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 Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,440 --> 00:00:09,680 Speaker 2: In just a moment, we are going to talk to 4 00:00:09,720 --> 00:00:14,600 Speaker 2: an attorney, Patrick McNicholas. His law firm, along with other firms, 5 00:00:14,680 --> 00:00:22,119 Speaker 2: are suing Southern California Edison for the fire in Altadena, 6 00:00:22,239 --> 00:00:27,960 Speaker 2: the Eaton fire that's fourteen thousand acres that leveled a 7 00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:29,640 Speaker 2: huge section of Alta Dina. 8 00:00:30,280 --> 00:00:31,880 Speaker 1: In just a second, I'll get to him. 9 00:00:32,840 --> 00:00:36,440 Speaker 2: The petition at change dot org is now up to 10 00:00:36,479 --> 00:00:39,840 Speaker 2: one hundred and forty four thousand signatures demanding the immediate 11 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:45,360 Speaker 2: resignation of Karen Bass. After I finished talking with Patrick McNicholas, 12 00:00:45,360 --> 00:00:49,040 Speaker 2: we're going to discuss the latest chapter of Karen Bass's 13 00:00:49,080 --> 00:00:54,280 Speaker 2: trip to Ghana, because now photos are circulating around the internet. 14 00:00:54,480 --> 00:00:59,240 Speaker 2: She was at a cocktail party at the exact moment 15 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:04,640 Speaker 2: that the fires were erupting in Palisades, and they have her. 16 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:08,840 Speaker 2: They are standing in a red dress and people drinking cocktails, 17 00:01:08,880 --> 00:01:13,640 Speaker 2: and she's smiling, posing for photos with various dignitaries in Ghana. 18 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:17,480 Speaker 2: I saw this first reaction I had, and the first 19 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:20,479 Speaker 2: reaction a number of people I talked to today. It's 20 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:25,680 Speaker 2: like the French Laundry photo Gavin Newsom. Remember after that 21 00:01:25,760 --> 00:01:28,960 Speaker 2: bastard locked us all up, locked our schools up, locked 22 00:01:28,959 --> 00:01:32,360 Speaker 2: the businesses up. He was out partying at the French 23 00:01:32,440 --> 00:01:39,800 Speaker 2: Laundry with rich lobbyist friends. And here Palisades is starting 24 00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:48,480 Speaker 2: to burn and she's at a cocktail party in Africa. Hey, 25 00:01:48,920 --> 00:01:51,520 Speaker 2: please keep voting for these people. It's really working out. 26 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:56,360 Speaker 1: Well. Wow, we'll get to that next now. 27 00:01:56,440 --> 00:02:01,639 Speaker 2: In Alta Dina, the Eaton fire, fourteen thousand acres people 28 00:02:01,640 --> 00:02:12,920 Speaker 2: have died, thousands of homes burned, twelve thousand structures total 29 00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:17,080 Speaker 2: between the Eaton and the Palisades fires. Let's go to 30 00:02:17,120 --> 00:02:22,120 Speaker 2: Patrick McNicholas because his law firm on behalf of his 31 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:25,160 Speaker 2: clients is they're suing Southern California Edison. 32 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:27,120 Speaker 1: We'll see what the details are. Patrick. How are you? 33 00:02:28,639 --> 00:02:31,040 Speaker 3: I am doing excellent. Thank you, John and just as 34 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:34,800 Speaker 3: and Aside. I've been listening to you since the nineteen eighties. 35 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:36,600 Speaker 1: How could that be? 36 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:40,080 Speaker 3: I don't know. Fast. 37 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:42,520 Speaker 1: Where did you live back then. 38 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:45,720 Speaker 3: The middle of Los Angeles? I grew up right in 39 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:46,880 Speaker 3: Hancock Park. 40 00:02:47,639 --> 00:02:49,919 Speaker 1: Oh all right, I mean I got to La ninety two. 41 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:53,720 Speaker 2: But I thought maybe you were from New Jersey, Patrick 42 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:57,960 Speaker 2: tell us the basis of the lawsuit, Well, the. 43 00:02:57,919 --> 00:03:02,200 Speaker 3: Base is it. Obviously we're holding other California Edison responsible 44 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:05,880 Speaker 3: for all the damages, for the burned downs. The evidence 45 00:03:05,919 --> 00:03:09,600 Speaker 3: is pretty clear at this time, even Edison gave a 46 00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:13,720 Speaker 3: non denial denial. So there's photographic evidence, there's video evidence, 47 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:18,240 Speaker 3: there's a witness evidence. The origin is pretty much agreed to, 48 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:23,680 Speaker 3: and the only thing that Edison hasn't admitted to is 49 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:26,480 Speaker 3: the cause. But we know that the high wires are there, 50 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:28,600 Speaker 3: and we know there's vegetation all around it. 51 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:32,000 Speaker 2: So it's the same story like several years ago when 52 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:35,000 Speaker 2: they and PG and E were starting fires all over 53 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:35,960 Speaker 2: northern California. 54 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:40,280 Speaker 3: Yes, it's a rinsom repeat. I mean, I've been involved 55 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:45,680 Speaker 3: in probably fifteen wildfires album involved PGNE up north in 56 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:50,560 Speaker 3: southern California, Edison down here, and currently we have, you know, 57 00:03:50,720 --> 00:03:56,120 Speaker 3: fifteen thousand California residents that we represent who've been damaged 58 00:03:56,160 --> 00:04:00,280 Speaker 3: by wildfires, and that's not including the Eaton fire. 59 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:05,240 Speaker 1: Had they never. 60 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:09,400 Speaker 2: Learned their lessons after the fires in the late twenty tens, 61 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:13,480 Speaker 2: I mean, do you think this is a new issue 62 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:16,800 Speaker 2: that they never considered or it's the same old issue 63 00:04:16,839 --> 00:04:17,839 Speaker 2: that they never fixed. 64 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:21,880 Speaker 3: No, it's clearly the same old issue that they never fixed. 65 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:24,200 Speaker 3: And if you give me a moment, when I first 66 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:26,880 Speaker 3: started practicing in nineteen eighty six, I was born in 67 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:30,719 Speaker 3: I did air crash litigation. Since that time, the aviation 68 00:04:30,880 --> 00:04:37,400 Speaker 3: industry really really focused on safety. They dump money into it, technology, training, 69 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:42,040 Speaker 3: redundant systems. They worked with the FAA, the NTSB, and 70 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:46,280 Speaker 3: they made commercial air travel one of the most shape 71 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:53,880 Speaker 3: endeavors ever, you know, inhuman distrect Yeah, and at the 72 00:04:53,880 --> 00:04:58,599 Speaker 3: same time, utilities did nothing. We're relying on technology and 73 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:02,560 Speaker 3: equipment going back to the seventies, and they just kept 74 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:05,760 Speaker 3: taking money off the table. They never invested in all 75 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:09,960 Speaker 3: those same things that the aviation industry did. And here 76 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:13,359 Speaker 3: we are, and it's the accumulative effect. It's not just 77 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:17,360 Speaker 3: you know, the utilities, it's also a lot of different 78 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:19,880 Speaker 3: factors that go into this. You know, there's a lack 79 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:22,960 Speaker 3: of governance. There's a failure of government. There's a failure 80 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:26,719 Speaker 3: of land management, there's a failure of zoning and building codes. 81 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:27,840 Speaker 3: And here we are. 82 00:05:28,839 --> 00:05:32,000 Speaker 2: This is likely downpower lines or a short in the 83 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:35,440 Speaker 2: electrical equipment, something that was caused by the winds. I mean, 84 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:38,200 Speaker 2: what are the general specific causes in a case like this. 85 00:05:38,960 --> 00:05:42,120 Speaker 3: Well, first of all, it's definitely wind related. Then when 86 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:45,200 Speaker 3: you get into the specific causes, that's where the investigation 87 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:48,400 Speaker 3: comes in. That's where discovery comes in. They put out 88 00:05:48,440 --> 00:05:50,520 Speaker 3: a statement, you know, they're required to make to the 89 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:54,960 Speaker 3: PUC under these circumstances because of the origin and the 90 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:57,920 Speaker 3: time that this fire occurred. So they said, you know, 91 00:05:58,040 --> 00:06:03,520 Speaker 3: there is no incident, our event we detected on our line. 92 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:08,320 Speaker 3: So we don't know the specific cause for the spark, 93 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:10,480 Speaker 3: but we know that those lines did it. It can 94 00:06:10,520 --> 00:06:13,360 Speaker 3: be vegetation being blown into them. It can be parking 95 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:18,200 Speaker 3: because the line sway and there's an electrical current that 96 00:06:18,279 --> 00:06:20,719 Speaker 3: goes back and forth. There's a variety of different ways 97 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:23,640 Speaker 3: that it can occur. But the singular point here is 98 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:26,640 Speaker 3: that they knew that there was a wind event that 99 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:28,159 Speaker 3: could cause this, and it did. 100 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:29,760 Speaker 4: Uh. 101 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:34,279 Speaker 2: The I thought they were they had embarked on a 102 00:06:34,320 --> 00:06:39,800 Speaker 2: program of preventatively shutting off electricity in high wind zones. 103 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:44,840 Speaker 3: They did, you know, and they have. And I live 104 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:47,240 Speaker 3: in the Malibu and I evacuated in the last few 105 00:06:47,279 --> 00:06:50,360 Speaker 3: year seven times. I left because I saw the wind modeling. 106 00:06:50,760 --> 00:06:52,880 Speaker 3: I saw it last week. So I just made a 107 00:06:52,920 --> 00:06:55,320 Speaker 3: decision that I'm getting out of Malibury because I knew 108 00:06:55,400 --> 00:06:57,920 Speaker 3: that my electricity was going to be cut off and 109 00:06:57,960 --> 00:07:00,600 Speaker 3: it sometimes the gas was going to be cut off, 110 00:07:00,600 --> 00:07:02,600 Speaker 3: and I knew that there's a risk of wildfire. I mean, 111 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:06,200 Speaker 3: they did the same thing on and on, and we 112 00:07:06,320 --> 00:07:10,120 Speaker 3: had an event, you know, the Franklin fire, which was 113 00:07:10,280 --> 00:07:14,000 Speaker 3: you know what was that two months ago? So both 114 00:07:14,080 --> 00:07:17,040 Speaker 3: lines were definitely energized. And I have no an eaton 115 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:19,800 Speaker 3: and I have no idea why they were at that 116 00:07:19,840 --> 00:07:21,480 Speaker 3: point in time, and do. 117 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:27,040 Speaker 2: They have they ever put lines underground? There were claims 118 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:29,400 Speaker 2: a few years ago that finally the companies were going 119 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:30,240 Speaker 2: to start doing that. 120 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:34,760 Speaker 3: Have they very much no, but thank you for mentioning it. 121 00:07:34,840 --> 00:07:37,880 Speaker 3: So PG and E up North, not related to this fire, 122 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:42,240 Speaker 3: committed their CEO committed to I think it was two 123 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:45,600 Speaker 3: thousand miles of underground. They said it was going to 124 00:07:45,640 --> 00:07:48,920 Speaker 3: cost twenty two billion, and they did the math and figured, hey, 125 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:51,440 Speaker 3: you know what, it's cheaper to put them underground than 126 00:07:51,440 --> 00:07:54,080 Speaker 3: to keep paying these lawsuits. And by the way, it's 127 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:58,160 Speaker 3: also a great idea to not light the fifth largest 128 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:00,920 Speaker 3: economy in the world on fire all times here because 129 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:03,600 Speaker 3: it might, you know, knock us down a nacher too. 130 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:09,320 Speaker 3: So specifically with respect to Southern California, Edison, they said 131 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:12,280 Speaker 3: they were I don't know where that program is. I 132 00:08:12,320 --> 00:08:14,800 Speaker 3: know that down in the Laguna Beach about ten years 133 00:08:14,960 --> 00:08:18,840 Speaker 3: or so ago. That's my best memory of it. Our 134 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:21,520 Speaker 3: lines were veried down there, so we know it's possible. 135 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:25,400 Speaker 3: There's laws that allow it, and that is definitely something 136 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:26,560 Speaker 3: that has to happen. 137 00:08:27,080 --> 00:08:29,760 Speaker 2: All right, Patrick, thanks for coming on, and let's keep 138 00:08:29,760 --> 00:08:34,120 Speaker 2: in touch as this progresses, because it's important. The Eaton 139 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:37,360 Speaker 2: fire and fire is almost as big as the Palisades Fire. 140 00:08:37,960 --> 00:08:41,960 Speaker 3: Well collectively collectively, John, the's what I would call the 141 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:45,559 Speaker 3: Southern California complex. This is going to be the single 142 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:49,600 Speaker 3: largest fire in the history of California, probably in the country. 143 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:52,960 Speaker 3: The damage is the likely top two hundred billion dollars. 144 00:08:54,400 --> 00:08:59,679 Speaker 2: That's that's that's overwhelming, absolutely overwhelming, and some of this 145 00:08:59,840 --> 00:09:04,960 Speaker 2: was preventable. Patrick McNicholas with McNicholas and McNicholas, whose file 146 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:07,720 Speaker 2: a lawsuit on behalf of his clients, along with other 147 00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:13,200 Speaker 2: law firms over the Altadena Eaten fire and Southern California 148 00:09:13,240 --> 00:09:16,400 Speaker 2: Anderson being responsible because of a lack of maintenance of 149 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:19,360 Speaker 2: its power lines and other electrical equipment. All right, Patrick, 150 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:24,960 Speaker 2: we'll talk with you again when we come back. The 151 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:32,959 Speaker 2: other lawsuit PA Civic Palisades over the reservoir being bone dry, 152 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:37,520 Speaker 2: and we've got and these lawsuits are the only way 153 00:09:37,520 --> 00:09:41,679 Speaker 2: to force the truth out of people, especially since the 154 00:09:41,720 --> 00:09:47,000 Speaker 2: media loses interest quickly. This lawsuit is by the firm 155 00:09:47,080 --> 00:09:52,000 Speaker 2: Robertson and Associates and also Foley, Besik, Bailey and Curtis, 156 00:09:52,559 --> 00:09:55,760 Speaker 2: and we will give you the details on that coming up. 157 00:09:55,840 --> 00:10:00,080 Speaker 2: We've got also going to get into Karen Bass. We 158 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:03,319 Speaker 2: want to see pictures of her partying. We have links 159 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:09,240 Speaker 2: on Twitter. The New York Post published the photographs and 160 00:10:09,880 --> 00:10:12,360 Speaker 2: you have to click the New York Post link on 161 00:10:12,360 --> 00:10:16,040 Speaker 2: our Twitter and on Instagram. Right, all right, all our 162 00:10:16,040 --> 00:10:17,040 Speaker 2: social media sites. 163 00:10:17,120 --> 00:10:17,680 Speaker 1: Just go there. 164 00:10:18,440 --> 00:10:22,760 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am 165 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:23,319 Speaker 5: six forty. 166 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:27,440 Speaker 1: We got so much to do here. 167 00:10:27,520 --> 00:10:30,640 Speaker 2: I'm going to tell you about the Palisades lawsuit over 168 00:10:30,679 --> 00:10:35,920 Speaker 2: that one hundred and seventeen million gallon empty reservoir in 169 00:10:36,040 --> 00:10:40,600 Speaker 2: just a moment, also after three o'clock, So Ray comes 170 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:45,439 Speaker 2: in here because Nathan Hockman is teaming up with Todd 171 00:10:45,480 --> 00:10:50,920 Speaker 2: Spitzer and they are publicly asking for a special session 172 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:56,199 Speaker 2: so the legislature, Ye're I gonna believe this one. Ask 173 00:10:56,360 --> 00:11:01,200 Speaker 2: the legislature to make looting a felony punishable by a 174 00:11:01,240 --> 00:11:06,640 Speaker 2: state prison sentence. And my first reaction when Ray handed 175 00:11:06,679 --> 00:11:08,960 Speaker 2: me this is it's not a felony. 176 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:11,440 Speaker 1: Well, no wonder. 177 00:11:11,480 --> 00:11:14,120 Speaker 2: The looters are running around all over the West side 178 00:11:14,120 --> 00:11:17,319 Speaker 2: of La taking whatever they want, breaking into dozens and 179 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:22,760 Speaker 2: dozens of homes. It's not a felony. I guess it 180 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:23,840 Speaker 2: would be a misdemeanor. 181 00:11:24,800 --> 00:11:26,280 Speaker 1: How could that be a misdemeanor? 182 00:11:26,640 --> 00:11:29,880 Speaker 2: And in La County misdemeanors you often don't go to 183 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:33,760 Speaker 2: jail because the jails are overcrowded. Misdemeanors are six months 184 00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:36,760 Speaker 2: or six months or less of a jail sentence. And 185 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:40,000 Speaker 2: one of the reasons for the massive crime wave is 186 00:11:40,160 --> 00:11:43,040 Speaker 2: when they emptied out the state prisons, the state prisoners 187 00:11:43,080 --> 00:11:47,000 Speaker 2: went to the county jails. The county jails were overfilled, 188 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:51,600 Speaker 2: so they stopped prosecuting misdemeanors because there was nowhere. 189 00:11:51,320 --> 00:11:52,520 Speaker 1: To put them. 190 00:11:52,640 --> 00:11:55,000 Speaker 2: And if they weren't prosecuting the misdemeanors. Then the police 191 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:58,520 Speaker 2: stopped arresting people. When the police stopped arresting people, store 192 00:11:58,559 --> 00:12:00,000 Speaker 2: it or stopped reporting the thefts. 193 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:01,000 Speaker 1: You see how that works. 194 00:12:01,720 --> 00:12:05,079 Speaker 2: And then the police department in the La Times will 195 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:06,319 Speaker 2: tell you the crime went down. 196 00:12:06,960 --> 00:12:08,240 Speaker 1: Well, of course it went down. 197 00:12:08,640 --> 00:12:11,520 Speaker 2: They weren't reporting the thefts because the police weren't prosecuting, 198 00:12:11,920 --> 00:12:15,480 Speaker 2: because the judges couldn't put them in jail because the 199 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:20,079 Speaker 2: jails were filled with prisoners that Jerry Brown had let out. 200 00:12:21,679 --> 00:12:23,840 Speaker 2: But who can keep track of all this? It's a 201 00:12:23,840 --> 00:12:24,840 Speaker 2: lot of dots to connect. 202 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:25,120 Speaker 3: Well. 203 00:12:25,200 --> 00:12:28,000 Speaker 4: Nathan Hawkman is also saying that those charged with looting 204 00:12:28,520 --> 00:12:30,079 Speaker 4: will be publicly shamed. 205 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:33,240 Speaker 1: You know what, I'm ready. 206 00:12:33,600 --> 00:12:36,200 Speaker 2: I think it's they to shoot him on site, and 207 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:37,760 Speaker 2: you know what that's going to happen. I read a 208 00:12:37,760 --> 00:12:39,320 Speaker 2: story in the Wall Street Journal. I hope I have 209 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:42,559 Speaker 2: time to get to it. As people in the Palisades 210 00:12:42,600 --> 00:12:46,560 Speaker 2: are walking around with guns to guard their property. They're 211 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:50,400 Speaker 2: walking around with loaded guns. We're getting really close here, 212 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:57,079 Speaker 2: and Newsom better get the legislature together and they better 213 00:12:57,120 --> 00:13:00,440 Speaker 2: make it a felony and send people to state prison. 214 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:03,240 Speaker 1: Good lord, put. 215 00:13:03,040 --> 00:13:07,640 Speaker 4: Them in with the meanest the baddest the mars in 216 00:13:07,679 --> 00:13:08,800 Speaker 4: the same jail cell. 217 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:13,080 Speaker 2: Yes, yes, all a lot of all the sexually frustrated, 218 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:16,840 Speaker 2: violent criminals. They ought to throw these guys in their 219 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:18,800 Speaker 2: naked How. 220 00:13:18,760 --> 00:13:22,679 Speaker 4: Dare you loop people after they're losing their homes or evacuating. 221 00:13:22,760 --> 00:13:26,480 Speaker 1: It's despicable. They are all over the place. 222 00:13:26,520 --> 00:13:30,120 Speaker 2: They're crawling around like roaches on the west side, and 223 00:13:30,160 --> 00:13:31,800 Speaker 2: the police are nowhere to be seen. 224 00:13:33,880 --> 00:13:34,520 Speaker 1: It's gross. 225 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:39,880 Speaker 2: More than this is from USA today, there's a dozen 226 00:13:41,120 --> 00:13:47,160 Speaker 2: residents Pacific Palisades. They're suing the LADWP because the hydrants 227 00:13:47,240 --> 00:13:51,680 Speaker 2: dried up and they didn't fill that reservoir. The Santa 228 00:13:51,679 --> 00:13:54,640 Speaker 2: Anez Reservoir, one hundred and seventeen million gallons of water, 229 00:13:55,360 --> 00:13:58,240 Speaker 2: has been empty since February of twenty twenty four. You 230 00:13:58,240 --> 00:14:00,320 Speaker 2: may have heard that story. We talked about it a lot. 231 00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:05,280 Speaker 2: The cover was torn. If you have a pool and 232 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:08,080 Speaker 2: you have a cover, it got torn. Should have taken 233 00:14:08,120 --> 00:14:14,040 Speaker 2: them a month to fix, according to employees. Eleven months later, 234 00:14:14,440 --> 00:14:20,760 Speaker 2: still not fixed. Hydrants went dry. And do not believe 235 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:26,440 Speaker 2: this idea that nothing could be done. We just played 236 00:14:26,560 --> 00:14:30,040 Speaker 2: Michael Valentine, the attorney he lived up in Palisades, talked 237 00:14:30,040 --> 00:14:32,760 Speaker 2: to News Nation. He saw the fire start. It was 238 00:14:32,800 --> 00:14:36,240 Speaker 2: nearly an hour before the first helicopter showed up. And 239 00:14:36,280 --> 00:14:41,120 Speaker 2: we have people in the La Fire Department admitting that 240 00:14:41,160 --> 00:14:46,360 Speaker 2: they never sent any teams strike teams to be pre 241 00:14:46,360 --> 00:14:51,200 Speaker 2: positioned with engines and firefighters. In fact, fire commanders at 242 00:14:51,280 --> 00:14:55,000 Speaker 2: LAFD specifically said no when asked to do it. So 243 00:14:55,040 --> 00:14:57,200 Speaker 2: they could have sent staff, They could have sent engines, 244 00:14:57,360 --> 00:14:59,800 Speaker 2: they could have been positioned properly. They could have gotten air. 245 00:15:00,480 --> 00:15:04,200 Speaker 2: Because stop with the one hundred mile an hour wins 246 00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:09,360 Speaker 2: that happened later in the day and the palisades at 247 00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:11,440 Speaker 2: ten thirty eleven o'clock, eleven thirty in the morning, it 248 00:15:11,440 --> 00:15:13,280 Speaker 2: wasn't a hundred mile an hour wins. It was much 249 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:16,600 Speaker 2: much lower than that. The helicopter was flying. They just 250 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:21,400 Speaker 2: didn't have any available. So enough of this. So anyway, 251 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:24,400 Speaker 2: this pizza, this pizza, this pizza Rea. 252 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:27,720 Speaker 1: Owner, I guess you're hungry. I had the. 253 00:15:27,720 --> 00:15:29,680 Speaker 2: Word pizzaria in front of me, yes, and I'm now 254 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:33,880 Speaker 2: I'm longing for one. Residents and a pizzeria owner blames 255 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:38,160 Speaker 2: LADWP for this whole debacle. The complaint is filed in 256 00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:42,160 Speaker 2: La County Superior Court by a couple of law firms, 257 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:46,080 Speaker 2: Robertson Associates and folly Besik Bailey and Curtis Film and 258 00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:48,600 Speaker 2: pronouncing his name right. We're going to have Roger Bailey 259 00:15:48,640 --> 00:15:51,840 Speaker 2: on tomorrow in the two o'clock hour to go through 260 00:15:51,840 --> 00:16:00,280 Speaker 2: the details of this lawsuit. I'm just looking at the 261 00:16:00,280 --> 00:16:03,880 Speaker 2: description again at the Santa Inez reservoir when the cover 262 00:16:04,040 --> 00:16:07,680 Speaker 2: tour then debris and bird droppings were getting into the water. 263 00:16:09,480 --> 00:16:11,680 Speaker 1: So this is over bird droppings. 264 00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:14,680 Speaker 2: So the fire department didn't have one hundred and seventeen 265 00:16:14,720 --> 00:16:17,480 Speaker 2: billion gallons of water because eleven months earlier some bird 266 00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:21,360 Speaker 2: droppings had had fallen into a hole in the cover 267 00:16:21,640 --> 00:16:26,840 Speaker 2: and nobody fixed it. Seriously, if you've lost your house, 268 00:16:26,920 --> 00:16:34,120 Speaker 2: this is one of the reasons why. And that Genny's Cunnians. 269 00:16:34,160 --> 00:16:35,760 Speaker 2: I got to mention her name ten times a day 270 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:38,400 Speaker 2: two they head of the DWP, she should be gone 271 00:16:38,440 --> 00:16:42,000 Speaker 2: as well. How do you leave a reservoir that huge 272 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:47,280 Speaker 2: empty with fire season coming? How do these people live 273 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:50,400 Speaker 2: with them? Well, they're all psychopaths and narcissists. That's how 274 00:16:50,680 --> 00:16:55,320 Speaker 2: they don't feel any shame. When we come back. Speaking 275 00:16:55,320 --> 00:17:00,360 Speaker 2: of a narcissist, Karen Bass did what we all would do. Right, 276 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:02,080 Speaker 2: if you were the mayor of Los Angeles and you 277 00:17:02,120 --> 00:17:05,080 Speaker 2: were told that there's life threatening fires that are going 278 00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:09,240 Speaker 2: to break out in a few days, what would you do. Yeah, 279 00:17:09,280 --> 00:17:14,320 Speaker 2: you'd fly to Africa like she did. There's now photos 280 00:17:14,359 --> 00:17:17,480 Speaker 2: of her enjoying herself at a party in Ghana at 281 00:17:17,480 --> 00:17:20,840 Speaker 2: the exact moment the fires started erupting in the Palisades. 282 00:17:22,600 --> 00:17:26,919 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am 283 00:17:26,960 --> 00:17:27,480 Speaker 5: six forty. 284 00:17:28,320 --> 00:17:29,240 Speaker 1: I have good news. 285 00:17:30,920 --> 00:17:34,560 Speaker 2: A CAFI listener who was listening in the one o'clock 286 00:17:34,640 --> 00:17:39,520 Speaker 2: hour and sent in the uh, the winning phrase, the 287 00:17:39,520 --> 00:17:47,040 Speaker 2: winning word in our thousand dollars contest. They won. That's right, 288 00:17:47,160 --> 00:17:51,640 Speaker 2: they won. It's a national contest. iHeart has eight hundred 289 00:17:51,640 --> 00:17:53,880 Speaker 2: and fifty radio stations around the country. When you send 290 00:17:53,960 --> 00:17:57,080 Speaker 2: in that word, you're competing against a lot of people. Well, 291 00:17:57,200 --> 00:17:59,639 Speaker 2: our listener don't know who it is yet one o'clock 292 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:00,720 Speaker 2: hour was the winner. 293 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:04,440 Speaker 1: All right, doing some good in the world. 294 00:18:05,720 --> 00:18:11,240 Speaker 2: Los Angeles Times, Boy, they've snapped back. They're doing journalism again, 295 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:20,840 Speaker 2: Julia Wick. They have the story Karen Bass posing for 296 00:18:20,960 --> 00:18:26,080 Speaker 2: photos at an embassy cocktail party in Ghana. Pictures are 297 00:18:26,080 --> 00:18:28,639 Speaker 2: being posted on social media. We have links so you 298 00:18:28,640 --> 00:18:31,440 Speaker 2: could see the photos. They also have some of the 299 00:18:31,480 --> 00:18:36,600 Speaker 2: photos at the New York New York Post, and there 300 00:18:36,600 --> 00:18:43,440 Speaker 2: are links to certain people's like Facebook sites. I'm sure 301 00:18:43,480 --> 00:18:49,080 Speaker 2: these pictures are everywhere now. Karen Bass was in Ghana 302 00:18:50,040 --> 00:18:55,080 Speaker 2: for the inauguration of the Ghanian President, John Dromani Muhamma. 303 00:18:56,640 --> 00:18:59,440 Speaker 2: She had attended it earlier in the day. Now, remember 304 00:18:59,480 --> 00:19:04,480 Speaker 2: the tide line here makes me crazy when people defend her. 305 00:19:05,320 --> 00:19:10,680 Speaker 2: She got the extreme fire warning on Thursday, January second, 306 00:19:10,880 --> 00:19:15,879 Speaker 2: extreme fire warning. She decides I'll go to Africa. On 307 00:19:15,960 --> 00:19:22,480 Speaker 2: January fourth. While she's traveling, the National Weather Service intensified 308 00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:29,440 Speaker 2: the warning, trying to explain how deadly these could be, 309 00:19:29,560 --> 00:19:33,080 Speaker 2: how dangerous they could be with the fires. She was 310 00:19:33,119 --> 00:19:40,479 Speaker 2: gone on Saturday the fourth, on my calendar, right me, 311 00:19:40,520 --> 00:19:45,680 Speaker 2: make sure, don't wanna mischaracterize any of this. Yeah, Saturday 312 00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:49,600 Speaker 2: the fourth, she was gone. Sunday the fifth, she was gone, 313 00:19:49,640 --> 00:19:53,840 Speaker 2: Monday the sixth, she was gone Tuesday the seventh, as 314 00:19:53,840 --> 00:19:58,000 Speaker 2: the fires were breaking out. Ghana is eight hours ahead 315 00:19:58,040 --> 00:20:02,240 Speaker 2: of Los Angeles, so the. 316 00:20:02,119 --> 00:20:04,040 Speaker 1: Fires were burning by ten thirty. 317 00:20:05,320 --> 00:20:10,199 Speaker 2: By twelve o'clock noon, they had probably tripled in size. 318 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:14,679 Speaker 2: The fires were now roaring. The fire department had little 319 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:20,119 Speaker 2: presence for the first hour and a half. Well noon 320 00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:25,560 Speaker 2: here in Los Angeles is eight o'clock in Ghana. So 321 00:20:25,760 --> 00:20:29,359 Speaker 2: she was at the cocktail party. The US Ambassador to 322 00:20:29,359 --> 00:20:34,920 Speaker 2: Ghana hosted the reception for this American delegation. It says 323 00:20:34,960 --> 00:20:38,280 Speaker 2: that it was part of a Biden administration delegation that 324 00:20:38,359 --> 00:20:40,800 Speaker 2: Joe Biden had asked her, do you think Joe Biden 325 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:43,760 Speaker 2: knows who the president of Ghana is? Do you think 326 00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:49,080 Speaker 2: he could identify Ghana on a map? Some Biden flunkies 327 00:20:49,160 --> 00:20:52,960 Speaker 2: had to send four people over to honor the President 328 00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:59,040 Speaker 2: of Ghana, and Karen Vass was picked, and she said, sure, 329 00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:04,160 Speaker 2: extreme fire warnings, deadly fires, possible. 330 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:09,640 Speaker 1: Life threatening wins. Yeah, I'll go to Africa. 331 00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:15,119 Speaker 2: Now they're saying, well, she spent most of the party 332 00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:18,399 Speaker 2: making calls in a separate room. Boy, you guys are 333 00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:22,159 Speaker 2: a bunch of phony, blooney liars. There's photos of her 334 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:25,000 Speaker 2: posing with the president, posing with other people at the party. 335 00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:28,080 Speaker 1: She was supposed to be here. 336 00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:32,520 Speaker 2: When the warnings went out on Thursday, and she should 337 00:21:32,520 --> 00:21:38,000 Speaker 2: have been running the emergency response Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday 338 00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:42,399 Speaker 2: Monday Tuesday. How many days is that Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, 339 00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:45,640 Speaker 2: six days. She should have been in the hot seat 340 00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:52,760 Speaker 2: for six days. She went off on Saturday. She appears 341 00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:55,679 Speaker 2: to have been posing for photos just before eight pm 342 00:21:56,880 --> 00:22:01,800 Speaker 2: in Ghana. Just before twelve in Los Angeles, The La 343 00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:04,679 Speaker 2: Times looked at a photo very closely and found they 344 00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:08,119 Speaker 2: could see somebody's watch, So that's how they know what 345 00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:16,159 Speaker 2: time one party goer's watch is visible. Minutes after that 346 00:22:16,240 --> 00:22:20,040 Speaker 2: photo was taken, evacuation orders were issued in the Palisades. 347 00:22:20,320 --> 00:22:24,120 Speaker 2: So this idea that she was on the phone. No, 348 00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:29,280 Speaker 2: she was taking a picture at a cocktail party. The 349 00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:34,399 Speaker 2: evacuation orders were being sent out without her knowledge. She 350 00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:37,640 Speaker 2: had no idea standing at that party that they were 351 00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:43,080 Speaker 2: evacuating the Palisades and that within a day the entire 352 00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:47,880 Speaker 2: town would the flatland area and the highlands would be destroyed. 353 00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:54,119 Speaker 2: The photo was posted and was posted on Instagram and 354 00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:57,560 Speaker 2: LinkedIn by Marissa Bowman, a city staffer who was not 355 00:22:57,640 --> 00:22:59,679 Speaker 2: part of the official delegation. I guess she went as 356 00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:05,280 Speaker 2: bass friend. If she's not part of the official delegation, 357 00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:07,880 Speaker 2: she works for the city. Well, what was she doing there? 358 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:13,320 Speaker 2: She's taking the party photos. Maybe she could have helped 359 00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:16,800 Speaker 2: out with the evacuation warnings, and then she posts them. 360 00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:26,600 Speaker 2: This is what's hysterical. She posts them bassist spokeshole. Who's 361 00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:30,040 Speaker 2: this guy, Zack Sidell. They're still trying to push this 362 00:23:30,119 --> 00:23:32,119 Speaker 2: idea that she took a military flight. 363 00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:32,840 Speaker 3: So what. 364 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:38,640 Speaker 2: I hate all the spin they do. Your your ass 365 00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:41,560 Speaker 2: should have been in the commander's seat here in the 366 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:47,960 Speaker 2: emergency operations room. You're six days late, and you're trying 367 00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:51,919 Speaker 2: to say I took a military playing back after you 368 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:58,359 Speaker 2: went to the party, when Palisades residents were running for 369 00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:02,520 Speaker 2: their lives up at a traffic jam down Palisades Drive, 370 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:06,440 Speaker 2: people screaming. We had a woman who jumped from her 371 00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:09,119 Speaker 2: car while she was on the air with us. Palm 372 00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:14,359 Speaker 2: trees were burning. They're running for their lives. They left 373 00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:18,439 Speaker 2: behind all their possessions, never to be seen again. Several 374 00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:22,040 Speaker 2: people died. Oh, I came back on a military plane 375 00:24:22,119 --> 00:24:23,760 Speaker 2: right away. F you. 376 00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:33,480 Speaker 1: Resign, get out? Who wants her here? Go go? 377 00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:34,159 Speaker 3: Uh? 378 00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:38,359 Speaker 2: These are French laundry pictures, you know. And people didn't 379 00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:40,560 Speaker 2: have the good sense to toss noosem out at the 380 00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:41,760 Speaker 2: French laundry photos. 381 00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:42,480 Speaker 1: And guess what. 382 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:47,359 Speaker 2: He was part of the botched response, and when he 383 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:51,280 Speaker 2: was caught by that Palisades mother, he lied and said, 384 00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:56,480 Speaker 2: I'm on the phone with Joe Biden. These are selfish, narcissistic, 385 00:24:56,760 --> 00:25:02,480 Speaker 2: pathological liars. That's what you have running the state and 386 00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:07,119 Speaker 2: this city, including most of the city council and most 387 00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:11,320 Speaker 2: of the Assembly and state Senate. And you think they're not. 388 00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:16,360 Speaker 2: You still want to support these people, You want to donate. 389 00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:21,640 Speaker 2: What do they have to do, What do they have 390 00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:25,200 Speaker 2: to do for you to be convinced that this crowd 391 00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:29,159 Speaker 2: is dangerous and is destroying the state, actively destroying the 392 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:34,399 Speaker 2: state as we speak. The criminals weren't enough. All the theft, 393 00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:39,960 Speaker 2: the smashing grabs, the seventy thousand mental patients and drug 394 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:41,440 Speaker 2: addicts in the street weren't enough. 395 00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:43,440 Speaker 1: Now burning down. 396 00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:46,119 Speaker 2: Pacific Palisades and out DA data, that's not enough. 397 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:48,200 Speaker 1: And then all the lies. 398 00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:53,800 Speaker 2: Putting twenty thousand businesses out of business during COVID, closing 399 00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:56,920 Speaker 2: the schools for a year and a half, ruining kids' childhoods. 400 00:25:57,600 --> 00:26:03,440 Speaker 2: What else can they do? What else can they do 401 00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:09,680 Speaker 2: to destroy this place? Got to take a break. 402 00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:14,520 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A 403 00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:15,679 Speaker 5: six forty. 404 00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:19,200 Speaker 2: Coming up after three o'clock. Todd Spitzer, the Orange County DA. 405 00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:22,359 Speaker 2: He's teaming up with Nathan Hakman, the La County DA, 406 00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:29,000 Speaker 2: demanding that Newsom call a special legislative session to make 407 00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:30,280 Speaker 2: looting a felony. 408 00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:37,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, looting is not a felony in California. 409 00:26:39,119 --> 00:26:41,439 Speaker 2: And if it's a felony, it would be punishable by 410 00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:45,400 Speaker 2: state prison sentence. Who knew? There's so much I've learned 411 00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:48,720 Speaker 2: this week. Who knew that you could loot somebody's house 412 00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:52,880 Speaker 2: and you're not going to go to prison? And now 413 00:26:52,920 --> 00:27:00,960 Speaker 2: you have Hawkman and Spitzer asking Newsom. And by the way, 414 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,440 Speaker 2: to contact Newsom, you have to call the French Lungey directly. 415 00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:06,880 Speaker 2: It's like in the old movies. They'll come with a 416 00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:11,200 Speaker 2: phone on a tray. Call for mister Newsom. Hi, there's 417 00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:18,760 Speaker 2: fire and looting in La. This is from the New 418 00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:24,359 Speaker 2: York Times. Before taking office, LA's mayor said she would 419 00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:31,080 Speaker 2: not go abroad. Another story this week. After the first 420 00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:34,359 Speaker 2: rally in her campaign for mayor. She ran for mayor 421 00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:40,399 Speaker 2: back in twenty twenty one, Karen Bass spoke candidly about 422 00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:43,320 Speaker 2: what she saw as a potential drawback to the job. 423 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:47,560 Speaker 2: She wouldn't be able to engage in world, to travel 424 00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:54,240 Speaker 2: anymore and participate in global affairs. Bass was accustomed to 425 00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:58,280 Speaker 2: circling the globe. This is The New York Times, accustomed 426 00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:02,320 Speaker 2: to circling the globe. As a dimocratic member of Congress, 427 00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:05,719 Speaker 2: she was on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. She had 428 00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:09,959 Speaker 2: spent decades working on US Africa relations. She said it 429 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:12,679 Speaker 2: was the most absorbing, one of the most absorbing parts 430 00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:16,520 Speaker 2: of her political career. In October seventeenth, twenty twenty one, 431 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:21,199 Speaker 2: in an interview, she told The Times, I went to 432 00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:24,000 Speaker 2: Africa every couple of months all the time. The idea 433 00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:27,520 Speaker 2: of leaving that, especially the international work and the Africa work, 434 00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:29,800 Speaker 2: I was like, hmm, I don't think I want to 435 00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:34,480 Speaker 2: do that. She actually considered not running for mayor because 436 00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:39,360 Speaker 2: she wouldn't be able to travel to Africa, and then 437 00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:42,760 Speaker 2: decided she would and told The Times, and this is 438 00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:45,560 Speaker 2: a quote, that if she was elected mayor, not only 439 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:50,760 Speaker 2: would I of course live here, oh thank you. Of 440 00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:55,320 Speaker 2: course I would live in LA but I would also 441 00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:59,400 Speaker 2: not travel internationally. The only places I would go would 442 00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:03,200 Speaker 2: be DC, Sacramento, San Francisco, and New York in relation 443 00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:12,040 Speaker 2: to la That was the promise, and then she got 444 00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:16,080 Speaker 2: an invitation to the inauguration for the President of Ghana. 445 00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:19,920 Speaker 2: Who could resist? I could see how that would be tempting. 446 00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:25,240 Speaker 2: So she flies away eight time zones two days after 447 00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:28,040 Speaker 2: the Weather Service put out the extreme fire warning and 448 00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:32,880 Speaker 2: didn't come back. Didn't leave until Tuesday after the Palisades 449 00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:35,600 Speaker 2: was burning. And as we told you in the last segment, 450 00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:39,400 Speaker 2: they have proof that she was taking smiling photos at 451 00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:44,440 Speaker 2: the party at the exact moment that evacuations began in 452 00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:48,440 Speaker 2: the Palisades. And have you noticed all her press conferences 453 00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:53,920 Speaker 2: she has been angry and dismissive and refuses to apologize. 454 00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:56,920 Speaker 2: What no sense trying to pry the fake apology out 455 00:29:56,920 --> 00:30:00,680 Speaker 2: of her. Out of her She's not sorry anything. 456 00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:04,160 Speaker 1: She shuts down reporters. 457 00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:06,880 Speaker 2: It's gotten to the point now at these press conferences 458 00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:12,400 Speaker 2: she doesn't speak until the seventh or eighth person is gone, 459 00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:16,560 Speaker 2: and then she'll battle some platitudes and cliches and nonsense 460 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:22,720 Speaker 2: because she's trying to hide from the reporters who want 461 00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:28,360 Speaker 2: to know, why, why would you do that? Can you 462 00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:33,080 Speaker 2: imagine if you were mayor? And then her her her 463 00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:39,640 Speaker 2: minions her her sycophants. Well, it wouldn't have mattered anyway, Yeah, 464 00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:43,160 Speaker 2: it would have mattered. The thing burned for an hour 465 00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:46,480 Speaker 2: before the l A Fire Department had any serious presence. 466 00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:51,680 Speaker 1: And what was she doing the last year that that 467 00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:55,560 Speaker 1: reservoir was dry? Did she know? If she didn't know, 468 00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:59,600 Speaker 1: how could she not know. They're the ones who keep 469 00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:02,240 Speaker 1: saying fire season is year around now, you know, know this 470 00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:03,400 Speaker 1: climate change? 471 00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:08,760 Speaker 2: Well, if it's so serious, why aren't you taking extraordinary 472 00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:12,640 Speaker 2: efforts to fight it, like fill up the reservoir for 473 00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:15,920 Speaker 2: the deadly wildfires you say are gonna be with us 474 00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:16,680 Speaker 2: all year round? 475 00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:19,560 Speaker 1: Do you notice they don't do anything? 476 00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:26,120 Speaker 2: If it's so serious, why is the fire department only 477 00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:32,680 Speaker 2: funded fifty percent of what it should be? How serious 478 00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:37,560 Speaker 2: can your alleged climate change year round fire season? B 479 00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:46,440 Speaker 2: If the fire department is underfunded by fifty percent, understaffed 480 00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:52,400 Speaker 2: by fifty percent, and even the people we have and 481 00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:56,000 Speaker 2: the fire engines we have and the equipment, it's all 482 00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:59,000 Speaker 2: sitting around. They didn't deploy four hundred, they didn't employ 483 00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:02,560 Speaker 2: forty engines. They'd employ one thousand firefighters that they could have. 484 00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:06,960 Speaker 2: Oh you know, nothing could have been done really, nothing 485 00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:08,720 Speaker 2: could be You're a lot bunch of liars. Of course, 486 00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:11,680 Speaker 2: plenty could have been done, especially in that first hour. 487 00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:13,760 Speaker 2: You should have had strike. 488 00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:15,680 Speaker 1: Teams up in the hills in the Palisades and all 489 00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:16,520 Speaker 1: the hilly areas. 490 00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:19,680 Speaker 2: You had one thousand guys and forty engines and they 491 00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:22,880 Speaker 2: were sitting in the garages. And then we find out 492 00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:25,520 Speaker 2: there's another one hundred engines that need to be fixed, 493 00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:29,600 Speaker 2: but they don't have the money for the mechanics. What 494 00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:31,720 Speaker 2: are they doing with all the money we pay in taxes? 495 00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:34,520 Speaker 2: If I told you how much money I paid taxes, 496 00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:37,080 Speaker 2: you'd dropped dead. 497 00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:43,960 Speaker 4: Three forty five Today, the mayor is holding a media 498 00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:48,560 Speaker 4: availability after meeting with volunteers and service providers assisting those 499 00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:51,000 Speaker 4: affected with the Palisades fire. 500 00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:54,680 Speaker 1: I only want to hear two words at her, I resign. 501 00:32:55,720 --> 00:33:01,520 Speaker 2: That's it. There is no explanation that anybody wants to hear, 502 00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:06,840 Speaker 2: No fake apology, no nothing. Just go get out because 503 00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:08,840 Speaker 2: a head has to be put on a stick here 504 00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:13,400 Speaker 2: because it's got to be a warning that scares the 505 00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:17,320 Speaker 2: hell out of all these other idiot politicians. Somebody's got 506 00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:20,520 Speaker 2: to go or these idiots are going to think, Wow, 507 00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:23,400 Speaker 2: there are really no consequences. It doesn't matter what we do. 508 00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:25,520 Speaker 2: The voters aren't going to force us out. They're not 509 00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:28,600 Speaker 2: going to vote us out. Somebody has to go or 510 00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:31,760 Speaker 2: this is going to get worse. She can't survive this. 511 00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:37,120 Speaker 2: If she survives, if she survives this, we won't look 512 00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:39,160 Speaker 2: how far they're willing to go. She was willing to 513 00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:42,400 Speaker 2: fly to Africa during extreme fire warning because she thought, well, 514 00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:43,720 Speaker 2: what would the consequences be? 515 00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:45,840 Speaker 1: What could happen? 516 00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:48,800 Speaker 2: La Burns. They're still not going to get rid of me. 517 00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:51,440 Speaker 2: I'm gonna save seat. I didn't even know that she 518 00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:55,600 Speaker 2: She already announced her reelection plans last summer and I'm 519 00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:56,160 Speaker 2: reading today. 520 00:33:56,200 --> 00:34:00,640 Speaker 1: Oh, everybody thought she was a shoe in. She was 521 00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:04,280 Speaker 1: a shoe in. That's what she thought. 522 00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:08,120 Speaker 2: So she thought I could go to Africa during extreme 523 00:34:08,200 --> 00:34:12,000 Speaker 2: fire danger. Just a big middle finger to everybody in 524 00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:15,960 Speaker 2: the Palisades, big middle finger. So of course she has 525 00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:21,120 Speaker 2: to resign, immediately, change dot Org, put in Karen Bass, 526 00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:24,239 Speaker 2: put your name on that petition. Keep the pressure up 527 00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:27,560 Speaker 2: here Deborah Mark, Live in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hey, 528 00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:30,440 Speaker 2: you've been listening to the John Covelt Show podcast. You 529 00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:33,040 Speaker 2: can always hear the show live on KFI Am six 530 00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:35,840 Speaker 2: forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, 531 00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:39,160 Speaker 2: and of course anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app