February 27, 2025 • 35 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (02/27) - Laura Ingle from NewsNation comes on the show to talk about when the Epstein files will be released. The homeless problem in LA is out of control and no one knows where the money that is meant to help combat the issue is going. Michael Monks comes on the show to talk about family members of the Menendez Brothers advocating on their behalf. There is a mystery illness spreading in the Democratic Republic of Congo and it is linked to bats.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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every once in a while you hear a news story
that the Jeffrey Epstein files are going to be released,
and little bits come out. Usually it's stuff you've already
heard about. Well, today it was supposed to be the
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biggest day, right the Attorney General Pam Bondi said they
were gonna dump everything they had and she said this
will make you sick. And then it didn't happen, or
maybe some of it was released. I don't know. The
story's actually changed every couple hours. So to sort this out,
maybe lour angel from Newsday is here.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
No pressure.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yeah, it's all on you now, so.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Yeah, this has been a roller coaster of a day, Johnny,
exactly everything you just said.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
We were supposed to get this big document dump.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
We were told from Pam Bondi that she expected to
release all of this evidence and information at some point today.
We heard it was going to be mid afternoon, and
then mid afternoon Can went here on the East Coast
and we haven't seen anything yet, so it doesn't It
does look like some files could be released today, but
if they are released, they're going to be things that
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have already been released before, So no bombshells.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
We've been told from high level people that there's.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Not going to be any bombshells today, but possibly tomorrow,
because there's a letter that's now been made public that
was written this afternoon by the US Attorney General Pam
Bondi that was addressed to the FBI Director of Cash Betel,
expressing her frustration essentially over lack of communication with the
FBI over these Epstein files.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
She wanted clarification.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
She wants the full and complete reports with no withholdings,
no limitations at all, to come out. So something happening.
You guys have probably seen this video of people coming
onto the West Wing with these white binders holding them up,
with these people like not everybody knows who these people are.
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These are several conservative influencers who walked out of the
West Wing with these white binders that read the Epstein
files Phase one, holding them up, putting them on TikTok
and on X. But they never opened the binders. They
just said, boy, wait till you hear what's going to
be inside these binders. So now we wait.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
So this is another like choreographed show that Trump is
putting on.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
I mean, what we have is this lawyer, one of them,
Rogan o'handley. He wrote on X he came out and
said that he met with President Trump, VP jd Vance,
Pam Bondi, Cash Bettel in the Oval Office today. He
wrote on X that he was handed a binder of
the Epstein files, and then he wrote this is the
most transparent administration in American history. The best part, he wrote,
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this is just the start saying that people are going.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
To be going to jail.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
So we saw a couple of tweets like that. We
of course have reached out multiple times to the Department
of Justice trying to get some clarification. What are we
talking about here are you guys, why are you giving
these people binders?
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Are the rest of us going to see them? What's
in them? What is phase one? What is phase two?
And so on?
Speaker 3 (03:37):
I mean, we're just waiting for these names to come
out because we've been We've been hearing names throughout the years, right,
I mean we know that Jeffrey Epstein's Little Black Book,
the list of names that he has are people.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
That he has done business within the past, and.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
They do include mentions of Donald Trump and former President
Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew. Of course we heard about David
Copperfield last the magician David Copperfield last year, as well
as somebody who maybe had Michael Jackson on there as well.
But you know, everybody who has been named so far
has not been charged with anything. And those who have
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been named, who we all know, they're very popular names.
Even Cameron Diaz somehow is in you know the either here.
Nobody's been charged with anything. And of course Jeffrey Epstein
knew a lot of famous people. He did a lot
of big business with his money.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Yeah, when when Pam Bondi says, this will make you sick,
that there's over two hundred and fifty victims. Does that
mean the sheer number of victims or does it mean
the details of what was going on? Not that you'd
know this, but I was trying to figure out, like,
what is she alluding to here? Are they going to
really release some crazy details that everyone is going to
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recoil in shock?
Speaker 3 (04:57):
I mean what we've heard so far from some of
the doc uments that have been released. You know, we've
heard about the grotesque details about how these underage girls
were brought to Jeffrey Epstein and his partner Gislaine Maxwell,
and you know the thing about the massages and how
he ordered them to in state various states of undress.
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And some of these girls were as young as fourteen
years old, and then they were asked to recruit their friends,
go back to school and get us somebody younger.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Go you know, go back to.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
School and bring us more of your girlfriends. So this
was allegedly happening in New York and West Palm Beach
in New Mexico, and of course the Private island. And
so we're not really sure we've heard about all about
these massages and sexual assaults. Is there more that we're
going to learn? You're right, we just don't know two
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hundred and fifty at least victims that Pam Bondi references,
and she said the reason why we haven't seen these
documents released yet under her care is because she wants
to protect the victims. So I'm imagining seeing a lot
of redacted pages or a lot of redactions meaning that
you know, the big sharpie is what it looks like
through these court documents where you don't see the victims' names,
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where they're from, their addresses, stuff like that. So that
could be what's going on in part, but it sounds
like there is kind of a miscommunication or there needs
to be a better communication going on with the FBI
and the Department of Justice until we can get the
full scope of this investigation of these files as they
are released in whole.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
All right, Lauren, very good, Thank you so much. All Right, John,
And maybe we'll talk with you again soon if they
actually release real stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Hey, we're around, and we'll hopefully get these documents tonight
or tomorrow and we can come back on if you'd like.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
All Right, very good, I'll talk to you later. Thank you,
all right, John. All right. Laura Engel from News Nation
and the Pambondi. It also told the FBI in effect,
it's like, hey, release everything, because apparently there was stuff
still to this day that the FBI was holding back.
And it makes you wonder what's in those documents as well,
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and that there's one public official, one congress person who's
putting together some kind of a bill to make sure
that none of this information is destroyed, although I think
it would have been destroyed by now right. And what
about all the audio tapes and the videotapes and the
photos that Epstein has been collected, has collected over the years.
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Where do they all end up? Were they destroyed? I mean,
when you have government officials involved and powerful business leaders
and celebrities, you would think eventually anything that really would
matter would get you know, we'd get thrown into a fireplace.
I mean, you have to burn this stuff. Well when
we come back. There is a series in Calmatters colmatters
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dot org, which is a pretty good news website, and
they have done one of the most intense investigations as
to what's going on in the corrupt homeless industry that
I've seen in a while. And I've got stuff I'm
going to tell you about what they have discovered and
you're going to believe it because, like I said, the money,
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the money has disappeared, So what's it being spent on.
We know all the programs are ineffective. Largely, I'll explain
to you why they're ineffective. You'll see what they're wasting
the money on when we come back.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
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Speaker 1 (08:30):
We are on every day from one until four o'clock.
I think, I think if you're a reasonable person, you
should conclude that what Trump and Musk have done in
the first five or six weeks of the administration is proved.
There is a colossal amount of money being wasted and
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stolen and spent on stupid things. Because I think they
have made an absolutely convincing case. And all I think
of every day is we need to get a California doge.
We need to get the same kind of intensive, line
by line investigation into California Sacramento government on the state level,
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and let's just go locally with Los Angeles since it's
the biggest, most corrupt cesspool and we would find out
things that would make our hair fall out. I'm certain
of it, And I think one of the biggest scams
going on a local level is the amount of homeless
money that is sent to quote nonprofits. That word itself
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is a sign that there's illegal things going on. Of course,
you'd call yourself a nonprofit to make people say, oh,
look at that. They're not capitalistic, they're not greedy, they're nonprofits. Well,
a lot of these nonprofit executs, satives, directors are making
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big six figure salaries, three four, five hundred thousand dollars,
staff members easily clearing one hundred thousand dollars a year
and have for quite a while. And much of the
money that SAPs donate to homeless nonprofits and that taxpayers
pay for because we have so much, so much tax
money sucked out of our paychecks, and it's rooted to
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the nonprofits and they are run by the friends and
relatives and political donors of the corrupt politicians that we elect.
That's the truth. And you can work backwards and say, gee,
why do you think that is? How do you know
it's that way? What's your proof? Well, look at the outcomes.
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The outcomes are horrendous. Homelessness has exploded ever since we
started pouring billions of dollars into the mess. Cowmatters. Cowmatters
dot org has done a study, and these articles are
really long, and I wish there was a magical way
I could get everybody to read these. They don't make
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for necessarily compelling television. But if you stick with all
the reading, you'd come away saying, oh, my god, that
the whole homeless industry in the city and in the
state really is corrupt, really is broken. They are stealing money,
they really don't care, and they're killing people on top
of it. You really would come away with like, well,
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you know what, I guess that's the reality. That's the
truth because human nature. I don't have a rosy view
of human nature. I have a dark view of human nature.
And I think if you have a lot of free
money slashing around, all the worst elements in our society
are going to get attracted to it. It really is
like bees to honey, and that they're going to run
off with the money, all the while emotionally manipulating you
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into feeling emotional and convincing you the auto contribute your
tax money or contribute donations and you should feel sad
and starry about what's going on. And the more they
get you to feel that way, the more likely you
are to finance their corruption. Talmatters dot org says there's
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about sixty one they focus in one article on all
the emergency shelter beds, sixty one thousand of them, and
they say, if somebody ends up in an emergency shelter bed,
they're going to get stuck in housing purgatory. Fewer than
one out of four move into permanent homes, which is
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far below what many shelter operators promise in their contracts
with the public agencies. With US, right, we pay tax money,
these shelter nonprofits promise, hey, hey, you know, send the
bodies to us and we'll get them into housing. Real
housing doesn't happen. Over three quarters of the time, State
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and local officials keep relying on shelters as the backbone
of their effort to get people off the streets. Now
everybody knows they don't work, but they keep financing these
programs anyway, and they keep raising the taxes. You know,
the tax here in La went up because a majority
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in La County voted or La City voted for increased
homeless taxes. Dennis Cohane was described as an expert in
homelessness and housing policy, He says reliance on shelters is
the big failure in California. The big failure, he says,
the shelters are not a solution. Of course, his idea
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is to spend even more money, give them more rent
money so they could live in real housing. This is
what I noticed whenever somebody from this crowd admits that
this is a complete failure, and you say, well, what
could we do about it? Oh, spend more money. Well,
we gave the state twenty four billion dollars over the
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last six year years and it all got wasted. I
don't think even knew of another twenty four billion is
going to make a difference. No state agency listen to
this line. No state agency could provide it estimate for
how much total taxpayer money is spent on shelters. You
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imagine that you could call up all the state agencies
in Sacramento, called Governor k Newsom himself. They can't tell
you how much? How much do we spend just on shelters?
It's one easy question, right, It's one line of shelters.
Presumably that's where all these people go first. When you
get them off the Street. How much money we spending
on the shelters, I don't know. Well, what does that matter?
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Now?
Speaker 1 (14:44):
The people running the shelters are making six figure salaries.
Looks like that. Local governments have invested a billion dollars
since twenty eighteen. The number of emergency shelter beds in
the state more then doubled, from twenty seven thousand to
sixty one thousand. But there are still three times as
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many homeless people as there are shelter bits. So billions
of dollars and you have an overwhelming number of homeless people.
Nothing has worked. And get this, the shelters are deadlier
than the jails. The annual shelter deaths tripled over the
last six years. So these nonprofits have designed programs that
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send people into shelters where they go to die. You're
more likely to die in a shelter that if you've
been sent to jail. This is how much they care.
This is how much compassion all these progressives have with
their nonprofits. You take a homeless person, you put him
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in jail, he's more likely to survive than if you
put him in a shelter. Listen to what these nonprofits
are making. Oh by the way. You know, how many
people have died in the last six years in shelters
two thousand and seven. This, this racket, this homeless nonprofit
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racket financed by you, has killed over two thousand homeless people. Oh,
isn't it good that they're getting off the streets. What
wonderful compassionate work they do? They send two thousand people
to their deaths. Here's another section. Scandals have plagued fast
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growing shelter operators. I'm sure you'll be surprised by this.
In Oakland, there's something called the Bay Area Community Services.
They saw their revenue climb a thousand percent in the
last decade, one thousand percent. Now they spend ninety eight
million dollars a year, and there's a long list of allegations, fraud,
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inappropriate relationships with the clients. In other words, they're stealing
money and they're having sex with the homeless people. That's
what the ninety eight million dollars gets. Hey, if we
give you ninety eight million dollars, what will you do.
We'll steal it and we'll have we'll screw all the
homeless people. How's that? Oh? Good deal? Sure, here's another
ninety eight million we've got one here in LA. Special
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services for groups who knows what that means brought in
one hundred and seventy million dollars in twenty twenty three.
That is a nine figure jump. Is what does that
calculate to? I guess, I guess that's that's millions of
dollars extra in the last six years. And you know what,
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they have complaints in lawsuits over violence and sexual misconduct.
So you give us one hundred and seventy million dollars
and we'll beat up the homeless people and have sex
with them. That's better than the open crowd. Right, Oakland
was just stealing money and having sex with the homeless.
In LA, they do one better. They'll beat them up first.
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While the state sends local governments hundreds of millions of
dollars for shelters, it does little to ensure accountability. The
shelters have become a bridge to nowhere. According to cow Matters,
Oh this is really good because we have a we
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have a train to nowhere, and now we have a
bridge to nowhere. So the train will take you to
nowhere where you can go and visit all the homeless
people who took the bridge to nowhere and are dying
and being literally screwed over by the shelter workers. There's
a lot more in these count matters investigations that I
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want to get to at least a little bit every day.
But I mean there's dozens and dozens of pages.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
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News at three o'clock to be followed by Alex Stone
and he'll have the latest on another story that seems
to change every couple hours, like what happened to Gene
Hackman and his wife and their dog. They turned up dead.
Hackman was ninety five years old, the wife sixty three,
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and it turned out they were dead for maybe two weeks,
and the wife at least had started mummifying. So you know,
at first you heard the story and you thought, well,
maybe carbon monoxide poisoning, and you assumed it had happened overnight,
but they had. By the way, when you hear they
live in sata fe you don't know people at sata Fey.
Maybe they leave live in shacks or maybe they live
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in you know, huge celebrity compounds. Well for Hackman it
was the latter, So it's kind of mysterious. Two dogs survived,
one dog did not. I don't know, Like I said,
TMZ seems to be breaking a lot of news on this.
We'll talk with Alex Stone coming up. Michael Monks is
here now, and you are not mummifying it. I'm not
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mummifying it.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
I didn't realize is that the only two options for
living in Santa Fez.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
You've got a shack or a mansion from what I understand. Yeah,
well I heard it might be carbon monoxide. I'm thinking, oh,
he must have, you know, been into living outdoors simply,
you know, in a wooden cabin, you know, something really
rustic and cool. And they had some kind of heater
that went haywire, because I mean, who dies of carbon
monoxide poisoning when you're worth millions and millions of dollars
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right in any event, Michael Monks was at the Menendez
brother's family press conference today. Yesterday, the story was that
Governor news someone wants the Parole Board to do a
risk assessment, so if he decides to give him clemency
and they're released, what is the risk that they're going
to shoot other people in the head. So today was
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the Menendez family what they have to say.
Speaker 5 (20:58):
Well, they have to say that the risk of them
shooting somebody else in the head is non existent, and
they seem very optimistic that these brothers are going to
get out of prison, and they're expressing a lot of
gratitude for Governor Newsom calling for this risk assessment. They
seem to think that this is going to lead to
the release of these brothers for the first time since
nineteen eighty nine. Now, this press conference that happened today
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by the Justice for Lyle and Eric group, mostly family
members and supporters of their release. It was supposed to
be yesterday, but the news of the governor's risk assessment
call came out and they canceled their news conference. So
the suspicion was they were going to come out critical
of La County District Attorney Nathan Hawkman and the conclusion
he reached last week that there is no need for
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a new trial. This new evidence they're calling for really
hasn't been substantiated to a level where I think we
need to have a third trial for these guys.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
So I mean there's three options. We probably should go
through the options every time we do this. Yes, sure,
of course, either they resentence Menendez brothers, and they could
resentence them essentially to time served. There's a brand new
trial entirely because of these new letters that have been
found where the Menendez brothers indicated how badly they were
being treated sexually by their father. And the third option
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is new suggest to give them clemency. They go home.
That's not a pardon, but it's like whatever time you served,
that's it. That's right.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
And Nathan Hafckman laid it out pretty clearly last week
he said these are the three options. He also made
it clear that he was only speaking last week on
the new trial. He says his office's official position on
resentencing would come later within the next couple of weeks,
so maybe we'll see that next week. So what he
is considering is whether the evidence that they've found or
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decided was relevant now is related to the sexual abuse
that they claim to have suffered under the hands of
their father, and whether that warrants either a new trial
because it was obviously not considered enough in the nineties,
or if perhap perhaps it indicates that they have served
enough time and so that they should be resentenced. With
that being taken under consideration, it's also a consideration for
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the parole board, which also has a list of things
to consider. The remorse that they might have. The family
says that they've expressed their remorse the social history.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Why would you believe that, Well, here's what they said
the thirty six years. I'd expressed remorse to anything you
want me to.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
Yeah, Well, they say that the brothers since they've been
in prison, they've done all this good stuff. You know,
they're leading meditation, you know, and aa tight meetings in
the prison.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Well maybe they should be allowed to continue all that
good work.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
Well, they probably will continue to do that if they
remain in prison, right because they're always going to hold
onto hope that they're going to get out.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
If they're doing so much good, let them do more
good the prison is probably what are they going to
do on the outside. They're not going to do the
same kind of good. That's actually something the parole board
has to consider. What is the plan for the future.
So what is the Menindez brother's plan for the future.
I imagine when you have a high profile case like theirs.
There will be a lot of opportunities for them to
cash home. And in fact, all the documentaries and the
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books that have been written, did they have a financial
interest in any of this? I don't know. I don't know.
Do they have a secret pot of money waiting for
them in the Cayman Island. So we'll keep in mind
they came from a pretty well to do family good
in Beverly Hills, so they weren't want for money back
in the day. They were just unless they were cut
out of the will, well, that may have been something
to the fact consider as well. They certainly wouldn't be
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in the will now Betten. Yeah, I just I just
wonder are they going to end up being kind of
these these crazy playboy celebrities and they're dancing with the stars. Well,
look at all the women who want them. Yeah, yeah,
dancing with the stars. Exactly. I turn on my TV
and I see Lyle and Eric dancing with the stars.
You know, I'm jumping off the I'm jumping off the bridge.
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I mean, gee, come on. Well, that's what the family
is saying is that these are good guys. Now, they've
done a good job in prison. They are rehabilitated, and
they've done good things to help rehability. Netflix, so'll get
them one hundred million dollars for a series of documentary.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
I think their future is pretty well played. The other
thing that they noticed is that the parole board will
consider a lack of criminal history. The cousin who spoke
today at the press conference said, other than the murders,
they haven't done any other crimes other.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Than the murders. Did he actually say that.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
Yes, Anna Maria Barral says, you know, they made this
one big mistake in nineteen eighty nine, but other than that,
they haven't done anything else.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
They mistakenly went out and bought what would they kill
them with? Shotguns?
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Yeah, they mistakenly bought some shotguns, brought them back, blew
away the parents. In fact, didn't they go outside and
come back and finish mom off? They did and made
another mistake.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
And lied, lied to investigators, moved around a little bit,
you know. I mean, there was a laundry list of
crimes that were committed around this central crisis.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
They're an insanity gene in the Menendas family. I mean,
are they all crazy? No?
Speaker 5 (25:52):
In fact, this this woman says that many of the
family believed for a long time that they were mistreated
and that this was unhandled correctly.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
How do you think you're gonna get treated when you
blow your parents' heads off? Exactly? How should we treat you?
They didn't get the death penalty.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
I think they caught a huge break on that they
didn't get the death penalty. And this family member and
other family members have said that they do believe that
the brothers were sexually abused, and that while they acknowledge
a crime was committed, that they're well enough time.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
They acknowledge a crime, right, all right, Michael, that's very distressing, Yes,
very disturbed. Thank you for helping me find my phone yesterday,
though you didn't, I was happy to explore the grounds.
We did. We did. We took a nice tour of
the whole building and the all the whole balked along
the freeway a little bit. Yeah, that was fun. All right. Well,
when we come back, I have not one not to
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debor you'll enjoy this, but I have three stories about disease,
three things that will probably frighten you. And then uh,
we'll talk to Alex Stone to see if there's any
more information about these strange deaths of Gene Hackman, his
wife and his dog in Santa Fe, New Mexico. And
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apparently the wife was mummifying, so they were dead for
a while.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
A six coming up after three o'clock. What happened to
the famous actor Gene Hackman and his wife and their dog.
They all turned up dead and may have been dead
for two weeks and their home in Santa Fe. Story
keeps changing. You probably haven't heard the latest. I probably
haven't heard the latest. But that's why we have Alex
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Stone coming on from ABC News right after three o'clock
News with Deborah. All Right, before I have all these
disease stories that's going to upset you, I have one
happy story. It's about a dog. You heard about this
dog in Corona. It's a Bernese Mountain dog seven months old.
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They rushed the dog to a ventary center because she
began vomiting and the little puppy, the abdomen was firm
right and distended. Obviously, there was something wrong here, and
so they performed exploratory surgery on Luna. Luna and they
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found something inside the belly they found forty four objects
in the belly.
Speaker 6 (28:23):
I saw this online. I could not believe that.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Most of them were socks. This girl ate forty, well
almost forty four pairs of well twenty two pairs of socks.
Oh gosh, and you could see in the X ray
the build up in her inner stomach. They found two
dozen socks a onesie what sie? Oh yeah, I don't know.
(28:57):
Why would you? Why would a dog eat socks? Well?
I did have.
Speaker 7 (29:00):
I had a cocker spaniel and I had to have
the dog on steroids because she was ill at one point.
This is many many years ago, and she ate a
pair of my nylons. Oh my, so I had to
take her to the emergency vet.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Perft dogs.
Speaker 7 (29:14):
Oh, I know, because the steroids make the dogs very hungry. So,
but this is a puppy, and I doubt the puppy
was on a steroid. I mean, look, dogs liked I
mean puppies. They chew on everything, They eat everything, I
don't know what.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
To eat them and swallow and like it so much. Yes,
one sock I could see, but one dry cottony sock
that might have been worn. And it's like this is good,
that's good stuff. All right, now on to the diseases.
None of this is good news, but hey, you don't
tune in for good news, do you. There is a
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in the Democratic Republic of Congo in Africa, there is
a fast spreading mystery illness linked to bats. Bats. I
was up to me, yeah, I'd kill every bat on
the planet. I'm not. I would be no, it would
be a genocide of bats. Within within forty eight hours
(30:13):
of showing system. Within forty eight hours of showing symptoms,
half the people die because the disease causes uncontrolled bleeding.
Oh that'll take you out, bleeding from a where there's
an opening, you're bleeding from it, vomiting diarrhea and other
symptoms of hemorrhagic fever. You I mean, good lord, This
(30:39):
is not even a bola which they get that that
which they get in that area. In the past, it
was discovered in three children in the village of Boloco.
The children were vomiting blood and they all died within
two days. A few weeks later, there was a second,
larger at break one hundred miles away in the village
(30:59):
of Bomati. Hundreds of people got ill. This could be
a new virus that has never been discovered, set a
professor of infectious disease Matteo Bassetti, And they don't know
anything about it or how it's transmitted, but I would
cancel that trip to the Congo. Meantime, our friends in
Wuhan who brought us the coronavirus, they have a new
(31:23):
product they're putting out on the market. Chinese scientists are
planning ominous experiments similar to those that triggered the COVID pandemic.
Oh yes, this time they're advertising it upfront though. The
Wuhan Institute Virology that was home base for COVID they
have published new research this month announcing it. It found another
(31:46):
bat coronavirus again with the bats that can enter human cells,
very similar to a COVID nineteen infection. Well wait wait,
why because they can?
Speaker 6 (31:58):
Well, I mean that makes no sense. I mean they
had to deal with the pandemic too.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
They didn't care. They covered it up and blame it
on random animals at the at the food market.
Speaker 7 (32:09):
Well, why doesn't Trump impose a bigger tear of Hey,
keep the viruses away or.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
You're gonna The paper says they're going to do further
investigation into strains of the virus that have more infectious
spike proteins, and they're going to test in mice as well.
Speaker 7 (32:35):
Yeah, okay, we need to stop this. I mean none
of us, I mean PTSD.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
When I hear COVID and this, I think Trump should
drop a nuclear missile on the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Speaker 7 (32:48):
He needs to do something seriously. I mean, get him
on the phone, John and tell him.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
That he I think he needs a therapy cause I.
Speaker 7 (32:57):
Need so too, and say that you know what, none
of us are going to We're all going to need
a lot of therapy if there's another pandemic like that.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Doctor Elena Chan is a biosecurity expert and says the
paper ends on an ominous note describing a set of
future experiments similar to what might have led to COVID nineteen.
They're going to test more of such viruses with different
looking spike proteins. They're going to study cleavage sites and
how they activate the spike in these viruses, and they're
going to cause the virus. They're going to study the virus'
(33:24):
ability to cause disease in humanized mice. So that's another
part of the experiment is they take human genes and
splice them into mice and then watch what the virus
does to the mice, and then they know what it'll
do to people.
Speaker 6 (33:38):
Well, first of all, that's very mean, and I'm scaring
it is.
Speaker 7 (33:44):
But okay, so this is out right, it's not hidden.
Speaker 6 (33:47):
So what are we doing about this?
Speaker 1 (33:50):
I don't know. It's to me, it's nuclear missile time.
There's no reasoning with these people. This is all financed
by the Chinese government. So is the first round? I
think it backfired on them. They didn't expect it.
Speaker 6 (34:03):
Oh, and so nothing's gonna happen this time around.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
I don't know. And finally, one more real quick. Health
officials are warning of a potential measles outbreak at LAX.
Passenger arrived on a Korean air flight tested positive four measles.
Specifically was February nineteenth, during the hours of one and
four Terminal B that's the international terminal, right, yep. And
(34:30):
they're working to notify passengers on the flight who might
have been close enough to the to the infected measles passenger,
anybody who might have crossed paths with the patient. Well,
how would we know that unless he had a big
neon m on his head. There's no way. But anyway,
(34:51):
if you were, if you were in Terminal B between
one and four o'clock and February the nineteenth, maybe you're
going to get the measles if you haven't been vaccinated.
Speaker 6 (35:00):
So uplifting with.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
That hiking for it was that one, two three? Huh? Yeah?
I love it all right? What happened to Gene Hackman
and his wife and their dog and when did it happen?
Because the wife was mummifying they found him on the floor.
That's a real mystery, mystery that changes by the hour.
And we're gonna have Alex Stone from ABC News tell
us what the latest is. Deborah mark Litten the CAFI
(35:22):
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it becomes a podcast, John Cobelt's Show on demand. So
every once in a while you hear a news story
that the Jeffrey Epstein files are going to be released,
and little bits come out. Usually it's stuff you've already
heard about. Well, today it was supposed to be the
(00:43):
biggest day, right the Attorney General Pam Bondi said they
were gonna dump everything they had and she said this
will make you sick. And then it didn't happen, or
maybe some of it was released. I don't know. The
story's actually changed every couple hours. So to sort this out,
maybe lour angel from Newsday is here.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
No pressure.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yeah, it's all on you now, so.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Yeah, this has been a roller coaster of a day, Johnny,
exactly everything you just said.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
We were supposed to get this big document dump.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
We were told from Pam Bondi that she expected to
release all of this evidence and information at some point today.
We heard it was going to be mid afternoon, and
then mid afternoon Can went here on the East Coast
and we haven't seen anything yet, so it doesn't It
does look like some files could be released today, but
if they are released, they're going to be things that
(01:36):
have already been released before, So no bombshells.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
We've been told from high level people that there's.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Not going to be any bombshells today, but possibly tomorrow,
because there's a letter that's now been made public that
was written this afternoon by the US Attorney General Pam
Bondi that was addressed to the FBI Director of Cash Betel,
expressing her frustration essentially over lack of communication with the
FBI over these Epstein files.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
She wanted clarification.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
She wants the full and complete reports with no withholdings,
no limitations at all, to come out. So something happening.
You guys have probably seen this video of people coming
onto the West Wing with these white binders holding them up,
with these people like not everybody knows who these people are.
(02:22):
These are several conservative influencers who walked out of the
West Wing with these white binders that read the Epstein
files Phase one, holding them up, putting them on TikTok
and on X. But they never opened the binders. They
just said, boy, wait till you hear what's going to
be inside these binders. So now we wait.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
So this is another like choreographed show that Trump is
putting on.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
I mean, what we have is this lawyer, one of them,
Rogan o'handley. He wrote on X he came out and
said that he met with President Trump, VP jd Vance,
Pam Bondi, Cash Bettel in the Oval Office today. He
wrote on X that he was handed a binder of
the Epstein files, and then he wrote this is the
most transparent administration in American history. The best part, he wrote,
(03:12):
this is just the start saying that people are going.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
To be going to jail.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
So we saw a couple of tweets like that. We
of course have reached out multiple times to the Department
of Justice trying to get some clarification. What are we
talking about here are you guys, why are you giving
these people binders?
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Are the rest of us going to see them? What's
in them? What is phase one? What is phase two?
And so on?
Speaker 3 (03:37):
I mean, we're just waiting for these names to come
out because we've been We've been hearing names throughout the years, right,
I mean we know that Jeffrey Epstein's Little Black Book,
the list of names that he has are people.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
That he has done business within the past, and.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
They do include mentions of Donald Trump and former President
Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew. Of course we heard about David
Copperfield last the magician David Copperfield last year, as well
as somebody who maybe had Michael Jackson on there as well.
But you know, everybody who has been named so far
has not been charged with anything. And those who have
(04:14):
been named, who we all know, they're very popular names.
Even Cameron Diaz somehow is in you know the either here.
Nobody's been charged with anything. And of course Jeffrey Epstein
knew a lot of famous people. He did a lot
of big business with his money.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Yeah, when when Pam Bondi says, this will make you sick,
that there's over two hundred and fifty victims. Does that
mean the sheer number of victims or does it mean
the details of what was going on? Not that you'd
know this, but I was trying to figure out, like,
what is she alluding to here? Are they going to
really release some crazy details that everyone is going to
(04:53):
recoil in shock?
Speaker 3 (04:57):
I mean what we've heard so far from some of
the doc uments that have been released. You know, we've
heard about the grotesque details about how these underage girls
were brought to Jeffrey Epstein and his partner Gislaine Maxwell,
and you know the thing about the massages and how
he ordered them to in state various states of undress.
(05:17):
And some of these girls were as young as fourteen
years old, and then they were asked to recruit their friends,
go back to school and get us somebody younger.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Go you know, go back to.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
School and bring us more of your girlfriends. So this
was allegedly happening in New York and West Palm Beach
in New Mexico, and of course the Private island. And
so we're not really sure we've heard about all about
these massages and sexual assaults. Is there more that we're
going to learn? You're right, we just don't know two
(05:47):
hundred and fifty at least victims that Pam Bondi references,
and she said the reason why we haven't seen these
documents released yet under her care is because she wants
to protect the victims. So I'm imagining seeing a lot
of redacted pages or a lot of redactions meaning that
you know, the big sharpie is what it looks like
through these court documents where you don't see the victims' names,
(06:09):
where they're from, their addresses, stuff like that. So that
could be what's going on in part, but it sounds
like there is kind of a miscommunication or there needs
to be a better communication going on with the FBI
and the Department of Justice until we can get the
full scope of this investigation of these files as they
are released in whole.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
All right, Lauren, very good, Thank you so much. All Right, John,
And maybe we'll talk with you again soon if they
actually release real stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Hey, we're around, and we'll hopefully get these documents tonight
or tomorrow and we can come back on if you'd like.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
All Right, very good, I'll talk to you later. Thank you,
all right, John. All right. Laura Engel from News Nation
and the Pambondi. It also told the FBI in effect,
it's like, hey, release everything, because apparently there was stuff
still to this day that the FBI was holding back.
And it makes you wonder what's in those documents as well,
(07:02):
and that there's one public official, one congress person who's
putting together some kind of a bill to make sure
that none of this information is destroyed, although I think
it would have been destroyed by now right. And what
about all the audio tapes and the videotapes and the
photos that Epstein has been collected, has collected over the years.
(07:26):
Where do they all end up? Were they destroyed? I mean,
when you have government officials involved and powerful business leaders
and celebrities, you would think eventually anything that really would
matter would get you know, we'd get thrown into a fireplace.
I mean, you have to burn this stuff. Well when
we come back. There is a series in Calmatters colmatters
(07:49):
dot org, which is a pretty good news website, and
they have done one of the most intense investigations as
to what's going on in the corrupt homeless industry that
I've seen in a while. And I've got stuff I'm
going to tell you about what they have discovered and
you're going to believe it because, like I said, the money,
(08:11):
the money has disappeared, So what's it being spent on.
We know all the programs are ineffective. Largely, I'll explain
to you why they're ineffective. You'll see what they're wasting
the money on when we come back.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am
six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
We are on every day from one until four o'clock.
I think, I think if you're a reasonable person, you
should conclude that what Trump and Musk have done in
the first five or six weeks of the administration is proved.
There is a colossal amount of money being wasted and
(08:50):
stolen and spent on stupid things. Because I think they
have made an absolutely convincing case. And all I think
of every day is we need to get a California doge.
We need to get the same kind of intensive, line
by line investigation into California Sacramento government on the state level,
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and let's just go locally with Los Angeles since it's
the biggest, most corrupt cesspool and we would find out
things that would make our hair fall out. I'm certain
of it, And I think one of the biggest scams
going on a local level is the amount of homeless
money that is sent to quote nonprofits. That word itself
(09:42):
is a sign that there's illegal things going on. Of course,
you'd call yourself a nonprofit to make people say, oh,
look at that. They're not capitalistic, they're not greedy, they're nonprofits. Well,
a lot of these nonprofit executs, satives, directors are making
(10:03):
big six figure salaries, three four, five hundred thousand dollars,
staff members easily clearing one hundred thousand dollars a year
and have for quite a while. And much of the
money that SAPs donate to homeless nonprofits and that taxpayers
pay for because we have so much, so much tax
money sucked out of our paychecks, and it's rooted to
(10:26):
the nonprofits and they are run by the friends and
relatives and political donors of the corrupt politicians that we elect.
That's the truth. And you can work backwards and say, gee,
why do you think that is? How do you know
it's that way? What's your proof? Well, look at the outcomes.
(10:46):
The outcomes are horrendous. Homelessness has exploded ever since we
started pouring billions of dollars into the mess. Cowmatters. Cowmatters
dot org has done a study, and these articles are
really long, and I wish there was a magical way
I could get everybody to read these. They don't make
(11:06):
for necessarily compelling television. But if you stick with all
the reading, you'd come away saying, oh, my god, that
the whole homeless industry in the city and in the
state really is corrupt, really is broken. They are stealing money,
they really don't care, and they're killing people on top
of it. You really would come away with like, well,
(11:28):
you know what, I guess that's the reality. That's the
truth because human nature. I don't have a rosy view
of human nature. I have a dark view of human nature.
And I think if you have a lot of free
money slashing around, all the worst elements in our society
are going to get attracted to it. It really is
like bees to honey, and that they're going to run
off with the money, all the while emotionally manipulating you
(11:50):
into feeling emotional and convincing you the auto contribute your
tax money or contribute donations and you should feel sad
and starry about what's going on. And the more they
get you to feel that way, the more likely you
are to finance their corruption. Talmatters dot org says there's
(12:11):
about sixty one they focus in one article on all
the emergency shelter beds, sixty one thousand of them, and
they say, if somebody ends up in an emergency shelter bed,
they're going to get stuck in housing purgatory. Fewer than
one out of four move into permanent homes, which is
(12:32):
far below what many shelter operators promise in their contracts
with the public agencies. With US, right, we pay tax money,
these shelter nonprofits promise, hey, hey, you know, send the
bodies to us and we'll get them into housing. Real
housing doesn't happen. Over three quarters of the time, State
(12:53):
and local officials keep relying on shelters as the backbone
of their effort to get people off the streets. Now
everybody knows they don't work, but they keep financing these
programs anyway, and they keep raising the taxes. You know,
the tax here in La went up because a majority
(13:13):
in La County voted or La City voted for increased
homeless taxes. Dennis Cohane was described as an expert in
homelessness and housing policy, He says reliance on shelters is
the big failure in California. The big failure, he says,
the shelters are not a solution. Of course, his idea
(13:36):
is to spend even more money, give them more rent
money so they could live in real housing. This is
what I noticed whenever somebody from this crowd admits that
this is a complete failure, and you say, well, what
could we do about it? Oh, spend more money. Well,
we gave the state twenty four billion dollars over the
(13:58):
last six year years and it all got wasted. I
don't think even knew of another twenty four billion is
going to make a difference. No state agency listen to
this line. No state agency could provide it estimate for
how much total taxpayer money is spent on shelters. You
(14:20):
imagine that you could call up all the state agencies
in Sacramento, called Governor k Newsom himself. They can't tell
you how much? How much do we spend just on shelters?
It's one easy question, right, It's one line of shelters.
Presumably that's where all these people go first. When you
get them off the Street. How much money we spending
on the shelters, I don't know. Well, what does that matter?
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Now?
Speaker 1 (14:44):
The people running the shelters are making six figure salaries.
Looks like that. Local governments have invested a billion dollars
since twenty eighteen. The number of emergency shelter beds in
the state more then doubled, from twenty seven thousand to
sixty one thousand. But there are still three times as
(15:06):
many homeless people as there are shelter bits. So billions
of dollars and you have an overwhelming number of homeless people.
Nothing has worked. And get this, the shelters are deadlier
than the jails. The annual shelter deaths tripled over the
last six years. So these nonprofits have designed programs that
(15:31):
send people into shelters where they go to die. You're
more likely to die in a shelter that if you've
been sent to jail. This is how much they care.
This is how much compassion all these progressives have with
their nonprofits. You take a homeless person, you put him
(15:52):
in jail, he's more likely to survive than if you
put him in a shelter. Listen to what these nonprofits
are making. Oh by the way. You know, how many
people have died in the last six years in shelters
two thousand and seven. This, this racket, this homeless nonprofit
(16:14):
racket financed by you, has killed over two thousand homeless people. Oh,
isn't it good that they're getting off the streets. What
wonderful compassionate work they do? They send two thousand people
to their deaths. Here's another section. Scandals have plagued fast
(16:34):
growing shelter operators. I'm sure you'll be surprised by this.
In Oakland, there's something called the Bay Area Community Services.
They saw their revenue climb a thousand percent in the
last decade, one thousand percent. Now they spend ninety eight
million dollars a year, and there's a long list of allegations, fraud,
(16:58):
inappropriate relationships with the clients. In other words, they're stealing
money and they're having sex with the homeless people. That's
what the ninety eight million dollars gets. Hey, if we
give you ninety eight million dollars, what will you do.
We'll steal it and we'll have we'll screw all the
homeless people. How's that? Oh? Good deal? Sure, here's another
ninety eight million we've got one here in LA. Special
(17:22):
services for groups who knows what that means brought in
one hundred and seventy million dollars in twenty twenty three.
That is a nine figure jump. Is what does that
calculate to? I guess, I guess that's that's millions of
dollars extra in the last six years. And you know what,
(17:45):
they have complaints in lawsuits over violence and sexual misconduct.
So you give us one hundred and seventy million dollars
and we'll beat up the homeless people and have sex
with them. That's better than the open crowd. Right, Oakland
was just stealing money and having sex with the homeless.
In LA, they do one better. They'll beat them up first.
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While the state sends local governments hundreds of millions of
dollars for shelters, it does little to ensure accountability. The
shelters have become a bridge to nowhere. According to cow Matters,
Oh this is really good because we have a we
(18:28):
have a train to nowhere, and now we have a
bridge to nowhere. So the train will take you to
nowhere where you can go and visit all the homeless
people who took the bridge to nowhere and are dying
and being literally screwed over by the shelter workers. There's
a lot more in these count matters investigations that I
(18:50):
want to get to at least a little bit every day.
But I mean there's dozens and dozens of pages.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
You're listening to John Cobel's on Demand from A sixty.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
We're on from one until four o'clock, and then after
four John Cobelt Show on to band the podcast Debra's
News at three o'clock to be followed by Alex Stone
and he'll have the latest on another story that seems
to change every couple hours, like what happened to Gene
Hackman and his wife and their dog. They turned up dead.
Hackman was ninety five years old, the wife sixty three,
(19:25):
and it turned out they were dead for maybe two weeks,
and the wife at least had started mummifying. So you know,
at first you heard the story and you thought, well,
maybe carbon monoxide poisoning, and you assumed it had happened overnight,
but they had. By the way, when you hear they
live in sata fe you don't know people at sata Fey.
Maybe they leave live in shacks or maybe they live
(19:48):
in you know, huge celebrity compounds. Well for Hackman it
was the latter, So it's kind of mysterious. Two dogs survived,
one dog did not. I don't know, Like I said,
TMZ seems to be breaking a lot of news on this.
We'll talk with Alex Stone coming up. Michael Monks is
here now, and you are not mummifying it. I'm not
(20:10):
mummifying it.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
I didn't realize is that the only two options for
living in Santa Fez.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
You've got a shack or a mansion from what I understand. Yeah,
well I heard it might be carbon monoxide. I'm thinking, oh,
he must have, you know, been into living outdoors simply,
you know, in a wooden cabin, you know, something really
rustic and cool. And they had some kind of heater
that went haywire, because I mean, who dies of carbon
monoxide poisoning when you're worth millions and millions of dollars
(20:35):
right in any event, Michael Monks was at the Menendez
brother's family press conference today. Yesterday, the story was that
Governor news someone wants the Parole Board to do a
risk assessment, so if he decides to give him clemency
and they're released, what is the risk that they're going
to shoot other people in the head. So today was
(20:56):
the Menendez family what they have to say.
Speaker 5 (20:58):
Well, they have to say that the risk of them
shooting somebody else in the head is non existent, and
they seem very optimistic that these brothers are going to
get out of prison, and they're expressing a lot of
gratitude for Governor Newsom calling for this risk assessment. They
seem to think that this is going to lead to
the release of these brothers for the first time since
nineteen eighty nine. Now, this press conference that happened today
(21:21):
by the Justice for Lyle and Eric group, mostly family
members and supporters of their release. It was supposed to
be yesterday, but the news of the governor's risk assessment
call came out and they canceled their news conference. So
the suspicion was they were going to come out critical
of La County District Attorney Nathan Hawkman and the conclusion
he reached last week that there is no need for
(21:43):
a new trial. This new evidence they're calling for really
hasn't been substantiated to a level where I think we
need to have a third trial for these guys.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
So I mean there's three options. We probably should go
through the options every time we do this. Yes, sure,
of course, either they resentence Menendez brothers, and they could
resentence them essentially to time served. There's a brand new
trial entirely because of these new letters that have been
found where the Menendez brothers indicated how badly they were
being treated sexually by their father. And the third option
(22:15):
is new suggest to give them clemency. They go home.
That's not a pardon, but it's like whatever time you served,
that's it. That's right.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
And Nathan Hafckman laid it out pretty clearly last week
he said these are the three options. He also made
it clear that he was only speaking last week on
the new trial. He says his office's official position on
resentencing would come later within the next couple of weeks,
so maybe we'll see that next week. So what he
is considering is whether the evidence that they've found or
(22:45):
decided was relevant now is related to the sexual abuse
that they claim to have suffered under the hands of
their father, and whether that warrants either a new trial
because it was obviously not considered enough in the nineties,
or if perhap perhaps it indicates that they have served
enough time and so that they should be resentenced. With
that being taken under consideration, it's also a consideration for
(23:08):
the parole board, which also has a list of things
to consider. The remorse that they might have. The family
says that they've expressed their remorse the social history.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Why would you believe that, Well, here's what they said
the thirty six years. I'd expressed remorse to anything you
want me to.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
Yeah, Well, they say that the brothers since they've been
in prison, they've done all this good stuff. You know,
they're leading meditation, you know, and aa tight meetings in
the prison.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Well maybe they should be allowed to continue all that
good work.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
Well, they probably will continue to do that if they
remain in prison, right because they're always going to hold
onto hope that they're going to get out.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
If they're doing so much good, let them do more
good the prison is probably what are they going to
do on the outside. They're not going to do the
same kind of good. That's actually something the parole board
has to consider. What is the plan for the future.
So what is the Menindez brother's plan for the future.
I imagine when you have a high profile case like theirs.
There will be a lot of opportunities for them to
cash home. And in fact, all the documentaries and the
(24:04):
books that have been written, did they have a financial
interest in any of this? I don't know. I don't know.
Do they have a secret pot of money waiting for
them in the Cayman Island. So we'll keep in mind
they came from a pretty well to do family good
in Beverly Hills, so they weren't want for money back
in the day. They were just unless they were cut
out of the will, well, that may have been something
to the fact consider as well. They certainly wouldn't be
(24:26):
in the will now Betten. Yeah, I just I just
wonder are they going to end up being kind of
these these crazy playboy celebrities and they're dancing with the stars. Well,
look at all the women who want them. Yeah, yeah,
dancing with the stars. Exactly. I turn on my TV
and I see Lyle and Eric dancing with the stars.
You know, I'm jumping off the I'm jumping off the bridge.
(24:47):
I mean, gee, come on. Well, that's what the family
is saying is that these are good guys. Now, they've
done a good job in prison. They are rehabilitated, and
they've done good things to help rehability. Netflix, so'll get
them one hundred million dollars for a series of documentary.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
I think their future is pretty well played. The other
thing that they noticed is that the parole board will
consider a lack of criminal history. The cousin who spoke
today at the press conference said, other than the murders,
they haven't done any other crimes other.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Than the murders. Did he actually say that.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
Yes, Anna Maria Barral says, you know, they made this
one big mistake in nineteen eighty nine, but other than that,
they haven't done anything else.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
They mistakenly went out and bought what would they kill
them with? Shotguns?
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Yeah, they mistakenly bought some shotguns, brought them back, blew
away the parents. In fact, didn't they go outside and
come back and finish mom off? They did and made
another mistake.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
And lied, lied to investigators, moved around a little bit,
you know. I mean, there was a laundry list of
crimes that were committed around this central crisis.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
They're an insanity gene in the Menendas family. I mean,
are they all crazy? No?
Speaker 5 (25:52):
In fact, this this woman says that many of the
family believed for a long time that they were mistreated
and that this was unhandled correctly.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
How do you think you're gonna get treated when you
blow your parents' heads off? Exactly? How should we treat you?
They didn't get the death penalty.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
I think they caught a huge break on that they
didn't get the death penalty. And this family member and
other family members have said that they do believe that
the brothers were sexually abused, and that while they acknowledge
a crime was committed, that they're well enough time.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
They acknowledge a crime, right, all right, Michael, that's very distressing, Yes,
very disturbed. Thank you for helping me find my phone yesterday,
though you didn't, I was happy to explore the grounds.
We did. We did. We took a nice tour of
the whole building and the all the whole balked along
the freeway a little bit. Yeah, that was fun. All right. Well,
when we come back, I have not one not to
(26:43):
debor you'll enjoy this, but I have three stories about disease,
three things that will probably frighten you. And then uh,
we'll talk to Alex Stone to see if there's any
more information about these strange deaths of Gene Hackman, his
wife and his dog in Santa Fe, New Mexico. And
(27:03):
apparently the wife was mummifying, so they were dead for
a while.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
A six coming up after three o'clock. What happened to
the famous actor Gene Hackman and his wife and their dog.
They all turned up dead and may have been dead
for two weeks and their home in Santa Fe. Story
keeps changing. You probably haven't heard the latest. I probably
haven't heard the latest. But that's why we have Alex
(27:34):
Stone coming on from ABC News right after three o'clock
News with Deborah. All Right, before I have all these
disease stories that's going to upset you, I have one
happy story. It's about a dog. You heard about this
dog in Corona. It's a Bernese Mountain dog seven months old.
(27:56):
They rushed the dog to a ventary center because she
began vomiting and the little puppy, the abdomen was firm
right and distended. Obviously, there was something wrong here, and
so they performed exploratory surgery on Luna. Luna and they
(28:17):
found something inside the belly they found forty four objects
in the belly.
Speaker 6 (28:23):
I saw this online. I could not believe that.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Most of them were socks. This girl ate forty, well
almost forty four pairs of well twenty two pairs of socks.
Oh gosh, and you could see in the X ray
the build up in her inner stomach. They found two
dozen socks a onesie what sie? Oh yeah, I don't know.
(28:57):
Why would you? Why would a dog eat socks? Well?
I did have.
Speaker 7 (29:00):
I had a cocker spaniel and I had to have
the dog on steroids because she was ill at one point.
This is many many years ago, and she ate a
pair of my nylons. Oh my, so I had to
take her to the emergency vet.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Perft dogs.
Speaker 7 (29:14):
Oh, I know, because the steroids make the dogs very hungry. So,
but this is a puppy, and I doubt the puppy
was on a steroid. I mean, look, dogs liked I
mean puppies. They chew on everything, They eat everything, I
don't know what.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
To eat them and swallow and like it so much. Yes,
one sock I could see, but one dry cottony sock
that might have been worn. And it's like this is good,
that's good stuff. All right, now on to the diseases.
None of this is good news, but hey, you don't
tune in for good news, do you. There is a
(29:49):
in the Democratic Republic of Congo in Africa, there is
a fast spreading mystery illness linked to bats. Bats. I
was up to me, yeah, I'd kill every bat on
the planet. I'm not. I would be no, it would
be a genocide of bats. Within within forty eight hours
(30:13):
of showing system. Within forty eight hours of showing symptoms,
half the people die because the disease causes uncontrolled bleeding.
Oh that'll take you out, bleeding from a where there's
an opening, you're bleeding from it, vomiting diarrhea and other
symptoms of hemorrhagic fever. You I mean, good lord, This
(30:39):
is not even a bola which they get that that
which they get in that area. In the past, it
was discovered in three children in the village of Boloco.
The children were vomiting blood and they all died within
two days. A few weeks later, there was a second,
larger at break one hundred miles away in the village
(30:59):
of Bomati. Hundreds of people got ill. This could be
a new virus that has never been discovered, set a
professor of infectious disease Matteo Bassetti, And they don't know
anything about it or how it's transmitted, but I would
cancel that trip to the Congo. Meantime, our friends in
Wuhan who brought us the coronavirus, they have a new
(31:23):
product they're putting out on the market. Chinese scientists are
planning ominous experiments similar to those that triggered the COVID pandemic.
Oh yes, this time they're advertising it upfront though. The
Wuhan Institute Virology that was home base for COVID they
have published new research this month announcing it. It found another
(31:46):
bat coronavirus again with the bats that can enter human cells,
very similar to a COVID nineteen infection. Well wait wait,
why because they can?
Speaker 6 (31:58):
Well, I mean that makes no sense. I mean they
had to deal with the pandemic too.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
They didn't care. They covered it up and blame it
on random animals at the at the food market.
Speaker 7 (32:09):
Well, why doesn't Trump impose a bigger tear of Hey,
keep the viruses away or.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
You're gonna The paper says they're going to do further
investigation into strains of the virus that have more infectious
spike proteins, and they're going to test in mice as well.
Speaker 7 (32:35):
Yeah, okay, we need to stop this. I mean none
of us, I mean PTSD.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
When I hear COVID and this, I think Trump should
drop a nuclear missile on the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Speaker 7 (32:48):
He needs to do something seriously. I mean, get him
on the phone, John and tell him.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
That he I think he needs a therapy cause I.
Speaker 7 (32:57):
Need so too, and say that you know what, none
of us are going to We're all going to need
a lot of therapy if there's another pandemic like that.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Doctor Elena Chan is a biosecurity expert and says the
paper ends on an ominous note describing a set of
future experiments similar to what might have led to COVID nineteen.
They're going to test more of such viruses with different
looking spike proteins. They're going to study cleavage sites and
how they activate the spike in these viruses, and they're
going to cause the virus. They're going to study the virus'
(33:24):
ability to cause disease in humanized mice. So that's another
part of the experiment is they take human genes and
splice them into mice and then watch what the virus
does to the mice, and then they know what it'll
do to people.
Speaker 6 (33:38):
Well, first of all, that's very mean, and I'm scaring
it is.
Speaker 7 (33:44):
But okay, so this is out right, it's not hidden.
Speaker 6 (33:47):
So what are we doing about this?
Speaker 1 (33:50):
I don't know. It's to me, it's nuclear missile time.
There's no reasoning with these people. This is all financed
by the Chinese government. So is the first round? I
think it backfired on them. They didn't expect it.
Speaker 6 (34:03):
Oh, and so nothing's gonna happen this time around.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
I don't know. And finally, one more real quick. Health
officials are warning of a potential measles outbreak at LAX.
Passenger arrived on a Korean air flight tested positive four measles.
Specifically was February nineteenth, during the hours of one and
four Terminal B that's the international terminal, right, yep. And
(34:30):
they're working to notify passengers on the flight who might
have been close enough to the to the infected measles passenger,
anybody who might have crossed paths with the patient. Well,
how would we know that unless he had a big
neon m on his head. There's no way. But anyway,
(34:51):
if you were, if you were in Terminal B between
one and four o'clock and February the nineteenth, maybe you're
going to get the measles if you haven't been vaccinated.
Speaker 6 (35:00):
So uplifting with.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
That hiking for it was that one, two three? Huh? Yeah?
I love it all right? What happened to Gene Hackman
and his wife and their dog and when did it happen?
Because the wife was mummifying they found him on the floor.
That's a real mystery, mystery that changes by the hour.
And we're gonna have Alex Stone from ABC News tell
us what the latest is. Deborah mark Litten the CAFI
(35:22):
twenty four hour Newsroom, Hey, you've been listening to The
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