September 25, 2025 • 33 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (09/25) - Michael Monks comes on the show to talk about the result of one of the investigations into the fires in January. More on this after action report from the January fires. JD Vance went after Gov. Newsom for his rhetoric which Vance says encourages political violence.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
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as the radio show. Well, today was supposed to be
I didn't know this was coming today, but I thought
when it came it would really be a big deal.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
And it is the.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
After action report of the fires in Palisades and in Altadena,
done by the McCrystal group. You may remember the four
star General Stanley McCrystal. Well, this is his consulting company,
and so they unveiled the report today and I don't know,
I don't want to characterize it. I'll let Michael Muntz
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describe what's in this thing.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Well, there are some key takeaways. This is not a
report that will tell you what started the fires. I
know that's a question that we'd all like an answer to.
That's what I thought would be in there. Yeah, that's
not what this was. This was mainly an analysis of
how County and the agencies within the County responded, got
people prepared and got people out. Turns out not great, Yeah,
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I think badly.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
So when you think.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
About those days in January when both the Palisades and
Altadna caught on fire, if you're somebody living in that
area and the flames are coming, you're probably not immediately
thinking did we do a good job maintaining the fuel
sources around the area? Is the water where it's supposed
to be? Those are questions that need to be answered,
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but maybe not in the moment. What you want to
know is what are you supposed to do?
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Where are you.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Supposed to go? Who's supposed to tell me what, when
and where? And there were a lot of breakdowns in
that regard. The notification system was really bad. This report
by the McCrystal Group, General Stanley Mcrystal's consulting firm, that
found there were communications that didn't arrive at all. There
weremunications that were too late. There were communications that people
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like you and I received John about warnings when we
were not in the line of danger, and so the
whole thing was very chaotic. So this report points to
those communication efforts as having been stymied, and there were
also issues with the interagency collaboration. So when you think
about the different law enforcement, different fire departments, different emergency
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management type organizations, the communication between them all was not
great either.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Does the report go into why it was so bad?
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I mean, see what I just reading new summaries, But
I'm reading this today, I'm thinking, well, I knew that.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
I knew that.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
I knew that was obvious to the eye. Where's the why?
Where the names? Where's the description of how the process
is broke down?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
The county's hosting a news conference in about an hour
two o'clock, so we should get some more perspective from
county leaders about their interpretation and what steps might need
to be taken next. We have already heard from Sheriff
Luna through a statement that basically says this is a
good tool for us to learn from. They now have
a document that says that's it.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Wow, that's pretty weak.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Well, considering the litigiousness of these fires, I think if
you're a public official, you really have to be careful
with what you say about these things.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Because no one's going to take responsibility and nobody's going
to blame anyone by name. Hopefully, what we get out
of this as citizens, is that there are learning opportunities
so that the next time a big fire like this happens,
the warnings are better, the evacuation plans are better.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
What they also learned was they were they were less
prepared for what happened with the Eton fire and Altadena
than they were in Palisades, because the Palisades, that area Malibu,
they know wildfires unfortunately too well, not as bad as.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
This sea had a bad one.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
First year we were here, we were in a helicopter
broadcasting fly over the Altadena fire. So they had one
with in recent enough memory that there should have been
a battle plan.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
If you're referencing the nineteen nineties ninety three, yeah, enough
time has passed where you know, there could have been
generational turnover in a community like Altadena, where folks who
were living there never really had those recurring threats of
a fire in the area and to just keep a
lookout for it, so they didn't really know what to do.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
But the government, the fire and police and the emergency management,
those people should there should be like the big handbook, Yeah,
well this happens, here's what you do.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
The onnus shouldn't be on the neighbors, right, I mean,
if you live an Altadena, it should not be your
responsibility for what to do. You know, have a go
bag if they tell you, I have a go bag
and those sorts of thing, that's on you. But residents
in Altadena, according to this report, they say they received
little or no warning before the fire reached their neighborhoods.
Not just that, hey, there's a fire looming over the horizon,
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keep an eye out for this. We're talking about flames
being on your street. Neighbors there did not seem to
understand that. The report sites outdated and inconsistent policies, protocols,
and standard operating procedures which created ambiguity around evacuation authority Responsibility's.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Responsible for that, the la KANDIC supervisors.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
This is what the report identifies is people did not
seem to know who was the proper authority in various
incidents because there are multiple jurisdictions involved here and the
communication between them all was not great.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
The report does say.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
There are there in this or is there again? Stating
the obvious. Now I could have produced this report.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
One of the main takeaways as far as the wise
go as you identify them equipment and personnel shortages were
magnified under the extreme conditions of this incident. Compounding this,
the report says, were gaps in situational awareness tools and
communications interoperability, which impaired real time coordination and so that
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led to confusion and frustration from from residents, even as
in the media we were not under threat like folks
who were living on these streets. But you're getting a
message that says one thing, then you're getting all other message.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
I got a.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Notification in downtown LA that we had to evacuate, and
we thought, oh, there's bumfires outside my apartment building. All
the time. I've never had to evacuate yet. Technical I
don't know if the crystal would have said that, but
that's kind of how we colloquially refer to them.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Every time.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
You always have one that me so I it's this
it now, This is the this is the report, and
we're all done.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
This is the big report about the county's response. Again,
this is not the big report on we found the
cause of both of these fires. We're going to prosecute people.
This was how do we do better next time? If
there is because.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Any of us explained the DWP situation in the no again,
I mean the well, who's supposed to explain that or
is that a separate investigators? Investigations are ongoing of that,
So those are other investors. These are other investigations we
will learn. This was the county's participation in both fires,
that's right, the county and the jurisdictions within the county.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
So this did evaluate some of the cities.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
I mean, the Palisades was in the city of Los
Angeles mostly, and right Altadena is unincorporated in the county,
So this evaluated all of that. Doesn't talk about the
lack of fire preparation in the Palace Sades by La
the La fire. Yeah, that's what we don't know yet,
except for the fact that they're saying some staffing shortages,
some equipment, and they don't flat out say the fire
chief should have had more people here. Those thousand firefighters
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that were saying it didn't get into that type of
minutia that you talk about on this pro.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Is anybody going to or it's up to you and
me to do that. Yeah, I think we're gonna have
to keep those conversations going. So nobody else in government's
going to do this.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Hopefully we'll be able to get some questions in during
the press conference that's coming up at about two o'clock.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Okay, if anything useful comes out of that, please come
back here, run here like there's a bum fire in
the hallway. All right, Very good, Michael Monks KFI News
on this after action investigative.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Report, which I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
It's kind of disappointing if this is all there is,
and it looks like nobody's gonna take responsibility. And I
don't know how you have staffing shortages in the police
department or the emergency department when we play billions and
billions of dollars in tax money, maybe for blowing billions
and billions of dollars.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
On the bums. Who knows. All right, well, we'll continue
about all this coming up.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
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Speaker 2 (08:40):
We have the Moistline on Friday, which is tomorrow one
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Speaker 1 (08:53):
Eric.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
We have room on the Moistline still for people. No,
I didn't know if that was a yes or no
if you're just talking to me in sound effects now, no, no, No,
it's actually pretty packed. Oh it is, yes, yesterday yesterday
was a little low. I honestly haven't even gone through
yesterday's yet. Oh okay, all right, but yeah we're pretty packed.
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So but hey, hey, feel free. If you're good, he'll
put you in.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Right, trust me. I listened to all of them. He
listens to all of them. And if you make the
cut means you really performed.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
All right.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
So that's the moistline for here's things I here's some
crazy things about me.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
I kind of I kind of missed.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Are you sure about that?
Speaker 6 (09:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
You should just one week, one week play all the
stuff about her, no matter what they say, just let it,
let it rip.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
There's gonna be a lot of leaps. I need some
comic relief in my life. How could she get people?
Let upset? But she does?
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Her dogs, the vegans, the earthquake fear or where.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Do I begin?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Hate?
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Hunters, fain leather, wow to wear? Sometimes?
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Yeah you do?
Speaker 2 (10:07):
And everyone notices, Oh yeah, this after action report, you know,
I knew, I knew this was going to be a dude.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
This is a dud. They got.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
They got a four star General Stanley McCrystal. He's retired
now and he has a consulting firm called the McCrystal Group,
and the LA County Board of Supervisors paid this McCrystal
group to tell us what we already know, what we
knew on like day one and day two, and what's
not in here is how could this happen? Why could
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this happen? The alerts were late or wrong, sent to
the wrong sections of town.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Or we're vague.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Evacuations orders were slow or non existence. The escape routes
along PCH were congested, and not enough resources.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Not enough resource.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Yeah, as far as the city is concerned, Karen Bass
Eric Arcetti defunded the fire department, and so you don't
have enough, uh firefighters, you don't have enough engines because
they defunded it. Because I said this, you know, a
thousand times during the height of the controversy earlier this year.
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But we only have half the fire department we should.
There is some kind of National Fire Bureau call it.
I forgot the exact name of this, but what they
do is they analyze metropolitan area to see if the
firefighting staff and equipment meets the standard that's necessary to
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fight the fires in a city of any particular size,
and generally you're supposed to have I think it's like
two firefighters per.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
One thousand people, something.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Like that, right, and we have one whatever the standard is.
We have half the standard half fifty percent. So we're
fifty percent funded. And by now, you know, we don't
have enough fire engines, and many of the ones we
have are broken and they're not fixed because we don't
have the mechanics. And there's been no major increase in
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funding since this happened. Now I don't have all the
details on how the county budgeted for the fire department.
Oh and it's absurdly strained by the homeless, by the
bumfires this Michael described them, because they start thousands and
thousands of fires every year. So, and the thing is,
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nobody publicly is talking about this terrible tragedy.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Nobody.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Karen Best doesn't talk about it. She talks about she
talks about how many, how many, how few vagrants she
got off the street. She talks about how evil Ice is.
I wonder if she's going to keep that up now
that we had another shooting yesterday.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
She knew someone are they're going to.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Keep encouraging the uh, the rioters and the assassins to
keep firing.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
And what else does she talk about?
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Nothing to talk about at this whole city, this whole
county is still in grave danger. You can have a
second fire in a year easily. It's not gonna be
in the exact same place because everything in the Palace
Aine's burned, so there's very little to burn now, the
same thing in that section of Altadena, West Altadena. But
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there's there's plenty of other areas here in Los Angeles
and in the San Gabriel Valley that can burn and
we'll have half a fire department. You still have a
shortage resources. I mean, all these vague bureaucratic terms, and
you know, it's shockings. They really don't care. I'm kind
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of pissed off at every adult I knew as a kid,
because we were told that all these people care. Right,
everybody in government cares. Your council members, right, the mayor,
the government, everybody cares. You elect these public servants. Every
time these people are under attack, it's like, well, actually,
she's a dedicated public service. It's like, no, they're not
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dedicated public servants. They're thieves and grifters, and they're narcissists
and sociopaths, dedicated. Who who in their right mind would
only fund fifty percent of a fire department for the
city of Los Angeles? Why would you do that? Who
would underfund the county fire department? But they do, they do,
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And nobody knows this because nobody's paying attention.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
It's not ported on.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
One of these one of these reports. I guess this
was for Yeah, this is for Altadena. In the county response,
the review notes long standing challenges in staffing and training.
So why are their long standing challenges? So why don't
you hire enough people and train them properly? How does
this go on for years and years and decades and decades?
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Why is this? Is everybody in government stupid and lazy
and corrupt? Is that the answer? What else would the
answer be? If they're not all stupid, lazy and corrupt?
Speaker 1 (15:36):
How could you go.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Years and years without enough staffing and enough training? Some
Office of Emergency Management personnel, we're still learning to operate
the new alert system. January is kind of late in
the fire season. I mean, I know these people go
to a lot of meetings there's a lot of seminars
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and assemblies and zoom conferences and what how long does
it take to learn an alert system? Agencies report inconsistent
training around wildfire evacuations, no standardized surge staffing model. That
means when something bad really happens, they don't know who
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they're supposed to call to send in on an emergency. Well,
what else are these people doing? If you're an emergency management,
aren't you planning for emergencies.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
All the time. Here's what we do in a fire,
Here's what we do in an earthquake.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Here's what happens if the fire happens here or there
or there.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
What do they do all year? Or is it stupid, lazy, corrupt?
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Is that it the Sheriff's Department aging?
Speaker 2 (16:52):
The Sheriff's Department's aging dispatch system added another layer of difficulty.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Why is it aging? Why didn't they install a new one?
What do they do with the money?
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Is it all gone to everybody's uh, everybody's brother in
law and they're nonprofit? You give it to drug addicts
and mental patients who then, you know, offer their thanks
by taking a crap on the sidewalk every day. What
do you what are you doing with the money? You're
spending billions of dollars that to me, you have a government.
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First thing they're supposed to do is get the police
and fire department fully funded. Then later on we could
move on to the to the bums and the mental
patients and the drug addicts. But police and fire first.
Why doesn't if somebody ran on that, would they win?
They probably would lose, right if somebody said, well, I'm
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going to tear up this budget, and what we're gonna
do is fully fund the police and fire department in
the city and in the county first, and all other
departments could fight over over the crumbs left over. I
don't really care about after you get police and fire.
I'm trying to think what else would I care about
the government doing. I just want to know that the
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cops will come if my neighborhood is getting looted. But
of course my neighborhood was getting looted during the fire
and nobody came. And of course the fire department didn't
come to Palisades for hours and hours. So I don't
know what did the money go for exactly. Oh, we'll
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talk more later on in the show. Michael Monks is
going to be covering the I guess the supervisors are
having some kind of press conference up two o'clock we
come back. We played a lot of Newsom yesterday. Jd
Vance really went after Newsom because Newsom is openly inciting
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people to go and harm ICE agents, and that's the
governor you have.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
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We are on from one until four o'clock and then
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Speaker 1 (19:09):
Go to that.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Whatever you missed, We've had Michael monksun already this hour
going into detail about this absurd after action report.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Jesus, they hired a.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Forced our general and his consulting company to tell us
what we already knew that La County was completely unrepaired, unprepared,
unresponsive and just stupid and it's reaction to the fire.
And we'll have more on this later. Now, speaking of
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stupid Newsome, he's continuing on his crusade against Ice. Although
I wonder when he woke up this morning and saw
that there was well, there was a press conference this
morning about the shooting and the guy who did the
shooting in Dallas of the ICE detention center, remember this yesterday,
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And he actually killed one of the immigrants being detained,
wounded two others. But he was going after ICE agents
and he.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Was looking up. He was looking up.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
The on Google, the Charlie Kirk video.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
In the days before he climbed the ladder, got on
the roof and started taking aim at everybody at this
detention center. There's this area where I guess the ICE
vans pull up. It's like a staging area, and then
they take the immigrants out of the vans or out
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of the cars and they're in handcuffs or in shackles
of some kind and they're taking inside to get processed.
So this is where all the business is done. Outside. Well,
there was a roof next door across the street, and
this guy climbs up on the roof and he's got
a rifle and he just starts shooting. His name's Joshua
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jan and he plotted this whole thing for quite some time.
And here's what he wrote in the note. Hopefully this
will give ICE agents real terror.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
To think.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Is there a sniper with ap armor piercing rounds on
that roof?
Speaker 1 (21:29):
So it could have been even worse.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
He was shooting at a car and I believe like
the immigrant inside the car was killed, but he assumed.
I guess there were officers inside the car. And this
is what all this violent fight ICE record rhetorica is spawning.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Here's what Newsom said just a couple of days.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Ago when he announced this stupid anti mask bill is
going to be signed.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
I'll be signing a bill first in the nation saying
enough ICE unmasked. What are you afraid of?
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Well, maybe armor piercing bullets, you dumb clock, Maybe armor
piercing bullets, maybe brain piercing bullets. Is do some really
the stupid who would do this? You're the governor? So
now do you know why they wear masks? I mean
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they wear masks, and officials talked about this today. They're
getting docked like crazy. Some of the ICE agents who
do get identified, these terrorists from these activist groups show
up at people's homes or they send you nasty email,
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bad phone calls. It's death threats to you, your spouse
and your family. Whys the kids are getting this and
do some as cheering on the terrorists, domestic terrorists. That's
what things are I mean, the guy wrote it in
his own words, this Joshua John. Hopefully this will give
ice agents real terror. And I heard one expert today
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describing how from a legal standpoint, how stupid newsomes anti
mask is, and this one's easy. I was saying a
couple of days ago, who's going to arrest them? And
this analyst said, well, if a state patrol officer, a
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CHP officer tries to arrest a federal agent for wearing
a mask, that state officer will be arrested and put
in federal prison. That's what's going to happen. It's literally
impossible for state or local law enforcement to enforce this
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law because once you do, you're violating federal law. You're obstruction.
You're obstructing an ice officer. If any of these state
or local officers give a federal ice officer crap about
a mask, then that federal ice officer, who's got a
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few buddies with him, he's going to put the local
cop or the state patrolman in the back of a
car and that guy's going to prison. That's what Newsom
is encouraging. That's how dumb this law is that was
passed by the vast majority of the Senate in the Assembly.
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I assume almost every Democrat. They want state and local
police that risk being thrown in a federal prison. That's
what it is. They have no right to enforce a
mask law.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
None. Zero.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Constitution says that federal law reigns supreme over state law.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
This is how stupid Newsom is. Have you seen any
reporter ask them about it? Are that bozo Stephen Colbert,
any of them?
Speaker 6 (25:14):
No?
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Jade Vance went after Newsom. Uh, let's play cut number one.
Speaker 6 (25:20):
The very people who keep us safe ought to be
honored and protected and praised by Democrats and Republicans alike.
It is time to stop the rhetorical assault.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
On law enforcement because here's what happens.
Speaker 6 (25:39):
Because here's what happens when Democrats like Gavin Newsom did
say that these people are part of an authoritarian government.
When the left wing media lies about what they're doing,
when they lie about who they're arresting, when they lie
about the actual job of law enforcement, what they're doing
is encouraging crazy people to go and commit violence. You
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don't have to agree with my immigration policies.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
You don't have to agree with.
Speaker 6 (26:03):
Donald Trump's immigration policies. But if your political rhetoric encourages
violence against our law enforcement, you can go straight to
hell and.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
You have no place in the political.
Speaker 6 (26:14):
Conversation of the United.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
States of America.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Well that's what Newsom is doing, and he's number one
on the list, and Karen Bass is right behind him.
We got the two beauties out here because we have
the most illegal aliens. So there's been a lot of
federal enforcement. I don't know who Knewsom and Bass are
playing to, but they're inciting terrorists to go kill ICE
agents and that's what we meantime. Look what's happened in
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California this year, just the fires right by themselves, Palli said,
left unattended by Karen Bass vacationing in Ghana.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Oh no, no, she was on a diplomatic trip. This is
what we've got here.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
And she's out in the streets shaking with rage every
time ICE arrest somebody. Holy mackerel. She's like about Kano,
that's what she cares about. More coming up, I got
more from Vance and Trump too.
Speaker 5 (27:15):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Coming up after two o'clock. Take another whack at Mike Bonnen,
the failed loser who was the West Side councilman for years,
who just had this enormous attraction to homeless people, and
he just would give homeless people enormous I mean, the
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whole corrupt nonprofit homeless complex. He would just shovel tons
of money that way and allowed them to take over many,
many blocks and many sections of the West Side. Now
we have Tracy Park and she has cleaned much of
it up. Absolutely the worst local politician I've ever seen
in my life. One failed project he left behind was
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an old Ramada inn in Marina del Rey City has
spent twenty million dollars was supposed to be converted to
low income housing and nothing's happened. And this has gone
on for years. And we're going to talk to Angela
McGregor from the Westside Current dot com about it. Let's continue.
Gavin Newsom has been on the East Coast in New
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York and he's on his tour to continue demonizing ICE
agents and inciting terrorists who want to kill them. And
Jade Vance went after him and he gave a speech
in count Concord, North Carolina, and he told him the
last clip he actually told him, said that politicians like
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Newsom can go straight to hell. Here's some more jade
advance about all this violence.
Speaker 6 (29:02):
Let me just leave you with one final thought here. Look,
I was asked earlier today by a reporter, a reporter
I actually like, but a reporter who said, well, don't
both sides have crazy people? And of course, obviously count
three hundred and thirty million people. Of course both sides
have crazy people. But if you look at the political
violence in our country over the last couple of months,
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the last couple of years, it is not a both
sides problem. It is primarily on one side of the
political aisle. So if we are going to truly go
after the political violence in this country, we need the
democratic leadership of Washington, d C. To look in the mirror.
We need them to renounce all political violence. When a
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poor kid like Charlie Kirk is gunned down in cold blood,
we need them to start with condemning the violence instead
of condemning something that Charlie Kirk said that they disagreed with.
When you have when you have an entire network of
left wing organizations that encourage, that promote, and that apologize
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for violence, you know what you're gonna get out of it.
You're gonna get political violence. So here's my sacred obligation
to you, to all the law enforcement, but every person,
whether they wear a uniform or not. Over the next
couple of years, the Trump administration is going to do
everything that we can to dismantle the networks, to destroy
the funding, and to make it harder for people to
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kill one another just because they disagree with what somebody says.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
That is what we're going to do. We're gonna fight
for it.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Yeah, well, come to Los Angeles because we have a
network of anti ICE groups and Karen Bass and Gavin
Newsom promote them. In some cases they're funded by tax money.
Proof of that is Turla. They got to thirty four
million dollars from the state from Gavin Newsom and they
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were a leading instigator of the rioting. Remember the rioting
back in June. You remember when they were standing on
an overpass on the one on one and dropping concrete
blocks onto patrol cars. Yeah, those guys there is Antifa
characters involved in this. And just my opinion, I suspect
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that see Bass and Newsom and these these agitators and
these anti ICE nonprofits who are living off our tax money.
They know this is a lost cause. They know that
Bass and Newsom have no power on the immigration issue.
ICE is going to do whatever their order to do
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within the law and the constitution, and they will, they'll execute,
and they're going to keep doing it. It's entirely a
federal issue, federal responsibility. States and towns have zero, zero
responsibility for this, zero role. Bass and Newsom have no votes,
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and so everybody's frustrated. And what always happens from a
toddlers on up. When people are frustrated and nobody they
have no power, nobody's listening to them. Because nobody has
to listen to them, they resort to violence.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
So that's what you're seeing.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
It's the violence from the losers, the violence with no
power because they don't have a constituency. There's nobody taken
to the streets to say, hey, let's have more criminal,
illegal aliens running around. You just have There's nobody on
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the side of these activist groups, these violent groups except
get Bass A Newsom. Well, Well, sorry, you guys lost.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
You guys lost. You're not in charge.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Debra mark Slide in the KFI twenty four Our newsroom. Hey,
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Run right. We're streaming live on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
You can also listen to us on the podcast, which
posts after four o'clock. John Cobelt Show on demand, same
as the radio show. Well, today was supposed to be
I didn't know this was coming today, but I thought
when it came it would really be a big deal.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
And it is the.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
After action report of the fires in Palisades and in Altadena,
done by the McCrystal group. You may remember the four
star General Stanley McCrystal. Well, this is his consulting company,
and so they unveiled the report today and I don't know,
I don't want to characterize it. I'll let Michael Muntz
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describe what's in this thing.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Well, there are some key takeaways. This is not a
report that will tell you what started the fires. I
know that's a question that we'd all like an answer to.
That's what I thought would be in there. Yeah, that's
not what this was. This was mainly an analysis of
how County and the agencies within the County responded, got
people prepared and got people out. Turns out not great, Yeah,
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I think badly.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
So when you think.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
About those days in January when both the Palisades and
Altadna caught on fire, if you're somebody living in that
area and the flames are coming, you're probably not immediately
thinking did we do a good job maintaining the fuel
sources around the area? Is the water where it's supposed
to be? Those are questions that need to be answered,
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but maybe not in the moment. What you want to
know is what are you supposed to do?
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Where are you.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Supposed to go? Who's supposed to tell me what, when
and where? And there were a lot of breakdowns in
that regard. The notification system was really bad. This report
by the McCrystal Group, General Stanley Mcrystal's consulting firm, that
found there were communications that didn't arrive at all. There
weremunications that were too late. There were communications that people
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like you and I received John about warnings when we
were not in the line of danger, and so the
whole thing was very chaotic. So this report points to
those communication efforts as having been stymied, and there were
also issues with the interagency collaboration. So when you think
about the different law enforcement, different fire departments, different emergency
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management type organizations, the communication between them all was not
great either.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Does the report go into why it was so bad?
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I mean, see what I just reading new summaries, But
I'm reading this today, I'm thinking, well, I knew that.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
I knew that.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
I knew that was obvious to the eye. Where's the why?
Where the names? Where's the description of how the process
is broke down?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
The county's hosting a news conference in about an hour
two o'clock, so we should get some more perspective from
county leaders about their interpretation and what steps might need
to be taken next. We have already heard from Sheriff
Luna through a statement that basically says this is a
good tool for us to learn from. They now have
a document that says that's it.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Wow, that's pretty weak.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Well, considering the litigiousness of these fires, I think if
you're a public official, you really have to be careful
with what you say about these things.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Because no one's going to take responsibility and nobody's going
to blame anyone by name. Hopefully, what we get out
of this as citizens, is that there are learning opportunities
so that the next time a big fire like this happens,
the warnings are better, the evacuation plans are better.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
What they also learned was they were they were less
prepared for what happened with the Eton fire and Altadena
than they were in Palisades, because the Palisades, that area Malibu,
they know wildfires unfortunately too well, not as bad as.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
This sea had a bad one.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
First year we were here, we were in a helicopter
broadcasting fly over the Altadena fire. So they had one
with in recent enough memory that there should have been
a battle plan.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
If you're referencing the nineteen nineties ninety three, yeah, enough
time has passed where you know, there could have been
generational turnover in a community like Altadena, where folks who
were living there never really had those recurring threats of
a fire in the area and to just keep a
lookout for it, so they didn't really know what to do.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
But the government, the fire and police and the emergency management,
those people should there should be like the big handbook, Yeah,
well this happens, here's what you do.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
The onnus shouldn't be on the neighbors, right, I mean,
if you live an Altadena, it should not be your
responsibility for what to do. You know, have a go
bag if they tell you, I have a go bag
and those sorts of thing, that's on you. But residents
in Altadena, according to this report, they say they received
little or no warning before the fire reached their neighborhoods.
Not just that, hey, there's a fire looming over the horizon,
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keep an eye out for this. We're talking about flames
being on your street. Neighbors there did not seem to
understand that. The report sites outdated and inconsistent policies, protocols,
and standard operating procedures which created ambiguity around evacuation authority Responsibility's.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Responsible for that, the la KANDIC supervisors.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
This is what the report identifies is people did not
seem to know who was the proper authority in various
incidents because there are multiple jurisdictions involved here and the
communication between them all was not great.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
The report does say.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
There are there in this or is there again? Stating
the obvious. Now I could have produced this report.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
One of the main takeaways as far as the wise
go as you identify them equipment and personnel shortages were
magnified under the extreme conditions of this incident. Compounding this,
the report says, were gaps in situational awareness tools and
communications interoperability, which impaired real time coordination and so that
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led to confusion and frustration from from residents, even as
in the media we were not under threat like folks
who were living on these streets. But you're getting a
message that says one thing, then you're getting all other message.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
I got a.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Notification in downtown LA that we had to evacuate, and
we thought, oh, there's bumfires outside my apartment building. All
the time. I've never had to evacuate yet. Technical I
don't know if the crystal would have said that, but
that's kind of how we colloquially refer to them.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Every time.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
You always have one that me so I it's this
it now, This is the this is the report, and
we're all done.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
This is the big report about the county's response. Again,
this is not the big report on we found the
cause of both of these fires. We're going to prosecute people.
This was how do we do better next time? If
there is because.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Any of us explained the DWP situation in the no again,
I mean the well, who's supposed to explain that or
is that a separate investigators? Investigations are ongoing of that,
So those are other investors. These are other investigations we
will learn. This was the county's participation in both fires,
that's right, the county and the jurisdictions within the county.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
So this did evaluate some of the cities.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
I mean, the Palisades was in the city of Los
Angeles mostly, and right Altadena is unincorporated in the county,
So this evaluated all of that. Doesn't talk about the
lack of fire preparation in the Palace Sades by La
the La fire. Yeah, that's what we don't know yet,
except for the fact that they're saying some staffing shortages,
some equipment, and they don't flat out say the fire
chief should have had more people here. Those thousand firefighters
(07:39):
that were saying it didn't get into that type of
minutia that you talk about on this pro.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Is anybody going to or it's up to you and
me to do that. Yeah, I think we're gonna have
to keep those conversations going. So nobody else in government's
going to do this.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Hopefully we'll be able to get some questions in during
the press conference that's coming up at about two o'clock.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Okay, if anything useful comes out of that, please come
back here, run here like there's a bum fire in
the hallway. All right, Very good, Michael Monks KFI News
on this after action investigative.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Report, which I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
It's kind of disappointing if this is all there is,
and it looks like nobody's gonna take responsibility. And I
don't know how you have staffing shortages in the police
department or the emergency department when we play billions and
billions of dollars in tax money, maybe for blowing billions
and billions of dollars.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
On the bums. Who knows. All right, well, we'll continue
about all this coming up.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
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Speaker 2 (08:40):
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Speaker 1 (08:53):
Eric.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
We have room on the Moistline still for people. No,
I didn't know if that was a yes or no
if you're just talking to me in sound effects now, no, no, No,
it's actually pretty packed. Oh it is, yes, yesterday yesterday
was a little low. I honestly haven't even gone through
yesterday's yet. Oh okay, all right, but yeah we're pretty packed.
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So but hey, hey, feel free. If you're good, he'll
put you in.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Right, trust me. I listened to all of them. He
listens to all of them. And if you make the
cut means you really performed.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
All right.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
So that's the moistline for here's things I here's some
crazy things about me.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
I kind of I kind of missed.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Are you sure about that?
Speaker 6 (09:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
You should just one week, one week play all the
stuff about her, no matter what they say, just let it,
let it rip.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
There's gonna be a lot of leaps. I need some
comic relief in my life. How could she get people?
Let upset? But she does?
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Her dogs, the vegans, the earthquake fear or where.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Do I begin?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Hate?
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Hunters, fain leather, wow to wear? Sometimes?
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Yeah you do?
Speaker 2 (10:07):
And everyone notices, Oh yeah, this after action report, you know,
I knew, I knew this was going to be a dude.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
This is a dud. They got.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
They got a four star General Stanley McCrystal. He's retired
now and he has a consulting firm called the McCrystal Group,
and the LA County Board of Supervisors paid this McCrystal
group to tell us what we already know, what we
knew on like day one and day two, and what's
not in here is how could this happen? Why could
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this happen? The alerts were late or wrong, sent to
the wrong sections of town.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Or we're vague.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Evacuations orders were slow or non existence. The escape routes
along PCH were congested, and not enough resources.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Not enough resource.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Yeah, as far as the city is concerned, Karen Bass
Eric Arcetti defunded the fire department, and so you don't
have enough, uh firefighters, you don't have enough engines because
they defunded it. Because I said this, you know, a
thousand times during the height of the controversy earlier this year.
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But we only have half the fire department we should.
There is some kind of National Fire Bureau call it.
I forgot the exact name of this, but what they
do is they analyze metropolitan area to see if the
firefighting staff and equipment meets the standard that's necessary to
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fight the fires in a city of any particular size,
and generally you're supposed to have I think it's like
two firefighters per.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
One thousand people, something.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Like that, right, and we have one whatever the standard is.
We have half the standard half fifty percent. So we're
fifty percent funded. And by now, you know, we don't
have enough fire engines, and many of the ones we
have are broken and they're not fixed because we don't
have the mechanics. And there's been no major increase in
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funding since this happened. Now I don't have all the
details on how the county budgeted for the fire department.
Oh and it's absurdly strained by the homeless, by the
bumfires this Michael described them, because they start thousands and
thousands of fires every year. So, and the thing is,
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nobody publicly is talking about this terrible tragedy.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Nobody.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Karen Best doesn't talk about it. She talks about she
talks about how many, how many, how few vagrants she
got off the street. She talks about how evil Ice is.
I wonder if she's going to keep that up now
that we had another shooting yesterday.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
She knew someone are they're going to.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Keep encouraging the uh, the rioters and the assassins to
keep firing.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
And what else does she talk about?
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Nothing to talk about at this whole city, this whole
county is still in grave danger. You can have a
second fire in a year easily. It's not gonna be
in the exact same place because everything in the Palace
Aine's burned, so there's very little to burn now, the
same thing in that section of Altadena, West Altadena. But
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there's there's plenty of other areas here in Los Angeles
and in the San Gabriel Valley that can burn and
we'll have half a fire department. You still have a
shortage resources. I mean, all these vague bureaucratic terms, and
you know, it's shockings. They really don't care. I'm kind
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of pissed off at every adult I knew as a kid,
because we were told that all these people care. Right,
everybody in government cares. Your council members, right, the mayor,
the government, everybody cares. You elect these public servants. Every
time these people are under attack, it's like, well, actually,
she's a dedicated public service. It's like, no, they're not
(14:34):
dedicated public servants. They're thieves and grifters, and they're narcissists
and sociopaths, dedicated. Who who in their right mind would
only fund fifty percent of a fire department for the
city of Los Angeles? Why would you do that? Who
would underfund the county fire department? But they do, they do,
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And nobody knows this because nobody's paying attention.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
It's not ported on.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
One of these one of these reports. I guess this
was for Yeah, this is for Altadena. In the county response,
the review notes long standing challenges in staffing and training.
So why are their long standing challenges? So why don't
you hire enough people and train them properly? How does
this go on for years and years and decades and decades?
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Why is this? Is everybody in government stupid and lazy
and corrupt? Is that the answer? What else would the
answer be? If they're not all stupid, lazy and corrupt?
Speaker 1 (15:36):
How could you go.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Years and years without enough staffing and enough training? Some
Office of Emergency Management personnel, we're still learning to operate
the new alert system. January is kind of late in
the fire season. I mean, I know these people go
to a lot of meetings there's a lot of seminars
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and assemblies and zoom conferences and what how long does
it take to learn an alert system? Agencies report inconsistent
training around wildfire evacuations, no standardized surge staffing model. That
means when something bad really happens, they don't know who
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they're supposed to call to send in on an emergency. Well,
what else are these people doing? If you're an emergency management,
aren't you planning for emergencies.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
All the time. Here's what we do in a fire,
Here's what we do in an earthquake.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Here's what happens if the fire happens here or there
or there.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
What do they do all year? Or is it stupid, lazy, corrupt?
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Is that it the Sheriff's Department aging?
Speaker 2 (16:52):
The Sheriff's Department's aging dispatch system added another layer of difficulty.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Why is it aging? Why didn't they install a new one?
What do they do with the money?
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Is it all gone to everybody's uh, everybody's brother in
law and they're nonprofit? You give it to drug addicts
and mental patients who then, you know, offer their thanks
by taking a crap on the sidewalk every day. What
do you what are you doing with the money? You're
spending billions of dollars that to me, you have a government.
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First thing they're supposed to do is get the police
and fire department fully funded. Then later on we could
move on to the to the bums and the mental
patients and the drug addicts. But police and fire first.
Why doesn't if somebody ran on that, would they win?
They probably would lose, right if somebody said, well, I'm
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going to tear up this budget, and what we're gonna
do is fully fund the police and fire department in
the city and in the county first, and all other
departments could fight over over the crumbs left over. I
don't really care about after you get police and fire.
I'm trying to think what else would I care about
the government doing. I just want to know that the
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cops will come if my neighborhood is getting looted. But
of course my neighborhood was getting looted during the fire
and nobody came. And of course the fire department didn't
come to Palisades for hours and hours. So I don't
know what did the money go for exactly. Oh, we'll
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talk more later on in the show. Michael Monks is
going to be covering the I guess the supervisors are
having some kind of press conference up two o'clock we
come back. We played a lot of Newsom yesterday. Jd
Vance really went after Newsom because Newsom is openly inciting
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people to go and harm ICE agents, and that's the
governor you have.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
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Speaker 2 (19:02):
We are on from one until four o'clock and then
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Speaker 1 (19:09):
Go to that.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Whatever you missed, We've had Michael monksun already this hour
going into detail about this absurd after action report.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Jesus, they hired a.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Forced our general and his consulting company to tell us
what we already knew that La County was completely unrepaired, unprepared,
unresponsive and just stupid and it's reaction to the fire.
And we'll have more on this later. Now, speaking of
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stupid Newsome, he's continuing on his crusade against Ice. Although
I wonder when he woke up this morning and saw
that there was well, there was a press conference this
morning about the shooting and the guy who did the
shooting in Dallas of the ICE detention center, remember this yesterday,
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And he actually killed one of the immigrants being detained,
wounded two others. But he was going after ICE agents
and he.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Was looking up. He was looking up.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
The on Google, the Charlie Kirk video.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
In the days before he climbed the ladder, got on
the roof and started taking aim at everybody at this
detention center. There's this area where I guess the ICE
vans pull up. It's like a staging area, and then
they take the immigrants out of the vans or out
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of the cars and they're in handcuffs or in shackles
of some kind and they're taking inside to get processed.
So this is where all the business is done. Outside. Well,
there was a roof next door across the street, and
this guy climbs up on the roof and he's got
a rifle and he just starts shooting. His name's Joshua
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jan and he plotted this whole thing for quite some time.
And here's what he wrote in the note. Hopefully this
will give ICE agents real terror.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
To think.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Is there a sniper with ap armor piercing rounds on
that roof?
Speaker 1 (21:29):
So it could have been even worse.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
He was shooting at a car and I believe like
the immigrant inside the car was killed, but he assumed.
I guess there were officers inside the car. And this
is what all this violent fight ICE record rhetorica is spawning.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Here's what Newsom said just a couple of days.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Ago when he announced this stupid anti mask bill is
going to be signed.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
I'll be signing a bill first in the nation saying
enough ICE unmasked. What are you afraid of?
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Well, maybe armor piercing bullets, you dumb clock, Maybe armor
piercing bullets, maybe brain piercing bullets. Is do some really
the stupid who would do this? You're the governor? So
now do you know why they wear masks? I mean
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they wear masks, and officials talked about this today. They're
getting docked like crazy. Some of the ICE agents who
do get identified, these terrorists from these activist groups show
up at people's homes or they send you nasty email,
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bad phone calls. It's death threats to you, your spouse
and your family. Whys the kids are getting this and
do some as cheering on the terrorists, domestic terrorists. That's
what things are I mean, the guy wrote it in
his own words, this Joshua John. Hopefully this will give
ice agents real terror. And I heard one expert today
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describing how from a legal standpoint, how stupid newsomes anti
mask is, and this one's easy. I was saying a
couple of days ago, who's going to arrest them? And
this analyst said, well, if a state patrol officer, a
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CHP officer tries to arrest a federal agent for wearing
a mask, that state officer will be arrested and put
in federal prison. That's what's going to happen. It's literally
impossible for state or local law enforcement to enforce this
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law because once you do, you're violating federal law. You're obstruction.
You're obstructing an ice officer. If any of these state
or local officers give a federal ice officer crap about
a mask, then that federal ice officer, who's got a
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few buddies with him, he's going to put the local
cop or the state patrolman in the back of a
car and that guy's going to prison. That's what Newsom
is encouraging. That's how dumb this law is that was
passed by the vast majority of the Senate in the Assembly.
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I assume almost every Democrat. They want state and local
police that risk being thrown in a federal prison. That's
what it is. They have no right to enforce a
mask law.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
None. Zero.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Constitution says that federal law reigns supreme over state law.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
This is how stupid Newsom is. Have you seen any
reporter ask them about it? Are that bozo Stephen Colbert,
any of them?
Speaker 6 (25:14):
No?
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Jade Vance went after Newsom. Uh, let's play cut number one.
Speaker 6 (25:20):
The very people who keep us safe ought to be
honored and protected and praised by Democrats and Republicans alike.
It is time to stop the rhetorical assault.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
On law enforcement because here's what happens.
Speaker 6 (25:39):
Because here's what happens when Democrats like Gavin Newsom did
say that these people are part of an authoritarian government.
When the left wing media lies about what they're doing,
when they lie about who they're arresting, when they lie
about the actual job of law enforcement, what they're doing
is encouraging crazy people to go and commit violence. You
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don't have to agree with my immigration policies.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
You don't have to agree with.
Speaker 6 (26:03):
Donald Trump's immigration policies. But if your political rhetoric encourages
violence against our law enforcement, you can go straight to
hell and.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
You have no place in the political.
Speaker 6 (26:14):
Conversation of the United.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
States of America.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Well that's what Newsom is doing, and he's number one
on the list, and Karen Bass is right behind him.
We got the two beauties out here because we have
the most illegal aliens. So there's been a lot of
federal enforcement. I don't know who Knewsom and Bass are
playing to, but they're inciting terrorists to go kill ICE
agents and that's what we meantime. Look what's happened in
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California this year, just the fires right by themselves, Palli said,
left unattended by Karen Bass vacationing in Ghana.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Oh no, no, she was on a diplomatic trip. This is
what we've got here.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
And she's out in the streets shaking with rage every
time ICE arrest somebody. Holy mackerel. She's like about Kano,
that's what she cares about. More coming up, I got
more from Vance and Trump too.
Speaker 5 (27:15):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Coming up after two o'clock. Take another whack at Mike Bonnen,
the failed loser who was the West Side councilman for years,
who just had this enormous attraction to homeless people, and
he just would give homeless people enormous I mean, the
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whole corrupt nonprofit homeless complex. He would just shovel tons
of money that way and allowed them to take over many,
many blocks and many sections of the West Side. Now
we have Tracy Park and she has cleaned much of
it up. Absolutely the worst local politician I've ever seen
in my life. One failed project he left behind was
(28:12):
an old Ramada inn in Marina del Rey City has
spent twenty million dollars was supposed to be converted to
low income housing and nothing's happened. And this has gone
on for years. And we're going to talk to Angela
McGregor from the Westside Current dot com about it. Let's continue.
Gavin Newsom has been on the East Coast in New
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York and he's on his tour to continue demonizing ICE
agents and inciting terrorists who want to kill them. And
Jade Vance went after him and he gave a speech
in count Concord, North Carolina, and he told him the
last clip he actually told him, said that politicians like
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Newsom can go straight to hell. Here's some more jade
advance about all this violence.
Speaker 6 (29:02):
Let me just leave you with one final thought here. Look,
I was asked earlier today by a reporter, a reporter
I actually like, but a reporter who said, well, don't
both sides have crazy people? And of course, obviously count
three hundred and thirty million people. Of course both sides
have crazy people. But if you look at the political
violence in our country over the last couple of months,
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the last couple of years, it is not a both
sides problem. It is primarily on one side of the
political aisle. So if we are going to truly go
after the political violence in this country, we need the
democratic leadership of Washington, d C. To look in the mirror.
We need them to renounce all political violence. When a
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poor kid like Charlie Kirk is gunned down in cold blood,
we need them to start with condemning the violence instead
of condemning something that Charlie Kirk said that they disagreed with.
When you have when you have an entire network of
left wing organizations that encourage, that promote, and that apologize
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for violence, you know what you're gonna get out of it.
You're gonna get political violence. So here's my sacred obligation
to you, to all the law enforcement, but every person,
whether they wear a uniform or not. Over the next
couple of years, the Trump administration is going to do
everything that we can to dismantle the networks, to destroy
the funding, and to make it harder for people to
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kill one another just because they disagree with what somebody says.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
That is what we're going to do. We're gonna fight
for it.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Yeah, well, come to Los Angeles because we have a
network of anti ICE groups and Karen Bass and Gavin
Newsom promote them. In some cases they're funded by tax money.
Proof of that is Turla. They got to thirty four
million dollars from the state from Gavin Newsom and they
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were a leading instigator of the rioting. Remember the rioting
back in June. You remember when they were standing on
an overpass on the one on one and dropping concrete
blocks onto patrol cars. Yeah, those guys there is Antifa
characters involved in this. And just my opinion, I suspect
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that see Bass and Newsom and these these agitators and
these anti ICE nonprofits who are living off our tax money.
They know this is a lost cause. They know that
Bass and Newsom have no power on the immigration issue.
ICE is going to do whatever their order to do
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within the law and the constitution, and they will, they'll execute,
and they're going to keep doing it. It's entirely a
federal issue, federal responsibility. States and towns have zero, zero
responsibility for this, zero role. Bass and Newsom have no votes,
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and so everybody's frustrated. And what always happens from a
toddlers on up. When people are frustrated and nobody they
have no power, nobody's listening to them. Because nobody has
to listen to them, they resort to violence.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
So that's what you're seeing.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
It's the violence from the losers, the violence with no
power because they don't have a constituency. There's nobody taken
to the streets to say, hey, let's have more criminal,
illegal aliens running around. You just have There's nobody on
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the side of these activist groups, these violent groups except
get Bass A Newsom. Well, Well, sorry, you guys lost.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
You guys lost. You're not in charge.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
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