1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:02,960 Speaker 1: Can if I am six forty you're listening to the 2 00:00:03,040 --> 00:00:08,360 Speaker 1: John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. So welcome everyone. 3 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:15,440 Speaker 1: Let me tell you there is so so, so much corruption, 4 00:00:16,040 --> 00:00:19,759 Speaker 1: so much of your money is getting stolen. And Carl Demile, 5 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:23,279 Speaker 1: the Republican congressman, I'm sorry. The Republican assemblyman from the 6 00:00:23,280 --> 00:00:27,640 Speaker 1: San Diego area uncovered just a little sliver of it 7 00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:32,600 Speaker 1: in Sacramento, and as soon as he went public at 8 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:39,280 Speaker 1: an Assembly budget committee hearing with it, they immediately removed him, 9 00:00:40,040 --> 00:00:44,240 Speaker 1: I mean almost immediately removed him from the committee for 10 00:00:44,479 --> 00:00:49,640 Speaker 1: telling the truth and exposing significant waste of money. And 11 00:00:50,159 --> 00:00:52,520 Speaker 1: we're gonna have Carl on in the three o'clock hour 12 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:58,279 Speaker 1: to talk about what happened, because when you hear I'm 13 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:01,560 Speaker 1: gonna go through it, give you a rundown. But three 14 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:04,400 Speaker 1: o'clock when Carl comes on, you've got to be listening. 15 00:01:06,520 --> 00:01:10,399 Speaker 1: There is twenty five million dollars but the state of 16 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:16,840 Speaker 1: California is spending there's something called a COVID nineteen Workplace 17 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:22,840 Speaker 1: Outreach program COVID nineteen. This is this is going to 18 00:01:22,880 --> 00:01:27,720 Speaker 1: be five full years next week since Newsom's lockdown was 19 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:33,720 Speaker 1: put into effect. Five years later, they are still spending 20 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:39,240 Speaker 1: tens of millions of dollars on something called COVID Workplace 21 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:44,080 Speaker 1: Outreach program. It turns out it's a massive slush fund 22 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:49,240 Speaker 1: giveaway to all kinds of left wing activist groups. Got 23 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:52,920 Speaker 1: nothing to do with COVID, but that's the cover story 24 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:58,320 Speaker 1: in the budget. So Carl's staff found this. He brought 25 00:01:58,360 --> 00:02:05,080 Speaker 1: it up on in the budget subcommittee hearing, and the 26 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:08,480 Speaker 1: Democratic leadership wasn't going to have any of it, and 27 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:14,480 Speaker 1: Robert Reavis, the Assembly speaker, kicked off off the committee. 28 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:18,240 Speaker 2: I'm going to play you here. This is just a 29 00:02:18,240 --> 00:02:18,960 Speaker 2: couple of minutes. 30 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:24,680 Speaker 1: It's a compilation of Carl Demayo exposing wasteful spending in California, 31 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:27,679 Speaker 1: and he says this is the reason he was removed 32 00:02:27,680 --> 00:02:28,799 Speaker 1: from the budget committee. 33 00:02:28,840 --> 00:02:30,880 Speaker 3: Blake cut one, frankly, I don't think you have a 34 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:35,000 Speaker 3: whole lot of credibility given just basic math. If people 35 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:38,799 Speaker 3: back home are sitting around their kitchen table and they 36 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:41,120 Speaker 3: look at their income and then they look at their 37 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:44,840 Speaker 3: expenses and they realize, oh, I don't know, they're about 38 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:48,680 Speaker 3: seven billion dollars short for the year, no one in 39 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:52,480 Speaker 3: their right mind describes that as a balanced budget. And 40 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:54,920 Speaker 3: I think that it is alarming that we have the 41 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:59,440 Speaker 3: top finance officials and our top legislative analyst when it 42 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:04,239 Speaker 3: comes to fiscal issues sitting before this committee, testifying before 43 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:07,400 Speaker 3: elected officials that we have a balanced budget. No one 44 00:03:07,480 --> 00:03:11,920 Speaker 3: can describe this fiscal picture as balanced, and it's offensive 45 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:15,120 Speaker 3: to California taxpayers to do so. How much money are 46 00:03:15,160 --> 00:03:18,480 Speaker 3: we spending in this year's budget on illegal immigrant services. 47 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:19,880 Speaker 2: Let's just start with healthcare. 48 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:23,440 Speaker 4: We're spending nine point five billion dollars total funds. 49 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:25,840 Speaker 3: So it's not the six billion that people continue to 50 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:28,320 Speaker 3: talk about in the media. It's nine point five billion. Well, 51 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:30,639 Speaker 3: if we cut that at least using your math, we'd 52 00:03:30,639 --> 00:03:32,760 Speaker 3: have a one billion dollar surplus for my friends, we 53 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:36,040 Speaker 3: wouldn't have to go into the rainy day fund. Gee, 54 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:37,720 Speaker 3: I mean, I mean soon we can. 55 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:39,280 Speaker 2: Actually start getting a reserve. 56 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:43,720 Speaker 3: The fact that we have a COVID nineteen outreach program 57 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:48,480 Speaker 3: surviving past twenty twenty one is a problem these seventy 58 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:52,520 Speaker 3: six community based organizations. It is clear that most of 59 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:58,160 Speaker 3: these organizations do not have the qualifications the performance criteria 60 00:03:59,640 --> 00:04:04,880 Speaker 3: for labor relations or workplace safety or workplace outreach. How 61 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:08,160 Speaker 3: can taxpayers not conclude anything other than the fact that 62 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:12,440 Speaker 3: this is a slush fund to fund left wing organizations. 63 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:14,520 Speaker 3: Let me read some of these organizations that you're giving 64 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:20,800 Speaker 3: money to, congregations organized for profitic engagement, which is engaged 65 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:24,960 Speaker 3: in ballot harvesting during elections. Is the funding going to politics? 66 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:29,520 Speaker 3: We looked at Ring to Democracy have a whole program 67 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:34,839 Speaker 3: that they fund on voter engagement and empowerment campaigns. They're 68 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:39,120 Speaker 3: not COVID nineteen or healthcare experts. They're a political organization. 69 00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:41,360 Speaker 3: When we dug deep to the people, you're giving money 70 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:45,040 Speaker 3: to the organizations these seventy six community based organizations that. 71 00:04:45,080 --> 00:04:47,919 Speaker 2: You say are expert, they're political groups. 72 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:52,719 Speaker 3: How is this not duplicative of the role of your department. 73 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:55,640 Speaker 5: There is redundancy, there's a lack of co. 74 00:04:55,800 --> 00:05:02,000 Speaker 3: Ordination, and I would inefficiencies. You would say, yes, is 75 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:03,000 Speaker 3: there wasteful spending? 76 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:07,160 Speaker 1: You think, Carl Demyo that was a compilation of what 77 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:09,960 Speaker 1: he's been saying at these hearings, and he's right. He 78 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:13,719 Speaker 1: has the documentation to prove it, and the documentation comes 79 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:19,039 Speaker 1: from these Sacramento agencies that are stealing your money. Well, 80 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:22,880 Speaker 1: Demayo was kicked off the committee by again by Robert Reavis, 81 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:26,640 Speaker 1: the Assembly speaker. We're going to have Carl kamand let 82 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:33,120 Speaker 1: me amplify what he was saying there. It's supposed to 83 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:38,120 Speaker 1: be for COVID nineteen workplace outreach programs. None of these 84 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:42,400 Speaker 1: organizations had anything to do with workplaces, anything to do 85 00:05:42,480 --> 00:05:45,360 Speaker 1: with health and safety, anything to do with COVID at all. 86 00:05:46,040 --> 00:05:48,679 Speaker 2: It was a lie, it was a cover story. 87 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:52,040 Speaker 1: In reality, this money was going to these left wing 88 00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:58,640 Speaker 1: political activist organizations. They are all entwined with the Democratic 89 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:03,560 Speaker 1: political leaders in so decremento, and this is their gravy train. 90 00:06:04,680 --> 00:06:07,799 Speaker 1: If you wonder why so many in Washington, for example, 91 00:06:07,839 --> 00:06:12,119 Speaker 1: are angry with Trump and musk is because they are 92 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:16,720 Speaker 1: dismantling the gravy train. It's getting derailed, and they're taking 93 00:06:16,760 --> 00:06:22,719 Speaker 1: away money that's been stolen and used to enrich people 94 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:27,480 Speaker 1: who run these odd ball agencies and organizations and nonprofits 95 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:33,560 Speaker 1: that exist only for to do political you know, political 96 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:39,479 Speaker 1: promotional activity. Let me go, let me go back to 97 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:45,000 Speaker 1: something DeMaio said, the congregations organized for prophetic engagement. What 98 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:51,200 Speaker 1: does that mean? Prophetic as in prophecy, as in predicting. 99 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:53,120 Speaker 2: What the hell is that? 100 00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:58,680 Speaker 1: Well, what he said It engages in ballot harvesting, and 101 00:06:58,720 --> 00:07:02,000 Speaker 1: that's where you go to door to and you get 102 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:06,480 Speaker 1: illegal aliens to sign fraudulent ballots. You get elderly people 103 00:07:06,880 --> 00:07:09,640 Speaker 1: or people who don't speak English to sign fraudulent ballots, 104 00:07:10,120 --> 00:07:15,560 Speaker 1: and that's how you puff up the Democratic vote. That's 105 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:17,600 Speaker 1: one of the reasons why in recent years suddenly the 106 00:07:17,640 --> 00:07:21,000 Speaker 1: Democrats have super majorities is because they go to certain 107 00:07:21,040 --> 00:07:27,440 Speaker 1: districts where they can find people who will not resist 108 00:07:27,560 --> 00:07:31,480 Speaker 1: if they're told to sign this forum and check these boxes. 109 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:37,000 Speaker 1: The Ring to Democracy listen to this clap trap. Empowering 110 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:41,240 Speaker 1: youth through civic engagement. They have a fund on voter 111 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:44,760 Speaker 1: engagement and empowerment campaigns. None of that has anything to 112 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:49,920 Speaker 1: do with workplace safety, COVID nineteen health issues. The Alianza 113 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:57,239 Speaker 1: Coachella Valley. This organization holds political candidate forums DEMIO says, 114 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:02,760 Speaker 1: the Alliance for Californians for Community Empowerment. They LOBY for 115 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:06,400 Speaker 1: rent control. It's got nothing to do with COVID nineteen 116 00:08:06,440 --> 00:08:10,960 Speaker 1: in workplace safety. The Center for Community Advocacy. They organize 117 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:17,800 Speaker 1: political forums. The Mixed to co Indigena Community Organizing Project. 118 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:22,240 Speaker 1: Who knows what that means? Here is other organizations. There's 119 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:26,200 Speaker 1: seventy six of them. The United Respect Education Fund has 120 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:28,440 Speaker 1: nothing to do with COVID, nothing to do with health, 121 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:32,640 Speaker 1: workplace safety, nothing to do with education. The United Respect 122 00:08:32,760 --> 00:08:37,040 Speaker 1: Education Fund organizes protests in front of Amazon and Walmart. 123 00:08:39,240 --> 00:08:42,200 Speaker 1: So the reason they're still handing out COVID nineteen money 124 00:08:42,440 --> 00:08:45,280 Speaker 1: to organizations because it has nothing to do with COVID nineteen. 125 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:49,560 Speaker 1: It's a line item buried in a complicated long budget, 126 00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:54,600 Speaker 1: and they figure nobody's going to notice, nobody's going to object. 127 00:08:55,920 --> 00:09:03,319 Speaker 1: Seventy six of these non profit organizations, these political organizations, 128 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:09,640 Speaker 1: seventy six of them. And now now Revis kicks him 129 00:09:09,679 --> 00:09:13,280 Speaker 1: off within days. He did it at five o'clock on Friday, 130 00:09:14,160 --> 00:09:17,480 Speaker 1: which is where, which is where you make news that 131 00:09:17,559 --> 00:09:20,839 Speaker 1: you don't want people to notice. Except we always pay 132 00:09:20,880 --> 00:09:23,400 Speaker 1: attentions to what happens after five o'clock on Friday, because 133 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:26,480 Speaker 1: then Monday, Monday, at one o'clock will tell you the story. 134 00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:33,160 Speaker 1: Tomaio says that COVID nineteen workplace Outreach program, that is, 135 00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:36,360 Speaker 1: governor knew some laundering twenty five million dollars of your 136 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:40,160 Speaker 1: state tax dollars through a laughable program. It's going to 137 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:45,320 Speaker 1: far left political groups when he said that on Friday. 138 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:50,959 Speaker 1: Within hours he was gone. And this is something none 139 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:53,840 Speaker 1: of the other Republicans ever did. Obviously not something the 140 00:09:53,880 --> 00:09:56,800 Speaker 1: Democrats ever do, because they're the ones directing the money 141 00:09:57,200 --> 00:10:02,400 Speaker 1: to their corrupt organizations. This is out and out corruption, 142 00:10:03,280 --> 00:10:06,040 Speaker 1: and it this kind of thing where DeMaio is going 143 00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:08,839 Speaker 1: to get punished. He's not going to be allowed to 144 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:11,280 Speaker 1: speak in these committee hearings because he told the truth. 145 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:14,800 Speaker 1: Another one who tells the truth. You see a pattern. 146 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:18,319 Speaker 1: It's like Crowley getting fired for telling the truth about 147 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:24,440 Speaker 1: BASS only providing half the funding and the fire department needs. 148 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:29,000 Speaker 1: You tell the truth about all the corruption and incompetence, 149 00:10:29,040 --> 00:10:31,680 Speaker 1: and you get, you get, you get fired. Now, Carl's 150 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:34,080 Speaker 1: going to come on with us after one o'clock and 151 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:37,200 Speaker 1: we'll delve into this further. But this this, he caught 152 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:41,559 Speaker 1: them red handed. He caught Newsom and these Democratic legislators 153 00:10:41,960 --> 00:10:48,280 Speaker 1: stealing and laundering money with a fake budget item and 154 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:53,839 Speaker 1: seventy six phony organizations. Well, the organizations exist, but what 155 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:56,760 Speaker 1: what they claim to do is a lie. They don't 156 00:10:56,760 --> 00:11:01,840 Speaker 1: do any COVID nineteen workplace work. And on top of that, 157 00:11:01,880 --> 00:11:05,959 Speaker 1: we don't need any COVID's gone. We shouldn't be spending 158 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:08,840 Speaker 1: a dollar on it, not a dollar, and we certainly 159 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:12,160 Speaker 1: shouldn't be spending money to fund ballot harvesting for these 160 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:17,679 Speaker 1: wackle left wing groups. All right, we got more coming up. 161 00:11:18,400 --> 00:11:22,480 Speaker 1: Saturday morning, my wife and I drove through the Palisades 162 00:11:23,120 --> 00:11:23,959 Speaker 1: for the first time. 163 00:11:24,800 --> 00:11:25,240 Speaker 2: We had a. 164 00:11:25,840 --> 00:11:29,240 Speaker 1: Press pass and we were waved through and we went 165 00:11:29,240 --> 00:11:31,040 Speaker 1: into the neighborhoods. And I'm going to tell you what 166 00:11:31,120 --> 00:11:34,520 Speaker 1: that was like, because there is nothing you see on 167 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:37,760 Speaker 1: television they can do justice to actually saying it in person. 168 00:11:38,520 --> 00:11:39,040 Speaker 2: That'sticks. 169 00:11:40,040 --> 00:11:44,360 Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI AM 170 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:44,959 Speaker 6: six forty. 171 00:11:45,360 --> 00:11:47,880 Speaker 1: You can follow us on social media at John coblt 172 00:11:47,960 --> 00:11:52,960 Speaker 1: Radio at John co Belt Radio. Saturday morning, we didn't 173 00:11:52,960 --> 00:11:57,160 Speaker 1: plan this, but we had been thinking, you know, for weeks, 174 00:11:57,200 --> 00:12:00,840 Speaker 1: my wife and I about taking a drive through the Palisades, 175 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:04,480 Speaker 1: but obviously you wanted to wait until things calmed down some. 176 00:12:04,679 --> 00:12:07,080 Speaker 1: We had a press pass and they were letting people 177 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:10,319 Speaker 1: in with a press pass, and so we went through 178 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:13,040 Speaker 1: one of the checkpoints and then we drove around and 179 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:17,200 Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, there is nothing that really prepared 180 00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:20,920 Speaker 1: even after seeing this for two months on television, and 181 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:24,959 Speaker 1: after spending so much time discussing it on the air 182 00:12:25,040 --> 00:12:27,520 Speaker 1: and hearing people tell their stories on the radio, and 183 00:12:27,559 --> 00:12:31,480 Speaker 1: then our friends telling us stories privately, it's still to 184 00:12:31,559 --> 00:12:36,839 Speaker 1: be to drive down the street and look around, rolling 185 00:12:36,880 --> 00:12:40,040 Speaker 1: down the window and there's still there's still a distinct 186 00:12:40,080 --> 00:12:44,400 Speaker 1: odor there. Everything smells burnt. And to see the homes 187 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:51,480 Speaker 1: or I mean, you know, twist some twisted metal brick. 188 00:12:53,040 --> 00:12:56,640 Speaker 1: Some homes survived because they were made of concrete or cement. 189 00:12:58,040 --> 00:13:02,120 Speaker 1: Concrete and cement that does and burn. The ones that 190 00:13:02,200 --> 00:13:08,160 Speaker 1: were wood they burned completely. It was strange because you 191 00:13:08,480 --> 00:13:11,720 Speaker 1: a lot of Palisades older homes, so they were they 192 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:13,400 Speaker 1: were from the wood. Ear you know, some of the 193 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:20,680 Speaker 1: modern homes are built with concrete. But you see the 194 00:13:20,720 --> 00:13:24,920 Speaker 1: devastation just goes on as far as the eye can see, 195 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:28,520 Speaker 1: and it's just you have just this sad, empty feeling 196 00:13:28,559 --> 00:13:31,160 Speaker 1: because we were really familiar at the Palisades. You know, 197 00:13:31,200 --> 00:13:34,079 Speaker 1: we'd been living in that area for about what now 198 00:13:34,160 --> 00:13:38,079 Speaker 1: seventeen years, and so there were so many it's like 199 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:39,520 Speaker 1: you'd point out it's like, oh, we used to go 200 00:13:39,520 --> 00:13:42,960 Speaker 1: to that restaurant all the time, and the only thing 201 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:50,079 Speaker 1: that was left was a brick fireplace and went out 202 00:13:50,080 --> 00:13:52,400 Speaker 1: for block. There was a favorite neighborhood that we would 203 00:13:52,480 --> 00:13:57,040 Speaker 1: drive to, uh across the street was this still is 204 00:13:57,440 --> 00:14:01,920 Speaker 1: a canyon where where there there's a hiking path, and 205 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:04,000 Speaker 1: we went there several times a week for the last 206 00:14:04,040 --> 00:14:06,360 Speaker 1: couple of years, ever since they opened it, Petrero Canyon, 207 00:14:07,040 --> 00:14:11,240 Speaker 1: and my wife always admired one little home and she 208 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:13,120 Speaker 1: swore that she wanted a bid on it. Right it 209 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:14,760 Speaker 1: was actually up for sale, and she thought of it. 210 00:14:14,760 --> 00:14:17,280 Speaker 1: We ought a bid on this and it's kind of small, 211 00:14:17,880 --> 00:14:22,240 Speaker 1: but then another family bid on it, and she goes, oh, wow, 212 00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:23,160 Speaker 1: somebody else got it. 213 00:14:23,160 --> 00:14:24,320 Speaker 2: I should have done something right. 214 00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:28,600 Speaker 1: That conversation, and then we saw when they moved in, 215 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:31,480 Speaker 1: actually saw the day they moved in. They had a 216 00:14:31,480 --> 00:14:32,400 Speaker 1: little girl. 217 00:14:32,800 --> 00:14:34,120 Speaker 5: Oh are you spying on them? 218 00:14:34,880 --> 00:14:38,520 Speaker 1: It's right across the street from the park. Okay, okay, 219 00:14:38,560 --> 00:14:41,960 Speaker 1: we were spying on them, and I have videos. It's 220 00:14:42,040 --> 00:14:44,360 Speaker 1: kind of creepy. It was just no, it's a cross 221 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:47,280 Speaker 1: street from the park, and my wife really loved the house. 222 00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:49,480 Speaker 1: So it was just one of this little ongoing thing 223 00:14:49,520 --> 00:14:53,840 Speaker 1: that we kept track of. And now we pulled up 224 00:14:53,880 --> 00:14:57,640 Speaker 1: and it's completely gone. And I felt so bad because 225 00:14:57,720 --> 00:15:01,120 Speaker 1: the couple had just moved in, that's you know, and 226 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:04,280 Speaker 1: they probably was it was probably a big moment because 227 00:15:04,280 --> 00:15:07,200 Speaker 1: they had, you know, a little girl there, and I 228 00:15:07,280 --> 00:15:10,400 Speaker 1: was thinking about all her stuff being burned up. I 229 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:13,640 Speaker 1: was thinking about all the kids in their rooms and 230 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:17,000 Speaker 1: their pillows and their teddy bears and their toys and uh, 231 00:15:17,480 --> 00:15:21,000 Speaker 1: all of it. And and I just went on endlessly. 232 00:15:21,160 --> 00:15:23,520 Speaker 1: And you sit there and you go, how the hell, 233 00:15:24,360 --> 00:15:26,520 Speaker 1: since we're in the city of Los Angeles, is this 234 00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:28,239 Speaker 1: ever gonna get built? 235 00:15:28,880 --> 00:15:30,760 Speaker 2: I mean, how's how are they gonna do it? 236 00:15:30,840 --> 00:15:36,600 Speaker 1: Because we have morons running the city and I don't 237 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:40,920 Speaker 1: care what they say. You still have a lot of low, low, 238 00:15:41,040 --> 00:15:44,600 Speaker 1: double digit IQs uh in the with the mayor and 239 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:50,920 Speaker 1: the city council and running these various departments. And I'm 240 00:15:51,280 --> 00:15:53,240 Speaker 1: it's just it's I don't I don't mean to be 241 00:15:53,520 --> 00:15:56,440 Speaker 1: like a downer and depressing at all, but the reality 242 00:15:56,520 --> 00:15:58,560 Speaker 1: is what it is. I just tell you the truth 243 00:15:58,560 --> 00:16:00,760 Speaker 1: of what I see. But there was such an empty 244 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:05,640 Speaker 1: sad feeling. Wasn't shock really, because you know, we knew 245 00:16:05,680 --> 00:16:07,880 Speaker 1: what was coming, and. 246 00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:09,720 Speaker 5: But actually to be there, to actually. 247 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:11,760 Speaker 2: Be there and it's like, oh, we used to go there. 248 00:16:11,800 --> 00:16:13,840 Speaker 1: We used to go there, and we didn't go into 249 00:16:13,880 --> 00:16:18,600 Speaker 1: the neighborhoods where like some of our friends lived. You 250 00:16:18,640 --> 00:16:20,640 Speaker 1: get the idea, there's only there's only so much you 251 00:16:20,640 --> 00:16:23,320 Speaker 1: could look at and just how how many different ways 252 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:29,320 Speaker 1: metal can twist, And it's just it's just it's really 253 00:16:29,320 --> 00:16:34,840 Speaker 1: our church is completely destroyed. And I'm not saying this 254 00:16:34,920 --> 00:16:37,920 Speaker 1: to encourage, you know, these ghoulish lookie loues. 255 00:16:38,720 --> 00:16:43,720 Speaker 2: To go there. Don't don't do that. But I'm just marveling. 256 00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:47,920 Speaker 1: At the size of the job that's coming here and 257 00:16:48,080 --> 00:16:52,880 Speaker 1: wondering in with with the with the with the dysfunctional, 258 00:16:53,120 --> 00:16:57,760 Speaker 1: defective government that we have, what are people going to do? 259 00:16:58,760 --> 00:17:01,040 Speaker 1: I mean I would be overwhel I'd be wiped out. 260 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:03,520 Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, who in the La City government am 261 00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:07,399 Speaker 1: I going to go to? Who's really cutting the red tape? 262 00:17:07,520 --> 00:17:09,199 Speaker 1: And if they don't cut the red tape and it 263 00:17:09,240 --> 00:17:11,640 Speaker 1: doesn't work out and I'm not getting my calls returned 264 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:15,000 Speaker 1: or they claim I got some paperwork eras, like who 265 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:15,520 Speaker 1: am I calling? 266 00:17:15,800 --> 00:17:17,520 Speaker 2: Daron bask Gavin Newsom. 267 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:19,280 Speaker 5: Well, how many people are actually going to rebuild? 268 00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:22,399 Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know what the insurance and 269 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:23,679 Speaker 2: that's a whole other layer. 270 00:17:23,480 --> 00:17:30,600 Speaker 1: Of dysfunction with insurance companies, and people are under insured 271 00:17:30,720 --> 00:17:36,240 Speaker 1: or entirely not insured. I don't know, I I you 272 00:17:36,240 --> 00:17:41,160 Speaker 1: know this, this has it almost this kind of devastation 273 00:17:41,359 --> 00:17:45,400 Speaker 1: rarely happens in America. You know this, this is really 274 00:17:46,280 --> 00:17:51,439 Speaker 1: something else. And you drive a PCH and you just 275 00:17:51,520 --> 00:17:53,919 Speaker 1: look at the blackened hills that go on for miles 276 00:17:53,920 --> 00:17:56,040 Speaker 1: and miles. Oh, and the homes on PCH we drove 277 00:17:56,160 --> 00:17:59,440 Speaker 1: up the homes by the beach just completely. 278 00:17:58,920 --> 00:18:01,639 Speaker 4: Gone, which to me is so crazy because you always 279 00:18:01,680 --> 00:18:04,040 Speaker 4: think that the homes right by the water, and you 280 00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:06,080 Speaker 4: know you have the water there. You never you never 281 00:18:06,320 --> 00:18:08,760 Speaker 4: expect that they're going to be taken out by a fire. 282 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:11,200 Speaker 1: No, and you saw the random ways with the fire 283 00:18:11,280 --> 00:18:15,080 Speaker 1: took out some blocks or some homes, but not others. 284 00:18:15,160 --> 00:18:19,000 Speaker 1: And wow, it's just uh. And I'd never forget the 285 00:18:19,040 --> 00:18:21,560 Speaker 1: smell because I don't know that that smell. 286 00:18:23,119 --> 00:18:25,439 Speaker 5: I mean, you were wearing masks. 287 00:18:25,920 --> 00:18:28,560 Speaker 2: My wife was I wasn't, of course not. 288 00:18:30,320 --> 00:18:34,320 Speaker 5: Your wife is smart. She's not going to forget. 289 00:18:34,400 --> 00:18:36,119 Speaker 4: I mean she's not going to have to forget or 290 00:18:36,160 --> 00:18:38,679 Speaker 4: remember the smell because probably didn't smell it. 291 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:43,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, well I'm stuck with the smell. It's just I 292 00:18:43,119 --> 00:18:45,639 Speaker 1: feel bad and also, you know, and then after a 293 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:48,879 Speaker 1: while you start getting really angry because this could have 294 00:18:48,920 --> 00:18:53,560 Speaker 1: been mitigated. I'm absolutely convinced the more I read, the 295 00:18:53,560 --> 00:18:56,359 Speaker 1: more I talk to people, this could have been mitigated. 296 00:18:56,760 --> 00:18:59,840 Speaker 1: And you know, even today, I guess I'll talk about 297 00:18:59,840 --> 00:19:03,359 Speaker 1: this next. The story. You mean you mentioned about there's 298 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:06,200 Speaker 1: there's there's text messages. 299 00:19:06,440 --> 00:19:07,560 Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm leading with us. 300 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:13,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, going in and out of Kristin Crowley's Well, I 301 00:19:13,480 --> 00:19:15,920 Speaker 1: guess it's it's it's her text messages, right, and. 302 00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:17,200 Speaker 5: You know, tomorrow's the big day. 303 00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:19,200 Speaker 1: Tomorrow is the big day, right, She's going to put 304 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:22,800 Speaker 1: on her her appeal and God knows what she's going 305 00:19:22,880 --> 00:19:25,320 Speaker 1: to say. And these text messages were released for a reason. 306 00:19:25,359 --> 00:19:27,040 Speaker 1: But I tell you one thing I noticed about the 307 00:19:27,080 --> 00:19:29,760 Speaker 1: text messages that did leak, and I first saw them 308 00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:33,840 Speaker 1: on Channel four this morning, It's like there's something missing 309 00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:38,200 Speaker 1: from these text messages. Something hit me right away. It's missing. 310 00:19:38,280 --> 00:19:41,119 Speaker 1: Why is it missing? You're nodding you. 311 00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:42,040 Speaker 5: Because I felt the same way. 312 00:19:42,119 --> 00:19:43,920 Speaker 4: Yeah, And I'm going to read this story and I'm 313 00:19:43,920 --> 00:19:45,359 Speaker 4: going to think it as I'm reading it. 314 00:19:45,280 --> 00:19:49,159 Speaker 2: All right, Well, I will make my supposition. 315 00:19:49,320 --> 00:19:52,240 Speaker 5: Okay, we look forward to your supposition when we come back. 316 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:57,879 Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI Am sixty. 317 00:19:58,119 --> 00:19:59,760 Speaker 1: We are on every day from one to till four, 318 00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:02,760 Speaker 1: then after four o'clock John Cobelts show on demand on 319 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:05,760 Speaker 1: the iHeart app. So you may have heard in Debora's 320 00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:08,640 Speaker 1: News just minutes ago that there are a lot of 321 00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:13,160 Speaker 1: texts that have suddenly are suddenly being released. The day 322 00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:16,280 Speaker 1: before that, Kristin Crowley is supposed to have her appeal 323 00:20:16,560 --> 00:20:19,000 Speaker 1: but for the Los Angeles City before the Los Angeles 324 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:22,919 Speaker 1: City Council, I mean, everything is stacked against her. I 325 00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:27,600 Speaker 1: think she made a lot of serious errors, But I 326 00:20:27,640 --> 00:20:33,840 Speaker 1: think the the policies that Karen Bass had were even 327 00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:37,440 Speaker 1: far worse. I think I actually think all of them 328 00:20:37,480 --> 00:20:40,720 Speaker 1: need to go. There's no case to keep Kristin Crowley, 329 00:20:41,080 --> 00:20:46,120 Speaker 1: Karen Bass, Genie Kenoniez or that idiot acting mayor Marquise 330 00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:49,720 Speaker 1: Harris Dawson. All of them need to go. And and 331 00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:51,879 Speaker 1: you know, and in the private sector, they'd all be 332 00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:54,520 Speaker 1: gone already. You would you wouldn't dare keep any of 333 00:20:54,560 --> 00:20:58,680 Speaker 1: them around. They're bad at what they do and totally 334 00:20:58,680 --> 00:20:59,800 Speaker 1: overwhelmed by the event. 335 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:01,760 Speaker 2: And Bass was absent. 336 00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:05,200 Speaker 1: And so what I was referring to before Debor's news 337 00:21:05,280 --> 00:21:10,639 Speaker 1: is I'm looking through the excerpts of the texts that 338 00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:15,200 Speaker 1: were released, and one thing I noticed is there's nothing 339 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:16,560 Speaker 1: from Karen Bass. 340 00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:19,600 Speaker 2: She provided no. 341 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:27,960 Speaker 1: Texts and nobody said to her any texts. She was 342 00:21:28,080 --> 00:21:31,879 Speaker 1: totally out of the loop. And I always have to 343 00:21:31,880 --> 00:21:36,560 Speaker 1: remind you know, what the what the timeline was. January second, 344 00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:40,840 Speaker 1: on the Thursday, is when we first got the extreme 345 00:21:40,920 --> 00:21:44,480 Speaker 1: catastrophic fire warnings from the National Weather Service. She leaves 346 00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:50,240 Speaker 1: on January fourth, the Saturday. On Monday, the sixth, they 347 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:55,720 Speaker 1: start communicating with each other, they meaning Crowley and other 348 00:21:55,960 --> 00:21:59,240 Speaker 1: LA officials, but not Bass. And on the seventh the 349 00:21:59,320 --> 00:22:03,240 Speaker 1: fire happened. And remember while the fire was happening with 350 00:22:03,359 --> 00:22:06,280 Speaker 1: the time difference, that was the exact moment when the 351 00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:09,439 Speaker 1: fire started in the Palisades, the exact moment Bass was 352 00:22:09,520 --> 00:22:14,000 Speaker 1: drinking with the President of Ghana. There is no evidence 353 00:22:14,040 --> 00:22:17,200 Speaker 1: that I've seen that Bass knew anything at all. 354 00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:23,439 Speaker 2: Is it possible she was telling the truth. 355 00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:28,399 Speaker 1: I wasn't aware of the fire warnings, because if she 356 00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:31,520 Speaker 1: was aware. She didn't show any interest. That's the thing. 357 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:33,720 Speaker 2: She didn't show any interest at all. 358 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:38,040 Speaker 1: The only thing I can remember, and again this you know, 359 00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:42,720 Speaker 1: we're piecing together some you know, some strands here where 360 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:47,240 Speaker 1: these few isolated puzzle pieces. She didn't start talking about 361 00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:51,040 Speaker 1: her engagement until she was on the plane afterwards, when 362 00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:53,680 Speaker 1: she took the military plane back home, and she said 363 00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:57,600 Speaker 1: she was on she was on the phone because the 364 00:22:57,600 --> 00:23:02,639 Speaker 1: military plane had capabilities so she could stay connected. But 365 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:05,960 Speaker 1: I never heard her say anything about being connected. On 366 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:08,879 Speaker 1: the Tuesday, or rather the Thursday, the Friday of the Saturday, 367 00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:11,280 Speaker 1: the Sunday of the Monday, I don't remember her saying 368 00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:14,320 Speaker 1: anything about it. Of course, one of her staff members 369 00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:18,520 Speaker 1: said when he was when he was taped by that 370 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:21,760 Speaker 1: hidden camera, it's like, oh yeah, they all knew about it, 371 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:24,520 Speaker 1: meaning city Hall, all the people in the Mayor's office, 372 00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:26,520 Speaker 1: and we just didn't think there was anything you could 373 00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:30,080 Speaker 1: do about it. And maybe that was Bass's attitude. It's like, yeah, 374 00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:32,399 Speaker 1: I'm going to go to Ghana. I mean, if fire happens, 375 00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:36,000 Speaker 1: I'm not going to stop it, all right. I'm looking 376 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:38,160 Speaker 1: at the Channel seven report, there's a there's a few 377 00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:44,040 Speaker 1: of these out there on late at night on January sixth, 378 00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:49,679 Speaker 1: a woman named Carol Parks. She's the general manager for 379 00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:53,880 Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Emergency Management Department, and she sent a 380 00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:58,719 Speaker 1: text message, this is Monday night, the sixth, wishing Kristin 381 00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:02,600 Speaker 1: Crowley a happy new year. It's my first opportunity to 382 00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:06,520 Speaker 1: send this public safety leadership text, wishing it could have 383 00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:10,480 Speaker 1: been on a blue sky day. But duty now calls 384 00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:16,280 Speaker 1: that's not exactly. Hey, maybe we should convene a meeting 385 00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:19,440 Speaker 1: here and let's see how prepared everybody is and let's 386 00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:20,480 Speaker 1: have a battle plan. 387 00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:23,920 Speaker 2: The following day. 388 00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:30,800 Speaker 1: Fire starts ten twenty four, I think, and the LA 389 00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:34,720 Speaker 1: County Fire Chief Tony Maroney texted forty five minutes later, 390 00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:41,919 Speaker 1: not good. Ronny texted that to Crowley, No, she responded. 391 00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:48,639 Speaker 1: Channel seven's investigative reporter Kevin Ozebek got the text messages 392 00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:55,760 Speaker 1: to and from Crowley. There's hundreds of records released to 393 00:24:55,800 --> 00:25:02,760 Speaker 1: ozepic this week. And during the text exchange the night before, 394 00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:08,200 Speaker 1: Parks said that she was going to activate the Emergency 395 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:12,199 Speaker 1: Operations Center to level three, that is the lowest level 396 00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:18,880 Speaker 1: of activation, and Crowley responded, I'll be available to discuss 397 00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:23,000 Speaker 1: any necessary actions with you and Jim McDonald, the police. 398 00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:28,359 Speaker 2: Chief, if the need arises a leader. 399 00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:32,439 Speaker 1: A city leadership briefing on the sixth noticed that the 400 00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:36,440 Speaker 1: weather forecast said the windstorm event could lead to potentially 401 00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:40,119 Speaker 1: life threatening and destructive impacts similar in magnitude to the 402 00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:44,000 Speaker 1: twenty eleven Pasadena windstorm. Any fires that developed during this 403 00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:48,120 Speaker 1: period may experience rapid growth and extreme behavior, said the briefing. 404 00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:53,560 Speaker 1: That LAFD was going to pre deploy resources on January seventh. 405 00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:57,080 Speaker 1: Now that takes us to Crowley's responsibility here. Why didn't 406 00:25:57,119 --> 00:26:00,359 Speaker 1: she keep the thousand men that she had work working 407 00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:03,040 Speaker 1: the overnight shift? Why didn't she keep them on for 408 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:06,080 Speaker 1: the second shift? Why didn't she send out the extra 409 00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:08,879 Speaker 1: forty engines not only to the Palisades, but all the 410 00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:13,840 Speaker 1: other communities along the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains 411 00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:19,520 Speaker 1: The next morning, on January seventh, text messages show that 412 00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:24,399 Speaker 1: La City Council President Marquise Harris Dawson's office had reached 413 00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:27,200 Speaker 1: out to the Fire Department about the weather event because 414 00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:33,120 Speaker 1: he was the acting mayor, and one of the aides said, 415 00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:36,240 Speaker 1: I briefed him on our deployment and our preparation efforts 416 00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:41,879 Speaker 1: and our needs for additional resources, so he wasn't in 417 00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:47,520 Speaker 1: the mix until that morning. Crowley wrote to a battalion chief, 418 00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:51,359 Speaker 1: Patrick Leonard. Chief Leonard direct Matt to reach out to 419 00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:54,680 Speaker 1: the appropriate council offices to make sure they're properly informed 420 00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:59,000 Speaker 1: about our preparedness. But by then she was already sending 421 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:03,440 Speaker 1: the thousand firefighters' home. What preparedness I mean? There was 422 00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:07,119 Speaker 1: no firefighters anywhere near where the fire broke out in 423 00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:10,919 Speaker 1: the Palisades, and the fire did break out. An hour 424 00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:14,320 Speaker 1: and a half late later, at ten thirty three, Chief 425 00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:18,480 Speaker 1: Deputy Orange Saunders texted Crowley on a fire alert showing 426 00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:20,639 Speaker 1: that a brush fire had broken out in the Palisades 427 00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:24,280 Speaker 1: area two brushfires in the city Palisades in Hollywood, sending 428 00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:31,159 Speaker 1: staff over now, I would recommend Level two EOC staff 429 00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:36,240 Speaker 1: have concerns that we have two fires. At eleven twenty seven. 430 00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:40,240 Speaker 1: An hour later, Crowley sends a message asking to someone 431 00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:44,520 Speaker 1: asking for Harris Dawson's number please. I just asked him 432 00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:47,040 Speaker 1: for his phone number and he said he will call you, 433 00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:50,879 Speaker 1: said somebody named Matt Hernandez. So an hour into the fire, 434 00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:54,320 Speaker 1: the fire chief doesn't have the phone number of the 435 00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:58,240 Speaker 1: acting mayor, and when the acting mayor was asked for 436 00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:00,960 Speaker 1: the phone number, he said, well, I'll call her. 437 00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:04,679 Speaker 2: What is his phone number? Of State secret. 438 00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:11,919 Speaker 1: Six minutes later, Parks wrote to Crowley, and Parks is 439 00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:18,040 Speaker 1: the woman in charge of the Emergency Operations Center. Parks 440 00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:20,600 Speaker 1: rote to Crowley, the EOC is in need of leadership. 441 00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:24,000 Speaker 1: Please advise who from your department can respond to the 442 00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:29,119 Speaker 1: EOC as soon as possible. Crowley wrote at twelve oh two, 443 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:31,119 Speaker 1: anything you can send us, we'll take it. Starting to 444 00:28:31,119 --> 00:28:34,320 Speaker 1: lose homes and people trapped. At two twenty seven, can 445 00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:39,720 Speaker 1: you send me the number of resources. Three o'clock Marquise 446 00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:43,320 Speaker 1: here chief at three o'clock at command post, eager to 447 00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:47,880 Speaker 1: connect wall markis Harris Dawson didn't call. 448 00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:50,800 Speaker 2: Back till three. He's at the command post. What is 449 00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:52,200 Speaker 2: he gonna do? It's too late now. 450 00:28:56,440 --> 00:29:01,600 Speaker 1: At seven nineteen, Parks texted again, she's in charge of 451 00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:03,000 Speaker 1: the Emergency Operations Center. 452 00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:04,440 Speaker 2: EOC directors are. 453 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:09,160 Speaker 1: Recommending that we moved to level one, level one, eight out, 454 00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:12,680 Speaker 1: eight and a half hours into the fire. Level one. 455 00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:19,520 Speaker 1: That's Carol Parks. My god, everybody was so slow, No 456 00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:22,920 Speaker 1: wonder this happened? And again, nothing from Karen Bass that 457 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:33,400 Speaker 1: I can see here. At seven twenty two, Denise Kenonias 458 00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:35,640 Speaker 1: came out of her coma, the head of the DWP, 459 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:39,880 Speaker 1: and asked Crowley if we can safely access a certain 460 00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:44,320 Speaker 1: point we got evacuated before installing a reg station. I 461 00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:46,520 Speaker 1: don't know what that is, but if we don't install it, 462 00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:48,840 Speaker 1: we'll run out of water in about two hours. So 463 00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:52,040 Speaker 1: at seven thirty, Deenise Kenonias realized we're running out of water. 464 00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:57,400 Speaker 1: By nine thirty, nobody's mentioning anything about the one hundred 465 00:29:57,440 --> 00:30:05,840 Speaker 1: and seventeen million gallon reservoir being empty. Unbelievable, worse than 466 00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:07,840 Speaker 1: I even thought. More coming up. 467 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:12,320 Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI AM 468 00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:12,880 Speaker 6: six forty. 469 00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:16,760 Speaker 1: Well, you know, I boiled over so many times about this. 470 00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:19,240 Speaker 1: I don't know if I can boil over anymore. I mean, 471 00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:23,360 Speaker 1: there's these text messages out that Kristen Crowley, the fire chief, 472 00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:27,920 Speaker 1: was receiving and sending day of the fire. 473 00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:29,240 Speaker 2: It was. 474 00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:36,320 Speaker 1: Channel seven got some of these texts. You know what, 475 00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:41,000 Speaker 1: the mayors, it's pretty clear that they were caught completely 476 00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:46,760 Speaker 1: flat footed. Nobody knew what to do. You know, people 477 00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:49,840 Speaker 1: are sending texts to each other leaders like Marquise Harris Dawson, 478 00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:53,719 Speaker 1: the acting mayor. About five hours into the fire, he writes, 479 00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:55,600 Speaker 1: you know, hey, I'm at the command center. 480 00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:59,120 Speaker 2: You know, how can I help? I get a hose? 481 00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:00,440 Speaker 2: What do you mean? How can you help? 482 00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:07,640 Speaker 1: You're a you're a dit beat hack politician in your 483 00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:09,320 Speaker 1: in your suit and tie in an office. 484 00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:10,200 Speaker 2: How can I help? 485 00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:17,120 Speaker 1: And it looks like uh the uh head of the 486 00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:25,960 Speaker 1: Emergency Operations Center, Carol Parks, was looking for some direction. 487 00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:30,280 Speaker 1: Denise Keinoniez was saying, hey, we're running out of water. 488 00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:37,360 Speaker 1: In two hours head of the DWP, nobody knew. 489 00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:37,600 Speaker 2: What to do. 490 00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:40,240 Speaker 1: Everybody said, hey, well I don't know what should we do. Hey, 491 00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:44,160 Speaker 1: we're out of water. Hey Hey there's no leadership here. Hey, 492 00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:47,280 Speaker 1: nobody's talking about the mayor. I guess everybody knew she 493 00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:49,400 Speaker 1: was in Africa and what was she going to do. 494 00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:59,800 Speaker 1: Here is Bass's response, or at least the office's response. 495 00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:02,680 Speaker 2: After learning of the texts. 496 00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:08,040 Speaker 1: Bass's office says, these documents show that in the day. Now, 497 00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:11,520 Speaker 1: mind you, this is supposed to be some kind of exoneration. 498 00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:15,960 Speaker 1: These documents showing the day leading up to the fires chief. 499 00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:19,520 Speaker 1: Crowley was not in text contact with the mayor or 500 00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:22,600 Speaker 1: any member of her staff regarding the coming weather event 501 00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:30,040 Speaker 1: until after the fires had already broken out. So Bass 502 00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:35,800 Speaker 1: is using these texts to say, see, she didn't tell me, Well, 503 00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:41,560 Speaker 1: you're the mayor, you should be demanding information out of her. 504 00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:46,240 Speaker 1: I can't believe this. It looks like they had no 505 00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:49,640 Speaker 1: relationship to begin with, probably because Crowley was bitching all 506 00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:51,480 Speaker 1: the time about the lack of money, and she's right 507 00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:51,920 Speaker 1: about that. 508 00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:57,560 Speaker 2: But Bass had no curiosity for five days. 509 00:32:57,560 --> 00:33:00,120 Speaker 1: She had no curiosity about whether there was a a 510 00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:03,240 Speaker 1: plan to deal with a massive fire. Do you believe 511 00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:07,800 Speaker 1: Karen Bass's response is these documents show that Crowley was 512 00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:09,960 Speaker 1: not in text contact with the mayor or any member 513 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:16,200 Speaker 1: of her staff. Well, that that's horrible. That's that's that's all. 514 00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:19,920 Speaker 1: That's horrible that that bess did not initiate anything yourself. 515 00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:26,479 Speaker 1: Before other major weather emergencies, the mayor or a minimum, 516 00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:28,720 Speaker 1: the beyor's chief of staff had received the direct call 517 00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:31,840 Speaker 1: from the fire chief flagging the severity of the situation. 518 00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:33,960 Speaker 1: This time, that call never came. 519 00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:36,080 Speaker 3: There. 520 00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:39,120 Speaker 1: She's actually sticking with this defense that I didn't know, 521 00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:44,320 Speaker 1: nobody told me that can't that's not possible that people 522 00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:47,239 Speaker 1: are gonna put up with this. It's not possible that 523 00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:49,280 Speaker 1: she's still the mayor tomorrow morning. 524 00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:52,560 Speaker 2: That's your response to these texts. 525 00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:55,280 Speaker 1: By the way, everybody else in these text messages clearly 526 00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:58,880 Speaker 1: out to lunch too, or Keith Harris Dawson, the acting 527 00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:02,720 Speaker 1: marriage and he's Kenonia ahead of THEWWP, the head of 528 00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:04,880 Speaker 1: that emergency center. 529 00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:06,680 Speaker 2: They're all out to line. She don't know what to do. 530 00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:14,480 Speaker 2: The Carabas said, say nobody told me, Say say, I 531 00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:22,320 Speaker 2: don't believe. Isn't it unbelievable? It takes your breath away? 532 00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:25,680 Speaker 2: And she's walking around now going I'm in charge area. 533 00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:27,759 Speaker 2: Know if case you wonder who's in charge, I'm in charge. 534 00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:31,520 Speaker 2: She's actually gloating that there are no. 535 00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:38,120 Speaker 1: Text messages that came from her. Cari Bass is gloating 536 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:41,319 Speaker 1: that she was right. See I had nothing to do 537 00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:45,080 Speaker 1: with fire preparations. Uh ah, I had nothing to do 538 00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:47,160 Speaker 1: with the fire preparations. I didn't even know there was 539 00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:48,520 Speaker 1: a fire coming in. 540 00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:53,560 Speaker 4: Her office sent out that tweet warning of the fire 541 00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:54,880 Speaker 4: danger and the wind event. 542 00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:58,279 Speaker 1: Yeah, and I guess she doesn't track her. 543 00:34:58,520 --> 00:34:59,719 Speaker 2: She has nothing to do with her own. 544 00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:03,759 Speaker 4: Tweets, But that's that's her office. And you think that 545 00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:08,359 Speaker 4: her office or her employees let her know. Again, we 546 00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:13,320 Speaker 4: all knew about we all. It was all over the place. 547 00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:17,400 Speaker 1: This is just absolutely I've never seen people act like this. 548 00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:22,200 Speaker 1: Karen Bassett thinks she's absolutely politically bulletproof, doesn't she that 549 00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:24,920 Speaker 1: there is no way she can be removed, and that 550 00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:27,680 Speaker 1: she'll survive this and run for reelection and everything will 551 00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:28,120 Speaker 1: be cool. 552 00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:31,880 Speaker 5: I wonder if she really thinks that she'd be re elected. 553 00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:39,160 Speaker 1: If she does, she's extremely delusional. She shouldn't be mayor 554 00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:42,879 Speaker 1: for another minute. She should be gone by time you're 555 00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:44,040 Speaker 1: done with the two o'clock news. 556 00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:44,960 Speaker 5: But who's going to do that? 557 00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:48,600 Speaker 4: I'll do that, Yeah, yes, okay, And you're going to 558 00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:49,120 Speaker 4: replace her? 559 00:35:49,239 --> 00:35:51,280 Speaker 2: I will replace her on an interim basim. 560 00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:53,400 Speaker 5: Be Marquise. 561 00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:57,759 Speaker 1: Yeah right, And he's a genius. If you and I 562 00:35:57,840 --> 00:35:59,560 Speaker 1: ran things, you think it would have been any worse? 563 00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:04,680 Speaker 1: If you pick two homeless people dragged them out of tense, 564 00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:05,479 Speaker 1: would it have been worse? 565 00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:06,719 Speaker 5: I don't know about that. 566 00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:11,520 Speaker 1: All right, we come back Deborah Mark live the KFI 567 00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:14,000 Speaker 1: twenty for our newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the 568 00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:16,719 Speaker 1: John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear the show 569 00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:19,560 Speaker 1: live on KFI Am six forty from one to four 570 00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:22,440 Speaker 1: pm every Monday through Friday, and of course, anytime on 571 00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:24,440 Speaker 1: demand on the iHeartRadio app