August 11, 2025 • 35 mins
The John Kobylt Sjow Hour 1 (08/11) - Pres. Trump announced that he is placing the DC Metropolitan Police under federal control. Joe Khalil from NewsNation comes on the show to talk about Pres. Trump placing the DC Metro Police under federal control. A man was caught smoking a vape in an airplane bathroom and got into a screaming match with a flight attendant.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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We are here every day from one till four o'clock
and then after four o'clock John Cobelt's show on demand
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you missed. Trump started the day by taking over Washington,
d C. The District of Columbia there. He's fed up
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with all the crime there. One of his one of
his federal workers, who was part of doge Elon Musk,
hired him his young kid. His nickname was Big Balls.
You might remember that name floating around those stories. Young
guy he got savagely beaten up. I mean, the bloody
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photo of him was all over and I guess that's
sent Trump off. And he's now sent in the National Guard.
He's taken over the Metropolitan Police Department more or less
because he can't. The District of Columbia is not a state.
It's complicated to explain, but basically, any president can exert
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his will and control significant aspects of the city if
he wishes, and Washington d C. Has some very nice neighborhoods,
and obviously the government buildings and where the tourists go.
It's nice and it's fun and all that, but much
of Washington d C. As a hellhole, and those are
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the places the tourists don't go, and those are where
the locals have to suffer. And you know, it's just
so predictable. Trump makes an announcement today about the crime,
and immediately everybody in the media says, well, you know,
violent crime is actually down double digits since twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
There's been a major drop this year.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
And you know, I start screaming, because the crime in
Washington DC is always really, really high, and it can
be down x percent from year to year. It's still intolerable.
It's like the homeless situation here in Los Angeles. You know,
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Karen empty Head Bass can come out and tell us
that we actually homeless is down five percent. It doesn't
matter forty five thousand versus forty two thousand. Nothing you're
going to see with your own eyes. It's still a
tremendous number of homeless people that we have to deal with.
The same thing with the crime in Washington, DC. And
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I'm reading the story in the La times, and it's
the predictable coverage. And then when you have to go
to the comments section right to get the truth, you
know you're reading a bad newspaper because somebody in the
comments section pointed out it's like, yeah, it's down. I
think violent crime is down thirty two percent. So instead
of having the highest homicide rate in the country, they
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have the fourth highest homicide rate in the country. Now
to me, having the fourth highest rate for a year,
that's not saying, hey, the streets are free, let's go,
let's let's have a block party tonight. Yeah, we're only
number four in random deaths on the street. And that's
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what's so frustrating, because they do that here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
No matter what.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
You say, it's like, wow, you know it's Laura that
it's been in five years. Well it's Laura, it's been
in eight year. You know, they find a year. Besides that,
the statistics are doctored. I was driving in and I
heard a US attorney who's familiar with Washington DC, and
he runs some anti crime organization, and he said, we've
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already found out that in Washington, d C. They manipulate
the crime numbers to always make it look like it's
getting better. But you know, go talk to an uber driver,
talk to a taxi driver, they'll tell you what's going on.
It is easy to manipulate numbers, and they do it
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all the time. Are there are no honest numbers coming
out of the government when things get really rough, they
just make stuff up. Classic here in California is theft
numbers are high. So what do they do. They say, well,
if it's under nine hundred and fifty dollars, it's not
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a theft anymore. It's not no And then the police
don't show up at the target or at the cvs.
They don't show up at the seven eleven. You call
in a burglary, it's like, well, what do they steal? Well,
you know, they just scooped up stuff off the the
order and aisle, the shaving cream isle. Oh that's not
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nine point fifty now, it's not a crime, no crime.
So they don't show up. It's not investigated, it's not
a statistic. And that's how they do it. But you
know that, you know that they will all the time.
But you know to find out. Imagine you're in a
city where crime is down thirty two percent and all
the idiot officials who are doing the happy dance, and
then you find out, oh, we're still the fourth highest.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Are you going out that night? You taking a walk
that night?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
No?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
So here's Trump now announcing that he's placing the DC
Metropolitan Police Department under federal control.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
I'm announcing a historic action to rescue our nation's capital
from crime, bloodshed, bedlam, and squalor and worse. This is
Liberation Day in DC, and we're going to take our
capital back. We're taking it back under the authorities vested
in me. It's the President of the United States. I'm
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officially invoking Section seventy forty of the District of Columbia
Home Rule Act. You know what that is, and placing
the DC Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control. And
you'll be meeting the people that will be directly involved
with that. Very good people, but they're tough and.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
They know what's happening, and they've done it before.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
In addition, I'm deploying the National Guard to help re
establish law order of public safety in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
And they're going to be allowed to do their job properly.
And you people are victims of it too.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
You know your reporters, and I understand a lot of
you tend to be on the liberal side, but you
don't want to get You don't want to get mugged
and raped and shot and killed. And you all know
people and friends of yours that happened, and so you
can be any anything you want, but you want to
have safety in the street.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
So right, I live on the west side of LA
which is full of very liberal people. I have yet
to run into one person who's not unhappy with the
crime in LA and the homeless in LA because they
are afraid too. I don't know what kind of people
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are in charge in government, but it does not represent
even normal liberal Democrats. In fact, every time there's something
on the ballot to get tough on crime, such as
Prop thirty six, what did it win by sixty eight
thirty two? These are destructive fanatics, woke progressive fanatics that
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are running things in the government, amplified by woke progressive
fanatics in the media. So I was going through the
LA Time story which talks about how crime is the
homicide rate down thirty two percent in twenty twenty four. Well,
according to one of the see I had to go
to one of the readers, one of the commenters to
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get the truth, which the Times writer didn't put in
the story. So this this commentator, he's got a handle
of g rex Dominus and DC had the fourth highest
homicide rate among US cities in twenty twenty four, according
to statistics compiled by the Center for Public Safety Initiatives
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at the Rochester Institute of Technology, twenty seven point three
murders per one hundred thousand people, fourth highest. But the
LA Times and the other media outlets will tell you, Oh,
it's down thirty two percent. Imagine being down thirty two
percent and you're still number four. And they don't even
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know why they're down thirty two percent. It's just this
weird things happened, or maybe they don't. They don't scoop
up all the debt bodies anymore, so maybe everybody's not counted.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Who knows, but they lie like hell, who's.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
This writer Jenny Jarvi National correspondent Jenny Jarvi bragging about
the violent crime drop in Washington, implying that Trump is
being a crazy, bullying dictator again.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Oh what do you know, the nation's capital. The whole
world comes to visit Washington, d C.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Right, whole world comes, all of America makes at least
one trip to Washington, d C. Fourth highest homicide rate.
You tell a family coming to visit for Missouri, you
want to go to the fourth highest homicide rate in
the nation, fourth most dangerous city. Sure, mom and dad.
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Now there was a strong response though, from the people
of Washington d C. The residents.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
DC is our home. You can't have it.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Trump where those adults who are singing look like it
those are adults, and then they cheer themselves.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Everybody's become like an eight year old, a second grader.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
What the hell, that's what you do?
Speaker 2 (10:35):
You got a hellhole of the city and you start
singing like you're in elementary school and you're wrong.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Trump does have Washington d C. I have an idea.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Take a break and go read federal law in the constitution.
DC is not a state. They don't have senators, they
don't have congress people who are allowed to vote on legislation.
I think they have one alga who sits in that
they have a limited home rule. I think they call
it when we come back. Remember Judge Janine and she's
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been on Fox News for years now. She's the US
attorney in Washington, DC, and she explains why the crime
has been so bad for so long. We'll play that next.
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Murrow Award. It appeared in the studio. Thank you Now.
That was exciting.
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They finally delivered it. Yes, open the box. I thought
it was a book.
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I know John was opening it for me because I
didn't want to mess up my nail, so he was
being very gentlemanly like because it was it was really
that box was tough to open.
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Its heavy cardboard, yes, and it was tough to tear
it open.
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Yes. And you didn't seem all that interested in the box. No,
I had no clue because you know what.
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I asked them if they could mail it to my
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So I was not expecting it here.
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Well, you're on so much they probably thought you lived here.
I know I have a cot in the back well.
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Thank you.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Don Now what we're doing, we're doing Trump taken over Washington, DC.
You know, I wish you would do that to la God,
that would be great. Even if you can't do it constitutionally,
I wish you would because where we really should be
at the point, after ten years, a full decade of
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our lives having to deal with this degradation, come in
and just he's going to clean up the homeless in Washington, DC.
He's got the FBI now working overnights, overnights one hundred
and twenty FBI agents. Then he's going to the National Guard.
Then he's going to be running the Washington Metro Police Department.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
And you might be saying, well, whoa what.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Look, we've given these progressive whack holes ten years.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
They never they never make things better.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Everything gets worse, and it's time to say enough, no
more debate.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
You get the.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Homeless off the streets, out of town, get them out
of town. You should put them in a mandatory drug
rehab or mental health rehab or something rehab. But enough
of this. Listen to Janine Piro. Judge Janine, you've seen
her on Fox News. She's now the US attorney in Washington, DC.
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Listen to her explain what the issue is.
Speaker 8 (14:25):
I see too much violent crime being committed by young
punks who think that they can get together in gangs
and crews and beat the hell out of you or
anyone else. They don't care where they are. They can
be in DuPont Circle, but they know that we can't
touch them. Why because the laws are weak. I can't
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touch you if you're fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen years old
and you have a gun. I convict someone of shooting
another person with an illegal gun on a public bus
in the chest, intent to kill. I convict him, and
you know what, the judge gives him probation, says you
should go to college. We need to go after the
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DC Council and their absurd laws. We need to get
rid of this concept of a no cash fail. We
need to recognize that the people who matter are the
law abiding citizens. And it starts.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Today, but it's not going to end.
Speaker 8 (15:24):
Today because the President is going to do everything we
need to do to make sure that these emboldened criminals
understand we see you, we're watching you, and we're going
to change the law to catch you. And my final
note is this, these kids understand that the jurisdiction is
through the state Attorney General Brian Schwab. I did a
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poster of the young man from Doge who was beaten
bloody with a severe concussion of broken nose, and then
I did a poster of what happens to those kids
Because I can't arrest them, I can prosecute them. They
go to family court and they get to do yoga and.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Arts and crafts.
Speaker 8 (16:07):
Enough it changes today.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Isn't that great to hear?
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Don't you wish that they'd come to LA and make
that speech. Yeah, detention center, they're up by the age
of twenty one, and they do do yoga and arts
and crafts when they're not busy beating and raping each
other up at the juvenile detention center. Enough with the
juvenile detention center. Enough with getting them out at age
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twenty one or twenty five. Even if you had murdered somebody,
you can shoot somebody in the face and be up
by twenty five.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Enough of this.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
It's garbage, it's nonsense. It's woke, progressive garbage and nonsense.
No civilized society has anything like.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
This, And I want this here in La. I Pope.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Trump just makes up, you know, some federal executive emergency
order and says, you know what, We're coming to LA.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
And arrest all these teenage gang member thucks.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
You don't think the people in Encino right now would
like this, huh? After that couple got murdered in their
own home and all the burglaries that are going on there,
and these people get arrested and there's no consequences. There
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isn't there hasn't been for ten years, started with that
idiot prop forty seven. And now that we got it,
repeated News won't to fund the changes in Prop thirty six.
Enough of him, enough of Kara Dash, enough of this
stupid city council. Washington, DC has the same kind of
city council that we do.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
It's the same thing. So does New York City.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
I cannot believe all these people that live in the cities,
especially the people who work, who make up the middle
class and the upper classes, why in hell do they
put up with this stuff? It's crazy. I have zero
compassion for all the all these criminals. I don't care
about their lives. I want them locked up, locked up,
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taken out.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Enough of it, That's what I want to hear.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
I want to hear somebody in Los Angeles in public,
like life, say.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Enough of it, like she did. Enough. Hey, you had
your experiments. They all failed.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
People got killed, everybody you know, people getting robbed. You
can't walk the streets. I'll tell you how crime doesn't
get reported. I know this, uh for a fact, But
my wife and I got chased by some homeless guy
waving a pipe in the air.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
That was a crime. Don't you think is that is
that a salt?
Speaker 6 (18:49):
Well, it's not as salt because it didn't hit you,
but he could have.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
I think it's as salt if you're making an attempt,
it's not battery. Okay, there's got to be a crime
in there. Find me a crime somewhere somewhere between assault
and bag.
Speaker 6 (19:04):
I think if you did call the police, they they
will No, they wouldn't never mind.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
They wouldn't come.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
And if they came, I've got no proof it happened,
you know, I could point to the crazy homeless person.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
In fact, it took me another like two.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Weeks to keep calling officials and get the guy removed.
He wasn't far from our house. He was a half
mile away. So and that's going on constantly in the city.
None of those are recorded as crimes, so they could
stick their their crime statistics up there. We're insh Debor Mark,
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that's a nice transition, thank you.
Speaker 6 (19:45):
He just maybe spend it, maybe add another sentence up.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
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Speaker 2 (20:01):
Let's get Joe Khalil on from News Nation in Washington,
d C. Joe was covering all the excitement this morning
when Donald Trump came out and basically took over, took
over the city, took over the police department, sitting in
the National Guard because he's sick of the crime and
the homelessness and everything else in the city. Joe, Oh,
hold on, we're still trying to make a connection here.
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He put the DC Police Department under direct federal order
and the National Guard will be there. He says, We're
going to rescue Washington from crime, bloodshed, bedlaman squalor. It's
a wonderful law firm. Hey, Joe, how are you good?
How you doing?
Speaker 1 (20:43):
I'm good. Well, what's going on there?
Speaker 7 (20:48):
Well, President Trump has made the decision that they were
going to federalize the Washington, DC Metro Police Department. So
this is actually something he does have the authority to. Typically,
you needed approval.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
This is a.
Speaker 7 (21:03):
Thirty day temporary thing, you know, most of the time.
We're going to see how this goes. And we've been
talking to some people in DC, hearing from some DC officials,
Mayor Bowser. Surprisingly, the mayor seemed to be a bit
more okay, let's work together. She wasn't, you know, defiant
in any way. They've been pointing out However, that crime
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is historically down in DC, down significantly from just last year.
When we talk about serious crimes, violent crimes across the board,
they are down. Nonetheless, this is happening, I can tell you.
Maybe not surprisingly, the people who live in d C,
about ninety nine percent of them who we've spoken to today,
are not happy and think this is a bit of
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an overreach by the president.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Yeah, I've seen crime is down, but it's still at
a very high level. I mean, Washington just dropped from
first to fourth among violent crime, and I would think
if people are experiencing that level, even if it's reduced,
not saying they want Trump to come in, but the
people must be upset with what day to day life
is like.
Speaker 7 (22:08):
Yeah, I mean, so, you know, we've spoken to a
couple of business owners in basically a couple of square
blocks where there have been reported a ton of crime,
you know, whether it's property crime or you know, after
other things, and there have been shooting in the area
that today. So a lot of business owners have said
things like, you know, yeah, they see it, they've experienced
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crime here. Many of them just feel that they have
a good working relationship with Metro police and sort of
question whether it's necessary to have, you know, national guard
on the streets. We've heard a lot of people talk
about that as they see a bit of a Jurassic move.
On the other hand, what you're talking about, I mean,
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it is absolutely relevant a drop in crime in a district,
in a city where crime is already high, where the
murder rate is relatively high compared to the rest of
the country. You know, we've actually had some business owners
say they feel like there are some shortages in the
police force themselves, and so you know, maybe this is
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making up that gap. Although again some of those business owners,
even acknowledging all of that, still said they feel kind
of uncomfortable with federal agents policing their streets. So, you know,
let's see how this plays out and what it actually
looks like in practice over the next couple days and weeks.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
I did hear part of the press conference with the
mayor Muriel Bowser, and she was very measured in what
she was saying. She was not overtly hostile to this.
Speaker 7 (23:41):
She wasn't and it's been really interesting to watch her
in the I mean, ever since January when Trump was
inaugurated for the second time, he's taken that tone several
different occasions. And I think for a city as progressive
as d C, I mean, it's no secret, right voters
have overwhelmed Lay by margin. I think ninety percent voted
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against Donald Trump twice. Right, I mean, there's no secret
about politically where the city is. But she from the
beginning has been I would say, conciliatory honestly to the President.
She has sought out every opportunity to work with him.
She's done several press conferences and events alongside him. They've had,
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you know, sort of very cordial words shared amongst each other.
And that's what it was today was Okay, well, we
don't agree with this. We think the crime has been
going down. We're making progress in DC. However, the president
has the authority to do it. Let's work with the administration.
She actually also said she wants to set up a
meeting with the Attorney General Pam BONDI. So we didn't
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really hear anything that was again overtly political or defiant
or critical critical in any way of President Trump. I
certainly didn't hear that in tone, or in tenor at
all from Mayor Bowser to that.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
All the progressive voters. Voters don't don't they want to
live in a peaceful environment too. I don't understand why
this is a political issue. I mean, we're talking serious crime,
violent crime. Doesn't everybody want that?
Speaker 7 (25:14):
Yeah, I'm sure. I mean I think everybody here, you
know again, I'm just we as we make our way
up and down a couple of blocks here, yeah, they
all want to see that. They all want to make
sure that their streets are safe. You know, I think they.
I think what the complaint that we've heard is just,
you know, is it can we do that with the
existing Metro police department? Now? Can we do that with
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partnership with the federal government, whether that's you know, I
don't know, funding or more aggressive prosecutors. The prosecutors here
in d C Are appointed by the president, which is
unique in DC because it's not, you know, its own state.
So yeah, I think people, I don't think anyone questions
you know that there there is certainly crime here, that
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it is a it is a city that has its
its fair share, no doubt. I think that the questions come,
you know, as is this the best way to go
about it? And I mean I think maybe the proof
will be in the pudding. I think we'll see if
there's a drastic reduction in crime from the next thirty
forty days, you know, I think we'll see some display
results and if it, you know, also maybe contributes to
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tension in the city because people don't like seeing National
Guard troops. I think we're gonna we'll be reporting on
that as well if that happens. So again, I think
we'll what's the how it plays out.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
What's a homeless situation like there?
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Because Trump talked a lot about that about getting the
ever all the homeless people ejected off the streets.
Speaker 7 (26:42):
Yeah, so, you know, DC, if you drive a couple
of blocks from the White House, I mean if you
get off the main highways and you go from the
highways over to the White House or the Capitol, you
know you're going to see that there are some pockets,
there are some areas where you find tent encampments. And
that's a President Trump was talking about as he was saying,
you know, there are world leaders that come and visit
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the White House, and on their way here from an airport,
you know they're going to see the nation's capital, the
greatest economy that's ever existed in the history of the world,
they're going to see homeless encampments on their way to
visit the White House. He's clearly bothered by that image.
So that's the sort of refrain that we've continued to
hear from the President in this sort of push to
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you know, fedilize the local police department here. He talked
about that being a big priority for them. So again,
what that looks like, we don't know. We've heard from
homeless advocates that their shelters are essentially at capacity at
this point, so they've been pushing Mayor Bowser and others
to open up new shelter space to build more homes.
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It is a problem, certainly in DC, and it's hard
not to notice that problem.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
All right, very good, Thank you, Joe. Joe Khalil News
Nation one of the best cable news channels out there.
You should watch it in Washington in DC today. Thank
you for coming on, Joe.
Speaker 7 (28:02):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
All right, Joe Khalil.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
I'm just I'm just looking every you know, there's different
organizations that compile statistics, and they have different sources for
the statistics, and Washington is way up there no matter
where you look on the list. You know, its exact
placement may vary, but my plane is is that people
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get used to things that they should never have gotten
used to. As far as I'm concerned, there's no excuse
for every city to have a crime rate, like let's
say Thousand Oaks or Irvine. You know how we hear
about America's safest city, and it's invariably it's a nice
suburban town. You know here in southern California. I know
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Thousand Oaks was one of those cities. Irvine has been
one of those cities, and it's like it simply, and
I know this from being a burbank. They just don't
put up with anything. And what we should have is
lots of police. They get the violent guys, the bad guys,
the lunatics, and you put them away for a long
time and no more probation, no more diversion programs, no more.
(29:18):
You kill somebody and you go to juvenile detention until
you're twenty one or twenty five, and then you get out.
Simply put them away, arrest them, high bail, quick trial.
If you're guilty, gone and you don't get out for
a while. That's what you that's what you gotta have
(29:39):
just stop putting up with it. A lot of the
problems we're dealing with is because the general public it's
like Stockholm syndrome. And then finally Trump does something traumatic,
it's like, well, we can handle it, maybe we needed
a little hob No, you can't handle it. So why
send in the National Guard here to La during the riots?
Right because there are blocks of cement crashing through patrol
(30:00):
cards on the one oh one.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
No, they couldn't handle it.
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All right, now, this this this cracked me up.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
You know you're not supposed to vape. You're not supposed
to smoke, no smoking, no vaping on an airline flight. Well,
there was a passer jam Peter Nwynn.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Who violated that rule.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Here's what happened with a flight attendant.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
But I was actually sitting on the toilet and you
were opening the door. Yes, I'm sorry about that.
Speaker 7 (30:57):
You can keep sorry.
Speaker 5 (30:59):
But I got I got it, I got it, I
got it.
Speaker 8 (31:03):
Okay, still be.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
On your record.
Speaker 5 (31:07):
Not allowed to do that.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
To put your hands on me, she just the thing
to say. This is classic, like the guy looks young
in his twenties, classic for that generation.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
He breaks the rule. I think it's against the law,
federal law to do that.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
She barges in on him, and he pulls out his
phone to record her, like she's doing something wrong. Her
job depends on making sure nobody's vaping or smoking in
the plane. And of course he turns it around and
he's got a phone. It's most obnoxious behavior in the
(31:45):
world where you see people pull out their phones like
it's some kind of shield, like it's some kind of weapon.
You stupid jackass. You're you're vaping in a plane. She's
place played again.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Hands on next, Yes she did. She put her hands
on me.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
She tried to drop my boat's Yes, but she put
her hands on me.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
I have a lawyer. I am a lawyer. I am
a lawyer. I'm sorry, but you know wear you do
not put your hands on me. You do not put
your hands on me. I have twenty five thousand followers.
Speaker 7 (32:18):
I have twenty five thousand followers.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
No, stop, stop stop, that is classics.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
He's bragging about his social media followers. What what a
loser generation?
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Well, well, I have twenty five thousand followers. How many
do you have?
Speaker 2 (32:36):
I win ha ha, And he's one of these weirder
guys with dark hair, but he's like frosted a lot
of it blonde. I thought I didn't think he was
a guy when I first saw the video, It's like, what,
how crazy are you? I have twenty five thousand followers
and waving the phone, he's thinking, I'll make her crazy.
The longer I yell at her, the more she's gonna
(32:56):
yell at me. And I've got even more hits and
I'm a hero. Keep going, I know.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
That, that's why.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
That's yes, you did you pulled it right.
Speaker 7 (33:06):
Over my chest?
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Yes, I have it on video.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
I was recording. So do you want me to release
this or you want to stay sired to me?
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Right now?
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Say sorry?
Speaker 5 (33:18):
Sorry, not touch me you.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Do not get to touch a passenger. And I was
in the restaurant. You're opening the door.
Speaker 7 (33:26):
No, no, I'm actually going to call the police when
I get.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
Back to the grass on you.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Yeah, you do not put your hands on a passenger.
Speaker 7 (33:34):
You do not put your hands on a passenger.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
I oh, you over me. You tried to grab my boot.
You assaulted me. She assaulted me. This slight attendant assaulted me. Everybody,
this slight attendant assaulted me.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Put her hands on me.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
It doesn't give you the right to put your hands
on me, and it doesn't. You can't tell me not
to record. You were in so much trouble. You're in
so much trouble. You know you're in so much trouble. Yes,
you are a lot of trouble. Yea more people record.
Everybody record everybody? What's all record together?
Speaker 2 (34:15):
She should have thrown him out the exit door, right
at the emergency exit. That's what she should have done.
There should have been a little button that she could press.
Jack yeah, capn go, flying right through the roof of
the plane. Oh god, can you imagine your dad's doing this?
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Can you imagine? I mean when when when they were
that age? Can you imagine, Oh, only this bizarro generation.
I have my phone and I'm recording. Don't put your
hands on me.
Speaker 6 (34:49):
You're gonna be in so much trouble.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Yeah, I'm gonna tell mom, you're gonna be in trouble.
What a loser. Of course he's vaping away, can't and
these people? All right, when we come back, what are
we doing here? We got O Carl Tomaio coming on
because he's going to fight with his Organization Reform California
to take on Newsom and his redistricting fiasco. Deborah Mark
(35:13):
is live in the CAFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey,
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We are here every day from one till four o'clock
and then after four o'clock John Cobelt's show on demand
on the iHeart app, and you could listen to whatever
you missed. Trump started the day by taking over Washington,
d C. The District of Columbia there. He's fed up
(00:30):
with all the crime there. One of his one of
his federal workers, who was part of doge Elon Musk,
hired him his young kid. His nickname was Big Balls.
You might remember that name floating around those stories. Young
guy he got savagely beaten up. I mean, the bloody
(00:53):
photo of him was all over and I guess that's
sent Trump off. And he's now sent in the National Guard.
He's taken over the Metropolitan Police Department more or less
because he can't. The District of Columbia is not a state.
It's complicated to explain, but basically, any president can exert
(01:17):
his will and control significant aspects of the city if
he wishes, and Washington d C. Has some very nice neighborhoods,
and obviously the government buildings and where the tourists go.
It's nice and it's fun and all that, but much
of Washington d C. As a hellhole, and those are
(01:39):
the places the tourists don't go, and those are where
the locals have to suffer. And you know, it's just
so predictable. Trump makes an announcement today about the crime,
and immediately everybody in the media says, well, you know,
violent crime is actually down double digits since twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
There's been a major drop this year.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
And you know, I start screaming, because the crime in
Washington DC is always really, really high, and it can
be down x percent from year to year. It's still intolerable.
It's like the homeless situation here in Los Angeles. You know,
(02:26):
Karen empty Head Bass can come out and tell us
that we actually homeless is down five percent. It doesn't
matter forty five thousand versus forty two thousand. Nothing you're
going to see with your own eyes. It's still a
tremendous number of homeless people that we have to deal with.
The same thing with the crime in Washington, DC. And
(02:46):
I'm reading the story in the La times, and it's
the predictable coverage. And then when you have to go
to the comments section right to get the truth, you
know you're reading a bad newspaper because somebody in the
comments section pointed out it's like, yeah, it's down. I
think violent crime is down thirty two percent. So instead
of having the highest homicide rate in the country, they
(03:08):
have the fourth highest homicide rate in the country. Now
to me, having the fourth highest rate for a year,
that's not saying, hey, the streets are free, let's go,
let's let's have a block party tonight. Yeah, we're only
number four in random deaths on the street. And that's
(03:30):
what's so frustrating, because they do that here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
No matter what.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
You say, it's like, wow, you know it's Laura that
it's been in five years. Well it's Laura, it's been
in eight year. You know, they find a year. Besides that,
the statistics are doctored. I was driving in and I
heard a US attorney who's familiar with Washington DC, and
he runs some anti crime organization, and he said, we've
(04:00):
already found out that in Washington, d C. They manipulate
the crime numbers to always make it look like it's
getting better. But you know, go talk to an uber driver,
talk to a taxi driver, they'll tell you what's going on.
It is easy to manipulate numbers, and they do it
(04:20):
all the time. Are there are no honest numbers coming
out of the government when things get really rough, they
just make stuff up. Classic here in California is theft
numbers are high. So what do they do. They say, well,
if it's under nine hundred and fifty dollars, it's not
(04:43):
a theft anymore. It's not no And then the police
don't show up at the target or at the cvs.
They don't show up at the seven eleven. You call
in a burglary, it's like, well, what do they steal? Well,
you know, they just scooped up stuff off the the
order and aisle, the shaving cream isle. Oh that's not
(05:05):
nine point fifty now, it's not a crime, no crime.
So they don't show up. It's not investigated, it's not
a statistic. And that's how they do it. But you
know that, you know that they will all the time.
But you know to find out. Imagine you're in a
city where crime is down thirty two percent and all
the idiot officials who are doing the happy dance, and
then you find out, oh, we're still the fourth highest.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Are you going out that night? You taking a walk
that night?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
No?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
So here's Trump now announcing that he's placing the DC
Metropolitan Police Department under federal control.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
I'm announcing a historic action to rescue our nation's capital
from crime, bloodshed, bedlam, and squalor and worse. This is
Liberation Day in DC, and we're going to take our
capital back. We're taking it back under the authorities vested
in me. It's the President of the United States. I'm
(06:01):
officially invoking Section seventy forty of the District of Columbia
Home Rule Act. You know what that is, and placing
the DC Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control. And
you'll be meeting the people that will be directly involved
with that. Very good people, but they're tough and.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
They know what's happening, and they've done it before.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
In addition, I'm deploying the National Guard to help re
establish law order of public safety in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
And they're going to be allowed to do their job properly.
And you people are victims of it too.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
You know your reporters, and I understand a lot of
you tend to be on the liberal side, but you
don't want to get You don't want to get mugged
and raped and shot and killed. And you all know
people and friends of yours that happened, and so you
can be any anything you want, but you want to
have safety in the street.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
So right, I live on the west side of LA
which is full of very liberal people. I have yet
to run into one person who's not unhappy with the
crime in LA and the homeless in LA because they
are afraid too. I don't know what kind of people
(07:20):
are in charge in government, but it does not represent
even normal liberal Democrats. In fact, every time there's something
on the ballot to get tough on crime, such as
Prop thirty six, what did it win by sixty eight
thirty two? These are destructive fanatics, woke progressive fanatics that
(07:42):
are running things in the government, amplified by woke progressive
fanatics in the media. So I was going through the
LA Time story which talks about how crime is the
homicide rate down thirty two percent in twenty twenty four. Well,
according to one of the see I had to go
to one of the readers, one of the commenters to
(08:05):
get the truth, which the Times writer didn't put in
the story. So this this commentator, he's got a handle
of g rex Dominus and DC had the fourth highest
homicide rate among US cities in twenty twenty four, according
to statistics compiled by the Center for Public Safety Initiatives
(08:29):
at the Rochester Institute of Technology, twenty seven point three
murders per one hundred thousand people, fourth highest. But the
LA Times and the other media outlets will tell you, Oh,
it's down thirty two percent. Imagine being down thirty two
percent and you're still number four. And they don't even
(08:54):
know why they're down thirty two percent. It's just this
weird things happened, or maybe they don't. They don't scoop
up all the debt bodies anymore, so maybe everybody's not counted.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Who knows, but they lie like hell, who's.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
This writer Jenny Jarvi National correspondent Jenny Jarvi bragging about
the violent crime drop in Washington, implying that Trump is
being a crazy, bullying dictator again.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Oh what do you know, the nation's capital. The whole
world comes to visit Washington, d C.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Right, whole world comes, all of America makes at least
one trip to Washington, d C. Fourth highest homicide rate.
You tell a family coming to visit for Missouri, you
want to go to the fourth highest homicide rate in
the nation, fourth most dangerous city. Sure, mom and dad.
(09:47):
Now there was a strong response though, from the people
of Washington d C. The residents.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
DC is our home. You can't have it.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Trump where those adults who are singing look like it
those are adults, and then they cheer themselves.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Everybody's become like an eight year old, a second grader.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
What the hell, that's what you do?
Speaker 2 (10:35):
You got a hellhole of the city and you start
singing like you're in elementary school and you're wrong.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Trump does have Washington d C. I have an idea.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Take a break and go read federal law in the constitution.
DC is not a state. They don't have senators, they
don't have congress people who are allowed to vote on legislation.
I think they have one alga who sits in that
they have a limited home rule. I think they call
it when we come back. Remember Judge Janine and she's
(11:11):
been on Fox News for years now. She's the US
attorney in Washington, DC, and she explains why the crime
has been so bad for so long. We'll play that next.
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Debor got her Edward R.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Murrow Award. It appeared in the studio. Thank you Now.
That was exciting.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
They finally delivered it. Yes, open the box. I thought
it was a book.
Speaker 6 (12:04):
I know John was opening it for me because I
didn't want to mess up my nail, so he was
being very gentlemanly like because it was it was really
that box was tough to open.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Its heavy cardboard, yes, and it was tough to tear
it open.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Yes. And you didn't seem all that interested in the box. No,
I had no clue because you know what.
Speaker 6 (12:20):
I asked them if they could mail it to my
house and they said they would, and I gave them
my address and I even confirmed and they said, oh, yeah,
the address we have and it was my home address.
So I was not expecting it here.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Well, you're on so much they probably thought you lived here.
I know I have a cot in the back well.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Anyway, congratulations, a wonderful award, and that was for her
suicide series that she did about a year ago.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Now it's hard to believe, you believe that year. It'll
be year in September.
Speaker 7 (12:45):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
So I just wanted to give you another congratulations and
let the all the listeners know they are always listening
to an award winning newscaster here.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Don Now what we're doing, we're doing Trump taken over Washington, DC.
You know, I wish you would do that to la God,
that would be great. Even if you can't do it constitutionally,
I wish you would because where we really should be
at the point, after ten years, a full decade of
(13:18):
our lives having to deal with this degradation, come in
and just he's going to clean up the homeless in Washington, DC.
He's got the FBI now working overnights, overnights one hundred
and twenty FBI agents. Then he's going to the National Guard.
Then he's going to be running the Washington Metro Police Department.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
And you might be saying, well, whoa what.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Look, we've given these progressive whack holes ten years.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
They never they never make things better.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Everything gets worse, and it's time to say enough, no
more debate.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
You get the.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Homeless off the streets, out of town, get them out
of town. You should put them in a mandatory drug
rehab or mental health rehab or something rehab. But enough
of this. Listen to Janine Piro. Judge Janine, you've seen
her on Fox News. She's now the US attorney in Washington, DC.
(14:21):
Listen to her explain what the issue is.
Speaker 8 (14:25):
I see too much violent crime being committed by young
punks who think that they can get together in gangs
and crews and beat the hell out of you or
anyone else. They don't care where they are. They can
be in DuPont Circle, but they know that we can't
touch them. Why because the laws are weak. I can't
(14:46):
touch you if you're fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen years old
and you have a gun. I convict someone of shooting
another person with an illegal gun on a public bus
in the chest, intent to kill. I convict him, and
you know what, the judge gives him probation, says you
should go to college. We need to go after the
(15:09):
DC Council and their absurd laws. We need to get
rid of this concept of a no cash fail. We
need to recognize that the people who matter are the
law abiding citizens. And it starts.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Today, but it's not going to end.
Speaker 8 (15:24):
Today because the President is going to do everything we
need to do to make sure that these emboldened criminals
understand we see you, we're watching you, and we're going
to change the law to catch you. And my final
note is this, these kids understand that the jurisdiction is
through the state Attorney General Brian Schwab. I did a
(15:48):
poster of the young man from Doge who was beaten
bloody with a severe concussion of broken nose, and then
I did a poster of what happens to those kids
Because I can't arrest them, I can prosecute them. They
go to family court and they get to do yoga and.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Arts and crafts.
Speaker 8 (16:07):
Enough it changes today.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Isn't that great to hear?
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Don't you wish that they'd come to LA and make
that speech. Yeah, detention center, they're up by the age
of twenty one, and they do do yoga and arts
and crafts when they're not busy beating and raping each
other up at the juvenile detention center. Enough with the
juvenile detention center. Enough with getting them out at age
(16:34):
twenty one or twenty five. Even if you had murdered somebody,
you can shoot somebody in the face and be up
by twenty five.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Enough of this.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
It's garbage, it's nonsense. It's woke, progressive garbage and nonsense.
No civilized society has anything like.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
This, And I want this here in La. I Pope.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Trump just makes up, you know, some federal executive emergency
order and says, you know what, We're coming to LA.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
And arrest all these teenage gang member thucks.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
You don't think the people in Encino right now would
like this, huh? After that couple got murdered in their
own home and all the burglaries that are going on there,
and these people get arrested and there's no consequences. There
(17:31):
isn't there hasn't been for ten years, started with that
idiot prop forty seven. And now that we got it,
repeated News won't to fund the changes in Prop thirty six.
Enough of him, enough of Kara Dash, enough of this
stupid city council. Washington, DC has the same kind of
city council that we do.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
It's the same thing. So does New York City.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
I cannot believe all these people that live in the cities,
especially the people who work, who make up the middle
class and the upper classes, why in hell do they
put up with this stuff? It's crazy. I have zero
compassion for all the all these criminals. I don't care
about their lives. I want them locked up, locked up,
(18:18):
taken out.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Enough of it, That's what I want to hear.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
I want to hear somebody in Los Angeles in public,
like life, say.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Enough of it, like she did. Enough. Hey, you had
your experiments. They all failed.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
People got killed, everybody you know, people getting robbed. You
can't walk the streets. I'll tell you how crime doesn't
get reported. I know this, uh for a fact, But
my wife and I got chased by some homeless guy
waving a pipe in the air.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
That was a crime. Don't you think is that is
that a salt?
Speaker 6 (18:49):
Well, it's not as salt because it didn't hit you,
but he could have.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
I think it's as salt if you're making an attempt,
it's not battery. Okay, there's got to be a crime
in there. Find me a crime somewhere somewhere between assault
and bag.
Speaker 6 (19:04):
I think if you did call the police, they they
will No, they wouldn't never mind.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
They wouldn't come.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
And if they came, I've got no proof it happened,
you know, I could point to the crazy homeless person.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
In fact, it took me another like two.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Weeks to keep calling officials and get the guy removed.
He wasn't far from our house. He was a half
mile away. So and that's going on constantly in the city.
None of those are recorded as crimes, so they could
stick their their crime statistics up there. We're insh Debor Mark,
(19:41):
that's a nice transition, thank you.
Speaker 6 (19:45):
He just maybe spend it, maybe add another sentence up.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
There were ins comment Deborah Mark. Live in the Can't
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You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Let's get Joe Khalil on from News Nation in Washington,
d C. Joe was covering all the excitement this morning
when Donald Trump came out and basically took over, took
over the city, took over the police department, sitting in
the National Guard because he's sick of the crime and
the homelessness and everything else in the city. Joe, Oh,
hold on, we're still trying to make a connection here.
(20:24):
He put the DC Police Department under direct federal order
and the National Guard will be there. He says, We're
going to rescue Washington from crime, bloodshed, bedlaman squalor. It's
a wonderful law firm. Hey, Joe, how are you good?
How you doing?
Speaker 1 (20:43):
I'm good. Well, what's going on there?
Speaker 7 (20:48):
Well, President Trump has made the decision that they were
going to federalize the Washington, DC Metro Police Department. So
this is actually something he does have the authority to. Typically,
you needed approval.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
This is a.
Speaker 7 (21:03):
Thirty day temporary thing, you know, most of the time.
We're going to see how this goes. And we've been
talking to some people in DC, hearing from some DC officials,
Mayor Bowser. Surprisingly, the mayor seemed to be a bit
more okay, let's work together. She wasn't, you know, defiant
in any way. They've been pointing out However, that crime
(21:26):
is historically down in DC, down significantly from just last year.
When we talk about serious crimes, violent crimes across the board,
they are down. Nonetheless, this is happening, I can tell you.
Maybe not surprisingly, the people who live in d C,
about ninety nine percent of them who we've spoken to today,
are not happy and think this is a bit of
(21:46):
an overreach by the president.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Yeah, I've seen crime is down, but it's still at
a very high level. I mean, Washington just dropped from
first to fourth among violent crime, and I would think
if people are experiencing that level, even if it's reduced,
not saying they want Trump to come in, but the
people must be upset with what day to day life
is like.
Speaker 7 (22:08):
Yeah, I mean, so, you know, we've spoken to a
couple of business owners in basically a couple of square
blocks where there have been reported a ton of crime,
you know, whether it's property crime or you know, after
other things, and there have been shooting in the area
that today. So a lot of business owners have said
things like, you know, yeah, they see it, they've experienced
(22:30):
crime here. Many of them just feel that they have
a good working relationship with Metro police and sort of
question whether it's necessary to have, you know, national guard
on the streets. We've heard a lot of people talk
about that as they see a bit of a Jurassic move.
On the other hand, what you're talking about, I mean,
(22:51):
it is absolutely relevant a drop in crime in a district,
in a city where crime is already high, where the
murder rate is relatively high compared to the rest of
the country. You know, we've actually had some business owners
say they feel like there are some shortages in the
police force themselves, and so you know, maybe this is
(23:12):
making up that gap. Although again some of those business owners,
even acknowledging all of that, still said they feel kind
of uncomfortable with federal agents policing their streets. So, you know,
let's see how this plays out and what it actually
looks like in practice over the next couple days and weeks.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
I did hear part of the press conference with the
mayor Muriel Bowser, and she was very measured in what
she was saying. She was not overtly hostile to this.
Speaker 7 (23:41):
She wasn't and it's been really interesting to watch her
in the I mean, ever since January when Trump was
inaugurated for the second time, he's taken that tone several
different occasions. And I think for a city as progressive
as d C, I mean, it's no secret, right voters
have overwhelmed Lay by margin. I think ninety percent voted
(24:02):
against Donald Trump twice. Right, I mean, there's no secret
about politically where the city is. But she from the
beginning has been I would say, conciliatory honestly to the President.
She has sought out every opportunity to work with him.
She's done several press conferences and events alongside him. They've had,
(24:23):
you know, sort of very cordial words shared amongst each other.
And that's what it was today was Okay, well, we
don't agree with this. We think the crime has been
going down. We're making progress in DC. However, the president
has the authority to do it. Let's work with the administration.
She actually also said she wants to set up a
meeting with the Attorney General Pam BONDI. So we didn't
(24:44):
really hear anything that was again overtly political or defiant
or critical critical in any way of President Trump. I
certainly didn't hear that in tone, or in tenor at
all from Mayor Bowser to that.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
All the progressive voters. Voters don't don't they want to
live in a peaceful environment too. I don't understand why
this is a political issue. I mean, we're talking serious crime,
violent crime. Doesn't everybody want that?
Speaker 7 (25:14):
Yeah, I'm sure. I mean I think everybody here, you
know again, I'm just we as we make our way
up and down a couple of blocks here, yeah, they
all want to see that. They all want to make
sure that their streets are safe. You know, I think they.
I think what the complaint that we've heard is just,
you know, is it can we do that with the
existing Metro police department? Now? Can we do that with
(25:38):
partnership with the federal government, whether that's you know, I
don't know, funding or more aggressive prosecutors. The prosecutors here
in d C Are appointed by the president, which is
unique in DC because it's not, you know, its own state.
So yeah, I think people, I don't think anyone questions
you know that there there is certainly crime here, that
(26:00):
it is a it is a city that has its
its fair share, no doubt. I think that the questions come,
you know, as is this the best way to go
about it? And I mean I think maybe the proof
will be in the pudding. I think we'll see if
there's a drastic reduction in crime from the next thirty
forty days, you know, I think we'll see some display
results and if it, you know, also maybe contributes to
(26:26):
tension in the city because people don't like seeing National
Guard troops. I think we're gonna we'll be reporting on
that as well if that happens. So again, I think
we'll what's the how it plays out.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
What's a homeless situation like there?
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Because Trump talked a lot about that about getting the
ever all the homeless people ejected off the streets.
Speaker 7 (26:42):
Yeah, so, you know, DC, if you drive a couple
of blocks from the White House, I mean if you
get off the main highways and you go from the
highways over to the White House or the Capitol, you
know you're going to see that there are some pockets,
there are some areas where you find tent encampments. And
that's a President Trump was talking about as he was saying,
you know, there are world leaders that come and visit
(27:03):
the White House, and on their way here from an airport,
you know they're going to see the nation's capital, the
greatest economy that's ever existed in the history of the world,
they're going to see homeless encampments on their way to
visit the White House. He's clearly bothered by that image.
So that's the sort of refrain that we've continued to
hear from the President in this sort of push to
(27:26):
you know, fedilize the local police department here. He talked
about that being a big priority for them. So again,
what that looks like, we don't know. We've heard from
homeless advocates that their shelters are essentially at capacity at
this point, so they've been pushing Mayor Bowser and others
to open up new shelter space to build more homes.
(27:47):
It is a problem, certainly in DC, and it's hard
not to notice that problem.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
All right, very good, Thank you, Joe. Joe Khalil News
Nation one of the best cable news channels out there.
You should watch it in Washington in DC today. Thank
you for coming on, Joe.
Speaker 7 (28:02):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
All right, Joe Khalil.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
I'm just I'm just looking every you know, there's different
organizations that compile statistics, and they have different sources for
the statistics, and Washington is way up there no matter
where you look on the list. You know, its exact
placement may vary, but my plane is is that people
(28:30):
get used to things that they should never have gotten
used to. As far as I'm concerned, there's no excuse
for every city to have a crime rate, like let's
say Thousand Oaks or Irvine. You know how we hear
about America's safest city, and it's invariably it's a nice
suburban town. You know here in southern California. I know
(28:52):
Thousand Oaks was one of those cities. Irvine has been
one of those cities, and it's like it simply, and
I know this from being a burbank. They just don't
put up with anything. And what we should have is
lots of police. They get the violent guys, the bad guys,
the lunatics, and you put them away for a long
time and no more probation, no more diversion programs, no more.
(29:18):
You kill somebody and you go to juvenile detention until
you're twenty one or twenty five, and then you get out.
Simply put them away, arrest them, high bail, quick trial.
If you're guilty, gone and you don't get out for
a while. That's what you that's what you gotta have
(29:39):
just stop putting up with it. A lot of the
problems we're dealing with is because the general public it's
like Stockholm syndrome. And then finally Trump does something traumatic,
it's like, well, we can handle it, maybe we needed
a little hob No, you can't handle it. So why
send in the National Guard here to La during the riots?
Right because there are blocks of cement crashing through patrol
(30:00):
cards on the one oh one.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
No, they couldn't handle it.
Speaker 5 (30:04):
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(30:30):
to have a lot on that coming up for his show.
All right, now, this this this cracked me up.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
You know you're not supposed to vape. You're not supposed
to smoke, no smoking, no vaping on an airline flight. Well,
there was a passer jam Peter Nwynn.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Who violated that rule.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Here's what happened with a flight attendant.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
But I was actually sitting on the toilet and you
were opening the door. Yes, I'm sorry about that.
Speaker 7 (30:57):
You can keep sorry.
Speaker 5 (30:59):
But I got I got it, I got it, I
got it.
Speaker 8 (31:03):
Okay, still be.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
On your record.
Speaker 5 (31:07):
Not allowed to do that.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
To put your hands on me, she just the thing
to say. This is classic, like the guy looks young
in his twenties, classic for that generation.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
He breaks the rule. I think it's against the law,
federal law to do that.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
She barges in on him, and he pulls out his
phone to record her, like she's doing something wrong. Her
job depends on making sure nobody's vaping or smoking in
the plane. And of course he turns it around and
he's got a phone. It's most obnoxious behavior in the
(31:45):
world where you see people pull out their phones like
it's some kind of shield, like it's some kind of weapon.
You stupid jackass. You're you're vaping in a plane. She's
place played again.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Hands on next, Yes she did. She put her hands
on me.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
She tried to drop my boat's Yes, but she put
her hands on me.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
I have a lawyer. I am a lawyer. I am
a lawyer. I'm sorry, but you know wear you do
not put your hands on me. You do not put
your hands on me. I have twenty five thousand followers.
Speaker 7 (32:18):
I have twenty five thousand followers.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
No, stop, stop stop, that is classics.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
He's bragging about his social media followers. What what a
loser generation?
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Well, well, I have twenty five thousand followers. How many
do you have?
Speaker 2 (32:36):
I win ha ha, And he's one of these weirder
guys with dark hair, but he's like frosted a lot
of it blonde. I thought I didn't think he was
a guy when I first saw the video, It's like, what,
how crazy are you? I have twenty five thousand followers
and waving the phone, he's thinking, I'll make her crazy.
The longer I yell at her, the more she's gonna
(32:56):
yell at me. And I've got even more hits and
I'm a hero. Keep going, I know.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
That, that's why.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
That's yes, you did you pulled it right.
Speaker 7 (33:06):
Over my chest?
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Yes, I have it on video.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
I was recording. So do you want me to release
this or you want to stay sired to me?
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Right now?
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Say sorry?
Speaker 5 (33:18):
Sorry, not touch me you.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Do not get to touch a passenger. And I was
in the restaurant. You're opening the door.
Speaker 7 (33:26):
No, no, I'm actually going to call the police when
I get.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
Back to the grass on you.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Yeah, you do not put your hands on a passenger.
Speaker 7 (33:34):
You do not put your hands on a passenger.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
I oh, you over me. You tried to grab my boot.
You assaulted me. She assaulted me. This slight attendant assaulted me. Everybody,
this slight attendant assaulted me.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Put her hands on me.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
It doesn't give you the right to put your hands
on me, and it doesn't. You can't tell me not
to record. You were in so much trouble. You're in
so much trouble. You know you're in so much trouble. Yes,
you are a lot of trouble. Yea more people record.
Everybody record everybody? What's all record together?
Speaker 2 (34:15):
She should have thrown him out the exit door, right
at the emergency exit. That's what she should have done.
There should have been a little button that she could press.
Jack yeah, capn go, flying right through the roof of
the plane. Oh god, can you imagine your dad's doing this?
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Can you imagine? I mean when when when they were
that age? Can you imagine, Oh, only this bizarro generation.
I have my phone and I'm recording. Don't put your
hands on me.
Speaker 6 (34:49):
You're gonna be in so much trouble.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Yeah, I'm gonna tell mom, you're gonna be in trouble.
What a loser. Of course he's vaping away, can't and
these people? All right, when we come back, what are
we doing here? We got O Carl Tomaio coming on
because he's going to fight with his Organization Reform California
to take on Newsom and his redistricting fiasco. Deborah Mark
(35:13):
is live in the CAFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey,
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