1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:00,840 Speaker 1: Can't. 2 00:00:00,960 --> 00:00:03,600 Speaker 2: I am six forty you're listening to the John Cobel 3 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:09,760 Speaker 2: podcast on the iHeartRadio app. You missed a good first hour. 4 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:13,440 Speaker 2: You should hear it on the iHeart app for the 5 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:15,800 Speaker 2: podcast John Cobelt Show on demand. We're gonna post it 6 00:00:15,840 --> 00:00:19,759 Speaker 2: after four o'clock. Stories that we'll I think be covering 7 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:23,640 Speaker 2: quite some time. Karen Bass deleting all her phone messages 8 00:00:23,680 --> 00:00:24,720 Speaker 2: from the week of the fire. 9 00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:27,920 Speaker 3: No cover up there. 10 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:33,680 Speaker 2: Denise Kenoniez, the DWP head. We might be spending seven 11 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:38,760 Speaker 2: hundred thousand dollars on security for her. Yeah, she makes 12 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:40,680 Speaker 2: three quarter a million a year and can't afford her 13 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:43,440 Speaker 2: own security. But now we're going to pay so she 14 00:00:43,479 --> 00:00:46,640 Speaker 2: can be driven to work. So she could be driven 15 00:00:46,680 --> 00:00:50,519 Speaker 2: to work. So when she gets to work, she decides 16 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:53,520 Speaker 2: not to fill up the reservoir for another day. That's 17 00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:57,320 Speaker 2: apparently what she does with her time. Now, let's talk 18 00:00:57,360 --> 00:01:01,360 Speaker 2: to Nathan Hockman, the La County DA. You remember last 19 00:01:01,440 --> 00:01:07,720 Speaker 2: year George gascon filed emotion to resentence Eric Lyell Menendez 20 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:11,319 Speaker 2: for the murders of their parents from thirty six years ago. 21 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:14,600 Speaker 2: Uh most famous, one of the most famous cases in 22 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:21,200 Speaker 2: America and the Menendez brothers if they got resentenced, it 23 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:24,160 Speaker 2: would likely mean they would be set free because they 24 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:28,880 Speaker 2: would get resentenced in effect to time served. And Nathan 25 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:32,959 Speaker 2: Hockman says no, and so he's asking the court to 26 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:36,200 Speaker 2: withdraw that petition. Let's get him on now see his reasoning. Nathan, 27 00:01:36,240 --> 00:01:38,400 Speaker 2: how are you pretty well? 28 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:39,640 Speaker 1: John? Thanks for inviting me on. 29 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:44,640 Speaker 2: I see in the news stories that you say the 30 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:50,600 Speaker 2: Menendez brothers have been consistently lying about a number of things, 31 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:53,960 Speaker 2: and that is what one of the reasons you think 32 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:57,120 Speaker 2: they should not be eligible for resentencing. Hearing talk about 33 00:01:57,120 --> 00:02:01,520 Speaker 2: what you say they lied They lied about sure well. 34 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:03,840 Speaker 1: To set the stage for what we did today. The 35 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:07,040 Speaker 1: Menendez case has been on three different tracks. The first 36 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:09,639 Speaker 1: track was initiated back in May of twenty twenty three, 37 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:13,000 Speaker 1: involving a habeas motion, but they said there was new 38 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:15,639 Speaker 1: evidence to get a new trial, not a new sentencing, 39 00:02:15,639 --> 00:02:17,920 Speaker 1: and not to get out, but a new trial. We 40 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:21,760 Speaker 1: actually opposed that last month because of the very technical 41 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:25,040 Speaker 1: standard and high hurdle they have to meet. We said 42 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:28,160 Speaker 1: they didn't. The second track is this clemency a direct 43 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:31,120 Speaker 1: shot to the governor, where you basically say the governor, 44 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:36,320 Speaker 1: use your constitutional utililateral power to commute the sentence and 45 00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:39,600 Speaker 1: release the Menendez's. The governor could have done that for 46 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:42,720 Speaker 1: the moment he entered office in twenty nineteen. He could 47 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:45,400 Speaker 1: do it today or tomorrow. That's his power and his 48 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:48,760 Speaker 1: power alone to exercise. The third track is this re 49 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:52,280 Speaker 1: sentencing track. This is a California statue that not many 50 00:02:52,320 --> 00:02:54,919 Speaker 1: other states have, and it says that if you meet 51 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:58,280 Speaker 1: certain criteria, a judge has the power to turn in 52 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:01,280 Speaker 1: this case, a sentense of life without the possibility of 53 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:05,040 Speaker 1: parole to life with the possibility of parole. But we 54 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:09,519 Speaker 1: have argued that to meet that standard, a particular defendant 55 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:13,640 Speaker 1: has to exhibit full insight into their criminal actions and 56 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:18,239 Speaker 1: completely accept responsibility for the breath of their criminal conduct 57 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:21,520 Speaker 1: before you can determine that they no longer pose an 58 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:25,160 Speaker 1: unreasonable risk of danger to the community. And one of 59 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:28,120 Speaker 1: the analogies that we drew was from how the governor 60 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:32,280 Speaker 1: treated the parole decision for Sir Hansor Head As a 61 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:35,200 Speaker 1: twenty twenty two decision, the governor came down on for 62 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:38,600 Speaker 1: the guy who assassinated Senator Robert F. Kennedy back in 63 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:42,680 Speaker 1: nineteen sixty eight and had been up for parole sixteen times, 64 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:45,560 Speaker 1: and on the sixteenth time. The first fifteen times it 65 00:03:45,640 --> 00:03:49,320 Speaker 1: was denied. The sixteenth time the parole board said, Okay, 66 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:52,560 Speaker 1: this guy has to get parole. He's seventy seven years old, 67 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:55,280 Speaker 1: he's been in prison for fifty four years. He was 68 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:58,560 Speaker 1: twenty four years old when he committed the offense. He 69 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:03,680 Speaker 1: had no prior criminal history, He'd been successfully taking programs 70 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:07,040 Speaker 1: in prison. His risk WORE was the lowest possible. He 71 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:10,800 Speaker 1: needs to get out. The governor, though, denied parole, and 72 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:14,400 Speaker 1: the governor said that notwithstanding all those very pro parole 73 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:17,520 Speaker 1: factors that we should have allowed him out. The fact 74 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:21,360 Speaker 1: that Sir Hansir Hand did not exhibit that full insight 75 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:25,240 Speaker 1: into his criminal conduct, his stories about the murder changed 76 00:04:25,279 --> 00:04:29,200 Speaker 1: over time, prevented the governor from granting him. Paroi said, 77 00:04:29,279 --> 00:04:33,400 Speaker 1: basically that overcame all the other factors, and Sir hands 78 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:36,640 Speaker 1: her Hand, even though he's old and diminishing health, remained 79 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:40,599 Speaker 1: an unreasonable risk to day of danger to society. So 80 00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:43,760 Speaker 1: too did we take the position the Menendez case. We 81 00:04:43,839 --> 00:04:48,320 Speaker 1: analyzed tens of thousands of pages of trial transcripts, prison records, 82 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:52,000 Speaker 1: hundreds of hours of videotape, testimony. We spoke to every 83 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:54,760 Speaker 1: Menendez family member that wanted to speak to us, over 84 00:04:54,839 --> 00:04:58,280 Speaker 1: twenty of them, interviewed Prosecutor's law enforcement, and spoke to 85 00:04:58,320 --> 00:05:02,680 Speaker 1: the Defense Council. For a thorough and exhausted review. We 86 00:05:02,839 --> 00:05:06,919 Speaker 1: realized that the Menendezes had not exhibited that full insight 87 00:05:06,960 --> 00:05:10,760 Speaker 1: to their conduct because they persisted for over thirty years 88 00:05:10,760 --> 00:05:13,720 Speaker 1: in saying that their parents were going to shoot them 89 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:17,320 Speaker 1: the night of August twentieth, nineteen eighty nine, so they 90 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:20,960 Speaker 1: preemptively had to kill them first. We analyzed it and 91 00:05:21,080 --> 00:05:24,320 Speaker 1: going back into all the premeditation that they had engaged in, 92 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:28,360 Speaker 1: all the purchasing of shotguns, the lying about it, all 93 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:31,320 Speaker 1: the stories, they came up and said that the Menendezes 94 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:35,320 Speaker 1: had basically never accepted full responsibility for the fact that 95 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:39,400 Speaker 1: their self defense defense was a fabrication and that they 96 00:05:39,440 --> 00:05:43,720 Speaker 1: suborned perjury or attended to suborn burgery from many friends 97 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:46,920 Speaker 1: to make arguments like that their father was a violent 98 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:51,600 Speaker 1: rapist of Lyle's girlfriend, that the mother was trying to 99 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:54,160 Speaker 1: poison the family, or that they were trying to get 100 00:05:54,160 --> 00:05:56,840 Speaker 1: a handgun the day before the murders, which wasn't true 101 00:05:56,839 --> 00:05:59,800 Speaker 1: at all. And then we said, but we're going to 102 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:04,279 Speaker 1: get the Menendez is a pathway that if they finally, unequivocally, 103 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:09,640 Speaker 1: sincerely come clean and say effectively that look, all those 104 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:12,600 Speaker 1: were lies, we made them up, and we finally have 105 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:16,479 Speaker 1: embraced what the full truth is of what our brutal 106 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:20,479 Speaker 1: murders involved, that at that point they'll have new insights 107 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:23,440 Speaker 1: that the court can consider in deciding whether or not 108 00:06:23,960 --> 00:06:27,960 Speaker 1: they've been rehabilitated and posed this danger to society. And 109 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:31,559 Speaker 1: at that point the DA's office will also reconsider whether 110 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:35,280 Speaker 1: we go forward on a resetencing motion. But at this point, 111 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:39,279 Speaker 1: without exhibiting those insights, our position is that they do not. 112 00:06:40,120 --> 00:06:43,560 Speaker 1: They continue to pose an unreasonable risk of danger the 113 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:46,440 Speaker 1: community in the same way that Sir Hands or Hand does. 114 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:51,039 Speaker 2: They went to great lengths to plan the killing, and 115 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:55,479 Speaker 2: the idea that they are claiming self defense is really 116 00:06:55,520 --> 00:07:00,760 Speaker 2: preposterous just looking at a basic rundown of all the 117 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:04,120 Speaker 2: things they did leading up to the murders. They had 118 00:07:04,160 --> 00:07:06,600 Speaker 2: a very detailed plan over a period of time. 119 00:07:08,279 --> 00:07:12,280 Speaker 1: On I mean two days before the murderers, they don't 120 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:14,960 Speaker 1: go to La to buy the shotguns. They drive all 121 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:18,400 Speaker 1: the way down to San Diego at Friday night traffic, 122 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:21,280 Speaker 1: get down to San Diego and use fake IDs in 123 00:07:21,320 --> 00:07:24,240 Speaker 1: a fake address to buy the shotguns and the AMMO. 124 00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:26,960 Speaker 1: Then they go ahead and before the murderers, they come 125 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:29,520 Speaker 1: up with an alibi where they're going to be a 126 00:07:29,640 --> 00:07:32,200 Speaker 1: batman the movie and they're going to have tickets to 127 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:34,760 Speaker 1: prove it, and then meet their friends at the Taste 128 00:07:34,760 --> 00:07:38,360 Speaker 1: of La event afterwards. Then when they actually go in 129 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:42,440 Speaker 1: and they shotgun their appearance over twelve times, they stage 130 00:07:42,480 --> 00:07:45,880 Speaker 1: the shotgun blast to look like a mafia chille shooting 131 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:48,760 Speaker 1: their father from the back of his head, shooting their 132 00:07:48,840 --> 00:07:52,400 Speaker 1: mom while she's already shot bleeding on the ground. They 133 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:56,280 Speaker 1: reload the shotgun and put it against her right cheek 134 00:07:56,360 --> 00:07:58,960 Speaker 1: and pull the gun at point frank rage. And then 135 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:01,120 Speaker 1: they shoot each of their parents into the kneecaps to 136 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:03,880 Speaker 1: make it look like a mafia hit. And then they 137 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:06,040 Speaker 1: go ahead, and they did pick up all the shotgun 138 00:08:06,080 --> 00:08:09,280 Speaker 1: shells from the room, and he discarded the shotgun shells 139 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:12,640 Speaker 1: and the bloody colling in a gas station dumpster and 140 00:08:12,720 --> 00:08:15,360 Speaker 1: throw the shotguns over the cliff on Moho and drive. 141 00:08:15,760 --> 00:08:19,480 Speaker 1: And then when the police would they engage in quite 142 00:08:19,480 --> 00:08:24,280 Speaker 1: a dramatic series of events where Eric goes ahead and screams, 143 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:26,840 Speaker 1: I'm going to kill them. I'm gonna He's going to 144 00:08:26,920 --> 00:08:30,320 Speaker 1: go after the killers. He believes that they tortured his parents. 145 00:08:30,320 --> 00:08:32,400 Speaker 1: Who would do this? Of course it was Eric and 146 00:08:32,480 --> 00:08:35,439 Speaker 1: Lyle who actually did it, and a lie they persisted 147 00:08:35,440 --> 00:08:38,960 Speaker 1: in for six months. So we're saying, basically they came 148 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:42,040 Speaker 1: clean with that original lie, the lie being we didn't 149 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:44,439 Speaker 1: do it, the mafia did it, But they haven't come 150 00:08:44,480 --> 00:08:46,640 Speaker 1: clean with all the other lies that they persisted in 151 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:47,880 Speaker 1: for the last thirty years. 152 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:51,520 Speaker 2: You say that they had never come clean on sixteen 153 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:54,480 Speaker 2: out of twenty major lies that they've told about this case. 154 00:08:55,640 --> 00:08:59,040 Speaker 1: That's correct. We actually filed a chart with the court 155 00:08:59,360 --> 00:09:02,120 Speaker 1: and the men endue and their counsel, so if they 156 00:09:02,160 --> 00:09:05,240 Speaker 1: ever want to come clean, we let them know exactly 157 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:08,520 Speaker 1: what their lives were, how they could finally admit that 158 00:09:08,559 --> 00:09:11,680 Speaker 1: they've been lying, and at that point that might be 159 00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:15,160 Speaker 1: their pathway to convince a judge that they have sincerely 160 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:19,040 Speaker 1: embraced these new insights into their crime and should be 161 00:09:19,160 --> 00:09:21,280 Speaker 1: considered for resetencing and rehabilitation. 162 00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:24,400 Speaker 2: Well, I'm glad you explained so much, and I think 163 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:27,719 Speaker 2: people listening you should read the news stories and details 164 00:09:27,840 --> 00:09:31,240 Speaker 2: about the case that Nathan Hawkman laid out today because 165 00:09:31,559 --> 00:09:34,280 Speaker 2: thirty six years a lot of people either weren't around, 166 00:09:34,800 --> 00:09:40,000 Speaker 2: weren't conscious enough, or forgot what went on. And I 167 00:09:40,040 --> 00:09:43,960 Speaker 2: think a lot of the uh television shows about the case, 168 00:09:44,920 --> 00:09:47,720 Speaker 2: just in the interest of time, if nothing else, have 169 00:09:47,840 --> 00:09:51,320 Speaker 2: glided over a lot of the glory details which show 170 00:09:51,360 --> 00:09:54,680 Speaker 2: how premeditated and just psychotic the whole thing was. 171 00:09:56,120 --> 00:09:57,959 Speaker 1: I think you're right. I think you know, the memories 172 00:09:58,040 --> 00:10:00,960 Speaker 1: fade as to what actually happened. You know, in the 173 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:05,160 Speaker 1: original motion that my predecessor filed, they spent just over 174 00:10:05,240 --> 00:10:09,440 Speaker 1: three pages on description of the crime. We spent over 175 00:10:09,520 --> 00:10:12,439 Speaker 1: sixty pages of our eighty seven page motion that we 176 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:17,120 Speaker 1: filed today describing everything that occurred on the crime and 177 00:10:17,360 --> 00:10:21,000 Speaker 1: you know, inciting it to the actual trial transcripts that 178 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:24,640 Speaker 1: we're deriving the information from. So I encourage anyone who 179 00:10:24,679 --> 00:10:27,360 Speaker 1: wants to go to the DA's website, which is DA 180 00:10:27,880 --> 00:10:31,120 Speaker 1: dot La County dot gov. You can get a copy 181 00:10:31,160 --> 00:10:33,880 Speaker 1: of what we filed both here and in the habeas matter. 182 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:37,320 Speaker 1: You can also look at the video that we came 183 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:40,520 Speaker 1: up with called Anatomy of the Menendez Case. It goes 184 00:10:40,559 --> 00:10:44,080 Speaker 1: through the whole procedural history of the Menendez case in 185 00:10:44,160 --> 00:10:46,439 Speaker 1: order to understand how the system works. 186 00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:49,920 Speaker 2: Nathan Hockman, La County DA, thank you for coming on 187 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:51,000 Speaker 2: and explaining. 188 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:54,040 Speaker 1: All this my pleasure. Thank you again for having me on. 189 00:10:54,160 --> 00:10:58,240 Speaker 2: All right, Nathan Achman, more coming up, Deborah Mark. Oh, 190 00:10:58,360 --> 00:11:00,600 Speaker 2: we're going to talk about the San Jose me who 191 00:11:00,640 --> 00:11:02,520 Speaker 2: wants to throw homeless people in jail? 192 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:03,760 Speaker 3: Now we're talking. 193 00:11:04,640 --> 00:11:08,960 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 194 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:09,520 Speaker 4: six forty. 195 00:11:11,040 --> 00:11:16,000 Speaker 2: You see, you see, that's the thing, the Menendez brothers trial. 196 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:18,360 Speaker 2: And I wasn't even living out here when they killed 197 00:11:18,360 --> 00:11:21,800 Speaker 2: the parents, but when we got out here, we experienced 198 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:27,640 Speaker 2: the trials. And but then thirty years go by and 199 00:11:27,679 --> 00:11:30,400 Speaker 2: there's no way to remember all the details. Like Nathan Hakman, 200 00:11:30,480 --> 00:11:33,480 Speaker 2: the La County DA who he just had on, said, yeah, 201 00:11:34,280 --> 00:11:38,040 Speaker 2: memories fade, and a lot of people weren't weren't born 202 00:11:38,280 --> 00:11:42,640 Speaker 2: or were young children and didn't know anything about about 203 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:46,760 Speaker 2: all the details of the murders and the trials. See 204 00:11:46,760 --> 00:11:50,880 Speaker 2: that the details matter and what happens. By the way, 205 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:54,520 Speaker 2: we had Hawkman on because he filed today in court 206 00:11:54,920 --> 00:11:58,840 Speaker 2: to withdraw the petition to resentence the Menendez brothers. This 207 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:03,520 Speaker 2: was a Gascone production, and so Hawkman's trying to undo it. 208 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:06,560 Speaker 2: And like he said, he goes they had a sixty 209 00:12:06,600 --> 00:12:12,920 Speaker 2: seven page offering to the court, and I think what 210 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:15,080 Speaker 2: was the numbers he used? Was this sixty seven pages 211 00:12:15,120 --> 00:12:17,360 Speaker 2: just to explain the crime? I think, yeah, that's what 212 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:19,920 Speaker 2: it was, uh, And that's what it takes. You actually 213 00:12:19,920 --> 00:12:23,520 Speaker 2: explain the details of the crime and what led up 214 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:26,839 Speaker 2: to it, their premeditation, their plans, and then the aftermath. 215 00:12:28,559 --> 00:12:30,880 Speaker 2: It's clear this is not was not an impulsive move 216 00:12:30,960 --> 00:12:35,319 Speaker 2: by any means. This this was like a what they 217 00:12:35,320 --> 00:12:37,120 Speaker 2: what they tried to make it look like a mob 218 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:42,400 Speaker 2: hit because it was. It was the way the mob 219 00:12:42,480 --> 00:12:44,719 Speaker 2: did it. When you have a mob hit, there's a 220 00:12:44,760 --> 00:12:47,240 Speaker 2: lot of premeditation and then there's an after plan. 221 00:12:49,480 --> 00:12:51,120 Speaker 3: But who remembers all that stuff? 222 00:12:52,160 --> 00:12:55,360 Speaker 2: And now you have all these these dopey young girls 223 00:12:55,880 --> 00:12:59,800 Speaker 2: who get all their news from a TikTok video. That's 224 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:03,520 Speaker 2: a Randell puts up. How long do TikTok videos go? 225 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:06,040 Speaker 5: I never have gone on TikTok? 226 00:13:07,280 --> 00:13:08,920 Speaker 3: Eric, How long gives it tick? Does it have a 227 00:13:08,920 --> 00:13:10,960 Speaker 3: time limit? TikTok videos? 228 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:15,520 Speaker 2: I know some TikTok videos that are like over ten minutes, right, 229 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:18,400 Speaker 2: but I don't know if there's a limit. No, But yeah, 230 00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:21,760 Speaker 2: I mean the trials take weeks and weeks and probably 231 00:13:21,760 --> 00:13:24,040 Speaker 2: most of the videos on this or you know, a 232 00:13:24,120 --> 00:13:28,400 Speaker 2: minute or so, and you just you have patrol people 233 00:13:28,480 --> 00:13:33,880 Speaker 2: who can make money putting nonsense videos summarizing the Menendez case, 234 00:13:34,040 --> 00:13:36,000 Speaker 2: knowing that young girls are going to get whipped up, 235 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:38,400 Speaker 2: their hormones are going to get whipped up, to try 236 00:13:38,440 --> 00:13:41,920 Speaker 2: to have sympathy for these cute Menendez boys who are 237 00:13:41,960 --> 00:13:45,080 Speaker 2: not cute boys anymore. They're in their fifties and they 238 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:48,600 Speaker 2: have been scamming portions of the public now for thirty 239 00:13:48,679 --> 00:13:53,079 Speaker 2: six years with their phony maloney stories. They're psychotic liars. 240 00:13:53,280 --> 00:13:57,560 Speaker 5: Well, you can also watch the documentary on Netflix. There's two. 241 00:13:58,679 --> 00:14:02,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, now see I never had I never had a 242 00:14:02,240 --> 00:14:03,040 Speaker 3: chance to watch those. 243 00:14:03,160 --> 00:14:03,960 Speaker 5: I watch them both. 244 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:07,520 Speaker 2: I mean, are they generally accurate, because again they're they're 245 00:14:07,559 --> 00:14:09,439 Speaker 2: compressing a complicated story, and. 246 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:15,760 Speaker 6: Yes, yes, they they are they but I mean one 247 00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:20,600 Speaker 6: of them shows exactly talking about the mob hit going through, uh, 248 00:14:21,040 --> 00:14:24,800 Speaker 6: the doctor, the psychiatrist going through, you know, buying the 249 00:14:24,880 --> 00:14:28,120 Speaker 6: rolexes and doing all the things they did after the murders, 250 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:31,960 Speaker 6: the course, the whatever. So yes, because I thought. 251 00:14:31,840 --> 00:14:34,640 Speaker 2: One of the documentaries was the reason there was more 252 00:14:34,680 --> 00:14:35,400 Speaker 2: sympathy for me. 253 00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:39,440 Speaker 6: Then yes, But then there was one where you can 254 00:14:39,520 --> 00:14:42,680 Speaker 6: see one of the brothers talking about all the abuse, 255 00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:45,280 Speaker 6: and so that's the one that you're talking about where 256 00:14:45,400 --> 00:14:48,280 Speaker 6: it really it talks about how he was abused by 257 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:51,760 Speaker 6: the father and the mother didn't do anything. It really, yes, 258 00:14:52,200 --> 00:14:55,920 Speaker 6: but it's still it still shows and talks about the 259 00:14:56,320 --> 00:14:57,200 Speaker 6: actual crimes. 260 00:14:57,240 --> 00:15:00,520 Speaker 2: But yes, yeah, but they were they were they were 261 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:02,200 Speaker 2: twenty one and eighteen when they did this. 262 00:15:03,640 --> 00:15:06,240 Speaker 5: I think I'd have to look at a camera. 263 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:09,360 Speaker 2: Well anyway, at least one of them was an outright adult, 264 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:14,760 Speaker 2: and when you're you can't let's and it wasn't really 265 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:18,120 Speaker 2: self defense. They weren't being imminently threatened. They were old 266 00:15:18,200 --> 00:15:23,080 Speaker 2: enough obviously to uh drive cars, so you can get 267 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:25,040 Speaker 2: out of the house and get away if there was 268 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:27,560 Speaker 2: some kind of imminent threat or if there was actually 269 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:30,160 Speaker 2: abuse that day, if you know, who knows how much 270 00:15:30,160 --> 00:15:33,520 Speaker 2: of it's true, And at this point I don't particularly care. 271 00:15:33,640 --> 00:15:38,560 Speaker 2: I think it is obvious that they're psychotic, and if 272 00:15:38,600 --> 00:15:44,000 Speaker 2: you're psychotic, that never changes that goes on forever. There's 273 00:15:44,080 --> 00:15:45,880 Speaker 2: no rehabilitating psychotic. 274 00:15:47,080 --> 00:15:47,720 Speaker 3: It is a. 275 00:15:49,440 --> 00:15:53,560 Speaker 2: Mental disorder. It's actually even more than a mental disorder. 276 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:58,760 Speaker 2: There's a certain physical chemistry, physical structure of the brain. 277 00:15:59,520 --> 00:16:02,320 Speaker 2: They don't have a conscience, they don't have remorse, they're 278 00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:07,480 Speaker 2: not capable of having remorse. They don't know what it is. 279 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:11,280 Speaker 2: They try to mimic remorse by watching it in other people. 280 00:16:11,440 --> 00:16:15,960 Speaker 2: They try to mimic sensitivity, They try to mimic having 281 00:16:15,960 --> 00:16:20,440 Speaker 2: a conscience, but they don't actually have one. It doesn't matter. 282 00:16:20,760 --> 00:16:23,400 Speaker 2: Killing somebody, shooting them in the head has as much 283 00:16:23,440 --> 00:16:28,880 Speaker 2: impact on their psyche as eating a grape. It has none. 284 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:31,880 Speaker 2: And it's difficult for people to understand this because most 285 00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:35,960 Speaker 2: of us don't know a psychia, a true psychotic, intimately, 286 00:16:36,080 --> 00:16:42,280 Speaker 2: a true psychopath, we don't know one. There aren't that many. 287 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:46,360 Speaker 2: There are sociopaths, but a psychopath who can violence as 288 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:50,040 Speaker 2: oh by, you know, it's obviously extremely rare. So it's 289 00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:52,000 Speaker 2: hard for us to really understand what's that like, what's 290 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:55,960 Speaker 2: that like to have no conscience to say or do anything, 291 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:59,640 Speaker 2: and it doesn't bother you, You don't flinch, there's no remorse, 292 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:03,640 Speaker 2: there's no guilt. That's the thing. There's no guilt. These 293 00:17:03,680 --> 00:17:06,639 Speaker 2: two don't feel any guilt. These two aren't sorry about 294 00:17:06,640 --> 00:17:10,520 Speaker 2: anything because they can't. The way their brains are structured, 295 00:17:10,960 --> 00:17:14,919 Speaker 2: probably inherited from their dad, because their dad was his 296 00:17:14,960 --> 00:17:18,520 Speaker 2: own monster and never had any guilt or remorse. If 297 00:17:18,520 --> 00:17:23,520 Speaker 2: the stories are true about what dad did to the sons, 298 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:27,840 Speaker 2: well they got his same brain structure. But you don't 299 00:17:27,880 --> 00:17:30,320 Speaker 2: let ever let him out. All right, we come back. 300 00:17:30,320 --> 00:17:32,800 Speaker 2: We'll talk about the San Jose mayor wanting to arrest 301 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:33,440 Speaker 2: the homeless. 302 00:17:33,560 --> 00:17:38,800 Speaker 4: Yay, you're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI 303 00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:39,960 Speaker 4: AM six forty. 304 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:44,680 Speaker 2: You can follow us at John Cobelt Radio on social media. Yeah, 305 00:17:44,720 --> 00:17:51,639 Speaker 2: Hakman's request to withdraw the resentencing for the Menendez brothers 306 00:17:51,720 --> 00:17:54,840 Speaker 2: is eighty seven pages, and I think sixty of the 307 00:17:54,880 --> 00:17:58,080 Speaker 2: eighty seven were about the details of the crime. So 308 00:17:58,800 --> 00:18:03,359 Speaker 2: all the idiots in the country have to stop watching TikToker, instagram, 309 00:18:03,480 --> 00:18:07,120 Speaker 2: summaries and ed. We'll just spend the time and read 310 00:18:07,160 --> 00:18:09,800 Speaker 2: the eighty seven page document and then tell me that 311 00:18:09,880 --> 00:18:13,640 Speaker 2: the Menendez brothers ought to be free, And same thing 312 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:17,760 Speaker 2: with those idiot family members too. They had it. Looks 313 00:18:17,800 --> 00:18:20,240 Speaker 2: like they had a pedophile and two murders, murderers in 314 00:18:20,280 --> 00:18:23,560 Speaker 2: the family, and when he counted back in nineteen eighty nine, 315 00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:29,040 Speaker 2: nobody did anything about it. Onto the San Jose mayor, 316 00:18:30,280 --> 00:18:33,960 Speaker 2: I really am enjoying what's going on in the rest 317 00:18:33,960 --> 00:18:36,120 Speaker 2: of the country, and at the same time, I'm almost 318 00:18:36,160 --> 00:18:39,159 Speaker 2: sad how we don't get to participate in the party 319 00:18:39,840 --> 00:18:44,040 Speaker 2: because across the country, obviously you have Trump and Elon 320 00:18:44,200 --> 00:18:48,280 Speaker 2: musk eviscerating much of the waste in government. They're starting 321 00:18:48,320 --> 00:18:50,240 Speaker 2: to there's a long way to go, and yes they'll 322 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:53,680 Speaker 2: make mistakes and overreach and all that, but it's going 323 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:59,960 Speaker 2: in the right direction. And you see you see just 324 00:19:00,119 --> 00:19:04,040 Speaker 2: billions and billions of dollars being saved, and you see 325 00:19:04,080 --> 00:19:09,119 Speaker 2: a lot of Democratic leaders saying, you know enough, we 326 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:11,200 Speaker 2: went down a bad road here. We got to start 327 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:14,840 Speaker 2: tacking back. For example, Eric Adams, the New York City mayor, 328 00:19:15,119 --> 00:19:17,000 Speaker 2: who in a lot of ways is a disaster of 329 00:19:17,040 --> 00:19:19,600 Speaker 2: a mayor, and he's very unpopular, but at least he 330 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:23,440 Speaker 2: had the good sense to realize a sanctuary city policy 331 00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:28,880 Speaker 2: that protects illegal aliens illegal alien criminals is really stupid 332 00:19:29,280 --> 00:19:34,200 Speaker 2: and bad for the rest of us, and that's going 333 00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:38,200 Speaker 2: on in a number of democratic jurisdictions, including here in California, 334 00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:45,240 Speaker 2: because you have cities such as Berkeley, Oakland, San Francisco, 335 00:19:45,359 --> 00:19:51,800 Speaker 2: and Fremont, that I decided that having encampments of homeless 336 00:19:51,840 --> 00:19:55,520 Speaker 2: people in the streets is no longer cool. It's not 337 00:19:55,680 --> 00:20:00,359 Speaker 2: something to be embraced. That enough of the needle and 338 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:03,879 Speaker 2: the sentinel, and the meth and the feces and the filth. 339 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:08,280 Speaker 2: That's over and the latest mayor to join the parade. 340 00:20:09,320 --> 00:20:11,199 Speaker 2: What I'm saying, it seems like Los Angeles is the 341 00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:16,760 Speaker 2: only one that's not moving an inch on anything. You know, 342 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:19,920 Speaker 2: Karen Bass has poured two years and billions of dollars 343 00:20:19,960 --> 00:20:25,080 Speaker 2: into homelessness for what well up In San Jose, the mayor, 344 00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:35,480 Speaker 2: Matt Mahon, a Democrat, said, it's proposing this plan. Homelessness 345 00:20:35,520 --> 00:20:38,800 Speaker 2: can't be a choice. After three offers of shelter, we 346 00:20:38,880 --> 00:20:43,439 Speaker 2: hold people accountable for turning their lives around, which means 347 00:20:43,520 --> 00:20:46,840 Speaker 2: after three offers of shelter, if you're still sleeping out 348 00:20:46,840 --> 00:20:49,199 Speaker 2: in public, you go to jail. 349 00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:53,840 Speaker 3: You go to jail. 350 00:20:54,760 --> 00:20:58,280 Speaker 2: You don't get to sleep on the sidewalk, taking a 351 00:20:58,359 --> 00:21:02,199 Speaker 2: poop p and all over the place. Vomiting, leaving all 352 00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:06,200 Speaker 2: your filth and garbage, injecting your heroin and your fentanyl 353 00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:11,320 Speaker 2: and snorting your meth, acting like a lunatic terrorizing people. No, 354 00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:15,320 Speaker 2: San Jose, that's done. Matt Mayhan, we had him on 355 00:21:15,359 --> 00:21:18,800 Speaker 2: the show. We should get him on again because he 356 00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:21,119 Speaker 2: was one of the mayors who endorsed Prop thirty six, 357 00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:27,880 Speaker 2: which turned theft into a crime again in public drug 358 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:33,000 Speaker 2: use into a crime, and fentinyl crimes became a real 359 00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:39,399 Speaker 2: thing for the first time. But once the Supreme Court 360 00:21:39,760 --> 00:21:45,560 Speaker 2: said that every city and county in California and everywhere 361 00:21:46,359 --> 00:21:51,720 Speaker 2: can can forcibly remove homeless encampments, a lot of towns, 362 00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:58,560 Speaker 2: a lot of cities have done just that. And what 363 00:21:58,600 --> 00:22:01,000 Speaker 2: Mayheon decided to do is they spend a lot of 364 00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:04,199 Speaker 2: money on interim housing and shelters. So now they have 365 00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:07,720 Speaker 2: two thousand units available or in development. But the thing 366 00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:16,000 Speaker 2: is they're building real rooms, they're building actual structures. It's 367 00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:20,960 Speaker 2: not like Los Angeles where nothing gets built because we 368 00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:24,199 Speaker 2: have so many criminals in government and in the nonprofit 369 00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:25,120 Speaker 2: homeless industry. 370 00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:26,480 Speaker 3: Nonprofit. 371 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:31,040 Speaker 2: Apparently they have fewer criminals in that industry in San Jose, 372 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:36,200 Speaker 2: but now they're down to about a third of the 373 00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:41,840 Speaker 2: vagrants who were offered interim housing and refusing. I remember 374 00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:44,199 Speaker 2: there was a day that Gaven Newsom said publicly he 375 00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:48,760 Speaker 2: didn't believe there was anybody refusing housing. Well, Mayheon says, 376 00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:51,560 Speaker 2: it's about a third of them. No matter what you offer, 377 00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:53,399 Speaker 2: no matter what you try to sell, they're not buying. 378 00:22:54,800 --> 00:22:57,280 Speaker 2: So here's this proposal. City council would have to approve it. 379 00:22:57,600 --> 00:23:02,960 Speaker 2: If you reject offers of shelter, you would face escalating punishment, 380 00:23:03,359 --> 00:23:08,399 Speaker 2: starting with a written warning and ending with a possible arrest. 381 00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:11,639 Speaker 2: They got forty four hundred people who are living on 382 00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:18,199 Speaker 2: the streets or in cars or abandoned buildings, and he 383 00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:24,120 Speaker 2: says mental health and addiction issues are what people. Yeah, 384 00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:26,359 Speaker 2: they can't make their own decisions. He says because of 385 00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:30,480 Speaker 2: mental health. Well, yes, obviously that's been obvious for ten years. 386 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:36,040 Speaker 2: It's not a lack of housing, it's not income inequality. 387 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:41,280 Speaker 2: It's that they're crazy or they're taking bad drugs. Those 388 00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:46,760 Speaker 2: are the two reasons. Because anybody else who's not on 389 00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:50,240 Speaker 2: drugs or is not insane figures out what to do 390 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:56,840 Speaker 2: pretty quickly. It's not that complicated. And he says that's 391 00:23:56,840 --> 00:24:01,439 Speaker 2: how you break the cycle. And he's absolutely right. So 392 00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:05,320 Speaker 2: that's two things. Now that you have a democratic mayor 393 00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:09,200 Speaker 2: who has realized, by the way, this is the way 394 00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:13,800 Speaker 2: all mayors used to operate, not that long ago, in 395 00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:17,080 Speaker 2: our lifetime. Didn't matter if you had a Democrat or 396 00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:19,760 Speaker 2: a Republican mayor, a liberal or conservative or whatever. 397 00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:22,000 Speaker 3: There's this basic stuff. 398 00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:24,879 Speaker 2: It's like, no, you don't get to live on a 399 00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:29,919 Speaker 2: public sidewalk and leave all your waste and your drug paraphernalia. No, 400 00:24:30,119 --> 00:24:33,760 Speaker 2: that's just a know without debate, and that's a problem. 401 00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:40,320 Speaker 2: Everybody got sucked into debating this. Everybody got sucked into 402 00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:45,720 Speaker 2: feeling bad and feeling starry. And the progressive criminals were 403 00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:50,399 Speaker 2: really good at manipulating people's emotions, manipulating their minds to 404 00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:52,919 Speaker 2: make you feel guilty like you did something wrong. 405 00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:54,960 Speaker 3: You didn't do anything wrong. You went to work. 406 00:24:57,080 --> 00:24:59,719 Speaker 2: You're just more privileged. It's like, it's not a privilege. 407 00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:02,879 Speaker 2: You go to work, you earn money, you can buy shelter. 408 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:08,480 Speaker 2: That's not a privilege. That's normal life. You work in 409 00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:10,800 Speaker 2: exchange for your work, you get money in exchange for 410 00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:16,600 Speaker 2: the money, you buy some shelter. You have to do that. 411 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:21,040 Speaker 2: That's mandatory in modern society if you want to go 412 00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:26,680 Speaker 2: live on the land in a tent, at least would 413 00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:29,400 Speaker 2: would you go into the desert somewhere or deep into 414 00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:30,359 Speaker 2: the woods. 415 00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:32,439 Speaker 3: But not in front of my kid's school. 416 00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:37,760 Speaker 2: But we had jack holes like Eric Garcetti who actually 417 00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:44,000 Speaker 2: tolerated it and embraced it. And so do you know 418 00:25:44,119 --> 00:25:47,159 Speaker 2: do you know this, I just read this yesterday. California 419 00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:51,560 Speaker 2: is twelve percent of the population. We have fifty percent 420 00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:57,520 Speaker 2: of the street homeless in the country. We have fifty 421 00:25:57,640 --> 00:26:02,840 Speaker 2: percent of all the street vagrants who are living outdoors 422 00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:07,480 Speaker 2: in public spaces, twelve percent of the population, fifty of 423 00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:14,359 Speaker 2: the let's call me outdoor homeless. So, and it's not 424 00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:19,000 Speaker 2: the weather, because other cities that have a lot are 425 00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:24,160 Speaker 2: bad weather cities like Seattle and Portland, and good weather 426 00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:27,440 Speaker 2: places like Florida, for example, is largely good weather. 427 00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:29,680 Speaker 3: They don't have this kind of issue. 428 00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:35,280 Speaker 2: It was our stupid left wing progressive policies and the 429 00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:39,280 Speaker 2: stupid politicians and people stupid voting patterns. That's what created 430 00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:46,200 Speaker 2: the mess. Nothing else, all right, When we come back, boy, 431 00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:49,879 Speaker 2: this is a day of scandals. When we come back, 432 00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:55,560 Speaker 2: the head of the high speed rail, the CEO wants 433 00:26:55,600 --> 00:27:00,960 Speaker 2: more money. They're out of money. Money is gonna be 434 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,880 Speaker 2: taken away from them. And now he said, well, if 435 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:08,239 Speaker 2: we don't get more money, then this project, this is 436 00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:13,040 Speaker 2: gonna take forever to build. Well, it's already taken forever. 437 00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:16,080 Speaker 2: This is how they do it, you see, this is 438 00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:19,280 Speaker 2: how they keep paying themselves. Well, you spend all this money, 439 00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:21,320 Speaker 2: we got to keep going. Say no, we can stop that. 440 00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:23,280 Speaker 2: We could write that off as a loss. We'll talk 441 00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:24,080 Speaker 2: about it. We come back. 442 00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:29,560 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am. 443 00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:34,080 Speaker 2: Six after three o'clock. Michael Munks from KFI News. We 444 00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:39,160 Speaker 2: talked about this on Friday. The Los Angeles Homeless Services 445 00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:44,000 Speaker 2: Authority a complete disaster. Boy, it's just piling up for bass, 446 00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:50,800 Speaker 2: isn't it. They did an audit and found that billions 447 00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:53,320 Speaker 2: of dollars has disappeared. 448 00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:57,800 Speaker 3: They don't know where the money went billions. 449 00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:05,520 Speaker 2: The auditors Alvarez and Marcel they did an audit in 450 00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:12,400 Speaker 2: just four months ago. The La County Auditor Controller found 451 00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:15,280 Speaker 2: the same thing here in the city of La Now, 452 00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:16,600 Speaker 2: the Los Angeles. 453 00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:17,639 Speaker 3: Homeless Services Authority is. 454 00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:23,600 Speaker 2: A joint venture between the city and the County and 455 00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:29,160 Speaker 2: the city spends a billion three on homelessness, and that's 456 00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:34,000 Speaker 2: ten percent of the city's total budget and services one 457 00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:37,959 Speaker 2: tenth a percent of the population, which is why they 458 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:40,800 Speaker 2: don't spend money on a fire department, which is one 459 00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:45,680 Speaker 2: of the reasons the Palisades burned so badly, because they 460 00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:49,000 Speaker 2: spend ten percent of the city's budget on one tenth 461 00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:55,920 Speaker 2: percent one tenth of one percent, zero point one. You 462 00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:59,200 Speaker 2: cannot mismanage the city more than Karen bass'es. We'll get 463 00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:04,640 Speaker 2: to that coming out after three o'clock. Here is more 464 00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:10,080 Speaker 2: criminal theft and corruption. There was a board meeting for 465 00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:14,040 Speaker 2: the High Speed Rail Authority and the new CEO, Ian 466 00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:21,280 Speaker 2: chowdry Chou d ry Dri says, we're gonna keep asking 467 00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:23,080 Speaker 2: for federal money from Trump. 468 00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:27,800 Speaker 3: They have no choice. 469 00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:31,360 Speaker 2: They're out of money too, told your last hour of 470 00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:35,240 Speaker 2: the city's out of money. Well, high speed rails out 471 00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:42,040 Speaker 2: of money, and if not, it's gonna pose a risk 472 00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:46,760 Speaker 2: to the schedule. This guy says this with a straight face. 473 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:52,080 Speaker 2: You know, according to the proposition passed in two thousand 474 00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:56,280 Speaker 2: and eight, by twenty twenty five years ago twenty twenty, 475 00:29:56,680 --> 00:30:00,600 Speaker 2: we should have had the entire rail sys and built 476 00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:05,480 Speaker 2: from Sacramento to San Francisco to Los Angeles, to Anaheim 477 00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:08,520 Speaker 2: to San Diego. That whole thing should have been built 478 00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:15,440 Speaker 2: five years ago. Instead we've got nothing. And now Ian 479 00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:18,440 Speaker 2: Chowdrey says, well, we need more money, and you're gonna 480 00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:21,680 Speaker 2: ask Trump for more money. Seriously, you're gonna do that. 481 00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:31,920 Speaker 2: Kevin Kylie is a Republican representative from northern California. We've 482 00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:33,400 Speaker 2: had him on the show when he was in the 483 00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:38,120 Speaker 2: state legislature, and he is asking the FBI Director Cash 484 00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:46,640 Speaker 2: Battel to investigate high speed rail seventeen years. This is 485 00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:50,040 Speaker 2: from the California globe. Seventeen years, no track, no trains, 486 00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:55,000 Speaker 2: thirteen billion dollars gone, seventeen years, thirteen billion. 487 00:30:56,080 --> 00:30:57,200 Speaker 3: If I told you in two. 488 00:30:57,120 --> 00:31:00,800 Speaker 2: Thousand and eight that by twenty two, twenty five, we'll 489 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:04,760 Speaker 2: have spent thirteen billion dollars, what would you imagine the 490 00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:08,480 Speaker 2: world would look like? Could you imagine no trains and 491 00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:10,800 Speaker 2: no track after the thirteen billion. 492 00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:15,360 Speaker 3: I tell you they're good at this though. 493 00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:21,000 Speaker 2: They are good at stealing the money and then sitting 494 00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:24,360 Speaker 2: at a commission or a committee hearing and giving a passionate, 495 00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:28,560 Speaker 2: detailed explanation as to why they need another thirteen billion 496 00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:34,920 Speaker 2: or another one hundred and thirteen billion dollars. This is 497 00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:40,200 Speaker 2: just a criminal operation. Here's what Trump said on Tuesday. 498 00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:44,600 Speaker 2: And if you don't like Trump, tell me what does 499 00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:49,440 Speaker 2: he say in this paragraph that's incorrect. The train that's 500 00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:52,080 Speaker 2: being built between Los Angeles and San Francisco is the 501 00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:55,240 Speaker 2: worst managed project I think I've ever seen. We're going 502 00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:58,240 Speaker 2: to start an investigation of that, because it's not possible. 503 00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:00,720 Speaker 2: I built for a living, and I buil on time, 504 00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:04,520 Speaker 2: on budget. It's impossible that something could cost that much. 505 00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:09,520 Speaker 2: They made it much shorter, so now it's at little 506 00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:13,840 Speaker 2: places way away from San Francisco, way away from Los Angeles. 507 00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:16,280 Speaker 2: We're going to start a big investigation on that because 508 00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:19,160 Speaker 2: I've never seen anything like it. Nobody has ever seen 509 00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:21,840 Speaker 2: anything like it. It's the worst managed project I think 510 00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:23,960 Speaker 2: I've ever seen, and I've seen some of the worst. 511 00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:26,640 Speaker 2: I've read that every person who would ride the train 512 00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:29,040 Speaker 2: could instead take a limousine back and forth, and you'd 513 00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:31,400 Speaker 2: have hundreds of billions of dollars left over. It is 514 00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:34,040 Speaker 2: the worst overrun that there has ever been in the 515 00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:37,000 Speaker 2: history of our country. 516 00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:42,400 Speaker 3: Tell me what he said that's wrong. It's not even exaggerated. 517 00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:48,040 Speaker 2: He's absolutely right, and Kevin Kyley's asking the FBI to investigate. 518 00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:53,360 Speaker 2: And this, this Chowdry character, the new CEO Ian Chowdry, 519 00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:57,320 Speaker 2: is actually actually going to the federal government. He's going 520 00:32:57,360 --> 00:33:00,440 Speaker 2: to Trump to ask for more money. And because if 521 00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:02,200 Speaker 2: Trump won't give it, then this is not going to 522 00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:06,160 Speaker 2: be built on time because they're out of money. They're 523 00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:12,280 Speaker 2: broke because it's all been stolen. Speaking of money being stolen, 524 00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:17,440 Speaker 2: Michael Monks, CAFI News, Los Angeles Homes Services Authority another 525 00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:22,680 Speaker 2: massive audit, second one in four months, same thing, billions missing, 526 00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:27,720 Speaker 2: What the hell Where'd it go? Coming up next? Debra 527 00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:30,480 Speaker 2: mark Live, CAFI twenty four Hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been 528 00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:33,160 Speaker 2: listening to The John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always 529 00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:35,880 Speaker 2: hear the show live on KFI AM six forty from 530 00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:38,640 Speaker 2: one to four pm every Monday through Friday, and of course, 531 00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:41,400 Speaker 2: anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.