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John Cobelt's got 11 00:00:33,520 --> 00:00:37,120 Speaker 1: a vacation week. I'm here with Debra Mark, the news presenter. Right, 12 00:00:37,680 --> 00:00:40,760 Speaker 1: that's right, of course, the big story this afternoon, and 13 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:44,240 Speaker 1: nol Joe swotted out to the balcony of the Blue 14 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:46,800 Speaker 1: Room to make the announcement to the American people that 15 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:50,880 Speaker 1: we've killed the head of al Qaeda. And no, you're 16 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:53,360 Speaker 1: not in a time warp. There is still al Qaida. 17 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:56,760 Speaker 1: I guess they believe it could be reassembling itself in 18 00:00:56,800 --> 00:01:01,440 Speaker 1: a country like Afghanistan under Taliban rule. Because we left anyway, 19 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:05,039 Speaker 1: his name was our Heary. He's a doctor by Trey. 20 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:08,280 Speaker 1: But of course the terrorist who was long time seen 21 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:10,920 Speaker 1: by the side of Osama bin Laden and took over 22 00:01:10,959 --> 00:01:14,320 Speaker 1: when bin Laden was killed in twenty eleven. So they're 23 00:01:14,360 --> 00:01:18,440 Speaker 1: saying a CIA drone strike has taken him out in Afghanistan. 24 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:21,880 Speaker 1: It happened over the weekend. No military personnel in the 25 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:25,160 Speaker 1: US were involved. It was a remote drone strike that 26 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:29,080 Speaker 1: supposedly hit its target. We'll see. Al Qaida will probably 27 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:31,680 Speaker 1: release another videos our hearing in the next few days, 28 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:35,399 Speaker 1: acting like its current and he's alive and ah fulled 29 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:38,000 Speaker 1: you all right? Right now, we're going to talk once 30 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:41,960 Speaker 1: again to La County Deputy DA John Lewin. The New 31 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:45,840 Speaker 1: York Post ran this story the headline families feel tricked 32 00:01:46,319 --> 00:01:51,440 Speaker 1: by La County DA George Gascone over resentencing of death 33 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:55,000 Speaker 1: row inmates, and it talks to the daughter of a 34 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:58,760 Speaker 1: man who was murdered back in the nineteen eighties, saying 35 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:02,560 Speaker 1: her family was tried by the DA's office pushing to 36 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:06,360 Speaker 1: commute the killer's death sentence to life without the possibility 37 00:02:06,360 --> 00:02:11,400 Speaker 1: of parole despite their opposition. So, John, welcome back to 38 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:15,040 Speaker 1: the show. How are you well, Kenn? I wish I 39 00:02:15,160 --> 00:02:18,280 Speaker 1: wasn't here. It seems like every week with the latest 40 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:23,480 Speaker 1: horrendous situation involving my office. But I guess that's just 41 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 1: where we are today. So that headline is dead on target, 42 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:34,640 Speaker 1: absolutely correct, tricked, misled, lied to. What we basically have 43 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:39,520 Speaker 1: is we have a conspiracy by George Gascone the public 44 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:43,040 Speaker 1: defenders that he's brought over and by the way, they 45 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:49,040 Speaker 1: now occupy the entire chain of command in resentencing. So 46 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:51,080 Speaker 1: what they're able to do and what their plans are 47 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:54,839 Speaker 1: is they are basically going out and they are attempting 48 00:02:54,960 --> 00:03:01,160 Speaker 1: to resentence every death penalty case. Next will be life 49 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:04,440 Speaker 1: without parole cases. And the point of this is is 50 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:08,280 Speaker 1: they want to free as many people as possible. And 51 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:10,160 Speaker 1: all you have to do is go back to George 52 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:14,919 Speaker 1: Gasco's directives. He believes that individuals should not serve more 53 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:17,920 Speaker 1: than fifteen years in state prison, that they should have 54 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:22,520 Speaker 1: a hearing after fifteen years, and you should then let 55 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:25,560 Speaker 1: him out. They've served enough. It doesn't help to have 56 00:03:25,639 --> 00:03:29,359 Speaker 1: them in custody. It doesn't do anything about recipivism. Although 57 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:32,280 Speaker 1: obviously Ken, I don't know about you, but the one 58 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:35,080 Speaker 1: great thing about people being in prison who are violent 59 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:38,840 Speaker 1: criminals is when they're in prison. Prison, they can't hurt anybody, 60 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:42,240 Speaker 1: at least outside of prison. Now some of the individuals 61 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:44,880 Speaker 1: that he seems to want to free are pretty busy 62 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:49,440 Speaker 1: inside the walls doing work there. But any event, this 63 00:03:49,520 --> 00:03:52,720 Speaker 1: is what you have. You have this conspiracy and what 64 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:55,080 Speaker 1: they've done is the legislature is in on this as 65 00:03:55,080 --> 00:03:59,080 Speaker 1: well as his Governor Knews. Remember Governor Knews. Originally when 66 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:04,520 Speaker 1: he campaigns that he would he would enact the death penalty, 67 00:04:04,560 --> 00:04:07,560 Speaker 1: he would support the death penalty cases that were out there, 68 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:09,720 Speaker 1: he would do his job even if he disagreed with it. 69 00:04:09,880 --> 00:04:12,160 Speaker 1: And then as soon as he was elected, he completely 70 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:16,479 Speaker 1: backed away from that. He put a moratorium after saying 71 00:04:17,080 --> 00:04:19,320 Speaker 1: the exact opposite that he wouldn't. Of course, the media 72 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:21,600 Speaker 1: didn't really cover it. They worshiped him even though it 73 00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:23,720 Speaker 1: was a lie. They built a whole new death row 74 00:04:23,839 --> 00:04:25,719 Speaker 1: for this, and then he just said, nope, we're not 75 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:28,599 Speaker 1: going that way. He did after having said that he 76 00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:31,200 Speaker 1: was going to follow the law because that's his role. 77 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:35,040 Speaker 1: So now you have the legislature doing the real hard 78 00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:38,920 Speaker 1: work with Mike Romano from Stanford, and they are basically 79 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:42,800 Speaker 1: as much as they can redoing the penal Code so 80 00:04:42,839 --> 00:04:45,080 Speaker 1: that they can get rid of a lot of the 81 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:47,799 Speaker 1: special circumstances. They want to get rid of the death penalty, 82 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:50,120 Speaker 1: they want to get rid of life without the possibility 83 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:53,360 Speaker 1: of parole. And why is that because once they do that, 84 00:04:53,880 --> 00:04:56,120 Speaker 1: then they can go into court and they can start 85 00:04:56,200 --> 00:05:00,839 Speaker 1: changing sentences. They can reduce murder cases to manslaw. They 86 00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:04,360 Speaker 1: can end up getting people out. These individuals will now 87 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:07,960 Speaker 1: qualify for things like elder parole, where if they've served 88 00:05:07,960 --> 00:05:11,000 Speaker 1: twenty years and are overage fifty, they can be parole. 89 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:14,640 Speaker 1: They'll qualify for the I was under twenty six when 90 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:17,640 Speaker 1: I committed the crime and my brain wasn't developed, so 91 00:05:18,520 --> 00:05:21,800 Speaker 1: I need to be freed. And they're doing it even worse. 92 00:05:21,960 --> 00:05:26,240 Speaker 1: It's in the dark because what these public defenders who 93 00:05:26,279 --> 00:05:28,600 Speaker 1: by the way, they were public defenders until they came 94 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:31,400 Speaker 1: to DA's office. Now they are individuals like Diana Turan 95 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:35,000 Speaker 1: who apparently was being paid by the Public Defender's office 96 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:39,280 Speaker 1: while she was handling cases as a prosecutor in our office. 97 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:42,719 Speaker 1: Now how that can be possible with mind boggling. But 98 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:45,479 Speaker 1: here's where we sit right now. So what they're doing 99 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:48,719 Speaker 1: is they are trying to bring these cases into court 100 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:51,800 Speaker 1: and they don't want anybody to know, which is why 101 00:05:51,839 --> 00:05:56,360 Speaker 1: the legislature passed the law that allows if both sides stipulate, 102 00:05:56,720 --> 00:05:58,800 Speaker 1: they can do it without a hearing. Now that was 103 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:01,720 Speaker 1: originally designed where you have she had two sides. It's right. 104 00:06:01,760 --> 00:06:04,920 Speaker 1: Now we have public defenders on both sides, right, pelvic 105 00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:07,640 Speaker 1: defenders on both sides. So now they can do it 106 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:10,520 Speaker 1: in the dark. No one knows what's going on. They 107 00:06:10,520 --> 00:06:13,600 Speaker 1: don't have to tell the victims, families or anybody. Well, 108 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:16,839 Speaker 1: Marcy's Law would suggest that they do. As you're aware 109 00:06:16,920 --> 00:06:19,360 Speaker 1: when George Gascon got rid of our life or Unit 110 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:23,400 Speaker 1: and then actually said we were not allowed to contact 111 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:27,080 Speaker 1: victims to even tell them about hearings. So they want 112 00:06:27,120 --> 00:06:29,960 Speaker 1: to do it in as darker room as possible, and 113 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:34,200 Speaker 1: apparently it just wasn't dark enough. So that's what they're doing. Now. 114 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:36,479 Speaker 1: That's a situation that we're in. And if you look 115 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:41,320 Speaker 1: at this current situation where she's basically arguing that this 116 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:46,240 Speaker 1: individual just an awful case involving this forty two year 117 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:51,800 Speaker 1: old man kidnapped when he was at work, leaves work 118 00:06:51,839 --> 00:06:55,360 Speaker 1: to go get lunch, and he is executed by this 119 00:06:55,839 --> 00:07:04,560 Speaker 1: violent individual. This guy is absolutely horrendous, unanimously upheld his 120 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:08,039 Speaker 1: case by the cal Supreme Court, unanimously sends to death. 121 00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:12,800 Speaker 1: And now we've got Shalen Joseph coming into court. Now, 122 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:17,320 Speaker 1: remember she was a public defender until quite recently. Yeah, 123 00:07:17,320 --> 00:07:19,920 Speaker 1: and her job was literally she was doing everything she 124 00:07:19,960 --> 00:07:22,440 Speaker 1: could to get rid of death penalty cases. Now she's 125 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:24,360 Speaker 1: discovered she can do a lot more as a DA 126 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:27,080 Speaker 1: than she could as a public defender. So he's a 127 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:29,400 Speaker 1: model prisoner. He was only twenty one at the time 128 00:07:29,440 --> 00:07:32,880 Speaker 1: of this offense. And get this, Ken, he experienced hardship 129 00:07:32,960 --> 00:07:38,160 Speaker 1: as a child and multiple learning disabilities that were never 130 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:42,000 Speaker 1: adequately treated. I want to see the study that demonstrates 131 00:07:42,040 --> 00:07:46,200 Speaker 1: that multiple learning disabilities that are not actually treated turns 132 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:51,360 Speaker 1: individuals into homicidal maniacs who kidnap law abiding citizens and 133 00:07:51,440 --> 00:07:55,200 Speaker 1: execute them. Now, this poor man had three children. He 134 00:07:55,320 --> 00:07:58,720 Speaker 1: was left on a railroad track and when he was 135 00:07:58,760 --> 00:08:02,240 Speaker 1: found hours later, he was still gurgling. He was still alive, 136 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:06,080 Speaker 1: apparently unable to communicate. That's how he died. And this 137 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:09,440 Speaker 1: is somebody that we're going to end up letting out 138 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:12,200 Speaker 1: of prison eventually, because, let's face it, that's what's going 139 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:14,600 Speaker 1: on here. They want to change it. There's no one's 140 00:08:14,640 --> 00:08:19,240 Speaker 1: getting executed in this state. That's their cover. They're saying, well, 141 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:21,920 Speaker 1: you know what, there's a moratorium on executions, so what 142 00:08:21,960 --> 00:08:24,080 Speaker 1: does it matter. Let's just move them over to life 143 00:08:24,080 --> 00:08:26,320 Speaker 1: without the possibility of parole. But if you point it out, John, 144 00:08:26,520 --> 00:08:29,520 Speaker 1: there is the possibility of parole. Well, well, Ken, But 145 00:08:29,560 --> 00:08:33,600 Speaker 1: here's what's interesting. If there's no death penalty case, if 146 00:08:33,640 --> 00:08:35,920 Speaker 1: we're not actually doing death penalty in this state, we 147 00:08:35,920 --> 00:08:39,040 Speaker 1: haven't had an execution's two thousand and six, what would 148 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:41,760 Speaker 1: possibly be the reason that you would need to have 149 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:43,880 Speaker 1: these people resents. It's not as if they're about to 150 00:08:43,920 --> 00:08:46,800 Speaker 1: get executed. And the answer is very simple. It's step 151 00:08:46,880 --> 00:08:50,840 Speaker 1: one in their plan. And it's very clear. George Gascone 152 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:55,120 Speaker 1: talked about it in his original directives, etc. They want 153 00:08:55,160 --> 00:08:59,360 Speaker 1: to free these individuals. They want them out, And I 154 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:03,960 Speaker 1: will tell you it is a dereliction of duty by 155 00:09:04,040 --> 00:09:07,640 Speaker 1: the District Attorney's office to be doing this to these victims. 156 00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:13,840 Speaker 1: It is beyond offensive. We end up having again, if 157 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:17,760 Speaker 1: you look at you know what was stated in these motions. 158 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:22,240 Speaker 1: They're doing another one with this Zamudio case. Another horrific 159 00:09:22,280 --> 00:09:26,839 Speaker 1: individual who apparently they're saying he has intellectual disabilities. When 160 00:09:26,880 --> 00:09:29,280 Speaker 1: you read the cases and you look at the conduct 161 00:09:29,320 --> 00:09:32,559 Speaker 1: that occurred, they don't seem very stupid. They seem very 162 00:09:32,559 --> 00:09:36,240 Speaker 1: criminally sophisticated. These are not people who don't know what 163 00:09:36,280 --> 00:09:39,880 Speaker 1: they're doing. These are hardcore violent offenders who lie when 164 00:09:39,880 --> 00:09:43,720 Speaker 1: they're caught, who come up with extravagant defenses, and who 165 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:46,360 Speaker 1: in essence don't want to be held accountable for their 166 00:09:46,440 --> 00:09:51,200 Speaker 1: homicidal behavior. So George Gascon has been very clear in 167 00:09:51,320 --> 00:09:54,800 Speaker 1: what he has said. In essence, he doesn't like the 168 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:58,280 Speaker 1: death penalty, he doesn't like life without the possibility of parole, 169 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:03,680 Speaker 1: and his direct are basically instructing prosecutors that we need 170 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:08,760 Speaker 1: to redo sentences in a manner that he himself within 171 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:12,600 Speaker 1: the current opinions of the District Attorney's office, Meaning King George, 172 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:16,319 Speaker 1: in fifteen years, fifteen years for the worst of crimes, 173 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:19,240 Speaker 1: you're only going to get fifteen years in Georgia Gascon's world. 174 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:23,400 Speaker 1: And you know what else can When we had you know, 175 00:10:24,280 --> 00:10:27,560 Speaker 1: Steve Cooley when he was DA. Steve went out and 176 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:30,560 Speaker 1: he was the first guy in the state to have 177 00:10:30,640 --> 00:10:33,439 Speaker 1: a very progressive you on three strikes He's the guy 178 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:35,839 Speaker 1: that said, you know what, no, we're not going to 179 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:40,959 Speaker 1: have three strikes for individuals who have not had whose 180 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:43,800 Speaker 1: current offense is not a serious or violent felony, unless 181 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:47,760 Speaker 1: there are extreme exceptions. He was the one who implemented 182 00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:51,880 Speaker 1: that program, and that was very successful. And now we've 183 00:10:51,920 --> 00:10:56,280 Speaker 1: got a prosecutor who doesn't seem to care about victims 184 00:10:56,280 --> 00:10:57,920 Speaker 1: at all. And I want to address one other thing 185 00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:01,079 Speaker 1: that doesn't get talked about, and it is deeply offensive. 186 00:11:02,080 --> 00:11:05,920 Speaker 1: Between George Gascone and George Soros and all these other individuals. 187 00:11:05,920 --> 00:11:10,600 Speaker 1: They're constantly talking about the institutional racism that's involved in this, 188 00:11:10,920 --> 00:11:13,880 Speaker 1: and they're talking about how unfair it is. And what 189 00:11:13,920 --> 00:11:16,280 Speaker 1: they don't point out is who do you think nine 190 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:18,920 Speaker 1: percent of the victims are in these cases? Who are 191 00:11:18,920 --> 00:11:22,640 Speaker 1: these families? They're law abiding people of color who are 192 00:11:22,679 --> 00:11:26,760 Speaker 1: just trying to exist in these high crime areas which 193 00:11:26,760 --> 00:11:30,120 Speaker 1: are getting worse and worse and worse every day. I 194 00:11:30,120 --> 00:11:32,200 Speaker 1: don't know if you saw George Soros put out an 195 00:11:32,280 --> 00:11:34,400 Speaker 1: editorial that was in the I did just read it 196 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:37,480 Speaker 1: the Wall Street Journal. Yeah, yeah, why I support the 197 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:41,720 Speaker 1: foreign prosecutors. It's called yeah, it's our imagination. Ken apparently 198 00:11:42,040 --> 00:11:45,960 Speaker 1: crime is not up at all, it's worse in the 199 00:11:46,040 --> 00:11:51,240 Speaker 1: Republican stronghold. Supposedly he's got studies, he says, which demonstrate 200 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:54,800 Speaker 1: how successful this is. Why don't you ask everybody out 201 00:11:54,840 --> 00:11:57,840 Speaker 1: there who's seeing this increase in crime? And by the way, 202 00:11:57,960 --> 00:12:01,680 Speaker 1: if there's anybody who thinks that cod or bad schools 203 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:06,640 Speaker 1: or institutional racism is responsible for smashing grabs, yeah, saying 204 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:11,760 Speaker 1: members robbing people of jewelry and watches, its opportunism. And 205 00:12:13,040 --> 00:12:15,559 Speaker 1: basically we got a DA who bring a guy in 206 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:18,560 Speaker 1: to a crime, no additional penalty. All right, John, I 207 00:12:18,559 --> 00:12:21,240 Speaker 1: gotta go, I gotta go. I appreciate your coming on 208 00:12:21,240 --> 00:12:23,680 Speaker 1: once again, love your passion. Thank you so much for 209 00:12:23,760 --> 00:12:26,880 Speaker 1: updating us on this story. No problem, thanks for having me. 210 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:30,240 Speaker 1: All right, Deputy DA John Lewin at George Gascone's office. 211 00:12:30,640 --> 00:12:34,000 Speaker 1: And this is about his attempt and he's working his 212 00:12:34,040 --> 00:12:38,360 Speaker 1: way through to resentence people on death row to life 213 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:42,160 Speaker 1: without the possibility of parole, which is we just talked about. 214 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:45,079 Speaker 1: Who's going to lead to the next step, certainly getting 215 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:47,640 Speaker 1: everybody out of prison that he can. George Gascone believes 216 00:12:47,640 --> 00:12:50,120 Speaker 1: in fifteen years is enough time to serve even for 217 00:12:50,160 --> 00:12:52,719 Speaker 1: the worst of crimes, including a murder. So he's got 218 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:55,000 Speaker 1: these public defenders work on the case for him. More 219 00:12:55,080 --> 00:12:56,920 Speaker 1: coming up with the John and Ken Show on KFI 220 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:00,280 Speaker 1: and Feedie cleanups and all these closures by la PD. 221 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:02,400 Speaker 1: It's coming up next on the John and Ken Show 222 00:13:02,440 --> 00:13:06,160 Speaker 1: on KFI. Here's a quote for you. It's from Kevin Dillone, 223 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:09,319 Speaker 1: the Los Angeles City councilman who ran from mayor and failed, 224 00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:12,360 Speaker 1: who tried to recite the pledge of allegiance and failed. 225 00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:20,360 Speaker 1: He's bemoaning the rude, inexcusable, immature, self absorbed behavior that 226 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:24,920 Speaker 1: has forced multiple closures of the downtown Los Angeles sixth 227 00:13:24,920 --> 00:13:30,079 Speaker 1: Street Bridge. He says people need to act more mature. 228 00:13:30,880 --> 00:13:34,320 Speaker 1: Apparently Friday afternoon he spoke to reporters, We're not going 229 00:13:34,320 --> 00:13:37,559 Speaker 1: to allow a small group of individuals to taint the 230 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:41,400 Speaker 1: image of the city or the bridge itself, saying that 231 00:13:41,679 --> 00:13:45,640 Speaker 1: nine of the folks who've experienced that bridge loved that bridge. 232 00:13:46,040 --> 00:13:48,480 Speaker 1: It fills them with a sense of pride. They're over 233 00:13:48,480 --> 00:13:51,800 Speaker 1: the moon on that bridge right there. Let's bring on 234 00:13:51,880 --> 00:13:55,280 Speaker 1: Steve Gregory to talk about what LAPD has discovered and 235 00:13:55,280 --> 00:13:58,720 Speaker 1: what they might be doing to try to clamp down 236 00:13:58,840 --> 00:14:01,959 Speaker 1: on this behavior. Steve. Yeah, hey, Ken, you know, it's 237 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:06,920 Speaker 1: funny listening to talk about Dailyon's comments from last week. 238 00:14:07,360 --> 00:14:10,360 Speaker 1: It's not a single group of people, this is multiple 239 00:14:10,440 --> 00:14:14,400 Speaker 1: groups of people. And he was trying to make a 240 00:14:14,520 --> 00:14:17,240 Speaker 1: point of saying that these are outsiders coming in causing 241 00:14:17,240 --> 00:14:19,720 Speaker 1: this run. Yeah. I keep hearing that one outsiders. Yeah, 242 00:14:19,720 --> 00:14:21,560 Speaker 1: and it doesn't I mean, it doesn't really matter at 243 00:14:21,560 --> 00:14:25,120 Speaker 1: this point. I mean, their driver licenses say California and 244 00:14:25,160 --> 00:14:27,880 Speaker 1: they say Los Angeles. It doesn't really matter if they're 245 00:14:27,920 --> 00:14:29,240 Speaker 1: from one side of the bridge or the other side 246 00:14:29,280 --> 00:14:32,080 Speaker 1: of the bridge. The issue is people are causing problems 247 00:14:32,480 --> 00:14:35,920 Speaker 1: on this Sixth Street bridge, which connects Boiled Heights to 248 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:39,880 Speaker 1: downtown Los Angeles. And it opened, it reopened, as everyone 249 00:14:39,960 --> 00:14:43,080 Speaker 1: might know, in the beginning of July after a five 250 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:47,560 Speaker 1: hundred eighty eight million dollar retro fit and remodel. Now 251 00:14:47,560 --> 00:14:50,040 Speaker 1: the problem has been and it was something that completely 252 00:14:50,080 --> 00:14:53,200 Speaker 1: caught LAPD off guard, and that was these people, these 253 00:14:53,280 --> 00:14:58,960 Speaker 1: vehicle takeovers and then these bizarre acts of like cutting 254 00:14:59,360 --> 00:15:01,520 Speaker 1: someone's hair or in the middle of the where the 255 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:04,800 Speaker 1: median would be, people standing up on the very top 256 00:15:04,840 --> 00:15:08,400 Speaker 1: of the arches just all kinds of odd behavior and 257 00:15:08,480 --> 00:15:10,200 Speaker 1: it was a lot of it precipitated by and as 258 00:15:10,240 --> 00:15:13,560 Speaker 1: Daily and also mentioned that this is the first time 259 00:15:13,560 --> 00:15:17,920 Speaker 1: a bridge is opened in the social media era as 260 00:15:17,960 --> 00:15:21,360 Speaker 1: of somehow that you know, we have to blame social media, 261 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:24,320 Speaker 1: but you know how people are, and they see somebody 262 00:15:24,360 --> 00:15:26,520 Speaker 1: posting pictures of themselves up there, and someone's got to 263 00:15:26,520 --> 00:15:28,520 Speaker 1: top that one or do that, you know, do something 264 00:15:28,600 --> 00:15:31,680 Speaker 1: one better. But a lot of people are going out 265 00:15:31,680 --> 00:15:34,880 Speaker 1: there imposing for pictures. It's now become this and it 266 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:37,520 Speaker 1: used to be an iconic landmark for people to make 267 00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:40,080 Speaker 1: movies and TV shows and you know, it was an actual, 268 00:15:40,520 --> 00:15:42,640 Speaker 1: you know, an artery into downtown LA. Now it's just 269 00:15:42,680 --> 00:15:45,840 Speaker 1: turned into this sort of I don't know, this sort 270 00:15:45,840 --> 00:15:49,000 Speaker 1: of iconic place to go wreak havoc. Going all the 271 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:51,400 Speaker 1: way back to July twenty second, when the bridge was 272 00:15:51,440 --> 00:15:54,560 Speaker 1: first closed after it had opened, and it had to 273 00:15:54,600 --> 00:15:57,880 Speaker 1: literally close it down because there were too many takeovers, 274 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:04,080 Speaker 1: too much criminal behavior protests on the bridge. They they 275 00:16:04,080 --> 00:16:06,960 Speaker 1: had issues with people climbing up the sides of the bridge. 276 00:16:07,360 --> 00:16:08,760 Speaker 1: They had all kinds of stuff. The would have to 277 00:16:08,760 --> 00:16:12,560 Speaker 1: close it down, which was completely unexpected. The LAPD now 278 00:16:12,640 --> 00:16:15,920 Speaker 1: is having to put together of these task forces. Operations 279 00:16:15,920 --> 00:16:19,240 Speaker 1: Central Bureau along with HOLEMBIC Division are having to put 280 00:16:19,240 --> 00:16:23,240 Speaker 1: these traffic enforcement programs together. One of the first big 281 00:16:23,240 --> 00:16:26,160 Speaker 1: ones happened yesterday from two pm to ten pm, and 282 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:30,320 Speaker 1: in just that eight hour period, Just in an eight 283 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:34,720 Speaker 1: hour period, fifty six traffic stops on the bridge, forty 284 00:16:34,760 --> 00:16:40,520 Speaker 1: four citations issued, eleven warnings issued, four vehicles impounded, one 285 00:16:40,640 --> 00:16:43,600 Speaker 1: arrested for having an ATV on the bridge, and one 286 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:47,720 Speaker 1: arrested for another vehicle violation. Then they had to shut 287 00:16:47,760 --> 00:16:49,400 Speaker 1: down the bridge for at least twenty minutes because a 288 00:16:49,400 --> 00:16:54,600 Speaker 1: group of bicyclists and skateboarders overran the bridge and it 289 00:16:54,680 --> 00:16:56,760 Speaker 1: got out of control and the cops had to close 290 00:16:56,800 --> 00:16:58,680 Speaker 1: the bridge on both sides until those groups got over 291 00:16:58,760 --> 00:17:01,600 Speaker 1: to the other side. So that's what's going on. Well, 292 00:17:02,640 --> 00:17:05,199 Speaker 1: two to ten pm. They did this yesterday. Now, they 293 00:17:05,240 --> 00:17:07,439 Speaker 1: were clearly a presence there, they could they could be 294 00:17:07,520 --> 00:17:10,000 Speaker 1: seen the police on the bridge. But these people came 295 00:17:10,040 --> 00:17:13,040 Speaker 1: anywhere to do their stunts, to have their stupid fun 296 00:17:13,119 --> 00:17:15,560 Speaker 1: and to make their videos. They came anyway to do 297 00:17:15,600 --> 00:17:20,479 Speaker 1: this stuff too. I'm looking at a report here that 298 00:17:20,600 --> 00:17:23,920 Speaker 1: removal crews have cleaned up an average of one thousand, 299 00:17:24,200 --> 00:17:27,000 Speaker 1: two hundred and forty four square feet of graffiti. Yeah, 300 00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:29,800 Speaker 1: each day since the bridge opened. They're spending an hour, 301 00:17:30,119 --> 00:17:31,720 Speaker 1: an average of twenty one and a half hours a 302 00:17:31,840 --> 00:17:34,760 Speaker 1: day at the bridge. That's almost a complete day, to 303 00:17:34,840 --> 00:17:37,440 Speaker 1: the tune of a little over seven hundred thousand dollars 304 00:17:37,480 --> 00:17:40,840 Speaker 1: in costs to remove that graffiti. And this is money 305 00:17:40,880 --> 00:17:43,439 Speaker 1: that was not budgeted for that, And this is something 306 00:17:43,960 --> 00:17:46,119 Speaker 1: it wasn't even open a month and they're having to 307 00:17:46,119 --> 00:17:48,800 Speaker 1: deal with this. I heard talk the other day. I 308 00:17:48,880 --> 00:17:51,040 Speaker 1: heard some of the cops saying that there had been 309 00:17:51,119 --> 00:17:55,760 Speaker 1: the term toll bridge being bandied about. I'm not sure 310 00:17:55,760 --> 00:17:58,720 Speaker 1: if that's oh yeah, fruition or not, but that was 311 00:17:58,760 --> 00:18:01,439 Speaker 1: something that was being discussed. Perhaps they might be shutting 312 00:18:01,440 --> 00:18:03,800 Speaker 1: it down at certain times of the night, certain times 313 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:06,280 Speaker 1: of the day, whatever the case is. But they're reaching 314 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:08,639 Speaker 1: a point now where and here's the big problem, Ken, 315 00:18:08,840 --> 00:18:12,480 Speaker 1: is that the LAPD does not have the resources to 316 00:18:12,560 --> 00:18:15,600 Speaker 1: be assigning a bridge task force. Yeah, not at all. 317 00:18:15,640 --> 00:18:17,520 Speaker 1: There's enough crime in this Yeah, they they can't have 318 00:18:17,560 --> 00:18:20,560 Speaker 1: somebody just standing around a bridge all day. That's ridiculous 319 00:18:20,560 --> 00:18:22,920 Speaker 1: in in in shifts, you know, in revolving shifts. They 320 00:18:22,920 --> 00:18:25,640 Speaker 1: can't afford the manpower to be standing over there watching 321 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:29,080 Speaker 1: to make sure people aren't you know, doing Can't they 322 00:18:29,119 --> 00:18:33,560 Speaker 1: get some ambassadors, some bridge ambassadors. Maybe Metro can lend 323 00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:36,800 Speaker 1: them some of theirs. Yes, that's exactly right, you know, 324 00:18:36,840 --> 00:18:38,720 Speaker 1: that's a good idea. I'm not really sure. The problem 325 00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:40,840 Speaker 1: is is that some of these things have turned violent, 326 00:18:41,359 --> 00:18:44,640 Speaker 1: like these protests and unruly crowds. So when LAPD tried 327 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:46,080 Speaker 1: to shut it down at one time, or they did 328 00:18:46,080 --> 00:18:50,760 Speaker 1: successfully shut it down, they received so much pushback from 329 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:53,960 Speaker 1: people saying that this was racist and that you know, 330 00:18:54,160 --> 00:18:56,920 Speaker 1: the LAPD shutting it down was stopping you know a 331 00:18:57,400 --> 00:19:00,280 Speaker 1: certain class of people from being able to access downtown 332 00:19:00,359 --> 00:19:04,280 Speaker 1: Los Angeles. And LAPD's like, this is a safety issue, 333 00:19:04,320 --> 00:19:07,159 Speaker 1: This is not a racist issue. Plus, we want to 334 00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:09,359 Speaker 1: make sure the bridge stays where it is. It's if 335 00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:11,440 Speaker 1: it's full of graffiti and people doing all sorts of 336 00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:15,040 Speaker 1: stunts on it, something terrible is about to happen. People 337 00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:17,280 Speaker 1: climbing up those arts ways, somebody's going to fall off. 338 00:19:17,960 --> 00:19:20,320 Speaker 1: The two largest groups right now, they're most concerned with 339 00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:23,639 Speaker 1: other these vehicle takeovers, which you know, obviously full sized 340 00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:26,199 Speaker 1: vehicles going up, there's doing wheels and driving on the 341 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:29,479 Speaker 1: opposite side of the lanes. That's the number one concern 342 00:19:29,600 --> 00:19:33,359 Speaker 1: right now. Safety concern, followed by groups of bicyclists and 343 00:19:33,680 --> 00:19:37,040 Speaker 1: one of them, you know, on July twenty sixth, one 344 00:19:37,080 --> 00:19:39,640 Speaker 1: of the bicyclists had shined a laser pointer into an 345 00:19:39,640 --> 00:19:43,480 Speaker 1: officer's eye, causing some damage officer anything to a hospital. 346 00:19:44,440 --> 00:19:46,160 Speaker 1: And then they've got, you know, they're trying to put 347 00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:50,320 Speaker 1: these ballards up, these speed bumps and all this stuff 348 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:53,679 Speaker 1: is not going to stop criminal behavior. It's just a 349 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:57,040 Speaker 1: matter of what level and what severity of criminal behavior 350 00:19:57,080 --> 00:19:59,439 Speaker 1: will be allowed. Some of the things I'm hearing is 351 00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:02,240 Speaker 1: and he probably so the La Times editorial. They want 352 00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:03,920 Speaker 1: to shut it down to cars. They think it should 353 00:20:03,920 --> 00:20:08,400 Speaker 1: be a pedestrian only bridge. Anybody throwing that idea around, well, 354 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:10,320 Speaker 1: and they've talked about that as well. I mean, but 355 00:20:10,359 --> 00:20:14,520 Speaker 1: then that completely defeats the purpose of the five million 356 00:20:14,520 --> 00:20:17,439 Speaker 1: dollar investment in that bridge, and it's for people to 357 00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:20,040 Speaker 1: walk over, right. It was funny exactly if it was 358 00:20:20,080 --> 00:20:22,560 Speaker 1: just going to be a pedestrian bridge, they probably could 359 00:20:22,560 --> 00:20:24,280 Speaker 1: have saved a lot of money. But I don't think 360 00:20:24,280 --> 00:20:26,400 Speaker 1: people realize this was going to happen. I don't think 361 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:29,640 Speaker 1: anyone expected this behavior on a bridge, no less so 362 00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:32,040 Speaker 1: now it's been about three weeks since it opened, it 363 00:20:32,119 --> 00:20:34,080 Speaker 1: they think this is gonna peter out, that people are 364 00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:36,040 Speaker 1: gonna get tired of doing this, and I know it's 365 00:20:36,040 --> 00:20:39,000 Speaker 1: not the same people, but eventually will exhaust the supply 366 00:20:39,160 --> 00:20:41,920 Speaker 1: of the idiots that wants to come and do something 367 00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:43,800 Speaker 1: on the bridge that could have happened in a month 368 00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:46,159 Speaker 1: or two until the next big shiny thing comes along, 369 00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:48,760 Speaker 1: you know, and LAPD is they're going to have to 370 00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:51,000 Speaker 1: put a full court press on this, and they will. 371 00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:54,240 Speaker 1: They'll eventually crack down hard enough to where it will 372 00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:56,560 Speaker 1: be the deterrent and then what will happen, most likely 373 00:20:56,640 --> 00:20:58,800 Speaker 1: is it does in other cases. It's the same thing 374 00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:02,199 Speaker 1: with these takeovers happened in the San Fernando Valley. You know, 375 00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:04,600 Speaker 1: they'll they'll be they'll be quiet for a couple of weeks, 376 00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:06,440 Speaker 1: you won't hear anything about it, and then things will 377 00:21:06,440 --> 00:21:09,800 Speaker 1: die down. Officers will be redeployed in other areas. Then boom, 378 00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:12,600 Speaker 1: out of nowhere, they'll resurface. And that's the thing they're 379 00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:14,360 Speaker 1: going to have to contend with unless there's a way 380 00:21:14,359 --> 00:21:16,199 Speaker 1: to put some sort of deterrent or some sort of 381 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:21,920 Speaker 1: mechanical uh, something more permanent or semi permanent on the bridge. Yeah, 382 00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:23,520 Speaker 1: that's they say when they were laughing about it, saying 383 00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:25,160 Speaker 1: get told, but that you know, that would never fly 384 00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:27,320 Speaker 1: because if if they had to pay the people had 385 00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:29,160 Speaker 1: to pay form boil hights to come over to La 386 00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:31,560 Speaker 1: downtown LA and pay a toll, that would not fly. 387 00:21:32,119 --> 00:21:34,800 Speaker 1: I know it reminds me of remember sometimes when clubs 388 00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:36,760 Speaker 1: get the wrong riff raff coming in, so they start 389 00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:39,600 Speaker 1: to charge yeah, fee to come into the club. Yeah, 390 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:41,440 Speaker 1: it's the same thing the riff raff off the bridge. 391 00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:43,240 Speaker 1: We charge a toll. Maybe they will try to get 392 00:21:43,280 --> 00:21:44,879 Speaker 1: on the bridge. Well, or if you're gonna do it 393 00:21:44,920 --> 00:21:46,920 Speaker 1: like the club, then you say ladies are free till ten. 394 00:21:48,400 --> 00:21:51,439 Speaker 1: Where you come up with some other crazy guys are 395 00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:53,080 Speaker 1: free till ten. I don't remember how it is, you know, 396 00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:54,959 Speaker 1: guys get in free till ten. I don't remember how 397 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:57,280 Speaker 1: co Did anybody say that this weekend was better or 398 00:21:57,280 --> 00:21:59,520 Speaker 1: worse than the previous couple of weekends? Is it starting 399 00:21:59,520 --> 00:22:01,040 Speaker 1: to slow down? Own? I know they did that big 400 00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:03,919 Speaker 1: enforcement operation yesterday and they still ended a lot of tickets. Yeah, 401 00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:05,520 Speaker 1: I mean you kind of think if you look back 402 00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:08,119 Speaker 1: here and looking at the timeline of all the different 403 00:22:08,119 --> 00:22:11,639 Speaker 1: things that happened, Yeah, there you've had issues worth people. 404 00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:16,240 Speaker 1: Ambulance had to be called in two instances, the vehicle takeovers. 405 00:22:16,280 --> 00:22:20,439 Speaker 1: Two handguns that were recovered as a part of one 406 00:22:20,480 --> 00:22:22,600 Speaker 1: of these takeovers. That was on July twenty third, eleven 407 00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:26,119 Speaker 1: o'clock at night. Let's see group of trucks. This one 408 00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:29,040 Speaker 1: caught me off guard. On the twenty fourth, at six pm, 409 00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:32,399 Speaker 1: a large group of trucks showed up on the bridge, 410 00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:35,560 Speaker 1: impeding traffic, and they were setting up for a street takeover, 411 00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:37,359 Speaker 1: and then the cops had to end up shutting down 412 00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:40,960 Speaker 1: the bridge. Another vaccine protesting. What was that about. The 413 00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:44,120 Speaker 1: trucks are back the trucks, Yeah, the Semis eighteen wheelers. 414 00:22:44,119 --> 00:22:46,719 Speaker 1: And then now the other thing too that they were 415 00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:48,840 Speaker 1: worried about is that the bridge was becoming sort of 416 00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:51,800 Speaker 1: a focal point of people protesting other things like the 417 00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:54,640 Speaker 1: abortion rights issue and those kinds of things. So, yeah, 418 00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:56,080 Speaker 1: you wonder when that's going to happen. I mean, they 419 00:22:56,080 --> 00:22:57,960 Speaker 1: showed up at the Museum of the LA Museum of 420 00:22:58,040 --> 00:23:00,280 Speaker 1: Art the other day they're stupid anti abortion and by 421 00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:03,239 Speaker 1: pro abortion protesting, it's not right. Won't be very long 422 00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:04,840 Speaker 1: before they show up on the bridge to do these 423 00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:06,959 Speaker 1: kind of things, all right, Steve, Thank you very much. 424 00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:11,199 Speaker 1: Steve Gregory, with a full report about what LAPD is 425 00:23:11,359 --> 00:23:15,000 Speaker 1: trying to do about the downtown Los Angeles six Street bridge, 426 00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:17,800 Speaker 1: which opened up just a few weeks ago and continues 427 00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:22,120 Speaker 1: to be a place full of questionable behavior. More coming 428 00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:24,200 Speaker 1: up here on the John and Ken Show on KFI. 429 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:26,760 Speaker 1: The big story, of course, the saft An Inn, which 430 00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:30,879 Speaker 1: was a press conference by Joe Biden, or actually just 431 00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:34,399 Speaker 1: a statement to the American people that a CIA drone 432 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:37,359 Speaker 1: strike has taken out the leader of al Qaeda. His 433 00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:41,440 Speaker 1: name is Allahiri. He had been the top lieutenant to 434 00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:45,640 Speaker 1: Ben Lauden, helped mastermind the nine to eleven attack, including 435 00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:48,960 Speaker 1: other attacks before that. They had been looking for him 436 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:51,040 Speaker 1: for some time, and actually he was reported he died 437 00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:53,640 Speaker 1: of an illness a couple of years ago. That turned 438 00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:55,159 Speaker 1: out not to be choose. He showed up in what 439 00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:59,080 Speaker 1: appeared to be new videos in a statement today. The 440 00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:04,080 Speaker 1: Taliban has confirmed that a strike did take place and 441 00:24:04,119 --> 00:24:08,480 Speaker 1: they strongly condemned it. We now have more details on 442 00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:13,679 Speaker 1: the strike. It was conducted on a residential house in 443 00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:19,840 Speaker 1: Kabul's Chipur area. That's a wealthy downtown neighborhood where several 444 00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:23,320 Speaker 1: Taliban government officials live. Of course, they're living the wealthy life. 445 00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:26,320 Speaker 1: That's what happens. These people take over and actually where 446 00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:29,200 Speaker 1: for the people were got to overthrow the oppressive rich 447 00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:32,919 Speaker 1: government and they just lived their own high life. The 448 00:24:33,119 --> 00:24:36,639 Speaker 1: house that was struck was owned by a top aid 449 00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:40,920 Speaker 1: to somebody by the name of Siris Juddin Hakani, the 450 00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:45,080 Speaker 1: interior minister for the Taliban. He is close to senior 451 00:24:45,119 --> 00:24:48,919 Speaker 1: Al Qaida officials, and of course he's wanted by the 452 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:51,400 Speaker 1: FBI for questioning. Yeah, just go over there and serve 453 00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:54,600 Speaker 1: a warrant. I'm sure we'll show up and talk to you, mister, FBI. 454 00:24:55,280 --> 00:25:00,160 Speaker 1: Al Zaheri was standing on the balcony of this three 455 00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:06,280 Speaker 1: story home when two RX nine missiles, a hell fire 456 00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:10,920 Speaker 1: missile armed with long blades aimed at killing targets with 457 00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:18,120 Speaker 1: kinetic energy to minimize the major collateral damage, struck. So 458 00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:22,879 Speaker 1: apparently they had been tracking al Zawahiri for some months 459 00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:26,520 Speaker 1: and they were pretty sure he was in this quote 460 00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:31,720 Speaker 1: safe house which is owned by one of the Taliban ministers, 461 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:36,639 Speaker 1: and they were looking for the right opportunity to hit. Now. 462 00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:39,040 Speaker 1: I don't know whether or not the tracking was so 463 00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:43,399 Speaker 1: elaborate that they were able to, like Zawahiri says, I'm 464 00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:45,080 Speaker 1: just going to go out on the balcony and you know, 465 00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:49,000 Speaker 1: smoke a cigarette joint. I'll be right back. Because his 466 00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:54,600 Speaker 1: family was in the home too, But according to these reports, 467 00:25:55,440 --> 00:26:02,240 Speaker 1: only al Zawahiri was killed. Hellfire missials were developed for 468 00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:07,320 Speaker 1: these precise drone strikes, and they're often used against high 469 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:09,919 Speaker 1: value targets. I think we talked about these before, with 470 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:13,200 Speaker 1: these blades in this kinetic energy, I not one hundred 471 00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:14,960 Speaker 1: percent sure how it worked. The first time we talked 472 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:16,520 Speaker 1: about this on the show, we thought, well, the blades 473 00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:18,480 Speaker 1: just dropped you up. See, you don't have this big 474 00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:22,199 Speaker 1: explosion and all these other people die or all these 475 00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:25,679 Speaker 1: other buildings were destroyed. It was carried out in the 476 00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:29,800 Speaker 1: early morning hours of Sunday in Kabul. The time was 477 00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:32,840 Speaker 1: about six eighteen in the morning, so I it was 478 00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:38,040 Speaker 1: a morning breakfast smoke nine forty eight pm Saturday Eastern time. 479 00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:42,639 Speaker 1: In the United States, it says last year US intelligence 480 00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:48,560 Speaker 1: officials learned that Zawahiri had moved to Afghanistan. This year, 481 00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:52,359 Speaker 1: we identified that al Zawahiri family, his wife, his daughter, 482 00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:56,680 Speaker 1: and her children relocated to a safe house in Kabul. 483 00:26:56,800 --> 00:27:01,359 Speaker 1: According to a senior administration officials, he was never seen 484 00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:04,919 Speaker 1: leaving the safe house. Now, how they spy on a 485 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:08,440 Speaker 1: safe house in Afghanistan is interesting. I don't know whether 486 00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:12,160 Speaker 1: or not they have sources inside the country that bring 487 00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:15,280 Speaker 1: them this intelligence information, or they are able to fly 488 00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:18,240 Speaker 1: drones by or a secret to see if they can 489 00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:23,600 Speaker 1: capture any live video what's going on. They are confident 490 00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:28,040 Speaker 1: that only Zawahiri was killed, and that members of the 491 00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:31,960 Speaker 1: Hakani network, which is a terrorist group that's part of 492 00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:36,040 Speaker 1: the Taliban government, remove the family from the safe house. 493 00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:40,959 Speaker 1: I guess immediately to another location. Also, it was an 494 00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:43,199 Speaker 1: effort to cover up that they've been living in that space, 495 00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:46,520 Speaker 1: because I'm sure if you asked any Taliban government official, 496 00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:50,280 Speaker 1: are you harboring any major Al Qaeda figures there, like 497 00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:54,600 Speaker 1: perhaps the leader of al Qaeda owls are here, And 498 00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:57,359 Speaker 1: the response, of course not, we wouldn't do that. We 499 00:27:57,359 --> 00:27:59,920 Speaker 1: have no connection to al Qaeda. They're not welcoming as 500 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:02,520 Speaker 1: I think they actually said that last year when we 501 00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:05,840 Speaker 1: were planning to leave that country. They have no they're 502 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:11,400 Speaker 1: not welcome in Afghanistan. Al Zawa hearing. Family members were 503 00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:13,520 Speaker 1: present in other parts of the safe house at the 504 00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:18,320 Speaker 1: time of the strike, but they were purposely not targeted, because, 505 00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:21,639 Speaker 1: as you know, a lot of criticism comes when you 506 00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:26,399 Speaker 1: have what is called collateral damage when you kill other 507 00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:28,880 Speaker 1: people who were not the intended target, and they were 508 00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:33,360 Speaker 1: not part of the target. Security team or military or 509 00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:36,400 Speaker 1: other operatives that are associated with him. They don't really 510 00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:39,000 Speaker 1: like taking out family members who are not directly a 511 00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:43,480 Speaker 1: part of the terrorist network. Apparently, Biden was first briefed 512 00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:48,880 Speaker 1: on this guy's location back on July first, and the 513 00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:53,560 Speaker 1: intelligence was described as a rock solid. They're saying that 514 00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:57,320 Speaker 1: Biden asked detailed questions, He examined a model of the house. 515 00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:01,080 Speaker 1: They brought it into the situation room for him to see. 516 00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:05,120 Speaker 1: He was asking constantly about the possibility of civilian casualties. 517 00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:08,880 Speaker 1: He was assured that we can make the strike rather precise, 518 00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:11,800 Speaker 1: and then he made the decision on July twenty fifth 519 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:16,360 Speaker 1: to authorize the strike. But they're emphasizing in this story 520 00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:18,840 Speaker 1: that he wanted to make sure that the risk was 521 00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:22,840 Speaker 1: minimized and only the target was taken out. So that's 522 00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:25,520 Speaker 1: the details. We'll have to see in the coming days 523 00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:29,440 Speaker 1: what the response is from al Qaeda. Supposedly they're already 524 00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:34,360 Speaker 1: lining up a replacement for ZARAHII. All right, let's bring 525 00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:37,440 Speaker 1: in Tim Conway. Yeah, hey, Ken, does it make you 526 00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:39,840 Speaker 1: feel more comfortable that they ran all the details by 527 00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:46,240 Speaker 1: the president before they actually went in. No, you imagine 528 00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:48,840 Speaker 1: that you're like a five six seven star general and 529 00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:50,800 Speaker 1: you gotta go to this guy and say, Okay, here's 530 00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:53,240 Speaker 1: what we got. He's like, I don't even know that. 531 00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:56,360 Speaker 1: I don't know where that is. Steve Gregory's coming out 532 00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:58,280 Speaker 1: with the Night to talk about the six Stree Bridge. 533 00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:01,320 Speaker 1: It's still in the news. That bridge still in the news, ma'am. 534 00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:03,560 Speaker 1: Have you been there yet? I have not gone to 535 00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:05,280 Speaker 1: see it. I think you should do the show from 536 00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:07,720 Speaker 1: the bridge. I would be great. Yeah, because nighttime is 537 00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:10,040 Speaker 1: when it happened, that's right. Yeah, and the craziness. But 538 00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:11,600 Speaker 1: I want to go down there on a Saturday night 539 00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:14,360 Speaker 1: when it's about one hundred and ten degrees and you know, 540 00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:19,120 Speaker 1: and everybody comes out. That's wild. Yeah. One point three 541 00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:22,560 Speaker 1: four billion dollars mega millions. It was sold in Chicago. 542 00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:26,720 Speaker 1: I think it's the planes. The plane. It's near the airport. 543 00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:28,960 Speaker 1: I understand the hair. Yes, and you know what, it's 544 00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:31,800 Speaker 1: only about a five or ten minute drive from Highland Park. 545 00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:35,560 Speaker 1: Isn't it crazy where that does? The shooting was, Yeah, 546 00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:38,760 Speaker 1: that was wild. And then major recall of fifty two 547 00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:43,000 Speaker 1: fifty three nutritional and beverage products will lay those on 548 00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:46,000 Speaker 1: you on. I don't if they're nutritional products. I don't 549 00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:48,960 Speaker 1: drink or eat any of them, and then your rent 550 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:51,280 Speaker 1: might be going up by ten percent, could start today. 551 00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:54,680 Speaker 1: And yeah, and and Steve Gregory's on. So that's the 552 00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:56,880 Speaker 1: coolest part of it. You know, everything else here sucks. 553 00:30:57,120 --> 00:30:59,600 Speaker 1: See Gregory is coming up. Oh look at that. And 554 00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:02,040 Speaker 1: le Jim Bill Russell died. You know, if you did 555 00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:05,520 Speaker 1: you see him playing, you're probably too young. I first 556 00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:07,680 Speaker 1: started watching the NBA when he was still a star, 557 00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:10,240 Speaker 1: but I wasn't focused on it. Right in the sixties 558 00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:12,440 Speaker 1: is when he had rest of his rings. 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