1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:00,880 Speaker 1: Can't. 2 00:00:00,960 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 2: I am six forty. 3 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 3: You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 4 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:08,280 Speaker 3: We're on every day from one until four o'clock, and 5 00:00:08,320 --> 00:00:11,280 Speaker 3: then after four o'clock you got the podcast John Cobelt's 6 00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:13,600 Speaker 3: Show on demand on the iHeart app where you could 7 00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:17,600 Speaker 3: hear our interview with La Fire Chief Haimi Morris from 8 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:21,360 Speaker 3: the two o'clock hour yesterday, and then later on today's 9 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:24,239 Speaker 3: show we'll be posted as well. We're gonna start taking 10 00:00:24,239 --> 00:00:26,080 Speaker 3: phone calls here one eight hundred five to two oh 11 00:00:26,200 --> 00:00:28,920 Speaker 3: one five three four. One eight hundred five to two 12 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:32,159 Speaker 3: oh one five three four. If you were listening at 13 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:35,760 Speaker 3: this time yesterday, then you heard the Heimimore interview, the 14 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:37,760 Speaker 3: whole thing. It was about fifteen minutes. It ran from 15 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:40,080 Speaker 3: roughly two oh five to two twenty and I'm just 16 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:42,479 Speaker 3: curious what other people thought. I've been telling you what 17 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:47,360 Speaker 3: I thought, uh for much of last hour. Also at 18 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:50,080 Speaker 3: the same time, and we'll get to this a little 19 00:00:50,159 --> 00:00:55,160 Speaker 3: later on. It looks like the City of LA's attorneys 20 00:00:55,760 --> 00:01:02,560 Speaker 3: are trying to block the release of depositions that firefighters 21 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:08,040 Speaker 3: are giving in the civil lawsuit. Unbelievable. We'll talk about 22 00:01:08,080 --> 00:01:10,920 Speaker 3: that coming up. Let's start what eight hundred and five 23 00:01:10,959 --> 00:01:13,160 Speaker 3: to two oh one, five three four. Let's go with 24 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:18,080 Speaker 3: Dave first. Dave, Hi, welcome to KFI. All right, what 25 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:19,400 Speaker 3: did you What did you say? Hi? 26 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:21,160 Speaker 2: Tell me what you thought about yesterday. 27 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:26,360 Speaker 4: He's a total puppet. He's gonna fold the next time 28 00:01:26,720 --> 00:01:29,920 Speaker 4: something happens. He's gonna be pressured. He's gonna fold, he's 29 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:32,800 Speaker 4: gonna fall apart. He's not a man of his uniform. 30 00:01:32,440 --> 00:01:33,120 Speaker 5: Or the badge. 31 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:36,440 Speaker 4: And if he was, he'd get his captains and lieutenants 32 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:40,640 Speaker 4: and walk into Mayorbas's office or whoever and tell him, 33 00:01:40,959 --> 00:01:43,960 Speaker 4: tell the truth. And that's what the that's what Los 34 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:46,440 Speaker 4: Angeles needs, and not all this crap. I'm a business 35 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:49,960 Speaker 4: owner and if there's a problem, the buck stops with me, 36 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:52,680 Speaker 4: and it needs needs a sub. 37 00:01:53,440 --> 00:01:54,400 Speaker 2: They're all afraid. 38 00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:57,480 Speaker 3: They're afraid to come forward and tell the truth because 39 00:01:57,960 --> 00:02:00,960 Speaker 3: they figure Bass will will fire everybody. 40 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:04,760 Speaker 2: And they're afraid to go in and and and tell her. 41 00:02:05,160 --> 00:02:08,880 Speaker 3: I just wish the fire leaders would have a press conference, 42 00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:11,920 Speaker 3: say you know what she wants to fire us, Go ahead. 43 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:14,800 Speaker 2: I bet you the public would letter. The public would 44 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:15,040 Speaker 2: be on. 45 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:18,560 Speaker 3: The side of the firefighters. We need to have a showdown, 46 00:02:18,639 --> 00:02:19,320 Speaker 3: a standoff. 47 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:22,680 Speaker 5: Totally, totally. 48 00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:24,120 Speaker 2: You were not right, you were. 49 00:02:24,040 --> 00:02:27,160 Speaker 3: Not impressed with his uh, with his answers. 50 00:02:27,760 --> 00:02:31,440 Speaker 4: Well, his answers are fine, but he's not going to 51 00:02:31,480 --> 00:02:35,360 Speaker 4: follow through it. He's being pushed by somebody. You're gonna 52 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:37,840 Speaker 4: be our guy right now just to say whatever we 53 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:41,800 Speaker 4: tell you to do, you're gonna act act up. And 54 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:44,720 Speaker 4: then in the background, you know that once something happens, 55 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:48,680 Speaker 4: he's he's going to be pushed back. I can It's 56 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:49,679 Speaker 4: just another joke. 57 00:02:49,480 --> 00:02:52,440 Speaker 3: All right, Date, thanks for the call one eight five 58 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:56,679 Speaker 3: to oh one five three four Your reaction to yesterday's 59 00:02:56,720 --> 00:03:02,280 Speaker 3: interview with LA Fire chief Himing Moore. Let's go to George. Hi, 60 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:04,160 Speaker 3: you're on CAFI. Go ahead, George. 61 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:08,480 Speaker 6: Oh yeah. I wanted to say something that's probably parallel. 62 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:11,640 Speaker 6: I live in San Diego County and what happened a 63 00:03:11,639 --> 00:03:14,760 Speaker 6: few years ago was that it always happens, is that 64 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:18,000 Speaker 6: the unions spend the money for the campaigns and the 65 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:20,920 Speaker 6: city council people, so when they come in for all 66 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:24,200 Speaker 6: their items that they want, they get. 67 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:26,560 Speaker 1: One of the items. 68 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:33,519 Speaker 6: Was they got rid of the private paramedics and they 69 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:37,000 Speaker 6: decided that, well, we need firemen to do it. So 70 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:39,000 Speaker 6: this is one of the things that I think has 71 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:42,920 Speaker 6: happened is that at every event at a home or wherever, 72 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:48,000 Speaker 6: a paramedics shows up the small fire de permit truck 73 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:51,400 Speaker 6: plus the big fire truck. They made it a deal 74 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:54,120 Speaker 6: that they the big fire trucks had to show up 75 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:57,720 Speaker 6: at the same time. So then they go to the hospital, 76 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:01,120 Speaker 6: the paramedics are unloading the people, but the fire trucks 77 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:04,240 Speaker 6: sitting out in front. So when you're talking about the 78 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:05,200 Speaker 6: mile age. 79 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:09,080 Speaker 1: On fire truck, oh, it is double. I'm sure because 80 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:10,760 Speaker 1: of this type of issue. 81 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:12,760 Speaker 2: All right, George, thanks very much for the call. 82 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:16,400 Speaker 3: Yeah, Haimi Moore talked about and was in an interview 83 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:19,760 Speaker 3: that there's four hundred thousand I'm sorry, there's forty thousand 84 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:21,960 Speaker 3: miles put on a fire truck every year. I think 85 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:25,360 Speaker 3: that was in the what like the CBS story of 86 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:27,720 Speaker 3: the New York Times story about why these fire trucks 87 00:04:27,760 --> 00:04:30,320 Speaker 3: wear out so quickly. And this is something you brought up, Dever, 88 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:33,080 Speaker 3: is like, why does a paramedic show up to help 89 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:35,360 Speaker 3: you know, Let's say an elderly person having an heart 90 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:37,359 Speaker 3: attack and there's a fire truck that comes with it. 91 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:38,880 Speaker 3: What are the fire. What's the fire truck going to 92 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:41,320 Speaker 3: do nothing? The guy just has to be loaded into 93 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:42,240 Speaker 3: the back of the ambulance. 94 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:47,320 Speaker 2: Yeah. I wonder if that's some kind of giveaway to 95 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:48,279 Speaker 2: the union. Richard. 96 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:52,560 Speaker 3: You're on the John Comeolts Show. Okay, if I go ahead, Richard. 97 00:04:53,839 --> 00:04:57,000 Speaker 1: Yeah. The problem is that Chief Moore knows that the 98 00:04:57,040 --> 00:05:01,000 Speaker 1: same state awaits him as Kristin Crowley. He can't faign anything, 99 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:04,640 Speaker 1: and what he does say he couches in vague terms. 100 00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:07,680 Speaker 1: You know, he kind of skirts the issue. You know, 101 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:11,200 Speaker 1: he says, you'll take responsibility, but as you say, he 102 00:05:11,279 --> 00:05:13,920 Speaker 1: needs to call all the people together and say, look, 103 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:16,640 Speaker 1: as a group, we need to confront the mayor. You're 104 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:20,840 Speaker 1: absolutely right. This is a screw up from the first minute. 105 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:25,360 Speaker 1: Karen Bass I don't care. She was a good legislator. 106 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:29,320 Speaker 1: She's not an executive, she's not an administrator. And worse, 107 00:05:29,839 --> 00:05:33,760 Speaker 1: she's a liar. She knew I was coming. She didn't 108 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:37,400 Speaker 1: do anything about it. They didn't deploy sufficient things. But 109 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:40,960 Speaker 1: in the defense of the fire department, Karen Bath and 110 00:05:41,080 --> 00:05:48,480 Speaker 1: administration spins things like giving people counselmen discretionary funds. They 111 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:52,320 Speaker 1: use it for things like a Latino Culture Center rather 112 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:55,839 Speaker 1: than using it for the fire department. The first things 113 00:05:55,880 --> 00:06:00,680 Speaker 1: have to come first, police, fire, water, electricity. The rest 114 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:03,839 Speaker 1: of it's all just window dressing. It's time to cut 115 00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:06,480 Speaker 1: through the crap and pay for the things that are 116 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:08,760 Speaker 1: important for the citizens of Los Angeles. 117 00:06:09,560 --> 00:06:13,359 Speaker 3: Very well, said Richard. Thanks very much. Let's got a 118 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:19,000 Speaker 3: Kathy and Anaheim. You're on KFI. No, no, what stop, 119 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:20,080 Speaker 3: We got to take a break. 120 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:25,280 Speaker 7: Okay, you're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI 121 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:26,400 Speaker 7: AM six forty. 122 00:06:27,960 --> 00:06:31,520 Speaker 3: We're taking phone calls actually now, live phone calls at 123 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:34,200 Speaker 3: one eight hundred five to two oh five three four, 124 00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:36,520 Speaker 3: No kidding. One eight hundred five to oh one five 125 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:38,960 Speaker 3: three four. Twenty four hours ago is when we were 126 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:42,200 Speaker 3: talking to Haimi Moore, the LA Police Chief, about this 127 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:46,200 Speaker 3: Palisades disaster, and I'm curious what you thought about it. 128 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:48,080 Speaker 3: Now you can also leave your comments on the moist 129 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:50,880 Speaker 3: line eight seven seven Moyst eighty six for Friday. But 130 00:06:50,960 --> 00:06:53,680 Speaker 3: I wanted to hear some some live reaction to it, 131 00:06:53,760 --> 00:06:56,520 Speaker 3: so feel free to call in before we take any 132 00:06:56,560 --> 00:06:57,360 Speaker 3: more calls though. 133 00:06:57,920 --> 00:06:58,200 Speaker 1: Uh. 134 00:06:58,279 --> 00:07:03,080 Speaker 3: The LA Times also taught to Himimore and he said 135 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:07,080 Speaker 3: that he has not he has no plan to determine 136 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:14,240 Speaker 3: who is responsible for watering down the LA fire departments 137 00:07:14,320 --> 00:07:21,520 Speaker 3: after action report the investigation, he admits that happened, but 138 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:23,640 Speaker 3: he's looking forward and he's not going to try to 139 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:25,640 Speaker 3: figure out who is responsible. 140 00:07:26,520 --> 00:07:28,480 Speaker 2: It's hard to believe that he wouldn't know by now. 141 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:32,480 Speaker 3: Talk more about that later too, let's got it, Jeremy, Uh, 142 00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:37,200 Speaker 3: you're on KFI. Jeremy, what do you think you know? 143 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:39,560 Speaker 5: John, I've worked in government for over a decade, and 144 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:42,080 Speaker 5: what I can tell you is that these high administrative people, 145 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:45,720 Speaker 5: they're scared. They're so terrified speaking up about anything. It's 146 00:07:45,760 --> 00:07:49,360 Speaker 5: just it's a systemic issue plaguing our cities, our counties, 147 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:52,600 Speaker 5: our states, and our nation. And they choose these people 148 00:07:52,640 --> 00:07:54,920 Speaker 5: on purpose. They choose those with no spine. They will 149 00:07:54,960 --> 00:07:56,280 Speaker 5: follow orders and do what they say. 150 00:07:57,680 --> 00:07:58,800 Speaker 2: It's kind of galling that. 151 00:07:59,640 --> 00:08:02,080 Speaker 3: I mean, I always thought fire chiefs, police chiefs had 152 00:08:02,120 --> 00:08:05,960 Speaker 3: more independence than this, and now they I didn't realize that. 153 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:09,520 Speaker 3: They can't even talk a year later about what was 154 00:08:09,760 --> 00:08:13,400 Speaker 3: the biggest screw up in American firefighting history. I can't 155 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:17,360 Speaker 3: remember of a colossal set of errors like this ever 156 00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:18,280 Speaker 3: happening before. 157 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:21,760 Speaker 5: And you know what, John, it's not just it's not 158 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:24,800 Speaker 5: just the chiefs, it's the captains, it's the lieutenants, it's 159 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:26,920 Speaker 5: even the firefighters. No one can speak up. 160 00:08:28,480 --> 00:08:30,040 Speaker 2: Everyone's protecting their pension. 161 00:08:31,440 --> 00:08:33,559 Speaker 5: Mm hmm yep. And and you know, money talks. But 162 00:08:33,640 --> 00:08:34,680 Speaker 5: the end of the day, they do. You have a 163 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:37,120 Speaker 5: h they have a duty for the people, right and 164 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:38,760 Speaker 5: they have to hold that and they're simply not. 165 00:08:39,040 --> 00:08:42,959 Speaker 3: So is all that just a phony talk that they 166 00:08:42,960 --> 00:08:44,760 Speaker 3: always talk about the duty to the public? How were 167 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:47,520 Speaker 3: public servants? Well, the public needs to be served the 168 00:08:47,559 --> 00:08:50,080 Speaker 3: truth here and it's a it's a year overdue. So 169 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:53,600 Speaker 3: I don't think they really believe in in the duty 170 00:08:53,640 --> 00:08:55,800 Speaker 3: they have to the public. I think they believe the 171 00:08:55,880 --> 00:08:58,040 Speaker 3: duty that they have to their paycheck and their pension. 172 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:01,440 Speaker 5: Yep. And then I want to keep their departments funded. 173 00:09:01,440 --> 00:09:03,240 Speaker 5: And how do you do that? You keep people happy, 174 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:05,440 Speaker 5: people in office, keep them happy. You don't keep the 175 00:09:05,480 --> 00:09:08,360 Speaker 5: people happy because they're not paying right right, Yes, they 176 00:09:08,360 --> 00:09:10,880 Speaker 5: pay the tax dollars, but they're not allocating those funds. 177 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:14,360 Speaker 5: The funds are being allocated by public elected officials. 178 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:16,160 Speaker 2: All right, Jeremy, thanks for calling in. 179 00:09:17,679 --> 00:09:19,280 Speaker 5: You're welcome, John, Thank you, great job. 180 00:09:19,559 --> 00:09:21,560 Speaker 3: One eight hundred thanks one eight hundred five to two 181 00:09:21,559 --> 00:09:23,440 Speaker 3: oh one five three four one eight hundred and five 182 00:09:23,480 --> 00:09:28,520 Speaker 3: to two oh one five three four what he talks 183 00:09:28,559 --> 00:09:30,440 Speaker 3: about here. You know what, I've kind of had it 184 00:09:30,559 --> 00:09:34,760 Speaker 3: with all the the phony, baloney stuff. People. We've got 185 00:09:34,760 --> 00:09:41,800 Speaker 3: to speak out all this, all this, all this fake 186 00:09:41,960 --> 00:09:46,880 Speaker 3: reverence that everybody has here. I have reverence for the truth. 187 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:53,640 Speaker 3: I know there's financial penalties potentially to be paid, but 188 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:56,560 Speaker 3: I honestly don't think the public is going to allow 189 00:09:56,600 --> 00:10:00,200 Speaker 3: Karen Beast to get away with it. If she if 190 00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:04,600 Speaker 3: they're there, if there's a whole group of firefighters and 191 00:10:04,679 --> 00:10:07,560 Speaker 3: fire officials that get together and hold a press conference 192 00:10:07,720 --> 00:10:10,839 Speaker 3: and lay out the story from beginning to end, she's 193 00:10:10,880 --> 00:10:14,720 Speaker 3: screwed because it does go back to her. It goes 194 00:10:14,760 --> 00:10:17,839 Speaker 3: back to her apparently not holding any meetings or any 195 00:10:17,880 --> 00:10:20,040 Speaker 3: effective meetings in the week leading up to the fire. 196 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:24,000 Speaker 3: And then again she went to Ghana. She went to Ghana, 197 00:10:24,080 --> 00:10:26,880 Speaker 3: and then she deletes all her text messages that she 198 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:31,679 Speaker 3: had taken the plane on the way back here. I 199 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:35,400 Speaker 3: can't believe she's not getting ganged up on by all 200 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:38,520 Speaker 3: kinds of people who work here in the city. People 201 00:10:38,640 --> 00:10:44,480 Speaker 3: know stuff they know what's gone on. People talk. You 202 00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:47,880 Speaker 3: tell me those firefighters didn't all go home and tell 203 00:10:47,880 --> 00:10:52,760 Speaker 3: what happened to their wives and kids, and that these 204 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:58,400 Speaker 3: guys aren't gathering at restaurants and bars. I mean, if 205 00:10:58,480 --> 00:11:01,720 Speaker 3: the if the biggest fire disaster in the history of 206 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:06,880 Speaker 3: this country doesn't shake loose the truth from the firefighters 207 00:11:08,240 --> 00:11:12,880 Speaker 3: who were engaged to fight it, why can't you guys 208 00:11:12,880 --> 00:11:15,520 Speaker 3: tell us the truth. That's part of your duty too, 209 00:11:17,520 --> 00:11:21,400 Speaker 3: and the fire officials tell the truth. This is the 210 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:23,679 Speaker 3: worst thing that's ever happened in terms of a fire 211 00:11:23,920 --> 00:11:27,439 Speaker 3: to any city anywhere in the country, and it was 212 00:11:29,400 --> 00:11:35,160 Speaker 3: almost certainly preventable, preventable right from moment one if they 213 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:37,760 Speaker 3: had assigned a crew to the hotspot, the only hotspot 214 00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:41,000 Speaker 3: in the whole city. That's where the first cruise should 215 00:11:41,040 --> 00:11:49,079 Speaker 3: have gone. Let's go to Kathy, you're on CAF. 216 00:11:49,120 --> 00:11:51,280 Speaker 2: I go ahead, Hi, John. 217 00:11:51,520 --> 00:11:54,440 Speaker 8: I heard a man being very careful with his words 218 00:11:54,720 --> 00:11:58,080 Speaker 8: to basically protect his job. We have a mayor that 219 00:11:58,160 --> 00:12:01,160 Speaker 8: comes off as a cheerful woman, except she's proven like 220 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:04,920 Speaker 8: Tim Wallas, they can be very vindictive and they don't 221 00:12:04,960 --> 00:12:07,680 Speaker 8: want to lose their careers. But maybe somebody will grow 222 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:12,199 Speaker 8: a conscience and realize how much people lost, including lives, 223 00:12:12,720 --> 00:12:16,040 Speaker 8: and maybe step up and finally say what really happened 224 00:12:16,559 --> 00:12:20,559 Speaker 8: and correct everything. This should have never happened. Their priorities 225 00:12:20,559 --> 00:12:23,240 Speaker 8: are way out of whack. They spend their money in 226 00:12:23,280 --> 00:12:26,640 Speaker 8: the wrong places. They like the donor money that they get, 227 00:12:26,880 --> 00:12:29,880 Speaker 8: and it costs them, and they don't want to admit 228 00:12:29,960 --> 00:12:31,880 Speaker 8: that their system is corrupt. 229 00:12:32,520 --> 00:12:35,080 Speaker 3: You are one hundred percent right on everything you said, 230 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:40,760 Speaker 3: Karen Bass. That smiley face, that is an act. She's 231 00:12:40,800 --> 00:12:44,760 Speaker 3: a mean, vidictive woman, and that's why everyone's afraid to talk. 232 00:12:47,040 --> 00:12:50,080 Speaker 3: If she wasn't meaning vindictive, everybody would be holding a 233 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:53,280 Speaker 3: press crime for it. She and all three fire chiefs 234 00:12:53,360 --> 00:12:56,680 Speaker 3: we've had this year, all the fire captains, the battalion chiefs, 235 00:12:56,679 --> 00:12:59,400 Speaker 3: whatever titles they have, they'd all sit at a big 236 00:12:59,440 --> 00:13:02,600 Speaker 3: long table and invite the whole world and then'd explain 237 00:13:02,640 --> 00:13:05,679 Speaker 3: everything and take on all questions. That's what would happen 238 00:13:05,720 --> 00:13:09,679 Speaker 3: in a normal world. Kathy, thanks for the call. Let 239 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:16,480 Speaker 3: me see here, all right, all right, I'll tell you 240 00:13:16,520 --> 00:13:21,359 Speaker 3: about this right before Dever's news. I just got handed something. Joanne. 241 00:13:21,760 --> 00:13:26,679 Speaker 3: You're on KFI. Go ahead, you're on k IF, I 242 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:29,439 Speaker 3: go ahead, join Hello you there. 243 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:32,400 Speaker 9: I would love to find out why all the trucks 244 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:34,440 Speaker 9: that are unusable, why. 245 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:37,760 Speaker 6: They are dissembled in the parts being sold to other 246 00:13:37,840 --> 00:13:40,520 Speaker 6: stations that they can use them to repair some of 247 00:13:40,559 --> 00:13:41,840 Speaker 6: the other trucks. 248 00:13:42,640 --> 00:13:47,440 Speaker 3: So we're selling our trucks to provide parts for other 249 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:50,600 Speaker 3: towns fire departments to. 250 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:53,720 Speaker 1: Buy their old parts. They can buy our old parts 251 00:13:53,720 --> 00:13:56,679 Speaker 1: and we can fix the trucks that we need to fix. 252 00:13:57,400 --> 00:14:00,600 Speaker 2: So this is like a fire truck swap meet at 253 00:14:00,640 --> 00:14:01,320 Speaker 2: the local park. 254 00:14:01,360 --> 00:14:05,240 Speaker 1: Absolutely, absolutely, you know, I believe. 255 00:14:04,920 --> 00:14:08,400 Speaker 3: You because the stories yesterday and the New York Times 256 00:14:08,559 --> 00:14:13,600 Speaker 3: was everybody's severely short of old truck parts. They keep 257 00:14:13,640 --> 00:14:15,559 Speaker 3: these trucks for so long the city's do and they 258 00:14:15,559 --> 00:14:18,960 Speaker 3: put on so many miles, and they're so slow manufacturing 259 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:23,280 Speaker 3: trucks now because that business has changed. Is that yeah, 260 00:14:23,840 --> 00:14:28,680 Speaker 3: I imagine. Yeah, everybody's going begging each other. All right, 261 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:32,240 Speaker 3: thanks for the call. Let me tell you we're gonna 262 00:14:32,280 --> 00:14:34,640 Speaker 3: have Roger Bailey on the UH, one of the lead 263 00:14:34,640 --> 00:14:37,200 Speaker 3: attorneys for the Palisades. 264 00:14:38,280 --> 00:14:38,800 Speaker 2: Residents. 265 00:14:39,520 --> 00:14:42,240 Speaker 3: And yes, and this is the story I wanted to 266 00:14:42,240 --> 00:14:44,920 Speaker 3: get to that we discovered just a few minutes ago. 267 00:14:48,760 --> 00:14:53,120 Speaker 3: Roger Bailey says, we started taking firefighter depositions yesterday. At 268 00:14:53,160 --> 00:14:55,880 Speaker 3: the end of the first depositions, the City of Los 269 00:14:55,960 --> 00:15:00,800 Speaker 3: Angeles designated everything confidential. They did this to prevent the 270 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:04,040 Speaker 3: public and the media from seeing the depositions. There is 271 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:08,400 Speaker 3: no way everything is confidential. Looks very suspicious. LA Time's 272 00:15:08,440 --> 00:15:10,760 Speaker 3: going to run a story on this development now. They 273 00:15:11,160 --> 00:15:14,560 Speaker 3: have run something already that came over a couple of 274 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:17,080 Speaker 3: hours ago. I'll just read to you as is because 275 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:20,080 Speaker 3: I'm just looking at it for the first time. The 276 00:15:20,120 --> 00:15:24,080 Speaker 3: headline is It's a blanket of silence by Jenny Jarvi 277 00:15:24,280 --> 00:15:28,040 Speaker 3: and Eleen Chick Median, attorneys for the City of Los Angeles, 278 00:15:28,040 --> 00:15:30,680 Speaker 3: moved this week to block the release of the long 279 00:15:30,760 --> 00:15:34,800 Speaker 3: awaited depositions of firefighters that could provide a deeper understanding 280 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:38,080 Speaker 3: of their decisions and actions in the days leading up 281 00:15:38,080 --> 00:15:42,120 Speaker 3: to the deadly Palisades fire. The attorneys representing the city 282 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:48,320 Speaker 3: great We're paying for these characters, invoked a general protective 283 00:15:48,520 --> 00:15:53,200 Speaker 3: order that the parties agreed to in June, which allows 284 00:15:53,240 --> 00:15:56,440 Speaker 3: any side to designate all or part of any testimony 285 00:15:56,520 --> 00:15:59,400 Speaker 3: is confidential for up to thirty days, and then the 286 00:15:59,440 --> 00:16:02,360 Speaker 3: parties supposed to meet to work out which part should 287 00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:11,400 Speaker 3: stay confidential. And of course a lot of this is 288 00:16:11,440 --> 00:16:15,400 Speaker 3: eventually going to center on the firefighters picking up their 289 00:16:15,400 --> 00:16:20,160 Speaker 3: hoses and leaving the Lockman burn scar January second, even 290 00:16:20,200 --> 00:16:23,040 Speaker 3: though it was still smoldering, and the ground crews knew this, 291 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:28,200 Speaker 3: And this is something that that yesterday Himymore would not address. 292 00:16:28,520 --> 00:16:32,400 Speaker 3: He kept saying, well, I don't have the texts, and 293 00:16:32,440 --> 00:16:37,240 Speaker 3: I well, even if you don't have the texts, what's 294 00:16:37,280 --> 00:16:40,200 Speaker 3: the reason for this. He's pretending like, well, if I 295 00:16:40,200 --> 00:16:42,280 Speaker 3: don't see the text, I don't know that it happened. Well, 296 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:47,000 Speaker 3: know it happened, and now the firefighters are going to 297 00:16:47,040 --> 00:16:49,720 Speaker 3: tell the story, and the deposition and the city attorneys. 298 00:16:49,320 --> 00:16:52,440 Speaker 2: That you're paying for are going to block any. 299 00:16:52,240 --> 00:16:58,200 Speaker 3: Publicity about those particular depositions. So the Karen Basque cover 300 00:16:58,360 --> 00:17:02,120 Speaker 3: up continues. This is all orchestrated by her. It couldn't 301 00:17:02,120 --> 00:17:06,280 Speaker 3: be anybody else. She's the one who authorizes the city 302 00:17:06,320 --> 00:17:08,160 Speaker 3: attorney to do this sort of thing. 303 00:17:09,320 --> 00:17:13,359 Speaker 7: You're listening to John Cobels on Demand from KFI A 304 00:17:13,680 --> 00:17:14,200 Speaker 7: six forty. 305 00:17:14,960 --> 00:17:17,960 Speaker 3: All right, thank you for calling all those who got 306 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:20,680 Speaker 3: through and got on the air. But there's a lot 307 00:17:20,760 --> 00:17:23,399 Speaker 3: going on here, So we got to take a turn. 308 00:17:23,840 --> 00:17:25,560 Speaker 3: Roger Bailey is going to be with us right after 309 00:17:25,600 --> 00:17:28,680 Speaker 3: three o'clock, the lead attorney for the Palisades fire victims, 310 00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:31,960 Speaker 3: and he's going to elaborate on the story that the 311 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:35,639 Speaker 3: Ally Times broke a couple hours ago, that the city 312 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:40,879 Speaker 3: of Los Angeles sent attorneys to designate everything in the 313 00:17:40,960 --> 00:17:42,720 Speaker 3: deposition's confidential. 314 00:17:43,160 --> 00:17:44,880 Speaker 2: Firefighters were to be. 315 00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:52,399 Speaker 3: Deposed this week to explain what happened in the preparation 316 00:17:52,680 --> 00:17:56,600 Speaker 3: and the reaction to the fires. And we had gotten 317 00:17:56,720 --> 00:18:02,159 Speaker 3: some of those depositions when state our reps were interviewed 318 00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:07,600 Speaker 3: and those were the video was and the audio was released. 319 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:12,119 Speaker 3: But now the firefighters audio and video is going to 320 00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:19,320 Speaker 3: be uh is going to be suppressed. The Karen Pass 321 00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:24,880 Speaker 3: does not want the firefighters depositions to be publicized. They 322 00:18:24,920 --> 00:18:27,359 Speaker 3: do this under oath. They got to be telling the 323 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:28,959 Speaker 3: truth that they're gonna be in a lot of trouble, 324 00:18:29,560 --> 00:18:31,639 Speaker 3: and she doesn't want the truth out there. Wants to 325 00:18:31,680 --> 00:18:37,440 Speaker 3: delay the truth. She's got a campaign to run. Wow, 326 00:18:38,760 --> 00:18:40,600 Speaker 3: that's outright, this is what I'm talking about. This has 327 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:43,280 Speaker 3: got to end. This crap has got to end. All 328 00:18:43,280 --> 00:18:46,879 Speaker 3: the evasions, all the dancing, all the legal suppression. I mean, 329 00:18:46,920 --> 00:18:49,520 Speaker 3: how much tax money did you spend on fifteen lawyers 330 00:18:49,840 --> 00:18:52,760 Speaker 3: so she couldn't be questioned about the two billion dollars 331 00:18:52,840 --> 00:18:55,200 Speaker 3: in homeless money that disappeared under her nose. 332 00:18:55,960 --> 00:18:58,320 Speaker 2: Fifteen lawyers she hired, no kidding, you can go look 333 00:18:58,320 --> 00:18:58,640 Speaker 2: it up. 334 00:18:58,760 --> 00:19:03,120 Speaker 3: Eleven lawyers from Gibbs and Done law firm in downtown, LA. 335 00:19:03,320 --> 00:19:06,680 Speaker 3: Then four more city attorneys and I don't know who else. 336 00:19:09,119 --> 00:19:12,399 Speaker 3: And that was a civil lawsuit. And now she's sending 337 00:19:12,400 --> 00:19:16,119 Speaker 3: her attorney goons to suppress the depositions by the firefighters. 338 00:19:18,240 --> 00:19:20,280 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, please, four more years of this. 339 00:19:23,080 --> 00:19:26,320 Speaker 3: So back to the lay time story I mentioned, attorneys 340 00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:32,679 Speaker 3: want to block the release of the depositions. And because 341 00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:38,119 Speaker 3: after a year, Types points out, nobody knows why the 342 00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:41,680 Speaker 3: fire department ordered firefighters to pick up their hoses from 343 00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:44,159 Speaker 3: the burned scar while everything was still smoldering. 344 00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:46,640 Speaker 2: More than a year after the fire. 345 00:19:46,720 --> 00:19:50,040 Speaker 3: The public has yet to hear directly from firefighters about 346 00:19:50,080 --> 00:19:52,280 Speaker 3: their mop up. And there was going to be a 347 00:19:52,320 --> 00:19:55,919 Speaker 3: dozen firefighters deposed over the next two weeks part of 348 00:19:55,920 --> 00:19:59,840 Speaker 3: the lawsuit against the city and the state. The depositions 349 00:19:59,840 --> 00:20:04,360 Speaker 3: be on Monday yesterday, with the testimony of firefighters Cesar 350 00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:08,720 Speaker 3: Garcia and Michael Contreras. Cesar Garcia and Michael Contreras worked 351 00:20:08,760 --> 00:20:11,440 Speaker 3: at fire Station twenty three, one of the two stations 352 00:20:11,480 --> 00:20:15,040 Speaker 3: in the Palisades at the time of the fires, and 353 00:20:15,119 --> 00:20:17,959 Speaker 3: as the examinations were wrapping up. According to The Times, 354 00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:22,879 Speaker 3: attorneys representing the city Karen Bass, said they were provisionally 355 00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:30,680 Speaker 3: designated the deposition's confidential and according to Trey Robertson, one 356 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:34,280 Speaker 3: of the lead attorneys, it's clear they're trying to put 357 00:20:34,280 --> 00:20:37,800 Speaker 3: a blanket of silence over these firefighters depositions. It's a 358 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:40,680 Speaker 3: delayed tactic to try to keep it shielded from the public. 359 00:20:42,040 --> 00:20:45,160 Speaker 3: Dan Levin, an attorney representing the city, said the move 360 00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:47,879 Speaker 3: gives the city time to review the testimony and to 361 00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:51,000 Speaker 3: determine which parts should stay confidential. None of it should 362 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:55,800 Speaker 3: be confidential, mister Levin. No, what you're trying to do 363 00:20:55,920 --> 00:21:00,639 Speaker 3: is is fog up the proceedings while as runs for 364 00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:05,639 Speaker 3: reelection her primaries in June. Can you actually delay this 365 00:21:05,880 --> 00:21:10,639 Speaker 3: for five months? Well, they're gonna try. You don't have 366 00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:16,080 Speaker 3: to review the testimony. What's the review there? They swore 367 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:19,000 Speaker 3: under oath they're telling the truth, So the testimony is 368 00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:19,480 Speaker 3: the truth. 369 00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:24,520 Speaker 2: We paid for this this like. 370 00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:30,919 Speaker 3: Six thousand families lost their homes, twelve people died, and 371 00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:34,320 Speaker 3: what do you have to review the testimony about the 372 00:21:34,359 --> 00:21:38,840 Speaker 3: firefighters fled the scene of the flare up even though 373 00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:43,160 Speaker 3: it clearly had flared up. And then we had Heimi 374 00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:44,640 Speaker 3: Garcia on the show yesterday. 375 00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:47,640 Speaker 2: I don't know. I never saw the I never saw 376 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:48,120 Speaker 2: those texts. 377 00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:52,080 Speaker 3: Which clip is that? Yeah, we haven't played this one yet. 378 00:21:52,160 --> 00:21:56,680 Speaker 3: Himymore La Fire department chief. Here's when I questioned him 379 00:21:56,680 --> 00:22:00,960 Speaker 3: about it. What he said, the Italian chief up the hoses. 380 00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:04,240 Speaker 3: What's the role of the state park reps trying to 381 00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:07,280 Speaker 3: chase these guys off. There's a big story there, and 382 00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:08,399 Speaker 3: nobody's coming clean. 383 00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:12,720 Speaker 9: And John, I hear what you're saying. And I have 384 00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:15,639 Speaker 9: heard about these text messages. They've never been brought to 385 00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:17,600 Speaker 9: my attention, but I'm treating them as if they're real. 386 00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:20,200 Speaker 9: I've spoken to the battalion chief that was on scene 387 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:21,760 Speaker 9: that day and the day the one that was there 388 00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:25,840 Speaker 9: previously that fire was out. They truly believe that fire 389 00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:28,160 Speaker 9: was out. Nobody came up to them and told them 390 00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:31,040 Speaker 9: that the fire wasn't out. Nobody told and sent them 391 00:22:31,080 --> 00:22:33,520 Speaker 9: a text message, according to them, and nobody, and I've 392 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:37,120 Speaker 9: asked everybody, even even the media, to please turn over 393 00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:39,760 Speaker 9: these text messages. I have yet to see a single 394 00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:40,520 Speaker 9: text maker. 395 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:44,320 Speaker 2: You see them, though, Let's assume they're true. Someday we're 396 00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:44,919 Speaker 2: going to see them. 397 00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:47,240 Speaker 9: I have assumed they're true, right, Okay, that's the thing. 398 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:49,479 Speaker 3: So if you see them, it's not going to make 399 00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:52,640 Speaker 3: a difference in how you're you're thinking right now, Let's 400 00:22:52,640 --> 00:22:53,399 Speaker 3: assume they're true. 401 00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:54,960 Speaker 2: Someday we'll all get to see them. 402 00:22:56,160 --> 00:23:01,520 Speaker 9: It's it's inexplicable, So John, I have to assume they're true. 403 00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:03,280 Speaker 9: And that's the way I've been dealing with this thing. 404 00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:05,960 Speaker 9: All the changes that are made have been made with 405 00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:12,320 Speaker 9: our policy in regards to the user drones, thermal imaging, 406 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:13,800 Speaker 9: the predeployment. 407 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:16,600 Speaker 3: Stop stop from stop, stop from. 408 00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:20,320 Speaker 9: Up procedures, and seems completely all based on what I'm 409 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:22,480 Speaker 9: assuming are true in those text messages. 410 00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:30,000 Speaker 3: Okay, that was me live never mind. Uh, yes, they're true. 411 00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:34,080 Speaker 3: And he changes the subject, is what he does. Because 412 00:23:34,119 --> 00:23:36,840 Speaker 3: if you assume they're true, why did they leave? Why 413 00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:39,840 Speaker 3: did they leave? They said they saw the smoldering, They 414 00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:42,040 Speaker 3: saw the smoldering, they felt the heat, So why did 415 00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:45,160 Speaker 3: they leave? And he knows who the firefighters are because 416 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:49,119 Speaker 3: they're being deposed this week. I'm sure, all right, So 417 00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:52,480 Speaker 3: they're being deposed this week, so he knows who they are. 418 00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:57,679 Speaker 3: Why don't you call them and ask them? Have the 419 00:23:57,720 --> 00:24:03,280 Speaker 3: attorneys show you the evidence they got to take a break. 420 00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:08,399 Speaker 7: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am 421 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:08,960 Speaker 7: six forty. 422 00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:12,679 Speaker 3: Follow us on social media at John Cobelt Radio at 423 00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:17,560 Speaker 3: John Cobelt Radio and then YouTube is You subscribe by 424 00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:20,200 Speaker 3: going to YouTube dot com slash at John Cobelt Show. 425 00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:23,640 Speaker 3: YouTube dot com slash at John Cobelt Show to subscribe, 426 00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:26,640 Speaker 3: and you can see the full interview of LA Fire 427 00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:30,879 Speaker 3: Department Chief himI Moore on YouTube. Now we have posted 428 00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:36,000 Speaker 3: that Roger Bailey's coming on. He's the attorney for the 429 00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:39,640 Speaker 3: a lot of the Palisades homeowners. The cover up continues, 430 00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:46,400 Speaker 3: and this just happened this afternoon. The cover up by 431 00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:49,080 Speaker 3: Karen bast keep the truth from getting out on how 432 00:24:49,119 --> 00:24:53,240 Speaker 3: the fire department botched up the Lockman fire and allowed 433 00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:57,760 Speaker 3: it to rekindle and become the horrendous Palisades fire. There 434 00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:02,080 Speaker 3: were firefighters testifying today under oath in a deposition and 435 00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:05,520 Speaker 3: she won't let them. Wow, I mean no, I'm sorry, 436 00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:10,160 Speaker 3: I misspoke there. She let them, but she won't allow 437 00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:15,600 Speaker 3: the depositions to be publicly released. Through her city attorneys. 438 00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:22,280 Speaker 3: They put a hold on releasing the depositions publicly. They 439 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:27,719 Speaker 3: they were questioned, they answered, they're under oath. They have 440 00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:29,080 Speaker 3: to tell the truth or and there are a lot 441 00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:35,600 Speaker 3: of trouble. And now Bass has smothered the release of 442 00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:41,320 Speaker 3: the audio on the video. This is this is this 443 00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:51,159 Speaker 3: can't be this absolutely cannot be massive cover up. Did 444 00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:54,919 Speaker 3: anybody report this on January second? Because this is in 445 00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:57,320 Speaker 3: the middle of all the dire warnings from the National 446 00:25:57,320 --> 00:26:00,000 Speaker 3: Weather Service. This is what I cannot my brain cannot 447 00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:04,960 Speaker 3: compute this. You have a set of firefighters who said, hey, 448 00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:09,480 Speaker 3: the Lockman fire is still smoldering, the rocks and the 449 00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:14,040 Speaker 3: tree stumps are hot here. This is trouble. The battalion 450 00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:17,080 Speaker 3: chief says, I don't want to hear it. Roll up poses. 451 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:20,920 Speaker 4: Huh. 452 00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:24,120 Speaker 3: And then there's all these warnings, all these warnings, extreme 453 00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:26,800 Speaker 3: fire danger, extreme wind warnings. Bob by Bob bab's the 454 00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:31,520 Speaker 3: National Weather Service and it's all public and they never 455 00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:33,280 Speaker 3: go back to that spot. 456 00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:43,359 Speaker 2: I don't understand it. Don't tell me that it's money money. 457 00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:46,679 Speaker 3: How many firefighters would you need to babysit the spot 458 00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:50,040 Speaker 3: where you had the fire. It's the burned scar there. 459 00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:55,480 Speaker 3: It's not that hard and now nobody can talk about 460 00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:58,080 Speaker 3: it publicly. That's why everybody's been silent for a year. 461 00:26:58,560 --> 00:27:00,480 Speaker 3: Here they get to pose where they have to tell 462 00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:02,400 Speaker 3: the truth and Bass covers it up. 463 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:05,960 Speaker 2: Oh and by the way, what was it? Two days 464 00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:09,080 Speaker 2: later she went to She went to Ghana. 465 00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:14,679 Speaker 3: Two days afterwards, she went to Ghana instead of holding 466 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:17,400 Speaker 3: meetings saying, you know, how about that burn scar up there? 467 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:20,680 Speaker 3: I'm getting all these warnings from the National Weather Service. 468 00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:24,239 Speaker 3: Did anybody in her staff tell her this? Anybody at 469 00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:28,280 Speaker 3: the fire department, Does anybody talk to anybody about anything 470 00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:32,200 Speaker 3: that matters? I'm sure if she's holding a DEI meeting, 471 00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:39,080 Speaker 3: it's all hands on deck for that right. If we're 472 00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:44,760 Speaker 3: gonna have a symposium on equity, I'm sure. 473 00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:45,560 Speaker 2: The room would be packed. 474 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:51,719 Speaker 3: She's got over one hundred employees at city Hall, and 475 00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:54,720 Speaker 3: they have a billion ways to communicate with each other 476 00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:59,919 Speaker 3: texts and email and phone calls and all their in 477 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:05,200 Speaker 3: internal messaging systems and the social media systems, and they 478 00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:07,320 Speaker 3: see each other in the hallways, and they're watching the 479 00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:10,560 Speaker 3: TV and they're listening to the radio, and they're all 480 00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:15,960 Speaker 3: scrolling on the internet reading all the news dispatches, and 481 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:20,600 Speaker 3: none of them thought, Hey, that hot spot in the Palisades, do. 482 00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:23,960 Speaker 2: We have a crew there? Nobody. How about in the 483 00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:25,080 Speaker 2: fire department? Nobody? 484 00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:28,040 Speaker 3: Oh, you know that costs money. I don't cost money. 485 00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:30,720 Speaker 3: You want to see my tax bill? Do I see 486 00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:33,000 Speaker 3: everybody's tax bill in the Palistads? You want to add 487 00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:38,800 Speaker 3: up all the taxes the people in the Palisades pay. 488 00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:41,680 Speaker 3: I don't have the money. No, you don't have the money. 489 00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:43,560 Speaker 3: How much do you spend on homeless people? 490 00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:45,240 Speaker 2: I don't know. 491 00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:47,200 Speaker 3: We lost all that money. How much you spend on 492 00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:53,000 Speaker 3: illegal aliens? How much money do you spend on those 493 00:28:53,080 --> 00:29:00,520 Speaker 3: illegal alien groups that incited the riots last June. 494 00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:01,840 Speaker 2: It's all true. 495 00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:08,240 Speaker 3: They spend tax money on illegal alien nonprofit criminal groups 496 00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:15,400 Speaker 3: that then go out and incite riots. And there's nothing 497 00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:19,080 Speaker 3: for the fire department. But now there's talk of a 498 00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:24,440 Speaker 3: new tax for the fire department so they could get restaffed. 499 00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:29,360 Speaker 3: And so does your head want to explode? All right, 500 00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:33,120 Speaker 3: we come back Roger Bailey. He's the attorney for the 501 00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:37,959 Speaker 3: homeowners and the Palisades, and he'll tell us this deposition 502 00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:41,560 Speaker 3: story that Bass and the city attorneys don't want the 503 00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:45,600 Speaker 3: firefighters depositions to be publicized. Deborah Mark is live the 504 00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:48,560 Speaker 3: CAFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to 505 00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:51,160 Speaker 3: the John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear the 506 00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:53,920 Speaker 3: show live on KFI AM six forty from one to 507 00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:56,880 Speaker 3: four pm every Monday through Friday, and of course, anytime 508 00:29:56,960 --> 00:29:59,080 Speaker 3: on demand on the iHeartRadio app.