August 13, 2025 • 37 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (08/13) - ABC News host Kyra Phillips admitted to being jumped in the last 2 years while in Washington DC and MSNBC Joe Scarborough said a journalist privately admitted to being happy about Pres. Trump placing the DC Metro Police under federal control. More on Pres. Trump placing DC Metro Police under federal control & the homeless problem in DC. Curren Price is being brought up on more corruption charges. Van Nuys residents are fed up with a neighbor blowing 3 train horns to get LAPD's attention amid a beef with the cops.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:00):
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the show at the iHeart app. I want to start
because this is funny. So this has become really farcial.
The Washington d C. Has been a hell hole for decades.
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It should be a gleaming city, right, it should be
the most beautiful, grand city in America. Everybody from all
over the world comes to see the home of the president,
I mean, the home of freedom, the leader of the
free world. Right, everything in Washington should look great. But
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Congress made a mistake in nineteen seventy three. You know,
Washington's not a state, it's the District of Columbia and
Washington's government, the DC government is not really in charge.
It's ultimately Congress and the President. But in nineteen seventy three,
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they passed something called home rule and they gave Washington DC,
it's city council and mayor more power, more control. And
the people who have been on the city council and
in the mayor's office for over fifty years now. It's
been a fifty two year experiment. It's been a disaster.
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Whoever has been elected has ruined the place. I mean,
jes you remember you remember Maryon Barry some years ago. God,
that must go back to the nineties. He was Marion
Barry was a guy and he was He'd start cocaine
and run around with hookers. There's all kinds of scandals
and he was there for a while though, like nothing
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slowed him down. It's ever really changed. And after the
government stupidly shut down everything from twenty twenty to twenty
twenty three, oh, the defund the police movement, that really helped.
That was a good idea. By twenty twenty three, get
this Washington DC, because there's so many parallels to Los Angeles.
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It's frightening.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Washington, d C.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Had not only the highest murder rate of all major
cities in twenty twenty three, it had the highest murder
rate of any state. You couldn't find a place where
you were more likely to get murdered, You more likely
to end up with a puddle of blood, a hole
in your head, zipped up in the body bag, and
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carried off to him. More. If that was your goal
on any particular day, you go to Washington, DC, and
if you'll walk around long enough, you'll get your wish. Unbelieve.
And you know what's amazing is is Congress, the President,
all those workers. They have to be there every day,
they have to Many of them lived there, although I guess,
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as we found out, ninety percent of the government workers
in Washington fled during COVID and never came back. So
maybe they stopped caring. Yet, maybe that explains it. I
hadn't thought of it until this moment. The reason everybody
was cool with the murder rate going to extreme heights is, hey,
we don't go there anymore. We don't work there, so
we don't eat nothing. So Trump says, we're taking over
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the Washington DC Police department. We're going to have we're
going to have the National Guard, Homeland Security. They're going
to run things for a while. And oh my god,
the progressive journalists and politicians squealing like little pigs. Little
piglets and a pile of mud. Most horrific thing ever
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announced by a president that he was going to try
to stop people from getting murdered. Shocking. But there was
a contingent of people in the media who actually work
and live in Washington, DC who had alternative views. I
want to play you a couple of those because you'll
hear some truth. The first is Kira Phillips, an ABC
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News anchor who describes and this was on ABC News Live,
describes how she was jumped in Washington, DC.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
We've been talking so much about the numbers, and yeah,
usually that's how you played Devil's Advocate as you talk about, oh,
stats say crime is down. However, I can tell you
firsthand here in downtown DC where we work, right here
around our bureau, just in the past six months, you know,
there were two people shot. One person died literally two
blocks down.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Here from the bureau.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
It was within the last two years that I actually
was jumped walking just two blocks down from here. And
then just this morning one of my coworkers said her
car was stolen a block away from the bureau. So
we can talk about the numbers going down, but crime
is happening every single day because we're all experiencing at
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firsthand while working and living down here.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
The numbers are fake. I'll get into that later. Those
are fake numbers, of course they are. It's like the
numbers in la are fake. That's the game that the
progressives play now here. Is one of the most discredited
TV personalities Joe Scarborough, who hosts Some More morning show
on MSNBC, and he is a very bizarre character because
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when Joe Biden was running for reelection and everybody saw
that his brain had turned to oatmeal, Scarborough said, because
Scarborough constantly had political guests on Democrats who said, no,
Joe is fine, Joe is sharp, Joe's got a lot
of energy. I just saw Joe the other day. He's
really with it. And then Scarborough released some truth one
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day and said, actually, all the guests we have on
who say that Biden is sharp and ready to go
every day he goes. They say that publicly on our show,
but privately, when the cameras are off, they look at
me and say, Joe, it's really bad. He's really gone.
And Scarborough admits this on the air. Then, bizarrely, when
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Biden took his belly flop during the debate. Scarborough went
on the next day and claimed that the current version
of Joe Biden is the best version. This is the
best version. He's sharp and he's healthy and I so wait,
he said, you're the guy who said that all the
guests on your show are lying. I don't understand these people.
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But now Scarborough has gone back to his old self,
and here he talks about Washington d C reporters who
on his show or on Twitter denounced Trump for taking
over the police department, but privately they praised Trump.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
This is an interesting thing where I'll hear you know,
I actually heard a reporter heard from a reporter when
this has happened, going well, you know, if he doesn't overreach,
this is actually a good thing for quality of life,
et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Because d C right now,
I had this happened to my family, and I had
that they go down the list, and then saw him
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tweet something completely different. So DCENT, there has been a
problem in these It's not as bad as it was
two or three years ago, but it's not as it's
not as safe as Manhattan it's not as safe as
the nation's capital should be. By the way, dear, for third,
I've lived in DC for thirty two years. I can
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go chapter and verse if you'd like me to.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
He also went on to say that lifelong Democrats in
Washington are worried about their safety. He read a message
from one of these liberals who refused to walk outside
past eight pm, whose friends had been carjacked or shot at,
and said, it's a change from a decade ago. And
Scar said, I guarantee you this is a person that
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has never voted for a Republican in their life. This
isn't imagined. People. You know people you know that I
know that they love. They and their friends don't feel
safe in Washington, d C. And that's why Trump yesterday
addressed the reporters and said, stand, you tend to be
on the liberal side, but you don't want to get
mugged and raped and shot and killed. And you all
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know people and friends of yours that that happened. And
so yeah, because we live in a media culture of
nearly total propaganda regarding anything Trump does, all these people
sit at home and talk to each other about how
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awful it is out there. And then when Trump says,
all right, we're gonna send in We're gonna send in
federal law enforcement to help. Oh my god, he's hitler,
he's a fascist. There's a oh my what.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
They're insane.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
They're the ones getting shot at, they're the ones getting jumped,
they're the ones getting attacked, and Trump is agreeing with
them and try to do something about it. And then
they go on TV and they go on to Winner
and lie about it and call them all kinds of names.
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What is wrong with everybody? Now when we come back
Part two of this, and this is very parallel to
Los Angeles, is all the homeless people, all the disgusting
things we've had to endure every day of our lives
for ten years now since this progressive crowd took control
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and Trump is just going to get rid of them.
And it's very simple. And I'm going to play a
clip from the Press Secretary Caroline Levitt and what she
says is what we've been saying here for a long time,
and it's the only solution, it's the only way to
handle it. It's coming up next.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
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Speaker 2 (10:52):
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we doing on that voicteline? Plenty of openings.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
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Speaker 2 (11:00):
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something to say about all the people in the media
and all the Democrats angry that Trump is trying to
stop the murder rate from exploding any further in Washington.
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six eight seven seven sixty six four seven eight eight six.
You use the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. We
have been playing some clips from a couple of renegades
in the media who live and work in Washington, d C.
And described the real truth as to what's going on there.
The ABC News anchor Kyra Phillips said on her newscast
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that she was jumped by a half dressed vagrant. What
has that feel? Huh has that feel to have a
semi naked vagrant on your back? I'd rather not find out.
How quickly do flees a jump from one person to
the next, and then and then then Joe Scarborough's not sensey. Oh,
here's here's another one before I get into the homeless situation.
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Another writer, uh Noah Rothman. He writes for a number
of publications. This was in the Spectator dot com and
uh he wrote his one of many brushes with crime.
He says, I'm stopped at a red light on a
Saturday afternoon, waiting to glide into a parking lot in Washington,
d C. When a loud crack suddenly deafened me. So
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he's sitting there waiting to turn into a parking lot
and suddenly a sound so loud he couldn't hear for
a moment, out of the corner of my eye, I
saw a bullet sized wound in my windshield. And that's
what it was. It was a bullet that went through
the windshield. The two Metropolitan Police Department officers who who
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showed up after my nine to one one call didn't
show up for half an hour. The nearest station was
a two minute walk, so they could have been there
in thirty seconds. They gestured toward my broken windshield. I know,
I gestured toward the windshield and I asked them, you know,
is that a bullet And they said, yeah, your car's
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been shot at. But all we can do is record
the incident. If they wanted, I could ask apartment buildings
and businesses nearby for security footage, and this guy, Noah Rothman,
could report back to the police once he got the
security footage together, and then the cops took off. Other
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things that happened to Noah Rothman, there was a time
a man on a motorcycle swerved onto the sidewalk to
stare me down. My fiance had to hide behind me.
The time her cousin was mugged, the time my friend
from college was killed in a hit and run. On
our way home from the grocery store, we saw a
high school boy beating up a high school girl as
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their classmates looked on. I called the police and described
the situation loudly, and that caused the victim and the
culprit to flee. Then he sat outside for an hour
waiting for the cops to show up, and they never did.
And that's the thing. Many of these crimes are not reported,
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are not cataloged because the cops don't show up to
take the report and to catalog them. They don't do it.
And that is a purposeful policy to click keep the
crime rate down, guarantee it. Here in LA that kind
of stuff starts with Mayor Bass. There's all kinds of
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tricks that the thickest number, the fakest numbers of all
the numbers are crime numbers in a big city. If
there's a progressive government, they got more tricks than I
have time on the air. So the numbers are fake.
The LA Times knows they're fake. All the TV stations
know they're fake. And it doesn't stop them from amplifying
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the fake numbers and headlining the fake numbers. And that's
the truth and everybody knows it. Oh yeah, yeah, all right.
Now the homeless situation, that's another thing Trump is getting
rid of in Washington, d C. And you have to
look to this as a template for what always should
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have been done. It's what I've been talking about for years.
It's the only way to do it. Here's Caroline Levitt,
White House Press Secretary. What's going to happen to the
DC homeless.
Speaker 7 (15:41):
The Metropolitan Police Department, with the support of the new
federal agencies who have been surging on the streets of
the District of Columbia, are going to enforce the laws
that are already on the books here in Washington, d C.
For far too long, these laws have been completely ignored
and the homelessness problem has ravaged the city. So DC
Code twenty two thirteen oh seven and DC Municipal Regulation
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twenty four to one hundred give the Metropolitan Police Department
the authority to take action when it comes to homeless
encampments encampments, So homeless individuals will be given the option
to leave their encampment to be taken to a homeless
shelter to be offered addiction or mental health services, and
if they refuse, they will be susceptible to fines or
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to jail time. Again, these are pre existing laws that
are already on the books. They have not been enforced,
which is part of the reason for this nationalizing of
the federalizing of the National Guard to bring in this
assistance for law enforcement. While we are targeting criminals and
trying to remove criminals off of the streets, we also
want to make DC safe and beautiful, and that remove
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involves removing mentally disturbed individuals and homeless encampments as well.
So we will be using these regulations and code that
already exists to clean up our streets.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
It's really simple. They have to leave. If they want,
they can go to addiction or mental health treatment. If
they refuse, could be jail. Nothing else you can do.
Order them to leave, offer them treatment for mental health
or drugs. They say no, jail, then come back and
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ask them again the next day. There is no other
way to do this. Everything else has failed. We've had
a ten year experiment. We've spent many, many billions of dollars.
Anybody who says otherwise is part of the scam, part
of the racket. They are among those of their stealing
text money from you. There's no there's no two ways
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about that one either. These are definitive situations here. First
night that they started doing these sweeps, the FBI, the
DEA patrol Georgetown on Tuesday night, and then again all
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kinds of agencies, eight hundred and fifty officers and agents
surged across DC eight hundred and fifty. They made twenty
three arrests, including people wanted for homicide firearms offenses. They
picked up six illegal guns. They arrested people with possession
to intend to distribute narcotics, people who had committed loot acts, stalking,
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drunk driving, possession of a high cap magazine, and on
and on, twenty three arrests for crimes raging from drunk
driving to homicide. This is what you do. It's allahomless.
They go to treatment or they go to jail. You
send it an enormous police force and you just arrest
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everybody who's committing any kind of crimes, and you enforce
any outstanding search warrants. I don't know the way it
always should have been. Here's another raider named Robbie Suave
in the Hill dot com. He says, whether crime is
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technically down or up, it's crystal clear that Washington has
too much crime, gang lend shootings, mentally ill people attacking pedestrians,
flash mobs of teenagers stealing cars, vandalizing convenience stores. But
yet you can't turn on a news show without some idiot,
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corrupt politician squealing about Trump. These guys have been in power,
these progressives, for ten years. Look what they've created. Why
anyone gives them even ten seconds of consideration. We're just,
you know, a a good chunk of our society is
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just flat out stupid and self destructive. And there's no
treatment for that. Nothing you can do. You just simply
have to do the right thing, the rational thing. And
if they want to scream, let him go scream. Let
them howl at the moon late at night. But we
don't have to live like this. And in Washington, d C.
They're not going to live like this. Here in La, though,
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we're going to keep living like this because we have
a moron mayor a collection of morons on the city council,
and no will from the voters to change that. They
didn't have it Washington DC either. I'd like to see
what Trump could do to take over this place. Yeah,
maybe he's a dictator. Maybe we need a dictator. Maybe
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do we need somebody to bowl over the local government?
All right, we got more coming up in just a moment.
Speaker 6 (20:46):
You're listening to John Cobbels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
After two o'clock. We're gonna have Susan Shelley on from Well.
She writes for Southern California News Group columnists. She's LA
Daily News, Orange County Register. One of her pieces was
in the New York Post and she also works at
the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. Got a great column this week,
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you know, Gavin Newsom wants to redraw the congressional districts
like right now, because he wants to reduce the number
of Republicans representing California in Congress down to three. Right now,
Democrats make up forty two of the congressional seats out
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of California Republicans nine. Actually it's forty three to nine.
He wants to make it forty nine to three, even
though over forty percent of the state votes Republican for Congress.
He thinks that Republican voters only deserve six percent of
the seat. And then he squeals like a little girl
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about Trump being a threat to democracy. Susan Shelley is
going to come on and talk about that, because as possible,
this whole thing is going to blow up in Gavin
Newsom's pretty chiseled face. Let's go on. Oh, here's another
here's another crook. You ever heard of La councilman current Price?
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Probably not, because he doesn't spend any time doing anything
good for the city. He spends his time finding ways
to steal money for himself and his wife. I remember
he used to say bad things about us years ago.
So I'm going to relish this. I'm going to enjoy this.
I hold grudges, I don't forget anything, and I enjoy
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lashing back at idiots who try to interfere with our program. Here.
Current Price is a city councilman. Now he's all read
been charged with ten counts of grand theft by embezzlement, perjury,
and conflict of interest. Those charges were two years ago.
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What he would do well, he was teamed up with
his wife, del Richardson. She had a consulting company, Del
Richardson and Associates. So this was a husband and wife
looting operation. And Del Richardson got one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars in payments from developers right before Current Price
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would vote to approve the development project. Isn't that really sweet?
What a lovely couple. So she's got one of these
consulting companies, you know, and they built cities out of money.
And by the way, cities love getting built. Everybody's in
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on this g All she needs is Current Price and
other council members to approve the project and then she
gets her money. The perjury charge comes from Price not
listing his wife's income on disclosure forms. Well, of course
he wouldn't because then they might find out the scamness
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going on. They also said the Price committed embezzlement, that
he built the city out of tens of thousands of
dollars by putting Richardson on the city healthcare plan for
five years before they were legally married. He claimed she
was his wife. She wasn't his wife yet, but she
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got paid with city health benefits. We paid for that,
We paid for those consulting fees that she got, We
paid for healthcare benefits. Well, yesterday prosecutors Nathan Hackman and
his st found more and he got hit with two
more corruption charges. This would be like the fifth guy
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in recent years on the city Council to go to
jailer prison. Like the fifth there's only fifteen positions from
October twenty nineteen to June twenty twenty. Look at this,
but wife Dale Richardson was paid about six hundred thousand
dollars by the city Housing Authority. Six hundred thousand. Now
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where do you get that money from? Well, current Price
voted in favor of a thirty five million dollar federal
grant and a state grant application for two hundred and
fifty two million. You follow this, This Housing Authority applied
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for a state grant for two hundred and fifty two
million dollars. Price votes yes. The How's it Authority fills
out a thirty five million dollar federal grant application. Price
votes yes, and Richardson gets six hundred thousand dollars from
housing authority. I guess after all these grants came through,
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there was the kickback. How's the Authority went to Price
and say, we'd like your vote, we want it, We
need these grants. We need these grants because we have
other people who've got their heads in the troth. We've
got other people stealing. They need financing. And he goes,
oh yeah, I'll help you.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
He was somehow full a few hundred thousand dollars to
my wife's consulting firm. Here's another one. Price wrote emotion
to give La Metro that's that's a useful operation La
Metro thirty million dollars between October twenty twenty and October
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twenty twenty one, thirty million dollars. Well, look at that.
His wife, del Richardson was paid two hundred thousand dollars
by Metro over the exact same time period. Wow, so
she would get a kickback. He votes for a state
grant for the City Housing Authority, she gets a kickback.
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He votes for a federal grant for the City Housing Authority,
she gets a kickback. He rites and votes for an
LA Metro payment, she gets a kickback. He puts her
name on the city healthcare program, even though they're not married.
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And then there were all these development projects, and before
he would vote to approve the development projects, she would
get a kickback. So now we're talking about twelve charges
of corruption against Price. This was actually triggered after a
Time's investigation that Price had repeatedly cast votes that affected
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housing developers and other companies who just by chance happened
to be clients for his wife's consulting firm. This is
except there's probably, you know, of five, six, seven more
people in the council you could lay the same charges on,
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and god knows how many dozens of assembly people and
state senators. This is all they do. This is their
reason to exist, is to find ways to steal tax money.
And if they have to use family members and fake
consulting companies, go right ahead. Current Price as lawyers are
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arguing that well, many of the votes described in the
criminal complaint were also voted on by an overwhelming majority
of the council, so Price didn't swing any one decision.
Do you believe this? Do you believe? Do you realize
that when you work for one of these city agencies
or you're a developer, you got to get at least
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eight out of the fifteen votes. You've got to go
and get at least eight people to agree to fund
your city agency or fund your development, which means you
got to give kickbacks to all eight. So, yeah, they
nailed Price, and yeah, other people besides Price voted for
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this stuff. They just haven't caught the other guys yet
or the investigations aren't complete. They're all doing this. I mean,
you've seen what the city council is, right, you've seen them.
Do you think they'd let current Price walk away with
all the goodies? They go? What's he getting? What's his
wife getting? Doing it? Of course they're doing it. This
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is the way business is conducted. Because La Times had
one investigation. Of course, most days open the La Times.
These days, well what were they what are they doing today?
They were, Oh, they had a long article that if
if you're documenting illegal aliens getting arrested in the streets
by ice. Here's how to uh take the video without
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getting arrested. That was one of the major stories today.
That's mostly what they cover, like how to to record
deportation arrests. I don't know what they're gonna do with
all those all those videos. But fine, now current price. Well,
I'm really going to enjoy when he either pleads guilty
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or is found or found and convicted uh by a jury.
Good lord. But hey, you know, keep voting for everybody.
This is this is working out. Well.
Speaker 6 (31:02):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Coming up after two o'clock, we're gonna talk with Susan Shelley.
She is a communist for Southern California news group LA
Daily News, Orange County Register, all the local suburban papers here.
She's in the New York Post this week. She works
for the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. Really smart, right, it's
really entertaining columns. And she's got a story about Newsom's,
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you know, plan to redraw the congressional districts so there's
virtually no Republican representation for the state in Congress. Yeah, Okay,
let's just have one party, just one party, because things
are going so well. Well, could be that it blows
up in his face. So explain what the risks are
(31:53):
coming up? Something yeah, needs to blow up in his face.
All Right, We're gonna play a story here. There's so
many crazy people in the world, and I don't know
if this guy's crazy or just really desperate. But his
name is Gary Boyadzian. And if you're in Van Nys
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even if you don't know his name, you're probably aware
of him because he sets off bone rattling alarms almost
every day to get the police's attention. And let's play
this story from Let Me See It's ABC seven reporter
Rob Hayes.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
It's a block packed with humble, reserved homes and one
that is considerably not humble nor reserve.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
It's a house that sounds more like a train station.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Turning this block of Peach Street and Van Eyes into
Screech Street and Van Nois.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Makes though the windows rumble.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
This neighbor didn't want her face shown, but felt it
was important to get the story out. Neighbors there are
frustrated with the laaring horn that shatters the silence here
most afternoons for months now.
Speaker 8 (33:05):
He puts his alarm on his house alarm and has
that running, and then he uses the horn and he
blows it for you know, like thirty seconds, and then
it'll stop, and in a few minutes he does it again,
and it's over and over and over again.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
This is the neighbor who likes to tuote his own horn.
If I were in those shoe I'll complain too. It
is loud. It is disturbing Gary Boy.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
He says he has a long running beef with LAPD's
Van Eys Division. The loud sirens, chain horns extra okay,
the train horns are his way, he says, of getting
LAPD's attention.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
I need him. I don't know how I else to
cry out for it. That's why I'm setting the signs.
And is that fair to the neighbors? You think it's not.
I would complain to if focus them. Why do you
do it? I'm crying out for help.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
The people who live on the block have posted signs
urging others to call the police when the horns are blaring,
but neighbors say officers have told them they need to
hear the noise themselves in order to cite Boianzia.
Speaker 8 (34:13):
He does it, then he stops, and by the time
they get out here forty minutes later, they can't do anything.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
They've been out here three days in a.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Row, and so the frustration grows, the folks around here
wishing LAPD would literally grab.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
This case by the horns.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Now, we reached out to LAPD's Van Eyes division today
several times.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Have not gotten any answers.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
City council member Ammelda Padilla represents this neighborhood. Her staff
today said they're unaware of the problem. Now you Iven
Van Eyes. Rob Hayes HEBC seven I witness.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Yeah, Rob, this is weird, frankly, and he says he
needs help.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
But what does he say? Yeah, what does he say
he needs help with?
Speaker 1 (34:53):
He just has a beef with LAPD, That's what he
tells us, A long standing beef goes back to twenty thirteen. Yeah,
I'm not a psychologist, so I couldn't really analyze this guy.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Twelve years he's been angry with LAPD. And how is
Rob He's not asking a follow up question to him, like,
come on, give me an answer, dude. I know, but
he has a so he's a mental patient. So he's
a mental patient. And LPD can't stand around like I
have one guy stand around until the horn actually goes off. Really,
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and how come if everybody's recording the horns, you can't
you can't use that as the evidence. Good lord, LAPD's
got to do better than that. There's something called disturbing
the peace. They do that for parties. Yeah, they could
do something. He's see, this is what I'm saying. The laped'
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is supposed to be the good guys, and increasingly you
find out, Oh, they don't do anything. They can't do anything,
they don't want to do anything. They just just and
then then they say something ridiculous like, well, well we
have to hear it ourselves. That sit there and hear
it yourself. Geez, have lunch in front of the house
one day. Just do it for the neighborhood, right, do
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it for the community. Have your your coffee donut break
in front of the guy's house. You know, we're always
at the mercy of the crazy people. One crazy people.
There could be one hundred people on the one crazy person.
He gets to set the rules. And he's been angry
at the cops for twelve years. The hell and the
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police are full of it on that. Of course they
could find a way to stop him. There's somebody go
in the house and grab his horn. Equipment just confiscated.
It's a menace, all right. When we come back, Susan Shelley,
columnist with Southern California Newsgroup New York Post, and she's
got a peace on Gavin Newsom and is his idea
(37:01):
to redistrict nearly all the Republicans out of Congress from California,
which which sounds really fair, doesn't it, And he wants
to do it, and Susan's gonna explain why maybe it
could blow up on it. We'll see. We've got Brigida
Deagostino in for Debor Mark live the KFI twenty four
hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to The John Covelt
Show podcast. You can always hear the show live on
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Can't.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty. You're listening to the John Cobelt
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So that's all great. So you can listen now live
on the radio, live streaming, or on a podcast after
the show at the iHeart app. I want to start
because this is funny. So this has become really farcial.
The Washington d C. Has been a hell hole for decades.
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It should be a gleaming city, right, it should be
the most beautiful, grand city in America. Everybody from all
over the world comes to see the home of the president,
I mean, the home of freedom, the leader of the
free world. Right, everything in Washington should look great. But
(01:16):
Congress made a mistake in nineteen seventy three. You know,
Washington's not a state, it's the District of Columbia and
Washington's government, the DC government is not really in charge.
It's ultimately Congress and the President. But in nineteen seventy three,
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they passed something called home rule and they gave Washington DC,
it's city council and mayor more power, more control. And
the people who have been on the city council and
in the mayor's office for over fifty years now. It's
been a fifty two year experiment. It's been a disaster.
(02:01):
Whoever has been elected has ruined the place. I mean,
jes you remember you remember Maryon Barry some years ago. God,
that must go back to the nineties. He was Marion
Barry was a guy and he was He'd start cocaine
and run around with hookers. There's all kinds of scandals
and he was there for a while though, like nothing
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slowed him down. It's ever really changed. And after the
government stupidly shut down everything from twenty twenty to twenty
twenty three, oh, the defund the police movement, that really helped.
That was a good idea. By twenty twenty three, get
this Washington DC, because there's so many parallels to Los Angeles.
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It's frightening.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Washington, d C.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Had not only the highest murder rate of all major
cities in twenty twenty three, it had the highest murder
rate of any state. You couldn't find a place where
you were more likely to get murdered, You more likely
to end up with a puddle of blood, a hole
in your head, zipped up in the body bag, and
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carried off to him. More. If that was your goal
on any particular day, you go to Washington, DC, and
if you'll walk around long enough, you'll get your wish. Unbelieve.
And you know what's amazing is is Congress, the President,
all those workers. They have to be there every day,
they have to Many of them lived there, although I guess,
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as we found out, ninety percent of the government workers
in Washington fled during COVID and never came back. So
maybe they stopped caring. Yet, maybe that explains it. I
hadn't thought of it until this moment. The reason everybody
was cool with the murder rate going to extreme heights is, hey,
we don't go there anymore. We don't work there, so
we don't eat nothing. So Trump says, we're taking over
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the Washington DC Police department. We're going to have we're
going to have the National Guard, Homeland Security. They're going
to run things for a while. And oh my god,
the progressive journalists and politicians squealing like little pigs. Little
piglets and a pile of mud. Most horrific thing ever
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announced by a president that he was going to try
to stop people from getting murdered. Shocking. But there was
a contingent of people in the media who actually work
and live in Washington, DC who had alternative views. I
want to play you a couple of those because you'll
hear some truth. The first is Kira Phillips, an ABC
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News anchor who describes and this was on ABC News Live,
describes how she was jumped in Washington, DC.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
We've been talking so much about the numbers, and yeah,
usually that's how you played Devil's Advocate as you talk about, oh,
stats say crime is down. However, I can tell you
firsthand here in downtown DC where we work, right here
around our bureau, just in the past six months, you know,
there were two people shot. One person died literally two
blocks down.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Here from the bureau.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
It was within the last two years that I actually
was jumped walking just two blocks down from here. And
then just this morning one of my coworkers said her
car was stolen a block away from the bureau. So
we can talk about the numbers going down, but crime
is happening every single day because we're all experiencing at
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firsthand while working and living down here.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
The numbers are fake. I'll get into that later. Those
are fake numbers, of course they are. It's like the
numbers in la are fake. That's the game that the
progressives play now here. Is one of the most discredited
TV personalities Joe Scarborough, who hosts Some More morning show
on MSNBC, and he is a very bizarre character because
(06:05):
when Joe Biden was running for reelection and everybody saw
that his brain had turned to oatmeal, Scarborough said, because
Scarborough constantly had political guests on Democrats who said, no,
Joe is fine, Joe is sharp, Joe's got a lot
of energy. I just saw Joe the other day. He's
really with it. And then Scarborough released some truth one
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day and said, actually, all the guests we have on
who say that Biden is sharp and ready to go
every day he goes. They say that publicly on our show,
but privately, when the cameras are off, they look at
me and say, Joe, it's really bad. He's really gone.
And Scarborough admits this on the air. Then, bizarrely, when
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Biden took his belly flop during the debate. Scarborough went
on the next day and claimed that the current version
of Joe Biden is the best version. This is the
best version. He's sharp and he's healthy and I so wait,
he said, you're the guy who said that all the
guests on your show are lying. I don't understand these people.
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But now Scarborough has gone back to his old self,
and here he talks about Washington d C reporters who
on his show or on Twitter denounced Trump for taking
over the police department, but privately they praised Trump.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
This is an interesting thing where I'll hear you know,
I actually heard a reporter heard from a reporter when
this has happened, going well, you know, if he doesn't overreach,
this is actually a good thing for quality of life,
et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Because d C right now,
I had this happened to my family, and I had
that they go down the list, and then saw him
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tweet something completely different. So DCENT, there has been a
problem in these It's not as bad as it was
two or three years ago, but it's not as it's
not as safe as Manhattan it's not as safe as
the nation's capital should be. By the way, dear, for third,
I've lived in DC for thirty two years. I can
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go chapter and verse if you'd like me to.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
He also went on to say that lifelong Democrats in
Washington are worried about their safety. He read a message
from one of these liberals who refused to walk outside
past eight pm, whose friends had been carjacked or shot at,
and said, it's a change from a decade ago. And
Scar said, I guarantee you this is a person that
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has never voted for a Republican in their life. This
isn't imagined. People. You know people you know that I
know that they love. They and their friends don't feel
safe in Washington, d C. And that's why Trump yesterday
addressed the reporters and said, stand, you tend to be
on the liberal side, but you don't want to get
mugged and raped and shot and killed. And you all
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know people and friends of yours that that happened. And
so yeah, because we live in a media culture of
nearly total propaganda regarding anything Trump does, all these people
sit at home and talk to each other about how
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awful it is out there. And then when Trump says,
all right, we're gonna send in We're gonna send in
federal law enforcement to help. Oh my god, he's hitler,
he's a fascist. There's a oh my what.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
They're insane.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
They're the ones getting shot at, they're the ones getting jumped,
they're the ones getting attacked, and Trump is agreeing with
them and try to do something about it. And then
they go on TV and they go on to Winner
and lie about it and call them all kinds of names.
(10:04):
What is wrong with everybody? Now when we come back
Part two of this, and this is very parallel to
Los Angeles, is all the homeless people, all the disgusting
things we've had to endure every day of our lives
for ten years now since this progressive crowd took control
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and Trump is just going to get rid of them.
And it's very simple. And I'm going to play a
clip from the Press Secretary Caroline Levitt and what she
says is what we've been saying here for a long time,
and it's the only solution, it's the only way to
handle it. It's coming up next.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am
six forty.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
John COBALT's show, Let's see moistline for Friday. How are
we doing on that voicteline? Plenty of openings.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
What do you have.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Vacancy's Well, there you go eight seven seven Moist Stadty
six eight seven seven Moist eighty six. Maybe you have
something to say about all the people in the media
and all the Democrats angry that Trump is trying to
stop the murder rate from exploding any further in Washington.
Apparently that's a bad thing eight seven seven Moist steady
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six eight seven seven sixty six four seven eight eight six.
You use the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. We
have been playing some clips from a couple of renegades
in the media who live and work in Washington, d C.
And described the real truth as to what's going on there.
The ABC News anchor Kyra Phillips said on her newscast
(11:47):
that she was jumped by a half dressed vagrant. What
has that feel? Huh has that feel to have a
semi naked vagrant on your back? I'd rather not find out.
How quickly do flees a jump from one person to
the next, and then and then then Joe Scarborough's not sensey. Oh,
here's here's another one before I get into the homeless situation.
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Another writer, uh Noah Rothman. He writes for a number
of publications. This was in the Spectator dot com and
uh he wrote his one of many brushes with crime.
He says, I'm stopped at a red light on a
Saturday afternoon, waiting to glide into a parking lot in Washington,
d C. When a loud crack suddenly deafened me. So
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he's sitting there waiting to turn into a parking lot
and suddenly a sound so loud he couldn't hear for
a moment, out of the corner of my eye, I
saw a bullet sized wound in my windshield. And that's
what it was. It was a bullet that went through
the windshield. The two Metropolitan Police Department officers who who
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showed up after my nine to one one call didn't
show up for half an hour. The nearest station was
a two minute walk, so they could have been there
in thirty seconds. They gestured toward my broken windshield. I know,
I gestured toward the windshield and I asked them, you know,
is that a bullet And they said, yeah, your car's
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been shot at. But all we can do is record
the incident. If they wanted, I could ask apartment buildings
and businesses nearby for security footage, and this guy, Noah Rothman,
could report back to the police once he got the
security footage together, and then the cops took off. Other
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things that happened to Noah Rothman, there was a time
a man on a motorcycle swerved onto the sidewalk to
stare me down. My fiance had to hide behind me.
The time her cousin was mugged, the time my friend
from college was killed in a hit and run. On
our way home from the grocery store, we saw a
high school boy beating up a high school girl as
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their classmates looked on. I called the police and described
the situation loudly, and that caused the victim and the
culprit to flee. Then he sat outside for an hour
waiting for the cops to show up, and they never did.
And that's the thing. Many of these crimes are not reported,
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are not cataloged because the cops don't show up to
take the report and to catalog them. They don't do it.
And that is a purposeful policy to click keep the
crime rate down, guarantee it. Here in LA that kind
of stuff starts with Mayor Bass. There's all kinds of
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tricks that the thickest number, the fakest numbers of all
the numbers are crime numbers in a big city. If
there's a progressive government, they got more tricks than I
have time on the air. So the numbers are fake.
The LA Times knows they're fake. All the TV stations
know they're fake. And it doesn't stop them from amplifying
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the fake numbers and headlining the fake numbers. And that's
the truth and everybody knows it. Oh yeah, yeah, all right.
Now the homeless situation, that's another thing Trump is getting
rid of in Washington, d C. And you have to
look to this as a template for what always should
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have been done. It's what I've been talking about for years.
It's the only way to do it. Here's Caroline Levitt,
White House Press Secretary. What's going to happen to the
DC homeless.
Speaker 7 (15:41):
The Metropolitan Police Department, with the support of the new
federal agencies who have been surging on the streets of
the District of Columbia, are going to enforce the laws
that are already on the books here in Washington, d C.
For far too long, these laws have been completely ignored
and the homelessness problem has ravaged the city. So DC
Code twenty two thirteen oh seven and DC Municipal Regulation
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twenty four to one hundred give the Metropolitan Police Department
the authority to take action when it comes to homeless
encampments encampments, So homeless individuals will be given the option
to leave their encampment to be taken to a homeless
shelter to be offered addiction or mental health services, and
if they refuse, they will be susceptible to fines or
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to jail time. Again, these are pre existing laws that
are already on the books. They have not been enforced,
which is part of the reason for this nationalizing of
the federalizing of the National Guard to bring in this
assistance for law enforcement. While we are targeting criminals and
trying to remove criminals off of the streets, we also
want to make DC safe and beautiful, and that remove
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involves removing mentally disturbed individuals and homeless encampments as well.
So we will be using these regulations and code that
already exists to clean up our streets.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
It's really simple. They have to leave. If they want,
they can go to addiction or mental health treatment. If
they refuse, could be jail. Nothing else you can do.
Order them to leave, offer them treatment for mental health
or drugs. They say no, jail, then come back and
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ask them again the next day. There is no other
way to do this. Everything else has failed. We've had
a ten year experiment. We've spent many, many billions of dollars.
Anybody who says otherwise is part of the scam, part
of the racket. They are among those of their stealing
text money from you. There's no there's no two ways
(17:41):
about that one either. These are definitive situations here. First
night that they started doing these sweeps, the FBI, the
DEA patrol Georgetown on Tuesday night, and then again all
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kinds of agencies, eight hundred and fifty officers and agents
surged across DC eight hundred and fifty. They made twenty
three arrests, including people wanted for homicide firearms offenses. They
picked up six illegal guns. They arrested people with possession
to intend to distribute narcotics, people who had committed loot acts, stalking,
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drunk driving, possession of a high cap magazine, and on
and on, twenty three arrests for crimes raging from drunk
driving to homicide. This is what you do. It's allahomless.
They go to treatment or they go to jail. You
send it an enormous police force and you just arrest
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everybody who's committing any kind of crimes, and you enforce
any outstanding search warrants. I don't know the way it
always should have been. Here's another raider named Robbie Suave
in the Hill dot com. He says, whether crime is
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technically down or up, it's crystal clear that Washington has
too much crime, gang lend shootings, mentally ill people attacking pedestrians,
flash mobs of teenagers stealing cars, vandalizing convenience stores. But
yet you can't turn on a news show without some idiot,
(19:29):
corrupt politician squealing about Trump. These guys have been in power,
these progressives, for ten years. Look what they've created. Why
anyone gives them even ten seconds of consideration. We're just,
you know, a a good chunk of our society is
(19:53):
just flat out stupid and self destructive. And there's no
treatment for that. Nothing you can do. You just simply
have to do the right thing, the rational thing. And
if they want to scream, let him go scream. Let
them howl at the moon late at night. But we
don't have to live like this. And in Washington, d C.
They're not going to live like this. Here in La, though,
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we're going to keep living like this because we have
a moron mayor a collection of morons on the city council,
and no will from the voters to change that. They
didn't have it Washington DC either. I'd like to see
what Trump could do to take over this place. Yeah,
maybe he's a dictator. Maybe we need a dictator. Maybe
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do we need somebody to bowl over the local government?
All right, we got more coming up in just a moment.
Speaker 6 (20:46):
You're listening to John Cobbels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
After two o'clock. We're gonna have Susan Shelley on from Well.
She writes for Southern California News Group columnists. She's LA
Daily News, Orange County Register. One of her pieces was
in the New York Post and she also works at
the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. Got a great column this week,
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you know, Gavin Newsom wants to redraw the congressional districts
like right now, because he wants to reduce the number
of Republicans representing California in Congress down to three. Right now,
Democrats make up forty two of the congressional seats out
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of California Republicans nine. Actually it's forty three to nine.
He wants to make it forty nine to three, even
though over forty percent of the state votes Republican for Congress.
He thinks that Republican voters only deserve six percent of
the seat. And then he squeals like a little girl
(22:04):
about Trump being a threat to democracy. Susan Shelley is
going to come on and talk about that, because as possible,
this whole thing is going to blow up in Gavin
Newsom's pretty chiseled face. Let's go on. Oh, here's another
here's another crook. You ever heard of La councilman current Price?
(22:27):
Probably not, because he doesn't spend any time doing anything
good for the city. He spends his time finding ways
to steal money for himself and his wife. I remember
he used to say bad things about us years ago.
So I'm going to relish this. I'm going to enjoy this.
I hold grudges, I don't forget anything, and I enjoy
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lashing back at idiots who try to interfere with our program. Here.
Current Price is a city councilman. Now he's all read
been charged with ten counts of grand theft by embezzlement, perjury,
and conflict of interest. Those charges were two years ago.
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What he would do well, he was teamed up with
his wife, del Richardson. She had a consulting company, Del
Richardson and Associates. So this was a husband and wife
looting operation. And Del Richardson got one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars in payments from developers right before Current Price
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would vote to approve the development project. Isn't that really sweet?
What a lovely couple. So she's got one of these
consulting companies, you know, and they built cities out of money.
And by the way, cities love getting built. Everybody's in
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on this g All she needs is Current Price and
other council members to approve the project and then she
gets her money. The perjury charge comes from Price not
listing his wife's income on disclosure forms. Well, of course
he wouldn't because then they might find out the scamness
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going on. They also said the Price committed embezzlement, that
he built the city out of tens of thousands of
dollars by putting Richardson on the city healthcare plan for
five years before they were legally married. He claimed she
was his wife. She wasn't his wife yet, but she
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got paid with city health benefits. We paid for that,
We paid for those consulting fees that she got, We
paid for healthcare benefits. Well, yesterday prosecutors Nathan Hackman and
his st found more and he got hit with two
more corruption charges. This would be like the fifth guy
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in recent years on the city Council to go to
jailer prison. Like the fifth there's only fifteen positions from
October twenty nineteen to June twenty twenty. Look at this,
but wife Dale Richardson was paid about six hundred thousand
dollars by the city Housing Authority. Six hundred thousand. Now
(25:33):
where do you get that money from? Well, current Price
voted in favor of a thirty five million dollar federal
grant and a state grant application for two hundred and
fifty two million. You follow this, This Housing Authority applied
(25:53):
for a state grant for two hundred and fifty two
million dollars. Price votes yes. The How's it Authority fills
out a thirty five million dollar federal grant application. Price
votes yes, and Richardson gets six hundred thousand dollars from
housing authority. I guess after all these grants came through,
(26:18):
there was the kickback. How's the Authority went to Price
and say, we'd like your vote, we want it, We
need these grants. We need these grants because we have
other people who've got their heads in the troth. We've
got other people stealing. They need financing. And he goes,
oh yeah, I'll help you.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
He was somehow full a few hundred thousand dollars to
my wife's consulting firm. Here's another one. Price wrote emotion
to give La Metro that's that's a useful operation La
Metro thirty million dollars between October twenty twenty and October
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twenty twenty one, thirty million dollars. Well, look at that.
His wife, del Richardson was paid two hundred thousand dollars
by Metro over the exact same time period. Wow, so
she would get a kickback. He votes for a state
grant for the City Housing Authority, she gets a kickback.
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He votes for a federal grant for the City Housing Authority,
she gets a kickback. He rites and votes for an
LA Metro payment, she gets a kickback. He puts her
name on the city healthcare program, even though they're not married.
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And then there were all these development projects, and before
he would vote to approve the development projects, she would
get a kickback. So now we're talking about twelve charges
of corruption against Price. This was actually triggered after a
Time's investigation that Price had repeatedly cast votes that affected
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housing developers and other companies who just by chance happened
to be clients for his wife's consulting firm. This is
except there's probably, you know, of five, six, seven more
people in the council you could lay the same charges on,
(28:31):
and god knows how many dozens of assembly people and
state senators. This is all they do. This is their
reason to exist, is to find ways to steal tax money.
And if they have to use family members and fake
consulting companies, go right ahead. Current Price as lawyers are
(28:54):
arguing that well, many of the votes described in the
criminal complaint were also voted on by an overwhelming majority
of the council, so Price didn't swing any one decision.
Do you believe this? Do you believe? Do you realize
that when you work for one of these city agencies
or you're a developer, you got to get at least
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eight out of the fifteen votes. You've got to go
and get at least eight people to agree to fund
your city agency or fund your development, which means you
got to give kickbacks to all eight. So, yeah, they
nailed Price, and yeah, other people besides Price voted for
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this stuff. They just haven't caught the other guys yet
or the investigations aren't complete. They're all doing this. I mean,
you've seen what the city council is, right, you've seen them.
Do you think they'd let current Price walk away with
all the goodies? They go? What's he getting? What's his
wife getting? Doing it? Of course they're doing it. This
(30:06):
is the way business is conducted. Because La Times had
one investigation. Of course, most days open the La Times.
These days, well what were they what are they doing today?
They were, Oh, they had a long article that if
if you're documenting illegal aliens getting arrested in the streets
by ice. Here's how to uh take the video without
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getting arrested. That was one of the major stories today.
That's mostly what they cover, like how to to record
deportation arrests. I don't know what they're gonna do with
all those all those videos. But fine, now current price. Well,
I'm really going to enjoy when he either pleads guilty
(30:50):
or is found or found and convicted uh by a jury.
Good lord. But hey, you know, keep voting for everybody.
This is this is working out. Well.
Speaker 6 (31:02):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Coming up after two o'clock, we're gonna talk with Susan Shelley.
She is a communist for Southern California news group LA
Daily News, Orange County Register, all the local suburban papers here.
She's in the New York Post this week. She works
for the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. Really smart, right, it's
really entertaining columns. And she's got a story about Newsom's,
(31:32):
you know, plan to redraw the congressional districts so there's
virtually no Republican representation for the state in Congress. Yeah, Okay,
let's just have one party, just one party, because things
are going so well. Well, could be that it blows
up in his face. So explain what the risks are
(31:53):
coming up? Something yeah, needs to blow up in his face.
All Right, We're gonna play a story here. There's so
many crazy people in the world, and I don't know
if this guy's crazy or just really desperate. But his
name is Gary Boyadzian. And if you're in Van Nys
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even if you don't know his name, you're probably aware
of him because he sets off bone rattling alarms almost
every day to get the police's attention. And let's play
this story from Let Me See It's ABC seven reporter
Rob Hayes.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
It's a block packed with humble, reserved homes and one
that is considerably not humble nor reserve.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
It's a house that sounds more like a train station.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Turning this block of Peach Street and Van Eyes into
Screech Street and Van Nois.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Makes though the windows rumble.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
This neighbor didn't want her face shown, but felt it
was important to get the story out. Neighbors there are
frustrated with the laaring horn that shatters the silence here
most afternoons for months now.
Speaker 8 (33:05):
He puts his alarm on his house alarm and has
that running, and then he uses the horn and he
blows it for you know, like thirty seconds, and then
it'll stop, and in a few minutes he does it again,
and it's over and over and over again.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
This is the neighbor who likes to tuote his own horn.
If I were in those shoe I'll complain too. It
is loud. It is disturbing Gary Boy.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
He says he has a long running beef with LAPD's
Van Eys Division. The loud sirens, chain horns extra okay,
the train horns are his way, he says, of getting
LAPD's attention.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
I need him. I don't know how I else to
cry out for it. That's why I'm setting the signs.
And is that fair to the neighbors? You think it's not.
I would complain to if focus them. Why do you
do it? I'm crying out for help.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
The people who live on the block have posted signs
urging others to call the police when the horns are blaring,
but neighbors say officers have told them they need to
hear the noise themselves in order to cite Boianzia.
Speaker 8 (34:13):
He does it, then he stops, and by the time
they get out here forty minutes later, they can't do anything.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
They've been out here three days in a.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Row, and so the frustration grows, the folks around here
wishing LAPD would literally grab.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
This case by the horns.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Now, we reached out to LAPD's Van Eyes division today
several times.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Have not gotten any answers.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
City council member Ammelda Padilla represents this neighborhood. Her staff
today said they're unaware of the problem. Now you Iven
Van Eyes. Rob Hayes HEBC seven I witness.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Yeah, Rob, this is weird, frankly, and he says he
needs help.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
But what does he say? Yeah, what does he say
he needs help with?
Speaker 1 (34:53):
He just has a beef with LAPD, That's what he
tells us, A long standing beef goes back to twenty thirteen. Yeah,
I'm not a psychologist, so I couldn't really analyze this guy.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Twelve years he's been angry with LAPD. And how is
Rob He's not asking a follow up question to him, like,
come on, give me an answer, dude. I know, but
he has a so he's a mental patient. So he's
a mental patient. And LPD can't stand around like I
have one guy stand around until the horn actually goes off. Really,
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and how come if everybody's recording the horns, you can't
you can't use that as the evidence. Good lord, LAPD's
got to do better than that. There's something called disturbing
the peace. They do that for parties. Yeah, they could
do something. He's see, this is what I'm saying. The laped'
(35:53):
is supposed to be the good guys, and increasingly you
find out, Oh, they don't do anything. They can't do anything,
they don't want to do anything. They just just and
then then they say something ridiculous like, well, well we
have to hear it ourselves. That sit there and hear
it yourself. Geez, have lunch in front of the house
one day. Just do it for the neighborhood, right, do
(36:13):
it for the community. Have your your coffee donut break
in front of the guy's house. You know, we're always
at the mercy of the crazy people. One crazy people.
There could be one hundred people on the one crazy person.
He gets to set the rules. And he's been angry
at the cops for twelve years. The hell and the
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police are full of it on that. Of course they
could find a way to stop him. There's somebody go
in the house and grab his horn. Equipment just confiscated.
It's a menace, all right. When we come back, Susan Shelley,
columnist with Southern California Newsgroup New York Post, and she's
got a peace on Gavin Newsom and is his idea
(37:01):
to redistrict nearly all the Republicans out of Congress from California,
which which sounds really fair, doesn't it, And he wants
to do it, and Susan's gonna explain why maybe it
could blow up on it. We'll see. We've got Brigida
Deagostino in for Debor Mark live the KFI twenty four
hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to The John Covelt
Show podcast. You can always hear the show live on
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