1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:03,160 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John 2 00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:08,440 Speaker 1: Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Welcome. We've got a 3 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:12,840 Speaker 1: huge news story that just broke just I don't know, 4 00:00:12,960 --> 00:00:16,119 Speaker 1: a couple hours ago. As I was driving in I 5 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:19,720 Speaker 1: discovered this. This is big, and all I can tell 6 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:25,239 Speaker 1: you is, in a rational world, Karen Bass's political career 7 00:00:25,560 --> 00:00:30,440 Speaker 1: would be over. As of today, she'd be done. I 8 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:33,760 Speaker 1: don't know if that's going to happen, because everybody's crazy. 9 00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:38,120 Speaker 1: But in a normal world, in any other time, Karen 10 00:00:38,200 --> 00:00:41,560 Speaker 1: Bass would be done and she would not be elected 11 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:45,280 Speaker 1: as mayor of Los Angeles. In fact, she probably would resign. 12 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:48,360 Speaker 1: Here's the story, and this came out from the Los 13 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:54,200 Speaker 1: Angeles Times short to a short time ago, and the headline, 14 00:00:54,360 --> 00:00:58,840 Speaker 1: and I'm going to read this verbatim, bass directed but 15 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:05,759 Speaker 1: watering down of the Palisades fire after action report. Bass 16 00:01:05,760 --> 00:01:09,640 Speaker 1: directed the watering down of the Palisades fire after action report. 17 00:01:10,959 --> 00:01:14,520 Speaker 1: And here's the story. Paul Pringle and a lean check midian. 18 00:01:15,319 --> 00:01:20,560 Speaker 1: For nearly two months, Mayor Karen Bass has repeatedly denied 19 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:24,560 Speaker 1: that she was involved in altering the after action report 20 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:30,360 Speaker 1: on the Palisades fire to downplay failures by the city 21 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:35,280 Speaker 1: and the LA Fire Department, but two sources with knowledge 22 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:39,560 Speaker 1: of Bass's office said after receiving an early draft, the 23 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:44,520 Speaker 1: mayor told the interim fire chief, Ronnie Vanueva, that the 24 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:48,360 Speaker 1: report could expose the city to legal liabilities for those failures. 25 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:53,880 Speaker 1: Bass wanted key findings about the LA Fire Department's actions 26 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:59,400 Speaker 1: be removed or softened before the report was made public. 27 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:03,640 Speaker 1: That's according to the sources, and that is what happened. 28 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:07,320 Speaker 1: The changes to the report, which originally was released on 29 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:10,920 Speaker 1: October the eighth, came to light through a Times investigation 30 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:15,600 Speaker 1: in December. The sources told The Times that two people 31 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:19,840 Speaker 1: close to Bass informed them of the mayors behind the 32 00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:24,120 Speaker 1: scenes role in watering down the report. One source spoke 33 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:28,080 Speaker 1: to both of the people. The second source spoke to 34 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:32,839 Speaker 1: one of them. The sources requested anonymity so they could 35 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:37,880 Speaker 1: speak frankly about the mayor's private conversations with Viannaweva and others. 36 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:41,480 Speaker 1: The Times is not naming the people who are close 37 00:02:41,520 --> 00:02:44,600 Speaker 1: to Bass because that could have the effect of identifying 38 00:02:44,639 --> 00:02:50,240 Speaker 1: the sources. One Basque confidante told one of the sources 39 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:54,640 Speaker 1: quote the mayor didn't tell the truth when She said 40 00:02:54,680 --> 00:02:58,720 Speaker 1: she had nothing to do with changing the report. The 41 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:03,240 Speaker 1: source says that the confidante advised Bass that altering the 42 00:03:03,320 --> 00:03:07,240 Speaker 1: report was a bad idea and would hurt her politically. 43 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:11,760 Speaker 1: According to the source, the two confidants said that Bass 44 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:17,320 Speaker 1: held onto the original draft until after the changes were made. 45 00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:20,960 Speaker 1: The source said both confidents are prepared to testify under 46 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:24,480 Speaker 1: oath to verify their accounts if the matter ends up 47 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:29,760 Speaker 1: at illegal proceeding. Both sources said they did not know 48 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:32,880 Speaker 1: if via Aweva or anyone else in the La Fire 49 00:03:32,919 --> 00:03:35,840 Speaker 1: Department or in the Mayor's office made line by line 50 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:39,840 Speaker 1: edits at Bass's specific instructions, or if they imposed the 51 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:44,720 Speaker 1: changes after receiving a general direction from her. The second 52 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:47,800 Speaker 1: source said all the changes The Times reported on were 53 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:54,520 Speaker 1: the ones Karen wanted, referring to the Times determination that 54 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:58,760 Speaker 1: the report was altered to deflect attention from the fire 55 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:02,640 Speaker 1: Department's failure to pre deploy cruise to the Palisades before 56 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:07,240 Speaker 1: the fire. Bass did not respond this week to a 57 00:04:07,320 --> 00:04:11,080 Speaker 1: request for comment for the article, so she knew this 58 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:13,840 Speaker 1: was coming. He didn't want to talk about it. She 59 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:17,680 Speaker 1: thinks nothing can ever happen to her. That's me speaking 60 00:04:18,440 --> 00:04:21,640 Speaker 1: back to The La Times. The mayor has previously rejected 61 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:24,600 Speaker 1: several requests by The Times to be interviewed about the report. 62 00:04:25,279 --> 00:04:28,920 Speaker 1: In response to written questions, a spokesperson for Bass's office 63 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:31,800 Speaker 1: said in an email in December, the report was written 64 00:04:31,839 --> 00:04:34,800 Speaker 1: and edited by the Fire Department. We did not readline, 65 00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:37,680 Speaker 1: review every page, or review every draft of the report. 66 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:42,039 Speaker 1: The spokesperson, Clara Carger, said, the mayor's office only asked 67 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:45,240 Speaker 1: that the fire department fact check any findings regarding the 68 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:51,839 Speaker 1: effect of city finances and high wind forecasts. Bass called 69 00:04:51,880 --> 00:04:54,640 Speaker 1: The Times in a brief interview last month she did 70 00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:57,400 Speaker 1: not work with the fire department on changes to the report, 71 00:04:57,680 --> 00:05:00,760 Speaker 1: nor did the agency consult her about any changes. Quote. 72 00:05:00,839 --> 00:05:03,120 Speaker 1: The only thing I told them was to talk to 73 00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:06,240 Speaker 1: another bureaucrat, Matt Zebo about the budget and the funding, 74 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:09,320 Speaker 1: and that was it. That's a technical report. I'm not 75 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:14,640 Speaker 1: a firefighter. She's lying. She's lying. She's lying, and so 76 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:21,680 Speaker 1: is her spokesperson, Clara Carter vien Aweva, declined to comment. 77 00:05:21,880 --> 00:05:25,320 Speaker 1: That's the interim fire chief. He's made no public statements, 78 00:05:26,520 --> 00:05:30,080 Speaker 1: and Jimie Moore said last month he wasn't going to 79 00:05:30,279 --> 00:05:33,000 Speaker 1: determine who was responsible he didn't see the benefit of 80 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:35,640 Speaker 1: doing that. I'm also now going to play if you 81 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:38,200 Speaker 1: can get that clip ready. I've been playing this over 82 00:05:38,279 --> 00:05:41,159 Speaker 1: the last couple of days and I found it really puzzling, 83 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:47,760 Speaker 1: really puzzling, and nobody in the palis Age community could 84 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:51,160 Speaker 1: understand this. But here's Heimie Moore being pressed by Fox 85 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:54,920 Speaker 1: eleven's Matthew Seedorf, pretty closer to learning who ordered down 86 00:05:54,960 --> 00:05:56,960 Speaker 1: this report? And you ordered that to be watered down. 87 00:05:57,080 --> 00:06:01,080 Speaker 2: So, just like the mayor's city address, I think we 88 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:02,960 Speaker 2: need to look forward. We need to look for what's ahead, 89 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:05,320 Speaker 2: that's behind us reasons. 90 00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:07,080 Speaker 1: I kind of want those answers, well. 91 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:09,360 Speaker 2: I understand that, but they have to understand what are 92 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:10,760 Speaker 2: they going to do with those answers. They want to 93 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:13,560 Speaker 2: point fingers. They want to point Blane. I've taken ownership. 94 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:17,840 Speaker 1: I've taken ownership. He wasn't a part of this mess. 95 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:22,640 Speaker 1: Now he is. They want to pourt fingers, they want 96 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:28,120 Speaker 1: to point Blane. Yes, everybody does you Just this performance 97 00:06:28,120 --> 00:06:33,200 Speaker 1: by Karen Bash and the LA Fire Department officials destroyed 98 00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:41,560 Speaker 1: people's lives, irreversibly destroyed their lives. There's thousands of victims here. 99 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:45,760 Speaker 1: Some of them are dead. Some of them have been 100 00:06:45,760 --> 00:06:51,240 Speaker 1: forced to move and they'll never return. Everybody's life, from 101 00:06:51,920 --> 00:06:57,080 Speaker 1: elderly senior citizens to little children have had their lives 102 00:06:57,240 --> 00:07:02,840 Speaker 1: irreversibly altered, traumatized. These are the worst memories of all 103 00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:05,960 Speaker 1: these children's lives. This is a horrible way for the 104 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:09,120 Speaker 1: elderly to spend their final days. And now there are 105 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:13,320 Speaker 1: burdens that the parents have, the homeowners have that are 106 00:07:13,320 --> 00:07:15,280 Speaker 1: going to go on for years and years and years 107 00:07:15,440 --> 00:07:17,680 Speaker 1: with no end in sight because many of them don't 108 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:20,160 Speaker 1: have the money to rebuild and they're not getting insurance. 109 00:07:20,440 --> 00:07:23,120 Speaker 1: And it's because of what Karen Bass and Kristin Crowley 110 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:27,720 Speaker 1: and Jennie Kenonias did, period, period, full stop. How about that? 111 00:07:30,360 --> 00:07:33,800 Speaker 1: And she hired Kristin Crowley or retained her, She hired 112 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:38,480 Speaker 1: Jennie Keinonias, Bass herself, the three of them, three of 113 00:07:38,520 --> 00:07:45,120 Speaker 1: the most incompetent, absolutely destructively incompetent people you'll ever have 114 00:07:45,200 --> 00:07:49,360 Speaker 1: in government. And then they promised, oh no, the after 115 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:51,680 Speaker 1: action report. That's how they dodged all the questions for 116 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:54,320 Speaker 1: most of last year. After action report, after action report, 117 00:07:54,360 --> 00:07:56,880 Speaker 1: We're gonna find out. We're gonna find out. And then 118 00:07:56,960 --> 00:08:01,560 Speaker 1: she gets it and changes it and then lies about it. 119 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:06,760 Speaker 1: Karen Bass repeatedly lied about it. She did change it. 120 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:12,520 Speaker 1: Her own staff members are turning on her because they 121 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:15,680 Speaker 1: got to deal with the grief that they see in 122 00:08:15,680 --> 00:08:24,080 Speaker 1: the palisades. This is wrong, This is horrible. She doesn't 123 00:08:24,080 --> 00:08:27,440 Speaker 1: have a shred of decency, a shred of morality nothing. 124 00:08:27,520 --> 00:08:30,600 Speaker 1: I've never seen anybody this ice cold. She can't even 125 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:39,280 Speaker 1: fake it. She should resign immediately. She should not be reelected. 126 00:08:39,679 --> 00:08:41,840 Speaker 1: I mean, what kind of a crazy person would vote 127 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:48,800 Speaker 1: for her after she lied? She covered up the truth 128 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:52,160 Speaker 1: and then lied about covering it up. She lied all 129 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:55,160 Speaker 1: the way along, but the early lies. She claimed she 130 00:08:55,160 --> 00:08:57,760 Speaker 1: didn't know that there was going to be a big windstorm. 131 00:08:58,160 --> 00:09:05,400 Speaker 1: She didn't know there were extreme fire warnings. She lied. Compulsive, 132 00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:16,880 Speaker 1: sociopathic liar. I don't know how you show your facing public. 133 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:22,720 Speaker 1: How do you show your facing public after we find 134 00:09:22,760 --> 00:09:24,760 Speaker 1: out you are covering up the truth and you're worried 135 00:09:24,760 --> 00:09:30,920 Speaker 1: about legal liability. There's plenty of lawsuits out there. The 136 00:09:30,960 --> 00:09:34,559 Speaker 1: truth's coming out eventually. You're just trying to delay it 137 00:09:34,640 --> 00:09:38,720 Speaker 1: until you get reelected. That's what you're't worried about legal liability. 138 00:09:38,920 --> 00:09:43,920 Speaker 1: She doesn't have to pay, and the city taxpayers are 139 00:09:43,920 --> 00:09:45,760 Speaker 1: going to have to pay a whopping them ount anyway, 140 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:48,400 Speaker 1: because this is all going to come out and discovery 141 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:51,000 Speaker 1: what was the other thing she did. She had the 142 00:09:51,040 --> 00:09:56,840 Speaker 1: attorneys in the civil lawsuits demand from the judge a 143 00:09:56,920 --> 00:10:01,439 Speaker 1: thirty day pause on releasing the information from the depositions 144 00:10:02,040 --> 00:10:04,800 Speaker 1: to the public, so we're in some kind of blackout 145 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:09,520 Speaker 1: when it comes to the deposition information. And now again, 146 00:10:09,640 --> 00:10:14,720 Speaker 1: this is all because we have a primary election coming 147 00:10:14,800 --> 00:10:22,559 Speaker 1: up in June. So she's shutting down the news almost 148 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:26,400 Speaker 1: almost pulled it off. But her own people are talking, 149 00:10:26,679 --> 00:10:29,439 Speaker 1: her own people are turning on her. So if you're 150 00:10:29,440 --> 00:10:34,080 Speaker 1: just joining us, Karen Bass, she is the one who 151 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:37,400 Speaker 1: directed the watering down of the Palisades fire after action 152 00:10:37,559 --> 00:10:42,760 Speaker 1: report according to the La Times, she's covering up all 153 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:45,760 Speaker 1: the terrible things that she and the fire department did, 154 00:10:45,880 --> 00:10:53,320 Speaker 1: all the incompetence, and then she lied about We'll talk 155 00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:54,280 Speaker 1: more about this coming up. 156 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:59,319 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am 157 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:00,600 Speaker 3: six forty. 158 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:05,120 Speaker 1: If you want to vent to the moist line about 159 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:09,120 Speaker 1: the news over Karen Bass caught in the biggest lie 160 00:11:09,240 --> 00:11:12,520 Speaker 1: You'll ever find. Eight seven seven Moist eighty six. You 161 00:11:12,520 --> 00:11:14,840 Speaker 1: canna let it rip now eight seven seven moist eighty 162 00:11:14,880 --> 00:11:21,199 Speaker 1: six or usually talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. This Uh, 163 00:11:21,240 --> 00:11:23,280 Speaker 1: this should be the end of her career and she 164 00:11:23,320 --> 00:11:26,600 Speaker 1: should be Uh. They should be packing her boxes. And 165 00:11:26,920 --> 00:11:29,720 Speaker 1: I mean, I'll pay for a one way ticket. She 166 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:32,560 Speaker 1: can go visit her friend in Gatta. She should be gone. 167 00:11:32,800 --> 00:11:35,280 Speaker 1: She has no business running the city of Los Angeles anymore. 168 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:41,640 Speaker 1: She's she's she's done enough destruction, Enough money has been stolen. 169 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:45,040 Speaker 1: This is the end of the line. And if you're 170 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:48,520 Speaker 1: just if you're just joining us. Los Angeles Times released 171 00:11:48,520 --> 00:11:51,440 Speaker 1: this just a couple of hours ago and said that 172 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:57,320 Speaker 1: contrary to everything she said publicly, Karen Bass has uh 173 00:11:58,160 --> 00:12:00,720 Speaker 1: did did a rewrite or directed people to do a 174 00:12:00,760 --> 00:12:04,520 Speaker 1: rewrite of the after action report to water down and 175 00:12:04,760 --> 00:12:08,920 Speaker 1: soften the mistakes that were made by the city in 176 00:12:08,960 --> 00:12:14,400 Speaker 1: the LA Fire Department. Again, sources told the Los Angeles 177 00:12:14,440 --> 00:12:20,320 Speaker 1: Times that Bass directed the watering down of the Palisades 178 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:24,920 Speaker 1: fire after action report. She had said repeatedly that she 179 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:27,520 Speaker 1: didn't do it, didn't have anything to do with it. 180 00:12:27,720 --> 00:12:32,280 Speaker 1: You remember, there were six different versions of this report. 181 00:12:33,040 --> 00:12:36,920 Speaker 1: These are from people close to Bass. Two people close 182 00:12:36,960 --> 00:12:45,680 Speaker 1: to Bass informed two other sources the Karen Bass watered 183 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:49,600 Speaker 1: down the report or ordered someone to do it. One 184 00:12:49,640 --> 00:12:52,800 Speaker 1: source spoke to both of the people, the other spoke 185 00:12:52,840 --> 00:12:54,840 Speaker 1: to one of them. So this is the inner circle 186 00:12:54,840 --> 00:12:56,880 Speaker 1: of Karen Bass. That's where the news is coming from. 187 00:12:57,960 --> 00:13:02,120 Speaker 1: And the Times is it naming people. Now. We are 188 00:13:02,120 --> 00:13:04,840 Speaker 1: in a bad spot here because first of all, she's 189 00:13:04,880 --> 00:13:08,200 Speaker 1: got the rest of this year. But there's so many 190 00:13:08,240 --> 00:13:11,520 Speaker 1: people in this city who are not paying attention. They're 191 00:13:11,559 --> 00:13:15,000 Speaker 1: ignorant of what's going on, or they're blinded by whatever 192 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:19,320 Speaker 1: their political obsession is, or they're they're they're in on it, 193 00:13:19,600 --> 00:13:21,400 Speaker 1: They're they're in on the on the grift. I mean, 194 00:13:21,440 --> 00:13:27,760 Speaker 1: you have city unions which routinely vote for whatever candidate 195 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:31,960 Speaker 1: is going to promise them the most come contract time, 196 00:13:32,559 --> 00:13:35,160 Speaker 1: and they don't really care if the section of the 197 00:13:35,160 --> 00:13:38,480 Speaker 1: city burns down and disappears. Uh, they don't care about 198 00:13:38,520 --> 00:13:42,680 Speaker 1: all the mental patience and vagrants piled up in the 199 00:13:42,679 --> 00:13:47,080 Speaker 1: streets dying. All they know is they got theirs. They're 200 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:51,440 Speaker 1: in their kickback, and then they cycle all their salaries, 201 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:57,240 Speaker 1: cycle the union dues to the politicians in the form 202 00:13:57,320 --> 00:14:02,320 Speaker 1: of political contributions or actual kickback. I don't think we've 203 00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:06,120 Speaker 1: discovered one tenth of one percent of the corruption that 204 00:14:06,160 --> 00:14:09,319 Speaker 1: goes on in this city and state. I think the 205 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:13,520 Speaker 1: whole thing is a rant, sid cesspool, the whole thing. 206 00:14:14,440 --> 00:14:16,240 Speaker 1: And Karen Bass sits at the top of the La 207 00:14:16,360 --> 00:14:20,560 Speaker 1: pyramid and considering the suffering that people have gone through 208 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:24,280 Speaker 1: in the Palisades, oh my god, the emotional suffering and 209 00:14:24,320 --> 00:14:28,680 Speaker 1: the tears and the struggle, and she knows it, she knows, 210 00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:32,520 Speaker 1: and so she kept lying everybody, Oh, I had nothing 211 00:14:32,560 --> 00:14:34,560 Speaker 1: to do with watering down the report. I had nothing 212 00:14:34,640 --> 00:14:38,240 Speaker 1: to do watering down the report. And then there's this stooge. 213 00:14:38,400 --> 00:14:41,040 Speaker 1: Would you would you play play the Honeymoon clip again? 214 00:14:44,360 --> 00:14:49,960 Speaker 1: If you could, we closer to learning who ortered down 215 00:14:49,960 --> 00:14:51,960 Speaker 1: this report and you ordered that to be watered down. 216 00:14:52,080 --> 00:14:55,720 Speaker 2: So, just like the mayor's State of the City address, 217 00:14:55,800 --> 00:14:57,160 Speaker 2: I think we need to look forward. We need to 218 00:14:57,200 --> 00:14:59,560 Speaker 2: look for what's ahead, that's behind us. 219 00:15:00,520 --> 00:15:02,080 Speaker 1: Kind of want those answers, Well. 220 00:15:01,960 --> 00:15:04,360 Speaker 2: I understand that, but they have to understand what are 221 00:15:04,360 --> 00:15:05,760 Speaker 2: they going to do with those answers. They want to 222 00:15:05,800 --> 00:15:08,560 Speaker 2: point fingers, they want to point Blaine, I've taken ownership. 223 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:12,040 Speaker 1: What are they going to do with those answers? What 224 00:15:12,160 --> 00:15:15,280 Speaker 1: a stooge he ought to resign to. Come on, let's 225 00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:19,440 Speaker 1: go for a fourth fire. Chief. He is not He 226 00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:23,840 Speaker 1: is not representing the people who pay his salary. What 227 00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:31,320 Speaker 1: an absolute stooge. How much money does he make between 228 00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:34,760 Speaker 1: he and Karen Bass? All the benefits, all the perks, 229 00:15:34,840 --> 00:15:39,840 Speaker 1: all that, and when the most important moment of their 230 00:15:39,920 --> 00:15:43,640 Speaker 1: public lives happens, they cover everything up, and then they 231 00:15:43,680 --> 00:15:46,320 Speaker 1: lie about it, and then they taunt the people in 232 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:49,520 Speaker 1: the palisades. Well, what are they gonna do with the answers? 233 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:51,200 Speaker 4: Oh? 234 00:15:51,320 --> 00:15:53,520 Speaker 1: Karen Bass was afraid that it was gonna end up 235 00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:56,760 Speaker 1: being a bigger lawsuit, although I don't think you can 236 00:15:56,800 --> 00:16:00,280 Speaker 1: get it any bigger. But again, the real reason she 237 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:03,440 Speaker 1: doesn't want the bad headlines during the campaign. That's why 238 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:06,360 Speaker 1: she had the report order down. That's why she lied 239 00:16:06,400 --> 00:16:08,840 Speaker 1: about it and covered it up. That's why she ordered 240 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:14,120 Speaker 1: HEIMI I have no testicles more to follow along with 241 00:16:14,160 --> 00:16:19,040 Speaker 1: the party line. What are they gonna do with the answers? 242 00:16:20,040 --> 00:16:25,600 Speaker 1: As if they're meaningless? Well, if they're meaningless, Dallas, But 243 00:16:25,720 --> 00:16:30,960 Speaker 1: Haimi Moore is protecting his career and protecting Karen Bass's 244 00:16:30,960 --> 00:16:34,200 Speaker 1: reelection because I don't think the next Beyar is gonna 245 00:16:34,280 --> 00:16:38,560 Speaker 1: keep him. I wouldn't. There's no integrity here at all. 246 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:43,760 Speaker 1: There's no morality at all none. That's deception of the 247 00:16:43,800 --> 00:16:48,440 Speaker 1: worst disaster ever in American history from a fire at 248 00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:52,200 Speaker 1: A year later, these said, what these clowns are doing. 249 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:57,520 Speaker 1: They're playing hide the ball, figuring nobody's gonna notice, nobody's 250 00:16:57,520 --> 00:17:01,160 Speaker 1: gonna call him on it. And I gotta say, this 251 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:04,159 Speaker 1: is where we are. The La Times and our show 252 00:17:04,160 --> 00:17:07,879 Speaker 1: here is the only ones calling him on it, the 253 00:17:07,920 --> 00:17:12,199 Speaker 1: only ones beating the drum on this h on the 254 00:17:12,280 --> 00:17:15,840 Speaker 1: horrific response by the fire department and the horrific preparation 255 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:20,879 Speaker 1: by Karen Bass. Does this stuff make the TV? I 256 00:17:21,280 --> 00:17:24,639 Speaker 1: don't even know, because I look every day. I go 257 00:17:24,640 --> 00:17:27,400 Speaker 1: to every television station every day looking looking for material. 258 00:17:27,480 --> 00:17:32,440 Speaker 1: I don't see this stuff. I see The Times, which 259 00:17:32,480 --> 00:17:36,440 Speaker 1: deserves like ten Pulleter prizes for this one. Now, much 260 00:17:36,440 --> 00:17:39,240 Speaker 1: of the rest of the paper is garbage, but they're 261 00:17:39,280 --> 00:17:44,280 Speaker 1: doing it right here, these two writers, Paul Pringle and 262 00:17:44,359 --> 00:17:49,120 Speaker 1: Nalen Chick Midian Oh, I was telling you before about 263 00:17:49,160 --> 00:17:52,199 Speaker 1: all all the people who were denying like Bass was 264 00:17:52,240 --> 00:17:56,159 Speaker 1: denying that they ordered it down via Deaweva, the interim 265 00:17:56,160 --> 00:17:59,280 Speaker 1: treat chief wouldn't talk. Wait a second, there's another stooge here. Oh, 266 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:05,920 Speaker 1: the fire commit should President Genethia Hudley Hayes. She said 267 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:09,080 Speaker 1: Van Aweva told her in August that a draft of 268 00:18:09,080 --> 00:18:12,720 Speaker 1: the report was sent to Bass for refinements. She didn't 269 00:18:12,760 --> 00:18:15,840 Speaker 1: know what the refinements were, and she called the city 270 00:18:15,880 --> 00:18:20,439 Speaker 1: attorney about the possible changes. Hudley Hayes was another loser 271 00:18:20,520 --> 00:18:23,720 Speaker 1: appointed by Bass, and said after reviewing an early draft 272 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:27,040 Speaker 1: and the final document, she was satisfied that material findings 273 00:18:27,080 --> 00:18:32,080 Speaker 1: were not altered. Well, they were, so, Hudley Hayes. Again, 274 00:18:33,119 --> 00:18:37,080 Speaker 1: it's part of the cover up. Apparently they were very 275 00:18:37,119 --> 00:18:43,560 Speaker 1: important if Bass had them deleted or rewritten. So who's 276 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:45,199 Speaker 1: going to finally tell the truth. Remember the guy who 277 00:18:45,240 --> 00:18:48,440 Speaker 1: originally wrote the report is Battalion Chief Kenneth Cook, and 278 00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:52,280 Speaker 1: he refused to endorse the final version because it was 279 00:18:52,480 --> 00:18:55,199 Speaker 1: the changes were so egregious he didn't want his name 280 00:18:55,240 --> 00:18:59,040 Speaker 1: on it anymore. He called the report highly unprofessional and 281 00:18:59,160 --> 00:19:04,399 Speaker 1: inconsistent with our established standards. That's fancy language for a 282 00:19:04,440 --> 00:19:10,000 Speaker 1: pack of lies, a pack of lies. Bass needs to resign. 283 00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:12,639 Speaker 1: She should be forced out if there's a way to 284 00:19:12,680 --> 00:19:19,919 Speaker 1: force her out. And nobody, nobody should vote for this woman. Nobody. 285 00:19:22,359 --> 00:19:28,240 Speaker 1: It's called people diet dead and there's thousands homeless and 286 00:19:28,920 --> 00:19:29,640 Speaker 1: ed ed. 287 00:19:30,359 --> 00:19:30,479 Speaker 2: Up. 288 00:19:30,560 --> 00:19:35,879 Speaker 1: Until yesterday, the permit fees weren't waved. But now with 289 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:39,639 Speaker 1: the Trump administration coming to town, suddenly the city council 290 00:19:39,640 --> 00:19:42,160 Speaker 1: waved the permit fees. How about that after a year, 291 00:19:43,560 --> 00:19:47,480 Speaker 1: thirteen months, everybody was begging to get the permit fees waved. 292 00:19:47,480 --> 00:19:50,800 Speaker 1: When did it happen the day before the Trump administration 293 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:54,120 Speaker 1: officials arrive. We come back, We're gonna we're gonna talk 294 00:19:54,119 --> 00:19:56,960 Speaker 1: more about this later on. Uh, who do we got next? 295 00:19:57,000 --> 00:20:00,359 Speaker 1: We got to Alex stone STOLLKNA all right, because there's 296 00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:04,200 Speaker 1: all kinds of weird stuff coming about the missing mother 297 00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:08,720 Speaker 1: of missing mother of Savannah Guthrie, the Today Show host 298 00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:11,679 Speaker 1: Nancy Guthrie still missing, but boy, there's a lot of 299 00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:12,760 Speaker 1: weird rumors. Today. 300 00:20:13,920 --> 00:20:18,000 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI A 301 00:20:18,280 --> 00:20:18,800 Speaker 3: six forty. 302 00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:22,920 Speaker 1: We're going to return to the story Karen Bass caught 303 00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:25,080 Speaker 1: in the Great lie of the Los Angeles Times. She 304 00:20:25,160 --> 00:20:29,160 Speaker 1: did order the watering down of the Palisades Fire after 305 00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:32,600 Speaker 1: action report, and she lied and her staff lied repeatedly 306 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:36,960 Speaker 1: about it. She was behind all the edits and the 307 00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:40,000 Speaker 1: changes and the deletions. We'll get to that again later on. 308 00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:43,280 Speaker 1: We're going to go to Alex Stone. Now, Nancy Guthrie, 309 00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:46,760 Speaker 1: the mother of Savannah Guthrie, the Today Show anchor, is 310 00:20:47,119 --> 00:20:52,320 Speaker 1: still missing. All kinds of wild rumors swirling around all morning. Alex. 311 00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:56,320 Speaker 1: What's true and what's not? Well, that's a good question. So, yeah, 312 00:20:56,720 --> 00:21:00,720 Speaker 1: today there were these reports that Nancy guthrie son in law, 313 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:05,080 Speaker 1: the husband of Savannah's sister, that he was a suspect 314 00:21:05,080 --> 00:21:07,320 Speaker 1: now and that they have honed in on him. But 315 00:21:07,359 --> 00:21:10,879 Speaker 1: the Sheriff's department has come out real strongly saying no, 316 00:21:11,119 --> 00:21:13,840 Speaker 1: that they're talking to all family members as would be 317 00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:16,720 Speaker 1: routine in something like this, and they have not identified 318 00:21:17,040 --> 00:21:20,680 Speaker 1: any person of interest, no suspect in this case. In fact, 319 00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:24,040 Speaker 1: they pretty firmly chastised those reporting it today and other 320 00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:26,639 Speaker 1: gossip that's been out there that people have been putting 321 00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:29,120 Speaker 1: out his facts saying that it's wrong and that none 322 00:21:29,119 --> 00:21:32,760 Speaker 1: of it is helping the investigation. But today the sheriff 323 00:21:32,840 --> 00:21:35,920 Speaker 1: is very quiet, and he said yesterday that he needed 324 00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:38,280 Speaker 1: time away from the media and won't be giving any 325 00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:42,720 Speaker 1: updates to reporters until tomorrow. But we did note today 326 00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:45,240 Speaker 1: John here for the first time what it sounded like 327 00:21:45,359 --> 00:21:49,360 Speaker 1: as units were told about Nancy Guthrie missing on Sunday, 328 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:51,800 Speaker 1: And it's interesting as it went out, it went out 329 00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:55,359 Speaker 1: as an unable to locate, which is pretty normal for 330 00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:57,520 Speaker 1: like an old person who would walk away and try 331 00:21:57,520 --> 00:22:00,520 Speaker 1: to find them, not as a kidnapping victor or a 332 00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:04,800 Speaker 1: crime victim, just on a utl unable to locate. If 333 00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:06,960 Speaker 1: you see her, here's what she looks like. This would 334 00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:07,520 Speaker 1: have sounded like a. 335 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:12,720 Speaker 4: Reference Nancy White, female eighty four age five teen million 336 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:18,119 Speaker 4: villains crime rec things after twenty eight hours because of yesterday, 337 00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:20,960 Speaker 4: a high wall pressure pacemaker and cardiac issues. 338 00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:24,600 Speaker 1: High blood pressure, pacemaker, cardiac issues that even though the 339 00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:26,800 Speaker 1: sheriff says there were signs of a crime that pretty 340 00:22:26,800 --> 00:22:29,119 Speaker 1: i mediate unseen, that was about five hours, six hours 341 00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:32,840 Speaker 1: after they responded to the scene, that that unable to 342 00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:36,080 Speaker 1: locate was put out and then deputies driving around were 343 00:22:36,119 --> 00:22:38,440 Speaker 1: just kind of casually looking at people who were walking 344 00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:41,040 Speaker 1: down the street to see if if any of them 345 00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:42,879 Speaker 1: were her and wondering what tell me again what she 346 00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:45,399 Speaker 1: looks like? Is listen to these deputies on the radio 347 00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:46,320 Speaker 1: from Broadcastify. 348 00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:49,160 Speaker 4: Do we have a description yet of a subject? 349 00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:54,680 Speaker 1: Eighty eighty four year old female, unknown clothes. 350 00:22:55,800 --> 00:22:58,720 Speaker 2: Not super mobile, possible, are walking with a cane? 351 00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:00,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, And then one of the deput he says, oh, 352 00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:02,639 Speaker 1: I just saw somebody walking down the street, but it 353 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:04,280 Speaker 1: wasn't her. And they said, well, just get out and 354 00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:07,359 Speaker 1: ask if it's her. And so initially it seems like 355 00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:09,399 Speaker 1: there was no indication that a crime had occurred, that 356 00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:11,320 Speaker 1: they more thought that this was just an older person 357 00:23:11,359 --> 00:23:14,639 Speaker 1: who had walked away, but that apparently changed in the 358 00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:16,920 Speaker 1: hours after they were unseene, with the sheriff saying pretty 359 00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:19,480 Speaker 1: clear that there was a kidnapping going on. But at 360 00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:22,440 Speaker 1: this point they don't know who took her, they don't 361 00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:25,400 Speaker 1: know her whereabouts, they don't know if she's alive or dead. 362 00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:28,200 Speaker 1: That they say, there's nothing indicating either of those. Has 363 00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:32,600 Speaker 1: there been any follow up on this alleged ransom note? Well, yeah, 364 00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:36,000 Speaker 1: so it was sent to TMZ and every local station 365 00:23:36,359 --> 00:23:39,960 Speaker 1: in or most of the local stations in Tucson that 366 00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:43,879 Speaker 1: they all got it. It's the same letter there's nothing 367 00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:46,760 Speaker 1: to authenticate it at this point. You know, everybody was 368 00:23:47,520 --> 00:23:50,360 Speaker 1: most handed it right over to the FBI, and then 369 00:23:50,359 --> 00:23:52,399 Speaker 1: it got out that TMZ had it. They reported it, 370 00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:54,320 Speaker 1: and then the other stations said, oh, they had it, 371 00:23:54,320 --> 00:24:00,520 Speaker 1: but they were staying quiet. And according to the FBI 372 00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:04,239 Speaker 1: and to the Sheriff's department that they're looking at it 373 00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:07,520 Speaker 1: and they've got to authenticate it. We don't know anything 374 00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:11,240 Speaker 1: today that would indicate it Israel that we know they're 375 00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:13,600 Speaker 1: getting a ton of this kind of stuff, you know 376 00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:16,160 Speaker 1: that they're Yeah, I mean every crack pot and every 377 00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:20,560 Speaker 1: scam artist can can send a fake ransom note because 378 00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:22,480 Speaker 1: you got you got eight billion people with access to 379 00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:24,520 Speaker 1: the internet now, yeah, and I mean it's either trying 380 00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:26,840 Speaker 1: to make money by getting them to send you bitcoin 381 00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:30,639 Speaker 1: or just to hear about it us talking about it 382 00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:33,800 Speaker 1: right now and TMZ talking about it, or did it 383 00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:36,920 Speaker 1: think it's funny and disrupt the investigation, or it may 384 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:39,240 Speaker 1: very well be real. They don't seem to know, and 385 00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:43,080 Speaker 1: we don't know either, and so there doesn't seem to 386 00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:46,920 Speaker 1: be anything to this thing that was originally put out 387 00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:49,639 Speaker 1: by Ashley Banfield, who used to be a TV host, 388 00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:52,360 Speaker 1: that she claimed she had real good sources in law 389 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:56,240 Speaker 1: enforcement that it was the brother in law of Savannah Guthrie. 390 00:24:56,280 --> 00:24:59,440 Speaker 1: But that turns out to be a nothing. I just surprised. 391 00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:02,680 Speaker 1: He's been in the business for decades. It's on her 392 00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:06,440 Speaker 1: podcast that she said it, and then News Nation ended 393 00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:08,679 Speaker 1: up putting out a news release this morning saying that 394 00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:10,320 Speaker 1: she said it, and then that's when it got picked 395 00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:13,560 Speaker 1: up by everybody. The Sheriff's department says that that is 396 00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:16,120 Speaker 1: not accurate. We'll see, I mean, maybe in the end 397 00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:19,120 Speaker 1: there'll be something to her information, but yeah, that they 398 00:25:19,359 --> 00:25:22,560 Speaker 1: were pretty strong and their wording today saying that the 399 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:25,840 Speaker 1: unverified reports don't do anything to about the investigation. And 400 00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:28,040 Speaker 1: the police do a lot of misdirection as well when 401 00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:30,879 Speaker 1: they're trying to zero in us on a suspect. So 402 00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:32,320 Speaker 1: doubt and we don't know if they are right now 403 00:25:32,359 --> 00:25:36,120 Speaker 1: or they just don't know anything. Think we remember Brian 404 00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:39,800 Speaker 1: Coberger up in Idaho. Remember how they acted dumb for 405 00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:42,040 Speaker 1: a very long time, and we know that they knew 406 00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:44,760 Speaker 1: that they were honing in on Brian Coburger and everybody 407 00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:46,879 Speaker 1: was saying, why don't they know? How did they not know? 408 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:49,119 Speaker 1: And the whole time they knew, but publicly they were 409 00:25:49,119 --> 00:25:51,080 Speaker 1: acting like they had no idea what was going on. 410 00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:54,840 Speaker 1: We don't know. They're very good actors at this point 411 00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:59,320 Speaker 1: if they actually know something, but because they keep saying 412 00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:01,959 Speaker 1: and that the sheriff is said, they just don't know. Alextone, 413 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:04,480 Speaker 1: thank you. You got to thank jo Alex Stone, ABC 414 00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:09,040 Speaker 1: News reporting on Savannah Guthrie's mom still missing, eighty four 415 00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:13,520 Speaker 1: year old Nancy Guthrie. I a bizarre story, all right. 416 00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:16,240 Speaker 1: I gotta tell you that you can follow us on 417 00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:19,280 Speaker 1: social media at John Cobelt Radio at John Cobelt Radio, 418 00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:23,800 Speaker 1: and you can subscribe on our YouTube channel. We put 419 00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:27,399 Speaker 1: out long form segments frequently during the week. YouTube dot 420 00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:31,080 Speaker 1: com slash at John Cobelt Show. It's a little different 421 00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:34,680 Speaker 1: than the other address, YouTube dot com slash at John Cobelt' show. 422 00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:38,439 Speaker 1: You subscribe on YouTube, and we just passed three thousand 423 00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:42,479 Speaker 1: subscribers for our channel, So thanks to everyone. You get 424 00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:45,680 Speaker 1: no money for that, but you do have our gratitude. 425 00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:49,920 Speaker 1: All right. Coming up after two o'clock, we're gonna have 426 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:53,520 Speaker 1: Luke barr on. It looks like some kind of an 427 00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:57,600 Speaker 1: agreement has been made between Tom Holman and Minnesota officials 428 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:02,399 Speaker 1: there's going to be fewer agents from ICE, but it 429 00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:07,080 Speaker 1: looks like local officials are going to be turning over 430 00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:10,280 Speaker 1: criminal aliens in their custody. We'll get all the details 431 00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:10,679 Speaker 1: coming up. 432 00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:16,920 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am sixty. 433 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:20,440 Speaker 1: John Cobelt's show. We're on every day one until four o'clock, 434 00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:24,520 Speaker 1: and now you can get the podcast as soon as 435 00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:28,680 Speaker 1: each hour has ended, So the one o'clock hour, which 436 00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:31,800 Speaker 1: we're in the midst of, will be posted shortly after 437 00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:34,640 Speaker 1: two o'clock. And what we covered in the first half 438 00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:38,719 Speaker 1: hour was the big bombshell from the Los Angeles Times, 439 00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:42,399 Speaker 1: which in a normal world would end Karen Bass's career 440 00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:49,000 Speaker 1: today that she lied repeatedly, that she either changed the 441 00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:52,240 Speaker 1: after action report, softened it, or ordered somebody to do 442 00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:56,479 Speaker 1: it on her behalf. And that's according to people within 443 00:27:57,160 --> 00:28:01,320 Speaker 1: Karen Bass's circle or inner circle, who spoke to two 444 00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:06,040 Speaker 1: sources that the LA Times quoted anonymously. And it looks 445 00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:08,359 Speaker 1: like that Karen Bass has been lying and she had 446 00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:10,960 Speaker 1: a reason for it. She did the changes to protect 447 00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:16,879 Speaker 1: legal liability for the city, which is nonsense because everybody's 448 00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:19,440 Speaker 1: going to testify under oath and we're gonna find out 449 00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:24,359 Speaker 1: for sure what happened eventually. But what she wanted is 450 00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:29,400 Speaker 1: to keep the report buried while she runs for reelection. 451 00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:35,639 Speaker 1: And she got caught. And so I'm just begging people, 452 00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:39,120 Speaker 1: and you should beg everybody you know, do not vote 453 00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:44,120 Speaker 1: for her anymore and write to city Hall. Clall city 454 00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:49,920 Speaker 1: Hall now, send out a message on Twitter, every possible 455 00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:52,760 Speaker 1: way to communicate with City Hall, and everybody who works 456 00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:56,000 Speaker 1: there for Karen Bass should be told repeatedly that's it. 457 00:28:56,360 --> 00:28:59,960 Speaker 1: That's enough. You've done enough destruction and now you're cover 458 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:02,880 Speaker 1: bring it up and lying about it no more. I mean, 459 00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:07,240 Speaker 1: this has got to stop. We cannot go another day 460 00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:11,360 Speaker 1: with this lady. She's crazy. She's crazy, she's incompetent, she's destructive, 461 00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:17,600 Speaker 1: she's overwhelmed, and she's a liar, just cold hearted, sociopathic liar. 462 00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:19,880 Speaker 1: Considering the suffering that's going on, and I've seen it 463 00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:23,600 Speaker 1: up close, a lot of suffering, and this is what 464 00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:26,640 Speaker 1: she does. She covers up the truth, covers up the truth, 465 00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:33,440 Speaker 1: and that stooge, fire chief Honeymore goes with her. What 466 00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:36,760 Speaker 1: are they going to do with the information? And there's 467 00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:42,480 Speaker 1: more idiots in government, there's so many of them. One 468 00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:44,920 Speaker 1: guy who tried to tell the truth this week, the 469 00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:49,080 Speaker 1: LA Police Chief, Jim McDonald. He said that he's not 470 00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:52,640 Speaker 1: going to enforce the Gavin new some stupid mask band 471 00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:56,600 Speaker 1: on ICE agents. And before he goes, oh, he can't 472 00:29:56,600 --> 00:30:02,880 Speaker 1: do that, read the Institution. There's something called the supremacy Clause. 473 00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:07,959 Speaker 1: And on matters that the Constitution assigns to the federal 474 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:13,240 Speaker 1: government to their responsibility. They decide what the laws and 475 00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:19,600 Speaker 1: the regulations are. And since ICE is a function of 476 00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:24,480 Speaker 1: the Department of Homeland Security, which is a cabinet level agency, 477 00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:30,440 Speaker 1: the President the head of Homeland Security, they get to decide. 478 00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:34,320 Speaker 1: But the dress code is and if they say masks, 479 00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:37,680 Speaker 1: the ICE agents wear masks. If they say no masks, 480 00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:41,120 Speaker 1: there's no masks. If they tell them to wear pink 481 00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:45,720 Speaker 1: Ballerina slippers, then the ICE agents do that as well. 482 00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:51,480 Speaker 1: Because Trump and all Land Security is in charge, Congress 483 00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:55,600 Speaker 1: hasn't overruled them, Supreme Court hasn't overruled them. And it's 484 00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:58,480 Speaker 1: been part of the Constitution for two hundred and fifty years. 485 00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:04,280 Speaker 1: So you can't have a local law enforcement agency tell 486 00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:08,200 Speaker 1: a federal law enforcement agency how to dress. Besides, it's 487 00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:11,080 Speaker 1: really impractical, which is what Jim McDonald was pointing out. 488 00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:16,480 Speaker 1: He said, you can't have an armed local law enforcement 489 00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:21,280 Speaker 1: agency take on a an armed federal law enforcement agency. 490 00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:23,440 Speaker 1: That's we're not going to do that. This was poorly 491 00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:26,160 Speaker 1: thought out as a bad idea. He's telling the truth 492 00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:31,240 Speaker 1: because it is now. When you have a stupid idea, 493 00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:34,400 Speaker 1: who's going to embrace the stupid idea a stupid person 494 00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:38,640 Speaker 1: and you don't, they don't come dumber, then you unses Hernandez, 495 00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:45,000 Speaker 1: councilwoman who's presiding over that disgusting cesspool, MacArthur Park, Well, 496 00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:49,080 Speaker 1: she's upset that the LAPD is not enforcing the ice 497 00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:52,160 Speaker 1: ice mask band. Let's play cut number one and you 498 00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:53,600 Speaker 1: can hear her words. 499 00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:57,640 Speaker 5: I just want to go the sentiment of Councilmember Soto 500 00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:03,040 Speaker 5: Martinez and council Woman Rodriguez just about the disappointing comments 501 00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:07,920 Speaker 5: by the chief on the state bill around mass It 502 00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:10,280 Speaker 5: really felt like for me in that moment where he 503 00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:12,200 Speaker 5: should have stood up for the city of Los Angeles 504 00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:14,800 Speaker 5: and he just said he wasn't going to enforce a 505 00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:18,080 Speaker 5: law that was past the state legislator. And I find 506 00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:20,760 Speaker 5: that very problematic, especially in this moment where we need 507 00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:23,560 Speaker 5: to be standing ten toes down for a city. So 508 00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:26,080 Speaker 5: I just want to share the concerns and feeling about. 509 00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:29,120 Speaker 1: That we should be standing ten toes down. What does 510 00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:32,640 Speaker 1: that mean? I never heard that expression, you know, Eric, Yeah, 511 00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:35,040 Speaker 1: it means basically, you got to stand your ground and 512 00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:37,720 Speaker 1: stick up for what you believe in standing ten toes down, 513 00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:40,320 Speaker 1: like putting both your feet on the ground and not moving. 514 00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:43,640 Speaker 1: I see you have to stick your toes into the ground. Yeah, sure, 515 00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:47,120 Speaker 1: if you want. When you didn't tip over, Yeah, I 516 00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:51,520 Speaker 1: just never heard that Phrasell's she could be disappointed all 517 00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:56,040 Speaker 1: she wants. McDonald's right, Hernandez is wrong. There's again the 518 00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:59,560 Speaker 1: supremacy clause. I don't know if Hernandez can read. It's 519 00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:04,200 Speaker 1: possible she can't read. Considering the illiteracy rates coming out 520 00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:06,520 Speaker 1: of the public schools in Los Angeles, it's very possible 521 00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:09,920 Speaker 1: she has no idea what the word supremacy means, let 522 00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:16,240 Speaker 1: alone understanding the power of that concept in the Constitution, 523 00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:21,560 Speaker 1: which means federal law supersedes state and local law. So 524 00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:26,160 Speaker 1: there's and I told you this the first time Newsom 525 00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:30,760 Speaker 1: came up with this stupid idea. He did it for attention, 526 00:33:31,560 --> 00:33:34,840 Speaker 1: because he knows it can never be enforced. It's impossible 527 00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:39,760 Speaker 1: on a practical level. It's impossible too, not going to 528 00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:43,120 Speaker 1: get police officers engaging in what a standoff, a shootout 529 00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:49,160 Speaker 1: over a mask. She is such an embarrassment, such a 530 00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:54,200 Speaker 1: colossal embarrassment, but hey, that's what people vote for. By 531 00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:56,800 Speaker 1: the way, one more thing, we were talking with Alex 532 00:33:56,840 --> 00:34:02,120 Speaker 1: Stone about this Savannah Guthrie, her mother being missing, Nancy Guthrie, 533 00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:07,600 Speaker 1: and we mentioned Nashley Banfield, who has her own podcast 534 00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:12,400 Speaker 1: now online. She's a long time anchor for various networks. 535 00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:16,960 Speaker 1: She says she has a source, police source that they're 536 00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:21,240 Speaker 1: looking at the brother in law of Savannah Guthrie, married 537 00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:25,920 Speaker 1: to Savannah's sister, as the top suspect, and they've Tody's cart. 538 00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:29,160 Speaker 1: Forty minutes ago, she was on with Megan Kelly on 539 00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:32,240 Speaker 1: Serious XM and is standing by the story and standing 540 00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:35,640 Speaker 1: by her source. So we'll see when we come back. 541 00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:39,359 Speaker 1: We're gonna talk to ABC News law enforcement reporter Luke 542 00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:42,279 Speaker 1: Barr in Minneapolis. Some kind of deal has been made 543 00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:45,960 Speaker 1: between Tom Holman and Minnesota officials. It looks like some 544 00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:49,719 Speaker 1: Ice agents will be pulled, but there'll be a new 545 00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:54,080 Speaker 1: level of cooperation regarding criminal aliens. We'll talk about it 546 00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:57,040 Speaker 1: with Luke bar next, Debra Mark Clive mccaffie, twenty four 547 00:34:57,040 --> 00:34:59,399 Speaker 1: Hour News Room. Hey, you've been listening to the John 548 00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:02,279 Speaker 1: Cobalt Podcast. You can always hear the show live on 549 00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:05,359 Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty from one to four pm every 550 00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:08,279 Speaker 1: Monday through Friday, and of course, anytime on demand on 551 00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:09,600 Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app