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Speaker 1: a couple of really terrible crimes committed this week. One

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Speaker 1: of them involved the sheriff's deputy shot in the back

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Speaker 1: so the injuries weren't that serious. The other one was

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Speaker 1: very tragic. A woman stabbed to death, stabbed in the

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Speaker 1: the She gets off the train and get stabbed by

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Speaker 1: this crazy psycho who has committed crimes against other passengers

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Speaker 1: on the metro train previously. But you know, nobody really

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Speaker 1: to Blake Trolley George gascon held a press conference earlier

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Speaker 1: this afternoon to discuss both cases, the deputy getting shot

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Speaker 1: the train. Blake, how are you hey?

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Speaker 2: I'm good, John, Yeah, which of these cases do you

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Speaker 1: Well, let's start with the with the West Covina with

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Speaker 1: doing more on the on the poor woman. But what

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Speaker 2: So Gascon came out and actually started his press conference

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Speaker 2: with the charges against Raymundo Durant. He's been charged with

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Speaker 2: attempted murder of a peace officer, assault with a deadly

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Speaker 2: felon in possession of a gun. Now, there have been

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Speaker 2: multiple reports John about Durand's background, and so Gascone he

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Speaker 2: So it was kind of like he set up the

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Speaker 2: who was sitting at that red light, as you'll remember

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Speaker 2: Now it sounds like the bullet and remember, no matter

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Speaker 2: I had an La County Sheriff's deputy earlier this week

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Speaker 2: only imagine what that kind of force hitting that part

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Speaker 1: You know, first of all, Gascon didn't even really know

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Speaker 1: is public record. That doesn't compromise the twenty twenty four case.

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Speaker 3: And what do you hear?

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Speaker 1: What is the court?

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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm no attorney, but I'm thinking, even as

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Speaker 3: Would this actually compromise these new charges?

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Speaker 1: No, this is he's just reading history, but he didn't

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Speaker 1: then when he says, oh, felony evading in twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 1: thirty two months that would be that would be two

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Speaker 3: Yeah, a couple of.

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Speaker 2: Things here, John, I mean, let's look at what led

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Speaker 2: What led him to become a felon in the firstase, Well, apparently,

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Speaker 2: according to reports, that was stabbing a coworker in two

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Speaker 1: Anyway, he killed somebody in two thousand and one.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, manslaughter conviction for stabbing a coworker to death in

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Speaker 3: That's what's been reported.

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Speaker 2: And that was a great background reporting by Bill Malujin

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Speaker 3: So that's his criminal record before.

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Speaker 2: Just keep in mind before he's a felon in illegally

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Speaker 1: And then he follows up with the duy in twenty

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Speaker 1: And in twenty twenty four he's doing target practice a

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Speaker 3: Well, let's not forget.

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Speaker 2: He also gets pulled over for another DUI apparently down

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Speaker 1: How many crimes? How many felonies does he get to commit?

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Speaker 1: He nearly killed a sheriff's deputy, And what's Gascone's responsibility

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Speaker 1: Why wasn't that murder? And what else happened that that

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, let's do the train next.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Well to the train next. And this woman who

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Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM

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Speaker 4: six forty.

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Speaker 1: Part two of Blake Trolley. George Gascon held a press

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Speaker 1: conference two cases. One regarding the sheriff's deputy who was

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Speaker 1: shot in the back in West Covina while on a motorcycle.

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Speaker 1: Second one here and by the way, that is outrageous.

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Speaker 1: Blake to tell us what guess Cohen had to say

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so this time we're talking about forty five year

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Speaker 2: old Elliott Noden. He's been charged and these charges were

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Speaker 3: John.

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Speaker 2: He's been charged with murder robbery of a transit passenger.

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Speaker 2: He's been hit with the special circumstances of murder being

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Speaker 2: carried out for a robbery, and that he went after

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Speaker 2: a vulnerable victim. Now, you were mentioning his background, so

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Speaker 2: mind that his background directly pertains to the transit system.

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Speaker 2: In twenty nineteen, he was charged with attacking a passenger

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Speaker 3: Of his probation.

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Speaker 2: A few weeks after that, he was charged with assault

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Speaker 5: That, There's no case that has been presented to my office.

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Speaker 5: I'm not sure that it was presented to the city attorney.

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Speaker 5: Appears to be a missing inner case, but we have

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Speaker 2: So he's saying that the case has not been presented

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Speaker 2: the city attorney. That's something that we're going to have

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Speaker 2: to work to find out, because you know, he was

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Speaker 1: That's unforble. There's no way to enforce that. He's not

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you think that case comes up though, somebody who's

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Speaker 2: You think that the either the city attorney or the

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 2: I was told by somebody today, a source told me

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Speaker 2: But nonetheless, given his history, you think they might dig

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Speaker 2: he's been charged today. He is facing life in prison.

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Speaker 2: One of the new details that we found about this

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Speaker 2: also told today is that she was actually sitting down

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Speaker 1: That's what psychotics do. This guy's forty five years old.

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Speaker 1: He's clearly insane and you should have been locked up.

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Speaker 1: If they took him to the state hospital, what did

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, and why did he let him out?

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Speaker 1: This is the stuff the public should know. We're paying

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Speaker 1: clearly wasn't But none of this stuff ever gets reported

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Speaker 2: Well, we've heard law enforcement in the past talk about

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Speaker 2: the fact that we really just don't have any state

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Speaker 1: Well, we spend over three hundred billion dollars a year

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Speaker 2: One thing I asked gas going to touch on today

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Speaker 2: how many cases don't go reported. I wonder how many

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Speaker 3: And here's his response to that.

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Speaker 5: The majority of those cases in the City of La

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Speaker 5: don't have visibility to those cases. But I think it's

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Speaker 5: important to understand that in twenty twenty three, according to Metro,

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Speaker 5: and the number of cases that they may involve misdemeanor cases.

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Speaker 5: You know, we generally will not have visibility, especially in

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Speaker 5: their own city attorney on the felony side. When they

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Speaker 5: come to us, we have a very high filing rate,

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Speaker 5: but it's very hard for us to quantify Metro because

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Speaker 5: sometimes those cases are not necessarily identify as a Metro crime.

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Speaker 5: They're identifying as a crime that could be somewhere adjacent.

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Speaker 2: To So then you wonder how many cases there are

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Speaker 2: sure if you've ever spent any time near one of those,

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Speaker 2: they're not the most welcoming places now.

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Speaker 1: And are they Metro officials speaking out about this? I mean,

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Speaker 1: how many of their customers get stabbed to death before

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Speaker 1: they start talking and explaining why this is going on?

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Speaker 1: Why don't why don't they have a much stronger police presence,

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Speaker 1: and why don't they ditch this childish ambassador idea?

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Speaker 3: You know, Mary Bass was actually asked about this, Well, she's.

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Speaker 1: The chair, isn't she the chairwoman of the Metro?

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Speaker 2: Or is the chest She's chair of the Metro board.

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Speaker 2: She actually referenced that in this answer. She So, the

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Speaker 2: I was handling this. But reporters that were at that

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Speaker 6: Say, goodness, it's just you know, what can I say

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Speaker 6: other than that is just a horrific tragedy. And I

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Speaker 6: I know that she was attacked and I know that

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Speaker 6: she later passed away. And so, serving as the chair

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Speaker 6: of MTA, you know, we have really done everything we

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Speaker 6: crime had been down significantly, especially violent crime, and that

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Speaker 6: our ridership is up so much.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to cheerleader mode, right.

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Speaker 6: The largest ridership in the country.

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Speaker 1: Let's start to hear that.

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Speaker 6: And I do plan to learn far more about the

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Speaker 1: They understand happened. You let us know.

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Speaker 6: My message to the community is Metro is safe, much

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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Blake, I could talk to you all day.

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Speaker 1: I gotta go, all right, jan I'm going to have

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Speaker 1: more on this woman who got killed. Her name was

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Speaker 1: Myrna Sosa and you'll see the background and Karen Bass.

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Speaker 1: Things are getting safer all the time. Huh.

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Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty.

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Speaker 1: Conway's coming up at four o'clock. I want to follow

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Speaker 1: up on Blake Trolley's report gascon Boy is Yes, something else.

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Speaker 1: Gascone did a news conference on two of the big

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Speaker 1: They've found that guy. He's been arrested and charged, and

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Speaker 1: City coming off that train Metro train. Metro runs just

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Speaker 1: an absolute reprehensible business there. It's just awful how they

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Speaker 1: they've done nothing about getting all the crazy people and

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Speaker 1: I really resent Karen Basking. Oh, it's getting safer every day,

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Speaker 1: you know, things are getting better. Yeah, she would have

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Speaker 1: His name is Elliot Noden. And again Elliot Noden already

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Speaker 1: Karen Bass is insisting metroline is safe. Metro line is safe.

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Speaker 1: Look at this one guy, all the damage he's done

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Speaker 1: Myrna Sosa. She wants to go back to Managua, Nicaragua,

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Speaker 1: Noden had pleaded no contest in twenty nineteen to attacking

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Speaker 1: So after three years, he's not insane anymore. Now, between

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Speaker 1: he was still insane, and he was insane this week

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Speaker 1: when he kills Mina Susa. The time said she was

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Speaker 1: living a lonely life in Los Angeles. She moved here

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Speaker 1: to make money as best she could. Sixty six years old.

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Speaker 1: She had gone to college in Nicaragua, studied at colleging.

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Speaker 1: She didn't have that many friends here, so it was

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Speaker 1: and just yeah, she's sixty six. There aren't that many

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Speaker 1: little early because she was tired. Otherwise she would have

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Speaker 1: waited till the sun rose. Maybe if she waited, you know,

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Speaker 1: she wouldn't have run across the sky. But Karen Bass

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Speaker 1: runs an unsafe rail line and George Gascone runs an

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Speaker 1: unsafe county. But you people keep electing progressives like Gascone

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Speaker 1: and Bass, and then you have your thoughts and prayers

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Speaker 1: ready when this poor lady Mirror Sosa gets stabbed to

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Speaker 1: death in the neck, gets her throat cut, because you know,

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Speaker 1: those thoughts and prayers work really well. After you've elected

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Speaker 1: a prosecutor who doesn't prosecute and a mayor who can't

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Speaker 1: simply budget for enough police to keep the metro line safe.

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Speaker 1: They choose this gascon chooses not to prosecute and carry pass,

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Speaker 1: chooses not to spend the money. They've got plenty of money.

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Speaker 1: They have record amounts of money. You know what goes

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Speaker 1: for a lot of garbage, goes billions of dollars goes

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Speaker 1: for homeless programs. They fail all right before coming.

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Speaker 4: Up, you're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI

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Speaker 4: AM six forty.

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Speaker 1: You remember when when during the twenty sixteen presidential race.

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Speaker 1: I remember Ken and I reading this on the air,

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Speaker 1: and the Nasal Inquirer came out claiming that Ted Cruz's father,

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Speaker 1: Rafael Cruz, was an associate of Lee Harvey Oswald in

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Speaker 1: nineteen sixty three, and there was a photo allegedly of

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Speaker 1: Rafael Cruz with Oswald handing out Fedel castro pamphlets. This

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Speaker 1: was shortly before Oswald assassinated President Kennedy, and after that

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Speaker 1: photo came out, Trump started campaigning on it because he

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Speaker 1: was still locked in a primary battle with Cruz. Trump

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Speaker 1: what on Fox had said, I mean, what was he doing,

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Speaker 1: what was he doing with Lee Harvey Oswald before the death,

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Speaker 1: before the shooting. It's horrible. Well, now, the publisher of

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Speaker 1: the National Inquirer, or former publisher, David Pecker, is on

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Speaker 1: the stand this week in the Hushmunny trial, and he

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Speaker 1: admitted that they made up that story, just a total fabrication.

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Speaker 1: Under questioning from the pop prosecutor Joshua Stenglass, Pecker said,

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Speaker 1: the editor in chief at the time, Dylan Howard, and

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Speaker 1: their research department, and they faked the photo. What they

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Speaker 1: did is they mashed up the photos and pasted it together,

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Speaker 1: and they created a story that Ted Cruz's dad was

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Speaker 1: hung out with Lee Harvey Oswald and they were handing

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Speaker 1: out castro pamphlets and kind of a kind of an

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Speaker 1: insinuation that maybe he Cruz's father had something to do

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Speaker 1: with Kennedy's assassination. When they said, what would happen is

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Speaker 1: Michael Cohen, Trump's attorney would call and suggest which candidates

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Speaker 1: the National Inquirer should go after they would send him

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Speaker 1: a piece about Cruise. Then the Inquirer would embellish it.

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Speaker 1: They also pushed in twenty sixteen the idea that Marco

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Speaker 1: Rubio was also running for president. The Florida senator had

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Speaker 1: a love child and some connection to cocaine. The same thing.

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Speaker 1: They had something weird, some weird story about Ben Carson

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Speaker 1: as well.

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Speaker 7: Crew says he doesn't want to talk about it. Uh, Conway,

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Speaker 7: I'm sorry, I just walked in it. You're talking about

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Speaker 7: Bill Handle? Yeah, what part got you in? The connection

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Speaker 7: to Cruise? Right? Alex Stone is coming on today. The

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Speaker 7: Department of Transportation is rolling out new rules today that

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Speaker 7: are going to require airlines to automatically give cash refunds

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Speaker 7: to passengers for canceled and significantly delayed flights.

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Speaker 1: Good.

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Speaker 7: I don't know why it's them on. I guess I

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Speaker 7: read the whole story.

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Speaker 1: That's the story. That's all you need to know.

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Speaker 7: That's it, all right, cancel that, guy William And also

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Speaker 7: we got a big charity event going on. But the

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Speaker 7: big story is these campuses where these protests are going on. Man, man,

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Speaker 7: it's getting out of control. I watch them all day.

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Speaker 7: I'm on YouTube watching live cameras Berkeley, Columbia, and it

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Speaker 7: has the sense of and I was too young to

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Speaker 7: remember this, but Kent University, Kent State. I just think

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Speaker 7: of the Saints. How close are we to a shooting

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Speaker 7: like that? All takes is one yeah, you know, one

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Speaker 7: yeah to go onto a campus, or one nut in

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Speaker 7: the crowd, right, and it's over. And then it's you know,

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Speaker 7: then there's a one hundred kids dead. This is gonna

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Speaker 7: be nineteen sixty eight all over again. It's gonna be crazy,

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Speaker 7: absolutely crazy. And it's Bellyo's birthday, So Sharon, belly O,

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Speaker 7: happy birthday to share all right? What Oh tomorrow? Oh Christ?

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Speaker 7: That means I got to bring something in and the

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Speaker 7: gift and bring it tomorrow, bring your cupcakes. Oh tomorrow.

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Speaker 7: I thought it was today. I could have got by,

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Speaker 7: Oh it's today, happy birthday, But now it's tomorrow. I

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Speaker 7: gotta bring a cake and gifts, right, oh man, that's

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Speaker 7: why somebody told me it was today.

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Speaker 1: So they're a cheese steak. I think we have left.

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Speaker 7: Oh yeah, where's that from? Philly's Best?

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Speaker 1: Philly's Best.

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Speaker 7: Oh they're the best.

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Speaker 1: They are the best.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, and you know you're from back east.

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Speaker 3: You know this.

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Speaker 7: The bread makes the sandwich in a Philly's cheese dack.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. And this is the only place since I came

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Speaker 1: out here that's uh in league with the East Coast?

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Speaker 1: Is that right? Che steaks?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, oh that's great. I go to the one in

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Speaker 7: Burbank all the time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, me too.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's just it's terrific, man. And I don't care

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Speaker 7: what the price is.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 7: Somebody said, I'll the price went up. If it's one

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Speaker 7: hundred dollars, I'm in. I don't care when you get

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Speaker 7: a great sandwich like that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah there, what are you.

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Speaker 7: Gonna save a dollar and get into Gestion somewhere else?

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Speaker 1: Is the bad ones? You're the same price, So that's right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: get a good one.

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Speaker 3: Exactly.

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Speaker 7: They are they are.

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Speaker 1: They're terrific, all right. Conway's next big talk with you

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