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Speaker 2: the lineup today? Oh, after one point thirty, we're going

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Speaker 2: to talk to an ABC News investigative reporter, Olivia. Olivia, Olivia,

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Speaker 2: what's Ruben? That's right, And we're going to talk about

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Speaker 2: the next step in the Epstein case, which you know

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Speaker 2: is getting But there ought to be some some gold

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Speaker 2: some bombshells. I mean, I want big names, I want

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Speaker 2: descriptions of what was going on. You know, I'm tired

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Speaker 2: of this, like twenty years of this story and we

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Speaker 2: know hardly anything more than we did ten years ago.

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Speaker 2: And we'll get to that. Also, there's no photographic evidence

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Speaker 2: that was published in the California Globe about the a

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Speaker 2: billion and a half dollars that Newsome and the legislature

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Speaker 2: are spending on this massive state capitol building project. They're

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Speaker 2: building themselves new offices, a huge building five hundred and

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Speaker 2: twenty five thousand square feet five hundred and twenty five

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Speaker 2: thousand square feet they're building for themselves with our money

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Speaker 2: minimum a billion and a half dollars, which is.

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Speaker 1: Triple the price.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so we're going to have Katie Grimes on on that,

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Speaker 2: among other things. But what I want to start off

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Speaker 2: with here is it looks like we have the third

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Speaker 2: fire chief this year who is running interference, covering up

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Speaker 2: the truth. Looking the way, I don't know how to

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Speaker 2: describe it. I'm really shocked. We got a new fire chief,

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Speaker 2: I mean Moore. He's been on the case for three

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Speaker 2: days and he's already barking about the criticism of the

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Speaker 2: fire department and the way they handled the palisade situation

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Speaker 2: because new stories are leaking out not flattering to the

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Speaker 2: fire department officials. And I've been very clear on separating

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Speaker 2: the officials from the regular firefighters who have to follow orders.

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Speaker 2: But the fire officials increasingly look to be incompetent and

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Speaker 2: stupid and destructive in their decisions.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how is to put that.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I just gotta you know, just if you

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Speaker 2: doubt me, if you think it's hyperbole. Go go drive

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Speaker 2: to the Palisades, you'd tell me. Because the first fire

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Speaker 2: chief this year, Kristen Crowley, well we know what she did.

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Speaker 1: She didn't send.

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Speaker 2: Any personnel or equipment into the Palisades for hours and hours,

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Speaker 2: and she was not prepared to deal with the flare

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Speaker 2: up of the January first fire. I think that when

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Speaker 2: we found out it started, the fire actually started January first,

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Speaker 2: and then we found out it was never fully put out.

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean that.

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Speaker 2: Speaks to massive, massive incompetence and buffoonery on the part

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Speaker 2: of Kristin Crowley and Karen Bass.

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Speaker 1: But you know she was in Africa.

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Speaker 2: Then the second chief that we had was Ronni van Aweva,

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Speaker 2: and I would have expected he would come in and

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Speaker 2: do a full, comprehensive investigative report, you know these after

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Speaker 2: action reports. Crowley was accused of not wanting to do one.

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Speaker 2: I could see why he was supposed to do one.

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Speaker 2: One comes out and it didn't have any of the

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Speaker 2: that the fire on January first, Well on January second,

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Speaker 2: it was still smoldering. You know, the ground, the tree stumps,

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Speaker 2: because the fire is not out of its smoldering, and

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Speaker 2: it reignited during the eighty mile an hour winds five

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Speaker 2: days later. But the battalion chief, Mario Garcia, according to

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Speaker 2: This came from fire department texts that the La Times

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Speaker 2: and that's where we left the story.

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Speaker 1: Now, the third the third fire chief is a guy named.

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Speaker 2: I mean more Jimi Moore spoke before the fire commission

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Speaker 2: and Heimie Moore is very upset that people are criticizing

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Speaker 3: The audacity for people to make comments and say that

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Speaker 2: Well, why would anybody send them to you? Well, are

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Speaker 2: doesn't exist? Are you saying these text messages were falsified?

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Speaker 2: The audacity for a news organization to say there's texts

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Speaker 2: presumably saw the texts. And there's other people who saw

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Speaker 1: It was true.

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Speaker 2: And maybe you should be calling up Barrio Garcia and

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Speaker 2: tracking down who was on duty that day on January

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Speaker 2: tewod that was supposed to be bopping up. That's all

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Speaker 2: in the fire department records. Why don't you call those guys?

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Speaker 2: Why weren't those guys contacted and given immunity to explain

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Speaker 2: what happened?

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Speaker 1: It looks like people have known for many months.

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Speaker 2: I mean, the you know every you know, the all

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Speaker 2: these LA politicians they loved to whack on Trump. Well,

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Speaker 2: what I saw is that the federal investigation actually revealed

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Speaker 2: that it was an arsonist and that it started on

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Speaker 2: State Parkland, and that it turns out the LA Fire

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Speaker 2: fire on January second, reported all this smoldering going on

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Speaker 2: and didn't.

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Speaker 1: Finish the job.

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Speaker 2: And then yesterday we found out through records and photographic

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Speaker 2: evidence that the News of administration the Parks Department for

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Speaker 2: the state had sent an employee to the side of

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Speaker 2: the January first fire, that night of the fire, and

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Speaker 2: then the next day, January second, and this person was

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Speaker 2: ordering LA firefighters around. They didn't want anything bulldozed, they

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Speaker 2: didn't want protected plants to be destroyed. And it's the

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Speaker 2: opinion of the attorney for many of the Palis Aane's

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Speaker 2: residents that had they done the bulldozing and cleared out

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Speaker 2: all the vegetation, all the stuff that was smoldering, then

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Speaker 2: you would not have had a reignited fire. But somebody

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Speaker 2: from News's administration came and bullied the fire department didn't

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Speaker 2: want this cleaned up properly. There's a huge scandal and

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Speaker 2: now people are talking and apparently there is a report

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Speaker 2: that Channel seven broke. Actually this came out a couple

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Speaker 2: of weeks ago. There is a letter that let me

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Speaker 2: see here This letter was purportedly written by firefighters with

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Speaker 2: the Los Angeles Fire Department. They were sent it was

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Speaker 2: sent to Karen Back, some council members and ABC seven.

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Speaker 2: It's seven pages and in this letter from current and

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Speaker 2: former LAFT firefighters, they said, we have no faith in

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Speaker 2: the Los Angeles City Fire Department to investigate itself, no faith.

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Speaker 2: We have no faith in Chief Vietaweva to conduct an accurate,

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Speaker 2: comprehensive and impartial report related to the Lockman fire. The

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Speaker 2: new letter, signed by la Fire Department chief officers and

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Speaker 2: captains says they're beyond ashamed, beyond ashamed, and apparently more

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Speaker 2: as upset about that report as well, which we will play.

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Speaker 2: We will play you the latest report from ABC seven

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Speaker 2: Kevin Osbeck, because another layer to the scandal is that

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Speaker 2: the fire department has like oversight committee, except the oversight

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Speaker 2: committee can't overst anything. They only have one employee, so

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Speaker 2: they can't do any of their own investigations. They have

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Speaker 2: nobody working there. Not only was the fire department defunded

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Speaker 2: by Karen Vass and Eric Arcetti, the fire department overside

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Speaker 2: committee was defunded as well. There's simply no people. There's

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Speaker 2: not enough people working for the fire department, and there's

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Speaker 2: hardly anybody who working for the oversight committee. This is

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Speaker 2: crazy stuff. Everybody in the city is at risk if

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Speaker 2: more fires break out. Remember we get thousands of them

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Speaker 2: every year, set by the crazy homeless people. But there's Heimeymore,

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Speaker 2: the LA Fire Department chief. The hell was screaming about

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Speaker 2: the media. He's claiming the media is smearing the firefighters. No, no, no,

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Speaker 2: the media's releasing text messages from firefighters who say fire

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Speaker 2: management pulled them off the scene. So he's either misinformed

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Speaker 2: or he's lying. There's an no media smear of the firefighters.

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Speaker 2: The firefighters are reporting this. The firefighters wrote the letter

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Speaker 2: that they sent to Channel seven and Karen Bass, that's

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Speaker 2: wrong with you? So, Honey Moore, he's three days on

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Speaker 2: the job and he is whiffing one, two, three strikes

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Speaker 2: and three days. All right, We'll playing that report from

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Speaker 2: Kevin Osbeck ABC seven.

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Speaker 1: How are things going?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, plenty of room, alright, plenty of room is Aric

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Speaker 2: eight seven seven moist stady six U. So the new

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Speaker 2: fire department chief has been around for three days. Yesterday

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Speaker 2: media smearing firefighters because the LA Times had a report

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Speaker 2: they saw text messages, They saw the text messages from

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Speaker 2: LA firefighters that a battalion chief ordered them to roll

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Speaker 2: up their hoses and leave the area of the New

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Speaker 2: Year's Day fire, and that's where the new fire got

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Speaker 2: whipped up and spread. And of course that was again

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Speaker 2: discovered by the federal investigation, not by the news of administration,

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Speaker 2: wasn't in there after action reports. So why did those

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Speaker 1: Wow?

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Speaker 2: We got tantalizing indications yesterday from an attorney representing the

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Speaker 2: Palisades residents that it looks as if somebody from Newsom's administration,

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Speaker 2: from the California Parks the Apartment, came down and they

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Speaker 2: took over the side of the fire was on state land,

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Speaker 2: bulldoze here. You can't do this, you can't do that.

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Speaker 2: And then I had something to do with the firefighters

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Speaker 2: had the big Palisades fire, apparently trying to protect some plants,

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Speaker 2: and none of those plants exist now, by the way,

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Speaker 2: I remember there was an early reporting by the La

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Speaker 2: Times they were trying to protect the milk vetch plant.

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Speaker 2: The milk vech plant is endangered here in California. Well

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Speaker 2: not anymore. They're all gone, at least the ones of

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Speaker 2: the Palisades. Listen to this report ABC seven reporter Kevin Osbeck.

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Speaker 2: There's a Los Angeles Fire Department oversight committee, but they

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Speaker 2: can't do oversight because they only have one employee.

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Speaker 5: The Border Fire Commissioners is made up of five civilians

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Speaker 5: with one mission, and that's being a check.

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Speaker 4: On the fire department.

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Speaker 5: But the president of that commission says that's mission impossible

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Speaker 5: because the commission has a whopping staff size of just one.

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Speaker 5: Do you think this commission has been a successful check

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Speaker 5: on this fire department?

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Speaker 6: I can tell you that ten years ago it was

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Speaker 6: a successful check. Do I think we're doing a good

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Speaker 6: job now No a brutally honest answer at a time

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Speaker 6: when the LAFD continues to face tough questions.

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Speaker 1: Jenthi Hudley Hayes has.

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Speaker 7: Been the President of the Board of Fire Commissioners for

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Speaker 7: nearly two years. This civilian board of five has won

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Speaker 7: just one staff member to audit the LAFD. Hudley Hayes

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Speaker 1: Olivia, how are you?

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Speaker 1: I'm all right? So where where are we with this now?

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Speaker 8: Well, so what this is about is the records that

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Speaker 8: Well, look, whatever is in there is anyone's best guests,

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Speaker 1: All right?

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Speaker 2: I'm you know, this case been around for twenty years

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Speaker 8: Well, according to the president, Department of Justice, the Attorney

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Speaker 2: But these girls have known who the customers were. That's

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Speaker 8: Well, I'm here in New York, where you know, of

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Speaker 8: So a lot of this has played out in New York.

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Speaker 8: But you know, to your point, others like Prince Andrew

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Speaker 2: We'll see I guess any day now. Olivia Rubin, ABC

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Speaker 2: Conway is going to be live Fort Toy eight o'clock

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Speaker 2: at the Smart and Final in Yorba Linda twenty one,

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Speaker 2: five hundred Yorreber Linda Boulevard right off the ninety one.

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Speaker 2: But I'm out of breath amount of time, so we'll

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Speaker 2: we'll keep telling you about all this after Brigita's news.

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Speaker 2: Katie Grimes, two things, two scandals in Sacramento. You know

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Speaker 2: they've built a new Capitol building or a five hundred

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Speaker 2: twenty five thousand square feet. This is all for the legislators.

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Speaker 2: This is offices for themselves. They're supposed to cost a

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Speaker 1: This is another version of high speed rail.

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Speaker 2: What what was wrong with their old offices were way

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Speaker 2: in debt and this is what the legislature in Newsom

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Speaker 2: about it.

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Speaker 1: The other story is.

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Speaker 2: The FBI intercepted communications of many, many Newsom administration officials

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Speaker 2: and other people in California politics. Of course, these are

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Speaker 2: Dozens and dozens of Sacramento insiders they got FBI letters

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Speaker 2: been talk about that too. I told you this a

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Speaker 2: We talked a lot about that this hour. Spencer Pratt,

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Speaker 2: the DWP CEO. How she makes seven hundred and fifty

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Speaker 2: her an award. They gave her an award for being

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Speaker 2: a woman or something like that. Jenise Kenonas, all right,

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Speaker 2: This is from Spencer Pratt on November twelfth, twenty twenty five. Oh,

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Speaker 2: that would be a week ago. The LEDWP amended its

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Speaker 2: security agreement for Kenonias. The cost of for private security

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Speaker 2: Kinonia's four hundred and fifty two thousand dollars on top

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Speaker 1: So we're talking about a total prize.

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Speaker 2: Package of about one million, two hundred thousand dollars. This

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Speaker 2: provides Keynonias with a highly trained security agent and a

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Speaker 1: This is what your.

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Speaker 2: Electric bill and your water bill, this is what it's

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Speaker 2: going for to protect this in empty, incompetent boob who

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Speaker 2: have been one hundred seventeen million gallons of water in

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Speaker 2: there when the fire hit, but it was empty, completely empty,

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Speaker 2: not a drop And it was her fault.

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Speaker 1: And so what does she get?

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Speaker 2: Three quarters of a million dollars in salary, almost a

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Speaker 2: half million dollars in security. Keep paying your water and

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Speaker 2: electric bills. You didn't get water for the fire department.

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Speaker 2: They didn't turn off the electricity either in the Palisades,

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Speaker 2: which caused more fires to erupt.

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Speaker 1: But she is making.

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Speaker 2: Out, I mean, the insanity increases every day, if you

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Speaker 2: notice that every day? All right, Katie Grimes from California Globe.

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Speaker 2: Right after Brigina's news, there's now fotographic evidence of this

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Speaker 2: massive boondoggle, the state capital annex. They're spending a billion

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Speaker 2: and dozens of Newsom administration officials and other Democratic political

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Speaker 2: their texts, any electronic communications have been intercepted as part

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Speaker 2: of the federal corruption case that started with Newsom's former

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Speaker 2: chief of staff Dana Williamson. Wow, why do they need

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Speaker 2: to talk to dozens and dozens or not even talk

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Speaker 1: What's going on in the Newsomb administration? I think we know?

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Speaker 2: Debor Mark's off today Briginia Diagostinos live in the KFI

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