1 00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:00,760 Speaker 1: Can't. 2 00:00:00,760 --> 00:00:02,000 Speaker 2: I am six forty. 3 00:00:02,040 --> 00:00:05,480 Speaker 1: You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 4 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:09,680 Speaker 1: We are on from one to four and after four o'clock. 5 00:00:09,680 --> 00:00:13,520 Speaker 1: You missed something, go to the iHeartRadio app John Cobelt 6 00:00:13,520 --> 00:00:16,959 Speaker 1: Show on demand. I would urge you definitely to listen 7 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:19,439 Speaker 1: to a one o'clock hour. Part of it was with 8 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:23,600 Speaker 1: Nick Gerda, who's the watchdog correspondent at the public radio 9 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:27,760 Speaker 1: station Last who broke the story about Alicia Adams Kellum. 10 00:00:29,440 --> 00:00:35,280 Speaker 1: She retaliated against two whistleblowers paid eight hundred thousand dollars. 11 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:39,200 Speaker 1: They had said that Adams Kellem was doing all kinds 12 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:43,680 Speaker 1: of bad things. For one thing, they were covering up 13 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:48,159 Speaker 1: the real numbers for Karen Bass's inside safe because they 14 00:00:48,159 --> 00:00:51,000 Speaker 1: didn't want Karen Bass to look bad. She also had 15 00:00:51,080 --> 00:00:55,279 Speaker 1: hired unqualified friends and former co workers and paid them 16 00:00:55,280 --> 00:00:57,639 Speaker 1: a lot of money. And then she was engaging in 17 00:00:57,640 --> 00:01:01,640 Speaker 1: inappropriate and unethical behavior. She was insisting that at the 18 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:05,080 Speaker 1: holiday party, taxpayers pay for all the booze. It's a 19 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:08,720 Speaker 1: long list of stuff. Las dot com Nick Gert listened 20 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:10,800 Speaker 1: to listen to that interview with him, and we went 21 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:13,600 Speaker 1: through his story. Really for most of the Hour. Uh, 22 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:18,080 Speaker 1: that's on the First Hour podcast. Let's go now to 23 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:22,440 Speaker 1: man We've had on many times. He's just the premier 24 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:26,399 Speaker 1: journalist chronicler of what's gone on at the border for 25 00:01:26,520 --> 00:01:30,000 Speaker 1: all these years and immigration policies with the Center for 26 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:35,959 Speaker 1: Immigration Studies, Todd Bensman. This story is amazing. There was 27 00:01:36,080 --> 00:01:38,280 Speaker 1: a man in Chicago who shot and wounded. 28 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:40,560 Speaker 2: Well this he was an. 29 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:43,440 Speaker 1: Illegal alien from an Islamic country and he shot and 30 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:47,760 Speaker 1: wounded an Orthodox Jewish man in Chicago, and the FBI 31 00:01:48,320 --> 00:01:52,160 Speaker 1: for months and months was not interested in investigating this guy, 32 00:01:53,160 --> 00:01:57,760 Speaker 1: but recently they were. Let's talk to Let's talk to 33 00:01:57,760 --> 00:02:00,640 Speaker 1: Todd Bensman. How are you, Todd, I'm doing great. 34 00:02:00,720 --> 00:02:06,600 Speaker 3: Yeah. Thanks. Yeah. This is the first known terror attack 35 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:11,640 Speaker 3: jihadis full blown alawa akbar screaming terror attack in the 36 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:17,560 Speaker 3: United States that drew blood by a border crossing Muslim 37 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:21,960 Speaker 3: immigrant crossed over the border illegally in March of twenty 38 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:25,520 Speaker 3: twenty three and made his way up to Chicago, got 39 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:30,800 Speaker 3: mad about the Gaza war with Israel, decided he was 40 00:02:30,840 --> 00:02:33,880 Speaker 3: going to slaughter a bunch of Jewish people in their 41 00:02:33,919 --> 00:02:39,680 Speaker 3: synagogue up in an Orthodox neighborhood of Chicago, and on 42 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:42,639 Speaker 3: the way there, took a shot at one of them 43 00:02:42,639 --> 00:02:47,200 Speaker 3: and wounded him in the back. Thank god, the victim 44 00:02:47,320 --> 00:02:51,360 Speaker 3: survived that. But then came the police, Chicago police, and 45 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:56,600 Speaker 3: a massive gun battle all over this Jewish neighborhood until 46 00:02:56,639 --> 00:03:01,200 Speaker 3: they finally wounded him and he was brought in and 47 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:05,400 Speaker 3: not investigated by the FBI. The FBI decided this is 48 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:09,360 Speaker 3: on October twenty six, just seven months ago. What was 49 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:12,480 Speaker 3: happening on October twenty six were just days away from 50 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:16,960 Speaker 3: the presidential election. Oh right, so you have the FBI 51 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:20,000 Speaker 3: taking over this case. That's telling the world that a 52 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:22,800 Speaker 3: terrorist just attacked. 53 00:03:22,639 --> 00:03:24,520 Speaker 2: Just shot an Orthodox Jewish man in. 54 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:29,120 Speaker 3: Public, right ahead of the election. Where you know, mass 55 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:33,640 Speaker 3: migration was the national security issue of the moment, and 56 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:37,400 Speaker 3: here it was. They had it. So they they let 57 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:40,880 Speaker 3: the Chicago police handle the thing like as an ordinary shooting. 58 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:46,440 Speaker 3: And then finally, after pressure from the Jewish community, the 59 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:51,960 Speaker 3: state of Illinois charged him with terrorism under the never 60 00:03:52,040 --> 00:03:56,640 Speaker 3: before used state level terrorism statute that they had after 61 00:03:56,720 --> 00:03:59,960 Speaker 3: nine to eleven, and then that was it. The guy 62 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:03,520 Speaker 3: hung himself. He hanged himself in jail not long after, 63 00:04:03,640 --> 00:04:12,880 Speaker 3: so he didn't get a trial. Yes, abd Lahia. That's 64 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:16,719 Speaker 3: the guy from the Islamic Republic of Mauritania. Lots of 65 00:04:16,760 --> 00:04:19,800 Speaker 3: Mauritanians came in about eighteen, twenty thousand of them. 66 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:20,919 Speaker 2: And where's Mauritanian. 67 00:04:21,960 --> 00:04:26,520 Speaker 3: It's in West Africa in the Sihled Desert region. Is 68 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:30,479 Speaker 3: a very dangerous neighborhood. Lots of Al Qaida and isis 69 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:34,200 Speaker 3: running around up there, lots of terror attacks up there, 70 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:37,920 Speaker 3: and we've had twenty thousand Mauritanians come over our border, 71 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:44,120 Speaker 3: really Senegalisia, and one of them finally popped off the 72 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:48,200 Speaker 3: terror attack charged as a terror attack. Well, my story 73 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:51,960 Speaker 3: in the New York Post last night broke last night 74 00:04:53,080 --> 00:04:55,159 Speaker 3: is just to say that when I put in a 75 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:59,000 Speaker 3: foyer request with the FBI for any information that they 76 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:03,320 Speaker 3: might have on that forgotten tar attack, first ever of 77 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:07,480 Speaker 3: its kind, they replied, well, we're not going to give 78 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:11,560 Speaker 3: you any information because we have an active investigation still, 79 00:05:12,279 --> 00:05:13,560 Speaker 3: even though the guy's dead. 80 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:14,720 Speaker 2: He hanged himself. 81 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:18,840 Speaker 3: He said, he hanged himself. What are you investigating? I mean, 82 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:21,440 Speaker 3: you know they of course they're not saying. But what 83 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:25,680 Speaker 3: that tells us is that either Biden FBI decided not 84 00:05:25,760 --> 00:05:31,400 Speaker 3: to investigate, and the Trump, FBI decided to investigate, or 85 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:35,040 Speaker 3: they just found something that they can't let go of 86 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:38,919 Speaker 3: just for ethics, or you know, their cops ultimately you 87 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:40,920 Speaker 3: can't just let go of it. I don't know what 88 00:05:40,960 --> 00:05:45,159 Speaker 3: it is. They have an active case. Maybe they're looking 89 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:47,559 Speaker 3: they found I mean, most of these things don't happen 90 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:50,800 Speaker 3: without po co conspirators. How did he get his gun? 91 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:55,520 Speaker 3: Illegal immigrants are not allowed to have firearms? How did 92 00:05:55,520 --> 00:05:58,280 Speaker 3: he get one? Who gave it to him? Who steal it? 93 00:05:58,279 --> 00:06:02,040 Speaker 3: Do he buy it? Did somebody sell it to Was 94 00:06:02,080 --> 00:06:06,440 Speaker 3: he directed? Now? His phone was filled with Hamas propaganda, 95 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:12,680 Speaker 3: Jihadis propaganda, anti Jewish Aza war, anti Israel propaganda. 96 00:06:12,839 --> 00:06:15,160 Speaker 1: Do we know where he crossed the border and was 97 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:18,320 Speaker 1: he detained in any way? Did he did he get 98 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:22,760 Speaker 1: cleared for temporary approval, applied for asylum, any of that? 99 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:28,039 Speaker 3: I have most of those records. Now. He crossed on 100 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:33,120 Speaker 3: March thirtieth, twenty twenty three, in the Tijuana area and 101 00:06:33,279 --> 00:06:38,599 Speaker 3: toward San Diego between ports of entry. He turned himself 102 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:40,960 Speaker 3: in along with you know, hundreds of thousands of other 103 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:43,960 Speaker 3: people that were crossing that month. It's a very very 104 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:49,240 Speaker 3: busy month, very busy year in that sector, and what 105 00:06:49,279 --> 00:06:53,160 Speaker 3: the Biden administration was doing at that point was stamping 106 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:57,160 Speaker 3: everybody right in. They'd take their names, run them through 107 00:06:57,520 --> 00:07:00,960 Speaker 3: a US database to see if there was any There 108 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:03,760 Speaker 3: was not on him, and then they cut him loose 109 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:07,760 Speaker 3: and he went to Chicago. So that's all we really know. 110 00:07:08,040 --> 00:07:12,640 Speaker 3: They gave him a date to check in with ICE 111 00:07:13,280 --> 00:07:18,000 Speaker 3: in the Chicago area, or actually Indiana first and in Chicago, 112 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:22,960 Speaker 3: but there's no information at all that he actually did 113 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:25,960 Speaker 3: check in or what his status was. 114 00:07:26,040 --> 00:07:28,360 Speaker 1: So we don't know if he was connected to terrorists, 115 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:30,760 Speaker 1: if the reason he came all the way from Wuritania 116 00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:33,720 Speaker 1: all away from West Africa are was to cause a 117 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:37,640 Speaker 1: terrorist attack, or then he got radicalized after he was here. 118 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:41,120 Speaker 3: No, and that's the problem with all of this. There's 119 00:07:41,160 --> 00:07:45,600 Speaker 3: no media interest, no media coverage of this. This first 120 00:07:45,640 --> 00:07:47,520 Speaker 3: ever border crosser terror attack. 121 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:53,400 Speaker 1: Isn't that that is shocking, the first ever illegal alien 122 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:54,400 Speaker 1: terror attack. 123 00:07:55,400 --> 00:07:57,360 Speaker 2: And I'd never heard of this story. 124 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:02,240 Speaker 3: No, I listen, when he hanged himself, I knew there 125 00:08:02,320 --> 00:08:05,200 Speaker 3: was not going to be a public trial and that 126 00:08:05,320 --> 00:08:09,520 Speaker 3: the country would be robbed of answering the questions that 127 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:13,920 Speaker 3: you just raised, that are just normal questions. Who directed him, 128 00:08:14,120 --> 00:08:18,280 Speaker 3: did he have co conspirators? So I went there to Chicago, 129 00:08:18,440 --> 00:08:20,280 Speaker 3: and I'm not even a journalist. I worked for a 130 00:08:20,280 --> 00:08:24,000 Speaker 3: think tank, a public policy institute, and I just started 131 00:08:24,080 --> 00:08:27,240 Speaker 3: knocking doors. The media never did its job, so I 132 00:08:27,280 --> 00:08:29,960 Speaker 3: decided I'll do what they should have done, and I 133 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:32,880 Speaker 3: spent a week on the ground there and had no 134 00:08:32,920 --> 00:08:37,640 Speaker 3: problem finding the Jewish victim and interviewed him for the 135 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:41,640 Speaker 3: very first time, and his wife, their rabbi, all of 136 00:08:41,679 --> 00:08:46,600 Speaker 3: the neighbors in that neighborhood who lived through this horrendous 137 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:54,240 Speaker 3: gun battle in their neighborhood, knocked on his door, interviewed 138 00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:56,920 Speaker 3: his roommates, the whole thing. I did a three part 139 00:08:57,040 --> 00:08:59,760 Speaker 3: series on this thing, which you can find that under 140 00:08:59,800 --> 00:09:04,480 Speaker 3: my name at CIS dot org or Todd Bensmon dot com. 141 00:09:04,480 --> 00:09:06,520 Speaker 3: It's there at the bottom of the page. You'll find 142 00:09:06,559 --> 00:09:11,720 Speaker 3: the whole series. This is just the latest installment of 143 00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:14,400 Speaker 3: my coverage of this but I'm like it, man. 144 00:09:16,960 --> 00:09:19,520 Speaker 1: Wow, this is a tremendous story, and for you to 145 00:09:19,520 --> 00:09:23,840 Speaker 1: be the only writer in the entire nation to be 146 00:09:23,920 --> 00:09:27,240 Speaker 1: covering it is just gives you the depth of the 147 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:30,839 Speaker 1: partisanship and bias on the part of what used to 148 00:09:30,920 --> 00:09:34,360 Speaker 1: be the media and just been a terrible story for 149 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:36,560 Speaker 1: Biden a week and a half before the election. 150 00:09:36,920 --> 00:09:40,240 Speaker 2: And so they buried it. And the FBI buried it too. 151 00:09:40,440 --> 00:09:45,440 Speaker 3: God, the FBI buried it too. But listen, you know 152 00:09:45,520 --> 00:09:47,760 Speaker 3: it's it's it doesn't have to be this way. You know, 153 00:09:47,840 --> 00:09:52,240 Speaker 3: even Trump and his people are talking about, you know, 154 00:09:52,280 --> 00:09:54,000 Speaker 3: there there's a two you know, we have a terrorist 155 00:09:54,080 --> 00:09:56,720 Speaker 3: threat here. There could be a terror attack. They don't 156 00:09:56,720 --> 00:10:01,199 Speaker 3: even realize that there already was one. Even the Republicans 157 00:10:01,240 --> 00:10:06,600 Speaker 3: don't realize it. And get this. Illinois Governor Pritzker has 158 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:11,240 Speaker 3: been subpoena to testify before the House Homeland Security Committee 159 00:10:11,280 --> 00:10:18,319 Speaker 3: Oversight subcommittee on June twelve about to defend his sanctuary 160 00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:23,119 Speaker 3: city policy. And I don't think any of those panelists, 161 00:10:23,360 --> 00:10:26,640 Speaker 3: those members on the panel have any clue to ask 162 00:10:26,760 --> 00:10:30,640 Speaker 3: him about this. How what about the terror attack in Chicago? 163 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:33,840 Speaker 2: This sky was protecting sanctuary city policy? 164 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:36,240 Speaker 3: Yeah? How many more are you protecting like him? 165 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:39,200 Speaker 1: All Right, and I gotta go, Todd, Thank you very much, 166 00:10:40,080 --> 00:10:43,200 Speaker 1: Thank you, great report, Todd, Bensman Center for Immigration Studies. 167 00:10:43,880 --> 00:10:48,480 Speaker 1: When we come back, there's a big Soviet spacecraft that 168 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:50,599 Speaker 1: could fall on your head. 169 00:10:50,960 --> 00:10:55,280 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 170 00:10:55,320 --> 00:10:55,839 Speaker 4: six forty. 171 00:10:57,360 --> 00:11:01,360 Speaker 1: All right, you you should look up in the sky 172 00:11:01,559 --> 00:11:05,200 Speaker 1: at all times for the rest of the week. Why well, 173 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:11,160 Speaker 1: I don't think you could take a huge Soviet spacecraft 174 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:11,960 Speaker 1: falling on your head. 175 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:14,079 Speaker 5: I don't think many of us could, John, That's what 176 00:11:14,200 --> 00:11:14,760 Speaker 5: I'm telling you. 177 00:11:15,440 --> 00:11:17,720 Speaker 2: Keep looking up. You don't know when it's coming. 178 00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:22,880 Speaker 1: This is a spacecraft that the Soviet unions sent up 179 00:11:22,960 --> 00:11:27,240 Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy two. It was called Cosmos for eighty two. 180 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:32,200 Speaker 1: It was supposed to land on Venus fifty years ago, 181 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:37,800 Speaker 1: and it never made it out of orbit. It got 182 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:40,880 Speaker 1: caught in a weird orbit. It's a half a ton, 183 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:49,280 Speaker 1: it's one thousand pounds metal aw and it was built 184 00:11:49,280 --> 00:11:52,959 Speaker 1: with a heat shield so it could survive coming through 185 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:57,000 Speaker 1: the atmosphere. It may not burn up entirely. Could come 186 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:00,360 Speaker 1: in at one hundred and fifty miles an hour. So 187 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:02,400 Speaker 1: you've got a thousand pounds falling on your head. 188 00:12:02,280 --> 00:12:02,640 Speaker 2: At a hunt. 189 00:12:03,880 --> 00:12:07,160 Speaker 6: I guess you'll be using AI of me very you. 190 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:11,200 Speaker 1: Have a little little flat debby there on the sidewalk. 191 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:15,760 Speaker 1: It can fall in a wide area, including the US 192 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:20,480 Speaker 1: South America, Africa, Australia, most of Europe and Asia. They 193 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:21,480 Speaker 1: don't know where it's gonna en. 194 00:12:21,520 --> 00:12:23,000 Speaker 5: Okay, so not here then. 195 00:12:23,559 --> 00:12:24,840 Speaker 2: No, No, United States. 196 00:12:24,840 --> 00:12:28,120 Speaker 1: Oh I missed the state in the United States. They 197 00:12:28,320 --> 00:12:31,319 Speaker 1: had a series of Venus missions. This one didn't work out, 198 00:12:31,320 --> 00:12:33,920 Speaker 1: a rocket malfunction. It got stuck in the Earth, stuck 199 00:12:33,920 --> 00:12:37,880 Speaker 1: in the Earth's orbit. Most of it came down within 200 00:12:37,920 --> 00:12:41,240 Speaker 1: a decade, but the landing capsule itself has been circling 201 00:12:41,280 --> 00:12:45,319 Speaker 1: the world for fifty three years, just very slowly dropping 202 00:12:45,320 --> 00:12:49,360 Speaker 1: in altitude, and everybody forgot about it. You know, there's 203 00:12:49,880 --> 00:12:55,480 Speaker 1: thousands and thousands of things orbiting the Earth, and there's 204 00:12:55,480 --> 00:13:00,160 Speaker 1: actually a master list. They've tried to identify all these thousands, 205 00:13:00,760 --> 00:13:08,560 Speaker 1: and they think the most likely time is twelve forty 206 00:13:08,559 --> 00:13:12,959 Speaker 1: two am Eastern Time on May tenth. That would be 207 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:15,959 Speaker 1: in three days. Oh wow, Thursday, Friday, that's what I'm saying, 208 00:13:16,040 --> 00:13:21,160 Speaker 1: Saturday now. Another satellite tracker says four thirty seven am 209 00:13:21,240 --> 00:13:24,960 Speaker 1: on May tenth, plus or minus a day. That'll be 210 00:13:25,040 --> 00:13:28,280 Speaker 1: quite the birthday present for me. Where's your birthday Saturday, 211 00:13:28,280 --> 00:13:30,600 Speaker 1: May tenth, Well, it could fall. 212 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:30,920 Speaker 2: On your head. 213 00:13:31,160 --> 00:13:33,760 Speaker 1: I'm not looking forward to that. There's a there's a 214 00:13:33,800 --> 00:13:38,079 Speaker 1: happy birthday. It should survive re entry as long as 215 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:43,720 Speaker 1: the heat shields intact. And but one of the researcher says, 216 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:45,800 Speaker 1: imagine putting your car into a wall one hundred and 217 00:13:45,840 --> 00:13:47,440 Speaker 1: fifty miles an hour and see how much of. 218 00:13:47,440 --> 00:13:48,559 Speaker 2: It is left after that. 219 00:13:48,920 --> 00:13:49,640 Speaker 5: Not much. 220 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:52,120 Speaker 1: It'll look like a bright streak across the sky, and 221 00:13:52,160 --> 00:13:54,840 Speaker 1: that would be cool. Yeah, there's twenty five thousand objects 222 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:56,960 Speaker 1: orbiting orbiting the Earth. 223 00:13:57,080 --> 00:13:59,120 Speaker 5: I can't worry about that. I just can't. 224 00:13:59,160 --> 00:13:59,760 Speaker 2: That's what I thought. 225 00:13:59,760 --> 00:14:03,480 Speaker 1: Maybe I could trigger the same response that hurricanes and 226 00:14:03,559 --> 00:14:05,120 Speaker 1: the tsunamis and earthquakes. 227 00:14:05,160 --> 00:14:06,880 Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm filled up. 228 00:14:07,520 --> 00:14:09,440 Speaker 2: Really Yeah, well this would really hurt. 229 00:14:09,880 --> 00:14:13,480 Speaker 6: I mean it would, but I think the likelihood of 230 00:14:13,520 --> 00:14:15,319 Speaker 6: that falling on my head. 231 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:17,480 Speaker 1: I don't know, not to a lot of unusual things 232 00:14:17,520 --> 00:14:21,240 Speaker 1: happen around you. That is a space craft. I mean, 233 00:14:21,240 --> 00:14:23,600 Speaker 1: I wouldn't stay. I don't think anybody should stand next 234 00:14:23,600 --> 00:14:25,760 Speaker 1: to Deborah. 235 00:14:26,960 --> 00:14:30,320 Speaker 5: But it's Mother's Day on Sunday. 236 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:34,760 Speaker 6: On Sunday, I may not be here for Mother's Day. 237 00:14:34,880 --> 00:14:39,920 Speaker 1: Your your family should stay away when we come back. 238 00:14:40,240 --> 00:14:45,840 Speaker 1: You may have heard our national airport system is in collapse. 239 00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:48,800 Speaker 1: It's it's like one of these old Soviet rockets. It's 240 00:14:49,160 --> 00:14:52,200 Speaker 1: completely falling apart. And I couldn't believe this, but this 241 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:56,000 Speaker 1: came from the Transportation Secretary. Do you know the airports 242 00:14:56,000 --> 00:15:01,400 Speaker 1: are still using floppy disks? Does anybody remember floppy dish? 243 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:04,920 Speaker 1: That's well, we'll explain all this coming up. 244 00:15:06,120 --> 00:15:10,440 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI AM 245 00:15:10,480 --> 00:15:11,000 Speaker 4: six forty. 246 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:14,040 Speaker 1: Well, I gave it a good try to try to 247 00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:19,880 Speaker 1: stir up your phobias because of this Russian satellite. Not satellite, 248 00:15:19,880 --> 00:15:21,920 Speaker 1: it's a Russian space ship that was supposed to go 249 00:15:21,920 --> 00:15:24,600 Speaker 1: to Venus fifty years ago, got stuck in the Earth's 250 00:15:24,680 --> 00:15:27,680 Speaker 1: orbit since nineteen seventy two, and it's falling to Earth 251 00:15:27,680 --> 00:15:31,360 Speaker 1: this weekend, probably Saturday. It's one thousand pounds half a ton, 252 00:15:31,960 --> 00:15:33,800 Speaker 1: and it's gonna come straight down at one hundred and 253 00:15:33,800 --> 00:15:34,840 Speaker 1: fifty miles an hour in. 254 00:15:34,760 --> 00:15:35,920 Speaker 5: The San Fernando Valley. 255 00:15:36,280 --> 00:15:39,720 Speaker 2: Yeah, Woodland Hills, that's where it's targeted. Sure, well exactly, 256 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:40,200 Speaker 2: you're in there. 257 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:42,360 Speaker 6: I mean, look, if it happens, then you win. 258 00:15:42,760 --> 00:15:50,480 Speaker 1: Okay, Well, there you go. That's it for you. That's 259 00:15:50,520 --> 00:15:55,600 Speaker 1: the sound you would think it is a little splat. Well, 260 00:15:55,640 --> 00:16:01,200 Speaker 1: I'm gonna try with this one. Apparently our our airport 261 00:16:01,760 --> 00:16:04,000 Speaker 1: system has been neglected for decades. 262 00:16:04,080 --> 00:16:05,520 Speaker 5: Yeah, that freaks me out more. 263 00:16:05,760 --> 00:16:07,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, if I keep trying, I knew i'd 264 00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:12,400 Speaker 1: find something. And you may have heard that in Newark 265 00:16:13,160 --> 00:16:16,800 Speaker 1: has become a disaster site because twenty percent of the 266 00:16:16,800 --> 00:16:20,480 Speaker 1: air traffic controllers walked off the job and are claiming 267 00:16:20,680 --> 00:16:23,240 Speaker 1: trauma leave, trauma leave. 268 00:16:23,360 --> 00:16:24,800 Speaker 2: And you know why why. 269 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:30,240 Speaker 1: It's because a copper wire burned out and that left 270 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:37,320 Speaker 1: the air traffic controllers without any radar and without any radio. 271 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:46,680 Speaker 1: On Tuesday, Fox News broadcast this audio between air traffic controllers. 272 00:16:47,040 --> 00:16:49,440 Speaker 1: Now Newark, as you know, it's right next to New 273 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:51,360 Speaker 1: York City. It's on the other side of the Hudson River. 274 00:16:51,680 --> 00:16:54,760 Speaker 1: Huge airport. It's the closest airport to my house, I 275 00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:57,720 Speaker 1: don't know, fifteen miles from my house. So I've flown 276 00:16:57,760 --> 00:17:00,880 Speaker 1: out of there just dozens and dozens of times, and 277 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:06,480 Speaker 1: it's always been a mess. And for some reason, the 278 00:17:06,520 --> 00:17:11,080 Speaker 1: air traffic controllers that oversee Newark are based in Philadelphia, 279 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:13,320 Speaker 1: which is about ninety miles away. 280 00:17:13,359 --> 00:17:14,000 Speaker 2: I'm not kidding. 281 00:17:14,840 --> 00:17:16,119 Speaker 5: That makes zero sense. 282 00:17:16,160 --> 00:17:19,320 Speaker 1: Some years ago they put the Newark air Traffic Control 283 00:17:19,520 --> 00:17:25,840 Speaker 1: in Philadelphia. Somewhere along the line a copper wire shorted 284 00:17:25,880 --> 00:17:31,520 Speaker 1: out and all the screens went blank. So here's what happened. 285 00:17:31,640 --> 00:17:35,080 Speaker 1: United Airlines Flight. United has a huge hub there. United 286 00:17:35,119 --> 00:17:40,560 Speaker 1: Airlines flight is coming in and the pilot says, approach, 287 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:44,919 Speaker 1: are you there? Five times? Five times they tried to 288 00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:47,920 Speaker 1: contact air traffic control over the course of thirty seconds, 289 00:17:49,240 --> 00:17:52,119 Speaker 1: and finally the controller said, we don't have radar, so 290 00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:58,679 Speaker 1: I don't know where you are. The connectivity between the 291 00:17:58,760 --> 00:18:03,000 Speaker 1: FAA radar and the frequencies that the air traffic controllers 292 00:18:03,119 --> 00:18:11,879 Speaker 1: use completely failed. Faulty copper wire. The air traffic controllers 293 00:18:11,880 --> 00:18:14,960 Speaker 1: were so freaked out twenty percent of the staff walked out, 294 00:18:15,160 --> 00:18:18,200 Speaker 1: claiming trauma. You're allowed to go home for weeks now. 295 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:20,639 Speaker 1: I would hope the air traffic controllers would be a 296 00:18:20,640 --> 00:18:21,480 Speaker 1: little tougher than that. 297 00:18:22,240 --> 00:18:23,280 Speaker 5: I would hope so too. 298 00:18:23,560 --> 00:18:26,679 Speaker 1: Or is this one of these loopholes that lazy union 299 00:18:26,720 --> 00:18:27,959 Speaker 1: people take advantage of. 300 00:18:28,960 --> 00:18:31,920 Speaker 5: I'm sure though, that is a pressure cooker job. 301 00:18:31,960 --> 00:18:32,720 Speaker 2: Oh it's terrible. 302 00:18:32,960 --> 00:18:34,000 Speaker 5: I wouldn't want to do that. 303 00:18:34,280 --> 00:18:36,480 Speaker 2: No, they're way understaff, they're way overworked. 304 00:18:36,920 --> 00:18:39,760 Speaker 1: So anyway, twenty percent of the FAA workers walked off, 305 00:18:39,760 --> 00:18:42,720 Speaker 1: which only makes things worse. So this is landed in 306 00:18:42,760 --> 00:18:46,919 Speaker 1: the lap of Trump's Treasury Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. He 307 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:50,879 Speaker 1: replaced the idiot Pete budajetg and he said, we have 308 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:55,320 Speaker 1: really old infrastructure in America, not only copper wires, but 309 00:18:55,920 --> 00:18:59,080 Speaker 1: get this, I mean the computers are from the nineteen 310 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:04,920 Speaker 1: nineties and they use floppy discs. Floppy discs were these 311 00:19:04,960 --> 00:19:09,720 Speaker 1: things you slid into a slot on the side of 312 00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:13,280 Speaker 1: a computer, one of the old fashioned like box desk computers, 313 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:17,240 Speaker 1: and that would have the information that you'd read on 314 00:19:17,280 --> 00:19:21,160 Speaker 1: the screen. Duffy said, this should have been dealt with 315 00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:24,760 Speaker 1: with the last administration. They did nothing. Well, Trump people 316 00:19:25,119 --> 00:19:30,879 Speaker 1: ran the place, the administration before that. Nobody's done anything 317 00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:31,480 Speaker 1: about this. 318 00:19:31,359 --> 00:19:32,360 Speaker 5: Which I don't understand. 319 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:37,639 Speaker 1: But that makes why I don't know why this is 320 00:19:37,720 --> 00:19:41,439 Speaker 1: like everything everything in the world is a big why. 321 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:44,720 Speaker 5: This is very very important obviously, now. 322 00:19:45,040 --> 00:19:48,800 Speaker 1: You remember the crash in January, the plane and the 323 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:51,560 Speaker 1: black Hawk helicopters from the Pentagon. 324 00:19:51,680 --> 00:19:53,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, DC, Yeah. 325 00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:57,200 Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal says tensions have remained high at Reagan 326 00:19:57,280 --> 00:20:02,399 Speaker 1: National's control tower in March. A controller running the tower 327 00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:05,080 Speaker 1: punched another controller. 328 00:20:05,480 --> 00:20:06,440 Speaker 5: While on the job. 329 00:20:06,680 --> 00:20:08,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, this is what they were. 330 00:20:08,320 --> 00:20:10,320 Speaker 6: Instead of watching the planes land. 331 00:20:10,320 --> 00:20:13,280 Speaker 1: You ever look at an air traffic control tower. Yes, yeah, 332 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:19,160 Speaker 1: two guys at a fistfight because the second guy would 333 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:23,359 Speaker 1: not monitor helicopter traffic. And you know the plane hit 334 00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:26,520 Speaker 1: a helicopter two months before, So I guess that's on. 335 00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:33,080 Speaker 1: That's top of mind. They have ten thousand plus controllers. 336 00:20:33,320 --> 00:20:36,680 Speaker 1: They're three thousand short. According to the Wall Street Journal, 337 00:20:36,880 --> 00:20:40,880 Speaker 1: controllers have complained of fatigue from having to work ten 338 00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:45,760 Speaker 1: hour days, six days a week. They're offering all kinds 339 00:20:45,800 --> 00:20:49,600 Speaker 1: of bonuses to get new candidates, but it takes years 340 00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:54,119 Speaker 1: to be certified or to try to get imminent retirees 341 00:20:54,160 --> 00:20:58,760 Speaker 1: to stay on longer. And Duffy says, we have to 342 00:20:58,760 --> 00:21:02,600 Speaker 1: build a brand new air traffic control system. Now Congress 343 00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:09,720 Speaker 1: had mandated an upgrade in twenty twelve, it's not going 344 00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:13,280 Speaker 1: to be finished till twenty thirty. 345 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:15,200 Speaker 5: Well, that's not acceptable. 346 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:23,560 Speaker 1: So they've all the administrations, both parties and Congress neglected 347 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:29,120 Speaker 1: the air traffic control system since the nineteen nineties. 348 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:31,760 Speaker 2: They got floppy discs. 349 00:21:33,160 --> 00:21:35,119 Speaker 5: Wow, this really makes me want to fly soon. 350 00:21:37,320 --> 00:21:42,960 Speaker 1: Don't change planes in Newark In fact, one air traffic 351 00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:47,600 Speaker 1: controller told an NBC correspond to Tom Costello, it is 352 00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:51,120 Speaker 1: not a safe situation for the flying public. Don't fly 353 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:54,640 Speaker 1: into Newark. Avoid Newark at all costs. This is one 354 00:21:54,640 --> 00:21:57,080 Speaker 1: of the traffic controllers. 355 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:00,840 Speaker 4: You know. 356 00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:04,480 Speaker 1: The thing is, we're capable of having a first class, 357 00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:08,800 Speaker 1: world renowned transportation system like the high speed rail. Right, 358 00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:10,720 Speaker 1: lots of countries have high speed rail. 359 00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:16,959 Speaker 2: And we have nothing. And lots of countries have modern 360 00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:19,879 Speaker 2: air traffic control. We have nothing. I don't know what's wrong. 361 00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:23,040 Speaker 5: Okay. 362 00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:25,960 Speaker 6: That is going to keep me up at night, the 363 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:30,520 Speaker 6: floppy disks and the fist fighting and. 364 00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:32,480 Speaker 2: The throwing floppy disks at each other. 365 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:35,240 Speaker 5: Right, wondering what's going on in the hware. 366 00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:40,480 Speaker 1: Our technicological advances have been social media. It's not been 367 00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:45,280 Speaker 1: building high speed trains or landing planes. It's been likes 368 00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:49,119 Speaker 1: and Instagram scrolls. You imagined all the brain power. I mean, 369 00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:51,600 Speaker 1: then we can these engineers like it at Facebook make 370 00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:53,160 Speaker 1: four hundred thousand dollars a year. 371 00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:55,200 Speaker 5: Okay, let's have a conversation with Elon. 372 00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:57,960 Speaker 6: Why isn't he he'd be a good one toy. 373 00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:02,720 Speaker 1: They may use Elon's STARLINGK system as some kind of 374 00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:04,679 Speaker 1: I don't know if they can do that immediately or 375 00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:08,119 Speaker 1: as a temporary fix. I don't know, all right, So 376 00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:08,919 Speaker 1: I got you with that one. 377 00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:10,000 Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't like that, all right. 378 00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:13,160 Speaker 2: One for two, But I keep looking up in the sky. 379 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:18,880 Speaker 4: Saturday, you're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI. 380 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:23,840 Speaker 1: A six after four o'clock. You could podcasting a post it. 381 00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:26,359 Speaker 1: You could listen to what we've done for the last 382 00:23:26,359 --> 00:23:29,600 Speaker 1: three hours, first hour in particular, because we talked to 383 00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:33,199 Speaker 1: a reporter from las to the public radio station. They 384 00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:37,480 Speaker 1: have a website too, and it's all about the disgraced 385 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:45,840 Speaker 1: head of LASA Los Angeles Housing Services Authority, and there. 386 00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:45,960 Speaker 2: Were two whistle blowers. 387 00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:49,959 Speaker 1: They were telling lots of stories about what was going on, 388 00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:53,840 Speaker 1: and LASSA tried to shut them up with eight hundred 389 00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:58,080 Speaker 1: thousand dollars in payments. But now the complaint list has 390 00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:01,600 Speaker 1: been publicized. What was going on going on with the 391 00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:07,040 Speaker 1: head of Alicia Adams Kellum. You listen, you'll see it's 392 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:13,800 Speaker 1: quite shocking. We told you earlier with Todd Bensman came 393 00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:19,360 Speaker 1: on about the report about the story that was ignored, 394 00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:22,760 Speaker 1: covered up by both the media and by the FBI. 395 00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:28,080 Speaker 1: A few days before the election in November, there was 396 00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:32,119 Speaker 1: an illegal alien Islamic radical in Chicago. He'd come all 397 00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:37,119 Speaker 1: the way from Mauritania and he was a terrorist and 398 00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:41,680 Speaker 1: he shot and wounded an Orthodox Shoes. Obvious, this man 399 00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:48,760 Speaker 1: was an Orthodox Shoe and they had to charge him locally. Well, 400 00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:53,720 Speaker 1: they had to charge him with state charges because the 401 00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:55,480 Speaker 1: Feds didn't want to get involved. They didn't want the 402 00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:59,439 Speaker 1: bad publicity for Biden, and the news media didn't cover it. 403 00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:01,359 Speaker 1: They don't want they didn't want the bad publicity for 404 00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:04,280 Speaker 1: Biden because here you have an illegal alien terrorist shooting 405 00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:09,680 Speaker 1: a Jewish man. Well, here's some more, the famous MS 406 00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:13,280 Speaker 1: thirteen legal alien who was sent to the l Salvador 407 00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:17,359 Speaker 1: prison where you had Democratic crats flying al Savador. They 408 00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:22,680 Speaker 1: got him out kilmore Abrego Garcia. According to a report, 409 00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:26,400 Speaker 1: he was worked as a taxi service for a convicted 410 00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:31,080 Speaker 1: human smuggler to transport illegal aliens from Texas to locations 411 00:25:31,119 --> 00:25:36,679 Speaker 1: around the US. A man named Jose Ramon Hernandez Res, 412 00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:42,000 Speaker 1: who's been convicted for smuggling illegal migrants, told federal investigators 413 00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:45,639 Speaker 1: he operated a smuggling service based in Baltimore and hired 414 00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:49,240 Speaker 1: a Brago Garcia on multiple occasions. Remember a Brego Garcia 415 00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:54,120 Speaker 1: was the man from Maryland, and they are now questioning 416 00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:59,120 Speaker 1: Hernandez Res about a Brego Garcia, and he's the one 417 00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:02,720 Speaker 1: sitting in al southa door prison. And the Democrats bent 418 00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:07,840 Speaker 1: themselves into pretzels trying to plead that this good man, 419 00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:12,560 Speaker 1: this family man, should not be exiled. That Trump broke laws, 420 00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:19,360 Speaker 1: broke norms. Well, it turns out, yeah, he was providing 421 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:22,360 Speaker 1: a taxi service. He was the driver to smuggle the illegal 422 00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:25,640 Speaker 1: aliens into this country. There'll be more on that story 423 00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:29,399 Speaker 1: coming up as well. And speaking of illegal aliens who 424 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:34,320 Speaker 1: were loose here, another terrorist named Luis da Silva was 425 00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:38,080 Speaker 1: here in the United States. He was deported and he 426 00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:41,560 Speaker 1: is now the suspected terrorist behind that plot to attack 427 00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:44,560 Speaker 1: Lady Gaga's concert in Brazil. In the past week, two 428 00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:47,520 Speaker 1: and a half million people showed up. Luis da Silva 429 00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:50,560 Speaker 1: tried to plan a live stream. He was going to 430 00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:54,520 Speaker 1: live stream the attack and detonate explosives near the stage 431 00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:57,040 Speaker 1: two and a half million people watching the free show 432 00:26:57,080 --> 00:27:00,840 Speaker 1: by Lady Gaga on the Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeira. 433 00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:05,520 Speaker 1: He thought that Lady Gaga was a Satanist and he 434 00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:08,520 Speaker 1: was going to perform a Satanist ritual himself, killing a 435 00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:12,400 Speaker 1: child during the show. That guy was running it around 436 00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:17,400 Speaker 1: in America. Abrego Garcia was running around in America, and 437 00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:21,040 Speaker 1: the guy who shot the Orthodox Jew in New York 438 00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:28,080 Speaker 1: was running around in America. Terrorist That's what Biden led 439 00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:33,200 Speaker 1: in the country. And I'm sure there's thousands more, all right. Conways, next, 440 00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:36,800 Speaker 1: Deborah Mark is gone home and we have Michael Krozer 441 00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:39,360 Speaker 1: live in the CAFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hey, you've 442 00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:41,880 Speaker 1: been listening to The John Covelt Show podcast. 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