June 9, 2025 • 32 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (06/09) - US Attorney Bill Essayli comes on the show to talk about the anti-ICE protests that have taken place in LA over the last few days. LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell said that LAPD officers were overwhelmed yesterday during the protests. A generation of people have grown up in LA seeing that there are not consequences for their actions.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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to him for almost twenty minutes, and you can get
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that on our podcast to be posted shortly after one o'clock.
And he is in charge of immigration enforcement and he's
overseeing the whole LA operation that has consumed everyone's attention.
Another important figure is Bill Saley. He's the US Attorney
for the Central District here in California, covers Los Angeles
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and the surrounding area. Former legislator up in Sacramento. Let's
get Bill on to talk about this. How are you?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
I'm dood okay, John, How are you?
Speaker 1 (00:51):
I'm all right? Did you know this was coming? Do
they give you a heads up that there's going to
be a major immigration suite in LA this weekend?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Well, I'll be honest with you. We've been doing immigration
enforcement probably for the last month. We've been going out
and arresting people with deportation orders of removal. And we've
been arresting people with arrest warrants and there have been
collateral arrests as well, so other people they encounter here
and losty. That's been happening for weeks. The only thing
that changed was on Friday we executed a search warrant
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at a clothing factory place down in la We had
a search warrant to go in there, and that was
a larger operation that was conducted. So, yeah, we knew
about that. I don't think we anticipated the level of
people that would show up so quickly to interfere and resist.
It appears to be very orchestrated and organized. They were
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kind of ready to go, and that's sort of what
I think set off everything after that.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yeah, that's one of the major triggers. Certainly, That's what
Tom Holman talked about. Do you know anything about these
groups that suddenly show up in great force? Is it
just a social media media phenomenon or are they heavily
organized and financed?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Well looking into it on Friday, it appeared to be
union related. The president of the SCIU was there. It
seemed to be one of the key figures organizing the
interference with our operations. Frankly, we had no idea who
he was. He was just a guy blocking us from
trying to do what we're there to do execute the
search warrant. He went move out of the way of
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the police vehicles, and so he was arrested. Turns out
he's the president of the SCIU and it's caused it
has been a lot of outcry by every Democrat politician
in the state of California since we arrested him.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Are you getting a lot of pressure to give him
a break here?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
They can try. I got some calls and I just said,
I don't care who he is. We're going to treat
him the same way we're treating everyone else. We're arresting
this weekend. So he spent the weekend in jail and
he's in court this afternoon for his arraignment.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Now, but the original ice goull was to go after
the owners of the apparel company.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Uh yeah, So it's an investigation on the employer, and
so we have probable cause of crimes being committed by
the employer there. But when you execute a search warrant,
you're allowed to detain everyone on the premises, and yes,
everyone who is there unlawfully was processed administratively and is
subject to removal. I don't know where people get this
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idea that somehow, you know, if you're here illegally, that
there's some sort of protections. There really is no. There
is not protection at home, deepot, there is not protection
at your workplace. You're subject to removal at any time.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
And it was a tax fraud situation that he's being
investigated over.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
The owner is yeah, I can't really comment. It's an
ongoing investigation that haven't charged yet, but we're looking at
several charges.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Of Okay, so you did this. So that was a
judge sign a warrant and they went in there to
go after the records to see if he's doing what
you suspect he's doing.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Correct that we're allowed to everybody that was.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Reported on all weekend. That's why I'm trying to get
all the details out. It's because the whole weekend they
made it sound like this was a random attack on
women sewing clothing, and that was not. But the purpose
of this.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
No, we had a search warrant to be there. It
was signed by a federal judge and we were doing
our job and as soon as word got out, the
organizers did their thing and they showed up a mass
and they created a very dangerous situation. We did ask
lap to come help. It took them a little bit
to get there and get prepared, but they did help us,
but it was too late. At that point. They started
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riding at our courthouse defacing it. They almost breached the
courthouse there and VOI ball down downtown. LAPD came that
night and then we called in a lot more reinforcement.
So Saturday we had hundreds of Border Patrol officers up
here to continue our operations. They were staging in Paramount,
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the facility next to the home depot we were staging.
Someone spotted them and said they're raiding the home depot
and that launched the next wave of attacks. But the
difference between Saturday and Friday, John, we were much more prepared.
On Saturday, Border Patrol did an outstanding job. They maintained
that perimeter, they fought back. They shot so much gas
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and less lethals that we had to bring in a
black Hawk helicopter to resupply them in the middle of
this operation. Good.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
So I just want to reiterate the home depot story.
That wasn't real. They were not doing a rate at
home Depot. They were doing their own stage rate at
their property next to the home Depot.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Correct on Saturday. That's correct.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Took two days for that story to come out as well.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
So now we're at a situation where it's it doesn't
even matter what the reason is that. Now you've got
all the antifas and the agitators and the professional rioters
and there it's go time for them. And that's why
the President has called and activated the National Guard. Newsome.
I don't know what he's watching at his winery, but
that he should turn on the TV. It is not
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in control. The city's out of control, and the President's
going to restore law and order. That's what he's going
to do.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Now. With the Marines coming, what's going to be their purpose,
same as the National Guard, to take care of safety
and security issues.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Right now, the primary purpose and function of the National
Guard in the military is to protect federal property and
federal personnel and our operations. So they're going to be
protecting our buildings and when we're out doing law enforcement operations,
they're going to protect those law enforcement personnel out and about.
So that's it right now. I know there's talk about
expanding their authority. I mean, especially after what we saw
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on the TV last night, the blocking the freeways, attacking
the commuters, the vandalism, the burning the cars, the looting.
So I think there's talk about expanding their authority. But
that's a decision that will have to be made by.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
The President, and their authority would be expanded to do
what arrest, oh actual arrest, but by the Marines and
by the National Guard itself correct for unlawful activity during
these demonstrations.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Yes, it's there is a federal I'm not an expert
in it. There is a federal law that allows him
to activate the military or the National Guard to restore
order in the American city. There's some author worry.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
For that, based on how you interpret the law. What
Trump is doing in basically bypassing Newsom and activating the
California National Guard, he's well within his presidential powers to
do that.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Well, we as the US Attorney I will defend that
lawsuit in our court when it's filed, So we'll be
defending the president's actions as lawful. He absolutely has the
authority to do that. Newsom. I think he's just accustomed
to some maybe some courtesies that were afforded in the past.
But that is not something that is legally binding or
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precedented as far as you know.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Is Newsom or Bass doing anything to make this situation
easier for the federal government.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Well, I will say this, the LAPD and the sheriffs,
they have been helpful. They have been helpful in helping
protect our buildings and our personnel both downtown and in Paramount.
Now they're not helping us with the immigration stuff, but
they're helping with the riots and the crowd control. For
the first time in a long time, John, I heard
the mayor and others actually denounced the violence over the weekend. Yeah,
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I heard that a long time.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
No, No, I.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Think what's happening is they're trying to they're trying to
justify or make a case why the National Guard is
not needed. So they're trying to Now, now, they're tough cops,
and we got this and we got this handled. Everything's
in order. We don't need you. So but I don't
think that's gonna work.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
But Jim McDonald, the police chief, said that laped was overwhelmed.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Yeah, I actually I've gotten to know him over the
last week or so. I find him to be quite reasonable.
I mean, obviously he's limited by his political bosses, but
I think he is telling the truth. They were overwhelmed,
and we knew it was the need for the National Guard.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
We do need the national Guard.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Once you see the police chief saying hey, we were overwhelmed,
it's like, all right, well, who's next up in line?
And that would be the National Guard And they're already here.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Correct. And the thing people don't realize if LAPD has
to use all their officers to handle crowd control rioting,
then there's nobody to do nine on one calls. Yeah,
so who's handling all the robberies and assaults and stabbings
that are going on through the city. You can't have
them doing this stuff. Twenty four seven.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
All right, Billa Salee, thank you for coming on again.
We really appreciate it. Thanks for having me. I know
you're really busy.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
We're going to get this city. We're going to get
law and order in this city.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Oh, it's desperately needed. US Attorney for the Central District
LA General Area Bill of Sale. We've got more. We'll
play in the clip of the police chief Jim McDonald
admitting that LAPD was overwhelmed by what was going on.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
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Speaker 1 (10:15):
John Cobelt Show, and after four o'clock we're going to
post a podcast, and you want to listen right at
the start to Tom Homan, who's in charge of immigration
enforcement all over the country, both at the border and
the interior, and is leading the LA operation. And we
have another round of protests building in downtown Los Angeles.
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I'm looking at Main Street and Piseo and seven hundred
marines now up to seven hundred are being formally deployed
to come to the protests to join the National guardsman
and LAPD. And I would say based on this, and
Jim McDonald is very low key as the LAPD chief.
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He's not a guy who shakes his fists and bellows,
so you got to listen closely, but he had a
very subtle hint here. I think they are not unhappy
at LAPD that they've got reinforcements from the National Guard.
Listen to him last night and listen to one key word.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
We are overwhelmed as far as the number of people
out there engaged in this type of activity and the
type of things that they're doing. They'll they'll take backpacks
and the backpack will have a cinder block in it.
They have a hammer, and they'll break up the cinder
block and use that pass it around to throw at officers,
to throw at cars and throw at other people. We've
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seen people with hammers, and you've broadcasted breaking the ballards
behind the Federal Building and taking the rocks, if you will,
or pieces of concrete and throwing them at officers. We've
had liquid who knows what description thrown at officers. There's
no limit to what they're what they're doing to ours.
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And again, as I mentioned in my statement, I can't
thank our folks enough and our partner agency police officials
for going out there and taking care of the community
and trying to be able to put themselves between the
threat and the overall community. And they do this night
in and night out, and in these past couple of nights,
we've seen it at a level that I think discussed
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every every good person.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
This is why Gavin Newsom should shut his mouth. I said.
It seems Karen Bass is quieted down but Newsom is
still mouthing off. If the ip D chief says his
his officers are overwhelmed and they're getting hit with cinder blocks, rocks, concrete,
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maybe we need reinforcements. I mean, this is Newsom and
Bass allowing this city and state to go to hell again.
They put out the welcome matt you get sanctuary, you
get lifetime healthcare. So every one of these guys, and
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I'm just assuming a lot of these guys are legal aliens.
If you're waving the Mexican flag, I think that leads
to reasonable suspicion. And you have a bag of concrete blocks.
I don't think legal citizens are trying to kill cops
with concrete blocks thrown from an overpass. This sounds like
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some kind of subversive group, the group that came in
over the border, and they're here to create mayhem. That's
what I'm gonna go with for now. So you gotta
you got, you gotta legal aliens, and I'm paying for
the healthcare and Newsom wants to protect them. And Newsom
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is getting all angry that Trump is enforcing the law
that Newsom wou'd enforce. It comes down to that Bass
will not enforce the law. Newsom will not enforce the law.
Where are we supposed to go? You tell me who's
supposed to enforce the law. LAPD chief says, hey, we're overwhelmed. Okay,
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Now what meantime? You have a counsel woman. And I
warned you about this woman for years. You miss is Hernandez.
She's not a Democrat. She's with the Democratic Socialists. They're
into anarchy. She is a defund the police woman. She
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is an abolished the ice woman. She is on television
with a smirk on her face, enjoying that the concrete
is falling on the cops, and she's egging on all
the crazy people, all the illegal aliens who are violent
and waving the Mexican flag. She's egging them on TV.
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She was on with the NBC four anchor Colleen Williams.
Listen to this.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
Would you admonish this group to stay within the confines
of the law out here?
Speaker 6 (15:00):
What I would say is that people who are out
there protesting be safe. Remember that we need all community
members to be able to throw down in future emergencies,
and we need folks to come home and part of
that is being saved.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Okay, stop stop. So she didn't say that they should
be peaceful. They need to be ready to throw down.
What's that slang for throw down, to fight, to fight
using a little code there, throw down. That's that's a
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city council woman in a district that is heavily illegal alien.
So there aren't that many people who vote, and so
the local anarchists and you know, they have their their
ballot harvesting technique, they collect enough ballots to put a
crazy person like that in power. She ends up on
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some powerful committees in the city council. And now she's
a spokesperson there on Channel four telling her telling her
crew and get ready, we got to throw down here.
We can't have law enforcement. Get your backpacks, get your concrete,
get your hammers, get your rocks. Unitus Hernandez wants you
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to go into action and throw down, play some more.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
We need all community members to be able to throw
down in future emergencies, and we need folks to come home.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
And part of that is being safe.
Speaker 6 (16:26):
So that's what I would tell our constituents and Angelino's
who are out there protesting.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Just be safe. All right.
Speaker 7 (16:31):
It is a Friday, we're moving into the weekend here,
and moving forward. What do you want people to know,
whether you agree with what's happening or with the adult
what do you want folks to know?
Speaker 6 (16:44):
What I want folks to know is that we are
seeing that the tactics being used by the federal administration
these agencies are only escalating. This is they're not going
to retreat. They're coming strong, and we need to prepare
ourselves by knowing our rights, by tapping into rapid response networks,
by connecting with organizations like got S and CHIRDLA who
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have been out there in the trenches helping our community members,
providing legal resources. There are coalitions if you want to
get involved, there are community spaces that you can plug
into to build more commedity power against this because that's
what's going to keep our communities whole. It's a community.
It's a pushback that we give. But again, we have
to be safe so that we can continue to fight
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another day.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
She's telling fight another day. She's telling illegal aliens who
are committing violent, illegal acts, how to get on these
online networks, how to organize and bring your concrete, bring
your rocks, bring your hammers, hammers, bring your cinder blocks,
and be ready to drop it on a CoP's head
and like to thank the good folks at NBC for
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by giving them that platform, good way to spread the word.
Just wait till cop gets killed with a cinder block
on their head, and then you're going to have the
NBC anchors a senseless death today downtown LA. People are
disgusting and you know what you're doing.
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hear the interview with Tom Holman, who's in charge of
immigration enforcement for the Trump administration. He's here in Los
Angeles directing the operation. We had quite an interview with him.
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One thing I've been talking about over the course of
the show, a boy other. We're gonna have Michael Monks
on coming UBT after two o'clock from KFI News. He
covered a lot of the mayhem yesterday. After three o'clock,
we covered a lot of mayhem yesterday and he got
tear gassed. We also have a clip of him getting
tear gassed. We'll play that in just a few minutes.
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One of the things I've been talking about is how
an entire generation here in Los Angeles has grown up
and they've never seen the law enforced in public. And
it's quite shocking to a lot of people, even a
lot of people who should know better, who grew up
in a day where laws were routinely enforced in public,
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and a lot of them forgot that this is what
it looks like. It's not always pretty when you've allowed
for twenty twenty five years these groups to organize and
get embedded. When the immigration got out of control, starting
in the early to mid two thousands, it was George Bush,
the Stupid who unveiled this plague when he started talking
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about amnesty for illegal aliens. Two things. A million illegal
aliens came out of the woodwork and had a big march,
which shocked the rest of the country. Secondly, it led
to millions more immigrating here illegally because they all, hey,
look at all the people who got in. Then social
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media came along, smartphones came along, and a massive pipeline
was created, and that uh that Joe Biden and his
stooge progressives allowed it to flourish. And so this this,
this is built up over a long time, and again
nobody has seen the law enforced, and they're so horrified.
But all this stuff is written down. How they do
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it is written down. This is what the public, the
majority of the public has agreed to, majority of Congress
has agreed to. The president really has these powers. There's
also people really ignorant of how the system works. Oh,
he can't do that, Well you can. Just because you
don't know stuff doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Michael Schellenberger
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wrote a piece which truly jumped out at me because
it's along similar lines. It's about stuff we've discussed. But
it's just nice to see that somebody else noticed, right,
that we're just not sitting here going crazy. A lot
of people, this is Schollenberger. A lot of people are
upset about these images of violent protesters in Los Angeles
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waving the Mexican flag. If they love Mexico so much,
why are they upset at enforcing our laws against illegal entry? Yeah,
that's right. Why not if they're waving the Mexican flag,
go and enjoy Mexico. Why are you upset that we
have laws against illegal immigration. To fully appreciate their significance,
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it's important to understand that over the last several decades,
the people who run California and its major cities came
to a new consensus. A large number of our laws
were racist and oppressive. Yes, this is the nute of it.
This is why none of these laws are enforced, because
they think it's racist and oppressive to enforce laws that
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are the better rock of civilization. Sellenburger writes, Democrats increasingly
viewed laws against illegal camping, open air drug dealing, shoplifting, burglary, arson,
unlawful border crossing not as tools for protecting neighborhoods and
preserving public space, but as tools for putting poor people
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and racial minorities in prison. See out flipped and you
let them flip it. That's why your neighborhoods are not safe.
That's why your public spaces are not safe, because you
let these progressives come in and flip the world upside
down and saying, well, no, no, it's not to keep
us safe. It's to oppress minorities and poor people. So
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one by one, Democrats says Schellenburger stopped enforcing and weakened
laws against drug dealing, illegal camping, prostitution, public defecation, drug
use on sidewalks. Cities stopped enforcing anti cans camping ordinances.
State leaders directed prosecutors not to charge certain drug crimes.
Federal immigration laws were nullified by city policy in the
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name of compassion. Progressives dismantled the foundations of public order
come to today. Over the last few days, we've seen
the consequences of this ideology erupt in the streets of
Los Angeles. Protesters attacked federal agents during ice operations, hurled
bricks and fireworks, and officers torched vehicles and defaced public buildings,
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all of it filmed, cheered, and amplified on social media.
And then Newsom comes out and says what Trump did
was inflammatory, getting the National Guard called up. He was
at the center of this revolution to dismantle all the
laws that kept our cities clean and civilized and orderly.
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Newsom was at the center of it. He destroyed San Francisco.
And of course he gets promoted to become governor only
because of his hair and his jawline, not because he
has a brain in his head. He clearly doesn't, and
he's really good at doing a jiu jitsu move. He
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jumped out first and said, well, this is Trump's fault
for inciting it. And wouldn't you know there are seventeen
hundred people in the media going yoah, yeah, it's Trump's
fault for inciting it. It's like, no, Trump didn't give
out free healthcare to illegal aliens so they could mass
here buy the millions. He didn't create sanctuary cities and states.
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Other states don't have this problem. Other states aren't sanctuaries.
Other states don't give out twenty two billion dollars a
year in benefits. Actually that was before the illegal alien healthcare,
so it's probably about thirty five billion now thirty five
billion a year if your tax money goes to illegal aliens.
Other states don't do this. We do. And so what
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happened is they took roote, literally by the millions. Now
they have their candidates on city councils, their candidates are
in the legislature, and they have their organizations that are
fully funded. So if you try to say, hey, we've
got too many illegal aliens here, we have too many
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violent criminals who are here illegally. We are spending too
many tens of billions of dollars on all these people. Well,
now they have the money, they have the membership online,
they could summon up hundreds thousands of young, crazy kids
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and they'll show up with the concrete and the bricks
and the rocks, and they'll try to kill police officers.
And you didn't hear. You didn't hear Newsom or Bass
say one word about the cops who were hiding under
the overpass on the one oh one trying not to
get smashed in the head with a concrete block falling
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from twenty or thirty feet above them. Not one word,
because they don't care if the cops get killed. They'll
just blame it on Trump. Newsom and Bass are two
of the most despicable creatures I have ever seen in
my life, let alone in government running LA in California.
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They don't care about destroying our way of life. They
don't They're actively complicit. And Schellenberger nailed it. You should
subscribe to his Well, he's on x he actually reprinted
this on ex Twitter, and he's also got a sub stack,
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and that alone is worth the monthly subscription. Fit what
he wrote or more. Coming up, we got Michael Monks
KFI News, who's been in the middle of all this
reporting for kf I.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
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Speaker 1 (27:07):
John Cobelt here Michael Monks on after Deborah's News to
talk about what's been going on? Anything going on this weekend? Nothing?
It was a very quiet weekend in downtown LA. I think, yeah,
well stirring up again. People are massing downtown. And is
Michael there? No he is not. Oh okay, good, but
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he was yesterday. He almost got killed yesterday. Yeah, he
needs a break that pot. Well, he's going to talk
about getting tear gassed, and we'll play you a clip
as well. All right, let's play two idiots that you
pay to help run the government. Let's start with Karen Bass,
who claimed that the deployment of the National Guard was unnecessary.
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I don't know did she say this before the protesters
started dropping concrete blocks on the LAPD car. I don't
know the timing, but play this clip.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
This is intentional chaos, you know. I had talked to
representatives of the Trump administration earlier on to tell them
that the Los Angeles police department could control things that
were happening here and that there was no need to
federalize troops, and so to have this here is really
just a provocation and something that was not needed in
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our city. We're still recovering after five months from the
city's worst natural disaster in decades, and now to go
through a trauma like this that is really traumatizing the
whole city because everybody knows somebody in a city where
more than fifty percent our Latino this just sows chaos
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that is not warranted nor needed in the city of
Los Angeles at this point in time.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Boy, you got a lot of nerve. We're still recovering
from the fires. At least she brought the fires up, John, Yeah,
at least she's aware there was a fire. Miss I'm
going to ignore the fire warnings and fly to Africa
for a few days. Miss I defunded the fire department.
Miss I didn't hold any meetings before the wind started
blowing and the fire danger became obvious. Me I was
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flying around the world, wasn't I. Oh, we're still recover
We're gonna be recovering probably from ten years. We got
a lot of nerve. If we had a different mare,
there wouldn't have been a fraction of the damage because
maybe they wouldn't have defunded the fire department the way
they defunded the police department. By the way, we're going
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to be at a record low for a police officers
if we're not there already, because she's defunding that too.
She said it was unnecessary in a provocation. Huh, Well,
play the Eric cut five. Just play the first line
here of mcgim McDonald, the LAPD chief.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
We are overwhelmed as far as the number of people
out there engaged in this.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Stripe of stop, we are overwhelmed. She says it's unnecessary
and a provocation to have the National Guard. McDonald was
saying LAPD was overwhelmed. She's saying they can handle it.
He's saying, we are overwhelmed. Once again, you can't trust
her judgment. And here's another lunatic congresswoman. We're paying for
(30:22):
her too, Maxime Waters, who I believe is eighty six
years old, and she's yelling at National Guard troops. It's
like some old lady got loose from the nursing home
and she's screaming at the National Guard and I'm sure
they were intimidated. Play cut number nine. What are you
going to do to go shoot some cats? She's a friend,
(30:44):
You're going to shoot.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
If you shoot me, You've got to shoe straight. I
don't know why you're.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
In my city. You did. The governor was not contacted.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
This is Trump and his outrage as a tip, not
only talking our sanctuary city, but you to frighten us. Yes,
Trump dropped the concrete blocks on the cop cars. Trump.
Trump called up all those two thousand miscreants who don't
have jobs. Many of them are here illegally. He told
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he bought the Mexican flags for his crowd too. Right.
Did he pack their backpacks full of the concrete and
the rocks? Did he give him the hammers to bust
up the Kronkak barriers? Where they got they got the
blocks to drop on the cop cars? Trump did all that. Huh,
he must be superman, Maxine Waters, This is what happens
(31:40):
when you don't go for Alzheimer's treatment. In a few days,
we're gonna see Joe Biden doing this too. Two of
them are going to be running around naked in the streets.
What a crazy lady, all right? We come back. Michael
Monks Cafe Ie News got tear gash yesterday. Yeah he did. Yeah,
what he does? I mean, he puts his on the line.
(32:00):
He does. He's the stud here, it really is.
Speaker 5 (32:03):
John.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
I didn't see you do in your putting yourself on
the line. I was. I was in my car listening
after to the aftermath after he got cast, and I'm thinking,
I'm I'm glad I'm not anywhere near there. Oh yeah,
you couldn't handle that. Listen to you. You've been hiding
in an anchor booth for thirty years. She would have
been trampled by the stampede. Yeah, it was the last
(32:26):
news story you were on. I don't remember Debor Mark
in the CAFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey, you've been
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we had Tom Holman on in the first segment. Talk
to him for almost twenty minutes, and you can get
(00:22):
that on our podcast to be posted shortly after one o'clock.
And he is in charge of immigration enforcement and he's
overseeing the whole LA operation that has consumed everyone's attention.
Another important figure is Bill Saley. He's the US Attorney
for the Central District here in California, covers Los Angeles
(00:42):
and the surrounding area. Former legislator up in Sacramento. Let's
get Bill on to talk about this. How are you?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
I'm dood okay, John, How are you?
Speaker 1 (00:51):
I'm all right? Did you know this was coming? Do
they give you a heads up that there's going to
be a major immigration suite in LA this weekend?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Well, I'll be honest with you. We've been doing immigration
enforcement probably for the last month. We've been going out
and arresting people with deportation orders of removal. And we've
been arresting people with arrest warrants and there have been
collateral arrests as well, so other people they encounter here
and losty. That's been happening for weeks. The only thing
that changed was on Friday we executed a search warrant
(01:23):
at a clothing factory place down in la We had
a search warrant to go in there, and that was
a larger operation that was conducted. So, yeah, we knew
about that. I don't think we anticipated the level of
people that would show up so quickly to interfere and resist.
It appears to be very orchestrated and organized. They were
(01:44):
kind of ready to go, and that's sort of what
I think set off everything after that.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yeah, that's one of the major triggers. Certainly, That's what
Tom Holman talked about. Do you know anything about these
groups that suddenly show up in great force? Is it
just a social media media phenomenon or are they heavily
organized and financed?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Well looking into it on Friday, it appeared to be
union related. The president of the SCIU was there. It
seemed to be one of the key figures organizing the
interference with our operations. Frankly, we had no idea who
he was. He was just a guy blocking us from
trying to do what we're there to do execute the
search warrant. He went move out of the way of
(02:25):
the police vehicles, and so he was arrested. Turns out
he's the president of the SCIU and it's caused it
has been a lot of outcry by every Democrat politician
in the state of California since we arrested him.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Are you getting a lot of pressure to give him
a break here?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
They can try. I got some calls and I just said,
I don't care who he is. We're going to treat
him the same way we're treating everyone else. We're arresting
this weekend. So he spent the weekend in jail and
he's in court this afternoon for his arraignment.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Now, but the original ice goull was to go after
the owners of the apparel company.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Uh yeah, So it's an investigation on the employer, and
so we have probable cause of crimes being committed by
the employer there. But when you execute a search warrant,
you're allowed to detain everyone on the premises, and yes,
everyone who is there unlawfully was processed administratively and is
subject to removal. I don't know where people get this
(03:22):
idea that somehow, you know, if you're here illegally, that
there's some sort of protections. There really is no. There
is not protection at home, deepot, there is not protection
at your workplace. You're subject to removal at any time.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
And it was a tax fraud situation that he's being
investigated over.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
The owner is yeah, I can't really comment. It's an
ongoing investigation that haven't charged yet, but we're looking at
several charges.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Of Okay, so you did this. So that was a
judge sign a warrant and they went in there to
go after the records to see if he's doing what
you suspect he's doing.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Correct that we're allowed to everybody that was.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Reported on all weekend. That's why I'm trying to get
all the details out. It's because the whole weekend they
made it sound like this was a random attack on
women sewing clothing, and that was not. But the purpose
of this.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
No, we had a search warrant to be there. It
was signed by a federal judge and we were doing
our job and as soon as word got out, the
organizers did their thing and they showed up a mass
and they created a very dangerous situation. We did ask
lap to come help. It took them a little bit
to get there and get prepared, but they did help us,
but it was too late. At that point. They started
(04:35):
riding at our courthouse defacing it. They almost breached the
courthouse there and VOI ball down downtown. LAPD came that
night and then we called in a lot more reinforcement.
So Saturday we had hundreds of Border Patrol officers up
here to continue our operations. They were staging in Paramount,
(04:56):
the facility next to the home depot we were staging.
Someone spotted them and said they're raiding the home depot
and that launched the next wave of attacks. But the
difference between Saturday and Friday, John, we were much more prepared.
On Saturday, Border Patrol did an outstanding job. They maintained
that perimeter, they fought back. They shot so much gas
(05:17):
and less lethals that we had to bring in a
black Hawk helicopter to resupply them in the middle of
this operation. Good.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
So I just want to reiterate the home depot story.
That wasn't real. They were not doing a rate at
home Depot. They were doing their own stage rate at
their property next to the home Depot.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Correct on Saturday. That's correct.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Took two days for that story to come out as well.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
So now we're at a situation where it's it doesn't
even matter what the reason is that. Now you've got
all the antifas and the agitators and the professional rioters
and there it's go time for them. And that's why
the President has called and activated the National Guard. Newsome.
I don't know what he's watching at his winery, but
that he should turn on the TV. It is not
(06:02):
in control. The city's out of control, and the President's
going to restore law and order. That's what he's going
to do.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Now. With the Marines coming, what's going to be their purpose,
same as the National Guard, to take care of safety
and security issues.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Right now, the primary purpose and function of the National
Guard in the military is to protect federal property and
federal personnel and our operations. So they're going to be
protecting our buildings and when we're out doing law enforcement operations,
they're going to protect those law enforcement personnel out and about.
So that's it right now. I know there's talk about
expanding their authority. I mean, especially after what we saw
(06:42):
on the TV last night, the blocking the freeways, attacking
the commuters, the vandalism, the burning the cars, the looting.
So I think there's talk about expanding their authority. But
that's a decision that will have to be made by.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
The President, and their authority would be expanded to do
what arrest, oh actual arrest, but by the Marines and
by the National Guard itself correct for unlawful activity during
these demonstrations.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Yes, it's there is a federal I'm not an expert
in it. There is a federal law that allows him
to activate the military or the National Guard to restore
order in the American city. There's some author worry.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
For that, based on how you interpret the law. What
Trump is doing in basically bypassing Newsom and activating the
California National Guard, he's well within his presidential powers to
do that.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Well, we as the US Attorney I will defend that
lawsuit in our court when it's filed, So we'll be
defending the president's actions as lawful. He absolutely has the
authority to do that. Newsom. I think he's just accustomed
to some maybe some courtesies that were afforded in the past.
But that is not something that is legally binding or
(08:03):
precedented as far as you know.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Is Newsom or Bass doing anything to make this situation
easier for the federal government.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Well, I will say this, the LAPD and the sheriffs,
they have been helpful. They have been helpful in helping
protect our buildings and our personnel both downtown and in Paramount.
Now they're not helping us with the immigration stuff, but
they're helping with the riots and the crowd control. For
the first time in a long time, John, I heard
the mayor and others actually denounced the violence over the weekend. Yeah,
(08:35):
I heard that a long time.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
No, No, I.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Think what's happening is they're trying to they're trying to
justify or make a case why the National Guard is
not needed. So they're trying to Now, now, they're tough cops,
and we got this and we got this handled. Everything's
in order. We don't need you. So but I don't
think that's gonna work.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
But Jim McDonald, the police chief, said that laped was overwhelmed.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Yeah, I actually I've gotten to know him over the
last week or so. I find him to be quite reasonable.
I mean, obviously he's limited by his political bosses, but
I think he is telling the truth. They were overwhelmed,
and we knew it was the need for the National Guard.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
We do need the national Guard.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Once you see the police chief saying hey, we were overwhelmed,
it's like, all right, well, who's next up in line?
And that would be the National Guard And they're already here.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Correct. And the thing people don't realize if LAPD has
to use all their officers to handle crowd control rioting,
then there's nobody to do nine on one calls. Yeah,
so who's handling all the robberies and assaults and stabbings
that are going on through the city. You can't have
them doing this stuff. Twenty four seven.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
All right, Billa Salee, thank you for coming on again.
We really appreciate it. Thanks for having me. I know
you're really busy.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
We're going to get this city. We're going to get
law and order in this city.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Oh, it's desperately needed. US Attorney for the Central District
LA General Area Bill of Sale. We've got more. We'll
play in the clip of the police chief Jim McDonald
admitting that LAPD was overwhelmed by what was going on.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
John Cobelt Show, and after four o'clock we're going to
post a podcast, and you want to listen right at
the start to Tom Homan, who's in charge of immigration
enforcement all over the country, both at the border and
the interior, and is leading the LA operation. And we
have another round of protests building in downtown Los Angeles.
(10:38):
I'm looking at Main Street and Piseo and seven hundred
marines now up to seven hundred are being formally deployed
to come to the protests to join the National guardsman
and LAPD. And I would say based on this, and
Jim McDonald is very low key as the LAPD chief.
(11:00):
He's not a guy who shakes his fists and bellows,
so you got to listen closely, but he had a
very subtle hint here. I think they are not unhappy
at LAPD that they've got reinforcements from the National Guard.
Listen to him last night and listen to one key word.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
We are overwhelmed as far as the number of people
out there engaged in this type of activity and the
type of things that they're doing. They'll they'll take backpacks
and the backpack will have a cinder block in it.
They have a hammer, and they'll break up the cinder
block and use that pass it around to throw at officers,
to throw at cars and throw at other people. We've
(11:40):
seen people with hammers, and you've broadcasted breaking the ballards
behind the Federal Building and taking the rocks, if you will,
or pieces of concrete and throwing them at officers. We've
had liquid who knows what description thrown at officers. There's
no limit to what they're what they're doing to ours.
(12:00):
And again, as I mentioned in my statement, I can't
thank our folks enough and our partner agency police officials
for going out there and taking care of the community
and trying to be able to put themselves between the
threat and the overall community. And they do this night
in and night out, and in these past couple of nights,
we've seen it at a level that I think discussed
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every every good person.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
This is why Gavin Newsom should shut his mouth. I said.
It seems Karen Bass is quieted down but Newsom is
still mouthing off. If the ip D chief says his
his officers are overwhelmed and they're getting hit with cinder blocks, rocks, concrete,
(12:45):
maybe we need reinforcements. I mean, this is Newsom and
Bass allowing this city and state to go to hell again.
They put out the welcome matt you get sanctuary, you
get lifetime healthcare. So every one of these guys, and
(13:06):
I'm just assuming a lot of these guys are legal aliens.
If you're waving the Mexican flag, I think that leads
to reasonable suspicion. And you have a bag of concrete blocks.
I don't think legal citizens are trying to kill cops
with concrete blocks thrown from an overpass. This sounds like
(13:26):
some kind of subversive group, the group that came in
over the border, and they're here to create mayhem. That's
what I'm gonna go with for now. So you gotta
you got, you gotta legal aliens, and I'm paying for
the healthcare and Newsom wants to protect them. And Newsom
(13:46):
is getting all angry that Trump is enforcing the law
that Newsom wou'd enforce. It comes down to that Bass
will not enforce the law. Newsom will not enforce the law.
Where are we supposed to go? You tell me who's
supposed to enforce the law. LAPD chief says, hey, we're overwhelmed. Okay,
(14:09):
Now what meantime? You have a counsel woman. And I
warned you about this woman for years. You miss is Hernandez.
She's not a Democrat. She's with the Democratic Socialists. They're
into anarchy. She is a defund the police woman. She
(14:30):
is an abolished the ice woman. She is on television
with a smirk on her face, enjoying that the concrete
is falling on the cops, and she's egging on all
the crazy people, all the illegal aliens who are violent
and waving the Mexican flag. She's egging them on TV.
(14:52):
She was on with the NBC four anchor Colleen Williams.
Listen to this.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
Would you admonish this group to stay within the confines
of the law out here?
Speaker 6 (15:00):
What I would say is that people who are out
there protesting be safe. Remember that we need all community
members to be able to throw down in future emergencies,
and we need folks to come home and part of
that is being saved.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Okay, stop stop. So she didn't say that they should
be peaceful. They need to be ready to throw down.
What's that slang for throw down, to fight, to fight
using a little code there, throw down. That's that's a
(15:32):
city council woman in a district that is heavily illegal alien.
So there aren't that many people who vote, and so
the local anarchists and you know, they have their their
ballot harvesting technique, they collect enough ballots to put a
crazy person like that in power. She ends up on
(15:54):
some powerful committees in the city council. And now she's
a spokesperson there on Channel four telling her telling her
crew and get ready, we got to throw down here.
We can't have law enforcement. Get your backpacks, get your concrete,
get your hammers, get your rocks. Unitus Hernandez wants you
(16:15):
to go into action and throw down, play some more.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
We need all community members to be able to throw
down in future emergencies, and we need folks to come home.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
And part of that is being safe.
Speaker 6 (16:26):
So that's what I would tell our constituents and Angelino's
who are out there protesting.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Just be safe. All right.
Speaker 7 (16:31):
It is a Friday, we're moving into the weekend here,
and moving forward. What do you want people to know,
whether you agree with what's happening or with the adult
what do you want folks to know?
Speaker 6 (16:44):
What I want folks to know is that we are
seeing that the tactics being used by the federal administration
these agencies are only escalating. This is they're not going
to retreat. They're coming strong, and we need to prepare
ourselves by knowing our rights, by tapping into rapid response networks,
by connecting with organizations like got S and CHIRDLA who
(17:04):
have been out there in the trenches helping our community members,
providing legal resources. There are coalitions if you want to
get involved, there are community spaces that you can plug
into to build more commedity power against this because that's
what's going to keep our communities whole. It's a community.
It's a pushback that we give. But again, we have
to be safe so that we can continue to fight
(17:24):
another day.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
She's telling fight another day. She's telling illegal aliens who
are committing violent, illegal acts, how to get on these
online networks, how to organize and bring your concrete, bring
your rocks, bring your hammers, hammers, bring your cinder blocks,
and be ready to drop it on a CoP's head
and like to thank the good folks at NBC for
(17:47):
by giving them that platform, good way to spread the word.
Just wait till cop gets killed with a cinder block
on their head, and then you're going to have the
NBC anchors a senseless death today downtown LA. People are
disgusting and you know what you're doing.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
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and right at the top of the podcast you can
hear the interview with Tom Holman, who's in charge of
immigration enforcement for the Trump administration. He's here in Los
Angeles directing the operation. We had quite an interview with him.
(18:36):
One thing I've been talking about over the course of
the show, a boy other. We're gonna have Michael Monks
on coming UBT after two o'clock from KFI News. He
covered a lot of the mayhem yesterday. After three o'clock,
we covered a lot of mayhem yesterday and he got
tear gassed. We also have a clip of him getting
tear gassed. We'll play that in just a few minutes.
(18:59):
One of the things I've been talking about is how
an entire generation here in Los Angeles has grown up
and they've never seen the law enforced in public. And
it's quite shocking to a lot of people, even a
lot of people who should know better, who grew up
in a day where laws were routinely enforced in public,
(19:20):
and a lot of them forgot that this is what
it looks like. It's not always pretty when you've allowed
for twenty twenty five years these groups to organize and
get embedded. When the immigration got out of control, starting
in the early to mid two thousands, it was George Bush,
the Stupid who unveiled this plague when he started talking
(19:44):
about amnesty for illegal aliens. Two things. A million illegal
aliens came out of the woodwork and had a big march,
which shocked the rest of the country. Secondly, it led
to millions more immigrating here illegally because they all, hey,
look at all the people who got in. Then social
(20:04):
media came along, smartphones came along, and a massive pipeline
was created, and that uh that Joe Biden and his
stooge progressives allowed it to flourish. And so this this,
this is built up over a long time, and again
nobody has seen the law enforced, and they're so horrified.
But all this stuff is written down. How they do
(20:27):
it is written down. This is what the public, the
majority of the public has agreed to, majority of Congress
has agreed to. The president really has these powers. There's
also people really ignorant of how the system works. Oh,
he can't do that, Well you can. Just because you
don't know stuff doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Michael Schellenberger
(20:51):
wrote a piece which truly jumped out at me because
it's along similar lines. It's about stuff we've discussed. But
it's just nice to see that somebody else noticed, right,
that we're just not sitting here going crazy. A lot
of people, this is Schollenberger. A lot of people are
upset about these images of violent protesters in Los Angeles
(21:14):
waving the Mexican flag. If they love Mexico so much,
why are they upset at enforcing our laws against illegal entry? Yeah,
that's right. Why not if they're waving the Mexican flag,
go and enjoy Mexico. Why are you upset that we
have laws against illegal immigration. To fully appreciate their significance,
(21:38):
it's important to understand that over the last several decades,
the people who run California and its major cities came
to a new consensus. A large number of our laws
were racist and oppressive. Yes, this is the nute of it.
This is why none of these laws are enforced, because
they think it's racist and oppressive to enforce laws that
(22:00):
are the better rock of civilization. Sellenburger writes, Democrats increasingly
viewed laws against illegal camping, open air drug dealing, shoplifting, burglary, arson,
unlawful border crossing not as tools for protecting neighborhoods and
preserving public space, but as tools for putting poor people
(22:20):
and racial minorities in prison. See out flipped and you
let them flip it. That's why your neighborhoods are not safe.
That's why your public spaces are not safe, because you
let these progressives come in and flip the world upside
down and saying, well, no, no, it's not to keep
us safe. It's to oppress minorities and poor people. So
(22:46):
one by one, Democrats says Schellenburger stopped enforcing and weakened
laws against drug dealing, illegal camping, prostitution, public defecation, drug
use on sidewalks. Cities stopped enforcing anti cans camping ordinances.
State leaders directed prosecutors not to charge certain drug crimes.
Federal immigration laws were nullified by city policy in the
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name of compassion. Progressives dismantled the foundations of public order
come to today. Over the last few days, we've seen
the consequences of this ideology erupt in the streets of
Los Angeles. Protesters attacked federal agents during ice operations, hurled
bricks and fireworks, and officers torched vehicles and defaced public buildings,
(23:32):
all of it filmed, cheered, and amplified on social media.
And then Newsom comes out and says what Trump did
was inflammatory, getting the National Guard called up. He was
at the center of this revolution to dismantle all the
laws that kept our cities clean and civilized and orderly.
(23:55):
Newsom was at the center of it. He destroyed San Francisco.
And of course he gets promoted to become governor only
because of his hair and his jawline, not because he
has a brain in his head. He clearly doesn't, and
he's really good at doing a jiu jitsu move. He
(24:17):
jumped out first and said, well, this is Trump's fault
for inciting it. And wouldn't you know there are seventeen
hundred people in the media going yoah, yeah, it's Trump's
fault for inciting it. It's like, no, Trump didn't give
out free healthcare to illegal aliens so they could mass
here buy the millions. He didn't create sanctuary cities and states.
(24:40):
Other states don't have this problem. Other states aren't sanctuaries.
Other states don't give out twenty two billion dollars a
year in benefits. Actually that was before the illegal alien healthcare,
so it's probably about thirty five billion now thirty five
billion a year if your tax money goes to illegal aliens.
Other states don't do this. We do. And so what
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happened is they took roote, literally by the millions. Now
they have their candidates on city councils, their candidates are
in the legislature, and they have their organizations that are
fully funded. So if you try to say, hey, we've
got too many illegal aliens here, we have too many
(25:23):
violent criminals who are here illegally. We are spending too
many tens of billions of dollars on all these people. Well,
now they have the money, they have the membership online,
they could summon up hundreds thousands of young, crazy kids
(25:44):
and they'll show up with the concrete and the bricks
and the rocks, and they'll try to kill police officers.
And you didn't hear. You didn't hear Newsom or Bass
say one word about the cops who were hiding under
the overpass on the one oh one trying not to
get smashed in the head with a concrete block falling
(26:08):
from twenty or thirty feet above them. Not one word,
because they don't care if the cops get killed. They'll
just blame it on Trump. Newsom and Bass are two
of the most despicable creatures I have ever seen in
my life, let alone in government running LA in California.
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They don't care about destroying our way of life. They
don't They're actively complicit. And Schellenberger nailed it. You should
subscribe to his Well, he's on x he actually reprinted
this on ex Twitter, and he's also got a sub stack,
(26:51):
and that alone is worth the monthly subscription. Fit what
he wrote or more. Coming up, we got Michael Monks
KFI News, who's been in the middle of all this
reporting for kf I.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
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John Cobelt here Michael Monks on after Deborah's News to
talk about what's been going on? Anything going on this weekend? Nothing?
It was a very quiet weekend in downtown LA. I think, yeah,
well stirring up again. People are massing downtown. And is
Michael there? No he is not. Oh okay, good, but
(27:29):
he was yesterday. He almost got killed yesterday. Yeah, he
needs a break that pot. Well, he's going to talk
about getting tear gassed, and we'll play you a clip
as well. All right, let's play two idiots that you
pay to help run the government. Let's start with Karen Bass,
who claimed that the deployment of the National Guard was unnecessary.
(27:52):
I don't know did she say this before the protesters
started dropping concrete blocks on the LAPD car. I don't
know the timing, but play this clip.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
This is intentional chaos, you know. I had talked to
representatives of the Trump administration earlier on to tell them
that the Los Angeles police department could control things that
were happening here and that there was no need to
federalize troops, and so to have this here is really
just a provocation and something that was not needed in
(28:23):
our city. We're still recovering after five months from the
city's worst natural disaster in decades, and now to go
through a trauma like this that is really traumatizing the
whole city because everybody knows somebody in a city where
more than fifty percent our Latino this just sows chaos
(28:46):
that is not warranted nor needed in the city of
Los Angeles at this point in time.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Boy, you got a lot of nerve. We're still recovering
from the fires. At least she brought the fires up, John, Yeah,
at least she's aware there was a fire. Miss I'm
going to ignore the fire warnings and fly to Africa
for a few days. Miss I defunded the fire department.
Miss I didn't hold any meetings before the wind started
blowing and the fire danger became obvious. Me I was
(29:16):
flying around the world, wasn't I. Oh, we're still recover
We're gonna be recovering probably from ten years. We got
a lot of nerve. If we had a different mare,
there wouldn't have been a fraction of the damage because
maybe they wouldn't have defunded the fire department the way
they defunded the police department. By the way, we're going
(29:36):
to be at a record low for a police officers
if we're not there already, because she's defunding that too.
She said it was unnecessary in a provocation. Huh, Well,
play the Eric cut five. Just play the first line
here of mcgim McDonald, the LAPD chief.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
We are overwhelmed as far as the number of people
out there engaged in this.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Stripe of stop, we are overwhelmed. She says it's unnecessary
and a provocation to have the National Guard. McDonald was
saying LAPD was overwhelmed. She's saying they can handle it.
He's saying, we are overwhelmed. Once again, you can't trust
her judgment. And here's another lunatic congresswoman. We're paying for
(30:22):
her too, Maxime Waters, who I believe is eighty six
years old, and she's yelling at National Guard troops. It's
like some old lady got loose from the nursing home
and she's screaming at the National Guard and I'm sure
they were intimidated. Play cut number nine. What are you
going to do to go shoot some cats? She's a friend,
(30:44):
You're going to shoot.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
If you shoot me, You've got to shoe straight. I
don't know why you're.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
In my city. You did. The governor was not contacted.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
This is Trump and his outrage as a tip, not
only talking our sanctuary city, but you to frighten us. Yes,
Trump dropped the concrete blocks on the cop cars. Trump.
Trump called up all those two thousand miscreants who don't
have jobs. Many of them are here illegally. He told
(31:18):
he bought the Mexican flags for his crowd too. Right.
Did he pack their backpacks full of the concrete and
the rocks? Did he give him the hammers to bust
up the Kronkak barriers? Where they got they got the
blocks to drop on the cop cars? Trump did all that. Huh,
he must be superman, Maxine Waters, This is what happens
(31:40):
when you don't go for Alzheimer's treatment. In a few days,
we're gonna see Joe Biden doing this too. Two of
them are going to be running around naked in the streets.
What a crazy lady, all right? We come back. Michael
Monks Cafe Ie News got tear gash yesterday. Yeah he did. Yeah,
what he does? I mean, he puts his on the line.
(32:00):
He does. He's the stud here, it really is.
Speaker 5 (32:03):
John.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
I didn't see you do in your putting yourself on
the line. I was. I was in my car listening
after to the aftermath after he got cast, and I'm thinking,
I'm I'm glad I'm not anywhere near there. Oh yeah,
you couldn't handle that. Listen to you. You've been hiding
in an anchor booth for thirty years. She would have
been trampled by the stampede. Yeah, it was the last
(32:26):
news story you were on. I don't remember Debor Mark
in the CAFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey, you've been
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