March 10, 2025 • 37 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (03/10) - Michael Monks comes on the show to talk about the audit that uncovered billions of dollars in funding that is missing that was meant for the LA Homeless Services Authority. More on the audit into LAHSA. More on Mayor Karen Bass reportedly deleting text messages related to the fires. A Columbia student had his student visa and green card revoked for taking part in the protests against Israel on campus.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:51):
Anyway, that's on the podcast. Michael Monks is here. Now.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
We just did a story about all the money we've
blown a high speed rail and got nothing for it.
Now there's an audit out about all the money we've
spent on the Los Angeles Homelessness Homeless Services Authority. This
is a County City venture billions of dollars, and according
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to this new audit, we've got nothing for it. They
don't know where a lot of the money went. And
we're talking billions of dollars. Just so you know, somebody
from Oh this is a Chris Lagras wrote this online.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Chris has been on our show. He's a journalist. He says.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Ten percent of LA's total budget services one tenth of
one percent of the population the homeless. And Michael came
in and reminded me that the homeless tax is going
up April first.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
It's exactly right, and that is courtesy of all of
us here in La County. We had an option in
November to vote on Measure A if we wanted to
put a half cent sales tax on ourselves in perpetuity
with no sunset clause, and by a margin of fifty
seven to forty two percent, a Los Angeles County voter
said yes, we would.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Like to do that. It wasn't even close. It wasn't
even close.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Now keep in mind, there was already like a quarter
cent sales tax that was set to expire in a
few years, and so advocates say, we need something permanent.
Our all of the progress we've made on homelessness could stop.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Oh, that would be terrible.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
It would be the timing, I suppose is coincidental, and
that just a couple of weeks will be sending more
money into homeless programs when we have yet another audit
saying the money spent on homeless programs is questionable. This
one's a little bit different than the previous one that
was just about the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority that
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was LAS, that was a specific audit to LASA. Only
this one is LASA and the City of Los Angeles,
as ordered by a federal judge. Because you may recall,
there's been an ongoing lawsuit group of downtown advocates is
known as the LA Alliance. They sued the city saying
you got to do something about all the homelessness downtown,
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and so that has required a certain number of beds
that need to be created each year, and so the
city is constantly dealing with that. But this audit was
ordered as part of that case to see where the
money is going, and these auditors have found yet again
not entirely sure.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
This is what's fascinating.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
They can't explain where the money went it's not that
they put it into a program and it didn't work,
it's that we don't know what this program was.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
There are similarities in this audit to the one about
LAWSA in that there seems to be accounting that isn't great.
There are issues with the information that has received. But
again this also involves the city. These auditors said, we've
identified two point three billion dollars in funding for homeless programs,
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but we can't say for certain that that's it because
we could not get all of the information that we
wanted or needed from either the city or LOSSA. And
then the accounting practice is employed by both entities, the
Homeless Services Authority and the city are prone to human error,
and just like the loss of specific audit, they had
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no measurable statistics to see if the money was working right.
So they've spent all of this money and they've written contracts,
but they don't know whether the vendors achieved the goals
because they're not explicitly stated. So they don't know if
all this was part of an elaborate theft scheme.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
I mean, there's no way to tell.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
You know, it's interesting because I cover a lot of
city government and county government stuff. And it wasn't long
ago that a lot of those vendors that received this
type of money had been crawling to both the county
and the city saying, we're not getting paid by.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Loss of fast enough.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
So, yes, there is money going out, but as far
as the vendors are concerned that are supposed to be
the ones on the front lines of this with the
money that goes from the city in the co county
to loss of the inn to them, they're saying that
the money's not coming in fast enough, so they're having
to borrow money from banks in order to keep their
own lights on to support the homeless initiatives that have
been mandated.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
By the government.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Anybody from the bank lending these organizations money really ought
to get fired.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
It's a crazy thing.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Well not necessarily, John, because they're about to have a
whole lot more money available to the tune of a
billion dollars each year because of this sales tax.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Yeah, if it.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Gets there, the thing is, it's another billion dollars for
them to lose track of.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
That's what I mean by the coincidental and the coincidence
of the timing is that this new audit comes out
just a couple of weeks before. Every time you buy
something in La County, you're going to have a little
bit more of it going towards these programs a billion
dollars each year. Now, we already know that there have
been problems with the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority to
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the point where this joint operation by the county and
the city, you got the county saying, not so sure
we want to be part of loss anymore in this city.
Some members of the city government saying, not so sure
we want to be part of loss anymore. But this
new audit of the city and LASSA says that the
city's not so great at handling this either.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
And you know, in a.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Larger context, because the city is spending a billion three
every year, that's money that they're not spending, like on
the fire department, and obviously the fire department is way underfunded.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
I talked to City Controller Kenneth Mahea last week about
the city's precarious financial state. They're going to run a
budget deficit this year, they're projected to run one next year.
A lot of this money it make, you know, there's
a lot of creative, clever accounting and government. Some of
it comes from grants, and it's not necessarily your tax
dollars that go to this or that, but regardless, it
is money that has been given to the city to
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accomplish certain goals that are not being accomplished. But you're right,
it's not just the fire department, which has new attention
on it because of what happened earlier this year. There
are parts of La that are completely dark at night
because the street lights aren't on.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Yes, there's sidewalk that have been broken for years.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
There are parks that are run down that can't be
addressed because those department are Animal shelters are overcrowded and
dealing with mess because the city doesn't have enough money
to do anything well.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
But there's no person, no leader, no entity that the
mayor of the city council, no one in county government
outside attorney chat. Somebody's got to investigate this, somebody's got
to clean this mess up.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
I've found, in a solid year of watching very closely
at La City City Hall that they are just wildly
different interpretations about what it means to address homelessness in
this city.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
And a lot of people want to throw more money.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Other people simply want to say, let's take some of
this funding and let's beautify our neighborhoods. Let's get these
RVs off the streets, let's get them off the sidewalks.
So let's get homeless people out of our parks so
that our children can go. Let's keep them away from schools.
And you have other members of the city council that
vote against those measures every single time. Know, those RVs
should day exactly where they are. You know those people
camping outside the parks, it's day exactly where they are.
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So there is not a singular message coming from the
city council at least.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
And I know who those people are.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Those are the Democratic Socialists of America's people are like you.
This is Hernandez and Hugo Soda Martinez. And the conditions
in their districts are the worst in the city when
it comes to RVs and garbage and homeless people living
on the sidewalks. And why I don't understand why the
people in the districts don't connect their vote to the conditions,
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and the people in office, like those two among a
few others, don't seem to care. You know, I mean, really,
there are a lot of sections of town where not
one tent is tolerated, not one pile of garbage, you know,
all al breaks loose.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
I'm going to move to that part.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Of town because I live in Council District fourteen, a
couple of blocks from skid Row.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
I have no idea why you do that. It's talkable
and it's nice except for this.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
And I'm curious because we had a change in council member, right,
Kevin d Leon, who was trying to move tents, was
trying to move our v's. He got voted out by
one of the Democratic Socialists supported candidates, Isabelle Herado, who
has taken a different approach to this. Was she the
one sleeping at the accouncil allegedly sleeping? Yes, allegedly sleeping.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
I mean, I know I de Leon had a lot
of baggage, but he was trying to clean up.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
He made a big effort there at the end, maybe
to salvage his own career.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Yeah, that's what it was interest exactly up until the
last year. It didn't work for him.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
But I get the I get a front row view
to see how this electoral transition happens, to see if
it if it makes a difference.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
They're crazy, They're not just all crazy people. I'm happy
to bring it to you any time.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Thank you very much. Excellent report. That is Michael Munks,
kf I News. More more detail on this audit, UH
coming up. It is astounding how much money it is
flushed away and people connected two LASA and other homeless
agencies and these these these nonprofits, these NGOs, Oh my god,
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are they getting rich just wholesale theft of the money.
Everybody knows that. I got like four different stories in
front of me. I mean, the word is out there.
I don't know if people I don't know this. This
TikTok and Instagram cover this stuff, because if that's what
everybody's watching, they don't know about all the stuff I'm
looking at.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
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Speaker 1 (10:42):
All right, we just had Michael Monks on. I can't
tell you.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
I can't tell you the size of this disaster in
the criminal homeless industry here in La the UH. There
there is a website called All Aspect Report dot com.
Chris Legras writes for it, and Chris has been on
the show a number of times as a local journalist,
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and it's a local journalist, the independent journalists, or they
have small news websites that are really doing the work
now because we don't have major media sites for the
most part that care. Everything we're going to tell you
is true. The City of Los Angeles spends a billion
three hundred million every year on homelessness, and as I said,
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that is ten percent of the city's total budget. It
services one tenth of one percent of the population. Ten
percent of our tax money goes to help one tenth
of one percent, except it's not helping these people. LASA
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is the agency being investigated. In twenty fourteen, they spend
about sixty million dollars a year. They now spend eight
hundred and seventy five million eight hundred and seventy five million.
Lossa's budget increased by one thousand, two hundred and eighty
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nine percent over the last decade. The number of employees
went from about one hundred and twenty to eight hundred
and forty.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
The number of people who.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Make more than one hundred thousand a year, went from
nine to one hundred and sixty three. What did I
tell you? They all make six figure salaries. One hundred
and sixty three executives at LASA make over one hundred
thousand dollars. And after all that, homelessness went up from
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fifty three thousand ten years ago to seventy five thousand.
We've got forty two percent more homeless after all those
billions of dollars. Oh what does that tell you? It
tells you that they're treating They treat us, you know,
like like an ATM machine. And people in this in
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this city, in this county. They voted for a tax increase.
It's a half cent tax to fund homelessness. It's going
to go to this agency. It starts April first. You
voted for it on November fifth, fifty seven, forty three.
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I just it's it's it's really, it's really overwhelming. Tim
Campbell for the West Side Current. He wrote a piece
says the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority needs to be
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shut down as soon as possible. No more studies, no
more reports. Do you know every day, every day, LOSA
spends five and a half million dollars every day while
you're working, five and a half million dollars goes into
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the bureaucratic toilet. Seven people die on the streets every night,
that's what That's about fifteen hundred people a year. So
in the next twenty four hours, they're gonna spend five
million dollars and seven people are gonna die. Wait, there's
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no word for this. It's beyond it crazy, it's beyond insane.
It's it's overwhelming. Campbell says, neither LASA nor the City
of Los Angeles have exercised even basic governance over funding
and programs. What is Karen Bass doing? Seriously, what do
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they do in city Hall? Everybody should be let out
in handcuffs. What is she doing? Nobody showed up in
a lot of parts of the Palisades for the fire.
Nobody seems to be doing anything about the homeless except
spending the money.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
And I gotta go over this story again. This is
las dot com.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
This is the two million dollar contract that the head
of LASA, Lavicia Adams Kellum, two million dollars that she
signed and awarded to an organization that her husband is
a major executive with. She approved the contracts to her
husband's organization. That organization did not provide any justification for
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its payments.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
And she's running all of LASA.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
She is spending the two billion dollars, She is in
charge of spending five million dollars a day. And we
had more homeless than ever before, and seven of them
are dying every night. None of them care, None of
them care. They're not even pretending they got the mother
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load of gravy trains. They know that there's virtually no
media in the city that's gonna go after them, barrass
expose them, except for these little websites, you know, these
pesky little websites. And you have absolute what would possibly
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be the upside of letting people live in the street
intentse and RVs, which is what Hugo Soda Martinez and.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
And this is Hernandez allows.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Some of the streets in their district are absolutely filthy,
disgusting and dangerous, dangerous with insane people and drug addicted
people running amok. According to LAist dot com, la city
officials have made it impossible impossible to accurately track homeless spending.
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They the LASA has failed to collect accurate data on
all the people they pay money to. All these homeless nonprofits.
They don't have any accurate data, cannot hold them accountable
almost two and a half billion dollars in city funding.
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They can't figure out work where any of it went
or if it mattered. Is there anybody protesting? Well, One
council member, Monica Rodriguez, says, the report confirmed what she's
been saying for years. We could never get clear answers
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about tax dollars being invested in homelessness. How do you
how does it this is happening in plain sight in
front of all these city officials. I'm wondering how many
city council members are getting kickbacks? How many of their
staff members are getting kickbacks. I think this must be
because she's saying this should be a wake up call
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for my colleagues. Well, if you, if Monic Ardriguez has
been saying this out loud for years, they don't need
a wake up call. Not if not, if people are
getting rich off this, how many audits do you have
to have? We've had two audits down four months. But
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you know what she What they want to do is
they want to set up a new agency. But the
new agency would get their employees from all the old agencies. Well, seriously,
they want a new homeless agency and they'd be hiring
from the old homeless agency. I don't know what sway
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the judge has over this, because Judge David o'carter, it's
a federal judge. He's the one who asks for the audit.
He said, the situation is ridiculous. This may be the
only independent review of homelessness spending in decades. What is
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Karen Bass doing? He's gonna hold it. Listen to this.
He's going to hold a public court hearing on March
twenty seventh, and he's asked Bass to show up, and
that dope Marquise Harris Dawson and the city Controller Kenneth Behea,
and the County Board of Supervisors Chairman Catherine Barger, and
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all the auditors.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Oh, I hope he's ruthless.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
You need somebody who's going to be absolutely blunt, ruthless.
These people need to be dressed down and shaken down
once and for all. And this is the one issue
Karen Bass actually ran on. I told you she'd be
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a complete disaster. I don't understand why people are doing
what they're doing. And you've voted for the tax increase.
It's just incredible.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
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Speaker 2 (21:19):
Over the weekend, news broke in The La Times that
Karen Bass had deleted all her texts related to the fire.
In fact, she claims, or her lawyer claims, that her
phone auto deletes, which is questionable. You have to go
out of your way to have a delete setting, and
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on an Apple phone, for example.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
You get three choices.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
You get thirty days a year, or you can keep
your text forever. So the fire started on January seventh,
January seventh, January eighth, January ninth. By January tenth, the
La Times said, hey, we're putting in a request to
see your text messages. The lawyer didn't get back to
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him for two months and then said, oh, look at that,
they're all gone. Maybe she had it on thirty day
auto delete. Oh sorry about that. They're covering something up.
That's what I think, something's being covered up. But never
had this in her news. This is the first I
heard of it. Play play Karen Bass talking to reporters.
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It took a while.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
It took us a while to respond to the text messages,
and by that time they had already deleted, but we
are looking to see if we can retrieve them in
another way.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
It took us some time. Yeah, it took you two months,
and he didn't respond. I always love when to evade
a question, a politician will will state the obvious, Well,
it took us some time. Doesn't take time to forward
text messages. That's easier than filling up one hundred and
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seventeen million Yellen reservoir.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Maybe it took us some time. The Times has the.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Right to ask, and you're obligated to send the Times
the messages. The Loss says you're supposed to keep the messages.
That's another thing they're gonna try to glide over that.
The Loss says you're supposed to keep the messages. It's
government records. That's why the Times was asking for them.
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Bess had to keep them, and certainly she had them
that week. If she didn't have the time to send them,
she didn't have the time to delete them. They waited
two months until they deleted them. She just thinks everybody's stupid.
This is a cover up. They don't want us to
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know just how bad it is. I mean, we can
see how bad it is by the result, but the
details of how they blundered through this and then she
says she didn't do it on purpose. I don't believe that.
Why would anybody believe that they didn't do it on purpose?
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Like stop it. People have been deleting.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Emails, tape recordings, texts, you know, any just in a
lot of your lifetime, from Richard Nixon and Hillary Clinton.
Deleting happens all the time. That's how you stay out
of jail. That's how you stay keep from getting fired
or being forced out of office. You delete the evidence.
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Rule number one if you're a criminal is get rid
of the evidence. That's why they That's why uh, Robert
Kardashian helped Ojay get rid of all the bloody clothing,
stuffed it in the trash can at Lax. Get rid
of the evidence, you might get away with it. Of
course they deleted the texts because of course they didn't
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respond for two months, and the law says that they should.
They claimed to be following some attorney general's opinion from
nineteen eighty one. There were no texts in nineteen eighty one.
The opinion has nothing to do with texts, doesn't say
anything about it. It's total, complete nonsense, horse feces, unbelievable.
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So we're going to keep on top of that. But
she has messed up bad and they are trying to
protect her, and the media occasionally does a little tweak.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
It's like, oh, did you delete the message? Oh no,
I would never delete the message. Are you sure you
wouldn't do it?
Speaker 2 (25:57):
No?
Speaker 1 (25:57):
No, no, not me, not me. It was some kind
of auto delete thing. You know. We we we we
wanted to do that. We wanted to send you the time.
It took us. Some time took us along.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Yeah, it takes a real long time to forward text
messages to a reporter who has a legal basis for
requesting them, and you have a legal a legal obligation
to release them. You're forwarding texts. Here's the here's some
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good news on the couple of good news on the
immigration front. Bill Milusian had this for Fox News. Do
you remember the cp the CBP one cell phone app
where illegal aliens could download the app and fill out
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a form and get advanced clear It's to come into
the country to apply for asylum. In a fact, they
legalize themselves over the app before they approach the border
and and and I don't know how, I mean, how
many thousands or millions did this? Well, the Trump administration
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has repurposed the CBP one app and turned it into
a self deportation app. It's going to automatically update, so
people who are looking at the app expecting to use
it to apply for asylum will now get a form
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to deport. I guess if you're in the country, you
can fill out the form and deport yourself. You fill
out a biographical information including their countries of citizenship, which
country they're returning to, they're alien registration numbers, contact information,
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and they could upload photos of themselves. You then submit
it to the CBP and then you leave the country.
And you're saying, well, who's going to do that, Well,
they should do that, because if they fill out the
form and leave voluntarily, then maybe someday they could come
back in legally. But if they don't leave voluntarily, then
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they are at risk of being.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Captured and deported.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Department of Homeland Security says it's much cheaper for US
taxpayers if illegal aliens self deport.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
And then ICE can focus just on the criminals.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Christinome, the head of the Homeland Security, says This new
app gives aliens the option to leave down self deport
so they can return legally in the future and live
the American dream. If they don't, we will find them,
we will deport them, and they will never return.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Oh, here it is.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Administration allowed more than a million aliens to enter the
United States just by filling out the form on the app.
They were pre legalized, and then claimed that, well, you know,
the border crossings are actually down.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
No, they're not down.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
You legalize them in advance, you legalize the legal crossings.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Well that's being reversed.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
According to the government data, up to fifty thousand migrants
were entering the US every month via the CBP one
app during the Biden administration. Total nearly a million ice
also is And I'd said this this one. I'd said
this while it was happening, all those ridiculous protests at
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the universities, these pro hamas students and activists and agitators
that were cheering on moss, slaughtering Jews.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
It's like, who are these people? We must have let
them into the country.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Why don't we we had to canceler citizenship or I
actually I figured they were here on student visas. Cancel
their student visas, send it back to the home home
country out. Yeah, boot them out of the country. I
knew these people if they were here legally, they had
visas or green cards that you could rescind. Well, that's
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what they did to uh Mahmood Khalil. Mahmood Khalil was
one of the leaders at Columbia University for last year's
pro Hamas Killed the Jews demonstrations. Mamood Khalid was detained
Saturday night by the Department of Homeland Security. According to
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his attorney, Amy Greer, state department had ordered his green
card revoked. They took him into custody eight thirty after
entering his building owned by Columbia. He's Palestinian and Syrian,
so he was able to call his lawyer, Amy Greer,
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from the building and she got one of the agents
on the phone to speak to her. When the agent
told her the State department had revoked his student visa,
Greer said, well, Khalil is a lawful, permanent resident, and
the agent said they revoked that too.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
And hung up.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
The lawyer got the old dial too. They revoked the
student visa and the green card because he was creating
chaos on the campus and normal students, most of them
American citizens, couldn't go to class, and the Jewish kids
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were outright terrorized. Yeah, Agent hung up, Good, I get
him all out of the country. You come to this
country and and and you you start protest movements to
chase Jewish kids.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Out of school.
Speaker 5 (32:20):
Hey, John, I don't know if you have this, but
this is breaking. A federal judge just just issued a
temporary block on deporting him.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Temporary block. Well, it's gonna have to go to a hearing.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
You can get kicked out even if you they're they're
what they're gonna do is they they're gonna say he's
engaging terrorism activities. I mentioned this guy probably has a
lot of questionable ties to organizations because you remember he's
he's leading a protest that is cheering on the masslaughter
of Jewish people.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
So that's not a pure heart there.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Oh and then on top of it, the Trump administration
yanked four hundred million dollars in grants and contracts from
Colombia overall the anti semitism on campus. So Columbia just
lost four hundred million dollars. That's what you do, That's
what always should have been done, should do it to
all the universities.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
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Speaker 1 (33:22):
I was telling you about how.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
They have They have nailed a Columbia University student and
they're going to deport him Trump's Trump's government is going
after the idiots who started all those pro hamas protests.
(33:45):
If you start a a sit in where you know,
people form a tense city and they're cheering on hamas
and cheering on all the bloodshed, we're supporting a terrorist organization.
And that's the hook for keeping kicking my mood Kayliel
out of the country. Uh Marco Rubio said today the
(34:06):
USA is zero tolerance for terror supporters and they'll deport
Farner's international students if you support terrorists, So that that's
the rationale.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Conway here, Hey, now, Hana, we.
Speaker 6 (34:20):
Got big storm coming in. You know, this is not
gonna be a typical week. It's gonna be a raining Tomorrow, Wednesday, Thursday,
a little bit on Friday, and then right back on
Saturday it might hit us again. So it's gonna be
you know, five straight days of crappy weather. You'll feel
like you're in Seattle, you know, enjoying yourself with the
help you got. Monks is coming on today, Michael Monks.
(34:41):
He's going to talk about the billions and billions of
dollars in homeless funds after the audit revealed that they
don't know where that money is. I don't know if
you've covered that. Yeah, I suspected you.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
They still don't know where the money.
Speaker 6 (34:54):
Is, right, And I think that la is probably more
corrupt than Chicago because nobody he keeps an eye on anything,
you speaking, David Goldstein did it, Joel Grover did it,
and Eric Leonard did it. Yeah, and now they they've
you know, Goldstein's not around, Joel Grover's not around, and
there and they're you know, and and Eric Leonard works
for a you know, a company that doesn't use the
(35:16):
term illegal immigration.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Yes, there's there's.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Eric might be the last one left in any media
doing any investigative work on this stuff.
Speaker 6 (35:26):
I heard NBC last night saying, you know that Trump
is anti immigration. They didn't use the term illegal immigration,
they just said immigration. So to NBC, there's no difference
between going in and buying a TV set or taking one,
you know, I mean, there's just no, there's no no,
they no, there's no difference in in in their language
(35:47):
over breaking the law doesn't matter. That's right, that's that's right.
It's not a news operation. It's just propaganda. If somebody
crawled over the fence and went to Disneyland, you know,
and didn't pay their toll, they would have they would
put them in that little Disney jail and send them on.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
Look.
Speaker 6 (36:05):
I think that you know, this is a great country.
You got to come in the right way and then
you really enjoy it. I don't know how you enjoy
this country if you're not here legally, because you're always worried. Yeah,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
I say, you know, that's why you've always like stayed
in Burbanking. You've never that's right, that's right, that's right.
My grandfather came legally. I think I bet yours did
as well. Yeah, it's a.
Speaker 6 (36:27):
It's a it's a really cool way to go if
you can put in the time, you know. I mean
it was not as much back then, you know, I
think it wasntes.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
My dad five five years to that right to get legalized, right, Yeah,
and he had to take tests and learn the language.
Speaker 6 (36:42):
Yeah, my my grandfather did the same, which I think
they gave him a pass on that test. But yeah,
but but but also in the five years that I
think it was four years that my grandfather waited, the
four years my grandfather waited, man that he mined his manners.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
You know, he didn't stay.
Speaker 6 (36:56):
No duy, no you know, drunk in public, no jaywalking, nothing.
He really mind his p's and q's's, not breaking into
homes and crap.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
You know.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
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to tell about the case that I bet you forgot
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or didn't know, or maybe you weren't alive. You don't
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forget all the silly TikTok videos or the streaming documentaries.
Listen to Nathan Hawkman give a summary, and you tell
me why the Menandez brothers ought to get a crack
at freedom.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Anyway, that's on the podcast. Michael Monks is here. Now.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
We just did a story about all the money we've
blown a high speed rail and got nothing for it.
Now there's an audit out about all the money we've
spent on the Los Angeles Homelessness Homeless Services Authority. This
is a County City venture billions of dollars, and according
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to this new audit, we've got nothing for it. They
don't know where a lot of the money went. And
we're talking billions of dollars. Just so you know, somebody
from Oh this is a Chris Lagras wrote this online.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Chris has been on our show. He's a journalist. He says.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Ten percent of LA's total budget services one tenth of
one percent of the population the homeless. And Michael came
in and reminded me that the homeless tax is going
up April first.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
It's exactly right, and that is courtesy of all of
us here in La County. We had an option in
November to vote on Measure A if we wanted to
put a half cent sales tax on ourselves in perpetuity
with no sunset clause, and by a margin of fifty
seven to forty two percent, a Los Angeles County voter
said yes, we would.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Like to do that. It wasn't even close. It wasn't
even close.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Now keep in mind, there was already like a quarter
cent sales tax that was set to expire in a
few years, and so advocates say, we need something permanent.
Our all of the progress we've made on homelessness could stop.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Oh, that would be terrible.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
It would be the timing, I suppose is coincidental, and
that just a couple of weeks will be sending more
money into homeless programs when we have yet another audit
saying the money spent on homeless programs is questionable. This
one's a little bit different than the previous one that
was just about the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority that
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was LAS, that was a specific audit to LASA. Only
this one is LASA and the City of Los Angeles,
as ordered by a federal judge. Because you may recall,
there's been an ongoing lawsuit group of downtown advocates is
known as the LA Alliance. They sued the city saying
you got to do something about all the homelessness downtown,
(03:08):
and so that has required a certain number of beds
that need to be created each year, and so the
city is constantly dealing with that. But this audit was
ordered as part of that case to see where the
money is going, and these auditors have found yet again
not entirely sure.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
This is what's fascinating.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
They can't explain where the money went it's not that
they put it into a program and it didn't work,
it's that we don't know what this program was.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
There are similarities in this audit to the one about
LAWSA in that there seems to be accounting that isn't great.
There are issues with the information that has received. But
again this also involves the city. These auditors said, we've
identified two point three billion dollars in funding for homeless programs,
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but we can't say for certain that that's it because
we could not get all of the information that we
wanted or needed from either the city or LOSSA. And
then the accounting practice is employed by both entities, the
Homeless Services Authority and the city are prone to human error,
and just like the loss of specific audit, they had
(04:16):
no measurable statistics to see if the money was working right.
So they've spent all of this money and they've written contracts,
but they don't know whether the vendors achieved the goals
because they're not explicitly stated. So they don't know if
all this was part of an elaborate theft scheme.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
I mean, there's no way to tell.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
You know, it's interesting because I cover a lot of
city government and county government stuff. And it wasn't long
ago that a lot of those vendors that received this
type of money had been crawling to both the county
and the city saying, we're not getting paid by.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Loss of fast enough.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
So, yes, there is money going out, but as far
as the vendors are concerned that are supposed to be
the ones on the front lines of this with the
money that goes from the city in the co county
to loss of the inn to them, they're saying that
the money's not coming in fast enough, so they're having
to borrow money from banks in order to keep their
own lights on to support the homeless initiatives that have
been mandated.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
By the government.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Anybody from the bank lending these organizations money really ought
to get fired.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
It's a crazy thing.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Well not necessarily, John, because they're about to have a
whole lot more money available to the tune of a
billion dollars each year because of this sales tax.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Yeah, if it.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Gets there, the thing is, it's another billion dollars for
them to lose track of.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
That's what I mean by the coincidental and the coincidence
of the timing is that this new audit comes out
just a couple of weeks before. Every time you buy
something in La County, you're going to have a little
bit more of it going towards these programs a billion
dollars each year. Now, we already know that there have
been problems with the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority to
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the point where this joint operation by the county and
the city, you got the county saying, not so sure
we want to be part of loss anymore in this city.
Some members of the city government saying, not so sure
we want to be part of loss anymore. But this
new audit of the city and LASSA says that the
city's not so great at handling this either.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
And you know, in a.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Larger context, because the city is spending a billion three
every year, that's money that they're not spending, like on
the fire department, and obviously the fire department is way underfunded.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
I talked to City Controller Kenneth Mahea last week about
the city's precarious financial state. They're going to run a
budget deficit this year, they're projected to run one next year.
A lot of this money it make, you know, there's
a lot of creative, clever accounting and government. Some of
it comes from grants, and it's not necessarily your tax
dollars that go to this or that, but regardless, it
is money that has been given to the city to
(06:46):
accomplish certain goals that are not being accomplished. But you're right,
it's not just the fire department, which has new attention
on it because of what happened earlier this year. There
are parts of La that are completely dark at night
because the street lights aren't on.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Yes, there's sidewalk that have been broken for years.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
There are parks that are run down that can't be
addressed because those department are Animal shelters are overcrowded and
dealing with mess because the city doesn't have enough money
to do anything well.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
But there's no person, no leader, no entity that the
mayor of the city council, no one in county government
outside attorney chat. Somebody's got to investigate this, somebody's got
to clean this mess up.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
I've found, in a solid year of watching very closely
at La City City Hall that they are just wildly
different interpretations about what it means to address homelessness in
this city.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
And a lot of people want to throw more money.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Other people simply want to say, let's take some of
this funding and let's beautify our neighborhoods. Let's get these
RVs off the streets, let's get them off the sidewalks.
So let's get homeless people out of our parks so
that our children can go. Let's keep them away from schools.
And you have other members of the city council that
vote against those measures every single time. Know, those RVs
should day exactly where they are. You know those people
camping outside the parks, it's day exactly where they are.
(08:04):
So there is not a singular message coming from the
city council at least.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
And I know who those people are.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Those are the Democratic Socialists of America's people are like you.
This is Hernandez and Hugo Soda Martinez. And the conditions
in their districts are the worst in the city when
it comes to RVs and garbage and homeless people living
on the sidewalks. And why I don't understand why the
people in the districts don't connect their vote to the conditions,
(08:34):
and the people in office, like those two among a
few others, don't seem to care. You know, I mean, really,
there are a lot of sections of town where not
one tent is tolerated, not one pile of garbage, you know,
all al breaks loose.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
I'm going to move to that part.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Of town because I live in Council District fourteen, a
couple of blocks from skid Row.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
I have no idea why you do that. It's talkable
and it's nice except for this.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
And I'm curious because we had a change in council member, right,
Kevin d Leon, who was trying to move tents, was
trying to move our v's. He got voted out by
one of the Democratic Socialists supported candidates, Isabelle Herado, who
has taken a different approach to this. Was she the
one sleeping at the accouncil allegedly sleeping? Yes, allegedly sleeping.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
I mean, I know I de Leon had a lot
of baggage, but he was trying to clean up.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
He made a big effort there at the end, maybe
to salvage his own career.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Yeah, that's what it was interest exactly up until the
last year. It didn't work for him.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
But I get the I get a front row view
to see how this electoral transition happens, to see if
it if it makes a difference.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
They're crazy, They're not just all crazy people. I'm happy
to bring it to you any time.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Thank you very much. Excellent report. That is Michael Munks,
kf I News. More more detail on this audit, UH
coming up. It is astounding how much money it is
flushed away and people connected two LASA and other homeless
agencies and these these these nonprofits, these NGOs, Oh my god,
(10:10):
are they getting rich just wholesale theft of the money.
Everybody knows that. I got like four different stories in
front of me. I mean, the word is out there.
I don't know if people I don't know this. This
TikTok and Instagram cover this stuff, because if that's what
everybody's watching, they don't know about all the stuff I'm
looking at.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
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Speaker 1 (10:42):
All right, we just had Michael Monks on. I can't
tell you.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
I can't tell you the size of this disaster in
the criminal homeless industry here in La the UH. There
there is a website called All Aspect Report dot com.
Chris Legras writes for it, and Chris has been on
the show a number of times as a local journalist,
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and it's a local journalist, the independent journalists, or they
have small news websites that are really doing the work
now because we don't have major media sites for the
most part that care. Everything we're going to tell you
is true. The City of Los Angeles spends a billion
three hundred million every year on homelessness, and as I said,
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that is ten percent of the city's total budget. It
services one tenth of one percent of the population. Ten
percent of our tax money goes to help one tenth
of one percent, except it's not helping these people. LASA
(12:01):
is the agency being investigated. In twenty fourteen, they spend
about sixty million dollars a year. They now spend eight
hundred and seventy five million eight hundred and seventy five million.
Lossa's budget increased by one thousand, two hundred and eighty
(12:26):
nine percent over the last decade. The number of employees
went from about one hundred and twenty to eight hundred
and forty.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
The number of people who.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Make more than one hundred thousand a year, went from
nine to one hundred and sixty three. What did I
tell you? They all make six figure salaries. One hundred
and sixty three executives at LASA make over one hundred
thousand dollars. And after all that, homelessness went up from
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fifty three thousand ten years ago to seventy five thousand.
We've got forty two percent more homeless after all those
billions of dollars. Oh what does that tell you? It
tells you that they're treating They treat us, you know,
like like an ATM machine. And people in this in
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this city, in this county. They voted for a tax increase.
It's a half cent tax to fund homelessness. It's going
to go to this agency. It starts April first. You
voted for it on November fifth, fifty seven, forty three.
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I just it's it's it's really, it's really overwhelming. Tim
Campbell for the West Side Current. He wrote a piece
says the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority needs to be
(14:15):
shut down as soon as possible. No more studies, no
more reports. Do you know every day, every day, LOSA
spends five and a half million dollars every day while
you're working, five and a half million dollars goes into
(14:36):
the bureaucratic toilet. Seven people die on the streets every night,
that's what That's about fifteen hundred people a year. So
in the next twenty four hours, they're gonna spend five
million dollars and seven people are gonna die. Wait, there's
(15:00):
no word for this. It's beyond it crazy, it's beyond insane.
It's it's overwhelming. Campbell says, neither LASA nor the City
of Los Angeles have exercised even basic governance over funding
and programs. What is Karen Bass doing? Seriously, what do
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they do in city Hall? Everybody should be let out
in handcuffs. What is she doing? Nobody showed up in
a lot of parts of the Palisades for the fire.
Nobody seems to be doing anything about the homeless except
spending the money.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
And I gotta go over this story again. This is
las dot com.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
This is the two million dollar contract that the head
of LASA, Lavicia Adams Kellum, two million dollars that she
signed and awarded to an organization that her husband is
a major executive with. She approved the contracts to her
husband's organization. That organization did not provide any justification for
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its payments.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
And she's running all of LASA.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
She is spending the two billion dollars, She is in
charge of spending five million dollars a day. And we
had more homeless than ever before, and seven of them
are dying every night. None of them care, None of
them care. They're not even pretending they got the mother
(16:50):
load of gravy trains. They know that there's virtually no
media in the city that's gonna go after them, barrass
expose them, except for these little websites, you know, these
pesky little websites. And you have absolute what would possibly
(17:16):
be the upside of letting people live in the street
intentse and RVs, which is what Hugo Soda Martinez and.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
And this is Hernandez allows.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Some of the streets in their district are absolutely filthy,
disgusting and dangerous, dangerous with insane people and drug addicted
people running amok. According to LAist dot com, la city
officials have made it impossible impossible to accurately track homeless spending.
(17:59):
They the LASA has failed to collect accurate data on
all the people they pay money to. All these homeless nonprofits.
They don't have any accurate data, cannot hold them accountable
almost two and a half billion dollars in city funding.
(18:22):
They can't figure out work where any of it went
or if it mattered. Is there anybody protesting? Well, One
council member, Monica Rodriguez, says, the report confirmed what she's
been saying for years. We could never get clear answers
(18:44):
about tax dollars being invested in homelessness. How do you
how does it this is happening in plain sight in
front of all these city officials. I'm wondering how many
city council members are getting kickbacks? How many of their
staff members are getting kickbacks. I think this must be
because she's saying this should be a wake up call
(19:05):
for my colleagues. Well, if you, if Monic Ardriguez has
been saying this out loud for years, they don't need
a wake up call. Not if not, if people are
getting rich off this, how many audits do you have
to have? We've had two audits down four months. But
(19:27):
you know what she What they want to do is
they want to set up a new agency. But the
new agency would get their employees from all the old agencies. Well, seriously,
they want a new homeless agency and they'd be hiring
from the old homeless agency. I don't know what sway
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the judge has over this, because Judge David o'carter, it's
a federal judge. He's the one who asks for the audit.
He said, the situation is ridiculous. This may be the
only independent review of homelessness spending in decades. What is
(20:14):
Karen Bass doing? He's gonna hold it. Listen to this.
He's going to hold a public court hearing on March
twenty seventh, and he's asked Bass to show up, and
that dope Marquise Harris Dawson and the city Controller Kenneth Behea,
and the County Board of Supervisors Chairman Catherine Barger, and
(20:37):
all the auditors.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Oh, I hope he's ruthless.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
You need somebody who's going to be absolutely blunt, ruthless.
These people need to be dressed down and shaken down
once and for all. And this is the one issue
Karen Bass actually ran on. I told you she'd be
(21:03):
a complete disaster. I don't understand why people are doing
what they're doing. And you've voted for the tax increase.
It's just incredible.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am
six forty.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Over the weekend, news broke in The La Times that
Karen Bass had deleted all her texts related to the fire.
In fact, she claims, or her lawyer claims, that her
phone auto deletes, which is questionable. You have to go
out of your way to have a delete setting, and
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on an Apple phone, for example.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
You get three choices.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
You get thirty days a year, or you can keep
your text forever. So the fire started on January seventh,
January seventh, January eighth, January ninth. By January tenth, the
La Times said, hey, we're putting in a request to
see your text messages. The lawyer didn't get back to
(22:12):
him for two months and then said, oh, look at that,
they're all gone. Maybe she had it on thirty day
auto delete. Oh sorry about that. They're covering something up.
That's what I think, something's being covered up. But never
had this in her news. This is the first I
heard of it. Play play Karen Bass talking to reporters.
(22:33):
It took a while.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
It took us a while to respond to the text messages,
and by that time they had already deleted, but we
are looking to see if we can retrieve them in
another way.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
It took us some time. Yeah, it took you two months,
and he didn't respond. I always love when to evade
a question, a politician will will state the obvious, Well,
it took us some time. Doesn't take time to forward
text messages. That's easier than filling up one hundred and
(23:07):
seventeen million Yellen reservoir.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Maybe it took us some time. The Times has the.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Right to ask, and you're obligated to send the Times
the messages. The Loss says you're supposed to keep the messages.
That's another thing they're gonna try to glide over that.
The Loss says you're supposed to keep the messages. It's
government records. That's why the Times was asking for them.
(23:34):
Bess had to keep them, and certainly she had them
that week. If she didn't have the time to send them,
she didn't have the time to delete them. They waited
two months until they deleted them. She just thinks everybody's stupid.
This is a cover up. They don't want us to
(23:55):
know just how bad it is. I mean, we can
see how bad it is by the result, but the
details of how they blundered through this and then she
says she didn't do it on purpose. I don't believe that.
Why would anybody believe that they didn't do it on purpose?
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Like stop it. People have been deleting.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Emails, tape recordings, texts, you know, any just in a
lot of your lifetime, from Richard Nixon and Hillary Clinton.
Deleting happens all the time. That's how you stay out
of jail. That's how you stay keep from getting fired
or being forced out of office. You delete the evidence.
(24:47):
Rule number one if you're a criminal is get rid
of the evidence. That's why they That's why uh, Robert
Kardashian helped Ojay get rid of all the bloody clothing,
stuffed it in the trash can at Lax. Get rid
of the evidence, you might get away with it. Of
course they deleted the texts because of course they didn't
(25:11):
respond for two months, and the law says that they should.
They claimed to be following some attorney general's opinion from
nineteen eighty one. There were no texts in nineteen eighty one.
The opinion has nothing to do with texts, doesn't say
anything about it. It's total, complete nonsense, horse feces, unbelievable.
(25:38):
So we're going to keep on top of that. But
she has messed up bad and they are trying to
protect her, and the media occasionally does a little tweak.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
It's like, oh, did you delete the message? Oh no,
I would never delete the message. Are you sure you
wouldn't do it?
Speaker 2 (25:57):
No?
Speaker 1 (25:57):
No, no, not me, not me. It was some kind
of auto delete thing. You know. We we we we
wanted to do that. We wanted to send you the time.
It took us. Some time took us along.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Yeah, it takes a real long time to forward text
messages to a reporter who has a legal basis for
requesting them, and you have a legal a legal obligation
to release them. You're forwarding texts. Here's the here's some
(26:33):
good news on the couple of good news on the
immigration front. Bill Milusian had this for Fox News. Do
you remember the cp the CBP one cell phone app
where illegal aliens could download the app and fill out
(26:53):
a form and get advanced clear It's to come into
the country to apply for asylum. In a fact, they
legalize themselves over the app before they approach the border
and and and I don't know how, I mean, how
many thousands or millions did this? Well, the Trump administration
(27:15):
has repurposed the CBP one app and turned it into
a self deportation app. It's going to automatically update, so
people who are looking at the app expecting to use
it to apply for asylum will now get a form
(27:39):
to deport. I guess if you're in the country, you
can fill out the form and deport yourself. You fill
out a biographical information including their countries of citizenship, which
country they're returning to, they're alien registration numbers, contact information,
(28:00):
and they could upload photos of themselves. You then submit
it to the CBP and then you leave the country.
And you're saying, well, who's going to do that, Well,
they should do that, because if they fill out the
form and leave voluntarily, then maybe someday they could come
back in legally. But if they don't leave voluntarily, then
(28:22):
they are at risk of being.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Captured and deported.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Department of Homeland Security says it's much cheaper for US
taxpayers if illegal aliens self deport.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
And then ICE can focus just on the criminals.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Christinome, the head of the Homeland Security, says This new
app gives aliens the option to leave down self deport
so they can return legally in the future and live
the American dream. If they don't, we will find them,
we will deport them, and they will never return.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Oh, here it is.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Administration allowed more than a million aliens to enter the
United States just by filling out the form on the app.
They were pre legalized, and then claimed that, well, you know,
the border crossings are actually down.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
No, they're not down.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
You legalize them in advance, you legalize the legal crossings.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Well that's being reversed.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
According to the government data, up to fifty thousand migrants
were entering the US every month via the CBP one
app during the Biden administration. Total nearly a million ice
also is And I'd said this this one. I'd said
this while it was happening, all those ridiculous protests at
(29:52):
the universities, these pro hamas students and activists and agitators
that were cheering on moss, slaughtering Jews.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
It's like, who are these people? We must have let
them into the country.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Why don't we we had to canceler citizenship or I
actually I figured they were here on student visas. Cancel
their student visas, send it back to the home home
country out. Yeah, boot them out of the country. I
knew these people if they were here legally, they had
visas or green cards that you could rescind. Well, that's
(30:28):
what they did to uh Mahmood Khalil. Mahmood Khalil was
one of the leaders at Columbia University for last year's
pro Hamas Killed the Jews demonstrations. Mamood Khalid was detained
Saturday night by the Department of Homeland Security. According to
(30:51):
his attorney, Amy Greer, state department had ordered his green
card revoked. They took him into custody eight thirty after
entering his building owned by Columbia. He's Palestinian and Syrian,
so he was able to call his lawyer, Amy Greer,
(31:13):
from the building and she got one of the agents
on the phone to speak to her. When the agent
told her the State department had revoked his student visa,
Greer said, well, Khalil is a lawful, permanent resident, and
the agent said they revoked that too.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
And hung up.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
The lawyer got the old dial too. They revoked the
student visa and the green card because he was creating
chaos on the campus and normal students, most of them
American citizens, couldn't go to class, and the Jewish kids
(32:00):
were outright terrorized. Yeah, Agent hung up, Good, I get
him all out of the country. You come to this
country and and and you you start protest movements to
chase Jewish kids.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Out of school.
Speaker 5 (32:20):
Hey, John, I don't know if you have this, but
this is breaking. A federal judge just just issued a
temporary block on deporting him.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Temporary block. Well, it's gonna have to go to a hearing.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
You can get kicked out even if you they're they're
what they're gonna do is they they're gonna say he's
engaging terrorism activities. I mentioned this guy probably has a
lot of questionable ties to organizations because you remember he's
he's leading a protest that is cheering on the masslaughter
of Jewish people.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
So that's not a pure heart there.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Oh and then on top of it, the Trump administration
yanked four hundred million dollars in grants and contracts from
Colombia overall the anti semitism on campus. So Columbia just
lost four hundred million dollars. That's what you do, That's
what always should have been done, should do it to
all the universities.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
I was telling you about how.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
They have They have nailed a Columbia University student and
they're going to deport him Trump's Trump's government is going
after the idiots who started all those pro hamas protests.
(33:45):
If you start a a sit in where you know,
people form a tense city and they're cheering on hamas
and cheering on all the bloodshed, we're supporting a terrorist organization.
And that's the hook for keeping kicking my mood Kayliel
out of the country. Uh Marco Rubio said today the
(34:06):
USA is zero tolerance for terror supporters and they'll deport
Farner's international students if you support terrorists, So that that's
the rationale.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Conway here, Hey, now, Hana, we.
Speaker 6 (34:20):
Got big storm coming in. You know, this is not
gonna be a typical week. It's gonna be a raining Tomorrow, Wednesday, Thursday,
a little bit on Friday, and then right back on
Saturday it might hit us again. So it's gonna be
you know, five straight days of crappy weather. You'll feel
like you're in Seattle, you know, enjoying yourself with the
help you got. Monks is coming on today, Michael Monks.
(34:41):
He's going to talk about the billions and billions of
dollars in homeless funds after the audit revealed that they
don't know where that money is. I don't know if
you've covered that. Yeah, I suspected you.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
They still don't know where the money.
Speaker 6 (34:54):
Is, right, And I think that la is probably more
corrupt than Chicago because nobody he keeps an eye on anything,
you speaking, David Goldstein did it, Joel Grover did it,
and Eric Leonard did it. Yeah, and now they they've
you know, Goldstein's not around, Joel Grover's not around, and
there and they're you know, and and Eric Leonard works
for a you know, a company that doesn't use the
(35:16):
term illegal immigration.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Yes, there's there's.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Eric might be the last one left in any media
doing any investigative work on this stuff.
Speaker 6 (35:26):
I heard NBC last night saying, you know that Trump
is anti immigration. They didn't use the term illegal immigration,
they just said immigration. So to NBC, there's no difference
between going in and buying a TV set or taking one,
you know, I mean, there's just no, there's no no,
they no, there's no difference in in in their language
(35:47):
over breaking the law doesn't matter. That's right, that's that's right.
It's not a news operation. It's just propaganda. If somebody
crawled over the fence and went to Disneyland, you know,
and didn't pay their toll, they would have they would
put them in that little Disney jail and send them on.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
Look.
Speaker 6 (36:05):
I think that you know, this is a great country.
You got to come in the right way and then
you really enjoy it. I don't know how you enjoy
this country if you're not here legally, because you're always worried. Yeah,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
I say, you know, that's why you've always like stayed
in Burbanking. You've never that's right, that's right, that's right.
My grandfather came legally. I think I bet yours did
as well. Yeah, it's a.
Speaker 6 (36:27):
It's a it's a really cool way to go if
you can put in the time, you know. I mean
it was not as much back then, you know, I
think it wasntes.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
My dad five five years to that right to get legalized, right, Yeah,
and he had to take tests and learn the language.
Speaker 6 (36:42):
Yeah, my my grandfather did the same, which I think
they gave him a pass on that test. But yeah,
but but but also in the five years that I
think it was four years that my grandfather waited, the
four years my grandfather waited, man that he mined his manners.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
You know, he didn't stay.
Speaker 6 (36:56):
No duy, no you know, drunk in public, no jaywalking, nothing.
He really mind his p's and q's's, not breaking into
homes and crap.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
You know.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
Conways here all right, Crozer's got the news live in
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