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Speaker 2: The Lake and Riley Act passed and Trump signed it today,

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Speaker 2: and that means if an illegal alien is picked up

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Speaker 2: and he is arrested for certain criminal acts, he can

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Speaker 2: be deported. If they had done that with Josea Abara

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Speaker 2: in New York City and in Georgia, then Lake and Riley,

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Speaker 2: that college student would not have been murdered Augusta University.

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Speaker 2: She was out on a run, actually running at the

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Speaker 2: nearby campus of the University of Georgia, and she was

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Speaker 2: brutally attacked and raped and murdered. And had had had

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Speaker 2: the government on all levels been doing its job, should

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Speaker 2: never have happened.

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Speaker 1: And now this law puts it in black and white.

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Speaker 2: What must be done next time you run into a

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Speaker 2: Josea bar Let's get art Arthur on from the Center

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Speaker 2: for Immigration Studies to talk about this, because this is

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Speaker 2: this is quite a landmark today art.

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Speaker 3: How are you, John, I'm doing great and thank you

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Speaker 3: for having me to dad. I wish we could be

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Speaker 3: talking about the American citizen who had managed to live.

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Speaker 3: But uh, this bill is a fitting tribute to her life.

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Speaker 2: Talk about the specifics of the bill. Uh, what what

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Speaker 2: what types of crimes does it cover? And what are

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Speaker 2: the responsibilities of various law enforcement if they run into

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Speaker 2: a character like jose Barr what are they what must

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Speaker 4: Now?

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Speaker 3: So a bar and his brother were actually arrested in Athens, Georgia,

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Speaker 3: which is where the killing took place, for tented shoplifting

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Speaker 3: And he also had an arrest in New York for

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Speaker 3: endangering a child. But what this bill covers, what this

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Speaker 3: any person who entered the United States illegally who has

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Speaker 3: serious bodily injury. So these are the kind it's you know,

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Speaker 3: a reactionary bill because it reacts to a horrible criminal event.

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Speaker 3: But it's also a common sense bill because you know,

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Speaker 3: these folks are here illegally and they turn around and

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Speaker 3: of the things we know about criminality is that most

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Speaker 3: criminals are upward defenders. Murder in broad daylight, which is

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Speaker 3: what happened in Lake and Riley's case, you know, isn't

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Speaker 3: the first crime most of those people commit. They commit

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Speaker 3: They start out committing these you know, theft defense and shoplifting, robbery,

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Speaker 3: get those people off the streets. It'll also give state

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Speaker 3: but other state attorneys general the power to sue the

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Speaker 3: federal government to force DHS to take people like this

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Speaker 3: In addition to that, it also gives those state attorneys

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Speaker 1: Last one did.

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Speaker 2: So all the mandates are on Department of Homeland Security.

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Speaker 2: Are the mandates on local police or sheriff departments to

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Speaker 3: No, And that's really the big flaw in this law,

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Speaker 2: One thing we were talking about at lengths last hour

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Speaker 1: And what keeps standing out is.

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Speaker 2: Why would let's say, a mayor of Los Angeles, Karen

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Speaker 2: Bass not want to help Holman and his ice crew

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Speaker 2: to get rid of these characters. At a Los Angeles

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Speaker 2: we are not talking about maids and gardeners and little

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Speaker 3: Well, the simple answer is that it's the you know,

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Speaker 3: dangerous confluence of sanctimony and ignorance. On the one hand,

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Speaker 3: there to protect the American people. But the sanctimonious part

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Speaker 3: is when they, you know, appeal to some portion of

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Speaker 3: a tough stand. Remember Denver Mayor, the Denver Mayor said

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Speaker 3: from getting your child molesters, your robbers, your kidnappers. I mean,

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Speaker 3: it's so utterly bri it's insane.

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Speaker 2: How can a public official cling to a notion that insane?

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Speaker 2: I don't know. If you saw the New York Times

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Speaker 2: Paul eighty seven percent of the country, eighty seven percent

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Speaker 3: I had no idea. I wasn't in Los Angeles when

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Speaker 3: see what's being done in their name, because every one

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Speaker 3: it is that ten percent of the population, who you know,

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Speaker 1: All right, but it's only ten percent.

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Speaker 2: Okay, the ten percent of the country is out of

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Speaker 2: their minds on many issues. But it's I mean, why

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Speaker 2: is why does a Karen Bass represent ten percent when

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Speaker 1: I'm just astonished by this.

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Speaker 3: Which is, you know, really underscores John, how important the

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Speaker 3: role that Tom Homan is playing right now, because part

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Speaker 3: is to underscore exactly the points that you're making. Look,

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Speaker 3: Lake and Riley and tens of Earf, not hundreds of

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Speaker 3: is you know why. It was a masterstroke on Trump's

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Speaker 3: that's not a role that exists in our political order,

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Speaker 3: but he created it so that there'd be somebody out

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Speaker 2: All Right, Art Arthur from Center for Immigration Studies, thank

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Speaker 2: you for coming on. Thanks so much, John, all right,

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Speaker 2: Alex Stone is coming up after the two thirty news.

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Speaker 2: He's got audio from the La County Sheriff's Department of

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Speaker 2: two deputies. This is bodycam audio checking a senior living

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Speaker 6: It was so crazy. I saw the video this morning

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Speaker 2: Wow, yeah, I will. I assume he's got the audio

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Speaker 1: Edison.

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Speaker 2: I think we explained yesterday again how terribly dangerous these

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Speaker 2: utility companies are to our lives. Southern California. Edison some

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Speaker 2: years ago was found liable for the twenty seventeen Thomas

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Speaker 2: wildfire in Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties, and it is

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Speaker 7: Now, who in their right mind is going to agree

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Speaker 1: It's the California Public Utilities Commission.

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Speaker 6: Okay, So the California Public Utilities Commission should say you

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Speaker 7: Why would you make innocent people pay more?

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Speaker 2: Edison also wants us to cover five and a half

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Speaker 2: so you'll get they if they pass. If the Public

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Speaker 2: Utilities Commission passes both measures, Edison customers will have a

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Speaker 2: two percent surcharge on their bills for the next thirty years.

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Speaker 6: No thirty years, but no, seriously, this makes zero sense.

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Speaker 6: So you're you're trying, You're you're making innocent people pay

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Speaker 6: more money for a problem that it.

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Speaker 1: Was your fault. Punish the customers, punish the customers.

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Speaker 2: The customers pay you billions of dollars to run your

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Speaker 6: Which makes first of all, that should be the number

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Speaker 6: one priority. Not only is it dangerous, but it's ugly.

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Speaker 6: Who wants to see those lines everywhere? I sure don't.

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Speaker 2: And they don't bury the lines, they don't de energize

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Speaker 6: Then there's u and then they have to pay for lawsuits.

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Speaker 6: So now that they're going to be transferring money to

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Speaker 7: In the first place.

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Speaker 1: It's always our fault. It's our fault for being a customer.

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Speaker 6: But somebody needs to talk to the California Public Utilities

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Speaker 6: Commission and say, and a story, this is stupid.

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Speaker 2: Well, they don't have the money. See, they end up

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Speaker 2: going bankrupt, and then they go bankrupt. And when PG

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Speaker 3: Yah.

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Speaker 7: I know, Well there has to be a different way.

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Speaker 6: There has to be a fund. You can't go back

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Speaker 6: had fires.

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Speaker 2: If we had some kind of like at least a

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Speaker 2: public humiliation ritual for the energy executive.

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Speaker 7: Absolutely we should.

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Speaker 1: We'd get that kind of satisfaction out of it.

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Speaker 7: Oh, you should do that.

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Speaker 1: It's like I'll pay.

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Speaker 2: The two percent increase, but you know, I want to

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Speaker 7: This is this is maddening, This is insane.

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Speaker 2: You know, electric prices here in this state are twice

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Speaker 7: Well, there's no rhyme or reason.

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Speaker 6: I don't understand it. I mean, we could be gone

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Speaker 2: Well, the whole system seems corrupt, Like the whole industry

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Speaker 2: seems corrupt. All I know is that the executives from

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Speaker 2: these companies walk away with multimillion dollar parachutes every time

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Speaker 6: I wouldn't mind having a seven hundred and fifty thousand

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's right, Yeah, yes, And you don't even

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Speaker 2: have to fill up the reservoir.

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Speaker 2: You just have a whole public world has gone silent

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Speaker 6: You know, you were asking why people are still going

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Speaker 2: And I and also they have not explained what caused

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Speaker 2: they said, well, maybe it was that fireworks issue from

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Speaker 2: that's going to come out in six months. I don't

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's not it's it's ridiculous. And fireworks should be illegal.

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Speaker 6: I know people are not going to agree they are illegal,

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Speaker 7: I know, there has to be a way. Yeah, that

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Speaker 6: Because they are, but there has to be there has

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Speaker 6: to be some serious punishment. You know, I saw a

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Speaker 7: I mean, people are just so.

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Speaker 6: And I don't care when people get hurt when they're

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Speaker 2: When they blow their hands off. I laugh, like the guy,

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Speaker 6: No, that would stop it already with the fireworks for

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Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A

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Speaker 2: We're on every day one to four after four o'clock

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Speaker 2: John Cobolt Show on demand. Let's get to Alex Stone.

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Speaker 2: This heartbreaking story. At least it didn't end tragically, the

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Speaker 2: this is pretty incredible audio to here. And so the

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Speaker 2: It was a one hundred mile per hour winds. They

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Speaker 1: They were put on the fire area and.

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Speaker 2: They were assigned to clear and already evacuated senior living complex.

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Speaker 2: They thought it was already evacuated, and they were sent

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Speaker 2: They're also watching out for their own safety, to make

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Speaker 8: Apartment. Anybody inside Sarah's apartment, anybody inside just like monitor

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Speaker 8: looking out the windows to see, like where the fire?

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Speaker 3: Oh, shoot that shirt.

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Speaker 6: It's gone.

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Speaker 2: So then John, They hear a faint voice down the

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Speaker 4: Hello, Hello, where are you?

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Speaker 3: Where are you? Oh?

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Speaker 4: What? Which room were you from? I've been trying to

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Speaker 1: Let's get you.

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Speaker 2: Out here, Let's get you out in the darkness. There

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Speaker 4: Okay, thank goodness, we've been yelling. Did you hear us

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Speaker 4: I didn't hear I'm deaf, okay.

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Speaker 2: Shocked my hearing one hundred years old that asked of

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Speaker 2: It's incredible where they brought in. These city bus drivers

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Speaker 2: So this is not that, but somehow she got left behind.

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Speaker 2: But we don't know how. You would think they would

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Speaker 2: when they said, didn't you hear us I'm deaf? Yeah,

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Speaker 2: they want to they want to reunite Alcohoniz and Martinez

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Wow, that's that's quite a moment to have it recorded.

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Speaker 2: ABC News. I'm not up in one of those places

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Speaker 6: But if that was your mom or your grandmother, can

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Speaker 1: I mean, yes, that's out of everybody. I really would

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Speaker 7: Do a head count. You have to.

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Speaker 6: You're putting them, you're loading them on buses, I presume,

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Speaker 6: a one hundred year old woman.

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Speaker 2: She stands out. She's got to be the oldest person there, absolutely,

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Speaker 2: and she can still move around. How did they Nobody

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Speaker 2: thought of her? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I would think.

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Speaker 6: Because they don't they all the care because my mother

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Speaker 6: in law is one of the in one of those

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Speaker 6: sen you're living at us and everybody is assigned somebody.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, that's what I'm saying.

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Speaker 7: They would know, wouldn't they go through.

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Speaker 1: Regular routines of emergencies.

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Speaker 2: I mean, we have plenty of emergencies in southern California,

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Speaker 2: be any number of.

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Speaker 6: Things, right, but that or you're just so freaked out

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Speaker 6: that this fire is coming that you just you just

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Speaker 6: want to get out.

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Speaker 7: You don't care about anybody else.

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Speaker 1: No retirement home for me. That's it. Back to the

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Speaker 1: exit bag plan.

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Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty.

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Speaker 2: Coming up after three o'clock, we're going to talk with

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Speaker 2: Jake Coogan. He was with a volunteer fire group that

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Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom put together a few years ago and then disbanded.

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Speaker 1: Why was it disbanded?

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Speaker 2: It was a volunteer group and they could have been

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Speaker 2: used for the fire problems that we had a few

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Speaker 2: weeks ago. We'll talk with Jay coming up. This drone

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Speaker 2: story yesterday the news broke I think during during the

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Speaker 2: show and after thinking about it and reading some more

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Speaker 2: news stories. They didn't explain anything that we didn't already

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Speaker 2: know or could have easily guessed. They said that the

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Speaker 2: all the drones over New Jersey, and there were hundreds

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Speaker 2: and hundreds of them for weeks. Was it was it

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Speaker 2: was approved by the authorized by the FAA. But they

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Speaker 2: never said, well, whose drones were they? The FAA authorized

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Speaker 2: that they could fly. They made it sound like these

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Speaker 2: drones belonged to the FAA. They didn't. It wasn't the enemy,

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Speaker 2: I guess not, or they would have been fired upon.

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Speaker 2: So is this a classified military experiment that they did well?

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Speaker 6: But wouldn't they just say that, Hey, we can't talk

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Speaker 6: about it, it's classified. End of story. But again, we're

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Speaker 6: still we're still talking about it. We're still wondering.

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Speaker 7: People were totally freaked out about it at first.

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Speaker 2: When it's classified, are you allowed to say it's classified?

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Speaker 7: Say it's classified.

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Speaker 6: You just can't say how you can't explain the classification, right,

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Speaker 6: I mean, you can say it's classified.

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Speaker 7: That's not giving away anything because.

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Speaker 2: They and she was very abruptly dismissive about it. I

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Speaker 2: know everybody was raving over this woman.

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Speaker 6: Yesterday, seven years Frescoss.

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Speaker 1: I know, but they're all the same. It doesn't matter

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Speaker 1: who they are.

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Speaker 2: They don't actually answer the questions and they don't give

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Speaker 2: the details and the context in the background. So I'm

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Speaker 2: I'm still as curious as I was before. You know,

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Speaker 2: Trump didn't clear anything up. And they also haven't explained

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Speaker 2: why the FAA didn't tell New Jersey law enforcement or

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Speaker 2: New Jersey politicians or the public all this, all this

501
00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:51,280
Speaker 2: information going all the way back to November. If it

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Speaker 2: was nothing, then why didn't you say it was nothing

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Speaker 2: back in November.

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Speaker 7: That's the problem. Just be honest.

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Speaker 6: This is why I can't stand Paul politics and politicians,

506
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Speaker 6: because nobody's honest. If you're honest, you're gonna you're gonna

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Speaker 6: make people feel so much better, especially a situation like

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Speaker 6: this classified. It's classified, we can't talk about it. But

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Speaker 6: you know what, everybody's going to be. Okay, you're not

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Speaker 6: in any danger.

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Speaker 7: You don't need to worry.

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Speaker 2: I still wont to know what the experiment was because

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Speaker 2: it looked like something for the military.

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Speaker 6: Right now, If it's classified, they can't tell you, and

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Speaker 6: if it isn't classified, then they should tell you.

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Speaker 2: They also at the time put temporary flight restrictions over

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Speaker 2: parts of New Jersey for special security reasons. They didn't

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Speaker 2: explain why they did that at the same time saying

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Speaker 2: that the drones were were benign. There's just like a

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Speaker 2: lot of contradictions, and so she was so dismissive of

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Speaker 2: the whole thing, saying everything's fine, don't worry about it, because.

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Speaker 6: That's what she's told to do, I know, which And

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Speaker 6: then you kind of think, well, then, why are you

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Speaker 6: even talking about it.

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Speaker 7: You're not going to give us the information.

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Speaker 2: See, the FAA's role is to ensure that drones operate

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Speaker 2: safely within the broader national airspace system. It's legal to

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Speaker 2: operate drones under four hundred feet if you comply with

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Speaker 2: all the rules, got to avoid restricted airspace.

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Speaker 6: Why shold you that drone was flying by my bedroom window?

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Speaker 6: Oh yeah, right, Well that was your creepy neighbor though,

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Speaker 6: Well that was a real estate agent trying to the.

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Speaker 2: Creepy real estate agent, yes, exactly, trying to take photos

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Speaker 2: of you getting ready for bed. Yeah, uh huh, using

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Speaker 2: his sales brochure. Hey, look what the neighbors are like, Hey,

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Speaker 2: you want to move This lady keeps her windows wide open.

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Speaker 1: We come back.

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Speaker 2: We're going to talk now about the Jay Coogan. He

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Speaker 2: was part of a volunteer fire group that the state

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Speaker 2: put together, Gavin Newsom did, and then Newsom disbanded it

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Speaker 2: without any explanation.

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Speaker 1: And maybe he could have been used to.

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Speaker 2: Fight the fires, especially early on when we were way

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Speaker 2: short of manpower. We've got Debor Mark here and doing

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Speaker 2: the news today. Island. Gonzales live in the KFI twenty

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Speaker 2: four our newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to The John

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Speaker 2: Covelt Show podcast. You can always hear the show live

548
00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:12,600
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