March 5, 2026 • 31 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (03/05) - US Attorney Bill Essayli comes on the show to talk about a massive raid on the 18th Street gang in Los Angeles that took place today. More on how Ali Khamenei was killed. Don Mihalek comes on the show to talk about Kristi Noem being fired as DHS Secretary. More on Kristi Noem being fired.
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app same as the radio show. Well, it's a big,
big bus this morning if federal agents they arrested a
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number of gang members and associates of the Eighteenth Street Gang.
This is a gang that had taken over that beautiful park,
MacArthur Park, and we keep telling you how infested.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
It is.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Not just with homeless people and mental patients and drug addicts,
but there's a pretty large scale criminal operation involving Mexican gangs.
And among the people arrested was a woman named Keikokan Zales,
and she was charged with ordering a murder and among
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other crimes. She was running the gang on behalf of
her husband, jorgegen Zales, who is in a California State prisons.
It's a very well that they're a lot of they
commit a lot of criminal activity they're in a lot
of different businesses.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
And Bill A.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Sale is going to explain this for us. He's the
US attorney, the first assistant US Attorney for the Central
District here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Bill, how are you hey.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Good John, How are you doing?
Speaker 3 (01:37):
I'm doing really well. Well.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Explain the this gang, all their activities. It's a tremendous
amount of crime they were involved in. And how you
guys busted the whole operation, because I know it isn't easy.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Yeah, No, this was a multi year investigation. This involves
what's called the Eighteenth Street Gang, which actually originated right
here in Los Angeles. They've got over one hundred thousand
members nationwide, and they also have members in Central and
South America. They control, you know, each gang sort of
claims control a particular area or neighborhoods of interest. This
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gang claimed the north side of MacArthur Park, and I'm
sure you're very familiar with MacArthur Park and all the
lovely things that happened there. So they control the north
side of MacArthur Park. They control the businesses around there,
they collect taxes for safety, they dispense the drugs there,
and you know, people drive by and they're like, we
should just arrest all these people. Well, most of the
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people you see there are transients, right, they're transients. They're
using and if you arrest them, another one comes and
fills their spot. So we really really want to get
to the leaders, who are the organizers, who are the
people behind the supply of the drugs that are controlling
these areas, and that's what this operation was around was about.
Today we indicted fourteen people that are leaders of this
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eighteen Street gang, and we also indicted some of the
people that were supplying the rugs to the gang. You
mentioned the street leader. Her name is Kiko Gonzalez and
she goes by Moms. She's married to a Mexican mafia
member who is in state prison. And the way that
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works is the Mexican Mafia, they own different gangs. So
he owns the eighteenth Street gang and his wife out
on the streets was running this gang for him. It's
like little enterprises. So he's a big boss. He's already
in prison, and then she's on the outside doing all
the dirty work for her, including doing hits, extorting people,
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drug distribution, you name it. So it's a very sophisticated,
very violent, very organized street gang that's behind a lot
of the terrible stuff you see here in the city
of La So that's what we're working with. We actually
worked very closely with this on LAPD. I have to
give it to Chief McDonald and his team did put
a lot of work in this, and we worked hand
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in hand. You go after this dangerous gang. And so
it was them, it was us, it was FBI, it
was Dea HSI. We threw a lot of resources at
that and they got a nice little knock this morning
from the Federal Police.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Or Hey, Gonzalez who runs the gang out of prison.
He's seventy years old and he's been in prison for
forty six years.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Is that right?
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Yeah, the Mexican mafia, that's how they operate. I mean,
that's they live in prison, and that's they run a
lot of these operations from prison. I guess they figure like, well,
what can you what more can you do to me?
I'm a RADI in prison. So that's how they that's
how they operate.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
How are they able to run.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
An organization this large and this sophisticated from a prison cell.
I'm always fascinated by that.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Yeah, Well, they communicate in a lot of ways. There's
thing called kites where they passed messages to other inmates
who then transferred outside people come and visit, they can
pass messages that way. He's so, I presume he's having
conjugal visits. They have dirty lawyers, and those conversations are
protected and privileged, and so they can use dirty lawyers
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to get things out. And we have charged lawyers before.
There's a lot of ways to communicate in and out
of prison.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Yeah, so much for when someone becomes elderly that they
ought to be paroled because they're less of a threat
to the public. I mean this woman, the wife Keiko Gonzalez,
she was fifty nine years old. That struck me too,
that they're both at the top of the game here
at this late day.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
I'm okay with the early parole John as long as
they're paroled next door to one of the politicians in Sacramento.
That would be my amendment to that bill.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
So, is there going to be a noticeable, visible change
in the atmosphere around MacArthur Park after these arrests and
indictments or do you still have a lot of work
to go.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Well, here's the deal, I mean, I asked laped and
they said even today they've seen a remarkable, uh decrease
in activity there. But look, we're not going away. We
have we have teams here stood up. I have a
clear directive from from the President and the Attorney General
who said, we are going to dismantle organized criminal enterprises,
transnational particularly transnational organized criminals. We're going after them, and
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we have a ton of resources. We have a ton
of money in the big Beautiful Bill. We are going
hard after these organizations that are terrorizing our neighborhoods, that
are supplying drugs and killing our people. So we're not
going away. We're going to be doing more of these.
I'm sure some other people will come in and replace
this void, and we want to keep going. And you know,
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I've got other plans I can't necessarily mentioned to you
on here. But yeah, we're not done. We're just getting started.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I can't imagine how much surveillance and informants and intelligence
gathering operations you must have in order to pull this off.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
This isn't easy to do.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
It's not There's a lot of there's a lot of work,
a lot of warrants, a lot of wire taps, and
a lot of things that go into an operation like this,
But let's just say that the park is was not
a safe place, and today's one step forward into making
it a safe place, regardless of maybe how the mayor
has described it.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Yeah, I just remembered. You'll probably remember that when Ice
came to do an exercise in MacArthur Park, she ran,
she ran to MacArthur Park shrieking from her office, claiming
that they were scaring disrupting children playing in the park
and mom's out for a walk and it's like, what
are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Ice disrupting the soccer games.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
If a mom took her child to the park in
the current condition, the mother should be charged for child
in Ninjerman, there should be no children. What the stuff
that's going on in MacArthur Park And it's really sad,
you know, I really feel about as small business owners.
There's a deli there called Langers. Oh yeah, yeah, you know,
and apparently it's still a successful business despite all this
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that's going on. It's amazing. So you know, we're doing
this to clean up the community, so hopefully businesses like
that can stay and maybe one day we'll get the
park in clean enough shape where you can take your
kids there, So that's a lofty goal.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Bill, thanks very much for coming on. Great work you
and your entire staff.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Thanks John, appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
BILLI.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Saley, he's the first Assistant to US Attorney for the
Central District, and they have busted up a big gang
operation in MacArthur Park, which is really a cesspool. Maybe
it's a little better today because they arrested fourteen people
and Mexican Mafia gang members.
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to subscribe. We just talked to Bill A. Salley, who's
the first Assistant US Attorney for the Central District and
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the FEDS. After a lengthy investigation, this is very difficult
to pull off. They've arrested fourteen Eighteenth Street gang members
run by a couple. The husband's in prison, been in
prison for forty six years. The wife, Kiko Gonzalez. We're
talking ages fifty nine for the wife, seventy for the husband.
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And they were running this big gang operation and all
the drugs being sold in MacArthur Park. They sold them
out of tents to blend in with the homeless population.
And there's drug rugs being sold, there's gangs being sold.
They've destroyed the community. And what's amazing is government on
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all levels has allowed this to pile up for years.
And suddenly now the Feds under Trump, they're busting in
and they're spending the money, and they're using the manpower,
and they're taking the time and effort. It's a lot
of It takes a long time to do this. And
this is what you have to do to make life better.
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You have to take action. You have to spend a
lot of money. You gotta work hard, you've got to
be tireless, you have to have a large operation. And
much of government is dead, filled with dead, lazy people,
people who don't want to be bothered. They don't care.
They got their jobs, they're not going to be fired.
It doesn't matter to them whether they bust up a
gang or not. And it's the same thing with how
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we're treating aran.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Is. There's a story on how we actually got the Iatola.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Remember we bombed his big meeting last Saturday along him,
and I think eventually they killed forty other military and
government leaders. But Israel put in a lot of work
for this, and Israel was actually responsible for killing the Ayatola.
California Post had this story. I hadn't heard this, yes yet,
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so Aetolia Ali Hamani is I guess, sitting at his
meeting in this government building. Meantime, the Israelis had this
fighter jet called a Blue Sparrow, and watchally the missile
is called a Blue Sparrow launched from fighter jets. So
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there's fighter jets buzzing overhead. They send the Blue Sparrow
missile into space. It can fly for up to twelve
hundred and forty miles and it leaves the Earth's atmosphere
before it crashes down.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
And it's.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
To hit the building where Hamiani is having his big conference.
I don't know exactly how far out the plane was,
but it can be up to twelve hundred and forty
miles away, and then they calibrate where the missile should land.
Israeli F fifteen jets and other aircraft were deployed about
seven thirty Iranian time, and the aircraft unleashed thirty missiles,
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including the blue Sparrows, and they.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Went into space. You don't see them coming.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Then they drop on your head, and they did two
hours later, right in the heart of the Iyatola's compound.
And because the missile has the ability to exit and
re enter the Earth's atmosphere, it makes them nearly impossible
to intercept, and so the bombs are undetectable by Iran's
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bomb detection systems. They have booster rockets on these missiles,
so it's just like sending a spaceship into the atmosphere
and it takes them into space and then the bombs
hover over their intended target. They were designed to evade
air defense systems because of their speed, and Israel used
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them during twenty twenty four when they assaulted Iran, and
the Iranians had gotten a fullse sense of security on
Saturday morning because on the Friday before, Israeli officials deliberately
misled the Iranians, making them belief that the military was
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standing down for the weekend. They released photos and information
suggesting that the IDF staff and senior command were going
home for Shabbat dinner, but instead the id F leaders
snuck back to work and by seven thirty in the morning,
I guess they worked all night, and then they launched
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the deadly missiles, and by time they came down, Hamieni
and his other leaders had convened a meeting because they
thought they were safe. It's like they thought all the
Jews had gone home to have their Shabbat dinner and
they're going to get a night's sleep, and whatever invasion
was about to happen, it wasn't going to happen on Saturday.
And the strikes were originally planned for nighttime. But once
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the Israelis and the Americans learned of the Saturday morning meeting,
that's when they kicked into action here. And they also
disrupted a dozen mobile phone towers near the Iotola's compound
so his security could not receive eddy warnings from the
Iranian defense system. I am always blown away by how
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incredibly smart, incredibly intelligent the Iranian military operations are. They
have been able to I mean, when after they blew
up all those pagers.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Do you mean the Israeli? What did I say, Iranian?
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Oh, I'm sorry Israeli. The Israeli intelligence and the Israeli
just brain power there. They don't have any Gavin Nuisance
on their staff, is what I'm saying here. They wead
those out early.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Really you imagine Newsom on it with the IDF. This
is gonna mess my suit. I can't do this. That's
that's a s Yeah, so is the pager thing that
really got me.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
And they.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
They blew up the genitals of all those azball of terrorists.
I mean, those those guys are still walking around bowlegged.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Aren't they you?
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Uh So, anyway, it's it's there's no way Ron It's
gonna win this one. All all the critics of this
war really have their heads up their rear ends because
the Americans and the Israelis combined are hugely it's a
huge overmatch. It's not even close. So it's just a
matter at the time. More coming up.
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Speaker 3 (16:32):
Well, you may have.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Heard that Christinom, the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security,
has been fired by Trump. She had a difficult hearing
before the Senate, and we'll get into those details in
just a moment. There a replacement is Republican Senator Mark
Wayne Mullen from Oklahoma. He is going to take over
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Department of Homeland Security. And let's go to Don Mahallick,
the ABC News law enforcement contributor, retired Secret Service agent.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Don, how are you?
Speaker 6 (17:06):
I'm good, John, How are you? Man?
Speaker 3 (17:08):
I am good? So tell us what you think happened
here today.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
I think Christino had a series of leadership failures starting
almost right after she got the position. I think her
interactions with Congress having gone well, which we saw at
the last hearing, the Minnesota situation got clearly out of
hand to the point where the President had to send
in John Holman to take control and get that situation
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back in line.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
And you know, and there's a bunch of personal.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Scandals that have erupted.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Including the two undred twenty two million dollar ad campaign
which she tried to lay the blame with the President,
which of course the White House says wasn't him. So,
you know, in some it seems like she was more
worried about doing advertisements than actually administering the Department of
Homeland Security.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
I'm going to play the clip later on of him
of her with Republican Senator John Kennedy, who is normally
a strong backer of the Trump administration. But Kennedy thought
that the two hundred and twenty million dollars for these ads,
and I watched some of them, and we'll play a
clip of one of them later where she's on horseback
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at Mount Rushmore looking like a cowgirl, like a cowgirl
off the pages of Vogue, And it didn't look like
anything that was going to scare people from staying in
the country. I didn't understand why this would affect any
illegal immigrants and their decisions on what to do. It
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looked more like a fashion shoot commercial.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Yeah, John, I never expected to see the Department, the
Secretary of the Department Homeland Security in so many commercials.
I think over the last thirteen months, we've seen the
Secretary on more commercials and advertisements than any of the
previous secretaries combined, which makes you question what was more
important actually making sure the department was running the way
it should or doing the commercials for advertisements where she
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was the center of attention and all these commercials sort
of d the esque, and you know that is not
what this Department Homeland Security needs. They need somebody in
there who's going to run the department, make sure they
keep the trains on the track, and make sure the
agencies who will have extremely important national security missions are
operating at their best capabilities with.
Speaker 6 (19:30):
The best support they can. And in particular right now,
like the focus should be.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
On getting the department funded and running again, but that
also didn't seem to be a priority.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
How should she have handled the Minneapolis situation differently? You
talk about leadership, what specifically should she have decided that
may have caused a different result.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Well, federal agencies don't just show up and take over.
There's normally a conversation, there's information beforehand. They notify their
local counterparts before they're going to do any kind of operation.
I'm sure that some of that occurred on the local level,
But as soon as there was any kind of pushback
about what they were planning. You know, the secretary probably
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should have inserted herself earlier and made sure everybody was
on the same page with the governor of the mayor
before they started that operation, as opposed to just sending in,
you know, the ice into putting them in jeopardy too,
sending them in into a situation that was already tense
and got more tense, and not making sure the ground
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rules already laid out. I mean, I've seen previous secretaries
do that. They've gone to local jurisdictions, other countries even
and they laid the ground right before an operation starts.
But I don't think we saw that at all here.
Speaker 6 (20:51):
Dan.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
You talked about personal scandals, the rumors, and I don't
know anything about this, but uh, Corey Lewandowski is what
it was, one of tops top advisors and he managed
Trump's campaign back in twenty sixteen, and the rumor was
is that he and Noam were having an affair, and
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when she was expecting questioning on that affair before the
Senate the other day, her husband actually showed up that day.
I guess to provide some psychological protection. Do you know
what that was about? The story keeps coming up over
and over again. But I didn't know if this was
a smear campaign by the Democrats or there was something
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to it.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Well, I think they kept asking her to just say no,
and I'm not sure. I didn't watch the hearing, but
I'm not certain she actually ever said no. So you know, look,
the bottom line is the second Homeland Security job is
to protect the homeland, make sure the agencies are doing
what they're doing, and make sure the agencies are on track.
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And clearly her focus was not on and I think
that's what the present was going frustrated about. Her focus
was not on the day to day operations of the
department for various reasons, and I think that's was the
leadership failure. Like, if you're the Secretary of Homeland Security,
you've got to be all in and that is your
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focus because there's so much going Unlike a lot of
other departments, there's so much going on in that department
and so much.
Speaker 6 (22:22):
That the secretary has to think about it.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
You've got FEMA dealing with emergencies, You've got CSA processing
people through playing, you've got Secret Service protecting the president,
Coast Guard. I mean, there's a lot going on in
that department, and if your if your eye is not
on the ball, things can easily get out of control
and uh, and you can easily have leadership failures, which
is what happened to.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
How should she have handled the hearings better? Because it's
especially in the Trump era that hearings are wild. I
mean the opposing the opposing team, the Democratic senators are
coming out, uh, making all kinds of wild accusations, all
kinds of intense, hyperbolic statements. What are you supposed to
do sitting there like, there's no way to look good
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when you have all that coming at you.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
No listen.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Congressional hearings A lot of this theater, whether it's the
senator has not a lot of it is political theater
because the members want to get their SoundBite. Having said that, though,
if you walk into a hearing and you have credibility
and gravitas, it's hard for them to take you apart.
And you have to be ready for some of the
cheap shots.
Speaker 6 (23:24):
Right.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
I think Rubio had a hearing, had a hearing not
a couple of days ago, and he dominated the hearing
even though he got some cheap shots. So I think
that is the model that you'd want to follow as
a cabinet leader.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
But of course you can only do that if.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
You have credibility in gravatas, and I think Naam lost
a lot of.
Speaker 6 (23:44):
That over the last couple of months, and.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
That's where she walked into basically a firing scout and
a firing squad and a free for all at this hearing.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
All right, it's good talking with you, Don, Thank you
very much. Thanks for having me John John Mahalak, she
News law enforcement contributor and a retired senior Secret Service agent.
We are going to talk more about this because we
do have a clip of her getting beat up by
a Republican senator who was incensed over the two hundred
and twenty million ad campaign that did star her. I mean,
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she was the ad campaign and I watched it today
and I go, well, I don't know. I don't think
this would scare me out of the country. It might
make me want to stay. We'll also play you. We'll
also play you the exchange between John Kennedy and Christine Nolan.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
That's all Next.
Speaker 5 (24:38):
You're listening to John Cobel on demand from KFI AM
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Speaker 2 (24:44):
And we were just talking with Don Mahollock from ABC
News about why Christy Nome got fired today by Trump.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
And Bill Mallusian over at Fox News.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
He's posted that it was the interview with Louisiana Senator
John Kennedy that did her in. Kennedy even had told
the Trump White House that he was going to be
questioning her pretty harshly. She spent two hundred million dollars,
largely on TV commercials that starred her looking like a
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cowgirl and a horse. For example, let's play some of
the exchange between Christy Nome and Senator John Kennedy and
he's a Republican again, go ahead.
Speaker 7 (25:25):
How do you square that concern for waste which I
share with the fact that you have spent two hundred
and twenty million dollars running television advertisements that feature you prominently?
Speaker 4 (25:44):
Sir?
Speaker 8 (25:44):
The President asked me with getting the message out to
the country and to other countries where we were seeing
the invasion come from, with putting commercials out that told
them that if they were in this country illegally, that
they needed to leave or we would detain them and
remove them and they not get the chance to come
back to America the right way. That has been extremely effective.
Speaker 7 (26:05):
Ask you to run these advertisements. Is that right?
Speaker 8 (26:08):
We had that conversation, Yes, before I was put in
this position and sworn in and confirmed and since then
as well.
Speaker 7 (26:16):
Okay, did you bid at those service contracts?
Speaker 8 (26:21):
Yes, they did. They went out to a competitive bid,
and career officials at the department chose who would do
those advertising commercials.
Speaker 7 (26:30):
And the people that you ended up picking were people
who had formerly done your political work back in shout
to Cote. Is that right?
Speaker 8 (26:40):
No, that's not correct, sir. No, it's not, sir. The
individuals who I believe, the careers who they chose were
two different media firms. There's been conversation about their subcontractors,
but we have no legal authority to look into subcontractors
on work like that.
Speaker 7 (26:59):
Okay. And you're saying that you're testifying that President Trump
approved this ahead of time, So I'm understanding.
Speaker 8 (27:07):
We had conversations about making sure that we were telling people.
Speaker 7 (27:11):
No, man, I'm asking you a short interrupt, but the
President approved ahead of time you spending two hundred and
twenty million dollars running TV eds across the country in
which you are featured prominently.
Speaker 8 (27:24):
Yes, sir, we went through the legal processes. Did it correct?
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Yes, he did? Yes, Okay, all right, stopped there. That
was the moment Trump saw that and he went ballistic.
He says, no way did he approve to spend two
hundred and twenty million dollars on a set of commercials
starring Christy. No, and that was the moment where he
went crazy. According to reports here, uh so Trump immediately
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wanted to fire her. Uh and ed because Kennedy told
reporters whether that Trump called him after the hearing and
that Trump was quote mad as a murder hornet about
Nome's testimony, saying that he Trump never approved the contract,
nor was he even aware of it. And according to Kennedy,
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her version of the truth and the president's version of
the truth are decidedly different. Let me play a clip
of of course this is audio here, but you have
to imagine her in cowgirl gear, sitting on top of
a horse in front of Mount Rushmore in South Dakota.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Way cut fire.
Speaker 9 (28:39):
Why do I love these wide open spaces?
Speaker 4 (28:41):
They remind me.
Speaker 8 (28:42):
Of why our forefathers came here, not just for its beauty,
but for the freedom only America provides. I'm Christino from
the cowboys who tamed the West.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
To stop stop staked.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
How's that going to scare anybody out of the country.
She was talking about ads that they ran in other
countries telling people not to come.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Well, this was running in this country.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
In fact, the radio ads they bought a lot on KFI,
and I remember thinking at the time, it's like, I
don't know how many legal aliens are listening to KFI.
I can think of a few other stations in town
where that's probably a majority of the audience.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
But I don't think here play some more pam.
Speaker 9 (29:25):
The West, to the titans who built our cities, to
the dreamers who chase the impossible. America has always rewarded
vision and grid. Our greatness calls people to us for
a chance to prosper.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
All right, that has to be the most ineffective commercial
to get legal aliens to leave the country that they
possibly could have created when we come back. Remember a
couple of months ago, we told you the story how
in Chevy and Hills, a scamster got eleven million dollars
(30:02):
of tax money to buy a assisted an assisted living
center in Chevy at Hills to turn it into a
homeless center. He paid eleven million for it with our
tax money. It was a complete scam. He then sold
it to another scam company for twenty seven million. Well,
we're going to unravel what happened in that case next
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and we're going to talk because there is a lawsuit
being filed by some of the residents in Chevy At Hills.
They have an attorney representing them. We'll tell you about
it when we return, and we've got two guests to
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app same as the radio show. Well, it's a big,
big bus this morning if federal agents they arrested a
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number of gang members and associates of the Eighteenth Street Gang.
This is a gang that had taken over that beautiful park,
MacArthur Park, and we keep telling you how infested.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
It is.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Not just with homeless people and mental patients and drug addicts,
but there's a pretty large scale criminal operation involving Mexican gangs.
And among the people arrested was a woman named Keikokan Zales,
and she was charged with ordering a murder and among
(01:08):
other crimes. She was running the gang on behalf of
her husband, jorgegen Zales, who is in a California State prisons.
It's a very well that they're a lot of they
commit a lot of criminal activity they're in a lot
of different businesses.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
And Bill A.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Sale is going to explain this for us. He's the
US attorney, the first assistant US Attorney for the Central
District here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Bill, how are you hey.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Good John, How are you doing?
Speaker 3 (01:37):
I'm doing really well. Well.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Explain the this gang, all their activities. It's a tremendous
amount of crime they were involved in. And how you
guys busted the whole operation, because I know it isn't easy.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Yeah, No, this was a multi year investigation. This involves
what's called the Eighteenth Street Gang, which actually originated right
here in Los Angeles. They've got over one hundred thousand
members nationwide, and they also have members in Central and
South America. They control, you know, each gang sort of
claims control a particular area or neighborhoods of interest. This
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gang claimed the north side of MacArthur Park, and I'm
sure you're very familiar with MacArthur Park and all the
lovely things that happened there. So they control the north
side of MacArthur Park. They control the businesses around there,
they collect taxes for safety, they dispense the drugs there,
and you know, people drive by and they're like, we
should just arrest all these people. Well, most of the
(02:33):
people you see there are transients, right, they're transients. They're
using and if you arrest them, another one comes and
fills their spot. So we really really want to get
to the leaders, who are the organizers, who are the
people behind the supply of the drugs that are controlling
these areas, and that's what this operation was around was about.
Today we indicted fourteen people that are leaders of this
(02:55):
eighteen Street gang, and we also indicted some of the
people that were supplying the rugs to the gang. You
mentioned the street leader. Her name is Kiko Gonzalez and
she goes by Moms. She's married to a Mexican mafia
member who is in state prison. And the way that
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works is the Mexican Mafia, they own different gangs. So
he owns the eighteenth Street gang and his wife out
on the streets was running this gang for him. It's
like little enterprises. So he's a big boss. He's already
in prison, and then she's on the outside doing all
the dirty work for her, including doing hits, extorting people,
(03:37):
drug distribution, you name it. So it's a very sophisticated,
very violent, very organized street gang that's behind a lot
of the terrible stuff you see here in the city
of La So that's what we're working with. We actually
worked very closely with this on LAPD. I have to
give it to Chief McDonald and his team did put
a lot of work in this, and we worked hand
(03:59):
in hand. You go after this dangerous gang. And so
it was them, it was us, it was FBI, it
was Dea HSI. We threw a lot of resources at
that and they got a nice little knock this morning
from the Federal Police.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Or Hey, Gonzalez who runs the gang out of prison.
He's seventy years old and he's been in prison for
forty six years.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Is that right?
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Yeah, the Mexican mafia, that's how they operate. I mean,
that's they live in prison, and that's they run a
lot of these operations from prison. I guess they figure like, well,
what can you what more can you do to me?
I'm a RADI in prison. So that's how they that's
how they operate.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
How are they able to run.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
An organization this large and this sophisticated from a prison cell.
I'm always fascinated by that.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Yeah, Well, they communicate in a lot of ways. There's
thing called kites where they passed messages to other inmates
who then transferred outside people come and visit, they can
pass messages that way. He's so, I presume he's having
conjugal visits. They have dirty lawyers, and those conversations are
protected and privileged, and so they can use dirty lawyers
(05:09):
to get things out. And we have charged lawyers before.
There's a lot of ways to communicate in and out
of prison.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Yeah, so much for when someone becomes elderly that they
ought to be paroled because they're less of a threat
to the public. I mean this woman, the wife Keiko Gonzalez,
she was fifty nine years old. That struck me too,
that they're both at the top of the game here
at this late day.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
I'm okay with the early parole John as long as
they're paroled next door to one of the politicians in Sacramento.
That would be my amendment to that bill.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
So, is there going to be a noticeable, visible change
in the atmosphere around MacArthur Park after these arrests and
indictments or do you still have a lot of work
to go.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Well, here's the deal, I mean, I asked laped and
they said even today they've seen a remarkable, uh decrease
in activity there. But look, we're not going away. We
have we have teams here stood up. I have a
clear directive from from the President and the Attorney General
who said, we are going to dismantle organized criminal enterprises,
transnational particularly transnational organized criminals. We're going after them, and
(06:20):
we have a ton of resources. We have a ton
of money in the big Beautiful Bill. We are going
hard after these organizations that are terrorizing our neighborhoods, that
are supplying drugs and killing our people. So we're not
going away. We're going to be doing more of these.
I'm sure some other people will come in and replace
this void, and we want to keep going. And you know,
(06:42):
I've got other plans I can't necessarily mentioned to you
on here. But yeah, we're not done. We're just getting started.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I can't imagine how much surveillance and informants and intelligence
gathering operations you must have in order to pull this off.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
This isn't easy to do.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
It's not There's a lot of there's a lot of work,
a lot of warrants, a lot of wire taps, and
a lot of things that go into an operation like this,
But let's just say that the park is was not
a safe place, and today's one step forward into making
it a safe place, regardless of maybe how the mayor
has described it.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Yeah, I just remembered. You'll probably remember that when Ice
came to do an exercise in MacArthur Park, she ran,
she ran to MacArthur Park shrieking from her office, claiming
that they were scaring disrupting children playing in the park
and mom's out for a walk and it's like, what
are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Ice disrupting the soccer games.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
If a mom took her child to the park in
the current condition, the mother should be charged for child
in Ninjerman, there should be no children. What the stuff
that's going on in MacArthur Park And it's really sad,
you know, I really feel about as small business owners.
There's a deli there called Langers. Oh yeah, yeah, you know,
and apparently it's still a successful business despite all this
(08:06):
that's going on. It's amazing. So you know, we're doing
this to clean up the community, so hopefully businesses like
that can stay and maybe one day we'll get the
park in clean enough shape where you can take your
kids there, So that's a lofty goal.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Bill, thanks very much for coming on. Great work you
and your entire staff.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Thanks John, appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
BILLI.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Saley, he's the first Assistant to US Attorney for the
Central District, and they have busted up a big gang
operation in MacArthur Park, which is really a cesspool. Maybe
it's a little better today because they arrested fourteen people
and Mexican Mafia gang members.
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the first Assistant US Attorney for the Central District and
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the FEDS. After a lengthy investigation, this is very difficult
to pull off. They've arrested fourteen Eighteenth Street gang members
run by a couple. The husband's in prison, been in
prison for forty six years. The wife, Kiko Gonzalez. We're
talking ages fifty nine for the wife, seventy for the husband.
(09:46):
And they were running this big gang operation and all
the drugs being sold in MacArthur Park. They sold them
out of tents to blend in with the homeless population.
And there's drug rugs being sold, there's gangs being sold.
They've destroyed the community. And what's amazing is government on
(10:07):
all levels has allowed this to pile up for years.
And suddenly now the Feds under Trump, they're busting in
and they're spending the money, and they're using the manpower,
and they're taking the time and effort. It's a lot
of It takes a long time to do this. And
this is what you have to do to make life better.
(10:28):
You have to take action. You have to spend a
lot of money. You gotta work hard, you've got to
be tireless, you have to have a large operation. And
much of government is dead, filled with dead, lazy people,
people who don't want to be bothered. They don't care.
They got their jobs, they're not going to be fired.
It doesn't matter to them whether they bust up a
gang or not. And it's the same thing with how
(10:49):
we're treating aran.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Is. There's a story on how we actually got the Iatola.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Remember we bombed his big meeting last Saturday along him,
and I think eventually they killed forty other military and
government leaders. But Israel put in a lot of work
for this, and Israel was actually responsible for killing the Ayatola.
California Post had this story. I hadn't heard this, yes yet,
(11:19):
so Aetolia Ali Hamani is I guess, sitting at his
meeting in this government building. Meantime, the Israelis had this
fighter jet called a Blue Sparrow, and watchally the missile
is called a Blue Sparrow launched from fighter jets. So
(11:39):
there's fighter jets buzzing overhead. They send the Blue Sparrow
missile into space. It can fly for up to twelve
hundred and forty miles and it leaves the Earth's atmosphere
before it crashes down.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
And it's.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
To hit the building where Hamiani is having his big conference.
I don't know exactly how far out the plane was,
but it can be up to twelve hundred and forty
miles away, and then they calibrate where the missile should land.
Israeli F fifteen jets and other aircraft were deployed about
seven thirty Iranian time, and the aircraft unleashed thirty missiles,
(12:25):
including the blue Sparrows, and they.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Went into space. You don't see them coming.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Then they drop on your head, and they did two
hours later, right in the heart of the Iyatola's compound.
And because the missile has the ability to exit and
re enter the Earth's atmosphere, it makes them nearly impossible
to intercept, and so the bombs are undetectable by Iran's
(12:58):
bomb detection systems. They have booster rockets on these missiles,
so it's just like sending a spaceship into the atmosphere
and it takes them into space and then the bombs
hover over their intended target. They were designed to evade
air defense systems because of their speed, and Israel used
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them during twenty twenty four when they assaulted Iran, and
the Iranians had gotten a fullse sense of security on
Saturday morning because on the Friday before, Israeli officials deliberately
misled the Iranians, making them belief that the military was
(13:43):
standing down for the weekend. They released photos and information
suggesting that the IDF staff and senior command were going
home for Shabbat dinner, but instead the id F leaders
snuck back to work and by seven thirty in the morning,
I guess they worked all night, and then they launched
(14:05):
the deadly missiles, and by time they came down, Hamieni
and his other leaders had convened a meeting because they
thought they were safe. It's like they thought all the
Jews had gone home to have their Shabbat dinner and
they're going to get a night's sleep, and whatever invasion
was about to happen, it wasn't going to happen on Saturday.
And the strikes were originally planned for nighttime. But once
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the Israelis and the Americans learned of the Saturday morning meeting,
that's when they kicked into action here. And they also
disrupted a dozen mobile phone towers near the Iotola's compound
so his security could not receive eddy warnings from the
Iranian defense system. I am always blown away by how
(14:53):
incredibly smart, incredibly intelligent the Iranian military operations are. They
have been able to I mean, when after they blew
up all those pagers.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Do you mean the Israeli? What did I say, Iranian?
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Oh, I'm sorry Israeli. The Israeli intelligence and the Israeli
just brain power there. They don't have any Gavin Nuisance
on their staff, is what I'm saying here. They wead
those out early.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Really you imagine Newsom on it with the IDF. This
is gonna mess my suit. I can't do this. That's
that's a s Yeah, so is the pager thing that
really got me.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
And they.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
They blew up the genitals of all those azball of terrorists.
I mean, those those guys are still walking around bowlegged.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Aren't they you?
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Uh So, anyway, it's it's there's no way Ron It's
gonna win this one. All all the critics of this
war really have their heads up their rear ends because
the Americans and the Israelis combined are hugely it's a
huge overmatch. It's not even close. So it's just a
matter at the time. More coming up.
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Speaker 3 (16:32):
Well, you may have.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Heard that Christinom, the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security,
has been fired by Trump. She had a difficult hearing
before the Senate, and we'll get into those details in
just a moment. There a replacement is Republican Senator Mark
Wayne Mullen from Oklahoma. He is going to take over
(16:55):
Department of Homeland Security. And let's go to Don Mahallick,
the ABC News law enforcement contributor, retired Secret Service agent.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Don, how are you?
Speaker 6 (17:06):
I'm good, John, How are you? Man?
Speaker 3 (17:08):
I am good? So tell us what you think happened
here today.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
I think Christino had a series of leadership failures starting
almost right after she got the position. I think her
interactions with Congress having gone well, which we saw at
the last hearing, the Minnesota situation got clearly out of
hand to the point where the President had to send
in John Holman to take control and get that situation
(17:38):
back in line.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
And you know, and there's a bunch of personal.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Scandals that have erupted.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Including the two undred twenty two million dollar ad campaign
which she tried to lay the blame with the President,
which of course the White House says wasn't him. So,
you know, in some it seems like she was more
worried about doing advertisements than actually administering the Department of
Homeland Security.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
I'm going to play the clip later on of him
of her with Republican Senator John Kennedy, who is normally
a strong backer of the Trump administration. But Kennedy thought
that the two hundred and twenty million dollars for these ads,
and I watched some of them, and we'll play a
clip of one of them later where she's on horseback
(18:21):
at Mount Rushmore looking like a cowgirl, like a cowgirl
off the pages of Vogue, And it didn't look like
anything that was going to scare people from staying in
the country. I didn't understand why this would affect any
illegal immigrants and their decisions on what to do. It
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looked more like a fashion shoot commercial.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Yeah, John, I never expected to see the Department, the
Secretary of the Department Homeland Security in so many commercials.
I think over the last thirteen months, we've seen the
Secretary on more commercials and advertisements than any of the
previous secretaries combined, which makes you question what was more
important actually making sure the department was running the way
it should or doing the commercials for advertisements where she
(19:10):
was the center of attention and all these commercials sort
of d the esque, and you know that is not
what this Department Homeland Security needs. They need somebody in
there who's going to run the department, make sure they
keep the trains on the track, and make sure the
agencies who will have extremely important national security missions are
operating at their best capabilities with.
Speaker 6 (19:30):
The best support they can. And in particular right now,
like the focus should be.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
On getting the department funded and running again, but that
also didn't seem to be a priority.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
How should she have handled the Minneapolis situation differently? You
talk about leadership, what specifically should she have decided that
may have caused a different result.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Well, federal agencies don't just show up and take over.
There's normally a conversation, there's information beforehand. They notify their
local counterparts before they're going to do any kind of operation.
I'm sure that some of that occurred on the local level,
But as soon as there was any kind of pushback
about what they were planning. You know, the secretary probably
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should have inserted herself earlier and made sure everybody was
on the same page with the governor of the mayor
before they started that operation, as opposed to just sending in,
you know, the ice into putting them in jeopardy too,
sending them in into a situation that was already tense
and got more tense, and not making sure the ground
(20:38):
rules already laid out. I mean, I've seen previous secretaries
do that. They've gone to local jurisdictions, other countries even
and they laid the ground right before an operation starts.
But I don't think we saw that at all here.
Speaker 6 (20:51):
Dan.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
You talked about personal scandals, the rumors, and I don't
know anything about this, but uh, Corey Lewandowski is what
it was, one of tops top advisors and he managed
Trump's campaign back in twenty sixteen, and the rumor was
is that he and Noam were having an affair, and
(21:12):
when she was expecting questioning on that affair before the
Senate the other day, her husband actually showed up that day.
I guess to provide some psychological protection. Do you know
what that was about? The story keeps coming up over
and over again. But I didn't know if this was
a smear campaign by the Democrats or there was something
(21:32):
to it.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Well, I think they kept asking her to just say no,
and I'm not sure. I didn't watch the hearing, but
I'm not certain she actually ever said no. So you know, look,
the bottom line is the second Homeland Security job is
to protect the homeland, make sure the agencies are doing
what they're doing, and make sure the agencies are on track.
(21:55):
And clearly her focus was not on and I think
that's what the present was going frustrated about. Her focus
was not on the day to day operations of the
department for various reasons, and I think that's was the
leadership failure. Like, if you're the Secretary of Homeland Security,
you've got to be all in and that is your
(22:15):
focus because there's so much going Unlike a lot of
other departments, there's so much going on in that department
and so much.
Speaker 6 (22:22):
That the secretary has to think about it.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
You've got FEMA dealing with emergencies, You've got CSA processing
people through playing, you've got Secret Service protecting the president,
Coast Guard. I mean, there's a lot going on in
that department, and if your if your eye is not
on the ball, things can easily get out of control
and uh, and you can easily have leadership failures, which
is what happened to.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
How should she have handled the hearings better? Because it's
especially in the Trump era that hearings are wild. I
mean the opposing the opposing team, the Democratic senators are
coming out, uh, making all kinds of wild accusations, all
kinds of intense, hyperbolic statements. What are you supposed to
do sitting there like, there's no way to look good
(23:06):
when you have all that coming at you.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
No listen.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Congressional hearings A lot of this theater, whether it's the
senator has not a lot of it is political theater
because the members want to get their SoundBite. Having said that, though,
if you walk into a hearing and you have credibility
and gravitas, it's hard for them to take you apart.
And you have to be ready for some of the
cheap shots.
Speaker 6 (23:24):
Right.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
I think Rubio had a hearing, had a hearing not
a couple of days ago, and he dominated the hearing
even though he got some cheap shots. So I think
that is the model that you'd want to follow as
a cabinet leader.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
But of course you can only do that if.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
You have credibility in gravatas, and I think Naam lost
a lot of.
Speaker 6 (23:44):
That over the last couple of months, and.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
That's where she walked into basically a firing scout and
a firing squad and a free for all at this hearing.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
All right, it's good talking with you, Don, Thank you
very much. Thanks for having me John John Mahalak, she
News law enforcement contributor and a retired senior Secret Service agent.
We are going to talk more about this because we
do have a clip of her getting beat up by
a Republican senator who was incensed over the two hundred
and twenty million ad campaign that did star her. I mean,
(24:18):
she was the ad campaign and I watched it today
and I go, well, I don't know. I don't think
this would scare me out of the country. It might
make me want to stay. We'll also play you. We'll
also play you the exchange between John Kennedy and Christine Nolan.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
That's all Next.
Speaker 5 (24:38):
You're listening to John Cobel on demand from KFI AM
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Speaker 2 (24:44):
And we were just talking with Don Mahollock from ABC
News about why Christy Nome got fired today by Trump.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
And Bill Mallusian over at Fox News.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
He's posted that it was the interview with Louisiana Senator
John Kennedy that did her in. Kennedy even had told
the Trump White House that he was going to be
questioning her pretty harshly. She spent two hundred million dollars,
largely on TV commercials that starred her looking like a
(25:15):
cowgirl and a horse. For example, let's play some of
the exchange between Christy Nome and Senator John Kennedy and
he's a Republican again, go ahead.
Speaker 7 (25:25):
How do you square that concern for waste which I
share with the fact that you have spent two hundred
and twenty million dollars running television advertisements that feature you prominently?
Speaker 4 (25:44):
Sir?
Speaker 8 (25:44):
The President asked me with getting the message out to
the country and to other countries where we were seeing
the invasion come from, with putting commercials out that told
them that if they were in this country illegally, that
they needed to leave or we would detain them and
remove them and they not get the chance to come
back to America the right way. That has been extremely effective.
Speaker 7 (26:05):
Ask you to run these advertisements. Is that right?
Speaker 8 (26:08):
We had that conversation, Yes, before I was put in
this position and sworn in and confirmed and since then
as well.
Speaker 7 (26:16):
Okay, did you bid at those service contracts?
Speaker 8 (26:21):
Yes, they did. They went out to a competitive bid,
and career officials at the department chose who would do
those advertising commercials.
Speaker 7 (26:30):
And the people that you ended up picking were people
who had formerly done your political work back in shout
to Cote. Is that right?
Speaker 8 (26:40):
No, that's not correct, sir. No, it's not, sir. The
individuals who I believe, the careers who they chose were
two different media firms. There's been conversation about their subcontractors,
but we have no legal authority to look into subcontractors
on work like that.
Speaker 7 (26:59):
Okay. And you're saying that you're testifying that President Trump
approved this ahead of time, So I'm understanding.
Speaker 8 (27:07):
We had conversations about making sure that we were telling people.
Speaker 7 (27:11):
No, man, I'm asking you a short interrupt, but the
President approved ahead of time you spending two hundred and
twenty million dollars running TV eds across the country in
which you are featured prominently.
Speaker 8 (27:24):
Yes, sir, we went through the legal processes. Did it correct?
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Yes, he did? Yes, Okay, all right, stopped there. That
was the moment Trump saw that and he went ballistic.
He says, no way did he approve to spend two
hundred and twenty million dollars on a set of commercials
starring Christy. No, and that was the moment where he
went crazy. According to reports here, uh so Trump immediately
(27:53):
wanted to fire her. Uh and ed because Kennedy told
reporters whether that Trump called him after the hearing and
that Trump was quote mad as a murder hornet about
Nome's testimony, saying that he Trump never approved the contract,
nor was he even aware of it. And according to Kennedy,
(28:17):
her version of the truth and the president's version of
the truth are decidedly different. Let me play a clip
of of course this is audio here, but you have
to imagine her in cowgirl gear, sitting on top of
a horse in front of Mount Rushmore in South Dakota.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Way cut fire.
Speaker 9 (28:39):
Why do I love these wide open spaces?
Speaker 4 (28:41):
They remind me.
Speaker 8 (28:42):
Of why our forefathers came here, not just for its beauty,
but for the freedom only America provides. I'm Christino from
the cowboys who tamed the West.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
To stop stop staked.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
How's that going to scare anybody out of the country.
She was talking about ads that they ran in other
countries telling people not to come.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Well, this was running in this country.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
In fact, the radio ads they bought a lot on KFI,
and I remember thinking at the time, it's like, I
don't know how many legal aliens are listening to KFI.
I can think of a few other stations in town
where that's probably a majority of the audience.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
But I don't think here play some more pam.
Speaker 9 (29:25):
The West, to the titans who built our cities, to
the dreamers who chase the impossible. America has always rewarded
vision and grid. Our greatness calls people to us for
a chance to prosper.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
All right, that has to be the most ineffective commercial
to get legal aliens to leave the country that they
possibly could have created when we come back. Remember a
couple of months ago, we told you the story how
in Chevy and Hills, a scamster got eleven million dollars
(30:02):
of tax money to buy a assisted an assisted living
center in Chevy at Hills to turn it into a
homeless center. He paid eleven million for it with our
tax money. It was a complete scam. He then sold
it to another scam company for twenty seven million. Well,
we're going to unravel what happened in that case next
(30:28):
and we're going to talk because there is a lawsuit
being filed by some of the residents in Chevy At Hills.
They have an attorney representing them. We'll tell you about
it when we return, and we've got two guests to
talk about it, Deborah Mark live in the CAFI twenty
for our newsroom. You've been listening to The John Cobelt
Show podcast. You can always hear the show live ONKFI
AM six forty from three to six pm every Monday
(30:50):
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