June 13, 2025 • 39 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (06/13) - Press Conference from LAPD, LA County Sheriff & LAFD on the protests scheduled for this weekend. Lt. General Richard Newton from NewsNation on Israel attacking Iran and Iran retaliating against Israel.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can'tf I AM six forty you're listening to the John
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
We're going to go to LAPD headquarters. You have the
press conference on preparations for against pro Temple, Los.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Angeles Police Department Chief Jim McDonald, the Los Angeles Sheriff's
Department Sheriff Robert Luna. We also have with us the
Deputy Commissioner Ezri Beauchamp from the California Highway Patrol. We
have the Los Angeles Fire Department, Captain Eric Scott, and
the incident commander who's been overseeing the federal protest, Commander
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Ryan Whiteman. With that will begin with Chief McDonald, Thank
you very much.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Oh thank you Ben. Thank you all for being here today.
Speaker 5 (00:42):
The Los Angeles Police Department is fully prepared for the
planned demonstrations schedule to place take place across the city
on Saturday tomorrow. We're closely monitoring developments and deploying our
personnel and resources strategically to protect public safety while safeguarding
every individual's right to protest peacefully. Since the onset of
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the protests, we've seen fluctuations in arrest activity with Sunday
and Monday, each surpassing two hundred arrests per day. In response,
a citywide curfew from eight o'clock at night till six
in the morning was put in place starting on June
tenth and will remain in effect through the weekend. The
curfew has played a key role in helping to restore order,
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particularly by curving the criminal activity there was largely occurring
during the evening hours. The LAPD continues to operate under
a unified command with the California Highway Patrol, Los Angeles
County Sheriff's Department, and the Los Angeles City Fire Department,
as well as other public safety partners. The coordinated approach
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ensures that we're sharing intelligence, aligning resources, and responding quickly
and effectively as conditions continue to evolve.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Let me be absolutely clear on this.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
If you come to Los Angeles to exercise your rights peacefully,
we are here to protect that. But if you come
to our city with the intent to commit crimes, damage property,
or harm others, including our officers, you will be arrested.
We will not allow violence, vandalism, or threats to public
safety to undermine the rights of those who are demonstrating lawfully.
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We're asking everyone who plans to participate in Saturday's event
to do so peacefully and respectfully. Please adhere to the curfew,
follow lawful instructions, and help us to ensure that the
focus remains on the message and not on mayhem.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Now we'll invite up Sheriff Luna.
Speaker 6 (02:36):
Thank you. Thank you all for being here to cover this.
Speaker 7 (02:40):
I'm going to go over several things because I'm obviously
responsible for the entire County of Los Angeles, and there's
a lot of information, there's a lot going on, and
a lot that's going to happen. I do want to
start off by thanking all of the deputy sheriffs and
police officers that have been working aroun on the clock
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for about the last week, all the employees and their families.
There's a lot of sacrifice going on. And if I
can just take you on a little journey for a second,
when these deputy sheriff and police officers are leaving their family,
you can imagine the exchange of I'm praying for you,
I love you, Please be careful tonight because they have
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an extremely difficult job and I don't ever want us
and our community to forget that and I also want
to remind everybody that we are here to facilitate peaceful
protests and demonstrations. A lot of our efforts are not
to stop any of that activity. We are here collectively,
as Chief McDonald just talked about, is we want to
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facilitate that.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
We want that to move forward.
Speaker 7 (03:48):
It's a good cause, but we do not want violent
agitators out there destroying property or committee acts of violence
specifically against our police officers, deputy sheriffs and CHP officers.
And let me be clear, as the Chief stated as well,
that extreme violence is not going.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
To be tolerated.
Speaker 7 (04:12):
And if we're not arresting you when it's occurring, what
you're seeing, and I'm going to get a little bit
in a detailed over the last couple of days, because
that's what woke me up this morning, calls from people saying, hey,
you guys are assisting this agency or that agency. What
you're seeing out there in some of our communities is
the individuals that are being identified that have committed acts
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of violence against all of our agencies, and we're going
to come after you.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
That's going to continue.
Speaker 7 (04:43):
So if you're out there throwing rocks molotov cocktails, high
grade pyal technics and all these other weapons. You're going
to get caught and you're going to get arrested, and
it may not be right away. So I just want
to remind everybody of that our deputies have and continue
to face a dangerous situation out there, and I just
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name some of the weapons that are there. And at
least for our department, I have had ten deputies injured
and I don't want to see any more police officers
or deputy sheriffs injured or anybody else on either side
of this. We have been encountering some interesting weapons out there,
So again, please, as all of you are reporting our
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communities watching this on television, big difference between the peaceful
protesters and the individuals who are coming out with weapons
to attack our folks people on the street or do
a lot.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
Of damage to our buildings.
Speaker 7 (05:44):
And for the Sheriff's Department, we haven't been fully engaged
like our partners at LAPD, although every day changes and
we're up to about fourteen arrest Something else I want
to mention because it comes up, and that's the issue
of mutual aid. As the sheriff, I am the mutual
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aid coordinator for Los Angeles County, and we are continuously
working with our mutual aid partners. I'm in constant communication
and actually we have representatives from the California Office of
Emergency Services, who works directly for the governor, and we
are coordinating efforts. We are checking on our different agencies,
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whether it be the California High Patrol, the LAPED, and others,
about daily requirements for what's on the horizon and what
that need will be. So we are coordinating these requests,
asking for additional personnel, not always only to be deployed,
but to be staged in strategic locations around this area
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to make sure that we are going to respond when
our partners need us. And just to give you an
idea today's demonstrations, we have some that are planned in
Almani here in the city of Los Angeles. The chief
talk about that, the city of Cerritos and the City
of Industry and others that may pop up as the
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day goes on. And it's not lost on us that
we are all also monitoring the overseas activities regarding Israel
and Iran that impacts us. That alone, without everything else
going on, would have kept us busy. We are making
sure that we are working with our community partners and
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collaborating with them, and we will be providing more vigilance
or patrols to or many of our religious institutions or
other facilities as we communicate with our partners in both communities,
because they're concerned.
Speaker 6 (07:45):
There's a lot of anxiety there for this weekend.
Speaker 7 (07:49):
At this time, I am aware of at least forty
different events here in Los Angeles County regarding the No
King's Day event, and to be more specific, I fix
forty events, but thirty of them are associated with the
No Kings event. We also have several other large scale
events planned for the weekend here in the County of
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Los Angeles. We have Mexico against the Dominican Republic at
Sofi Stadium Saturday night at seven pm, and then Paris
versus Madrid in a soccer game as well at the
Rose Bowl Sunday at noon. So just to let you know,
we at the Sheriff's Department, like my partners, wor at
about one hundred and seventy percent over what we normally
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staff for a weekend, just to be prepared for everything
that we're talking about.
Speaker 6 (08:39):
And I also want to mention the.
Speaker 7 (08:41):
Ongoing communication that is going on with all Ala County chiefs,
so every agency in La County is fully aware of
what's happening. I've been in communication with state sheriffs here
in California, national law enforcement, or major city chiefs across
the country because everyone's interested in what we're doing, what's working,
and so on and so forth. So the Chief and
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I have been very engaged there. LA County Department Heads,
the Board of Supervisors, and contract cities. Not to mention
the National Guard, California Highway Patrol, and as I mentioned earlier,
cal oh Yes, So with that, I will turn it
over to our partner at CHP, who's gonna give you
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a briefing on his account.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Thank you, Deputy Commissioner Bosham Lee.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
Very much appreciate it. Good afternoon everyone.
Speaker 8 (09:32):
Currently, the California Highway Patrol is tracking over two hundred
protests that are scheduled throughout the state of California tomorrow.
For this reason, we have activated eight of our Special
Response Teams, which are specially trained officers, and they will
all be activated working throughout the state of California tomorrow.
Here in La County, we are on tactical alert, and
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for us, what that means is all days off are
canceled for all CHP on officers so that we can
provide the highest level of safety and service to everyone
here in Los Angeles County and so that we're ready
to stand with our law enforcement partners tomorrow and ensuring
a safe events take place here in Los Angeles County.
We are also going to be on active patrol throughout
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the entire state of California with all our CHP officers
looking for areas of concern and ensuring that everyone remains
safe during this time. Additionally, our officers are going to
be dedicated and focused on ensuring the safety and those
that visit state infrastructure, the state capital, and wherever they
may be throughout the state of California. We'll also have
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our CHP aircraft up ensuring the safety of demonstrations and
also for the safety of all law enforcement personnel. We're
actively even at this moment, coordinating with our law enforcement
partners here in Los Angeles County, but also throughout the
state of California and additionally with California Office of Emergency Services.
We stand ready and to assist any and all people
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who want to actively engage in their First Amendment rights,
and we fully support those and believe in those. However,
those that choose to obstruct movement, violate the law, vandalize property,
we will respond swiftly and we will take decisive action
to enforce the law.
Speaker 6 (11:19):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
At this time, we'll go ahead and we're going to
open it up for questions. Director Forcish, We'll go ahead
and let you know when you're up.
Speaker 9 (11:32):
Let's cheek McDonald.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
Cording to the department's.
Speaker 10 (11:35):
Own guidelines for what do you know later launchers where
you're supposed to use in a narrow set of circumstances
gain protests and social media spuild and videos of officers
targeting and protesters who aren't visibly with distance some conject closer. Ange.
You wanted to ask you policy violations and where are
you going to ensure that the department is ignoring lessons
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learned from you, George Floyd.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
That go apart from the night Hope, No, thank you
for the question.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
We're looking very closely at everything that's going on out there.
We try and capture any video that's available, anything that
certainly is of concern to the public. Those are investigated thoroughly,
and we'll put together a full investigative package on those
as what we have, we look at the bigger picture
as well as well as addressing individual cases. We'll look
and see are their training issues, are their tactics? Are
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there less lethal issues that need to be addressed. So
it'll be a comprehensive review when this is all done.
Right now, during the middle of it, we capture all
of the data that we can that we'll be able
to help us figure what's.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Going on down the road.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
But right now we're in the middle of this and
to be able to talk about any specific case wouldn't
be appropriate.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
Thanks, I'm sorry.
Speaker 6 (12:54):
Taching outside of the.
Speaker 9 (12:55):
Better ability to be Wood talk about.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
The importanges local and federal law enforcement acality area.
Speaker 7 (13:03):
Is there any kind of.
Speaker 8 (13:04):
Coordination happing machine our local enforcement and the federal.
Speaker 11 (13:09):
Authority bank called the here.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Thank you for the question.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
Question was is there any coordination between federal authorities and
local authorities in the area, particularly as it relates to
deployment of marines at the Westwood Federal Facility. I wouldn't
call it coordination. We know where they are, we know
that they are doing their mission, which is as as
we're told to support federal support and protect federal employees,
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functions and facilities. And so the Marines working together with
the Army National Guard are in the same configuration and
their mission is the same, but their mission is not
to work with us on the streets to maintain order,
restore order and keep everybody safe.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
I found out that they are at.
Speaker 9 (14:00):
Do show it since for the way you look see
chot of flameland and there's buntal.
Speaker 7 (14:04):
Is even when they're as using.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
A horse of temple of project right down, I you
got you gotta speak up like.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Uh deep time using a horse to trans to trample
a protest.
Speaker 7 (14:16):
Around the ground, using the times when productor they're not
resisting and think you're all.
Speaker 10 (14:20):
Actions in there and against lap bidus uh protest reson
alty step on ahead is.
Speaker 7 (14:25):
Forty elior punical and suits by agents.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Is by agency riding tepulating with any of the head
So what does la.
Speaker 10 (14:30):
Plase say the allegations using I accept that torkings protestors
and is any investigation being planned they used to porces
league of the products and.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
How is that we should be collected on my insubs say?
Speaker 4 (14:40):
The last part be collected on this US. Of course,
you mentioned that you're looking at closely.
Speaker 9 (14:44):
How specifically are you.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
Yeah, each case that we become aware of, UH officers
are required UH notify a supervisor. The supervisor then conducts
a non scene investigation where circumstances allow, if not directly.
After that, we capture what we can as far as
body worn cameras, as far as cameras in the environment
that they're in. You talk about that incident, that incident
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with the horse, The horse didn't trample the person, they
were walking around it from what we can determine with
other video that we've seen. However, that's not a completed investigation.
As far as the deployment of forty millimeters, Yeah, we
don't aim.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
At the head.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
They're target specific and you know, we do the best
we can under very difficult circumstances, hold our people to
a very high level of accountability. But it's a very chaotic,
dynamic situation out there. There will there be lessons learned, certainly,
you know, we will do a thorough investigation on each
case like that that we've become aware of to become
better each day.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
The number of cases, in the number of cases of
the people drown this.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
I would say there's probably in excessive ten that we're
looking at currently.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
I don't know that exactly.
Speaker 9 (15:58):
Yeah, tells how many.
Speaker 6 (16:02):
Or if the National guardn rates.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
Have been involved in the detentions or arrested their officers?
And is there anything you can tell us about about
ninety minutes or with all Marines and gains someone that
foolish sharp, is there anything to tell the way? Yeah,
I don't know about that. You're describing ninety minutes ago.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
Generally, their their ability to detain, as I understand it
is to only detained very briefly in the immediacy.
Speaker 11 (16:25):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
And then federal agents who are working with them would
do the detention, arrest if appropriate, or you know, any
any other you know, less lethal use of for us
or whatever it is they're going to be dealing with.
The agents, I believe are the primary folks out there
doing the enforcement action, and the the Army, National Guard
and the Marines are there in support to protect them.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
And doing that.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
They haven't been involved with any No, they haven't to
my knowledge at all, and that's not part of their
role or our role to do that with them safe.
Speaker 8 (17:00):
Possibly if you have numbers how many people you're expecting
in the city San Gren Park and also attempt from
Scott with a lot.
Speaker 7 (17:08):
Of people going around.
Speaker 9 (17:10):
Getting ready for them in case there are medical emergencies.
What's the partner being able to do this?
Speaker 4 (17:15):
Mstal terms for that, Yeah, thank you for that. That's great.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
As far as numbers, it would be really speculative for
me to come out and say what we're expecting or not.
I think a lot of that will depend on social
media activity promoting the event that has been very high
up to this point.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
We expect crowds that maybe are unprecedented.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
We are deployed accordingly with all of the resources that
we have to be able to ensure everybody is safe
and coming out and expressing their views. So I feel
comfortable in that we have our full deployment, and then
we have strong deployment from all of our partner agencies
as well as far as the medical piece of that,
if I could, I'll turn it over to our fire
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department expert on the medical response.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Your fire department is remaining to lean in times like this.
Speaker 9 (18:01):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
So we're going to cut in here. That was Jim McDonald,
the Los Angeles Police Chief, along with Robert Luna, los
Angeles County Sheriff, and they are expecting a lot of
partying tomorrow. There's going to be at least thirty no
Kings protests around the county that they're aware of, and
ten other events total of forty events. And this is
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what I was telling you before the start of this
press conference, is that there are hundreds of nonprofit groups
who are worth to combine billions of dollars and they
are financing these protests around the country against Donald Trump's existence.
But I was just checking. I have to remind myself
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because you know, you live in Los Angeles, and especially
with all the progressive media we have. Trump actually got
seventy seven million votes around the country and he won
thirty one out of the fifty states. So what you're
going to be seeing tomorrow is a subset of a
subset of people who preferred Kamala Harris to be president.
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So you think about their judgment there, and they've been
recently angered because the law is being enforced. And this
is fascinating to me. And if I could talk to
each one of these people separately. It's like, I understand
you're not happy that illegal alien criminals are being arrested,
maybe or just any illegal aliens in general. Can you
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tell me what list of what other laws should not
be enforced? Part of me? Really, I'm not being naive.
I'm really flabbergasted by this. There are a lot of
laws I disagree with. I disagree with. You know, the
carpool the carpool lane. Thank you the carpool lane.
Speaker 6 (19:58):
You break that law.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
I'd break that law and I take my risks. But
if I got pulled over and fined, I'm not going
to start a protest movement start throwing cinder blocks.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
You would say, do you know who I am? And
try and get out of it.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Do you know who my newswoman is? That's what I
would say. No, I mean, I mean, seriously, every we
will got laws that we don't. There's a lot of
people who don't like the drug laws, right uh, and
and they'd want to be left alone to get themselves
stoned or high or fried or whatever. It is all right,
so we all, we all have our pet peeves who
are off our lists. But in the end, because it's
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it's the same people who say, you know, democracy is
at stake. The democracy has decided that illegal immigration needs
to be stopped. The democracy chose Trump with seventy seven
million votes and thirty one states backed them up.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
So that's it.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
It's over. And if this is the secret when he
was running, it's the first thing he talked about when
he came down the escalator. You know, he came down
the escalator of ten years ago this weekend, I think
I think it was June fifteenth of twenty fifteen. So
it's been ten full years of Trump railing about illegal immigration,
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and he did some some work in the first term,
but this time he's gone for it, and he was
supported by much of the public. It was an eighty
twenty issue during the campaign. I told you the day
before the election. Ipsos and Axios the political website. Ipsos
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is a polling company, and they did a poll and
do you think legal aliens ought to be deported? It
was a simple like question. Sixty six percent supported it. Now,
obviously there's a lot of nuances and some people think that,
you know, farm workers ought to be exempted, let's say,
and you could have legitimate conversation about that, but primarily
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primarily they've been going after criminals, and I have not
heard Karen Bass or Gavin Newsom to come out and say,
you know what, I'd like to thank Donald Trump and
Homeland Security and ICE for clearing out all these violent
criminals that they've arrested. They don't say that at all
because they don't care. If they cared, they would not
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have given these criminals sanctuary. I want these guys gone
deported in prison period. They're violent criminals, convicted, and I'm
living in the state where the governor wants to protect them.
I'm living in the city where the mayor wants to
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protect them. And I'm supposed to get upset that Trump
is bringing in the National Guard and the Marines. Good
he got up bringing the Navy in the Air Force too.
I mean, what does it take. It's the law. You
don't like the law, why don't you go to the
democratic method, get your candidates elected and have them make
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illegal immigration legal. I mean, Biden was in there for
four years, right, and for two of those years he
had a Democratic Congress, Democratic House and Senate. They didn't
make illegal immigration legal. They just allowed illegal immigration. They
didn't change any laws, did they. So what are you
talking about. What are you talking about? Who have democracy yet? Democracy?
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Your representatives never changed the law. That's what you do.
So this is the law. So there's gonna be a
lot of performance art tomorrow out in the streets, and
you know what, there's probably gonna be county counter protests
and there's probably going to be anti Israel protests too.
That's a big wildcard out there, So enjoy your weekend.
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I see that the Marines have arrived at the Federal
Building in Westwood to oversee I guess this weekend's festivities. Also,
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the big news of the day is Israel firing lots
of missiles on Iran and Iran firing back. And we're
going to now talk to Lieutenant General Richard Newton. He's
the senior national security contributor to News Nation, whose News
Nation was one of the up and coming cable TV
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networks that you should be watching. And let's get lieutenantjournal
Richard Newton on to talk about what is going on
between Israel and Iran. Welcome, how are you.
Speaker 11 (25:00):
Sir, Hey John, Good afternoon. It's great to be with you.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Yeah, it's good. Good to have you on here. Iran
has been threatening Israel with nuclear weapons for a long time.
They haven't quite reached the point where they can make one.
Why did Israel decide last night to finally try to
destroy as much of their capability as possible.
Speaker 11 (25:24):
Well, one of the challenges is the Iran is close
supposedly within days of being able to have enough honey
enrich uranium to make for military grade uranium for a
nuclear weapon. That's verified by also the International Atomic Energy Agency,
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and they have called out Iran having breaking out of
their non proliferation treaty responsibilities and are really in hot
pursuit at this moment to have a nuclear weapon. And
therefore Israel, led by primary Yah who acted. He also
made a public statement based on his intelligence and third
party intelligence.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
That.
Speaker 11 (26:08):
Iran may have up to abilities to build up to
nine atomic weapons or nine atomic bombs essentially, as he stated,
are nuclear weapons. So that's significant, So I think intelligence
points to that as well as I think the timing
now whereby Israel is again, as you mentioned, John, in
the crosshairs, this time much closer to nuclear weapons.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
They destroyed the naton's uranium and Richmond facility that was
the largest one in Iran. Does Ron have other facilities
that could produce these weapons?
Speaker 11 (26:42):
They do, John, in fact they did well. You know,
the United States is verifying through battle damage assessment that
there was again with the naton's extremely effective strike last night.
Natons is where those deeply buried nuclear weapons development sites
are located, and that's where the centrifugions are and so forth.
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They're down to as deep as two hundred feet with
three foot walls thick siding to the nuclear weapons developed
facility in the times, But there are others, as you
lose your question, there are several other sites actually in
and around the depth and breadth of Iran. So you'll see,
I think in the coming hours, if not days, Israel
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will attempt also to significantly degrade these nuclear weapon sites
in and around the entire nation of Iran.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Do they have the bombs that could cause damage two
hundred feet deep inside a mountain.
Speaker 11 (27:41):
Israel does not to be able to go in what
we call deeply buried targets. By the way, I'm a
B two cell PHID. I was the commander of the
first B two squadron. The only weapon system that really
is effective enough to carry what we call the GBU
fifty seven, which is a thirty thousand pounds massive ordnance bomb.
Who carries two of those? Those are really the best
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weapons system and the most affective weapons system against the
deeply bury targets that we were just discussing. But Israel
does have capabilities, especially with your fifteen strike Eagles with
two thousand pounders with precision can do significant damage along
with that thirty five attack aircraft as well, whether or
not be able to go as deep to the two
hundred feet or not, but nonetheless they can still do
a lot of damage penitons and other nuclear weapons facilities.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
What kind of help are we providing the US?
Speaker 11 (28:30):
What we're providing right now is in response Earlier today,
Iran employed hundreds of ballistic missiles and drones, and we've
been able to provide much like we did back in
April of last year. In John also on October first
when Israel had the largest then the largest Midiast ever
in the Mid East blistic missile attack against Israel. We're
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providing a wide variety of capabilities for Israel to defend itself,
to include We've got two our Work class destroyers in
the region that have been involved in defending Israel against
these missile attacks with their age's weapons systems. We also
have with another system that it's called the terminal high
altitude every defense system that has been in place in
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Israel quite a while, and that's the one that provides
for intercept from the ground ballistic missiles and what we
call our terminal or their last phase of flight. We've
also provided them. We have air force aircraft as well
as I presume some coalition aircraft to again help protect
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the skies of Israel, especially against drones. We saw that
again play out in October twenty sixth. I think we
saw we were going to see it here play out
if it hadn't already happened now.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Iron launched over one hundred missiles earlier today a couple
of rounds of missiles, most of them were intercepted, a
few of them got through. There are some image but
considering how many missiles they unleashed, not a whole lot.
Does Iran have the capability to keep firing missiles indefinitely
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at Israel considering that most of them get blown up
in the air.
Speaker 11 (30:14):
Yeah, it's a great question. Just back to your commentary
about what effects they had in the recent strike the
last several hours. My sources tell me they're actually seventeen
people on the ground in Israel are actually wounded by these,
mainly by shrapnel. John. Yeah, But the point is is
that when Israel went in and structs Iran back on
(30:35):
October twenty six, they also took out a significant part
of their blistic missile production capability as well as their
operational ballistic missiles. But nonetheless, Iran still has a capabilities.
We saw just a couple hours or so ago of
lodging ballistic missile strikes against Israel, as well as seeing
(30:55):
the number of drones as well. But the point of
your question is that some point, though, I think it's
going to go from being you know, fairly effective or operational,
least in terms of the threat of ballistic missiles, to
a much more limited aspect of what they can do,
because they are they're going to essentially, for lack of
better termology, though, they'll run out of bullets. And I
(31:16):
believe what you're gonna see this is far from over.
Iss going to strike Iran again, go to those nuclear weaponsites, yes,
but also to continue to go off through ballistic missile production.
And they're blistic missiles that are in the field.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Anybody gonna help Iron out in another country.
Speaker 11 (31:32):
They're as isolated as I've ever seen them, certainly in
my career and twelve years hence when I transition from
Air Force back in twenty twelve, they're very isolated. And frankly,
Israel certainly has been under threat of Iran, but also
other of our Golf Arab partners, our allies in friends,
Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Oman, Qatar and so forth are are
(31:59):
essentially feel threatened by Iran and see Iran as an adversary.
So you may get some rhetoric that against Israel from
those allies of the United States, those goldf Air bollies,
but I guarantee you and their capitals they're pleased that
Israel is striking Iran, a though they won't say so publicly,
because that also helps protect their nation states. Because they're
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under threat from Iran as well.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
One more thing, I see that the twenty senior Iranian
commanders were killed. Six nuclear scientists also killed as well.
What does that do to Iran? Iran's practical capabilities to
lose that many leaders and that many scientists that quickly.
Speaker 11 (32:45):
It is a significant impact on those And just to
name them out, the commander of the Iranian revolution at
Guard Corps was taken out last night. The chief of staff,
the military chief of staff of the Iranian military was
taken out. That's like taking out our chairman of the
Joint chiefs of Staff. Also, Israel took out a significant
portion of the air force. Running air force leaderships include
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their chief of staff as well as the chief of
the drone forces. And so without these key leaders uh,
in order to maintain command and control and to effectively
put running forces uh, you know into operational play is
going to becoming more and more difficult as the senior
leaders are are taken off the board. The other aspect
of this is those there were six as by my account, uh,
(33:30):
senior nuclear uh you know, weapons experts or technicians were
taken out as well. That'll put quite a dent into
the UH aspect of the nuclear weapons production out of
out of Iran. So UH final point is it's not
only taking out weapons systems, but taking out the leadership.
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UH is going to have a long term impact against Iran.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Thank you for coming on with us.
Speaker 11 (33:57):
Delighted, John Hope we get to do it again. My
best to you.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Yeah, thank you. Retired Lieutenant General Richard Newton, who is
the senior National security contributor to News Nation, the cable
TV network that you should be watching. I watch it.
It's good stuff there. We've got a lot more. Carl
Demyo comes on with the latest Sacramento outrage right after
three o'clock, two runs of the Moist Line, and a
(34:21):
hacking a dumpster.
Speaker 9 (34:22):
Next hour, you're listening to John Cobels on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
We're on from one until four, and then after four
o'clock John Cobelt's show on demand on the iHeart app.
We're going to have Carl Demayo on in minutes. Right
after Deborah's news. He found a Democratic budget plan that
cuts eleven billion dollars in healthcare coverage to American citizens
in California and provides twelve billion dollars in free healthcare
(34:51):
for illegal aliens. We'll talk to him about that coming up.
And I, Debra and I were talking about all the
protests this weekend and no Immigration protest. But these these
No Kings protests, they're supposed to be at least thirty
of them in LA County. In fact, they're they're worried
about it. There was a news conference we carried less
(35:12):
than an hour ago with Jim McDonald, the LA Police Chief,
and Robert Luna, the LA County sheriff. And now I'm
seeing the world and this is what I was thinking.
The Wall Street Journal says that online far right groups
are buzzing with violent talk and how to respond to
the No Kings protest. This is great. Shoot a couple,
(35:33):
the rest will go home. Set a meme circulating on
the telegram channels of groups connected to the Proud Boys.
You just have to impale a few of them. Another
local chapter posted, and another one posted an online gun
tutorial illustrating optimal shooting techniques with the caption riot season. Again,
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there's going to be there's going to be No Kings
protests in more than two thousand cities, so they claim.
And Trump is going to have his military parade going
in Washington, d C. To celebrate the two hundred and
fiftieth anniversary of the Army. It's also his birthday. So
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the only place that the No Kings protests will not
take place is Washington. They're not going to take take
on the I guess the army rolling down the street
because they're going They're gonna have their tanks and their howitzers.
Wall Street Journal reviewed dozens of far right social media
(36:41):
accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers, including ex Truth
Social Telegram, and there's a lot of encouragement to respond
to the No Kings rallies with violence. They're sharing detailed
locations of the No Kings protests and sharing identifying information
(37:01):
about the organizers, including the names, the images, and where
they work. And they show leaders of Chicago and LA
far right groups attending anti ice protests in those cities.
It seems they're capitalizing on the emotions and the destructive
protests in LA over the illegal alien situation. So you
(37:32):
might want to pack. I don't know where to go though.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
If there's two going to say, where are you going?
Speaker 1 (37:37):
I don't know you got room in your bunker? You know,
I haven't been down in the bunker for a while.
You might need to check on it. And one of
the motivations was rioting. I remember I went, I went
through all the possibilities with my wife. One of them
was a nuclear missile and you know, we could have
those flying through the air pretty soon. We've got the riots.
(37:58):
Always earthquakes. I'm absolutely certain earthquake's gonna happen because I
can't will an earthquake.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
Well you actually will, Yeah that that is true.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
But you you you might be able to know.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
I'm willing there not to be an earthquake.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
But I know, but you send out those vibes.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
I send anti earthquake vibes out there every night.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
So I mean the bunker has you know, multiple there's
multiple motivations to have a bunker. And uh, I've got
to say I still have. I do have tubs of
food that last for twenty five years, and I'm sure
that's tasty. I've been sitting down there for about three years.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
Well, you know, if it's an emergency, you gotta do
what you gotta do, right, Yeah, I'd starve to death. No,
I think this is Uh, there's some vegan stuff in
this well, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
It all looks like. Actually got to open up a
tub and see exactly what it looks like. Yeah, I'm
sure it's like wine and ages with time.
Speaker 12 (38:55):
Yeah, imagine what it's made of to be able to
like st twenty all the preservatives. Oh goshy, all right,
we come back, Carl Demyo. Is it true that the
California Democratic budget is cutting eleven billion dollars in healthcare
coverage to US citizens while providing twelve billion dollars in
(39:16):
free healthcare for illegal aliens? And you wonder why people
are in the streets protesting.
Speaker 11 (39:21):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (39:23):
I come, nobody, I come, nobody's protesting about that stuff.
They're protesting that illegal aliens are being rounded up, but
they're not protesting about billions of dollars of your tax
money going to give them free healthcare. You don't have
free healthcare. Deborah Mark, Live in the KFI twenty four
hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the John Covelt
(39:44):
Show podcast. You can always hear the show live on
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
We're going to go to LAPD headquarters. You have the
press conference on preparations for against pro Temple, Los.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Angeles Police Department Chief Jim McDonald, the Los Angeles Sheriff's
Department Sheriff Robert Luna. We also have with us the
Deputy Commissioner Ezri Beauchamp from the California Highway Patrol. We
have the Los Angeles Fire Department, Captain Eric Scott, and
the incident commander who's been overseeing the federal protest, Commander
(00:35):
Ryan Whiteman. With that will begin with Chief McDonald, Thank
you very much.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Oh thank you Ben. Thank you all for being here today.
Speaker 5 (00:42):
The Los Angeles Police Department is fully prepared for the
planned demonstrations schedule to place take place across the city
on Saturday tomorrow. We're closely monitoring developments and deploying our
personnel and resources strategically to protect public safety while safeguarding
every individual's right to protest peacefully. Since the onset of
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the protests, we've seen fluctuations in arrest activity with Sunday
and Monday, each surpassing two hundred arrests per day. In response,
a citywide curfew from eight o'clock at night till six
in the morning was put in place starting on June
tenth and will remain in effect through the weekend. The
curfew has played a key role in helping to restore order,
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particularly by curving the criminal activity there was largely occurring
during the evening hours. The LAPD continues to operate under
a unified command with the California Highway Patrol, Los Angeles
County Sheriff's Department, and the Los Angeles City Fire Department,
as well as other public safety partners. The coordinated approach
(01:43):
ensures that we're sharing intelligence, aligning resources, and responding quickly
and effectively as conditions continue to evolve.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Let me be absolutely clear on this.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
If you come to Los Angeles to exercise your rights peacefully,
we are here to protect that. But if you come
to our city with the intent to commit crimes, damage property,
or harm others, including our officers, you will be arrested.
We will not allow violence, vandalism, or threats to public
safety to undermine the rights of those who are demonstrating lawfully.
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We're asking everyone who plans to participate in Saturday's event
to do so peacefully and respectfully. Please adhere to the curfew,
follow lawful instructions, and help us to ensure that the
focus remains on the message and not on mayhem.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Now we'll invite up Sheriff Luna.
Speaker 6 (02:36):
Thank you. Thank you all for being here to cover this.
Speaker 7 (02:40):
I'm going to go over several things because I'm obviously
responsible for the entire County of Los Angeles, and there's
a lot of information, there's a lot going on, and
a lot that's going to happen. I do want to
start off by thanking all of the deputy sheriffs and
police officers that have been working aroun on the clock
(03:01):
for about the last week, all the employees and their families.
There's a lot of sacrifice going on. And if I
can just take you on a little journey for a second,
when these deputy sheriff and police officers are leaving their family,
you can imagine the exchange of I'm praying for you,
I love you, Please be careful tonight because they have
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an extremely difficult job and I don't ever want us
and our community to forget that and I also want
to remind everybody that we are here to facilitate peaceful
protests and demonstrations. A lot of our efforts are not
to stop any of that activity. We are here collectively,
as Chief McDonald just talked about, is we want to
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facilitate that.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
We want that to move forward.
Speaker 7 (03:48):
It's a good cause, but we do not want violent
agitators out there destroying property or committee acts of violence
specifically against our police officers, deputy sheriffs and CHP officers.
And let me be clear, as the Chief stated as well,
that extreme violence is not going.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
To be tolerated.
Speaker 7 (04:12):
And if we're not arresting you when it's occurring, what
you're seeing, and I'm going to get a little bit
in a detailed over the last couple of days, because
that's what woke me up this morning, calls from people saying, hey,
you guys are assisting this agency or that agency. What
you're seeing out there in some of our communities is
the individuals that are being identified that have committed acts
(04:36):
of violence against all of our agencies, and we're going
to come after you.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
That's going to continue.
Speaker 7 (04:43):
So if you're out there throwing rocks molotov cocktails, high
grade pyal technics and all these other weapons. You're going
to get caught and you're going to get arrested, and
it may not be right away. So I just want
to remind everybody of that our deputies have and continue
to face a dangerous situation out there, and I just
(05:04):
name some of the weapons that are there. And at
least for our department, I have had ten deputies injured
and I don't want to see any more police officers
or deputy sheriffs injured or anybody else on either side
of this. We have been encountering some interesting weapons out there,
So again, please, as all of you are reporting our
(05:27):
communities watching this on television, big difference between the peaceful
protesters and the individuals who are coming out with weapons
to attack our folks people on the street or do
a lot.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
Of damage to our buildings.
Speaker 7 (05:44):
And for the Sheriff's Department, we haven't been fully engaged
like our partners at LAPD, although every day changes and
we're up to about fourteen arrest Something else I want
to mention because it comes up, and that's the issue
of mutual aid. As the sheriff, I am the mutual
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aid coordinator for Los Angeles County, and we are continuously
working with our mutual aid partners. I'm in constant communication
and actually we have representatives from the California Office of
Emergency Services, who works directly for the governor, and we
are coordinating efforts. We are checking on our different agencies,
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whether it be the California High Patrol, the LAPED, and others,
about daily requirements for what's on the horizon and what
that need will be. So we are coordinating these requests,
asking for additional personnel, not always only to be deployed,
but to be staged in strategic locations around this area
(06:46):
to make sure that we are going to respond when
our partners need us. And just to give you an
idea today's demonstrations, we have some that are planned in
Almani here in the city of Los Angeles. The chief
talk about that, the city of Cerritos and the City
of Industry and others that may pop up as the
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day goes on. And it's not lost on us that
we are all also monitoring the overseas activities regarding Israel
and Iran that impacts us. That alone, without everything else
going on, would have kept us busy. We are making
sure that we are working with our community partners and
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collaborating with them, and we will be providing more vigilance
or patrols to or many of our religious institutions or
other facilities as we communicate with our partners in both communities,
because they're concerned.
Speaker 6 (07:45):
There's a lot of anxiety there for this weekend.
Speaker 7 (07:49):
At this time, I am aware of at least forty
different events here in Los Angeles County regarding the No
King's Day event, and to be more specific, I fix
forty events, but thirty of them are associated with the
No Kings event. We also have several other large scale
events planned for the weekend here in the County of
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Los Angeles. We have Mexico against the Dominican Republic at
Sofi Stadium Saturday night at seven pm, and then Paris
versus Madrid in a soccer game as well at the
Rose Bowl Sunday at noon. So just to let you know,
we at the Sheriff's Department, like my partners, wor at
about one hundred and seventy percent over what we normally
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staff for a weekend, just to be prepared for everything
that we're talking about.
Speaker 6 (08:39):
And I also want to mention the.
Speaker 7 (08:41):
Ongoing communication that is going on with all Ala County chiefs,
so every agency in La County is fully aware of
what's happening. I've been in communication with state sheriffs here
in California, national law enforcement, or major city chiefs across
the country because everyone's interested in what we're doing, what's working,
and so on and so forth. So the Chief and
(09:03):
I have been very engaged there. LA County Department Heads,
the Board of Supervisors, and contract cities. Not to mention
the National Guard, California Highway Patrol, and as I mentioned earlier,
cal oh Yes, So with that, I will turn it
over to our partner at CHP, who's gonna give you
(09:24):
a briefing on his account.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Thank you, Deputy Commissioner Bosham Lee.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
Very much appreciate it. Good afternoon everyone.
Speaker 8 (09:32):
Currently, the California Highway Patrol is tracking over two hundred
protests that are scheduled throughout the state of California tomorrow.
For this reason, we have activated eight of our Special
Response Teams, which are specially trained officers, and they will
all be activated working throughout the state of California tomorrow.
Here in La County, we are on tactical alert, and
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for us, what that means is all days off are
canceled for all CHP on officers so that we can
provide the highest level of safety and service to everyone
here in Los Angeles County and so that we're ready
to stand with our law enforcement partners tomorrow and ensuring
a safe events take place here in Los Angeles County.
We are also going to be on active patrol throughout
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the entire state of California with all our CHP officers
looking for areas of concern and ensuring that everyone remains
safe during this time. Additionally, our officers are going to
be dedicated and focused on ensuring the safety and those
that visit state infrastructure, the state capital, and wherever they
may be throughout the state of California. We'll also have
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our CHP aircraft up ensuring the safety of demonstrations and
also for the safety of all law enforcement personnel. We're
actively even at this moment, coordinating with our law enforcement
partners here in Los Angeles County, but also throughout the
state of California and additionally with California Office of Emergency Services.
We stand ready and to assist any and all people
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who want to actively engage in their First Amendment rights,
and we fully support those and believe in those. However,
those that choose to obstruct movement, violate the law, vandalize property,
we will respond swiftly and we will take decisive action
to enforce the law.
Speaker 6 (11:19):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
At this time, we'll go ahead and we're going to
open it up for questions. Director Forcish, We'll go ahead
and let you know when you're up.
Speaker 9 (11:32):
Let's cheek McDonald.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
Cording to the department's.
Speaker 10 (11:35):
Own guidelines for what do you know later launchers where
you're supposed to use in a narrow set of circumstances
gain protests and social media spuild and videos of officers
targeting and protesters who aren't visibly with distance some conject closer. Ange.
You wanted to ask you policy violations and where are
you going to ensure that the department is ignoring lessons
(11:59):
learned from you, George Floyd.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
That go apart from the night Hope, No, thank you
for the question.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
We're looking very closely at everything that's going on out there.
We try and capture any video that's available, anything that
certainly is of concern to the public. Those are investigated thoroughly,
and we'll put together a full investigative package on those
as what we have, we look at the bigger picture
as well as well as addressing individual cases. We'll look
and see are their training issues, are their tactics? Are
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there less lethal issues that need to be addressed. So
it'll be a comprehensive review when this is all done.
Right now, during the middle of it, we capture all
of the data that we can that we'll be able
to help us figure what's.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Going on down the road.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
But right now we're in the middle of this and
to be able to talk about any specific case wouldn't
be appropriate.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
Thanks, I'm sorry.
Speaker 6 (12:54):
Taching outside of the.
Speaker 9 (12:55):
Better ability to be Wood talk about.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
The importanges local and federal law enforcement acality area.
Speaker 7 (13:03):
Is there any kind of.
Speaker 8 (13:04):
Coordination happing machine our local enforcement and the federal.
Speaker 11 (13:09):
Authority bank called the here.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Thank you for the question.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
Question was is there any coordination between federal authorities and
local authorities in the area, particularly as it relates to
deployment of marines at the Westwood Federal Facility. I wouldn't
call it coordination. We know where they are, we know
that they are doing their mission, which is as as
we're told to support federal support and protect federal employees,
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functions and facilities. And so the Marines working together with
the Army National Guard are in the same configuration and
their mission is the same, but their mission is not
to work with us on the streets to maintain order,
restore order and keep everybody safe.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
I found out that they are at.
Speaker 9 (14:00):
Do show it since for the way you look see
chot of flameland and there's buntal.
Speaker 7 (14:04):
Is even when they're as using.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
A horse of temple of project right down, I you
got you gotta speak up like.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Uh deep time using a horse to trans to trample
a protest.
Speaker 7 (14:16):
Around the ground, using the times when productor they're not
resisting and think you're all.
Speaker 10 (14:20):
Actions in there and against lap bidus uh protest reson
alty step on ahead is.
Speaker 7 (14:25):
Forty elior punical and suits by agents.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Is by agency riding tepulating with any of the head
So what does la.
Speaker 10 (14:30):
Plase say the allegations using I accept that torkings protestors
and is any investigation being planned they used to porces
league of the products and.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
How is that we should be collected on my insubs say?
Speaker 4 (14:40):
The last part be collected on this US. Of course,
you mentioned that you're looking at closely.
Speaker 9 (14:44):
How specifically are you.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
Yeah, each case that we become aware of, UH officers
are required UH notify a supervisor. The supervisor then conducts
a non scene investigation where circumstances allow, if not directly.
After that, we capture what we can as far as
body worn cameras, as far as cameras in the environment
that they're in. You talk about that incident, that incident
(15:06):
with the horse, The horse didn't trample the person, they
were walking around it from what we can determine with
other video that we've seen. However, that's not a completed investigation.
As far as the deployment of forty millimeters, Yeah, we
don't aim.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
At the head.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
They're target specific and you know, we do the best
we can under very difficult circumstances, hold our people to
a very high level of accountability. But it's a very chaotic,
dynamic situation out there. There will there be lessons learned, certainly,
you know, we will do a thorough investigation on each
case like that that we've become aware of to become
better each day.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
The number of cases, in the number of cases of
the people drown this.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
I would say there's probably in excessive ten that we're
looking at currently.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
I don't know that exactly.
Speaker 9 (15:58):
Yeah, tells how many.
Speaker 6 (16:02):
Or if the National guardn rates.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
Have been involved in the detentions or arrested their officers?
And is there anything you can tell us about about
ninety minutes or with all Marines and gains someone that
foolish sharp, is there anything to tell the way? Yeah,
I don't know about that. You're describing ninety minutes ago.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
Generally, their their ability to detain, as I understand it
is to only detained very briefly in the immediacy.
Speaker 11 (16:25):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
And then federal agents who are working with them would
do the detention, arrest if appropriate, or you know, any
any other you know, less lethal use of for us
or whatever it is they're going to be dealing with.
The agents, I believe are the primary folks out there
doing the enforcement action, and the the Army, National Guard
and the Marines are there in support to protect them.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
And doing that.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
They haven't been involved with any No, they haven't to
my knowledge at all, and that's not part of their
role or our role to do that with them safe.
Speaker 8 (17:00):
Possibly if you have numbers how many people you're expecting
in the city San Gren Park and also attempt from
Scott with a lot.
Speaker 7 (17:08):
Of people going around.
Speaker 9 (17:10):
Getting ready for them in case there are medical emergencies.
What's the partner being able to do this?
Speaker 4 (17:15):
Mstal terms for that, Yeah, thank you for that. That's great.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
As far as numbers, it would be really speculative for
me to come out and say what we're expecting or not.
I think a lot of that will depend on social
media activity promoting the event that has been very high
up to this point.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
We expect crowds that maybe are unprecedented.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
We are deployed accordingly with all of the resources that
we have to be able to ensure everybody is safe
and coming out and expressing their views. So I feel
comfortable in that we have our full deployment, and then
we have strong deployment from all of our partner agencies
as well as far as the medical piece of that,
if I could, I'll turn it over to our fire
(17:54):
department expert on the medical response.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Your fire department is remaining to lean in times like this.
Speaker 9 (18:01):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
So we're going to cut in here. That was Jim McDonald,
the Los Angeles Police Chief, along with Robert Luna, los
Angeles County Sheriff, and they are expecting a lot of
partying tomorrow. There's going to be at least thirty no
Kings protests around the county that they're aware of, and
ten other events total of forty events. And this is
(18:31):
what I was telling you before the start of this
press conference, is that there are hundreds of nonprofit groups
who are worth to combine billions of dollars and they
are financing these protests around the country against Donald Trump's existence.
But I was just checking. I have to remind myself
(18:54):
because you know, you live in Los Angeles, and especially
with all the progressive media we have. Trump actually got
seventy seven million votes around the country and he won
thirty one out of the fifty states. So what you're
going to be seeing tomorrow is a subset of a
subset of people who preferred Kamala Harris to be president.
(19:16):
So you think about their judgment there, and they've been
recently angered because the law is being enforced. And this
is fascinating to me. And if I could talk to
each one of these people separately. It's like, I understand
you're not happy that illegal alien criminals are being arrested,
maybe or just any illegal aliens in general. Can you
(19:39):
tell me what list of what other laws should not
be enforced? Part of me? Really, I'm not being naive.
I'm really flabbergasted by this. There are a lot of
laws I disagree with. I disagree with. You know, the
carpool the carpool lane. Thank you the carpool lane.
Speaker 6 (19:58):
You break that law.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
I'd break that law and I take my risks. But
if I got pulled over and fined, I'm not going
to start a protest movement start throwing cinder blocks.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
You would say, do you know who I am? And
try and get out of it.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Do you know who my newswoman is? That's what I
would say. No, I mean, I mean, seriously, every we
will got laws that we don't. There's a lot of
people who don't like the drug laws, right uh, and
and they'd want to be left alone to get themselves
stoned or high or fried or whatever. It is all right,
so we all, we all have our pet peeves who
are off our lists. But in the end, because it's
(20:36):
it's the same people who say, you know, democracy is
at stake. The democracy has decided that illegal immigration needs
to be stopped. The democracy chose Trump with seventy seven
million votes and thirty one states backed them up.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
So that's it.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
It's over. And if this is the secret when he
was running, it's the first thing he talked about when
he came down the escalator. You know, he came down
the escalator of ten years ago this weekend, I think
I think it was June fifteenth of twenty fifteen. So
it's been ten full years of Trump railing about illegal immigration,
(21:22):
and he did some some work in the first term,
but this time he's gone for it, and he was
supported by much of the public. It was an eighty
twenty issue during the campaign. I told you the day
before the election. Ipsos and Axios the political website. Ipsos
(21:43):
is a polling company, and they did a poll and
do you think legal aliens ought to be deported? It
was a simple like question. Sixty six percent supported it. Now,
obviously there's a lot of nuances and some people think that,
you know, farm workers ought to be exempted, let's say,
and you could have legitimate conversation about that, but primarily
(22:05):
primarily they've been going after criminals, and I have not
heard Karen Bass or Gavin Newsom to come out and say,
you know what, I'd like to thank Donald Trump and
Homeland Security and ICE for clearing out all these violent
criminals that they've arrested. They don't say that at all
because they don't care. If they cared, they would not
(22:28):
have given these criminals sanctuary. I want these guys gone
deported in prison period. They're violent criminals, convicted, and I'm
living in the state where the governor wants to protect them.
I'm living in the city where the mayor wants to
(22:49):
protect them. And I'm supposed to get upset that Trump
is bringing in the National Guard and the Marines. Good
he got up bringing the Navy in the Air Force too.
I mean, what does it take. It's the law. You
don't like the law, why don't you go to the
democratic method, get your candidates elected and have them make
(23:11):
illegal immigration legal. I mean, Biden was in there for
four years, right, and for two of those years he
had a Democratic Congress, Democratic House and Senate. They didn't
make illegal immigration legal. They just allowed illegal immigration. They
didn't change any laws, did they. So what are you
talking about. What are you talking about? Who have democracy yet? Democracy?
(23:38):
Your representatives never changed the law. That's what you do.
So this is the law. So there's gonna be a
lot of performance art tomorrow out in the streets, and
you know what, there's probably gonna be county counter protests
and there's probably going to be anti Israel protests too.
That's a big wildcard out there, So enjoy your weekend.
Speaker 9 (24:00):
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I see that the Marines have arrived at the Federal
Building in Westwood to oversee I guess this weekend's festivities. Also,
(24:29):
the big news of the day is Israel firing lots
of missiles on Iran and Iran firing back. And we're
going to now talk to Lieutenant General Richard Newton. He's
the senior national security contributor to News Nation, whose News
Nation was one of the up and coming cable TV
(24:50):
networks that you should be watching. And let's get lieutenantjournal
Richard Newton on to talk about what is going on
between Israel and Iran. Welcome, how are you.
Speaker 11 (25:00):
Sir, Hey John, Good afternoon. It's great to be with you.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Yeah, it's good. Good to have you on here. Iran
has been threatening Israel with nuclear weapons for a long time.
They haven't quite reached the point where they can make one.
Why did Israel decide last night to finally try to
destroy as much of their capability as possible.
Speaker 11 (25:24):
Well, one of the challenges is the Iran is close
supposedly within days of being able to have enough honey
enrich uranium to make for military grade uranium for a
nuclear weapon. That's verified by also the International Atomic Energy Agency,
(25:46):
and they have called out Iran having breaking out of
their non proliferation treaty responsibilities and are really in hot
pursuit at this moment to have a nuclear weapon. And
therefore Israel, led by primary Yah who acted. He also
made a public statement based on his intelligence and third
party intelligence.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
That.
Speaker 11 (26:08):
Iran may have up to abilities to build up to
nine atomic weapons or nine atomic bombs essentially, as he stated,
are nuclear weapons. So that's significant, So I think intelligence
points to that as well as I think the timing
now whereby Israel is again, as you mentioned, John, in
the crosshairs, this time much closer to nuclear weapons.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
They destroyed the naton's uranium and Richmond facility that was
the largest one in Iran. Does Ron have other facilities
that could produce these weapons?
Speaker 11 (26:42):
They do, John, in fact they did well. You know,
the United States is verifying through battle damage assessment that
there was again with the naton's extremely effective strike last night.
Natons is where those deeply buried nuclear weapons development sites
are located, and that's where the centrifugions are and so forth.
(27:04):
They're down to as deep as two hundred feet with
three foot walls thick siding to the nuclear weapons developed
facility in the times, But there are others, as you
lose your question, there are several other sites actually in
and around the depth and breadth of Iran. So you'll see,
I think in the coming hours, if not days, Israel
(27:27):
will attempt also to significantly degrade these nuclear weapon sites
in and around the entire nation of Iran.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Do they have the bombs that could cause damage two
hundred feet deep inside a mountain.
Speaker 11 (27:41):
Israel does not to be able to go in what
we call deeply buried targets. By the way, I'm a
B two cell PHID. I was the commander of the
first B two squadron. The only weapon system that really
is effective enough to carry what we call the GBU
fifty seven, which is a thirty thousand pounds massive ordnance bomb.
Who carries two of those? Those are really the best
(28:03):
weapons system and the most affective weapons system against the
deeply bury targets that we were just discussing. But Israel
does have capabilities, especially with your fifteen strike Eagles with
two thousand pounders with precision can do significant damage along
with that thirty five attack aircraft as well, whether or
not be able to go as deep to the two
hundred feet or not, but nonetheless they can still do
a lot of damage penitons and other nuclear weapons facilities.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
What kind of help are we providing the US?
Speaker 11 (28:30):
What we're providing right now is in response Earlier today,
Iran employed hundreds of ballistic missiles and drones, and we've
been able to provide much like we did back in
April of last year. In John also on October first
when Israel had the largest then the largest Midiast ever
in the Mid East blistic missile attack against Israel. We're
(28:53):
providing a wide variety of capabilities for Israel to defend itself,
to include We've got two our Work class destroyers in
the region that have been involved in defending Israel against
these missile attacks with their age's weapons systems. We also
have with another system that it's called the terminal high
altitude every defense system that has been in place in
(29:14):
Israel quite a while, and that's the one that provides
for intercept from the ground ballistic missiles and what we
call our terminal or their last phase of flight. We've
also provided them. We have air force aircraft as well
as I presume some coalition aircraft to again help protect
(29:35):
the skies of Israel, especially against drones. We saw that
again play out in October twenty sixth. I think we
saw we were going to see it here play out
if it hadn't already happened now.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Iron launched over one hundred missiles earlier today a couple
of rounds of missiles, most of them were intercepted, a
few of them got through. There are some image but
considering how many missiles they unleashed, not a whole lot.
Does Iran have the capability to keep firing missiles indefinitely
(30:09):
at Israel considering that most of them get blown up
in the air.
Speaker 11 (30:14):
Yeah, it's a great question. Just back to your commentary
about what effects they had in the recent strike the
last several hours. My sources tell me they're actually seventeen
people on the ground in Israel are actually wounded by these,
mainly by shrapnel. John. Yeah, But the point is is
that when Israel went in and structs Iran back on
(30:35):
October twenty six, they also took out a significant part
of their blistic missile production capability as well as their
operational ballistic missiles. But nonetheless, Iran still has a capabilities.
We saw just a couple hours or so ago of
lodging ballistic missile strikes against Israel, as well as seeing
(30:55):
the number of drones as well. But the point of
your question is that some point, though, I think it's
going to go from being you know, fairly effective or operational,
least in terms of the threat of ballistic missiles, to
a much more limited aspect of what they can do,
because they are they're going to essentially, for lack of
better termology, though, they'll run out of bullets. And I
(31:16):
believe what you're gonna see this is far from over.
Iss going to strike Iran again, go to those nuclear weaponsites, yes,
but also to continue to go off through ballistic missile production.
And they're blistic missiles that are in the field.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Anybody gonna help Iron out in another country.
Speaker 11 (31:32):
They're as isolated as I've ever seen them, certainly in
my career and twelve years hence when I transition from
Air Force back in twenty twelve, they're very isolated. And frankly,
Israel certainly has been under threat of Iran, but also
other of our Golf Arab partners, our allies in friends,
Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Oman, Qatar and so forth are are
(31:59):
essentially feel threatened by Iran and see Iran as an adversary.
So you may get some rhetoric that against Israel from
those allies of the United States, those goldf Air bollies,
but I guarantee you and their capitals they're pleased that
Israel is striking Iran, a though they won't say so publicly,
because that also helps protect their nation states. Because they're
(32:23):
under threat from Iran as well.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
One more thing, I see that the twenty senior Iranian
commanders were killed. Six nuclear scientists also killed as well.
What does that do to Iran? Iran's practical capabilities to
lose that many leaders and that many scientists that quickly.
Speaker 11 (32:45):
It is a significant impact on those And just to
name them out, the commander of the Iranian revolution at
Guard Corps was taken out last night. The chief of staff,
the military chief of staff of the Iranian military was
taken out. That's like taking out our chairman of the
Joint chiefs of Staff. Also, Israel took out a significant
portion of the air force. Running air force leaderships include
(33:06):
their chief of staff as well as the chief of
the drone forces. And so without these key leaders uh,
in order to maintain command and control and to effectively
put running forces uh, you know into operational play is
going to becoming more and more difficult as the senior
leaders are are taken off the board. The other aspect
of this is those there were six as by my account, uh,
(33:30):
senior nuclear uh you know, weapons experts or technicians were
taken out as well. That'll put quite a dent into
the UH aspect of the nuclear weapons production out of
out of Iran. So UH final point is it's not
only taking out weapons systems, but taking out the leadership.
(33:51):
UH is going to have a long term impact against Iran.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Thank you for coming on with us.
Speaker 11 (33:57):
Delighted, John Hope we get to do it again. My
best to you.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Yeah, thank you. Retired Lieutenant General Richard Newton, who is
the senior National security contributor to News Nation, the cable
TV network that you should be watching. I watch it.
It's good stuff there. We've got a lot more. Carl
Demyo comes on with the latest Sacramento outrage right after
three o'clock, two runs of the Moist Line, and a
(34:21):
hacking a dumpster.
Speaker 9 (34:22):
Next hour, you're listening to John Cobels on demand from
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We're on from one until four, and then after four
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We're going to have Carl Demayo on in minutes. Right
after Deborah's news. He found a Democratic budget plan that
cuts eleven billion dollars in healthcare coverage to American citizens
in California and provides twelve billion dollars in free healthcare
(34:51):
for illegal aliens. We'll talk to him about that coming up.
And I, Debra and I were talking about all the
protests this weekend and no Immigration protest. But these these
No Kings protests, they're supposed to be at least thirty
of them in LA County. In fact, they're they're worried
about it. There was a news conference we carried less
(35:12):
than an hour ago with Jim McDonald, the LA Police Chief,
and Robert Luna, the LA County sheriff. And now I'm
seeing the world and this is what I was thinking.
The Wall Street Journal says that online far right groups
are buzzing with violent talk and how to respond to
the No Kings protest. This is great. Shoot a couple,
(35:33):
the rest will go home. Set a meme circulating on
the telegram channels of groups connected to the Proud Boys.
You just have to impale a few of them. Another
local chapter posted, and another one posted an online gun
tutorial illustrating optimal shooting techniques with the caption riot season. Again,
(35:58):
there's going to be there's going to be No Kings
protests in more than two thousand cities, so they claim.
And Trump is going to have his military parade going
in Washington, d C. To celebrate the two hundred and
fiftieth anniversary of the Army. It's also his birthday. So
(36:20):
the only place that the No Kings protests will not
take place is Washington. They're not going to take take
on the I guess the army rolling down the street
because they're going They're gonna have their tanks and their howitzers.
Wall Street Journal reviewed dozens of far right social media
(36:41):
accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers, including ex Truth
Social Telegram, and there's a lot of encouragement to respond
to the No Kings rallies with violence. They're sharing detailed
locations of the No Kings protests and sharing identifying information
(37:01):
about the organizers, including the names, the images, and where
they work. And they show leaders of Chicago and LA
far right groups attending anti ice protests in those cities.
It seems they're capitalizing on the emotions and the destructive
protests in LA over the illegal alien situation. So you
(37:32):
might want to pack. I don't know where to go though.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
If there's two going to say, where are you going?
Speaker 1 (37:37):
I don't know you got room in your bunker? You know,
I haven't been down in the bunker for a while.
You might need to check on it. And one of
the motivations was rioting. I remember I went, I went
through all the possibilities with my wife. One of them
was a nuclear missile and you know, we could have
those flying through the air pretty soon. We've got the riots.
(37:58):
Always earthquakes. I'm absolutely certain earthquake's gonna happen because I
can't will an earthquake.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
Well you actually will, Yeah that that is true.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
But you you you might be able to know.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
I'm willing there not to be an earthquake.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
But I know, but you send out those vibes.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
I send anti earthquake vibes out there every night.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
So I mean the bunker has you know, multiple there's
multiple motivations to have a bunker. And uh, I've got
to say I still have. I do have tubs of
food that last for twenty five years, and I'm sure
that's tasty. I've been sitting down there for about three years.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
Well, you know, if it's an emergency, you gotta do
what you gotta do, right, Yeah, I'd starve to death. No,
I think this is Uh, there's some vegan stuff in
this well, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
It all looks like. Actually got to open up a
tub and see exactly what it looks like. Yeah, I'm
sure it's like wine and ages with time.
Speaker 12 (38:55):
Yeah, imagine what it's made of to be able to
like st twenty all the preservatives. Oh goshy, all right,
we come back, Carl Demyo. Is it true that the
California Democratic budget is cutting eleven billion dollars in healthcare
coverage to US citizens while providing twelve billion dollars in
(39:16):
free healthcare for illegal aliens? And you wonder why people
are in the streets protesting.
Speaker 11 (39:21):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (39:23):
I come, nobody, I come, nobody's protesting about that stuff.
They're protesting that illegal aliens are being rounded up, but
they're not protesting about billions of dollars of your tax
money going to give them free healthcare. You don't have
free healthcare. Deborah Mark, Live in the KFI twenty four
hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the John Covelt
(39:44):
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