February 5, 2025 • 34 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (02/05) - Pres. Trump's new Attorney General Pam Bondi said they are going to stop federal funding to sanctuary cities. More on Rick Carsuo wanting to help rebuild the areas impacted by the fires in Los Angeles. Marianna Gatto comes on the show to talk about the Italian American Museum of Los Angeles being vandalized by ICE protestors in Downtown LA earlier this week. More on the ICE protests in Downtown LA.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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in a Row. You know, for all the hours we
spend reading, researching and collecting the news stories and information
about what's going on to prepare for the show, Second
day in a Row, you just can't keep up with
the Trump administration. They've got something that's happened every day
this week, or just a few minutes before we go
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on the air and changes the focus of what I
want to talk about right off the top here and well,
before I get into that, I want to tell you
that at one thirty we're going to have Marianna Gotto on.
She runs the Italian American Museum of Los Angeles down
in uh down in downtown LA near Olvera Street, and
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I've been there many times. My wife is involved in
a lot of Italian American organizations in Southern California, and
I've gone to a lot of events, and quite a
few at the Italian American Museum. I'm like, they call
me ibm Italian by marriage, because otherwise I'm full blooded Polish.
And her museum got attacked by those disgusting thug criminals
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that Karen Bass allows to run a muck for three
days in a row. It's it's all the illegal aliens
and the illegal alien supporters who are running around waving
their Mexican flags and their El Salvadoran flags and and
committing all kinds of felonies and playing sight and I
Karen Bass apparently must have told the police department to
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stand down, because I don't think Jim McDonald would run
the police department that way. He's he's he's too good.
He used to be the sheriff, so we know how
he runs things. And this can't be. This can't be
Jim McDonald. This has got to be Karen Bass, Like
she hasn't done enough to the city. Now she's letting
these illegal alien criminals commit all kinds of violence and vandalism.
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I mean they the vandalism at the Italian American Museum
included spray painting, Viva Eraza, f ice, and f Trump,
except they misspelled trump. Did you see this. I don't
know if this photo has gone around the the internet. Uh,
(02:37):
very much. Hold on, I want I want to I
want to get the accurate misspelling. They can't even spell
a five letter word like Trump. What did I do
with it?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Here it is? Here it is. They spelled it t
u r mp turrump. That's a dumb These rioters are
and that's what they are. They're rioters, They're vandals, they're criminals.
They're exactly the element that the Trump administration is trying
to arrest and deport. And instead they hold a parade
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for three days in Los Angeles, tie up traffic on
all the downtown streets, tie up traffic on the one
on one, and start vandalizing and ruining the buildings in
these neighborhoods because Karen Bass, you know, in her progressive religion,
this is cool. We can't judge this. You know, they're
just trying to express their their feelings and their rights.
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They have no rights. These people are here legally, they
cannot be deported fast enough. And for her to provide
protection for these criminals after she allowed the Palisades to
burn down. I don't know why there's so much hatred
in her for the city and for the people in
the city. But we got the message. You hate everybody,
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You hate people on the West Side, you let the
palisades burn, You hate people down town, you hate people
just trying to drive to work down the one on one.
We got it. Nobody's got any rights except illegal aliens,
homeless people, and criminals. All Right, you got your message,
your your woke religion has been officially recognized here and
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I can't believe what we're stuck with. So anyway, we're
gonna have Mariana Gato on to talk about. This is
not the first time the museum has been attacked. Plus
plus these are these are hate crimes, right, These these
these these Mexican and Central American terrorists that are doing
all this damage are committing hate crimes against the Italian
Americans and their museum. Chew on Matt for a minute,
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But the news that came out right before the start
of the show is something that's aimed directly at Los Angeles. Uh.
The Attorney General for Trump, Pam Bondi, she got approved.
UH and she's in charge. It's her first day of work,
and one of the things she's gonna do thing about
this Trump administration is like there's seems to be fifty
innouncements every day, but I'm just going to focus on
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the stuff that affects our lives here in southern California.
What she's going to do is she is going to
stop all federal funding for sanctuary cities, period. And that's
going to be a big whack to the city of
Los Angeles. All these cities get huge amounts of federal money,
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but if they don't want to abide by federal law
and federal regulation, then the hell with them. And she's
also directing the Justice Department to work with Homeland Security
to completely eliminate the threats of cartels and all these
criminal organizations that come out of Central and South America.
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She wants law enforcement resources to dismantle the foundational operational
capacity of cartels, not just arrest the low level offenders
that you might nab on the streets. She wants to
destroy the the central operating facilities. She wants to go
after the bosses. She wants to go after you know where,
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the where the command and control centers are. She said,
there's a Joint Task Force known as Vulcan and it
was created to destroy MS thirteen and Joint Task Force
Alpha created to fight human trafficking. They're going to be
further empowered and elevated and these missions are expected to
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expand it, especially Vulcans, and they're going to destroy Trendy
I Ragua, the Venezuelan gang now designated as a foreign
terrorist organization. They're also going to direct the Department of
Justice to find new laws to make fentanyl pills and
xylazine Schedule three of the Controlled Substances Act. The people
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that you see half bent over in the streets, they
look like stone statues. A lot of those people have
fentonyl laced with xylazine, which I think is a horse tranquilizer,
and it causes them to completely freeze up and they
can't move. Yeah, that's what you're seeing in the street.
And so now that's going to be a rescheduled and
they're gonna they're gonna go They're gonna cut the head
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off the drug cartels. That's what they got to declare war.
Treat them like an armed enemy that's invaded and killed.
You know, seventy to one hundred thousand people a year
in America. I can't believe all the other administrations put
up with this garbage, but that those days are over. So, uh,
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you've got you've got the funding to Los Angeles is
going to be cut. You've got the drug cartels that
are going to be attacked directly, and DOJ is going
to pose all federal funding for sanctuary cities. And they've
been told to identify and evaluate all funding agreements with
those NGOs. These are those fake nonprofits that take government
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money and in this case provides support to illegal aliens.
We had Todd Benzman on a couple of days ago
where he told us about the billions of dollars under
the Biden administration our tax money spent to fund these nonprofits,
which in turn created this super highway to allow migrants
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to come from Colombia all the way to the Mexican
US border, including handing out money debit cards to the
illegal aliens so they'd have something to spend when they
crossed the border. This was all financed by the US taxpayer.
You hear all this commotion going on in Washington about
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non government organizations being shut down. Or they're funding being
shut down. That's what this is about. Washington DC is
filled with criminals and grifters, as is Sacramento, as is
Los Angeles. The Los Angeles, Sacramento, Washington TC governments are
filled with criminal organizations that have been siphoning tax money
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for all sorts of damaging, destructive projects. And one of
them has been about creating this passageway for illegal aliens
to come here by the millions and cost US tens
of billions, hundreds of billions of dollars in aid. And
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it's got to stop. And then you see, you see,
when the word gets out that Trump is serious and
is shutting down the border and is defunding all these
corrupt agencies, what happens We get this phony blogoney day
with that an illegal alien And these aren't these aren't
your gardeners or your housekeepers. Okay, that's always the line
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of bs that they try to sell. No, these are
young criminal men. It's proven. Look how they're acting. They
destroy things, they then the life things, they stop traffic,
and Karen Bass allows them. I have never seen a
person as destructive as Karen Bass in two years here
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in Los Angeles. And when we come back. Well one
point thirty, we're going to have Marianogato on, the director
of the Italian American Museum, and her place got hit
by these criminals. And in a few minutes, I want
to read to you a letter today, a post by
Rick Caruso, who's created an outside organization. It almost looks
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like an outside government, because he made it clear that
the current government has completely failed, is utterly dysfunctional, and
it's so there's got to be a workaround created so
that we could take advantage of the modern world and
not be stuck with the nineteen seventies technology and nineteen
seventies ideas as La digs out from the fire. So
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that's all I had. It's exciting stuff.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
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Speaker 1 (11:07):
All right, so we just told you about how Pam Bondi,
the new attorney general in the Trump administration, says they
are going to stop funding federal funding to all the
sanctuary cities until they stop providing sanctuary to the illegal
alien criminals that this government is trying to arrest. And
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of one of the stories we're going to cover in
a few minutes We're going to talk to the director
of the Italian American Museum in Los Angeles, Mariana Gato,
because her museum was vandalized with vicious spray painted slogans,
and it's not the first time it's happened to her.
She's down Nero Vera Street, downtown LA. And I'm just
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I cannot believe, coming off the fire disaster, that Karen
Bass decides to let thousands of these illegal alien criminals
and their supporters run amok and commit more damage to
Los Angeles. I mean, the city is completely ungovernable, out
of control. One side is burning, the other side is
completely congested with protesters who are breaking the law, just
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standing on our land and making it clear they have
no interest in America. They just have interest in destroying
what's been built here in this city. And we put
posted pictures on x on Twitter of some of the
damage done to Marianna's museum, along with the photograph of
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the thing I mentioned before, the photograph of the misspelling
of Trump's name. This is how stupid these people are.
This is actually a photograph of City Hall had gotten
spray painted, and it's the F word, followed by t
U r MP to RUMP, It's how stupid these these
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guys are. Okay, they're not hard working immigrants trying to
provide for their family. These are young thug criminals. Okay,
they're gang members. They're punks, that's what they are. That's
what's running in the streets protesting. So enough of the propaganda.
Then we turned to Rick Caruso. Now we're in an
interesting situation because Karen Bass's government has completely failed and
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she brought on Steve Soberoff, who's another civic leader, to
try to run the recovery effort or for ninety days.
And yesterday we told you that there's a recording of
sober Off on a private zoom meeting with all the
wealthy Hollywood guys, the agents, and he was giving them
advice on how to survive this post fire period. He
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was telling them hold on to your properties. It'll be
worth three times as much in a year because they're
going to be pumping money around. And he also warned
them not to drink the water. Basically, don't believe what
the DWP says. But he's doing this privately. He's not
having a public announcement. Meantime, we are still stuck with
the ancient machinery of the Karen Bass government and the
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see Steve Soberoff government. And Rick Caruso has launched an
organization called Steadfast LA. It's a nonprofit and he has
started this organization to try to streamline, to make this
rebuilding process easier and affordable and possible for all the
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people not in sober Off circle. Like if you weren't
on the private Zoom call, you might be interested in
what Caruso has to offer here, and let me read
you some of what he wrote. Let's be honest. Government
moves too slowly. We've seen it before, bureaucratic gridlock, outdated processes,
endless delays, hurting people who need help. Now, the reality
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is our existing systems wereran't built to handle a catastrophe
of this scale. Families can afford to wait months, let
alone years, for solutions. Business owners can't put their lives
on hold. We need speed, innovation, most importantly, transparency and
accountability sure to ensure that every step of this process
is clear, efficient and in the best interest of the community.
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He goes on the crisis playbook we've been relying on.
It was written decades ago in a world before AI
and real time data analytics, advanced building technology. We have
those tools now and we must use them. The private
sector thrives on cutting through inefficiency and getting things done.
That's what LA needs right now. And the hard truth
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is that LA's infrastructure and response systems are outdated. Government
agencies are one to two generations behind when it comes
to using new technology and recovery efforts. They're back literally
back in the nineteen eighties, maybe the nineteen seventies, and
Caruso says they don't have the tools to act with
the speed and efficient and see that this crisis demands.
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But we do steadfast. LA will make sure the latest
innovations like AI driven construction planning, advanced materials that make
homes more fire resistant, real time logistics management are part
of the rebuild from day one. So this is like
the government outside the government. This is the way the
modern world responds to huge challenges like this. We cannot
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have the nineteen seventies world of Karen Bass. You know,
back when Karen Bass was visiting Cuba once a year,
and then she brought all the wisdom from her travels
to Cuba. When she is true, when she was young
She's in her twenties, constantly flying to Cuba. Loved Fidel Castro.
You should have seen her Twitter post morning Castro's death
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a few years ago. She got elected. Anyway, you go, figure,
Caruso writes in Palisades and Alta Diena. Cleanup efforts are
too slow. At the current pace, it could take over
a year just to clear debris, leaving families in limbo.
Possibly most importantly, we must ensure this never happens again.
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Cities around the world have adopted smarter land management, zoning reforms,
fire prevention technology. We can't wait for another disaster to act.
That's why steadfast LA isn't just rebuilding. We're future proofing.
And he goes on and on, and you could find
his stuff on the social media and elsewhere. But this
is the way we have to go. And instead, I
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feel like we're trapped in you know, twenty years ago,
when there were a lot of like illegal alien marches
going on, It's like, oh my god, look at this.
The city shut down again. Downtown La is shut down again,
The one on one is shut down again. Because we
have a complete not only have an ineffective mayor. We've
got a mayor who actively has the LAPD stand down
when there are thousands of criminals near rioting in the streets.
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This is when all the focus of the city ought
to be on rebuilding the palisade. And instead we've got
the police department tied up with a bunch of lunatics
from from foreign countries, and and and and the state
is busy putting together a legal fund so the lunatics
rioting in the streets can't be deported by the Trump administration.
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This is this the city. The state is insane, and
maybe Caruso has got the right idea to work around it,
kind of build a superstructure apart from the government, because
the government has has failed us and continues to fail
us badly. We've got more coming up.
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We're going to talk now with Marianna Gatto. She is
the director of the Italian American Museum in Los Angeles,
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a place that I've been to quite a few times.
My wife, being full blooded Italian, is involved in a
lot of Italian organizations and there are events and the
museum hosts them, and it's a really great museum to
learn the history of Italian Americans here in California. Unfortunately,
it's gotten attacked more than once by criminals, and in
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this case, the protesters being redundant. There these criminal protesters
who shut down the one oh one freeway, shut down
downtown in LA and vandalized the Italian American Museum of LA.
Let's talk to the director, Mariano Gato about what happened, Marianna.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Set afternoon. John, how's it going.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
It's going pretty okay. I mean, I'm just astonished that
you've had to go through this again. Talk about what
happened this week. This was Monday night this protest or
was it Sunday night? That there were several days of protests.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Yeah, we were. We were vandalized books Sunday and Monday.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
These are kind of back to back occurrences of you know,
tagging graffiti all over the historic brick building, the buildings
listed on the National Register of historic places. You know,
we are a museum about immigrants, and the irony of
being vandalized, you know a bit yeah, a little bit
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rough to swallow, but you know, beyond that, this is another,
yet another blow to us as a small nonprofit museum
that's struggling in the post pandemic world. You know, people
don't understand that nonprofit. It's like this term that's kind of.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Many people don't understand. We're businesses.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
It's about income and expenses, making table.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
There's no magical genies.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
And you know, after barely surviving the pandemic, you know,
museums were some of the last entities allowed to open,
which really made no sense. But that's another story for
another day. Recovery has been slow for us. We are
affected by a lot of the.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Things that everybody else is experiencing.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Inflation, you know, higher labor costs, not to mention bad
government policy, and some of the lack of leadership that
really complicates our operations. But you know, prior to this,
within the last six months, we experienced two other major
acts of vandalism, not related to you know, the protests,
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but basically it adds up to tens of thousand dollars
in losses for us repair staff time. That takes us
away from our mission, from the work we do, and
that you know, reduces the amount that we can dedicate
to the services, the direct services to the public. That's
what we're about. You know, the museum is open to
the public free of charge. Of programs that we do
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are free. The majority of the people we serve are
immigrants and you know, members of communities that aren't served
oftentimes by larger institutions, larger museums. And we were also
affected by the fires.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Both staff and our board.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
So it's just at a la cress.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
It just seems like, you know, the nails keep getting
hammered in.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Yeah, Now, what kind of response do you get from
the city when you talk to whoever you talk to
about the crime that and then you have these protesters
that were allowed to run amuck. Is there anybody in
city Hall, anybody on the city council who cares. I'm
just astonished what's allowed to happen repeatedly.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Well, you know, the museum is located in the council
District fourteen, which there's been you know a lot of
changes recently. I know you follow the elections as we do.
There's been more responsiveness on the part of law enforcement.
The Central Division of LAPD has been very responsive, but
in terms of you know, some of the other partners,
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it's been you know, a lot of crickets and I.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Have the homelessness is bad in the neighborhood too.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Well, yeah, I mean that is typically you know what
we battle on a daily basis, just you know, the
epidemic we're located at, you know, the epicenter of the homelessness,
mental health, drug addiction crisis. And you know, we are
just a museum that's trying to serve the public, that
welcome to school kids that.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
You know, and if I you know, I've.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
Been I've been at this for twenty years now. I'm
by no means a snowflake, but it's just it's gotten
worse and worse. And you know, we want people to
come here, We want people to feel safe, bring their kids,
bring their family. But when you have people, you know,
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committing serious acts of vandalism like we had a couple
months ago, it's it's really hard.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Yeah, because you're trying to do good, You're actually trying
to do good, and it seems you have to put
up with so many overwhelming problems that no one wants
to take care of. I mean, I wouldn't blame you.
You look, I know you got to be careful what
you say. I wouldn't blame you. It just seems like
the city has abandoned people and organizations like you and
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the Italian American Museum. I mean, talk about why you
stay in that building. You briefly mentioned it in passing
because I think a lot of people would say, well,
why don't you just get out of there?
Speaker 4 (24:48):
Well, okay, So we have raised millions of dollars over
the years to create this museum. This has been my
baby for twenty years.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
I love it. This is one of the oldest.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Remain buildings from the city's original Italian enclave. It's on
the National Register of Historic Places.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
You've been to the museum, you know.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
We're considered the best Italian American museum in the nation,
with interactive exhibitions and new and original contents every few months.
We have a forty year agreement with the city. We
don't feel like we should have to leave. I'm in
Los Angeles Natives. I remember when you know, the term
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van lord was not part of our vocabulary in the city,
and it told me that somebody was doing a fenty
dance I or the fancy shuffle. I would think that
it's some kind of a dance. I remember the days
when my rides to work did and include nine to
one one calls to report encampment fires like you know
that we see often on you know, one thousand West
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sense that I'm not sure if you're familiar with that encampments.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
We've had the pleasure, but you.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
Know, we want to continue to provide these services to
the public. I believe, you know, in a in a
Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
That works for everyone. The Los Angeles of.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
My childhood that was a different place. So you know,
we're committed to this site. But you know, as you
said earlier, we're confronted with situations every day where there's
simply no one to call.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
You know, a couple of months ago, there.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
Is a woman who was very disturbed in our doorway,
cutting herself and smoking mess like who do you call
and what do they do? You know, we really have
not come up with solutions to address this, you know,
the humanitarian crisis that is our streets. And you know,
I don't mean to translate these two issues. You know,
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what took place earlier this week was not related.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
To some of the lawlessness that we.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
Experience on a daily basis in downtown.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
For other reasons.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
You know, these were protests. Some people chose to do
things that, in my opinion, blemish the cause. You know,
when you write, when you do space, when you vandalize
historic buildings, mom and pop businesses, you know.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
You're taking away from the community.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
You you know, you're kind of you know, you're blemishing
the cause. The separate issue from what we experience on
a daily basis where you know, there's a.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Naked woman, you know, on the street.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
At nine am.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
And you know, I was raised. I consider myself kind
of the old school progressive, like the early nineteen hundreds
progressive that believes in things like, you know, we want
to eliminate child labor, let's create a weekend, an eight
hour day, that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
I feel that.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
You know, those progressives would feel, you know, very betrayed
by what.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
We have said is progressive.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Letting people wander the streets who cannot take care of themselves,
that is not progressive, and I see that every day
in our city.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
You know, yes, all right, Well, Marianna, thank you for
coming on. I'm sorry you have to go through this,
and I'm trying to, you know, shake the city as
hard as we can here at KFI to get the
government to respond and change their policies. Because this stuff
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didn't exist for most of our lives. It does not
have to exist for the rest of our life. They
just have to do their jobs in government.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
Yes, and you know, I want to say, you know,
we support freedom of expression. The building up the museum
is located in from its very early days, you know,
when it was constructed in nineteen oh eight, was a
center for free speech and freedom and expression.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
That's some of the history that we preserve here. We
welcome that, but you know, we.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
Anticipate that these protests and demonstrations are not.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Going anywhere in you know, the immediate future.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
And all we ask is please be respectful. You know,
if demonstrate, you know, let your voice be heard, but
don't just say. You know, the institutions that are trying
to uplist the community that provides so much in terms
of services.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
You know, on any.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
Given day you'll see hundreds of school kids here and
you know, there's got to be a way to make
this work for everyone.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
All right, Marianna, I've got to do the news. Thank
you for coming on.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Thank you so much for having us.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Marianna got a director of the museum Italian American Museum
of LA.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
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Speaker 1 (29:36):
Let's see coming up at two o'clock. Yesterday, we told
you in detail that the developer Steve Soberoff, who Karen
Bass picked to lead the recovery effort at least for
a few months, he was recorded on a private zoom
call telling rich Hollywood agents that they should hold on
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to their properties for at least a year and it'll
triple in value at least compared to the low ball
offers they would get today. And he also told them
don't drink the water, basically, don't trust the DWP, and
say he gave them all kinds of private advice because
they were wealthy and Hollywood connected, and the rest of
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the public in Palisades and Outadena haven't gotten any financial
recommendations from Steve sober Off for any warnings about the
water or anything else. We're going to talk to the
reporter who broke the story for the Washington Free Beacon
Susanna Luthy, she got her hands on the recording of
the meeting, and I just want to follow up for
a second. We just had Mariana Gato on from the
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Italian American Museum of Los Angeles, which is a great museum.
My wife's been a part of the whole Italian American
experience out here, all the different organizations. We've gone to
that museum a number of times. They really do put
on great exhibits and shows, and you know, it's so
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frustrating because Marianna is it's been her baby for twenty years,
and she works so hard trying to put together a
nice museum, educating a lot of kids, entertaining adults. There's
a lot of cool stuff that you learn about, and
then it gets all undone by a bunch of criminal,
thugs and goons. Because Karen Bass doesn't have respect for
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the people who put the museums together in this city.
But she's got all the love and respect for the
goons and thugs who are violent and who vandalize things
like the Italian Museum. They're vandals, the criminals, of course,
they're criminals. They're here illegally or they're supporting people who
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came here illegally, and they're waving the flags of foreign country.
There is no love for America. There's no love for
Los Angeles. Here. They ruin Los Angeles. They destroy the
good things in Los Angeles, these people in the streets.
And then I'm reading here's another story today, several hundred protesters,
fourth day in a row, protesting near Los Angeles City Hall.
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These people have no permits. Bass had the LAPD stand
down the other night. Now there's a traffic advisory that
it's been out this afternoon, Spring Street, First Street, Broadway.
I don't know this minute what's going on there, but
it has gone on for hours, same old thing, four
days in a row. And she's utterly clueless, utterly impotent,
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takes no action, and she lets the bad people enjoy
themselves and the good people have to run and hide
and hope that their possessions and their creations don't get
vandalized or burned down. It's just wrong. It's just morally wrong,
and I don't know what it's good. I cannot believe
how dense Karen Bass is. I don't understand why she
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hates this place so much. Anybody loved La in southern
California would boot these owns out of here, would call
up ice and have these people deported. That's what you do.
Don't let them vandalize, don't let them commit violent acts
and terrorize people. Don't let them block up traffic so
nobody can drive for hours and hours and live their life.
I mean, what is wrong with her? What is wrong
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with everybody running this city? When does it stop?
Speaker 3 (33:21):
God?
Speaker 1 (33:22):
All right, we come back more of this. You know,
if you're wealthy and you work full on the cool
talent agencies, you get to see Steve sober Off on
a private Zoom call to tell you to give you
a financial advice and advice on selling your properties, and
advice on whether you should drink the water, whether you
should watch your babies in the in the bath water
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that the DWP provides. But if you're a regular person,
you don't get access to that call. You get a
lot of bland cliches and platitudes and nonsense on your
Zoom meetings. We'll talk about that with the with Susannah
Luthy and she works for the Washington Free Beacon and
she broke that story. That's all next. Deborah Mark live
in the CAFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been
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in a Row. You know, for all the hours we
spend reading, researching and collecting the news stories and information
about what's going on to prepare for the show, Second
day in a Row, you just can't keep up with
the Trump administration. They've got something that's happened every day
this week, or just a few minutes before we go
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on the air and changes the focus of what I
want to talk about right off the top here and well,
before I get into that, I want to tell you
that at one thirty we're going to have Marianna Gotto on.
She runs the Italian American Museum of Los Angeles down
in uh down in downtown LA near Olvera Street, and
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I've been there many times. My wife is involved in
a lot of Italian American organizations in Southern California, and
I've gone to a lot of events, and quite a
few at the Italian American Museum. I'm like, they call
me ibm Italian by marriage, because otherwise I'm full blooded Polish.
And her museum got attacked by those disgusting thug criminals
(01:33):
that Karen Bass allows to run a muck for three
days in a row. It's it's all the illegal aliens
and the illegal alien supporters who are running around waving
their Mexican flags and their El Salvadoran flags and and
committing all kinds of felonies and playing sight and I
Karen Bass apparently must have told the police department to
(01:55):
stand down, because I don't think Jim McDonald would run
the police department that way. He's he's he's too good.
He used to be the sheriff, so we know how
he runs things. And this can't be. This can't be
Jim McDonald. This has got to be Karen Bass, Like
she hasn't done enough to the city. Now she's letting
these illegal alien criminals commit all kinds of violence and vandalism.
(02:16):
I mean they the vandalism at the Italian American Museum
included spray painting, Viva Eraza, f ice, and f Trump,
except they misspelled trump. Did you see this. I don't
know if this photo has gone around the the internet. Uh,
(02:37):
very much. Hold on, I want I want to I
want to get the accurate misspelling. They can't even spell
a five letter word like Trump. What did I do
with it?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Here it is? Here it is. They spelled it t
u r mp turrump. That's a dumb These rioters are
and that's what they are. They're rioters, They're vandals, they're criminals.
They're exactly the element that the Trump administration is trying
to arrest and deport. And instead they hold a parade
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for three days in Los Angeles, tie up traffic on
all the downtown streets, tie up traffic on the one
on one, and start vandalizing and ruining the buildings in
these neighborhoods because Karen Bass, you know, in her progressive religion,
this is cool. We can't judge this. You know, they're
just trying to express their their feelings and their rights.
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They have no rights. These people are here legally, they
cannot be deported fast enough. And for her to provide
protection for these criminals after she allowed the Palisades to
burn down. I don't know why there's so much hatred
in her for the city and for the people in
the city. But we got the message. You hate everybody,
(03:54):
You hate people on the West Side, you let the
palisades burn, You hate people down town, you hate people
just trying to drive to work down the one on one.
We got it. Nobody's got any rights except illegal aliens,
homeless people, and criminals. All Right, you got your message,
your your woke religion has been officially recognized here and
(04:15):
I can't believe what we're stuck with. So anyway, we're
gonna have Mariana Gato on to talk about. This is
not the first time the museum has been attacked. Plus
plus these are these are hate crimes, right, These these
these these Mexican and Central American terrorists that are doing
all this damage are committing hate crimes against the Italian
Americans and their museum. Chew on Matt for a minute,
(04:40):
But the news that came out right before the start
of the show is something that's aimed directly at Los Angeles. Uh.
The Attorney General for Trump, Pam Bondi, she got approved.
UH and she's in charge. It's her first day of work,
and one of the things she's gonna do thing about
this Trump administration is like there's seems to be fifty
innouncements every day, but I'm just going to focus on
(05:02):
the stuff that affects our lives here in southern California.
What she's going to do is she is going to
stop all federal funding for sanctuary cities, period. And that's
going to be a big whack to the city of
Los Angeles. All these cities get huge amounts of federal money,
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but if they don't want to abide by federal law
and federal regulation, then the hell with them. And she's
also directing the Justice Department to work with Homeland Security
to completely eliminate the threats of cartels and all these
criminal organizations that come out of Central and South America.
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She wants law enforcement resources to dismantle the foundational operational
capacity of cartels, not just arrest the low level offenders
that you might nab on the streets. She wants to
destroy the the central operating facilities. She wants to go
after the bosses. She wants to go after you know where,
(06:08):
the where the command and control centers are. She said,
there's a Joint Task Force known as Vulcan and it
was created to destroy MS thirteen and Joint Task Force
Alpha created to fight human trafficking. They're going to be
further empowered and elevated and these missions are expected to
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expand it, especially Vulcans, and they're going to destroy Trendy
I Ragua, the Venezuelan gang now designated as a foreign
terrorist organization. They're also going to direct the Department of
Justice to find new laws to make fentanyl pills and
xylazine Schedule three of the Controlled Substances Act. The people
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that you see half bent over in the streets, they
look like stone statues. A lot of those people have
fentonyl laced with xylazine, which I think is a horse tranquilizer,
and it causes them to completely freeze up and they
can't move. Yeah, that's what you're seeing in the street.
And so now that's going to be a rescheduled and
they're gonna they're gonna go They're gonna cut the head
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off the drug cartels. That's what they got to declare war.
Treat them like an armed enemy that's invaded and killed.
You know, seventy to one hundred thousand people a year
in America. I can't believe all the other administrations put
up with this garbage, but that those days are over. So, uh,
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you've got you've got the funding to Los Angeles is
going to be cut. You've got the drug cartels that
are going to be attacked directly, and DOJ is going
to pose all federal funding for sanctuary cities. And they've
been told to identify and evaluate all funding agreements with
those NGOs. These are those fake nonprofits that take government
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money and in this case provides support to illegal aliens.
We had Todd Benzman on a couple of days ago
where he told us about the billions of dollars under
the Biden administration our tax money spent to fund these nonprofits,
which in turn created this super highway to allow migrants
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to come from Colombia all the way to the Mexican
US border, including handing out money debit cards to the
illegal aliens so they'd have something to spend when they
crossed the border. This was all financed by the US taxpayer.
You hear all this commotion going on in Washington about
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non government organizations being shut down. Or they're funding being
shut down. That's what this is about. Washington DC is
filled with criminals and grifters, as is Sacramento, as is
Los Angeles. The Los Angeles, Sacramento, Washington TC governments are
filled with criminal organizations that have been siphoning tax money
(09:07):
for all sorts of damaging, destructive projects. And one of
them has been about creating this passageway for illegal aliens
to come here by the millions and cost US tens
of billions, hundreds of billions of dollars in aid. And
(09:28):
it's got to stop. And then you see, you see,
when the word gets out that Trump is serious and
is shutting down the border and is defunding all these
corrupt agencies, what happens We get this phony blogoney day
with that an illegal alien And these aren't these aren't
your gardeners or your housekeepers. Okay, that's always the line
(09:50):
of bs that they try to sell. No, these are
young criminal men. It's proven. Look how they're acting. They
destroy things, they then the life things, they stop traffic,
and Karen Bass allows them. I have never seen a
person as destructive as Karen Bass in two years here
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in Los Angeles. And when we come back. Well one
point thirty, we're going to have Marianogato on, the director
of the Italian American Museum, and her place got hit
by these criminals. And in a few minutes, I want
to read to you a letter today, a post by
Rick Caruso, who's created an outside organization. It almost looks
(10:36):
like an outside government, because he made it clear that
the current government has completely failed, is utterly dysfunctional, and
it's so there's got to be a workaround created so
that we could take advantage of the modern world and
not be stuck with the nineteen seventies technology and nineteen
seventies ideas as La digs out from the fire. So
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that's all I had. It's exciting stuff.
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All right, so we just told you about how Pam Bondi,
the new attorney general in the Trump administration, says they
are going to stop funding federal funding to all the
sanctuary cities until they stop providing sanctuary to the illegal
alien criminals that this government is trying to arrest. And
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of one of the stories we're going to cover in
a few minutes We're going to talk to the director
of the Italian American Museum in Los Angeles, Mariana Gato,
because her museum was vandalized with vicious spray painted slogans,
and it's not the first time it's happened to her.
She's down Nero Vera Street, downtown LA. And I'm just
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I cannot believe, coming off the fire disaster, that Karen
Bass decides to let thousands of these illegal alien criminals
and their supporters run amok and commit more damage to
Los Angeles. I mean, the city is completely ungovernable, out
of control. One side is burning, the other side is
completely congested with protesters who are breaking the law, just
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standing on our land and making it clear they have
no interest in America. They just have interest in destroying
what's been built here in this city. And we put
posted pictures on x on Twitter of some of the
damage done to Marianna's museum, along with the photograph of
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the thing I mentioned before, the photograph of the misspelling
of Trump's name. This is how stupid these people are.
This is actually a photograph of City Hall had gotten
spray painted, and it's the F word, followed by t
U r MP to RUMP, It's how stupid these these
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guys are. Okay, they're not hard working immigrants trying to
provide for their family. These are young thug criminals. Okay,
they're gang members. They're punks, that's what they are. That's
what's running in the streets protesting. So enough of the propaganda.
Then we turned to Rick Caruso. Now we're in an
interesting situation because Karen Bass's government has completely failed and
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she brought on Steve Soberoff, who's another civic leader, to
try to run the recovery effort or for ninety days.
And yesterday we told you that there's a recording of
sober Off on a private zoom meeting with all the
wealthy Hollywood guys, the agents, and he was giving them
advice on how to survive this post fire period. He
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was telling them hold on to your properties. It'll be
worth three times as much in a year because they're
going to be pumping money around. And he also warned
them not to drink the water. Basically, don't believe what
the DWP says. But he's doing this privately. He's not
having a public announcement. Meantime, we are still stuck with
the ancient machinery of the Karen Bass government and the
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see Steve Soberoff government. And Rick Caruso has launched an
organization called Steadfast LA. It's a nonprofit and he has
started this organization to try to streamline, to make this
rebuilding process easier and affordable and possible for all the
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people not in sober Off circle. Like if you weren't
on the private Zoom call, you might be interested in
what Caruso has to offer here, and let me read
you some of what he wrote. Let's be honest. Government
moves too slowly. We've seen it before, bureaucratic gridlock, outdated processes,
endless delays, hurting people who need help. Now, the reality
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is our existing systems wereran't built to handle a catastrophe
of this scale. Families can afford to wait months, let
alone years, for solutions. Business owners can't put their lives
on hold. We need speed, innovation, most importantly, transparency and
accountability sure to ensure that every step of this process
is clear, efficient and in the best interest of the community.
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He goes on the crisis playbook we've been relying on.
It was written decades ago in a world before AI
and real time data analytics, advanced building technology. We have
those tools now and we must use them. The private
sector thrives on cutting through inefficiency and getting things done.
That's what LA needs right now. And the hard truth
(15:39):
is that LA's infrastructure and response systems are outdated. Government
agencies are one to two generations behind when it comes
to using new technology and recovery efforts. They're back literally
back in the nineteen eighties, maybe the nineteen seventies, and
Caruso says they don't have the tools to act with
the speed and efficient and see that this crisis demands.
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But we do steadfast. LA will make sure the latest
innovations like AI driven construction planning, advanced materials that make
homes more fire resistant, real time logistics management are part
of the rebuild from day one. So this is like
the government outside the government. This is the way the
modern world responds to huge challenges like this. We cannot
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have the nineteen seventies world of Karen Bass. You know,
back when Karen Bass was visiting Cuba once a year,
and then she brought all the wisdom from her travels
to Cuba. When she is true, when she was young
She's in her twenties, constantly flying to Cuba. Loved Fidel Castro.
You should have seen her Twitter post morning Castro's death
(16:47):
a few years ago. She got elected. Anyway, you go, figure,
Caruso writes in Palisades and Alta Diena. Cleanup efforts are
too slow. At the current pace, it could take over
a year just to clear debris, leaving families in limbo.
Possibly most importantly, we must ensure this never happens again.
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Cities around the world have adopted smarter land management, zoning reforms,
fire prevention technology. We can't wait for another disaster to act.
That's why steadfast LA isn't just rebuilding. We're future proofing.
And he goes on and on, and you could find
his stuff on the social media and elsewhere. But this
is the way we have to go. And instead, I
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feel like we're trapped in you know, twenty years ago,
when there were a lot of like illegal alien marches
going on, It's like, oh my god, look at this.
The city shut down again. Downtown La is shut down again,
The one on one is shut down again. Because we
have a complete not only have an ineffective mayor. We've
got a mayor who actively has the LAPD stand down
when there are thousands of criminals near rioting in the streets.
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This is when all the focus of the city ought
to be on rebuilding the palisade. And instead we've got
the police department tied up with a bunch of lunatics
from from foreign countries, and and and and the state
is busy putting together a legal fund so the lunatics
rioting in the streets can't be deported by the Trump administration.
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This is this the city. The state is insane, and
maybe Caruso has got the right idea to work around it,
kind of build a superstructure apart from the government, because
the government has has failed us and continues to fail
us badly. We've got more coming up.
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We're going to talk now with Marianna Gatto. She is
the director of the Italian American Museum in Los Angeles,
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a place that I've been to quite a few times.
My wife, being full blooded Italian, is involved in a
lot of Italian organizations and there are events and the
museum hosts them, and it's a really great museum to
learn the history of Italian Americans here in California. Unfortunately,
it's gotten attacked more than once by criminals, and in
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this case, the protesters being redundant. There these criminal protesters
who shut down the one oh one freeway, shut down
downtown in LA and vandalized the Italian American Museum of LA.
Let's talk to the director, Mariano Gato about what happened, Marianna.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Set afternoon. John, how's it going.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
It's going pretty okay. I mean, I'm just astonished that
you've had to go through this again. Talk about what
happened this week. This was Monday night this protest or
was it Sunday night? That there were several days of protests.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Yeah, we were. We were vandalized books Sunday and Monday.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
These are kind of back to back occurrences of you know,
tagging graffiti all over the historic brick building, the buildings
listed on the National Register of historic places. You know,
we are a museum about immigrants, and the irony of
being vandalized, you know a bit yeah, a little bit
(20:37):
rough to swallow, but you know, beyond that, this is another,
yet another blow to us as a small nonprofit museum
that's struggling in the post pandemic world. You know, people
don't understand that nonprofit. It's like this term that's kind of.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Many people don't understand. We're businesses.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
It's about income and expenses, making table.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
There's no magical genies.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
And you know, after barely surviving the pandemic, you know,
museums were some of the last entities allowed to open,
which really made no sense. But that's another story for
another day. Recovery has been slow for us. We are
affected by a lot of the.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Things that everybody else is experiencing.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Inflation, you know, higher labor costs, not to mention bad
government policy, and some of the lack of leadership that
really complicates our operations. But you know, prior to this,
within the last six months, we experienced two other major
acts of vandalism, not related to you know, the protests,
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but basically it adds up to tens of thousand dollars
in losses for us repair staff time. That takes us
away from our mission, from the work we do, and
that you know, reduces the amount that we can dedicate
to the services, the direct services to the public. That's
what we're about. You know, the museum is open to
the public free of charge. Of programs that we do
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are free. The majority of the people we serve are
immigrants and you know, members of communities that aren't served
oftentimes by larger institutions, larger museums. And we were also
affected by the fires.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Both staff and our board.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
So it's just at a la cress.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
It just seems like, you know, the nails keep getting
hammered in.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Yeah, Now, what kind of response do you get from
the city when you talk to whoever you talk to
about the crime that and then you have these protesters
that were allowed to run amuck. Is there anybody in
city Hall, anybody on the city council who cares. I'm
just astonished what's allowed to happen repeatedly.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Well, you know, the museum is located in the council
District fourteen, which there's been you know a lot of
changes recently. I know you follow the elections as we do.
There's been more responsiveness on the part of law enforcement.
The Central Division of LAPD has been very responsive, but
in terms of you know, some of the other partners,
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it's been you know, a lot of crickets and I.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Have the homelessness is bad in the neighborhood too.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Well, yeah, I mean that is typically you know what
we battle on a daily basis, just you know, the
epidemic we're located at, you know, the epicenter of the homelessness,
mental health, drug addiction crisis. And you know, we are
just a museum that's trying to serve the public, that
welcome to school kids that.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
You know, and if I you know, I've.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
Been I've been at this for twenty years now. I'm
by no means a snowflake, but it's just it's gotten
worse and worse. And you know, we want people to
come here, We want people to feel safe, bring their kids,
bring their family. But when you have people, you know,
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committing serious acts of vandalism like we had a couple
months ago, it's it's really hard.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Yeah, because you're trying to do good, You're actually trying
to do good, and it seems you have to put
up with so many overwhelming problems that no one wants
to take care of. I mean, I wouldn't blame you.
You look, I know you got to be careful what
you say. I wouldn't blame you. It just seems like
the city has abandoned people and organizations like you and
(24:38):
the Italian American Museum. I mean, talk about why you
stay in that building. You briefly mentioned it in passing
because I think a lot of people would say, well,
why don't you just get out of there?
Speaker 4 (24:48):
Well, okay, So we have raised millions of dollars over
the years to create this museum. This has been my
baby for twenty years.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
I love it. This is one of the oldest.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Remain buildings from the city's original Italian enclave. It's on
the National Register of Historic Places.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
You've been to the museum, you know.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
We're considered the best Italian American museum in the nation,
with interactive exhibitions and new and original contents every few months.
We have a forty year agreement with the city. We
don't feel like we should have to leave. I'm in
Los Angeles Natives. I remember when you know, the term
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van lord was not part of our vocabulary in the city,
and it told me that somebody was doing a fenty
dance I or the fancy shuffle. I would think that
it's some kind of a dance. I remember the days
when my rides to work did and include nine to
one one calls to report encampment fires like you know
that we see often on you know, one thousand West
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sense that I'm not sure if you're familiar with that encampments.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
We've had the pleasure, but you.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
Know, we want to continue to provide these services to
the public. I believe, you know, in a in a
Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
That works for everyone. The Los Angeles of.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
My childhood that was a different place. So you know,
we're committed to this site. But you know, as you
said earlier, we're confronted with situations every day where there's
simply no one to call.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
You know, a couple of months ago, there.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
Is a woman who was very disturbed in our doorway,
cutting herself and smoking mess like who do you call
and what do they do? You know, we really have
not come up with solutions to address this, you know,
the humanitarian crisis that is our streets. And you know,
I don't mean to translate these two issues. You know,
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what took place earlier this week was not related.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
To some of the lawlessness that we.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
Experience on a daily basis in downtown.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
For other reasons.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
You know, these were protests. Some people chose to do
things that, in my opinion, blemish the cause. You know,
when you write, when you do space, when you vandalize
historic buildings, mom and pop businesses, you know.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
You're taking away from the community.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
You you know, you're kind of you know, you're blemishing
the cause. The separate issue from what we experience on
a daily basis where you know, there's a.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Naked woman, you know, on the street.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
At nine am.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
And you know, I was raised. I consider myself kind
of the old school progressive, like the early nineteen hundreds
progressive that believes in things like, you know, we want
to eliminate child labor, let's create a weekend, an eight
hour day, that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
I feel that.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
You know, those progressives would feel, you know, very betrayed
by what.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
We have said is progressive.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Letting people wander the streets who cannot take care of themselves,
that is not progressive, and I see that every day
in our city.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
You know, yes, all right, Well, Marianna, thank you for
coming on. I'm sorry you have to go through this,
and I'm trying to, you know, shake the city as
hard as we can here at KFI to get the
government to respond and change their policies. Because this stuff
(28:16):
didn't exist for most of our lives. It does not
have to exist for the rest of our life. They
just have to do their jobs in government.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
Yes, and you know, I want to say, you know,
we support freedom of expression. The building up the museum
is located in from its very early days, you know,
when it was constructed in nineteen oh eight, was a
center for free speech and freedom and expression.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
That's some of the history that we preserve here. We
welcome that, but you know, we.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
Anticipate that these protests and demonstrations are not.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Going anywhere in you know, the immediate future.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
And all we ask is please be respectful. You know,
if demonstrate, you know, let your voice be heard, but
don't just say. You know, the institutions that are trying
to uplist the community that provides so much in terms
of services.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
You know, on any.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
Given day you'll see hundreds of school kids here and
you know, there's got to be a way to make
this work for everyone.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
All right, Marianna, I've got to do the news. Thank
you for coming on.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Thank you so much for having us.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Marianna got a director of the museum Italian American Museum
of LA.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Let's see coming up at two o'clock. Yesterday, we told
you in detail that the developer Steve Soberoff, who Karen
Bass picked to lead the recovery effort at least for
a few months, he was recorded on a private zoom
call telling rich Hollywood agents that they should hold on
(29:59):
to their properties for at least a year and it'll
triple in value at least compared to the low ball
offers they would get today. And he also told them
don't drink the water, basically, don't trust the DWP, and
say he gave them all kinds of private advice because
they were wealthy and Hollywood connected, and the rest of
(30:20):
the public in Palisades and Outadena haven't gotten any financial
recommendations from Steve sober Off for any warnings about the
water or anything else. We're going to talk to the
reporter who broke the story for the Washington Free Beacon
Susanna Luthy, she got her hands on the recording of
the meeting, and I just want to follow up for
a second. We just had Mariana Gato on from the
(30:41):
Italian American Museum of Los Angeles, which is a great museum.
My wife's been a part of the whole Italian American
experience out here, all the different organizations. We've gone to
that museum a number of times. They really do put
on great exhibits and shows, and you know, it's so
(31:02):
frustrating because Marianna is it's been her baby for twenty years,
and she works so hard trying to put together a
nice museum, educating a lot of kids, entertaining adults. There's
a lot of cool stuff that you learn about, and
then it gets all undone by a bunch of criminal,
thugs and goons. Because Karen Bass doesn't have respect for
(31:23):
the people who put the museums together in this city.
But she's got all the love and respect for the
goons and thugs who are violent and who vandalize things
like the Italian Museum. They're vandals, the criminals, of course,
they're criminals. They're here illegally or they're supporting people who
(31:45):
came here illegally, and they're waving the flags of foreign country.
There is no love for America. There's no love for
Los Angeles. Here. They ruin Los Angeles. They destroy the
good things in Los Angeles, these people in the streets.
And then I'm reading here's another story today, several hundred protesters,
fourth day in a row, protesting near Los Angeles City Hall.
(32:09):
These people have no permits. Bass had the LAPD stand
down the other night. Now there's a traffic advisory that
it's been out this afternoon, Spring Street, First Street, Broadway.
I don't know this minute what's going on there, but
it has gone on for hours, same old thing, four
days in a row. And she's utterly clueless, utterly impotent,
(32:31):
takes no action, and she lets the bad people enjoy
themselves and the good people have to run and hide
and hope that their possessions and their creations don't get
vandalized or burned down. It's just wrong. It's just morally wrong,
and I don't know what it's good. I cannot believe
how dense Karen Bass is. I don't understand why she
(32:54):
hates this place so much. Anybody loved La in southern
California would boot these owns out of here, would call
up ice and have these people deported. That's what you do.
Don't let them vandalize, don't let them commit violent acts
and terrorize people. Don't let them block up traffic so
nobody can drive for hours and hours and live their life.
I mean, what is wrong with her? What is wrong
(33:18):
with everybody running this city? When does it stop?
Speaker 3 (33:21):
God?
Speaker 1 (33:22):
All right, we come back more of this. You know,
if you're wealthy and you work full on the cool
talent agencies, you get to see Steve sober Off on
a private Zoom call to tell you to give you
a financial advice and advice on selling your properties, and
advice on whether you should drink the water, whether you
should watch your babies in the in the bath water
(33:43):
that the DWP provides. But if you're a regular person,
you don't get access to that call. You get a
lot of bland cliches and platitudes and nonsense on your
Zoom meetings. We'll talk about that with the with Susannah
Luthy and she works for the Washington Free Beacon and
she broke that story. That's all next. Deborah Mark live
in the CAFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been
(34:05):
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