November 6, 2025 • 31 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (11/06) - Richie Greenberg comes on the show to talk about Nancy Pelosi announcing her retirement from Congress. More on the government shutdown impacting air travel across the country. A judge has subpoenaed text messages from firefighters who left the scene of the Lachman Fire on January 1st. The guy who threw a Subway sandwich at a federal law enforcement officer back in August was found not guilty even though the whole incident was caught on camera.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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need to after four o'clock. Nancy Pelosi is retiring at
the age of eighty five. And if you saw her
interviewed with Alex Michaelson a few nights ago, the same
show that.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
I was on, that was what Monday night.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yeah, I sat there in the green room waiting to
go on. I was looking at the Pelosi interview and
I thought, Wow, she's just about as far gone as
Biden was. She was senile, she was just drifting off
and fading away, And of course the predictable left wing
progressive media is gushing over her. She was speaker for
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two rounds over the last twenty years or so, but Trump,
Trump's not gonna miss her.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Good Lord, listen to this.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Going away from Trump, he went on Fox News and
he said, the retirement of Nancy Pelosi is a great
thing for America. She was evil, corrupt, and only focused
on bad things for our country. I'm very honored. She
impeached me twice and failed miserably twice. She's a highly
overrated politician. And then he reiterated later she's an evil woman.
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I'm glad she's retired, and.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
She went on and on. Let's talk to Richie.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Greenberg, who's a writer and a commentator journalist up in
northern California. He had a piece in californiaglobe dot com today.
Richie wrote, well, was a legacy of elitism, hypocrisy, and
partisan power.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Let's talk to Richie Greenberg. How are you?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I'm doing really great, happy days. How are ahead of us? John?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
I definitely understood why people got were so enamored with her.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Yeah, yeah, I mean it's incredible that it's not just
in Washington, DC, but even the local San Francisco politicians.
They all are fawning over her. They are brown nosing.
I'm looking online on social media this morning as soon
as an announcement came out, everyone is just clamoring to
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give her praise, the local newspapers, TV stations, and especially,
and this is what's really important, the candidates that are
running for office, especially Scott Wiener, who announced last week
that he is now running for her seat.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Oh my god. You know, he is like a political
infection guy. He's been behind so many bad, destructive bills
in California. I do maybe it's a good thing if
he goes to Washington, because his power will be much
more diluted there.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Correct, That is actually a very strong argument for why
we would want to support him. But I don't think
myself or any of my colleagues, and a very large
swath of San Francisco cannot stomach that idea of pressing
the button to vote for him, even if it meant
diluting his power in Washington.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Well, you had a good piece today in californiaglobe dot
Com going through some of the highlights of her career
that's not being covered in all the gushing praise, all
the gushing media praise that we've been enduring the last
couple of days.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Why don't you talk about some of the stuff you
wrote about, right.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Well, first of all, remember that famous live incident with
Trump in his first first term. He did the State
of the Union address back in twenty twenty, and standing
behind him was Pelosi and she tore up his State
of the Union address a copy that she had, calling
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it lies, you know, and that was just really appalling
to see.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
That.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Also, the COVID hypocrisy when we had the really strong
lockdowns here in twenty twenty, we had she was going
to a hairdresser to get a blowout, right, and that
she blamed. She says, no, it was a setup. That's
set got set up.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
She I remember she wandered in there and no mask on,
she's indoors and she was getting her hair done. And
that's when hairdressers were being forced out of business because
they weren't allowed to open. And then she says something
a preposterous lie. It was a setup. No, it was
your appointment that you made that you thought you were
entitled to.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
And that's that's right. And her her legacy is that.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Of entitlement of doing, of not breaking all the rules,
feeling that the rules didn't apply to her, and the
amount of money that she and her husband made in
the stock market with insider information that she was privy
to in Congress was astounding.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Exactly right now, I just checked. I think it says
her net worth is about two hundred and fifty six
million networth as of now as of the last teck
two one hundred.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
And fifty six million dollars.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Two hundred and fifty six point six point six more.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Don't forget the last six hundred thousand there.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Yeah, that's right now. Now we know, of course she
had a hand along with others, in doing what she
could do to help direct pack money to support a
yes on Prop fifty. Right, so we know about that.
We don't have to too much about that. But we
know about Prop fifty an her involvement. But here in
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San Francisco she also on a local level. Now, of
course she's in Washington, d C. She deals with federal
issues issues like you know, anything that is affecting the
United States and overseas, right, But here in San Francisco
she doesn't have that kind of local power, but she
has the influence, and so she was one.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Oh it broke down, can we reconnect? I think what
he was This is a big issue in San Francisco.
There was a proposition called Proposition K, and they closed
a big highway.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
I'm sorry, so so Ritchie.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Proposition K was permanently closing the Great Highway.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Talk about this.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
So that was one of the important north south highways
that is used by up to almost twenty thousand in
people cars a day. I've used it many times. It's
part of the West side of San Francisco. There was
a ballot measure a year ago, and she was one
that helped to push that over the top to get
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it passed against the will of the West side of
San Francisco. Very controversial. And then what happened is the
people on the west side decided to go for a
recall of the mint sponser, one of the supervisors, one
of the city hall, the city councilmen, who put that
to the vote of the voters. He was going to
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be recalled. And then she came out against his recall.
So there's double whammy.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Let me just explain.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
When they closed the highway, they replaced it with a park,
and nobody on the West side of San Francisco wanted
the park.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
They wanted the highway.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Back because now all the traffic went off into congested
side streets, into the local.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Neighborhoods, exactly.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
And it's not really a park because it's asphalt. They
can't tear up an important road that's needed for emergencies.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
It's asking people are walking.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Yeah, it's the roadway. It's the roadway for emergency vehicles
in case there has to be an evacuation. People are
going to drive on that.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Oh, that's really stupid.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
So this park is really just the existing roadway and
you'll walk on it.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
And she was not even campaigning to recall CHESSA. Bodine
after he ruined San Francisco by embracing all the shoplifters
and the criminals and the drug addicts.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Talk about that.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
The da who at San Francisco recalled and she didn't
lift a finger to help them.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Help them.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
That's that's right. So as many of you know, and
you yourself, myself and a few other coalition of committees
and influential people here worked together to throw Bodine out
and recall him. That succeeded. Back in twenty twenty two.
Pelosi did not take a stance in any case. Why
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she did not as Yeah, exactly exactly, And what's really
interesting then if you look at some of the other
things that she's done, is you know, she's she very
much talks about her strong Catholic faith and the Catholic
Church and her church here in San Francisco. She upset
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them because she has been championing abortion, which we know
is really a no no for the Catholic Church given
the local archiasis. The archbishop refused to give her a
communion and put out a a like his ruling, sent
it to her and sent it out to all the
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local church leaders around the area here to refuse her communion.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Well, much like Newsom, she's been an elitist, phony hypocrite
most of her life and has been very very destructive
for California as he has.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
In fact, they're related through marriage, aren't they.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Yeah, there's a connection there. That's why there was such
a tight, tight relationship between the two. And it's going
to be interesting to see what happens now that she
is out of the race next year. It's going to
start pretty quickly. We already have two prominent local candidates here,
Scott Wiener is one. Another was his tech millionaire who
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is worth one hundred and something million dollars who previously
worked on Alexandria Cassio Cortez Cortex AOC's campaign, and Bernie Sanders.
So this guy is actually like a minim of Donnie.
He's even further left than Scott Wiener on many issues.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
That's you know, that's the wave to come. Now, there's
going to be many Mom, Dommi's running. I can't say
his name. Mom, Donnie's running all over out of these
big cities, Scott. I'm sorry, Richie, I gotta go. Thank
you very much for coming on.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
My pleasure, My pleasure, Richie.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Richie Greenberger is a writer and commentator up in San Francisco,
and he wrote a piece for californiaglobe dot com all
the stuff that you didn't see in all the glowing
eulogies for Nancy Pelosi's political career as she retires, because
she's half in the bag.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
She is going to be sharing space with Joe Biden
at the rest home.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
Next you're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
One of the stupidest things that the federal government has
done recently is this air traffic controller situation where the
air traffic controllers aren't getting paid and it's all their fault.
This is something that Trump ought to do. This is
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something Trump ought to take care of immediately. And this
is something that the Republicans and Democrats ought to take
care of immediately.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
And they got to fund the air traffic controllers.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
And you know, John, a travel industry analyst, went on
to say that if you're planning on traveling Friday.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Don't thanks for that from the cheery news there you
got a big smile and now you're laughing.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
You think this is funny.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
No, I don't.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
When everything goes to hell for me tomorrow, I'm calling you.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Okay, who laughs hysterically when I'm on vacation and everything
goes bring down.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
That, bring down entire nations.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Well, there the royal families, and you killed the queen,
you started the Uh.
Speaker 6 (12:40):
It's not about me, John, I'm not going anywhere tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
The Israel Palestine war we're I'm talking about flooded out
to buy.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
You started a COVID epidemic in Mexico.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
I mean that that's five countries right there. With your vacations.
Nobody can do the damage that you've done internationally. Thank you, John,
for all that am I wrong? So this this is
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just this is just such nonsense. I don't care if
the government shut down. For the most part, I have
very little pleasant interaction with the government, except you know,
paying taxes. The federal government doesn't do anything for me.
I do think it's not outrageous to ask that they
keep you know, I think there's forty thousand airplanes in
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the sky every day. Maybe you could make sure that
they stay up in the sky so we can all
travel to where we need to, where we want to
and not compromise the safety. What they're doing the air
traffic controllers is terrible. Forty four three hundred and sixty
flights a day. Tomorrow they're going to cut four percent
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of the daily total. They're going to add a percentage
points chage point every day, So a week from now,
ten percent, four thousand flights a day will be canceled.
And that's four thousand, you know, on a Wednesday, on
a Thursday, on a Friday, it'll quickly be tens of
thousands of flights over the course of a week. They
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have the money shutting down the government. They didn't shut
down tax collection. All the money is still being transferred
to government.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Accounts.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
You know, everything that comes out of your paycheck that's
still going there. So they have the money and they
have the personnel that want to work, except they're not
getting paid. And it is very common that if you
don't have a paycheck for a month, you don't have
the money to pay all your bills, like your mortgage.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
What are you supposed to get foreclosed on?
Speaker 2 (14:55):
You're not going to pay your electric bill, your water bill,
you got a food bill, ill for your kids.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
What are you supposed to do?
Speaker 2 (15:03):
So these guys and women are pissed off and calling
and sick because if they're not if you're not getting paid,
they're thinking, I'm not going to work.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Some of them are.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Not showing up for work because they got a second
job because amazingly other companies in the private sector they
pay for work.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
You'll get a check.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Every week or every two weeks. By working in the
private sector. You work for the government. And everybody's having
a hissy fit now and there's no check.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
And you got forty four thousand flights a day. This
is stupid.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
They should have funded the FAA, and it should have
been funded from day one. Air traffic controllers should have
been funded from day one. They should not have been
part of the shutdown. It's stupid and wrong. And Trump
ought to fix this, and the Republicans and Democrats ought
to fix this, or really.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
A war on all of them.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
The hell with all of them. This is a basic service.
And I don't care about their internal politics. I know
it's the Democrat's fault for not signing on to a
two month budget extension, and they're a budget ninnies. And
I know the Republicans could have set this up differently
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to make sure that an air traffic control situation is
never affected by a shutdown. And Trump could do this too,
and it's time they do this. There is no argument
for not paying the air traffic controllers.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
None. None.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
I don't care about the partisanship. I don't care about
who started it. I don't care about whose side you're on.
They should keep the airports running.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
In fact, they should go into their own accounts and
write checks to all these air traffic controllers to keep
them on the jobs that they don't have to drive
for uber or Lyft until this government shutdown is over.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Well, all these congress people have rich dotors who can
give them private plane rides so it's not going to
affect their lives.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
No, it's not going to affect their lives. But that's
why I'm saying they need to pay up.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
That we all will do more on this. Later in
the show, we're going to have a report from ABC News.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Old what's his name? What we got Alex Stone? Oh,
Alex Stone, Right, Alex is going to be doing that report.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
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Speaker 1 (18:14):
We have debut on TikTok too.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Yeah, we're twenty five followers away from a thousand on TikTok.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Yeah. Well, what do you know?
Speaker 2 (18:21):
It looks like I am, I'm breaking up all the
wiggling rear ends.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Yes you did people scroll through.
Speaker 6 (18:27):
Your dance moves or something.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
I yeah, they are something. Have you ever seen me dance?
Postathon's coming up?
Speaker 2 (18:37):
I got about a month away, not a postapon dance,
my my my ballroom dancing. It's it's it's me with
my my just rocking from left to right. That's all
I can do. I can sway, Okay. My wife has
been mocking that for many years. The this is this
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is good news. There's a there. Federal prosecutors have submitted
a subpoena to get the LA firefighters text messages from
the Palisades fire. It's a grand jury subpoenas, so we
have a grand jury now investigating. The specific messages are
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the ones we talked about a few days ago. January
first was the New Year's Day fire in Palisades Lachman fire.
January second. By then it was put out, except it
wasn't put out. It was a major hot spot. The
ground was smoldering, wisps of smoke in the air, tree
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stumps were hot, rocks were hot to the to to
the touch. It needed a lot more treatment from the
fire department, but the battalion chief, Mario Garcia, told the
firefighters we're going home, We're done here, and the firefighters protested,
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saying no, we really ought to stay, mister battalion chief.
And there was a flurry of text messages, which nobody
knew about publicly until a few days ago when the
La Times published some of the text messages. Here's if
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you haven't heard the story. This crew is mopping up
the Lockman fire the next day, and they warned Mary
Garcia that we have a lot of smoldering here. In
one text message, he wrote, the battalion chief was told
it was a bad idea quote unquote bad idea to
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leave because of the visible signs of smoking terrain, which
Cruise feared could start a new fire if left unprotected.
And the rest is history. A second firefighter was told
that the tree stumps were still hot at the location
when the crew packed up and left, according to the texts.
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A third firefighter said this month that crew members were
upset when told to pack up and leave, but they
could not ignore orders. That's right. You then have a
choice between ignoring orders and waiting till a fire consumed
sixty eight hundred homes. You follow the orders, right, You
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don't want to ignore the orders. Orders are more important
than keeping sixty eight hundred homes from burning and keeping
twelve people from dying in a fire. I love this
orders thing. So if you have, like a really stupid
decision by a battalion chief, I guess the protocol is,
everybody's got a salute and say yes chief. But don't
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you think, uh, don't contradict the chief. Don't contradict. It's
the supervisor. You know, people in management, they're the smartest ones, supervisors,
they're the best and brightest. So he told them to
roll up the hoses. So they followed orders and rolled
up the hoses. And now that Palisades is a wasteland,
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and it still is largely a wasteland. There is some
construction being done, mostly by developers who bought up a
bunch of lots, and they're they're quickly putting up you know,
the wooden the wooden infrastructure.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
But you call the fire department, say, hey, what about
these text messages? Why did the battalion chief tell everybody
to go home?
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Fire departments not answering questions, Mary Garcia, not answering questions.
The Times says that Karen Bass has now told the
interim fire chief not to be confused with the incoming
fire chief or the fireired fire chief. But this interim guy,
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Ronnie Vena, wava to launch an investigation. We don't need
an investigation.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
We know.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
The firefighters say let's stay and put out the smoldering
and the hot rocks and the.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Hot tree stumps.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
And the battalion chief said, no, roll up the hoses
and let's go home. What do you need to investigate here?
Investigations are a way of avoiding the news, of dodging it.
She deflects, dodges and avoids and doesn't speak directly. I
noticed yesterday what was she speaking out on. She was
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upset about some federal things, something to do with oh oh,
she was. She was happy about the uh, the way
the elections went, and that it was a warning to Trump.
We got animated Karen Bass again, the way you get.
She gets animated about illegal aliens. She was animated about
Trump getting a kick. Yesterday you ask her about the palisades, like, well,
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I've asked for another investigator. You've had a god, how
many investigations are going on or went on?
Speaker 1 (24:10):
And what are they produced, They're all white watches.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Everybody says, ah, we did fine. Oh yeah, we had
some organizational problems, some communication problems, some resourceation.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
All you imagine.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
I know this is very painful if you suffered the
loss of your home and the fire, your your neighborhood,
your kids, school, a relative. But imagine if this battalion
chief had looked around and said to those firefighters, you
guys are right, let's keep wading this down here. Let's
keep treating it with whatever magical firefoam we have or
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whatever they use to cool it down and keep because
already the warnings were out for sant Ana Wins.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
They were already there. They were already red flash warnings.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
So why didn't he and that crew and other crews
stay there for the next five days. Imagine if they
had done that, they were there, they identified the problem.
We spend an enormous amount of money on homeless fires,
but we had no money to give these guys over
time to put this hot spot out. People should go
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to prison. They should go to prison. And I'm glad
that there's a federal investigation, there's a grand jury subpoena,
and I hope people get indicted and put away. And
I'm talking fire officials should be put away. Bass should
be put away. There should be prison terms for this
kind of gross criminal negligence that allows an entire town
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to burn when they could have put out the hotspot.
Wasn't an act of God, it wasn't climate change, it
wasn't winds like we'd never seen before. Nature's fury like
no one's ever experienced. That's all bs. They just didn't
do their job, and they knew what it was that
they had to do. More coming up.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A
six forty.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Coming up after two o'clock. Todd Spencer, Orange County, DA. Well,
this is a really bad story. You know, we haven't
had too much bad news coming out of Orange County recently,
but here we go. There's twelve mentally ill offenders, including
a murder defendant, that are going to be released, maybe
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into your community in Orange County unsupervised, because the County
of Orange doesn't have treatment beds for its dangerous mental patients.
Two of these offenders, two of these mental patients, could
be released as early as Friday, that's tomorrow. Why can't
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they keep the mental patients, the criminal mental patients indoor.
They can't do that. Everybody's failing at every level. We'll
get into that at two o'clock with Todd. Here's a
miscarriage of justice.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
This is terrible.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Do you remember the guy he used to work for
the Department of Justice of all places. His name is
Sean Dunn, and he threw a subway sandwich at a
Customs and Border Patrol agent back in August, and it
was on video. He flung the sandwich and the whole
(27:36):
thing exploded on impact because he was angry that border
patrol was enforcing immigration law. This guy's thirty seven years old.
Thirty seven years old, and he's throwing food.
Speaker 6 (27:49):
Some people can't control their impulses.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
And it was all on video, and defence lawyers for
Done said that the whole thing was blown out of proportion.
His defense attorney, Julia Gaddo said it was a harmless
gesture at the end of him exercising his right to
speak out. No, no, no, there's no Scotts Tos or
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protection for whipping a sandwich at somebody. She goes he
is overwhelmingly not guilty. Now, the border patrol agent who
was on the other end of the sandwich, said he
could feel it through his ballistic vest. That's our heart.
How hard it was thrown. It kind of exploded all
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over You could smell the onions in the mustard. The
agent also found onions on his police radio and his
shirt was stained yellow from the mustard.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
And let me.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
See what the agent's name is here, Laarirmore, Gregory Lairmore.
Okay had had had had mustard and onions exploded all
over him in his equipment. Guess what the jury did
what it's und him not guilty. They found done not guilty.
Speaker 6 (29:15):
So we're allowed to We're allowed to do that now.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Wow, I mean clearly a video you could see him
launching the sandwich. You know, there's evidence of the mustard
and the onions splattered on the guy's vest and on
his radio. There were witnesses, there was testimony.
Speaker 5 (29:33):
So if I have a keen wah bowl and I
throw it all over you and it gets all over
the place.
Speaker 6 (29:38):
And up the clothes in your iPad, I'm not going
to get.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
In trouble a keen wahbule. I don't think anybody's ever done.
Maybe that's legal, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
This guy done was an international affairs specialist in the
Criminal Division of the Department of Justice, and he lost
his mind. He's watching federal agents and forced federal law.
This is what he does. He just does his part
in the office. And he got so enraged and he
threw the sandwich and he got away with it. This
(30:14):
was like the OJ jury, except he had videotape here
the night had happened. He walked up to a group
of Border Patrol agents and called them fascists, racists and
chanted shame at them before he launched the sandwich.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Why are you here?
Speaker 2 (30:34):
I don't want you in my city. And then he
tried to run, but they caught him and he was arrested.
What guy at thirty seven years old is screaming at
Border patrol agents? That guy, yep, that guy. I mean,
at least he was fired. No way he gets to
work in the Department of Justice. This is why the
(30:55):
jury system, it's terrible that you got to knowj jury
don't believe what you could see with your own two eyes.
We've got Todd Spitzer coming up in Orange County. They're
releasing mental patients, mental patients who have been charged with crimes,
(31:17):
one of them charged with murder, and they're going to
be released unsupervised over the next two months because they
don't have beds. Then they can't buy twelve beds and
put them in a room somewhere.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
I don't understand any of this debor Mark Live in
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We've got many things to cover today where we're on
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(00:29):
need to after four o'clock. Nancy Pelosi is retiring at
the age of eighty five. And if you saw her
interviewed with Alex Michaelson a few nights ago, the same
show that.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
I was on, that was what Monday night.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yeah, I sat there in the green room waiting to
go on. I was looking at the Pelosi interview and
I thought, Wow, she's just about as far gone as
Biden was. She was senile, she was just drifting off
and fading away, And of course the predictable left wing
progressive media is gushing over her. She was speaker for
(01:09):
two rounds over the last twenty years or so, but Trump,
Trump's not gonna miss her.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Good Lord, listen to this.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Going away from Trump, he went on Fox News and
he said, the retirement of Nancy Pelosi is a great
thing for America. She was evil, corrupt, and only focused
on bad things for our country. I'm very honored. She
impeached me twice and failed miserably twice. She's a highly
overrated politician. And then he reiterated later she's an evil woman.
(01:43):
I'm glad she's retired, and.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
She went on and on. Let's talk to Richie.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Greenberg, who's a writer and a commentator journalist up in
northern California. He had a piece in californiaglobe dot com today.
Richie wrote, well, was a legacy of elitism, hypocrisy, and
partisan power.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Let's talk to Richie Greenberg. How are you?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I'm doing really great, happy days. How are ahead of us? John?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
I definitely understood why people got were so enamored with her.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Yeah, yeah, I mean it's incredible that it's not just
in Washington, DC, but even the local San Francisco politicians.
They all are fawning over her. They are brown nosing.
I'm looking online on social media this morning as soon
as an announcement came out, everyone is just clamoring to
(02:40):
give her praise, the local newspapers, TV stations, and especially,
and this is what's really important, the candidates that are
running for office, especially Scott Wiener, who announced last week
that he is now running for her seat.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Oh my god. You know, he is like a political
infection guy. He's been behind so many bad, destructive bills
in California. I do maybe it's a good thing if
he goes to Washington, because his power will be much
more diluted there.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Correct, That is actually a very strong argument for why
we would want to support him. But I don't think
myself or any of my colleagues, and a very large
swath of San Francisco cannot stomach that idea of pressing
the button to vote for him, even if it meant
diluting his power in Washington.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Well, you had a good piece today in californiaglobe dot
Com going through some of the highlights of her career
that's not being covered in all the gushing praise, all
the gushing media praise that we've been enduring the last
couple of days.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Why don't you talk about some of the stuff you
wrote about, right.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Well, first of all, remember that famous live incident with
Trump in his first first term. He did the State
of the Union address back in twenty twenty, and standing
behind him was Pelosi and she tore up his State
of the Union address a copy that she had, calling
(04:14):
it lies, you know, and that was just really appalling
to see.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
That.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Also, the COVID hypocrisy when we had the really strong
lockdowns here in twenty twenty, we had she was going
to a hairdresser to get a blowout, right, and that
she blamed. She says, no, it was a setup. That's
set got set up.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
She I remember she wandered in there and no mask on,
she's indoors and she was getting her hair done. And
that's when hairdressers were being forced out of business because
they weren't allowed to open. And then she says something
a preposterous lie. It was a setup. No, it was
your appointment that you made that you thought you were
entitled to.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
And that's that's right. And her her legacy is that.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Of entitlement of doing, of not breaking all the rules,
feeling that the rules didn't apply to her, and the
amount of money that she and her husband made in
the stock market with insider information that she was privy
to in Congress was astounding.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Exactly right now, I just checked. I think it says
her net worth is about two hundred and fifty six
million networth as of now as of the last teck
two one hundred.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
And fifty six million dollars.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Two hundred and fifty six point six point six more.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Don't forget the last six hundred thousand there.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Yeah, that's right now. Now we know, of course she
had a hand along with others, in doing what she
could do to help direct pack money to support a
yes on Prop fifty. Right, so we know about that.
We don't have to too much about that. But we
know about Prop fifty an her involvement. But here in
(06:05):
San Francisco she also on a local level. Now, of
course she's in Washington, d C. She deals with federal
issues issues like you know, anything that is affecting the
United States and overseas, right, But here in San Francisco
she doesn't have that kind of local power, but she
has the influence, and so she was one.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Oh it broke down, can we reconnect? I think what
he was This is a big issue in San Francisco.
There was a proposition called Proposition K, and they closed
a big highway.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
I'm sorry, so so Ritchie.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Proposition K was permanently closing the Great Highway.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Talk about this.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
So that was one of the important north south highways
that is used by up to almost twenty thousand in
people cars a day. I've used it many times. It's
part of the West side of San Francisco. There was
a ballot measure a year ago, and she was one
that helped to push that over the top to get
(07:13):
it passed against the will of the West side of
San Francisco. Very controversial. And then what happened is the
people on the west side decided to go for a
recall of the mint sponser, one of the supervisors, one
of the city hall, the city councilmen, who put that
to the vote of the voters. He was going to
(07:33):
be recalled. And then she came out against his recall.
So there's double whammy.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Let me just explain.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
When they closed the highway, they replaced it with a park,
and nobody on the West side of San Francisco wanted
the park.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
They wanted the highway.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Back because now all the traffic went off into congested
side streets, into the local.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Neighborhoods, exactly.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
And it's not really a park because it's asphalt. They
can't tear up an important road that's needed for emergencies.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
It's asking people are walking.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Yeah, it's the roadway. It's the roadway for emergency vehicles
in case there has to be an evacuation. People are
going to drive on that.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Oh, that's really stupid.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
So this park is really just the existing roadway and
you'll walk on it.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
And she was not even campaigning to recall CHESSA. Bodine
after he ruined San Francisco by embracing all the shoplifters
and the criminals and the drug addicts.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Talk about that.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
The da who at San Francisco recalled and she didn't
lift a finger to help them.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Help them.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
That's that's right. So as many of you know, and
you yourself, myself and a few other coalition of committees
and influential people here worked together to throw Bodine out
and recall him. That succeeded. Back in twenty twenty two.
Pelosi did not take a stance in any case. Why
(08:58):
she did not as Yeah, exactly exactly, And what's really
interesting then if you look at some of the other
things that she's done, is you know, she's she very
much talks about her strong Catholic faith and the Catholic
Church and her church here in San Francisco. She upset
(09:22):
them because she has been championing abortion, which we know
is really a no no for the Catholic Church given
the local archiasis. The archbishop refused to give her a
communion and put out a a like his ruling, sent
it to her and sent it out to all the
(09:43):
local church leaders around the area here to refuse her communion.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Well, much like Newsom, she's been an elitist, phony hypocrite
most of her life and has been very very destructive
for California as he has.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
In fact, they're related through marriage, aren't they.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Yeah, there's a connection there. That's why there was such
a tight, tight relationship between the two. And it's going
to be interesting to see what happens now that she
is out of the race next year. It's going to
start pretty quickly. We already have two prominent local candidates here,
Scott Wiener is one. Another was his tech millionaire who
(10:27):
is worth one hundred and something million dollars who previously
worked on Alexandria Cassio Cortez Cortex AOC's campaign, and Bernie Sanders.
So this guy is actually like a minim of Donnie.
He's even further left than Scott Wiener on many issues.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
That's you know, that's the wave to come. Now, there's
going to be many Mom, Dommi's running. I can't say
his name. Mom, Donnie's running all over out of these
big cities, Scott. I'm sorry, Richie, I gotta go. Thank
you very much for coming on.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
My pleasure, My pleasure, Richie.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Richie Greenberger is a writer and commentator up in San Francisco,
and he wrote a piece for californiaglobe dot com all
the stuff that you didn't see in all the glowing
eulogies for Nancy Pelosi's political career as she retires, because
she's half in the bag.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
She is going to be sharing space with Joe Biden
at the rest home.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
Next you're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
One of the stupidest things that the federal government has
done recently is this air traffic controller situation where the
air traffic controllers aren't getting paid and it's all their fault.
This is something that Trump ought to do. This is
(11:53):
something Trump ought to take care of immediately. And this
is something that the Republicans and Democrats ought to take
care of immediately.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
And they got to fund the air traffic controllers.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
And you know, John, a travel industry analyst, went on
to say that if you're planning on traveling Friday.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Don't thanks for that from the cheery news there you
got a big smile and now you're laughing.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
You think this is funny.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
No, I don't.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
When everything goes to hell for me tomorrow, I'm calling you.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Okay, who laughs hysterically when I'm on vacation and everything
goes bring down.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
That, bring down entire nations.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Well, there the royal families, and you killed the queen,
you started the Uh.
Speaker 6 (12:40):
It's not about me, John, I'm not going anywhere tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
The Israel Palestine war we're I'm talking about flooded out
to buy.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
You started a COVID epidemic in Mexico.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
I mean that that's five countries right there. With your vacations.
Nobody can do the damage that you've done internationally. Thank you, John,
for all that am I wrong? So this this is
(13:09):
just this is just such nonsense. I don't care if
the government shut down. For the most part, I have
very little pleasant interaction with the government, except you know,
paying taxes. The federal government doesn't do anything for me.
I do think it's not outrageous to ask that they
keep you know, I think there's forty thousand airplanes in
(13:32):
the sky every day. Maybe you could make sure that
they stay up in the sky so we can all
travel to where we need to, where we want to
and not compromise the safety. What they're doing the air
traffic controllers is terrible. Forty four three hundred and sixty
flights a day. Tomorrow they're going to cut four percent
(13:56):
of the daily total. They're going to add a percentage
points chage point every day, So a week from now,
ten percent, four thousand flights a day will be canceled.
And that's four thousand, you know, on a Wednesday, on
a Thursday, on a Friday, it'll quickly be tens of
thousands of flights over the course of a week. They
(14:19):
have the money shutting down the government. They didn't shut
down tax collection. All the money is still being transferred
to government.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Accounts.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
You know, everything that comes out of your paycheck that's
still going there. So they have the money and they
have the personnel that want to work, except they're not
getting paid. And it is very common that if you
don't have a paycheck for a month, you don't have
the money to pay all your bills, like your mortgage.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
What are you supposed to get foreclosed on?
Speaker 2 (14:55):
You're not going to pay your electric bill, your water bill,
you got a food bill, ill for your kids.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
What are you supposed to do?
Speaker 2 (15:03):
So these guys and women are pissed off and calling
and sick because if they're not if you're not getting paid,
they're thinking, I'm not going to work.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Some of them are.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Not showing up for work because they got a second
job because amazingly other companies in the private sector they
pay for work.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
You'll get a check.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Every week or every two weeks. By working in the
private sector. You work for the government. And everybody's having
a hissy fit now and there's no check.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
And you got forty four thousand flights a day. This
is stupid.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
They should have funded the FAA, and it should have
been funded from day one. Air traffic controllers should have
been funded from day one. They should not have been
part of the shutdown. It's stupid and wrong. And Trump
ought to fix this, and the Republicans and Democrats ought
to fix this, or really.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
A war on all of them.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
The hell with all of them. This is a basic service.
And I don't care about their internal politics. I know
it's the Democrat's fault for not signing on to a
two month budget extension, and they're a budget ninnies. And
I know the Republicans could have set this up differently
(16:24):
to make sure that an air traffic control situation is
never affected by a shutdown. And Trump could do this too,
and it's time they do this. There is no argument
for not paying the air traffic controllers.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
None. None.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
I don't care about the partisanship. I don't care about
who started it. I don't care about whose side you're on.
They should keep the airports running.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
In fact, they should go into their own accounts and
write checks to all these air traffic controllers to keep
them on the jobs that they don't have to drive
for uber or Lyft until this government shutdown is over.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Well, all these congress people have rich dotors who can
give them private plane rides so it's not going to
affect their lives.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
No, it's not going to affect their lives. But that's
why I'm saying they need to pay up.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
That we all will do more on this. Later in
the show, we're going to have a report from ABC News.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Old what's his name? What we got Alex Stone? Oh,
Alex Stone, Right, Alex is going to be doing that report.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
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Speaker 1 (18:14):
We have debut on TikTok too.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Yeah, we're twenty five followers away from a thousand on TikTok.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Yeah. Well, what do you know?
Speaker 2 (18:21):
It looks like I am, I'm breaking up all the
wiggling rear ends.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Yes you did people scroll through.
Speaker 6 (18:27):
Your dance moves or something.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
I yeah, they are something. Have you ever seen me dance?
Postathon's coming up?
Speaker 2 (18:37):
I got about a month away, not a postapon dance,
my my my ballroom dancing. It's it's it's me with
my my just rocking from left to right. That's all
I can do. I can sway, Okay. My wife has
been mocking that for many years. The this is this
(18:58):
is good news. There's a there. Federal prosecutors have submitted
a subpoena to get the LA firefighters text messages from
the Palisades fire. It's a grand jury subpoenas, so we
have a grand jury now investigating. The specific messages are
(19:19):
the ones we talked about a few days ago. January
first was the New Year's Day fire in Palisades Lachman fire.
January second. By then it was put out, except it
wasn't put out. It was a major hot spot. The
ground was smoldering, wisps of smoke in the air, tree
(19:42):
stumps were hot, rocks were hot to the to to
the touch. It needed a lot more treatment from the
fire department, but the battalion chief, Mario Garcia, told the
firefighters we're going home, We're done here, and the firefighters protested,
(20:05):
saying no, we really ought to stay, mister battalion chief.
And there was a flurry of text messages, which nobody
knew about publicly until a few days ago when the
La Times published some of the text messages. Here's if
(20:27):
you haven't heard the story. This crew is mopping up
the Lockman fire the next day, and they warned Mary
Garcia that we have a lot of smoldering here. In
one text message, he wrote, the battalion chief was told
it was a bad idea quote unquote bad idea to
(20:49):
leave because of the visible signs of smoking terrain, which
Cruise feared could start a new fire if left unprotected.
And the rest is history. A second firefighter was told
that the tree stumps were still hot at the location
when the crew packed up and left, according to the texts.
(21:11):
A third firefighter said this month that crew members were
upset when told to pack up and leave, but they
could not ignore orders. That's right. You then have a
choice between ignoring orders and waiting till a fire consumed
sixty eight hundred homes. You follow the orders, right, You
(21:32):
don't want to ignore the orders. Orders are more important
than keeping sixty eight hundred homes from burning and keeping
twelve people from dying in a fire. I love this
orders thing. So if you have, like a really stupid
decision by a battalion chief, I guess the protocol is,
everybody's got a salute and say yes chief. But don't
(21:54):
you think, uh, don't contradict the chief. Don't contradict. It's
the supervisor. You know, people in management, they're the smartest ones, supervisors,
they're the best and brightest. So he told them to
roll up the hoses. So they followed orders and rolled
up the hoses. And now that Palisades is a wasteland,
(22:18):
and it still is largely a wasteland. There is some
construction being done, mostly by developers who bought up a
bunch of lots, and they're they're quickly putting up you know,
the wooden the wooden infrastructure.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
But you call the fire department, say, hey, what about
these text messages? Why did the battalion chief tell everybody
to go home?
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Fire departments not answering questions, Mary Garcia, not answering questions.
The Times says that Karen Bass has now told the
interim fire chief not to be confused with the incoming
fire chief or the fireired fire chief. But this interim guy,
(23:02):
Ronnie Vena, wava to launch an investigation. We don't need
an investigation.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
We know.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
The firefighters say let's stay and put out the smoldering
and the hot rocks and the.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Hot tree stumps.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
And the battalion chief said, no, roll up the hoses
and let's go home. What do you need to investigate here?
Investigations are a way of avoiding the news, of dodging it.
She deflects, dodges and avoids and doesn't speak directly. I
noticed yesterday what was she speaking out on. She was
(23:38):
upset about some federal things, something to do with oh oh,
she was. She was happy about the uh, the way
the elections went, and that it was a warning to Trump.
We got animated Karen Bass again, the way you get.
She gets animated about illegal aliens. She was animated about
Trump getting a kick. Yesterday you ask her about the palisades, like, well,
(24:04):
I've asked for another investigator. You've had a god, how
many investigations are going on or went on?
Speaker 1 (24:10):
And what are they produced, They're all white watches.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Everybody says, ah, we did fine. Oh yeah, we had
some organizational problems, some communication problems, some resourceation.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
All you imagine.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
I know this is very painful if you suffered the
loss of your home and the fire, your your neighborhood,
your kids, school, a relative. But imagine if this battalion
chief had looked around and said to those firefighters, you
guys are right, let's keep wading this down here. Let's
keep treating it with whatever magical firefoam we have or
(24:51):
whatever they use to cool it down and keep because
already the warnings were out for sant Ana Wins.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
They were already there. They were already red flash warnings.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
So why didn't he and that crew and other crews
stay there for the next five days. Imagine if they
had done that, they were there, they identified the problem.
We spend an enormous amount of money on homeless fires,
but we had no money to give these guys over
time to put this hot spot out. People should go
(25:24):
to prison. They should go to prison. And I'm glad
that there's a federal investigation, there's a grand jury subpoena,
and I hope people get indicted and put away. And
I'm talking fire officials should be put away. Bass should
be put away. There should be prison terms for this
kind of gross criminal negligence that allows an entire town
(25:45):
to burn when they could have put out the hotspot.
Wasn't an act of God, it wasn't climate change, it
wasn't winds like we'd never seen before. Nature's fury like
no one's ever experienced. That's all bs. They just didn't
do their job, and they knew what it was that
they had to do. More coming up.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A
six forty.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Coming up after two o'clock. Todd Spencer, Orange County, DA. Well,
this is a really bad story. You know, we haven't
had too much bad news coming out of Orange County recently,
but here we go. There's twelve mentally ill offenders, including
a murder defendant, that are going to be released, maybe
(26:34):
into your community in Orange County unsupervised, because the County
of Orange doesn't have treatment beds for its dangerous mental patients.
Two of these offenders, two of these mental patients, could
be released as early as Friday, that's tomorrow. Why can't
(26:55):
they keep the mental patients, the criminal mental patients indoor.
They can't do that. Everybody's failing at every level. We'll
get into that at two o'clock with Todd. Here's a
miscarriage of justice.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
This is terrible.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Do you remember the guy he used to work for
the Department of Justice of all places. His name is
Sean Dunn, and he threw a subway sandwich at a
Customs and Border Patrol agent back in August, and it
was on video. He flung the sandwich and the whole
(27:36):
thing exploded on impact because he was angry that border
patrol was enforcing immigration law. This guy's thirty seven years old.
Thirty seven years old, and he's throwing food.
Speaker 6 (27:49):
Some people can't control their impulses.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
And it was all on video, and defence lawyers for
Done said that the whole thing was blown out of proportion.
His defense attorney, Julia Gaddo said it was a harmless
gesture at the end of him exercising his right to
speak out. No, no, no, there's no Scotts Tos or
(28:16):
protection for whipping a sandwich at somebody. She goes he
is overwhelmingly not guilty. Now, the border patrol agent who
was on the other end of the sandwich, said he
could feel it through his ballistic vest. That's our heart.
How hard it was thrown. It kind of exploded all
(28:38):
over You could smell the onions in the mustard. The
agent also found onions on his police radio and his
shirt was stained yellow from the mustard.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
And let me.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
See what the agent's name is here, Laarirmore, Gregory Lairmore.
Okay had had had had mustard and onions exploded all
over him in his equipment. Guess what the jury did
what it's und him not guilty. They found done not guilty.
Speaker 6 (29:15):
So we're allowed to We're allowed to do that now.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Wow, I mean clearly a video you could see him
launching the sandwich. You know, there's evidence of the mustard
and the onions splattered on the guy's vest and on
his radio. There were witnesses, there was testimony.
Speaker 5 (29:33):
So if I have a keen wah bowl and I
throw it all over you and it gets all over
the place.
Speaker 6 (29:38):
And up the clothes in your iPad, I'm not going
to get.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
In trouble a keen wahbule. I don't think anybody's ever done.
Maybe that's legal, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
This guy done was an international affairs specialist in the
Criminal Division of the Department of Justice, and he lost
his mind. He's watching federal agents and forced federal law.
This is what he does. He just does his part
in the office. And he got so enraged and he
threw the sandwich and he got away with it. This
(30:14):
was like the OJ jury, except he had videotape here
the night had happened. He walked up to a group
of Border Patrol agents and called them fascists, racists and
chanted shame at them before he launched the sandwich.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Why are you here?
Speaker 2 (30:34):
I don't want you in my city. And then he
tried to run, but they caught him and he was arrested.
What guy at thirty seven years old is screaming at
Border patrol agents? That guy, yep, that guy. I mean,
at least he was fired. No way he gets to
work in the Department of Justice. This is why the
(30:55):
jury system, it's terrible that you got to knowj jury
don't believe what you could see with your own two eyes.
We've got Todd Spitzer coming up in Orange County. They're
releasing mental patients, mental patients who have been charged with crimes,
(31:17):
one of them charged with murder, and they're going to
be released unsupervised over the next two months because they
don't have beds. Then they can't buy twelve beds and
put them in a room somewhere.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
I don't understand any of this debor Mark Live in
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