1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 1: I Am six forty. 2 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:06,800 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Welcome, 3 00:00:06,880 --> 00:00:09,800 Speaker 2: It's can't I am six forty More stimulating talk radio. 4 00:00:09,840 --> 00:00:10,959 Speaker 1: It's John Cobelt Show. 5 00:00:11,600 --> 00:00:15,680 Speaker 3: Kay, okay, we are so happy that you're passed. 6 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:18,920 Speaker 1: Oh well, thank you. Now, I just got to remember 7 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:20,759 Speaker 1: what I do you. 8 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:22,640 Speaker 2: We are here every day from one until four, and 9 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:26,320 Speaker 2: then after four o'clock you can listen to the podcast. 10 00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:28,880 Speaker 1: On the iHeart app. It's John Cobelt Show on demand. 11 00:00:29,040 --> 00:00:31,960 Speaker 2: And it's nice to come back after, you know, a 12 00:00:31,960 --> 00:00:34,920 Speaker 2: little over a week off and see that everything out 13 00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:37,519 Speaker 2: in the world here in la is almost exactly the 14 00:00:37,560 --> 00:00:40,519 Speaker 2: same as it was. I feel like I missed nothing. 15 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:43,440 Speaker 2: I come back. I'm driving in and there's Michael Monks 16 00:00:43,440 --> 00:00:46,720 Speaker 2: and there's another sort of semi disturbance going out at 17 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:49,919 Speaker 2: MacArthur Park, and we have the National Guard back, and 18 00:00:50,159 --> 00:00:54,880 Speaker 2: we've got ice officers and protesters, and Karen Bass and 19 00:00:54,920 --> 00:00:58,880 Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom is here. Newsom and Bass are actually celebrating 20 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:01,560 Speaker 2: the six month anniversary of the fire that wiped out 21 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:04,360 Speaker 2: the palisade, So it's nice to have him here. I 22 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:07,600 Speaker 2: guess they took full credit for it. Right, Michael, What 23 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:10,000 Speaker 2: was going on MacArthur Park with Karen Bass and the 24 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:12,039 Speaker 2: National Guard and all these other party people. 25 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:13,240 Speaker 1: This was quite a big scene. 26 00:01:13,240 --> 00:01:15,520 Speaker 4: Out of all of the scenes that we have seen 27 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:18,880 Speaker 4: since immigration enforcement at the federal level really ramped up 28 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:22,320 Speaker 4: in Earnest back in early June. This looked like the 29 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:25,040 Speaker 4: biggest thing that was going to go down yet. About 30 00:01:25,080 --> 00:01:29,959 Speaker 4: one hundred different agents, National Guard, troops, military vehicles, some 31 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:33,760 Speaker 4: of them on horseback, parading through MacArthur Park and it 32 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:36,600 Speaker 4: really looked like something serious was about to go down, 33 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:38,679 Speaker 4: And so all the TV cameras from above or on 34 00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:42,320 Speaker 4: this scene. Protesters from around the city start showing up 35 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:46,759 Speaker 4: on the scene. But then Mayor Karen Bass also shows 36 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:50,240 Speaker 4: up in MacArthur Park as this thing is unfolding, and 37 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:53,120 Speaker 4: we see her talk to a federal agent. He hands 38 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:57,559 Speaker 4: her a phone she's talking to. Somebody hands the phone back, 39 00:01:57,960 --> 00:02:03,000 Speaker 4: and then everybody starts to Karen Bass leaves, the federal 40 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:06,760 Speaker 4: agent start to regroup, and everybody leaves. So this massive 41 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:10,480 Speaker 4: scene unfolds and then nothing really comes of it. 42 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:10,720 Speaker 1: Now. 43 00:02:10,760 --> 00:02:14,440 Speaker 4: The mayor tweeted out moments ago a piece of video 44 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:17,880 Speaker 4: from overhead, saying this is footage from today a MacArthur park. 45 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:21,280 Speaker 4: Minutes before, there were more than twenty kids playing. Then 46 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:24,880 Speaker 4: the military comes through. The second I heard about this, 47 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:26,919 Speaker 4: I went to the park to speak to the person 48 00:02:26,960 --> 00:02:29,359 Speaker 4: in charge to tell them it needed to end. 49 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:32,640 Speaker 1: Now, absolutely outrageous. 50 00:02:33,680 --> 00:02:37,040 Speaker 2: She doesn't have any power though, so I mean, she 51 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:40,440 Speaker 2: could pull that stunt, but they are not going to 52 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:43,000 Speaker 2: listen to her. Ultimately, it's unclear who she was talking 53 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:45,640 Speaker 2: to Eat, but we should learn more. 54 00:02:45,639 --> 00:02:47,120 Speaker 1: I didn't mean to interrupt you on your day back. 55 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:49,120 Speaker 4: I feel like since you've been gone, I've turned into 56 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:52,200 Speaker 4: a bit of a bully, so I'm I apologize, so 57 00:02:52,320 --> 00:02:53,359 Speaker 4: please you. 58 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:55,120 Speaker 1: Know what's going on. I don't. 59 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:58,640 Speaker 2: I just I just heard first of it, driving in 60 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:01,480 Speaker 2: and listening to you, and I didn't understand what the 61 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:02,840 Speaker 2: mysterious phone call was. 62 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:04,560 Speaker 1: And we don't know. No. 63 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:06,800 Speaker 4: I think she mentioned there was there was a bit 64 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:08,520 Speaker 4: of a gaggle of reporters around her, and you can 65 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:10,040 Speaker 4: kind of hear her say that she talked to the 66 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:13,839 Speaker 4: head of customs, so that suggests ice, but that's unconfirmed. 67 00:03:13,880 --> 00:03:16,160 Speaker 4: I don't know if she said the actual person she 68 00:03:16,280 --> 00:03:18,840 Speaker 4: was talking to. We might know more in just a 69 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:20,920 Speaker 4: few minutes, John, because she is going to be joined 70 00:03:20,919 --> 00:03:24,880 Speaker 4: by city councilmen Unisses Hernandez, whose district includes MacArthur Park, 71 00:03:24,919 --> 00:03:27,480 Speaker 4: and they're going to be talking about this activity well 72 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:30,400 Speaker 4: because ultimately she Trump is not going to stand down. 73 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:32,240 Speaker 4: To Karen Bass, well, not only is he not going 74 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:35,040 Speaker 4: to stand down. We heard from the borders are Tom Holman, Yeah, 75 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:37,280 Speaker 4: Holemans just you know the past day or so that 76 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:41,120 Speaker 4: we're coming for the sanctuary cities. We're ramping up enforcement. 77 00:03:41,160 --> 00:03:43,200 Speaker 4: The big beautiful bill that was just signed into law 78 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:45,360 Speaker 4: that's got a lot more money for immigration enforcement, and 79 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:46,240 Speaker 4: they're targeting LA. 80 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:49,520 Speaker 2: Was it possible it was a staging exercise or it 81 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:50,480 Speaker 2: had the. 82 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:52,560 Speaker 4: Air of a parade, you know when you have the 83 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:55,240 Speaker 4: horses involved. But there were some big military vehicles too. 84 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:57,560 Speaker 4: It was quite a scene, it really was. But what 85 00:03:57,680 --> 00:04:01,040 Speaker 4: the minute, It's like they did dispersed. They had it 86 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:03,360 Speaker 4: back into the area of downtown. Of course they're they're 87 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:06,440 Speaker 4: based out of the Federal building down Outta Street, so 88 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:07,840 Speaker 4: it looks like that's where they were headed. 89 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:08,120 Speaker 1: Oga. 90 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:10,320 Speaker 4: I was thinking, was it just like some kind of rehearsal? 91 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:13,160 Speaker 4: Was it might have just been a show of force 92 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:16,160 Speaker 4: Arthur Park. I don't know if you've been there, you 93 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:17,000 Speaker 4: got a picnic there. 94 00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:20,159 Speaker 2: Lately, I haven't gotten in the last few months, but 95 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:22,640 Speaker 2: I'm well aware of that. Yeah, well years ago, k IF, 96 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:24,240 Speaker 2: I used to be in that neighborhood. 97 00:04:24,279 --> 00:04:26,240 Speaker 4: So yeah, so I'm sure you had many a sandwich 98 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:27,160 Speaker 4: sitting on a park bench. 99 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:28,560 Speaker 1: Now it's not as pleasant. 100 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:31,360 Speaker 4: No, it's a lot of open air drug use, and 101 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:33,680 Speaker 4: there are a lot of immigrants there, and I'm sure 102 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:36,760 Speaker 4: of varying legal statuses up and down the streets. It's 103 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:40,760 Speaker 4: a huge population of street vendors but also drug users 104 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:44,000 Speaker 4: in the park, and it's it's a complicated place where 105 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:47,920 Speaker 4: you can't really enjoy the park the way that it's intended. No, 106 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:49,520 Speaker 4: because of all of that activity. 107 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:53,919 Speaker 2: To people, criminals, gang members, weapons being sold, drugs being sold, 108 00:04:54,040 --> 00:04:56,599 Speaker 2: and a lot of those vendors are showing stolen merchandise. 109 00:04:56,760 --> 00:04:59,039 Speaker 4: And and that's something else that we have heard the 110 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:02,080 Speaker 4: federal government wants to crack down on in these immigration efforts, 111 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:04,040 Speaker 4: is take me look at that. Even at the local level, 112 00:05:04,040 --> 00:05:06,400 Speaker 4: we're hearing, you know, we want to crack down more 113 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:09,400 Speaker 4: on some of this retail theft and the reselling of 114 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:13,839 Speaker 4: those materials. But whatever this was today we don't know yet. Again, 115 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:16,480 Speaker 4: about five minutes or so one point fifteen is when 116 00:05:16,520 --> 00:05:18,040 Speaker 4: the mayor and the councilmen say they're. 117 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:19,560 Speaker 2: Going to right, So she could beat her chest all 118 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:22,800 Speaker 2: she wants, but ultimately Trump and Homan are going to win, 119 00:05:23,279 --> 00:05:25,400 Speaker 2: and if they want to clean up the MacArthur Park 120 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:27,760 Speaker 2: area or anything else, they're going to and they have 121 00:05:27,880 --> 00:05:29,560 Speaker 2: all the legal force and she doesn't. 122 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:31,960 Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think the federal government came in to 123 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:35,400 Speaker 4: clean up crack use in MacArthur Park, so whatever they 124 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:37,320 Speaker 4: were doing down there is still unclear. 125 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:40,200 Speaker 2: I think if it's just a scare immigrants away to 126 00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:42,440 Speaker 2: get them to self deport it could be. 127 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:44,600 Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, especially if you're a street vendor. We've 128 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:46,760 Speaker 4: seen it in the Fashion district where there's not as 129 00:05:46,839 --> 00:05:49,480 Speaker 4: much activity at all from the business side of things 130 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:52,039 Speaker 4: like there would have been in the spring. A lot 131 00:05:52,040 --> 00:05:54,480 Speaker 4: of stores opened, a lot of people on the street 132 00:05:54,520 --> 00:05:55,680 Speaker 4: buying the food that's there. 133 00:05:55,520 --> 00:05:55,880 Speaker 1: On the stop. 134 00:05:55,880 --> 00:05:58,400 Speaker 4: Because you live downtown, I do. Yeah, have you seen 135 00:05:58,440 --> 00:06:01,800 Speaker 4: a change, huge change? Yeah, huge change. I mean even 136 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:05,719 Speaker 4: on the weekend, like we just finished one. It's Saturdays 137 00:06:05,760 --> 00:06:08,839 Speaker 4: and Sundays are usually really busy in the Fashion district. 138 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:09,560 Speaker 1: You know a lot of that. 139 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:12,640 Speaker 4: A lot of the suits are being sold, flowers are 140 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:14,880 Speaker 4: being sold, a lot of different trinkets. I mean you 141 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:17,640 Speaker 4: can buy just about anything in Santi Alley and Los 142 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:20,960 Speaker 4: Angeles Street or the Flower District. Anything you need a 143 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:24,320 Speaker 4: little bit of if you're into it, especialty shops. I 144 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:26,000 Speaker 4: can recommend a few if you if you're if you're 145 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:27,760 Speaker 4: ever in the year, something to keep it going since 146 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:30,600 Speaker 4: you're working seven days. Wait, a little bit, A little 147 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:33,240 Speaker 4: bit helps. But it's it's really died. And I just 148 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:36,080 Speaker 4: posted online. I don't know if this is related or not. 149 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:39,600 Speaker 4: It does look like they've had some trouble. Coals French Dip, 150 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:43,240 Speaker 4: the famous iconic downtown La restaurant opened in nineteen oh eight. 151 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:46,760 Speaker 1: They're closing for good. Oh that's that's terrible. 152 00:06:46,839 --> 00:06:50,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean so many places, yeah, are are 153 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:53,200 Speaker 2: closing because of everything that's happened since. 154 00:06:52,960 --> 00:06:54,599 Speaker 1: The area around five years. 155 00:06:55,040 --> 00:06:57,599 Speaker 4: Is in the midst of all that homelessness, drug addiction 156 00:06:58,000 --> 00:06:59,960 Speaker 4: nonsense that you see. 157 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:03,479 Speaker 2: I used to enjoy going to Langers, yeah, you know, 158 00:07:03,680 --> 00:07:06,880 Speaker 2: and MacArthur Park. Yeah, and the Languers owner is threatening 159 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:08,000 Speaker 2: to close every few months. 160 00:07:08,120 --> 00:07:10,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a lot to do it is. It is 161 00:07:10,320 --> 00:07:10,960 Speaker 1: really scary. 162 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:14,320 Speaker 2: I've taken a walk from his parking lot down the 163 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:17,720 Speaker 2: block too languers and back, and last time I went, 164 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:20,000 Speaker 2: it's like, I'm not doing this again now I'm just 165 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:21,800 Speaker 2: you know, if I end up being a victim of crime, 166 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:23,920 Speaker 2: it's my fault because I should know better than it's. 167 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:24,360 Speaker 1: Tough down there. 168 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:27,600 Speaker 4: But to your point about the mayor and thumping her chest, 169 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:31,840 Speaker 4: I think what we're seeing is after a tough start 170 00:07:31,840 --> 00:07:33,640 Speaker 4: to the year for her, obviously much harder for the 171 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:36,360 Speaker 4: people whose homes burned down, but politically speaking, a tough 172 00:07:36,440 --> 00:07:39,600 Speaker 4: year for the mayor to the start. I think she 173 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:43,360 Speaker 4: is found in this issue, especially when you're battling the 174 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:46,520 Speaker 4: Trump administration. He's not as popular in La and La 175 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:48,640 Speaker 4: County as it might be in other parts of the country. 176 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:52,960 Speaker 4: That she's finding some ground to stand on and some 177 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:54,240 Speaker 4: winning messages for. 178 00:07:54,360 --> 00:07:55,400 Speaker 1: People who may have otherwise. 179 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:57,480 Speaker 2: So people are going to vote for her because she 180 00:07:57,520 --> 00:08:00,000 Speaker 2: fights Trump, even though she let the palisades burned down. 181 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:02,760 Speaker 2: So she's leaning into this. That's a good right now, 182 00:08:03,080 --> 00:08:07,480 Speaker 2: that's a good trade off there, all right. I guess 183 00:08:07,960 --> 00:08:09,960 Speaker 2: eventually we'll find out and she's going to speak in a. 184 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:10,880 Speaker 1: Few many moment. 185 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:13,280 Speaker 4: Now we are expecting this news conference with the mayor 186 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:16,640 Speaker 4: and councilman Hernandez, who does represent that area and is 187 00:08:16,760 --> 00:08:18,239 Speaker 4: not a big fan of lawn. 188 00:08:18,080 --> 00:08:20,480 Speaker 1: Percement at all. She's a defund the police girl. 189 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:22,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so she she'd like it if all the 190 00:08:22,760 --> 00:08:24,840 Speaker 2: police just resigned tomorrow. 191 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:28,000 Speaker 4: She's a big pusher of the sanctuary city ordinance when 192 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:29,880 Speaker 4: this thing was being pushed at the end of last year. 193 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:31,600 Speaker 1: You know what, they're going to end up losing on. 194 00:08:32,360 --> 00:08:35,800 Speaker 2: There's no legal basis for the concept of sanctuary cities 195 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:36,920 Speaker 2: or sanctuary states. 196 00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:39,960 Speaker 4: It's not a thing according to federal law. We'll find 197 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:42,960 Speaker 4: out because Trump has that lossit exactly. The federal government 198 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:45,440 Speaker 4: has sued the city, the mayor and the city council 199 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:47,880 Speaker 4: asking a court to invalidate that ordinance. 200 00:08:47,880 --> 00:08:51,080 Speaker 2: So this is getting stupid people excited that they're standing 201 00:08:51,160 --> 00:08:53,960 Speaker 2: up the Trump. But that's not the law. Too bad. 202 00:08:54,559 --> 00:08:57,200 Speaker 4: You know, we shall see and so it goes. Welcome home, 203 00:08:57,280 --> 00:08:59,560 Speaker 4: all right, thanks, all right, Now I'm going to go 204 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:00,720 Speaker 4: back to wherever I was. 205 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:07,680 Speaker 2: Well, we'll continue, well, we'll talk more about Oh, you know, 206 00:09:07,679 --> 00:09:10,199 Speaker 2: today's actually a special day in my family, which ties 207 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:12,840 Speaker 2: into this whole immigration thing, and I want to talk 208 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:15,920 Speaker 2: about it. Maybe you'll understand why I have the views 209 00:09:15,960 --> 00:09:18,319 Speaker 2: I have on this. That's next. 210 00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:23,400 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 211 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:23,959 Speaker 5: six forty. 212 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:29,200 Speaker 2: You know, as time goes on, more dates on the 213 00:09:29,280 --> 00:09:35,040 Speaker 2: calendar have significance to them. You know, you get married, 214 00:09:35,040 --> 00:09:37,880 Speaker 2: you have kids. Suddenly you have anniversaries you have to remember, 215 00:09:37,920 --> 00:09:40,439 Speaker 2: and you have birthdays you have to remember, and this 216 00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:46,080 Speaker 2: and that, and sometimes old anniversaries. 217 00:09:46,800 --> 00:09:47,560 Speaker 1: Just fade. 218 00:09:48,880 --> 00:09:52,520 Speaker 2: But when their date comes up, like today, I'm driving around, 219 00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:55,600 Speaker 2: I knew today was July seventh, and I'm trying to think. Now, 220 00:09:55,640 --> 00:09:58,959 Speaker 2: I know, July seventh is something. What is it? It's 221 00:09:59,040 --> 00:10:01,960 Speaker 2: kind of naggat at me all morning. It's like, July seventh, 222 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:06,160 Speaker 2: that's something, what is actually tied to this immigration thing? 223 00:10:06,679 --> 00:10:11,000 Speaker 2: July seventh was the day that my dad came to 224 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:16,559 Speaker 2: America through Ellis Island. It was July seventh, nineteen fifty, 225 00:10:17,640 --> 00:10:23,679 Speaker 2: seventy five years ago today. Somewhere in my brain I 226 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:24,360 Speaker 2: remembered today. 227 00:10:24,520 --> 00:10:26,160 Speaker 3: That's amazing that you do remember that. 228 00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:31,000 Speaker 2: Well, it's four days after his birthday and he would 229 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:33,920 Speaker 2: have been one hundred years old. On July third, Wow, 230 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:38,000 Speaker 2: So that was kind of top of mind. So he 231 00:10:38,040 --> 00:10:41,880 Speaker 2: was one hundred and then by coincidence, July seventh, four 232 00:10:41,960 --> 00:10:45,000 Speaker 2: days later on the calendar in nineteen fifty he came 233 00:10:45,040 --> 00:10:48,040 Speaker 2: to this country. And yeah, I mentioned his story a 234 00:10:48,040 --> 00:10:50,319 Speaker 2: few times over the years, but if you don't know, 235 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:52,559 Speaker 2: he when he was fourteen he was captured by the 236 00:10:52,679 --> 00:10:57,920 Speaker 2: Nazis fourteen eighth grade. He grew up in a little 237 00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:01,920 Speaker 2: town in Poland, one hundred people, and it was near 238 00:11:01,960 --> 00:11:05,160 Speaker 2: the German border. So in September nineteen thirty nine, when 239 00:11:05,480 --> 00:11:07,920 Speaker 2: Hitler went on his role, they came to his town 240 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:11,120 Speaker 2: and then went door to door. Farmhouses spaced out, and 241 00:11:11,160 --> 00:11:13,839 Speaker 2: they knocked on the door and they took him away. 242 00:11:13,920 --> 00:11:15,760 Speaker 3: But why why did they take him away? 243 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:16,960 Speaker 1: They wanted. 244 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:23,200 Speaker 2: Youthful labor, They wanted young men to do garbage work, basically, 245 00:11:25,040 --> 00:11:28,880 Speaker 2: and they took him down Schwitz. That was his first stop, 246 00:11:29,920 --> 00:11:33,600 Speaker 2: and he had a three judge panel look at his 247 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:37,520 Speaker 2: face to decide whether he was Jewish or Catholic. 248 00:11:38,520 --> 00:11:39,800 Speaker 3: A three judge panel. 249 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:42,920 Speaker 2: It was a first a two judge panel, and they 250 00:11:42,920 --> 00:11:45,880 Speaker 2: split one to one. One said he was Jewish, the 251 00:11:45,920 --> 00:11:48,840 Speaker 2: other said Catholic. And so they called a third guy 252 00:11:48,880 --> 00:11:54,000 Speaker 2: in and he voted Catholic, which he was. But that's 253 00:11:54,040 --> 00:11:54,600 Speaker 2: not the point. 254 00:11:54,679 --> 00:11:56,240 Speaker 3: They didn't make him pull his pants down. 255 00:11:57,080 --> 00:12:01,680 Speaker 1: You know. My wife said the same thing. I didn't 256 00:12:01,720 --> 00:12:02,360 Speaker 1: want to say it. 257 00:12:04,040 --> 00:12:07,800 Speaker 2: She thought they were looking at his his member there, 258 00:12:07,880 --> 00:12:10,240 Speaker 2: and I said, well, had they then they wouldn't have 259 00:12:10,240 --> 00:12:12,079 Speaker 2: had to go through the vote exactly. 260 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:13,560 Speaker 1: So I think they were looking. 261 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:17,040 Speaker 4: At his face, probably his nose, because that was the stereotype, yes. 262 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:18,680 Speaker 2: And because it would have been Audi's. You're just blow 263 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:21,800 Speaker 2: his pants down then, you know, right away. So he 264 00:12:23,720 --> 00:12:26,640 Speaker 2: so he won that one two to one. And really 265 00:12:27,760 --> 00:12:30,880 Speaker 2: we went to Auschwitz about ten years ago, and it 266 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:33,719 Speaker 2: was just down a pathway. He could have gone to 267 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:37,400 Speaker 2: the ovens and there would be no John and there 268 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:43,400 Speaker 2: would be no me. So they put him on a 269 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:48,040 Speaker 2: work farm in Germany. He and other prisoners of war 270 00:12:48,720 --> 00:12:53,040 Speaker 2: slaved away on the farm. Eventually the Germans lost the 271 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:56,440 Speaker 2: whole World War two ended and he ran off to 272 00:12:56,920 --> 00:13:01,120 Speaker 2: Holland and then to England and he worked for the 273 00:13:01,160 --> 00:13:06,120 Speaker 2: next five years driving trucks through Europe as they reconstructed 274 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:09,800 Speaker 2: the whole continent. He didn't go back to Poland because 275 00:13:09,840 --> 00:13:13,319 Speaker 2: by then the Russians had taken over Soviet Union and 276 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:15,920 Speaker 2: he was writing back to his friends and nobody was 277 00:13:15,920 --> 00:13:18,959 Speaker 2: returning the letters. So he didn't know what happened to them, 278 00:13:20,440 --> 00:13:22,120 Speaker 2: never did for the rest of his life. Didn't know 279 00:13:22,120 --> 00:13:24,720 Speaker 2: if they were if they had never made it there, 280 00:13:24,920 --> 00:13:29,640 Speaker 2: or the Russians captured him, who knows. So we worked 281 00:13:29,679 --> 00:13:36,400 Speaker 2: for the British Army driving trucks delivering supplies. And after 282 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:41,200 Speaker 2: five years of that war was over, no need, no 283 00:13:41,280 --> 00:13:44,720 Speaker 2: need for him anymore. So it joined with a Catholic 284 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:51,880 Speaker 2: organization for immigration and they give a choice of three countries, Australia, 285 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:55,400 Speaker 2: Canada and the US, and he thought Australia was too 286 00:13:55,400 --> 00:13:59,080 Speaker 2: hot and Canada was too cold, and so he came 287 00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:04,400 Speaker 2: to a marriage and shortly after that, just a few weeks, 288 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:08,000 Speaker 2: he met my mom at a picnic at a Polish 289 00:14:08,120 --> 00:14:11,480 Speaker 2: church in New Jersey and two years later they got married. 290 00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:16,319 Speaker 2: But it took five years from the time he arrived 291 00:14:16,520 --> 00:14:21,000 Speaker 2: legally through Ellis Island until he became a citizen, and 292 00:14:21,040 --> 00:14:23,080 Speaker 2: he had to go to class, and he had to 293 00:14:23,120 --> 00:14:26,520 Speaker 2: take English lessons, and you know, he had to pay 294 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:29,800 Speaker 2: various fees, and it was a whole process. And I 295 00:14:29,840 --> 00:14:32,160 Speaker 2: found his paperwork, so I know he went through all this. 296 00:14:32,880 --> 00:14:36,040 Speaker 2: He had to get tested. They were serious about the English, 297 00:14:36,040 --> 00:14:39,640 Speaker 2: although he never did speak very well. And you know, 298 00:14:40,120 --> 00:14:43,280 Speaker 2: it's why when I hear about people trying to make 299 00:14:43,280 --> 00:14:48,680 Speaker 2: emotional cases for well, you know they're just here, it's like, yeah, 300 00:14:48,840 --> 00:14:51,360 Speaker 2: but most of them came here voluntarily. 301 00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:53,720 Speaker 1: I understand they wanted to work, they wanted to get 302 00:14:53,760 --> 00:14:54,600 Speaker 1: a better job. 303 00:14:54,640 --> 00:14:56,760 Speaker 2: But we can't take everybody in, and we can't take 304 00:14:56,800 --> 00:14:58,920 Speaker 2: everybody who's poor into the country. 305 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:02,160 Speaker 1: And my day was one of these. And certainly he 306 00:15:02,200 --> 00:15:02,880 Speaker 1: had a story. 307 00:15:04,560 --> 00:15:06,560 Speaker 2: You know, it's hard to beat getting captured by the 308 00:15:06,640 --> 00:15:08,920 Speaker 2: Nazis when you're fourteen. He ever saw his mother again? 309 00:15:09,160 --> 00:15:11,640 Speaker 2: Oh you know, the terrible things he saw in World 310 00:15:11,720 --> 00:15:14,320 Speaker 2: War Two? I mean you know he could. 311 00:15:14,880 --> 00:15:16,240 Speaker 1: The thing is, I was going to say, I could 312 00:15:16,280 --> 00:15:18,080 Speaker 1: go on and on, except he never did. 313 00:15:18,360 --> 00:15:21,520 Speaker 6: He didn't talk to you about this. He must have 314 00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:23,960 Speaker 6: said something, as you do have this information. 315 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:26,200 Speaker 1: Yes, he said some things. 316 00:15:26,320 --> 00:15:29,680 Speaker 2: Twice we taped him for about a half hour each 317 00:15:30,040 --> 00:15:33,880 Speaker 2: to talk about his experiences. My mother ended up answering 318 00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:37,000 Speaker 2: all the questions. We liquored him up. We got him 319 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:39,360 Speaker 2: a little bit drunk to loosen him up. He was 320 00:15:39,400 --> 00:15:42,240 Speaker 2: like that whole generation. They just didn't talk about it, 321 00:15:42,360 --> 00:15:45,000 Speaker 2: never complained about it. And it's not like he had 322 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:47,200 Speaker 2: a really easy light, a much better life here than 323 00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:50,800 Speaker 2: in Poland. He worked in a factory for almost fifty years. 324 00:15:51,080 --> 00:15:54,240 Speaker 2: In fact, when I was a kid, more than half 325 00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:58,520 Speaker 2: my childhood he worked overnights, slept all day, slept on 326 00:15:58,560 --> 00:16:02,000 Speaker 2: the weekends too. My memory of my dad during that 327 00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:05,360 Speaker 2: period is stretched out in the lounge chair sleep snoring, 328 00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:08,240 Speaker 2: and my brother and I used to torture him and 329 00:16:08,280 --> 00:16:10,560 Speaker 2: wake them up and record his snoring and play it 330 00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:13,360 Speaker 2: back to him. You guys are me, I know, so 331 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:17,800 Speaker 2: you know I went He went through the whole immigrant 332 00:16:18,880 --> 00:16:24,120 Speaker 2: you know, the whole igorant immigrant rigorarole, right, and I 333 00:16:24,160 --> 00:16:26,520 Speaker 2: got it what these people are saying, but you got 334 00:16:26,520 --> 00:16:27,760 Speaker 2: to do it right, and it's. 335 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:28,520 Speaker 1: Got to be controlled. 336 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:36,280 Speaker 2: And I just have no sympathy for everybody's story if 337 00:16:36,320 --> 00:16:39,000 Speaker 2: they're not willing to do at least what my dad did. 338 00:16:39,360 --> 00:16:42,960 Speaker 2: Just wait your turn, pay the fees, learn the language, 339 00:16:44,280 --> 00:16:49,280 Speaker 2: wait till there's your turn. And you know, the Catholic 340 00:16:49,640 --> 00:16:52,000 Speaker 2: organization set it up so he'd have a job here. 341 00:16:53,120 --> 00:16:55,280 Speaker 1: Never took a dollar from the government. Never. 342 00:16:56,480 --> 00:17:00,800 Speaker 2: This organization first got him a job king apples from 343 00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:03,560 Speaker 2: the back of a from the back of a pickup 344 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:06,359 Speaker 2: truck in upstate New York, and he didn't like that 345 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:08,960 Speaker 2: because he was kind of afraid of heights sitting like 346 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:11,520 Speaker 2: standing on the back of the truck. So they got 347 00:17:11,600 --> 00:17:13,679 Speaker 2: him a factory job and that became his life for 348 00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:16,000 Speaker 2: the next forty seven years until he retired. And he 349 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:18,800 Speaker 2: didn't retired till he was seventy two. You know, he 350 00:17:18,880 --> 00:17:20,960 Speaker 2: wasn't a lot of pain in his back was shot 351 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:25,280 Speaker 2: and all that. But I don't he didn't tell me 352 00:17:25,359 --> 00:17:28,960 Speaker 2: a lot or give me life lectures. I just absorbed 353 00:17:28,960 --> 00:17:31,560 Speaker 2: it by watching him. That's what I thought life was 354 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:35,240 Speaker 2: is she's just worked really hard and just try to 355 00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:37,600 Speaker 2: do the right thing. And he did the right thing. 356 00:17:37,640 --> 00:17:40,680 Speaker 2: And I have all his paperwork to prove it, because 357 00:17:40,720 --> 00:17:43,960 Speaker 2: you know, we were doing something legally, and I found 358 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:47,120 Speaker 2: all this stuff. And I just don't want to hear 359 00:17:47,160 --> 00:17:50,800 Speaker 2: anybody who doesn't want to do It's got a reason 360 00:17:50,840 --> 00:17:54,200 Speaker 2: people shouldn't do it. Now you don't and stop complaining. 361 00:17:54,920 --> 00:17:55,160 Speaker 1: I don't. 362 00:17:55,200 --> 00:18:01,200 Speaker 2: I did these idiot protesters, all these all these groups, 363 00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:03,959 Speaker 2: like all right, all of the protesters that showed up 364 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:08,240 Speaker 2: to take on the National Guard today at MacArthur Park. 365 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:11,359 Speaker 1: Michael Monks's story, It's like, who the hell are you people? 366 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:13,040 Speaker 1: Is it Turla? 367 00:18:13,320 --> 00:18:16,440 Speaker 2: Is it the rapid response network that best advertises for 368 00:18:16,920 --> 00:18:19,840 Speaker 2: Is it our tax money that is paid for this 369 00:18:19,960 --> 00:18:21,159 Speaker 2: rapid response network? 370 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:23,240 Speaker 1: So you could go and interfere with the National Guard? 371 00:18:25,119 --> 00:18:28,000 Speaker 6: Well, what I don't understand is when these protests, these 372 00:18:28,040 --> 00:18:31,720 Speaker 6: peaceful protests, they turn not so peaceful and these people 373 00:18:31,760 --> 00:18:35,760 Speaker 6: are throwing rocks and doing whatever, starting fires. I mean, 374 00:18:35,840 --> 00:18:38,320 Speaker 6: how do do they not understand how bad that makes 375 00:18:38,359 --> 00:18:41,320 Speaker 6: them look? And why would anybody be okay with them 376 00:18:41,359 --> 00:18:43,400 Speaker 6: being here if they're doing that. 377 00:18:44,280 --> 00:18:51,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not good marketing to try to kill ice 378 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:54,760 Speaker 2: officers or LAPD officers, and we're supposed to have tolerance 379 00:18:54,800 --> 00:18:58,920 Speaker 2: for this. I'd like to drop the f bomb here. 380 00:18:58,960 --> 00:19:00,560 Speaker 2: That's my response to that. There's not going to be 381 00:19:00,560 --> 00:19:03,880 Speaker 2: any tolerance and there's not going to be any embracing here. 382 00:19:04,640 --> 00:19:06,399 Speaker 2: I mean, I heard today. I'll talk about this when 383 00:19:06,440 --> 00:19:09,399 Speaker 2: we come back, but today is the story about a 384 00:19:09,480 --> 00:19:12,639 Speaker 2: guy I forgot what stated was in that he was 385 00:19:12,680 --> 00:19:14,000 Speaker 2: he was found he was trying to. 386 00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:18,160 Speaker 1: He was standing outside Federal. 387 00:19:17,840 --> 00:19:21,600 Speaker 2: Ice building Texas, Texas, Texas, and he had some big 388 00:19:21,640 --> 00:19:25,840 Speaker 2: weapon and he wanted to take out federal agents in 389 00:19:25,920 --> 00:19:28,560 Speaker 2: case you wonder why they're so heavily armed and the 390 00:19:28,640 --> 00:19:31,399 Speaker 2: National Guards backing them up, and they're wearing masks and 391 00:19:31,440 --> 00:19:32,000 Speaker 2: all the rest. 392 00:19:32,280 --> 00:19:33,280 Speaker 1: Talk about that coming up. 393 00:19:34,280 --> 00:19:39,160 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty. 394 00:19:40,080 --> 00:19:41,560 Speaker 3: Okay, we're going to go now to care. 395 00:19:42,640 --> 00:19:48,000 Speaker 7: Six month anniversary of the fires of the natural disaster, 396 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:52,159 Speaker 7: the worst in California's recent history, and to report on 397 00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:55,000 Speaker 7: the progress. While I was on the way, though, I 398 00:19:55,040 --> 00:19:59,959 Speaker 7: got alerted that there was a ice operation military interview 399 00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:05,880 Speaker 7: who knows at MacArthur Park. I turned around, we went 400 00:20:05,920 --> 00:20:08,640 Speaker 7: to the park. I could see a helicopter in the air. 401 00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:11,239 Speaker 7: I think it was a black Hawk helicopter, and I 402 00:20:11,240 --> 00:20:15,880 Speaker 7: saw military tanks. It was the Custom and Border Patrol, 403 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:20,320 Speaker 7: and it might have been military on the periphery. To me, 404 00:20:20,520 --> 00:20:25,720 Speaker 7: this is another example of the administration rationing up chaos 405 00:20:26,280 --> 00:20:30,239 Speaker 7: by deploying would look like a military operation in an 406 00:20:30,280 --> 00:20:33,679 Speaker 7: American city. So I went to MacArthur Park because it 407 00:20:33,760 --> 00:20:37,080 Speaker 7: is very important that the truth be told about what 408 00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:40,199 Speaker 7: happened there. Now you can spin it any way you like, 409 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:44,679 Speaker 7: But in my opinion, it's a political agenda of provoking 410 00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:50,800 Speaker 7: fear and terror. Frankly, it is outrageous and unamerican that 411 00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:55,440 Speaker 7: we have federal armed vehicles in our parks when nothing 412 00:20:55,960 --> 00:20:59,760 Speaker 7: is going on in the parks. It's outrageous and un 413 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:05,560 Speaker 7: American that the federal government seized our state's national Guard. 414 00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:10,320 Speaker 7: It's outrageous and un American that we have US Marines 415 00:21:10,359 --> 00:21:17,080 Speaker 7: who are trained to kill foreign soldiers overseas deployed in 416 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:22,439 Speaker 7: our American city. So here's the truth. There's no plan 417 00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:27,720 Speaker 7: other than fear, chaos, and politics. Home depot one day, 418 00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:31,119 Speaker 7: a car wash the next, armed vehicles and what looked 419 00:21:31,160 --> 00:21:35,720 Speaker 7: like mounted military units in a park the next day. 420 00:21:37,359 --> 00:21:42,440 Speaker 7: What happened to the criminals, the drug dealers, the violent 421 00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:48,159 Speaker 7: individuals who were in the park today were children. It 422 00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:52,919 Speaker 7: was their summer camp, their day, their summer day camp. 423 00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:58,679 Speaker 7: Those kids now have no activities this afternoon. They have 424 00:21:58,760 --> 00:22:02,480 Speaker 7: to stay inside. They were ushered inside so that they 425 00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:06,520 Speaker 7: didn't get exposed to the troops that were walking in 426 00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:11,280 Speaker 7: formation across their playground area. We did not want the 427 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:13,879 Speaker 7: children to be aware that it was ice. 428 00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:15,320 Speaker 1: Although I do. 429 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:18,400 Speaker 7: Have to tell you that I went and I spoke 430 00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:22,359 Speaker 7: to an eight year old. I never let on what 431 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:26,760 Speaker 7: was going on upstairs. But did this eight year old 432 00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:29,520 Speaker 7: tell me that he was afraid of ice? Did the 433 00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:33,040 Speaker 7: eight year old tell me that he was afraid of 434 00:22:33,119 --> 00:22:36,080 Speaker 7: ice taking his parents and he didn't think it was 435 00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:40,920 Speaker 7: good to take people away? So understand that that eight 436 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:44,840 Speaker 7: year old knows enough of what's going on that he's 437 00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:48,679 Speaker 7: already traumatized in anticipation. 438 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:54,640 Speaker 2: To this or just the usual rhetoric they were upstairs. 439 00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:56,920 Speaker 7: But I think it's pretty dramatic that a. 440 00:22:56,960 --> 00:23:04,159 Speaker 2: Child enough for her, enough for her that as emotionally manipulative. No, 441 00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:07,200 Speaker 2: we didn't have the National Guard and the Ice agents 442 00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:13,639 Speaker 2: to disrupt a camp for kids. You have been a 443 00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:20,720 Speaker 2: politician in California for decades and you're a part of 444 00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:26,159 Speaker 2: the sanctuary city, sanctuary state movement. You give sanctuary to 445 00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:30,000 Speaker 2: those criminals, and now you're shocked that the federal government's 446 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:34,000 Speaker 2: enforcing the law trying to remove the criminals. And they 447 00:23:34,040 --> 00:23:38,400 Speaker 2: were upfront about this from day one. I had Tom 448 00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:41,400 Speaker 2: Homan on the show and he said that they are 449 00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:46,240 Speaker 2: going to deport anybody else that they find along the way. 450 00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:50,840 Speaker 2: The first thrust was to go after the criminals, which 451 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:54,199 Speaker 2: they have. They've removed tens of thousands of criminals, and 452 00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:56,400 Speaker 2: they said, yeah, we're going after others as well. 453 00:23:57,320 --> 00:23:58,280 Speaker 1: That's federal law. 454 00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:01,919 Speaker 2: I don't know what her list of federal laws that 455 00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:04,520 Speaker 2: we should not enforce are. I'd like to hear it 456 00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:08,000 Speaker 2: outside of immigration law, what other federal laws should we 457 00:24:08,119 --> 00:24:12,520 Speaker 2: not enforce? And as far as being heavily armed, here's 458 00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:18,440 Speaker 2: why McCallen, Texas Border Patrol facility, an active shooter armed 459 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:22,240 Speaker 2: with tactical gear and a rifle opened fire upon border 460 00:24:22,280 --> 00:24:27,720 Speaker 2: agents as they arrived at the facility. Agents and local 461 00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:32,240 Speaker 2: police returned fire, killed the gunmen. No federal agents hit, 462 00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:37,000 Speaker 2: but one McCallen police officer was struck. Officer in stable condition. 463 00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:44,720 Speaker 2: So that's why they're well armed. That's why they're wearing 464 00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:48,840 Speaker 2: the uniforms. That's why they have National Guard backup. That's 465 00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:52,040 Speaker 2: why they have the Marines backing them up. This is 466 00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:57,639 Speaker 2: why because there are crazy people trying to kill federal 467 00:24:57,720 --> 00:25:04,720 Speaker 2: law enforcement. Now, Karen Bass doesn't understand that, and Neva does. 468 00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:10,160 Speaker 2: Yunicis Hernandez because they stood around while this place went 469 00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:15,600 Speaker 2: to hell just a few weeks ago, when the police 470 00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:20,280 Speaker 2: chief Jim McDonald said, we were overwhelmed. Karen Bass didn't 471 00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:22,520 Speaker 2: have an answer for his own for her own police chief. 472 00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:25,080 Speaker 2: So Trump had to come in with the National Guard 473 00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:29,560 Speaker 2: in the Marines. Because Karen Bass never enforced the law 474 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:33,639 Speaker 2: as mayor for two years, I don't think she helped 475 00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:36,720 Speaker 2: instigate any kind of immigration of law while she was 476 00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:40,240 Speaker 2: in Congress for ten years, she was in she was 477 00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:43,960 Speaker 2: in the legislature, she was one of the legislative leaders 478 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:48,400 Speaker 2: for years in Sacramento. Never did anything about these problems. 479 00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:52,440 Speaker 2: So now it's dumped in her lap and she's. 480 00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:53,040 Speaker 1: Going to have to live. 481 00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:55,359 Speaker 2: You know, you go twenty years not taking action on 482 00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:59,840 Speaker 2: something that is really important. Well, you don't get to 483 00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:01,520 Speaker 2: be part of the solution at the end. You don't 484 00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:03,560 Speaker 2: get to have a say, You don't have a seat 485 00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:05,200 Speaker 2: at the table, a voice in the room. 486 00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:07,600 Speaker 1: All the cliches that she likes to use, you don't 487 00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:08,159 Speaker 1: get any of that. 488 00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:11,080 Speaker 2: You fumbled it. You fumbled it for over twenty years. 489 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:15,080 Speaker 2: You're in the legislature, you're a congress person, you're the mayor. 490 00:26:15,359 --> 00:26:17,919 Speaker 2: You never did anything to help. Now there's a new 491 00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:20,680 Speaker 2: regime in Washington, and you don't like it. So you're 492 00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:23,920 Speaker 2: gonna pull out year olds are afraid. Oh, sit down 493 00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:28,240 Speaker 2: and shut up. How would we go through all the 494 00:26:28,359 --> 00:26:32,280 Speaker 2: victims of all the illegal alien criminals that you did 495 00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:35,399 Speaker 2: nothing to round up. How many thousands of them have 496 00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:38,200 Speaker 2: been living in Los Angeles amongst us, How many crimes 497 00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:41,080 Speaker 2: have they committed? How many victims of those crimes You 498 00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:44,960 Speaker 2: didn't care, You weren't worried about the children of the 499 00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:49,919 Speaker 2: crime victims who got killed and terrorized by illegal aliens. 500 00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:55,800 Speaker 2: Enough with these emostly manipulative sob stories. 501 00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:56,719 Speaker 6: I guess you don't want to hear from the LA 502 00:26:56,800 --> 00:26:59,680 Speaker 6: City Council president talking about MacArthur Park. 503 00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:05,239 Speaker 2: Well right now, oh all right, turn it, put them on. 504 00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:06,960 Speaker 2: It's not going to last long, but. 505 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:11,160 Speaker 8: Our department when something is wrong, that is the kind 506 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:13,840 Speaker 8: of havoc that's being visited visited. 507 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:14,760 Speaker 1: Upon our city. 508 00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:17,760 Speaker 8: And so we're very proud of what's been done in 509 00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:20,000 Speaker 8: MacArthur Park and we're going to continue that work. 510 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:23,919 Speaker 1: But we need ice out of law now, not going 511 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:24,359 Speaker 1: to have it. 512 00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:26,720 Speaker 8: And with that, I'll ask my colleague from the first 513 00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:29,640 Speaker 8: Districts who's led, along with the mayor, the great work 514 00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:32,120 Speaker 8: at MacArthur Park. And it was on the scene very 515 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:34,560 Speaker 8: very early from the first District Council member A and 516 00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:35,959 Speaker 8: E c cernendus. 517 00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:40,640 Speaker 2: Full blooded socialistness, lady defund the police. 518 00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:44,280 Speaker 9: This morning we witness the latest escalation in the Trump 519 00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:49,840 Speaker 9: administrations demp depraved campaign against our city. The National Guard 520 00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:54,560 Speaker 9: descended onto MacArthur Park, bringing troops, military weapons, equipment and 521 00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:58,280 Speaker 9: armored vehicles to a community park, a community hub, a 522 00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:01,439 Speaker 9: place where families gather. This happened while summer camp was 523 00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:04,560 Speaker 9: in session at the park, playing games with their friends. 524 00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:07,400 Speaker 9: Young jud was subjected to having to be ushered into 525 00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:09,959 Speaker 9: the lower part of one of our buildings as terrible 526 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:13,720 Speaker 9: was taking places as they drop out there. 527 00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:17,919 Speaker 2: I've been to MacArthur Park many times. The place is 528 00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:22,840 Speaker 2: rife with gang members, rife with crazy homeless people. I mean, 529 00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:26,480 Speaker 2: you've got drug addicts, You've got all kinds of mental patients, 530 00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:32,320 Speaker 2: fentonal addicts, crack addicts, gang members, openly selling weapons, openly 531 00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:35,879 Speaker 2: selling drugs. That's been going on for many years. And 532 00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:38,840 Speaker 2: this is Hernandez and Karen Bess never cared that the 533 00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:41,840 Speaker 2: local kids were exposed to all that. In fact, a 534 00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:44,560 Speaker 2: lot of the boys ended up getting sucked into the gangs. 535 00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:52,800 Speaker 2: So they are just full of crap, absolute absolutely full 536 00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:57,880 Speaker 2: of crap, enormous hypocrites. If they've been scarred, it's because 537 00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:01,080 Speaker 2: of all the gang and criminal activity and homeless activity. 538 00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:04,040 Speaker 2: The stuff that the vendors sell. When I hear about 539 00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:09,640 Speaker 2: hard working immigrants, all that stuff is stolen, maybe from you. 540 00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:11,480 Speaker 1: The thieves that. 541 00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:13,800 Speaker 2: Run around LA all the time gathering stuff, they take 542 00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:18,720 Speaker 2: it to some fencing operation in downtown LA. And then 543 00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:23,840 Speaker 2: the illegal aliens who run the vending tables selling junk 544 00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:29,040 Speaker 2: on those tables on sidewalks all around MacArthur Park, that's 545 00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:32,760 Speaker 2: all stolen. They go to the fence, they buy the 546 00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:35,400 Speaker 2: stuff cheap, and then they try to resell it. If 547 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:37,480 Speaker 2: you've had stuff stolen from you, you could probably go 548 00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:41,520 Speaker 2: to MacArthur Park and buy it back for a fraction 549 00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:43,440 Speaker 2: of the price you paid for it the first time. 550 00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:44,840 Speaker 1: So stop it. 551 00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:52,040 Speaker 2: Total phonies. Dave allowed and this is Hernandez, Marquis, Harris Dawson, 552 00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:57,000 Speaker 2: Karen Bass has allowed Los Angeles to collapse and become 553 00:29:57,000 --> 00:30:03,080 Speaker 2: a hellhole, a dirty, disgusting, crime ridden, homeless ridden hell hole. 554 00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:06,360 Speaker 2: And now they're going to rise up and be all 555 00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:11,760 Speaker 2: self righteous that because Trump is sending in the National 556 00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:14,680 Speaker 2: Guard and the Marines and ICE. 557 00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:18,520 Speaker 1: Again. All I want to do is drop the F bomb. 558 00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:19,720 Speaker 1: That's all I have to say. 559 00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:23,880 Speaker 2: That's all I have to say about Bass and Hernandez 560 00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:27,480 Speaker 2: and Marquise Harris Dawson. What a bunch of clowns and 561 00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:32,000 Speaker 2: phonies they created the hell their fault, one hundred percent. 562 00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:35,160 Speaker 2: They've all been in office long enough. Bass has had 563 00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:40,320 Speaker 2: this long career in office, She's done nothing but harbor criminals. 564 00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:44,160 Speaker 2: She and Dawson and Hernandez ought to be in jail 565 00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:49,520 Speaker 2: for harboring criminal illegal aliens. That's the way it should 566 00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:50,920 Speaker 2: work out. 567 00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:52,120 Speaker 1: Now. 568 00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:55,080 Speaker 2: I told you because they got a story here in 569 00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:59,080 Speaker 2: the La Times about agents wearing masks, and that creates 570 00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:01,400 Speaker 2: a new level of Dane here. Right, We're going to 571 00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:04,640 Speaker 2: talk about that. Give you some more detail about the 572 00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:08,800 Speaker 2: Texas situation where ICE agents were fired on by some 573 00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:11,840 Speaker 2: lunatic will continue. 574 00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:17,080 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am 575 00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:17,640 Speaker 5: six forty. 576 00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:22,640 Speaker 2: I'm just sitting here stealing because Karen Bess just did 577 00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:27,160 Speaker 2: an appearance with a couple of other hack politicians decrying 578 00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:32,480 Speaker 2: the staging that ICE did this morning with the National 579 00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:34,880 Speaker 2: Guard in MacArthur Park. I don't know what the purpose 580 00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:39,560 Speaker 2: of the whole thing was, but they were there in 581 00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:45,120 Speaker 2: full force, Ice, National Guard, horses, everybody all dressed up. 582 00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:51,840 Speaker 2: And now Bass and Unices Hernandez, who's this socialist idiot 583 00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:55,320 Speaker 2: of a councilwoman from MacArthur Park, and Marquise Harris Dawson, 584 00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:59,160 Speaker 2: who by the way, stood around on fire day in 585 00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:01,280 Speaker 2: the Palisades, going anything. 586 00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:03,840 Speaker 1: I can do, anything I can do, How do you 587 00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:04,480 Speaker 1: have any help? 588 00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:11,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, when Bass was in Africa, remember the deputy mayor 589 00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:15,440 Speaker 2: who is supposed to provide oversight over police and fire. 590 00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:19,200 Speaker 2: Deputy mayor was an administrative leave and he's now pled 591 00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:23,360 Speaker 2: guilty for calling in bomb threats. Then you had the 592 00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:28,320 Speaker 2: acting Mayor, Harris Dawson, who apparently did nothing when the 593 00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:33,320 Speaker 2: Palisades burned except send an email saying if I can 594 00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:37,280 Speaker 2: do anything, please let me know. So you're talking about 595 00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:43,240 Speaker 2: people who are absolutely worthless, bags of bones, just nothing, 596 00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:47,480 Speaker 2: They nothing useful. And she never showed this kind of 597 00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:51,160 Speaker 2: passion when the Palisades was burning. Of course, how could she. 598 00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:52,000 Speaker 2: She was in Africa. 599 00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:57,200 Speaker 1: But boy she stirred up about illegal aliens. Huh. 600 00:32:57,240 --> 00:33:00,960 Speaker 2: But American citizens and American taxpayers using everything they own 601 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:01,800 Speaker 2: in the Palisades. 602 00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:04,280 Speaker 1: Where was she? 603 00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:08,120 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, knocking back cocktails with the President of God. 604 00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:11,760 Speaker 4: She shouted out Churlot at the press conference too, Oh. 605 00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:13,120 Speaker 1: Turla, yeap Charla. 606 00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:17,680 Speaker 2: Yes, the rapid response network, they're the ones who send 607 00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:20,800 Speaker 2: out You wonder where protesters come from a short notice 608 00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:24,920 Speaker 2: like that, I mean, the news breaks that there's a 609 00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:28,080 Speaker 2: staging going on by ICE a MacArthur Park. It's like 610 00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:30,440 Speaker 2: less than a half hour. Lady, you got all these protesters. 611 00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:34,440 Speaker 2: Churla has a rapid response network. They're paid. You know what, 612 00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:37,560 Speaker 2: they're paid with our tax money. Churla got thirty four 613 00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:42,840 Speaker 2: million from Gavin Newsom in the legislature and Bass does 614 00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:46,240 Speaker 2: a commercial in the middle of her public addresses every 615 00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:48,720 Speaker 2: time for Churla's rapid response network. 616 00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:51,200 Speaker 1: So our tax money. 617 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:54,600 Speaker 2: Pays for the protesters, pays for the rioters. 618 00:33:57,360 --> 00:33:59,720 Speaker 1: We all just witnessed these massive riots that. 619 00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:03,800 Speaker 4: Went on for a week, and you wonder why they're 620 00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:06,760 Speaker 4: showing up with the National Guard, why they're heavily armed, 621 00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:11,160 Speaker 4: why they're on horseback, Because our tax. 622 00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:12,520 Speaker 1: Money is going. 623 00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:18,280 Speaker 2: To these illegal immigration organizations who want to kill ICE 624 00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:24,400 Speaker 2: agents or want to inspire others to kill such as 625 00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:29,320 Speaker 2: this guy, I'm. 626 00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:35,879 Speaker 1: Gonna finally get to him. Where did the story goes? 627 00:34:39,680 --> 00:34:44,080 Speaker 2: This guy in Texas who is shooting at ICE agents 628 00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:46,640 Speaker 2: at an ICE facility and they have to return fire 629 00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:48,240 Speaker 2: and kill one. 630 00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:49,880 Speaker 1: That's what's going on. 631 00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:55,080 Speaker 2: ICE agents are under attack, so of course they show up. 632 00:34:56,960 --> 00:35:01,120 Speaker 1: Dressed in armor. There's a story here about why they 633 00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:01,960 Speaker 1: wear masks. 634 00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:06,960 Speaker 2: Of course, the La Times Jenny Jarvi, Ice agents wearing 635 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:10,800 Speaker 2: masks adding new level of danger, new level of danger 636 00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:18,440 Speaker 2: to who because according to the National President of the 637 00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:21,759 Speaker 2: Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association, we have a lot of 638 00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:25,040 Speaker 2: agents whose faces are being put on social media platforms 639 00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:28,360 Speaker 2: across the country. We have politicians right now that are saying, 640 00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:31,600 Speaker 2: we will find these federal agents who have masks on, 641 00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:35,959 Speaker 2: We'll expose them. Oh yeah, Doctor Cynthia Gonzalez, the vice 642 00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:38,520 Speaker 2: mayor of kata Hey, she still has her job, right 643 00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:42,480 Speaker 2: She was encouraging gang members to come out to do 644 00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:48,000 Speaker 2: what shoot at ICE. We have a vice mayor here 645 00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:51,120 Speaker 2: in Los Angeles County urging gang members to come out 646 00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:53,680 Speaker 2: and take on ICE. And the LA Times is wondering, 647 00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:56,160 Speaker 2: It's like, why are the ICE agents wearing masks? 648 00:35:56,200 --> 00:35:57,319 Speaker 1: That's very intimidating. 649 00:35:57,680 --> 00:35:58,000 Speaker 5: How come. 650 00:35:58,080 --> 00:36:05,879 Speaker 2: We can't know who they are because doctor Cynthia Gonzales' 651 00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:09,120 Speaker 2: friends will snap their photos, put them online and put 652 00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:09,959 Speaker 2: a bounty. 653 00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:10,239 Speaker 1: Up for them. 654 00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:19,040 Speaker 2: That's why whatever, and you know who supports this stuff, 655 00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:24,080 Speaker 2: Karen Vass, your nieces, Hernandez, Marquise, Harris Dawson. They're working 656 00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:28,240 Speaker 2: for the enemy here. They're not working for the people, 657 00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:31,280 Speaker 2: the taxpayers of Los Angeles. They're not working for the citizens. 658 00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:34,880 Speaker 2: They're not working for the Americans or America. They're working 659 00:36:35,239 --> 00:36:41,920 Speaker 2: for the enemy. They have been harboring criminals, protecting criminals 660 00:36:42,239 --> 00:36:43,560 Speaker 2: for years and years. 661 00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:46,240 Speaker 1: They do it out in the open. 662 00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:51,760 Speaker 2: Karen Bass protects criminals as part of her daily routine. 663 00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:55,200 Speaker 2: That's why she thinks she got elected. That's why she 664 00:36:55,239 --> 00:36:59,399 Speaker 2: can be so passionate about this issue. She thinks that's 665 00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:01,960 Speaker 2: why she'll get re elected if she stands up to 666 00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:08,239 Speaker 2: protect the criminals, the criminal, illegal aliens. I haven't gotten 667 00:37:08,239 --> 00:37:10,560 Speaker 2: to the Palisades yet. Today's the oh, Today's a six 668 00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:14,720 Speaker 2: month anniversary that bast and Newsom were celebrating successfully burning 669 00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:17,680 Speaker 2: down the Palisades. Debor Mark live in the KFI twenty 670 00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:20,200 Speaker 2: for our newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the John 671 00:37:20,239 --> 00:37:22,919 Speaker 2: Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear the show live 672 00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:25,800 Speaker 2: on KFI Am six forty from one to four pm 673 00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:28,840 Speaker 2: every Monday through Friday, and of course, anytime on demand 674 00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:30,360 Speaker 2: on the iHeartRadio app