1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,520 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:08,400 Speaker 2: We're on every day from one until four o'clock, and 4 00:00:08,440 --> 00:00:11,879 Speaker 2: then after four o'clock we transform magically into a podcast, 5 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:14,760 Speaker 2: the same as the radio show, John Cobelt Show on 6 00:00:14,880 --> 00:00:20,680 Speaker 2: demand on the iHeart app. The Los Angeles Times has 7 00:00:20,720 --> 00:00:23,160 Speaker 2: a new story on this reservoir disaster. 8 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:25,240 Speaker 1: And if. 9 00:00:26,920 --> 00:00:29,680 Speaker 2: You lost a home in the Palisades or you're connected 10 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:35,040 Speaker 2: in some way to this, this terrible tragedy. 11 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:37,960 Speaker 1: This is really going to inflame you. There. 12 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:41,800 Speaker 2: There is a whole system failure in Los Angeles government 13 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:44,960 Speaker 2: that encompasses not just the Mayor's office and the City 14 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:49,640 Speaker 2: Council and the city administration, but the upper echelons of 15 00:00:49,680 --> 00:00:53,480 Speaker 2: the Fire Department and the Department of Water Power. It's 16 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:57,200 Speaker 2: the management, it's the decision makers, it's and it's it's 17 00:00:57,240 --> 00:01:01,200 Speaker 2: it's a carav Bass takes the responsibility because she's in 18 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:03,400 Speaker 2: charge of the fire Department, she's in charge of the 19 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:09,039 Speaker 2: police Department and the DWP. She she picked Jennie's queen 20 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:12,800 Speaker 2: on As to be the to be the CEO, the 21 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:14,840 Speaker 2: head of the d WP. So this is this is 22 00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:17,480 Speaker 2: all on bath and the things you're going to find 23 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:19,759 Speaker 2: out here is something a mayor should know. I keep 24 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:23,119 Speaker 2: running in my head. It's like, all right, if you're 25 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:26,280 Speaker 2: starting a government from stratch, from scratch one of the 26 00:01:26,360 --> 00:01:29,520 Speaker 2: let let's say we could start a new government. We've 27 00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:33,520 Speaker 2: established a new city on an island somewhere. What do 28 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:34,880 Speaker 2: you want the government to do? 29 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:35,319 Speaker 1: First? 30 00:01:35,319 --> 00:01:39,120 Speaker 2: And most importantly, you want to create a police and 31 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:42,600 Speaker 2: fire department, and you want to be able to transmit 32 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:46,920 Speaker 2: water and power. Right, I can't think of anything more 33 00:01:46,959 --> 00:01:49,960 Speaker 2: important than that. Then police and fire, water and power. 34 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:54,080 Speaker 2: You want to do the school system, but that's a 35 00:01:54,160 --> 00:01:57,440 Speaker 2: complete failure and the mayor doesn't have any control over that. Anyway, here, 36 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:06,840 Speaker 2: the roads could be are very important, but less important 37 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:10,720 Speaker 2: than the fire and the police. You're generally not gonna 38 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:15,720 Speaker 2: die because of bad roads, and there are different jurisdictions 39 00:02:15,720 --> 00:02:18,000 Speaker 2: that control different roads. So I'm thinking, okay, what are 40 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:21,760 Speaker 2: the pure departments that a civilization must have in the 41 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 2: modern world, and that's police, fire, water and power. And 42 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:30,920 Speaker 2: how much failure did we get from the water and 43 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:34,160 Speaker 2: power department? How much failure did we get from the 44 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:38,160 Speaker 2: management in the fire department? Well enough to have sixty 45 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:43,400 Speaker 2: three hundred structures destroyed in the Palisades and enough to 46 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:44,359 Speaker 2: kill eleven people. 47 00:02:45,639 --> 00:02:47,120 Speaker 1: And the more the. 48 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:50,000 Speaker 2: Times and other places report on this, the more you 49 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:58,440 Speaker 2: just can't believe the incompetence, the stupidity. I don't get it, 50 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:02,960 Speaker 2: and nobody seems to want to explain it. I mentioned 51 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:05,160 Speaker 2: early on when the fires broke out, the bell Air 52 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:08,640 Speaker 2: fire in nineteen sixty one, bell Air and Brentwood, that 53 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:14,080 Speaker 2: was LA's most famous fire for a long time. Five 54 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:18,080 Speaker 2: hundred homes were wiped out, and there was a big 55 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:22,720 Speaker 2: public ruckus over that. So over the next three years, 56 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:27,320 Speaker 2: by nineteen sixty four, city leaders added thirteen fire stations, 57 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:32,080 Speaker 2: They mapped out fire hydrants, that bought helicopters, and dispatched 58 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 2: more crews to the Santa Monica Mountains. Because the Palisades 59 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:41,000 Speaker 2: and Bretwood and bel Air occupy the foothills the lower 60 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:43,120 Speaker 2: reaches of the Santa Monica Mountains. 61 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:45,760 Speaker 1: To accommodate growth of. 62 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:48,480 Speaker 2: The Palisades, they built a reservoir in sent to Inez 63 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:54,120 Speaker 2: Canyon and a pumping station specifically to increase fire protection. 64 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:59,200 Speaker 2: That is an exact quote from the chief water engineer 65 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:00,680 Speaker 2: in nineteen seventy two. 66 00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:04,840 Speaker 1: For LADWP. His name was Gerald W. Jones. 67 00:04:05,920 --> 00:04:08,920 Speaker 2: He told the La Times in nineteen seventy two that 68 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:11,720 Speaker 2: they're building a reservoir and said to it as canyon 69 00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:18,880 Speaker 2: and a pumping station to increase fire protection. Some of 70 00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:22,600 Speaker 2: the Palisades' residents at the time didn't like the reservoir. 71 00:04:22,920 --> 00:04:26,200 Speaker 2: I thought it was too close because in nineteen sixty 72 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:30,240 Speaker 2: three in Baldwin Hills, our reservoir had failed, killing five 73 00:04:30,279 --> 00:04:34,480 Speaker 2: people and destroying two hundred and eighty homes. I guess 74 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:40,080 Speaker 2: they were all flooded out. You know, we've had we've 75 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:45,760 Speaker 2: had trouble with competent people building and maintaining the infrastructure 76 00:04:45,760 --> 00:04:49,520 Speaker 2: in LA for a long long time. But they built 77 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:52,840 Speaker 2: the reservoir one hundred and seventeen million gallons. One woman 78 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:55,480 Speaker 2: is quoted here as saying I used to say all 79 00:04:55,520 --> 00:04:57,240 Speaker 2: the time, boy, I know one thing that will never 80 00:04:57,320 --> 00:05:02,520 Speaker 2: happen is our place will burn down. Peggy Holter nineteen 81 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:06,760 Speaker 2: seventy eight. She purchased a townhouse in the Highlands close 82 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:08,560 Speaker 2: to the reservoir. It was the one thing I never 83 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:18,799 Speaker 2: worried about. And her townhouse condo complex burned down because 84 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:23,240 Speaker 2: the water pressure went down to nothing, and she says, 85 00:05:23,279 --> 00:05:25,000 Speaker 2: I think if the reservoir had been there and they 86 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:27,119 Speaker 2: were sucking water out of it, I'm sure our building 87 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:31,279 Speaker 2: would have been saved. It was offline, as you know 88 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:35,040 Speaker 2: now for repairs. It's been offline for a year. There's 89 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:42,760 Speaker 2: two lawsuits. Hair Gel is demanding an investigation. Bass is 90 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:46,799 Speaker 2: promising a complete assessment. But the question is how could 91 00:05:46,839 --> 00:05:50,640 Speaker 2: this happen? How many people were involved and a decision 92 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:53,839 Speaker 2: that went on for a year not to fill a 93 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:58,960 Speaker 2: reservoir have it full with an upcoming fire season. Well, 94 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:02,839 Speaker 2: the whole reason they built the reservoir was to increase 95 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:09,080 Speaker 2: fire protection. The people who built the reservoir said it 96 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:12,000 Speaker 2: was to increase fire protection. So why would you drain 97 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:15,320 Speaker 2: it and keep it absolutely empty before a fire season 98 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:19,880 Speaker 2: when you knew the potential could be could be bad. 99 00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:21,680 Speaker 2: I mean it could be a bad fire season. We 100 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:25,159 Speaker 2: had two years of excessive rain, lots of dense vegetation, 101 00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:30,280 Speaker 2: eight months it's drying out. Why would you pick that 102 00:06:30,440 --> 00:06:35,880 Speaker 2: time to keep it empty. In fact, they think the 103 00:06:35,960 --> 00:06:38,760 Speaker 2: repairs are not going to be finished until April or 104 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:43,000 Speaker 2: May of this year. Now we're talking about almost a 105 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:46,039 Speaker 2: year and a half and all it is is a 106 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:49,159 Speaker 2: tear in the cover, how did you end up with 107 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:57,200 Speaker 2: a year and a half worth of empty reservoir. So 108 00:06:57,360 --> 00:06:59,600 Speaker 2: this goes back to January twenty twenty four, a year 109 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:04,400 Speaker 2: ago a DWP property manager spotted a tear in the 110 00:07:04,440 --> 00:07:10,640 Speaker 2: floating cover. Now, Barney, here is that for decades the 111 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:14,960 Speaker 2: reservoir was uncovered. From the nineteen sixties until twenty twelve, 112 00:07:15,040 --> 00:07:18,640 Speaker 2: there wasn't a cover, and then they changed some state 113 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:21,240 Speaker 2: regulation and you were supposed to have a cover so 114 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:26,240 Speaker 2: animals in debris, animals wouldn't poop, birds wouldn't poop, other 115 00:07:27,520 --> 00:07:29,080 Speaker 2: garbage wouldn't contaminate the water. 116 00:07:32,760 --> 00:07:33,760 Speaker 1: And so. 117 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:40,360 Speaker 2: A DWP property manager saw there was a tear two 118 00:07:40,440 --> 00:07:43,520 Speaker 2: days later. It was growing larger, and at the time 119 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:46,400 Speaker 2: the reservoir held about fifty six million gallons of water, 120 00:07:46,440 --> 00:07:51,880 Speaker 2: which is less than half its capacity anyway. Now policy 121 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:55,440 Speaker 2: calls for minor repairs to be addressed within forty eight hours. 122 00:07:56,080 --> 00:08:04,160 Speaker 2: Major repairs require specialized skills and are contracted out. The 123 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:07,640 Speaker 2: manual says make rare repairs as soon as possible, as 124 00:08:07,720 --> 00:08:12,360 Speaker 2: directed by the engineer. And now we're a year later 125 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:21,920 Speaker 2: and nothing's been repaired. They sent it out for a 126 00:08:21,960 --> 00:08:26,760 Speaker 2: contract bid and that took months. Why there was only 127 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:33,120 Speaker 2: one bid. They found the tar in January. They didn't 128 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:38,120 Speaker 2: put out the contract bid until April. The cost eighty 129 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:42,920 Speaker 2: nine thousand, but it wasn't until it wasn't until November 130 00:08:43,840 --> 00:08:47,480 Speaker 2: that the company that turned in the bid said they'll 131 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:51,320 Speaker 2: do it for one hundred and thirty So one hundred 132 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:55,439 Speaker 2: and thirty thousand dollars is all they had to spend. 133 00:08:56,080 --> 00:09:00,800 Speaker 2: And it took them all year just to settle on 134 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:05,000 Speaker 2: the one company that had offered. It's not like they 135 00:09:05,040 --> 00:09:09,000 Speaker 2: had seventeen companies and they were I mean, besides, this 136 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:11,240 Speaker 2: should have been an emergency, right. You hear about the 137 00:09:11,240 --> 00:09:14,440 Speaker 2: emergency declarations all the time. It's like, hey, hey, this 138 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:17,240 Speaker 2: one hundred and seventeen million gallon reservoir is at of service, 139 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:22,200 Speaker 2: fire season, coming emergency. Let's fix it one hundred thirty 140 00:09:22,240 --> 00:09:24,080 Speaker 2: thousand dollars. 141 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:26,480 Speaker 1: Now. 142 00:09:28,040 --> 00:09:34,280 Speaker 2: The residents didn't notice because the water system, the city 143 00:09:34,280 --> 00:09:39,080 Speaker 2: water system, was still supplying water. They didn't even need 144 00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:46,240 Speaker 2: the reservoir to get through their daily water requirements, the 145 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:49,160 Speaker 2: DWP said in the statement. Repairs were subject to the 146 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:52,800 Speaker 2: city Charter's competitive bidding process, which requires time. Why does 147 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:57,080 Speaker 2: it require time for something this important that you needed 148 00:09:57,080 --> 00:10:02,120 Speaker 2: this quickly, just following the manual and the regulations. That's 149 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:02,960 Speaker 2: what it's said. 150 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:04,640 Speaker 1: Now. 151 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:12,760 Speaker 2: On Tuesday, jeniez Z was supposed to publicly address at 152 00:10:12,760 --> 00:10:16,679 Speaker 2: a meeting of the La City Council's Energy and Environment Committee, 153 00:10:17,120 --> 00:10:21,319 Speaker 2: but Kenonias was blocked by the city attorney Heidi Feldstein's Soto. 154 00:10:21,440 --> 00:10:25,679 Speaker 2: I'm not making this up, Heidi Feldstein Soto. She didn't 155 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:29,040 Speaker 2: want him to talk because of all the lawsuits against 156 00:10:29,080 --> 00:10:34,720 Speaker 2: the city, so kes would be available at a closed 157 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:43,000 Speaker 2: door meeting. Wow, they leave the palisades to burn, they 158 00:10:43,120 --> 00:10:47,000 Speaker 2: leave the reservoir empty, they have the firefighters show up 159 00:10:47,040 --> 00:10:52,400 Speaker 2: an hour and a half late. Heidi Feldstein's Soto did 160 00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:55,560 Speaker 2: not respond to requests for a comment. Cononia's is not 161 00:10:55,679 --> 00:11:03,640 Speaker 2: speaking publicly. More lawsuits are expected. You had one job 162 00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:08,079 Speaker 2: fill the reservoir and the thing is, for fifty years 163 00:11:08,280 --> 00:11:12,360 Speaker 2: there wasn't to cover anyway, and they weren't even using 164 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:14,560 Speaker 2: it for their daily drinking water in the past year. 165 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:22,120 Speaker 2: Just keep it filled with or without the cover for 166 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:28,080 Speaker 2: fire season, and nobody did. What did they do all day? 167 00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:32,760 Speaker 2: You have one job supply water, well two jobs supply 168 00:11:32,800 --> 00:11:33,880 Speaker 2: water and supply power. 169 00:11:35,440 --> 00:11:39,480 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A 170 00:11:39,640 --> 00:11:40,319 Speaker 3: M six forty. 171 00:11:41,840 --> 00:11:45,320 Speaker 2: You know, of all of all the things, all the 172 00:11:45,360 --> 00:11:48,839 Speaker 2: bad guys the government could be going after, what does 173 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:53,280 Speaker 2: the U are the silly Attorney General Reha Rob Bonta. 174 00:11:53,960 --> 00:11:57,840 Speaker 2: He's a he's a newsome wanna bee. Literally he wants 175 00:11:57,840 --> 00:12:00,560 Speaker 2: he wants to be the next governor. And so he's 176 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:05,680 Speaker 2: trying to make his mark as attorney general. And you 177 00:12:05,720 --> 00:12:07,840 Speaker 2: know all the problems we have here. I mean, wait, 178 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:11,480 Speaker 2: wait till Trump's Ice team comes to LA and does 179 00:12:11,480 --> 00:12:14,640 Speaker 2: a raid, and you're going to see all the murderers 180 00:12:14,720 --> 00:12:18,360 Speaker 2: and rapists that the Ice team picks out of Los Angeles. 181 00:12:20,160 --> 00:12:23,880 Speaker 2: Uh and and and Bonta doesn't want to cooperate with 182 00:12:23,880 --> 00:12:26,160 Speaker 2: with Trump and Ice at all. 183 00:12:26,200 --> 00:12:27,320 Speaker 1: But you know what he's doing. 184 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:33,439 Speaker 2: He's going after real estate agents if he thinks an 185 00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:37,440 Speaker 2: agent has jacked up the price of a house too 186 00:12:37,559 --> 00:12:39,920 Speaker 2: high during. 187 00:12:39,679 --> 00:12:41,480 Speaker 1: This fire tragedy. 188 00:12:43,440 --> 00:12:45,959 Speaker 2: And you know, they put a ten percent limit on 189 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:49,360 Speaker 2: how much you can raise a home price for for 190 00:12:49,480 --> 00:12:54,600 Speaker 2: rent for you know, the next few months, because there's 191 00:12:54,640 --> 00:12:58,000 Speaker 2: a lot of people who obviously been displaced. So this 192 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:02,600 Speaker 2: couple wanted to rent a property Lakanyata flint Ridge. They 193 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:06,440 Speaker 2: lost their home in the Altadena fire and they go 194 00:13:06,559 --> 00:13:12,800 Speaker 2: to Mike Kobeesse he runs kobees Properties. Now, he originally 195 00:13:13,040 --> 00:13:16,560 Speaker 2: offered the house at for eighty seven hundred dollars a 196 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:20,840 Speaker 2: month and then realized he made a mistake. It was 197 00:13:20,920 --> 00:13:25,400 Speaker 2: below market, so he increased it to twelve thousand dollars 198 00:13:25,480 --> 00:13:28,679 Speaker 2: because he learned the area had switched school districts, and 199 00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:33,880 Speaker 2: that is really important. People buy homes and pay more 200 00:13:33,920 --> 00:13:37,199 Speaker 2: for homes based on the school district. So he says 201 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:40,560 Speaker 2: he looked and he realized, oh, my mistake. It's in 202 00:13:40,600 --> 00:13:43,360 Speaker 2: a better school district. So instead of eighty seven hundred, 203 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:46,440 Speaker 2: it's going to be twelve thousand. And the media rent 204 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:49,280 Speaker 2: for house in La Kaanyada Flintridge is thirteen thousand, so 205 00:13:49,320 --> 00:13:53,720 Speaker 2: this was still below the median. Now, the rent was 206 00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:57,080 Speaker 2: increased a few days after the La wildfires, but says 207 00:13:57,080 --> 00:13:59,320 Speaker 2: the fires had nothing to do with it, and the 208 00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:03,800 Speaker 2: listing was very and based on the median rent. Sounds 209 00:14:03,800 --> 00:14:11,160 Speaker 2: that way right, Bonta is jumping down his ass for 210 00:14:11,280 --> 00:14:14,679 Speaker 2: price gouging. You imagine this, this is the guy Bonta 211 00:14:14,800 --> 00:14:15,640 Speaker 2: goes after. 212 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:18,080 Speaker 4: It. 213 00:14:18,960 --> 00:14:22,160 Speaker 2: Very well, may have been a coincidence. If you have 214 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:25,520 Speaker 2: a suspicion, isn't this something, you call him up privately 215 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:31,160 Speaker 2: and see if the story checks out. Instead, he's publicly 216 00:14:31,240 --> 00:14:34,640 Speaker 2: shamed and he's up on a misdemeanor charge. 217 00:14:35,800 --> 00:14:36,720 Speaker 1: He was charged, Hobies. 218 00:14:36,800 --> 00:14:40,000 Speaker 2: He was charging the superior court with misdemeanor price gouging 219 00:14:40,280 --> 00:14:43,320 Speaker 2: for unlawfully raising the rental prices advertising. Now if this 220 00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:48,200 Speaker 2: happened at any other time, nobody would have noticed. He 221 00:14:48,240 --> 00:14:49,640 Speaker 2: has a plausible explanation. 222 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:51,520 Speaker 1: I made a mistake. 223 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:53,760 Speaker 2: I realized it was in a different school district. I 224 00:14:53,840 --> 00:14:59,440 Speaker 2: raised the price still below the medium. This is what 225 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:04,480 Speaker 2: Robb is going after, and he won't help out Ice 226 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:08,400 Speaker 2: get the rapists and the murderers that are living with 227 00:15:08,480 --> 00:15:11,680 Speaker 2: us in Los Angeles. This is I mean, this is 228 00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:20,440 Speaker 2: so bizarre. This is fascinating, Kobeesi said. Eventually, he rented 229 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:24,880 Speaker 2: the home to another family affected by the wildfires, and 230 00:15:24,920 --> 00:15:28,600 Speaker 2: when he learned about the situation, the property owner lowered 231 00:15:28,600 --> 00:15:35,200 Speaker 2: the price from twelve thousand to ninety five seventy in 232 00:15:35,320 --> 00:15:37,440 Speaker 2: game of three months of rent, free months rent and 233 00:15:37,480 --> 00:15:41,640 Speaker 2: a five thousand dollars moving allowance, which was very compassionate 234 00:15:41,680 --> 00:15:45,480 Speaker 2: and generous, and I think the whole thing was just 235 00:15:45,480 --> 00:15:50,960 Speaker 2: a mistake, seems to me. But this is the guy 236 00:15:51,040 --> 00:15:59,160 Speaker 2: Bonta has made a statewide example of I, because you 237 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:01,600 Speaker 2: could end up you can end up in prison for 238 00:16:01,640 --> 00:16:05,280 Speaker 2: a year, in county jail. That's who they're gonna put 239 00:16:05,280 --> 00:16:11,640 Speaker 2: in jail. Meanwhile, my neighborhood was overrun by looters last week, 240 00:16:12,560 --> 00:16:16,000 Speaker 2: and I'm sure these looters have been repeatedly arrested and 241 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:22,000 Speaker 2: set free. Those guys aren't in jail. They're looting my neighborhood. 242 00:16:22,760 --> 00:16:30,600 Speaker 2: They're going after a real estate agent. A. This is 243 00:16:30,680 --> 00:16:37,000 Speaker 2: just this is so oppressive, This is so absurd. The 244 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:40,200 Speaker 2: state has sent five hundred warning letters to hotels and 245 00:16:40,280 --> 00:16:42,400 Speaker 2: landlords who've been accused of price gouging. You know how 246 00:16:42,440 --> 00:16:47,000 Speaker 2: you deal with price gouging. You say no, it's called 247 00:16:47,040 --> 00:16:49,880 Speaker 2: the free market. You say no, I'm not paying that. 248 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:58,000 Speaker 1: I don't understand why why. 249 00:16:57,320 --> 00:16:59,760 Speaker 2: This is the problem I have with with with the 250 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:07,440 Speaker 2: regulate minimum wage and regulate prices, wages, everything. Just say no, 251 00:17:09,520 --> 00:17:11,480 Speaker 2: you don't have to live in that house. You don't 252 00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:13,119 Speaker 2: have to if you don't want to pay that money. 253 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:15,240 Speaker 2: Same thing with jobs. I mean, if you don't like 254 00:17:15,320 --> 00:17:19,440 Speaker 2: the payoffer, don't take the job. You have the control. 255 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:27,520 Speaker 2: Collectively we set prices and wages. No, it is a 256 00:17:27,600 --> 00:17:31,920 Speaker 2: very powerful word. But you need this guy going to prison. 257 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:37,760 Speaker 2: This is what Bonta does. Absolutely astonishing. 258 00:17:38,760 --> 00:17:43,119 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI Am 259 00:17:43,119 --> 00:17:43,680 Speaker 3: six forty. 260 00:17:44,560 --> 00:17:47,359 Speaker 2: We are gonna, well, what do we got coming up 261 00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:49,840 Speaker 2: at three o'clock? I know we got somebody coming on 262 00:17:51,119 --> 00:17:55,760 Speaker 2: from the Center for Immigration Studies, right Art Arthur, Yes, 263 00:17:56,400 --> 00:17:59,280 Speaker 2: and we're going to talk about what's what's going on 264 00:17:59,359 --> 00:18:02,719 Speaker 2: with all these secutive orders and and Ice had it. 265 00:18:02,760 --> 00:18:06,240 Speaker 2: I think you know, we'll play played Bill Illusion's report 266 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:09,920 Speaker 2: again from from Fox News because he got uh he 267 00:18:10,080 --> 00:18:15,480 Speaker 2: was he got a ride along with Ice this week 268 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:19,040 Speaker 2: early in the morning. It was five degrees and Ice 269 00:18:19,119 --> 00:18:23,679 Speaker 2: went and busted a number of criminal violent fellon illegal 270 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:28,520 Speaker 2: aliens because Boston is a sanctuary city, just like stupid La. 271 00:18:28,960 --> 00:18:31,159 Speaker 2: Wait to you see the guys that they busted. If 272 00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:33,560 Speaker 2: you haven't heard or seen this report, your hair is 273 00:18:33,560 --> 00:18:36,800 Speaker 2: going to fall out. This is what's going on. And 274 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:42,159 Speaker 2: we've got the exact same psycho progressive mentality here with 275 00:18:42,240 --> 00:18:47,639 Speaker 2: Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom speaking of bass in Newsom. 276 00:18:47,640 --> 00:18:51,080 Speaker 2: You might have heard debor just had a story about. Uh, 277 00:18:51,240 --> 00:18:54,920 Speaker 2: it was about the Newsom recall. Right, yeah, well there's 278 00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:57,560 Speaker 2: there's They had one going for Newsom. 279 00:18:57,600 --> 00:18:58,720 Speaker 1: Newsom's had eight of these. 280 00:18:58,880 --> 00:19:00,600 Speaker 5: Yeah, I didn't realize eat. 281 00:19:02,080 --> 00:19:02,800 Speaker 1: Well, he's been. 282 00:19:02,680 --> 00:19:07,000 Speaker 2: Bad from day one. I think I think the French 283 00:19:07,119 --> 00:19:11,080 Speaker 2: laundry ignited the only recall that made it to the ballot. 284 00:19:12,760 --> 00:19:15,320 Speaker 2: And you see and and and that was the that 285 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:18,119 Speaker 2: was the moment there. And I don't want to get 286 00:19:18,160 --> 00:19:20,359 Speaker 2: into the whole thing, but that that was the moment 287 00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:23,520 Speaker 2: to nail them and and and affected. He then got 288 00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:29,399 Speaker 2: he got re elected. It's just, so, what do you 289 00:19:29,440 --> 00:19:33,560 Speaker 2: think you're gonna get after we've seen him bumble around 290 00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:36,480 Speaker 2: for six years? It's it's never gonna get better. When 291 00:19:36,520 --> 00:19:39,600 Speaker 2: you don't have a certain intelligence that this is, this 292 00:19:39,720 --> 00:19:42,240 Speaker 2: is i Q, this is, this is pure intelligence. 293 00:19:44,440 --> 00:19:45,359 Speaker 1: When you don't have. 294 00:19:45,280 --> 00:19:51,280 Speaker 2: That, you can't get better. People with high intelligence they 295 00:19:51,359 --> 00:19:56,720 Speaker 2: use their intelligence in order to improve certain skills that 296 00:19:56,960 --> 00:20:01,320 Speaker 2: might not be they're strong points, but because they're smart, 297 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:03,760 Speaker 2: they learn what they have to do to turn to 298 00:20:03,800 --> 00:20:08,280 Speaker 2: make those skills stronger and more effective. But when you're 299 00:20:08,359 --> 00:20:12,800 Speaker 2: not when when when you're low power, low candlewot power 300 00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:15,280 Speaker 2: to begin with, There's nothing you can do. It's the 301 00:20:15,280 --> 00:20:17,480 Speaker 2: same thing with Karen Pass There's nothing she can do. 302 00:20:18,880 --> 00:20:19,760 Speaker 2: I told you she was. 303 00:20:21,359 --> 00:20:21,800 Speaker 1: On this. 304 00:20:23,320 --> 00:20:27,560 Speaker 2: Zoom meeting with people in our in our neighborhood. It 305 00:20:27,680 --> 00:20:30,439 Speaker 2: was like a homeowner's association meeting. And she was the 306 00:20:30,440 --> 00:20:33,720 Speaker 2: first face I saw on the zoom screen and he 307 00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:37,440 Speaker 2: just looked into those empty, frightened eyes, and I knew 308 00:20:37,520 --> 00:20:40,280 Speaker 2: before she even opened her mouth. It's like, Wow, she's 309 00:20:40,320 --> 00:20:43,280 Speaker 2: in over her head. The whole world's crashing down on her, 310 00:20:43,520 --> 00:20:45,239 Speaker 2: and she doesn't know what to do, and she does 311 00:20:45,359 --> 00:20:47,760 Speaker 2: have the slightest she doesn't have the slightest idea to 312 00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:51,000 Speaker 2: get out of us. Oh, speaking of we've got Rick 313 00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:54,440 Speaker 2: Caruso coming on the show tomorrow. How many of you 314 00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:58,920 Speaker 2: wish Rick Caruso is the mayor right now? How many 315 00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:01,439 Speaker 2: of you wish Rick Caruso was the mayor? You know 316 00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:05,080 Speaker 2: in the past year, you think the response would have 317 00:21:05,119 --> 00:21:07,160 Speaker 2: been the same in the Palisades. 318 00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:10,560 Speaker 5: Well, the people that you talked to in your neighborhood, 319 00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:12,719 Speaker 5: what do they feel, how do they feel did they 320 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:14,680 Speaker 5: vote for Bass? And what do they think? 321 00:21:14,760 --> 00:21:15,000 Speaker 1: Now? 322 00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:18,840 Speaker 2: What I noticed there was a running comment colin along 323 00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:21,520 Speaker 2: the right side of the zoom screen, and there is 324 00:21:21,640 --> 00:21:27,240 Speaker 2: zero support for bass. There was one person. There's always 325 00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:29,440 Speaker 2: this like goodie good and I imagine she was like 326 00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:33,080 Speaker 2: an elderly person because there's certain elderly women just like well, 327 00:21:33,119 --> 00:21:36,480 Speaker 2: I'm sure everybody's trying their best, you know, and there's 328 00:21:36,520 --> 00:21:38,800 Speaker 2: a lot of pressure here, and I'm sure she has 329 00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:41,399 Speaker 2: good intention. It was kind of like that, but it 330 00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:46,920 Speaker 2: was more like a general support. There are people they 331 00:21:46,960 --> 00:21:49,560 Speaker 2: have such a I guess they're the ones in school 332 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:53,159 Speaker 2: actually believed what the teachers were saying about government and 333 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:56,600 Speaker 2: public service and being a noble enterprise, and that these 334 00:21:56,640 --> 00:22:00,879 Speaker 2: people sacrifice their lives and they sacrifice making more money 335 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:04,080 Speaker 2: and getting more prestige in order to serve the rest 336 00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:04,840 Speaker 2: of us. 337 00:22:05,359 --> 00:22:06,840 Speaker 1: And I don't know. 338 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:10,000 Speaker 2: I think by high school I figured out that there's 339 00:22:10,040 --> 00:22:13,080 Speaker 2: no such thing. There's no person who gets into government 340 00:22:13,119 --> 00:22:17,720 Speaker 2: because I just want to serve everyone else. None on 341 00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:20,800 Speaker 2: the political level, not not when it comes to politicians 342 00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:25,000 Speaker 2: running for office. They serve themselves. They're worried about the 343 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:28,000 Speaker 2: political careers. That's beginning an end of it, And I 344 00:22:28,040 --> 00:22:30,520 Speaker 2: actually feel sorry for people who go, well, I'm sure, 345 00:22:30,520 --> 00:22:32,520 Speaker 2: she's trying her best. She just wants to serve the 346 00:22:32,560 --> 00:22:36,080 Speaker 2: public and do No, she doesn't care about serving the public. 347 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:36,800 Speaker 1: Stop it. 348 00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:41,600 Speaker 2: Nope, none of them do, None of them do. How 349 00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:43,920 Speaker 2: long do you have to live? How many experience does 350 00:22:44,080 --> 00:22:47,200 Speaker 2: do you have to have? This blind faith in government 351 00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:55,679 Speaker 2: workers or in political servants just astonishes me. So anyway, 352 00:22:55,720 --> 00:23:01,520 Speaker 2: here's the There's a group called Saving California and they're 353 00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:06,560 Speaker 2: starting up the recall. They only need fifty signatures for 354 00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:12,520 Speaker 2: a notice of intent, and it says the grounds for 355 00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:15,920 Speaker 2: this recall are as follows. Gavin Newsom's tenure has been 356 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:19,600 Speaker 2: marked by a series of catastrophic failures that directly impact 357 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:23,160 Speaker 2: our daily lives. His gross mismanagement during the Los Angeles 358 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:28,760 Speaker 2: County fires, with inadequate resources and delayed responses left communities devastated. 359 00:23:29,119 --> 00:23:32,000 Speaker 2: Under his watch, we've seved an unbearable rise in the 360 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:36,159 Speaker 2: cost of living, from gasoline to electricity to insurance. 361 00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:38,120 Speaker 1: And all of that is true. 362 00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:43,320 Speaker 2: We're paying two bucks more gallon, the electricity is double 363 00:23:43,359 --> 00:23:46,760 Speaker 2: what it is in other states. The insurance is expensive 364 00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:51,400 Speaker 2: or non existent. Crime rates of sword policy is more 365 00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:53,760 Speaker 2: lenient on offenders than insuring our safety. 366 00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:58,440 Speaker 1: We collectively know all this. Yet what is he doing. 367 00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:00,720 Speaker 1: He's putting together a president. She'll run. 368 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:09,080 Speaker 2: Drug epidemic border issues despite our high taxes. There's little 369 00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:14,400 Speaker 2: to show for it. And whoever wrote that is right 370 00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:19,040 Speaker 2: on every single point. But between apathy and people who 371 00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:24,359 Speaker 2: have religious like devotion to political figures, we're stuck with 372 00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:29,480 Speaker 2: the oppressor. We're stuck with this guy who owes most 373 00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:30,240 Speaker 2: of his success. 374 00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:31,840 Speaker 1: There was jawline in his hair. 375 00:24:33,119 --> 00:24:36,879 Speaker 5: Yeah, people really do think he's hot. I was talking 376 00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:42,320 Speaker 5: to somebody. We were talking about him and this woman. Yeah, 377 00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:45,399 Speaker 5: she said that she would miss seeing his beautiful face 378 00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:47,719 Speaker 5: if he was no longer the governor of California. 379 00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:52,560 Speaker 1: Oh really recently she said this, Huh, even after the fires. 380 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:54,480 Speaker 5: She was not affected by the fire. 381 00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:55,720 Speaker 1: Oh, I see. 382 00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:58,760 Speaker 2: I love people who are not affected by the destruction 383 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:05,080 Speaker 2: that politics spring. I mean, he his his moment to 384 00:25:05,119 --> 00:25:09,399 Speaker 2: that Palisades mother where he was pretending to be on 385 00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:11,720 Speaker 2: the phone with Joe Biden. To me, that's even more 386 00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:15,879 Speaker 2: devastating than the French laundry. He actually lied to this 387 00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:17,400 Speaker 2: crying mother. 388 00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:23,040 Speaker 5: I think the French laundry was more offensive, just because 389 00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:26,439 Speaker 5: everybody was told. Yeah, and everybody was told you know, 390 00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:28,639 Speaker 5: make sure that you wear a mask and you, you know, 391 00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:31,520 Speaker 5: take your mask off in between what is it bites? 392 00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:35,159 Speaker 5: And I can't even remember what he. 393 00:25:35,359 --> 00:25:37,120 Speaker 2: Oh, no, you're right it was. You go to a restaurant. 394 00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:39,320 Speaker 2: You're supposed to take a bite, put the mask up. Yeah, 395 00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:41,320 Speaker 2: take a sip, put the mask up. 396 00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:44,720 Speaker 5: And there he was with a ton of people. 397 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:47,919 Speaker 2: He was basically partying, like Karen Bass was partying in 398 00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:53,600 Speaker 2: Ghana while while the Palisades was burning, London breed the 399 00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:56,879 Speaker 2: mayor of San Francisco. She was caught partying in a 400 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:58,280 Speaker 2: in a in a dance club. 401 00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:02,919 Speaker 5: There's nothing worse than hypocrite. 402 00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:09,760 Speaker 2: I so now now I'm Bass. Nobody has seen Newsome. 403 00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:13,760 Speaker 2: The recall mechanism was already in place, This group had 404 00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:18,320 Speaker 2: already started. There wasn't a mechanism already set up for Bass. 405 00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:21,359 Speaker 2: But there are one hundred and sixty one thousand signatures 406 00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:25,320 Speaker 2: from people who want her to resign. That's that online 407 00:26:25,359 --> 00:26:27,199 Speaker 2: position petition at change dot org. 408 00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:28,679 Speaker 5: Do you really think she's going to resign? 409 00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:33,679 Speaker 2: John not willingly No, because none of these people. You 410 00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:37,120 Speaker 2: have to have a conscience. You have to say, boy, 411 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:39,719 Speaker 2: I really, I really, I'm not good at this. I 412 00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:43,520 Speaker 2: did a very bad job. The city was not prepared. 413 00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:47,399 Speaker 2: That's that's what encouraged me going back to the Zoom meeting. 414 00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:52,800 Speaker 2: Because the organization that put on the Zoom meeting, they 415 00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:55,679 Speaker 2: sent out an email later with a general summary of 416 00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:57,879 Speaker 2: what happened in case you missed it, and at the 417 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:00,840 Speaker 2: end they said the general takeaway that the city was 418 00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:09,679 Speaker 2: unprepared or incapable of responding to the fires properly paraphrase. 419 00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:14,400 Speaker 2: And that's the bottom line. And I didn't see anybody, 420 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:16,320 Speaker 2: and I stuck around for an hour and a half. 421 00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:20,200 Speaker 2: Nobody on the scroll supported what the city did. Nobody 422 00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:25,240 Speaker 2: supported what Bass did. It's a unanius verdict. I mean, 423 00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:32,960 Speaker 2: the thing is, we need immediate removal. I mean, this 424 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:36,520 Speaker 2: is a moment that I don't think outside of maybe 425 00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:43,960 Speaker 2: New Orleans during Katrina New York City after nine to eleven, 426 00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:48,000 Speaker 2: Remember Rudy Giuliani stepped up and took control. That was 427 00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:53,240 Speaker 2: the same version of Rudy Giuliani. This almost never happens 428 00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:55,159 Speaker 2: in life, and certainly a fire. I can't think of 429 00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:56,560 Speaker 2: a fire to a major city. 430 00:27:57,720 --> 00:27:58,240 Speaker 1: You need it. 431 00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:03,000 Speaker 2: Very smart, very wrong, very talented people now to try 432 00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:06,439 Speaker 2: to direct the recovery, and that is not bast and newsome. 433 00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:08,600 Speaker 2: And I don't know why we have to spend another 434 00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:13,880 Speaker 2: two years floundering around waiting for a replacement. 435 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:15,800 Speaker 1: I mean, I mean they don't have it. 436 00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:18,760 Speaker 2: They should resign, They should say I'm not good at 437 00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:21,720 Speaker 2: this and I don't have what it takes for the 438 00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:24,080 Speaker 2: next two years to start the recovery process. 439 00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:26,919 Speaker 5: But they're never gonna say that. They don't feel that 440 00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:28,040 Speaker 5: they's the thing. 441 00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:33,280 Speaker 2: They don't because they have huge egos. I saw it 442 00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:36,679 Speaker 2: in her eyes though that extreme close up on the 443 00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:41,880 Speaker 2: zoom screen. I could tell. And the way she talked 444 00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:46,320 Speaker 2: to she just protected herself with platitudes and cliches. There 445 00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:53,000 Speaker 2: wasn't a down to earth, honest reckoning in what she 446 00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:53,520 Speaker 2: was saying. 447 00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:56,360 Speaker 5: Can you imagine if she said, hey, guys, I uh, 448 00:28:56,760 --> 00:28:59,000 Speaker 5: I screwed up. I'm so sorry. 449 00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:01,600 Speaker 2: If she is capable of that, she never would have 450 00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:05,440 Speaker 2: done it to begin with. I can't think of anything 451 00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:09,360 Speaker 2: more important than police and fire. There's nothing else in 452 00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:13,080 Speaker 2: that annual budget more important than police and fire, and 453 00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:14,760 Speaker 2: the fire department half funded. 454 00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:17,000 Speaker 1: If you ran a city, would you have fund the 455 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:17,680 Speaker 1: fire department? 456 00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:20,280 Speaker 5: Are we giving them raises? 457 00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:22,960 Speaker 1: Yeah? Well, you know, not just raisons, but more people, 458 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:23,880 Speaker 1: more equip. 459 00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:29,760 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFII. 460 00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:33,360 Speaker 2: We're going to talk with Arthur coming up from the 461 00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:37,880 Speaker 2: Center for Immigration Studies after three o'clock because today was 462 00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:40,480 Speaker 2: a big day. 463 00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:42,800 Speaker 1: The new world is. 464 00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:48,200 Speaker 2: That ICE teams are now busting into criminals apartments and 465 00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:52,920 Speaker 2: dragging them off for deportation. In Boston, ICE picked up 466 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:58,160 Speaker 2: a number of violent felons, some of them convicted, some 467 00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:02,800 Speaker 2: of them charged in awaiting trial. And Bill Belushan had 468 00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:05,520 Speaker 2: a front row seat literally he was able to go 469 00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:08,520 Speaker 2: on a ride along with the Boston ICE team. And 470 00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:12,840 Speaker 2: Boston is a sanctuary city, so this could have been 471 00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:18,000 Speaker 2: done a long time ago. Boston doesn't cooperate, and Biden 472 00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:22,840 Speaker 2: was actively well in one case, got one of these 473 00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:24,120 Speaker 2: One of these felons. 474 00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:25,840 Speaker 1: Was flown with our tax money. 475 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:28,840 Speaker 2: We were flying people from these countries into the United 476 00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:34,320 Speaker 2: States and then he committed sexual assault against one of 477 00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:38,120 Speaker 2: our women. We'll talk about all that coming up next hour. 478 00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:45,280 Speaker 2: CNN is pretty much going out of business. It looks 479 00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:48,760 Speaker 2: like they're going to be cutting about two hundred, two 480 00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:54,920 Speaker 2: hundred people, two hundred jobs in their television operations. I 481 00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:58,160 Speaker 2: think Fox had over ten million people watching on Inauguration Day, 482 00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:01,160 Speaker 2: more than any of the broadcast networks. In fact, more 483 00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:04,960 Speaker 2: than double than any of the broadcast networks. CNN had 484 00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:10,880 Speaker 2: less than two million. They had less than twenty percent 485 00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:16,080 Speaker 2: of Fox's audience. And so they're going broke on the 486 00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:21,320 Speaker 2: TV side, and the CEO, Mark Thompson, not that. Mark 487 00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:24,840 Speaker 2: Thompson has said, you know, CNN is being the CNN 488 00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:31,440 Speaker 2: television is being threatened with extincsion and they have a 489 00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:37,280 Speaker 2: small audience, not much influence anymore. And congressman who may 490 00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:40,480 Speaker 2: have feared CNN in the past are now ripping on 491 00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:44,920 Speaker 2: the anchors. Here's an example. You're gonna hear Congressman Tim Burchett, 492 00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:50,720 Speaker 2: Republican from Tennessee with Jim Acosta, who's that obnoxious, pompous 493 00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:56,040 Speaker 2: fool who was Trump's main agitator during the first term. 494 00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:59,480 Speaker 2: So listen, a Costa was hosting and Tim Burchett was 495 00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:01,080 Speaker 2: being questioned, and listen, I was. 496 00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:03,720 Speaker 4: At the White House covering the first Trump administration when 497 00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:08,160 Speaker 4: they had riding outside of the White House. I mean 498 00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:10,960 Speaker 4: that was covered on CN on what you're saying this is, 499 00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:13,840 Speaker 4: this is not Fox Congressman. You can't just spin a 500 00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:15,880 Speaker 4: tail and pull the wall out of people's eyes. 501 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:19,360 Speaker 1: Now, this is CNN, this is the news. We're asking 502 00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:20,800 Speaker 1: to come out and tell the truth. 503 00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:23,880 Speaker 6: And that's why more people are watching the cartoon Network 504 00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:26,960 Speaker 6: SpongeBob reruns right now. Jim, Look, I left the White 505 00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:29,120 Speaker 6: House here in a riot. My life was threatened. My 506 00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:31,600 Speaker 6: life has been threatened within the last few weeks. Yet 507 00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:34,400 Speaker 6: there's no coverage of that, and you all continue this, 508 00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:37,720 Speaker 6: this narrative of Trap attacking Trump. You just can't stand 509 00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:43,480 Speaker 6: the fact that he won and that America spokeview. 510 00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:44,600 Speaker 1: Is very demands on your view is very domaindused. 511 00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:50,520 Speaker 2: More people are watching the cartoon Network SpongeBob reruns, you 512 00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:53,640 Speaker 2: know that's true. Though I've looked. I've looked up the ratings. 513 00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:57,960 Speaker 2: There was there was one week, uh, I think Jake Tapper. 514 00:32:58,000 --> 00:32:59,840 Speaker 2: They gave him an evening show for a few months, 515 00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:04,000 Speaker 2: and if you looked at the ratings, CNN was ranked 516 00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:08,120 Speaker 2: like number fifty one among all the cable channels, fifty one. 517 00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:11,800 Speaker 2: In fact, they were beaten by reruns of gun Smoke. 518 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:15,640 Speaker 2: There was a cable channel that runs old black and 519 00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:19,560 Speaker 2: white westerns from the fifties and sixties, and they had 520 00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:23,240 Speaker 2: they I looked up the channel and yeah, they have 521 00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:26,880 Speaker 2: black and white gun smokes and that, and gun Smoke 522 00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:34,040 Speaker 2: beat CNN that night. I but you know what, they 523 00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:38,360 Speaker 2: lied too many times. Cartoons are more popular. And Jim 524 00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:40,760 Speaker 2: Acosta is the last guy there and they've offered a 525 00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:44,560 Speaker 2: Costa a midnight job because he's toxic, he's poisonous, and 526 00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:48,760 Speaker 2: Acosta is angry and fumfering and threatening to quit CNN. 527 00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:51,480 Speaker 2: It's like when they offer you the midnight job, it 528 00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:56,480 Speaker 2: means they want you to quit. If one year you're 529 00:33:56,520 --> 00:33:59,560 Speaker 2: the White House Chief correspondent and a couple of years 530 00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:02,040 Speaker 2: later they're asking you to be on at two in 531 00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:04,360 Speaker 2: the morning. Well, I think you know which way your 532 00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:07,320 Speaker 2: career is going. We come back Arthur from the Center 533 00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:11,960 Speaker 2: for Immigration Studies, and we're gonna also play Bill Malugin's 534 00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:14,799 Speaker 2: piece from Fox. He went on a ride along with 535 00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:19,120 Speaker 2: Ice in Boston and they were capturing the most vicious 536 00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:25,040 Speaker 2: rapists and murderers that were in the country legally thanks 537 00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:28,279 Speaker 2: to Biden and Harris and these sanctuary city mayors. And 538 00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:30,640 Speaker 2: we have one of those, and Karen Bass I'll tell 539 00:34:30,640 --> 00:34:33,320 Speaker 2: you about it. Coming up after Deborah's news live in 540 00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:36,040 Speaker 2: the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been listening 541 00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:38,600 Speaker 2: to The John Cobalt Show podcast. 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