1 00:00:00,960 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 1: I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,520 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:08,680 Speaker 2: Michael Monks was just done with us for the last 4 00:00:08,720 --> 00:00:11,360 Speaker 2: half hour, and if you missed it, you can hear 5 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:14,920 Speaker 2: it on the podcast posted after four o'clock John Cobelt's 6 00:00:14,880 --> 00:00:20,240 Speaker 2: show on demand, and we went through all the homeless 7 00:00:20,239 --> 00:00:23,400 Speaker 2: news yesterday. There's a feeling like an earthquake is coming 8 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:28,640 Speaker 2: that everybody in government now sees that much of the 9 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:33,160 Speaker 2: nation is upset with failed progressive politics and the rats 10 00:00:33,159 --> 00:00:37,040 Speaker 2: are scrambling. The ship is sinking and the rats are scrambling. 11 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:41,599 Speaker 2: So yesterday the new homeless tax kicked in, and then 12 00:00:41,640 --> 00:00:46,000 Speaker 2: the county decided to pull out of Larsa, and the 13 00:00:46,040 --> 00:00:50,280 Speaker 2: city council also decided that they weren't going to give 14 00:00:50,720 --> 00:00:54,640 Speaker 2: Karen Bess nearly the money that she's asking for for 15 00:00:54,760 --> 00:00:57,440 Speaker 2: her homeless projects. So there's a lot going on. There's 16 00:00:57,480 --> 00:01:00,360 Speaker 2: a federal judge named David Carter who's putting a lot 17 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:03,080 Speaker 2: of pressure on everyone, and I think that has a 18 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:05,400 Speaker 2: lot to do with the Rats scrambling. I'm going to 19 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:08,840 Speaker 2: talk about him coming up because he looks like he's 20 00:01:08,959 --> 00:01:12,600 Speaker 2: considering just blowing everything up he doesn't want to. He 21 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:15,200 Speaker 2: realizes blowing everything up is not going to solve all 22 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:18,119 Speaker 2: the problems, but he actually doesn't know what else to do. 23 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:20,960 Speaker 2: It's that much of a failure. But hey, you voted 24 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:23,880 Speaker 2: for all this. In the meantime, Alex Stone from ABC 25 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:29,120 Speaker 2: News is coming on. The Menendez brothers are still whining 26 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:32,120 Speaker 2: and complaining that they're in prison for blowing their parents' 27 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:36,800 Speaker 2: heads off. And now the Menenda's brother's entourage is upset 28 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:40,120 Speaker 2: with Nathan Hackman, the La County DA because he still 29 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:41,280 Speaker 2: opposes their release. 30 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:44,560 Speaker 1: Let's see what the latest chapter is with Alex. How 31 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:45,280 Speaker 1: are you? Hey? 32 00:01:45,319 --> 00:01:47,440 Speaker 2: They're John doing well? So, yeah, this is as we 33 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:50,960 Speaker 2: all know in La this ongoing saga since last fall 34 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:53,560 Speaker 2: where George Gascon was siding with him and then and 35 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:56,240 Speaker 2: now Nathan Hackman has not done the one to eighty 36 00:01:56,280 --> 00:02:00,960 Speaker 2: and so the family and the Menendez brothers and Mark 37 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:05,920 Speaker 2: Garrigos are quite angry about the turn that Hawkman has 38 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:09,680 Speaker 2: done from what Garaghos was doing. And you remember about 39 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:11,240 Speaker 2: a week and a half two weeks ago when Hawkman 40 00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:13,280 Speaker 2: filed the paperwork a little bit longer ago than that, 41 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:16,400 Speaker 2: filed the paperwork saying that he would not support the 42 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:19,560 Speaker 2: argument any longer that they have been rehabilitated and that 43 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:21,480 Speaker 2: they should get out, and that he will go to 44 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:23,640 Speaker 2: court in a hearing that right now is scheduled in 45 00:02:23,639 --> 00:02:25,760 Speaker 2: about two weeks. It's been delayed over and over again, 46 00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:29,160 Speaker 2: it may be delayed again and argue against them getting out. 47 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:31,359 Speaker 2: He argues, Hawkman does this. 48 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:35,160 Speaker 3: They pose an unreasonable risk of danger to the community 49 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:38,519 Speaker 3: and the resentencing should not therefore be granted. 50 00:02:38,639 --> 00:02:41,240 Speaker 2: So this hearing's coming up, a judge could decide to 51 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:43,680 Speaker 2: give them parole. The Parole Board is looking into them 52 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:46,400 Speaker 2: as well. They're going to report in June to the 53 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:49,240 Speaker 2: court and the governor where they could get clemency from 54 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:53,239 Speaker 2: the governor or help the court decide. But Mark Garrigos 55 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:56,600 Speaker 2: and the Menendez family members in this new filing, they're 56 00:02:56,639 --> 00:03:02,160 Speaker 2: angry about Nathan Hawkman going the opposite supporting them. Garrigos 57 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:06,920 Speaker 2: claims that the brothers fit perfectly under California law being rehabilitated, 58 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:09,560 Speaker 2: that they should get out, and because I know that 59 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:11,560 Speaker 2: you would love to hear from Geragos, he says, this 60 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:14,000 Speaker 2: is why they have done good in prison. 61 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:18,600 Speaker 4: They have done some unbelievable work while in prison. Lyle 62 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:21,960 Speaker 4: has kind of taken on what's called a green space 63 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:25,840 Speaker 4: project for himself that's actually been implemented in the prison. 64 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:28,920 Speaker 4: He's graduated from University of California. 65 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:30,799 Speaker 1: He's gotten a BA degree. 66 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:34,720 Speaker 4: Eric has started hospice care for inmates. 67 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:39,840 Speaker 2: So hospice care, so the Garrigos team. They have filed 68 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:42,680 Speaker 2: these new arguments with the court against Hakman, saying that 69 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:46,880 Speaker 2: Hawkman pushing back against the release is political and it's 70 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:50,200 Speaker 2: for his political gain as a more conservative da That 71 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:53,840 Speaker 2: they claim Hawkman is using outdated arguments, he's ignoring that 72 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:56,880 Speaker 2: the men were sexually abused as children. That they say 73 00:03:56,880 --> 00:03:59,600 Speaker 2: that that's what this is about. Hakman says, the abuse 74 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:03,520 Speaker 2: has nothing to do with this over the alleged over 75 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:06,440 Speaker 2: the murders. But the alleged abuse doesn't come into play 76 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:09,080 Speaker 2: with the murders because it wasn't self defense. In that moment, 77 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:14,200 Speaker 2: the family says that that Hawkman is just ignoring abuse victims. 78 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:16,920 Speaker 2: That they've been arguing this as they held they've been 79 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:18,320 Speaker 2: holding constant rallies. 80 00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:21,120 Speaker 4: Today we stand together not just for Eric and Lyle, 81 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:25,000 Speaker 4: but for every person who has been silenced, for every 82 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:27,760 Speaker 4: person who has fought to be believed. 83 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:30,279 Speaker 2: So they want the judge to ignore Hawkman's argument in 84 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:33,360 Speaker 2: this to keep them in prison. That Hawkman's arguing. They're saying, 85 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:36,039 Speaker 2: ignore that, but Hawkman says that the whole defense that 86 00:04:36,080 --> 00:04:38,560 Speaker 2: they were abused and killed out of self defense, that 87 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:39,480 Speaker 2: is a lie. 88 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:40,400 Speaker 1: He says they've been. 89 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:44,320 Speaker 2: Telling lies for thirty five years, and that until they 90 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:47,760 Speaker 2: come totally clean, he's not going to push for their release. 91 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:50,200 Speaker 2: But it's really that self defense thing where he says 92 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:52,719 Speaker 2: that is not self defense because they were not being 93 00:04:53,080 --> 00:04:55,800 Speaker 2: they were not in danger in that moment when they killed. 94 00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:56,640 Speaker 1: And he put it this way. 95 00:04:56,680 --> 00:05:01,280 Speaker 3: While the Menendez brothers persist in telling that for the 96 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:05,640 Speaker 3: last over thirty years about their self defense defense and 97 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:09,760 Speaker 3: persist in insisting that they did not suborn any perjury 98 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:13,640 Speaker 3: or attempt to suborn perjury, then they do not meet 99 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:16,080 Speaker 3: the standards for Ree's sentence sake. 100 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:18,680 Speaker 2: But the family and the brothers and Gerr Goosey disagree 101 00:05:18,720 --> 00:05:20,560 Speaker 2: with that and san that Hokman is completely wrong and 102 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:23,440 Speaker 2: that this is politics. So they're telling the judge go 103 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:26,240 Speaker 2: ahead and let them out, essentially, but give them parole. 104 00:05:26,680 --> 00:05:30,560 Speaker 2: The judges have to hear this rehabilitation argument in two 105 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:32,520 Speaker 2: weeks if the hearing doesn't get delayed again. 106 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:34,120 Speaker 1: But for now they remain in prison. 107 00:05:34,279 --> 00:05:38,039 Speaker 2: The most likely avenue probably is clemency at this point, 108 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:40,760 Speaker 2: but the judge could decide to go forward with parole. 109 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:43,440 Speaker 2: This is the argument for the death penalty, because if 110 00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:46,000 Speaker 2: they're executed, we wouldn't have to deal with this a 111 00:05:46,040 --> 00:05:46,599 Speaker 2: few weeks. 112 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:49,520 Speaker 1: All right, Alex Stone, thank you very much. You got it. 113 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:53,440 Speaker 2: Thanks for ABC News. They are so tiresome. It was 114 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:57,680 Speaker 2: not self defense. They could have walked out the front door, 115 00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:02,000 Speaker 2: gotten to their luxury cars and in a way. All right, 116 00:06:02,080 --> 00:06:07,560 Speaker 2: they are psychopaths, and I mean I know the attorneys. 117 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:09,920 Speaker 2: I know Garrigos is making good money on this, and 118 00:06:09,960 --> 00:06:13,839 Speaker 2: so are the other attorneys. But the family, you're all crazy. 119 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:17,880 Speaker 2: You have two psychopaths you want to unleash on the 120 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:23,960 Speaker 2: rest of us. No, you're lucky that they weren't executed, 121 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:29,400 Speaker 2: because they should have been. When we come back, I 122 00:06:29,480 --> 00:06:33,839 Speaker 2: want to talk about Judge Carter, David o'carter. He's at 123 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:38,000 Speaker 2: the end of his rope with all these homeless agencies 124 00:06:39,240 --> 00:06:43,680 Speaker 2: because it's clear they're all failures. Somebody's stealing the money, 125 00:06:44,279 --> 00:06:47,600 Speaker 2: somebody is paying out money to nonprofits and no one's 126 00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:51,120 Speaker 2: writing down where it's going, and he doesn't know what 127 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:54,359 Speaker 2: to do. Because the homeless problem is not getting any better. 128 00:06:54,839 --> 00:06:57,960 Speaker 2: Everybody's starting to turn on each other. This is almost 129 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:01,200 Speaker 2: like the final days of so Union, Like there's all 130 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:05,480 Speaker 2: this whole woke, progressive infrastructure we've been dealing with for 131 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:09,280 Speaker 2: the last ten years. It's starting to collapse. And one 132 00:07:09,320 --> 00:07:13,920 Speaker 2: of the signs of collapse is when when everyone starts 133 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:19,840 Speaker 2: eating one another, and these characters definitely are. We'll get 134 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:23,600 Speaker 2: into that after the news. And also we've got a 135 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:27,920 Speaker 2: question online on Instagram. It's a poll, and the question 136 00:07:28,080 --> 00:07:30,720 Speaker 2: is who do you believe is to blame for these 137 00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:34,560 Speaker 2: homeless tax increases in Los Angeles with the money being 138 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:39,880 Speaker 2: wasted or accounted for? And right now, according to KFI listeners, 139 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:45,800 Speaker 2: sixty one percent blame stupid voters, twenty three percent greedy politicians, 140 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:52,239 Speaker 2: twelve percent blame fraudulent nonprofits, and four percent blame slimy lobbyists. 141 00:07:52,480 --> 00:07:54,000 Speaker 1: There you go, that's. 142 00:07:53,760 --> 00:07:57,520 Speaker 2: Some crowd and they have they have plundered about I 143 00:07:57,520 --> 00:07:59,960 Speaker 2: don't know how many billions of dollars over the last 144 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:02,960 Speaker 2: ten years. So you keep going to Instagram and you 145 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:03,880 Speaker 2: can vote on that poll. 146 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:08,560 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from kf I 147 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:09,600 Speaker 5: am six forty. 148 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:16,480 Speaker 2: John coblt Our moistline is operating. We're gonna play Friday, 149 00:08:16,520 --> 00:08:18,200 Speaker 2: two rounds of it in the three o'clock hour. 150 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:24,000 Speaker 6: Excuse me, you know you have an off, but. 151 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:27,560 Speaker 2: That's too far with eight seven seven Moist eighty six 152 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:29,640 Speaker 2: eight seven seven Moist Day six. I have the allergy 153 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:30,760 Speaker 2: problems too, I know. 154 00:08:30,880 --> 00:08:32,880 Speaker 6: But at least I turn my mic off when I'm 155 00:08:32,880 --> 00:08:33,720 Speaker 6: coughing up the store. 156 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:36,720 Speaker 1: You don't turn it off for your yawns. 157 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:42,199 Speaker 6: Yes, I do. I mean one time. It was a mistake. 158 00:08:42,320 --> 00:08:46,199 Speaker 7: All right, all right, I'm getting on. 159 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:53,280 Speaker 2: Oh oh really somebody suggests a yawn. Yes, yeah, I've 160 00:08:53,280 --> 00:08:57,480 Speaker 2: seen that in zoos. Do you think, well, if all 161 00:08:57,640 --> 00:08:59,680 Speaker 2: if all the gorillas, one of them starts to yawn, 162 00:08:59,679 --> 00:09:01,280 Speaker 2: and than all the others will too. 163 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:02,320 Speaker 1: I actually saw that one. 164 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:03,160 Speaker 6: Yeahageous. 165 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:03,760 Speaker 1: It is. 166 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:10,120 Speaker 2: So this is really rich. There's nobody who claims any 167 00:09:10,160 --> 00:09:13,000 Speaker 2: of the homeless systems are working here in La County. 168 00:09:13,679 --> 00:09:16,360 Speaker 2: It's really awful because ten years ago we didn't have 169 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:18,760 Speaker 2: any of this, and now we've had too much of 170 00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:22,800 Speaker 2: it for years, and it's because of stupid progressive politics 171 00:09:22,840 --> 00:09:26,240 Speaker 2: nothing else. If we had, you know, ten different people 172 00:09:26,320 --> 00:09:31,000 Speaker 2: on city Council, three four different people on La County 173 00:09:31,040 --> 00:09:37,480 Speaker 2: Supervisor's board, a different mayor who weren't infected with progressive politics, 174 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:39,240 Speaker 2: LA County and City. 175 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:41,680 Speaker 1: Would look much different. We'd have a lot more money. 176 00:09:42,559 --> 00:09:48,040 Speaker 2: But instead they got this bizarre, wacky notion that we 177 00:09:48,160 --> 00:09:54,319 Speaker 2: could take in all the drug addicts, alcoholics, mental patients 178 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:57,440 Speaker 2: and weirdos from all over the country and let them 179 00:09:57,520 --> 00:10:01,200 Speaker 2: lay out in the streets and defecate and urinate and 180 00:10:01,240 --> 00:10:04,720 Speaker 2: inject their drugs and snort their meth and leave their 181 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:07,400 Speaker 2: garbage and their filth and their tents, and that they 182 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:09,880 Speaker 2: could steal whatever they want to steal, and we don't 183 00:10:09,880 --> 00:10:14,120 Speaker 2: have any right to get in their way. They've got 184 00:10:14,120 --> 00:10:17,400 Speaker 2: the freedom to do all this. And oh my god, 185 00:10:17,440 --> 00:10:20,079 Speaker 2: there's a million court cases in the US Supreme Court. 186 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:21,160 Speaker 1: And just think about it. 187 00:10:21,679 --> 00:10:24,320 Speaker 2: On day one, the first guy who laid down a 188 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:28,000 Speaker 2: tent and was sitting there injecting his heroin or snorting 189 00:10:28,040 --> 00:10:30,400 Speaker 2: his meth, if the cops would come and say, buddy, 190 00:10:30,760 --> 00:10:32,320 Speaker 2: not here, We'll give you a ride. 191 00:10:32,360 --> 00:10:33,040 Speaker 1: Where are you going? 192 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:37,360 Speaker 2: You just did that with Vagrant number one, and number 193 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:39,560 Speaker 2: two and number three. 194 00:10:39,760 --> 00:10:44,280 Speaker 1: This would never have happened. But I think they allowed 195 00:10:44,320 --> 00:10:48,160 Speaker 1: this because they realized, Ah, this is going to be 196 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:52,200 Speaker 1: a huge revenue stream. We let the vagrants in here. 197 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:56,400 Speaker 2: The cover story is their civil rights, and now we 198 00:10:56,440 --> 00:11:01,480 Speaker 2: could set up all these phony beloney agencies, nonprofits, and 199 00:11:01,520 --> 00:11:05,280 Speaker 2: we're all gonna get rich. You're gonna have the politicians, 200 00:11:06,679 --> 00:11:10,440 Speaker 2: friends and relatives start nonprofits left and right, and they have, 201 00:11:11,640 --> 00:11:14,520 Speaker 2: and you're gonna have all these bureaucrats at the agencies. 202 00:11:15,720 --> 00:11:19,080 Speaker 2: They're gonna have new fiefdoms to rule over. And the 203 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:21,880 Speaker 2: people at the nonprofits are making six figures and the 204 00:11:21,920 --> 00:11:25,080 Speaker 2: people who run these agencies are making six figures. And 205 00:11:25,120 --> 00:11:27,800 Speaker 2: they keep jacking up the taxes. They have spent billions 206 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:31,200 Speaker 2: and billions, and the homeless rate goes up and up, 207 00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:34,080 Speaker 2: and if there's a random year where the homeless rate 208 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:36,719 Speaker 2: is stagnant, it's like, oh my god, look at that 209 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:37,720 Speaker 2: the homeless rate. 210 00:11:38,080 --> 00:11:39,319 Speaker 1: H it didn't go up. 211 00:11:39,400 --> 00:11:42,199 Speaker 2: It didn't go down, but it didn't go up, and wow, 212 00:11:42,280 --> 00:11:45,040 Speaker 2: we should get more money, and look how great we are. 213 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:50,280 Speaker 2: And they created the problem, they do not solve it, 214 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:54,200 Speaker 2: and they get rich off it. And if you don't 215 00:11:54,240 --> 00:11:57,760 Speaker 2: think that's what's going on, then you're a hopelessly naive. 216 00:11:57,800 --> 00:12:01,360 Speaker 2: You're a silly person. And here's one at the top 217 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:03,719 Speaker 2: of the food chain. We're gonna play you this clip. Eric, 218 00:12:03,760 --> 00:12:08,400 Speaker 2: get it ready. Michael Monks mentioned this last hour. LA 219 00:12:08,520 --> 00:12:12,000 Speaker 2: County is pulling its money out of LASA, that is 220 00:12:12,040 --> 00:12:17,800 Speaker 2: the joint city and state, City and county agency Los 221 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:22,480 Speaker 2: Angeles Homeless Services Association. LA County contributes a lot of 222 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:26,120 Speaker 2: the money, LA City contributes some, and the county says 223 00:12:26,400 --> 00:12:31,679 Speaker 2: enough is enough. And the head of LASA is Valicia 224 00:12:31,720 --> 00:12:35,360 Speaker 2: Adams Kellum, and she is a piece of work. She 225 00:12:35,480 --> 00:12:39,520 Speaker 2: actually gave she signed a two million dollar contract and 226 00:12:39,559 --> 00:12:44,400 Speaker 2: gave the two million dollars to her husband's nonprofit. Probably 227 00:12:44,400 --> 00:12:46,840 Speaker 2: stuff like that is going on every day, but this 228 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:51,080 Speaker 2: was blatant. And then she claimed, well, I didn't look 229 00:12:51,080 --> 00:12:55,679 Speaker 2: at what I was signing. They shouldn't have given it 230 00:12:55,679 --> 00:12:58,920 Speaker 2: to me. Okay, I guess you can't read either, Felicia. 231 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:02,559 Speaker 2: She was to appear before the federal judge David Carter. 232 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:06,040 Speaker 2: He had invited all these city leaders and she didn't 233 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:08,480 Speaker 2: show up because she was speaking at Harvard. 234 00:13:09,360 --> 00:13:13,400 Speaker 1: Harvard she went. 235 00:13:13,240 --> 00:13:18,800 Speaker 2: To the LA County support of Supervisors meeting yesterday, but 236 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:22,200 Speaker 2: they didn't want to hear from her. Really, they treated 237 00:13:22,200 --> 00:13:25,439 Speaker 2: her like any other riff raff constituent. She only got 238 00:13:25,440 --> 00:13:28,240 Speaker 2: a minute, then she asked for thirty seconds, got that, 239 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:30,959 Speaker 2: and then had her mic cut off. Listen to the 240 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:33,600 Speaker 2: President of LASA, Alicia Adams Kellen. 241 00:13:33,920 --> 00:13:37,440 Speaker 8: I am the CEO of LASA, and there's been a 242 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:41,280 Speaker 8: lot of negative things said about LASA today. As was 243 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:44,960 Speaker 8: said in the motion when it first released, it indicated 244 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:47,480 Speaker 8: that much of the look back audits did not cover 245 00:13:47,679 --> 00:13:50,800 Speaker 8: the time of my leadership. But when I came on 246 00:13:50,920 --> 00:13:52,640 Speaker 8: and I met with each of you, I took on 247 00:13:52,720 --> 00:13:57,240 Speaker 8: the responsibility of the many years twenty plus years of 248 00:13:57,600 --> 00:14:03,120 Speaker 8: system failure, particularly at but I made promises. One would 249 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:05,839 Speaker 8: be a reduction in unsheltered homelessness, which we've seen now 250 00:14:05,880 --> 00:14:10,120 Speaker 8: two years in a row. To enhance transparency, I promised 251 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:13,280 Speaker 8: that we would improve our operations and we have. We've 252 00:14:13,280 --> 00:14:17,440 Speaker 8: implemented twenty new data dashboards that provide unprecedented insight into 253 00:14:17,440 --> 00:14:21,000 Speaker 8: how our system functions. The questions you had about functions 254 00:14:21,040 --> 00:14:24,000 Speaker 8: and system improvements. We can actually provide that data to 255 00:14:24,040 --> 00:14:27,880 Speaker 8: you today and it is on our public website. And 256 00:14:27,960 --> 00:14:31,480 Speaker 8: it's public facing. To improve our contracting, we're at eighty percent. 257 00:14:32,760 --> 00:14:38,280 Speaker 8: Thank you, Next speaker, please can we give her, given 258 00:14:38,320 --> 00:14:40,000 Speaker 8: the fact that she is over lost, I'd like to 259 00:14:40,040 --> 00:14:43,360 Speaker 8: give her an initial thirty seconds to finish up. To 260 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:45,680 Speaker 8: improve provider payments, we worked with all of you to 261 00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:48,200 Speaker 8: ensure that we would have advanced systems where we would 262 00:14:48,240 --> 00:14:52,960 Speaker 8: reconcile and providers no longer waiting months and months. We've 263 00:14:52,960 --> 00:14:55,640 Speaker 8: made a lot of the changes that you proposed, and 264 00:14:55,960 --> 00:14:59,040 Speaker 8: the oversight and KPIs that we have helped make available 265 00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:02,920 Speaker 8: to ECRA is possible by the tremendous people that joined 266 00:15:02,920 --> 00:15:03,200 Speaker 8: me at. 267 00:15:03,520 --> 00:15:07,440 Speaker 1: LASA just a year ago. Right as I said before, 268 00:15:07,560 --> 00:15:08,400 Speaker 1: anyone understands me. 269 00:15:08,520 --> 00:15:12,160 Speaker 8: He's very personal to me. Me and my daughter's experienced homelessness. 270 00:15:12,360 --> 00:15:17,080 Speaker 1: You know what it's like. Thank you, Thank you off 271 00:15:17,120 --> 00:15:17,520 Speaker 1: for Mike. 272 00:15:17,880 --> 00:15:24,120 Speaker 2: Did you say that she and her experiences Wait wait, wait, Stott, stop, 273 00:15:24,680 --> 00:15:25,640 Speaker 2: is that her still talking? 274 00:15:26,880 --> 00:15:28,560 Speaker 1: No? No, your mic was cut off. 275 00:15:29,280 --> 00:15:34,000 Speaker 2: Your mic was cut off of Bye Bye, go away. 276 00:15:34,760 --> 00:15:37,040 Speaker 2: Mike was cut off. So she was homeless and her 277 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:39,400 Speaker 2: daughters were homeless. So they hired a homeless person to 278 00:15:39,480 --> 00:15:42,120 Speaker 2: run LASA. And it's a disaster. What do you know 279 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:44,560 Speaker 2: who would have thought? And she was speaking at Harvard 280 00:15:44,960 --> 00:15:49,240 Speaker 2: last week. So the homeless person runs LASA, the thing's 281 00:15:49,280 --> 00:15:52,200 Speaker 2: a disaster and she gets rewarded with a speaking engagement 282 00:15:52,320 --> 00:15:53,560 Speaker 2: at at Harvard. 283 00:15:54,680 --> 00:15:56,840 Speaker 6: Measure needs to be repealed, don't. 284 00:15:56,640 --> 00:15:58,760 Speaker 2: You think or what do you think she makes? I 285 00:15:58,840 --> 00:16:02,400 Speaker 2: just looked up her salary U two fifty Eric, what 286 00:16:02,480 --> 00:16:02,920 Speaker 2: do you think? 287 00:16:04,200 --> 00:16:06,400 Speaker 5: Well, let's get Debra's going two fifty, I'm going seven 288 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:07,840 Speaker 5: to fifty likes. 289 00:16:08,960 --> 00:16:11,160 Speaker 1: It's four hundred and thirty thousand dollars. 290 00:16:11,280 --> 00:16:18,760 Speaker 2: What four hundred thirty thousand dollars that's her salary, And 291 00:16:18,800 --> 00:16:21,760 Speaker 2: there's there's over two billion dollars unaccounted for. And she 292 00:16:21,840 --> 00:16:27,520 Speaker 2: gave two million dollars to her husband's nonprofit, which is 293 00:16:27,640 --> 00:16:29,880 Speaker 2: what you get when you hire a homeless person to 294 00:16:29,960 --> 00:16:32,840 Speaker 2: run your agency. We've got more coming up, a lot more. 295 00:16:32,880 --> 00:16:35,240 Speaker 2: I didn't even get to Judge Carter's rantings. 296 00:16:36,240 --> 00:16:40,560 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 297 00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:41,160 Speaker 5: six forty. 298 00:16:41,880 --> 00:16:45,000 Speaker 2: All right, well we left you last right before Debra's news. 299 00:16:45,760 --> 00:16:49,400 Speaker 2: We were playing you a clip of this hopeless hapless 300 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:54,600 Speaker 2: Valicia Adams Kellum. The more name somebody has usually the 301 00:16:54,640 --> 00:16:57,360 Speaker 2: worst they are at their jobs. And she's in charge 302 00:16:57,520 --> 00:17:01,960 Speaker 2: of LASA, the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, which is 303 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:05,920 Speaker 2: in total disarray, and now the county is defunding their 304 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:10,159 Speaker 2: share of LASA. And it's so bad for Valicia that 305 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:14,239 Speaker 2: when she showed up at the county meeting where they 306 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:18,960 Speaker 2: were taking away her funding, she had to stand in 307 00:17:19,040 --> 00:17:21,479 Speaker 2: line with the rest of the riff rath and they 308 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:23,360 Speaker 2: only gave her a minute and a half to speak 309 00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:25,879 Speaker 2: and then they cut off her microphone. 310 00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:29,040 Speaker 1: Now, so she's toast one way or the other. You 311 00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:30,920 Speaker 1: would think who hired her? 312 00:17:31,640 --> 00:17:36,679 Speaker 2: Karen Bass, another Karen Bass friend like Deenie Keinonia's and 313 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:43,680 Speaker 2: you know what, she's making double what the last permanent director. 314 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:46,320 Speaker 1: Made as a salary. 315 00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:51,760 Speaker 2: Remember Genie Canonias took over the LEDWP. She got way 316 00:17:51,800 --> 00:17:55,359 Speaker 2: more than her predecessor. She was a friend of Bass. 317 00:17:56,160 --> 00:18:02,600 Speaker 2: And this lady, Alicia Adams Callum, she's getting four hundred 318 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:06,960 Speaker 2: and thirty thousand dollars. The last permanent director was Heidi 319 00:18:07,040 --> 00:18:13,239 Speaker 2: Marston who got two hundred and thirty thousand dollars. So 320 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:16,879 Speaker 2: Bass has hired two women that she's friends with and 321 00:18:16,960 --> 00:18:24,080 Speaker 2: gave them both exorbitant salaries and they're both disasters. Kenonias 322 00:18:24,119 --> 00:18:28,400 Speaker 2: didn't fill up the reservoir in the Palisades and then 323 00:18:28,440 --> 00:18:33,679 Speaker 2: the fire hit. They didn't turn off the electricity in 324 00:18:33,760 --> 00:18:38,160 Speaker 2: the power lines. A second big fire hit the Palisades 325 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:41,120 Speaker 2: that day, and Valici Adams. 326 00:18:40,800 --> 00:18:44,960 Speaker 1: Kellum, well, you know about the audits. The audits say 327 00:18:44,960 --> 00:18:47,880 Speaker 1: that billions of dollars are unaccounted for it. They don't know. 328 00:18:49,560 --> 00:18:53,120 Speaker 2: Exactly what the money went for if it wasn't outright 329 00:18:53,280 --> 00:18:58,439 Speaker 2: stolen by someone in the system. So, going back to 330 00:18:58,480 --> 00:19:03,399 Speaker 2: the county supervisors beating yesterday, the Laici Adams Kellum was 331 00:19:03,520 --> 00:19:06,959 Speaker 2: allowed to speak as a shed stand in line and 332 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:10,280 Speaker 2: she got They gave her ninety seconds, and right before 333 00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:12,880 Speaker 2: they cut the mic off, she blurted this out. 334 00:19:12,800 --> 00:19:15,720 Speaker 8: Me and my daughter's experienced homelessness, you know what. 335 00:19:15,640 --> 00:19:16,440 Speaker 1: It's like things. 336 00:19:17,320 --> 00:19:18,720 Speaker 2: They cut her off right in the middle of the 337 00:19:18,720 --> 00:19:23,480 Speaker 2: word homelessness. So she used to be homeless. They literally 338 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:29,359 Speaker 2: hired a homeless person to run a homeless agency with 339 00:19:29,440 --> 00:19:31,000 Speaker 2: a multi billion dollar budget. 340 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:33,119 Speaker 1: What the hell? 341 00:19:34,960 --> 00:19:37,040 Speaker 2: Then I look her up and she's got a doctorate 342 00:19:37,320 --> 00:19:40,280 Speaker 2: from Stanford. 343 00:19:41,880 --> 00:19:42,920 Speaker 1: Well, I guess it. 344 00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:46,880 Speaker 2: Wasn't in finance because all the money has gone out 345 00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:49,320 Speaker 2: the back door and nobody knows where it is or 346 00:19:49,320 --> 00:19:52,240 Speaker 2: what it went for. And then of course there's the 347 00:19:52,320 --> 00:19:55,840 Speaker 2: two million dollar contract she awarded her own husband's nonprofit. 348 00:19:58,480 --> 00:20:01,360 Speaker 1: Another good high by Karen Bass. 349 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:10,159 Speaker 2: Now let me get to David o'carter, the judge, because 350 00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:13,320 Speaker 2: he's as pissed as anybody. He is a federal judge 351 00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:19,000 Speaker 2: overseeing this case. And the reason he's overseeing that it's 352 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:21,199 Speaker 2: a five year old lawsuit. It was brought by the 353 00:20:21,359 --> 00:20:25,720 Speaker 2: La Alliance for Human Rights. Don't be misled by the. 354 00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:26,240 Speaker 1: Name, though. 355 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:30,320 Speaker 2: It's actually an organization of business owners, property owners and 356 00:20:30,440 --> 00:20:34,800 Speaker 2: residents who were sick of the homeless situation in the streets. 357 00:20:36,480 --> 00:20:45,560 Speaker 2: They filed a lawsuit and it's still being litigated, and 358 00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:54,560 Speaker 2: Carter has had it. Yesterday he gave Karen Bass and 359 00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:57,640 Speaker 2: the chairwoman of the La County Board of Supervisors, Katherine Barger, 360 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:03,479 Speaker 2: until May to the system or he's going to become 361 00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:10,040 Speaker 2: your worst nightmare. So they have a month, which is 362 00:21:10,119 --> 00:21:19,280 Speaker 2: why Barger led the charge to defund LASSA, because who. 363 00:21:19,119 --> 00:21:20,280 Speaker 1: Knows what the judge is going to do. 364 00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:26,040 Speaker 2: Judge Carter said, I think as elected officials, you've inherited 365 00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:29,119 Speaker 2: an extraordinarily extraordinarily difficult task. 366 00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:31,000 Speaker 1: And I imagine you came. 367 00:21:30,840 --> 00:21:35,320 Speaker 2: To court today thinking that Helen Brimstone would rain upon you. 368 00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:37,040 Speaker 1: Quite the opposite. 369 00:21:37,160 --> 00:21:39,600 Speaker 2: I'm going to be asking if there's anything that your 370 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:42,600 Speaker 2: branch of government can do to resolve the problems that 371 00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:46,560 Speaker 2: have been presented to you. But again, if they didn't 372 00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:56,800 Speaker 2: resolve them, he'll become your worst nightmare. So he doesn't 373 00:21:56,840 --> 00:21:59,560 Speaker 2: want to have to find someone else to take over 374 00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:02,520 Speaker 2: the cys them unless the two of you can work 375 00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:04,439 Speaker 2: this out in some way, the Court's going to have 376 00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:07,080 Speaker 2: to and I'm not sure what to do about that 377 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:11,159 Speaker 2: because I'm intruding. I've got a great chance of a 378 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:13,760 Speaker 2: reversal upon appeal. I understand that, but if I don't, 379 00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:18,000 Speaker 2: then I'm complicit. Then I'm sitting here doing nothing. So 380 00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:19,280 Speaker 2: he doesn't want to do it. 381 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:20,520 Speaker 1: He doesn't know. 382 00:22:20,520 --> 00:22:22,320 Speaker 2: If legally he can do it, but he is going 383 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:25,680 Speaker 2: to do it because everybody else has botched this up. 384 00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:32,640 Speaker 2: The money's disappeared with no results for years and years. 385 00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:36,760 Speaker 2: So the first thing they did was they decided to 386 00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:40,040 Speaker 2: shut off Felicia Adams Callum's microphone enough out of her 387 00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:44,679 Speaker 2: she didn't show up for Judge Carter because she was 388 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:46,480 Speaker 2: giving an address at Harvard. 389 00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:49,000 Speaker 1: What is that address about. 390 00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:56,600 Speaker 2: How to bankrupt a major cities homeless agency without getting 391 00:22:56,600 --> 00:22:57,639 Speaker 2: the homeless off the streets? 392 00:22:57,680 --> 00:22:58,919 Speaker 1: Was that the title of her speech? 393 00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:06,800 Speaker 2: So, Carter, as you know we've been telling you, authorized 394 00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:10,879 Speaker 2: an audit and found that the whole system from the city, 395 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:14,840 Speaker 2: the county, and the LA Homeless Services Authority was disjointed. 396 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:20,080 Speaker 2: It doesn't have adequate data systems, it doesn't have financial controls. 397 00:23:24,520 --> 00:23:27,360 Speaker 1: There's waste and fraud. 398 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:34,800 Speaker 2: After you meant, after you voted for Measure H in 399 00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:39,840 Speaker 2: twenty seventeen, that's the original homeless sales tax. Loss's budget 400 00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:44,520 Speaker 2: has grown more than seven times, more than seven times, 401 00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:47,200 Speaker 2: and the homelessness got worse. 402 00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:50,159 Speaker 6: Don't you think people should be refunded their money. 403 00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:53,440 Speaker 7: I know we touched upon this yesterday, but there has 404 00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:57,399 Speaker 7: to be some something that we can do because people 405 00:23:57,480 --> 00:24:01,159 Speaker 7: voted for a tax not knowing a lot of this 406 00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:03,560 Speaker 7: behind the scenes information. 407 00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:07,080 Speaker 1: Oh, this Measure A that passed November ought to be repealed. 408 00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:10,600 Speaker 7: That's exactly what I'm saying. So let's get the process started. 409 00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:14,480 Speaker 2: We ought to have a repeal. I mean, the county 410 00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:18,359 Speaker 2: is defunding los anyway, Let's take our money from the 411 00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:22,959 Speaker 2: county and say, look, it can't be any worse because 412 00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:25,919 Speaker 2: we gave you billions, literally billions of dollars and the 413 00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:28,560 Speaker 2: city too, and everything got worse. You don't know what 414 00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:32,160 Speaker 2: you're doing. The judge thinks you're a bunch of clowns. 415 00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:34,280 Speaker 7: Well, the judge needs to say, okay, you need to 416 00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:35,440 Speaker 7: refund and repeal. 417 00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:38,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, the auditors think there's a lot of fraud and 418 00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:44,320 Speaker 2: waste and criminal activity when we come back. He made 419 00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:47,560 Speaker 2: a crack about Newsom because Newsom was supposed to show up. 420 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:50,520 Speaker 1: And talk to the judge and he didn't either tell 421 00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:50,879 Speaker 1: you about it. 422 00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:56,080 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 423 00:24:56,119 --> 00:24:56,640 Speaker 5: six forty. 424 00:24:57,359 --> 00:24:59,760 Speaker 1: Guess who's coming on right after three o'clock. I know, 425 00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:03,160 Speaker 1: I know, girl in the front row. 426 00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:07,600 Speaker 7: Okay, who Bill has a new gig? 427 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:11,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, the Riverside County Assemblymen frequent guest on the John 428 00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:15,480 Speaker 2: Cobelt Show. And in fact, you know he's been listening. 429 00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:18,439 Speaker 2: He started listening to Johnny Ken's show back when he 430 00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:21,960 Speaker 2: was a kid. Really, yes, his parents had him tied 431 00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:24,560 Speaker 2: up in the back seat and he was forced to 432 00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:26,679 Speaker 2: listen just like me, just like you. 433 00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:29,840 Speaker 1: That's right. Uh. 434 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:32,520 Speaker 2: And at works, you tie kids up and they have 435 00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:33,919 Speaker 2: to listen to this crap for years. 436 00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:38,960 Speaker 1: You end up you end up working here. Bill Sally 437 00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:39,600 Speaker 1: is coming on. 438 00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:43,960 Speaker 2: Trump just made him the US attorney for Los Angeles 439 00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:46,679 Speaker 2: and that and that is a big deal, and he 440 00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:48,800 Speaker 2: is going to give one and only interview about it, 441 00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:50,240 Speaker 2: and it's going to be with us. 442 00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:51,800 Speaker 1: Coming up in just a few minutes. 443 00:25:54,840 --> 00:26:00,000 Speaker 2: Continuing on about Judge David o'carter, who who is ripped 444 00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:02,960 Speaker 2: on everyone. He's got to deal with this lawsuit brought 445 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:06,119 Speaker 2: by a group of business owners, property owners and residents 446 00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:10,240 Speaker 2: who are fed up with all the homeless going on, 447 00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:13,280 Speaker 2: you know, for the last ten years in LA And 448 00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:16,879 Speaker 2: he told everybody he doesn't know what to do. That 449 00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:21,240 Speaker 2: LASA and the city and the county are so bad 450 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:24,359 Speaker 2: that he'd like to take some extreme action. 451 00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:29,399 Speaker 1: But he doesn't know what he said. 452 00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:33,159 Speaker 2: This isn't new, This is old news to elected officials 453 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:37,000 Speaker 2: and to LASSA, the bad accounting procedures, not knowing where 454 00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:39,480 Speaker 2: the money is going, not knowing if the money is stolen. 455 00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:41,119 Speaker 1: He says, this is old news. 456 00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:44,359 Speaker 2: But there's no auditing going on, there's no transparency, there's 457 00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:45,520 Speaker 2: no accountability. 458 00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:49,000 Speaker 1: So an attorney for the plaintiffs. 459 00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:54,200 Speaker 2: Matthew Umhoffer said, well, why why don't you appoint a receiver, 460 00:26:55,040 --> 00:27:00,000 Speaker 2: And a receiver would be an outside executive, an outside 461 00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:06,159 Speaker 2: boss to oversee the agency not connected to government. And 462 00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:08,439 Speaker 2: Judge Carter said, well, what's that supposed to look like? 463 00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:10,600 Speaker 2: What's the function of this receiver? What are they going 464 00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:14,480 Speaker 2: to do? And i'm Hoffer says, well, the receiver becomes 465 00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:17,399 Speaker 2: the homelessnesses are for the city. And Carter said, well, 466 00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:22,359 Speaker 2: that's going to have to be an eight hundred pound gorilla. 467 00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:24,920 Speaker 2: I'm haffer said, it might include control of the budget, 468 00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:26,520 Speaker 2: the homeless budget in Los Angeles. 469 00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:28,520 Speaker 1: Well, he says, well, he's. 470 00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:31,600 Speaker 2: Judge Carter said, nobody elected the court and nobody elected 471 00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:34,600 Speaker 2: the receivership. That could be construed as a real intrusion 472 00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:36,920 Speaker 2: of power. And I'm trying to get a resolution from you. 473 00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:40,160 Speaker 2: But let's hear the drama of this for just a moment, 474 00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:43,240 Speaker 2: because I'm having trouble sorting out what this would even 475 00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:46,720 Speaker 2: potentially look like. He says, this is a dramatic action 476 00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:50,320 Speaker 2: by the court if it was ever to be considered basically, 477 00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:52,640 Speaker 2: we'd have an outsider running the homeless budget. 478 00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:55,600 Speaker 1: And this is me talking here who's not elected. 479 00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:58,000 Speaker 2: But the people see, we're in a weird place because 480 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:02,720 Speaker 2: the people we elected are almost all incompetent. Bass is 481 00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:08,160 Speaker 2: a disaster. Eighty percent of the LA County supervisors are disasters. 482 00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:11,760 Speaker 2: This Vlisia Adams Kellum is a disaster, and she's given 483 00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:18,840 Speaker 2: money away to her husband's nonprofit. The city council is 484 00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:23,320 Speaker 2: a disaster. They're begging that the county stay in laws 485 00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:25,159 Speaker 2: because I think the city council has a lot of 486 00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:29,760 Speaker 2: friends and relatives who run these nonprofits. They want all 487 00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:34,240 Speaker 2: this dysfunction to continue because right now, these nonprofit homeless 488 00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:39,240 Speaker 2: agencies are wasting tons of taxpayer money, but the people 489 00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:42,400 Speaker 2: running them are getting rich. And I swear some of 490 00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:45,400 Speaker 2: these city council people must be getting kickbacks. It wouldn't 491 00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:48,200 Speaker 2: be the first time. I'm what if we had. We've 492 00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:51,160 Speaker 2: had four of them either go to jail or on 493 00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:57,040 Speaker 2: their way, and then Carter said, are you asking to 494 00:28:57,080 --> 00:29:00,320 Speaker 2: take over the entire city? First of all, I'd be 495 00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:04,480 Speaker 2: working with a bureaucracy that is not functioning. I don't 496 00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:06,960 Speaker 2: know if I want to work with these same people anymore. 497 00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:13,120 Speaker 2: That's doomed to failure. It's doomed to fit. So he's 498 00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:17,720 Speaker 2: saying that all these people that he invited to solve 499 00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:23,200 Speaker 2: the problem, he's realized there are all a bunch of losers. Oh, 500 00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:26,040 Speaker 2: here's another loser who was supposed to show up, Gavin Newsom. 501 00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:30,920 Speaker 1: He didn't And the judge says, well, he has a 502 00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:33,400 Speaker 1: blog and he's busy blogging. 503 00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:36,719 Speaker 6: His podcast. 504 00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:40,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, so he invited Newsom. News didn't show. 505 00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:45,360 Speaker 2: Bast didn't show at first. The city council president or 506 00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:49,680 Speaker 2: Keith Harris Dawson, well he's a complete loser. Felicia Adams 507 00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:53,440 Speaker 2: Kellam went to Boston. Is why is everybody like constantly 508 00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:54,520 Speaker 2: on a plane somewhere. 509 00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:55,080 Speaker 1: I don't know. 510 00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:57,760 Speaker 7: I think our jobs are I don't know. John, we 511 00:29:58,040 --> 00:29:59,320 Speaker 7: need to get some traveling here. 512 00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:02,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, I'm yeah, I know. We should. 513 00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:05,360 Speaker 2: We should, we should be traveling. We actually do our job. 514 00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:08,920 Speaker 2: So Bass is in Africa when the fire hits. Vlisi 515 00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:13,160 Speaker 2: Adams Kellam is in Boston when the judge is demanding 516 00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:17,880 Speaker 2: that she attended a hearing. You have that, idiot, cal Fart, 517 00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:23,080 Speaker 2: Ricardo Lara, The insurance industry is a disaster, and he's 518 00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:27,040 Speaker 2: in Bogota, Columbia, or Bermuda or Paris. 519 00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:34,200 Speaker 1: This has got to end. This has got to be collapsing. 520 00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:38,240 Speaker 2: We're gonna talk to someone competent right after Devers three 521 00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:42,600 Speaker 2: o'clock news. Bill is Saley, Riverside County Assembly who's on 522 00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:46,240 Speaker 2: our show many times, and he just got a major 523 00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:52,440 Speaker 2: promotion Donald Trump. President Trump nominated him to be US 524 00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:57,640 Speaker 2: attorney here in Los Angeles, and we are gonna We're 525 00:30:57,640 --> 00:30:59,280 Speaker 2: gonna put him on in just a few minutes. This 526 00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:02,680 Speaker 2: is his first and only interview on the matter. He's 527 00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:04,520 Speaker 2: going to have to speak carefully because he needs to 528 00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:05,680 Speaker 2: be confirmed by the Senate. 529 00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:07,720 Speaker 6: Yes, he doesn't have the gig yet. 530 00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:10,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, well he's going to be interim, but he can't 531 00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:13,560 Speaker 2: get the permanent gig until he gets approval. So you know, 532 00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:15,240 Speaker 2: we don't we don't want to trap him into anything 533 00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:18,600 Speaker 2: that's going to cause the Senate a problem. 534 00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:20,240 Speaker 6: What would you, I mean, what would you possibly? 535 00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:20,719 Speaker 1: I don't know. 536 00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:23,480 Speaker 2: I've caused a lot of people a lot of heartache. 537 00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:26,680 Speaker 2: So we'll see Deborah Mark live in the KFI twenty 538 00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:29,080 Speaker 2: four hour newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the John 539 00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:31,800 Speaker 2: Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear the show live 540 00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:34,640 Speaker 2: on KFI AM six forty from one to four pm 541 00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:37,720 Speaker 2: every Monday through Friday, and of course anytime on demand 542 00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:39,200 Speaker 2: on the iHeartRadio app.