los Angeles, and he's doing the same. He's destroying our 166 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:48,920 Speaker 4: democratic republic. That's what's going on right now. 167 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:50,840 Speaker 2: And what is it? What's it? Ned for sorrows? 168 00:09:50,920 --> 00:09:54,280 Speaker 3: You think Soros he's a ninety year old guy, he's 169 00:09:54,280 --> 00:09:55,240 Speaker 3: a multi billionaire. 170 00:09:55,320 --> 00:09:57,800 Speaker 2: What why did he aim as fire at America? 171 00:09:57,960 --> 00:10:01,920 Speaker 4: Well, he's comment I don't have his exact words, but 172 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:04,840 Speaker 4: he says he's destroyed countries. Be in the past, I 173 00:10:04,880 --> 00:10:07,520 Speaker 4: don't know his motive, but he's now passed the baton. 174 00:10:07,600 --> 00:10:09,880 Speaker 4: I'm understanding through news accounts to his son. 175 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:12,200 Speaker 3: Oh he has, and the son has been in the 176 00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:16,400 Speaker 3: Biden White House numerous times. He's a regular visitors. Yes, wow, 177 00:10:16,559 --> 00:10:19,199 Speaker 3: so was there? Well, why don't we take a break 178 00:10:19,480 --> 00:10:21,560 Speaker 3: we come back. I want to talk about, like, what 179 00:10:21,840 --> 00:10:24,680 Speaker 3: was the moment you decided I've got to jump into 180 00:10:24,679 --> 00:10:28,360 Speaker 3: the race, or was there one particular incident or just 181 00:10:28,400 --> 00:10:30,480 Speaker 3: an accumulation of everything that's gone on. We'll get to 182 00:10:30,559 --> 00:10:32,800 Speaker 3: that in just a second. We have David Milton on. 183 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:36,600 Speaker 3: He was a Superior court judge, a municipal court judge, 184 00:10:36,840 --> 00:10:39,880 Speaker 3: a prosecutor Deputy DA here in La County. 185 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:41,679 Speaker 2: He's got a long record. 186 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:45,720 Speaker 3: He's actually got a bucklet of all the major cases 187 00:10:45,760 --> 00:10:48,200 Speaker 3: that he presided over as judge, not all of them, 188 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:53,479 Speaker 3: but a representative sample, and also cases that he prosecuted 189 00:10:53,520 --> 00:10:55,400 Speaker 3: as well. And he's had quite a career and he 190 00:10:55,440 --> 00:10:57,720 Speaker 3: wants to be La County District Attorney. 191 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:02,360 Speaker 5: You're listening to John co Belts on demand from KFI 192 00:11:02,640 --> 00:11:03,520 Speaker 5: AM six forty. 193 00:11:03,760 --> 00:11:08,439 Speaker 3: Continue now with David Milton. He is formerly a superior 194 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:12,160 Speaker 3: court judge, municipal court judge, former Deputy District Attorney in 195 00:11:12,280 --> 00:11:16,760 Speaker 3: Los Angeles, currently a private judge that handles arbitrations and 196 00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:20,080 Speaker 3: med mediations. I was going to say meditations, but no 197 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:24,320 Speaker 3: arbitrations and mediations. And he's running in the race. And 198 00:11:24,360 --> 00:11:29,000 Speaker 3: when we left off, I wanted to know, since you're 199 00:11:29,040 --> 00:11:31,679 Speaker 3: doing good work as a private judge, what was the 200 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:34,480 Speaker 3: moment you said, I've got to run myself. I've got 201 00:11:34,520 --> 00:11:37,319 Speaker 3: to do something here. I can't watch this anymore. Was 202 00:11:37,360 --> 00:11:41,199 Speaker 3: it one incident or the accumulation an accumulation? 203 00:11:41,320 --> 00:11:44,280 Speaker 4: John, And let me explain that Number one on my 204 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:47,920 Speaker 4: platform is hate crimes, and there's a reason for that. 205 00:11:48,520 --> 00:11:52,920 Speaker 4: Since October seventh, I've seen what's happened to the Jewish 206 00:11:52,920 --> 00:11:56,080 Speaker 4: community in this country. And I grew up in Indiana 207 00:11:56,160 --> 00:11:58,360 Speaker 4: in the sixties and seventies when I was a little 208 00:11:58,360 --> 00:12:00,839 Speaker 4: bit racially tense in this country. I suffered some of 209 00:12:00,880 --> 00:12:04,960 Speaker 4: those indignities. And I was also raised in a Judaeo 210 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:08,120 Speaker 4: Christian family. And so this has made me a strong man, 211 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:11,520 Speaker 4: a man who just does not tolerate injustices. And when 212 00:12:11,520 --> 00:12:15,199 Speaker 4: I see these kinds of things happen, someone to hate crime, well, 213 00:12:15,240 --> 00:12:18,480 Speaker 4: that means that if someone commits a crime based on 214 00:12:18,640 --> 00:12:22,960 Speaker 4: your race, your religion, or your gender. That's what motivated 215 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:25,600 Speaker 4: the crime against you. Let's say, and this is an 216 00:12:25,640 --> 00:12:30,520 Speaker 4: assault and you're beaten, and on top of that, you 217 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:36,240 Speaker 4: should get an enhancement called hate crime enhancement. That's an 218 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:40,240 Speaker 4: extra three years. It should be attached to your sentence 219 00:12:40,280 --> 00:12:42,160 Speaker 4: and give you a total time of say six years, 220 00:12:42,160 --> 00:12:45,640 Speaker 4: instead of three. Gascon is ordered as deputies not to 221 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:48,840 Speaker 4: file that enhancement of hate crimes. It's just doing a 222 00:12:49,040 --> 00:12:54,040 Speaker 4: terrible disservice to our country, our county, and hate crimes 223 00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:58,120 Speaker 4: are degradory to our society. And so this is something 224 00:12:58,160 --> 00:13:00,720 Speaker 4: I want to address. There's another thing is outroll smash 225 00:13:00,760 --> 00:13:05,920 Speaker 4: and grab, mob flash thefts. Yes, this he's using Prop 226 00:13:05,960 --> 00:13:10,320 Speaker 4: forty seven to charge misdemeanors only, which is he's being 227 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:13,760 Speaker 4: derelict there. He's been disingenuous with the citizens of Los 228 00:13:13,760 --> 00:13:16,800 Speaker 4: Angeles County. Let me tell you why. The Penal Code 229 00:13:16,880 --> 00:13:20,120 Speaker 4: says that if you were to enter into any establishment, 230 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:24,240 Speaker 4: commercial or residential, and you have the intent to steal 231 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:27,200 Speaker 4: anything of any value, it should be a burglary, and 232 00:13:27,280 --> 00:13:29,360 Speaker 4: if you use force or fear on any of the occupants, 233 00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:31,960 Speaker 4: it should be a robbery. These are felonies that would 234 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:35,520 Speaker 4: put you in prison. But Gascon is ordered that they'd 235 00:13:35,559 --> 00:13:38,679 Speaker 4: be all filed as misdemeanors and not properly charged as 236 00:13:38,679 --> 00:13:43,520 Speaker 4: burglaries and robberies. And the last one undercharging. Think about this. 237 00:13:45,040 --> 00:13:47,520 Speaker 4: There is a directive. It's been an effect for a 238 00:13:47,520 --> 00:13:51,640 Speaker 4: couple of years to his deputies. It instructs them, if 239 00:13:51,880 --> 00:13:57,400 Speaker 4: you have an illegal alien or illegal entrant who's coming 240 00:13:57,440 --> 00:14:02,280 Speaker 4: to the country and he's committed a felony, try to 241 00:14:02,320 --> 00:14:04,560 Speaker 4: find a way to charge him with a misdemeanor or 242 00:14:04,600 --> 00:14:08,880 Speaker 4: give him diversion so he can avoid deportation. What kind 243 00:14:08,880 --> 00:14:12,160 Speaker 4: of policy is that? Those are the things that caused me. Look, 244 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:14,880 Speaker 4: enough is enough, and I'm willing to leave my private 245 00:14:14,880 --> 00:14:18,120 Speaker 4: practice and go and challenge this guy. He must go. 246 00:14:18,360 --> 00:14:21,360 Speaker 4: And I want to talk about one more thing. Think 247 00:14:21,400 --> 00:14:27,240 Speaker 4: about this, John. If this man has never tried a 248 00:14:27,360 --> 00:14:30,520 Speaker 4: case in his entire career, how could he be in 249 00:14:30,640 --> 00:14:34,600 Speaker 4: charge of the largest prosecution agency in the country and 250 00:14:34,640 --> 00:14:38,560 Speaker 4: he's never tried a case. It could not be. He's 251 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:41,520 Speaker 4: a plant. He's here to destroy us, he's here to 252 00:14:41,560 --> 00:14:42,240 Speaker 4: overcome Earth. 253 00:14:42,360 --> 00:14:44,880 Speaker 3: Yeah. I've talked about this a lot on the air 254 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:48,040 Speaker 3: and I really do believe that there is something organized 255 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:50,360 Speaker 3: going on, because a lot of the money does come 256 00:14:50,360 --> 00:14:55,960 Speaker 3: from source, and he runs it through multiple organizations and subsidiaries, 257 00:14:56,320 --> 00:14:59,240 Speaker 3: and it is affecting all the big cities. It happened 258 00:14:59,280 --> 00:15:03,480 Speaker 3: all at once, everybody who's exact exactly the same ideology. 259 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:07,920 Speaker 3: It seems like an organized attack on our judicial system. 260 00:15:08,760 --> 00:15:10,120 Speaker 3: I don't know how you could come up with any 261 00:15:10,160 --> 00:15:10,880 Speaker 3: other conclusion. 262 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:13,920 Speaker 4: Yeah, I think he is. I think the public's beginning 263 00:15:13,920 --> 00:15:17,280 Speaker 4: to recognize that, and so I think most people think 264 00:15:17,480 --> 00:15:22,600 Speaker 4: have concluded that Gascon must go. Now the question is 265 00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:26,320 Speaker 4: who should be his successor. I'm submitting that I am 266 00:15:26,360 --> 00:15:29,600 Speaker 4: the most qualified by far to be the successor based 267 00:15:29,640 --> 00:15:33,920 Speaker 4: on my experience. I wrote two death penalty statue bills. 268 00:15:34,680 --> 00:15:37,680 Speaker 4: I sentenced demanded death and I'm not bragging about that. 269 00:15:37,720 --> 00:15:41,880 Speaker 4: It's just my experience. I got two death verdicts. No one, 270 00:15:42,080 --> 00:15:45,800 Speaker 4: none of the other candidates have anything close to that experience. 271 00:15:45,880 --> 00:15:48,120 Speaker 4: You need to have that kind of background to make 272 00:15:48,160 --> 00:15:50,760 Speaker 4: those types of decisions if that comes up, if the 273 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:53,280 Speaker 4: issue of whether or not in the voters of CALIFORNI 274 00:15:53,360 --> 00:15:56,440 Speaker 4: have said repeat it at least twice, we want that 275 00:15:56,520 --> 00:15:59,320 Speaker 4: penalty as a possible option, and that's what it should be, 276 00:15:59,320 --> 00:16:02,960 Speaker 4: a possible option. Gascon won't impose it. I think it's 277 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:05,000 Speaker 4: two or three of the other candidates running said they 278 00:16:05,040 --> 00:16:09,560 Speaker 4: won't follow that law, and the others who believed that 279 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:12,120 Speaker 4: they were or could follow the law, they don't have 280 00:16:12,160 --> 00:16:14,680 Speaker 4: the experience in dealing with that issue and making that 281 00:16:14,720 --> 00:16:18,400 Speaker 4: determination as to which case or set of circumstances that 282 00:16:18,440 --> 00:16:20,960 Speaker 4: the death penalty ought to be sought. In addition to that, 283 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:24,040 Speaker 4: I'm the most qualified because I've had three executive management 284 00:16:24,120 --> 00:16:27,640 Speaker 4: positions of attorneys, and to top it off, I'm a 285 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:33,360 Speaker 4: very fair minded, level headed person. It's a common sense approach. 286 00:16:33,560 --> 00:16:36,960 Speaker 4: I'm the only Republican in this race. I won't change 287 00:16:37,120 --> 00:16:42,040 Speaker 4: my registration just to get more Democratic voters like some 288 00:16:42,160 --> 00:16:44,480 Speaker 4: of the other candidates have done. I won't do it. 289 00:16:44,520 --> 00:16:47,440 Speaker 4: I'm a principal man and I'm not extreme. I'm just 290 00:16:47,520 --> 00:16:49,720 Speaker 4: law and order, common sense and fair minded. That's where 291 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:50,160 Speaker 4: I'm about. 292 00:16:50,520 --> 00:16:52,840 Speaker 3: I think it wasn't too long ago where most people 293 00:16:52,880 --> 00:16:55,000 Speaker 3: would agree with most everything you've just said in the 294 00:16:55,080 --> 00:16:59,600 Speaker 3: last half an hour. So one more question before we go. 295 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:03,320 Speaker 3: Let's imagine you win a year later. At the end 296 00:17:03,360 --> 00:17:07,840 Speaker 3: of twenty twenty five, What is La County like after 297 00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:10,760 Speaker 3: a year of David Milton running the District Attorney's office. 298 00:17:11,040 --> 00:17:13,600 Speaker 4: I think it will be much safer. And the reason 299 00:17:13,640 --> 00:17:16,359 Speaker 4: I say that is because sixty seven percent of the 300 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:22,200 Speaker 4: people who commit violent and serious crimes a recidivist. Usually 301 00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:25,280 Speaker 4: the recidiviust is that person's is a state of mind 302 00:17:25,320 --> 00:17:29,280 Speaker 4: to do that. And if you are a recidivist and 303 00:17:29,320 --> 00:17:32,080 Speaker 4: you are convicted of a crime, I will order that 304 00:17:32,119 --> 00:17:36,880 Speaker 4: the deputies file all appropriate enhancements. If you look at 305 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:39,200 Speaker 4: some of the sentences that I was able to achieve 306 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:41,280 Speaker 4: when I was a Deputy DA, and if I handled 307 00:17:41,320 --> 00:17:43,359 Speaker 4: as a judge, those sentences look high. You see one 308 00:17:43,440 --> 00:17:45,639 Speaker 4: on there for nine hundred and thirty four years for 309 00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:48,919 Speaker 4: molesting and doing all these things to these little girls, 310 00:17:49,320 --> 00:17:51,919 Speaker 4: and that nine hundred and thirty four years as a 311 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:55,920 Speaker 4: result of a correct application of the law under gascon 312 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:58,199 Speaker 4: that would not happen. This person who did this to 313 00:17:58,240 --> 00:18:02,760 Speaker 4: those little girls should never be released again. Ever, that's 314 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:05,359 Speaker 4: my view, and a year later out I will re 315 00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:08,720 Speaker 4: establish the law. I will make sure that the deputies 316 00:18:08,760 --> 00:18:11,760 Speaker 4: are following the law. I'm a strict adherents to law. 317 00:18:12,080 --> 00:18:15,840 Speaker 4: We are a constitutional republic, that the Constitution of California 318 00:18:15,880 --> 00:18:19,600 Speaker 4: says that we that East County should have a disc attorney, 319 00:18:19,760 --> 00:18:22,880 Speaker 4: and the Government Code says, I think it's twenty five hundred, 320 00:18:22,920 --> 00:18:26,280 Speaker 4: says that the disc attorney is a public prosecutor. He 321 00:18:26,320 --> 00:18:28,800 Speaker 4: doesn't have the discretion to say, well, I just don't 322 00:18:28,840 --> 00:18:31,000 Speaker 4: like the law and it's giving more time. No, you 323 00:18:31,040 --> 00:18:34,920 Speaker 4: have the discretion. It's this, if a charge or an 324 00:18:35,080 --> 00:18:37,960 Speaker 4: enhancement can be proven beyond a reasonable doubt, it should 325 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:40,439 Speaker 4: be charged. It's objective, not subjective. 326 00:18:40,640 --> 00:18:41,680 Speaker 2: Well, if you like what you hear. 327 00:18:41,760 --> 00:18:45,640 Speaker 3: His name is David Milton, former Superior Court judge, Municipal 328 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:49,680 Speaker 3: Court judge, deputy district attorney. He's really done it all 329 00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:55,800 Speaker 3: in every field, I guess in justice. And he's on 330 00:18:55,840 --> 00:18:59,080 Speaker 3: the ballot running for La County distric Attorney against George Gascone. 331 00:18:59,160 --> 00:19:01,640 Speaker 3: David Milton, thank you very much for coming on with us. 332 00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:03,040 Speaker 4: Thank you so much for having me. 333 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:06,200 Speaker 3: And when we come back, we're going to have Daniel Guss, 334 00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:11,040 Speaker 3: the Independent Journalist. Today was the day another La City 335 00:19:11,040 --> 00:19:14,119 Speaker 3: councilman is going to federal prison for bribery. 336 00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:15,439 Speaker 2: More coming up. 337 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:20,560 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am 338 00:19:20,600 --> 00:19:21,160 Speaker 5: six forty. 339 00:19:21,440 --> 00:19:25,119 Speaker 3: We're gonna talk more about this verdict against Donald Trump. 340 00:19:25,119 --> 00:19:27,360 Speaker 3: You know, it's not every day that a leading candidate 341 00:19:27,359 --> 00:19:30,320 Speaker 3: for president gets whacked with an eighty three million dollar 342 00:19:32,080 --> 00:19:36,959 Speaker 3: damage claim in court. Egen Carroll, the writer, sued Trump 343 00:19:37,080 --> 00:19:41,680 Speaker 3: again for defamation, and a jury just awarded her eighty 344 00:19:41,720 --> 00:19:45,359 Speaker 3: three million. And we'll get into details on that and 345 00:19:45,760 --> 00:19:49,119 Speaker 3: give you the history of Trump and Egene Carrocle Carol. 346 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:50,840 Speaker 3: This has been going on for a number of years, 347 00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:53,440 Speaker 3: and he's it's hard to keep track. I mean, there's 348 00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:57,520 Speaker 3: like seven different court cases Trump's involved in right now, 349 00:19:57,560 --> 00:20:00,720 Speaker 3: and in a lot of them are nonsense, obviously, but 350 00:20:01,080 --> 00:20:03,439 Speaker 3: you know, this is an actual verdict here. It's a 351 00:20:03,480 --> 00:20:07,679 Speaker 3: civil case, so it's not a criminal conviction. But and 352 00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:10,560 Speaker 3: I'm sure eighty three million dollars is not going to survive, 353 00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:12,800 Speaker 3: but this is an indication of the climate out there. 354 00:20:13,920 --> 00:20:16,280 Speaker 3: We'll get to that coming up. Daniel Gus is with 355 00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:22,600 Speaker 3: us because this morning Jose Weezar, the former LA councilman, 356 00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:29,000 Speaker 3: thirteen years in federal prison on bribery charges. I mean, 357 00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:30,359 Speaker 3: he got it all. He got a million and a 358 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:33,200 Speaker 3: half dollars in cash. He would did a gambling trip, 359 00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:39,240 Speaker 3: chips in Las Vegas, luxury hotels, political contributions, prostitutes, expensive mails. 360 00:20:40,080 --> 00:20:42,560 Speaker 3: He got everything. I mean there were liquor boxes filled 361 00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:48,399 Speaker 3: with money, and he made a plea to the judge 362 00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:51,119 Speaker 3: and got a lot of people to write heartfelt letters. 363 00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:54,679 Speaker 3: But looks like he got the maximum prison sentence for 364 00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:59,000 Speaker 3: this thirteen years. Let's get Daniel guss On independent journalists 365 00:20:59,040 --> 00:21:02,359 Speaker 3: and to talk about Weezar, because Daniel covers the city 366 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:04,320 Speaker 3: council like nobody else in town. 367 00:21:06,119 --> 00:21:08,639 Speaker 1: Thank you, John, thank you for having me back. You know, 368 00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:13,040 Speaker 1: my primary thought in watching this and all of the 369 00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:15,520 Speaker 1: stuff you were just talking with the judge and Trump 370 00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:19,000 Speaker 1: and Egene Carroll and the Weezart cases. I am living 371 00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:24,320 Speaker 1: the most mundane, boring life compared to these people. How 372 00:21:24,359 --> 00:21:27,200 Speaker 1: do you how do you live? How do you live 373 00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:30,520 Speaker 1: with this stuff going on and the risk and is 374 00:21:30,560 --> 00:21:32,160 Speaker 1: it worth it? Holy cow? 375 00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:36,600 Speaker 3: He had Wezar had so many deals going on. He 376 00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:39,800 Speaker 3: was shaking down so many developers. They literally were paying 377 00:21:39,920 --> 00:21:43,560 Speaker 3: millions of dollars. And these are big projects in downtown. 378 00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:45,560 Speaker 3: These were huge towers. One of them is going to 379 00:21:45,560 --> 00:21:47,639 Speaker 3: be a seventy seven story office tower. 380 00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:53,520 Speaker 1: Yeah. And in addition to that, he was selling his 381 00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:58,720 Speaker 1: power on La City Council to settle what might have 382 00:21:58,760 --> 00:22:00,600 Speaker 1: been I don't know if they were, what might have 383 00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:04,480 Speaker 1: been legitimate grievances. I think of one of the builders 384 00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:06,639 Speaker 1: unions or one of the one of the blue collar 385 00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:10,840 Speaker 1: worker unions, and he got involved and took care of 386 00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:13,479 Speaker 1: it on behalf of one of the developers or something 387 00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:16,560 Speaker 1: of that sort. So he wasn't just you know, waiting 388 00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:20,280 Speaker 1: for his money, his bags of cash, but he was 389 00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:25,640 Speaker 1: also interfering with what may very well have been legitimate 390 00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:30,560 Speaker 1: union complaints. And what's really funny about it is, as 391 00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:34,200 Speaker 1: he was shooting the people of Los Angeles, the bagman 392 00:22:35,119 --> 00:22:39,000 Speaker 1: on the on the Chinese developer side, and on his side, 393 00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:42,440 Speaker 1: everybody was skimming their share off of the top. So 394 00:22:43,160 --> 00:22:46,800 Speaker 1: there's definitely no honor among these thieves, all right. 395 00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:51,919 Speaker 3: So they've thrown in prison. Weezar, Mitch Englander, another council member. 396 00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:54,879 Speaker 3: There was a developer, a lobbyist, a land news consultant, 397 00:22:55,240 --> 00:23:00,040 Speaker 3: a Chinese real estate company. Wesar's brother. There's one of 398 00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:03,399 Speaker 3: Garcetti's deputy mayor's Raymond Chan. He's still up for trial. 399 00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:07,400 Speaker 3: I mean, what a sure, what a bout of rats? 400 00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:09,959 Speaker 3: And is there more to come? Or is this the 401 00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:11,320 Speaker 3: end of the round? 402 00:23:11,359 --> 00:23:14,439 Speaker 1: Now, well, I can tell you from what I know 403 00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:18,080 Speaker 1: there was a lot more going on than this, But 404 00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:21,680 Speaker 1: as one prosecutor, I won't say at what government level. 405 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:25,919 Speaker 1: But as one prosecutor told me, we can't. We just 406 00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:29,840 Speaker 1: can't get everything. But we get as many of these 407 00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:33,320 Speaker 1: charges tried as we can. Some of them can't be 408 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:37,080 Speaker 1: tried because of statutes or others just because they can't 409 00:23:37,119 --> 00:23:40,680 Speaker 1: fully make the case for, you know, to file a charge. 410 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:43,800 Speaker 1: But I can tell you of the six odd years 411 00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:48,080 Speaker 1: ago I got a tip of another FBI raid in 412 00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:52,960 Speaker 1: a in a office building in downtown Los Angeles, walking 413 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:57,520 Speaker 1: distance from City Hall, where, to the best of my ability, 414 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:00,720 Speaker 1: there was a business set up that I think we 415 00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:03,800 Speaker 1: would call it a ghost occupancy. Where I went and 416 00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:07,439 Speaker 1: I looked at the registry in the building lobby, but 417 00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:09,840 Speaker 1: I would go and I would see that there was 418 00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:13,719 Speaker 1: activity in what should have been vacant office suites. So 419 00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:15,880 Speaker 1: I can tell you that I don't know where it's 420 00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:19,200 Speaker 1: going from here, but I can tell you with a 421 00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:22,560 Speaker 1: good degree of certainty that all of things that should 422 00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:27,600 Speaker 1: have been charged against all of these crooks collectively. Not 423 00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:30,880 Speaker 1: everything has been charged, and we're never going to get 424 00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:35,360 Speaker 1: full justice. But as a prosecutor told me, we're doing this, 425 00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:37,800 Speaker 1: we do the best we can to at least let 426 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:39,880 Speaker 1: them know you better watch out. 427 00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:43,120 Speaker 3: Did you see what the lawyers wrote in their plea 428 00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:47,199 Speaker 3: to the judge for leniency? They wrote it was easy 429 00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:50,240 Speaker 3: for lines to get blurred, and they did. Indeed, this 430 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:53,600 Speaker 3: was true not only for mister Weezar, but was almost 431 00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:59,400 Speaker 3: certainly true for virtually all of the elected officials in La. 432 00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:00,320 Speaker 2: What are they? 433 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:03,960 Speaker 1: I agree? Oh, I agree with I agree with that wholeheartedly. 434 00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:07,480 Speaker 1: I agree with that whole heartedly. For Korian's La City 435 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:11,800 Speaker 1: Council president pull for Koran's you know, refutation of that 436 00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:16,000 Speaker 1: is pure crap. I can tell you firsthand that that 437 00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:19,719 Speaker 1: is more true. That statement is more true than not. 438 00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:22,800 Speaker 1: And maybe not on a grand scale, maybe not with 439 00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:26,119 Speaker 1: the prostitutes and the and the twenty five thousand dollars 440 00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:29,600 Speaker 1: and ten thousand dollars casino chips, but that statement, in 441 00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:32,560 Speaker 1: my opinion, is more true than not. 442 00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:33,240 Speaker 2: Oh. 443 00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:35,919 Speaker 1: By the way, John, I have a little bombshell for you, 444 00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:39,680 Speaker 1: and exclusive to the John Cobelt Show, the inaugural month 445 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:43,680 Speaker 1: of the John Cobelt Show on KFIAT is that it appears, 446 00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:48,800 Speaker 1: it appears, it appears that missus Jose Weezar is no 447 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:55,199 Speaker 1: longer married to mister Jose Weezar. But but we have 448 00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:58,920 Speaker 1: been scouring my my legal resources, and I have been 449 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:03,520 Speaker 1: scouring the La County court system records, and we can't 450 00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:08,560 Speaker 1: find any evidence of a divorce between Rochelle Rios wez 451 00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:12,480 Speaker 1: Are and Jose Wezar, which tells us one of a 452 00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:15,000 Speaker 1: couple of things. By the way, here's how we know 453 00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:19,080 Speaker 1: that it's undoubtedly true, is that the judge in the case, 454 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:21,439 Speaker 1: Judge John F. Walter, who, by the way, what a 455 00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:24,159 Speaker 1: great guy to have defending our city and our rights 456 00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:29,360 Speaker 1: and the taxpayers. Judge Walter, great guy, great jurists. Is 457 00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:34,520 Speaker 1: that he said in several references in the hearing today, 458 00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:40,120 Speaker 1: he said that he kept referring to Rochelle Wezar as 459 00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:43,760 Speaker 1: the ex wife, and at one point I believe that 460 00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:46,720 Speaker 1: he said something along the lines of she got a 461 00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:50,920 Speaker 1: very favorable settlement. And I have this from two other 462 00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:54,320 Speaker 1: sources who confirmed that that's more or less what they 463 00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:56,760 Speaker 1: have heard. But we can't see it in the La 464 00:26:56,840 --> 00:26:59,879 Speaker 1: County court records. Which tells me that the weez are 465 00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:04,840 Speaker 1: if this is true, that they're divorced somewhere outside of 466 00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:08,240 Speaker 1: La County or the state, or it's under some sort 467 00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:12,080 Speaker 1: of concealed record. So I can tell that with a 468 00:27:12,119 --> 00:27:13,200 Speaker 1: strong degree of certainty. 469 00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:19,600 Speaker 3: It makes you wonder why when anything is under undercover 470 00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:23,280 Speaker 3: like that, I guess it goes without saying. I checked 471 00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:25,600 Speaker 3: today And in two thousand and five, of course, the 472 00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:29,800 Speaker 3: Los Angeles Times editorial board endorsed Jose Wezar for office. 473 00:27:31,119 --> 00:27:34,560 Speaker 1: Well, yeah, of course they did, just like a few 474 00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:38,399 Speaker 1: days ago before they endorsed Nithia Rahman for re election 475 00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:41,000 Speaker 1: to La City Council. I told you on your show, 476 00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:43,920 Speaker 1: I said, of course they're going to reindorse her. They're 477 00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:45,879 Speaker 1: going to re endorse Karen Bass. I can call that 478 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:50,560 Speaker 1: two or three years ahead, because it never Today the 479 00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:54,600 Speaker 1: Times is talking about how Tamala Harris can help elect 480 00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:58,000 Speaker 1: the first female governor of California. So even with a 481 00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:02,719 Speaker 1: major crisis at the time, they're still selling grievance and 482 00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:06,560 Speaker 1: race and gender, and they're having a pity party for themselves. 483 00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:09,840 Speaker 1: And I'm telling you the owner Patrick soun Shan, they 484 00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:12,920 Speaker 1: say the heck with this, and he should just get 485 00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:15,240 Speaker 1: the heck out of this, because the longer he sings 486 00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:18,320 Speaker 1: the worst. Of course, the La Times endorsed him because 487 00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:21,840 Speaker 1: he grew up in poverty. They went to Princeton and 488 00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:25,359 Speaker 1: u c. L A. Law and Berkeley and and but 489 00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:28,800 Speaker 1: you know what, people like us with the again with 490 00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:31,879 Speaker 1: the guy delivering the beard at the corner store and 491 00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:34,080 Speaker 1: the parents picking up the kids from the after school 492 00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:39,040 Speaker 1: lessons are tutoring. What's most outraged, says this is that 493 00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:42,960 Speaker 1: they didn't need to we are and his apparently now 494 00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:48,320 Speaker 1: ex wife apparently alleged they both went to madding that 495 00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:52,760 Speaker 1: they both went to UCLA Law school. They should both. 496 00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:54,880 Speaker 1: She was going to run for his seat. When he 497 00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:58,640 Speaker 1: turned out the city hall, all of the mechanisms were there. 498 00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:02,000 Speaker 1: Everything was getting her in que for that. They should 499 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:06,560 Speaker 1: be rolling in honest money. He should be running for. 500 00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:08,720 Speaker 1: He should have been running for mayor in the last 501 00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:13,160 Speaker 1: election against Karen Bess Rachelle Weisar should have been the 502 00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:17,560 Speaker 1: council member for his old council seat. They had it 503 00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:21,120 Speaker 1: all in place, and they would have made good money. 504 00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:24,120 Speaker 1: It would have been a phenomenal success store in an 505 00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:28,440 Speaker 1: American success story, and they blew it. They blew it, 506 00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:31,920 Speaker 1: and and you know, I find it difficult to believe 507 00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:35,360 Speaker 1: that she who went to UCLA law, who was married 508 00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:38,080 Speaker 1: to this guy for twenty odd years, she didn't know 509 00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:40,800 Speaker 1: that any of this was going on. Maybe she didn't. 510 00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:44,400 Speaker 1: I'm I'm not saying she did, but come on, come on. 511 00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:46,320 Speaker 3: All right, it's always good to have you on, Daniel. 512 00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:48,560 Speaker 3: Thank you for coming on and covering all this. Daniel 513 00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:51,920 Speaker 3: Gus and the Gust Report. Right, how come people access 514 00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:54,000 Speaker 3: the Gus Report? You're on substatus correct? 515 00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:56,560 Speaker 1: How much? Yes, I'm at Daniel Gus with who s 516 00:29:56,680 --> 00:30:00,640 Speaker 1: is Daniel Gust dot substack dot com and on Twitter. 517 00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:04,480 Speaker 1: Please follow me at the Gus Report. John. It's always 518 00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:06,959 Speaker 1: fun to be on your show, and I listened when 519 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:07,680 Speaker 1: I'm not on it. 520 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:09,760 Speaker 2: All right, very good, Thank you, Daniel. 521 00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:13,800 Speaker 3: And he's an independent journalist and he's got way more 522 00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:18,320 Speaker 3: energy and way more perseverance than the entire LA Times 523 00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:21,440 Speaker 3: staff combined. When we come back, we'll give you a 524 00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:24,800 Speaker 3: rundown because I know it's hard to pay attention to 525 00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:27,520 Speaker 3: all of Trump's court cases, but one of them today 526 00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:31,800 Speaker 3: resulted in an eighty three million dollar judgment against him. 527 00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:36,280 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI AM 528 00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:36,840 Speaker 5: six forty. 529 00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:40,320 Speaker 3: We're going to have Adam Housley come on with us 530 00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:45,640 Speaker 3: after three o'clock. Has hit a relative that was killed 531 00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:49,080 Speaker 3: in that Borderline shooting in Thousand Oaks a few years back, 532 00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:53,960 Speaker 3: and there has been a fight over releasing information the LA. 533 00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:57,960 Speaker 3: It's a twisty turning story that Adam will get into. 534 00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:03,520 Speaker 3: But LA Times's six hundred and twenty thousand dollars in 535 00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:07,800 Speaker 3: legal fees from the families who are trying to keep 536 00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:13,360 Speaker 3: this information sealed for obvious reasons, because it involves a 537 00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:16,440 Speaker 3: lot of sensitive issues with the victims of that shooting. 538 00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:19,040 Speaker 3: We'll give you all the details coming up. It's quite 539 00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:23,480 Speaker 3: fascinating after three o'clock, all right. So I thought it 540 00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:24,880 Speaker 3: would be a good idea just to do a quick 541 00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:28,440 Speaker 3: rundown of Gene Carroll because it is very difficult to 542 00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:33,640 Speaker 3: keep track of seven Trump trials between the criminal ones 543 00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:36,920 Speaker 3: and the civil ones, the political ones lot. You know, 544 00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:40,320 Speaker 3: some of them are nonsense. This one turned out to 545 00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:43,680 Speaker 3: be real for him in terms of a verdict because 546 00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:49,040 Speaker 3: today a jury said that he has to pay eighty 547 00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:53,760 Speaker 3: three million dollars and a defamation lawsuit to eat. 548 00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:55,200 Speaker 2: Jean Carroll. 549 00:31:56,360 --> 00:32:01,640 Speaker 3: She was is a writer, magazine writer, a personal advice column. 550 00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:05,920 Speaker 3: She had several television shows on Cable TV. She actually 551 00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:08,520 Speaker 3: is a writer for Saturday Night Live back in the 552 00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:11,760 Speaker 3: eighties and even got an Emmy nomination. So she had 553 00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:17,120 Speaker 3: her own media career going in several directions now. In 554 00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:21,760 Speaker 3: June and twenty nineteen, Carol published an article in New 555 00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:25,440 Speaker 3: York Magazine and she claimed that Trump sexually assaulted her. 556 00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:28,880 Speaker 3: Didn't know the exact date, late ninety five early ninety six. 557 00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:32,200 Speaker 3: She said it happened in the Bergdorf Goodman department store 558 00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:36,200 Speaker 3: in New York. She published some of the details also 559 00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:39,960 Speaker 3: in a book, and she said on her way out 560 00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:42,240 Speaker 3: of the store, she ran into Trump. She said they 561 00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:45,320 Speaker 3: knew each other, and he asked her for help buying 562 00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:49,160 Speaker 3: a gift for a woman. She suggested a handbag or 563 00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:54,480 Speaker 3: a hat, and they moved onto the lingerie section and 564 00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:58,680 Speaker 3: made a joke about about one of them trying so on. 565 00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:02,160 Speaker 3: Carrol said they ended up in a dressing room together. 566 00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:06,160 Speaker 3: The door was shut. Trump forcefully kissed her, pulled down 567 00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:12,680 Speaker 3: her tights, and penetrated her before she could escape. She 568 00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:16,480 Speaker 3: said the incident lasted less than three minutes. Two of 569 00:33:16,520 --> 00:33:21,160 Speaker 3: her friends said publicly that Carol had confided this in 570 00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:26,240 Speaker 3: to them after the assault. He has always denied allegations, 571 00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:28,920 Speaker 3: claimed that they never met, he didn't know her. She 572 00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:32,320 Speaker 3: produced a photograph of her socializing with Trump in nineteen 573 00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:42,240 Speaker 3: eighty seven. She did not initially describe it as rape. 574 00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:41,000 Speaker 2: Calling it a fight. 575 00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:44,640 Speaker 3: That's what she said at first and Overber twenty nineteen, 576 00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:49,600 Speaker 3: she filed a defamation lawsuit stating that Trump had damaged 577 00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:58,480 Speaker 3: her reputation, caused emotional pain, and. 578 00:33:56,440 --> 00:33:58,000 Speaker 2: Eventually Trump lost it. 579 00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:03,440 Speaker 3: Carol sued him for battle in New York, renewed a 580 00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:09,359 Speaker 3: claim of defamation, and then in May of twenty twenty three, 581 00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:13,920 Speaker 3: the jury found Trump liable for sexual abuse, battery, and defamation. 582 00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:25,239 Speaker 3: The jury awarded her millions of dollars. Trump continued to 583 00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:31,280 Speaker 3: deny that anything ever happened, basically implicating Carol as a liar. 584 00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:37,360 Speaker 3: So she sued him all over again, and now the 585 00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:41,320 Speaker 3: jury is hitting him with an eighty three million dollar verdict. 586 00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:43,799 Speaker 3: So this has been going on now for four and 587 00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:52,280 Speaker 3: a half years, multiple court hearings, trials, and she's claiming 588 00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:55,760 Speaker 3: he never stops lying about her, and the jury agreed. 589 00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:02,000 Speaker 3: Egen Carrol also accused years ago Les Boon as a 590 00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:05,360 Speaker 3: CBS of sexual assault. She said that occurred in the 591 00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:10,880 Speaker 3: late nineteen nineties in a hotel elevator as well. So 592 00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:13,920 Speaker 3: odds are I mean, I don't think eighty three million 593 00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:18,919 Speaker 3: dollar verdicts survive very often on appeal because it's such 594 00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:23,239 Speaker 3: an extraordinary amount of money. I can't imagine this makes 595 00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:28,239 Speaker 3: any difference to ninety nine percent of Trump voters, just 596 00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:30,600 Speaker 3: based on what's been going on last year. 597 00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:32,919 Speaker 2: It's just what's weird? 598 00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:36,920 Speaker 3: Is like, really big dramatic things that would have stopped 599 00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:40,799 Speaker 3: the Earth's rotation had they happened ten years ago are 600 00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:44,680 Speaker 3: now just another blip in the news, this eighty three 601 00:35:44,680 --> 00:35:49,320 Speaker 3: million dollar verdict about a sexual assault by a former 602 00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:53,840 Speaker 3: president a current candidate. Ah, he's got a half a 603 00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:56,520 Speaker 3: dozen other lawsuits that people just flat out don't believe 604 00:35:56,600 --> 00:36:01,680 Speaker 3: or don't care. So it's just a fascinating state that 605 00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:05,920 Speaker 3: we're in. When we come back, we're talking with We're 606 00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:09,320 Speaker 3: gonna talk with Hello, hang on, hi, hang on a second, 607 00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:12,320 Speaker 3: the headphones went out. I thought I died there for 608 00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:14,440 Speaker 3: a second. Glad is that how it happens? He just 609 00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:16,880 Speaker 3: your hearing goes first and yeah, then the heart stops, 610 00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:18,840 Speaker 3: and then the heart stops and you can't see anymore. 611 00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:22,960 Speaker 3: We're gonna Adam housing on, former Fox News correspondent and Uh, 612 00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:28,200 Speaker 3: the La Times, the Venturi Star. Uh, they've filed a lawsuit. 613 00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:31,560 Speaker 3: They collectively want six hundred and twenty thousand dollars from 614 00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:35,480 Speaker 3: the murder victims families in Thousand Oaks. That's the borderline 615 00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:40,600 Speaker 3: shooting from years ago. It's about sixty thousand dollars each. 616 00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:44,279 Speaker 3: We are going to talk to Adam, one of his 617 00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:47,160 Speaker 3: I believe his niece was was shot to death in. 618 00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:47,759 Speaker 2: That border light. 619 00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:50,279 Speaker 3: Well, what is the La Times doing demanding money from 620 00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:55,880 Speaker 3: the victims of murder, the the families of murder victims? 621 00:36:56,120 --> 00:36:56,919 Speaker 2: What what? What? 622 00:36:56,960 --> 00:37:00,759 Speaker 3: Why would the La Times be doing that? We'll find 623 00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:03,399 Speaker 3: out and the Mentori Star for that matter as well. 624 00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:05,960 Speaker 3: Debra Mark Live in the CAFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hey, 625 00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:08,840 Speaker 3: you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You 626 00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:11,439 Speaker 3: can always hear the show live on KFI AM six 627 00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:14,240 Speaker 3: forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, 628 00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:17,560 Speaker 3: and of course anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.