April 30, 2025 • 34 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (04/30) - John dives into LA’s wildfire scandal with Entertainment Lawyer Roger Bahle, who’s representing clients blaming LADWP’s empty reservoir and active power lines for the devastating fires. Plus, John exposes shocking details about LA’s mismanaged water supply—where did all the water go? Later, he slams California Democrats resisting felony charges for sex crimes involving minors and unpacks President Trump’s fiery ABC interview about deported MS-13-linked immigrant Abrego Garcia. Finally, Mayor Karen Bass sides with illegal immigrants, risking millions in federal funding—hear her controversial remarks that put sanctuary policy ahead of LA residents.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
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We are on every day from one until four o'clock
and then after four o'clock. Whatever you missed John Cobelt's
show on demand on the iHeart app. It's the podcast
version and I'll be posted shortly after four o'clock. Let's
get Roger Bailey on here. He's an attorney. We have
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had him on a number of times already. He's involved
in lawsuits representing Palisades residents against the LADWP because of
the fire. You know, there's two fronts to this legal fight.
One is the infamous reservoir that was empty, and then
there were LAEDWP power lines that collapsed on brush and
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started a second fire, and that happened twelve hours after
the start of the original fire. So this may have
come in two waves and both lead to LA d
WP culpability. Let's get Roger Bailey on here, because there
are a couple of judges now that have joined the
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lawsuit after losing their homes. Roger, how are you?
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I'm good? John, how you doing?
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I'm good?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
You got Jay Gandhi, a retired federal judge and he's
got a background as mediating settlements when it comes to wildfires.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
So I found it.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Interesting that he joined the lawsuit because with his legal mind,
his specific experience, you know, he must have seen something
in all the information that's being gathered that convinced him
that DWP is the central figure. If you're looking for culpability,
talk about that.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Sure, So you're right, Judge j. Gandhi, retired federal magistrate
judge lost his home in the Palisades. And as you noted,
Judge Gandhi had historically served as a mediator for several
of the local wildfires in southern California. And as we've
often said, wildfire doesn't discriminate. So you know, judges, mediators,
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and people from all walks of life may find themselves
the victims of a wildfire. So Judge Gandhi lost his home.
Another federal judge, Judgejan Pragerson, lost his home. Both Judge
Gandhi and Judge Pragerson have hired our firm to represent
them at our claims.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
He disappeared, all right, he went out. We'll get Roger
Bailey back on now. Gandhi is quoted to saying a
news story that he thought the fire was preventable. And
let's get Roger Bailey back on there. Continue continue. Yeah,
I'm sorry there a phone just flipped out.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Yeah, so I don't know where I lost you. But
Judge Gandhi and Judge Dean Pragerson, another federal judge, have
hired our firm to represent them in our case against
the LEDWP. We had the first hearing last week with
the State Superior Court and Judge Stuart Rice is presiding
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over the case. And we're going to be in front
of Judge Rice every thirty days. He's going to keep
post tabs on this and make sure things are moving quickly.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
And the dtail WP is arguing that they're insulated from
a lawsuit like this because of a case from over
one hundred years ago.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Yeah, they brought up this case from nineteen to eleven.
I guess that's the only thing they could find something
one hundred and fourteen years old. But if you look
at that case, it's all about contract and you know,
contracting for water. Rice nothing like we have here. I mean,
they ran out of water, you know, the situation with
the reservoir gets worse. They said they repair it. Now
it's back out of commission again. Yeah, they just can't
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get it right. I mean I refer to the DWP
as incompetence redefined. It just continually can't seem to get
anything right. And yeah, it's out of commission again. And
as you noted, we've got the problems with the power system.
They claimed was abandoned, and then they reversed that and
said no, actually the lines were energized, and those energized
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lines fell into homes, transformers exploded, caused other spot fires.
So we have a multitude of independently started fires by
the DWP's electrical equipment and to compound that in the
water to put them out right.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
So there was like two waves of fires. There was
the morning fire and then there was the evening fire,
which came from the transmission lines falling and the transformers exploding.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
That's right. Yeah, we had, like I said, some of
these fires started up in the hills above the Palisades,
above the Semescal Canyon water tank. Others happened and the
Palisades proper where overhead power lines above homes you know,
were exploding, transformers were exploding and starting all these independent
spot fires. So you had a series of fires that
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converged into one massive fire and burned everything down.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
West Side Current had a story and said that the
insurance companies pulled out not too long before the fire.
What did they know, like State Farm canceled seventy percent
of their insurance policies. Did they do an investigation and decide, Oh,
this place is going to blow and decided to mitigate
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the losses in advance.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Yeah, you know, I don't know what they knew or
didn't know, But one thing I can tell you is
the response we've heard from the DWP is that the
Palisades wasn't a fire prone area, There wasn't a high
risk of fire, weren't really in need of that much
water because it was the Palisades. But what did State
Farm and some of the other insurance carriers know that
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prompted them to pull out on mass You know, what
data did they have that said the Palisades was at
risk for fire? And it certainly doesn't square with the
DWP's version, which is, you know, the Palisades was somehow
immune from this type of disaster.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Well, it must have done some kind of observation about
brush not being cleared, the reservoir being empty. I mean,
insurance companies don't pull out unless in advance, unless they
think they're going to suffer a massive loss. And they
decided an entire area is now uninsurable. So they knew
this months in advance, and the public didn't.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Yeah, the public was left clueless. I mean, we've had wildfires,
you know, throughout the area Malibu, the Woolseyfire being one
of the more recent fires. So it's not as if
coastal California hasn't seen wildfire. And you're right, the insurance
and folks likely studied the risks and determined it wasn't
worth and start canceling policies for sourcing. Many homeowners to
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go with this California Fair Plan, which many of them
found left them dramatically under insured.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Yeah, the Fair Plan has has a hard cap on
how much money they're going to pay out, and it
didn't cover many of the homes that were forced to
use it for insurance.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
It didn't cover.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Full three million bucks as the max. Yeah, three million
bucks is the max. And many homes in the Palasades,
as you know, five million, ten million, and with only
three million dollars of insurance, you're underwater pretty heavily.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
What a disaster.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
I mean, just I mean, what a disaster from all ends,
even in the insurance it turns out to be.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
An absurd situation for these poor people. It's just awful.
All right.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
So this this obviously me a long, long running taste.
Please keep us informed with what goes on.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Absolutely, will you know as I get information, I'd let
you guys know. You're always one of my first calls.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
All right, Very good, Roger Bailey, And he's the attorney
for a group of Palisage residents, including two new clients,
who one was a judge, retired federal judge Jay Gandhi
who's joined the cases actually joined the legal team too,
and also Judge Dean Pregerson. And like I said, when
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you have when you have federal judges saying I want
to be part of this lawsuit against the d w
P because in their experience, they see where this is going,
they know who's responsible. More coming up on this because
I want to reference that West Side Current story that
had the information about the insurance companies pulling out. And
also they've got some interesting information about the draining of
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the reservoir. Apparently it created quite a stream last summer
when they drained the reservoir and everybody was wondering, well,
what's going on here? Little did they know what it
was a sign of.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A M.
Six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
We're just talking with Roger Bailey. He's representing many Palisades
residents in the fire, and he's now representing two judges.
One of them has a lot of experience in mediation
with wildfire claims, and uh, Jay Gandhi is his name.
Dean Pregerson is the name of the other federal judge,
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and uh, they're they're the reason they joined the lawsuit
against d w P. I think is because of their experience,
they can they can see who's responsible for this disaster.
And they still don't know what started the first fire,
which is why the ATF federal government is doing a
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two day controlled burn to try to figure out why
the fire started. And then the second part of this, well,
I guess three parts. Second part is there was a
wave of fires started by downed power lines because the
DWP didn't turn off the power twelve hours after the
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first fire began, and so when these power poles collapsed
and the lines hit the dry vegetation and transformers then
burst into flames, a whole new wave of fires, and
then Part three is all along. The DWP's main reservoir
was empty and the West Side Current has a really
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fascinating story. Between February and March of twenty twenty four,
it's just a little over a year ago, Los Angeles
received a historically high amount of rainfall. Remember this, Billions
of gallons of water filled county reservoirs and lakes for
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the first time in almost a decade.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
The only thing not filled.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Was the Sant Dienez Reservoir in the Palisades because it
was closed because.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
They found torn a torn cover.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Now I have to reiterate this, for forty years that
reservoir existed without a cover because the reservoir was for
fire protection. It wasn't used for drinking water. It was
a backup situation. Rarely, if ever, wasn't used for drinking water,
they had other supplies. It was meant to fight fires.
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So they're getting billions of gallons of rainfall. In the meantime,
the reservoirs closed, and five months later, as the drought
set in, people who live along Chautauqua Boulevard reported seeing
water flowing down their street. Betsy Handler lived there. She
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lost her home in the fire, and she said, I
couldn't believe they weren't capturing the water from the drain somehow.
It was one of the biggest wastes I've ever seen.
Another resident followed the stream of water up Chautaque Boulevard,
walking past cars. The water had collected high enough was
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above the tires, and she found a group of LEDWP
workers and they apologized for the inconvenience. And she's asking,
why is the reservoir getting drained? Why is the water
piling up here? And they just kept saying this had
to be done and it was going to be repaired.
I couldn't understand why there wasn't another way to drain
it while saving the water. So they had all this water,
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they drained it, they didn't collect it, they didn't reroute it,
they just drained it, and then they left it empty
for a year over a torn pool cover that isn't
needed anyway. They claimed there was some regulation after forty years,
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and it's I it makes no sense. They re Westside
Current reached out to LEDWP. Oh good luck with that.
On whether the Chautaqua Reservoir had been empty during the
summer of the previous year. I guess there's a there's
another reservoir there, the Chautauqua Reservoir, and that had been
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retired for more than a decade and.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Was no longer used.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Why now yet two reservoirs that were empty at the
start of the fire, two the Santa Nez Reservoir and
the Chautauqua Reservoir. And in two thousand and nine, the
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Santinez Reservoir was closed because they had another tear the cover.
And one of the main concerns listed on the legal
paperwork for this project was water supply resources in the
instance of a fire. So they had it in black
and white on their paperwork that that's why this reservoir existed.
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And now they're denying it. Now they're saying no, no,
it's for drinking water. Now nobody used it for drinking water.
They have a drinking water supply sod DWP is lying
like crazy. So are their lawyers, and so were the executives,
and so were the people on the board. They're trying
to come up with a cover story because, as I
mentioned before, the lawsuit looks like it could cost them
between twenty and one hundred billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
God, they should all be fired, shouldn't They shouldn't? Every mean?
Speaker 2 (14:45):
I mean they should the Bass City Council, who's ever
got the power here or to fire all these people?
And Bass in the city council ought to be fired
as well. I mean, these people are incompetent, dangerous boobs.
People died, billion and billions of dollars worth of homes
are gone. The insurance companies pulled out a few months
before they saw what was coming. Boy, I'd like to
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see an investigation as.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
To what they knew. And I'm not blaming them.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
There's no law that says you have to ensure an
area that is gonna bankrupt your company.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Did everyone have.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Their brains removed at the DWP and at city Hall
and in the mayor's office? Seriously? Were they handing out
mass lobotomies? Nice? I don't understand. I don't understand anything.
All right, coming up, I want to play you. There
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was one of those contentious interviews Trump had with Terry
Moran from ABC News. He's their senior national correspondent. Still
obsessed over that illegal alien wife beating gang member kill
maar Abrego Garcia that they said to l Salvador. Still
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they've deported thousands and thousands of illegal aliens and there's
one guy they're talking about, the violent criminal, the illegal
alien gang member, kill Maar Abrego Garcia.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
We'll play this clip. You're gonna enjoy this. If you
haven't heard it.
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It's really true. Democrats in the Assembly and we're gonna
name names, do not want it to be a felony
if you are standing on the street trying to buy
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a sixteen or seventeen year old for sex. Let's say
you're a middle aged guy and you're in the mood
for a sixteen year old. They don't think it should
be a felony. If you go and buy a girl
off the street sixteen and I cannot possibly understand this.
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Gavin Newsom is trying to get involved in correcting this legislation.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
It's just.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
And the Democrats are all outraged and incensed that they're
being put into this embarrassing position. Well, just do the
right thing and vote to make it a felony. This
is we really have to explain this. And again I say,
what are these guys doing at night? Why are they
so passionate about not making this a felony? Why is
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this such a priority. All right, we'll talk to Carl
Demayo after three o'clock. He's the assemblyman, the Republican who's
got to deal with this nonsense. So Trump has been
on one hundred day tour, and by far the most
overwhelming success is he shut down the border. For years,
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we were fed a load of garbage by Democrats and Republicans.
I had a few Republicans on this show saying, well,
we need comprehensive reform and we need to go for
the root causes. We've got to send money to help
these emerging countries. No, you just have to close the border.
Well you can't really do that, you know, they'll just
climb over the wall. I don't know Trump did it
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like in a day. They were lying. They were people
lying to me for twenty years coming on this show.
They were lying booth parties. So now he did it.
And out of the thousands and thousands of criminal illegal
aliens that's been deported, they're focusing on the one guy,
Kilmore Abrego Garcia. He's the one that hysterical senator from
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Maryland flew to help him break out of the Salvador
in prison. You sent el Savader. He's a bad guy,
beats his wife, he's a gang banger, he's got gang tattoos.
He's here illegally. But Trump didn't go through the traditional process.
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And Trump is saying, it's like, well, wait a second,
Biden let in like millions of illegal aliens in four years,
How the hell are you going to process all these people.
Everybody can't have a hearing, everybody can't have a trial.
It's impossible, which of course was the design, right You
let in millions of illegal aliens. You overwhelmed the system,
and then when somebody like Trump takes over, they go, well,
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you can't do it because you have to go through
the procedure.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
It's like the procedure would take two hundred and fifty years.
It's a full of crap.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Anyway, Trump ran into another one of these. Well, I mean,
he's a media guy, but they're all wlackeys for the Democrats.
ABC News Senior national correspondent Terry Moran, he and Trump
got into it during a sit down interview in the
Oval office.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Let's play some of the interview.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
I'll let me ask you about one man in one
court order, Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
Speaker 6 (20:20):
He's the salvador man who crossed.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
Into this country illegally, but who is under a protective
order that he not be sent back to El Salvador.
Your government sent him back to El Salvador and acknowledged
in court that was a mistake, and now the Supreme
Court has upheld an order that you must return him
to facilitate his return to the United States.
Speaker 6 (20:40):
What are you doing to comply?
Speaker 7 (20:41):
Well, the lawyer that said it was a mistake was
here a long time, was not appointed by us.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
Should not have said that.
Speaker 7 (20:48):
Should not have said that, And just say, to understand
the person that you're talking about. You know you're making
this person said, this is a MS thirteen gang member,
a tough cookie, been in allow of skirmishes, beat the
hell out of his wife, and the wife was petrified
to even talk about him. Okay, this is not an innocent,
wonderful gentleman from I'm not saying he's a good guy.
Speaker 6 (21:10):
It's about the rule of law. The order from the
Supreme Court stands, came into our country illegally.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
You could get him back. There's a phone on this desk,
I could. You could pick it up and I got
all the power of the presidency. You could call up
the president of El Salvadalt.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Have you stop this a second, because I'm going to
start banging my head against the wall. It burst in
here illegally. What's he babbling about the rule of law?
Speaker 1 (21:32):
The rule of law?
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Abrigo Garcia is the only who broke the law. And
why should Trump make a phone call to return him
to do what to go through some phony blogna procedure
and then deportment at the end. Anyway, and we got
to do this what twelve million times? The hell are
you talking about? He's here illegally on disputing that, so
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he goes that's what all this procedure nonsense. There was
no procedure when they birth. Did Biden set up a
procedure to let them all in.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
No, they just stormed the border and we stood there
and waved. Continue.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
You could call up the president of El Salvador and
say send him back now, and if he were the
gentleman that you say he is, I would do that.
Speaker 6 (22:22):
But the court hass you to facilitate that.
Speaker 7 (22:25):
I'm not the one making this decision. We have lawyers
that doesn't want to do this, but the buck stops
eyes on, no, no, no, no. I follow the law.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
You want me to follow the law.
Speaker 7 (22:35):
If I were the president that just wanted to do anything,
I'd probably keep him right where.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
He says, what the law is. Listen.
Speaker 7 (22:42):
I was elected to take care of a problem that
was it was an unforced error that was made by
a very incompetent man, A man that turned out to
be incompetent that you always said was wonderful, great genius, right,
and now you find out all of the media now
they're saying, what the stake they made? A man who
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was grossly incompetent allowed us to have open borders where
millions of people float in. I campaigned on that issue.
I wouldn't say it was my number one issue, but
it was pretty clarg I campaigned in that issue. I've
done an amazing job. I have closed borders. He said,
you couldn't do it, and you wouldn't be able to
do it. It would never happen. Well it happened, and it
happened very quickly.
Speaker 6 (23:22):
Wait a minute, when we have.
Speaker 7 (23:24):
Criminals, murderers, criminals in this country, we have to get
him out, and we're doing it violent. And you'll pick
out one man. But even the man that you picked out,
he's got a key, said he wasn't a member of
a gang. And then they looked and on his knuckles
he had MS. Then wait a minute, he had MS
thirteen on his numbers two.
Speaker 6 (23:45):
We had some tattoos that are interpreted that way. But
let's move on. Wait a minute, I had Terry, Terry, Terry.
He did not have to do that or MS one.
Speaker 7 (23:52):
It says MS one three. That was photoshop, So let
me do his photoshop.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Terry.
Speaker 6 (23:57):
You can't have that. Hey, they're giving you the big
break of a lifetime. You know you're doing the interview.
I picked you because frankly I never heard of you.
Speaker 7 (24:04):
But that's okay, said pick you, Terry. But you're not
being very nice. He had MS thirteen texts will agree
to disagree. I'll want to rive on to something else.
Speaker 6 (24:12):
Harry, do you want me to show you the picture?
I saw the picture. We'll let the shotoshop. Well, here
we go. Here, we don't photoshop. But don't look at
his hand.
Speaker 7 (24:21):
He had an amster.
Speaker 6 (24:22):
He did have tattoos that can be interpreted that way.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
I'm not an expert on them.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
I want to turn to Ukraine. I want to get
to your cr No, no, no, he had.
Speaker 7 (24:30):
MS as clear as you can be.
Speaker 6 (24:32):
Not interpreted.
Speaker 7 (24:33):
This is why people no longer believe well the news
because in El Salvador they aren't there.
Speaker 6 (24:41):
But let's just go they aren't there when he's in
the photo. There now right, No, they're in a picture.
Speaker 7 (24:47):
Terry Ukraine, Sir, he's got MS thirteen on his knuckles.
Speaker 8 (24:56):
He was picked because he never heard of them.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
That's the ABC News Senior National Correspondent, Terry Murray, I
never heard of you. Can you imagine they start arguing
over gang symbols and whether the photo is photo shopped.
You see what happens is you end up, you end
up in a ditch, because all that matters is the
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guy came here illegally, and you're allowed to deport illegal aliens.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
We can't have we can't have a process for twelve million.
That's impossible.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
I don't want to spend money processing twelve million or
twenty million where the hell the number is, and having
a trial and a hearing and of this and that.
It's like, my God, that costs billions and billions of
dollars for what we don't have to do that they're
not citizens. I don't have any rights here, good Lord,
upside down, inside out world all right.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Now.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Related to this illegal alien issue is Trump is threatening
to cut off funding to cities and states that have
give sanctuary status to illegal aliens. And Karen Bass got
caught up in this, and we're gonna play you a clip.
It appears from this clip that she doesn't care if
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they cut off federal funding to the city because she
wants to protect the illegal aliens the way the Assembly
Democrats want to protect the rights of creepy guys to
buy sixteen year olds off the street for sex.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
What is this? Why is it?
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Criminals, illegal aliens, and vagrants are the only constituencies that
the Democrats serve here in California.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
I don't understand. All right, I'll play you that clip
coming up.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
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six forty.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
We are going to have Carl Demyle on so many
puzzling things going on in the world. Why are there
grown men on the Assembly Public Safety Committee who are
blocking provisions of a bill that would make it an
automatic felony to try to buy a sixteen year old
girl for sex on the sidewalk?
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Who knew that wasn't a felony?
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Turns out it's not, And there's a Democratic legislator trying
to make it a felony, a woman, she's a former prosecutor,
and fellow Democrats men are saying, no, it's got a
suspicious behavior. Don't you think, I mean the law wouldn't
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go into effect immediately. You could always go after nineteen
year olds. Let me play it this clip here short
LA gets federal funding. LA is a sanctuary city for
illegal aliens. Trump is threatening to cut off federal funding
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to the city and other states and cities, and was
asked by NBC four reporter Karma Dickerson, is this worth
it to risk the funding cut off?
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Play cut too?
Speaker 9 (28:24):
I don't know the exact number because our funds are
so intertwined. So for example, we have direct grants, especially
security grants, public safety grants direct from the federal government,
but a lot of our other funding that might go
to the state first or the county first, originates at
the federal level.
Speaker 8 (28:44):
Is it worth to meeting La status as a sanctuary
city if at.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Risks it is worth it. It is worth it to.
Speaker 8 (28:51):
Protect all Angelinos, regardless of when they got here.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
So it's worth cutting off federal fund un to the
city to protect illegal aliens who BASS has wrongly declared angelinos.
See this is the source of much of our problems
in La. Any illegal alien who comes here is an Angelino.
Any drug addict mental patient that comes from the Midwest
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of the South, they've been tossed out of their parents'
trailer and they come crawling here to do their drugs
in the street. They're Angelinos. They're our neighbors, our brothers
and sisters. They need to be protected.
Speaker 8 (29:34):
It is worth it to protect all Angelinos, regardless of
when they got here.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
So you have to pay and live with every illegal alien,
including criminals and gang members and terrorists, And you also
have to pay and live with any drug addict, mental patient,
vagrant who's street or park. You have to if you
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make your way inside the city borders, then we're all responsible,
all the taxpayers, not just with money, not just with
them siphoning off our pay every week. But then they
get to foul our neighborhoods and they get to threaten us.
Speaker 8 (30:23):
I you're not being a very sensitive Angelino, John.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Apparently I'm not.
Speaker 8 (30:29):
It is worth it to protect all Angelinos, regardless of
what I got here.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Shut up to go put out a fire. I'm tired
of being hoisted, constantly hoisted by this crowd. No, it's
not my responsibility for every illegal alien coming here. No,
it's not my responsibility for every vagrant, mental patient, drug addict.
Not my responsibility. You don't want any of them here.
There's all kinds of laws against this, You just have to.
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She refuses to enforce them. By the way, there's something
in Daniel Guss's colum about her phony maloney inside Safe program.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Do you know she refuses to allow an audit.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
The city controller, Kenneth Mahea, wants to audit inside Safe.
She says no. Now Mahia is a full blown socialist.
I mean, actually, you know it's publicly announced he's a socialist.
But he's been doing more damage with his audits to
the reputation of Bass and to LASA. Because Mahea audited
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LASA and found a lot of money missing, and Mahea
wants to audit inside Safe. I wonder what he does,
What does he know? What has he heard? There must
be a reason, of course, there's a reason he knows stuff.
He's heard stuff. He wants to see if it's true.
He may run for mayor. The freaking socialists are making
more sense. But but this is out right. Yeah, I
(31:53):
want to see federal funding gets cut to for public
safety programs here and uh, Bass is okay with that.
Got to protect the illegal aliens. Wow, she is way way,
way far left, I mean, Jess, But you know what
(32:14):
people glossed over this was she was a huge fan
of Fidel Castro. She belonged to a group that used
to travel to Cuba back in the nineteen seventies when
she was young, worshiped Fidel Castro. In fact, that's what
kept her from being nominated for vice president. The reason
that Bass went for Kamala Harris over the reason Biden
(32:35):
went for Kamala Harris over bass Is. Bass was tweeting
how sad she was that Castro had died, and then
they started investigating her background and finding, oh, my gosh,
she was in all these weird subversive left wing communist
pro Castro groups traveling to Cuba frequently back in the seventies.
(32:57):
And the Biden crowd looked at that and said, oh,
that's gonna be a huge if she's running his vice president.
And so that's why she didn't get it, and they
went with miss bag of Dorito's. There By the way,
Bag of Doritos is speaking tonight cost twenty five dollars
just to witness it on a stream, and I think
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it's twenty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
To what is it?
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Or is it?
Speaker 2 (33:23):
What is it two hundred and fifty dollars or twenty
five that's on anyway, you got to pay a lot
of money to listen to it in person, and you
got to pay just to watch a stream.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Are they serving Dorito's? All right?
Speaker 2 (33:39):
We come back, Deborah Mark, Well, it's gonna be live
with the KFI twenty four hour News, and then we're
gonna have Carl Demayo on to talk about the perverts
and weirdos in the Sacramento legislature.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Hey, you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
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You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
We are on every day from one until four o'clock
and then after four o'clock. Whatever you missed John Cobelt's
show on demand on the iHeart app. It's the podcast
version and I'll be posted shortly after four o'clock. Let's
get Roger Bailey on here. He's an attorney. We have
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had him on a number of times already. He's involved
in lawsuits representing Palisades residents against the LADWP because of
the fire. You know, there's two fronts to this legal fight.
One is the infamous reservoir that was empty, and then
there were LAEDWP power lines that collapsed on brush and
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started a second fire, and that happened twelve hours after
the start of the original fire. So this may have
come in two waves and both lead to LA d
WP culpability. Let's get Roger Bailey on here, because there
are a couple of judges now that have joined the
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lawsuit after losing their homes. Roger, how are you?
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I'm good? John, how you doing?
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I'm good?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
You got Jay Gandhi, a retired federal judge and he's
got a background as mediating settlements when it comes to wildfires.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
So I found it.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Interesting that he joined the lawsuit because with his legal mind,
his specific experience, you know, he must have seen something
in all the information that's being gathered that convinced him
that DWP is the central figure. If you're looking for culpability,
talk about that.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Sure, So you're right, Judge j. Gandhi, retired federal magistrate
judge lost his home in the Palisades. And as you noted,
Judge Gandhi had historically served as a mediator for several
of the local wildfires in southern California. And as we've
often said, wildfire doesn't discriminate. So you know, judges, mediators,
(02:14):
and people from all walks of life may find themselves
the victims of a wildfire. So Judge Gandhi lost his home.
Another federal judge, Judgejan Pragerson, lost his home. Both Judge
Gandhi and Judge Pragerson have hired our firm to represent
them at our claims.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
He disappeared, all right, he went out. We'll get Roger
Bailey back on now. Gandhi is quoted to saying a
news story that he thought the fire was preventable. And
let's get Roger Bailey back on there. Continue continue. Yeah,
I'm sorry there a phone just flipped out.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Yeah, so I don't know where I lost you. But
Judge Gandhi and Judge Dean Pragerson, another federal judge, have
hired our firm to represent them in our case against
the LEDWP. We had the first hearing last week with
the State Superior Court and Judge Stuart Rice is presiding
(03:19):
over the case. And we're going to be in front
of Judge Rice every thirty days. He's going to keep
post tabs on this and make sure things are moving quickly.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
And the dtail WP is arguing that they're insulated from
a lawsuit like this because of a case from over
one hundred years ago.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Yeah, they brought up this case from nineteen to eleven.
I guess that's the only thing they could find something
one hundred and fourteen years old. But if you look
at that case, it's all about contract and you know,
contracting for water. Rice nothing like we have here. I mean,
they ran out of water, you know, the situation with
the reservoir gets worse. They said they repair it. Now
it's back out of commission again. Yeah, they just can't
(04:07):
get it right. I mean I refer to the DWP
as incompetence redefined. It just continually can't seem to get
anything right. And yeah, it's out of commission again. And
as you noted, we've got the problems with the power system.
They claimed was abandoned, and then they reversed that and
said no, actually the lines were energized, and those energized
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lines fell into homes, transformers exploded, caused other spot fires.
So we have a multitude of independently started fires by
the DWP's electrical equipment and to compound that in the
water to put them out right.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
So there was like two waves of fires. There was
the morning fire and then there was the evening fire,
which came from the transmission lines falling and the transformers exploding.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
That's right. Yeah, we had, like I said, some of
these fires started up in the hills above the Palisades,
above the Semescal Canyon water tank. Others happened and the
Palisades proper where overhead power lines above homes you know,
were exploding, transformers were exploding and starting all these independent
spot fires. So you had a series of fires that
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converged into one massive fire and burned everything down.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
West Side Current had a story and said that the
insurance companies pulled out not too long before the fire.
What did they know, like State Farm canceled seventy percent
of their insurance policies. Did they do an investigation and decide, Oh,
this place is going to blow and decided to mitigate
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the losses in advance.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Yeah, you know, I don't know what they knew or
didn't know, But one thing I can tell you is
the response we've heard from the DWP is that the
Palisades wasn't a fire prone area, There wasn't a high
risk of fire, weren't really in need of that much
water because it was the Palisades. But what did State
Farm and some of the other insurance carriers know that
(06:07):
prompted them to pull out on mass You know, what
data did they have that said the Palisades was at
risk for fire? And it certainly doesn't square with the
DWP's version, which is, you know, the Palisades was somehow
immune from this type of disaster.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Well, it must have done some kind of observation about
brush not being cleared, the reservoir being empty. I mean,
insurance companies don't pull out unless in advance, unless they
think they're going to suffer a massive loss. And they
decided an entire area is now uninsurable. So they knew
this months in advance, and the public didn't.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Yeah, the public was left clueless. I mean, we've had wildfires,
you know, throughout the area Malibu, the Woolseyfire being one
of the more recent fires. So it's not as if
coastal California hasn't seen wildfire. And you're right, the insurance
and folks likely studied the risks and determined it wasn't
worth and start canceling policies for sourcing. Many homeowners to
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go with this California Fair Plan, which many of them
found left them dramatically under insured.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Yeah, the Fair Plan has has a hard cap on
how much money they're going to pay out, and it
didn't cover many of the homes that were forced to
use it for insurance.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
It didn't cover.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Full three million bucks as the max. Yeah, three million
bucks is the max. And many homes in the Palasades,
as you know, five million, ten million, and with only
three million dollars of insurance, you're underwater pretty heavily.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
What a disaster.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
I mean, just I mean, what a disaster from all ends,
even in the insurance it turns out to be.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
An absurd situation for these poor people. It's just awful.
All right.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
So this this obviously me a long, long running taste.
Please keep us informed with what goes on.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Absolutely, will you know as I get information, I'd let
you guys know. You're always one of my first calls.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
All right, Very good, Roger Bailey, And he's the attorney
for a group of Palisage residents, including two new clients,
who one was a judge, retired federal judge Jay Gandhi
who's joined the cases actually joined the legal team too,
and also Judge Dean Pregerson. And like I said, when
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you have when you have federal judges saying I want
to be part of this lawsuit against the d w
P because in their experience, they see where this is going,
they know who's responsible. More coming up on this because
I want to reference that West Side Current story that
had the information about the insurance companies pulling out. And
also they've got some interesting information about the draining of
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the reservoir. Apparently it created quite a stream last summer
when they drained the reservoir and everybody was wondering, well,
what's going on here? Little did they know what it
was a sign of.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A M.
Six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
We're just talking with Roger Bailey. He's representing many Palisades
residents in the fire, and he's now representing two judges.
One of them has a lot of experience in mediation
with wildfire claims, and uh, Jay Gandhi is his name.
Dean Pregerson is the name of the other federal judge,
(09:27):
and uh, they're they're the reason they joined the lawsuit
against d w P. I think is because of their experience,
they can they can see who's responsible for this disaster.
And they still don't know what started the first fire,
which is why the ATF federal government is doing a
(09:50):
two day controlled burn to try to figure out why
the fire started. And then the second part of this, well,
I guess three parts. Second part is there was a
wave of fires started by downed power lines because the
DWP didn't turn off the power twelve hours after the
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first fire began, and so when these power poles collapsed
and the lines hit the dry vegetation and transformers then
burst into flames, a whole new wave of fires, and
then Part three is all along. The DWP's main reservoir
was empty and the West Side Current has a really
(10:35):
fascinating story. Between February and March of twenty twenty four,
it's just a little over a year ago, Los Angeles
received a historically high amount of rainfall. Remember this, Billions
of gallons of water filled county reservoirs and lakes for
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the first time in almost a decade.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
The only thing not filled.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Was the Sant Dienez Reservoir in the Palisades because it
was closed because.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
They found torn a torn cover.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Now I have to reiterate this, for forty years that
reservoir existed without a cover because the reservoir was for
fire protection. It wasn't used for drinking water. It was
a backup situation. Rarely, if ever, wasn't used for drinking water,
they had other supplies. It was meant to fight fires.
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So they're getting billions of gallons of rainfall. In the meantime,
the reservoirs closed, and five months later, as the drought
set in, people who live along Chautauqua Boulevard reported seeing
water flowing down their street. Betsy Handler lived there. She
(12:00):
lost her home in the fire, and she said, I
couldn't believe they weren't capturing the water from the drain somehow.
It was one of the biggest wastes I've ever seen.
Another resident followed the stream of water up Chautaque Boulevard,
walking past cars. The water had collected high enough was
(12:21):
above the tires, and she found a group of LEDWP
workers and they apologized for the inconvenience. And she's asking,
why is the reservoir getting drained? Why is the water
piling up here? And they just kept saying this had
to be done and it was going to be repaired.
I couldn't understand why there wasn't another way to drain
it while saving the water. So they had all this water,
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they drained it, they didn't collect it, they didn't reroute it,
they just drained it, and then they left it empty
for a year over a torn pool cover that isn't
needed anyway. They claimed there was some regulation after forty years,
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and it's I it makes no sense. They re Westside
Current reached out to LEDWP. Oh good luck with that.
On whether the Chautaqua Reservoir had been empty during the
summer of the previous year. I guess there's a there's
another reservoir there, the Chautauqua Reservoir, and that had been
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retired for more than a decade and.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Was no longer used.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Why now yet two reservoirs that were empty at the
start of the fire, two the Santa Nez Reservoir and
the Chautauqua Reservoir. And in two thousand and nine, the
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Santinez Reservoir was closed because they had another tear the cover.
And one of the main concerns listed on the legal
paperwork for this project was water supply resources in the
instance of a fire. So they had it in black
and white on their paperwork that that's why this reservoir existed.
(14:19):
And now they're denying it. Now they're saying no, no,
it's for drinking water. Now nobody used it for drinking water.
They have a drinking water supply sod DWP is lying
like crazy. So are their lawyers, and so were the executives,
and so were the people on the board. They're trying
to come up with a cover story because, as I
mentioned before, the lawsuit looks like it could cost them
between twenty and one hundred billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
God, they should all be fired, shouldn't They shouldn't? Every mean?
Speaker 2 (14:45):
I mean they should the Bass City Council, who's ever
got the power here or to fire all these people?
And Bass in the city council ought to be fired
as well. I mean, these people are incompetent, dangerous boobs.
People died, billion and billions of dollars worth of homes
are gone. The insurance companies pulled out a few months
before they saw what was coming. Boy, I'd like to
(15:08):
see an investigation as.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
To what they knew. And I'm not blaming them.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
There's no law that says you have to ensure an
area that is gonna bankrupt your company.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Did everyone have.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Their brains removed at the DWP and at city Hall
and in the mayor's office? Seriously? Were they handing out
mass lobotomies? Nice? I don't understand. I don't understand anything.
All right, coming up, I want to play you. There
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was one of those contentious interviews Trump had with Terry
Moran from ABC News. He's their senior national correspondent. Still
obsessed over that illegal alien wife beating gang member kill
maar Abrego Garcia that they said to l Salvador. Still
(16:07):
they've deported thousands and thousands of illegal aliens and there's
one guy they're talking about, the violent criminal, the illegal
alien gang member, kill Maar Abrego Garcia.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
We'll play this clip. You're gonna enjoy this. If you
haven't heard it.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
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Speaker 2 (16:38):
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It's really true. Democrats in the Assembly and we're gonna
name names, do not want it to be a felony
if you are standing on the street trying to buy
(17:00):
a sixteen or seventeen year old for sex. Let's say
you're a middle aged guy and you're in the mood
for a sixteen year old. They don't think it should
be a felony. If you go and buy a girl
off the street sixteen and I cannot possibly understand this.
(17:23):
Gavin Newsom is trying to get involved in correcting this legislation.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
It's just.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
And the Democrats are all outraged and incensed that they're
being put into this embarrassing position. Well, just do the
right thing and vote to make it a felony. This
is we really have to explain this. And again I say,
what are these guys doing at night? Why are they
so passionate about not making this a felony? Why is
(17:56):
this such a priority. All right, we'll talk to Carl
Demayo after three o'clock. He's the assemblyman, the Republican who's
got to deal with this nonsense. So Trump has been
on one hundred day tour, and by far the most
overwhelming success is he shut down the border. For years,
(18:17):
we were fed a load of garbage by Democrats and Republicans.
I had a few Republicans on this show saying, well,
we need comprehensive reform and we need to go for
the root causes. We've got to send money to help
these emerging countries. No, you just have to close the border.
Well you can't really do that, you know, they'll just
climb over the wall. I don't know Trump did it
(18:40):
like in a day. They were lying. They were people
lying to me for twenty years coming on this show.
They were lying booth parties. So now he did it.
And out of the thousands and thousands of criminal illegal
aliens that's been deported, they're focusing on the one guy,
Kilmore Abrego Garcia. He's the one that hysterical senator from
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Maryland flew to help him break out of the Salvador
in prison. You sent el Savader. He's a bad guy,
beats his wife, he's a gang banger, he's got gang tattoos.
He's here illegally. But Trump didn't go through the traditional process.
(19:25):
And Trump is saying, it's like, well, wait a second,
Biden let in like millions of illegal aliens in four years,
How the hell are you going to process all these people.
Everybody can't have a hearing, everybody can't have a trial.
It's impossible, which of course was the design, right You
let in millions of illegal aliens. You overwhelmed the system,
and then when somebody like Trump takes over, they go, well,
(19:48):
you can't do it because you have to go through
the procedure.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
It's like the procedure would take two hundred and fifty years.
It's a full of crap.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Anyway, Trump ran into another one of these. Well, I mean,
he's a media guy, but they're all wlackeys for the Democrats.
ABC News Senior national correspondent Terry Moran, he and Trump
got into it during a sit down interview in the
Oval office.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Let's play some of the interview.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
I'll let me ask you about one man in one
court order, Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
Speaker 6 (20:20):
He's the salvador man who crossed.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
Into this country illegally, but who is under a protective
order that he not be sent back to El Salvador.
Your government sent him back to El Salvador and acknowledged
in court that was a mistake, and now the Supreme
Court has upheld an order that you must return him
to facilitate his return to the United States.
Speaker 6 (20:40):
What are you doing to comply?
Speaker 7 (20:41):
Well, the lawyer that said it was a mistake was
here a long time, was not appointed by us.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
Should not have said that.
Speaker 7 (20:48):
Should not have said that, And just say, to understand
the person that you're talking about. You know you're making
this person said, this is a MS thirteen gang member,
a tough cookie, been in allow of skirmishes, beat the
hell out of his wife, and the wife was petrified
to even talk about him. Okay, this is not an innocent,
wonderful gentleman from I'm not saying he's a good guy.
Speaker 6 (21:10):
It's about the rule of law. The order from the
Supreme Court stands, came into our country illegally.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
You could get him back. There's a phone on this desk,
I could. You could pick it up and I got
all the power of the presidency. You could call up
the president of El Salvadalt.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Have you stop this a second, because I'm going to
start banging my head against the wall. It burst in
here illegally. What's he babbling about the rule of law?
Speaker 1 (21:32):
The rule of law?
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Abrigo Garcia is the only who broke the law. And
why should Trump make a phone call to return him
to do what to go through some phony blogna procedure
and then deportment at the end. Anyway, and we got
to do this what twelve million times? The hell are
you talking about? He's here illegally on disputing that, so
(22:02):
he goes that's what all this procedure nonsense. There was
no procedure when they birth. Did Biden set up a
procedure to let them all in.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
No, they just stormed the border and we stood there
and waved. Continue.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
You could call up the president of El Salvador and
say send him back now, and if he were the
gentleman that you say he is, I would do that.
Speaker 6 (22:22):
But the court hass you to facilitate that.
Speaker 7 (22:25):
I'm not the one making this decision. We have lawyers
that doesn't want to do this, but the buck stops
eyes on, no, no, no, no. I follow the law.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
You want me to follow the law.
Speaker 7 (22:35):
If I were the president that just wanted to do anything,
I'd probably keep him right where.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
He says, what the law is. Listen.
Speaker 7 (22:42):
I was elected to take care of a problem that
was it was an unforced error that was made by
a very incompetent man, A man that turned out to
be incompetent that you always said was wonderful, great genius, right,
and now you find out all of the media now
they're saying, what the stake they made? A man who
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was grossly incompetent allowed us to have open borders where
millions of people float in. I campaigned on that issue.
I wouldn't say it was my number one issue, but
it was pretty clarg I campaigned in that issue. I've
done an amazing job. I have closed borders. He said,
you couldn't do it, and you wouldn't be able to
do it. It would never happen. Well it happened, and it
happened very quickly.
Speaker 6 (23:22):
Wait a minute, when we have.
Speaker 7 (23:24):
Criminals, murderers, criminals in this country, we have to get
him out, and we're doing it violent. And you'll pick
out one man. But even the man that you picked out,
he's got a key, said he wasn't a member of
a gang. And then they looked and on his knuckles
he had MS. Then wait a minute, he had MS
thirteen on his numbers two.
Speaker 6 (23:45):
We had some tattoos that are interpreted that way. But
let's move on. Wait a minute, I had Terry, Terry, Terry.
He did not have to do that or MS one.
Speaker 7 (23:52):
It says MS one three. That was photoshop, So let
me do his photoshop.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Terry.
Speaker 6 (23:57):
You can't have that. Hey, they're giving you the big
break of a lifetime. You know you're doing the interview.
I picked you because frankly I never heard of you.
Speaker 7 (24:04):
But that's okay, said pick you, Terry. But you're not
being very nice. He had MS thirteen texts will agree
to disagree. I'll want to rive on to something else.
Speaker 6 (24:12):
Harry, do you want me to show you the picture?
I saw the picture. We'll let the shotoshop. Well, here
we go. Here, we don't photoshop. But don't look at
his hand.
Speaker 7 (24:21):
He had an amster.
Speaker 6 (24:22):
He did have tattoos that can be interpreted that way.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
I'm not an expert on them.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
I want to turn to Ukraine. I want to get
to your cr No, no, no, he had.
Speaker 7 (24:30):
MS as clear as you can be.
Speaker 6 (24:32):
Not interpreted.
Speaker 7 (24:33):
This is why people no longer believe well the news
because in El Salvador they aren't there.
Speaker 6 (24:41):
But let's just go they aren't there when he's in
the photo. There now right, No, they're in a picture.
Speaker 7 (24:47):
Terry Ukraine, Sir, he's got MS thirteen on his knuckles.
Speaker 8 (24:56):
He was picked because he never heard of them.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
That's the ABC News Senior National Correspondent, Terry Murray, I
never heard of you. Can you imagine they start arguing
over gang symbols and whether the photo is photo shopped.
You see what happens is you end up, you end
up in a ditch, because all that matters is the
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guy came here illegally, and you're allowed to deport illegal aliens.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
We can't have we can't have a process for twelve million.
That's impossible.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
I don't want to spend money processing twelve million or
twenty million where the hell the number is, and having
a trial and a hearing and of this and that.
It's like, my God, that costs billions and billions of
dollars for what we don't have to do that they're
not citizens. I don't have any rights here, good Lord,
upside down, inside out world all right.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Now.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Related to this illegal alien issue is Trump is threatening
to cut off funding to cities and states that have
give sanctuary status to illegal aliens. And Karen Bass got
caught up in this, and we're gonna play you a clip.
It appears from this clip that she doesn't care if
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they cut off federal funding to the city because she
wants to protect the illegal aliens the way the Assembly
Democrats want to protect the rights of creepy guys to
buy sixteen year olds off the street for sex.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
What is this? Why is it?
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Criminals, illegal aliens, and vagrants are the only constituencies that
the Democrats serve here in California.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
I don't understand. All right, I'll play you that clip
coming up.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
We are going to have Carl Demyle on so many
puzzling things going on in the world. Why are there
grown men on the Assembly Public Safety Committee who are
blocking provisions of a bill that would make it an
automatic felony to try to buy a sixteen year old
girl for sex on the sidewalk?
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Who knew that wasn't a felony?
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Turns out it's not, And there's a Democratic legislator trying
to make it a felony, a woman, she's a former prosecutor,
and fellow Democrats men are saying, no, it's got a
suspicious behavior. Don't you think, I mean the law wouldn't
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go into effect immediately. You could always go after nineteen
year olds. Let me play it this clip here short
LA gets federal funding. LA is a sanctuary city for
illegal aliens. Trump is threatening to cut off federal funding
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to the city and other states and cities, and was
asked by NBC four reporter Karma Dickerson, is this worth
it to risk the funding cut off?
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Play cut too?
Speaker 9 (28:24):
I don't know the exact number because our funds are
so intertwined. So for example, we have direct grants, especially
security grants, public safety grants direct from the federal government,
but a lot of our other funding that might go
to the state first or the county first, originates at
the federal level.
Speaker 8 (28:44):
Is it worth to meeting La status as a sanctuary
city if at.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Risks it is worth it. It is worth it to.
Speaker 8 (28:51):
Protect all Angelinos, regardless of when they got here.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
So it's worth cutting off federal fund un to the
city to protect illegal aliens who BASS has wrongly declared angelinos.
See this is the source of much of our problems
in La. Any illegal alien who comes here is an Angelino.
Any drug addict mental patient that comes from the Midwest
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of the South, they've been tossed out of their parents'
trailer and they come crawling here to do their drugs
in the street. They're Angelinos. They're our neighbors, our brothers
and sisters. They need to be protected.
Speaker 8 (29:34):
It is worth it to protect all Angelinos, regardless of
when they got here.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
So you have to pay and live with every illegal alien,
including criminals and gang members and terrorists, And you also
have to pay and live with any drug addict, mental patient,
vagrant who's street or park. You have to if you
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make your way inside the city borders, then we're all responsible,
all the taxpayers, not just with money, not just with
them siphoning off our pay every week. But then they
get to foul our neighborhoods and they get to threaten us.
Speaker 8 (30:23):
I you're not being a very sensitive Angelino, John.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Apparently I'm not.
Speaker 8 (30:29):
It is worth it to protect all Angelinos, regardless of
what I got here.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Shut up to go put out a fire. I'm tired
of being hoisted, constantly hoisted by this crowd. No, it's
not my responsibility for every illegal alien coming here. No,
it's not my responsibility for every vagrant, mental patient, drug addict.
Not my responsibility. You don't want any of them here.
There's all kinds of laws against this, You just have to.
(30:55):
She refuses to enforce them. By the way, there's something
in Daniel Guss's colum about her phony maloney inside Safe program.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Do you know she refuses to allow an audit.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
The city controller, Kenneth Mahea, wants to audit inside Safe.
She says no. Now Mahia is a full blown socialist.
I mean, actually, you know it's publicly announced he's a socialist.
But he's been doing more damage with his audits to
the reputation of Bass and to LASA. Because Mahea audited
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LASA and found a lot of money missing, and Mahea
wants to audit inside Safe. I wonder what he does,
What does he know? What has he heard? There must
be a reason, of course, there's a reason he knows stuff.
He's heard stuff. He wants to see if it's true.
He may run for mayor. The freaking socialists are making
more sense. But but this is out right. Yeah, I
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want to see federal funding gets cut to for public
safety programs here and uh, Bass is okay with that.
Got to protect the illegal aliens. Wow, she is way way,
way far left, I mean, Jess, But you know what
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people glossed over this was she was a huge fan
of Fidel Castro. She belonged to a group that used
to travel to Cuba back in the nineteen seventies when
she was young, worshiped Fidel Castro. In fact, that's what
kept her from being nominated for vice president. The reason
that Bass went for Kamala Harris over the reason Biden
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went for Kamala Harris over bass Is. Bass was tweeting
how sad she was that Castro had died, and then
they started investigating her background and finding, oh, my gosh,
she was in all these weird subversive left wing communist
pro Castro groups traveling to Cuba frequently back in the seventies.
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And the Biden crowd looked at that and said, oh,
that's gonna be a huge if she's running his vice president.
And so that's why she didn't get it, and they
went with miss bag of Dorito's. There By the way,
Bag of Doritos is speaking tonight cost twenty five dollars
just to witness it on a stream, and I think
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it's twenty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
To what is it?
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Or is it?
Speaker 2 (33:23):
What is it two hundred and fifty dollars or twenty
five that's on anyway, you got to pay a lot
of money to listen to it in person, and you
got to pay just to watch a stream.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Are they serving Dorito's? All right?
Speaker 2 (33:39):
We come back, Deborah Mark, Well, it's gonna be live
with the KFI twenty four hour News, and then we're
gonna have Carl Demayo on to talk about the perverts
and weirdos in the Sacramento legislature.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
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