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Speaker 3: You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio

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Speaker 3: app Quite a day out of nowhere. A big blow

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Speaker 3: up in the White House in the Oval Office between

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Speaker 3: Donald Trump and JD. Vance and the President of Ukraine,

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Speaker 3: Voldemir Zelenski. Tell you about that in just a few seconds.

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Speaker 3: Coming up after one thirty. Our big ruckus and scandal

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Speaker 3: here in Los Angeles is the mayor firing the fire

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Speaker 3: chief Kristin Crowley in the aftermath of the Pacific Palisades fire.

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Speaker 2: And Crowley's not going quietly.

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Speaker 3: She's filed an appeal and she gets to ask the

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Speaker 3: city council if they will overturn the firing. We're gonna

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Speaker 3: Daniel Gusson from the gust Report and that's his online substack.

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Speaker 3: We'll get all to that after one thirty, because that's fascinated.

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Speaker 3: It's amazing how Karen Bass still to day does not

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Speaker 3: want to take any responsibility or explain yourself in any

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Speaker 3: way for all of her bad behavior since the fire happened.

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Speaker 2: But let's let's go to this.

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Speaker 3: It's just captivated the entire world because it was televised.

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Speaker 3: They had a press conference in the Oval Office. The

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Speaker 3: purpose of this meeting was Zelenski and Trump, we're going

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Speaker 3: to sign a deal. We were going to help develop

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Speaker 3: Ukraine has an enormous amount of rare earth minerals, extremely valuable,

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Speaker 3: much of it undeveloped. And Trump says, look, here's the deal.

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Speaker 3: We've spent three hundred and fifty billion dollars on you.

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Speaker 3: One we want some of the money back, and two

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Speaker 3: you need money in order to rebuild your nation. And

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Speaker 3: we're going to have to make a deal with Putin.

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Speaker 3: And what Zelenski wants is a lot of guarantees, security

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Speaker 3: guarantees that Trump isn't willing to give right now. And

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Speaker 3: you know what Zelenski wants. He obviously can't be Putin

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Speaker 3: with his own military. It's been three years now, so

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Speaker 3: he wants us not only to give him a lot

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Speaker 3: We're going to play you a clip here where it

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Speaker 3: went off the rails where Zelenski was trying to say

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Speaker 3: that the United States doesn't feel the impact of the war,

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Speaker 3: but they will and kind of a scolding of Trump,

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Speaker 3: and Trump went off.

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Speaker 4: A lot of questions.

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Speaker 5: Let's start from the big short fills to wall during

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Speaker 5: the war. Everybody has problems, even you, But you have

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Speaker 5: nice oce and don't feel now, but you will feel

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Speaker 5: it in the fusion.

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Speaker 4: Bless you're blessed. You're not here.

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Speaker 6: Don't tell us what we're going to feel. We're trying

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Speaker 6: to solve a problem. Don't tell us what we're going

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Speaker 6: to feel.

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Speaker 4: I'm not telling you because you're no position to dictate that.

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Speaker 4: It's exactly what he's doing.

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Speaker 6: Op position, didn't dictate what we're gonna feel. We're gonna

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Speaker 6: feel very good.

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Speaker 4: Feel. We're gonna feel very good and very strong feel influence.

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Speaker 4: You're right now, not in a very good position.

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Speaker 6: You've allowed you so to be in a very bad

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Speaker 6: position that he's apples to be right about the very

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Speaker 6: beginning of the war. Not in a good position. You

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Speaker 6: don't have the cards right now with us. You start

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Speaker 6: having right now, You don't bread. You're gambling with the

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Speaker 6: lives of millions of people.

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Speaker 4: See you're gambling with world War three. You're gambling with

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Speaker 4: World War three.

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Speaker 6: And what you're doing is very disrespectful to the country.

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Speaker 4: This country that's back to you. Far more than a

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Speaker 4: lot of people said they should have.

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Speaker 3: Uh, let's get in take the hint, and eventually JD.

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Speaker 3: Vance jumped in, wanting to know is either thanked Trump

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Speaker 3: for everything that the US has done for Ukraine?

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Speaker 4: Have you said thank you?

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Speaker 7: What's that large teams in this entire meeting that you

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Speaker 7: said faith you went to Pennsylvania and campaigned for the

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Speaker 7: opposition in October. Offer some words of appreciation for the

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Speaker 7: United States of America and the president who's trying to

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Speaker 7: save your country.

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Speaker 5: Please, you're seeing that if you will speak very loudly

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Speaker 5: about the war.

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Speaker 4: He's not speaking loudly. He's not speaking loudly. Your country

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Speaker 4: is in big trouble. No, No, you've done a lot

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Speaker 4: of talking. Your country is in big trouble. I know

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Speaker 4: you're not winning all You're not winning this.

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Speaker 6: You have a damn good chance of we coming out

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Speaker 6: okay because of some president.

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Speaker 4: We are staying Yawa country staying strong.

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Speaker 5: From the very beginning of the war, we've been alone

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Speaker 5: and we are thankful.

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Speaker 4: I said, thanks, you haven't been stabbing it.

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Speaker 6: He gave you, this stupid president, three hundred and fifty

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Speaker 4: You will, We gave you military equipment.

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Speaker 6: You and you met up brave, but they had to

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Speaker 6: use our military one of you, Guss, if you didn't

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Speaker 6: I've been this war would have been over in two weeks.

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Speaker 4: In three days, I heard it from Putin in three days.

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Speaker 4: This is how maybe less in two weeks. Of course. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: it's going to be a very hard thing to do

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Speaker 4: business like this. Good tell you say thank you.

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Speaker 6: I said it all there except for American Day, except

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Speaker 7: Are disagreements, and let's go litigate those disagreements rather than

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Speaker 7: trying to fight it out in the American media when

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Speaker 7: you're wrong.

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Speaker 4: We know that you're wrong, but you.

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Speaker 6: See, I think it's good for the American people to

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Speaker 4: I think it's very important. That's why I kept this

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Speaker 3: Oh this is great because this is what goes on

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Speaker 3: behind closed doors all the time, and we never know,

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Speaker 3: and then we have to try to get it filtered

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Speaker 3: through the lying, stinking media.

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Speaker 2: It's like now we saw it live and in color.

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Speaker 3: And let's now talk with the Kafi White House correspondent

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Speaker 3: John Decker. He's covered the White House since Clinton, and

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Speaker 3: let's talk about the kind of meeting this was John.

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Speaker 2: What went on today?

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Speaker 8: Well, and unprecedented herbal spat in the Oval Office, very

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Speaker 8: contentious with President Trump, A JD. Van, President Zelenski each

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Speaker 8: raising their voices in the Oval Office. President Zelensky came

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Speaker 8: here to Washington, came to the White House to sign

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Speaker 8: a mineral a deal that was all set up for

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Speaker 8: a joint press conference in the East Room for this afternoon,

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Speaker 8: but because of this contentious fight in the Oval Office,

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Speaker 8: that was called off. The President Zelensky is not signing

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Speaker 8: that deal. He left the White House in his black

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Speaker 3: Right, this was supposed to be a press conference. Reporters

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Speaker 3: were asking questions and from what I understand from what

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Speaker 3: security guarantees that Trump would make to Zelenskisky started getting

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Speaker 3: a little agitated because he wasn't getting the guarantees that

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Speaker 8: Well, that's exactly right, and that was something that concerns him.

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Speaker 8: If he is going to essentially go to the negotiating table,

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Speaker 8: he wants the assurance that a few years from now,

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Speaker 8: deal that he has security guarantees to protect Ukraine's sovereign territory,

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Speaker 8: and President Trump was not prepared to give him those

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Speaker 8: security guarantees. And that is a sticking point in terms

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Speaker 8: of even getting to the point where there's a ceasefire.

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Speaker 8: President Zelenski's saying he's not going to sign a ceasefire

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Speaker 8: unless he has those security guarantees.

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Speaker 3: And the purpose of this deal, according to Trump, is

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Speaker 3: to start getting getting the minerals, the minerals that are

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Speaker 3: that Ukraine could use the money to come back from

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Speaker 3: the war and America use in effect, gets paid back

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Speaker 3: for the three hundred and fifty billion dollars that we

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Speaker 8: Well, that is what President has indicated, and clearly that

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Speaker 8: that disappoints the President who's been talking about this for

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Speaker 8: a number of weeks. And it's unclear what happens going

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Speaker 8: which is bringing some sort of ceasefire to bring a

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Speaker 3: So Zelenski Trump claims he they kicked him out of

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Speaker 3: the Oval Office. Has Zelensky made any comments since that moment.

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Speaker 8: My understanding is that Presidents he's going to be doing

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Speaker 8: an interview with Brett Pair of fox Is, and perhaps

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Speaker 8: we'll get some information from him in regards to what

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Speaker 8: happened after the media left the Oval Office and the

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Speaker 8: meeting ultimately concluded. It was a short time after that

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Speaker 8: that the President put out a social media post indicating

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Speaker 8: that the meeting was over. Presidents Lensky got in his

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Speaker 8: and it's the last that we've seen of President's Lensky,

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Speaker 8: who is making yet another visit to the White House.

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Speaker 8: I've seen here in him here on numerous occasions over

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Speaker 8: the years. This was obviously a situation that is unprecedented.

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Speaker 8: I've never seen anything like that in the Oval Office

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Speaker 3: All right, John Decker, KFI White House Correspondent, thank you

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Speaker 3: for coming on and sharing all that information.

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Speaker 9: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM six.

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Speaker 3: Voting coming up after one thirty, We're going to talk

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Speaker 3: with Daniel Guss. He has his own sub stack journalism site,

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Speaker 3: Gus Report. We've had him on many times. He you

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Speaker 2: Who are always the bad guys.

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Speaker 3: But three years later, we have spent three hundred and

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Speaker 3: there is no sign that this war's going anywhere. I mean,

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Speaker 3: it truly is a stalemate. And I mean we've had

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Speaker 3: wars that we've had since World War Two have ended

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Speaker 3: up being very costly in dollar terms, if not loss

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Speaker 3: I mean, Afghanistan went on for twenty years, the Iraq

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Speaker 3: nothing out of those. The Vietnam War is its own disaster,

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Speaker 3: and this was looking like another situation where if three

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Speaker 3: cut it. We can't send in troops, we can't use

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Speaker 3: We're stuck, and there's a lot of mistakes and a

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Speaker 3: I often say it's the craziest person in the room

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Speaker 2: I'd rather see it up front.

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Speaker 3: I want more, Well, I want more. It's like, all right, buddy,

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Speaker 3: report from Channel seven on Isabelle Herado. He's a city couch.

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Speaker 3: She's a city councilwoman falling asleep during a meeting.

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Speaker 10: Belly council member appears to have dozed off inside council chambers.

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Speaker 8: I'm aware of that photo.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 8: It looks like I was reading, and if indeed I

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Speaker 10: The human moments that I have as a council member.

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Speaker 10: Rado as despite what the photo shows, she is committed

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Speaker 2: I was reading.

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Speaker 3: Eyes are completely shot, totally shot. Head is tilted way

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Speaker 3: We're gonna talk to Daniel Gus about that, and also

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Speaker 3: about the bigger story of Kristin Crowley refusing to go

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Speaker 9: You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI Am

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Speaker 3: We got Moistline coming up twice in the three o'clock hour,

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Speaker 3: all the social media platforms. Now we're going to talk

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Speaker 3: with that Daniel Guss. Daniel Guss has his own substack.

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Speaker 3: You could go to it. It's Daniel Gus dot substack

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Speaker 3: And what we just discussed was Isabelle Eurato, a councilwoman

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Speaker 3: I was reading.

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Speaker 2: She actually said that I was reading.

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Speaker 3: I guess she had the book typed or the documents

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Speaker 2: Maybe she's got X rayc through vision. I don't know.

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Speaker 2: You can see the picture on Twitter now at John

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Speaker 2: Colebelt Radio. All good.

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Speaker 3: We posted it at John Cobelt Radio. There's a motivation

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Speaker 3: All right, let's get down on gus On Daniel.

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Speaker 1: Can you hear me?

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Speaker 2: Yes, she was reading?

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Speaker 1: Wow, what what a day to be on the show.

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Speaker 1: It's always a good show, but man, what a juicy day.

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Speaker 1: You know she was reading. I would respect Isabelle Herrado

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Speaker 1: more if she said, you know what, I have been

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know.

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Speaker 3: Now let me go out to Kristin Crowley, which is

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Speaker 3: even bigger news. So Kristin Crowley gets fired by Bass

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, one would have to read the tea

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Speaker 1: But all of them know Karen Bass is da. Her

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Speaker 1: political career is over, especially if Mahea and or Caruso

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Speaker 1: So they are all doing their calculation on whether Karen

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Speaker 3: Because there's only there's only two city council people who've

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but the calculation is who's going to run for

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Speaker 1: But I think that there is such a stench on

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they were going to have the vote at five o'clock, right,

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Speaker 1: It is a big deal. And they had their normal

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Speaker 3: That's what I wanted to ask. Are people going to

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Speaker 3: Is there a real hearing where Crowley gets to make

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, absolutely, she'll get there'll be all sorts of

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Speaker 1: As Rob Kwan is a fantastic guy on the rules,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and then he's trying to octumber for Karen Bass,

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Speaker 3: although he was part of this mess because while Karen

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Speaker 2: And then you had that Deputy Mayor of Brian.

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Speaker 2: Nobody was running this place at all.

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Speaker 3: And then Christy Prowdly made aut of bad decisions, not

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Speaker 3: sending the extra forty engines, and then you have Jennie

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Speaker 3: Canonia's and her empty reservoir, and it's like, oh my god,

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Speaker 3: this was a total, complete, absolute failure with five major

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Speaker 3: figures in city government.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and it doesn't supprise me at all. The

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Speaker 1: best analogy I can give you if you know that

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Speaker 1: game called Djenga where you're supposed to pull out the

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Speaker 1: piece of wood without making the tower fall down. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's really what we're seeing here. This is a situation

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Speaker 1: where I believe in my gut that the underfunding of

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Speaker 1: the fire department and the lack of repairs for the reservoir,

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Speaker 1: and I believe was all part of a big social

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Speaker 1: agenda of Karen Vath, who only renounced communism when Joe

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Speaker 1: Biden was vetting vice presidential candidates, where I believe that

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Speaker 1: she was thinking, you know, let's slice off a few

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Speaker 1: million here, let's slice off a full few millionaire and

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Speaker 1: our non governmental nonprofits and the homeless industrial complex for

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Speaker 1: their social agenda, and it literally collapsed on them. They

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Speaker 1: drew to an inside straight and this awful thing happened.

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Speaker 1: And so yeah, where was the deputy mayor, Brian K. Williams.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you where. He's sitting at home on leave

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Speaker 1: after the FBI raided his home. And I think there's

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Speaker 1: a lot more that you're going to find here in

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Speaker 1: the Crowley Hearing. And by the way, if something were

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Speaker 1: to happen, if Karen Bass were recalled, if she were

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Speaker 1: to resign, Marquis Harris Dawson would immediately become mayor, and

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Speaker 1: of course then he would have the inside track to

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Speaker 1: running as an incumbent for eight full years after her.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, a lot more going on.

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry, he's a complete idiot. He's a complete idiot.

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Speaker 3: There's what's that I concur all right, I got a run.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for coming on again. All right, we'll talk

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Speaker 3: probably next week.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right.

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Speaker 3: Daniel guts uh and you go to Daniel Guss dot

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Speaker 3: substack dot com and you could read all of his articles,

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Speaker 3: very entertaining.

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Speaker 9: You're listening to John Cobbels on demand from KFI.

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Speaker 3: It is so infuriating, it's unbelievable. After all that's happened,

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Speaker 3: you cannot get Karen Bass or Kristin Crowley or Jennie

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Speaker 3: Kenonius from the DWP, or that idiot Marquise Harris Dawson

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Speaker 3: to talk publicly in detail about all the scre ups

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Speaker 3: that led to the disaster in the in the Palisades.

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Speaker 3: Nobody's discussing this. Nobody's answering any real questions, giving real answers.

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Speaker 2: Apologizing nothing.

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Speaker 3: They're just going about their stupid business. No one's ever

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Speaker 3: gonna explain why they only funded the fire department at

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Speaker 3: fifty percent of what it needs. Crowley's never going to

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Speaker 3: discuss why she kept a thousand firefires off duty that

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Speaker 3: morning and sent them home. She's never going to discuss

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Speaker 3: why she didn't send forty engines up into the hills

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Speaker 3: all over Los Angeles in the mountains. Not going to

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Speaker 3: discuss that. Bass is not going to discuss huge budget shortfalls.

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Speaker 3: She's not going to discuss why going to going to

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Speaker 3: Africa to get a consulate. That's one of the reasons

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Speaker 3: she went to get a consulate in Los Angeles for Ghana.

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Speaker 3: Why who cares?

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Speaker 2: Really? Who cares?

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Speaker 3: Is she still going to claim that she didn't get

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Speaker 3: a warning from Crowley about the fires. You know that

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Speaker 3: that's still her her position that she didn't. She didn't

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Speaker 3: know the fire was coming, she didn't know the Santa

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Speaker 3: Ana wins are coming. Nobody told her. Crowley should have

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Speaker 3: called her. I can't believe this, you know that they

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Speaker 3: say these things and then two weeks later, Oh yeah,

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Speaker 3: that's the story.

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Speaker 2: Really, what a bunch of liars.

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Speaker 3: They're all a bunch of liars and incompetence, they're incompetent

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Speaker 3: boobs and liars. Oh my god, I just can't believe

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Speaker 3: this goes on and on every day.

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Speaker 2: No really.

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Speaker 3: In fact, Thomas Buckley, who's another writer who covers local politics,

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Speaker 3: I don't have time to read his thing. I'd saved

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Speaker 3: it today. Let me see if I could quickly find it,

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Speaker 3: because you know he uh, here we go. Yeah, never mind,

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Speaker 3: because he was writing about the similar things. And it's that.

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Speaker 3: Let me see here it is. It's entitled bureaucracy Kills.

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Speaker 3: And here are one hundred and seventeen million reasons bureaucracy kills.

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Speaker 3: The January Palisades fire in Los Angeles's proof of that

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Speaker 3: twelve thousand homes gone, dozens killed or injured, a lifetime

516
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Speaker 3: of member is destroyed.

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Speaker 2: And what did we get? We got Karen.

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Speaker 3: Bass giving us the silent treatment for a minute and

519
00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:30,960
Speaker 3: a half while walking from her airplane through the airport,

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00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:34,760
Speaker 3: and he writes, Bass's career on office has been limited

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00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:37,120
Speaker 3: to doing things in committees, being part of the process,

522
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:39,840
Speaker 3: never actually having an idea or thought on her own,

523
00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:45,240
Speaker 3: and playing to the powerful to keep her position. Why

524
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Speaker 3: did Joe Biden go to Africa? Why did Joe Biden

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00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:53,400
Speaker 3: ask Bass to go to Africa? She says, He writes,

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Speaker 3: the Los Angeles Fire Department is top heavy with DEI

527
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Speaker 3: initiatives and bureaucratic malaise. Bass because she had to to

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Speaker 3: do something to shift the blame. Fired a chief recently,

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Speaker 3: a move so transparently cya that even people who know

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Speaker 3: the chief failed spectacularly are defending defending ish the chief.

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Speaker 3: And then there's the Los Angeles Department of Order and Power,

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Speaker 3: the DWP. And he goes into how, of course he

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Speaker 3: does the math, and of course one hundred and seventeen

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Speaker 3: million gallons would have put out the fire on some

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Speaker 3: of the homes.

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Speaker 2: It would have saved some of the homes.

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Speaker 3: Now, I don't know how Kristin Crowley and Karen Bass

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00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:35,520
Speaker 3: and jeniz Kinoniez could walk around in public with an

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Speaker 3: empty reservoir that should have held one hundred and seventeen

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Speaker 3: million gallons and not admit or not explain what went on.

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Speaker 3: How is this possible? How are there not criminal charges

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Speaker 3: for this? How are they not being charged with crimes

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Speaker 3: and taken to court and under oath by a prosecutor

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Speaker 3: forced to explain? How do you not fill up the

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Speaker 3: reservoir with one hundred and seventeen million gallons? The only

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Speaker 3: reason the reservoir was built was for fires. It was

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Speaker 3: built after the nineteen sixty one bel Air fire, built

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Speaker 3: in sixty four. And Kristin Crowley has one thousand men

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Speaker 3: and forty engines, and I know it's way underfunded. And

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Speaker 3: I know there's one hundred engines that were in the garage.

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Speaker 3: How do you not send those out? She's got to

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Speaker 3: be asked this point blank. Maybe she will be at

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Speaker 3: the hearing, because while Bass is firing her to cover

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Speaker 3: her own ass, Crowley still really really screwed up, and

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00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:35,280
Speaker 3: so did Canonias, and there was nobody in charge, and

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Speaker 3: so did Marquise Harris Dawson. They all should be fired,

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Speaker 3: they all should go. We are run by clowns and idiots.

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Speaker 3: And it looked what it cost people. It killed people,

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Speaker 3: it burned people, It destroyed thousands of homes.

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Speaker 2: And these characters are still walking.

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Speaker 3: Around with all their lies and all their nonsense, and

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Speaker 3: they're stupid, stupid, irritation political aids, lying and spewing nonsense.

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Speaker 3: And I can't believe normal people are sitting and putting

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Speaker 3: up with this. All right, we come back, we come back. Oh,

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Speaker 3: we got thirty seconds. We're going to talk to Michael

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Speaker 3: Monks because council members. Do you know what they're upset about?

567
00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:26,080
Speaker 3: That ice is running around LA apparently this week, and

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00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:31,920
Speaker 3: they're arresting criminal illegal aliens and unices. Hernandez, who represents

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Speaker 3: the east side of town, she starts crying, all right,

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Speaker 3: we come back. I'll play you her breaking down in tears,

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Speaker 3: and then we're gonna go to Michael Monks. Okay, So

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Speaker 3: we got one council woman sleeping, claiming she's reading, and

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Speaker 3: we got another councilwoman crying because legal alien criminals are

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Speaker 3: being arrested and we have nobody taken any responsibility for

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Speaker 3: the fire that burned out tens of thousands of people.

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Speaker 3: I can't believe I'm saying all this out Loud Debor

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