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Speaker 1: three point thirty today after Debor's news, Let's now go

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Speaker 1: to Tony Strickland. Tony is a state senator at a

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Speaker 1: Huntington Beach, a Republican, and we have told you over

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Speaker 1: the last couple of months on how a Gaven Newsom

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Speaker 1: blew almost a half a billion dollars on a new

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Speaker 1: nine to one one system. And they've been working on

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Speaker 1: this thing for like six seven years, ever since he

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Speaker 1: became governor, and it was a complete bust. Absolutely nothing works.

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Speaker 1: And now Tony Strickland has got a bill to try

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Speaker 2: You I'm good? John?

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Speaker 1: How are you I am good? Tell people if they

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Speaker 1: haven't heard, how much money was spent and what went

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Speaker 1: wrong with the nine to one one system.

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Speaker 2: So the Governor k Newsom promised Californian's a moderate nine

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Speaker 2: to one one system, and his administration spent five hundred

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Speaker 2: So they spend five hundred million dollars, They missed every

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Speaker 2: major deadline and then they scrapped the plan. And so

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Speaker 2: you know, my nine to one one Fix It Act

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Speaker 2: forces accountability because when people done on nine one one,

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Speaker 2: excuses don't say lives. And you know, this emergency response

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Speaker 2: is not optional, it's core function of government, and it's

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Speaker 2: another failure by this administration. They spent the money and

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Speaker 2: they continually do the surcharge without any accountability. So my

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Speaker 2: bill simply says it forces the governor and requires OEES

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Speaker 2: which they should, we need to make sure that they'll

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Speaker 2: assessing a surcharge to our constituents so what they're doing

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Speaker 2: is they're charging the money they scrapped it, and I

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Speaker 1: I had read that they had opened up hundreds of

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Speaker 1: have I believe like four hundred and fifty of them

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Speaker 1: around the state. Do you know anything about why they

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Speaker 1: didn't all work? I mean, that's a half a billion

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Speaker 2: And I do not because again it's a lack of transparency.

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Speaker 2: As you know, it's another example of lack of transparency

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Speaker 2: with this administration, a lack of accountability. They don't report,

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Speaker 2: and I'm here to push back, and I have my

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Speaker 2: They need to report to us quarterly on the progress

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Speaker 2: and if they have no progress, then we need to

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Speaker 2: stop charging our constituents. But as I'm talking to my

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Speaker 2: local law enforcement, you know, and everybody expects, emergency response

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Speaker 2: is not optional when you call nine to one. It's

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Speaker 2: What my bill does is put a highlight and bring

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Speaker 1: What's wrong with our current system? Why was there a

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Speaker 1: need to blow a half a billion on a new one?

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Speaker 2: I think our system is just totally out of whack

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Speaker 2: like you know, look what's happening in Minnesota. Every governor

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Speaker 2: We need to root out waste, fraud, and abused because

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Speaker 1: Where did this half billion go? See? I have seen

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Speaker 2: And that's why we need to pass my Centate Bill

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Speaker 2: ninety five to get these answers and have them to

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Speaker 2: push them hard on getting these answers. Who are these

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Speaker 2: And they won't tell us.

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Speaker 1: Though right there they're they're not disclosing any of this information.

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Speaker 1: Who got paid, why everything's broke and.

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Speaker 2: Is happening all over the state government. And again I'm

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Speaker 2: keep pushing, but there's a bill now going through the

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Speaker 2: that they don't have to report. There actually is a

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Speaker 2: Just it was down to the other day that five

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Speaker 2: So this is happening throughout the California state government and

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Speaker 2: we need more accountabilion transparency, and that's why I'm pushing

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Speaker 1: Are there any Democratic legislators interested in this stuff? Because

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Speaker 1: I've got a half a billion that's been blown on

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Speaker 1: high speed rail change orders that produced nothing, and then

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Speaker 1: you never have another half a billion blown on this

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm pushing a lot of my Democratic colleagues. Look,

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Speaker 2: we're an equal branch of government. We're the legislature, and

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Speaker 2: with the governor. In fact, I served you know fifteen

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Speaker 1: Well, are they in on it?

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Speaker 2: I'm wondering transparency.

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Speaker 1: I'm wondering how many of these assembly people and state

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Speaker 1: if are they getting kickbacks from these nine to one

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Speaker 2: Lack the character to push back when they know something's wrong.

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Speaker 1: All right, Tony, Well, good luck with this. It's good

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Speaker 1: to have you on again.

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Speaker 2: Well I appreciate you having me on as always. Thank you, John,

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Speaker 1: All right, it's SB All right, Tony Strickland, State Senator,

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Speaker 1: Republican out of Huntington Beach. When we come back, we're

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Speaker 1: going to play you a clip speaking of corruption between

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Speaker 1: US Senator Josh Hall from Missouri. You know, in Minnesota,

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Speaker 1: they've got their own massive corruption scandal, which was briefly

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Speaker 1: obscured by the ice hysteria. Well it's back. The Minnesota

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Speaker 1: Attorney General, Keith Ellison, who was heavily connected to the

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Speaker 1: Somali fraudsters in Minneapolis. He got a grilling from Josh Holly,

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Speaker 1: the Missouri Senator. We're going to play that clip. It's

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Speaker 1: pretty entertaining. That's next.

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Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM

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Speaker 3: six forty.

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Speaker 1: Tuesday, we moved to three to six pm and Conway

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Speaker 1: up after three thirty. So it's an exciting week. And

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Speaker 1: the contest ends tomorrow. How about that? Wow? Pam Bondi,

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Speaker 1: the attorney general for Trump, Do I have the right

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Speaker 1: you're right. Josh Holly is the is the Republican senator

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Speaker 1: from Missouri, and they were holding a hearing on all

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Speaker 1: the Minneapolis fraud. The fraud situation, and what frustrates me

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Speaker 1: is the story comes and goes and comes and goes

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Speaker 1: Nobody sees this is a grand pattern by design. All

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Speaker 1: these nonprofits have been set up around the country to

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Speaker 1: builk tax money on the local, state, and federal level.

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Speaker 1: They have been running for years. Collectively, it's trillions of

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Speaker 1: the Somali thing blew up in Minneapolis, and now we

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Speaker 1: kickbacks to keep this going because generally in a state

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Speaker 1: to Josh Hawley, go after the Minnesota Attorney General, Keith Ellison.

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Speaker 4: You helped fraudsters defraud your spay and this government of

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Speaker 4: nine brillion dollars and you got that campaign country.

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Speaker 2: Out of it.

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Speaker 1: You ought to be indicted. True, Well, that's the truth.

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Speaker 1: that's the and that's the truth. Oh no, this is

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Speaker 1: all on the road. Did you bother?

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Speaker 4: Did you bother to investigate where the money that you

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Speaker 4: facilitated their fraud for where it went?

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Speaker 1: Do you know where it went, what it was used for?

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Speaker 4: The fraudulent money? I do, because we just heard testimony

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Speaker 5: Because we run with tears in the hundreds of millions

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Speaker 5: of dollars to terrorists in national criminal organizations, to the

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Speaker 5: drug trade, to drug trafficking, to child trafficking.

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Speaker 4: And you took ten thousand dollars.

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Speaker 1: That's a lot and help them do it.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 4: The other thing is whistle blowers came to you as

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Speaker 4: early as twenty nineteen. Let's look as early as twenty nineteen,

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Speaker 4: whistle blood, don't talk over me.

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Speaker 1: As early as.

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Speaker 4: don't come, whistle blowers came, Well, I should call you

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Speaker 1: Well we'll see what you get too. Yeah, yeah, hopefully

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Speaker 1: he will go to jail. I'm telling you, these people

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Speaker 6: And we just find it incredulous that we have planned

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Speaker 6: You wonder why we have such a horrific war on

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Speaker 1: I'm not just offer that things.

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Speaker 6: Are your incredible women in this room and you have

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Speaker 1: Don't you think talk about passive questions? You won't. Yeah, meantime,

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Speaker 1: he's swinging out of this is what we're here for, Teddy.

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Speaker 1: Don't you think I don't care about pan playing parenthood

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Speaker 1: and you shouldn't be getting ninety million dollars of tax money.

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Speaker 1: I want to know why they're closing oil refineries because

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Speaker 1: of your husband's stupid war on the oil industry. Oh,

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Speaker 1: she's at a podium behind an idiotic sign Trump's war

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Speaker 1: on women. Should sit down. Good lord, what a headache.

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Speaker 1: And these are female journalists, it says most of the

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Speaker 1: The women, according to Jennifer Newsom, weren't asking women oriented

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Speaker 1: question questions. They were asking male oriented questions. So she

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Speaker 1: was angry at the women journalists. I gotta stop.

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Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM

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Speaker 3: six forty.

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Speaker 1: Coming up after three o'clock, We're going to talk to

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Speaker 1: Jamie Page. Jamie Page is now writing for the California Post.

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Speaker 1: She has written for the West Side Current. We've had

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Speaker 1: her on several times. She has been writing about Nythia

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Speaker 1: Rahman for years, and not everybody was paying attention. And

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Speaker 1: now that Nythia Raman is taking her defund the Police

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Speaker 1: Act and running for mayor, I think they're going to

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Speaker 1: pay attention. You start going into Jamie Page's backlog of

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Speaker 1: Ramen stories and we're going to talk. We got a

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Speaker 1: few recent ones she's written and we're going to talk

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Speaker 1: to her about it. And leading into our interview with

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Speaker 1: Jamie Page about Nythia Raman, you should know this. According

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Speaker 1: to to Jim McDonald, the Los Angeles Police chief, he

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Speaker 1: says that la is being policed with half a team,

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Speaker 1: and he's warning with the World Cup and the Summer

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Speaker 1: Olympics coming, staffing is down to eighty seven hundred police

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Speaker 1: officers and he thinks we need at least twelve thousand,

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Speaker 1: if not more. Got four million residents, tens of thousands

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Speaker 1: of criminals, eighty seven hundred police officers, and he says,

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Speaker 1: if you have a baseball team with nine fielders on

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Speaker 1: the field, we have four. No matter how good the

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Speaker 1: players are, they're going to get fatigued he says, we

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Speaker 1: need twelve thousand officers. We need almost forty percent more

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Speaker 1: thirty three hundred cops. I'd start with twelve thousand. If

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Speaker 1: I were able to get that, we'd be pretty healthy. Instead,

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Speaker 1: city council was so short that McDonald had to hire

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Speaker 1: four hundred and ten officers. I don't know if he

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Speaker 1: had approval to do that, but he had them hired,

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Speaker 1: and then the city council found some money to pay

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Speaker 1: them earlier this year. Otherwise we were going to be

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Speaker 1: down to eighty three hundred now again, when viag Grigosa left,

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Speaker 1: we had ten thousand. McDonald says, we need twelve thousand.

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Speaker 1: So we've got half a fire department, two thirds of

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Speaker 1: a police department because we spend more money on vagrants,

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Speaker 1: mental patients, and drug addicts than we do on firefighters.

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Speaker 1: It's true. And what was that other story I had

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Speaker 1: about the firefighters last hour? Yeah, LA police department responds

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Speaker 1: to forty calls an hour for crazy people who are homeless,

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Speaker 1: forty an hour. So you do the math on that.

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Speaker 1: That's about a thousand a day, one thousand for every

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Speaker 1: twenty four hour period, and we don't have enough police.

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Speaker 1: We don't have enough firefighters. They start thousands of fires

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Speaker 1: every year, thousands and thousands of fires, and so the

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Speaker 1: whole thing's inverted. So here comes Karen Bass, who has

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Speaker 1: continued the downsizing of the police and fire department that

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Speaker 1: was going on under that oily weasel Eric Rcetti. And

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Speaker 1: now here comes Nthia Rahman, who just a couple of

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Speaker 1: weeks ago had endorsed Karen Bass for mayor. And you

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Speaker 1: have to look into her record. Back in twenty twenty,

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Speaker 1: she put out a tweet. She put out a tweet

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Speaker 1: that said, defund the police. Now she's trying to backtrack

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Speaker 1: from this, but that's what's in her heart. She voted

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Speaker 1: against the last police raise that was present into the

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Speaker 1: city council. And now all of a sudden she says, oh, well,

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Speaker 1: we shouldn't lose any more cops. I love how these people.

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Speaker 1: It's like mom, Donnie. They run for mayor and suddenly, oh,

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Speaker 1: did I say defund the police? Oh did I vote

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Speaker 1: against the last pay package? No? No, no, But that's

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Speaker 1: what they're gonna do. That's what Karen Bass did.

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Speaker 2: Here.

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Speaker 1: I found the tweet. June twelfth, twenty twenty ten thirty

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Speaker 1: seven am, ten thirty seven in the morning. Most of

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Speaker 1: us are earning money, working, taking care of our kids.

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Speaker 1: Nythia Rahman is tweeting, and this is in the middle

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Speaker 1: of the COVID lockdown. There is no more urgent or

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Speaker 1: possible moment to end the racial, environmental and moral crisis

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Speaker 1: that is homelessness in LA. Our leaders have finally been

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Speaker 1: forced to listen. The path is not complicated. Fund services,

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Speaker 1: fund housing, fund care, defund the police. So she made

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Speaker 1: it clear at ten thirty seven am on June the

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Speaker 1: twelfth of twenty twenty that money should be taken from

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Speaker 1: the police department. Officers should be fired and diverted to

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Speaker 1: mental patients and drug addicts living in the streets. That's

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Speaker 1: what she wrote. This is on her account at Nythia Ramen.

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Speaker 1: It's not fake, not a spoof. This is what she wrote.

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Speaker 1: This is what she believed in when we had our

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Speaker 1: lives shut down by her ILK and Sacramento. Defund the police,

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Speaker 1: but fund the mental patients and the drug addicts. In fact,

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Speaker 1: give them housing, give all those crazy drug addicts their

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Speaker 1: own home. We come back, We're going to talk to

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Speaker 1: Jamie Page and she's been writing about Nthia Rommin for

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Speaker 1: a lot of years. She's now writing for The California Post.

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Speaker 1: We will talk with Jamie next. Debra Mark is live

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Speaker 1: in the CAFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hey, you've been

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