March 10, 2025 • 38 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (03/10) - John had a turbulent flight home last night from Arizona. Why did Mayor Karen Bass delete 2 months worth of text messages? The head of LADWP has hired private security after a lot of public scrutiny after the fires. LA is in a lot of financial trouble.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John
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podcast John Cobelt Show on demand posted after four o'clock
on the iHeart app as well. I was in Arizona
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over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Welcome back.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
We missed you well. Meeting a whole bunch of East
Coast friends and my brother and we went to a
couple of baseball games and it was cold and rainy there.
On Friday, it was it was like Northeast weather. And
I've been to Arizona many times and that's the first
time I did. Everybody had the wrong coats, everybody was dressed.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Check the forecast.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
I did. I was prepared, nobody else was.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Oh okay.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
I was telling you about the plane flight last night.
We're landing about ten o'clock and normally, if things go well,
the plane glides in slowly and sometimes you'd hardly even
notice that you're landing. Right this thing dropped from the sky.
I wasn't paying attention and suddenly bang, it hit hard
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and then it starts to skid, and then the plane
was tilting like a seesaw with the left wing and
the right wing and the left wing and the right
It's like, what the hell is going on?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
That is so terrifying, and.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Everybody in the plane is going whoa, whoa, like we
were on some kind of amusement park ride. And no explanation,
of course, no apology explanation.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I ask didn't you ask a flight attendant or are
you They don't know anything. Sometimes they do or go
to the pilot as you're as you're getting out and say, hey, dude.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Hey, what was that? What? But that, uh, that was
not one of your finest moments. There were you worried
it was gonna flip over like that one plane. Well,
actually that's the first thing that popped in my mind,
like how would that work? Like what kind of forces
do you need to have it flip over? Because it
was it was teetering and you could see that he
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was trying to get control of it and it was
going really fast.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
And it was it wasn't windy, was it.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
No, we didn't have crazy winds like we did last
month or no.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
The weather was fine. In fact, That's what I was wondering,
I thought, because I knew a storm was coming, but
I hadn't looked at the forecast. I didn't know if
it had started last night or it was coming Tuesday.
So I'm thinking, well, maybe the storm's here. And that
was a wind gust, you know, the wind shear uh
and and and it was felt like we were careening
down a hillside road on an I and I see
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hillside road. That's what it felt like. And it was
making a screeching sound too. Oh yeah, there was nothing
normal about it at all.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
John, I'm surprised that you didn't. You didn't get to
the bottom of that and find out what happened.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
I just wanted to get out of there and get home.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
And this was Lax, not Burbank, because sometimes Burbank, you.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Know, you have that they have a short run that
because they had a gas station at the end of
the runway. I've never oh yeah, yeah, there's a gas
station at the end of one of the runways.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Oh, I'm have to pay more attention.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Yeah, so if that's your runway, you better hope he
hits the brake hard.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Oh, that would not be good. Yeah, Now give me
something else.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Story, Yeah, do you take Burbank?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Yes, of course.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Oh yeah, Well I'll keep track of the runways they use.
I'll give you another net set of nightmares. But while
I was gone, the one story that broke over the
weekend that I can't, I can't and I can't believe this.
This there is a big cover up going on. I mean,
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this is a serious cover up, and maybe some kind
of crime has been committed here. Did you see that
Karen Bass erased two months worth of text messages from
the day of the fire onward. She deleted all the
text messages.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
And isn't her office claiming that that there's no way
that they save her text messages? That they can't, they can't,
they can't, they can't find them.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
They're claiming that she has a setting on her phone
for auto delete, which I'd never heard of, and I
haven't a time to go and see if my phone
has this auto delete. Well, what kind of business are
you in that you got to delete all your message immediately?
I imagine drug runners do that, right if you want
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to erase evidence. I mean, I only delete messages if
I've said something exceptionally rude about someone.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Oh and I think, well, there you go.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
You don't want somebody to yes, right, exactly right.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
So she did not want her text messages seen by
the public.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
For two months, she's been doing this and for Los
Angeles Times sent out a public records request for all
messages sent or received by the mayor while in either
while on transit on January seventh and eighth that mentioned
the fire response or her travel plans. And they wouldn't
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release this for two months, and the Times kept bugging her,
and they finally got a message back from a lawyer,
David Michaelson. She's lawyered up now he's a city lawyer.
Her phone is not set to save text messages, and
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Michaelson claims there is no requirement that a city official
or employee saved text messages. What do you mean that
knows how they changed the subject or requirement And that's
not true. But I'll get to that in a second.
No requirement, but why are you deleting them? See that
sidesteps the question, what's the motivation to delete all your
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text messages, especially on those days because they know, you know, instinctively,
she's seventy years old. What stuff goes wrong? There's always investigations,
there could be lawsuits, there could be criminal behavior. You've
got to save them. The city's own document retention policies
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dictate that most records should be kept for at least
two years. Furthermore, because that's just policies, right, under state law,
any writing related to the conduct of government is deemed
a public record. And it was January tenth. The Times
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filed a public records request for all text messages for
those two days. Two months later, and presumably all her
I bet you all her texts for the last two
months have been deleted as well. Now is here anything
the lawyer or her office? Well, this sounds like it
was written by a lawyer in office. After two months,
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they finally responded to the La Times and said it
had no responsive records. Oh what does that mean? That's
some kind of weasel phrase. There's a cover up here.
She is terrified of people finding out about her accommunications,
and so's everybody else in her office, because maybe then
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they'd all really be out of a job, they all
should be out on the street. And so now we've
got the big, the big fire cover up here. Did
she have text messages with Kristin Crowley?
Speaker 2 (07:55):
But she said that she she wasn't warned.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
She claimed she was in constant yea, she claimed she
wasn't warned. And then she was claimed she was in
constant contact from that military plane. It took her twenty
four hours to get home seven thousand miles away. And
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now this this this attorney, Well, let me go back
to the no responsive records that that Bass's office gave
as the reason. They never explained whether it was whether
the office was withholding any records period like they just said,
we have no responsive response, which is no responsive records,
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which does it. It doesn't mean you don't have stuff,
and it doesn't explain whether you're choosing not to release
it or they don't exist. No reasons were given for
not producing the records. Then on Friday, see that was Thursday.
On Friday, the lawyer Michaelson said that Bass's phone auto
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deletes text messages and has for at least two years.
Los Angeles Administrative Code Section twelve point three B six
dictates that most records shall I means you must shall
be retained for a minimum of two years, unless a
shorter period is otherwise permitted by law, or a longer
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period is required by law, or if there's some other
state law that contradicts it. So there's state law, there's
Los Angeles Administrative Code, there's the city document retention policies.
Michaelson is trying to argue on a technicality, saying that
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that particular section does not apply to texts because there
was some state attorney general opinion from nineteen eighty one,
except there are no text messages in nineteen eighty one.
Texts are ephemeral, and when you have fleeting thoughts and
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random bits of information is not something that people in
political office have to protect. Well, text is not ephemeral. Well,
there's no difference, really functional difference between a text in
any email.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
But if you're having lawsuits over the fire, then this, no,
this is this is absurd.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
You know, and it's just our right to know just
how badly you screwed this up, and how badly all
the other people in government screwed this up. That's our
right to know. Don't start quoting nineteen eighty one attorney
general opinions that must have been what fifteen twenty years
before there were text messages. Wow, so they're covering up
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a big story. You notice she doesn't speak very far. Yeah,
we're moving forward. We're moving forward. This really is outrageous.
It's because there's a lot of bad stuff. Wow.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
There's a a guy named David loy' is the First
Amendment Coalition legal director, and he disagreed with Bass's lawyer
on the interpretation of that nineteen eighty one opinion. Yes,
text can be considered ephemeral, just like emails. But as
I as I read the plain language of LA's administrative Code,
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the city imposes on itself a more stringent record retection
requirement than state law might require otherwise. And another attorney
and public records expert named Kelly Avilas said the expl
explanation offered by Bass's lawyer is flawed. A mayor does
not get to determine what is or is not a
public record based on the device used.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Can't you find her text in the cloud? I'm assuming
she has an iPhone. That could be incorrect, but I
feel like there must be a way to find these
deleted texts.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
I wonder if all the recipients have also deleted all
their texts. On the other end, of course they have. Well,
my I've looked into how my system works. If I
delete a text, it's still held for thirty days. But
you have to go out of your way to auto delete.
Is just something I'm not familiar with. I'm sure there's
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ten thousand settings that I can explain it to you
during the break, because there is an auto delete feature
on the iPhone. Oh there is?
Speaker 5 (12:44):
Okay, all right, you're listening to John Cobelt on demand
from KFI Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
We're on every day from one until four o'clock. You
can follow us at John Cobelt Radio on social media
John Cobelt Radio on social media. So Eric investigated his
own phone here because we were talking about how Karen
Bass apparently has no text messages from the days of
the fire or maybe anything else that she has a
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setting on her phone for auto delete. There is no
auto delete setting on an iPhone. Eric just showed me.
You have to go into settings and you could decide
to keep your emails for thirty days and then they
would go poof. I'm sorry, the text messages correct thirty days,
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then your text messages would all self delete. Or you
can keep your texts around for a year, or you
keep them forever. Now those are the only three settings
thirty days a year or forever. Otherwise you've got to
constantly delete the messages yourself by hand. So unless she
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he's got some other phone system, I mean, I don't
know about the Android system. I never had an Android phone.
And they're claiming that a nineteen eighty one Attorney General
opinion in California, with the language you could interpret it
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that a text message can be considered ephemeral and you
would be required to save it. But they're talking about
there is no There were no text messages in nineteen
eighty one. The very first one Eric discovered was nineteen
ninety two, and I don't remember any text messages in
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the nineteen nineties. It was I guess you could do
them when the flip phones came out, but they were difficult.
You didn't have a regular keyboard where you could easily type.
You had to use the phone buttons, and you had
to match the letters under each digit for the phone
dialing buttons. So I don't ever remember until I got
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an iPhone, a smartphone, which would have been in twenty thirteen.
I had a BlackBerry for a few years before that,
but I just don't remember texting my life. So the
idea of a nineteen eighty one opinion by the Attorney
General having any relevance just sounds preposterous. And the fact
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that they had to go search for an excuse back
to nineteen eighty one shows you that they're aggressively trying
to cover it up, because I'm sure that Karen Bass
didn't know that there was an attorney general opinion in
nineteen eighty one which never applied to texts anyway. So
this is and considering it took two months for them
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to respond to the La Times request for the public records,
and then they came out with this hash of an
excuse an explanation. They've done bad stuff here. Now, if
she destroyed these records, what's the penalty, And who's going
to investigate to determine if she destroyed the records? Since
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we have one party rule in the state, nobody's going
to go after her out.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
What about Governor Newsom. You know he has this new podcast, yes, the.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
New and Improved Governor news that's right, that's right.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
He is trying to run for president, even though he
denies that, so he should be investigating this.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
That's right. If he wants to show that he's a
new newsom yep, that he's down the middle newsom yep.
Then I think he ought to have his Attorney general
start an investigation and come to a conclusion first whether
she violated the law, and then see if there are
any backups here, something on the cloud like you said yes,
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or maybe some of the recipients. You could subpoena Kristin
Crowley's phone and the phone of that that Dufus, the
acting mayor or Marquise Harris Dawson.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
I'm sure Kristin Crowley has some text right that she's
holding on to. I bet that she didn't delete them because.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
She, oh, because she needs it for her case exactly right,
exactly or because eventually, uh, the grim political reaper is
going to come for her and then she's going to
be filing a lawsuit over a wrongful firing because Kenonia's
has got to be the well Bass has got to go,
and Kenonias has got to go. Let's start there, and
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everybody on on Bassis staff they were probably firing her
off thousands of messages to each other that that will
be little Wiener guy who mixed stuff up, Zach Sidel,
I think that's his name. All of them, all of
them should have their uh, all their messages confiscated, because
not only were they part of the greatest botch in
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any city's history, no city has ever So for the
losses that Los Angeles did so fast in a fire,
nobody was prepared. Nobody took it seriously. And that's the truth.
Nobody took it seriously. No one was prepared. The response
was horrific. Now did all the are all these people
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they have phones on auto delete? I wonder if we
could get a subpoena on everybody's text messages, if we'd
find out they're all on Well, there is no what
am I saying? There is no auto delete, not on
an iPhone. There's no such thing. You'd have to intentionally
decide to delete the message.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Apple should be investigating.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
And by the way, we don't have any proof that
what he's saying is true. Is this David Michaelson, He
could just be saying stuff. Well, that's what my client
told me. So did Karen bas say, yes, mister Michael,
my phone's on auto delete? And did he bother to
check again? Assuming an iPhone chance it might not be one?
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So that this is nonsense here, this is cover up
what they did collectively. If it isn't a crime, it
ought to be a crime, and it certainly is going
to invite massive civil lawsuits and it should. And you
know what, the people involved, like Karen Bass ought to
have her all her net worth liquidated. She ought to
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pay the families whatever she's got, whatever she's collected in
all her years of public service. She ought to be
paying off the families personally. And that Quinone's character. Oh,
we'll get to her next. Suddenly, we're going to be
spending seven hundred thousand dollars a year on security for
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Genie Kinonias the DW Do you believe this? The Heat's
keep on coming.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
A six forty. We're on every day from one until
four and after four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand
also on the iHeart app. Well, we're gonna have Nathan
hochmannon coming up after two o'clock. We just got to
confirm that he's going to talk about his decisions in
the Menendez brother's case. He had an announcement today, so
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we'll get into that after two o'clock. A lot going on.
We've been talking about Karen Bass. It was discovered by
the La Times that Karen Bass deleted all her text
messages from the days of the fire, every one of
them lost gone, and her attorney, David Michaelson is claiming
she has auto delete, a setting for auto delete, and
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I'm looking up online to see if android phones have
such a thing. But that you know, they have something
where you can delete old messages.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
But.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
You have to you have to turn that on yourself.
You have to decide which the timeframe for which old
messages you want deleted, like I said, Like I said
on iPhone, you get to choose either it gets deleted
after thirty days a year or you keep them forever. Now,
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another one of the characters in this horrific tragedy was
Genie Kinonies. She was the uh ding dong that didn't
refill the seti Inez reservoir, which was one hundred and
seventeen million gallons, And she's getting a lot of criticism.
So now the DWP, and this is tomorrow, at their meeting,
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they're going to consider whether to spend seven hundred and
three thousand, five hundred and seventy seven dollars on on
security for her. Yeah, that's the exact number, seven hundred
three thousand and five seventy seven because of all the
threats that she's getting. And again there was very low
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water pressure, very little water available, and the Santienez reservoir
sat empty for a year. There was a torn cover
on top of the reservoir. Should have been fixed in
a month for one hundred and thirty grand. So they
didn't spend one hundred and thirty grand to fix the
reservoir cover. But they've got seven hundred and three thousand
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dollars to give her security because of all the crap
she's taken from the public. That's fascinating. They're going to
spend what six times as much money on her security
they would have cost to fix the cover. Now, the
cheap excuse that the DWP is given for not doing
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their job and fixing the cover was on. They had
to go through a competitive bidding process, you know, that's
those are the rules. Oh, you want to hear this one.
Her security contract is not going through a formal competitive
bidding process. They're just awarding the money to Pinkerton Consulting
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and Investigations. She's going to get one designated armed security
agent and a driver a driver. So now after not
filling up the reservoir, the reward is she's going to
get driven to work and back every day under the
guise of security. The company will provide security agents trained
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in personal safety, defensive tactics, travel security, and surveillance. They
all have military or surveillance backgrounds. Has a water administrator
ever needed?
Speaker 2 (24:00):
This is a first.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
She apparently spoke at the DWP Commission meeting upset with
her critics because a lot of people said she wasn't qualified,
because she wasn't qualified, and she said that she had
twenty years plus involved in emergency management for the US
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Coast Guard. I also have a mechanical engineering degree. I
graduated with honors. I have two graduate degrees, and I
like to get tough jobs, and this is a tough job. Well,
what was the use of your degrees? You got a
me mechanical engineering degree and two graduate degrees, but you
couldn't fix basically an oversized pool cover. They didn't teach
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that in graduate school that if your cover's torn. Instead,
they drained the reservoir. They drained the reservoir and then
they kept it empty for a year. Maybe she needed
a third or fourth degree, and she could have figured
out to fix the cover or replace the cover in
a month, because that's what it would have took it most,
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and then refill the reservoir before fire season. This is
a phenomenon that we are plagued with in this country.
People with degrees and no common sense. They're educated and
they're stupid. Guy I know once described them as educated fools,
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and that's what they are. They're educated fools. They love
to waive their diplomas at you. Why you know, I'm
an expert. Look at this engineering degree, and I've got
this graduate degree, and I got a graduate Say you
know what, that's really wonderful. It proves you can sit
in a classroom at a desk and pass tests. But
when there's a moment like hey there's tens of thousands
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of homes that might burn down, why didn't you fill
the red Why didn't you fix the cover? And by
the way, they could have fixed the cover in a month.
In one month using DWP personnel, they didn't have to
put it out for a competitive bid. Of course, you don't.
You declare an emergency. That's what they did with her
security detail. They just declared it an emergency. There was
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no formal competitive big processes, although word got out and
they received two other proposals that were far more expensive.
Glad to know they're saving a little money there. Why
was she speaking though at length about her resume and
she hasn't spoken about why she didn't fell the reservoir.
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How come they didn't ask her that at the hearing?
This is what I don't understand. She's speaking out defending
your resume. Yet your resume is going to put out
the fire. Your resume is going to fill out, fill
up the reservoir. Why don't you talk about what your
thought process was? If there was a thought process and
ignoring the damn thing for eleven months, why don't any
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of them talk about this? Kristen Crowley never talked about it.
She had a lot to say at the hearing when
she was before the city council what she was trying
to save her own ass. But actually, you know what
the public wants to know, You know what every homeowner
in the Palin States wants to know. It was like,
why wasn't the restivoir filled up? Why? What's wrong with
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you people? Karen Bass deletes her email messages. Keinoniaz is
waiving all her graduate degrees in the air, Crowley is
filling out all the paperwork to challenge her firing, and
you know, get some kind of settlement from the city.
Nobody is saying a word about the reservoir or why
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the firefighters. The firefighters were many of them were late.
Many neighborhoods, they never showed.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Didn't show up.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
I had dinner with friends over the weekend and they
lost their home in the Palisades. Not a single firefighter
showed up to their block.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
So you have a friend where the firefighters never showed.
I have a friend the firefighters never showed and he
stayed there all five thirty in the afternoon, and six
point fifteen his house burned down. He watched it on
the ring camera. Fire starts at ten thirty. This is
what you said. They figured out that the fire had
to bring.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Thousands of homes.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
She never, in her wildest dreams, thought she would have
to evacuate, And then when they did evacuate, she just packed,
not even that much because she thought for sure her
house was going to be fine, and it wasn't.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
But the fire I had to go through thousands of homes. Yes,
to get to your friend's house. Yes, all right, So
how come no firefighters got in the way in all
on all those blocks where five thousand homes were situated.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
That's what they're trying to figure out.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Nobody talks about that. Kenunyas has got plenty of information
if you'd like to go through all her her graduate degrees.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Who's her boss?
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Best hired her or appointed her? Because the city, the
city decides what goes on at the DWP. It's like
one of those quasi independent agencies, but ultimately it's the
city and the city council.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
So it'd have to be Bass would have to fire
her as she did Crowley.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Yes, I think so, because she's the one who appointed her. Okay,
I don't know if the commission I sometimes they have
these processes, so I don't know the exact answer. One
reason they went to private security is Kennia has got
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protection from the LA Airport Police at first, then a
detail of LAPD officers, and now they're going to go
spend seven hundred thousand on private security. Wow, that's about
five or six pool covers. There Have they ever filled
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up the reservoir since? Well? I guess there's nothing left
to burn, so it doesn't matter. And why did Karen
Bass to lead all our text messages from the fire arm?
And we're going to keep asking that. This is intensifying
because not only do you have to me this is
all a crime. Now we're finding out about the cover up.
Now we're finding out how nobody wants to talk and
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everybody's the leading messages, and suddenly lawyers are being quoted
instead of the principles responsible.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Can this be something that Hawkman can get involved in?
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Yeah, I wonder no he I think he has some
process charges, but the Attorney General could conduct an investigation.
We'll talk more about this coming up, and Nathan Hakman
is going to talk about his Medendez brother's stance coming
up after two o'clock.
Speaker 5 (31:02):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
In about ten minutes twelve minutes, we're going to have
Nathan Hochman on the Alley County District Attorney. He made
a public statement today saying he's going to ask the
court to withdraw gas Goon's motion for resentencing. Gascone wanted
the court to resentence the Menendez brothers, presumably the time
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served and then they'd be able to get out, and
Hawkman said today no, because, among other things, the Menendez
brothers keep lying about their rolling the case. The brothers
persist in telling lies about the self defense that they claimed.
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We will talk to Nathan Hakman for details there, but
he wants to withdraw motion. It's interesting because in the
past week, Newsom was making noises about asking the parole
Board to determine whether the Menendez brothers would be a
safe release, do an analysis on the impact of releasing
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the Menendez brothers. How would they behave if they were
let go? So it seems like Newsom is going on
in one direction Hakman and the other. Well, have Nathan
Hakman coming on after two o'clock. We've been telling you
this hour that the Karen Bass I think the headline
of the weekend was Karen Bass it's been discovered deleted
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all her fire messages, everything from that whole fire week.
That's that's all gone. And it took them two months
before they admitted it. They refused to respond to the
La Times request for the public information and they claim, well,
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it's on auto delete, which now you have to even
if it's on they had to manually decide to delete
whatever's deleted. That that's a conscious decision that you make
on your phone. And then he's relying on some nineteen
eighty one Attorney General opinion on ephemeral communications. There were
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no text messages in nineteen eighty one, so you could
tell this is a load. This is a load of
horse veces. Here she erased everything because she doesn't want
the world to know what was really going on. It's
too embarrassing. It's proof of her incompetence. Somebody looked at
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the messages and said, well, these have got to go.
No good. Meantime, the DWP is going to consider tomorrow
to spend seven hundred thousand dollars for security for Genice Qinoniez,
the lady who didn't fill the reservoir. And on top
of all this, the city Controller Kenneth Mahea says the
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City of Los Angeles is in trouble financially. Basically, it's broke.
They have a shortfall of one hundred and forty million
dollars for this fiscal year, another seventy three million next year.
The city is going to spend overspend three hundred million
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dollars three hundred million dollars over budget, and he says,
we have a big gap to fill. You know what's
one of the big costs. One hundred million dollars in
fire department over time.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Well, doesn't Kenyons make a lot of money? Can't she
pay for her own security?
Speaker 1 (34:51):
She makes seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year, right,
so yes, she could pay for her own security. Problem
solved and she should. Why we're DWP customers.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Yes we are.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Why do I have to pay for Denise Cononie's security?
Speaker 2 (35:07):
I don't want to. I'm paying enough.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
I could be gone for three weeks and my DWP
bill will be exactly the same as what I'm home.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
For three weeks.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Isn't that fascinating? Yes? How does that work? So?
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Why am I getting screwed?
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Seven hundred thousand dollars in security? And she makes seven
hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year, soha says, one
hundred million dollars in overtime? But but what the allright?
This this is from Katie Rslavsky. Oh she's the she's
the chair of the City council Budget Committee. Oh my god,
(35:44):
she couldn't run a lemonade stand look at the Look
at the idiots in charge of Los Angeles, Katie r Aslavsky,
she couldn't even get that naked woman who is sleeping
on a sofa in the middle of San Vicente Boulevard
off the show. Remember that there was a naked woman
who was on the front page of the London Daily Mail.
(36:07):
She's living on a sofa, totally nude, and Katie Arslovsky
couldn't figure it out, couldn't figure out how to get
her off the street. Oh, she's in charge of the budget.
Yaryslavsky says, one hundred million dollars in overtime. But really,
what the fire department needs, based on conversations with them,
(36:30):
is their facilities need to be upgraded. No kidding, Wow,
we're talking Albert Einstein level genius here. Really, you mean
the news about the one hundred fire trucks being in
the garage with no mechanics to fix them, that led
(36:50):
you to believe they need an upgrading facilities. In fact,
she says they need more people fixing the trucks.
Speaker 4 (36:57):
No, really, you didn't know that they were missing dozens
of mechanics. What about the fire hydrants, the fire hydrants too,
the fire engines, the fire hydrants, the mechanics, the water.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Wow, they really destroyed the place when no one was looking,
and we still wouldn't have known it except for the fire.
It exposed everything. But the city is broke. Yeah, Karen Bass,
I can't tell you what a good choice that was.
If you voted for Karen Bass, would you move before
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you vote for her again the next time? Could you
please move out of the city if you voted for
her before we come back. Nathan Hackman and he wants
to withdraw the George gascon re sentencing petition that was
sent to the court about the Menendez brothers. He doesn't
(37:57):
want a resentencing hearing because he doesn't want them anenda.
His brothers very likely to be released. Debor Mark Live
CAFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to
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and if you miss anything, that's where we've got the
podcast John Cobelt Show on demand posted after four o'clock
on the iHeart app as well. I was in Arizona
(00:24):
over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Welcome back.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
We missed you well. Meeting a whole bunch of East
Coast friends and my brother and we went to a
couple of baseball games and it was cold and rainy there.
On Friday, it was it was like Northeast weather. And
I've been to Arizona many times and that's the first
time I did. Everybody had the wrong coats, everybody was dressed.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Check the forecast.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
I did. I was prepared, nobody else was.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Oh okay.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
I was telling you about the plane flight last night.
We're landing about ten o'clock and normally, if things go well,
the plane glides in slowly and sometimes you'd hardly even
notice that you're landing. Right this thing dropped from the sky.
I wasn't paying attention and suddenly bang, it hit hard
(01:19):
and then it starts to skid, and then the plane
was tilting like a seesaw with the left wing and
the right wing and the left wing and the right
It's like, what the hell is going on?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
That is so terrifying, and.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Everybody in the plane is going whoa, whoa, like we
were on some kind of amusement park ride. And no explanation,
of course, no apology explanation.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I ask didn't you ask a flight attendant or are
you They don't know anything. Sometimes they do or go
to the pilot as you're as you're getting out and say, hey, dude.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Hey, what was that? What? But that, uh, that was
not one of your finest moments. There were you worried
it was gonna flip over like that one plane. Well,
actually that's the first thing that popped in my mind,
like how would that work? Like what kind of forces
do you need to have it flip over? Because it
was it was teetering and you could see that he
(02:19):
was trying to get control of it and it was
going really fast.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
And it was it wasn't windy, was it.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
No, we didn't have crazy winds like we did last
month or no.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
The weather was fine. In fact, That's what I was wondering,
I thought, because I knew a storm was coming, but
I hadn't looked at the forecast. I didn't know if
it had started last night or it was coming Tuesday.
So I'm thinking, well, maybe the storm's here. And that
was a wind gust, you know, the wind shear uh
and and and it was felt like we were careening
down a hillside road on an I and I see
(02:51):
hillside road. That's what it felt like. And it was
making a screeching sound too. Oh yeah, there was nothing
normal about it at all.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
John, I'm surprised that you didn't. You didn't get to
the bottom of that and find out what happened.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
I just wanted to get out of there and get home.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
And this was Lax, not Burbank, because sometimes Burbank, you.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Know, you have that they have a short run that
because they had a gas station at the end of
the runway. I've never oh yeah, yeah, there's a gas
station at the end of one of the runways.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Oh, I'm have to pay more attention.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Yeah, so if that's your runway, you better hope he
hits the brake hard.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Oh, that would not be good. Yeah, Now give me
something else.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Story, Yeah, do you take Burbank?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Yes, of course.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Oh yeah, Well I'll keep track of the runways they use.
I'll give you another net set of nightmares. But while
I was gone, the one story that broke over the
weekend that I can't, I can't and I can't believe this.
This there is a big cover up going on. I mean,
(04:00):
this is a serious cover up, and maybe some kind
of crime has been committed here. Did you see that
Karen Bass erased two months worth of text messages from
the day of the fire onward. She deleted all the
text messages.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
And isn't her office claiming that that there's no way
that they save her text messages? That they can't, they can't,
they can't, they can't find them.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
They're claiming that she has a setting on her phone
for auto delete, which I'd never heard of, and I
haven't a time to go and see if my phone
has this auto delete. Well, what kind of business are
you in that you got to delete all your message immediately?
I imagine drug runners do that, right if you want
(04:50):
to erase evidence. I mean, I only delete messages if
I've said something exceptionally rude about someone.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Oh and I think, well, there you go.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
You don't want somebody to yes, right, exactly right.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
So she did not want her text messages seen by
the public.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
For two months, she's been doing this and for Los
Angeles Times sent out a public records request for all
messages sent or received by the mayor while in either
while on transit on January seventh and eighth that mentioned
the fire response or her travel plans. And they wouldn't
(05:30):
release this for two months, and the Times kept bugging her,
and they finally got a message back from a lawyer,
David Michaelson. She's lawyered up now he's a city lawyer.
Her phone is not set to save text messages, and
(05:54):
Michaelson claims there is no requirement that a city official
or employee saved text messages. What do you mean that
knows how they changed the subject or requirement And that's
not true. But I'll get to that in a second.
No requirement, but why are you deleting them? See that
sidesteps the question, what's the motivation to delete all your
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text messages, especially on those days because they know, you know, instinctively,
she's seventy years old. What stuff goes wrong? There's always investigations,
there could be lawsuits, there could be criminal behavior. You've
got to save them. The city's own document retention policies
(06:35):
dictate that most records should be kept for at least
two years. Furthermore, because that's just policies, right, under state law,
any writing related to the conduct of government is deemed
a public record. And it was January tenth. The Times
(06:55):
filed a public records request for all text messages for
those two days. Two months later, and presumably all her
I bet you all her texts for the last two
months have been deleted as well. Now is here anything
the lawyer or her office? Well, this sounds like it
was written by a lawyer in office. After two months,
(07:18):
they finally responded to the La Times and said it
had no responsive records. Oh what does that mean? That's
some kind of weasel phrase. There's a cover up here.
She is terrified of people finding out about her accommunications,
and so's everybody else in her office, because maybe then
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they'd all really be out of a job, they all
should be out on the street. And so now we've
got the big, the big fire cover up here. Did
she have text messages with Kristin Crowley?
Speaker 2 (07:55):
But she said that she she wasn't warned.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
She claimed she was in constant yea, she claimed she
wasn't warned. And then she was claimed she was in
constant contact from that military plane. It took her twenty
four hours to get home seven thousand miles away. And
(08:21):
now this this this attorney, Well, let me go back
to the no responsive records that that Bass's office gave
as the reason. They never explained whether it was whether
the office was withholding any records period like they just said,
we have no responsive response, which is no responsive records,
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which does it. It doesn't mean you don't have stuff,
and it doesn't explain whether you're choosing not to release
it or they don't exist. No reasons were given for
not producing the records. Then on Friday, see that was Thursday.
On Friday, the lawyer Michaelson said that Bass's phone auto
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deletes text messages and has for at least two years.
Los Angeles Administrative Code Section twelve point three B six
dictates that most records shall I means you must shall
be retained for a minimum of two years, unless a
shorter period is otherwise permitted by law, or a longer
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period is required by law, or if there's some other
state law that contradicts it. So there's state law, there's
Los Angeles Administrative Code, there's the city document retention policies.
Michaelson is trying to argue on a technicality, saying that
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that particular section does not apply to texts because there
was some state attorney general opinion from nineteen eighty one,
except there are no text messages in nineteen eighty one.
Texts are ephemeral, and when you have fleeting thoughts and
(10:09):
random bits of information is not something that people in
political office have to protect. Well, text is not ephemeral. Well,
there's no difference, really functional difference between a text in
any email.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
But if you're having lawsuits over the fire, then this, no,
this is this is absurd.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
You know, and it's just our right to know just
how badly you screwed this up, and how badly all
the other people in government screwed this up. That's our
right to know. Don't start quoting nineteen eighty one attorney
general opinions that must have been what fifteen twenty years
before there were text messages. Wow, so they're covering up
(10:59):
a big story. You notice she doesn't speak very far. Yeah,
we're moving forward. We're moving forward. This really is outrageous.
It's because there's a lot of bad stuff. Wow.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
There's a a guy named David loy' is the First
Amendment Coalition legal director, and he disagreed with Bass's lawyer
on the interpretation of that nineteen eighty one opinion. Yes,
text can be considered ephemeral, just like emails. But as
I as I read the plain language of LA's administrative Code,
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the city imposes on itself a more stringent record retection
requirement than state law might require otherwise. And another attorney
and public records expert named Kelly Avilas said the expl
explanation offered by Bass's lawyer is flawed. A mayor does
not get to determine what is or is not a
public record based on the device used.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Can't you find her text in the cloud? I'm assuming
she has an iPhone. That could be incorrect, but I
feel like there must be a way to find these
deleted texts.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
I wonder if all the recipients have also deleted all
their texts. On the other end, of course they have. Well,
my I've looked into how my system works. If I
delete a text, it's still held for thirty days. But
you have to go out of your way to auto delete.
Is just something I'm not familiar with. I'm sure there's
(12:37):
ten thousand settings that I can explain it to you
during the break, because there is an auto delete feature
on the iPhone. Oh there is?
Speaker 5 (12:44):
Okay, all right, you're listening to John Cobelt on demand
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Speaker 1 (12:52):
We're on every day from one until four o'clock. You
can follow us at John Cobelt Radio on social media
John Cobelt Radio on social media. So Eric investigated his
own phone here because we were talking about how Karen
Bass apparently has no text messages from the days of
the fire or maybe anything else that she has a
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setting on her phone for auto delete. There is no
auto delete setting on an iPhone. Eric just showed me.
You have to go into settings and you could decide
to keep your emails for thirty days and then they
would go poof. I'm sorry, the text messages correct thirty days,
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then your text messages would all self delete. Or you
can keep your texts around for a year, or you
keep them forever. Now those are the only three settings
thirty days a year or forever. Otherwise you've got to
constantly delete the messages yourself by hand. So unless she
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he's got some other phone system, I mean, I don't
know about the Android system. I never had an Android phone.
And they're claiming that a nineteen eighty one Attorney General
opinion in California, with the language you could interpret it
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that a text message can be considered ephemeral and you
would be required to save it. But they're talking about
there is no There were no text messages in nineteen
eighty one. The very first one Eric discovered was nineteen
ninety two, and I don't remember any text messages in
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the nineteen nineties. It was I guess you could do
them when the flip phones came out, but they were difficult.
You didn't have a regular keyboard where you could easily type.
You had to use the phone buttons, and you had
to match the letters under each digit for the phone
dialing buttons. So I don't ever remember until I got
(15:06):
an iPhone, a smartphone, which would have been in twenty thirteen.
I had a BlackBerry for a few years before that,
but I just don't remember texting my life. So the
idea of a nineteen eighty one opinion by the Attorney
General having any relevance just sounds preposterous. And the fact
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that they had to go search for an excuse back
to nineteen eighty one shows you that they're aggressively trying
to cover it up, because I'm sure that Karen Bass
didn't know that there was an attorney general opinion in
nineteen eighty one which never applied to texts anyway. So
this is and considering it took two months for them
(15:51):
to respond to the La Times request for the public records,
and then they came out with this hash of an
excuse an explanation. They've done bad stuff here. Now, if
she destroyed these records, what's the penalty, And who's going
to investigate to determine if she destroyed the records? Since
(16:11):
we have one party rule in the state, nobody's going
to go after her out.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
What about Governor Newsom. You know he has this new podcast, yes, the.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
New and Improved Governor news that's right, that's right.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
He is trying to run for president, even though he
denies that, so he should be investigating this.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
That's right. If he wants to show that he's a
new newsom yep, that he's down the middle newsom yep.
Then I think he ought to have his Attorney general
start an investigation and come to a conclusion first whether
she violated the law, and then see if there are
any backups here, something on the cloud like you said yes,
(16:54):
or maybe some of the recipients. You could subpoena Kristin
Crowley's phone and the phone of that that Dufus, the
acting mayor or Marquise Harris Dawson.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
I'm sure Kristin Crowley has some text right that she's
holding on to. I bet that she didn't delete them because.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
She, oh, because she needs it for her case exactly right,
exactly or because eventually, uh, the grim political reaper is
going to come for her and then she's going to
be filing a lawsuit over a wrongful firing because Kenonia's
has got to be the well Bass has got to go,
and Kenonias has got to go. Let's start there, and
(17:31):
everybody on on Bassis staff they were probably firing her
off thousands of messages to each other that that will
be little Wiener guy who mixed stuff up, Zach Sidel,
I think that's his name. All of them, all of
them should have their uh, all their messages confiscated, because
not only were they part of the greatest botch in
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any city's history, no city has ever So for the
losses that Los Angeles did so fast in a fire,
nobody was prepared. Nobody took it seriously. And that's the truth.
Nobody took it seriously. No one was prepared. The response
was horrific. Now did all the are all these people
(18:20):
they have phones on auto delete? I wonder if we
could get a subpoena on everybody's text messages, if we'd
find out they're all on Well, there is no what
am I saying? There is no auto delete, not on
an iPhone. There's no such thing. You'd have to intentionally
decide to delete the message.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Apple should be investigating.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
And by the way, we don't have any proof that
what he's saying is true. Is this David Michaelson, He
could just be saying stuff. Well, that's what my client
told me. So did Karen bas say, yes, mister Michael,
my phone's on auto delete? And did he bother to
check again? Assuming an iPhone chance it might not be one?
(19:10):
So that this is nonsense here, this is cover up
what they did collectively. If it isn't a crime, it
ought to be a crime, and it certainly is going
to invite massive civil lawsuits and it should. And you
know what, the people involved, like Karen Bass ought to
have her all her net worth liquidated. She ought to
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pay the families whatever she's got, whatever she's collected in
all her years of public service. She ought to be
paying off the families personally. And that Quinone's character. Oh,
we'll get to her next. Suddenly, we're going to be
spending seven hundred thousand dollars a year on security for
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Genie Kinonias the DW Do you believe this? The Heat's
keep on coming.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
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A six forty. We're on every day from one until
four and after four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand
also on the iHeart app. Well, we're gonna have Nathan
hochmannon coming up after two o'clock. We just got to
confirm that he's going to talk about his decisions in
the Menendez brother's case. He had an announcement today, so
(20:30):
we'll get into that after two o'clock. A lot going on.
We've been talking about Karen Bass. It was discovered by
the La Times that Karen Bass deleted all her text
messages from the days of the fire, every one of
them lost gone, and her attorney, David Michaelson is claiming
she has auto delete, a setting for auto delete, and
(20:52):
I'm looking up online to see if android phones have
such a thing. But that you know, they have something
where you can delete old messages.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
But.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
You have to you have to turn that on yourself.
You have to decide which the timeframe for which old
messages you want deleted, like I said, Like I said
on iPhone, you get to choose either it gets deleted
after thirty days a year or you keep them forever. Now,
(21:28):
another one of the characters in this horrific tragedy was
Genie Kinonies. She was the uh ding dong that didn't
refill the seti Inez reservoir, which was one hundred and
seventeen million gallons, And she's getting a lot of criticism.
So now the DWP, and this is tomorrow, at their meeting,
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they're going to consider whether to spend seven hundred and
three thousand, five hundred and seventy seven dollars on on
security for her. Yeah, that's the exact number, seven hundred
three thousand and five seventy seven because of all the
threats that she's getting. And again there was very low
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water pressure, very little water available, and the Santienez reservoir
sat empty for a year. There was a torn cover
on top of the reservoir. Should have been fixed in
a month for one hundred and thirty grand. So they
didn't spend one hundred and thirty grand to fix the
reservoir cover. But they've got seven hundred and three thousand
(22:38):
dollars to give her security because of all the crap
she's taken from the public. That's fascinating. They're going to
spend what six times as much money on her security
they would have cost to fix the cover. Now, the
cheap excuse that the DWP is given for not doing
(23:02):
their job and fixing the cover was on. They had
to go through a competitive bidding process, you know, that's
those are the rules. Oh, you want to hear this one.
Her security contract is not going through a formal competitive
bidding process. They're just awarding the money to Pinkerton Consulting
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and Investigations. She's going to get one designated armed security
agent and a driver a driver. So now after not
filling up the reservoir, the reward is she's going to
get driven to work and back every day under the
guise of security. The company will provide security agents trained
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in personal safety, defensive tactics, travel security, and surveillance. They
all have military or surveillance backgrounds. Has a water administrator
ever needed?
Speaker 2 (24:00):
This is a first.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
She apparently spoke at the DWP Commission meeting upset with
her critics because a lot of people said she wasn't qualified,
because she wasn't qualified, and she said that she had
twenty years plus involved in emergency management for the US
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Coast Guard. I also have a mechanical engineering degree. I
graduated with honors. I have two graduate degrees, and I
like to get tough jobs, and this is a tough job. Well,
what was the use of your degrees? You got a
me mechanical engineering degree and two graduate degrees, but you
couldn't fix basically an oversized pool cover. They didn't teach
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that in graduate school that if your cover's torn. Instead,
they drained the reservoir. They drained the reservoir and then
they kept it empty for a year. Maybe she needed
a third or fourth degree, and she could have figured
out to fix the cover or replace the cover in
a month, because that's what it would have took it most,
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and then refill the reservoir before fire season. This is
a phenomenon that we are plagued with in this country.
People with degrees and no common sense. They're educated and
they're stupid. Guy I know once described them as educated fools,
(25:34):
and that's what they are. They're educated fools. They love
to waive their diplomas at you. Why you know, I'm
an expert. Look at this engineering degree, and I've got
this graduate degree, and I got a graduate Say you
know what, that's really wonderful. It proves you can sit
in a classroom at a desk and pass tests. But
when there's a moment like hey there's tens of thousands
(25:55):
of homes that might burn down, why didn't you fill
the red Why didn't you fix the cover? And by
the way, they could have fixed the cover in a month.
In one month using DWP personnel, they didn't have to
put it out for a competitive bid. Of course, you don't.
You declare an emergency. That's what they did with her
security detail. They just declared it an emergency. There was
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no formal competitive big processes, although word got out and
they received two other proposals that were far more expensive.
Glad to know they're saving a little money there. Why
was she speaking though at length about her resume and
she hasn't spoken about why she didn't fell the reservoir.
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How come they didn't ask her that at the hearing?
This is what I don't understand. She's speaking out defending
your resume. Yet your resume is going to put out
the fire. Your resume is going to fill out, fill
up the reservoir. Why don't you talk about what your
thought process was? If there was a thought process and
ignoring the damn thing for eleven months, why don't any
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of them talk about this? Kristen Crowley never talked about it.
She had a lot to say at the hearing when
she was before the city council what she was trying
to save her own ass. But actually, you know what
the public wants to know, You know what every homeowner
in the Palin States wants to know. It was like,
why wasn't the restivoir filled up? Why? What's wrong with
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you people? Karen Bass deletes her email messages. Keinoniaz is
waiving all her graduate degrees in the air, Crowley is
filling out all the paperwork to challenge her firing, and
you know, get some kind of settlement from the city.
Nobody is saying a word about the reservoir or why
(27:52):
the firefighters. The firefighters were many of them were late.
Many neighborhoods, they never showed.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Didn't show up.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
I had dinner with friends over the weekend and they
lost their home in the Palisades. Not a single firefighter
showed up to their block.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
So you have a friend where the firefighters never showed.
I have a friend the firefighters never showed and he
stayed there all five thirty in the afternoon, and six
point fifteen his house burned down. He watched it on
the ring camera. Fire starts at ten thirty. This is
what you said. They figured out that the fire had
to bring.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Thousands of homes.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
She never, in her wildest dreams, thought she would have
to evacuate, And then when they did evacuate, she just packed,
not even that much because she thought for sure her
house was going to be fine, and it wasn't.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
But the fire I had to go through thousands of homes. Yes,
to get to your friend's house. Yes, all right, So
how come no firefighters got in the way in all
on all those blocks where five thousand homes were situated.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
That's what they're trying to figure out.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Nobody talks about that. Kenunyas has got plenty of information
if you'd like to go through all her her graduate degrees.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Who's her boss?
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Best hired her or appointed her? Because the city, the
city decides what goes on at the DWP. It's like
one of those quasi independent agencies, but ultimately it's the
city and the city council.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
So it'd have to be Bass would have to fire
her as she did Crowley.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Yes, I think so, because she's the one who appointed her. Okay,
I don't know if the commission I sometimes they have
these processes, so I don't know the exact answer. One
reason they went to private security is Kennia has got
(29:51):
protection from the LA Airport Police at first, then a
detail of LAPD officers, and now they're going to go
spend seven hundred thousand on private security. Wow, that's about
five or six pool covers. There Have they ever filled
(30:12):
up the reservoir since? Well? I guess there's nothing left
to burn, so it doesn't matter. And why did Karen
Bass to lead all our text messages from the fire arm?
And we're going to keep asking that. This is intensifying
because not only do you have to me this is
all a crime. Now we're finding out about the cover up.
Now we're finding out how nobody wants to talk and
(30:34):
everybody's the leading messages, and suddenly lawyers are being quoted
instead of the principles responsible.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Can this be something that Hawkman can get involved in?
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Yeah, I wonder no he I think he has some
process charges, but the Attorney General could conduct an investigation.
We'll talk more about this coming up, and Nathan Hakman
is going to talk about his Medendez brother's stance coming
up after two o'clock.
Speaker 5 (31:02):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
In about ten minutes twelve minutes, we're going to have
Nathan Hochman on the Alley County District Attorney. He made
a public statement today saying he's going to ask the
court to withdraw gas Goon's motion for resentencing. Gascone wanted
the court to resentence the Menendez brothers, presumably the time
(31:28):
served and then they'd be able to get out, and
Hawkman said today no, because, among other things, the Menendez
brothers keep lying about their rolling the case. The brothers
persist in telling lies about the self defense that they claimed.
(31:54):
We will talk to Nathan Hakman for details there, but
he wants to withdraw motion. It's interesting because in the
past week, Newsom was making noises about asking the parole
Board to determine whether the Menendez brothers would be a
safe release, do an analysis on the impact of releasing
(32:19):
the Menendez brothers. How would they behave if they were
let go? So it seems like Newsom is going on
in one direction Hakman and the other. Well, have Nathan
Hakman coming on after two o'clock. We've been telling you
this hour that the Karen Bass I think the headline
of the weekend was Karen Bass it's been discovered deleted
(32:40):
all her fire messages, everything from that whole fire week.
That's that's all gone. And it took them two months
before they admitted it. They refused to respond to the
La Times request for the public information and they claim, well,
(33:02):
it's on auto delete, which now you have to even
if it's on they had to manually decide to delete
whatever's deleted. That that's a conscious decision that you make
on your phone. And then he's relying on some nineteen
eighty one Attorney General opinion on ephemeral communications. There were
(33:24):
no text messages in nineteen eighty one, so you could
tell this is a load. This is a load of
horse veces. Here she erased everything because she doesn't want
the world to know what was really going on. It's
too embarrassing. It's proof of her incompetence. Somebody looked at
(33:45):
the messages and said, well, these have got to go.
No good. Meantime, the DWP is going to consider tomorrow
to spend seven hundred thousand dollars for security for Genice Qinoniez,
the lady who didn't fill the reservoir. And on top
of all this, the city Controller Kenneth Mahea says the
(34:08):
City of Los Angeles is in trouble financially. Basically, it's broke.
They have a shortfall of one hundred and forty million
dollars for this fiscal year, another seventy three million next year.
The city is going to spend overspend three hundred million
(34:32):
dollars three hundred million dollars over budget, and he says,
we have a big gap to fill. You know what's
one of the big costs. One hundred million dollars in
fire department over time.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Well, doesn't Kenyons make a lot of money? Can't she
pay for her own security?
Speaker 1 (34:51):
She makes seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year, right,
so yes, she could pay for her own security. Problem
solved and she should. Why we're DWP customers.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Yes we are.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Why do I have to pay for Denise Cononie's security?
Speaker 2 (35:07):
I don't want to. I'm paying enough.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
I could be gone for three weeks and my DWP
bill will be exactly the same as what I'm home.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
For three weeks.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Isn't that fascinating? Yes? How does that work? So?
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Why am I getting screwed?
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Seven hundred thousand dollars in security? And she makes seven
hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year, soha says, one
hundred million dollars in overtime? But but what the allright?
This this is from Katie Rslavsky. Oh she's the she's
the chair of the City council Budget Committee. Oh my god,
(35:44):
she couldn't run a lemonade stand look at the Look
at the idiots in charge of Los Angeles, Katie r Aslavsky,
she couldn't even get that naked woman who is sleeping
on a sofa in the middle of San Vicente Boulevard
off the show. Remember that there was a naked woman
who was on the front page of the London Daily Mail.
(36:07):
She's living on a sofa, totally nude, and Katie Arslovsky
couldn't figure it out, couldn't figure out how to get
her off the street. Oh, she's in charge of the budget.
Yaryslavsky says, one hundred million dollars in overtime. But really,
what the fire department needs, based on conversations with them,
(36:30):
is their facilities need to be upgraded. No kidding, Wow,
we're talking Albert Einstein level genius here. Really, you mean
the news about the one hundred fire trucks being in
the garage with no mechanics to fix them, that led
(36:50):
you to believe they need an upgrading facilities. In fact,
she says they need more people fixing the trucks.
Speaker 4 (36:57):
No, really, you didn't know that they were missing dozens
of mechanics. What about the fire hydrants, the fire hydrants too,
the fire engines, the fire hydrants, the mechanics, the water.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Wow, they really destroyed the place when no one was looking,
and we still wouldn't have known it except for the fire.
It exposed everything. But the city is broke. Yeah, Karen Bass,
I can't tell you what a good choice that was.
If you voted for Karen Bass, would you move before
(37:37):
you vote for her again the next time? Could you
please move out of the city if you voted for
her before we come back. Nathan Hackman and he wants
to withdraw the George gascon re sentencing petition that was
sent to the court about the Menendez brothers. He doesn't
(37:57):
want a resentencing hearing because he doesn't want them anenda.
His brothers very likely to be released. Debor Mark Live
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