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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 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:08,840 Speaker 2: We are on every day from one until four o'clock 4 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:12,479 Speaker 2: and after four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand on 5 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,400 Speaker 2: the iHeart app already on the you can listen to 6 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:19,919 Speaker 2: the podcast after four o'clock and in the one o'clock hour, 7 00:00:19,960 --> 00:00:26,840 Speaker 2: Michael Monks explain this new report on the horrible response 8 00:00:26,920 --> 00:00:31,800 Speaker 2: by the county in Los Angeles County, all of government, 9 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:36,120 Speaker 2: the entire Los Angeles County government, terrible response to the fires. 10 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:41,920 Speaker 2: We knew that this report explains some of how bad 11 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:44,639 Speaker 2: it is, but doesn't tell you why, It doesn't tell 12 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:47,360 Speaker 2: you who. But you could hear Michael's report, it was 13 00:00:47,440 --> 00:00:49,720 Speaker 2: very good. In the one o'clock hour on the podcast. 14 00:00:49,760 --> 00:00:52,480 Speaker 2: All right, let's go to Alex Stone. The other big 15 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:56,720 Speaker 2: thing today is there was quite a press conference late 16 00:00:56,760 --> 00:01:02,360 Speaker 2: this morning about the suspect who shot up the Dallas 17 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:07,959 Speaker 2: Ice Detention Center, Joshua John or jen is his name, 18 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:13,520 Speaker 2: and he killed one immigrant, injured two others. It was 19 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:17,160 Speaker 2: just indiscriminate shooting with his rifle from a rooftop nearby 20 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:20,480 Speaker 2: and then killed himself and to fill in more details, 21 00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:22,800 Speaker 2: Alex Stone, ABC News Tylor John. 22 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:24,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, so a lot we learned today. 23 00:01:24,959 --> 00:01:27,720 Speaker 2: Investigators believed that the shooter acted alone, that there was 24 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:30,400 Speaker 2: nobody with them, that he wasn't coordinating it with anybody. 25 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:32,959 Speaker 2: This twenty nine year old guy that they say they 26 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:36,000 Speaker 2: can see on surveillance video that he arrived at around 27 00:01:36,040 --> 00:01:38,639 Speaker 2: three in the morning with a ladder on his car, 28 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:41,360 Speaker 2: used that to go up to his perch on the 29 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:44,959 Speaker 2: staircase on the neighboring building or right across the street, 30 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:48,200 Speaker 2: knowing that that ICE vehicles would be arriving at around 31 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:51,080 Speaker 2: six thirty in the morning with the tainees from the 32 00:01:51,160 --> 00:01:53,720 Speaker 2: early morning operations that they go out on and then 33 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:55,600 Speaker 2: they all come back at the same time to begin 34 00:01:55,720 --> 00:01:58,400 Speaker 2: processing them at the building. And as they pulled in, 35 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:02,120 Speaker 2: it was a caravan of their vans, of the ICE 36 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:06,000 Speaker 2: vans coming in with the detainees in them. He opened fire, 37 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:09,440 Speaker 2: they think, believing that he was firing at agents and 38 00:02:09,480 --> 00:02:11,960 Speaker 2: didn't mean to hit the detainees. That he thought he 39 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:14,960 Speaker 2: was hitting agents. But the acting US Attorney, Nancy Larson, 40 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:17,720 Speaker 2: laid out these handwritten notes that they have found in 41 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:20,440 Speaker 2: his apartment, and she says that they said a lot. 42 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:22,080 Speaker 1: They said this one. 43 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:27,640 Speaker 3: Of these notes or papers, the sniper explicitly states, yes, 44 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:31,960 Speaker 3: it was just me. That statement appears to be correct 45 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:36,920 Speaker 3: at this point in the investigation. Notably, these loose notes 46 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:40,880 Speaker 3: included a game plan of the attack and target areas 47 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:45,320 Speaker 3: at the facility. He called the ICE employees people showing 48 00:02:45,440 --> 00:02:49,079 Speaker 3: up to collect a dirty paycheck. He wrote that he 49 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:54,160 Speaker 3: intended to maximize lethality against ICE personnel. 50 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:55,360 Speaker 2: And they say his notes made it clear he wanted 51 00:02:55,360 --> 00:02:58,040 Speaker 2: to inflict real terror on the ICE agents and ICE 52 00:02:58,080 --> 00:03:00,079 Speaker 2: agents in general, so to be watching their back so 53 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:02,040 Speaker 2: when they're out in the streets and doing do stress 54 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:04,160 Speaker 2: on their lives, and to make them worried when they're 55 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:07,600 Speaker 2: out doing these operations. He expressed hatred for the federal 56 00:03:07,639 --> 00:03:10,040 Speaker 2: government in his notes. But they say, John, it does 57 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:12,840 Speaker 2: not appear he ad any connection to a bigger group 58 00:03:12,880 --> 00:03:15,720 Speaker 2: of ideology that they see it as domestic terrorism, but 59 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:17,600 Speaker 2: it's not terrorism in the sense of that there was 60 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:21,960 Speaker 2: some bigger guiding force in this. But they say he 61 00:03:22,040 --> 00:03:26,040 Speaker 2: did research on the building and movements on the ICE agents, 62 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:29,840 Speaker 2: even using tracking apps that are apparently out there for 63 00:03:29,919 --> 00:03:33,360 Speaker 2: the in the open that people mark where they see 64 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:35,400 Speaker 2: ICE agents, and you can track where they're moving around. 65 00:03:35,560 --> 00:03:38,320 Speaker 2: The FBI special Agent and charge Jill Rothrocks, and he. 66 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:41,920 Speaker 4: Knew with a high likelihood ICE detainees would be transported 67 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:45,920 Speaker 4: that morning in the exact location where he was facing 68 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:47,920 Speaker 4: from his perch on a nearby rooftop. 69 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:50,040 Speaker 2: And they say the gun was a bolt action rifle 70 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:52,640 Speaker 2: that he bought legally back in August. And they also 71 00:03:52,720 --> 00:03:56,240 Speaker 2: say John that ICE and ATF agents were heroes yesterday 72 00:03:56,240 --> 00:03:58,520 Speaker 2: and all of this and the injured and dead detainees, 73 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:01,440 Speaker 2: they were shackled in the van and they could not 74 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:03,280 Speaker 2: get out on their own as you would expect somebody 75 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:05,600 Speaker 2: who's being detained or have been arrested. That they were 76 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:08,720 Speaker 2: in handcuffs and in some cases shackles and locked into 77 00:04:08,720 --> 00:04:09,080 Speaker 2: that van. 78 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:11,360 Speaker 1: And the agents say say went into the. 79 00:04:11,320 --> 00:04:14,600 Speaker 2: Line of fire to rescue those detainees who were stuck 80 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:16,479 Speaker 2: in the van and couldn't get away from the gunfire. 81 00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:19,760 Speaker 4: Agents from both ICE and the ATF put themselves in 82 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:22,960 Speaker 4: the line of fire to move individuals off the transportation 83 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:25,960 Speaker 4: vehicles in an attempt to protect and rescue those that 84 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:28,440 Speaker 4: were injured. I want to thank them for their bravery. 85 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:31,320 Speaker 2: So the casualty count remains that one detainee was killed, 86 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:34,680 Speaker 2: two other detainees critically injured. But they say it is 87 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:37,040 Speaker 2: clear to them that the target was the agents, and 88 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:39,040 Speaker 2: that they're still collecting evidence, but they don't know how 89 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:41,640 Speaker 2: many shots were fired. They believe that he had been 90 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:44,799 Speaker 2: planning this attack for many months, but that he thought 91 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:48,080 Speaker 2: he was hitting or tried to hit agents and not detainees, 92 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:50,720 Speaker 2: and he got it very wrong and hit only detainees 93 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:53,800 Speaker 2: and no agents. All right, thank you very much, Alex, 94 00:04:53,960 --> 00:04:57,160 Speaker 2: you got it, Thanks John. All Right, good report. Here 95 00:04:57,279 --> 00:05:03,039 Speaker 2: the part about agents. They actually walked into the line 96 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:08,080 Speaker 2: of fire to rescue the immigrants who were shot inside 97 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:11,120 Speaker 2: the vehicle, but they couldn't get out because they were shackled. 98 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:15,480 Speaker 2: So while the firing was going on, the agents went 99 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:19,680 Speaker 2: in there to rescue these guys. One died but two survived. 100 00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:27,160 Speaker 2: And now you compare this to the way our sociopathic 101 00:05:27,279 --> 00:05:33,440 Speaker 2: narcissist governor Gavin Newsom, what he was saying on Stephen 102 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:35,839 Speaker 2: Colder the other night. Let's play that clip about the 103 00:05:35,880 --> 00:05:36,640 Speaker 2: standing army. 104 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:41,880 Speaker 5: The ice issue is alarming beyond words. It is the private, 105 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:45,760 Speaker 5: the largest private domestic army of its type police force 106 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:49,719 Speaker 5: anywhere in the world. He'll have thirty thousand people that 107 00:05:49,839 --> 00:05:52,080 Speaker 5: increasingly appeared to be swore in an oath of office 108 00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:55,520 Speaker 5: to him, not the constitution of the United States again, 109 00:05:55,839 --> 00:05:58,520 Speaker 5: wake up to what's going on in this country? 110 00:05:58,760 --> 00:06:01,560 Speaker 2: All right, Well, Joshua John woke up next morning, woke 111 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:05,440 Speaker 2: up and brought his rifle and wanted to shoot some 112 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:08,760 Speaker 2: of those ICE agents dead. Maybe he watched Colbert the 113 00:06:08,839 --> 00:06:10,960 Speaker 2: night before and that he'd been fighting this for weeks, 114 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:15,320 Speaker 2: modeling and after the Charlie Kirk killing, right down to 115 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:18,760 Speaker 2: the inscribed bullets, just like the inscribed bullets that Luigi 116 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:23,200 Speaker 2: Manngion had to kill that healthcare executive. And then you 117 00:06:23,240 --> 00:06:28,080 Speaker 2: had Tyler Robinson with inscribed bullets to kill Charlie Kirk. 118 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:31,679 Speaker 2: Now you've got this character, Joshua jan with inscribed bullets 119 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:34,800 Speaker 2: to kill ICE agents, set anti ICE right there, right 120 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:38,040 Speaker 2: there on the bullet, and Newsom is calling it the 121 00:06:38,440 --> 00:06:45,160 Speaker 2: largest private police force, standing army, sparring an oath to Trump. 122 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:50,040 Speaker 2: That's false news was lying. None of them swore an 123 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:53,000 Speaker 2: oath to Trump. You could see though, how that would 124 00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:56,720 Speaker 2: stir up a crazy person. I mean, this kid was 125 00:06:56,760 --> 00:07:02,480 Speaker 2: stirred up by the Charlie Kirk killing, guarded copying some 126 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:05,120 Speaker 2: of the aspects of the Charlie Kirk killing. And then 127 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:12,280 Speaker 2: here's Newsome, the leading Democratic presidential candidate, saying, yeah, they're 128 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:15,320 Speaker 2: not defending America. Here, they're not working for America. This 129 00:07:15,440 --> 00:07:18,040 Speaker 2: is a private army by Trump. Well, it sounds like 130 00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:25,000 Speaker 2: a call to arms to me. And again what Newsom 131 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:27,520 Speaker 2: said about the masks, play cut number six. 132 00:07:27,320 --> 00:07:30,840 Speaker 1: Again, I'll be signing a bill first in the nation. 133 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:36,160 Speaker 5: Saying enough, Ice unmasked, what are you afraid of? 134 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:40,640 Speaker 1: Tough boy? Huh? How big is it? Newsome? Security? For us? 135 00:07:40,680 --> 00:07:43,119 Speaker 2: It's easy for him to stand there and say, hey, guys, 136 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:47,040 Speaker 2: what are you afraid of? Well, a bullet in the 137 00:07:47,080 --> 00:07:50,600 Speaker 2: head maybe could have been a bullet in the heads 138 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:55,320 Speaker 2: of several ICE agents, say yesterday morning instead the immigrants 139 00:07:55,320 --> 00:07:55,680 Speaker 2: got it. 140 00:07:56,120 --> 00:07:59,480 Speaker 1: But good job, Gavin, good job. 141 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:05,040 Speaker 2: That's what you want in a leader, somebody stirring up 142 00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:09,440 Speaker 2: insane people to randomly shoot rifles at law enforcement agents. 143 00:08:09,640 --> 00:08:13,160 Speaker 2: And by the way, on his stupid mask idea idea, 144 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:16,920 Speaker 2: if you can call it that, I heard it an illegal analysis. 145 00:08:16,920 --> 00:08:22,720 Speaker 2: Today it's impossible for local or state law enforcement to 146 00:08:22,960 --> 00:08:30,360 Speaker 2: arrest a federal officer on constitutional practically, it's impossible because 147 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:36,439 Speaker 2: the ICE officers would arrest the state or local cop 148 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:42,960 Speaker 2: for obstruction of a federal law enforcement agent, and the 149 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:46,000 Speaker 2: state or local cop would go to federal prison. That's 150 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:48,760 Speaker 2: what would happen. So if you think there are going 151 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:54,720 Speaker 2: to be any cops enforcing Gavin Newsom's stupid mask rule, well, 152 00:08:54,800 --> 00:08:56,760 Speaker 2: if they try, they're going to go to federal prison. 153 00:08:57,840 --> 00:09:01,960 Speaker 2: It will not succeed, not once. Not one ICE agent's 154 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:04,520 Speaker 2: going to remove it as mask in California, and not 155 00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:07,320 Speaker 2: one local or state officer is going to try to 156 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:10,280 Speaker 2: arrest them unless they want to go to federal prison. 157 00:09:10,760 --> 00:09:15,240 Speaker 2: That's how stupid your governor is. But hey, keep voting 158 00:09:15,280 --> 00:09:16,000 Speaker 2: the way you're voting. 159 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:21,120 Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 160 00:09:21,160 --> 00:09:21,680 Speaker 6: six forty. 161 00:09:23,160 --> 00:09:25,000 Speaker 2: We are on every day from one until four o'clock 162 00:09:25,040 --> 00:09:28,440 Speaker 2: and then after four o'clock John Cobelt's show on demand 163 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:29,880 Speaker 2: on the iHeart app. 164 00:09:30,840 --> 00:09:36,079 Speaker 1: So I was scrolling through X. 165 00:09:37,080 --> 00:09:40,839 Speaker 2: And I found this you have that Kenneth mahaclip I 166 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:41,600 Speaker 2: would play it in just a. 167 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:42,360 Speaker 1: Second, not yet. 168 00:09:42,679 --> 00:09:48,080 Speaker 2: And we talked earlier about if you were listening at 169 00:09:48,080 --> 00:09:52,240 Speaker 2: this time yesterday we had the Santa Monica mayor here 170 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:54,679 Speaker 2: Letna ne Grete on for the whole hour, and she 171 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:58,320 Speaker 2: was talking about, you know, all the terrible things going 172 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:02,600 Speaker 2: on in Santa Monica, which she agreed with. She says 173 00:10:02,640 --> 00:10:04,960 Speaker 2: the city council is stacked against her six to one. 174 00:10:05,240 --> 00:10:09,800 Speaker 2: They're all progressives and they just promote laws and policies 175 00:10:09,880 --> 00:10:16,200 Speaker 2: that attract more homelessness. She blamed a lot on the 176 00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:20,200 Speaker 2: stupid Expo train or the E line that brings in 177 00:10:21,360 --> 00:10:26,319 Speaker 2: trainloads of homeless vagrants, mental patients, and drug addicts every night. 178 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:27,640 Speaker 1: Yeah. 179 00:10:27,760 --> 00:10:30,439 Speaker 2: Really, you don't want to be on the platform when 180 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:34,839 Speaker 2: the last E train comes in in Santa Monica because 181 00:10:34,840 --> 00:10:38,720 Speaker 2: they get dumped into Santa Monica. And Santa Monica has 182 00:10:38,760 --> 00:10:45,200 Speaker 2: a preponderance of homeless shelters and treatment centers, and Venice 183 00:10:45,240 --> 00:10:47,760 Speaker 2: does too, so that's one of the reasons. It's a 184 00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:51,679 Speaker 2: magnet for all the crazy people. And that's why we 185 00:10:51,720 --> 00:10:54,280 Speaker 2: can't go there anymore. I can't go to the beach, 186 00:10:54,320 --> 00:10:56,240 Speaker 2: can't go to the park, can't go to the promenade, 187 00:10:56,240 --> 00:10:58,400 Speaker 2: can't go to the shopping mall, can't go to the restaurants, 188 00:10:58,559 --> 00:11:01,760 Speaker 2: can't go cank go because they have a new influx 189 00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:06,000 Speaker 2: all the time, and it's really aggravating because they spent 190 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:10,240 Speaker 2: billions of dollars on a transit system that exists mostly 191 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:14,200 Speaker 2: to bring mental patients and drug addicts from skid Row 192 00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:16,640 Speaker 2: to Santa Monica. And then if you live on the 193 00:11:16,640 --> 00:11:19,800 Speaker 2: West Side, you have to deal with the stuff that 194 00:11:19,880 --> 00:11:25,319 Speaker 2: originated in skid Row. And then you hear about Inside 195 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:33,000 Speaker 2: Safe and Karen Bass's programs, which are largely fictitious. I 196 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:36,280 Speaker 2: want to play you a clip from Kenneth Mahea. He 197 00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:41,240 Speaker 2: posted this online. He's wanted to do an audit of 198 00:11:41,280 --> 00:11:44,080 Speaker 2: the homeless money because there's two billion missing. 199 00:11:45,160 --> 00:11:49,440 Speaker 1: And remember there was a. 200 00:11:47,760 --> 00:11:52,240 Speaker 2: A civil lawsuit against the city and to find out 201 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:57,400 Speaker 2: where it went, and Karen Bass spent six million dollars 202 00:11:57,440 --> 00:12:02,040 Speaker 2: of city tax money six million in order to protect 203 00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:06,880 Speaker 2: her from testifying. She never had to testify, and they 204 00:12:06,880 --> 00:12:08,680 Speaker 2: wanted to find out, well, where'd the two billion go? 205 00:12:10,440 --> 00:12:14,720 Speaker 2: She didn't have to say. Well, here's Kenneth Mihea and 206 00:12:14,800 --> 00:12:17,360 Speaker 2: he'll describe what it's like to try to do an audit. 207 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:20,640 Speaker 2: Nobody in the city government wants to hear about it anymore. 208 00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:24,400 Speaker 7: How the city of Los Angeles spent millions of dollars 209 00:12:24,440 --> 00:12:29,360 Speaker 7: to avoid transparency and accountability by yours truly, Kenneth Mihia, 210 00:12:29,679 --> 00:12:32,200 Speaker 7: your city controller, if you didn't know, the City of 211 00:12:32,240 --> 00:12:36,640 Speaker 7: Los Angeles was sued over its homelessness efforts, and part 212 00:12:36,640 --> 00:12:39,400 Speaker 7: of that case, the city had to undergo an audit. 213 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:43,240 Speaker 7: And instead of going with the independently elected city controller, 214 00:12:43,280 --> 00:12:46,160 Speaker 7: who is the city's auditor, who actually would have done 215 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:49,880 Speaker 7: this for free, the city ended up spending nearly three 216 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:53,360 Speaker 7: million dollars on an outside firm who is not an 217 00:12:53,360 --> 00:12:57,120 Speaker 7: audit firm, to actually conduct this audit over homelessness spending 218 00:12:57,240 --> 00:13:00,480 Speaker 7: and also homelessness efforts as well. And so when the 219 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:05,480 Speaker 7: results came back, the city actually disparaged the results. You know, 220 00:13:05,559 --> 00:13:08,480 Speaker 7: they didn't call it a real audit, it was an assessment. 221 00:13:08,760 --> 00:13:10,760 Speaker 1: And so here we are today. 222 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:15,120 Speaker 7: And the judge, instead of appointing a receivership over all 223 00:13:15,160 --> 00:13:18,240 Speaker 7: of the city's homelessness efforts, decided that the city needs 224 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:22,679 Speaker 7: a monitor over its homelessness spending and efforts in real time. 225 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:27,240 Speaker 7: And so, wow, here's another opportunity for oversight. And the 226 00:13:27,280 --> 00:13:31,559 Speaker 7: plaintiffs suing the city actually recommended our office, the current 227 00:13:31,559 --> 00:13:34,959 Speaker 7: city Controller's office, to be a monitor. But the City 228 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:37,920 Speaker 7: of La rejected that. They said, nope, not you again. 229 00:13:39,240 --> 00:13:42,959 Speaker 7: And so you know, my audit team, we have decades 230 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:48,600 Speaker 7: of experience in technical expertise with data of homelessness. Subject 231 00:13:48,640 --> 00:13:53,920 Speaker 7: matter experts we created the city's homelessness dashboard were also independent. 232 00:13:54,160 --> 00:13:55,960 Speaker 7: So I thought, wow, this would have been perfect because 233 00:13:56,320 --> 00:13:59,680 Speaker 7: we're already doing the work. But nope, the city decided 234 00:13:59,679 --> 00:14:02,840 Speaker 7: that they are going to pick the former city controller, 235 00:14:03,080 --> 00:14:07,160 Speaker 7: my predecessor, and so I thought, wow, it's not that 236 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:10,080 Speaker 7: they don't want the city controller. They don't want this 237 00:14:10,320 --> 00:14:14,840 Speaker 7: city controller, me Kenath and Mihia, the independent elected city 238 00:14:14,840 --> 00:14:18,280 Speaker 7: controller that you all wanted me to bring that transparency 239 00:14:18,280 --> 00:14:22,480 Speaker 7: and accountability. But anyways, I'm here to make sure that 240 00:14:22,840 --> 00:14:25,800 Speaker 7: we will continue to provide that independence and that that 241 00:14:25,880 --> 00:14:28,160 Speaker 7: oversight that you will want and voted for. Okay, so 242 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:29,240 Speaker 7: we'll keep you all posted. 243 00:14:29,480 --> 00:14:29,840 Speaker 1: Thank you. 244 00:14:31,040 --> 00:14:34,560 Speaker 2: I believe that the city controller, the elected city controller, 245 00:14:34,560 --> 00:14:39,280 Speaker 2: and this guy's a socialist, but he does audits and 246 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:43,400 Speaker 2: he tells the truth about all the blown money and 247 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:47,080 Speaker 2: the blown budgets. He has been telling the truth, so 248 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:49,040 Speaker 2: the city council and Bass don't want to hear about 249 00:14:49,040 --> 00:14:52,480 Speaker 2: it because maybe he'll find out where the two billion 250 00:14:52,560 --> 00:14:57,040 Speaker 2: went that Bass is covering up. There's two billion dollars missing. 251 00:14:58,240 --> 00:15:02,360 Speaker 2: She's responsible, She's got to know about it. And she 252 00:15:02,480 --> 00:15:06,240 Speaker 2: put up literally fifteen lawyers and six million dollars of 253 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:10,080 Speaker 2: city tax money to keep us from finding out. And 254 00:15:10,160 --> 00:15:12,960 Speaker 2: then they spent another three million in city tax money 255 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:16,200 Speaker 2: to keep Kenneth Mahea from doing his own audit, and 256 00:15:16,240 --> 00:15:18,760 Speaker 2: they hired an outside audit firm who isn't really an 257 00:15:18,760 --> 00:15:21,320 Speaker 2: audit firm, and even then the results came out and 258 00:15:21,360 --> 00:15:24,840 Speaker 2: made Karen let Bass look really bad. So she's running 259 00:15:24,880 --> 00:15:29,200 Speaker 2: for reelection in fourteen months. She's running for reelection with 260 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:34,080 Speaker 2: two billion dollars missing and her spending almost ten million 261 00:15:34,120 --> 00:15:38,120 Speaker 2: dollars now to try to cover it up between the 262 00:15:38,160 --> 00:15:42,440 Speaker 2: attorneys and the auditing firm. And we're going to bring 263 00:15:42,480 --> 00:15:45,600 Speaker 2: this up constantly until she comes clean about where the 264 00:15:45,640 --> 00:15:50,280 Speaker 2: two billion. Well, I'm not talking about two million. I'm 265 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:54,240 Speaker 2: talking about two billion dollars in homeless money. 266 00:15:55,200 --> 00:15:59,480 Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 267 00:15:59,520 --> 00:15:59,920 Speaker 6: six forty. 268 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:06,720 Speaker 2: So I've played you eclips before of Gavin Newsom inciting 269 00:16:07,880 --> 00:16:11,240 Speaker 2: violence against ice agents, even went on Stephen Colbert Show 270 00:16:11,320 --> 00:16:14,360 Speaker 2: to do it. And we know what happened in Dallas 271 00:16:14,440 --> 00:16:19,760 Speaker 2: yesterday with that gunman who accidentally picked off some illegal immigrants, 272 00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:21,360 Speaker 2: killed one, injured two others. 273 00:16:21,440 --> 00:16:22,680 Speaker 1: He was going for ICE agents. 274 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:30,040 Speaker 2: And Newsome is screaming and taunting, carrying on about his 275 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:34,960 Speaker 2: anti mask law, which, as I explained, is just total nonsense. 276 00:16:35,840 --> 00:16:41,640 Speaker 2: It's not a thing. You're the puny, little California governor. 277 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:46,680 Speaker 2: You can't tell Ice how to address its federal officers. 278 00:16:47,240 --> 00:16:50,760 Speaker 2: And it's shocked how how little attention is given to 279 00:16:50,920 --> 00:16:57,360 Speaker 2: that fact that it is simply unconstitutional for the state 280 00:16:58,240 --> 00:16:59,720 Speaker 2: to try to enforce a law like that. 281 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:00,720 Speaker 1: It's impossible. 282 00:17:02,520 --> 00:17:05,080 Speaker 2: One other thing they don't do is they're covering Newsom's 283 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:09,080 Speaker 2: basically this is his presidential campaign, but they don't talk 284 00:17:09,080 --> 00:17:12,440 Speaker 2: about the state, the economic state of California that he's 285 00:17:12,520 --> 00:17:17,120 Speaker 2: leaving behind. There's only one story I found on this, 286 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:21,720 Speaker 2: and it's in the San Francisco Chronicle. Not exactly highlighted, 287 00:17:21,720 --> 00:17:26,280 Speaker 2: but I found it. California's unemployment rate is the highest 288 00:17:26,440 --> 00:17:30,240 Speaker 2: among all states fifty states. Hey, we're number one in 289 00:17:30,320 --> 00:17:38,160 Speaker 2: something unemployment, and the state has lost jobs in five 290 00:17:38,240 --> 00:17:44,400 Speaker 2: of the last eight months. There have been major layoffs 291 00:17:44,440 --> 00:17:53,040 Speaker 2: in Silicon Valley and Hollywood. Even government jobs are down. Construction, manufacturing, 292 00:17:53,320 --> 00:17:58,879 Speaker 2: financial activities, business and professional services, all those sectors lost 293 00:17:58,960 --> 00:18:00,520 Speaker 2: jobs in California in August. 294 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:08,800 Speaker 1: And so you've. 295 00:18:08,520 --> 00:18:16,760 Speaker 2: Got this highest unemployment rate in the country. There's a 296 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:19,760 Speaker 2: guy named Michael Burnick, a special council of Dwayne Morris 297 00:18:20,119 --> 00:18:24,040 Speaker 2: and former head of the Employment Development Department, which is 298 00:18:24,040 --> 00:18:32,200 Speaker 2: the unemployment department, and he says the state economy is adrift. 299 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:40,040 Speaker 2: Californians account for eighteen percent of new unemployment claims in 300 00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:44,879 Speaker 2: this country. Eighteen percent. We're only twelve percent of the 301 00:18:44,960 --> 00:18:50,840 Speaker 2: nation's jobs. There's an according to Bernick, there's an outsized 302 00:18:50,920 --> 00:18:53,840 Speaker 2: number of Californians looking for work compared with the rest 303 00:18:53,840 --> 00:19:01,959 Speaker 2: of the country. So that's that's the conditions that normal 304 00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:07,560 Speaker 2: people have to deal with. People have been steadily losing 305 00:19:07,680 --> 00:19:11,080 Speaker 2: work here and now we have the highest unemployment rate 306 00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:14,439 Speaker 2: in addition to the highest poverty rate, in addition to 307 00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:22,480 Speaker 2: the highest homeless rate. And he's going around inciting violence 308 00:19:22,520 --> 00:19:27,400 Speaker 2: against ice. And he was at the climate that Clinton 309 00:19:27,960 --> 00:19:29,800 Speaker 2: Global Initiative Climate conference. 310 00:19:29,840 --> 00:19:30,359 Speaker 1: Did you see that? 311 00:19:32,080 --> 00:19:35,520 Speaker 2: And he's in New York City preaching at that climate 312 00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:43,640 Speaker 2: conference at the same time that they've closed this gigantic 313 00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:50,040 Speaker 2: solar energy plant in California because it just didn't work 314 00:19:50,160 --> 00:19:55,119 Speaker 2: very well. It didn't provide the energy that it was 315 00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:58,639 Speaker 2: supposed to. I mentioned this earlier, but see, this is 316 00:19:58,680 --> 00:20:01,760 Speaker 2: the real story. Is we have blown enormous amounts of 317 00:20:01,800 --> 00:20:07,920 Speaker 2: money on renewable energy and we just lost the biggest 318 00:20:08,119 --> 00:20:21,119 Speaker 2: solar power facility in the world. And I mean some 319 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:24,320 Speaker 2: of the statistics I read about this plant, and it's 320 00:20:24,359 --> 00:20:30,000 Speaker 2: called the Vampa Evanpah Solar Project or ivan PA. It 321 00:20:30,080 --> 00:20:32,480 Speaker 2: got a billion and a half dollars in federal loan 322 00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:37,160 Speaker 2: guarantees from the Obama administration. This is a bigger failure 323 00:20:37,240 --> 00:20:41,440 Speaker 2: than the Cylinder scandal, which was also in California. This 324 00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:50,360 Speaker 2: was also an Obama green energy solar project and a Vampa. 325 00:20:50,359 --> 00:20:54,240 Speaker 2: Maybe you didn't know this incinerates more than six thousand 326 00:20:54,240 --> 00:21:00,320 Speaker 2: birds a year as the birds fly by, you know, 327 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:05,080 Speaker 2: the solar panels concentrate the sunlight and create intense heat 328 00:21:05,119 --> 00:21:09,160 Speaker 2: like a thousand degrees And if a bird flies into 329 00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:13,600 Speaker 2: a thousand degree heat, it immediately cooks and gets incinerated. 330 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:20,600 Speaker 1: And that's a live feed we have from the solar. 331 00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:27,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, so six thousand of them that's. 332 00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:31,520 Speaker 1: A two billion. 333 00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:34,960 Speaker 2: Dollars It was supposed to provide a significant amount of 334 00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:36,800 Speaker 2: energy to California. 335 00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:38,280 Speaker 1: Total failure at. 336 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:45,960 Speaker 2: Uh there's a online journalist Kevin Dalton says, as Gavin 337 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:49,199 Speaker 2: Newsom takes a taxpayer funded vacation at Climate Week in 338 00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:54,040 Speaker 2: New York City, the environmental catastrophe that the Yvonpas Solar 339 00:21:54,080 --> 00:21:59,960 Speaker 2: power facility is shutting down. The two billion dollar blo 340 00:22:00,359 --> 00:22:04,439 Speaker 2: was built on thirty five hundred pristine acres of Mohave Desert. 341 00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:11,800 Speaker 2: It is incinerated now total sixty thousand birds. It's been 342 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:14,680 Speaker 2: open for ten years, so six thousand birds a year. 343 00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:19,520 Speaker 2: At sixty thousand incinerated birds dropping from the sky, it 344 00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:23,120 Speaker 2: created twice the pollution of a typical power plant. Oh 345 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:26,159 Speaker 2: here's another thing it create. According to Kevin Dalton, it 346 00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:31,480 Speaker 2: created eighty six jobs instead of the promised two thousand, 347 00:22:32,359 --> 00:22:40,640 Speaker 2: and now it's being shut down. And I'm sure there 348 00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:44,760 Speaker 2: was a lot of hooplah when Obama made the good 349 00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:47,840 Speaker 2: loan guarantees and Jerry Brown and Gavin Newsom were all 350 00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:52,639 Speaker 2: so proud. It's a total failure. It didn't work. Just 351 00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:54,320 Speaker 2: killed a lot of bear, a lot of birds, and 352 00:22:54,400 --> 00:22:58,159 Speaker 2: wasted a lot of money and ruined a lot of 353 00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:03,040 Speaker 2: the Mojave desert. There so much, but hey, a lot 354 00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:05,280 Speaker 2: of money was made by the people who built this 355 00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:08,320 Speaker 2: thing and invested in it. They've already run off with 356 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:11,600 Speaker 2: their share. This is a racket. This is a scam. 357 00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:15,160 Speaker 2: It's like the homeless industry, It's like high speed rail. 358 00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:22,199 Speaker 2: These are the three big government sponsored rackets really, theft rings, 359 00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:28,960 Speaker 2: money laundering rings, homelessness, high speed rail, green energy. And 360 00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:29,960 Speaker 2: it'll keep happening. 361 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:34,520 Speaker 1: This is only the beginning, John, We have breaking news. 362 00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:35,480 Speaker 1: What is it. 363 00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:39,359 Speaker 8: Former FBI director James Comy has been indicted on charges 364 00:23:39,359 --> 00:23:42,240 Speaker 8: of making a false statement and obstruction. This is according 365 00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:45,760 Speaker 8: to AP sources. There are multiple sources that are reporting 366 00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:47,560 Speaker 8: this now. This just came down. 367 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:52,240 Speaker 2: You know, Trump's probably applauding, and so is Hillary Clinton. 368 00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:57,879 Speaker 2: They're both probably thrilled to see that guy led to prison. 369 00:23:58,440 --> 00:23:59,840 Speaker 1: All Right, you got more coming up. 370 00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:05,480 Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI AM. 371 00:24:05,119 --> 00:24:08,520 Speaker 2: Six forty Moistline eight seven seven, Moist st eighty six, 372 00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:11,640 Speaker 2: Last Call for Tomorrow eight seven seven Moist Steady six, 373 00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:13,919 Speaker 2: or you use the talk back feature on the iHeartRadio 374 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:21,240 Speaker 2: app one more story, and it's ridiculous. You got cut 375 00:24:21,359 --> 00:24:23,560 Speaker 2: five ready, you're not going to believe this. But a 376 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:27,280 Speaker 2: grown man, thirty two years old, an assistant teacher, And 377 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:29,760 Speaker 2: let me tell you, thirty two year old men who 378 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:33,639 Speaker 2: are assistant teachers at that age, there's something funky going on. 379 00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:35,480 Speaker 1: Thirty two years go ahead. 380 00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:39,040 Speaker 9: Thirty two year old Alexander Lewis is charged with disturbing 381 00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:43,199 Speaker 9: schools and malicious injury to property. Deputy Saint Louis, a 382 00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:46,639 Speaker 9: teaching assistant at West Florence High School, use the spray 383 00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:51,000 Speaker 9: he bought online to mimic the smell of feces. Investigators 384 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:54,480 Speaker 9: believe he sprayed it multiple times between August twenty fifth 385 00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:59,920 Speaker 9: and September nineteenth, disrupting classes, triggering health issues and costing 386 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:04,080 Speaker 9: in the district nearly fifty five thousand dollars and inspections 387 00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:05,840 Speaker 9: and air conditioning damages. 388 00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:09,720 Speaker 10: The charges, Sir, are gonna be returnable to two different courts. 389 00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:16,040 Speaker 10: The malicious injury to personal property charge is gonna be 390 00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:20,640 Speaker 10: a returnable to the General Sessions Court on November nineteenth 391 00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:21,560 Speaker 10: and nine o'clock. 392 00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:25,000 Speaker 11: The bond for that charge is gonna be eight dollars dollars. 393 00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:26,679 Speaker 11: That is a shorty bar. 394 00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:28,040 Speaker 10: Do you understand, yes, sir? 395 00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:28,880 Speaker 7: All right? 396 00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:33,440 Speaker 11: The bond for the interfering with schools is gonna be 397 00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:37,960 Speaker 11: returnable to Florence Faster's Court on October fifteenth at ten 398 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:40,760 Speaker 11: o'clock and the bond for that is one thousand and 399 00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:41,439 Speaker 11: ninety dollars. 400 00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:42,600 Speaker 3: Do you understand, You're said. 401 00:25:43,119 --> 00:25:47,320 Speaker 9: Lewis's total bond was set at just over nine thousand dollars. 402 00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:51,840 Speaker 9: For weeks, students and staff reported headaches, nausea, and daisiness 403 00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:54,720 Speaker 9: from what they described as a strong gas like smell. 404 00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:58,520 Speaker 9: We talked to several parents over the course of several weeks. 405 00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:01,000 Speaker 9: This one's sharing health concerns. 406 00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:05,760 Speaker 8: My son has been his asthma's been triggered multiple times 407 00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:07,359 Speaker 8: because of this, and I've had him take him to 408 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:08,640 Speaker 8: the doctor three times. 409 00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:11,560 Speaker 9: Back in August, the districts sent out and email to 410 00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:15,760 Speaker 9: parents saying West Florence High School's gas lines, pro pane systems, 411 00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:19,840 Speaker 9: and air quality were inspected and nothing dangerous was found. 412 00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:24,360 Speaker 9: Now officials believed the mystery odor was intentional and say 413 00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:26,040 Speaker 9: Lewis was behind it. 414 00:26:26,119 --> 00:26:28,600 Speaker 3: And Lewis is due back in court next month. 415 00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:33,320 Speaker 2: It was part spray. Really, that's the name of the product. 416 00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:36,480 Speaker 2: She spray it around. It smells like poop. This was 417 00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:38,840 Speaker 2: a teacher, I'm looking at him, fat faced, bearded guy, 418 00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:42,560 Speaker 2: thirty two years old, an assistant teacher in Florence, South Carolina. 419 00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:46,720 Speaker 2: And that was from WPDETV. Alexis Cooper was the reporter 420 00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:51,720 Speaker 2: who sounded like she was what wealth, Well, they don't 421 00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:55,200 Speaker 2: pay well. Definitely fresh out of college. 422 00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:57,360 Speaker 1: That's what the guy at the l like times now too, 423 00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:00,000 Speaker 1: you know, so it's all the same. I'm kiddus. 424 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:05,280 Speaker 2: And the thing is he's doing this repeatedly, spraying fart 425 00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:10,439 Speaker 2: spraying the fart spray, or, as it says in the 426 00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:14,040 Speaker 2: news story, designed to imitate fecal odor. 427 00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:20,040 Speaker 1: Hey, some that mother's proud. Huh. 428 00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:22,480 Speaker 2: Now you're just sitting a home and you see your 429 00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:28,160 Speaker 2: son's bugshot pop up on the screen for spreading fart 430 00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:31,920 Speaker 2: spray around the school. When we come back, well that'll 431 00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:36,119 Speaker 2: be tomorrow. Conway is up next. Michael Kurzer has the 432 00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:38,600 Speaker 2: news live in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hey, 433 00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:41,480 Speaker 2: you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. 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