1 00:00:01,200 --> 00:00:02,279 Speaker 1: I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,320 --> 00:00:05,760 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:08,760 Speaker 2: We have an unusual show today. We're going to have 4 00:00:09,240 --> 00:00:12,280 Speaker 2: a guest co host at two o'clock. 5 00:00:13,320 --> 00:00:14,640 Speaker 1: It's it's a. 6 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:18,239 Speaker 2: Man who bid I think what fifty five hundred dollars 7 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:22,000 Speaker 2: more or less to be a co host on the show. 8 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:26,360 Speaker 2: Money going to a chef Bruno's Katerina's Club to feed 9 00:00:26,680 --> 00:00:29,800 Speaker 2: hungry children and you know that big fundraiser that we 10 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:35,080 Speaker 2: have every year Christmas. Jeffrey Briggs was the winner and 11 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:37,879 Speaker 2: he gets to co host the show beginning at two o'clock. 12 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:41,120 Speaker 2: So we'll look forward to that. I mean, handle got 13 00:00:41,120 --> 00:00:44,720 Speaker 2: started that way right, He was a guest on talk 14 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:47,760 Speaker 2: radio shows and next thing, you know, so we'll talk 15 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:51,239 Speaker 2: to Jeffrey, and Jeffrey's going to share a lot of 16 00:00:51,240 --> 00:00:54,960 Speaker 2: his opinions on the world and I'll take it easy, 17 00:00:55,200 --> 00:00:58,000 Speaker 2: let him carry the show. Now, we're going to talk 18 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:01,760 Speaker 2: with Chris Adler from KFI new This boy, this this 19 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:04,720 Speaker 2: is nice to see. It's it's so refreshing to see 20 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:08,920 Speaker 2: a bad guy given a long prison sentence and nobody 21 00:01:08,920 --> 00:01:12,520 Speaker 2: trying to make up a bunch of excuses for his violence. 22 00:01:12,959 --> 00:01:16,119 Speaker 2: This is about little six year old Aiden Leos, who 23 00:01:16,280 --> 00:01:18,679 Speaker 2: is killed during that road rage on. 24 00:01:20,120 --> 00:01:23,720 Speaker 1: Well, when did that happen? Happened last last year? 25 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:25,960 Speaker 2: No? No, twenty twenty one, that's right, I forgot God, 26 00:01:25,959 --> 00:01:28,840 Speaker 2: a lot of time has gone by. Anyway, he gets 27 00:01:28,920 --> 00:01:32,039 Speaker 2: shot to death. He's he was six years old because 28 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:34,920 Speaker 2: his mother was taking him to school and he's on 29 00:01:34,959 --> 00:01:39,560 Speaker 2: the fifty five freeway and she gets cut off. She 30 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:47,800 Speaker 2: flips off another driver and in response, a passenger in 31 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:54,520 Speaker 2: that car fired a bullet and killed Aiden Leos. And 32 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:58,639 Speaker 2: it was it was just a terrible, awful, unbelievable case. 33 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:03,840 Speaker 2: And this is a twenty six year old man named 34 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:08,320 Speaker 2: Marcus Anthony Aries. Let's get Chris Adleren and she can 35 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:10,440 Speaker 2: fill in the details here and tell us what happened 36 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:10,840 Speaker 2: in court. 37 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:14,280 Speaker 1: Chris you there, hey, John? 38 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:15,480 Speaker 3: Good, Yeah, I'm here. 39 00:02:15,480 --> 00:02:18,880 Speaker 1: Can you hear me, John, Yes, I can hear you Hello? Yes? 40 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:20,800 Speaker 4: Oh sorry, I know we might have a little bit 41 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:24,079 Speaker 4: of a delay, okay, So John, yes, Court this morning, 42 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:29,400 Speaker 4: it was it was very powerful. Judge listened to the defense. 43 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:34,720 Speaker 4: He gave the defense an opportunity to provide any mitigating factors, 44 00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:38,079 Speaker 4: and the defense brought up the age of Marcus Eries. 45 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:41,320 Speaker 4: When he shot and killed Aiden Laos in twenty twenty one, 46 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:45,120 Speaker 4: he was young, in his early twenties, and the law 47 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:48,920 Speaker 4: says that anybody who's twenty five and under should have 48 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:52,000 Speaker 4: careful consideration that they're not fully developed, that their brain 49 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:53,160 Speaker 4: is not fully developed. 50 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:55,080 Speaker 3: And the court took carefully consider that. 51 00:02:55,120 --> 00:02:55,240 Speaker 2: Well. 52 00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:59,880 Speaker 4: The judge did carefully consider that. He also considered the state. 53 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:04,960 Speaker 4: Ares read two statements in court today. One was, you know, 54 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:08,560 Speaker 4: he never mentioned Aiden's name in the first statement that 55 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:11,520 Speaker 4: he read. But the second statement was an apology and 56 00:03:11,560 --> 00:03:14,720 Speaker 4: it was a prayer. And in that statement, he started 57 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:17,000 Speaker 4: to tear up, took his glasses off, and he said, 58 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:20,399 Speaker 4: you know, I am so sorry for what I've done 59 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:22,320 Speaker 4: to the people around me, what I've done to little 60 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:26,680 Speaker 4: Aiden Leaves. He called Aiden an angel, said he looked 61 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:30,359 Speaker 4: like the sweetest little boy and was very regretful for 62 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:32,600 Speaker 4: what he had done, and a john he was in tears. 63 00:03:32,919 --> 00:03:37,720 Speaker 4: The judge considered that he also excuse me, he just 64 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:41,040 Speaker 4: he considered these mitigating factors, but it wasn't enough for 65 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:45,320 Speaker 4: the judge to keep the gun enhancement. There was a 66 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:49,880 Speaker 4: gun enhancement that brought the sentence to forty years to life. 67 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:53,960 Speaker 4: Now the first count was already the first count was 68 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:57,440 Speaker 4: fifteen years to life. And as you could see, Areth 69 00:03:57,520 --> 00:03:59,840 Speaker 4: started to breathe a little bit heavy when the judge 70 00:03:59,920 --> 00:04:02,600 Speaker 4: was reading this, and I think he was hopeful that 71 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:05,440 Speaker 4: the judge was going to have some leniency on him 72 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:07,280 Speaker 4: because again his ape and. 73 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:09,480 Speaker 3: Ares also claimed that he had childhood trauma. 74 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:11,720 Speaker 4: But the judge said he could he could not connect 75 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:14,920 Speaker 4: the childhood trauma to the impulse of him. 76 00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:16,600 Speaker 3: Do you know what fire his weapon? 77 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:19,120 Speaker 2: Do you know what the childhood trauma was? No, do 78 00:04:19,160 --> 00:04:20,599 Speaker 2: you know what the childhood trauma was. 79 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:24,839 Speaker 3: I don't know what the childhood trauma was. 80 00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:30,080 Speaker 4: Everybody that he couldn't connect. We all do I've got 81 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:33,240 Speaker 4: childhood trauma. But the judge said he couldn't connect that 82 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:37,560 Speaker 4: trauma because he said Erese had no record, so there 83 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:41,200 Speaker 4: was no record of this trauma affecting him in any 84 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:44,039 Speaker 4: other aspect of his life. John So he said it 85 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:47,599 Speaker 4: didn't really stand. So he went through these mitigating factors 86 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:50,000 Speaker 4: and he was very careful. He gave the he gave 87 00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:52,880 Speaker 4: the prosecution an opportunity, gave the defense an opportunity. 88 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:55,960 Speaker 3: But in the end he said he couldn't justify. 89 00:04:56,640 --> 00:04:59,679 Speaker 4: Using his glock seventeen handgun to fire at a moving 90 00:04:59,760 --> 00:05:03,200 Speaker 4: car because Aiden Lea's mother flipped him off because she 91 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:04,560 Speaker 4: had been cut off. And I just want to play 92 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:06,880 Speaker 4: something for you that the judge said, he was looking 93 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:08,520 Speaker 4: directly out a reason when he said this. 94 00:05:09,040 --> 00:05:09,680 Speaker 2: And she. 95 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:16,240 Speaker 5: The mom did some drive in maneuver that caused your 96 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:21,760 Speaker 5: girlfriend to give the peace sign. That caused the mom 97 00:05:22,080 --> 00:05:28,640 Speaker 5: to flip off, and that caused you to get behind 98 00:05:28,839 --> 00:05:35,760 Speaker 5: the car. And in that particular moment, you had the power, 99 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:39,760 Speaker 5: and the power was that handgun. 100 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:42,360 Speaker 3: So John, that gun enhancement. 101 00:05:42,480 --> 00:05:44,520 Speaker 4: He kept the gun enhancement, and he gave him the 102 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:48,520 Speaker 4: maximum sentence again, forty years to life. I asked OCDA 103 00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:50,919 Speaker 4: Todd Spitzer, I said, you know, why isn't it just 104 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:53,279 Speaker 4: life in prison? He said, because this is a second 105 00:05:53,279 --> 00:05:57,080 Speaker 4: degree murder. This is a second degree murder case, and 106 00:05:57,160 --> 00:06:01,480 Speaker 4: this was the maximum sentence that they could get. And 107 00:06:01,560 --> 00:06:04,600 Speaker 4: I also want to note John that prosecutors did say 108 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:07,000 Speaker 4: that he will be eligible for parole in twenty years. 109 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:10,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, I heard that, and that's that's terrible, because God 110 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:13,040 Speaker 2: knows what the state of California justice is going to 111 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:16,279 Speaker 2: be twenty years from now, he might get a ticket out. 112 00:06:16,440 --> 00:06:18,080 Speaker 2: What is he now twenty six, so he can get 113 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:19,480 Speaker 2: a ticket out when he's forty six. 114 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:23,480 Speaker 4: He's twenty seven, No, he's twenty seven. We confirmed he's 115 00:06:23,520 --> 00:06:24,080 Speaker 4: twenty seven. 116 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:24,960 Speaker 3: Yeah. 117 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:27,800 Speaker 4: And his girlfriend Winni Lee, his ex girlfriend Winnie Lee. 118 00:06:27,960 --> 00:06:30,800 Speaker 4: She is facing her own trial that should be coming 119 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:34,640 Speaker 4: up this year for being an accomplice after the fact. 120 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:37,400 Speaker 3: John, So we'll see what happens in that case. 121 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:41,839 Speaker 4: But you know, it was really it was really amazing 122 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:45,159 Speaker 4: to see the judge handle this today. He was very 123 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:48,400 Speaker 4: careful in his consideration. But again it was not enough 124 00:06:48,440 --> 00:06:50,599 Speaker 4: for it wasn't enough for him to be swayed, and 125 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:51,839 Speaker 4: he gave him the maximum. 126 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:56,960 Speaker 2: All right, Well, thank you very much, Chris, Chris Adlerka. 127 00:06:57,080 --> 00:06:57,359 Speaker 6: Thanks. 128 00:06:57,640 --> 00:07:01,440 Speaker 2: Can't find news reporting down there from Orange County. The 129 00:07:01,520 --> 00:07:03,600 Speaker 2: road rage verdict were a six year old aiden that 130 00:07:03,760 --> 00:07:09,960 Speaker 2: Leos was murdered. You know, it was murdered by Marcus 131 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:16,360 Speaker 2: Anthony ere Res and Marcus Eres. Can you imagine the 132 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:18,560 Speaker 2: kind of a punk he was, the kind of a 133 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:27,840 Speaker 2: jackass he was. I'm little. Aiden's mom cuts off his girlfriend. 134 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:32,360 Speaker 2: Whoop do do? The mom's name is Joanna Cloonan. So 135 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:35,840 Speaker 2: the girlfriend flashes a peace sign, Cloonan flips her the bird. 136 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:39,880 Speaker 2: And what kind of person. I've always I've always actually 137 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:42,920 Speaker 2: been amused by people who get angry because they're given 138 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:46,480 Speaker 2: the middle finger. Really, somebody sticks their finger up in 139 00:07:46,520 --> 00:07:49,080 Speaker 2: the air, and you go into a murderous rage. And 140 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:54,600 Speaker 2: I'm supposed to think that's reasonable, right, And it's sentencing day, 141 00:07:54,720 --> 00:07:56,960 Speaker 2: and all of a sudden he has a childhood trauma, 142 00:07:57,560 --> 00:08:02,680 Speaker 2: a childhood trauma. He'd ever been caught committing a crime before, 143 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:05,320 Speaker 2: so that trauma must have just suddenly kicked in. 144 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:07,720 Speaker 1: I did mom used to flip him the bird too? 145 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:09,760 Speaker 2: Did he have a flashback to being eight years old 146 00:08:09,960 --> 00:08:11,040 Speaker 2: and mom gave her the finger? 147 00:08:11,040 --> 00:08:13,000 Speaker 1: I mean, want a load of crap? What a load 148 00:08:13,040 --> 00:08:14,880 Speaker 1: of garbage? 149 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:17,960 Speaker 2: And this heartfelt sincere apology? 150 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:21,360 Speaker 1: Who wrote it for him? How many times did he 151 00:08:21,440 --> 00:08:22,000 Speaker 1: rehearse it? 152 00:08:24,760 --> 00:08:27,480 Speaker 2: I never believe any of this stuff, and I don't 153 00:08:27,480 --> 00:08:28,880 Speaker 2: care even if it was sincere. 154 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:34,000 Speaker 1: It's it's a it's just a pile of words. Aiden 155 00:08:34,040 --> 00:08:35,040 Speaker 1: Leos is dead. 156 00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:37,880 Speaker 2: Oh and you're you're giving us a prayer, You're giving 157 00:08:37,960 --> 00:08:43,080 Speaker 2: us some pre written statement that probably a lawyer wrote 158 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:47,240 Speaker 2: for you or you know, a public relations crisis manager, 159 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:53,000 Speaker 2: some nonsense like that. Remember, he hid for two weeks. 160 00:08:54,160 --> 00:08:57,720 Speaker 2: The time to apologize and realize you had a weird 161 00:08:57,960 --> 00:09:01,600 Speaker 2: fit of anger and passion is immediately. But he went 162 00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:04,480 Speaker 2: and he hid for two weeks. He didn't show up 163 00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:10,160 Speaker 2: for work. He hit his car. There was no remorse 164 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:11,920 Speaker 2: there at all. There was no like, oh my god, 165 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:13,800 Speaker 2: what did I just do? Oh I didn't mean that. 166 00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:16,520 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, And you had to reach over. He had 167 00:09:16,559 --> 00:09:17,319 Speaker 2: to reach over. 168 00:09:17,160 --> 00:09:18,640 Speaker 1: In the back of the car. 169 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:24,480 Speaker 2: And swing the gun over and then aim it at 170 00:09:24,559 --> 00:09:30,800 Speaker 2: Joanna Klutan's car. That's what happened. He had a few seconds, 171 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:35,200 Speaker 2: more than a few seconds, as they were both driving 172 00:09:35,240 --> 00:09:40,360 Speaker 2: down the freeway to not pull the trigger. And you 173 00:09:40,440 --> 00:09:44,880 Speaker 2: don't know what a what firing a bullet does? What 174 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:49,560 Speaker 2: a fake phony fraud? And I just want to I 175 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:51,600 Speaker 2: think the judge, because we beat on a lot of 176 00:09:51,640 --> 00:09:52,560 Speaker 2: stupid judges. 177 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:55,000 Speaker 1: When I get his name right, Richard M. King. He 178 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:57,040 Speaker 1: was the Orange County Superior Court judge. 179 00:09:57,480 --> 00:10:00,240 Speaker 2: And I know the law requires him to CONSI or 180 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:04,840 Speaker 2: the apology, or consider the childhood, or consenter his age. Okay, fine, 181 00:10:04,840 --> 00:10:08,840 Speaker 2: I'll consider his age. You're guilty forty years, forty years 182 00:10:08,880 --> 00:10:12,200 Speaker 2: to life, and he'd better not be out in twenty 183 00:10:12,280 --> 00:10:18,600 Speaker 2: years either. I mean, I mean I defense attorneys. I'm 184 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:20,640 Speaker 2: a little sensitive today because we went through the whole 185 00:10:20,760 --> 00:10:26,360 Speaker 2: OJ thing again yesterday. Defense attorneys like this exist just 186 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:29,520 Speaker 2: to emotionally manipulate and lie to jurors to get some 187 00:10:29,679 --> 00:10:31,160 Speaker 2: violent scumbag off. 188 00:10:31,679 --> 00:10:33,080 Speaker 1: That's all this. 189 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:37,679 Speaker 2: Marcus Erez, a violent scumbag who shot a six year 190 00:10:37,720 --> 00:10:42,559 Speaker 2: old boy to death, destroying mom's life because he saw 191 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:45,880 Speaker 2: a middle finger sticking in the air. And then he's got, 192 00:10:45,920 --> 00:10:49,120 Speaker 2: oh yeah, bet childhood, This idea that you're supposed to 193 00:10:49,160 --> 00:10:51,040 Speaker 2: consider a twenty three year old. When was a twenty 194 00:10:51,040 --> 00:10:54,560 Speaker 2: three year old a child? When did that happen? I'm 195 00:10:54,559 --> 00:10:56,720 Speaker 2: not aware of a twenty three year old being part 196 00:10:56,800 --> 00:11:01,320 Speaker 2: of childhood. Can't you go to war twenty three? 197 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:01,800 Speaker 1: Aren't you? 198 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:06,679 Speaker 2: Aren't most twenty three year olds out of the house. 199 00:11:08,120 --> 00:11:10,280 Speaker 2: Aren't twenty three year olds married with their own kids. 200 00:11:10,280 --> 00:11:12,920 Speaker 2: In a lot of cases, what is this? He's a child, 201 00:11:12,960 --> 00:11:17,760 Speaker 2: he's in the brain's not developed. There's there's there's tens 202 00:11:17,760 --> 00:11:20,000 Speaker 2: of millions of people under the age of twenty three 203 00:11:20,040 --> 00:11:25,240 Speaker 2: walking around who never fired a gun in traffic at 204 00:11:25,280 --> 00:11:29,559 Speaker 2: somebody who flipped them off. What a load of horse crap. Anyway, 205 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:32,480 Speaker 2: good riddance. What he what he should do is die 206 00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:36,000 Speaker 2: in prison. Marcus A Reeves. We come back. We've got more. 207 00:11:36,280 --> 00:11:37,160 Speaker 1: Uh. 208 00:11:37,360 --> 00:11:41,720 Speaker 7: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 209 00:11:41,720 --> 00:11:42,280 Speaker 7: six forty. 210 00:11:43,760 --> 00:11:45,000 Speaker 1: Coming up after two o'clock. 211 00:11:45,360 --> 00:11:47,120 Speaker 2: We're gonna have a guest co host for the day, 212 00:11:47,800 --> 00:11:52,200 Speaker 2: uh after two Jeffrey Briggs. He's an attorney and he 213 00:11:52,679 --> 00:11:55,760 Speaker 2: spent a lot of money to be co host for 214 00:11:55,800 --> 00:12:01,000 Speaker 2: the day. He donated thousands of dollars to Chef Bruno's 215 00:12:01,040 --> 00:12:05,360 Speaker 2: Katerina's Club, which we had the Big pastapon every year 216 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:10,839 Speaker 2: to raise money to feed hungry children, and Jeffrey Briggs 217 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:14,240 Speaker 2: was the winner this year. And he'll be sitting in 218 00:12:14,280 --> 00:12:17,240 Speaker 2: and co hosting the show coming up after two o'clock. 219 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:19,440 Speaker 2: It's one of the rare times will allow an attorney 220 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:20,160 Speaker 2: in the studio. 221 00:12:21,920 --> 00:12:22,080 Speaker 1: You know. 222 00:12:22,160 --> 00:12:24,760 Speaker 2: I got to mention this because to me, this should 223 00:12:24,760 --> 00:12:30,040 Speaker 2: be huge news and it's around and I always like 224 00:12:30,120 --> 00:12:34,360 Speaker 2: to I just like to spotlight when one guy is 225 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:38,000 Speaker 2: standing by himself going WHOA over here, there's a big problem, 226 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:43,480 Speaker 2: and usually everybody else is going no, no, no, you know, 227 00:12:43,520 --> 00:12:48,280 Speaker 2: there's always a consensus, there's always the conventional wisdom, and 228 00:12:48,720 --> 00:12:53,000 Speaker 2: usually there's an outlier guy who's either more informed or 229 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:57,280 Speaker 2: smarter than the rest, and he's trying to get everyone's 230 00:12:57,280 --> 00:13:01,240 Speaker 2: attention with a warning, this is a out a terrorist attack. 231 00:13:02,360 --> 00:13:05,120 Speaker 2: This happened in two thousand and one. George Tennant was 232 00:13:05,160 --> 00:13:09,000 Speaker 2: the CIA director, and he was vainly trying to get 233 00:13:09,679 --> 00:13:14,040 Speaker 2: George W. Bush's attention. But Bush was busy painting in 234 00:13:14,120 --> 00:13:17,280 Speaker 2: his bathtub or something. And in the August before the 235 00:13:17,679 --> 00:13:23,120 Speaker 2: nine to eleven attack, he there was part of part 236 00:13:23,160 --> 00:13:26,400 Speaker 2: of the daily intelligence package had in the headline Osama 237 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:32,439 Speaker 2: bin laden plans to fly planes into tall buildings, something 238 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:36,600 Speaker 2: like that, and George W. Bush and the rest of 239 00:13:36,640 --> 00:13:42,400 Speaker 2: the team ignored it wasn't particularly discussed. And what did 240 00:13:42,480 --> 00:13:47,719 Speaker 2: you know about a month later September. In fact, there 241 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:49,000 Speaker 2: was a lot of those. 242 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:50,120 Speaker 1: There's there was. 243 00:13:50,160 --> 00:13:52,880 Speaker 2: There was two planes in the World Trade Center, one 244 00:13:52,920 --> 00:13:55,880 Speaker 2: into the Pentagon. Fourth plane went down in Pennsylvania. Maybe 245 00:13:55,920 --> 00:13:58,360 Speaker 2: maybe you remember it if you're old enough. All right, Well, 246 00:13:58,360 --> 00:14:00,600 Speaker 2: we've got a moment here, and I just want to 247 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:06,960 Speaker 2: mark the moment. FBI Director Christopher Ray said, there's an 248 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:10,800 Speaker 2: elevated threat to US public safety and national security. And 249 00:14:10,880 --> 00:14:13,920 Speaker 2: he said, looking back over my career in law enforcement, 250 00:14:14,240 --> 00:14:17,120 Speaker 2: I'd be hard pressed to think of a time where 251 00:14:17,160 --> 00:14:20,040 Speaker 2: so many threats to our public safety and national security 252 00:14:20,240 --> 00:14:23,800 Speaker 2: were so elevated all at once. But this is the 253 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:27,240 Speaker 2: case as I sit here today. This is not a 254 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:31,000 Speaker 2: point where we can let up now. He was asking 255 00:14:31,040 --> 00:14:33,960 Speaker 2: for money because he was trying to get the House 256 00:14:34,960 --> 00:14:44,440 Speaker 2: to make sure that he's fully funded, and he says 257 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:49,920 Speaker 2: that the FBI needs support to tackle these threats. This 258 00:14:49,960 --> 00:14:51,560 Speaker 2: is by no means of time to let up or 259 00:14:51,560 --> 00:14:54,120 Speaker 2: dial back. We need all the tools, all the people, 260 00:14:54,160 --> 00:14:58,840 Speaker 2: all the resources. They are fearful in the immediate that 261 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:03,400 Speaker 2: there could be an attack on us in some way 262 00:15:03,640 --> 00:15:09,160 Speaker 2: or on Americans overseas, because as you know, Israel has 263 00:15:09,320 --> 00:15:13,920 Speaker 2: attacked Iran and killed some of their leaders, and Iran 264 00:15:14,160 --> 00:15:18,160 Speaker 2: apparently is gearing to respond, and so they're expecting an 265 00:15:18,160 --> 00:15:22,800 Speaker 2: attack on Israel, maybe today, maybe tomorrow, within the next 266 00:15:22,800 --> 00:15:28,080 Speaker 2: couple of days at most, And we're actually sending American 267 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:31,080 Speaker 2: troops to Israel as backup in case things get out 268 00:15:31,080 --> 00:15:35,240 Speaker 2: of hand. But Christopher Ray is worried about some of 269 00:15:35,280 --> 00:15:41,640 Speaker 2: this happening here and that's fine, except how the hell 270 00:15:41,680 --> 00:15:43,680 Speaker 2: would you leave the border wide open during a time 271 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:44,120 Speaker 2: like this? 272 00:15:45,640 --> 00:15:46,880 Speaker 1: Why the hell would. 273 00:15:46,600 --> 00:15:52,080 Speaker 2: You allow millions and millions of people unvetted. We don't 274 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:54,640 Speaker 2: know who they are or why they're here, lots of 275 00:15:54,680 --> 00:15:57,960 Speaker 2: young men coming from all over the place, including the 276 00:15:57,960 --> 00:16:01,120 Speaker 2: Middle East. Why would you let them in the well? 277 00:16:01,160 --> 00:16:03,280 Speaker 2: The FBI director is saying, you know, we could have 278 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:05,720 Speaker 2: an attack here. There's all kinds of warning signs going on, 279 00:16:05,800 --> 00:16:08,560 Speaker 2: a lot of flashing red lights. How about a flashing 280 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:12,920 Speaker 2: red light at the border, and stop everybody? What is 281 00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:16,640 Speaker 2: wrong with them? How could we have a government this 282 00:16:16,880 --> 00:16:21,040 Speaker 2: bad and this stupid. So we're sitting ducks. We're sitting 283 00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:23,720 Speaker 2: ducks to every whack job from the Middle East to 284 00:16:23,800 --> 00:16:27,200 Speaker 2: come in here and blow us up. And then we 285 00:16:27,280 --> 00:16:30,560 Speaker 2: have one guy goes before a committee saying, ah, all 286 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:33,000 Speaker 2: kind of red red warning signs, everything flashing. 287 00:16:33,280 --> 00:16:34,800 Speaker 1: Oh, it looks pretty scary out there. 288 00:16:34,840 --> 00:16:38,280 Speaker 2: Then close the effing border, you moron, all of you 289 00:16:38,680 --> 00:16:39,280 Speaker 2: stop it. 290 00:16:40,840 --> 00:16:43,000 Speaker 1: None of this is good. All right. 291 00:16:43,040 --> 00:16:47,600 Speaker 2: When we come back, we got Blake trolley. Blake has 292 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:50,560 Speaker 2: got more good news coming from Karen Bassis Los Angeles. 293 00:16:50,640 --> 00:16:52,280 Speaker 2: What was the stir we had the other day the 294 00:16:52,360 --> 00:16:55,680 Speaker 2: car theft. We're number one in car theft in the country, 295 00:16:55,840 --> 00:16:59,960 Speaker 2: the Los Angeles metro region. So that's one gold star 296 00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:05,000 Speaker 2: are for Karen Bass. Here is another gold star Downtown LA. 297 00:17:05,480 --> 00:17:08,480 Speaker 2: Why don't people go to downtown I don't understand. Well, 298 00:17:09,200 --> 00:17:14,560 Speaker 2: big shoplifting numbers, big arrest numbers, and oh my god, 299 00:17:14,720 --> 00:17:18,480 Speaker 2: wait till you hear how thieves are now advertising their 300 00:17:19,359 --> 00:17:24,720 Speaker 2: talents to consumers. Blake's gonna explain that you're not gonna 301 00:17:24,720 --> 00:17:27,639 Speaker 2: believe this one. Well you'll believe it. Karen Bass is 302 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:28,360 Speaker 2: Los Angeles. 303 00:17:28,359 --> 00:17:33,960 Speaker 7: Everybody, you're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI 304 00:17:34,200 --> 00:17:35,119 Speaker 7: Am six forty. 305 00:17:35,760 --> 00:17:39,119 Speaker 2: We have much coming up. We have a special co 306 00:17:39,240 --> 00:17:44,000 Speaker 2: host that's gonna be here after two o'clock. He won 307 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:49,399 Speaker 2: the prize of co hosting the show, donated fifty five 308 00:17:49,520 --> 00:17:54,440 Speaker 2: hundred dollars or so to Katerina's Club, Jeff Bruno's charity 309 00:17:54,440 --> 00:17:58,720 Speaker 2: that feeds hungry children. That was our holiday time fundraiser. 310 00:17:58,880 --> 00:18:02,520 Speaker 2: And so Jeff Big is an attorney and he's going 311 00:18:02,560 --> 00:18:04,879 Speaker 2: to be on the show with us. Apparently his wife 312 00:18:04,920 --> 00:18:08,520 Speaker 2: is the one who convinced him to bid the money 313 00:18:08,520 --> 00:18:10,000 Speaker 2: and do this. And I just met them a few 314 00:18:10,040 --> 00:18:12,240 Speaker 2: minutes ago, and so that should be fun coming up 315 00:18:12,280 --> 00:18:15,720 Speaker 2: after two o'clock. We're gonna go to Blake Turley in 316 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:17,560 Speaker 2: one minute. I just want to set up something else. 317 00:18:17,840 --> 00:18:21,840 Speaker 2: I just told you that Christopher Ray, the FBI chief 318 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:26,560 Speaker 2: this week, told the House told the House Committee that 319 00:18:26,760 --> 00:18:29,880 Speaker 2: there's all kinds of flashing warning signs about the terrorists 320 00:18:30,680 --> 00:18:33,919 Speaker 2: and why the hell And I'm saying, why the hell 321 00:18:33,960 --> 00:18:36,679 Speaker 2: would you leave the border open? Wait to hear this story. 322 00:18:36,720 --> 00:18:40,560 Speaker 2: This just broke a few hours ago. They have arrested 323 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:45,439 Speaker 2: an Afghan man who's on the terror watch list. He's 324 00:18:45,480 --> 00:18:48,840 Speaker 2: been arrested twice before and the government let him go twice, 325 00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:52,119 Speaker 2: and now he just was caught a third time. He's 326 00:18:52,160 --> 00:18:56,960 Speaker 2: a major Afghan terrorist. We'll tell you all about it 327 00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:00,320 Speaker 2: coming up in the next segment. But first man who 328 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:03,360 Speaker 2: is not a terrorist as far as we know, Blake 329 00:19:03,440 --> 00:19:07,760 Speaker 2: Trolley from KFI News. Earlier this week we had the 330 00:19:07,760 --> 00:19:10,439 Speaker 2: story about how LA is the number one region in 331 00:19:10,520 --> 00:19:13,879 Speaker 2: car thefts, and now we've got Blake to tell us 332 00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:18,399 Speaker 2: about downtown LA having a lot of shoplifting and shoplifting 333 00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:20,080 Speaker 2: arrests going on. 334 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:21,880 Speaker 1: Blake, Yeah, that's right. 335 00:19:21,960 --> 00:19:24,920 Speaker 6: John shoplifting in downtown LA is actually on track to 336 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:28,880 Speaker 6: outpace last year. LAPD Central telling me that this year 337 00:19:29,200 --> 00:19:32,160 Speaker 6: there have already been two hundred and sixty seven reports 338 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:35,080 Speaker 6: and one hundred and ninety two arrests. Last year there 339 00:19:35,119 --> 00:19:37,600 Speaker 6: were seven hundred and forty two reports in four hundred 340 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:39,800 Speaker 6: five arrests. So keep in mind we're about a third 341 00:19:39,840 --> 00:19:42,280 Speaker 6: through the year, and just on the arrest number, we're 342 00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:44,600 Speaker 6: almost at half that four h five number, at one 343 00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:49,280 Speaker 6: hundred and ninety two Macy's, Nordstrom, So for a Burlington target, 344 00:19:49,320 --> 00:19:52,680 Speaker 6: Smart and Final all amongst stores. Officers are saying they're 345 00:19:52,720 --> 00:19:56,000 Speaker 6: just they're getting slammed. Clothing, shoes, and makeup. These are 346 00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:59,800 Speaker 6: the hottest items being targeted. And I want to interject this, John, 347 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:05,520 Speaker 6: these are well, these shoplifting reports are you know, mostly shoplifting. 348 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:09,320 Speaker 6: Some of these are SD's robberty cases where criminals get violent. 349 00:20:09,520 --> 00:20:12,760 Speaker 6: We're told thieves have pulled knives, pepper spray, and tasers 350 00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:16,560 Speaker 6: on security guards. So all of this, John is stressing 351 00:20:16,760 --> 00:20:20,840 Speaker 6: retail businesses in downtown LA. First of all, employees were 352 00:20:20,880 --> 00:20:23,240 Speaker 6: being told are now scared, and I'm sure this is 353 00:20:23,280 --> 00:20:25,479 Speaker 6: not helping with the hiring of new ones. You have 354 00:20:25,520 --> 00:20:28,280 Speaker 6: to imagine some of these employees have quit out of fear. 355 00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:31,240 Speaker 6: We're also told that this theft has led to bigger 356 00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:34,679 Speaker 6: increases in security costs, and that means higher prices that 357 00:20:34,720 --> 00:20:37,680 Speaker 6: are being passed on to consumers. On top of that, 358 00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:40,200 Speaker 6: and we hear a lot of complaints about this. Many 359 00:20:40,280 --> 00:20:42,440 Speaker 6: of these stores are now caught between trying to figure 360 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:44,919 Speaker 6: out how to secure their products while not making the 361 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:47,760 Speaker 6: shopping experience so hard on people that they turn away. 362 00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:50,840 Speaker 6: So I do question some of the future of some 363 00:20:50,920 --> 00:20:54,520 Speaker 6: of these stores if this continues. You know, John, last August, 364 00:20:54,520 --> 00:20:57,480 Speaker 6: the Organized Retail Crime Task Force was formed. The LAPD 365 00:20:58,000 --> 00:20:59,800 Speaker 6: is trying to bust as many of these guys as 366 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:02,639 Speaker 6: they can, but it just seems like they cannot arrest 367 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:04,639 Speaker 6: their way out of this, and just like the rest 368 00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:06,600 Speaker 6: of the state, they're being overwhelmed. 369 00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:10,920 Speaker 2: Are these guys going to prison for a long time 370 00:21:11,040 --> 00:21:13,760 Speaker 2: after they're arrested or are they let out and then 371 00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:15,680 Speaker 2: they go back into business the next day. 372 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:18,679 Speaker 6: That's the key to this, right And with a lot 373 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:21,720 Speaker 6: of these shoplifting cases, these are misdemeanor cases. And we've 374 00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:23,880 Speaker 6: heard this from sources that a lot of times even 375 00:21:23,920 --> 00:21:26,399 Speaker 6: if they're given jail time. There isn't the jail capacity, 376 00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:29,480 Speaker 6: especially if this is nonviolent shoplifting to hold them. 377 00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:34,120 Speaker 1: Okay, so this is the Prop forty seven story, That's 378 00:21:34,119 --> 00:21:34,720 Speaker 1: what this is. 379 00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:37,640 Speaker 6: Well, wait till you see, wait wait till you hear 380 00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:39,480 Speaker 6: some of these details that came out. I did an 381 00:21:39,520 --> 00:21:43,240 Speaker 6: interview with LAPD Captain Raoul Javel, who really painted a 382 00:21:43,280 --> 00:21:46,280 Speaker 6: picture of just how brazen these thieves are getting, and 383 00:21:46,359 --> 00:21:50,399 Speaker 6: really painted a picture of the ecosystem that has formed. 384 00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:53,400 Speaker 6: We'll start here, and I know the whole foods types 385 00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:55,439 Speaker 6: will be excited to hear this. We now have direct 386 00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:58,880 Speaker 6: to consumer, farm to table shoplifting, John, and what that 387 00:21:58,920 --> 00:22:01,959 Speaker 6: means is that the ves are now posting advertisements on 388 00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:06,800 Speaker 6: social media and asking individual people directly what they want 389 00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:08,080 Speaker 6: so they can go steal it with them. 390 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:08,840 Speaker 1: Listen to this. 391 00:22:09,040 --> 00:22:12,280 Speaker 8: Some suspects are saying, you know that they're taking orders. 392 00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:16,639 Speaker 8: They're actually taking orders for stuff where they go in 393 00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:19,160 Speaker 8: there and get that whatever items, steal it and then 394 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:22,520 Speaker 8: sell it to wherever wants it. So we're seeing that 395 00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:23,439 Speaker 8: and we're hearing that. 396 00:22:24,119 --> 00:22:26,320 Speaker 6: And he says that this is happening pretty rampantly, and 397 00:22:26,359 --> 00:22:29,240 Speaker 6: officers are now trying to bust those social media posts. 398 00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:34,719 Speaker 1: So they're taking orders online. And there's a backside to this. 399 00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:37,399 Speaker 6: John Javelle was telling me that there's, you know a 400 00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:40,040 Speaker 6: lot of consumers if they see stuff online that's way 401 00:22:40,119 --> 00:22:42,199 Speaker 6: cheaper than the actual price of the item, they know 402 00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:44,760 Speaker 6: that stolen, I probably don't want to buy that, but 403 00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:47,560 Speaker 6: there are now there is now you know, a market 404 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:50,520 Speaker 6: for this. There are consumers that are looking for the 405 00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:53,520 Speaker 6: stolen products because they know they can get these things 406 00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:56,600 Speaker 6: at a discount for fifty bucks. 407 00:22:56,680 --> 00:23:00,720 Speaker 2: Hey, there's like fifty increase and a lot of items 408 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:03,440 Speaker 2: like grocery items, So, yeah, the inflation is so bad, 409 00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:06,160 Speaker 2: why not buy the stuff from thieves? 410 00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:09,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, so they're taking direct orders. 411 00:23:09,119 --> 00:23:12,200 Speaker 6: And on top of that, when these thieves are being arrested, 412 00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:14,359 Speaker 6: and I thought this really spoke to just the level 413 00:23:14,359 --> 00:23:16,520 Speaker 6: of brazen this that we're at now here in the 414 00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:19,880 Speaker 6: state of California. When these thieves are being arrested and 415 00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:23,119 Speaker 6: being taken downtown to be booked, so this would mostly 416 00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:27,600 Speaker 6: be a book and release, these thieves are arguing with officers. 417 00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:28,880 Speaker 1: Listen to this, they're. 418 00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:31,000 Speaker 8: Demanding that we'll give them a citation at the scene 419 00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:33,760 Speaker 8: because a lot of departments are doing that this basically, 420 00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:35,479 Speaker 8: you get a citation, you get your stuff, you get 421 00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:39,240 Speaker 8: a citation to walk away. And in downtown LA, we're 422 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:41,919 Speaker 8: trying to send a message. You know, we're physically arresting people, 423 00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:45,720 Speaker 8: physically booking them, taking a picture of fingerprints, and you 424 00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:49,200 Speaker 8: get cited from the jail because we're trying to deter 425 00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:52,120 Speaker 8: this and you know, in the simple ways that we can. 426 00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:54,000 Speaker 1: So there you have it. 427 00:23:54,119 --> 00:23:56,439 Speaker 6: Thieves are being arrested as they're they're caught in the 428 00:23:56,480 --> 00:23:58,359 Speaker 6: act of stealing and they're saying, you need to cite 429 00:23:58,400 --> 00:23:59,280 Speaker 6: me and let me watch. 430 00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:02,439 Speaker 2: So they're taking there's attitude, they're taking orders online and 431 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:06,239 Speaker 2: if they actually get stopped by cops, they're requesting just 432 00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:10,240 Speaker 2: for a citation. They're trying to negotiate with the cops, 433 00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:12,000 Speaker 2: so they're not taking into the police station. 434 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:16,280 Speaker 6: And you heard Javelle say, because there apparently there are 435 00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:18,840 Speaker 6: some departments and I think that this really comes down 436 00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:20,640 Speaker 6: to a lack of resources. I don't think there's any 437 00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:22,760 Speaker 6: department that's just doing it out of laziness. 438 00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:23,159 Speaker 1: You know. 439 00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:25,080 Speaker 6: One of the things Javelle told me is that even 440 00:24:25,119 --> 00:24:27,040 Speaker 6: within the LAPD, you know, they're trying to get their 441 00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:29,840 Speaker 6: their hiring numbers up. But a lot of these departments, 442 00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:32,920 Speaker 6: with the rampant theft that's happening in California, they really 443 00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:35,040 Speaker 6: just can't keep up with these numbers. 444 00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:38,560 Speaker 2: Well because because these are repeat criminals and they get 445 00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:40,920 Speaker 2: to steal, you know, up to nine hundred and fifty 446 00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:44,399 Speaker 2: dollars and all you get is a citation. So of 447 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:46,679 Speaker 2: course they're going to do it all day. Why wouldn't 448 00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:48,679 Speaker 2: they do it all day. They're making a lot of 449 00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:52,240 Speaker 2: money for themselves, and whoever's fencing the stuff, everybody's making out. 450 00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:55,680 Speaker 1: This is good work. And now you can have customers. 451 00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:58,119 Speaker 2: Order online and then you could give the cops a 452 00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:00,640 Speaker 2: hard time and start negotiating, because as if they take 453 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:03,120 Speaker 2: you down to the station, you're you're you lose time 454 00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:03,560 Speaker 2: at work. 455 00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:08,159 Speaker 6: Yeah, well, you know, and when you talk about repeat offenders, 456 00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:10,240 Speaker 6: you know a lot of these stores because these thieves 457 00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:12,840 Speaker 6: are getting violent. And what we heard is that these 458 00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:16,520 Speaker 6: thieves are pulling tasers, pepper spray knives out on security guards. 459 00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:18,320 Speaker 6: So a lot of stores, you know, they don't want 460 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:20,800 Speaker 6: the litigation, they don't want the lawsuits, so they're saying, look, 461 00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:23,959 Speaker 6: hands off policy those stores. He says, are getting hit 462 00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:26,359 Speaker 6: the hardest by repeat Offendersity guards. 463 00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:30,119 Speaker 2: Security guards are useless unless you have somebody there in 464 00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:33,919 Speaker 2: uniform who's who has a gun and is willing to 465 00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:34,360 Speaker 2: use it. 466 00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:35,840 Speaker 1: Makes it clear they're willing to use it. 467 00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:37,960 Speaker 2: This is this is going to go on unchecked because 468 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:41,200 Speaker 2: we have a stupid, stupid government that is legalized all 469 00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:44,040 Speaker 2: this anything else. 470 00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:46,360 Speaker 6: Well, what I can tell you is that I did 471 00:25:46,359 --> 00:25:48,879 Speaker 6: put in a request with the City Attorney's office because 472 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:50,919 Speaker 6: a lot of these cases, Javelle told me, goes to 473 00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:53,200 Speaker 6: the City Attorney's office. So I put in a request 474 00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:55,960 Speaker 6: to get the number of these cases that have been prosecuted, 475 00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:58,680 Speaker 6: how many are pending, And that's a number I'm hoping 476 00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:00,480 Speaker 6: to get here in the next few days. 477 00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:03,040 Speaker 2: All right, Blake, Well if you do, let us know. 478 00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:05,720 Speaker 2: All right, thank you, all right, thanks Jump, that's Blake 479 00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:09,840 Speaker 2: Trolley Kfi news. See this is the real world. When 480 00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:13,600 Speaker 2: you see that that blockhead, that jelhead, Gavin. 481 00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:16,080 Speaker 1: Newsom go on, proper party shoveners no thing to do 482 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:16,399 Speaker 1: with it. 483 00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:21,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, it's everything. It's the whole ball game. They 484 00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:24,720 Speaker 2: know they can steal up to nine hundred and fifty dollars. 485 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:28,959 Speaker 2: They know that they'll just get a ticket, a ticket 486 00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:31,720 Speaker 2: to show up in court. They never show Oh so 487 00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:33,879 Speaker 2: there's a warrant out You know how many thousands of 488 00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:36,639 Speaker 2: warrants there are out there that are never are are 489 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:42,800 Speaker 2: never resolved. It's legal in practical terms in California, in 490 00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:47,080 Speaker 2: Los Angeles, caraenbass Is, Los Angeles. You know all this 491 00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:50,040 Speaker 2: whole crowd was for defund the police. Well here you go. 492 00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:52,560 Speaker 2: They don't have enough police even to do the paperwork. 493 00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:56,800 Speaker 2: And there's no there's no penalties. Nobody's going to jail. 494 00:26:56,880 --> 00:26:59,720 Speaker 2: The jails are over crowded, Then build new jails. Prisons 495 00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:02,960 Speaker 2: are over build new prisons. Newsom's busy closing prisons. 496 00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:05,520 Speaker 1: This is what you get. How could you not get this? 497 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:08,640 Speaker 1: How could you not get They know it. 498 00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:12,080 Speaker 2: See, they know that if they close jails and prisons, 499 00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:15,440 Speaker 2: you're going to get fewer people in jail. That's what 500 00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:19,160 Speaker 2: they want. This is by design. This is to create 501 00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:25,720 Speaker 2: massive instability. That is the goal. The progressive movement wants 502 00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:30,399 Speaker 2: to undermine the stability of your neighborhood, your city, your state, 503 00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:35,480 Speaker 2: your country. That's what they're about. And they're winning, and 504 00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:39,400 Speaker 2: they're executing this flawlessly and we're standing round going understand 505 00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:42,960 Speaker 2: how could they do that? Well, hey, how many of 506 00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:45,159 Speaker 2: you voted for Prop forty seven ten years ago? Did 507 00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:49,119 Speaker 2: you read the thing? Did you understand what you were reading? 508 00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:54,159 Speaker 2: All right, we come back more of the idiocy I 509 00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:58,280 Speaker 2: mentioned earlier, and this is about an Afghan man, a terrorist. 510 00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:02,880 Speaker 2: He's been arrested for the third time here in the US. 511 00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:07,040 Speaker 2: He did a lot of nasty terrorists damage back in 512 00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:09,600 Speaker 2: Afghanistan too, Americans. I'll tell you about it when we 513 00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:10,120 Speaker 2: come back. 514 00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:15,399 Speaker 7: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 515 00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:15,960 Speaker 7: six forty. 516 00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:18,119 Speaker 2: We'll get two runs of the Moistline coming up in 517 00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:22,359 Speaker 2: the three o'clock hour and after two o'clock and Heather's News. 518 00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:26,359 Speaker 2: We are going to have a co host. Did the 519 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:30,320 Speaker 2: man who won the bidding to be co host of 520 00:28:30,359 --> 00:28:33,639 Speaker 2: the show Jeff Briggs. He's an attorney and paid I 521 00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:36,600 Speaker 2: guess fifty five hundred dollars I'm told, and won the 522 00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:41,120 Speaker 2: prize Chef Brunos Catterinas Club pastathon fundraiser that we did. 523 00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:45,240 Speaker 2: So Jeff Briggs will be in coming up after two o'clock. 524 00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:50,520 Speaker 2: I mentioned a little bit ago that Christopher Ray testified 525 00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:56,200 Speaker 2: before the House looking for funding, and he says, this 526 00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:59,560 Speaker 2: is there's so many threats to public safety, so many 527 00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:05,240 Speaker 2: threats to national security. Terrorists, he said, the FBI's immediate 528 00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:09,440 Speaker 2: concern is that individuals will draw inspiration from the Israel 529 00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:13,920 Speaker 2: Hamas war and carry out terrorist attacks in the US. 530 00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:18,960 Speaker 2: For example, in Russia at a concert hall just a 531 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:21,840 Speaker 2: few weeks ago, one hundred and forty four people were 532 00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:23,120 Speaker 2: shot dead by terrorists. 533 00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:25,920 Speaker 1: All right, we discussed that. 534 00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:30,800 Speaker 2: Here's part two, and this just broke a few hours ago. 535 00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:36,440 Speaker 2: An Afghan terrorist on the terror watch list apprehended by Ice. 536 00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:40,160 Speaker 2: And you're probably saying, oh, well, this is a happy story. No, 537 00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:46,760 Speaker 2: it's not, because he's been captured twice before, fairly recently. 538 00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:50,280 Speaker 1: His name is Mohammed Karwan. 539 00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:56,080 Speaker 2: He's a member of Hesbe Islami, which is a terrorist 540 00:29:56,080 --> 00:30:01,280 Speaker 2: group in Afghanistan. Get this, responsible for killing at least 541 00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:06,760 Speaker 2: nine American soldiers and civilians back from twenty thirteen to 542 00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:12,440 Speaker 2: twenty fifteen. So he's with that group and he shows 543 00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:16,640 Speaker 2: up in this country. Guess where he came here, California. 544 00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:21,640 Speaker 2: He crossed Sanya Sigro. He was apprehended in March of 545 00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:25,560 Speaker 2: twenty twenty three after crossing a Sanya Sigro. He was 546 00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:30,840 Speaker 2: not on the terror watch list, referred to ICE and 547 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:40,040 Speaker 2: they released him. It's called an ATD Alternatives to detention. Look, 548 00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:44,640 Speaker 2: you're either you're either sent to a jail cell or 549 00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:48,040 Speaker 2: you or you go free. Alternatives to detention. They set 550 00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:52,760 Speaker 2: him free because there was not conclusive information to match 551 00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:55,560 Speaker 2: him to the terrorism watch list. Well wait a second, 552 00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:57,360 Speaker 2: he came over the border illegally. 553 00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:00,840 Speaker 1: That's enough. He's from Afghani and he came over the 554 00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:01,600 Speaker 1: board illegally. 555 00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:08,040 Speaker 2: Eleven months later, they added him to the terror watch list. 556 00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:12,400 Speaker 2: They found new derogatory information as the way they described it. 557 00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:16,680 Speaker 1: Well so so. 558 00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:20,880 Speaker 2: ICE was notified after they found the new information and 559 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:24,800 Speaker 2: ICE arrested him. But two weeks ago during a court appearance, 560 00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:32,680 Speaker 2: the prosecutors never told the federal immigration judge that this 561 00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:37,560 Speaker 2: Afghan was on the terror watch list. Mohammed Karwan again 562 00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:42,640 Speaker 2: is his name, in case you ran into him. They 563 00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:46,200 Speaker 2: didn't tell the judge that he was a possible national threat. 564 00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:50,480 Speaker 2: This just after they arrested him because he was a threat, 565 00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:52,400 Speaker 2: but they didn't tell the judge. They didn't tell the 566 00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:57,440 Speaker 2: judge why he was a threat. Department of Homeland security. 567 00:31:57,520 --> 00:32:01,120 Speaker 2: These are that that agency's prosecute. They can't disclose what 568 00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:03,960 Speaker 2: they do or don't say in court, and they're limited 569 00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:05,640 Speaker 2: what the department could tell a judge. 570 00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:07,520 Speaker 1: Oh, well, you know what the public ought to know. 571 00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:09,640 Speaker 2: The public ought to know that if they catch a 572 00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:12,840 Speaker 2: guy who they put on the terrorist list and then 573 00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:14,520 Speaker 2: they don't tell the judge, Yeah, we ought to know. 574 00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:20,800 Speaker 1: So the judge ordered him released on bond. Who paid 575 00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:21,080 Speaker 1: for that? 576 00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:28,640 Speaker 2: Then today he was taken into custody again with a 577 00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:32,840 Speaker 2: court appearance for next year. So they spent all this 578 00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:37,920 Speaker 2: time tracking the guy instead of well, I would say 579 00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:42,960 Speaker 2: deport him, But what's the point if the border's wide open. 580 00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:47,080 Speaker 2: These guys should be put in jail here period suspicion 581 00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:49,720 Speaker 2: of being a terrorist. I mean, he's part of a 582 00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:53,680 Speaker 2: group that killed at least nine soldiers and civilians that 583 00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:59,280 Speaker 2: were American. What are we doing? Who signed this suicide pact? 584 00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:05,880 Speaker 2: Who who agreed to this? Herb e Islami is a 585 00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:14,959 Speaker 2: political paramilitary organization in Afghanistan and they hate the West 586 00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:19,200 Speaker 2: and their goal is their goal was to replace the 587 00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:23,680 Speaker 2: Afghan government that we backed with an Islamic state. All right, 588 00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:25,720 Speaker 2: So that's his business and this guy was running around 589 00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:29,680 Speaker 2: loose and it took three arrests to finally put him 590 00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:36,360 Speaker 2: in detention, but probably next year he'll get out. I 591 00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:40,000 Speaker 2: don't understand. I don't understand this government. They must be 592 00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:42,440 Speaker 2: doing this on purpose. There must be a reason they're 593 00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:44,760 Speaker 2: doing this on purpose. What do you think? What do 594 00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:45,040 Speaker 2: you think? 595 00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:46,719 Speaker 1: That is? All right? 596 00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:49,200 Speaker 2: We come back Jeff Briggs, he's an attorney and he 597 00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:52,000 Speaker 2: won the bidding to be a co host on the show, 598 00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:54,440 Speaker 2: and he's going to be with us after two o'clock. 599 00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:59,160 Speaker 2: It was the bidding at Chef Bruno's Apastathon for Katerina's Club, 600 00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:02,640 Speaker 2: and that's Hey, you've been listening to The John Cobalt 601 00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:05,040 Speaker 2: Show podcast. You can always hear the show live on 602 00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:08,120 Speaker 2: KFI Am six forty from one to four pm every 603 00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:11,040 Speaker 2: Monday through Friday, and of course, anytime on demand on 604 00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:12,360 Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio app.