1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:00,880 Speaker 1: Can't. 2 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:02,080 Speaker 2: I am six forty. 3 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 1: You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 4 00:00:06,440 --> 00:00:09,760 Speaker 1: After four o'clock we post a podcast, John Cobelt's show 5 00:00:09,920 --> 00:00:12,680 Speaker 1: on demand on the iHeart app. 6 00:00:13,320 --> 00:00:14,520 Speaker 2: A lot of good stuff today. 7 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:19,880 Speaker 1: Our first hour, we went through Newsom still floundering because 8 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:23,600 Speaker 1: he sold a big lie to the news media that 9 00:00:23,680 --> 00:00:27,560 Speaker 1: he was going to ban ICE agents from wearing masks, 10 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:31,840 Speaker 1: and the media embarrassed themselves here in Los Angeles by 11 00:00:32,280 --> 00:00:36,400 Speaker 1: amplifying the big lie, and Bill Saley stuck it to 12 00:00:36,479 --> 00:00:40,320 Speaker 1: him saying, there's a memo out he's told everybody in 13 00:00:40,360 --> 00:00:46,600 Speaker 1: federal law enforcement to ignore Newsom and his mask band. 14 00:00:47,479 --> 00:00:50,479 Speaker 1: It's not a thing. It's known as a supremacy clause 15 00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:56,080 Speaker 1: federal law. Trump's your pardon the expression state law. And 16 00:00:56,880 --> 00:01:01,120 Speaker 1: he knewso claimed that he had no statistics to back 17 00:01:01,240 --> 00:01:05,440 Speaker 1: up the need for masks, and then Sally laid out 18 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:08,959 Speaker 1: about eighty arrests that they've had so far, which is 19 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:15,080 Speaker 1: far far above any other period in Ice history. Eighty arrests. 20 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:21,280 Speaker 1: They've been violently attacked. So Newsomb really really got squashed 21 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:24,039 Speaker 1: on that one. So you could listen to the whole 22 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:27,399 Speaker 1: thing in the one o'clock hour on the podcast. 23 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:28,080 Speaker 2: John Covelt Show on demand. 24 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:31,760 Speaker 1: Now here's another big Newsom lie, a big Newsom and 25 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:34,920 Speaker 1: Karen Bass lie. I don't know how many clips we 26 00:01:34,959 --> 00:01:38,440 Speaker 1: could play of Newsom and Bass saying that we are 27 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:42,600 Speaker 1: going to streamline the permitting process, We're going to make 28 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:45,760 Speaker 1: it faster than ever, We're going to remove all the roadblocks. 29 00:01:45,959 --> 00:01:50,000 Speaker 1: Blah blah blah blah. If their lips are moving, Bass 30 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:53,240 Speaker 1: and Newsom are lying. Well, the Los Angeles Daily News 31 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:57,560 Speaker 1: has the truth. And this is easy to prove or disprove. 32 00:01:57,880 --> 00:02:03,040 Speaker 1: Like with Newsom's lie about no need for masks, it 33 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:07,160 Speaker 1: was easy. There are eighty arrests and prosecutions on the 34 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:11,400 Speaker 1: record that Bill a Sale has, and the same thing here. 35 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:15,000 Speaker 1: All the permits are part of a public record. In fact, 36 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:20,720 Speaker 1: it's published on a public dashboard online by the government itself. 37 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:28,680 Speaker 1: So there's two reporters, Michelle ma and John Gidtleson, and. 38 00:02:31,720 --> 00:02:33,000 Speaker 2: He totals up all. 39 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:38,040 Speaker 1: The homes that burned in the Palisades and then the 40 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:42,160 Speaker 1: ones that burned in Malibu and in Alta Dina. Let's 41 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:46,120 Speaker 1: look just at the Palisades, about five thousand homes burned. 42 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:51,720 Speaker 1: There have been one thousand, five hundred and sixty four 43 00:02:51,880 --> 00:03:00,440 Speaker 1: applications six hundred and twenty permits. So a lot of 44 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:03,800 Speaker 1: people haven't even applied for permits. But of those who 45 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:13,880 Speaker 1: have applied, it looks like about sixty percent haven't got 46 00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:20,040 Speaker 1: their applications approved. Doesn't sound like a streamlined process here. 47 00:03:21,240 --> 00:03:25,679 Speaker 1: You have barely over ten percent that have their permits. 48 00:03:26,639 --> 00:03:30,440 Speaker 1: And part of it is because Karen Bass allowed the 49 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:35,520 Speaker 1: palisades to burn. It's caused a chain reaction, like a 50 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:40,080 Speaker 1: domino effect, of so many terrible things that have happened. 51 00:03:40,760 --> 00:03:43,640 Speaker 1: It's very, very difficult for a lot of people to rebuild. 52 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:48,520 Speaker 1: They can't get to the permit application process because they 53 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:53,520 Speaker 1: don't have the money. The insurance hasn't come through. Even 54 00:03:53,560 --> 00:04:01,280 Speaker 1: if the insurance is being paid, it's so little because 55 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:06,720 Speaker 1: remember Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom didn't clear the brush 56 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:11,480 Speaker 1: in the palisades and they didn't fill the reservoirs. And 57 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:13,920 Speaker 1: it looks like from what I'm hearing, the insurance companies 58 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:18,760 Speaker 1: knew this and they started canceling policies last fall. Remember 59 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:22,960 Speaker 1: there's a whole story about state farms canceling policies. Well, 60 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:26,599 Speaker 1: they had done their own investigation and said, wow, this 61 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:31,360 Speaker 1: place burns. There's no water and there's plenty of brush 62 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:35,720 Speaker 1: to burn because newsmen bashed into their job. 63 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:38,680 Speaker 2: So they got out of there. 64 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:45,760 Speaker 1: And these promises about streamlining the system are empty. 65 00:04:46,279 --> 00:04:47,640 Speaker 2: I'll give you some more facts here. 66 00:04:48,839 --> 00:04:53,160 Speaker 1: According to La Daily News, let's look up Malibu, six 67 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:59,880 Speaker 1: hundred homes burned. The city's issued two permits two two. 68 00:05:01,440 --> 00:05:05,880 Speaker 1: I get excited sometimes. They focused on one guy named 69 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:15,240 Speaker 1: Andy Weyman. Andy's seventy three years old, and he said, well, 70 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:21,039 Speaker 1: he's a TV and stage director and he remodeled his 71 00:05:21,080 --> 00:05:24,080 Speaker 1: home five years before, and he had the blueprints in 72 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:29,520 Speaker 1: hand with the same architect to oversee the reconstruction. But 73 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:33,520 Speaker 1: now the city wants geological tests and this would have 74 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:36,400 Speaker 1: been a Malibu to ensure the stability of his lot, 75 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:39,320 Speaker 1: which is up on a bluff. Construction costs are now 76 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:44,159 Speaker 1: double his insurance coverage. And then in August his architect 77 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:51,560 Speaker 1: died and Wayman says, we're flying to figure out the solution. 78 00:05:51,839 --> 00:05:56,119 Speaker 1: Every possibility is fraught with downsides and compromises, and Daily 79 00:05:56,160 --> 00:06:02,280 Speaker 1: News is rebuilding his inching forward and now the prices 80 00:06:02,320 --> 00:06:12,080 Speaker 1: of lots are crashing, prices of burned out lots have 81 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:15,160 Speaker 1: dropped as much as forty five percent in the Palisades. 82 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:20,320 Speaker 1: In March they were much higher, but between March and 83 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:28,000 Speaker 1: August they dropped forty five And the pace of sales 84 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:37,359 Speaker 1: is very slow, even if the prices are good. People 85 00:06:37,400 --> 00:06:40,120 Speaker 1: see all the problems in getting a house rebuilt. They 86 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:42,280 Speaker 1: know they're not going to get a permit very quickly, 87 00:06:43,480 --> 00:06:47,880 Speaker 1: and they're they're a new buyer, so they may not 88 00:06:47,960 --> 00:06:55,200 Speaker 1: have the same plans and the same architect. Here's another one, 89 00:06:56,200 --> 00:07:00,120 Speaker 1: Rich Wilkin. He's an architect. He lost his home the 90 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:03,640 Speaker 1: Palisades after forty seven years, and he agreed to redesign 91 00:07:03,880 --> 00:07:08,640 Speaker 1: ten new houses for himself and friends. But he goes 92 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:11,240 Speaker 1: to the LA Building Department and here's the real truth, 93 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:16,800 Speaker 1: Karen and Gavin, the inspectors keep changing, he says, there's 94 00:07:16,840 --> 00:07:22,320 Speaker 1: a changing cast of inspectors, and each inspector has a 95 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:26,400 Speaker 1: different and conflicting opinion on his plans, and he keeps 96 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:30,080 Speaker 1: having to submit and resubmit and resubmit, which costs a 97 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:34,960 Speaker 1: lot of time and money. He says Karen Bass's Building Department, 98 00:07:35,320 --> 00:07:38,760 Speaker 1: their answers change every day. 99 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:39,600 Speaker 2: Now. 100 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:44,960 Speaker 1: Trump specked Bass and Newsom. He posted on social media 101 00:07:45,040 --> 00:07:48,160 Speaker 1: saying they have failed residents by allowing the area to burn. 102 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:51,720 Speaker 1: That is correct, and they're holding back the building permits. 103 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:54,600 Speaker 1: Newsom got all huffy and said that is a straight 104 00:07:54,680 --> 00:08:00,000 Speaker 1: up lie. Bass called it misinformation. She goes, I don't 105 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:04,080 Speaker 1: want Palacidians to lose hope. The hell are you talking about. 106 00:08:04,120 --> 00:08:08,880 Speaker 1: They lost hope. They lost hope the next day when 107 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:14,120 Speaker 1: they realized you weren't here. The reservoirs were empty, the 108 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:16,040 Speaker 1: fire department is way understaffed. 109 00:08:16,720 --> 00:08:18,200 Speaker 2: A lot of engines were busted. 110 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:22,600 Speaker 1: Oh and by the way, Genie Kinonia is still running 111 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:25,600 Speaker 1: the DWP and making seven dred and forty five thousand dollars. 112 00:08:25,920 --> 00:08:28,520 Speaker 1: Bass didn't he even have the good sense to fire 113 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:33,000 Speaker 1: her ass. So no, it's not misinformation, it's not a 114 00:08:33,040 --> 00:08:37,320 Speaker 1: straight up lie. Numbers are numbers. Less than ten percent 115 00:08:37,360 --> 00:08:41,120 Speaker 1: of permits to rebuild. The price of these lots are 116 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:44,800 Speaker 1: crashing because word is out. It's difficult to get a permit. 117 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:49,079 Speaker 1: The insurance coverage was terrible. All these A lot of 118 00:08:49,080 --> 00:08:52,080 Speaker 1: these people were thrown into the California Fair Plan, which 119 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:56,079 Speaker 1: has a hard cap, and those homes in the Palisades 120 00:08:56,120 --> 00:09:01,439 Speaker 1: were much more expensive than that. Here's one more thing 121 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:07,040 Speaker 1: in Malibu, the Woolsey Fire twenty eighteen, four hundred and 122 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:10,600 Speaker 1: eighty eight homes burned. We are now seven years later, 123 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:19,760 Speaker 1: only forty percent have completed reconstruction forty percent. And after 124 00:09:19,840 --> 00:09:24,880 Speaker 1: that fire, and after those seven years, then Newsom and 125 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:30,040 Speaker 1: Bass reclaiming, Oh, we're going to cut the red tape. 126 00:09:30,559 --> 00:09:34,880 Speaker 1: If they're breathing their lying, it's just disgusting. All and 127 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:35,560 Speaker 1: more coming up. 128 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:40,600 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 129 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:41,120 Speaker 3: six forty. 130 00:09:42,640 --> 00:09:46,720 Speaker 1: Okay, last segment, we told you that despite the lives 131 00:09:46,760 --> 00:09:50,960 Speaker 1: of Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass, the permitting process is 132 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:57,360 Speaker 1: very slow in the Palisades, in Malibu. In Altadena, less 133 00:09:57,360 --> 00:10:01,560 Speaker 1: than ten percent have permits to rebuild out of eleven 134 00:10:01,640 --> 00:10:07,600 Speaker 1: thousand homes destroyed, and many reasons for it. Apparently the 135 00:10:08,160 --> 00:10:13,000 Speaker 1: Los Angeles Building Department is a complete disaster. One of 136 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:17,560 Speaker 1: the architects who's trying to get ten designs approved, he said, 137 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:21,600 Speaker 1: it's a constantly changing cast of inspectors. I don't know 138 00:10:21,600 --> 00:10:26,360 Speaker 1: if these guys, I mean, why would be a changing cast. 139 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:31,320 Speaker 1: Usually these these people get a job and they have 140 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:33,240 Speaker 1: it for life, even if they suck at it. So 141 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:36,360 Speaker 1: why would there be well, And he said, they all 142 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:40,200 Speaker 1: offer conflicting opinions on his plans, so he's got to 143 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:44,360 Speaker 1: constantly resubmit. Takes time, it takes money. So you know, 144 00:10:44,440 --> 00:10:51,920 Speaker 1: the predictable chaos in the vast administration. Boy, I really 145 00:10:53,280 --> 00:10:55,839 Speaker 1: I hope Trump just keeps beating on their heads and 146 00:10:55,880 --> 00:11:00,360 Speaker 1: embarrassing them. Honestly, you bring keep bringing the national just 147 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:03,680 Speaker 1: to take over city Hall or the Marines or somebody. 148 00:11:05,559 --> 00:11:10,000 Speaker 1: Now here's another story. And no, we weren't gonna let 149 00:11:10,559 --> 00:11:13,760 Speaker 1: this slip by, even though they released it. 150 00:11:15,160 --> 00:11:20,120 Speaker 2: On the weekend. This is out of the la times. 151 00:11:20,720 --> 00:11:24,000 Speaker 1: They tried to figure out why why the Alta Tina 152 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:29,760 Speaker 1: the Alta Dina evacuation investigation. Remember we told you last 153 00:11:29,760 --> 00:11:39,079 Speaker 1: week assigned no blame for the for the botched emergency 154 00:11:39,160 --> 00:11:43,360 Speaker 1: warning system failing. Remember there were a lot of people 155 00:11:43,360 --> 00:11:46,560 Speaker 1: who never got the warnings to leave the neighborhoods and 156 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:50,439 Speaker 1: they died, like nineteen of them died because the fire 157 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:52,760 Speaker 1: went through in the middle of the night and they 158 00:11:52,840 --> 00:11:53,959 Speaker 1: nobody was told to leave. 159 00:11:54,480 --> 00:11:58,040 Speaker 2: Nobody came and got them. And white people all over the. 160 00:11:57,960 --> 00:12:02,880 Speaker 1: County were getting fake warn including us here at CAFI. 161 00:12:02,920 --> 00:12:05,800 Speaker 1: We were getting warnings to evacuate this building in Burnbank. 162 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:09,600 Speaker 1: Everybody across the whole city was getting the whole thing. 163 00:12:09,640 --> 00:12:14,199 Speaker 1: The whole thing was a bust. And the fire department 164 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:17,200 Speaker 1: and the Sheriff's department and the Emergency managed department. Nobody 165 00:12:17,240 --> 00:12:20,680 Speaker 1: was talking to each other. Nobody understood each other. And 166 00:12:20,760 --> 00:12:24,000 Speaker 1: this was done by the Crystal Group, the Crystal Group, 167 00:12:25,280 --> 00:12:28,400 Speaker 1: and it had a big name general who owns the 168 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:38,000 Speaker 1: consulting firm. But this, uh, this investigation did not detail 169 00:12:38,160 --> 00:12:44,880 Speaker 1: exactly who or what was responsible for the breakdown. The investigation, 170 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:47,440 Speaker 1: this is the after action report. We are oh, just 171 00:12:47,440 --> 00:12:49,360 Speaker 1: wait to the after action report. You gotta be paid on, 172 00:12:49,400 --> 00:12:51,880 Speaker 1: you know, the after action report. We'll answer these questions, Jess. 173 00:12:51,880 --> 00:12:54,640 Speaker 1: We'll be talking publicly when the after well, it came 174 00:12:54,720 --> 00:12:57,959 Speaker 1: in and it did not single out a single person 175 00:12:58,280 --> 00:13:01,280 Speaker 1: as to who was responsible for all all the botched 176 00:13:02,920 --> 00:13:11,040 Speaker 1: emergency reactions. The preparation stunk, The tactics they used stunk. 177 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:14,840 Speaker 2: There was no detailed explanation as Hawaii. 178 00:13:14,840 --> 00:13:19,199 Speaker 1: Evacuation orders in West Altadena, where most of the deaths happened, 179 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:25,920 Speaker 1: came hours after the fire was threatening the area. County 180 00:13:25,920 --> 00:13:29,400 Speaker 1: officials said it's an epic failure them Crystal Group. We 181 00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:34,280 Speaker 1: can't blame anybody here in particular. In fact, at the 182 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:36,199 Speaker 1: beginning of the report, it's one hundred and thirty two 183 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:40,559 Speaker 1: pages of gas. This report does not investigate wrongdoing or 184 00:13:40,559 --> 00:13:43,320 Speaker 1: assigned blame. Then what's the point do you know? They 185 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:49,720 Speaker 1: spent two million dollars The La County Supervisors spent two 186 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:55,199 Speaker 1: million dollars out of report that didn't find anyone responsible 187 00:13:57,840 --> 00:14:02,920 Speaker 1: for the botched evacuation plans and botched warnings. This isn't 188 00:14:02,920 --> 00:14:09,080 Speaker 1: even covering the botched firefighting performance. This doesn't even cover 189 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:13,040 Speaker 1: the palisades or Malibum. This is just warning people in 190 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:16,640 Speaker 1: Alta Dina that there's a fire, which maybe somebody should 191 00:14:16,679 --> 00:14:19,320 Speaker 1: have gotten a car in a car with a bullhorn 192 00:14:19,360 --> 00:14:22,600 Speaker 1: and a siren and started screaming, get out of your homes, 193 00:14:22,680 --> 00:14:25,600 Speaker 1: Get out of your homes, fire coming fire. That would 194 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:29,000 Speaker 1: have worked better than the billions and millions of dollars 195 00:14:29,080 --> 00:14:35,200 Speaker 1: they spent on the stupid system. Its purpose is to 196 00:14:35,240 --> 00:14:39,440 Speaker 1: assess the counties alert and evacuation systems while they stink 197 00:14:39,520 --> 00:14:46,680 Speaker 1: they're broken. Catherine Barger represents Altadena. She called for the review, 198 00:14:49,280 --> 00:14:52,400 Speaker 1: saying questions have a risen about the evacuation process. 199 00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:53,440 Speaker 2: Yeah. 200 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:56,200 Speaker 1: Well, after reviewing the report, she said she was pleased 201 00:14:56,240 --> 00:14:56,960 Speaker 1: with the findings. 202 00:14:57,440 --> 00:14:58,160 Speaker 2: Says, it's an. 203 00:14:58,080 --> 00:15:01,080 Speaker 1: In depth report that delivered a whole holistic picture of 204 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:03,080 Speaker 1: what worked and what the oh holistic? 205 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:07,440 Speaker 2: What the hell does that mean? Who screwed up? 206 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:11,320 Speaker 1: Who had the bad plan, who had the bad execution, 207 00:15:12,480 --> 00:15:15,400 Speaker 1: Who created the software or who pressed the button that 208 00:15:15,520 --> 00:15:18,760 Speaker 1: sent warnings to all the wrong places? Who decided not 209 00:15:18,880 --> 00:15:23,120 Speaker 1: to warn the dead people in West Altadena. There is 210 00:15:23,240 --> 00:15:26,000 Speaker 1: no one smoking gun, she said, I know that's problematic 211 00:15:26,040 --> 00:15:29,560 Speaker 1: for people to understand. No, there's probably about twelve smoking guns. 212 00:15:31,640 --> 00:15:35,600 Speaker 1: There's no question there were failures. Well who But there's 213 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:40,240 Speaker 1: not one specific individual, No kidding. A lot of government 214 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:43,160 Speaker 1: workers are bad at their job. Maybe there's ten, maybe 215 00:15:43,240 --> 00:15:46,520 Speaker 1: there's twenty, maybe there's one hundred and fifty, List them all, 216 00:15:46,760 --> 00:15:51,040 Speaker 1: fire them. There's not one specific department. No, there's not one. 217 00:15:51,240 --> 00:15:56,960 Speaker 1: There's many. At the end of the day, it was 218 00:15:56,960 --> 00:16:02,160 Speaker 1: truly the perfect storm. No stop high behind that lame, cliched, 219 00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:05,040 Speaker 1: phony excuse of a phrase, that's nonsense. 220 00:16:07,880 --> 00:16:08,880 Speaker 2: Perfect storm. 221 00:16:09,440 --> 00:16:13,640 Speaker 1: How about everybody failed at their job? Why did everybody fail? 222 00:16:14,480 --> 00:16:17,240 Speaker 1: Why did not one single person in government was able 223 00:16:17,280 --> 00:16:19,920 Speaker 1: to figure out a way to warn nineteen people in 224 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:22,800 Speaker 1: Altadena that there was a fire coming, and it was 225 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:26,840 Speaker 1: coming with a lot of warning, but people were sleeping 226 00:16:26,960 --> 00:16:29,440 Speaker 1: and they didn't know, and the warnings were going to 227 00:16:29,440 --> 00:16:33,040 Speaker 1: the wrong parts of the county. Somebody pressed that button, 228 00:16:33,280 --> 00:16:37,320 Speaker 1: or somebody didn't press the button, or something with screwy 229 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:42,440 Speaker 1: in the software. Well, who programmed the software? A lot 230 00:16:42,440 --> 00:16:51,000 Speaker 1: of people in Outadena says, well, this lets everybody avoid accountability. 231 00:16:51,960 --> 00:16:55,280 Speaker 1: Someone needs to take responsibility, and nobody does that because 232 00:16:55,280 --> 00:17:00,240 Speaker 1: they want to protect their authorities, said Art Batarelly used 233 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:04,280 Speaker 1: to work at the Governor's Office of Emergency Services. He 234 00:17:04,400 --> 00:17:08,879 Speaker 1: was the Emergency services coordinator. Responsibility just gets you hurt, 235 00:17:10,480 --> 00:17:14,040 Speaker 1: so there's a tendency to avoid that. Yes, so we've 236 00:17:14,040 --> 00:17:18,119 Speaker 1: got a county full of cowards. It's it's the La 237 00:17:18,200 --> 00:17:21,200 Speaker 1: County Fire Department, the La County Sheriff's Department, the County 238 00:17:21,240 --> 00:17:26,679 Speaker 1: Office of Emergency Management. Nobody was named, not even the 239 00:17:26,720 --> 00:17:30,119 Speaker 1: fire chief Anthony Morony. He must have done something wrong, 240 00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:33,720 Speaker 1: or the sheriff, Robert Luna, he must have done something wrong. 241 00:17:34,040 --> 00:17:36,760 Speaker 1: Or maybe they should say who are their underlings? 242 00:17:36,760 --> 00:17:37,199 Speaker 2: Screwed up? 243 00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:39,200 Speaker 1: And maybe all these people ought to be out a government. 244 00:17:45,160 --> 00:17:47,520 Speaker 1: So you wait eight months. They cough up one hundred 245 00:17:47,560 --> 00:17:52,280 Speaker 1: and thirty two pages, cost two million dollars and nobody 246 00:17:52,320 --> 00:17:57,880 Speaker 1: did anything bad. That's a lot of garbage. Well, maybe 247 00:17:57,920 --> 00:18:02,119 Speaker 1: the lawsuits will force people to talk under oath. Nobody 248 00:18:02,119 --> 00:18:06,920 Speaker 1: should settle, at least they at least you wait until 249 00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:09,200 Speaker 1: all the depositions are taken when they have to tell 250 00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:09,600 Speaker 1: the truth. 251 00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:15,119 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Kobel's on Demand from KFI A six. 252 00:18:16,320 --> 00:18:21,160 Speaker 1: Another shop story in the El Segundo Times about illegal 253 00:18:21,160 --> 00:18:24,919 Speaker 1: aliens who are sitting at ice detention centers. They have 254 00:18:25,040 --> 00:18:28,359 Speaker 1: one in the Mahave Desert. It's it's a privately operated 255 00:18:29,280 --> 00:18:32,520 Speaker 1: detention center call run by a company called Coar Civic, 256 00:18:33,640 --> 00:18:36,840 Speaker 1: used to be a state prison in the Majave Desert. 257 00:18:37,600 --> 00:18:41,840 Speaker 1: And they talk about how the men sleep in locked 258 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:45,840 Speaker 1: cells every night. They're on bunk beds, they walk in 259 00:18:45,920 --> 00:18:49,840 Speaker 1: straight lines with their hands behind their back in their 260 00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:55,600 Speaker 1: razor wire enclosed yard. Guards carry handcuffs and pat them down, 261 00:18:55,680 --> 00:19:02,400 Speaker 1: their head counts, lockdowns, segregation units. And you know, it's 262 00:19:02,480 --> 00:19:07,640 Speaker 1: the typical way that the Times presents these stories that 263 00:19:08,040 --> 00:19:14,440 Speaker 1: everyone is unfairly treated, unfairly suffering. The thing is inside 264 00:19:14,680 --> 00:19:18,560 Speaker 1: these facilities there are signs on the wall offering one 265 00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:24,560 Speaker 1: thousand dollars and you can go like because these people 266 00:19:24,640 --> 00:19:33,280 Speaker 1: are resisting their deportations, which hardly anybody's going to succeed 267 00:19:33,320 --> 00:19:37,960 Speaker 1: at that. So if you're gonna if you're gonna be 268 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:43,520 Speaker 1: here illegally, and you must have done something that that 269 00:19:43,680 --> 00:19:47,320 Speaker 1: tracked you down. Maybe you had a deportation order that 270 00:19:47,359 --> 00:19:51,040 Speaker 1: you ignored. Maybe you committed some kind of crime somewhere 271 00:19:51,080 --> 00:19:54,040 Speaker 1: along the way, even a minor one is a reason 272 00:19:54,080 --> 00:19:56,960 Speaker 1: that you popped up on ICE's radar early on in 273 00:19:56,960 --> 00:19:59,960 Speaker 1: the game. Yeah, some people were just rounded up random. 274 00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:03,520 Speaker 1: But again, you're not supposed to be here. Go try 275 00:20:03,560 --> 00:20:06,320 Speaker 1: to do this in the other two hundred countries and 276 00:20:06,359 --> 00:20:09,280 Speaker 1: see how you get treated. El Salvador, for example. You 277 00:20:09,320 --> 00:20:11,160 Speaker 1: want to go to that super Max and El Salvador, 278 00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:13,840 Speaker 1: and the thing is they all have a ticket to 279 00:20:13,840 --> 00:20:17,760 Speaker 1: get out. Uh, they'll that In fact, you they'll pay 280 00:20:17,840 --> 00:20:20,840 Speaker 1: you a thousand bucks to leave. Now you're getting a 281 00:20:20,880 --> 00:20:23,840 Speaker 1: cash offer and you refuse to leave, and then you 282 00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:25,520 Speaker 1: bitch about the accommodations. 283 00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:29,880 Speaker 2: The hell that's wrong with you? 284 00:20:29,880 --> 00:20:35,159 Speaker 1: You broke the law. We're offering to pay you and 285 00:20:35,240 --> 00:20:39,800 Speaker 1: you don't want to cooperate. I don't know where where's 286 00:20:39,840 --> 00:20:41,080 Speaker 1: the where's the room. 287 00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:41,680 Speaker 2: For empathy here? 288 00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:46,560 Speaker 1: So some of these guys, one hundred of them, are 289 00:20:47,040 --> 00:20:52,400 Speaker 1: staging hunger strikes, protesting poor conditions. Well now how's that 290 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:57,520 Speaker 1: going to go. You're gonna stop eating? And then they 291 00:20:57,560 --> 00:21:03,000 Speaker 1: stop eating and they claim they're getting sick. Well, yeah, 292 00:21:03,280 --> 00:21:06,800 Speaker 1: take the thousand dollars and they'll give you a bus 293 00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:14,159 Speaker 1: ride home or a flight home. It says, men with 294 00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:18,760 Speaker 1: psychiatric conditions who arrived last month complain they can't get 295 00:21:18,760 --> 00:21:22,480 Speaker 1: their medication. Oh great, you're here illegally and you have 296 00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:27,199 Speaker 1: a psychiatric condition like we haven't, Like we don't have 297 00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:35,639 Speaker 1: enough Americans in the street with bad psychiatric conditions. Toilet's 298 00:21:35,640 --> 00:21:39,760 Speaker 1: backed up and sinks clogged for days? Can I tell 299 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:44,359 Speaker 1: you prison sucks? You talk back, you're putting handcuffs and 300 00:21:44,359 --> 00:21:49,440 Speaker 1: punished with isolation. So don't talk back. This stuff is 301 00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:53,840 Speaker 1: self explanatory. A five year old could figure it out. Again. 302 00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:56,760 Speaker 2: Here's one thousand dollars. We'll give you a ride. 303 00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:02,040 Speaker 1: One hung striker was taken out in a stretcher after 304 00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:06,080 Speaker 1: coughing up blood. Maybe you should start eating, I can 305 00:22:06,119 --> 00:22:12,440 Speaker 1: solve all these problems. Some of these guys are convicted 306 00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:23,800 Speaker 1: felons and they're fighting their deportation. You have been deported already, 307 00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:27,080 Speaker 1: you're fighting it. So you're sitting in a prison and 308 00:22:27,119 --> 00:22:31,000 Speaker 1: bitching about everything, and now you go on a hunger strike. 309 00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:43,400 Speaker 1: The spokeswoman for Department of Homeland Security, Tricia McLaughlin, says, 310 00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:47,399 Speaker 1: everybody receives soap. Nobody's locked in cells all day. No 311 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:50,760 Speaker 1: one in retaliation is put in solitary confinement. They're all 312 00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:54,960 Speaker 1: provided with proper meals, medical treatment, and opportunities communicate to 313 00:22:54,960 --> 00:23:02,840 Speaker 1: communicate with their lawyers. But some of the detainees say no, Well, 314 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:08,040 Speaker 1: why would you believe the detainees. Those guys are are troublemakers. 315 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:14,160 Speaker 1: One detainee went on a hunger strike to protest, protest 316 00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:15,400 Speaker 1: the lack of medical care. 317 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:17,600 Speaker 2: Well, that's not going to make you healthier. 318 00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:26,600 Speaker 1: There's one complaining that there's no television, radio, or books, 319 00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:32,000 Speaker 1: so we got to buy a book. We got to 320 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:39,240 Speaker 1: buy you a television. Jesus, what part of you're violating 321 00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:48,960 Speaker 1: the law? Don't these people understand I they're complaining that 322 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:54,240 Speaker 1: they're lonely. Take the thousand dollars you're not going to win. 323 00:23:56,520 --> 00:24:04,439 Speaker 1: It's over. It's not twenty twenty two anymore. We're not 324 00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:10,520 Speaker 1: going back to the Biden administration. It's over. And this 325 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:15,240 Speaker 1: is the law. This is fascinating. This is federal law. 326 00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:19,840 Speaker 1: I saw Tom Homan on I heard the audio because 327 00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:22,760 Speaker 1: he does all the TV appearances in the world. He 328 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:25,760 Speaker 1: shows up everywhere all the time, day and night, and 329 00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:29,280 Speaker 1: he said what he told us on this show. He said, Look, 330 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:35,080 Speaker 1: if you don't like what we're doing, that have Congress 331 00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:40,200 Speaker 1: change the law. Congress changes the law, then we won't 332 00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:45,160 Speaker 1: do this. We're doing what we're required to do by 333 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:51,960 Speaker 1: federal law. Bring it up with Congress if you object exactly. 334 00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:59,560 Speaker 1: There's nothing they're doing that isn't written, that doesn't the 335 00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:04,000 Speaker 1: whole process is written down in law. The powers given 336 00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:07,880 Speaker 1: to Ice here are powers they have had for many decades, 337 00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:11,800 Speaker 1: and the executive branch, the president, has had this power. 338 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:14,680 Speaker 1: It's been backed up over and over by the Supreme Court, 339 00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:19,680 Speaker 1: it's been ratified by Congress. You don't like it, you've 340 00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:22,040 Speaker 1: got to change the people in charge, and then they 341 00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:29,639 Speaker 1: have to they have to destroy these laws. Now, I 342 00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:32,040 Speaker 1: would say that for a number of years, I know 343 00:25:32,119 --> 00:25:35,800 Speaker 1: for sure in the Obama administration, they had Democrats running 344 00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:39,840 Speaker 1: the House, the Senate, and they had the presidency. They 345 00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:44,359 Speaker 1: didn't change any of the laws. Well there was your shot. 346 00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:48,760 Speaker 1: And in fact, you know, when Biden was president, he 347 00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:53,520 Speaker 1: had control of Congress, in the House and Senate. You 348 00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:59,720 Speaker 1: didn't change immigration law. They basically suspended immigration law, but 349 00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:03,840 Speaker 1: they didn't change what's written down. And any president could 350 00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:07,320 Speaker 1: come in and reverse anything Biden did and be in 351 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:10,200 Speaker 1: total conformity with the law. And they'd gone to federal 352 00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:14,160 Speaker 1: court a thousand times, they've gone to the Supreme Court, 353 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:15,960 Speaker 1: and it's like, well, no, that that's what it says. 354 00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:17,520 Speaker 2: Why is it so hard to understand? 355 00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:22,879 Speaker 1: And these immigrants, we're told not to come here, not 356 00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:25,919 Speaker 1: to come here, Okay, So they come here and they 357 00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:26,440 Speaker 1: get caught. 358 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:28,960 Speaker 2: Here's a thousand dollars go No. 359 00:26:31,119 --> 00:26:34,920 Speaker 1: Okay, Oh I had go sit in the detention center 360 00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:35,640 Speaker 1: have a good time. 361 00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:37,000 Speaker 2: I just don't understand. 362 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:42,879 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty. 363 00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:48,320 Speaker 1: Well, we're gonna finish the Newsom lie sandwich to close 364 00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:51,040 Speaker 1: out the show. We started with a Newsom lie where 365 00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:55,520 Speaker 1: he had said he had the authority to ban federal 366 00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:57,120 Speaker 1: ice agents from wearing masks. 367 00:26:57,440 --> 00:26:57,879 Speaker 2: He does not. 368 00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:03,960 Speaker 1: He claimed that there was no statistics offered by the 369 00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:08,160 Speaker 1: federal government that federal agents were being attacked. 370 00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:09,399 Speaker 2: That's false. 371 00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:13,159 Speaker 1: Bill of sale went through laid out that there are 372 00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:18,120 Speaker 1: eighty prosecutions, eighty cases of vice agents being attacked and 373 00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:21,000 Speaker 1: that's why they need masks. In fact, there are three 374 00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:24,359 Speaker 1: women here in the LA area who are up on 375 00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:29,119 Speaker 1: federal charges for dosing the three agents and showing up 376 00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:33,359 Speaker 1: in their neighborhood and live streaming their federal crimes to 377 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:34,720 Speaker 1: make it easy to arrest them. 378 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:36,520 Speaker 2: So knew some light about that. 379 00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:39,560 Speaker 1: A little while ago, we told you about Newsom's why 380 00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:44,760 Speaker 1: about the permitting process for the fire victims being streamlined. 381 00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:49,080 Speaker 1: It has not been less than ten percent of people 382 00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:53,080 Speaker 1: whose homes burned have received permits. 383 00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:54,159 Speaker 2: Okay. 384 00:27:54,280 --> 00:28:00,160 Speaker 1: Third Newsom why. He had promised that if Trump's federal 385 00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:06,960 Speaker 1: government got rid of the big tax break on electric 386 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:14,479 Speaker 1: car purchases, that California would replace it. And there was 387 00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:18,880 Speaker 1: this seventy five hundred dollars tax credit that you would 388 00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:22,399 Speaker 1: get if you bought an electric car. Well that's running 389 00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:26,600 Speaker 1: out on September thirtieth, So on September thirtieth. Electric vehicles 390 00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:29,200 Speaker 1: are going to be are going to cost it cost 391 00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:36,240 Speaker 1: seventy five hundred dollars more. And Newsom had said, well, 392 00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:40,520 Speaker 1: you know, we're going to cover that, and he had 393 00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:46,120 Speaker 1: said that repeatedly. He promised he would replace the federal 394 00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:48,240 Speaker 1: tax credit with a state tax credit. 395 00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:49,960 Speaker 2: He lied. 396 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:57,920 Speaker 1: He says, we can't make up for the federal vandalism 397 00:28:57,960 --> 00:28:59,520 Speaker 1: of those tax credits. 398 00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:02,280 Speaker 2: Excuse me, that's. 399 00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:07,040 Speaker 1: Federal money, that's federal tax man, that's my money. Why 400 00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:11,040 Speaker 1: should my tax money go to subsidize some rich guy 401 00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:15,840 Speaker 1: buying a Tesla? Why should anybody's taxes go to subsidize 402 00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:18,280 Speaker 1: a rich guy buy to Tesla? The hell is that? 403 00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:23,880 Speaker 1: And then he calls it vandalism. He's so full of 404 00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:31,640 Speaker 1: stinking crap. He says, we can't make up for the 405 00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:39,200 Speaker 1: subsidies that were eliminated under the federal program. He needs 406 00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:47,480 Speaker 1: legislative action. In November, his office published a news release 407 00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:52,600 Speaker 1: saying Governor Knewso commits to restarting the electric car rebate 408 00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:57,120 Speaker 1: program if the federal tax credit is eliminated. Oh, he 409 00:29:57,200 --> 00:30:00,920 Speaker 1: was committed to doing it. Well, I guess not. He's 410 00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:05,840 Speaker 1: blaming the budget deficit. Oh hmm, Could that be the 411 00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:10,160 Speaker 1: thirty five billion dollars you spend on illegal aliens? Could 412 00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:12,840 Speaker 1: that be the thirteen billion dollars you spend on illegal 413 00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:20,120 Speaker 1: alien healthcare? See if there's a choice between subsidizing illegal 414 00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:24,880 Speaker 1: aliens and subsidizing something that's going to benefit the climate, 415 00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:31,320 Speaker 1: Newsom chose the illegal aliens. Screw the climate. That was 416 00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:38,480 Speaker 1: all for show anyway, he was just pretending it was performative. Wow, 417 00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:41,200 Speaker 1: three lives in one show, a beginning, of middle and 418 00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:44,760 Speaker 1: an end. The newsome Lye Sandwich. All right, we'll I 419 00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:48,720 Speaker 1: have more tomorrow. And you know tomorrow we're supposed to 420 00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:54,960 Speaker 1: have on the governor of Oklahoma. His name is Kevin Stitt, 421 00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:59,280 Speaker 1: because he's coming to Los Angeles this week and along 422 00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:01,520 Speaker 1: with other oklahom the leaders, and he's going to be 423 00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:05,800 Speaker 1: speaking with business owners and manufacturers about moving their operations 424 00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:12,600 Speaker 1: to Oklahoma. Costs are lower, permitting is faster. Yeah, maybe 425 00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:15,480 Speaker 1: people in the Palisades should just rebuild your home in Oklahoma. 426 00:31:15,520 --> 00:31:18,160 Speaker 1: You'll get it done in about five minutes. They have 427 00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:21,920 Speaker 1: a very pro business environment. Oklahoma is growing quickly, like 428 00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:26,440 Speaker 1: many states in this country. So we're going to have 429 00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:31,120 Speaker 1: the Governor of Oklahoma Kevin Stitt, who looks like he's 430 00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:34,000 Speaker 1: the opposite of Gavenue some, gavenus some and puts companies 431 00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:38,800 Speaker 1: out of business. Kevin Stitt is trying to create a 432 00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:42,680 Speaker 1: great business climate for companies to thrive, and he wants 433 00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:46,400 Speaker 1: to get some California companies to move. So we'll do 434 00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:49,920 Speaker 1: that tomorrow. We've got Michael Krozer live in the KFI 435 00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:52,600 Speaker 1: twenty four hour newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the 436 00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:55,360 Speaker 1: John Cobalt Show podcast. 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