1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:08,760 Speaker 2: We are on from one until four o'clock and then 4 00:00:08,840 --> 00:00:11,960 Speaker 2: after four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand on the 5 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:16,239 Speaker 2: iHeart app. We have a lot lined up here and 6 00:00:16,280 --> 00:00:19,360 Speaker 2: I want I'm gonna get right into it. Karen Bass 7 00:00:19,480 --> 00:00:24,119 Speaker 2: had a bit of a press conference today. It was 8 00:00:24,160 --> 00:00:29,360 Speaker 2: supposed to be primarily about the alleged cleanup in MacArthur Park, 9 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:32,440 Speaker 2: which it's its own big issue. You know, the MacArthur 10 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:37,479 Speaker 2: Park area should be so beautiful, but it is so 11 00:00:37,479 --> 00:00:42,199 Speaker 2: so frightening and disgusting. We used to years ago. If 12 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:44,120 Speaker 2: I used to be in that general area, and so 13 00:00:44,159 --> 00:00:46,680 Speaker 2: I saw it many times and I still pass it occasionally. 14 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:51,400 Speaker 2: It's like, oh my god, so so many drug addicts, 15 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:58,040 Speaker 2: so many vagrants, and mental illness and and and drug addicts. 16 00:00:58,080 --> 00:01:02,560 Speaker 2: Just it's just over whelming. And add to that all 17 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:05,479 Speaker 2: the crime in the area. There are gang members there. 18 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:11,759 Speaker 2: There are hundreds, it seems, vendors, mostly illegal aliens, who 19 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:16,160 Speaker 2: are selling stolen merchandise in most cases, and then gang 20 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:21,640 Speaker 2: members are selling guns and drugs. It's a cesspool. I 21 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:24,839 Speaker 2: actually haven't seen anything like that in any other city 22 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:27,479 Speaker 2: in the United States. I mean, it is something out 23 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:31,120 Speaker 2: of the third world, and we're going to talk about 24 00:01:31,160 --> 00:01:34,200 Speaker 2: it a little later on in the show, because I 25 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:39,880 Speaker 2: want to first go to the questions at this news conference, 26 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:44,600 Speaker 2: when Karen Bass started getting asked, for example, about all 27 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:50,200 Speaker 2: the texts that The Ally Times found were deleted the 28 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:52,760 Speaker 2: week of the fires and really for the past couple 29 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:56,400 Speaker 2: of months. Karen Bass deleted all the texts that The 30 00:01:56,480 --> 00:01:58,240 Speaker 2: Times requested about the fires. 31 00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 1: And then some lawyer. 32 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:08,200 Speaker 2: Who works for the city gave a nonsense answer claiming 33 00:02:08,240 --> 00:02:11,799 Speaker 2: that there's a nineteen eighty one Attorney General opinion about 34 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:19,519 Speaker 2: saving government information that's ephemeral, and except text messages didn't 35 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:22,560 Speaker 2: exist in nineteen eighty one, so whatever his ruling was 36 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:25,480 Speaker 2: wouldn't apply to it. Maybe would apply to scraps of 37 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:30,000 Speaker 2: paper at a restaurant. I don't know. But Bass deleted everything, 38 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:36,000 Speaker 2: which means, in my experience, that means your hiding stuff, period, 39 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:39,680 Speaker 2: end of story. Any politician that's been caught hiding stuff, 40 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:45,200 Speaker 2: deleting emails, deleting texts, erasing audio tape, losing audio tape, 41 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:48,320 Speaker 2: it's always to cover up stuff that is either illegal, 42 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:50,920 Speaker 2: or embarrassing stuff that would end their careers. 43 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:53,640 Speaker 1: So I'm going to assume, is my opinion. 44 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:57,400 Speaker 2: I'm going to assume that she deleted lawer texts because 45 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:00,200 Speaker 2: what was on there was so embarrassing she'd go up 46 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:01,080 Speaker 2: and smoke right away. 47 00:03:01,919 --> 00:03:05,200 Speaker 1: Well let's uh, let's play a cut. Seven. 48 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:08,680 Speaker 2: This is Bass being asked multiple times about her texts. 49 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:12,880 Speaker 3: I want to know why they were deleted, and also people, 50 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:16,160 Speaker 3: if you texted, and who returned messages to you, if 51 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:18,040 Speaker 3: their messages were also. 52 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:21,920 Speaker 4: Deleted, and you know that's so let me just say 53 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:26,239 Speaker 4: that my phone did automatic delete after thirty days. We've 54 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:29,680 Speaker 4: been swamped with cpr A and so it took a while. 55 00:03:30,040 --> 00:03:32,280 Speaker 4: But we're also looking to see if there's some other 56 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:33,520 Speaker 4: way to retrieve the messages. 57 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:36,080 Speaker 2: Stop stop right there. So I answered the question we 58 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:40,360 Speaker 2: had yesterday. She had thirty day delete. Now the Times 59 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:45,200 Speaker 2: asked for the texts, I think on the tenth January tenth, 60 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:48,720 Speaker 2: and the fire started on the seventh, so they wanted texts, 61 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:51,960 Speaker 2: you know, between the seventh and the tenth. 62 00:03:51,640 --> 00:03:56,400 Speaker 1: Uh, and for three weeks they were available. 63 00:03:56,520 --> 00:03:58,520 Speaker 2: So she says, if she's telling the truth on anything, 64 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:01,720 Speaker 2: and I have grave doubts about that, but then they 65 00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:05,800 Speaker 2: didn't get a response at all until this past week. 66 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:11,120 Speaker 2: So under that thirty day rule, the entire month of 67 00:04:11,280 --> 00:04:17,400 Speaker 2: January disappeared for sure into mid February. Yeah, about about 68 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:23,760 Speaker 2: six five, six weeks worth of fire texts disappeared. If 69 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:28,080 Speaker 2: that's her only phone, we don't know. We don't know 70 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:29,880 Speaker 2: how many phones she works on. We don't know if 71 00:04:29,880 --> 00:04:33,240 Speaker 2: she's got extra phones on the side in order to 72 00:04:33,279 --> 00:04:35,719 Speaker 2: conduct business that she doesn't want anyone to know about. 73 00:04:36,760 --> 00:04:40,880 Speaker 1: That's that's what these people do. Continue to cut. 74 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:43,680 Speaker 4: Treat the messages. So stay tuned and we'll follow up 75 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:45,039 Speaker 4: on your CPI requests. 76 00:04:46,320 --> 00:04:58,000 Speaker 2: I got your text message question in Julia, I thought. 77 00:04:54,520 --> 00:04:56,200 Speaker 5: I know, so I'm wondering. 78 00:04:56,360 --> 00:04:58,520 Speaker 1: I know, I think there were other pr as file 79 00:04:58,600 --> 00:04:59,000 Speaker 1: for your. 80 00:04:58,920 --> 00:05:04,040 Speaker 4: Text Yes, yeah, so let me just say that it 81 00:05:04,040 --> 00:05:06,720 Speaker 4: took a while. It took us a while to respond 82 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:09,680 Speaker 4: to the text messages, and by that time they had 83 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:12,719 Speaker 4: already deleted. But we are looking to see if we 84 00:05:12,760 --> 00:05:20,240 Speaker 4: can retrieve them in another way. So stay tuned. Yes, 85 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:21,440 Speaker 4: but we get hundreds of. 86 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:25,120 Speaker 2: Them, we're looking to retrieve them in another way. What 87 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:26,600 Speaker 2: would be the other way. 88 00:05:27,880 --> 00:05:30,120 Speaker 1: The cloud? The cloud? 89 00:05:30,279 --> 00:05:32,280 Speaker 2: And how long would it take to figure out if 90 00:05:32,279 --> 00:05:34,080 Speaker 2: the text messages are on the cloud. 91 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:36,280 Speaker 1: Five minutes less than five minutes, right. 92 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:40,200 Speaker 2: They got this request in January, January tenth, so it's 93 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:42,279 Speaker 2: been two months and they haven't found the other way. 94 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:45,440 Speaker 2: They're bound by law to give the La Times all 95 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:50,559 Speaker 2: the relevant documents, and they're bound by law to hold 96 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:51,680 Speaker 2: on to all the messages. 97 00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:54,280 Speaker 1: And they screwed up. 98 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:58,240 Speaker 2: And then they had their attorney, David Michaelson, give a 99 00:05:58,279 --> 00:06:03,520 Speaker 2: piece of nonsense garbage. You have an answer to the Times. 100 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:08,720 Speaker 2: Let's uh, this is good. I'm gonna I'm gonna pay 101 00:06:08,760 --> 00:06:12,279 Speaker 2: cut nine. Bass was asked if anyone on her staff 102 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:18,159 Speaker 2: was fired for not notifying her about the fire warnings. 103 00:06:18,279 --> 00:06:21,240 Speaker 1: Remember she was going to go ahead. 104 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:24,080 Speaker 5: More than a dozen of your staffers were advised of 105 00:06:24,200 --> 00:06:26,440 Speaker 5: the ving wind and rove. 106 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:28,599 Speaker 2: Fire condisions before you left the country. 107 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:31,359 Speaker 5: You were also told to they didn't share that information 108 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:31,800 Speaker 5: with you. 109 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:35,679 Speaker 2: I'm wondering since then, of any stuff in your office, 110 00:06:35,720 --> 00:06:39,520 Speaker 2: you would been fired or discipline as a result of 111 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:40,520 Speaker 2: failing to person. 112 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:47,640 Speaker 4: And let me just say that the messages that my 113 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:52,920 Speaker 4: staff received, mass emails that basically talked about a tentative 114 00:06:53,520 --> 00:06:57,240 Speaker 4: meeting on Monday. They received that on Friday, did not 115 00:06:57,440 --> 00:07:00,440 Speaker 4: see that it didn't rise to the level of something 116 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:04,160 Speaker 4: that was critical. So yes, we are evaluating everything. In 117 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:08,560 Speaker 4: my office, in the fire department, in the Emergency management department, 118 00:07:08,640 --> 00:07:09,000 Speaker 4: all of. 119 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:09,960 Speaker 1: It is being evaluated. 120 00:07:11,760 --> 00:07:15,520 Speaker 2: She's referring to a grand meeting that was going to 121 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:18,560 Speaker 2: happen Monday on how to deal with the impending fires. 122 00:07:19,080 --> 00:07:24,120 Speaker 2: And I don't know what kind of verbiage that government 123 00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:28,280 Speaker 2: workers used to communicate with each other that it was 124 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:32,800 Speaker 2: a tentative meeting, But the warnings themselves from the National 125 00:07:32,840 --> 00:07:38,960 Speaker 2: Weather Service, which is all that matters, was extremely definitive. 126 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:43,880 Speaker 2: As we've talked about many times. It was the harshest 127 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:48,960 Speaker 2: language that you could use to talk about the deadly 128 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:52,920 Speaker 2: fires that were coming. It was a critical situation. They 129 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:57,000 Speaker 2: even used a color scheme that was the highest danger color, 130 00:07:57,240 --> 00:08:00,360 Speaker 2: which was purple. They went beyond red, they went purple. 131 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:03,120 Speaker 2: And we've gone through this over and over again. So 132 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:06,440 Speaker 2: she what she's doing is intentionally mixing the two things 133 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:12,280 Speaker 2: up here. There is no possible way on the planet. 134 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:16,880 Speaker 2: I don't believe her at all. There's no possible way 135 00:08:16,920 --> 00:08:20,680 Speaker 2: that she didn't know, and there's no possible way that 136 00:08:20,760 --> 00:08:25,800 Speaker 2: the staff under her didn't have conversations. And that's why 137 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:32,000 Speaker 2: the text messages are all deleted. That's why I'm sure 138 00:08:32,080 --> 00:08:38,160 Speaker 2: the emails were deleted. I'm sure everything's been deleted. They 139 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:44,000 Speaker 2: did a big dump and flush because it's been such 140 00:08:44,320 --> 00:08:50,720 Speaker 2: a deadly, destructive, overwhelming disaster and they want to distance 141 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:54,680 Speaker 2: themselves as best they can. And she really is just 142 00:08:54,960 --> 00:08:59,040 Speaker 2: full of crap, she really is. She ought to get 143 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:03,920 Speaker 2: the Gavin newsoone ward for for for for b s. 144 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:08,599 Speaker 2: I mean that that it's nice to see, you know, 145 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:10,800 Speaker 2: at least there's a pulse in some of the reporters 146 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:18,480 Speaker 2: pushing on that. All right, when we come back. Gavin 147 00:09:18,559 --> 00:09:23,240 Speaker 2: Newsom is the subject of a new book, one of 148 00:09:23,360 --> 00:09:26,040 Speaker 2: one of one of the subjects. 149 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:26,800 Speaker 1: Uh. 150 00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:31,360 Speaker 2: The title is Fool's Gold The Radicals, con Artists and 151 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:34,320 Speaker 2: Traders who killed the California Dream and now threaten Us, 152 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:39,920 Speaker 2: All written by Susan Crabtree and Jeded mcfatter. And they 153 00:09:39,920 --> 00:09:44,520 Speaker 2: write about the enormous amount of money that Gavin Newsom 154 00:09:44,559 --> 00:09:47,360 Speaker 2: has gotten out PG and it gotten from PG and 155 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:51,760 Speaker 2: E the state's largest utility. He and his wife have 156 00:09:52,080 --> 00:09:58,080 Speaker 2: really made out and in return, Uh, Gavin Newsom bailed 157 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:03,679 Speaker 2: out PG and A and also has not gone after 158 00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:07,920 Speaker 2: PG and E for the enormous amounts of carbon and 159 00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:11,199 Speaker 2: toxic smoke from the fires that they started, unlike the 160 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:13,760 Speaker 2: way he goes after the oil companies. And I've been 161 00:10:13,760 --> 00:10:17,280 Speaker 2: telling you for years about this, that Newsom and his 162 00:10:17,320 --> 00:10:22,680 Speaker 2: wife are totally corrupted by PG and A. She's corrupted 163 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:28,400 Speaker 2: because she put together a series of gender justice films. 164 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:33,480 Speaker 2: Can you imagine what a gender justice film by Gavin 165 00:10:33,559 --> 00:10:39,079 Speaker 2: Newsom's wife is like. That's got to be excruciating. And 166 00:10:39,440 --> 00:10:44,240 Speaker 2: PG and E paid out ransom to avoid getting punished 167 00:10:46,120 --> 00:10:49,840 Speaker 2: by the state for all for the fires they started 168 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:53,600 Speaker 2: and all the pollution that they sent into the air, 169 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:57,439 Speaker 2: real pollution. We'll talk about that coming up next. 170 00:10:58,559 --> 00:11:02,880 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Belts on demand from KFI AM 171 00:11:02,920 --> 00:11:04,079 Speaker 3: six forty. 172 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:07,280 Speaker 2: I just read a minute ago that and this is 173 00:11:07,280 --> 00:11:16,480 Speaker 2: a big loss. Rosie O'Donnell has moved to Ireland. Don't 174 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:19,120 Speaker 2: be so broken up that almost sad. 175 00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:23,760 Speaker 1: Ireland is a very beautiful place. It is. It is well. 176 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:31,280 Speaker 2: She she took her daughter there and she's done, and 177 00:11:31,360 --> 00:11:34,920 Speaker 2: she's getting her Irish citizenship. And I didn't know this. 178 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:42,760 Speaker 2: Allen DeGeneres moved to England, so that that's uh, two 179 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:46,480 Speaker 2: enormous losses to America there, and of course it's over Trump. 180 00:11:46,720 --> 00:11:54,120 Speaker 2: It's like I love the pretentiousness of celebrities who announced 181 00:11:54,160 --> 00:11:57,559 Speaker 2: the world I'm leaving the country now because of the 182 00:11:57,600 --> 00:12:01,920 Speaker 2: way you voted. I'm moving to it. I'm moving to Ireland. 183 00:12:02,120 --> 00:12:04,160 Speaker 2: I'm moving to England. You are going to have to 184 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:07,040 Speaker 2: live without me who asked you? I don't care where 185 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:09,720 Speaker 2: you live. I never knew where Rosie o'donnald lived. Now 186 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:12,640 Speaker 2: one morning of my life that I wake up and say, Jay, 187 00:12:12,760 --> 00:12:16,080 Speaker 2: where does Rosie live? She could have been living across 188 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:21,000 Speaker 2: the street. I didn't, So she's in Ireland, Jesus. And 189 00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:25,079 Speaker 2: you know they apparently they just post endlessly about where 190 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:32,200 Speaker 2: they moved to all their righteous anger. Gavin Newsom is 191 00:12:32,920 --> 00:12:35,680 Speaker 2: one of the subjects of a new book called Fool's Gold, 192 00:12:36,640 --> 00:12:39,800 Speaker 2: The Radicals, con artists and traders who killed the California 193 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:42,560 Speaker 2: Dream and now threaten us all. It's by political writer 194 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:47,840 Speaker 2: Susan Crabtree and Jed McPhatter, and they have profiled Newsom 195 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:51,120 Speaker 2: as part of the book and detailed the corruption that 196 00:12:51,240 --> 00:12:56,040 Speaker 2: Newsome and his wife are involved in. You may remember 197 00:12:56,080 --> 00:13:01,240 Speaker 2: when PG and E burned down Paradise, California, eighty four people. 198 00:13:01,320 --> 00:13:04,480 Speaker 2: You remember that, and everybody wondered, well, geez, god, with 199 00:13:04,559 --> 00:13:08,600 Speaker 2: all the lawsuits and all the responsibility that PG and 200 00:13:08,640 --> 00:13:10,680 Speaker 2: IT had, PG and HE had, what's going to happen 201 00:13:10,679 --> 00:13:13,800 Speaker 2: to them? Well what happened to them is Gavin Newsom 202 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:19,360 Speaker 2: bailed them out financially. The state bailed out PG and E. 203 00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:24,200 Speaker 2: And not only did they kill a lot of people 204 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:32,720 Speaker 2: with their badly maintained equipment and greedy executives, they spewed 205 00:13:32,960 --> 00:13:38,080 Speaker 2: tremendous amounts of pollution and toxic smoke into the air. 206 00:13:38,440 --> 00:13:42,480 Speaker 2: One of those fires makes up for many, many years 207 00:13:42,559 --> 00:13:49,240 Speaker 2: of climate change successes, you know, whatever the state has 208 00:13:49,280 --> 00:13:53,480 Speaker 2: saved in the amount of carbon dioxide being put in 209 00:13:53,480 --> 00:13:57,079 Speaker 2: the air because of all the climate restrictions. I think 210 00:13:57,120 --> 00:14:01,040 Speaker 2: I read about twenty years worth was wiped out from 211 00:14:01,720 --> 00:14:06,880 Speaker 2: just one of these fires. So a whole climate policy 212 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:10,240 Speaker 2: has been a huge, expensive waste of time because there's 213 00:14:10,280 --> 00:14:13,240 Speaker 2: been so many fires, many of them started by the 214 00:14:13,320 --> 00:14:19,120 Speaker 2: utilities Son southern California. Edison most likely started the Altadena fire, 215 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:22,400 Speaker 2: and pgene's biggest. 216 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:26,480 Speaker 1: Prize was Paradise, and that's official. 217 00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:31,200 Speaker 2: They pleaded guilty in twenty twenty to eighty four counts 218 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:36,239 Speaker 2: of involuntary manslaughter. Eighty four counts. It was the campfire 219 00:14:37,080 --> 00:14:40,040 Speaker 2: happened November twenty eighteen, and it burned one hundred and 220 00:14:40,120 --> 00:14:44,960 Speaker 2: fifty three thousand acres, thirteen thousand homes, killed eighty five people. 221 00:14:45,440 --> 00:14:47,160 Speaker 2: It was eighty five people, and it was eighty four 222 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:48,119 Speaker 2: counts of manslaughter. 223 00:14:49,520 --> 00:14:50,240 Speaker 1: And of course. 224 00:14:50,040 --> 00:14:53,000 Speaker 2: Nobody goes to prison because what you should have had 225 00:14:53,120 --> 00:14:56,440 Speaker 2: was those neglectful, corrupt executives being hauled off to the 226 00:14:56,480 --> 00:15:01,400 Speaker 2: death chamber. But instead new and worked with the legislature 227 00:15:02,520 --> 00:15:06,640 Speaker 2: that allowed the utility to continue operating and then signed 228 00:15:06,640 --> 00:15:09,680 Speaker 2: a deal so that they would get twenty one billion 229 00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:19,480 Speaker 2: dollars in insurance protections. And Newsom also never went after 230 00:15:19,560 --> 00:15:22,560 Speaker 2: PG and E for all the toxic gases they put 231 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:26,640 Speaker 2: into the atmosphere. Instead, he sues the oil and gas companies, 232 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:31,480 Speaker 2: claiming that they've lied to the public about climate change. 233 00:15:32,640 --> 00:15:36,240 Speaker 1: The PG and E got off very easily. 234 00:15:36,280 --> 00:15:39,960 Speaker 2: In fact, they got quite the benefits. Now his wife 235 00:15:40,560 --> 00:15:44,840 Speaker 2: and this is one of my favorite facts in the 236 00:15:44,840 --> 00:15:50,520 Speaker 2: whole world. Jennifer Sidebill Newsom and Gavin Newsom over the 237 00:15:50,640 --> 00:15:56,680 Speaker 2: last two decades, they have gotten seven hundred thousand dollars 238 00:15:56,720 --> 00:16:02,600 Speaker 2: in donations from PG and E. Money went to two places, 239 00:16:03,400 --> 00:16:10,480 Speaker 2: oh Newsom's campaign accounts, as he ran for various things mayor, 240 00:16:11,120 --> 00:16:14,560 Speaker 2: lieutenant governor, and governor, but his wife got a bundle 241 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:21,120 Speaker 2: of money. First, gender justice films. I have no idea 242 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:23,920 Speaker 2: what that could be like to sit through one of those, 243 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:27,760 Speaker 2: if there's any Is there any, hey, Eric, when you 244 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:28,280 Speaker 2: get a chance. 245 00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:29,240 Speaker 1: It's not a rush. 246 00:16:29,800 --> 00:16:31,200 Speaker 2: Let's just look up and see if this is on 247 00:16:31,240 --> 00:16:33,720 Speaker 2: YouTube or maybe there's a trailer or something. I just 248 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:36,160 Speaker 2: want to hear what a gender justice film sounds like. 249 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:39,400 Speaker 2: And to see that PG and E made a payoff. 250 00:16:40,360 --> 00:16:48,920 Speaker 2: I I I'm guessing it wasn't released in theaters, one 251 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:55,640 Speaker 2: of which was screened at PG and e's corporate offices 252 00:16:56,480 --> 00:16:58,520 Speaker 2: in San Francisco in twenty eleven. 253 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:00,560 Speaker 1: Wow. 254 00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:03,440 Speaker 2: Is that how Newsom deals with PG and E When 255 00:17:03,440 --> 00:17:06,000 Speaker 2: they start fires. It's like, all right, well, you know, 256 00:17:06,119 --> 00:17:09,600 Speaker 2: we won't charge anyone with crimes and we won't find 257 00:17:09,640 --> 00:17:12,960 Speaker 2: you any significant amounts of money, but you know what 258 00:17:13,040 --> 00:17:15,280 Speaker 2: punishment's going to be. You got to sit through my 259 00:17:15,320 --> 00:17:18,960 Speaker 2: wife's gender justice film. That's what you gotta do you 260 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:22,199 Speaker 2: think Gavin Newsom gives three hoots about gender justice? 261 00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:27,879 Speaker 1: But she, boy, she must be annoying. She must be 262 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:29,840 Speaker 1: incredibly annoying. 263 00:17:30,359 --> 00:17:33,080 Speaker 2: Gender justice and actually goes through the trouble of making 264 00:17:33,119 --> 00:17:36,040 Speaker 2: the films and makes her husband shake down. 265 00:17:35,880 --> 00:17:36,440 Speaker 1: PG and A. 266 00:17:38,520 --> 00:17:42,399 Speaker 2: Oh there's a party, yeah, Friday night at my house. 267 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:48,080 Speaker 1: Your homework tonight, John is when Eric finds these for you. Yeah, 268 00:17:48,080 --> 00:17:50,679 Speaker 1: I already found the trailer. Well there the trailer. 269 00:17:50,920 --> 00:17:53,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's like over two and a half minutes, 270 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:54,360 Speaker 2: so we can do it later in the shop. 271 00:17:54,480 --> 00:17:56,919 Speaker 1: I will do it. Oh, that's a good tease. Who's 272 00:17:56,920 --> 00:17:59,240 Speaker 1: gonna turn away? Huh? 273 00:17:59,280 --> 00:18:01,720 Speaker 2: Please don't go anywhere, all right, we'll get to it later. 274 00:18:01,760 --> 00:18:05,760 Speaker 2: We do have a lot of stuff coming up. Yesterday 275 00:18:05,840 --> 00:18:08,840 Speaker 2: we told you that there was a Judge David o'carter, 276 00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:16,840 Speaker 2: federal judge who presiding over a lawsuit involving the Los 277 00:18:16,880 --> 00:18:21,399 Speaker 2: Angeles Homelesses Service Authority that they have done next to 278 00:18:21,480 --> 00:18:26,239 Speaker 2: nothing to clean the homeless out of LA and an 279 00:18:26,280 --> 00:18:29,679 Speaker 2: audit finally came out. Judge Carter ordered an audit, and 280 00:18:29,760 --> 00:18:33,879 Speaker 2: late last week we found out that there are about 281 00:18:33,920 --> 00:18:39,800 Speaker 2: two billion dollars in homeless money that has evaporated. They 282 00:18:39,840 --> 00:18:43,840 Speaker 2: don't know where it went and whether it did any 283 00:18:43,880 --> 00:18:49,520 Speaker 2: good because they just lost track. Chris Lagras, who's a journalist, 284 00:18:50,040 --> 00:18:53,359 Speaker 2: he wrote a report in All Aspect report dot com 285 00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:56,680 Speaker 2: about this, and we are going to discuss things with 286 00:18:56,760 --> 00:19:01,399 Speaker 2: him next because this is this cannot be overlooked, this 287 00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:07,880 Speaker 2: finding about billions of dollars unaccounted for in the Los 288 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:10,320 Speaker 2: Angeles Homeless Services criminal racket. 289 00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:15,920 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI A 290 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:16,760 Speaker 3: six forty. 291 00:19:17,560 --> 00:19:20,359 Speaker 2: You can follow us at John Cobelt Radio on social 292 00:19:20,440 --> 00:19:25,960 Speaker 2: media at John Cobelt Radio. Yesterday, last couple of days, 293 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:30,720 Speaker 2: we've talked about this audit that came out last week 294 00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:35,000 Speaker 2: Federal Judge David Carter, who is presiding over a lawsuit 295 00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:40,880 Speaker 2: against the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority also known as LASA, 296 00:19:41,520 --> 00:19:45,400 Speaker 2: because obviously LA City and County are still aw wash 297 00:19:45,560 --> 00:19:48,960 Speaker 2: with tens of thousands of homeless people after we all 298 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:53,720 Speaker 2: spent billions of dollars and Judge Carter wanted to know 299 00:19:53,760 --> 00:19:55,720 Speaker 2: where all the money's gone. Well, the audit came out 300 00:19:55,760 --> 00:19:59,320 Speaker 2: late last week and found out that billions of dollars 301 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:01,600 Speaker 2: basically unaccounted for. 302 00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:04,840 Speaker 1: They don't know exactly where it went or what it did. 303 00:20:05,320 --> 00:20:09,040 Speaker 2: It was from the firm Alvarez and marshl And this 304 00:20:09,119 --> 00:20:12,840 Speaker 2: is not the first audit that showed the corruption that's 305 00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:14,919 Speaker 2: going on here. I think the whole place is a 306 00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:18,920 Speaker 2: criminal enterprise. They did an audit in twenty twenty four 307 00:20:19,119 --> 00:20:23,640 Speaker 2: the La County Auditor Controller's Office and it's a disaster. 308 00:20:23,720 --> 00:20:29,080 Speaker 2: I'm going to talk to Chrys Legras here. He's a writer, journalist. 309 00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:34,840 Speaker 2: He's got a report on All aspectreport dot com. And 310 00:20:34,880 --> 00:20:38,920 Speaker 2: there's one thing he writes that I want to lay 311 00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:42,080 Speaker 2: out to set the scene here. You may remember we 312 00:20:42,119 --> 00:20:44,840 Speaker 2: found out the fire department only gets half as much 313 00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:48,280 Speaker 2: as it should, right, half the funding it should. They 314 00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:50,960 Speaker 2: have half the firefighters that it should. Where's the money go? 315 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:55,840 Speaker 2: City of La spends one point three billion dollars a 316 00:20:55,920 --> 00:20:59,200 Speaker 2: year on homelessness. One point three billion. That is ten 317 00:20:59,359 --> 00:21:03,879 Speaker 2: percent of the city's total budget. It serves one tenth 318 00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:08,280 Speaker 2: of one percent of the population, ten percent of the budget, 319 00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:14,480 Speaker 2: zero point one percent of the population. And of that funding, 320 00:21:14,520 --> 00:21:16,840 Speaker 2: over three hundred million went to Losso let's get Crys 321 00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:18,119 Speaker 2: Lagra on, Chris. 322 00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:18,600 Speaker 1: How are you? 323 00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:21,600 Speaker 5: I'm doing great? John Good to talk to you. How 324 00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:21,840 Speaker 5: are you. 325 00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:23,440 Speaker 1: I'm good. 326 00:21:23,720 --> 00:21:27,280 Speaker 2: The people on the inside at LASA, they know all 327 00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:29,960 Speaker 2: the money's getting wasted. There's no accounting for it. You 328 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:32,200 Speaker 2: can do audits from here to the end of time. 329 00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:35,800 Speaker 2: Nobody's going to figure it out. They know all this. 330 00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:37,920 Speaker 2: It's got to be on purpose. 331 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:42,840 Speaker 5: Well. As I often say, John, you know, if we 332 00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:46,479 Speaker 5: were to ever actually solve the whole mostness crisis, a 333 00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:49,960 Speaker 5: lot of people would have to get real jobs, right, Yeah, 334 00:21:50,040 --> 00:21:52,760 Speaker 5: So I think it's kind of one of these these 335 00:21:53,119 --> 00:21:57,040 Speaker 5: open secrets. I mean when you consider that losses budget 336 00:21:57,359 --> 00:22:01,840 Speaker 5: in twenty fourteen was sixty sixty three million dollars. Ten 337 00:22:01,920 --> 00:22:06,280 Speaker 5: years later it was almost nine hundred million dollars and 338 00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:09,560 Speaker 5: the head count so in that time, the homeless population 339 00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:14,119 Speaker 5: in LA increased by forty two percent, losses budget increased 340 00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:20,160 Speaker 5: by thirteen hundred percent. So not only are they wasting money, 341 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:24,320 Speaker 5: they're they're accelerating the pace of the waste. And I 342 00:22:24,320 --> 00:22:27,640 Speaker 5: think that this is all a giant scam with these 343 00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:30,879 Speaker 5: quote unquote nonprofits where the executives are making half a 344 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:33,959 Speaker 5: million or a million dollars a year are all in 345 00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:37,360 Speaker 5: on it, and they don't want to solve this crisis, 346 00:22:37,359 --> 00:22:39,919 Speaker 5: because again, it's a really easy way to make money. 347 00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:45,160 Speaker 5: I mean, Valicia Adams Kellum makes almost half a million 348 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:47,520 Speaker 5: dollars a year, almost twice her creditis or. She's not 349 00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:48,240 Speaker 5: going to give up. 350 00:22:48,119 --> 00:22:51,000 Speaker 2: That gig, and she just gave a two million dollar 351 00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:54,600 Speaker 2: contract two million dollar contractor her husband's nonprofit. 352 00:22:55,840 --> 00:22:59,119 Speaker 5: Well, and that's a really interesting point, John, And I'm 353 00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:00,919 Speaker 5: going to make a weird anount here, but I know 354 00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:04,800 Speaker 5: you'll you and your audience will get the connection. It's 355 00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:08,440 Speaker 5: just like Mayor Karen Bass deleting her texts during the 356 00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:15,879 Speaker 5: January wildfires. They're openly defying both city and state law 357 00:23:16,359 --> 00:23:18,399 Speaker 5: because they know that they are not going to be 358 00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:22,040 Speaker 5: held to account. The La Times will maybe stomp its 359 00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:24,800 Speaker 5: feet a little bit and write a story or two, 360 00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:27,439 Speaker 5: and then it's back to business as usual. And I 361 00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:31,920 Speaker 5: think that's the point that Angelino's really need to become 362 00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:35,440 Speaker 5: aware of. And I know, again, your audience is more 363 00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:38,520 Speaker 5: aware than most. We really need to wake up to 364 00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:40,840 Speaker 5: the fact that that they're not even trying to hide 365 00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:43,040 Speaker 5: it anymore. I mean, at least Eric Gard said he 366 00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:47,560 Speaker 5: kind of pretended to follow the law. Right at this point, 367 00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:50,800 Speaker 5: they're just brazen about it because we live in a 368 00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:55,359 Speaker 5: one party you know, mini dictatorship. They know that, you know, 369 00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:57,359 Speaker 5: there's one or two people that are going to make noise. 370 00:23:57,520 --> 00:23:57,720 Speaker 3: You know. 371 00:23:57,760 --> 00:24:02,560 Speaker 5: Tracy Park and Monica Rodriguez, to their everlasting credit, have 372 00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:05,520 Speaker 5: been speaking out on all of these issues. But they're 373 00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:09,840 Speaker 5: two out of fifteen, and all of the special interest 374 00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:12,840 Speaker 5: and all of the money and the campaign money is 375 00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:15,960 Speaker 5: against them and is against us as the people of 376 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:20,359 Speaker 5: Los Angeles, and LASSA is exhibit A for all of 377 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:25,440 Speaker 5: the rots and corruption and incompetence in our city these days. 378 00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:28,080 Speaker 5: And we just need to clean house, you know, with 379 00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:30,520 Speaker 5: the exception of the Tracys and the Monicas of the world, 380 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:34,200 Speaker 5: we need to clean house. And it's up to the 381 00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:36,360 Speaker 5: people of Los Angeles. I mean, that's kind of what 382 00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:38,680 Speaker 5: I wrote at the end of my piece the other day, 383 00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:42,680 Speaker 5: is this is now all all out there again. They're 384 00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:45,520 Speaker 5: not trying to hide it anymore. So now that's to us. 385 00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:49,280 Speaker 5: And if we don't start voting the right way, I mean, honestly, John, 386 00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:52,000 Speaker 5: and I know you agree, we have only ourselves to blame. 387 00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:56,000 Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, this is the way people vote, and they 388 00:24:56,080 --> 00:24:59,439 Speaker 2: not only vote badly, they don't really pay attention to 389 00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:00,280 Speaker 2: what's going on. 390 00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:03,880 Speaker 1: And right, there isn't a whole lot of media covering 391 00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:04,520 Speaker 1: this stuff. 392 00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:10,960 Speaker 5: No, no, remember the road diet ballot initiative last March. 393 00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:14,000 Speaker 5: People just see healthy streets, la well, golly, I want 394 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:16,479 Speaker 5: healthy streets. And let me let me give you an 395 00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:19,720 Speaker 5: example from the audits. One of the things that they found, 396 00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:24,679 Speaker 5: and this is the perfect encapsulation of everything we're talking about. 397 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:29,159 Speaker 5: On a per bed, per day basis and shelters overseen 398 00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:34,879 Speaker 5: by LASSA, personnel expenses raged from seven dollars to sixty 399 00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:40,320 Speaker 5: seven dollars, meal expenses ranged from seven dollars to eighteen dollars, 400 00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:45,399 Speaker 5: and security expenses ranged from two dollars to thirty two dollars. 401 00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:48,520 Speaker 5: If you ran a private business like that, you'd be 402 00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:52,320 Speaker 5: out of you'd be bankrupt within the week. But they 403 00:25:52,359 --> 00:25:56,600 Speaker 5: know that there is this, you know, flow of taxpayer money. 404 00:25:57,119 --> 00:25:59,879 Speaker 5: And we have enough of these leftists and these MB's 405 00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:04,120 Speaker 5: city Council and goodness knows and Sacramento. And again that's 406 00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:06,040 Speaker 5: why they can just now be so brazen about it, 407 00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:07,879 Speaker 5: because who's going to hold. 408 00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:08,320 Speaker 1: Them to account? 409 00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:14,639 Speaker 5: The ELSA times, right, I know, I mean, we do it, 410 00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:15,320 Speaker 5: you do it. 411 00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:20,399 Speaker 2: Occasionally there's a random story on television, you know which, 412 00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:25,000 Speaker 2: and most so many people now are looking at social 413 00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:28,320 Speaker 2: media for their news, and that's not an organized system, 414 00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:31,639 Speaker 2: you know, run by a news department. So it's just 415 00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:35,480 Speaker 2: whatever random feeds they're connected to. And there's just plenty 416 00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:38,919 Speaker 2: of nonsense. So I don't think we've ever had a 417 00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:41,600 Speaker 2: time where people are more ignorant of what's going on, 418 00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:45,120 Speaker 2: which is why there's so much corruption, just just out 419 00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:47,760 Speaker 2: and out theft and there's no consequences. 420 00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:52,520 Speaker 5: I do think on the flip side, you know, I know, 421 00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:54,439 Speaker 5: you know, you talk to people all the time. I 422 00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:56,199 Speaker 5: talk to people all the time. There is there is 423 00:26:56,280 --> 00:27:00,919 Speaker 5: a crown swell building and I think, you know, this 424 00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:05,479 Speaker 5: loss of audit, people know that the money is being wasted. 425 00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:08,560 Speaker 5: If people know that their hard earned tax dollars are 426 00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:14,679 Speaker 5: being wasted on corrupt nonprofits and corrupt city employees, and 427 00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:19,199 Speaker 5: I do since a groundswell. And I think Karen Bass 428 00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:23,560 Speaker 5: being out of the country when the national screaming for 429 00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:28,800 Speaker 5: five days, the massive hurricane force red flag event was 430 00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:31,280 Speaker 5: on the way, I don't think her being here. I mean, 431 00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:33,480 Speaker 5: she's been so incompetent. I don't think her being here 432 00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:36,200 Speaker 5: substanquently would have made any difference, but it was such 433 00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:40,160 Speaker 5: a symbol. It was her Gavin Newsom at the French 434 00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:44,480 Speaker 5: laundry moment, right, Yes, and I think she is mortally 435 00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:48,440 Speaker 5: wounded politically. I hope to God that the quality candidate 436 00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:52,719 Speaker 5: sooner rather than later announces against her, because she is 437 00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:55,800 Speaker 5: beyond beatable at this point. And it wasn't just her 438 00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:58,359 Speaker 5: being out of the country. It's the fact that going 439 00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:01,440 Speaker 5: back to Lassa and I know this is not administered 440 00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:03,520 Speaker 5: through loss so but it's the same bucket. You know, 441 00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:06,920 Speaker 5: her Inside say according to analysis an analysis that Tim 442 00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:09,840 Speaker 5: Campbell at City Watch, and then I urge everybody to 443 00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:13,920 Speaker 5: check out Tim. He's great, he's on this stuff. He 444 00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:16,880 Speaker 5: did a he's an actuaryle type guy, and he did 445 00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:19,680 Speaker 5: an analysis of his own and he determined that Inside's 446 00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:23,120 Speaker 5: Safe is spending as much as seventeen thousand dollars per 447 00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:26,520 Speaker 5: month per individual to keep him in a Nottel motel 448 00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:28,760 Speaker 5: fleabag somewhere downtown. 449 00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:32,040 Speaker 2: Seventeen thousand to keep wait, wait, wait, seventeen thousand to 450 00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:36,600 Speaker 2: keep a single homeless person in a fleabag motel. 451 00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:40,960 Speaker 5: Yes, I'll send, I'll send send me. 452 00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:43,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, send us, send me the story or a link 453 00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:46,800 Speaker 2: to the story and we'll be on that next. Chris, 454 00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:48,400 Speaker 2: thank you for coming on. I got to run, I 455 00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:51,040 Speaker 2: got as always, I could talk to you all day, Chris. 456 00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:53,680 Speaker 5: Even though we talk about depressing stuff, it's always a 457 00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:54,200 Speaker 5: pleasure though. 458 00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:57,640 Speaker 2: All right, Chris, he's got a piece at all Aspect 459 00:28:57,720 --> 00:29:04,600 Speaker 2: report dot com about the audit he mentioned Karen Bass. Yeah, 460 00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:07,520 Speaker 2: there's a new poll out that the La Times published 461 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:14,840 Speaker 2: on her job rating for the fire. How well did 462 00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:18,440 Speaker 2: the public think she handled the Palisades fire. We'll tell 463 00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:19,400 Speaker 2: you about that next. 464 00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:24,880 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A 465 00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:25,720 Speaker 3: six forty. 466 00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:28,719 Speaker 1: We're on for one until four after four o'clock. 467 00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:31,120 Speaker 2: Whatever you missed, you get on the podcast John Cobelt's 468 00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:35,680 Speaker 2: show on demand, same as the radio show. We had 469 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:40,880 Speaker 2: been talking this hour off and on about Karen Bass's performance. 470 00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:43,840 Speaker 2: She gave a press conference this morning and it was 471 00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:47,880 Speaker 2: supposed to be primarily about the cleanup of MacArthur Park, 472 00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:50,160 Speaker 2: and we have more on that coming up in minutes. 473 00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:53,280 Speaker 2: But we were playing clips because the press conference veered 474 00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:57,760 Speaker 2: into her deleted text messages, which they're still. 475 00:29:57,520 --> 00:29:58,160 Speaker 1: Looking for them. 476 00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:03,360 Speaker 2: She deleted did an enormous number of text messages claiming 477 00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:07,760 Speaker 2: that it was a thirty day auto delete, which is 478 00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:12,680 Speaker 2: a thing. But the LA Times asked for the text 479 00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:17,960 Speaker 2: messages on January tenth, that's three days after the fire started, 480 00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:25,720 Speaker 2: and they didn't respond. They didn't respond, and they let 481 00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:31,680 Speaker 2: all those messages automatically delete unless they manually did it themselves, 482 00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:36,959 Speaker 2: which I suspect is very possible. I'm sure everybody realized 483 00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:40,240 Speaker 2: as they watched a whole freaking town burn that it 484 00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:46,240 Speaker 2: is time to start destroying evidence. So emails, texts out 485 00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:51,680 Speaker 2: the door. And if you saw the poll today in 486 00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:55,800 Speaker 2: the Los Angeles Times, boy, you could see why huh, 487 00:30:55,880 --> 00:31:02,200 Speaker 2: Because they interviewed they pulled almost two thousand registered voters 488 00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:05,600 Speaker 2: living in the city of Los Angeles. This was with 489 00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:12,640 Speaker 2: UC Berkeley. They're pulling unit isg You know what percentage 490 00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:16,560 Speaker 2: of LA City residents think that Bass did a good 491 00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:23,920 Speaker 2: or excellent job on the fire. Nineteen percent. Now I 492 00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:30,360 Speaker 2: am shocked, that's its highest nineteen percent. Who's the nineteen percent? 493 00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:34,240 Speaker 2: That's a fifth of the city. They're watching the Palisades 494 00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:38,400 Speaker 2: burn for weeks on end and Bass is in Ghana 495 00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:45,520 Speaker 2: and she wouldn't speak, and she was lying to everybody. 496 00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:49,880 Speaker 2: Steve Soberoff was misled, and the people donating money to 497 00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:53,640 Speaker 2: Steve sober Off felt they were misled. And she was 498 00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:59,160 Speaker 2: making all these claims when she wasn't just stonewalling. 499 00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:00,640 Speaker 1: And the palace. 500 00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:03,320 Speaker 2: It turns out she had no advanced planning going on, 501 00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:06,200 Speaker 2: not with the fire department, not with emergency services, not 502 00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:11,000 Speaker 2: with anybody. There was no evidence that Karen Bass existed 503 00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:16,480 Speaker 2: in the five days before the fire in any way, 504 00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:20,680 Speaker 2: not just physically, but there's no record that she participated 505 00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:25,000 Speaker 2: any meetings, phone calls, texts, emails. Now anything that she 506 00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:29,959 Speaker 2: was in after the fact has been raised. Now on 507 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:34,440 Speaker 2: the other end of things, forty one percent thinks she 508 00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:39,600 Speaker 2: did a poor or a very poor job. Twenty two 509 00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:42,120 Speaker 2: percent thinks she did a fair job, which is like 510 00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:42,400 Speaker 2: a c. 511 00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:48,520 Speaker 1: But so yeah, yeah. 512 00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:53,440 Speaker 2: Add up those three categories and you get about sixty 513 00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:58,520 Speaker 2: three percent, And then there's eighteen percent of the public 514 00:32:58,560 --> 00:32:59,280 Speaker 2: with no opinion. 515 00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:01,200 Speaker 1: No oion. 516 00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:04,720 Speaker 2: Can you imagine watching the worst fire in the history 517 00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:09,720 Speaker 2: of a city in the United States, worst in history, 518 00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:13,560 Speaker 2: and it's the only thing on television right It was 519 00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:14,920 Speaker 2: on ten stations every day. 520 00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:16,320 Speaker 1: It's all you did. 521 00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:19,840 Speaker 2: If you scrawled on your your your stupid social media sites. 522 00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:22,440 Speaker 1: That's all there was. I don't have an opinion. I 523 00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:22,840 Speaker 1: don't know. 524 00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:24,640 Speaker 2: I don't know if she did good, I don't know 525 00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:29,520 Speaker 2: if she did bad, well, she did horrible. You can't 526 00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:32,440 Speaker 2: get elected with those numbers. Forty one percent said poor 527 00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:34,840 Speaker 2: or very poor. Then there was a second question, how 528 00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:38,360 Speaker 2: much confidence do you have in Bass to guide to 529 00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:41,800 Speaker 2: LA through its recovery. Only eleven percent set a great 530 00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:47,880 Speaker 2: deal of confidence, and that recovery is going to go 531 00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:50,760 Speaker 2: beyond not only this current term, but the next term, 532 00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:52,280 Speaker 2: and the next term is not going to be hers. 533 00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:58,240 Speaker 2: But you need a credible candidate running against her. Thirty 534 00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:02,360 Speaker 2: let's see, fifty four percent said little or no confidence 535 00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:06,440 Speaker 2: in Karen Bass to get LA through the recovery. You 536 00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:10,719 Speaker 2: would think politically she'd be dead right. You can never 537 00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:15,560 Speaker 2: be sure, because, honest to god, this is an incredibly 538 00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:19,480 Speaker 2: stupid public in California when it comes to paying attention 539 00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:22,359 Speaker 2: to the news and voting and not being blinded by 540 00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:25,000 Speaker 2: stupid ideological concerns. 541 00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:29,040 Speaker 1: She is and we've seen a lot of them. 542 00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:34,000 Speaker 2: She is one of the most incompetent, helpless, hopeless, hapless 543 00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:38,080 Speaker 2: public officials I've ever seen in my life and doesn't 544 00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:40,040 Speaker 2: surprise me in the least. And I said that one 545 00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:45,520 Speaker 2: hundred times before the election. She had no executive experience, 546 00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:48,719 Speaker 2: which means an ability to be a leader and make 547 00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:52,920 Speaker 2: decisions quickly, make correct decisions, quickly, get ahead of the game. 548 00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:58,640 Speaker 2: Later on we'll talk about her MacArthur Park press conference 549 00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:03,560 Speaker 2: as well. All right, two o'clock, Well, actually the later 550 00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:07,719 Speaker 2: on is coming up right after two o'clock. MacArthur Park 551 00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:12,200 Speaker 2: has been with one of the most disgusting places in 552 00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:18,960 Speaker 2: Los Angeles. Beautiful park, beautiful lake there overrun by violent 553 00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:23,280 Speaker 2: gangs shooting each other. It's an open air drug market. 554 00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:29,960 Speaker 2: There's syringes everywhere, Homeless people screaming and writhing in the night, 555 00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:37,840 Speaker 2: mental patience of people, it's just and and And they 556 00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:42,080 Speaker 2: have vendors, they call them vendors. These are these are 557 00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:47,799 Speaker 2: criminals who process stolen merchandise. Somebody does the stealing, they 558 00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:50,880 Speaker 2: do the selling on the streets. It's it's it's the 559 00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:57,319 Speaker 2: majority of legal alien and MacArthur Park is a shambles. Well, 560 00:35:57,520 --> 00:36:01,239 Speaker 2: Karen Bass held a press conference today. They did some 561 00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:04,960 Speaker 2: work claiming that we were cleaning it up. One who 562 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:08,480 Speaker 2: disagrees is John Ally, and he's been an activist who's 563 00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:12,160 Speaker 2: We've had him on a number of times in Santa 564 00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:15,000 Speaker 2: Monica where he owns properties and he also manages properties 565 00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:18,640 Speaker 2: in that Westlake neighborhood. We'll tell you all about it 566 00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:21,640 Speaker 2: coming up, Devermark live in the CAFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey, 567 00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:24,520 Speaker 2: you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You 568 00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:27,120 Speaker 2: can always hear the show live on KFI Am six 569 00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:29,880 Speaker 2: forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, 570 00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:33,200 Speaker 2: and of course anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.