1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:03,280 Speaker 1: Kennon's off today. We got a big story we're going 2 00:00:03,320 --> 00:00:06,960 Speaker 1: to dive right into. You may have heard this over 3 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:14,640 Speaker 1: the weekend Saturday, a Catholic bishop, David O'Connell was murdered 4 00:00:15,240 --> 00:00:19,960 Speaker 1: in Hacienda Heights. He was living in a home owned 5 00:00:19,960 --> 00:00:22,759 Speaker 1: by the archdiocese and he was found dead in his 6 00:00:22,920 --> 00:00:27,720 Speaker 1: bed of a single gunshot wound. Looks like they have 7 00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:32,479 Speaker 1: arrested someone and later this afternoon there's gonna be a 8 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:36,760 Speaker 1: police press conference to talk more about this. Steve Gregory's 9 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:39,600 Speaker 1: on the case though, Steve, what do you know so far? Yeah, 10 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:42,519 Speaker 1: you know, this arrest happened sometime over the weekend. Initially 11 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:45,559 Speaker 1: took him into custody as a person of interest, and 12 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:48,240 Speaker 1: they're not telling us who he is, anything about his background, 13 00:00:48,760 --> 00:00:51,959 Speaker 1: and so at this point it looks like he has 14 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:54,560 Speaker 1: been formerly booked and we're not sure the charge yet. 15 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:56,400 Speaker 1: Will probably learn about that at three o'clock when the 16 00:00:56,440 --> 00:01:00,360 Speaker 1: press conference is scheduled to happen. Here to Hall of Justice. Now, 17 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:04,040 Speaker 1: it all started on Saturday afternoon when deputy's got a 18 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:05,919 Speaker 1: nine to one one call a little after one o'clock 19 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:09,199 Speaker 1: and hassi into Heights. When deputies arrived at a home 20 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:13,520 Speaker 1: where David O'Connell was living, arch from the archdiocese. It 21 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:17,320 Speaker 1: was all owned by the archdiocese. Actually, when deputies got inside, 22 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:20,959 Speaker 1: they found O'Connell with a single gunshot wound to his chest. 23 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:27,480 Speaker 1: He was bleeding, unresponsive, and detectives knew pretty quickly that 24 00:01:27,560 --> 00:01:30,759 Speaker 1: this was a suspicious death and then that's when they 25 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:34,400 Speaker 1: started their homicide investigation. It led them to this individual. 26 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:39,040 Speaker 1: We were told the arrest happened in Torrents and we 27 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:40,840 Speaker 1: were supposed to get an update at noon, and then 28 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:43,360 Speaker 1: they moved at the three PM. So there's not really 29 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:46,399 Speaker 1: much more on this guy. There's been some published reports 30 00:01:46,400 --> 00:01:49,400 Speaker 1: out there about some connections between the shooter and a 31 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:52,000 Speaker 1: woman who had access to the house and that's why 32 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:54,640 Speaker 1: there was no signs of forced entry. But we'll get 33 00:01:54,680 --> 00:01:57,520 Speaker 1: confirmation on that at three And there was an operation 34 00:01:57,560 --> 00:02:01,000 Speaker 1: with the SWAT team and yeah, that's the one torn. Yeah, 35 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:04,840 Speaker 1: and he was armed and barricaded, is the story I saw. Yeah. Again, 36 00:02:05,160 --> 00:02:08,760 Speaker 1: we're not sure actually how that all went down because 37 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:12,239 Speaker 1: they're they're being being very tight lipped about it. We're 38 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:15,119 Speaker 1: not getting confirmation of how he was taken into custody. 39 00:02:15,160 --> 00:02:18,600 Speaker 1: And you know what, the circumstances were. We're also told 40 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:20,880 Speaker 1: there might be a drug component to this, which could 41 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:24,200 Speaker 1: you know, account for some of the actions, but we 42 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:27,160 Speaker 1: don't have any that confirmed right now. Yeah, he was 43 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:30,080 Speaker 1: sixty nine years old. He also did a lot of 44 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:35,560 Speaker 1: work with gangs. I mean, is there any talk of 45 00:02:35,639 --> 00:02:38,560 Speaker 1: the connection to that. Well, then let me ask you this. 46 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:40,800 Speaker 1: It's it's like what everyone went to. What's the first 47 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:42,480 Speaker 1: thing you thought happened when you found out that a 48 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:45,840 Speaker 1: bishop was shot and killed? The first thing I thought 49 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:47,760 Speaker 1: of what you think happened? What do you think the 50 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:54,000 Speaker 1: motive was? Uh? I some personal issue. Yeah, And then 51 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:56,080 Speaker 1: a lot of people I spoke with they they were 52 00:02:56,120 --> 00:02:59,080 Speaker 1: automatically going to some sort of a revenge killing for 53 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:02,919 Speaker 1: maybe past actions or on behalf of the church, actions 54 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:06,120 Speaker 1: from the church, followed by, you know, some sort of 55 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:09,239 Speaker 1: a robbery gone bad. He was a random it was 56 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:11,519 Speaker 1: a random target. And then it kind of landed on 57 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:15,520 Speaker 1: that it was most likely that he was known to 58 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:20,680 Speaker 1: the shooter. And I'm not sure about the gang nexus, right, 59 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:23,880 Speaker 1: But there had also been speculation and rumor that there 60 00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:28,160 Speaker 1: had been previous conversations about some money. So that's again, 61 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:31,200 Speaker 1: we're a lot of you know how this goes. Oh yeah, 62 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:33,280 Speaker 1: there's a lot of chatter and a lot of chatter, 63 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:37,680 Speaker 1: but you know it generally these kinds of crimes, I mean, 64 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:40,680 Speaker 1: you do have an occasional guy just shows up at 65 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:42,600 Speaker 1: the house trying to rob it and then you know, 66 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:45,920 Speaker 1: shoots the resident. But often these kind of crimes, as 67 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:49,120 Speaker 1: you know, are have some personal component to it. Sure, 68 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:52,960 Speaker 1: somebody's got a score to settle, there's a grudge. Yeah, 69 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:55,480 Speaker 1: because it was in you know, he was in his bed, right, 70 00:03:55,640 --> 00:03:58,040 Speaker 1: So he was shot in his bed, and you know, 71 00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:00,200 Speaker 1: he bled out and died in his bed, So that 72 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:03,160 Speaker 1: in itself is pretty personal. And then and then in 73 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:06,320 Speaker 1: the middle of the day like that, so, I mean 74 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:08,960 Speaker 1: that's when he was that's when they called. They haven't 75 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:11,320 Speaker 1: said exactly when he was shot and how long he 76 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:13,920 Speaker 1: might have been there, but the call came in just 77 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:18,679 Speaker 1: after one. They did have a suspect fairly quickly though. Yeah, 78 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:20,919 Speaker 1: and you know, this is the fee. I wonder what 79 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:24,680 Speaker 1: the tip off was. Well, and that's what um, you know, 80 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:26,120 Speaker 1: that's what we're going to learn at three. And that's 81 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:28,680 Speaker 1: something I've not been able to find out, is you know, 82 00:04:28,839 --> 00:04:31,200 Speaker 1: was the surveillance I don't even know if there's surveillance 83 00:04:31,279 --> 00:04:33,640 Speaker 1: video at you know, at homes owned by the archdiocese 84 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:35,760 Speaker 1: or not, if there's a ring camera or anything like that. 85 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:39,320 Speaker 1: But they they have to immediately hone in on people 86 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:42,040 Speaker 1: who had access to the home, especially since there was 87 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:44,000 Speaker 1: no signs of forced entry, So they have to sort 88 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:47,240 Speaker 1: of work backwards, Okay, who has access to this house, 89 00:04:47,279 --> 00:04:49,560 Speaker 1: who has keys to this house? Then they have to 90 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:51,560 Speaker 1: go interview those people, and then they have to figure 91 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:55,080 Speaker 1: out any connections or nexus between them and the and 92 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:59,159 Speaker 1: the and the bishop. So they have to be very 93 00:04:59,279 --> 00:05:01,400 Speaker 1: very diligent that way. That's one of the reasons why 94 00:05:01,400 --> 00:05:03,640 Speaker 1: we don't learn a lot very quickly because they also 95 00:05:03,640 --> 00:05:06,080 Speaker 1: don't want to tip off the suspected shooter. It was 96 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:08,400 Speaker 1: much very similar to what happened in the Monterey Park 97 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:10,359 Speaker 1: mass shooting. They didn't want to give out a lot 98 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:12,640 Speaker 1: of detail early on because they already had an idea 99 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:14,720 Speaker 1: of who they were looking for, and they didn't want 100 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:16,480 Speaker 1: to they didn't want to tip the guy off. So 101 00:05:16,520 --> 00:05:18,120 Speaker 1: that's kind of what was going on here, right. It 102 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:20,799 Speaker 1: kind of fairly knew, but yeah, it does suggest that 103 00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:26,560 Speaker 1: somebody who knew O'Connell also knew who would be likely 104 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:29,640 Speaker 1: to kill him. Sure, and and in you know, and 105 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:32,440 Speaker 1: people sometimes may have just blurted out who they thought 106 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:34,480 Speaker 1: did it, or there might be because you know, they asked, 107 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:36,720 Speaker 1: you know, did he have any struggles with anybody? Did 108 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:39,159 Speaker 1: he have any falling out with anybody? You know, that's 109 00:05:39,279 --> 00:05:42,160 Speaker 1: all the typical line of questioning from investigators. And if 110 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:44,960 Speaker 1: there's answers to like, yes, he recently had an argument 111 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:47,120 Speaker 1: with so and so and and this was bad and 112 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:48,880 Speaker 1: that was bad, they're going to focus in on that 113 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:52,039 Speaker 1: right away. And then if they've got some way to 114 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:55,960 Speaker 1: corroborate that information, if someone else can confirm that, yeah, 115 00:05:55,960 --> 00:05:57,920 Speaker 1: there was an argument going on. This guy felt this 116 00:05:57,960 --> 00:06:01,120 Speaker 1: was happening, and that was happening. So yeah, you know, 117 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:05,640 Speaker 1: these these investigators are pretty pretty astute at all this 118 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:07,640 Speaker 1: and given in pretty fast, so there must have been 119 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:11,280 Speaker 1: a lot of information available to them pretty quickly. All right, Steve, Well, 120 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:14,280 Speaker 1: we'll talk with you sometimes in the three o'clock hour. Yeah, 121 00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:16,680 Speaker 1: you got it. We'll carry this press conference, assuming you've 122 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:19,640 Speaker 1: got a good connection going. It's supposed to be at 123 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:25,960 Speaker 1: at three on the nose. They're often late O'Connell, As 124 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:30,000 Speaker 1: I said, sixty nine and he was the founder and 125 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:36,600 Speaker 1: chairman of the SoCal Immigration Task Force. This was several 126 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:42,279 Speaker 1: dioceses in the area and they would help children who 127 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:48,839 Speaker 1: entered the US without adult companions. He was quoted in 128 00:06:48,839 --> 00:06:51,200 Speaker 1: an article in twenty nineteen is saying for me, this 129 00:06:51,320 --> 00:06:53,880 Speaker 1: is really a labor of love. This is I think 130 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:56,760 Speaker 1: what our schools and parishes are all about, not for 131 00:06:56,880 --> 00:06:59,960 Speaker 1: just unaccompanied miners, but all our children. There's an epidemic 132 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:02,800 Speaker 1: of hurting children, even the ones who have too much. 133 00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:05,640 Speaker 1: They feel we've abandoned them, and the migrant youths have 134 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:08,640 Speaker 1: become a metaphor for our whole society. Also, back in 135 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:11,280 Speaker 1: the nineties, he had a reputation for trying to bridge 136 00:07:12,040 --> 00:07:18,320 Speaker 1: relationships between residents of neighborhoods that had been ruined by 137 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:24,760 Speaker 1: the riots and try to bridge relationships between them and 138 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:28,360 Speaker 1: local law enforcement. This came after the Rodney King beating, 139 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:33,679 Speaker 1: which is now over thirty years ago. The La County Sheriff, 140 00:07:33,760 --> 00:07:36,480 Speaker 1: Robert Lunas said that the bishop was a peacemaker who 141 00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:39,920 Speaker 1: had a passion serving those in need while improving the community. 142 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:45,160 Speaker 1: Now O'Connell served at Saint Francis Xavier Cabrini Church in 143 00:07:45,200 --> 00:07:50,840 Speaker 1: South LA and everybody there was shocked. So, you know, 144 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:53,679 Speaker 1: sometimes these things happened, your mind goes to dark places. 145 00:07:53,760 --> 00:07:58,240 Speaker 1: But obviously he had some relationship in his life that 146 00:07:58,320 --> 00:08:02,360 Speaker 1: had turned violent. And you know, there's only there's only 147 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:06,960 Speaker 1: a few things that cause that kind of that kind 148 00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:10,400 Speaker 1: of incident to happen. So coming up after three o'clock, 149 00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:17,960 Speaker 1: we'll find out now in other news locally. And this 150 00:08:18,680 --> 00:08:23,240 Speaker 1: really inflamed me. And and this is this is this 151 00:08:23,280 --> 00:08:29,400 Speaker 1: has bugged me my whole life. Um Culver City, there 152 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:35,360 Speaker 1: was a meeting last week, a school board meeting. A 153 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:40,360 Speaker 1: group of parents were trying to stop a racial equity initiative. 154 00:08:41,679 --> 00:08:47,199 Speaker 1: And you know this, uh, the the these these phrases 155 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:50,800 Speaker 1: that are used are so loaded racial equity. I don't 156 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:52,560 Speaker 1: know what comes to mind when you hear that phrase. 157 00:08:53,440 --> 00:08:57,080 Speaker 1: But what it really was, they got rid of honors 158 00:08:57,200 --> 00:09:02,640 Speaker 1: English classes. They got rid of them because they did 159 00:09:02,840 --> 00:09:07,920 Speaker 1: enroll enough Black and Latino students, and the school district, 160 00:09:08,679 --> 00:09:11,160 Speaker 1: rather than try to figure out why they aren't enough 161 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:15,880 Speaker 1: Black and Latino students who are qualified to get into 162 00:09:15,920 --> 00:09:20,000 Speaker 1: the honors program, decided that nobody could have an honors program. 163 00:09:20,559 --> 00:09:23,400 Speaker 1: And ever since I was a kid, I have been 164 00:09:24,559 --> 00:09:30,200 Speaker 1: furious at this kind of thing, and certainly was on 165 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:32,240 Speaker 1: the watch when my kids were young and in school. 166 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:38,480 Speaker 1: Not everybody develops at the same rate at the same time, 167 00:09:38,760 --> 00:09:42,840 Speaker 1: and not everybody is capable in the same way all 168 00:09:42,880 --> 00:09:48,120 Speaker 1: their lives obviously were There's a huge range of capabilities 169 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:53,040 Speaker 1: in life, and the idea that students, kids who are 170 00:09:53,080 --> 00:09:57,160 Speaker 1: capable of handling an honors class be denied that I 171 00:09:57,240 --> 00:10:01,439 Speaker 1: think is as filthy a formative incrimination as anything else 172 00:10:01,640 --> 00:10:05,000 Speaker 1: I really do. I think it is so wrong to 173 00:10:05,280 --> 00:10:10,679 Speaker 1: artificially limit a student's horizons because somebody else can't handle 174 00:10:10,679 --> 00:10:16,600 Speaker 1: it in the moment. And the school is its purpose 175 00:10:16,880 --> 00:10:22,680 Speaker 1: is to bring kids up to a higher level. While 176 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:27,240 Speaker 1: understanding and this used to be accepted that we can't 177 00:10:27,280 --> 00:10:32,760 Speaker 1: all be in the same accelerated course, the same honors program. 178 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:34,679 Speaker 1: We're not all going to be in the same reading 179 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:41,000 Speaker 1: group and the same math group for whatever reason. But 180 00:10:41,120 --> 00:10:43,559 Speaker 1: the truth is we're not all in the same place. 181 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:45,679 Speaker 1: And that's true all your life. That's true at work 182 00:10:45,800 --> 00:10:48,959 Speaker 1: right now. You know that you know, are there people 183 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:53,120 Speaker 1: with capabilities to be executives, and there's people with capability 184 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:56,040 Speaker 1: who don't ever have the capability to do that. So 185 00:10:56,040 --> 00:10:57,920 Speaker 1: we can't get all paid the same, we can't all 186 00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:00,440 Speaker 1: have the same responsibility. We're not all going to work 187 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:03,920 Speaker 1: the same amount of hours. I mean, this equity nonsense 188 00:11:04,040 --> 00:11:10,000 Speaker 1: has really gone too far, and the culture city officials 189 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:13,160 Speaker 1: in that school district ought to be ashamed of themselves 190 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:17,560 Speaker 1: to take away opportunities from kids are capable. That to 191 00:11:17,679 --> 00:11:21,920 Speaker 1: me is a mortal sin. So the kids are supposed 192 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:24,360 Speaker 1: to say. I mean, if you're a smart kid and 193 00:11:24,480 --> 00:11:27,600 Speaker 1: you pick up things quickly, so you have to sit bored, 194 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:33,600 Speaker 1: dying there at your desk waiting for the rest of 195 00:11:33,640 --> 00:11:35,880 Speaker 1: the earth to catch up with you, the rest of 196 00:11:35,920 --> 00:11:38,200 Speaker 1: the class may never catch up with you. In fact, 197 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:40,640 Speaker 1: a lot of the kids don't want to. I'm sorry. 198 00:11:40,640 --> 00:11:41,920 Speaker 1: I went to school with a lot of kids that 199 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:46,040 Speaker 1: had no interest in doing well. They don't care, Their 200 00:11:46,040 --> 00:11:49,920 Speaker 1: families didn't care. They didn't care. They were lazy. Some 201 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:54,040 Speaker 1: of them were born stupid and stayed that way, and 202 00:11:54,200 --> 00:11:59,080 Speaker 1: some of them had learning conditions. Some of them might 203 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:02,360 Speaker 1: have been open to moving up the ladder, but that's 204 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:03,920 Speaker 1: what the school is supposed to do, is to get 205 00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:07,640 Speaker 1: you to move up the ladder and not have kids 206 00:12:07,640 --> 00:12:11,240 Speaker 1: who are capable of learning quickly get dragged down. The 207 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:16,239 Speaker 1: one thing about honors classes, you cover the same territory 208 00:12:16,679 --> 00:12:21,160 Speaker 1: as a regular class, you just cover it faster. And 209 00:12:21,280 --> 00:12:25,160 Speaker 1: I remember when I was interviewing, well were we were, 210 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:28,000 Speaker 1: you know, looking at because we couldn't go to the 211 00:12:28,080 --> 00:12:33,120 Speaker 1: LA school system right because they had disastrous policies like 212 00:12:33,160 --> 00:12:36,320 Speaker 1: this too. Public school systems in California are just Southern 213 00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:39,880 Speaker 1: California rageously bad in a lot of places, and they're 214 00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:45,600 Speaker 1: getting worse because of garbage like this. And as much 215 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:48,200 Speaker 1: as the schools were interviewing us, I was interviewing them. 216 00:12:48,200 --> 00:12:50,600 Speaker 1: And one of the questions I had is was like, well, 217 00:12:50,640 --> 00:12:53,960 Speaker 1: if one of my sons, if he picks up things quickly, 218 00:12:54,400 --> 00:12:58,480 Speaker 1: do you have an accelerated program and an honors program? 219 00:12:58,520 --> 00:13:00,760 Speaker 1: And one school gave me a bad answer, and I 220 00:13:00,840 --> 00:13:02,480 Speaker 1: told my wife, like wright in the car, it's like, 221 00:13:02,480 --> 00:13:05,959 Speaker 1: when we're not going here, No, he's not going to 222 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:07,760 Speaker 1: sit around and then be I think I think the 223 00:13:07,800 --> 00:13:10,040 Speaker 1: answer was, well, you know he could always help teach 224 00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:13,520 Speaker 1: the other kids. It's like, no, he's not here to 225 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:16,400 Speaker 1: do your job. He's here to learn more. And if 226 00:13:16,440 --> 00:13:18,840 Speaker 1: he learns things quickly enough, then give him more to learn. 227 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:23,080 Speaker 1: I just that would just make me absolutely enraged. I'll 228 00:13:23,080 --> 00:13:25,080 Speaker 1: talk more about this when we come back, because I've 229 00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:27,920 Speaker 1: only scratched the surface of this story. But good Laura, 230 00:13:27,960 --> 00:13:31,600 Speaker 1: and they're doing this garbage in Santa Monica too. Yikes. 231 00:13:31,679 --> 00:13:34,199 Speaker 1: This is this is, this is one of the things. 232 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:38,720 Speaker 1: This end civilization. You want, you want everybody to be mediocre, 233 00:13:38,800 --> 00:13:41,079 Speaker 1: you want this is This is the communist influence I 234 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:43,559 Speaker 1: keep talking about. You may think I'm nuts, but this 235 00:13:43,640 --> 00:13:49,480 Speaker 1: is what communism is. Everybody's the same, and we can't 236 00:13:49,520 --> 00:13:55,000 Speaker 1: have people achieve, accomplish, succeed more. Coming up on the 237 00:13:55,080 --> 00:13:56,800 Speaker 1: John and Ken hug Well, if you have a bright 238 00:13:56,920 --> 00:13:59,600 Speaker 1: child and you're in the Culver City School District, you 239 00:13:59,679 --> 00:14:01,680 Speaker 1: may you may want to just get out of there 240 00:14:01,720 --> 00:14:06,520 Speaker 1: because of the worst form of discrimination is taking place 241 00:14:06,559 --> 00:14:10,360 Speaker 1: now in the Culver City School District against children who 242 00:14:10,400 --> 00:14:17,520 Speaker 1: are capable of learning quickly. On the altar of the diversity, 243 00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:23,120 Speaker 1: equity and inclusion. Now the children at the Culver City 244 00:14:23,240 --> 00:14:28,680 Speaker 1: High School are losing their honor classes happen earlier this 245 00:14:28,760 --> 00:14:34,800 Speaker 1: school year, uniform courses for everyone. Of course, they hide 246 00:14:34,880 --> 00:14:39,760 Speaker 1: behind racial equality of the excuse, but the truth is 247 00:14:39,920 --> 00:14:45,360 Speaker 1: it's your responsibility to figure out why somebody isn't learning. Certainly, 248 00:14:45,400 --> 00:14:47,760 Speaker 1: the color of their skin or ethnicity has nothing to 249 00:14:47,800 --> 00:14:51,520 Speaker 1: do with their capability to learn. Right, then, what you 250 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:53,520 Speaker 1: ought to do is focus on the individuals who are 251 00:14:53,560 --> 00:14:57,000 Speaker 1: struggling and get them to a better place, not punish 252 00:14:57,200 --> 00:15:01,120 Speaker 1: those who are succeeding more easily. That is wrong, That 253 00:15:01,320 --> 00:15:06,880 Speaker 1: is morally wrong, should be legally wrong. If I was 254 00:15:07,160 --> 00:15:09,640 Speaker 1: in the Culver City High School, my kids would be 255 00:15:09,680 --> 00:15:13,240 Speaker 1: out of there so fast. I'd rather home school them 256 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:21,360 Speaker 1: than this nonsense. And this is the new stupid, dopey, 257 00:15:21,440 --> 00:15:26,120 Speaker 1: woke trend. It's hit schools all over the country and 258 00:15:26,640 --> 00:15:30,000 Speaker 1: parents are rebelling in Wisconsin, Rhode Island other places here 259 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:33,960 Speaker 1: in California because they strip away the honors program. And again, 260 00:15:34,040 --> 00:15:37,240 Speaker 1: honors is nothing. But you learn the same stuff, you 261 00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:40,560 Speaker 1: learn at a more rapid pace, and I guess you'll 262 00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:43,680 Speaker 1: learn a little bit more. And why shouldn't you? What 263 00:15:43,880 --> 00:15:47,120 Speaker 1: is it? Why are you punishing people who are going 264 00:15:47,160 --> 00:15:50,200 Speaker 1: to do There is a direct correlation between test scores 265 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:58,320 Speaker 1: and income in life. There is people who do better, 266 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:06,240 Speaker 1: perform better in high school, perform better at work. You know, 267 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:09,760 Speaker 1: I read just the other day. You know, like seventy 268 00:16:11,280 --> 00:16:17,680 Speaker 1: of the tech workers in Silicon Valley are foreigners, mostly 269 00:16:17,760 --> 00:16:20,080 Speaker 1: on H one B visas. Why do you think that 270 00:16:20,280 --> 00:16:25,080 Speaker 1: is because in foreign countries like India or China, they 271 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:30,120 Speaker 1: reward and encourage excellence. Here, you do well in a 272 00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:33,920 Speaker 1: class and you're told, ah, that's bad, We're gonna have 273 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:36,240 Speaker 1: to slow you down. You're gonna have to sit bored 274 00:16:36,240 --> 00:16:40,000 Speaker 1: out of your mind until other kids catch up with you. 275 00:16:42,640 --> 00:16:44,520 Speaker 1: And if some of the other kids don't want to 276 00:16:44,560 --> 00:16:46,920 Speaker 1: catch up with you, too bad, You're gonna sit there, 277 00:16:46,960 --> 00:16:51,480 Speaker 1: bored and unfulfilled until you want to rip your eyeballs out. 278 00:16:53,720 --> 00:16:55,480 Speaker 1: Since the start of the school year, a freshman and 279 00:16:55,560 --> 00:16:58,520 Speaker 1: sophomore is a culver City. God this child abuse. You've 280 00:16:58,560 --> 00:17:00,800 Speaker 1: only been able to select one level of English class, 281 00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:11,040 Speaker 1: known as college prep, rather than the honors class. There's 282 00:17:11,080 --> 00:17:15,359 Speaker 1: one superintendent that says parents are saying academic excellence should 283 00:17:15,359 --> 00:17:18,400 Speaker 1: not be experimented with for the sake of social justice. 284 00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:23,280 Speaker 1: But it was very jarring when teachers look at their 285 00:17:23,320 --> 00:17:26,640 Speaker 1: ap enrollment and realize black and brown kids were not there, 286 00:17:26,840 --> 00:17:30,680 Speaker 1: they felt obligated to do something. Well, your obligation is 287 00:17:31,520 --> 00:17:35,960 Speaker 1: to figure out what you can do to make the 288 00:17:36,040 --> 00:17:39,879 Speaker 1: black and Hispanic students perform better. Since you're the teachers, 289 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:43,520 Speaker 1: since you're all getting paid a lot of money, a 290 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:45,960 Speaker 1: lot of pension money and a lot of healthcare money. 291 00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:50,679 Speaker 1: You're getting paid, you figure it out. Why are you 292 00:17:50,720 --> 00:17:53,760 Speaker 1: taking it out of Why are you punishing other kids 293 00:17:54,040 --> 00:17:58,400 Speaker 1: from all races because they do well and they learn 294 00:17:58,480 --> 00:18:05,719 Speaker 1: more quickly. That is some kind of bizarro discrimination. And 295 00:18:05,760 --> 00:18:09,160 Speaker 1: then they have a bunch of percentages over how, oh 296 00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:12,240 Speaker 1: my god, this is really a virus of cancer, looking 297 00:18:12,320 --> 00:18:18,359 Speaker 1: the percentages of representation based on race and ethnicity. No, 298 00:18:18,920 --> 00:18:22,600 Speaker 1: you start off with performance, and people who need help, 299 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:25,520 Speaker 1: you give them the help. But apparently the teachers and 300 00:18:25,520 --> 00:18:29,200 Speaker 1: the administrators at Culver City High School have no idea, 301 00:18:29,359 --> 00:18:33,240 Speaker 1: They have no idea how to improve the education of 302 00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:36,639 Speaker 1: some kids who struggle, so they blame everything on the 303 00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:40,240 Speaker 1: color of skin and decide to punish those who succeed 304 00:18:40,280 --> 00:18:47,080 Speaker 1: more quickly. But that's really sick. Now there's one there's 305 00:18:47,119 --> 00:18:52,639 Speaker 1: one parent here. Last name is for Gola, who says, 306 00:18:53,480 --> 00:18:55,879 Speaker 1: I was born in Cuba. And it doesn't sound good 307 00:18:56,040 --> 00:19:00,560 Speaker 1: when people are trying to achieve equal outcomes for everyone. Yeah, exactly, 308 00:19:01,280 --> 00:19:07,680 Speaker 1: that is a pillar of communism. That's a parent named 309 00:19:07,680 --> 00:19:15,320 Speaker 1: Pedro for Gola. His daughter, Emma said she was surprised 310 00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:17,760 Speaker 1: and confused by the decision to remove honors, which she 311 00:19:17,840 --> 00:19:22,080 Speaker 1: wanted to take. She said her English teacher used to 312 00:19:22,119 --> 00:19:24,760 Speaker 1: teach honors. He's trying to maintain a higher standard, but 313 00:19:24,800 --> 00:19:27,600 Speaker 1: it doesn't seem to be working. There's some pieces for Emma, 314 00:19:27,680 --> 00:19:31,800 Speaker 1: who has more wisdom in ninth grade than all the 315 00:19:31,840 --> 00:19:35,280 Speaker 1: administrators and all the teachers in Culver City combined. There's 316 00:19:35,280 --> 00:19:37,440 Speaker 1: some people who slow down the pace because they don't 317 00:19:37,440 --> 00:19:40,000 Speaker 1: really do anything and they aren't looking to try harder. 318 00:19:40,280 --> 00:19:43,880 Speaker 1: I don't think you can force that into people. Yeah, 319 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:54,040 Speaker 1: she figured that out at age fifteen. This week, it's 320 00:19:54,040 --> 00:19:57,240 Speaker 1: Safe Way enjoy big savings with the Bogo sale, where 321 00:19:57,320 --> 00:20:00,600 Speaker 1: select items throughout the store are buy one, get free. 322 00:20:00,680 --> 00:20:03,560 Speaker 1: With this week's Bogo sale, gets select meats like Signature 323 00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:06,800 Speaker 1: Farms ninety percent lean ground beef or boneless skinless chicken 324 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:10,480 Speaker 1: breasts or thighs, Buy one, get one free, plus select 325 00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:13,760 Speaker 1: fresh produce items like one pound containers of sweet strawberries 326 00:20:13,840 --> 00:20:16,840 Speaker 1: or containers of blueberries, or buy one, get one free. 327 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:19,400 Speaker 1: Safe Way come in and explore and see what other 328 00:20:19,480 --> 00:20:26,000 Speaker 1: deals you can find. Here's some of the stuff they're studying. 329 00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:29,680 Speaker 1: I don't remember this. In English class, m set or 330 00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:32,359 Speaker 1: teacher gathered all the reference sources they needed to write 331 00:20:32,359 --> 00:20:37,560 Speaker 1: a paper on whether graffiti is art or vandalism. That's 332 00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:43,640 Speaker 1: up for debate graffit. You know what, I wonder if 333 00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:47,080 Speaker 1: all the English teachers in Culver City, if they had 334 00:20:47,119 --> 00:20:51,120 Speaker 1: somebody spray paint gang signs on their homes, if they'd 335 00:20:51,119 --> 00:20:58,840 Speaker 1: look at that as art or vandalism. Wow, this is 336 00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:03,800 Speaker 1: happening in Santa Monica. The genius is there. High school 337 00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:06,560 Speaker 1: English teacher said last year they had a moral imperative 338 00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:11,440 Speaker 1: to eliminate honors classes, honors English classes because it perpetuates inequality. 339 00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:15,080 Speaker 1: In other words, you have a kid who does really 340 00:21:15,080 --> 00:21:19,440 Speaker 1: well at English and learns quickly, you're now bad. You're 341 00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:25,400 Speaker 1: perpetuating inequality. And then there's some nut job board member 342 00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:28,320 Speaker 1: who said this is not a social experiment, this is 343 00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:33,800 Speaker 1: a sound pedacological approach to education. No, it's not. It's lunacy. 344 00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:38,320 Speaker 1: It's discrimination against people who do well. I know you're 345 00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:40,639 Speaker 1: you know how boring it is if you learn something 346 00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:42,800 Speaker 1: quickly and you got to sit there for weeks until 347 00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:45,080 Speaker 1: everyone catches up. You know how angry that makes someone 348 00:21:46,240 --> 00:21:50,600 Speaker 1: because some of the kids don't care, and then there's 349 00:21:50,640 --> 00:21:54,520 Speaker 1: there's a spokeshole. Gael Pinksker for the Sound of Monica 350 00:21:54,560 --> 00:21:58,880 Speaker 1: Malibu District said this shift has increased access and provided 351 00:21:58,960 --> 00:22:02,320 Speaker 1: excellent educational experiences for all our students. No, it hasn't 352 00:22:02,320 --> 00:22:05,320 Speaker 1: you shut off access to the smart to the kids 353 00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:11,560 Speaker 1: who are just just do well. All kinds of reasons 354 00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:14,840 Speaker 1: you could. You could be born a certain way, you 355 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:21,080 Speaker 1: could have a certain work ethic. Holy mackerel, I don't know. 356 00:22:21,119 --> 00:22:23,840 Speaker 1: I get those kids out of there, Santa Monica, Balabu, 357 00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:27,480 Speaker 1: Culver City. This is insanity. I mean, this is not 358 00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:30,440 Speaker 1: this is this is one of the craziest. I mean, 359 00:22:30,520 --> 00:22:35,560 Speaker 1: I've seen so many bizarre, woke trends. This is up 360 00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:40,080 Speaker 1: there in the Hall of Fame. Extremely damaging, unfair, wrong, immoral, 361 00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:44,160 Speaker 1: you name it. You should you should be guiding students 362 00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:48,600 Speaker 1: to hit the top of their capabilities, not artificially suppressing 363 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:53,560 Speaker 1: and punishing them. Yis that is sick mark. Coming up 364 00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:57,639 Speaker 1: later on at three o'clock, we're gonna hopefully carry a 365 00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:02,000 Speaker 1: live press conference about the Bishop up Catholic Bishop David 366 00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:10,560 Speaker 1: O'Connell shot to death Saturday afternoon in his home. They 367 00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:16,919 Speaker 1: have arrested a suspect. There was a swat team barricade 368 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:22,720 Speaker 1: situation in Torrance earlier today, so presumably that's where the 369 00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:29,080 Speaker 1: suspect was captured. He was armed barricaded. There's very few 370 00:23:29,119 --> 00:23:33,520 Speaker 1: details about this. Obviously, when you have an unusual situation 371 00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:37,119 Speaker 1: like what we have here, there is a specific reason 372 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:42,080 Speaker 1: it happened. It was not likely random. It was something 373 00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:45,359 Speaker 1: going on in Bishop O'Connell's life, and eventually we'll find 374 00:23:45,359 --> 00:23:47,960 Speaker 1: that out. Anyway, three o'clock we're going to carry the 375 00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:51,800 Speaker 1: press conference. Steve Gregory is going to be there as well, 376 00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:54,840 Speaker 1: and if he's got any other information before three, he 377 00:23:54,920 --> 00:24:00,960 Speaker 1: will come on with us. Today. He is one of 378 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:05,639 Speaker 1: those fake useless holidays. Oh, Happy President's Day, John, Happy 379 00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:10,440 Speaker 1: President's Day. This is where we honor luminaries like James K. Polk, 380 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:19,120 Speaker 1: James Garfield, Warren Harding. It's funny how much how much 381 00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:23,240 Speaker 1: people revere presidents in current times. But if you bring 382 00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:26,800 Speaker 1: up the names of old presidents, everyone laughs, and then 383 00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:29,879 Speaker 1: you look how useless some of them were, and you 384 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:33,480 Speaker 1: realize they're not so special. For a brief time. They 385 00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:37,680 Speaker 1: do have a lot of power, but as people they're 386 00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:40,639 Speaker 1: not so special. Some of them are quite unimpressive and 387 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:44,639 Speaker 1: below average. We have one of those right now. In fact, 388 00:24:44,680 --> 00:24:48,680 Speaker 1: most of the presidents of my lifetime have been what's 389 00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:57,760 Speaker 1: what's the woke word? Problematic, either being stupid, incompetent, corrupt, 390 00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:03,720 Speaker 1: they've got sexual issues. So I have never, since I 391 00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:07,280 Speaker 1: was a kid, understood the worship and fetish for presidents. 392 00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:11,359 Speaker 1: I just haven't. I didn't get it. I kind of 393 00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:14,520 Speaker 1: resented constantly being told that this president or that president 394 00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:16,879 Speaker 1: was this hero or that hero, and then you know, 395 00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:20,439 Speaker 1: as time goes on, you find out that it's not true. 396 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:25,479 Speaker 1: But today is a good day for people, well, you know, 397 00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:30,760 Speaker 1: there's hardly everybody showing up at work, so it's like 398 00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:33,359 Speaker 1: a day off work. It's actually a day off from 399 00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:36,280 Speaker 1: having a day off because most of the people who 400 00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:39,600 Speaker 1: work remotely now don't really work. They claim they're doing 401 00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:42,400 Speaker 1: something at home, and maybe they are, often they're not. 402 00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:44,520 Speaker 1: So now this is a day off for being home. 403 00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:48,919 Speaker 1: You know how much money it's cost the economy that 404 00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:52,399 Speaker 1: people don't show up at work anymore. And this really 405 00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:57,280 Speaker 1: is going to bring down the big woke run cities, 406 00:25:58,160 --> 00:26:02,359 Speaker 1: because when you have a woke city, it's really expensive. 407 00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:06,439 Speaker 1: Taxes are really high, services are really high. You have 408 00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:08,480 Speaker 1: to take care of all the You got to waste 409 00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:12,159 Speaker 1: billions of dollars in not fixing homelessness. You're wasting billions 410 00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:15,280 Speaker 1: of dollars on well, in New York City, on the 411 00:26:15,359 --> 00:26:20,040 Speaker 1: legal aliens. You know, that's that's a big machine. You 412 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:24,199 Speaker 1: have to feed there, and you require lots of sales 413 00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:28,000 Speaker 1: tax money, income tax money. And what happens when people 414 00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:29,879 Speaker 1: stop working in your city and they don't have to 415 00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:33,320 Speaker 1: pay the income tax anymore. What happens when they aren't 416 00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:37,960 Speaker 1: buying things those the sales tax drops. And New York 417 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:45,040 Speaker 1: City has found this out. The shift to remote work 418 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:49,600 Speaker 1: is costing New York City more than twelve billion dollars 419 00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:54,399 Speaker 1: a year because office workers are spending forty six hundred 420 00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:58,560 Speaker 1: dollars less per person in the areas near their offices. 421 00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:03,360 Speaker 1: That's a lot less lunched and dinner. They're buying far 422 00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:09,480 Speaker 1: fewer drinks and far less business at all the retail shops. Yeah, 423 00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:12,080 Speaker 1: you don't have to buy clothes. You don't have to 424 00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:14,720 Speaker 1: buy clothes anymore. And a lot of people imagine probably 425 00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:20,359 Speaker 1: did their shopping after work, and obviously the food and drink. 426 00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:25,240 Speaker 1: So according to one professor has looked at the research, 427 00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:30,280 Speaker 1: less spending by workers means a lot less sales tax revenue, 428 00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:33,760 Speaker 1: and if you have fewer commuters that means less revenue too. 429 00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:42,080 Speaker 1: This is done by WFH research. And if less income 430 00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:44,720 Speaker 1: taxes being paid in New York City, said the New 431 00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:47,600 Speaker 1: York City Controller, then it's hard to figure out how 432 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:50,840 Speaker 1: to capture enough value to maintain the subways and invest 433 00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:53,760 Speaker 1: in the schools and keep the city safe and clean. Well, 434 00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:57,879 Speaker 1: what's really what's really ridiculous, And this controller should know 435 00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:01,440 Speaker 1: this New York City and parts of Los Angeles, obviously, 436 00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:05,119 Speaker 1: or like this too, was not safe, was not clean, 437 00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:08,200 Speaker 1: The subways were disgusting and dangerous. The streets are often 438 00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:10,920 Speaker 1: disgusting and dangerous with all the homeless people and drug 439 00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:13,760 Speaker 1: addicts and mental patients running around. And this was when 440 00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:17,800 Speaker 1: everybody was forced to work. Now you give them the 441 00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:20,120 Speaker 1: option to stay at home, and you wonder why they're 442 00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:22,760 Speaker 1: staying home. Well, part of the reason is, I mean, 443 00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:24,480 Speaker 1: I know, I know, I mean I grew up in 444 00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:27,119 Speaker 1: the New York area, New Jersey and somebody told me 445 00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:28,600 Speaker 1: the other day. You know, the toll is to get 446 00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:30,840 Speaker 1: into New York City, like over the George Washington Bridge 447 00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:33,440 Speaker 1: or the Holltime. I think it's like sixteen dollars now, 448 00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:37,199 Speaker 1: oh wow, yeah, So like who wants to pay that 449 00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:42,720 Speaker 1: every day? And so only fifty two percent of Manhattan 450 00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:48,120 Speaker 1: office workers are at work on an average weekday and 451 00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:51,040 Speaker 1: just nine percent are in the office five days a week. 452 00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:57,000 Speaker 1: And because they made these cities with their woke ideology, 453 00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:00,400 Speaker 1: and you know, they let out all the prisoners. There's 454 00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:03,720 Speaker 1: no bail anymore. They let the homeless people run a mock. 455 00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:07,360 Speaker 1: The subways are disgusting, there's no security there. And people thought, 456 00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:10,520 Speaker 1: I I don't have to do this anymore. I'm never 457 00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:13,720 Speaker 1: going back, and they are never going to go back. Companies, 458 00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:16,120 Speaker 1: even in New York City, even in the Financial District, 459 00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:18,640 Speaker 1: are demanding that their employees come back. The employees they 460 00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:23,240 Speaker 1: get out. No. They looked at their bosses and made 461 00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:27,880 Speaker 1: that noise that debor likes to make me, you do 462 00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:39,600 Speaker 1: it better. Um, so this looks permanent and it's going 463 00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:42,520 Speaker 1: to cost permanently a lot of money. And the city 464 00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:45,840 Speaker 1: governments deserved this because they let their cities go to 465 00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:51,760 Speaker 1: hell and become awful and filthy, and probably I listened. 466 00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:55,280 Speaker 1: I listened to one newscast every morning on Fox Business 467 00:29:55,920 --> 00:29:58,920 Speaker 1: and the anchor opens up every hour, and I assume, 468 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:01,280 Speaker 1: you know, it's a it's a it's an audio feet 469 00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:06,600 Speaker 1: of it of Fox Business channel, and he always comments, 470 00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:09,600 Speaker 1: I guess they've got a shot looking down Fifth Avenue 471 00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:12,240 Speaker 1: in New York City, and he always remarks how empty 472 00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:15,640 Speaker 1: it is now? Every day, every day, there's hardly anybody 473 00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:17,800 Speaker 1: around in New York City, Like the whole energy of 474 00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:20,840 Speaker 1: the city is gone, all the hustle and bustle and 475 00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:24,560 Speaker 1: just doesn't exist anymore. But you know what amazes me, 476 00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:26,360 Speaker 1: and I know you and I have talked about this 477 00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:28,800 Speaker 1: off the year. The traffic. Okay, so people are not 478 00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:31,760 Speaker 1: coming into work, but why are the freeways except for today? 479 00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:34,200 Speaker 1: Today was a holiday, so it only took me twenty 480 00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:35,960 Speaker 1: minutes to get to work where it usually takes me 481 00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:40,000 Speaker 1: forty five. So where is everybody going they're not going 482 00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:44,320 Speaker 1: to work? I thought about that too. I don't think 483 00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:48,760 Speaker 1: they're all working at home. I don't either. I think 484 00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:51,360 Speaker 1: they're flitting out and about doing whatever it is that 485 00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:54,960 Speaker 1: amuses them. Yeah, whether they're going shopping or they're going off, 486 00:30:55,280 --> 00:30:57,880 Speaker 1: you know, to play tennis or to go to the park. 487 00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:00,960 Speaker 1: It's got to be that because I don't know. I 488 00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:04,200 Speaker 1: mean you you know, driving home at four o'clock. Yeah, 489 00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:09,680 Speaker 1: it's crazy, miserable, It's absolutely miserable. So I'm looking. It's like, well, 490 00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:13,120 Speaker 1: if if half the people on a given day are 491 00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:15,760 Speaker 1: no longer in the office, what's with the one on 492 00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:20,760 Speaker 1: one at four o'clock. It's a mystery there. What are you? 493 00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:24,600 Speaker 1: What are all these people doing and why are they 494 00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:28,960 Speaker 1: all doing it at the same time? Right? Can you 495 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:33,120 Speaker 1: do it at five o'clock? Can't you sign up in shifts? Here? 496 00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:40,640 Speaker 1: Now we come back. Uh? This this is this story 497 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:44,160 Speaker 1: I saw this weekend and I couldn't believe it. But 498 00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:50,080 Speaker 1: it is absolutely a sign of all the insane COVID policies. 499 00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:54,400 Speaker 1: This is at a Washington There is a group of 500 00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:58,600 Speaker 1: squatters who I love the way it's put by the 501 00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:02,640 Speaker 1: New York Post, at least colonized someone's home in Washington 502 00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:09,600 Speaker 1: State illegally. They illegally hit they they were part of 503 00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:14,160 Speaker 1: a car theft ring. And I will not spoil the story, 504 00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:17,640 Speaker 1: but you're you are not going to believe this how 505 00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:21,720 Speaker 1: long they've lived in the house, what they've been doing 506 00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:24,959 Speaker 1: in the house, and how they got away with it 507 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,720 Speaker 1: for so long, and how they ended back in the 508 00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:31,880 Speaker 1: house even after getting evicted. This is just this is 509 00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:35,440 Speaker 1: I mean, everybody in the state of Washington in political 510 00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:38,200 Speaker 1: office ought to be removed for what for what they 511 00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:42,680 Speaker 1: did to create this scenario. We're coming up Ken's off today. Um. 512 00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:46,160 Speaker 1: I wanted to get to that story about the squatters 513 00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:50,320 Speaker 1: in Washington, but I found more information on the bishop 514 00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:56,120 Speaker 1: that got to murdered. And there's a reporter for the 515 00:32:56,240 --> 00:33:00,720 Speaker 1: La Daily News. This is a bishop, David O'Connell, and 516 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:05,000 Speaker 1: he was found dead in his home in Hacienda Heights. 517 00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:09,080 Speaker 1: The archdiocese owns the home, dead in his bed, gunshot 518 00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:14,520 Speaker 1: wound in the upper torso and by time the police 519 00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:20,200 Speaker 1: showed up, he had bled out. There was a report 520 00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:25,720 Speaker 1: that they had information from a woman who has access 521 00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:29,160 Speaker 1: to the home, which led to the arrest of a 522 00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:33,600 Speaker 1: man in Torrance this morning. And the man was arrested. 523 00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:37,240 Speaker 1: Apparently he was armed, he was barricaded and the SWAT 524 00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:42,200 Speaker 1: team had to come. Okay, So La Daily News reporter 525 00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:49,600 Speaker 1: Clara Harder said that this happened on Kenwood Avenue. A 526 00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:52,600 Speaker 1: neighbor named Marty Hernandez said the sheriff's arrived at midnight 527 00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:56,240 Speaker 1: and the suspect finally came out at nine am today 528 00:33:57,640 --> 00:34:02,760 Speaker 1: and the suspect's car was towed. He lived for about 529 00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:05,680 Speaker 1: five years with his wife on Kenwood Avenue, and the 530 00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:08,799 Speaker 1: neighbor said he was a good man, your average older man, 531 00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:12,960 Speaker 1: always talkative. So once again you have the neighbor saying, oh, 532 00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:20,759 Speaker 1: he was a good guy. There's video of the suspects 533 00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:30,040 Speaker 1: yard which is jest cluttered with lots of chunk pipes, bikes, buckets, tools, 534 00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:35,120 Speaker 1: more bikes, potted plants, and one neighbor says he always 535 00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:38,279 Speaker 1: seemed like an odd person, always on the go in 536 00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:45,440 Speaker 1: a rush and digging, digging stuff. In fact, they said 537 00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:51,680 Speaker 1: he he spent a lot of time late at night digging. 538 00:34:53,719 --> 00:35:00,360 Speaker 1: H Just click on another story here that I've found, 539 00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:07,480 Speaker 1: So does it does? It doesn't say what he was 540 00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:13,760 Speaker 1: digging four or if maybe he was burying body parts. 541 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:22,920 Speaker 1: The suspect's wife worked in O'Connell's home, so she worked 542 00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:27,040 Speaker 1: in the house and her husband is the one who's 543 00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:30,480 Speaker 1: going to be formally accused, publicly accused at three o'clock 544 00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:37,080 Speaker 1: of killing him. And apparently he was an odd guy 545 00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:41,840 Speaker 1: who was up late at night digging. Apparently the wife 546 00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:48,160 Speaker 1: was a very devout Catholic. That's so we'll give you 547 00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:51,719 Speaker 1: more as the news comes out and see what it 548 00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:57,560 Speaker 1: is that set him off. All right, Now back to 549 00:35:57,640 --> 00:36:04,520 Speaker 1: the squatters. So in Washington State, Washington State as a 550 00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:08,960 Speaker 1: governor j Ensley, who's about as bad as Newsome, and 551 00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:12,240 Speaker 1: he was another one who ran for office for about 552 00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:17,480 Speaker 1: five minutes and his obsession was global warming and he 553 00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:20,400 Speaker 1: got no votes over that. So he's back to being governor. 554 00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:22,319 Speaker 1: And he did a lot of the same stupid things 555 00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:25,320 Speaker 1: that Newsom did. And one of the one of the 556 00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:30,440 Speaker 1: dumb things is these eviction moratoriums. You know, in California, 557 00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:33,759 Speaker 1: if squatters take over your home, it's actually hard to 558 00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:36,120 Speaker 1: get rid of them. And even in the best of times, 559 00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:38,439 Speaker 1: it was hard to get rid of them. And ever 560 00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:43,320 Speaker 1: since COVID hit and all these eviction laws were passed, 561 00:36:43,640 --> 00:36:48,279 Speaker 1: it's nearly impossible. So in Washington, the town of Lynnwood, 562 00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:51,319 Speaker 1: a group of squatters who were part of a car 563 00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:58,880 Speaker 1: theft ring. They had illegally colonized it. They took it 564 00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:09,880 Speaker 1: over during the pandemic. Eventually, after all these years, a 565 00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:14,920 Speaker 1: swat team cleared them out. Five people who were arrested 566 00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:18,840 Speaker 1: a group of squatters who were living in unhealthy and 567 00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:22,359 Speaker 1: unstable conditions, both short term and long term, and had 568 00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:27,919 Speaker 1: no ownership of the home. The owner neighbor says these 569 00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:31,000 Speaker 1: criminals had been illegally living on the property ever since 570 00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:33,960 Speaker 1: the state and federal government placed a moratory amount of victions, 571 00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:40,160 Speaker 1: so follow this they put up more tory amount of 572 00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:42,120 Speaker 1: victions because so many people who are out of work 573 00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:47,760 Speaker 1: during COVID that they didn't want people ending up homeless 574 00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:53,279 Speaker 1: in the streets because they were barred from working, and 575 00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:58,440 Speaker 1: that applied to people who make their living stealing cars. 576 00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:08,160 Speaker 1: They benefited from the COVID eviction laws no matter that 577 00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:14,320 Speaker 1: they took over the property illegally themselves. They found fifty 578 00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:18,920 Speaker 1: two cars on the property, guns and drugs. A dozen 579 00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:23,440 Speaker 1: people were living there. Five were arrested, so the swat 580 00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:25,919 Speaker 1: team comes and clears them out, but of course they're 581 00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:29,560 Speaker 1: released right away, and then the suspects come back and 582 00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:33,920 Speaker 1: take over the property. Even though the homeowner put in 583 00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:37,360 Speaker 1: new locks, the squatters cut off the new locks and 584 00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:42,720 Speaker 1: barge their way back into the home, we change the locks, 585 00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:46,040 Speaker 1: and they even broke that. Well, they should be arrested 586 00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:50,680 Speaker 1: for breaking in, but they weren't. They weren't, and the 587 00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:56,160 Speaker 1: Lieutenant David Hayes of the Snohomish County Sheriff's Office brought 588 00:38:56,239 --> 00:38:59,560 Speaker 1: Fox News that it's it's on the property owner to 589 00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:06,400 Speaker 1: prevent the suspects from returning. It's his fault. Now they 590 00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:08,719 Speaker 1: let this car theft ring live there for years. The 591 00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:13,360 Speaker 1: police wouldn't remove them. I don't understand how it's against 592 00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:17,520 Speaker 1: the law to remove squatters. We're using the place to 593 00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:20,680 Speaker 1: steal and store cars, But in the state of Washington 594 00:39:20,719 --> 00:39:26,319 Speaker 1: it is. Could you ever imagine there come a day 595 00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:29,680 Speaker 1: where a group of thug criminals would steal a bunch 596 00:39:29,680 --> 00:39:32,879 Speaker 1: of cars, command a house, and legally nobody can force 597 00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:34,919 Speaker 1: them to leave. And finally when they're forced to leave, 598 00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:37,760 Speaker 1: they come back and the lieutenant says, well, it's your fault. 599 00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:45,640 Speaker 1: Well there's locks on the The Sheriff's office will respond 600 00:39:45,680 --> 00:39:48,239 Speaker 1: to the property owner's complaints and if we have the 601 00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:51,160 Speaker 1: ability to legally move people off the property, we will, 602 00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:54,400 Speaker 1: but it may take that the property owner has to 603 00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:56,839 Speaker 1: get a court order to move people out of there. 604 00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:02,759 Speaker 1: You have car thieves who've been arrested. I mean, they've 605 00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:05,840 Speaker 1: been arraigned as car thieves, and now you have to 606 00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:08,560 Speaker 1: go to a court order to get them removed. While 607 00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:11,080 Speaker 1: you get them removed, they're gonna go to jail, They're 608 00:40:11,080 --> 00:40:13,719 Speaker 1: gonna get released, probably on no bail, and then they're 609 00:40:13,719 --> 00:40:16,640 Speaker 1: gonna be back again. Well why wouldn't they There's never 610 00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:22,520 Speaker 1: been any consequences for this. There really is no point 611 00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:26,120 Speaker 1: in owning property in some areas of this country. That 612 00:40:26,360 --> 00:40:38,200 Speaker 1: is just absolutely mind boggling. Neighbors said, how the hell 613 00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:40,560 Speaker 1: do you fifty fifty two cars on the land. I mean, 614 00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:46,400 Speaker 1: must have been quite a spread there, Jesus, one just 615 00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:52,040 Speaker 1: one outrage after another coming up after two o'clock. We 616 00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:54,520 Speaker 1: talked about this last week, and this is going to 617 00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:58,640 Speaker 1: be quite a fight. Newsom is trying to force and 618 00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:02,359 Speaker 1: this legislature trying to work towns to build what they 619 00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:06,160 Speaker 1: call affordable housing. They have these complicated formulas how many 620 00:41:06,239 --> 00:41:09,080 Speaker 1: units each city is supposed to build. Huntington Beach has 621 00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:12,799 Speaker 1: been told that they have to build thirteen thousand, three 622 00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:18,120 Speaker 1: hundred sixty eight apartment units and Huntington Beach said no, 623 00:41:19,120 --> 00:41:22,960 Speaker 1: And there's gonna be multiple lawsuits going both ways over 624 00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:26,680 Speaker 1: this thirteen thousand and three sixty eight. Of course, nobody 625 00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:31,200 Speaker 1: in the town wants that, and the people running the 626 00:41:31,239 --> 00:41:36,879 Speaker 1: city don't want that. What's it the state's business? If 627 00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:40,640 Speaker 1: there aren't enough homes in an area, then people will 628 00:41:40,680 --> 00:41:43,839 Speaker 1: have to go search other places in the country. Why 629 00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:46,840 Speaker 1: does Huntington Beach have to build thirteen thousand plus units? 630 00:41:47,840 --> 00:41:51,279 Speaker 1: What's what's in anybody's business? Why can't people live in 631 00:41:51,280 --> 00:42:00,320 Speaker 1: a single family a single family zone in Huntington Beach? Wow? Again, 632 00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:02,600 Speaker 1: each one of all the stuff we're talking about today 633 00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:06,239 Speaker 1: is is prongs of communism and socialism, the idea that 634 00:42:06,239 --> 00:42:09,960 Speaker 1: the government controls and tells you what to do. And 635 00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:12,680 Speaker 1: you know what's what you know? Like we told you earlier, 636 00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:16,200 Speaker 1: your your kids can't learn in an honors program, because 637 00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:19,000 Speaker 1: it's not fair to the kids who can't compete in 638 00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:22,200 Speaker 1: an honors program. It's not fair that you're living in 639 00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:24,959 Speaker 1: a single family house. So we're gonna have to build 640 00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:28,600 Speaker 1: thirteen thousand apartments. So, oh my goodness. More coming up. 641 00:42:28,680 --> 00:42:31,959 Speaker 1: Debor Mark has the News kf I AM six forty