July 7, 2025 • 37 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (07/07) - John is back from vacation! Michael Monks comes on the show to talk about the immigration raid at MacArthur Park today. 75 years ago today John's father came to the United States through Ellis Island from Poland. Press conference from Mayor Karen Bass on the immigration raid at MacArthur Park today. A man in Texas started shooting at ICE agents and was killed when agents returned fire.
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And it's nice to come back after, you know, a
little over a week off and see that everything out
in the world here in la is almost exactly the
same as it was. I feel like I missed nothing.
I come back. I'm driving in and there's Michael Monks
and there's another sort of semi disturbance going out at
MacArthur Park, and we have the National Guard back, and
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we've got ice officers and protesters, and Karen Bass and
Gavin Newsom is here. Newsom and Bass are actually celebrating
the six month anniversary of the fire that wiped out
the palisade, So it's nice to have him here. I
guess they took full credit for it. Right, Michael, What
was going on MacArthur Park with Karen Bass and the
National Guard and all these other party people.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
This was quite a big scene.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Out of all of the scenes that we have seen
since immigration enforcement at the federal level really ramped up
in Earnest back in early June. This looked like the
biggest thing that was going to go down yet. About
one hundred different agents, National Guard, troops, military vehicles, some
of them on horseback, parading through MacArthur Park and it
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really looked like something serious was about to go down,
And so all the TV cameras from above or on
this scene. Protesters from around the city start showing up
on the scene. But then Mayor Karen Bass also shows
up in MacArthur Park as this thing is unfolding, and
we see her talk to a federal agent. He hands
her a phone she's talking to. Somebody hands the phone back,
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and then everybody starts to Karen Bass leaves, the federal
agent start to regroup, and everybody leaves. So this massive
scene unfolds and then nothing really comes of it.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Now.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
The mayor tweeted out moments ago a piece of video
from overhead, saying this is footage from today a MacArthur park.
Minutes before, there were more than twenty kids playing. Then
the military comes through. The second I heard about this,
I went to the park to speak to the person
in charge to tell them it needed to end.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Now, absolutely outrageous.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
She doesn't have any power though, so I mean, she
could pull that stunt, but they are not going to
listen to her. Ultimately, it's unclear who she was talking
to Eat, but we should learn more.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
I didn't mean to interrupt you on your day back.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
I feel like since you've been gone, I've turned into
a bit of a bully, so I'm I apologize, so
please you.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Know what's going on. I don't.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I just I just heard first of it, driving in
and listening to you, and I didn't understand what the
mysterious phone call was.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
And we don't know. No.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
I think she mentioned there was there was a bit
of a gaggle of reporters around her, and you can
kind of hear her say that she talked to the
head of customs, so that suggests ice, but that's unconfirmed.
I don't know if she said the actual person she
was talking to. We might know more in just a
few minutes, John, because she is going to be joined
by city councilmen Unisses Hernandez, whose district includes MacArthur Park,
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and they're going to be talking about this activity well
because ultimately she Trump is not going to stand down.
To Karen Bass, well, not only is he not going
to stand down. We heard from the borders are Tom Holman, Yeah,
Holemans just you know the past day or so that
we're coming for the sanctuary cities. We're ramping up enforcement.
The big beautiful bill that was just signed into law
that's got a lot more money for immigration enforcement, and
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they're targeting LA.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Was it possible it was a staging exercise or it
had the.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Air of a parade, you know when you have the
horses involved. But there were some big military vehicles too.
It was quite a scene, it really was. But what
the minute, It's like they did dispersed. They had it
back into the area of downtown. Of course they're they're
based out of the Federal building down Outta Street, so
it looks like that's where they were headed.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Oga.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
I was thinking, was it just like some kind of rehearsal?
Was it might have just been a show of force
Arthur Park. I don't know if you've been there, you
got a picnic there.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Lately, I haven't gotten in the last few months, but
I'm well aware of that. Yeah, well years ago, k IF,
I used to be in that neighborhood.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
So yeah, so I'm sure you had many a sandwich
sitting on a park bench.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Now it's not as pleasant.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
No, it's a lot of open air drug use, and
there are a lot of immigrants there, and I'm sure
of varying legal statuses up and down the streets. It's
a huge population of street vendors but also drug users
in the park, and it's it's a complicated place where
you can't really enjoy the park the way that it's intended. No,
because of all of that activity.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
To people, criminals, gang members, weapons being sold, drugs being sold,
and a lot of those vendors are showing stolen merchandise.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
And and that's something else that we have heard the
federal government wants to crack down on in these immigration efforts,
is take me look at that. Even at the local level,
we're hearing, you know, we want to crack down more
on some of this retail theft and the reselling of
those materials. But whatever this was today we don't know yet. Again,
about five minutes or so one point fifteen is when
the mayor and the councilmen say they're.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Going to right, So she could beat her chest all
she wants, but ultimately Trump and Homan are going to win,
and if they want to clean up the MacArthur Park
area or anything else, they're going to and they have
all the legal force and she doesn't.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Yeah, I don't think the federal government came in to
clean up crack use in MacArthur Park, so whatever they
were doing down there is still unclear.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
I think if it's just a scare immigrants away to
get them to self deport it could be.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Yeah, you know, especially if you're a street vendor. We've
seen it in the Fashion district where there's not as
much activity at all from the business side of things
like there would have been in the spring. A lot
of stores opened, a lot of people on the street
buying the food that's there.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
On the stop.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Because you live downtown, I do. Yeah, have you seen
a change, huge change? Yeah, huge change. I mean even
on the weekend, like we just finished one. It's Saturdays
and Sundays are usually really busy in the Fashion district.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
You know a lot of that.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
A lot of the suits are being sold, flowers are
being sold, a lot of different trinkets. I mean you
can buy just about anything in Santi Alley and Los
Angeles Street or the Flower District. Anything you need a
little bit of if you're into it, especialty shops. I
can recommend a few if you if you're if you're
ever in the year, something to keep it going since
you're working seven days. Wait, a little bit, A little
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bit helps. But it's it's really died. And I just
posted online. I don't know if this is related or not.
It does look like they've had some trouble. Coals French Dip,
the famous iconic downtown La restaurant opened in nineteen oh eight.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
They're closing for good. Oh that's that's terrible.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Yeah, yeah, I mean so many places, yeah, are are
closing because of everything that's happened since.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
The area around five years.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Is in the midst of all that homelessness, drug addiction
nonsense that you see.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
I used to enjoy going to Langers, yeah, you know,
and MacArthur Park. Yeah, and the Languers owner is threatening
to close every few months.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Yeah, it's a lot to do it is. It is
really scary.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I've taken a walk from his parking lot down the
block too languers and back, and last time I went,
it's like, I'm not doing this again now I'm just
you know, if I end up being a victim of crime,
it's my fault because I should know better than it's.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Tough down there.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
But to your point about the mayor and thumping her chest,
I think what we're seeing is after a tough start
to the year for her, obviously much harder for the
people whose homes burned down, but politically speaking, a tough
year for the mayor to the start. I think she
is found in this issue, especially when you're battling the
Trump administration. He's not as popular in La and La
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County as it might be in other parts of the country.
That she's finding some ground to stand on and some
winning messages for.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
People who may have otherwise.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
So people are going to vote for her because she
fights Trump, even though she let the palisades burned down.
So she's leaning into this. That's a good right now,
that's a good trade off there, all right. I guess
eventually we'll find out and she's going to speak in a.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Few many moment.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Now we are expecting this news conference with the mayor
and councilman Hernandez, who does represent that area and is
not a big fan of lawn.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Percement at all. She's a defund the police girl.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Yeah, yeah, so she she'd like it if all the
police just resigned tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
She's a big pusher of the sanctuary city ordinance when
this thing was being pushed at the end of last year.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
You know what, they're going to end up losing on.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
There's no legal basis for the concept of sanctuary cities
or sanctuary states.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
It's not a thing according to federal law. We'll find
out because Trump has that lossit exactly. The federal government
has sued the city, the mayor and the city council
asking a court to invalidate that ordinance.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
So this is getting stupid people excited that they're standing
up the Trump. But that's not the law. Too bad.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
You know, we shall see and so it goes. Welcome home,
all right, thanks, all right, Now I'm going to go
back to wherever I was.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Well, we'll continue, well, we'll talk more about Oh, you know,
today's actually a special day in my family, which ties
into this whole immigration thing, and I want to talk
about it. Maybe you'll understand why I have the views
I have on this. That's next.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
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Speaker 2 (09:25):
You know, as time goes on, more dates on the
calendar have significance to them. You know, you get married,
you have kids. Suddenly you have anniversaries you have to remember,
and you have birthdays you have to remember, and this
and that, and sometimes old anniversaries.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Just fade.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
But when their date comes up, like today, I'm driving around,
I knew today was July seventh, and I'm trying to think. Now,
I know, July seventh is something. What is it? It's
kind of naggat at me all morning. It's like, July seventh,
that's something, what is actually tied to this immigration thing?
July seventh was the day that my dad came to
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America through Ellis Island. It was July seventh, nineteen fifty,
seventy five years ago today. Somewhere in my brain I
remembered today.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
That's amazing that you do remember that.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Well, it's four days after his birthday and he would
have been one hundred years old. On July third, Wow,
So that was kind of top of mind. So he
was one hundred and then by coincidence, July seventh, four
days later on the calendar in nineteen fifty he came
to this country. And yeah, I mentioned his story a
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few times over the years, but if you don't know,
he when he was fourteen he was captured by the
Nazis fourteen eighth grade. He grew up in a little
town in Poland, one hundred people, and it was near
the German border. So in September nineteen thirty nine, when
Hitler went on his role, they came to his town
and then went door to door. Farmhouses spaced out, and
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they knocked on the door and they took him away.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
But why why did they take him away?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
They wanted.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Youthful labor, They wanted young men to do garbage work, basically,
and they took him down Schwitz. That was his first stop,
and he had a three judge panel look at his
face to decide whether he was Jewish or Catholic.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
A three judge panel.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
It was a first a two judge panel, and they
split one to one. One said he was Jewish, the
other said Catholic. And so they called a third guy
in and he voted Catholic, which he was. But that's
not the point.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
They didn't make him pull his pants down.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
You know. My wife said the same thing. I didn't
want to say it.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
She thought they were looking at his his member there,
and I said, well, had they then they wouldn't have
had to go through the vote exactly.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
So I think they were looking.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
At his face, probably his nose, because that was the stereotype, yes.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
And because it would have been Audi's. You're just blow
his pants down then, you know, right away. So he
so he won that one two to one. And really
we went to Auschwitz about ten years ago, and it
was just down a pathway. He could have gone to
the ovens and there would be no John and there
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would be no me. So they put him on a
work farm in Germany. He and other prisoners of war
slaved away on the farm. Eventually the Germans lost the
whole World War two ended and he ran off to
Holland and then to England and he worked for the
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next five years driving trucks through Europe as they reconstructed
the whole continent. He didn't go back to Poland because
by then the Russians had taken over Soviet Union and
he was writing back to his friends and nobody was
returning the letters. So he didn't know what happened to them,
never did for the rest of his life. Didn't know
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if they were if they had never made it there,
or the Russians captured him, who knows. So we worked
for the British Army driving trucks delivering supplies. And after
five years of that war was over, no need, no
need for him anymore. So it joined with a Catholic
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organization for immigration and they give a choice of three countries, Australia,
Canada and the US, and he thought Australia was too
hot and Canada was too cold, and so he came
to a marriage and shortly after that, just a few weeks,
he met my mom at a picnic at a Polish
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church in New Jersey and two years later they got married.
But it took five years from the time he arrived
legally through Ellis Island until he became a citizen, and
he had to go to class, and he had to
take English lessons, and you know, he had to pay
various fees, and it was a whole process. And I
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found his paperwork, so I know he went through all this.
He had to get tested. They were serious about the English,
although he never did speak very well. And you know,
it's why when I hear about people trying to make
emotional cases for well, you know they're just here, it's like, yeah,
but most of them came here voluntarily.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
I understand they wanted to work, they wanted to get
a better job.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
But we can't take everybody in, and we can't take
everybody who's poor into the country.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
And my day was one of these. And certainly he
had a story.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
You know, it's hard to beat getting captured by the
Nazis when you're fourteen. He ever saw his mother again?
Oh you know, the terrible things he saw in World
War Two? I mean you know he could.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
The thing is, I was going to say, I could
go on and on, except he never did.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
He didn't talk to you about this. He must have
said something, as you do have this information.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Yes, he said some things.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Twice we taped him for about a half hour each
to talk about his experiences. My mother ended up answering
all the questions. We liquored him up. We got him
a little bit drunk to loosen him up. He was
like that whole generation. They just didn't talk about it,
never complained about it. And it's not like he had
a really easy light, a much better life here than
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in Poland. He worked in a factory for almost fifty years.
In fact, when I was a kid, more than half
my childhood he worked overnights, slept all day, slept on
the weekends too. My memory of my dad during that
period is stretched out in the lounge chair sleep snoring,
and my brother and I used to torture him and
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wake them up and record his snoring and play it
back to him. You guys are me, I know, so
you know I went He went through the whole immigrant
you know, the whole igorant immigrant rigorarole, right, and I
got it what these people are saying, but you got
to do it right, and it's.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Got to be controlled.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
And I just have no sympathy for everybody's story if
they're not willing to do at least what my dad did.
Just wait your turn, pay the fees, learn the language,
wait till there's your turn. And you know, the Catholic
organization set it up so he'd have a job here.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Never took a dollar from the government. Never.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
This organization first got him a job king apples from
the back of a from the back of a pickup
truck in upstate New York, and he didn't like that
because he was kind of afraid of heights sitting like
standing on the back of the truck. So they got
him a factory job and that became his life for
the next forty seven years until he retired. And he
didn't retired till he was seventy two. You know, he
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wasn't a lot of pain in his back was shot
and all that. But I don't he didn't tell me
a lot or give me life lectures. I just absorbed
it by watching him. That's what I thought life was
is she's just worked really hard and just try to
do the right thing. And he did the right thing.
And I have all his paperwork to prove it, because
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you know, we were doing something legally, and I found
all this stuff. And I just don't want to hear
anybody who doesn't want to do It's got a reason
people shouldn't do it. Now you don't and stop complaining.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
I did these idiot protesters, all these all these groups,
like all right, all of the protesters that showed up
to take on the National Guard today at MacArthur Park.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Michael Monks's story, It's like, who the hell are you people?
Is it Turla?
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Is it the rapid response network that best advertises for
Is it our tax money that is paid for this
rapid response network?
Speaker 1 (18:21):
So you could go and interfere with the National Guard?
Speaker 6 (18:25):
Well, what I don't understand is when these protests, these
peaceful protests, they turn not so peaceful and these people
are throwing rocks and doing whatever, starting fires. I mean,
how do do they not understand how bad that makes
them look? And why would anybody be okay with them
being here if they're doing that.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Yeah, that's not good marketing to try to kill ice
officers or LAPD officers, and we're supposed to have tolerance
for this. I'd like to drop the f bomb here.
That's my response to that. There's not going to be
any tolerance and there's not going to be any embracing here.
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I mean, I heard today. I'll talk about this when
we come back, but today is the story about a
guy I forgot what stated was in that he was
he was found he was trying to.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
He was standing outside Federal.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Ice building Texas, Texas, Texas, and he had some big
weapon and he wanted to take out federal agents in
case you wonder why they're so heavily armed and the
National Guards backing them up, and they're wearing masks and
all the rest.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Talk about that coming up.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Okay, we're going to go now to care.
Speaker 7 (19:42):
Six month anniversary of the fires of the natural disaster,
the worst in California's recent history, and to report on
the progress. While I was on the way, though, I
got alerted that there was a ice operation military interview
who knows at MacArthur Park. I turned around, we went
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to the park. I could see a helicopter in the air.
I think it was a black Hawk helicopter, and I
saw military tanks. It was the Custom and Border Patrol,
and it might have been military on the periphery. To me,
this is another example of the administration rationing up chaos
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by deploying would look like a military operation in an
American city. So I went to MacArthur Park because it
is very important that the truth be told about what
happened there. Now you can spin it any way you like,
But in my opinion, it's a political agenda of provoking
fear and terror. Frankly, it is outrageous and unamerican that
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we have federal armed vehicles in our parks when nothing
is going on in the parks. It's outrageous and un
American that the federal government seized our state's national Guard.
It's outrageous and un American that we have US Marines
who are trained to kill foreign soldiers overseas deployed in
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our American city. So here's the truth. There's no plan
other than fear, chaos, and politics. Home depot one day,
a car wash the next, armed vehicles and what looked
like mounted military units in a park the next day.
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What happened to the criminals, the drug dealers, the violent
individuals who were in the park today were children. It
was their summer camp, their day, their summer day camp.
Those kids now have no activities this afternoon. They have
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to stay inside. They were ushered inside so that they
didn't get exposed to the troops that were walking in
formation across their playground area. We did not want the
children to be aware that it was ice.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Although I do.
Speaker 7 (22:15):
Have to tell you that I went and I spoke
to an eight year old. I never let on what
was going on upstairs. But did this eight year old
tell me that he was afraid of ice? Did the
eight year old tell me that he was afraid of
ice taking his parents and he didn't think it was
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good to take people away? So understand that that eight
year old knows enough of what's going on that he's
already traumatized in anticipation.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
To this or just the usual rhetoric they were upstairs.
Speaker 7 (22:54):
But I think it's pretty dramatic that a.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Child enough for her, enough for her that as emotionally manipulative. No,
we didn't have the National Guard and the Ice agents
to disrupt a camp for kids. You have been a
politician in California for decades and you're a part of
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the sanctuary city, sanctuary state movement. You give sanctuary to
those criminals, and now you're shocked that the federal government's
enforcing the law trying to remove the criminals. And they
were upfront about this from day one. I had Tom
Homan on the show and he said that they are
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going to deport anybody else that they find along the way.
The first thrust was to go after the criminals, which
they have. They've removed tens of thousands of criminals, and
they said, yeah, we're going after others as well.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
That's federal law.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
I don't know what her list of federal laws that
we should not enforce are. I'd like to hear it
outside of immigration law, what other federal laws should we
not enforce? And as far as being heavily armed, here's
why McCallen, Texas Border Patrol facility, an active shooter armed
with tactical gear and a rifle opened fire upon border
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agents as they arrived at the facility. Agents and local
police returned fire, killed the gunmen. No federal agents hit,
but one McCallen police officer was struck. Officer in stable condition.
So that's why they're well armed. That's why they're wearing
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the uniforms. That's why they have National Guard backup. That's
why they have the Marines backing them up. This is
why because there are crazy people trying to kill federal
law enforcement. Now, Karen Bass doesn't understand that, and Neva does.
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Yunicis Hernandez because they stood around while this place went
to hell just a few weeks ago, when the police
chief Jim McDonald said, we were overwhelmed. Karen Bass didn't
have an answer for his own for her own police chief.
So Trump had to come in with the National Guard
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in the Marines. Because Karen Bass never enforced the law
as mayor for two years, I don't think she helped
instigate any kind of immigration of law while she was
in Congress for ten years, she was in she was
in the legislature, she was one of the legislative leaders
for years in Sacramento. Never did anything about these problems.
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So now it's dumped in her lap and she's.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Going to have to live.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
You know, you go twenty years not taking action on
something that is really important. Well, you don't get to
be part of the solution at the end. You don't
get to have a say, You don't have a seat
at the table, a voice in the room.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
All the cliches that she likes to use, you don't
get any of that.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
You fumbled it. You fumbled it for over twenty years.
You're in the legislature, you're a congress person, you're the mayor.
You never did anything to help. Now there's a new
regime in Washington, and you don't like it. So you're
gonna pull out year olds are afraid. Oh, sit down
and shut up. How would we go through all the
victims of all the illegal alien criminals that you did
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nothing to round up. How many thousands of them have
been living in Los Angeles amongst us, How many crimes
have they committed? How many victims of those crimes You
didn't care, You weren't worried about the children of the
crime victims who got killed and terrorized by illegal aliens.
Enough with these emostly manipulative sob stories.
Speaker 6 (26:55):
I guess you don't want to hear from the LA
City Council president talking about MacArthur Park.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Well right now, oh all right, turn it, put them on.
It's not going to last long, but.
Speaker 8 (27:08):
Our department when something is wrong, that is the kind
of havoc that's being visited visited.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Upon our city.
Speaker 8 (27:14):
And so we're very proud of what's been done in
MacArthur Park and we're going to continue that work.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
But we need ice out of law now, not going
to have it.
Speaker 8 (27:24):
And with that, I'll ask my colleague from the first
Districts who's led, along with the mayor, the great work
at MacArthur Park. And it was on the scene very
very early from the first District Council member A and
E c cernendus.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Full blooded socialistness, lady defund the police.
Speaker 9 (27:41):
This morning we witness the latest escalation in the Trump
administrations demp depraved campaign against our city. The National Guard
descended onto MacArthur Park, bringing troops, military weapons, equipment and
armored vehicles to a community park, a community hub, a
place where families gather. This happened while summer camp was
in session at the park, playing games with their friends.
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Young jud was subjected to having to be ushered into
the lower part of one of our buildings as terrible
was taking places as they drop out there.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
I've been to MacArthur Park many times. The place is
rife with gang members, rife with crazy homeless people. I mean,
you've got drug addicts, You've got all kinds of mental patients,
fentonal addicts, crack addicts, gang members, openly selling weapons, openly
selling drugs. That's been going on for many years. And
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this is Hernandez and Karen Bess never cared that the
local kids were exposed to all that. In fact, a
lot of the boys ended up getting sucked into the gangs.
So they are just full of crap, absolute absolutely full
of crap, enormous hypocrites. If they've been scarred, it's because
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of all the gang and criminal activity and homeless activity.
The stuff that the vendors sell. When I hear about
hard working immigrants, all that stuff is stolen, maybe from you.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
The thieves that.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Run around LA all the time gathering stuff, they take
it to some fencing operation in downtown LA. And then
the illegal aliens who run the vending tables selling junk
on those tables on sidewalks all around MacArthur Park, that's
all stolen. They go to the fence, they buy the
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stuff cheap, and then they try to resell it. If
you've had stuff stolen from you, you could probably go
to MacArthur Park and buy it back for a fraction
of the price you paid for it the first time.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
So stop it.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Total phonies. Dave allowed and this is Hernandez, Marquis, Harris Dawson,
Karen Bass has allowed Los Angeles to collapse and become
a hellhole, a dirty, disgusting, crime ridden, homeless ridden hell hole.
And now they're going to rise up and be all
self righteous that because Trump is sending in the National
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Guard and the Marines and ICE.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Again. All I want to do is drop the F bomb.
That's all I have to say.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
That's all I have to say about Bass and Hernandez
and Marquise Harris Dawson. What a bunch of clowns and
phonies they created the hell their fault, one hundred percent.
They've all been in office long enough. Bass has had
this long career in office, She's done nothing but harbor criminals.
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She and Dawson and Hernandez ought to be in jail
for harboring criminal illegal aliens. That's the way it should
work out.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Now.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
I told you because they got a story here in
the La Times about agents wearing masks, and that creates
a new level of Dane here. Right, We're going to
talk about that. Give you some more detail about the
Texas situation where ICE agents were fired on by some
lunatic will continue.
Speaker 5 (31:12):
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Speaker 2 (31:18):
I'm just sitting here stealing because Karen Bess just did
an appearance with a couple of other hack politicians decrying
the staging that ICE did this morning with the National
Guard in MacArthur Park. I don't know what the purpose
of the whole thing was, but they were there in
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full force, Ice, National Guard, horses, everybody all dressed up.
And now Bass and Unices Hernandez, who's this socialist idiot
of a councilwoman from MacArthur Park, and Marquise Harris Dawson,
who by the way, stood around on fire day in
the Palisades, going anything.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
I can do, anything I can do, How do you
have any help?
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Yeah, when Bass was in Africa, remember the deputy mayor
who is supposed to provide oversight over police and fire.
Deputy mayor was an administrative leave and he's now pled
guilty for calling in bomb threats. Then you had the
acting Mayor, Harris Dawson, who apparently did nothing when the
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Palisades burned except send an email saying if I can
do anything, please let me know. So you're talking about
people who are absolutely worthless, bags of bones, just nothing,
They nothing useful. And she never showed this kind of
passion when the Palisades was burning. Of course, how could she.
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She was in Africa.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
But boy she stirred up about illegal aliens. Huh.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
But American citizens and American taxpayers using everything they own
in the Palisades.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Where was she?
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Oh yeah, knocking back cocktails with the President of God.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
She shouted out Churlot at the press conference too, Oh.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Turla, yeap Charla.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Yes, the rapid response network, they're the ones who send
out You wonder where protesters come from a short notice
like that, I mean, the news breaks that there's a
staging going on by ICE a MacArthur Park. It's like
less than a half hour. Lady, you got all these protesters.
Churla has a rapid response network. They're paid. You know what,
(33:34):
they're paid with our tax money. Churla got thirty four
million from Gavin Newsom in the legislature and Bass does
a commercial in the middle of her public addresses every
time for Churla's rapid response network.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
So our tax money.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Pays for the protesters, pays for the rioters.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
We all just witnessed these massive riots that.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
Went on for a week, and you wonder why they're
showing up with the National Guard, why they're heavily armed,
why they're on horseback, Because our tax.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Money is going.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
To these illegal immigration organizations who want to kill ICE
agents or want to inspire others to kill such as
this guy, I'm.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Gonna finally get to him. Where did the story goes?
Speaker 2 (34:39):
This guy in Texas who is shooting at ICE agents
at an ICE facility and they have to return fire
and kill one.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
That's what's going on.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
ICE agents are under attack, so of course they show up.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Dressed in armor. There's a story here about why they
wear masks.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
Of course, the La Times Jenny Jarvi, Ice agents wearing
masks adding new level of danger, new level of danger
to who because according to the National President of the
Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association, we have a lot of
agents whose faces are being put on social media platforms
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across the country. We have politicians right now that are saying,
we will find these federal agents who have masks on,
We'll expose them. Oh yeah, Doctor Cynthia Gonzalez, the vice
mayor of kata Hey, she still has her job, right
She was encouraging gang members to come out to do
what shoot at ICE. We have a vice mayor here
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in Los Angeles County urging gang members to come out
and take on ICE. And the LA Times is wondering,
It's like, why are the ICE agents wearing masks?
Speaker 1 (35:56):
That's very intimidating.
Speaker 5 (35:57):
How come.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
We can't know who they are because doctor Cynthia Gonzales'
friends will snap their photos, put them online and put
a bounty.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Up for them.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
That's why whatever, and you know who supports this stuff,
Karen Vass, your nieces, Hernandez, Marquise, Harris Dawson. They're working
for the enemy here. They're not working for the people,
the taxpayers of Los Angeles. They're not working for the citizens.
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They're not working for the Americans or America. They're working
for the enemy. They have been harboring criminals, protecting criminals
for years and years.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
They do it out in the open.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
Karen Bass protects criminals as part of her daily routine.
That's why she thinks she got elected. That's why she
can be so passionate about this issue. She thinks that's
why she'll get re elected if she stands up to
protect the criminals, the criminal, illegal aliens. I haven't gotten
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to the Palisades yet. Today's the oh, Today's a six
month anniversary that bast and Newsom were celebrating successfully burning
down the Palisades. Debor Mark live in the KFI twenty
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Speaker 2 (00:29):
And it's nice to come back after, you know, a
little over a week off and see that everything out
in the world here in la is almost exactly the
same as it was. I feel like I missed nothing.
I come back. I'm driving in and there's Michael Monks
and there's another sort of semi disturbance going out at
MacArthur Park, and we have the National Guard back, and
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we've got ice officers and protesters, and Karen Bass and
Gavin Newsom is here. Newsom and Bass are actually celebrating
the six month anniversary of the fire that wiped out
the palisade, So it's nice to have him here. I
guess they took full credit for it. Right, Michael, What
was going on MacArthur Park with Karen Bass and the
National Guard and all these other party people.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
This was quite a big scene.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Out of all of the scenes that we have seen
since immigration enforcement at the federal level really ramped up
in Earnest back in early June. This looked like the
biggest thing that was going to go down yet. About
one hundred different agents, National Guard, troops, military vehicles, some
of them on horseback, parading through MacArthur Park and it
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really looked like something serious was about to go down,
And so all the TV cameras from above or on
this scene. Protesters from around the city start showing up
on the scene. But then Mayor Karen Bass also shows
up in MacArthur Park as this thing is unfolding, and
we see her talk to a federal agent. He hands
her a phone she's talking to. Somebody hands the phone back,
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and then everybody starts to Karen Bass leaves, the federal
agent start to regroup, and everybody leaves. So this massive
scene unfolds and then nothing really comes of it.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Now.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
The mayor tweeted out moments ago a piece of video
from overhead, saying this is footage from today a MacArthur park.
Minutes before, there were more than twenty kids playing. Then
the military comes through. The second I heard about this,
I went to the park to speak to the person
in charge to tell them it needed to end.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Now, absolutely outrageous.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
She doesn't have any power though, so I mean, she
could pull that stunt, but they are not going to
listen to her. Ultimately, it's unclear who she was talking
to Eat, but we should learn more.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
I didn't mean to interrupt you on your day back.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
I feel like since you've been gone, I've turned into
a bit of a bully, so I'm I apologize, so
please you.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Know what's going on. I don't.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I just I just heard first of it, driving in
and listening to you, and I didn't understand what the
mysterious phone call was.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
And we don't know. No.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
I think she mentioned there was there was a bit
of a gaggle of reporters around her, and you can
kind of hear her say that she talked to the
head of customs, so that suggests ice, but that's unconfirmed.
I don't know if she said the actual person she
was talking to. We might know more in just a
few minutes, John, because she is going to be joined
by city councilmen Unisses Hernandez, whose district includes MacArthur Park,
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and they're going to be talking about this activity well
because ultimately she Trump is not going to stand down.
To Karen Bass, well, not only is he not going
to stand down. We heard from the borders are Tom Holman, Yeah,
Holemans just you know the past day or so that
we're coming for the sanctuary cities. We're ramping up enforcement.
The big beautiful bill that was just signed into law
that's got a lot more money for immigration enforcement, and
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they're targeting LA.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Was it possible it was a staging exercise or it
had the.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Air of a parade, you know when you have the
horses involved. But there were some big military vehicles too.
It was quite a scene, it really was. But what
the minute, It's like they did dispersed. They had it
back into the area of downtown. Of course they're they're
based out of the Federal building down Outta Street, so
it looks like that's where they were headed.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Oga.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
I was thinking, was it just like some kind of rehearsal?
Was it might have just been a show of force
Arthur Park. I don't know if you've been there, you
got a picnic there.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Lately, I haven't gotten in the last few months, but
I'm well aware of that. Yeah, well years ago, k IF,
I used to be in that neighborhood.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
So yeah, so I'm sure you had many a sandwich
sitting on a park bench.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Now it's not as pleasant.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
No, it's a lot of open air drug use, and
there are a lot of immigrants there, and I'm sure
of varying legal statuses up and down the streets. It's
a huge population of street vendors but also drug users
in the park, and it's it's a complicated place where
you can't really enjoy the park the way that it's intended. No,
because of all of that activity.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
To people, criminals, gang members, weapons being sold, drugs being sold,
and a lot of those vendors are showing stolen merchandise.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
And and that's something else that we have heard the
federal government wants to crack down on in these immigration efforts,
is take me look at that. Even at the local level,
we're hearing, you know, we want to crack down more
on some of this retail theft and the reselling of
those materials. But whatever this was today we don't know yet. Again,
about five minutes or so one point fifteen is when
the mayor and the councilmen say they're.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Going to right, So she could beat her chest all
she wants, but ultimately Trump and Homan are going to win,
and if they want to clean up the MacArthur Park
area or anything else, they're going to and they have
all the legal force and she doesn't.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Yeah, I don't think the federal government came in to
clean up crack use in MacArthur Park, so whatever they
were doing down there is still unclear.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
I think if it's just a scare immigrants away to
get them to self deport it could be.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Yeah, you know, especially if you're a street vendor. We've
seen it in the Fashion district where there's not as
much activity at all from the business side of things
like there would have been in the spring. A lot
of stores opened, a lot of people on the street
buying the food that's there.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
On the stop.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Because you live downtown, I do. Yeah, have you seen
a change, huge change? Yeah, huge change. I mean even
on the weekend, like we just finished one. It's Saturdays
and Sundays are usually really busy in the Fashion district.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
You know a lot of that.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
A lot of the suits are being sold, flowers are
being sold, a lot of different trinkets. I mean you
can buy just about anything in Santi Alley and Los
Angeles Street or the Flower District. Anything you need a
little bit of if you're into it, especialty shops. I
can recommend a few if you if you're if you're
ever in the year, something to keep it going since
you're working seven days. Wait, a little bit, A little
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bit helps. But it's it's really died. And I just
posted online. I don't know if this is related or not.
It does look like they've had some trouble. Coals French Dip,
the famous iconic downtown La restaurant opened in nineteen oh eight.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
They're closing for good. Oh that's that's terrible.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Yeah, yeah, I mean so many places, yeah, are are
closing because of everything that's happened since.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
The area around five years.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Is in the midst of all that homelessness, drug addiction
nonsense that you see.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
I used to enjoy going to Langers, yeah, you know,
and MacArthur Park. Yeah, and the Languers owner is threatening
to close every few months.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Yeah, it's a lot to do it is. It is
really scary.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I've taken a walk from his parking lot down the
block too languers and back, and last time I went,
it's like, I'm not doing this again now I'm just
you know, if I end up being a victim of crime,
it's my fault because I should know better than it's.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Tough down there.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
But to your point about the mayor and thumping her chest,
I think what we're seeing is after a tough start
to the year for her, obviously much harder for the
people whose homes burned down, but politically speaking, a tough
year for the mayor to the start. I think she
is found in this issue, especially when you're battling the
Trump administration. He's not as popular in La and La
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County as it might be in other parts of the country.
That she's finding some ground to stand on and some
winning messages for.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
People who may have otherwise.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
So people are going to vote for her because she
fights Trump, even though she let the palisades burned down.
So she's leaning into this. That's a good right now,
that's a good trade off there, all right. I guess
eventually we'll find out and she's going to speak in a.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Few many moment.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Now we are expecting this news conference with the mayor
and councilman Hernandez, who does represent that area and is
not a big fan of lawn.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Percement at all. She's a defund the police girl.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Yeah, yeah, so she she'd like it if all the
police just resigned tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
She's a big pusher of the sanctuary city ordinance when
this thing was being pushed at the end of last year.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
You know what, they're going to end up losing on.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
There's no legal basis for the concept of sanctuary cities
or sanctuary states.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
It's not a thing according to federal law. We'll find
out because Trump has that lossit exactly. The federal government
has sued the city, the mayor and the city council
asking a court to invalidate that ordinance.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
So this is getting stupid people excited that they're standing
up the Trump. But that's not the law. Too bad.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
You know, we shall see and so it goes. Welcome home,
all right, thanks, all right, Now I'm going to go
back to wherever I was.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Well, we'll continue, well, we'll talk more about Oh, you know,
today's actually a special day in my family, which ties
into this whole immigration thing, and I want to talk
about it. Maybe you'll understand why I have the views
I have on this. That's next.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
You know, as time goes on, more dates on the
calendar have significance to them. You know, you get married,
you have kids. Suddenly you have anniversaries you have to remember,
and you have birthdays you have to remember, and this
and that, and sometimes old anniversaries.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Just fade.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
But when their date comes up, like today, I'm driving around,
I knew today was July seventh, and I'm trying to think. Now,
I know, July seventh is something. What is it? It's
kind of naggat at me all morning. It's like, July seventh,
that's something, what is actually tied to this immigration thing?
July seventh was the day that my dad came to
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America through Ellis Island. It was July seventh, nineteen fifty,
seventy five years ago today. Somewhere in my brain I
remembered today.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
That's amazing that you do remember that.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Well, it's four days after his birthday and he would
have been one hundred years old. On July third, Wow,
So that was kind of top of mind. So he
was one hundred and then by coincidence, July seventh, four
days later on the calendar in nineteen fifty he came
to this country. And yeah, I mentioned his story a
(10:48):
few times over the years, but if you don't know,
he when he was fourteen he was captured by the
Nazis fourteen eighth grade. He grew up in a little
town in Poland, one hundred people, and it was near
the German border. So in September nineteen thirty nine, when
Hitler went on his role, they came to his town
and then went door to door. Farmhouses spaced out, and
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they knocked on the door and they took him away.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
But why why did they take him away?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
They wanted.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Youthful labor, They wanted young men to do garbage work, basically,
and they took him down Schwitz. That was his first stop,
and he had a three judge panel look at his
face to decide whether he was Jewish or Catholic.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
A three judge panel.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
It was a first a two judge panel, and they
split one to one. One said he was Jewish, the
other said Catholic. And so they called a third guy
in and he voted Catholic, which he was. But that's
not the point.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
They didn't make him pull his pants down.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
You know. My wife said the same thing. I didn't
want to say it.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
She thought they were looking at his his member there,
and I said, well, had they then they wouldn't have
had to go through the vote exactly.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
So I think they were looking.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
At his face, probably his nose, because that was the stereotype, yes.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
And because it would have been Audi's. You're just blow
his pants down then, you know, right away. So he
so he won that one two to one. And really
we went to Auschwitz about ten years ago, and it
was just down a pathway. He could have gone to
the ovens and there would be no John and there
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would be no me. So they put him on a
work farm in Germany. He and other prisoners of war
slaved away on the farm. Eventually the Germans lost the
whole World War two ended and he ran off to
Holland and then to England and he worked for the
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next five years driving trucks through Europe as they reconstructed
the whole continent. He didn't go back to Poland because
by then the Russians had taken over Soviet Union and
he was writing back to his friends and nobody was
returning the letters. So he didn't know what happened to them,
never did for the rest of his life. Didn't know
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if they were if they had never made it there,
or the Russians captured him, who knows. So we worked
for the British Army driving trucks delivering supplies. And after
five years of that war was over, no need, no
need for him anymore. So it joined with a Catholic
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organization for immigration and they give a choice of three countries, Australia,
Canada and the US, and he thought Australia was too
hot and Canada was too cold, and so he came
to a marriage and shortly after that, just a few weeks,
he met my mom at a picnic at a Polish
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church in New Jersey and two years later they got married.
But it took five years from the time he arrived
legally through Ellis Island until he became a citizen, and
he had to go to class, and he had to
take English lessons, and you know, he had to pay
various fees, and it was a whole process. And I
(14:29):
found his paperwork, so I know he went through all this.
He had to get tested. They were serious about the English,
although he never did speak very well. And you know,
it's why when I hear about people trying to make
emotional cases for well, you know they're just here, it's like, yeah,
but most of them came here voluntarily.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
I understand they wanted to work, they wanted to get
a better job.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
But we can't take everybody in, and we can't take
everybody who's poor into the country.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
And my day was one of these. And certainly he
had a story.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
You know, it's hard to beat getting captured by the
Nazis when you're fourteen. He ever saw his mother again?
Oh you know, the terrible things he saw in World
War Two? I mean you know he could.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
The thing is, I was going to say, I could
go on and on, except he never did.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
He didn't talk to you about this. He must have
said something, as you do have this information.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Yes, he said some things.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Twice we taped him for about a half hour each
to talk about his experiences. My mother ended up answering
all the questions. We liquored him up. We got him
a little bit drunk to loosen him up. He was
like that whole generation. They just didn't talk about it,
never complained about it. And it's not like he had
a really easy light, a much better life here than
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in Poland. He worked in a factory for almost fifty years.
In fact, when I was a kid, more than half
my childhood he worked overnights, slept all day, slept on
the weekends too. My memory of my dad during that
period is stretched out in the lounge chair sleep snoring,
and my brother and I used to torture him and
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wake them up and record his snoring and play it
back to him. You guys are me, I know, so
you know I went He went through the whole immigrant
you know, the whole igorant immigrant rigorarole, right, and I
got it what these people are saying, but you got
to do it right, and it's.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Got to be controlled.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
And I just have no sympathy for everybody's story if
they're not willing to do at least what my dad did.
Just wait your turn, pay the fees, learn the language,
wait till there's your turn. And you know, the Catholic
organization set it up so he'd have a job here.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Never took a dollar from the government. Never.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
This organization first got him a job king apples from
the back of a from the back of a pickup
truck in upstate New York, and he didn't like that
because he was kind of afraid of heights sitting like
standing on the back of the truck. So they got
him a factory job and that became his life for
the next forty seven years until he retired. And he
didn't retired till he was seventy two. You know, he
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wasn't a lot of pain in his back was shot
and all that. But I don't he didn't tell me
a lot or give me life lectures. I just absorbed
it by watching him. That's what I thought life was
is she's just worked really hard and just try to
do the right thing. And he did the right thing.
And I have all his paperwork to prove it, because
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you know, we were doing something legally, and I found
all this stuff. And I just don't want to hear
anybody who doesn't want to do It's got a reason
people shouldn't do it. Now you don't and stop complaining.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
I did these idiot protesters, all these all these groups,
like all right, all of the protesters that showed up
to take on the National Guard today at MacArthur Park.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Michael Monks's story, It's like, who the hell are you people?
Is it Turla?
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Is it the rapid response network that best advertises for
Is it our tax money that is paid for this
rapid response network?
Speaker 1 (18:21):
So you could go and interfere with the National Guard?
Speaker 6 (18:25):
Well, what I don't understand is when these protests, these
peaceful protests, they turn not so peaceful and these people
are throwing rocks and doing whatever, starting fires. I mean,
how do do they not understand how bad that makes
them look? And why would anybody be okay with them
being here if they're doing that.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Yeah, that's not good marketing to try to kill ice
officers or LAPD officers, and we're supposed to have tolerance
for this. I'd like to drop the f bomb here.
That's my response to that. There's not going to be
any tolerance and there's not going to be any embracing here.
(19:04):
I mean, I heard today. I'll talk about this when
we come back, but today is the story about a
guy I forgot what stated was in that he was
he was found he was trying to.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
He was standing outside Federal.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Ice building Texas, Texas, Texas, and he had some big
weapon and he wanted to take out federal agents in
case you wonder why they're so heavily armed and the
National Guards backing them up, and they're wearing masks and
all the rest.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Talk about that coming up.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Okay, we're going to go now to care.
Speaker 7 (19:42):
Six month anniversary of the fires of the natural disaster,
the worst in California's recent history, and to report on
the progress. While I was on the way, though, I
got alerted that there was a ice operation military interview
who knows at MacArthur Park. I turned around, we went
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to the park. I could see a helicopter in the air.
I think it was a black Hawk helicopter, and I
saw military tanks. It was the Custom and Border Patrol,
and it might have been military on the periphery. To me,
this is another example of the administration rationing up chaos
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by deploying would look like a military operation in an
American city. So I went to MacArthur Park because it
is very important that the truth be told about what
happened there. Now you can spin it any way you like,
But in my opinion, it's a political agenda of provoking
fear and terror. Frankly, it is outrageous and unamerican that
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we have federal armed vehicles in our parks when nothing
is going on in the parks. It's outrageous and un
American that the federal government seized our state's national Guard.
It's outrageous and un American that we have US Marines
who are trained to kill foreign soldiers overseas deployed in
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our American city. So here's the truth. There's no plan
other than fear, chaos, and politics. Home depot one day,
a car wash the next, armed vehicles and what looked
like mounted military units in a park the next day.
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What happened to the criminals, the drug dealers, the violent
individuals who were in the park today were children. It
was their summer camp, their day, their summer day camp.
Those kids now have no activities this afternoon. They have
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to stay inside. They were ushered inside so that they
didn't get exposed to the troops that were walking in
formation across their playground area. We did not want the
children to be aware that it was ice.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Although I do.
Speaker 7 (22:15):
Have to tell you that I went and I spoke
to an eight year old. I never let on what
was going on upstairs. But did this eight year old
tell me that he was afraid of ice? Did the
eight year old tell me that he was afraid of
ice taking his parents and he didn't think it was
(22:36):
good to take people away? So understand that that eight
year old knows enough of what's going on that he's
already traumatized in anticipation.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
To this or just the usual rhetoric they were upstairs.
Speaker 7 (22:54):
But I think it's pretty dramatic that a.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Child enough for her, enough for her that as emotionally manipulative. No,
we didn't have the National Guard and the Ice agents
to disrupt a camp for kids. You have been a
politician in California for decades and you're a part of
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the sanctuary city, sanctuary state movement. You give sanctuary to
those criminals, and now you're shocked that the federal government's
enforcing the law trying to remove the criminals. And they
were upfront about this from day one. I had Tom
Homan on the show and he said that they are
(23:41):
going to deport anybody else that they find along the way.
The first thrust was to go after the criminals, which
they have. They've removed tens of thousands of criminals, and
they said, yeah, we're going after others as well.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
That's federal law.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
I don't know what her list of federal laws that
we should not enforce are. I'd like to hear it
outside of immigration law, what other federal laws should we
not enforce? And as far as being heavily armed, here's
why McCallen, Texas Border Patrol facility, an active shooter armed
with tactical gear and a rifle opened fire upon border
(24:22):
agents as they arrived at the facility. Agents and local
police returned fire, killed the gunmen. No federal agents hit,
but one McCallen police officer was struck. Officer in stable condition.
So that's why they're well armed. That's why they're wearing
(24:44):
the uniforms. That's why they have National Guard backup. That's
why they have the Marines backing them up. This is
why because there are crazy people trying to kill federal
law enforcement. Now, Karen Bass doesn't understand that, and Neva does.
(25:04):
Yunicis Hernandez because they stood around while this place went
to hell just a few weeks ago, when the police
chief Jim McDonald said, we were overwhelmed. Karen Bass didn't
have an answer for his own for her own police chief.
So Trump had to come in with the National Guard
(25:25):
in the Marines. Because Karen Bass never enforced the law
as mayor for two years, I don't think she helped
instigate any kind of immigration of law while she was
in Congress for ten years, she was in she was
in the legislature, she was one of the legislative leaders
for years in Sacramento. Never did anything about these problems.
(25:49):
So now it's dumped in her lap and she's.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Going to have to live.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
You know, you go twenty years not taking action on
something that is really important. Well, you don't get to
be part of the solution at the end. You don't
get to have a say, You don't have a seat
at the table, a voice in the room.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
All the cliches that she likes to use, you don't
get any of that.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
You fumbled it. You fumbled it for over twenty years.
You're in the legislature, you're a congress person, you're the mayor.
You never did anything to help. Now there's a new
regime in Washington, and you don't like it. So you're
gonna pull out year olds are afraid. Oh, sit down
and shut up. How would we go through all the
victims of all the illegal alien criminals that you did
(26:32):
nothing to round up. How many thousands of them have
been living in Los Angeles amongst us, How many crimes
have they committed? How many victims of those crimes You
didn't care, You weren't worried about the children of the
crime victims who got killed and terrorized by illegal aliens.
Enough with these emostly manipulative sob stories.
Speaker 6 (26:55):
I guess you don't want to hear from the LA
City Council president talking about MacArthur Park.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Well right now, oh all right, turn it, put them on.
It's not going to last long, but.
Speaker 8 (27:08):
Our department when something is wrong, that is the kind
of havoc that's being visited visited.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Upon our city.
Speaker 8 (27:14):
And so we're very proud of what's been done in
MacArthur Park and we're going to continue that work.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
But we need ice out of law now, not going
to have it.
Speaker 8 (27:24):
And with that, I'll ask my colleague from the first
Districts who's led, along with the mayor, the great work
at MacArthur Park. And it was on the scene very
very early from the first District Council member A and
E c cernendus.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Full blooded socialistness, lady defund the police.
Speaker 9 (27:41):
This morning we witness the latest escalation in the Trump
administrations demp depraved campaign against our city. The National Guard
descended onto MacArthur Park, bringing troops, military weapons, equipment and
armored vehicles to a community park, a community hub, a
place where families gather. This happened while summer camp was
in session at the park, playing games with their friends.
(28:04):
Young jud was subjected to having to be ushered into
the lower part of one of our buildings as terrible
was taking places as they drop out there.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
I've been to MacArthur Park many times. The place is
rife with gang members, rife with crazy homeless people. I mean,
you've got drug addicts, You've got all kinds of mental patients,
fentonal addicts, crack addicts, gang members, openly selling weapons, openly
selling drugs. That's been going on for many years. And
(28:35):
this is Hernandez and Karen Bess never cared that the
local kids were exposed to all that. In fact, a
lot of the boys ended up getting sucked into the gangs.
So they are just full of crap, absolute absolutely full
of crap, enormous hypocrites. If they've been scarred, it's because
(28:57):
of all the gang and criminal activity and homeless activity.
The stuff that the vendors sell. When I hear about
hard working immigrants, all that stuff is stolen, maybe from you.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
The thieves that.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Run around LA all the time gathering stuff, they take
it to some fencing operation in downtown LA. And then
the illegal aliens who run the vending tables selling junk
on those tables on sidewalks all around MacArthur Park, that's
all stolen. They go to the fence, they buy the
(29:32):
stuff cheap, and then they try to resell it. If
you've had stuff stolen from you, you could probably go
to MacArthur Park and buy it back for a fraction
of the price you paid for it the first time.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
So stop it.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Total phonies. Dave allowed and this is Hernandez, Marquis, Harris Dawson,
Karen Bass has allowed Los Angeles to collapse and become
a hellhole, a dirty, disgusting, crime ridden, homeless ridden hell hole.
And now they're going to rise up and be all
self righteous that because Trump is sending in the National
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Guard and the Marines and ICE.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Again. All I want to do is drop the F bomb.
That's all I have to say.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
That's all I have to say about Bass and Hernandez
and Marquise Harris Dawson. What a bunch of clowns and
phonies they created the hell their fault, one hundred percent.
They've all been in office long enough. Bass has had
this long career in office, She's done nothing but harbor criminals.
(30:40):
She and Dawson and Hernandez ought to be in jail
for harboring criminal illegal aliens. That's the way it should
work out.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Now.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
I told you because they got a story here in
the La Times about agents wearing masks, and that creates
a new level of Dane here. Right, We're going to
talk about that. Give you some more detail about the
Texas situation where ICE agents were fired on by some
lunatic will continue.
Speaker 5 (31:12):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am
six forty.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
I'm just sitting here stealing because Karen Bess just did
an appearance with a couple of other hack politicians decrying
the staging that ICE did this morning with the National
Guard in MacArthur Park. I don't know what the purpose
of the whole thing was, but they were there in
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full force, Ice, National Guard, horses, everybody all dressed up.
And now Bass and Unices Hernandez, who's this socialist idiot
of a councilwoman from MacArthur Park, and Marquise Harris Dawson,
who by the way, stood around on fire day in
the Palisades, going anything.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
I can do, anything I can do, How do you
have any help?
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Yeah, when Bass was in Africa, remember the deputy mayor
who is supposed to provide oversight over police and fire.
Deputy mayor was an administrative leave and he's now pled
guilty for calling in bomb threats. Then you had the
acting Mayor, Harris Dawson, who apparently did nothing when the
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Palisades burned except send an email saying if I can
do anything, please let me know. So you're talking about
people who are absolutely worthless, bags of bones, just nothing,
They nothing useful. And she never showed this kind of
passion when the Palisades was burning. Of course, how could she.
(32:51):
She was in Africa.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
But boy she stirred up about illegal aliens. Huh.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
But American citizens and American taxpayers using everything they own
in the Palisades.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Where was she?
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Oh yeah, knocking back cocktails with the President of God.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
She shouted out Churlot at the press conference too, Oh.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Turla, yeap Charla.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Yes, the rapid response network, they're the ones who send
out You wonder where protesters come from a short notice
like that, I mean, the news breaks that there's a
staging going on by ICE a MacArthur Park. It's like
less than a half hour. Lady, you got all these protesters.
Churla has a rapid response network. They're paid. You know what,
(33:34):
they're paid with our tax money. Churla got thirty four
million from Gavin Newsom in the legislature and Bass does
a commercial in the middle of her public addresses every
time for Churla's rapid response network.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
So our tax money.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Pays for the protesters, pays for the rioters.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
We all just witnessed these massive riots that.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
Went on for a week, and you wonder why they're
showing up with the National Guard, why they're heavily armed,
why they're on horseback, Because our tax.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Money is going.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
To these illegal immigration organizations who want to kill ICE
agents or want to inspire others to kill such as
this guy, I'm.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Gonna finally get to him. Where did the story goes?
Speaker 2 (34:39):
This guy in Texas who is shooting at ICE agents
at an ICE facility and they have to return fire
and kill one.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
That's what's going on.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
ICE agents are under attack, so of course they show up.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Dressed in armor. There's a story here about why they
wear masks.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
Of course, the La Times Jenny Jarvi, Ice agents wearing
masks adding new level of danger, new level of danger
to who because according to the National President of the
Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association, we have a lot of
agents whose faces are being put on social media platforms
(35:25):
across the country. We have politicians right now that are saying,
we will find these federal agents who have masks on,
We'll expose them. Oh yeah, Doctor Cynthia Gonzalez, the vice
mayor of kata Hey, she still has her job, right
She was encouraging gang members to come out to do
what shoot at ICE. We have a vice mayor here
(35:48):
in Los Angeles County urging gang members to come out
and take on ICE. And the LA Times is wondering,
It's like, why are the ICE agents wearing masks?
Speaker 1 (35:56):
That's very intimidating.
Speaker 5 (35:57):
How come.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
We can't know who they are because doctor Cynthia Gonzales'
friends will snap their photos, put them online and put
a bounty.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Up for them.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
That's why whatever, and you know who supports this stuff,
Karen Vass, your nieces, Hernandez, Marquise, Harris Dawson. They're working
for the enemy here. They're not working for the people,
the taxpayers of Los Angeles. They're not working for the citizens.
(36:31):
They're not working for the Americans or America. They're working
for the enemy. They have been harboring criminals, protecting criminals
for years and years.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
They do it out in the open.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
Karen Bass protects criminals as part of her daily routine.
That's why she thinks she got elected. That's why she
can be so passionate about this issue. She thinks that's
why she'll get re elected if she stands up to
protect the criminals, the criminal, illegal aliens. I haven't gotten
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to the Palisades yet. Today's the oh, Today's a six
month anniversary that bast and Newsom were celebrating successfully burning
down the Palisades. Debor Mark live in the KFI twenty
for our newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the John
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