January 15, 2025 • 34 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (01/15) - Attorney Patrick McNicholas comes on the show to talk about a lawsuit filed on behalf of Eaton Fire victims he is representing against Edison. Residents in Pacific Palisades are suing LADWP over the empty Santa Ynez Reservoir in Pacific Palisades. Mayor Karen Bass was seen at a cocktail party in Ghana when the Palisades Fire first broke out. More on Karen Bass being in Ghana when the Palisades fire broke out.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
In just a moment, we are going to talk to
an attorney, Patrick McNicholas. His law firm, along with other firms,
are suing Southern California Edison for the fire in Altadena,
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the Eaton fire that's fourteen thousand acres that leveled a
huge section of Alta Dina.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
In just a second, I'll get to him.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
The petition at change dot org is now up to
one hundred and forty four thousand signatures demanding the immediate
resignation of Karen Bass. After I finished talking with Patrick McNicholas,
we're going to discuss the latest chapter of Karen Bass's
trip to Ghana, because now photos are circulating around the internet.
(00:54):
She was at a cocktail party at the exact moment
that the fires were erupting in Palisades, and they have her.
They are standing in a red dress and people drinking cocktails,
and she's smiling, posing for photos with various dignitaries in Ghana.
I saw this first reaction I had, and the first
(01:17):
reaction a number of people I talked to today. It's
like the French Laundry photo Gavin Newsom. Remember after that
bastard locked us all up, locked our schools up, locked
the businesses up. He was out partying at the French
Laundry with rich lobbyist friends. And here Palisades is starting
(01:39):
to burn and she's at a cocktail party in Africa. Hey,
please keep voting for these people. It's really working out.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Well. Wow, we'll get to that next now.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
In Alta Dina, the Eaton fire, fourteen thousand acres people
have died, thousands of homes burned, twelve thousand structures total
between the Eaton and the Palisades fires. Let's go to
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Patrick McNicholas because his law firm on behalf of his
clients is they're suing Southern California Edison.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
We'll see what the details are. Patrick. How are you?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
I am doing excellent. Thank you, John and just as
and Aside. I've been listening to you since the nineteen eighties.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
How could that be?
Speaker 3 (02:38):
I don't know. Fast.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Where did you live back then.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
The middle of Los Angeles? I grew up right in
Hancock Park.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Oh all right, I mean I got to La ninety two.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
But I thought maybe you were from New Jersey, Patrick
tell us the basis of the lawsuit, Well, the.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Base is it. Obviously we're holding other California Edison responsible
for all the damages, for the burned downs. The evidence
is pretty clear at this time, even Edison gave a
non denial denial. So there's photographic evidence, there's video evidence,
there's a witness evidence. The origin is pretty much agreed to,
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and the only thing that Edison hasn't admitted to is
the cause. But we know that the high wires are there,
and we know there's vegetation all around it.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
So it's the same story like several years ago when
they and PG and E were starting fires all over
northern California.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Yes, it's a rinsom repeat. I mean, I've been involved
in probably fifteen wildfires album involved PGNE up north in
southern California, Edison down here, and currently we have, you know,
fifteen thousand California residents that we represent who've been damaged
by wildfires, and that's not including the Eaton fire.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Had they never.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Learned their lessons after the fires in the late twenty tens,
I mean, do you think this is a new issue
that they never considered or it's the same old issue
that they never fixed.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
No, it's clearly the same old issue that they never fixed.
And if you give me a moment, when I first
started practicing in nineteen eighty six, I was born in
I did air crash litigation. Since that time, the aviation
industry really really focused on safety. They dump money into it, technology, training,
redundant systems. They worked with the FAA, the NTSB, and
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they made commercial air travel one of the most shape
endeavors ever, you know, inhuman distrect Yeah, and at the
same time, utilities did nothing. We're relying on technology and
equipment going back to the seventies, and they just kept
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taking money off the table. They never invested in all
those same things that the aviation industry did. And here
we are, and it's the accumulative effect. It's not just
you know, the utilities, it's also a lot of different
factors that go into this. You know, there's a lack
of governance. There's a failure of government. There's a failure
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of land management, there's a failure of zoning and building codes.
And here we are.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
This is likely downpower lines or a short in the
electrical equipment, something that was caused by the winds. I mean,
what are the general specific causes in a case like this.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Well, first of all, it's definitely wind related. Then when
you get into the specific causes, that's where the investigation
comes in. That's where discovery comes in. They put out
a statement, you know, they're required to make to the
PUC under these circumstances because of the origin and the
time that this fire occurred. So they said, you know,
there is no incident, our event we detected on our line.
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So we don't know the specific cause for the spark,
but we know that those lines did it. It can
be vegetation being blown into them. It can be parking
because the line sway and there's an electrical current that
goes back and forth. There's a variety of different ways
that it can occur. But the singular point here is
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that they knew that there was a wind event that
could cause this, and it did.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
The I thought they were they had embarked on a
program of preventatively shutting off electricity in high wind zones.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
They did, you know, and they have. And I live
in the Malibu and I evacuated in the last few
year seven times. I left because I saw the wind modeling.
I saw it last week. So I just made a
decision that I'm getting out of Malibury because I knew
that my electricity was going to be cut off and
it sometimes the gas was going to be cut off,
and I knew that there's a risk of wildfire. I mean,
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they did the same thing on and on, and we
had an event, you know, the Franklin fire, which was
you know what was that two months ago? So both
lines were definitely energized. And I have no an eaton
and I have no idea why they were at that
point in time, and do.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
They have they ever put lines underground? There were claims
a few years ago that finally the companies were going
to start doing that.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Have they very much no, but thank you for mentioning it.
So PG and E up North, not related to this fire,
committed their CEO committed to I think it was two
thousand miles of underground. They said it was going to
cost twenty two billion, and they did the math and figured, hey,
you know what, it's cheaper to put them underground than
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to keep paying these lawsuits. And by the way, it's
also a great idea to not light the fifth largest
economy in the world on fire all times here because
it might, you know, knock us down a nacher too.
So specifically with respect to Southern California, Edison, they said
they were I don't know where that program is. I
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know that down in the Laguna Beach about ten years
or so ago. That's my best memory of it. Our
lines were veried down there, so we know it's possible.
There's laws that allow it, and that is definitely something
that has to happen.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
All right, Patrick, thanks for coming on, and let's keep
in touch as this progresses, because it's important. The Eaton
fire and fire is almost as big as the Palisades Fire.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Well collectively collectively, John, the's what I would call the
Southern California complex. This is going to be the single
largest fire in the history of California, probably in the country.
The damage is the likely top two hundred billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
That's that's that's overwhelming, absolutely overwhelming, and some of this
was preventable. Patrick McNicholas with McNicholas and McNicholas, whose file
a lawsuit on behalf of his clients, along with other
law firms over the Altadena Eaten fire and Southern California
Anderson being responsible because of a lack of maintenance of
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its power lines and other electrical equipment. All right, Patrick,
we'll talk with you again when we come back. The
other lawsuit PA Civic Palisades over the reservoir being bone dry,
and we've got and these lawsuits are the only way
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to force the truth out of people, especially since the
media loses interest quickly. This lawsuit is by the firm
Robertson and Associates and also Foley, Besik, Bailey and Curtis,
and we will give you the details on that coming up.
We've got also going to get into Karen Bass. We
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want to see pictures of her partying. We have links
on Twitter. The New York Post published the photographs and
you have to click the New York Post link on
our Twitter and on Instagram. Right, all right, all our
social media sites.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Just go there.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
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Speaker 1 (10:24):
We got so much to do here.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I'm going to tell you about the Palisades lawsuit over
that one hundred and seventeen million gallon empty reservoir in
just a moment, also after three o'clock, So Ray comes
in here because Nathan Hockman is teaming up with Todd
Spitzer and they are publicly asking for a special session
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so the legislature, Ye're I gonna believe this one. Ask
the legislature to make looting a felony punishable by a
state prison sentence. And my first reaction when Ray handed
me this is it's not a felony.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Well, no wonder.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
The looters are running around all over the West side
of La taking whatever they want, breaking into dozens and
dozens of homes. It's not a felony. I guess it
would be a misdemeanor.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
How could that be a misdemeanor?
Speaker 2 (11:26):
And in La County misdemeanors you often don't go to
jail because the jails are overcrowded. Misdemeanors are six months
or six months or less of a jail sentence. And
one of the reasons for the massive crime wave is
when they emptied out the state prisons, the state prisoners
went to the county jails. The county jails were overfilled,
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so they stopped prosecuting misdemeanors because there was nowhere.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
To put them.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
And if they weren't prosecuting the misdemeanors. Then the police
stopped arresting people. When the police stopped arresting people, store
it or stopped reporting the thefts.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
You see how that works.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
And then the police department in the La Times will
tell you the crime went down.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Well, of course it went down.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
They weren't reporting the thefts because the police weren't prosecuting,
because the judges couldn't put them in jail because the
jails were filled with prisoners that Jerry Brown had let out.
But who can keep track of all this? It's a
lot of dots to connect.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Well.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Nathan Hawkman is also saying that those charged with looting
will be publicly shamed.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
You know what, I'm ready.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
I think it's they to shoot him on site, and
you know what that's going to happen. I read a
story in the Wall Street Journal. I hope I have
time to get to it. As people in the Palisades
are walking around with guns to guard their property. They're
walking around with loaded guns. We're getting really close here,
and Newsom better get the legislature together and they better
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make it a felony and send people to state prison.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Good lord, put.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Them in with the meanest the baddest the mars in
the same jail cell.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Yes, yes, all a lot of all the sexually frustrated,
violent criminals. They ought to throw these guys in their
naked How.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Dare you loop people after they're losing their homes or evacuating.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
It's despicable. They are all over the place.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
They're crawling around like roaches on the west side, and
the police are nowhere to be seen.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
It's gross.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
More than this is from USA today, there's a dozen
residents Pacific Palisades. They're suing the LADWP because the hydrants
dried up and they didn't fill that reservoir. The Santa
Anez Reservoir, one hundred and seventeen million gallons of water,
has been empty since February of twenty twenty four. You
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may have heard that story. We talked about it a lot.
The cover was torn. If you have a pool and
you have a cover, it got torn. Should have taken
them a month to fix, according to employees. Eleven months later,
still not fixed. Hydrants went dry. And do not believe
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this idea that nothing could be done. We just played
Michael Valentine, the attorney he lived up in Palisades, talked
to News Nation. He saw the fire start. It was
nearly an hour before the first helicopter showed up. And
we have people in the La Fire Department admitting that
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they never sent any teams strike teams to be pre
positioned with engines and firefighters. In fact, fire commanders at
LAFD specifically said no when asked to do it. So
they could have sent staff, They could have sent engines,
they could have been positioned properly. They could have gotten air.
Because stop with the one hundred mile an hour wins
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that happened later in the day and the palisades at
ten thirty eleven o'clock, eleven thirty in the morning, it
wasn't a hundred mile an hour wins. It was much
much lower than that. The helicopter was flying. They just
didn't have any available. So enough of this. So anyway,
this pizza, this pizza, this pizza Rea.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Owner, I guess you're hungry. I had the.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Word pizzaria in front of me, yes, and I'm now
I'm longing for one. Residents and a pizzeria owner blames
LADWP for this whole debacle. The complaint is filed in
La County Superior Court by a couple of law firms,
Robertson Associates and folly Besik Bailey and Curtis Film and
pronouncing his name right. We're going to have Roger Bailey
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on tomorrow in the two o'clock hour to go through
the details of this lawsuit. I'm just looking at the
description again at the Santa Inez reservoir when the cover
tour then debris and bird droppings were getting into the water.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
So this is over bird droppings.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
So the fire department didn't have one hundred and seventeen
billion gallons of water because eleven months earlier some bird
droppings had had fallen into a hole in the cover
and nobody fixed it. Seriously, if you've lost your house,
this is one of the reasons why. And that Genny's Cunnians.
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I got to mention her name ten times a day
two they head of the DWP, she should be gone
as well. How do you leave a reservoir that huge
empty with fire season coming? How do these people live
with them? Well, they're all psychopaths and narcissists. That's how
they don't feel any shame. When we come back. Speaking
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of a narcissist, Karen Bass did what we all would do. Right,
if you were the mayor of Los Angeles and you
were told that there's life threatening fires that are going
to break out in a few days, what would you do. Yeah,
you'd fly to Africa like she did. There's now photos
of her enjoying herself at a party in Ghana at
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the exact moment the fires started erupting in the Palisades.
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Speaker 1 (18:02):
All right, doing some good in the world.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Los Angeles Times, Boy, they've snapped back. They're doing journalism again,
Julia Wick. They have the story Karen Bass posing for
photos at an embassy cocktail party in Ghana. Pictures are
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being posted on social media. We have links so you
could see the photos. They also have some of the
photos at the New York New York Post, and there
are links to certain people's like Facebook sites. I'm sure
these pictures are everywhere now. Karen Bass was in Ghana
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for the inauguration of the Ghanian President, John Dromani Muhamma.
She had attended it earlier in the day. Now, remember
the tide line here makes me crazy when people defend her.
She got the extreme fire warning on Thursday, January second,
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extreme fire warning. She decides I'll go to Africa. On
January fourth. While she's traveling, the National Weather Service intensified
the warning, trying to explain how deadly these could be,
how dangerous they could be with the fires. She was
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gone on Saturday the fourth, on my calendar, right me,
make sure, don't wanna mischaracterize any of this. Yeah, Saturday
the fourth, she was gone. Sunday the fifth, she was gone,
Monday the sixth, she was gone Tuesday the seventh, as
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the fires were breaking out. Ghana is eight hours ahead
of Los Angeles, so the.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Fires were burning by ten thirty.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
By twelve o'clock noon, they had probably tripled in size.
The fires were now roaring. The fire department had little
presence for the first hour and a half. Well noon
here in Los Angeles is eight o'clock in Ghana. So
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she was at the cocktail party. The US Ambassador to
Ghana hosted the reception for this American delegation. It says
that it was part of a Biden administration delegation that
Joe Biden had asked her, do you think Joe Biden
knows who the president of Ghana is? Do you think
he could identify Ghana on a map? Some Biden flunkies
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had to send four people over to honor the President
of Ghana, and Karen Vass was picked, and she said, sure,
extreme fire warnings, deadly fires, possible.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Life threatening wins. Yeah, I'll go to Africa.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Now they're saying, well, she spent most of the party
making calls in a separate room. Boy, you guys are
a bunch of phony, blooney liars. There's photos of her
posing with the president, posing with other people at the party.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
She was supposed to be here.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
When the warnings went out on Thursday, and she should
have been running the emergency response Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday
Monday Tuesday. How many days is that Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday,
six days. She should have been in the hot seat
for six days. She went off on Saturday. She appears
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to have been posing for photos just before eight pm
in Ghana. Just before twelve in Los Angeles, The La
Times looked at a photo very closely and found they
could see somebody's watch, So that's how they know what
time one party goer's watch is visible. Minutes after that
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photo was taken, evacuation orders were issued in the Palisades.
So this idea that she was on the phone. No,
she was taking a picture at a cocktail party. The
evacuation orders were being sent out without her knowledge. She
had no idea standing at that party that they were
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evacuating the Palisades and that within a day the entire
town would the flatland area and the highlands would be destroyed.
The photo was posted and was posted on Instagram and
LinkedIn by Marissa Bowman, a city staffer who was not
part of the official delegation. I guess she went as
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bass friend. If she's not part of the official delegation,
she works for the city. Well, what was she doing there?
She's taking the party photos. Maybe she could have helped
out with the evacuation warnings, and then she posts them.
This is what's hysterical. She posts them bassist spokeshole. Who's
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this guy, Zack Sidell. They're still trying to push this
idea that she took a military flight.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
So what.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
I hate all the spin they do. Your your ass
should have been in the commander's seat here in the
emergency operations room. You're six days late, and you're trying
to say I took a military playing back after you
went to the party, when Palisades residents were running for
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their lives up at a traffic jam down Palisades Drive,
people screaming. We had a woman who jumped from her
car while she was on the air with us. Palm
trees were burning. They're running for their lives. They left
behind all their possessions, never to be seen again. Several
people died. Oh, I came back on a military plane
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right away. F you.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Resign, get out? Who wants her here? Go go?
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (24:34):
These are French laundry pictures, you know. And people didn't
have the good sense to toss noosem out at the
French laundry photos.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
And guess what.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
He was part of the botched response, and when he
was caught by that Palisades mother, he lied and said,
I'm on the phone with Joe Biden. These are selfish, narcissistic,
pathological liars. That's what you have running the state and
this city, including most of the city council and most
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of the Assembly and state Senate. And you think they're not.
You still want to support these people, You want to donate.
What do they have to do, What do they have
to do for you to be convinced that this crowd
is dangerous and is destroying the state, actively destroying the
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state as we speak. The criminals weren't enough. All the theft,
the smashing grabs, the seventy thousand mental patients and drug
addicts in the street weren't enough.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Now burning down.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Pacific Palisades and out DA data, that's not enough.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
And then all the lies.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Putting twenty thousand businesses out of business during COVID, closing
the schools for a year and a half, ruining kids' childhoods.
What else can they do? What else can they do
to destroy this place? Got to take a break.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
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Speaker 2 (26:16):
Coming up after three o'clock. Todd Spitzer, the Orange County DA.
He's teaming up with Nathan Hakman, the La County DA,
demanding that Newsom call a special legislative session to make
looting a felony.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Yeah, looting is not a felony in California.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
And if it's a felony, it would be punishable by
state prison sentence. Who knew? There's so much I've learned
this week. Who knew that you could loot somebody's house
and you're not going to go to prison? And now
you have Hawkman and Spitzer asking Newsom. And by the way,
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to contact Newsom, you have to call the French Lungey directly.
It's like in the old movies. They'll come with a
phone on a tray. Call for mister Newsom. Hi, there's
fire and looting in La. This is from the New
York Times. Before taking office, LA's mayor said she would
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not go abroad. Another story this week. After the first
rally in her campaign for mayor. She ran for mayor
back in twenty twenty one, Karen Bass spoke candidly about
what she saw as a potential drawback to the job.
She wouldn't be able to engage in world, to travel
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anymore and participate in global affairs. Bass was accustomed to
circling the globe. This is The New York Times, accustomed
to circling the globe. As a dimocratic member of Congress,
she was on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. She had
spent decades working on US Africa relations. She said it
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was the most absorbing, one of the most absorbing parts
of her political career. In October seventeenth, twenty twenty one,
in an interview, she told The Times, I went to
Africa every couple of months all the time. The idea
of leaving that, especially the international work and the Africa work,
I was like, hmm, I don't think I want to
do that. She actually considered not running for mayor because
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she wouldn't be able to travel to Africa, and then
decided she would and told The Times, and this is
a quote, that if she was elected mayor, not only
would I of course live here, oh thank you. Of
course I would live in LA but I would also
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not travel internationally. The only places I would go would
be DC, Sacramento, San Francisco, and New York in relation
to la That was the promise, and then she got
an invitation to the inauguration for the President of Ghana.
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Who could resist? I could see how that would be tempting.
So she flies away eight time zones two days after
the Weather Service put out the extreme fire warning and
didn't come back. Didn't leave until Tuesday after the Palisades
was burning. And as we told you in the last segment,
they have proof that she was taking smiling photos at
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the party at the exact moment that evacuations began in
the Palisades. And have you noticed all her press conferences
she has been angry and dismissive and refuses to apologize.
What no sense trying to pry the fake apology out
of her. Out of her She's not sorry anything.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
She shuts down reporters.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
It's gotten to the point now at these press conferences
she doesn't speak until the seventh or eighth person is gone,
and then she'll battle some platitudes and cliches and nonsense
because she's trying to hide from the reporters who want
to know, why, why would you do that? Can you
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imagine if you were mayor? And then her her her
minions her her sycophants. Well, it wouldn't have mattered anyway, Yeah,
it would have mattered. The thing burned for an hour
before the l A Fire Department had any serious presence.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
And what was she doing the last year that that
reservoir was dry? Did she know? If she didn't know,
how could she not know. They're the ones who keep
saying fire season is year around now, you know, know this
climate change?
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Well, if it's so serious, why aren't you taking extraordinary
efforts to fight it, like fill up the reservoir for
the deadly wildfires you say are gonna be with us
all year round?
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Do you notice they don't do anything?
Speaker 2 (31:20):
If it's so serious, why is the fire department only
funded fifty percent of what it should be? How serious
can your alleged climate change year round fire season? B
If the fire department is underfunded by fifty percent, understaffed
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by fifty percent, and even the people we have and
the fire engines we have and the equipment, it's all
sitting around. They didn't deploy four hundred, they didn't employ
forty engines. They'd employ one thousand firefighters that they could have.
Oh you know, nothing could have been done really, nothing
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could be You're a lot bunch of liars. Of course,
plenty could have been done, especially in that first hour.
You should have had strike.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Teams up in the hills in the Palisades and all
the hilly areas.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
You had one thousand guys and forty engines and they
were sitting in the garages. And then we find out
there's another one hundred engines that need to be fixed,
but they don't have the money for the mechanics. What
are they doing with all the money we pay in taxes?
If I told you how much money I paid taxes,
you'd dropped dead.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
Three forty five Today, the mayor is holding a media
availability after meeting with volunteers and service providers assisting those
affected with the Palisades fire.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
I only want to hear two words at her, I resign.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
That's it. There is no explanation that anybody wants to hear,
No fake apology, no nothing. Just go get out because
a head has to be put on a stick here
because it's got to be a warning that scares the
hell out of all these other idiot politicians. Somebody's got
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to go or these idiots are going to think, Wow,
there are really no consequences. It doesn't matter what we do.
The voters aren't going to force us out. They're not
going to vote us out. Somebody has to go or
this is going to get worse. She can't survive this.
If she survives, if she survives this, we won't look
how far they're willing to go. She was willing to
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fly to Africa during extreme fire warning because she thought, well,
what would the consequences be?
Speaker 1 (33:45):
What could happen?
Speaker 2 (33:46):
La Burns. They're still not going to get rid of me.
I'm gonna save seat. I didn't even know that she
She already announced her reelection plans last summer and I'm
reading today.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Oh, everybody thought she was a shoe in. She was
a shoe in. That's what she thought.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
So she thought I could go to Africa during extreme
fire danger. Just a big middle finger to everybody in
the Palisades, big middle finger. So of course she has
to resign, immediately, change dot Org, put in Karen Bass,
put your name on that petition. Keep the pressure up
here Deborah Mark, Live in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hey,
(34:27):
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Can't. I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
In just a moment, we are going to talk to
an attorney, Patrick McNicholas. His law firm, along with other firms,
are suing Southern California Edison for the fire in Altadena,
(00:22):
the Eaton fire that's fourteen thousand acres that leveled a
huge section of Alta Dina.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
In just a second, I'll get to him.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
The petition at change dot org is now up to
one hundred and forty four thousand signatures demanding the immediate
resignation of Karen Bass. After I finished talking with Patrick McNicholas,
we're going to discuss the latest chapter of Karen Bass's
trip to Ghana, because now photos are circulating around the internet.
(00:54):
She was at a cocktail party at the exact moment
that the fires were erupting in Palisades, and they have her.
They are standing in a red dress and people drinking cocktails,
and she's smiling, posing for photos with various dignitaries in Ghana.
I saw this first reaction I had, and the first
(01:17):
reaction a number of people I talked to today. It's
like the French Laundry photo Gavin Newsom. Remember after that
bastard locked us all up, locked our schools up, locked
the businesses up. He was out partying at the French
Laundry with rich lobbyist friends. And here Palisades is starting
(01:39):
to burn and she's at a cocktail party in Africa. Hey,
please keep voting for these people. It's really working out.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Well. Wow, we'll get to that next now.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
In Alta Dina, the Eaton fire, fourteen thousand acres people
have died, thousands of homes burned, twelve thousand structures total
between the Eaton and the Palisades fires. Let's go to
(02:17):
Patrick McNicholas because his law firm on behalf of his
clients is they're suing Southern California Edison.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
We'll see what the details are. Patrick. How are you?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
I am doing excellent. Thank you, John and just as
and Aside. I've been listening to you since the nineteen eighties.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
How could that be?
Speaker 3 (02:38):
I don't know. Fast.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Where did you live back then.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
The middle of Los Angeles? I grew up right in
Hancock Park.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Oh all right, I mean I got to La ninety two.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
But I thought maybe you were from New Jersey, Patrick
tell us the basis of the lawsuit, Well, the.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Base is it. Obviously we're holding other California Edison responsible
for all the damages, for the burned downs. The evidence
is pretty clear at this time, even Edison gave a
non denial denial. So there's photographic evidence, there's video evidence,
there's a witness evidence. The origin is pretty much agreed to,
(03:19):
and the only thing that Edison hasn't admitted to is
the cause. But we know that the high wires are there,
and we know there's vegetation all around it.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
So it's the same story like several years ago when
they and PG and E were starting fires all over
northern California.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Yes, it's a rinsom repeat. I mean, I've been involved
in probably fifteen wildfires album involved PGNE up north in
southern California, Edison down here, and currently we have, you know,
fifteen thousand California residents that we represent who've been damaged
by wildfires, and that's not including the Eaton fire.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Had they never.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Learned their lessons after the fires in the late twenty tens,
I mean, do you think this is a new issue
that they never considered or it's the same old issue
that they never fixed.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
No, it's clearly the same old issue that they never fixed.
And if you give me a moment, when I first
started practicing in nineteen eighty six, I was born in
I did air crash litigation. Since that time, the aviation
industry really really focused on safety. They dump money into it, technology, training,
redundant systems. They worked with the FAA, the NTSB, and
(04:42):
they made commercial air travel one of the most shape
endeavors ever, you know, inhuman distrect Yeah, and at the
same time, utilities did nothing. We're relying on technology and
equipment going back to the seventies, and they just kept
(05:02):
taking money off the table. They never invested in all
those same things that the aviation industry did. And here
we are, and it's the accumulative effect. It's not just
you know, the utilities, it's also a lot of different
factors that go into this. You know, there's a lack
of governance. There's a failure of government. There's a failure
(05:22):
of land management, there's a failure of zoning and building codes.
And here we are.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
This is likely downpower lines or a short in the
electrical equipment, something that was caused by the winds. I mean,
what are the general specific causes in a case like this.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Well, first of all, it's definitely wind related. Then when
you get into the specific causes, that's where the investigation
comes in. That's where discovery comes in. They put out
a statement, you know, they're required to make to the
PUC under these circumstances because of the origin and the
time that this fire occurred. So they said, you know,
there is no incident, our event we detected on our line.
(06:03):
So we don't know the specific cause for the spark,
but we know that those lines did it. It can
be vegetation being blown into them. It can be parking
because the line sway and there's an electrical current that
goes back and forth. There's a variety of different ways
that it can occur. But the singular point here is
(06:23):
that they knew that there was a wind event that
could cause this, and it did.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
The I thought they were they had embarked on a
program of preventatively shutting off electricity in high wind zones.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
They did, you know, and they have. And I live
in the Malibu and I evacuated in the last few
year seven times. I left because I saw the wind modeling.
I saw it last week. So I just made a
decision that I'm getting out of Malibury because I knew
that my electricity was going to be cut off and
it sometimes the gas was going to be cut off,
and I knew that there's a risk of wildfire. I mean,
(07:02):
they did the same thing on and on, and we
had an event, you know, the Franklin fire, which was
you know what was that two months ago? So both
lines were definitely energized. And I have no an eaton
and I have no idea why they were at that
point in time, and do.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
They have they ever put lines underground? There were claims
a few years ago that finally the companies were going
to start doing that.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Have they very much no, but thank you for mentioning it.
So PG and E up North, not related to this fire,
committed their CEO committed to I think it was two
thousand miles of underground. They said it was going to
cost twenty two billion, and they did the math and figured, hey,
you know what, it's cheaper to put them underground than
(07:51):
to keep paying these lawsuits. And by the way, it's
also a great idea to not light the fifth largest
economy in the world on fire all times here because
it might, you know, knock us down a nacher too.
So specifically with respect to Southern California, Edison, they said
they were I don't know where that program is. I
(08:12):
know that down in the Laguna Beach about ten years
or so ago. That's my best memory of it. Our
lines were veried down there, so we know it's possible.
There's laws that allow it, and that is definitely something
that has to happen.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
All right, Patrick, thanks for coming on, and let's keep
in touch as this progresses, because it's important. The Eaton
fire and fire is almost as big as the Palisades Fire.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Well collectively collectively, John, the's what I would call the
Southern California complex. This is going to be the single
largest fire in the history of California, probably in the country.
The damage is the likely top two hundred billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
That's that's that's overwhelming, absolutely overwhelming, and some of this
was preventable. Patrick McNicholas with McNicholas and McNicholas, whose file
a lawsuit on behalf of his clients, along with other
law firms over the Altadena Eaten fire and Southern California
Anderson being responsible because of a lack of maintenance of
(09:16):
its power lines and other electrical equipment. All right, Patrick,
we'll talk with you again when we come back. The
other lawsuit PA Civic Palisades over the reservoir being bone dry,
and we've got and these lawsuits are the only way
(09:37):
to force the truth out of people, especially since the
media loses interest quickly. This lawsuit is by the firm
Robertson and Associates and also Foley, Besik, Bailey and Curtis,
and we will give you the details on that coming up.
We've got also going to get into Karen Bass. We
(10:00):
want to see pictures of her partying. We have links
on Twitter. The New York Post published the photographs and
you have to click the New York Post link on
our Twitter and on Instagram. Right, all right, all our
social media sites.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Just go there.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am
six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
We got so much to do here.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I'm going to tell you about the Palisades lawsuit over
that one hundred and seventeen million gallon empty reservoir in
just a moment, also after three o'clock, So Ray comes
in here because Nathan Hockman is teaming up with Todd
Spitzer and they are publicly asking for a special session
(10:51):
so the legislature, Ye're I gonna believe this one. Ask
the legislature to make looting a felony punishable by a
state prison sentence. And my first reaction when Ray handed
me this is it's not a felony.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Well, no wonder.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
The looters are running around all over the West side
of La taking whatever they want, breaking into dozens and
dozens of homes. It's not a felony. I guess it
would be a misdemeanor.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
How could that be a misdemeanor?
Speaker 2 (11:26):
And in La County misdemeanors you often don't go to
jail because the jails are overcrowded. Misdemeanors are six months
or six months or less of a jail sentence. And
one of the reasons for the massive crime wave is
when they emptied out the state prisons, the state prisoners
went to the county jails. The county jails were overfilled,
(11:47):
so they stopped prosecuting misdemeanors because there was nowhere.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
To put them.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
And if they weren't prosecuting the misdemeanors. Then the police
stopped arresting people. When the police stopped arresting people, store
it or stopped reporting the thefts.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
You see how that works.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
And then the police department in the La Times will
tell you the crime went down.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Well, of course it went down.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
They weren't reporting the thefts because the police weren't prosecuting,
because the judges couldn't put them in jail because the
jails were filled with prisoners that Jerry Brown had let out.
But who can keep track of all this? It's a
lot of dots to connect.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Well.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Nathan Hawkman is also saying that those charged with looting
will be publicly shamed.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
You know what, I'm ready.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
I think it's they to shoot him on site, and
you know what that's going to happen. I read a
story in the Wall Street Journal. I hope I have
time to get to it. As people in the Palisades
are walking around with guns to guard their property. They're
walking around with loaded guns. We're getting really close here,
and Newsom better get the legislature together and they better
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make it a felony and send people to state prison.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Good lord, put.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Them in with the meanest the baddest the mars in
the same jail cell.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Yes, yes, all a lot of all the sexually frustrated,
violent criminals. They ought to throw these guys in their
naked How.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Dare you loop people after they're losing their homes or evacuating.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
It's despicable. They are all over the place.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
They're crawling around like roaches on the west side, and
the police are nowhere to be seen.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
It's gross.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
More than this is from USA today, there's a dozen
residents Pacific Palisades. They're suing the LADWP because the hydrants
dried up and they didn't fill that reservoir. The Santa
Anez Reservoir, one hundred and seventeen million gallons of water,
has been empty since February of twenty twenty four. You
(13:58):
may have heard that story. We talked about it a lot.
The cover was torn. If you have a pool and
you have a cover, it got torn. Should have taken
them a month to fix, according to employees. Eleven months later,
still not fixed. Hydrants went dry. And do not believe
(14:21):
this idea that nothing could be done. We just played
Michael Valentine, the attorney he lived up in Palisades, talked
to News Nation. He saw the fire start. It was
nearly an hour before the first helicopter showed up. And
we have people in the La Fire Department admitting that
(14:41):
they never sent any teams strike teams to be pre
positioned with engines and firefighters. In fact, fire commanders at
LAFD specifically said no when asked to do it. So
they could have sent staff, They could have sent engines,
they could have been positioned properly. They could have gotten air.
Because stop with the one hundred mile an hour wins
(15:05):
that happened later in the day and the palisades at
ten thirty eleven o'clock, eleven thirty in the morning, it
wasn't a hundred mile an hour wins. It was much
much lower than that. The helicopter was flying. They just
didn't have any available. So enough of this. So anyway,
this pizza, this pizza, this pizza Rea.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Owner, I guess you're hungry. I had the.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Word pizzaria in front of me, yes, and I'm now
I'm longing for one. Residents and a pizzeria owner blames
LADWP for this whole debacle. The complaint is filed in
La County Superior Court by a couple of law firms,
Robertson Associates and folly Besik Bailey and Curtis Film and
pronouncing his name right. We're going to have Roger Bailey
(15:48):
on tomorrow in the two o'clock hour to go through
the details of this lawsuit. I'm just looking at the
description again at the Santa Inez reservoir when the cover
tour then debris and bird droppings were getting into the water.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
So this is over bird droppings.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
So the fire department didn't have one hundred and seventeen
billion gallons of water because eleven months earlier some bird
droppings had had fallen into a hole in the cover
and nobody fixed it. Seriously, if you've lost your house,
this is one of the reasons why. And that Genny's Cunnians.
(16:34):
I got to mention her name ten times a day
two they head of the DWP, she should be gone
as well. How do you leave a reservoir that huge
empty with fire season coming? How do these people live
with them? Well, they're all psychopaths and narcissists. That's how
they don't feel any shame. When we come back. Speaking
(16:55):
of a narcissist, Karen Bass did what we all would do. Right,
if you were the mayor of Los Angeles and you
were told that there's life threatening fires that are going
to break out in a few days, what would you do. Yeah,
you'd fly to Africa like she did. There's now photos
of her enjoying herself at a party in Ghana at
(17:17):
the exact moment the fires started erupting in the Palisades.
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Speaker 1 (18:02):
All right, doing some good in the world.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Los Angeles Times, Boy, they've snapped back. They're doing journalism again,
Julia Wick. They have the story Karen Bass posing for
photos at an embassy cocktail party in Ghana. Pictures are
(18:26):
being posted on social media. We have links so you
could see the photos. They also have some of the
photos at the New York New York Post, and there
are links to certain people's like Facebook sites. I'm sure
these pictures are everywhere now. Karen Bass was in Ghana
(18:50):
for the inauguration of the Ghanian President, John Dromani Muhamma.
She had attended it earlier in the day. Now, remember
the tide line here makes me crazy when people defend her.
She got the extreme fire warning on Thursday, January second,
(19:10):
extreme fire warning. She decides I'll go to Africa. On
January fourth. While she's traveling, the National Weather Service intensified
the warning, trying to explain how deadly these could be,
how dangerous they could be with the fires. She was
(19:33):
gone on Saturday the fourth, on my calendar, right me,
make sure, don't wanna mischaracterize any of this. Yeah, Saturday
the fourth, she was gone. Sunday the fifth, she was gone,
Monday the sixth, she was gone Tuesday the seventh, as
(19:53):
the fires were breaking out. Ghana is eight hours ahead
of Los Angeles, so the.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Fires were burning by ten thirty.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
By twelve o'clock noon, they had probably tripled in size.
The fires were now roaring. The fire department had little
presence for the first hour and a half. Well noon
here in Los Angeles is eight o'clock in Ghana. So
(20:25):
she was at the cocktail party. The US Ambassador to
Ghana hosted the reception for this American delegation. It says
that it was part of a Biden administration delegation that
Joe Biden had asked her, do you think Joe Biden
knows who the president of Ghana is? Do you think
he could identify Ghana on a map? Some Biden flunkies
(20:49):
had to send four people over to honor the President
of Ghana, and Karen Vass was picked, and she said, sure,
extreme fire warnings, deadly fires, possible.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Life threatening wins. Yeah, I'll go to Africa.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Now they're saying, well, she spent most of the party
making calls in a separate room. Boy, you guys are
a bunch of phony, blooney liars. There's photos of her
posing with the president, posing with other people at the party.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
She was supposed to be here.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
When the warnings went out on Thursday, and she should
have been running the emergency response Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday
Monday Tuesday. How many days is that Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday,
six days. She should have been in the hot seat
for six days. She went off on Saturday. She appears
(21:52):
to have been posing for photos just before eight pm
in Ghana. Just before twelve in Los Angeles, The La
Times looked at a photo very closely and found they
could see somebody's watch, So that's how they know what
time one party goer's watch is visible. Minutes after that
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photo was taken, evacuation orders were issued in the Palisades.
So this idea that she was on the phone. No,
she was taking a picture at a cocktail party. The
evacuation orders were being sent out without her knowledge. She
had no idea standing at that party that they were
(22:37):
evacuating the Palisades and that within a day the entire
town would the flatland area and the highlands would be destroyed.
The photo was posted and was posted on Instagram and
LinkedIn by Marissa Bowman, a city staffer who was not
part of the official delegation. I guess she went as
(22:59):
bass friend. If she's not part of the official delegation,
she works for the city. Well, what was she doing there?
She's taking the party photos. Maybe she could have helped
out with the evacuation warnings, and then she posts them.
This is what's hysterical. She posts them bassist spokeshole. Who's
(23:26):
this guy, Zack Sidell. They're still trying to push this
idea that she took a military flight.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
So what.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
I hate all the spin they do. Your your ass
should have been in the commander's seat here in the
emergency operations room. You're six days late, and you're trying
to say I took a military playing back after you
went to the party, when Palisades residents were running for
(23:58):
their lives up at a traffic jam down Palisades Drive,
people screaming. We had a woman who jumped from her
car while she was on the air with us. Palm
trees were burning. They're running for their lives. They left
behind all their possessions, never to be seen again. Several
people died. Oh, I came back on a military plane
(24:22):
right away. F you.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Resign, get out? Who wants her here? Go go?
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (24:34):
These are French laundry pictures, you know. And people didn't
have the good sense to toss noosem out at the
French laundry photos.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
And guess what.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
He was part of the botched response, and when he
was caught by that Palisades mother, he lied and said,
I'm on the phone with Joe Biden. These are selfish, narcissistic,
pathological liars. That's what you have running the state and
this city, including most of the city council and most
(25:07):
of the Assembly and state Senate. And you think they're not.
You still want to support these people, You want to donate.
What do they have to do, What do they have
to do for you to be convinced that this crowd
is dangerous and is destroying the state, actively destroying the
(25:29):
state as we speak. The criminals weren't enough. All the theft,
the smashing grabs, the seventy thousand mental patients and drug
addicts in the street weren't enough.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Now burning down.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Pacific Palisades and out DA data, that's not enough.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
And then all the lies.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Putting twenty thousand businesses out of business during COVID, closing
the schools for a year and a half, ruining kids' childhoods.
What else can they do? What else can they do
to destroy this place? Got to take a break.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A
six forty.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Coming up after three o'clock. Todd Spitzer, the Orange County DA.
He's teaming up with Nathan Hakman, the La County DA,
demanding that Newsom call a special legislative session to make
looting a felony.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Yeah, looting is not a felony in California.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
And if it's a felony, it would be punishable by
state prison sentence. Who knew? There's so much I've learned
this week. Who knew that you could loot somebody's house
and you're not going to go to prison? And now
you have Hawkman and Spitzer asking Newsom. And by the way,
(27:01):
to contact Newsom, you have to call the French Lungey directly.
It's like in the old movies. They'll come with a
phone on a tray. Call for mister Newsom. Hi, there's
fire and looting in La. This is from the New
York Times. Before taking office, LA's mayor said she would
(27:24):
not go abroad. Another story this week. After the first
rally in her campaign for mayor. She ran for mayor
back in twenty twenty one, Karen Bass spoke candidly about
what she saw as a potential drawback to the job.
She wouldn't be able to engage in world, to travel
(27:47):
anymore and participate in global affairs. Bass was accustomed to
circling the globe. This is The New York Times, accustomed
to circling the globe. As a dimocratic member of Congress,
she was on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. She had
spent decades working on US Africa relations. She said it
(28:10):
was the most absorbing, one of the most absorbing parts
of her political career. In October seventeenth, twenty twenty one,
in an interview, she told The Times, I went to
Africa every couple of months all the time. The idea
of leaving that, especially the international work and the Africa work,
I was like, hmm, I don't think I want to
do that. She actually considered not running for mayor because
(28:34):
she wouldn't be able to travel to Africa, and then
decided she would and told The Times, and this is
a quote, that if she was elected mayor, not only
would I of course live here, oh thank you. Of
course I would live in LA but I would also
(28:55):
not travel internationally. The only places I would go would
be DC, Sacramento, San Francisco, and New York in relation
to la That was the promise, and then she got
an invitation to the inauguration for the President of Ghana.
(29:16):
Who could resist? I could see how that would be tempting.
So she flies away eight time zones two days after
the Weather Service put out the extreme fire warning and
didn't come back. Didn't leave until Tuesday after the Palisades
was burning. And as we told you in the last segment,
they have proof that she was taking smiling photos at
(29:39):
the party at the exact moment that evacuations began in
the Palisades. And have you noticed all her press conferences
she has been angry and dismissive and refuses to apologize.
What no sense trying to pry the fake apology out
of her. Out of her She's not sorry anything.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
She shuts down reporters.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
It's gotten to the point now at these press conferences
she doesn't speak until the seventh or eighth person is gone,
and then she'll battle some platitudes and cliches and nonsense
because she's trying to hide from the reporters who want
to know, why, why would you do that? Can you
(30:28):
imagine if you were mayor? And then her her her
minions her her sycophants. Well, it wouldn't have mattered anyway, Yeah,
it would have mattered. The thing burned for an hour
before the l A Fire Department had any serious presence.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
And what was she doing the last year that that
reservoir was dry? Did she know? If she didn't know,
how could she not know. They're the ones who keep
saying fire season is year around now, you know, know this
climate change?
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Well, if it's so serious, why aren't you taking extraordinary
efforts to fight it, like fill up the reservoir for
the deadly wildfires you say are gonna be with us
all year round?
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Do you notice they don't do anything?
Speaker 2 (31:20):
If it's so serious, why is the fire department only
funded fifty percent of what it should be? How serious
can your alleged climate change year round fire season? B
If the fire department is underfunded by fifty percent, understaffed
(31:46):
by fifty percent, and even the people we have and
the fire engines we have and the equipment, it's all
sitting around. They didn't deploy four hundred, they didn't employ
forty engines. They'd employ one thousand firefighters that they could have.
Oh you know, nothing could have been done really, nothing
(32:06):
could be You're a lot bunch of liars. Of course,
plenty could have been done, especially in that first hour.
You should have had strike.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Teams up in the hills in the Palisades and all
the hilly areas.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
You had one thousand guys and forty engines and they
were sitting in the garages. And then we find out
there's another one hundred engines that need to be fixed,
but they don't have the money for the mechanics. What
are they doing with all the money we pay in taxes?
If I told you how much money I paid taxes,
you'd dropped dead.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
Three forty five Today, the mayor is holding a media
availability after meeting with volunteers and service providers assisting those
affected with the Palisades fire.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
I only want to hear two words at her, I resign.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
That's it. There is no explanation that anybody wants to hear,
No fake apology, no nothing. Just go get out because
a head has to be put on a stick here
because it's got to be a warning that scares the
hell out of all these other idiot politicians. Somebody's got
(33:17):
to go or these idiots are going to think, Wow,
there are really no consequences. It doesn't matter what we do.
The voters aren't going to force us out. They're not
going to vote us out. Somebody has to go or
this is going to get worse. She can't survive this.
If she survives, if she survives this, we won't look
how far they're willing to go. She was willing to
(33:39):
fly to Africa during extreme fire warning because she thought, well,
what would the consequences be?
Speaker 1 (33:45):
What could happen?
Speaker 2 (33:46):
La Burns. They're still not going to get rid of me.
I'm gonna save seat. I didn't even know that she
She already announced her reelection plans last summer and I'm
reading today.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Oh, everybody thought she was a shoe in. She was
a shoe in. That's what she thought.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
So she thought I could go to Africa during extreme
fire danger. Just a big middle finger to everybody in
the Palisades, big middle finger. So of course she has
to resign, immediately, change dot Org, put in Karen Bass,
put your name on that petition. Keep the pressure up
here Deborah Mark, Live in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hey,
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