August 15, 2025 • 28 mins
John Kobylt opens the final hour with a troubling report from The Washington Free Beacon about a DC police sergeant who blew the whistle on her superiors for misclassifying crimes to make the city’s stats look better—only for the city to quietly settle her lawsuit. Then it’s on to Part I of the Moist Line, followed by ABC’s Christiane Cordero reporting live from Alaska with the latest on the Trump–Putin summit.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can if I am six forty you're listening to the
John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Two rounds of
the Moistline coming up in three twenty and three point fifty,
so probably just about I don't know, fifteen seventeen minutes
away from the first round. We are going to have
Christianne Cordero for ABC News on after Michael's three point
thirty report. Christiane Cordero is reporting from Anchorage, Alaska. Trump
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is meeting Putin there, and she's got a lot of
demands on her time, so we were gonna have her
out in a few averon. Now we'll have her on
in less than a half an hour, and by then
maybe Trump and and Putin will be done with their meeting.
Nobody knew, nobody knows how long it's going to go.
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And meantime, as I mentioned before, Ukraine is still being
heavily bombed by Putin, so he didn't even take a
time out to go through the charade of having the
talk with Trump because he thinks it's Russians. It's Russia's land.
See its Russia's land, and those people should pledge allegiance
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to Russia. So this guy's not going to compromise, and
nobody really wants to force them to do it otherwise,
because you could see there's thirty two countries in Europe
and they hadn't been interested in Ukraine isn't capable of
fighting back. If it wasn't for the United States and
the tens hundreds of billions of dollars we've sent them,
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they would have been flattened already. And we're never going
to send troops there. We're just going to keep pumping
tax money into this black hole. So well, still awaiting
the outcome of this meeting today, but I can't imagine
anything spectacular is going to happen. But you never know.
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We've been talking about all week. Oh, Washington, d C's
police department was taken over by Trump, and immediately there's
squealing from the progressives who never found a criminal or
a crime that they didn't want to embrace. And the
squealing was it's like, hey, hey, crime is down here
(02:17):
in Washington, DC. Yeah, it's the fourth worst, fourth most
murderous city, not the first. From twenty twenty to twenty
twenty three, after COVID made people so crazy, everybody started
murdering each other at record rates, and it sustained itself
for four years. A drop last year, but it's still
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very high, still fourth worst. But they thought that was
enough to say Trump has no right to come in
here take over the police department, even though it's the
capital of the United States government. Hey, it's only the
fourth worst murder rate. Part two to this is whatever
crimes are being reported, there is a lot of fakery involved.
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There's a lot of just false reporting happens here in
Los Angeles as well. And the Washington Free Beacon has
a story recalling a lawsuit over the past few years
involving a Metropolitan Police Department sergeant in Washington named Charlotte
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de Josu suing the department in twenty twenty, saying police
leadership punished her for speaking out against a pretty sophisticated
operation to downgrade many many criminal offenses from felonies to
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misdemeanors to lower the crime rate, to lower the serious
crime rate. She said that the leaders of the Metropolitan
Police Department were classifying many crimes to deflate the crime statistics.
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Police officials told officers downgrade thefts, knife attacks, and violent
assaults to lesser offenses, and once they started doing discovery,
they found internal emails, depositions, phone call transcripts that the
Freebeacon reviewed. The lawsuit was eventually settled by the city,
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which means a lot of this was true. She provided
records showing the police leaders explicitly instructed their subordinates to
underclassify certain types of theft to keep them out of
the crime stats that the city reports to the public.
So you get the scam here. The crime is so
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out of control the idiots that run the city will
not fund the police to stop it, will not enforce
the law or strengthen the laws, so these guys go
to prison instead. The tactic is to misclassify the crimes.
Give you an example. According to Sergeant did you So,
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she reported one case in which a woman was cut
deep on the side of her face some kind of
knife probably. It was a deep, open flesh cut from
her forehead to the bottom of her chin. That's quite
a slice. Now, the responding officer had called the crime
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assault with a dangerous weapon, but the captain said, no,
we can't have that, so he reclassified the offense as
sick person to the hospital, and just like that, the
crime magically disappeared off the books. No longer is it
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a violent assault with a knife. It is now she
had the flu stomach ache sick person of the hospital.
The Franklin Porter, a police captain, was given the task
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to find a solution to the theft problem because theft
was driving up the district's statistics. Happened here in La
two Portish solution, which he devised alongside a lieutenant named
Andrew Zabowski. Zabowski was to reclassify the thefts and instead
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of calling it shoplifting or use the word theft, it
was taking property without right. I don't know what that means,
but taking property without right that's not tracked in the
dc crib report. So they had this weird category which
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neutered the theft, turned it into a non theft. Now,
this lieutenant Zabowski, who is one of the guys behind it,
is currently serving a forty eight month sentence for covering
up an unrelated murder case. So what you had here
is criminals in the management ranks of the Washington d C.
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Police Department taking the statistics. And these are some of
the methods. And I've even I've got the memos here
in front of me. They're long winded. But this was
the orders from police management on how to declassify things
so they won't show up in the statistics. And of
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course the journalists don't know any different because they just
regurgitate whatever public officials give them. Here's another one again.
This is according to the woman who filed the lawsuit
sergeant to do so. She says, I feel like they're
downgrading classifications. They had a transcript of a phone call.
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This assailant had strangled the victim. He ended up throwing
her over a couch. She had scratches on her neck,
her shirt was ripped, and then he threw a knife
close to her head. But another police captain played down
the crime because the guy missed. Well, it only tangentially
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involved a knife because the knife never made contact and
did you just said, Well, the knife only missed because
the victim moved out of the way. And so this
is this is this is what women strangled, just bent
over a couch, has a knife thrown at her. No crime, no,
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no crime, says the ref which means the Washington d C.
Crime rate crime rate is currently far higher than reported
and was far worse than even the number one crime
rate status had had the last four years. And again
this goes on Los Angeles too, So that's what that
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that's what you're up against because the police get so
much crap for having bad crime rates, so much crap
from the mayors and the city councils that they have
to lie, and so they do, and they're bad guys
for for doing that instead of holding a press conference
and telling the truth. All Right, we come back Moistline
round number one.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from kf I
am sixt on television.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
They've got two podiums up out of stage with a
blue backdrop that says pursuing peace, and then they have
the word piece four times below that title peace piece
Piece Piece. And we assume that Putin and Trump will
assume positions behind the podiums and maybe speak tell us
(10:22):
if there's any progress to the end of the slaughter
in Ukraine, anything happens, we'll tell you all about it.
Time though, Now to do the Moistline eight seven seven
Moist eighty six. We do this on many Fridays. It's
your chance to sound off. Let's go. Heyk Sean, thanks
(10:42):
for calling the Moistline. I'm so excited to hear from
you about time.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
If Trump wants five more and wants to do restricting.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Then why can't let them do that?
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Once the censor stops counting the legos, then you will
have less Democrats and Congress.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
Maybe all these kids who are on the internet should
get off the internet and go outside start doing the lawn.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
You won't have such an obee society.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
Elie is a home.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
You can't have it as it's our home. It's our home,
it's our home.
Speaker 6 (11:19):
Listsstfool crime.
Speaker 7 (11:23):
You know, they claim that crime is down, but how
much goes unreported?
Speaker 4 (11:28):
You know?
Speaker 7 (11:28):
I think people get to a point where you report something,
they don't give it anyway, So why waste the time
even calling it in. He's a little hung and the
stewardess should have slapped him after he said that twenty
five thousand, four years who gives it?
Speaker 8 (11:45):
Well? I think that tool on the plane is soon
to be an ex lawyer after finding out that interfering
with an aircrew.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
He is a felony.
Speaker 8 (11:54):
Just build up my truck at the costco and Gilbert
Arizona two fifty nine gallon.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Is working and fedal troops with the laws and of
the establishment, the Republican.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Why can't the president come in and defend people when
crazy lunatics are running wild.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
On our street?
Speaker 3 (12:18):
And how in the heck are.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
You're going to try to say that it's own constitutional
for him to do that?
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Do we really think that's what our.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Poor fathers mean, that they want the city to burn
like he can't do it?
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Just flood and burn.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
I'm looking at the sign right here at two dollars
and forty five cents a.
Speaker 7 (12:33):
Gallon here in central Texas, in the Waco area.
Speaker 6 (12:37):
I was in Houston, Texas, and I didn't see any protesters. Also,
there was no ice rays that could be seen anywhere.
The city of Houston and neighboring cities seem to be
all compliant with the federal laws of illegal immigrants. And
(12:57):
another thing, gas was too sixty nine a gallon.
Speaker 8 (13:02):
So these protesters are saying that these companies either have
to agree with them or they're wrong. What kind of
child this demand is that? What's even more hilarious is
that I highly doubt anybody doing this has ever picked
up a hammer, So hone Depot isn't really losing anything,
so they could just keeping norn These Davies and the
federal government should also keeping nornyse Davies and keep doing
their jobs.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
So Trump can make an announcement and in one day
start making an impact on crime and the homeless situation
in Washington, d C. But yet Vass has been sitting
at her desk for how long and can't make one impact,
not at all, other than lie and hide behind her
desk and their lawyers and attorneys and all this other
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crap that we pay for.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
This is ridiculous.
Speaker 7 (13:47):
I'm all for given La the DC treatment.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
We need to take back our city, make our streets
safe again.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
I welcome the federal government.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Gavin and Karen, a dream team of two. Ellie's very
own working crew. It promised her people to treat her well,
but in no time at all. Centers speaking to hell
but to tell me what Dad's burn by playing the
fiddle showed zero compassion, not even a little. The reservoir
is still empty, the money's still missing. I'd say that
they hater, but I'm only gifting here.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
You gotta love that prison where Brian Colbert is being kept.
Speaker 6 (14:24):
We should find many more of those.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
And we should send like meals on wheels.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
Cheeseburgers to all those other prisoners that are harassed.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
And oh it's a lovely day for a walk here
in the Woodland Hills on Ventura Boulevard. Oh look, I
got another like on my photo of the kiddy with
the wedding dresshole a.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Three million dollars in regards to just the clutched pearls
and uproar of DC right now. It reminds me of
a few years back someone said Trump could cure cancer,
and the news headlines that night would be that Trump's
putting on colleges out on the street.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
You got a lot of liberal media.
Speaker 8 (15:04):
Thanks you for leaving.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
You're not good.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
You hang up.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
It's the moistline callers. That's only round one. We got
round two coming up in moments to forty five in Waco, Texas?
Two forty Is that worth going to Waco? Two forty five?
Two sixty nine at another listener in Texas? Notice these
are all probably Californians who fled the state to go there.
(15:31):
Two fifty nine in Arizona, and here it's four point
fifty maybe to drive around enough. A lot of places
are five bucks. Yes, really unbelievable, All right, When when
we come back. We are going to get a report
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from Christian Cordero, ABC News at Anchorage the Trump Putin meeting,
and TV cameras are still pointed at the podium with
two at this stage, with two podiums to see if
they come out and speak. If she's able to talk
to us, she will.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
All right, let's go to Christian Cordero, ABC News correspondent
in Anchorage, Alaska, where Trump is meeting Putin and everybody's
awaiting the two of them to come out on a
stage and speak and talk about what's going on. Christian,
how are you.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
I'm doing well, Thanks John. Yeah, it's a fascinating moment
to be in Anchorage, Alaska, with the world's attention turning
here and the Russian president on the ground, having sat
so far for about three hours with President Trump. All
signs pointed out being a good thing. You know, Trump yesterday,
if you remember, he said that he will know very
quickly if Putin is serious about these talks. And so
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it seems as though just the nature of this lasting
as long as it has so far, that there has
been some productivity, but really we won't know until it ends,
which we anticipate that happening soon, and one, if not
both of them step out in front of a podium.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Was this an opportunity for Putin to lay out what
his terms would be if he were going to engage
in a cease fire to begin with?
Speaker 5 (17:23):
Sure, Sure, it's possible. That's one of the big questions,
is you know, yesterday it seems somewhat cut and dry
that what would be what would make for a successful
summit here today is if Putin agrees to a cease fire.
But then when you kind of look at it a
little bit closer, and especially with Ukraine's villain Sky timing
in and essentially think, you know, we're there are many
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things that we are not going to agree to, and
above all, we're not going to agree to a lasting
piece deal that has to do with Ukraine without Ukraine
at the table. So President Frum has more or less
kind of tampered expectations around all of that and hasn't
been entirely clear about what would be successful in like
the tangible sense. But what he has said is that
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he hopes that this summit will lead to another summit
that does include Zolensky, and that in itself would be
pretty remarkable if he is able.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
To has anybody talked about, even you know, off the record,
behind the scenes, Phutin thinks all of Ukraine belongs to Russia.
He wants as much land as he can get, and
Zelensky has made it clear publicly this week they're not
giving up an inch. So how does anybody get around that?
Speaker 5 (18:31):
Yeah, that that is really what everyone is up against,
and of course Trump wanting to be the negotiator that
brokers this deal. It's something he campaigned off of. That
is up against as well, is how do you find
any kind of middle ground when it comes to the land.
You know, the territory swap is what they've been calling it.
(18:53):
And one of the points that Velensky makes is that,
you know, why would we redraw the when they are
the ones that invaded us? You know, we have As
I look out the window right now and see possibly
a couple hundred people here in Angridge, Alaska holding up
Ukrainian flags, it's reminiscent of twenty twenty two, and so
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we're reminded that this war has been going on for
three years now. There have been hundreds of thousands of people,
frankly on both sides of the border who have been killed,
and so there is a desperation for it to end.
Zelenski feels that, of course, but it's also a question
of what kinds of security guarantees would be in place
to make sure this doesn't happen again, and what would
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they have to give up in order for this to
end temporarily.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
And Putin isn't giving them a break in Ukraine even
for a day. I mean, while this meeting with Trump
was going on, they were still bombing.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
In fact, they were escalating their bombing in the past
few weeks. And you know, July of last month was
the deadliest day for Ukrainian civilian months, I should say
for Ukrainian civilians since May of twenty twenty two. So
the Russian aggression has certainly escalated. But also Russia now
occupies twenty percent of Ukraine's territory. So when you talk
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about kind of you know, how do you kind of
find a way in two meaningful, lasting piece talks, that's
kind of what both sides perspectives are coming from. Is
just the fact that Russia does have control over a
significant part of Ukraine. But Ukraine is saying we cannot
stop because giving them an inch, you know, will be
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a major concession, not a small one.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Well, Christian, thank you for coming on and sharing all
that with us. Christian Cordero, ABC News correspondent in Anchorage,
thank you, thank you. And all the TV cameras are
all aimed at the stage in Anchorage. Trump and Putin
are supposedly wrapping things up soon. There's two podiums, there's
a blue background that says pursuing peace with the American
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and Russian flags, and reporters all ready to see what
they're gonna say. In Washington, d C. Trump made most
of the headlines this week regarding taking over the police department.
We've been talking about that periodically this afternoon. And one
aspect of this and this is where people in alle
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get jealous. I noticed a number of the comments in
the moistline about fifteen minutes ago where people saying, geez,
maybe come here, and increasingly don't you wish I mean,
if you want to get rid of the criminals and
get rid of the homeless. Karen Vass is a failure
at this and so is Newsome. So it's not going
to change at all as long as they're here. And
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it makes you wonder, is like, can Trump declare some
kind of an emergency. I don't care if it's illegal, unconstitutional,
who cares? Maybe some sort of national security emergency in
advance of the Olympics, like three years in advance of
the Olympics, like right now. Because here's what they're doing
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in Washington, d C. And I've seen video this Eric
found video of a bulldozer scooping up and dismantling by
force homeless encampments and just dumping it all into a
trash bin, into a dumpster because it is all garbage,
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you know, I think if they hear one more time,
but it's their precious possessions. I've seen up close, their
precious possessions. It's junk and garbage and stolen stuff. So
stop it. And those homeless encampments need to be cleared
out with a bulldozer. I've seen them do it here
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in La when they finally got rid of the homeless
encampment in Sava Senti Boulevard in front of the VA
boulders came in, started scooping things up, started crushing, and
that's what's going to happen here, and so more and
more people as this goes on. If Trump plays everything
out in Washington and they end up with a clean
city and no homeless people in the streets, what are
(23:14):
we all supposed to stand here and say, Well, good
for them, But I guess it's not going to happen
for us. In the words of Hunter Biden, f that
this story out of the La Times, some of Washington,
DC's homeless residents were packing their belongings yesterday because the
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sweeps are coming.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
See.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
All you have to do is tell them and they'll
go right if they don't want to lose their precious possessions.
Advocates are upset. They say there are better ways to
address homelessness than clearing encampments. Well, apparently none of them
have worked for the last ten years here in LA
So shut up. I'm up to the point where anything
they say, oh, I've got to respond with as shut up.
(24:03):
And we can make that phrase harsher as harsher if
you wish.
Speaker 8 (24:07):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
It's that the that the homeless occupants are going to
worry about where they go, Well, they're gonna have to worry,
and they're gonna have to take action, and they're gonna
have to go get the medical help, mental health help,
drug help, or they're gonna have to get out of town.
They're gonna have to do something. They don't get to
lie in the streets anymore. In Washington, d C. Andrew
(24:33):
Harding is executive director of the Washington Legal Clinic for
the Homeless. Good Lord. She she says, what did I
call her? Her name's Amber. Amber. Harding said she believes
that federal law enforcement will begin systematically rounding up and
arresting on the host people. She believes officers are going
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to ask people to move on, or they'd offer shelter,
and if you don't take it, you got arrested. And
in fact, that's what Caroline Levitt, the press secretary for Trump,
has said. It's pretty simple. Homeless people will be given
the option to leave the encampment, or go to a
homeless shelter, or get addiction or mental health services. Those
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are your options. There's four options there. Leave the encampment,
go to a homeless shelter, or take addiction or mental
health services. There's no fifth option. You don't get to stay.
That is not option number five. Actually there is an
option number five you go to jail. Caroline Levitt says,
(25:39):
if you refuse, you'll be susceptible to fines or to
jail time. Now, ever since Trump took over, get this,
I got quickly, This can be done. US Park police
have removed seventy homeless encampments, and the residents at all
seventy homeless encampments got the same options. Leave homeless shelter, addiction,
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mental health services, or you go to jail. And now
there's only two homeless encampments left in all the district
parks maintained by the National Park Service. There were seventy two,
and after five months there are two. Why can't we
have that? How come they get it in Washington? Why
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because Trump can take control and we have Bass and
Newsome and it pisses me off. Bass runs around screaming
her silly, tiny little head off at the ice agents
enforcing the law, and she won't lift one fingernail to
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make this place livable. Why do we have to live
like this? And the people in Washington, d C. Now
will not have to live like this? Why are we
sentenced to this? It's it's not my fault that all
Bass's nonprofit friends stole all the money right under her nose.
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And let me remind you that she hired fifteen lawyers
so she doesn't have to be questioned about where two
billion dollars in homeless money went. The two billion that's missing.
She hired fifteen lawyers so she wouldn't be questioned in
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court under oath by a federal judge. So that's the
situation we have. We have a mayor who spent two
million dollars of our tax money to cover up her
involvement in the two billion missing while she screeches on
the street about ice agents. Meantime, Trump is cleared off
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seventy out of seventy two homeless encampments on National Park
Service land in DC. So which way do you want
to live? Which way do you think is better? Make
the case why living with all this filth and grussness
here in LA is better than what Washington, d C
Is going to enjoy in the coming months. Hey, you've
been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You can
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from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, and
of course anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app,
Can if I am six forty you're listening to the
John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Two rounds of
the Moistline coming up in three twenty and three point fifty,
so probably just about I don't know, fifteen seventeen minutes
away from the first round. We are going to have
Christianne Cordero for ABC News on after Michael's three point
thirty report. Christiane Cordero is reporting from Anchorage, Alaska. Trump
(00:26):
is meeting Putin there, and she's got a lot of
demands on her time, so we were gonna have her
out in a few averon. Now we'll have her on
in less than a half an hour, and by then
maybe Trump and and Putin will be done with their meeting.
Nobody knew, nobody knows how long it's going to go.
(00:48):
And meantime, as I mentioned before, Ukraine is still being
heavily bombed by Putin, so he didn't even take a
time out to go through the charade of having the
talk with Trump because he thinks it's Russians. It's Russia's land.
See its Russia's land, and those people should pledge allegiance
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to Russia. So this guy's not going to compromise, and
nobody really wants to force them to do it otherwise,
because you could see there's thirty two countries in Europe
and they hadn't been interested in Ukraine isn't capable of
fighting back. If it wasn't for the United States and
the tens hundreds of billions of dollars we've sent them,
(01:33):
they would have been flattened already. And we're never going
to send troops there. We're just going to keep pumping
tax money into this black hole. So well, still awaiting
the outcome of this meeting today, but I can't imagine
anything spectacular is going to happen. But you never know.
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We've been talking about all week. Oh, Washington, d C's
police department was taken over by Trump, and immediately there's
squealing from the progressives who never found a criminal or
a crime that they didn't want to embrace. And the
squealing was it's like, hey, hey, crime is down here
(02:17):
in Washington, DC. Yeah, it's the fourth worst, fourth most
murderous city, not the first. From twenty twenty to twenty
twenty three, after COVID made people so crazy, everybody started
murdering each other at record rates, and it sustained itself
for four years. A drop last year, but it's still
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very high, still fourth worst. But they thought that was
enough to say Trump has no right to come in
here take over the police department, even though it's the
capital of the United States government. Hey, it's only the
fourth worst murder rate. Part two to this is whatever
crimes are being reported, there is a lot of fakery involved.
(03:04):
There's a lot of just false reporting happens here in
Los Angeles as well. And the Washington Free Beacon has
a story recalling a lawsuit over the past few years
involving a Metropolitan Police Department sergeant in Washington named Charlotte
(03:27):
de Josu suing the department in twenty twenty, saying police
leadership punished her for speaking out against a pretty sophisticated
operation to downgrade many many criminal offenses from felonies to
(03:47):
misdemeanors to lower the crime rate, to lower the serious
crime rate. She said that the leaders of the Metropolitan
Police Department were classifying many crimes to deflate the crime statistics.
(04:08):
Police officials told officers downgrade thefts, knife attacks, and violent
assaults to lesser offenses, and once they started doing discovery,
they found internal emails, depositions, phone call transcripts that the
Freebeacon reviewed. The lawsuit was eventually settled by the city,
(04:32):
which means a lot of this was true. She provided
records showing the police leaders explicitly instructed their subordinates to
underclassify certain types of theft to keep them out of
the crime stats that the city reports to the public.
So you get the scam here. The crime is so
(04:54):
out of control the idiots that run the city will
not fund the police to stop it, will not enforce
the law or strengthen the laws, so these guys go
to prison instead. The tactic is to misclassify the crimes.
Give you an example. According to Sergeant did you So,
(05:18):
she reported one case in which a woman was cut
deep on the side of her face some kind of
knife probably. It was a deep, open flesh cut from
her forehead to the bottom of her chin. That's quite
a slice. Now, the responding officer had called the crime
(05:42):
assault with a dangerous weapon, but the captain said, no,
we can't have that, so he reclassified the offense as
sick person to the hospital, and just like that, the
crime magically disappeared off the books. No longer is it
(06:05):
a violent assault with a knife. It is now she
had the flu stomach ache sick person of the hospital.
The Franklin Porter, a police captain, was given the task
(06:27):
to find a solution to the theft problem because theft
was driving up the district's statistics. Happened here in La
two Portish solution, which he devised alongside a lieutenant named
Andrew Zabowski. Zabowski was to reclassify the thefts and instead
(06:50):
of calling it shoplifting or use the word theft, it
was taking property without right. I don't know what that means,
but taking property without right that's not tracked in the
dc crib report. So they had this weird category which
(07:13):
neutered the theft, turned it into a non theft. Now,
this lieutenant Zabowski, who is one of the guys behind it,
is currently serving a forty eight month sentence for covering
up an unrelated murder case. So what you had here
is criminals in the management ranks of the Washington d C.
(07:38):
Police Department taking the statistics. And these are some of
the methods. And I've even I've got the memos here
in front of me. They're long winded. But this was
the orders from police management on how to declassify things
so they won't show up in the statistics. And of
(08:01):
course the journalists don't know any different because they just
regurgitate whatever public officials give them. Here's another one again.
This is according to the woman who filed the lawsuit
sergeant to do so. She says, I feel like they're
downgrading classifications. They had a transcript of a phone call.
(08:26):
This assailant had strangled the victim. He ended up throwing
her over a couch. She had scratches on her neck,
her shirt was ripped, and then he threw a knife
close to her head. But another police captain played down
the crime because the guy missed. Well, it only tangentially
(08:49):
involved a knife because the knife never made contact and
did you just said, Well, the knife only missed because
the victim moved out of the way. And so this
is this is this is what women strangled, just bent
over a couch, has a knife thrown at her. No crime, no,
(09:12):
no crime, says the ref which means the Washington d C.
Crime rate crime rate is currently far higher than reported
and was far worse than even the number one crime
rate status had had the last four years. And again
this goes on Los Angeles too, So that's what that
(09:32):
that's what you're up against because the police get so
much crap for having bad crime rates, so much crap
from the mayors and the city councils that they have
to lie, and so they do, and they're bad guys
for for doing that instead of holding a press conference
and telling the truth. All Right, we come back Moistline
round number one.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from kf I
am sixt on television.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
They've got two podiums up out of stage with a
blue backdrop that says pursuing peace, and then they have
the word piece four times below that title peace piece
Piece Piece. And we assume that Putin and Trump will
assume positions behind the podiums and maybe speak tell us
(10:22):
if there's any progress to the end of the slaughter
in Ukraine, anything happens, we'll tell you all about it.
Time though, Now to do the Moistline eight seven seven
Moist eighty six. We do this on many Fridays. It's
your chance to sound off. Let's go. Heyk Sean, thanks
(10:42):
for calling the Moistline. I'm so excited to hear from
you about time.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
If Trump wants five more and wants to do restricting.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Then why can't let them do that?
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Once the censor stops counting the legos, then you will
have less Democrats and Congress.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
Maybe all these kids who are on the internet should
get off the internet and go outside start doing the lawn.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
You won't have such an obee society.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
Elie is a home.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
You can't have it as it's our home. It's our home,
it's our home.
Speaker 6 (11:19):
Listsstfool crime.
Speaker 7 (11:23):
You know, they claim that crime is down, but how
much goes unreported?
Speaker 4 (11:28):
You know?
Speaker 7 (11:28):
I think people get to a point where you report something,
they don't give it anyway, So why waste the time
even calling it in. He's a little hung and the
stewardess should have slapped him after he said that twenty
five thousand, four years who gives it?
Speaker 8 (11:45):
Well? I think that tool on the plane is soon
to be an ex lawyer after finding out that interfering
with an aircrew.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
He is a felony.
Speaker 8 (11:54):
Just build up my truck at the costco and Gilbert
Arizona two fifty nine gallon.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Is working and fedal troops with the laws and of
the establishment, the Republican.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Why can't the president come in and defend people when
crazy lunatics are running wild.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
On our street?
Speaker 3 (12:18):
And how in the heck are.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
You're going to try to say that it's own constitutional
for him to do that?
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Do we really think that's what our.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Poor fathers mean, that they want the city to burn
like he can't do it?
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Just flood and burn.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
I'm looking at the sign right here at two dollars
and forty five cents a.
Speaker 7 (12:33):
Gallon here in central Texas, in the Waco area.
Speaker 6 (12:37):
I was in Houston, Texas, and I didn't see any protesters. Also,
there was no ice rays that could be seen anywhere.
The city of Houston and neighboring cities seem to be
all compliant with the federal laws of illegal immigrants. And
(12:57):
another thing, gas was too sixty nine a gallon.
Speaker 8 (13:02):
So these protesters are saying that these companies either have
to agree with them or they're wrong. What kind of
child this demand is that? What's even more hilarious is
that I highly doubt anybody doing this has ever picked
up a hammer, So hone Depot isn't really losing anything,
so they could just keeping norn These Davies and the
federal government should also keeping nornyse Davies and keep doing
their jobs.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
So Trump can make an announcement and in one day
start making an impact on crime and the homeless situation
in Washington, d C. But yet Vass has been sitting
at her desk for how long and can't make one impact,
not at all, other than lie and hide behind her
desk and their lawyers and attorneys and all this other
(13:44):
crap that we pay for.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
This is ridiculous.
Speaker 7 (13:47):
I'm all for given La the DC treatment.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
We need to take back our city, make our streets
safe again.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
I welcome the federal government.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Gavin and Karen, a dream team of two. Ellie's very
own working crew. It promised her people to treat her well,
but in no time at all. Centers speaking to hell
but to tell me what Dad's burn by playing the
fiddle showed zero compassion, not even a little. The reservoir
is still empty, the money's still missing. I'd say that
they hater, but I'm only gifting here.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
You gotta love that prison where Brian Colbert is being kept.
Speaker 6 (14:24):
We should find many more of those.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
And we should send like meals on wheels.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
Cheeseburgers to all those other prisoners that are harassed.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
And oh it's a lovely day for a walk here
in the Woodland Hills on Ventura Boulevard. Oh look, I
got another like on my photo of the kiddy with
the wedding dresshole a.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Three million dollars in regards to just the clutched pearls
and uproar of DC right now. It reminds me of
a few years back someone said Trump could cure cancer,
and the news headlines that night would be that Trump's
putting on colleges out on the street.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
You got a lot of liberal media.
Speaker 8 (15:04):
Thanks you for leaving.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
You're not good.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
You hang up.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
It's the moistline callers. That's only round one. We got
round two coming up in moments to forty five in Waco, Texas?
Two forty Is that worth going to Waco? Two forty five?
Two sixty nine at another listener in Texas? Notice these
are all probably Californians who fled the state to go there.
(15:31):
Two fifty nine in Arizona, and here it's four point
fifty maybe to drive around enough. A lot of places
are five bucks. Yes, really unbelievable, All right, When when
we come back. We are going to get a report
(15:52):
from Christian Cordero, ABC News at Anchorage the Trump Putin meeting,
and TV cameras are still pointed at the podium with
two at this stage, with two podiums to see if
they come out and speak. If she's able to talk
to us, she will.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
All right, let's go to Christian Cordero, ABC News correspondent
in Anchorage, Alaska, where Trump is meeting Putin and everybody's
awaiting the two of them to come out on a
stage and speak and talk about what's going on. Christian,
how are you.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
I'm doing well, Thanks John. Yeah, it's a fascinating moment
to be in Anchorage, Alaska, with the world's attention turning
here and the Russian president on the ground, having sat
so far for about three hours with President Trump. All
signs pointed out being a good thing. You know, Trump yesterday,
if you remember, he said that he will know very
quickly if Putin is serious about these talks. And so
(16:55):
it seems as though just the nature of this lasting
as long as it has so far, that there has
been some productivity, but really we won't know until it ends,
which we anticipate that happening soon, and one, if not
both of them step out in front of a podium.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Was this an opportunity for Putin to lay out what
his terms would be if he were going to engage
in a cease fire to begin with?
Speaker 5 (17:23):
Sure, Sure, it's possible. That's one of the big questions,
is you know, yesterday it seems somewhat cut and dry
that what would be what would make for a successful
summit here today is if Putin agrees to a cease fire.
But then when you kind of look at it a
little bit closer, and especially with Ukraine's villain Sky timing
in and essentially think, you know, we're there are many
(17:45):
things that we are not going to agree to, and
above all, we're not going to agree to a lasting
piece deal that has to do with Ukraine without Ukraine
at the table. So President Frum has more or less
kind of tampered expectations around all of that and hasn't
been entirely clear about what would be successful in like
the tangible sense. But what he has said is that
(18:06):
he hopes that this summit will lead to another summit
that does include Zolensky, and that in itself would be
pretty remarkable if he is able.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
To has anybody talked about, even you know, off the record,
behind the scenes, Phutin thinks all of Ukraine belongs to Russia.
He wants as much land as he can get, and
Zelensky has made it clear publicly this week they're not
giving up an inch. So how does anybody get around that?
Speaker 5 (18:31):
Yeah, that that is really what everyone is up against,
and of course Trump wanting to be the negotiator that
brokers this deal. It's something he campaigned off of. That
is up against as well, is how do you find
any kind of middle ground when it comes to the land.
You know, the territory swap is what they've been calling it.
(18:53):
And one of the points that Velensky makes is that,
you know, why would we redraw the when they are
the ones that invaded us? You know, we have As
I look out the window right now and see possibly
a couple hundred people here in Angridge, Alaska holding up
Ukrainian flags, it's reminiscent of twenty twenty two, and so
(19:14):
we're reminded that this war has been going on for
three years now. There have been hundreds of thousands of people,
frankly on both sides of the border who have been killed,
and so there is a desperation for it to end.
Zelenski feels that, of course, but it's also a question
of what kinds of security guarantees would be in place
to make sure this doesn't happen again, and what would
(19:35):
they have to give up in order for this to
end temporarily.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
And Putin isn't giving them a break in Ukraine even
for a day. I mean, while this meeting with Trump
was going on, they were still bombing.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
In fact, they were escalating their bombing in the past
few weeks. And you know, July of last month was
the deadliest day for Ukrainian civilian months, I should say
for Ukrainian civilians since May of twenty twenty two. So
the Russian aggression has certainly escalated. But also Russia now
occupies twenty percent of Ukraine's territory. So when you talk
(20:10):
about kind of you know, how do you kind of
find a way in two meaningful, lasting piece talks, that's
kind of what both sides perspectives are coming from. Is
just the fact that Russia does have control over a
significant part of Ukraine. But Ukraine is saying we cannot
stop because giving them an inch, you know, will be
(20:33):
a major concession, not a small one.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Well, Christian, thank you for coming on and sharing all
that with us. Christian Cordero, ABC News correspondent in Anchorage,
thank you, thank you. And all the TV cameras are
all aimed at the stage in Anchorage. Trump and Putin
are supposedly wrapping things up soon. There's two podiums, there's
a blue background that says pursuing peace with the American
(20:57):
and Russian flags, and reporters all ready to see what
they're gonna say. In Washington, d C. Trump made most
of the headlines this week regarding taking over the police department.
We've been talking about that periodically this afternoon. And one
aspect of this and this is where people in alle
(21:21):
get jealous. I noticed a number of the comments in
the moistline about fifteen minutes ago where people saying, geez,
maybe come here, and increasingly don't you wish I mean,
if you want to get rid of the criminals and
get rid of the homeless. Karen Vass is a failure
at this and so is Newsome. So it's not going
to change at all as long as they're here. And
(21:41):
it makes you wonder, is like, can Trump declare some
kind of an emergency. I don't care if it's illegal, unconstitutional,
who cares? Maybe some sort of national security emergency in
advance of the Olympics, like three years in advance of
the Olympics, like right now. Because here's what they're doing
(22:02):
in Washington, d C. And I've seen video this Eric
found video of a bulldozer scooping up and dismantling by
force homeless encampments and just dumping it all into a
trash bin, into a dumpster because it is all garbage,
(22:27):
you know, I think if they hear one more time,
but it's their precious possessions. I've seen up close, their
precious possessions. It's junk and garbage and stolen stuff. So
stop it. And those homeless encampments need to be cleared
out with a bulldozer. I've seen them do it here
(22:49):
in La when they finally got rid of the homeless
encampment in Sava Senti Boulevard in front of the VA
boulders came in, started scooping things up, started crushing, and
that's what's going to happen here, and so more and
more people as this goes on. If Trump plays everything
out in Washington and they end up with a clean
city and no homeless people in the streets, what are
(23:14):
we all supposed to stand here and say, Well, good
for them, But I guess it's not going to happen
for us. In the words of Hunter Biden, f that
this story out of the La Times, some of Washington,
DC's homeless residents were packing their belongings yesterday because the
(23:37):
sweeps are coming.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
See.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
All you have to do is tell them and they'll
go right if they don't want to lose their precious possessions.
Advocates are upset. They say there are better ways to
address homelessness than clearing encampments. Well, apparently none of them
have worked for the last ten years here in LA
So shut up. I'm up to the point where anything
they say, oh, I've got to respond with as shut up.
(24:03):
And we can make that phrase harsher as harsher if
you wish.
Speaker 8 (24:07):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
It's that the that the homeless occupants are going to
worry about where they go, Well, they're gonna have to worry,
and they're gonna have to take action, and they're gonna
have to go get the medical help, mental health help,
drug help, or they're gonna have to get out of town.
They're gonna have to do something. They don't get to
lie in the streets anymore. In Washington, d C. Andrew
(24:33):
Harding is executive director of the Washington Legal Clinic for
the Homeless. Good Lord. She she says, what did I
call her? Her name's Amber. Amber. Harding said she believes
that federal law enforcement will begin systematically rounding up and
arresting on the host people. She believes officers are going
(24:54):
to ask people to move on, or they'd offer shelter,
and if you don't take it, you got arrested. And
in fact, that's what Caroline Levitt, the press secretary for Trump,
has said. It's pretty simple. Homeless people will be given
the option to leave the encampment, or go to a
homeless shelter, or get addiction or mental health services. Those
(25:18):
are your options. There's four options there. Leave the encampment,
go to a homeless shelter, or take addiction or mental
health services. There's no fifth option. You don't get to stay.
That is not option number five. Actually there is an
option number five you go to jail. Caroline Levitt says,
(25:39):
if you refuse, you'll be susceptible to fines or to
jail time. Now, ever since Trump took over, get this,
I got quickly, This can be done. US Park police
have removed seventy homeless encampments, and the residents at all
seventy homeless encampments got the same options. Leave homeless shelter, addiction,
(26:03):
mental health services, or you go to jail. And now
there's only two homeless encampments left in all the district
parks maintained by the National Park Service. There were seventy two,
and after five months there are two. Why can't we
have that? How come they get it in Washington? Why
(26:29):
because Trump can take control and we have Bass and
Newsome and it pisses me off. Bass runs around screaming
her silly, tiny little head off at the ice agents
enforcing the law, and she won't lift one fingernail to
(26:52):
make this place livable. Why do we have to live
like this? And the people in Washington, d C. Now
will not have to live like this? Why are we
sentenced to this? It's it's not my fault that all
Bass's nonprofit friends stole all the money right under her nose.
(27:16):
And let me remind you that she hired fifteen lawyers
so she doesn't have to be questioned about where two
billion dollars in homeless money went. The two billion that's missing.
She hired fifteen lawyers so she wouldn't be questioned in
(27:36):
court under oath by a federal judge. So that's the
situation we have. We have a mayor who spent two
million dollars of our tax money to cover up her
involvement in the two billion missing while she screeches on
the street about ice agents. Meantime, Trump is cleared off
(28:01):
seventy out of seventy two homeless encampments on National Park
Service land in DC. So which way do you want
to live? Which way do you think is better? Make
the case why living with all this filth and grussness
here in LA is better than what Washington, d C
Is going to enjoy in the coming months. Hey, you've
been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You can
(28:23):
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