September 9, 2025 • 31 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (09/09) - US Congressman Kevin Kiley comes on the show to talk about the latest going on with his investigation into how the money from the FireAid concert was dispersed. Mayor Karen Bass called out the US Supreme Court after their decision to overturn the ban that limited immigration enforcement in LA. More on the FireAid investigation.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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three hours, so there's gonna be no time wasted today.
First one up is we're going to talk in just
a few seconds with Kevin Kylie, the congressman from northern California,
who wants an investigation, and they're conducting an investigation now
into the fire aid controversy. These were the concerts that
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raised one hundred million dollars, and then nobody knew exactly
where the money went. It was supposed to go people.
Everybody thought it was going to the individuals who were
affected by the fire in the Palisades and out to data,
but you couldn't find too many of those people, and
so everyone said, where'd the money go?
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Where'd the money go?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Well, this just a couple of days ago, the fire
Aid organization.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Hired their own.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Law firm to investigate Latham and Watkins, and they have
released a report, and it's an international law firm, and well,
they're their own law firm says nobody did anything wrong.
I don't know if anybody believes that. But let's go
to Kevin Kylie, the congressman.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
How are you, Kevin, I'm no law How are you?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
I'm good.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I have not read this report, but I have seen
summaries of it in the local media.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
What do you know about it? And do you believe it?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
So their report was done as sort of an internal review.
They hired a law firm to come up with their
own assessment, which is fine. So that's an internal process
on Fire Aid's part, but as part of the Judiciary Committee,
we're doing an independent outside review. And so we actually
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just received hundreds of documents from them yesterday and we're
momentarily going to be posting those on my website or
at least the main documents highlighting where the money went,
and so folks will be able to see for themselves
exactly where these funds were distributed and reached their own
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conclusions as to how well that fulfilled the intent of
the donors.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Well looking at a local news report by Sue Pasco,
and she runs a news site on the west side
of La circlingthnews dot com, and she said that, according
to this report, fire Aid never said they would give
money to individuals, and some of the music stars on
stage said that, but they never explicitly said that these
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people received cash or a check. And so they're saying
if any star said they were going to get cash,
that's wrong, and that's on the celebrity, and the aid
wasn't necessarily direct money to them. So they're playing with
semantics here. They're playing or doing loyally language. But everybody,
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every normal person, thinks they were going to get money directly, right.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
And you know from the documents they gave us, there
were a very small number of grants to individual to
individuals of books like but just kind of a couple
thousand dollars here and there. The vast, vast majority of
the hundred and seven million I think it was dollars
that was raised was distributed through grants. So we're reviewing
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it right now, and there's a whole, very long list
of of nonprofits that got the money. So I've got
one hundred thousands. I've got two hundred fifty thousands, I've
got five hundred thousand, some got over a million. There
are some categories that are kind of broad, where you know,
there's one group Community Partners or it says five million
dollars and it's not exactly clear who the sub grantees
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were and where the distribution chain went from there. There's
another grant for a million dollars to the La Food
La County Food Equity Organization, which it appears was only
found in a couple of months before the fires in
LA And according to the documents we have that those
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funds were intended to benefit eighteen hundred victims, but that
no victims have received funds for those yet. So you know,
I'm not reaching any conclusions yet based on what we've received.
I think that, you know, the goal here is transparency,
and so we're going to be posting this information online
here very shortly and then you know, folks can look
at for themselves and we'll see where there's further scrutiny needed.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Yeah, we're dealing with billions of dollars that have disappeared,
as you know, went to homeless nonprofits and it looks
like you know, Trump and Leezelden, head of the EPA,
and Elon Musk, they found that billions of dollars disappeared
into global warming nonprofits, climate change nonprofits. This nonprofit industry
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in America seems like one big crooked scam.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Yeah, I mean, and we see this come up in
a lot of different context. I mean, there are certainly
many nonprofits that do incredibly important work. And if you
look at the Firehead documents, there are several nonprofits that
are clearly doing important work related to helping victims that
receive funds. But to your point, you know, there's a
lot of others out there when it comes to homelessness
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or when it comes to, for example, the riots in
La Yeah, Turla. This group that got you know, alreaty
some million dollars from the state and then basically helped
organize the La riots.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
And was getting was getting praised by Karen Bash yesterday
at a media event right.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Well there, And by the way, they're now helping out
with the Prop fifty campaign, this redistricting sham. They're doing
it for that now, So it's all it's all very convenient.
They gave five hundred thousand dollars to help news get
elected in the recall, then they get tens of millions
in funding from the state. Then they helped organize these
riots that resulted in violence against federal officers. And now
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they're back at it helping Newsom again with his redistricting
sham so I actually have a bill called the No
Tax Dollars for Riots Act to make sure that the
groups like that funding.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
All right, well, Kevin, thank you for coming on, and
if you come to further conclusions please you're always welcome.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Here, Matt, thanks for having me, all right, Kevin Kylie
the Northern California Congressman.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Oh, by the way, in the next segment, we're gonna
play excerpts from Karen Bassi's speech yesterday. She was in
and she was all fired up, angry of course about
illegal aliens getting deported by Ice, and she was praising Churla. Churlie,
is this incredibly corrupt organization that got tens of millions
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of taxpayer dollars thirty four million, And yeah, they donate
heavily to News and yeah they helped organize the riots.
In fact, bass was giving out Churla's phone number during
the riots to tell people that if they see something
to call Churla and then Churlo would try to do
something about it. With protesters, this is really going on.
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And then bass was thanking Cherlo and the ACLU. We'll
play that coming up in just a moment, but just
to finish up one more point. According to Sue Pasco
in Circling thenews dot com, there's a resident who's quoted
about the fire Aid money and said the wording specifically
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stated it was to help wildfire victims. The concert performers
announced repeatedly that all funds would go directly to the victims.
We are now being told by fire Aid representatives and
designated spokespeople that they never intended to give money directly
to the victims. If in fact, there never was an
intention to give money to the victims, greater thoughts should
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have been given to how the concerts and the programs
were promoted. It is responsibility of any nonprofit charitable organization
to be transparent in how monies will be spent, with
encouraging giving or donating for a specific purpose. If you
state that the money is going to the victims, it
needs to go to the victims. Latham and Watkins and
their reports said some of the musicians did say the
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money would go to the people who needed help, but
the stars were wrong because these statements, so the musicians
on stage were wrong. According to this law firm, these
statements and others like them did not state that the
Fire Aid Organization would provide victims with direct payments or checks.
So there's a lot to go on that front. We
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will do the Caaren Bass speech coming up next, So
do not go anywhere, just sit down and listen to us.
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John coblt Radio. The Mary yesterday made one of her
rare appearances in public. She only runs out in public
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when when it's time to yell about ice enforcing federal law.
That gets her angry and animated. Everything else that's going
to hell, well she doesn't respond to at all. You know,
when people were screaming in Encino the other day because
they have started seven hundred fires in the subulvent of basin.
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She didn't show up at that meeting when the Palisades
was burning. She wasn't even in the country. But God forbid,
the federal government follows federal law and runs up illegal
aliens to deport, which I repeat, is the law. Well,
she runs to a microphone and just acts like this batty,
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old crazy lady, like some nutty woman on the porch,
howling away over law enforcement, enforcing the law. I don't
know how else to put it. That's what they do.
That's what it is. And the Supreme Court backed up
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Ice and Trump Tom Holman six to three. Brett Kavanaugh
wrote an opinion. I'm gonna read you a little piece
of it later on, but right now, we're going to
play you some clips of Karen Bass. Now, Kevin Kylie,
the congressman, we went through this. Turla is a big
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recipient of your state tax money. Turla is this illegal
alien operation. They exist only to aid the illegals. They
use American tax dollars for it, California tax dollars for it.
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They helped organize the riots. They're the ones who sent
the rioters into the streets. And Karen Bass did endorsements
for Turla in real time, giving out the Turla phone
number for the rapid Response network. The rapid response network
meant more rioters would go to the scene of ice
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trying to enforce the law. That's really what's happening. In
return for the thirty four million dollars of your tax money,
Churlo provides a kickback to Newsom. Money was donated to
Newsom's to support Newsom during the recall campaign. Money is
the being devoted to Newsom's pet project Prop fifty, which
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is about taking the redistricting rights away from an independent
panel and giving it to Newsom. So Churl is there
providing the kickbacks. Churl is there providing the rioters. So
who do you think Karen Bass thanks after the Supreme
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Court basically told her to go pound sand plack cut on.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
First of all, let.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
Me thank the ACLU Public Council, Cheerla and all of
the community organizations that are here. I am very proud
to stand with you, and we are so fortunate in
our city to have these organizations that have a long
history of defending immigrant Angelinos. Today, the Supreme Court, the
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very body that used to advance civil rights and defend
personal Liberties. Liberties has now given the green light for
law enforcement to profile and detain Angelinos based on their race.
I want the entire nation to hear me when I say,
this isn't just an attack on the people of Los Angeles.
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This is an attack on every person in this city
and in every city in our country.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Karen Basko on full communist here, all the community organizing
groups claiming this is un American. Only in the mind
of a Fidel Castro. I would a Supreme Court backing
the Constitution and federal law to enforce violations of federal
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law be declared un American. This is a woman who
actively supports TURLA, which is a riot organizing.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Agency. That's what they did.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
They supplied the manpower, of the energy, the money, so
that LA was in chaos for a week. That's the
side she chose. The side of the ICE agents and
LAPD and National Guard members and the Marines not on
their side. Those are Americans working for the American government. No,
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she's with the people who have no right to be here,
and she's with this corrupt, a legal alien agency that
provides political kickbacks. People like avenues, so those are where
the battle lines are. Drawn now. Brick Kavanaugh, one of
the Breck Cavenaugh, one of the justices, wrote an opinion,
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and the question here is whether you can be stopped
on suspicion of being illegal if you're at certain locations
like bus stops, car washes, day labor of pickup sites,
agricultural sites. Based number two on the type of work
one does. Based number three on speaking Spanish or English
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with an accent. Number four apparent race or ethnicity. And
what he said is none of those characteristics by themselves
is enough to stop somebody. See Karen Vat's lied. Nobody
said that race alone is a good reason. But if
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you add race, to language, to the type of work,
to the location, then you've got something. You have a
package of details, a package of evidence here. So Karen
Bass openly lied about the Supreme Court decision. She was
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cheering on Sonya so to Myra's descent, but so to
Myra's descent was false. You can't you you can't stop
people based on one of those criteria, but the entire package.
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But probably you didn't see any reporters on television explaining
those nuances, right, because they're not smart enough and they're
all progressives and we come back. We've got more bass clips.
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Eight eighty six, or use the talkback feature on the
iHeartRadio app. Mayor Bass crolled out of her hole to
scream about ICE all over again yesterday. Rarely, rarely does
she come out and fight for anything that law abiding
legal citizens are interested in. We don't get anything out
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of her. But if you're an illgal alien, a criminal,
or you're a vagrant, well she's there for you, shouting away.
And she was shouting yesterday because the Supreme Court had
voted sixty three to say that yes, that ICE can
enforce immigration law and they can use the following the
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following criteria the locations where people gather to hire for
day jobs, places where they typically do work, such as construction,
car watches, and the like. You can't judge them based
on their race or ethnicity, because most of the illegal
aliens here in Los Angeles are Hispanic. You can judge
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them based on whether they speak English or speak English. Clearly,
and I'll read you more about brick Kevanaugh's reasoning, and
you tell me where he's wrong.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Okay, you can figure this out yourself. Here's Bass, though.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Quoting Sonya Sotomayor, justice who dissented.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Listen to Bass.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
Justice sodo my R said it best. In her dissent,
she wrote, we should not have to live in a
country where the government can seize anyone who looks Latino,
speaks Spanish, and appears to work in a low wage
job rather than stand idly buy while our constitutional freedoms
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are lost. I dissent, and I agree with her.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
I dissent.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
We all dissent.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
We all do not dissent. Suddenly, now she's speaking for everybody,
we all. That's like there Regosa years ago saying we
clean your toilets, We clean your toilets, and that character
is back. Bass is endorsing him for governor. We'll get
to that. That's next hour. Here is Brett Kavanaugh's reasoning,
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and I'm reading directly from his writing. You tell me
where this is wrong. About ten percent of the people
in the Los Angeles region are illegally in the United States.
Did you know that ten percent? Meaning about two million
illegal immigrants out of a total population of twenty million.
Not surprisingly, given those extraordinary numbers, US immigration officers have
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prioritized immigration enforcement in the Los Angeles area. This is
me talking now. You may want to wonder about the
idiots running our state. That ten percent of the people
living among us in the LA region are here illegally.
You imagine what that's costing us? Any idea? What's that
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costing us in terms of medical care, schooling, not to
mention all the neighborhoods it takes up. You wonder why
the cost of housing is so high? Well, what if
ten percent of the population was deported by me a
lot more room, the price of housing would go way down.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Imagine what it contributes to the traffic. All right, Kevin,
all goes on.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
The government sometimes makes brief and here's some reasonable writing,
makes brief investigative stops to check immigration status of those
who gathering locations where people are hired for day jobs,
who work or appear to work in jobs such as construction, landscaping, agriculture,
or car washes that often do not require paperwork and
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therefore are attractive to illegal aliens who do not speak much,
if any English. Again, this is all common sense. We
know where the illegal aliens work. We know that they're
largely from south of the border, that they largely speak Spanish,
and the reason they work in these jobs is because
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there's no paperwork. These people do not pay taxes, Their
employers do not pay taxes. They, by the way, work
as slaves. All the people who support the illegal aliens
support the slave labor conditions that these people are supposed
to work under. And then they lecture you. It's like, well,
your strawberries are going to cost more. Oh, okay, we
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need slave labors, so my strawberries cost less.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
I don't need strawberries.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Kaviano says, to stop an individual for brief questioning about
immigration status, the government must have reasonable suspicion that the
individuals illegally present, and whether an officer has reasonable suspicion
depends on the totality of the circumstances.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Here.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
The circumstances include there's an extremely high number and percentage
of the legal immigrants in the LA area. These individuals
tend to gather in certain locations to seek daily work.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Yeah like home depot.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
These individuals do certain kinds of jobs such as day labor, landscaping,
agriculture construction that do not require paperwork are especially attractive,
and many of those illegally in the Los Angeles area
come from Mexico or Central America and do not speak
much English. What Capitol later says is this is common sense,
and that's what it is. It's common effing sense, and
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the precedent of previous Supreme Court decisions allowed for this.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Here's mayor hysteria play cut three.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
From the beginning, we have known that Los Angeles has
been used as a test case for total dominance and
unchecked power by the federal government. We have been used
as a test case to begin to normalize military intervention
and takeover of our cities and standing united. We took
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their unlawful and unconstitutional tactics to court, and we won
not once, but twice two stop.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
But she lost the third time in the Supreme Court.
Of both major issues, Ice does have the right to
detain immigrants under the conditions we discussed, and Donald Trump
does have the right to send in the National Guard
when the mayor has failed to protect the city. When
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the governor has failed to protect the city, Trump would
not have shown up with the National Guard if Bassi
and Newsom hadn't failed the way she failed when she
ran off to uh Ghana while the Palisades burned. She's
a failed, dangerous person. Her policies lead to rioting, her
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policies led to deadly destructive fires, and then she stands
there all self righteous and angry, crazy lady on the
porch and she lies like hell too. More coming up.
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social media. Yeah, the investigations are piling up. We had
Kevin Kylie on earlier and Congress is looking into where
the fire aid money went. The fire aid people have
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one hundred and seven million dollars and they gave it
nearly all of it to nonprofits, but we don't know
who nonprofits gave it to. And the law firm that
fire Aid hired said no, everything's cool, didn't find any wrongdoing.
So Kylie and his committee is going to look further
into that. Another committee that is doing an investigation into
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the Palisades fire is Chairman Rick Scott who runs the
Senate Special Committee on Aging, and Senator Ron Johnson from Wisconsin,
who runs the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. Actually the title
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is longer than that, but you get the idea, and
they're going to do an investigation to examine the failures
surrounding the preparation for and the response to the fire disaster, which,
according to their press release, allowed unacceptable loss of life
and the destruction of thousands of homes. Chairman Scott and
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Chairman Johnson believed the Palisades fire was more than just
a horrific tragedy. It was an unacceptable failure of government
to protect the lives and property of its citizens and
families deserve answers and accountability. Over the years, they say,
billions upon billions of federal taxpayer dollars had been directed
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to California to support fire management and disaster mitigation. Yet
on this day of the Palisades fire, reservoirs were empty,
fire hydrants went dry. Innocent people, including many vulnerable seniors, perished,
while thousands more lost their homes, businesses, and everything they owned.
So they're going to go look for answers. There should
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be no and I'm glad they're emphasizing the word failure,
which we talked about in the last segment. The people
running the city and the state are absolute colossal failures
and it's been deadly and destructive. It's not the normal
failure where they just bankrupt the city, although they did
that too, or they bankrupt the state and yeah, that happened.
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So we got the city and state bankrupted. We've got
dozens of people dead, we've got tens hundreds of billions
of dollars worth of damage. There ought to be investigations.
Politicians ought to be put in prison for this. Karen
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Bass and Gavin Newsom's performance were so absurd, reprehensible, disgusting.
Is they ought to be in prison for the suffering
they caused. And now we've got one hundred and seven
million dollars raised for fire aid and nobody can really
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explain exactly where the money is still. The permits are
coming through in a trickle to rebuild the homes. I mean,
there's just there's no end to this. And I was
taught talking to somebody the other day who's normally sane
and would not engage in this kind of talk. But
they're starting to wonder because they were talking about God
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Palisades burned down. You go to Santa Monica and it's
an insane asylum. You can't go to the third Street
Promenade anymore because of the homeless. The Santa Monica Plays
shopping mall is now seventy percent vacant. Or two shootings
on the west side over the weekend, And they said,
is this on purpose? And so I said to them, well,
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if you were going to do it on purpose, what
would you do differently? And when I say that to people,
they they.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Look at you.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
It's like you wouldn't do anything differently. You abandoned the palisades.
You leave the reservoirs empty and the fire hydrants are dry.
That's why the insurance companies pulled out. If you wonder
why the insurance goes pulled out, they ran drones over
the reservoirs. I heard that rumor once, taught twice three times.
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And then I saw a story the other day in
another state. A woman said a drone flew over her house.
It was the insurance company drone and they saw that
she had a lot of tree branches hanging over her property,
and they said, you have six weeks to get rid
of those, or we're canceling your insurance because it's a
fire hazard, and she goes, well they can't do that.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Well, yeah, they can do that.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
And I think that's what happened to the Palisades, and
people had their insurance canceled or greatly reduced and didn't
know why, and maybe didn't even notice the letter in
the mail, and they got thrown into the fare plan.
And there's no money in that plan either. That's getting bankrupted.
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But the insurance companies were onto the severe neglect going on.
They saw the brush wasn't cleared. I mean, if the
insurance company could fly with this one woman's house and
was zouri and cancel her policy or threatened to, well,
of course they flew over.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
The palace age.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Why do you think somebody policies were suddenly canceled because
they saw what was coming.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
They knew it. They were in the middle of a
dry season. It only got dryer.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
They knew the Santa and Wins are gonna blow in January,
and they did.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
And here you go.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
They knew there was no fire coverage, they knew there
was no water. They knew there was they you know,
and the mayor flew out of the country, so there
should be many more investigations. But I think I'm pretty
sure what went on here because I can't think of
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another reason for it.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
When we come back, Karen Bass and Doris endorsing Tony
Vellar for governor. Holy Moly, Deborah Mark live in the
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I am six forty.
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and you can listen to what you missed. We're going
to talk fast. We're going to keep going. I've got
at least six hours worth of material to cram into
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three hours, so there's gonna be no time wasted today.
First one up is we're going to talk in just
a few seconds with Kevin Kylie, the congressman from northern California,
who wants an investigation, and they're conducting an investigation now
into the fire aid controversy. These were the concerts that
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raised one hundred million dollars, and then nobody knew exactly
where the money went. It was supposed to go people.
Everybody thought it was going to the individuals who were
affected by the fire in the Palisades and out to data,
but you couldn't find too many of those people, and
so everyone said, where'd the money go?
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Where'd the money go?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Well, this just a couple of days ago, the fire
Aid organization.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Hired their own.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Law firm to investigate Latham and Watkins, and they have
released a report, and it's an international law firm, and well,
they're their own law firm says nobody did anything wrong.
I don't know if anybody believes that. But let's go
to Kevin Kylie, the congressman.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
How are you, Kevin, I'm no law How are you?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
I'm good.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I have not read this report, but I have seen
summaries of it in the local media.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
What do you know about it? And do you believe it?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
So their report was done as sort of an internal review.
They hired a law firm to come up with their
own assessment, which is fine. So that's an internal process
on Fire Aid's part, but as part of the Judiciary Committee,
we're doing an independent outside review. And so we actually
(02:12):
just received hundreds of documents from them yesterday and we're
momentarily going to be posting those on my website or
at least the main documents highlighting where the money went,
and so folks will be able to see for themselves
exactly where these funds were distributed and reached their own
(02:33):
conclusions as to how well that fulfilled the intent of
the donors.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Well looking at a local news report by Sue Pasco,
and she runs a news site on the west side
of La circlingthnews dot com, and she said that, according
to this report, fire Aid never said they would give
money to individuals, and some of the music stars on
stage said that, but they never explicitly said that these
(03:02):
people received cash or a check. And so they're saying
if any star said they were going to get cash,
that's wrong, and that's on the celebrity, and the aid
wasn't necessarily direct money to them. So they're playing with
semantics here. They're playing or doing loyally language. But everybody,
(03:26):
every normal person, thinks they were going to get money directly, right.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
And you know from the documents they gave us, there
were a very small number of grants to individual to
individuals of books like but just kind of a couple
thousand dollars here and there. The vast, vast majority of
the hundred and seven million I think it was dollars
that was raised was distributed through grants. So we're reviewing
(03:51):
it right now, and there's a whole, very long list
of of nonprofits that got the money. So I've got
one hundred thousands. I've got two hundred fifty thousands, I've
got five hundred thousand, some got over a million. There
are some categories that are kind of broad, where you know,
there's one group Community Partners or it says five million
dollars and it's not exactly clear who the sub grantees
(04:14):
were and where the distribution chain went from there. There's
another grant for a million dollars to the La Food
La County Food Equity Organization, which it appears was only
found in a couple of months before the fires in
LA And according to the documents we have that those
(04:37):
funds were intended to benefit eighteen hundred victims, but that
no victims have received funds for those yet. So you know,
I'm not reaching any conclusions yet based on what we've received.
I think that, you know, the goal here is transparency,
and so we're going to be posting this information online
here very shortly and then you know, folks can look
at for themselves and we'll see where there's further scrutiny needed.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Yeah, we're dealing with billions of dollars that have disappeared,
as you know, went to homeless nonprofits and it looks
like you know, Trump and Leezelden, head of the EPA,
and Elon Musk, they found that billions of dollars disappeared
into global warming nonprofits, climate change nonprofits. This nonprofit industry
(05:25):
in America seems like one big crooked scam.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Yeah, I mean, and we see this come up in
a lot of different context. I mean, there are certainly
many nonprofits that do incredibly important work. And if you
look at the Firehead documents, there are several nonprofits that
are clearly doing important work related to helping victims that
receive funds. But to your point, you know, there's a
lot of others out there when it comes to homelessness
(05:53):
or when it comes to, for example, the riots in
La Yeah, Turla. This group that got you know, alreaty
some million dollars from the state and then basically helped
organize the La riots.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
And was getting was getting praised by Karen Bash yesterday
at a media event right.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Well there, And by the way, they're now helping out
with the Prop fifty campaign, this redistricting sham. They're doing
it for that now, So it's all it's all very convenient.
They gave five hundred thousand dollars to help news get
elected in the recall, then they get tens of millions
in funding from the state. Then they helped organize these
riots that resulted in violence against federal officers. And now
(06:35):
they're back at it helping Newsom again with his redistricting
sham so I actually have a bill called the No
Tax Dollars for Riots Act to make sure that the
groups like that funding.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
All right, well, Kevin, thank you for coming on, and
if you come to further conclusions please you're always welcome.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Here, Matt, thanks for having me, all right, Kevin Kylie
the Northern California Congressman.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Oh, by the way, in the next segment, we're gonna
play excerpts from Karen Bassi's speech yesterday. She was in
and she was all fired up, angry of course about
illegal aliens getting deported by Ice, and she was praising Churla. Churlie,
is this incredibly corrupt organization that got tens of millions
(07:21):
of taxpayer dollars thirty four million, And yeah, they donate
heavily to News and yeah they helped organize the riots.
In fact, bass was giving out Churla's phone number during
the riots to tell people that if they see something
to call Churla and then Churlo would try to do
something about it. With protesters, this is really going on.
(07:43):
And then bass was thanking Cherlo and the ACLU. We'll
play that coming up in just a moment, but just
to finish up one more point. According to Sue Pasco
in Circling thenews dot com, there's a resident who's quoted
about the fire Aid money and said the wording specifically
(08:06):
stated it was to help wildfire victims. The concert performers
announced repeatedly that all funds would go directly to the victims.
We are now being told by fire Aid representatives and
designated spokespeople that they never intended to give money directly
to the victims. If in fact, there never was an
intention to give money to the victims, greater thoughts should
(08:31):
have been given to how the concerts and the programs
were promoted. It is responsibility of any nonprofit charitable organization
to be transparent in how monies will be spent, with
encouraging giving or donating for a specific purpose. If you
state that the money is going to the victims, it
needs to go to the victims. Latham and Watkins and
their reports said some of the musicians did say the
(08:52):
money would go to the people who needed help, but
the stars were wrong because these statements, so the musicians
on stage were wrong. According to this law firm, these
statements and others like them did not state that the
Fire Aid Organization would provide victims with direct payments or checks.
So there's a lot to go on that front. We
(09:13):
will do the Caaren Bass speech coming up next, So
do not go anywhere, just sit down and listen to us.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
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six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
We're on every day from one until four o'clock and
after four o'clock John Cobelt's show on demand. You can
follow us at John Cobelt Radio on social media at
John coblt Radio. The Mary yesterday made one of her
rare appearances in public. She only runs out in public
(09:49):
when when it's time to yell about ice enforcing federal law.
That gets her angry and animated. Everything else that's going
to hell, well she doesn't respond to at all. You know,
when people were screaming in Encino the other day because
they have started seven hundred fires in the subulvent of basin.
(10:12):
She didn't show up at that meeting when the Palisades
was burning. She wasn't even in the country. But God forbid,
the federal government follows federal law and runs up illegal
aliens to deport, which I repeat, is the law. Well,
she runs to a microphone and just acts like this batty,
(10:36):
old crazy lady, like some nutty woman on the porch,
howling away over law enforcement, enforcing the law. I don't
know how else to put it. That's what they do.
That's what it is. And the Supreme Court backed up
(10:57):
Ice and Trump Tom Holman six to three. Brett Kavanaugh
wrote an opinion. I'm gonna read you a little piece
of it later on, but right now, we're going to
play you some clips of Karen Bass. Now, Kevin Kylie,
the congressman, we went through this. Turla is a big
(11:21):
recipient of your state tax money. Turla is this illegal
alien operation. They exist only to aid the illegals. They
use American tax dollars for it, California tax dollars for it.
(11:41):
They helped organize the riots. They're the ones who sent
the rioters into the streets. And Karen Bass did endorsements
for Turla in real time, giving out the Turla phone
number for the rapid Response network. The rapid response network
meant more rioters would go to the scene of ice
(12:02):
trying to enforce the law. That's really what's happening. In
return for the thirty four million dollars of your tax money,
Churlo provides a kickback to Newsom. Money was donated to
Newsom's to support Newsom during the recall campaign. Money is
the being devoted to Newsom's pet project Prop fifty, which
(12:25):
is about taking the redistricting rights away from an independent
panel and giving it to Newsom. So Churl is there
providing the kickbacks. Churl is there providing the rioters. So
who do you think Karen Bass thanks after the Supreme
(12:46):
Court basically told her to go pound sand plack cut on.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
First of all, let.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
Me thank the ACLU Public Council, Cheerla and all of
the community organizations that are here. I am very proud
to stand with you, and we are so fortunate in
our city to have these organizations that have a long
history of defending immigrant Angelinos. Today, the Supreme Court, the
(13:14):
very body that used to advance civil rights and defend
personal Liberties. Liberties has now given the green light for
law enforcement to profile and detain Angelinos based on their race.
I want the entire nation to hear me when I say,
this isn't just an attack on the people of Los Angeles.
(13:37):
This is an attack on every person in this city
and in every city in our country.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Karen Basko on full communist here, all the community organizing
groups claiming this is un American. Only in the mind
of a Fidel Castro. I would a Supreme Court backing
the Constitution and federal law to enforce violations of federal
(14:09):
law be declared un American. This is a woman who
actively supports TURLA, which is a riot organizing.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Agency. That's what they did.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
They supplied the manpower, of the energy, the money, so
that LA was in chaos for a week. That's the
side she chose. The side of the ICE agents and
LAPD and National Guard members and the Marines not on
their side. Those are Americans working for the American government. No,
(14:48):
she's with the people who have no right to be here,
and she's with this corrupt, a legal alien agency that
provides political kickbacks. People like avenues, so those are where
the battle lines are. Drawn now. Brick Kavanaugh, one of
the Breck Cavenaugh, one of the justices, wrote an opinion,
(15:14):
and the question here is whether you can be stopped
on suspicion of being illegal if you're at certain locations
like bus stops, car washes, day labor of pickup sites,
agricultural sites. Based number two on the type of work
one does. Based number three on speaking Spanish or English
(15:35):
with an accent. Number four apparent race or ethnicity. And
what he said is none of those characteristics by themselves
is enough to stop somebody. See Karen Vat's lied. Nobody
said that race alone is a good reason. But if
(15:58):
you add race, to language, to the type of work,
to the location, then you've got something. You have a
package of details, a package of evidence here. So Karen
Bass openly lied about the Supreme Court decision. She was
(16:20):
cheering on Sonya so to Myra's descent, but so to
Myra's descent was false. You can't you you can't stop
people based on one of those criteria, but the entire package.
(16:40):
But probably you didn't see any reporters on television explaining
those nuances, right, because they're not smart enough and they're
all progressives and we come back. We've got more bass clips.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
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Speaker 2 (16:58):
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Speaker 1 (17:05):
Also eight seven seven sixty six four seven.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Eight eighty six, or use the talkback feature on the
iHeartRadio app. Mayor Bass crolled out of her hole to
scream about ICE all over again yesterday. Rarely, rarely does
she come out and fight for anything that law abiding
legal citizens are interested in. We don't get anything out
(17:32):
of her. But if you're an illgal alien, a criminal,
or you're a vagrant, well she's there for you, shouting away.
And she was shouting yesterday because the Supreme Court had
voted sixty three to say that yes, that ICE can
enforce immigration law and they can use the following the
(17:54):
following criteria the locations where people gather to hire for
day jobs, places where they typically do work, such as construction,
car watches, and the like. You can't judge them based
on their race or ethnicity, because most of the illegal
aliens here in Los Angeles are Hispanic. You can judge
(18:14):
them based on whether they speak English or speak English. Clearly,
and I'll read you more about brick Kevanaugh's reasoning, and
you tell me where he's wrong.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Okay, you can figure this out yourself. Here's Bass, though.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Quoting Sonya Sotomayor, justice who dissented.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Listen to Bass.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
Justice sodo my R said it best. In her dissent,
she wrote, we should not have to live in a
country where the government can seize anyone who looks Latino,
speaks Spanish, and appears to work in a low wage
job rather than stand idly buy while our constitutional freedoms
(18:54):
are lost. I dissent, and I agree with her.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
I dissent.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
We all dissent.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
We all do not dissent. Suddenly, now she's speaking for everybody,
we all. That's like there Regosa years ago saying we
clean your toilets, We clean your toilets, and that character
is back. Bass is endorsing him for governor. We'll get
to that. That's next hour. Here is Brett Kavanaugh's reasoning,
(19:22):
and I'm reading directly from his writing. You tell me
where this is wrong. About ten percent of the people
in the Los Angeles region are illegally in the United States.
Did you know that ten percent? Meaning about two million
illegal immigrants out of a total population of twenty million.
Not surprisingly, given those extraordinary numbers, US immigration officers have
(19:45):
prioritized immigration enforcement in the Los Angeles area. This is
me talking now. You may want to wonder about the
idiots running our state. That ten percent of the people
living among us in the LA region are here illegally.
You imagine what that's costing us? Any idea? What's that
(20:07):
costing us in terms of medical care, schooling, not to
mention all the neighborhoods it takes up. You wonder why
the cost of housing is so high? Well, what if
ten percent of the population was deported by me a
lot more room, the price of housing would go way down.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Imagine what it contributes to the traffic. All right, Kevin,
all goes on.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
The government sometimes makes brief and here's some reasonable writing,
makes brief investigative stops to check immigration status of those
who gathering locations where people are hired for day jobs,
who work or appear to work in jobs such as construction, landscaping, agriculture,
or car washes that often do not require paperwork and
(20:57):
therefore are attractive to illegal aliens who do not speak much,
if any English. Again, this is all common sense. We
know where the illegal aliens work. We know that they're
largely from south of the border, that they largely speak Spanish,
and the reason they work in these jobs is because
(21:19):
there's no paperwork. These people do not pay taxes, Their
employers do not pay taxes. They, by the way, work
as slaves. All the people who support the illegal aliens
support the slave labor conditions that these people are supposed
to work under. And then they lecture you. It's like, well,
your strawberries are going to cost more. Oh, okay, we
(21:42):
need slave labors, so my strawberries cost less.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
I don't need strawberries.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Kaviano says, to stop an individual for brief questioning about
immigration status, the government must have reasonable suspicion that the
individuals illegally present, and whether an officer has reasonable suspicion
depends on the totality of the circumstances.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Here.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
The circumstances include there's an extremely high number and percentage
of the legal immigrants in the LA area. These individuals
tend to gather in certain locations to seek daily work.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Yeah like home depot.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
These individuals do certain kinds of jobs such as day labor, landscaping,
agriculture construction that do not require paperwork are especially attractive,
and many of those illegally in the Los Angeles area
come from Mexico or Central America and do not speak
much English. What Capitol later says is this is common sense,
and that's what it is. It's common effing sense, and
(22:42):
the precedent of previous Supreme Court decisions allowed for this.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Here's mayor hysteria play cut three.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
From the beginning, we have known that Los Angeles has
been used as a test case for total dominance and
unchecked power by the federal government. We have been used
as a test case to begin to normalize military intervention
and takeover of our cities and standing united. We took
(23:14):
their unlawful and unconstitutional tactics to court, and we won
not once, but twice two stop.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
But she lost the third time in the Supreme Court.
Of both major issues, Ice does have the right to
detain immigrants under the conditions we discussed, and Donald Trump
does have the right to send in the National Guard
when the mayor has failed to protect the city. When
(23:43):
the governor has failed to protect the city, Trump would
not have shown up with the National Guard if Bassi
and Newsom hadn't failed the way she failed when she
ran off to uh Ghana while the Palisades burned. She's
a failed, dangerous person. Her policies lead to rioting, her
(24:08):
policies led to deadly destructive fires, and then she stands
there all self righteous and angry, crazy lady on the
porch and she lies like hell too. More coming up.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
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Speaker 2 (24:31):
KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
and you could follow us at John Cobelt Radio on
social media. Yeah, the investigations are piling up. We had
Kevin Kylie on earlier and Congress is looking into where
the fire aid money went. The fire aid people have
(24:52):
one hundred and seven million dollars and they gave it
nearly all of it to nonprofits, but we don't know
who nonprofits gave it to. And the law firm that
fire Aid hired said no, everything's cool, didn't find any wrongdoing.
So Kylie and his committee is going to look further
into that. Another committee that is doing an investigation into
(25:16):
the Palisades fire is Chairman Rick Scott who runs the
Senate Special Committee on Aging, and Senator Ron Johnson from Wisconsin,
who runs the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. Actually the title
(25:38):
is longer than that, but you get the idea, and
they're going to do an investigation to examine the failures
surrounding the preparation for and the response to the fire disaster, which,
according to their press release, allowed unacceptable loss of life
and the destruction of thousands of homes. Chairman Scott and
(25:58):
Chairman Johnson believed the Palisades fire was more than just
a horrific tragedy. It was an unacceptable failure of government
to protect the lives and property of its citizens and
families deserve answers and accountability. Over the years, they say,
billions upon billions of federal taxpayer dollars had been directed
(26:20):
to California to support fire management and disaster mitigation. Yet
on this day of the Palisades fire, reservoirs were empty,
fire hydrants went dry. Innocent people, including many vulnerable seniors, perished,
while thousands more lost their homes, businesses, and everything they owned.
So they're going to go look for answers. There should
(26:43):
be no and I'm glad they're emphasizing the word failure,
which we talked about in the last segment. The people
running the city and the state are absolute colossal failures
and it's been deadly and destructive. It's not the normal
failure where they just bankrupt the city, although they did
that too, or they bankrupt the state and yeah, that happened.
(27:07):
So we got the city and state bankrupted. We've got
dozens of people dead, we've got tens hundreds of billions
of dollars worth of damage. There ought to be investigations.
Politicians ought to be put in prison for this. Karen
(27:27):
Bass and Gavin Newsom's performance were so absurd, reprehensible, disgusting.
Is they ought to be in prison for the suffering
they caused. And now we've got one hundred and seven
million dollars raised for fire aid and nobody can really
(27:48):
explain exactly where the money is still. The permits are
coming through in a trickle to rebuild the homes. I mean,
there's just there's no end to this. And I was
taught talking to somebody the other day who's normally sane
and would not engage in this kind of talk. But
they're starting to wonder because they were talking about God
(28:10):
Palisades burned down. You go to Santa Monica and it's
an insane asylum. You can't go to the third Street
Promenade anymore because of the homeless. The Santa Monica Plays
shopping mall is now seventy percent vacant. Or two shootings
on the west side over the weekend, And they said,
is this on purpose? And so I said to them, well,
(28:34):
if you were going to do it on purpose, what
would you do differently? And when I say that to people,
they they.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Look at you.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
It's like you wouldn't do anything differently. You abandoned the palisades.
You leave the reservoirs empty and the fire hydrants are dry.
That's why the insurance companies pulled out. If you wonder
why the insurance goes pulled out, they ran drones over
the reservoirs. I heard that rumor once, taught twice three times.
(29:06):
And then I saw a story the other day in
another state. A woman said a drone flew over her house.
It was the insurance company drone and they saw that
she had a lot of tree branches hanging over her property,
and they said, you have six weeks to get rid
of those, or we're canceling your insurance because it's a
fire hazard, and she goes, well they can't do that.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Well, yeah, they can do that.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
And I think that's what happened to the Palisades, and
people had their insurance canceled or greatly reduced and didn't
know why, and maybe didn't even notice the letter in
the mail, and they got thrown into the fare plan.
And there's no money in that plan either. That's getting bankrupted.
(29:49):
But the insurance companies were onto the severe neglect going on.
They saw the brush wasn't cleared. I mean, if the
insurance company could fly with this one woman's house and
was zouri and cancel her policy or threatened to, well,
of course they flew over.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
The palace age.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Why do you think somebody policies were suddenly canceled because
they saw what was coming.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
They knew it. They were in the middle of a
dry season. It only got dryer.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
They knew the Santa and Wins are gonna blow in January,
and they did.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
And here you go.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
They knew there was no fire coverage, they knew there
was no water. They knew there was they you know,
and the mayor flew out of the country, so there
should be many more investigations. But I think I'm pretty
sure what went on here because I can't think of
(30:40):
another reason for it.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
When we come back, Karen Bass and Doris endorsing Tony
Vellar for governor. Holy Moly, Deborah Mark live in the
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