November 19, 2025 • 34 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (11/19) - The LAFD Oversight Committee says that they are completely handicapped and the new LAFD Chief Jaime Moore is calling out the media. Olivia Rubin comes on the show with the latest on the Epstein files as a bill to release them is set to hit Pres. Trump's desk. Janisse Quiñones has private security that costs over $400,000.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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the lineup today? Oh, after one point thirty, we're going
to talk to an ABC News investigative reporter, Olivia. Olivia, Olivia,
what's Ruben? That's right, And we're going to talk about
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the next step in the Epstein case, which you know
is getting But there ought to be some some gold
at the end of this story. There ought to be
some bombshells. I mean, I want big names, I want
descriptions of what was going on. You know, I'm tired
of this, like twenty years of this story and we
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know hardly anything more than we did ten years ago.
And we'll get to that. Also, there's no photographic evidence
that was published in the California Globe about the a
billion and a half dollars that Newsome and the legislature
are spending on this massive state capitol building project. They're
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building themselves new offices, a huge building five hundred and
twenty five thousand square feet five hundred and twenty five
thousand square feet they're building for themselves with our money
minimum a billion and a half dollars, which is.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Triple the price.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Okay, so we're going to have Katie Grimes on on that,
among other things. But what I want to start off
with here is it looks like we have the third
fire chief this year who is running interference, covering up
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the truth. Looking the way, I don't know how to
describe it. I'm really shocked. We got a new fire chief,
I mean Moore. He's been on the case for three
days and he's already barking about the criticism of the
fire department and the way they handled the palisade situation
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because new stories are leaking out not flattering to the
fire department officials. And I've been very clear on separating
the officials from the regular firefighters who have to follow orders.
But the fire officials increasingly look to be incompetent and
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stupid and destructive in their decisions.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
I don't know how is to put that.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
I mean, I just gotta you know, just if you
doubt me, if you think it's hyperbole. Go go drive
to the Palisades, you'd tell me. Because the first fire
chief this year, Kristen Crowley, well we know what she did.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
She didn't send.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Any personnel or equipment into the Palisades for hours and hours,
and she was not prepared to deal with the flare
up of the January first fire. I think that when
we found out it started, the fire actually started January first,
and then we found out it was never fully put out.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Well, I mean that.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Speaks to massive, massive incompetence and buffoonery on the part
of Kristin Crowley and Karen Bass.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
But you know she was in Africa.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Then the second chief that we had was Ronni van Aweva,
and I would have expected he would come in and
do a full, comprehensive investigative report, you know these after
action reports. Crowley was accused of not wanting to do one.
I could see why he was supposed to do one.
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One comes out and it didn't have any of the
good stuff in it. And the good stuff is is
that the fire on January first, Well on January second,
it was still smoldering. You know, the ground, the tree stumps,
the rocks were hot and there was a group of
firefighters who wanted to stay and keep putting it out
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because the fire is not out of its smoldering, and
it reignited during the eighty mile an hour winds five
days later. But the battalion chief, Mario Garcia, according to
the story, said everybody go home, roll up your hoses.
This came from fire department texts that the La Times
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got a hold of, and there may have been another
battalion chief who was aware of this situation as well,
and that's where we left the story.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Now, the third the third fire chief is a guy named.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
I mean more Jimi Moore spoke before the fire commission
and Heimie Moore is very upset that people are criticizing
the Los Angeles Fire Department, and he's upset with the
stories about the texts. And I want to play you this.
I want to play a whole story from Channel seven,
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but first I want to play this clip of Heimi
Moore upset with not Kristen Crowley or Ronnie Vanueva or
Mary Garcia or Karen Bass upset with the media because
the media has reporting the texts. Play cut four.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
The audacity for people to make comments and say that
there's text messages out there that says that we did
not put the fire out, that we did not extinguish
the fire. Yet I have yet to see any of
those text messages.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Well, why would anybody send them to you? Well, are
you saying that if it's not sent to you, it
doesn't exist? Are you saying these text messages were falsified?
The audacity for a news organization to say there's texts
out there. Well, the LA Times, for all its faults,
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presumably saw the texts. And there's other people who saw
the texts, and maybe.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
It was true.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
And maybe you should be calling up Barrio Garcia and
tracking down who was on duty that day on January
tewod that was supposed to be bopping up. That's all
in the fire department records. Why don't you call those guys?
Why weren't those guys contacted and given immunity to explain
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what happened?
Speaker 1 (06:54):
It looks like people have known for many months.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
I mean, the you know every you know, the all
these LA politicians they loved to whack on Trump. Well,
what I saw is that the federal investigation actually revealed
that it was an arsonist and that it started on
State Parkland, and that it turns out the LA Fire
Department was there after they thought they put out the
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fire on January second, reported all this smoldering going on
and didn't.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Finish the job.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
And then yesterday we found out through records and photographic
evidence that the News of administration the Parks Department for
the state had sent an employee to the side of
the January first fire, that night of the fire, and
then the next day, January second, and this person was
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ordering LA firefighters around. They didn't want anything bulldozed, they
didn't want protected plants to be destroyed. And it's the
opinion of the attorney for many of the Palis Aane's
residents that had they done the bulldozing and cleared out
all the vegetation, all the stuff that was smoldering, then
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you would not have had a reignited fire. But somebody
from News's administration came and bullied the fire department didn't
want this cleaned up properly. There's a huge scandal and
now people are talking and apparently there is a report
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that Channel seven broke. Actually this came out a couple
of weeks ago. There is a letter that let me
see here This letter was purportedly written by firefighters with
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the Los Angeles Fire Department. They were sent it was
sent to Karen Back, some council members and ABC seven.
It's seven pages and in this letter from current and
former LAFT firefighters, they said, we have no faith in
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the Los Angeles City Fire Department to investigate itself, no faith.
We have no faith in Chief Vietaweva to conduct an accurate,
comprehensive and impartial report related to the Lockman fire. The
new letter, signed by la Fire Department chief officers and
captains says they're beyond ashamed, beyond ashamed, and apparently more
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as upset about that report as well, which we will play.
We will play you the latest report from ABC seven
Kevin Osbeck, because another layer to the scandal is that
the fire department has like oversight committee, except the oversight
committee can't overst anything. They only have one employee, so
they can't do any of their own investigations. They have
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nobody working there. Not only was the fire department defunded
by Karen Vass and Eric Arcetti, the fire department overside
committee was defunded as well. There's simply no people. There's
not enough people working for the fire department, and there's
hardly anybody who working for the oversight committee. This is
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crazy stuff. Everybody in the city is at risk if
more fires break out. Remember we get thousands of them
every year, set by the crazy homeless people. But there's Heimeymore,
the LA Fire Department chief. The hell was screaming about
the media. He's claiming the media is smearing the firefighters. No, no, no,
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the media's releasing text messages from firefighters who say fire
management pulled them off the scene. So he's either misinformed
or he's lying. There's an no media smear of the firefighters.
The firefighters are reporting this. The firefighters wrote the letter
that they sent to Channel seven and Karen Bass, that's
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wrong with you? So, Honey Moore, he's three days on
the job and he is whiffing one, two, three strikes
and three days. All right, We'll playing that report from
Kevin Osbeck ABC seven.
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Speaker 1 (11:48):
How are things going?
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Yeah, plenty of room, alright, plenty of room is Aric
eight seven seven moist stady six U. So the new
fire department chief has been around for three days. Yesterday
was day two, and he's always now complaining about the
media smearing firefighters because the LA Times had a report
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they saw text messages, They saw the text messages from
LA firefighters that a battalion chief ordered them to roll
up their hoses and leave the area of the New
Year's Day fire, and that's where the new fire got
whipped up and spread. And of course that was again
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discovered by the federal investigation, not by the news of administration,
and certainly not by the Los Angeles Fire Department. Certainly
wasn't in there after action reports. So why did those
firefighters leave?
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (12:48):
We got tantalizing indications yesterday from an attorney representing the
Palisades residents that it looks as if somebody from Newsom's administration,
from the California Parks the Apartment, came down and they
took over the side of the fire was on state land,
State parkland, and told the LA firefighters. Well, you can't
bulldoze here. You can't do this, you can't do that.
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And then I had something to do with the firefighters
eventually leaving, and then the wind's kicked up, and he
had the big Palisades fire, apparently trying to protect some plants,
and none of those plants exist now, by the way,
I remember there was an early reporting by the La
Times they were trying to protect the milk vetch plant.
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The milk vech plant is endangered here in California. Well
not anymore. They're all gone, at least the ones of
the Palisades. Listen to this report ABC seven reporter Kevin Osbeck.
There's a Los Angeles Fire Department oversight committee, but they
can't do oversight because they only have one employee.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
The Border Fire Commissioners is made up of five civilians
with one mission, and that's being a check.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
On the fire department.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
But the president of that commission says that's mission impossible
because the commission has a whopping staff size of just one.
Do you think this commission has been a successful check
on this fire department?
Speaker 6 (14:13):
I can tell you that ten years ago it was
a successful check. Do I think we're doing a good
job now No a brutally honest answer at a time
when the LAFD continues to face tough questions.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Jenthi Hudley Hayes has.
Speaker 7 (14:26):
Been the President of the Board of Fire Commissioners for
nearly two years. This civilian board of five has won
just one staff member to audit the LAFD. Hudley Hayes
wants to add three more, including a special investigator.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
We are completely handicapped at this point and those positions,
those three positions are critical if in fact the city
wants the Fire Commission to do its job.
Speaker 7 (14:54):
But with new Chief Jamie Moore now in place, Hudley
Hayes says, this is what she calls the beginning for
this commission.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
What were you not getting from previous chiefs that you
wanted to get?
Speaker 6 (15:05):
We weren't getting anything. When I made the request of
Chief Crowley about whether or not she was going to
do an after action review, she declined.
Speaker 7 (15:19):
To do one.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
My leadership will be grounded in openness.
Speaker 7 (15:22):
More promise to work with this commission and told anyone
inside the LAFT who has concerns to come to him directly.
He addressed critical reporting like we have done on this
letter claiming to be signed by LAFD chief officers and captains,
saying there beyond ashamed and LA Times reporting that some
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firefighters who were at the Lockman mop up have tax
messages showing they warned there were still hotspots here at
the burn scar the.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Audacity for people to make comments and say that there's
text messages out there that says that we did not
put the fire out, that we did not distinguished the fire.
Yet I have yet to see any of those text messages.
Speaker 7 (16:06):
Mayor Karen Vass has taskeble we're getting to the bottom
of what all happens here at the Lockman scene. She
tells seven on your Side investigates more has these orders.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
That he looks at the leadership from top to bottom,
and there's gonna have to be significant evaluation and maybe changes.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Now regarding that allegation from the Commission president that the
former chief Crowley did not want to do an after
action review, that was one of the reasons Mayor Bath
cited for firing her as chief. Now today we did
reach out to Crowley and she is not commenting, but
in a legal claim she has filed against the city,
Crowley demands that the city to attract all false and
defamatory statements against her. She did also call her firing
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Marcu Michelle retaliation for speaking the truth.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
We now have a third fire chief who does not
want to confront what happened here. Apparently Crowley didn't and
she must have balked in some way about it after
action report. You have vien Aweva, the interim chief. He
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didn't do anything. Now you have this new chief, Heimie Moore,
who's angry with the media. And then on the other
side you have actual LA firefighters. Some of them have
written an open letter seven pages long, sent it to
bass and City council members and Channel seven and LA
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Fire Department chief officers and captains who said, we have
no faith in Vienna Wavia to conduct an accurate, comprehensive
and impartial report. So now you have this replacement Chief,
Iimi Moore, and he's upset with the media for reporting
what fire officers and captains wrote in their letter. He's
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blaming the media for what firefighters in their text messages
revealed about running off from the hotspot. The information is
coming from the people you now oversee, But the people
you oversee apparently haven't been questioned with these investigations, or
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they're afraid to tell the truth for some reason.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Can't imagine what that would be.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
So this is the third fire department chief who's apparently
involved in.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Cover up, isn't it? Why is that his first reaction?
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Why is the first public statement he makes on day
two of the job that he's met at the media
for reporting on the text and he hasn't seen them. Well,
it's only you're only on the on the job day two.
Why don't you do why don't you find out? Maybe
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you should talk to the firefighters again public record, fire
department knows who was on the scene that day, they
know who the battalion chief was. Unbelievable. This is pretty dark,
you know this, thirty two hundred uniform firefighters for LAFT
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and apparently there's only one investigator that the oversight board
has to try to figure out what's going on. One person,
thirty two hundred firefighters. When we come back, we're going
to talk to Olivia Ruben from ABC News and about
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the Epstein situation. What's next here? Trump's going to sign
this thing and then what are we going to learn
stuff that we don't know already?
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Show on demand, same as the radio show, so you
can catch up if you weren't available for a portion
of the program another day. And it looks like a
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little bit closer to releasing the Epstein files. It's now
going to Trump's desk. It passed the House, it passed
the Senate nearly unanimously in the House, four twenty seven
to one, unanimously in the Senate, and he says he's
signing it. They're going to release all the information. How
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that's going to work. Well, let's talk to Olivia Rubin
with ABC News, one of their investigative reporters.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Olivia, how are you?
Speaker 8 (20:44):
I'm good? How are you?
Speaker 1 (20:45):
I'm all right? So where where are we with this now?
Speaker 2 (20:49):
If Trump's going to sign it, and then what's the
process to releasing all the files publicly?
Speaker 8 (20:55):
Well, so what this is about is the records that
the Department of Justice has right once he signs it
that sort of triggers this thirty day window that the
Department of Justice has to release the files that are
in their possession. Now, there are going to be some
carve outs there. Of course, victim information they're going to
want to redact and not put that out there. Any
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information that relates to any sort of child abuse there
are of course going to redact. But again, thirty days
is sort of the number to think here, And that's
not to say we'll take all of that time, but
that's what they have to sort of get these documents
ready and then get them out.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
And is this going to name names, because I think
the average person just wants to know what same as
people are going to be listed here as running around
with these young girls on Epstein Island.
Speaker 8 (21:42):
Well, look, whatever is in there is anyone's best guests,
and anyone who I think pretends to know what is
in there doesn't maybe necessarily know. But it's sort of
going to be a wait and see to see what
comes out. I think it's also worth remembering, you know,
Epstein was very powerful, he was very well connected. He
was talking to a lot of people, and certainly something
that we've seen is that just being in contact with
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Jeffrey Epstein or just having your name in the files
as someone who was speaking to is not necessarily a
damning allegation of wrongdoing. Right. There are other aspects of
play here. I think what's also important to remember is
that earlier this year the Department of Justice and Pam
Bondi certainly was going through it's sort of review Pavondi
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the Attorney General of the Epstein files, and they determined
based on these files that there wasn't really anyone else
worthy of being charged here. Their exact phrase was, quote,
we did not uncover evidence that could predicate an investigation
against uncharged third parties. Now, of course, there is a
new investigation that's been opened here, specifically at President Trump's request,
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into Democrats. So really the question is what else could
be found in these documents?
Speaker 1 (22:57):
All right?
Speaker 2 (22:58):
I'm you know, this case been around for twenty years
and it never seems to present details of the crimes.
We know he was using sixteen year old girls. You know,
he's basically a pimp. He and Glaie Maxwell and these
these people would come over his various properties, and a
lot of them famous, rich, well connected. But it never
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explained who these people were, who actually participated in activities
with the girls, what they did. I think that's what
I was getting at, Like, are we going to are
we going to get that kind of information? Because I
know he's got he had a thousand you know, email
friends and phone friends and social friends, people he had
dinner with and this and that. You know, he donated
a lot of money. But who were the people? Because
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she's in prison, Gallainne Maxwell, he died in prison. He
was headed for a long sentence, So what are the crimes, like,
who participated? Who are the customers? Is that going to
come out?
Speaker 8 (23:57):
Well, according to the president, Department of Justice, the Attorney
General Pam Bondi, there is no client list. That's sort
of what if you think back to earlier this year,
that is sort of what caused a lot of this
new uproar and why a lot of the President's supporters
got so frustrated. It was because Pam Bondy and her
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Department of Justice and the FBI came out and said
that their review found that there was no client list.
So again because of that, that's why again a lot
of this uproar this time around came about. But again
as you say, no one's really ever been prosecuted besides Maxwell,
of course Jeffrey Epstein, who was charged in twenty nineteen
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and died by suicide there after being arrested. So again,
if you go off of what Trump's own attorney general
said earlier this year, was that there was no client
list determined by the Department of Justice.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
But these girls have known who the customers were. That's
what's strange. I mean, the Epstein and Maxwell were both
both put away in jail for running this operation, and
there's you know, a couple of people have been named,
but nothing definitive for most of the people that were
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swirling around in their orbit. It's just kind of bad.
Everything about this is baffling. Like, I don't understand why
Trump was calling it a hoax. I don't know why
he's suddenly willing to sign it. I don't know why
the Democrats haven't been pursuing this for many years before
Trump became president. It's twenty years of this stuff. This
is really bizarre. Do most people never think it's bizarre
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in Washington? Or is it just another day there?
Speaker 8 (25:44):
Well, I'm here in New York, where you know, of
course this case is prosecuted in SD and Y the
Southern District of New York. Is who charged and prosecuted
jillnn and who charged Jeffrey Epstein, and who Pam Bondi
has tapped to once again lead this investigation, this new
investigation that the President has ordered into Democrats ties to Epstein.
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So a lot of this has played out in New York.
But you know, to your point, others like Prince Andrew
has certainly faced an allegation from Virginia Giuffrey. She's a
vocal Epstein survivor. Andrew has long denied any wrongdoing and
denied her claims, claimed she didn't remember meeting her. But yes,
to your point, certainly, not a lot of others there.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Yeah, yeah, So it's tough to come up with a
long list of names that have been definitively pegged to this,
and like you just said, even Prince Andrew has denied
most everything. All Right, well, thank you very much, Olivia.
We'll see I guess any day now. Olivia Rubin, ABC
News investigative reporter from New York on this whole thing.
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We got more coming up.
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Katie Grimes, two things, two scandals in Sacramento. You know
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they've built a new Capitol building or a five hundred
and twenty five thousand square foot annex five hundred and
twenty five thousand square feet. This is all for the legislators.
This is offices for themselves. They're supposed to cost a
half a billion, now it's a billion and a half.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
This is another version of high speed rail.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
What what was wrong with their old offices were way
in debt and this is what the legislature in Newsom
is spending the time, and they don't want to talk
about it.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
The other story is.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
The FBI intercepted communications of many, many Newsom administration officials
and other people in California politics. Of course, these are
all Democrats because there are no other people in California politics.
Dozens and dozens of Sacramento insiders they got FBI letters
in the last few days saying that their phone calls, texts,
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or other electronic communications had been intercepted. Katie Grimes has
been talk about that too. I told you this a
few days ago. So starting to crumble. This couldn't go
on forever. And also the big wall that they built
around the truth regarding the Palisades fire, that's crumbling as well.
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We talked a lot about that this hour. Spencer Pratt,
the reality TV star who lost his home and has
been quite outspoken. He puts out posts and videos nearly
every day, goes to all the meetings. Well, he's got
another one today because I spent a lot of time
on the reservoir yesterday that wasn't filled by Genie kenonas
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the DWP CEO. How she makes seven hundred and fifty
thousand dollars and how the Los Angeles Times inexplicably gave
her an award. They gave her an award for being
a woman or something like that. Jenise Kenonas, all right,
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This is from Spencer Pratt on November twelfth, twenty twenty five. Oh,
that would be a week ago. The LEDWP amended its
security agreement for Kenonias. The cost of for private security
has been bumped up another one hundred and ninety thousand
dollars a year. Now, get this, They're spending four hundred
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fifty two thousand dollars a year on security for Genese
Kinonia's four hundred and fifty two thousand dollars on top
of her seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars salary.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
So we're talking about a total prize.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Package of about one million, two hundred thousand dollars. This
amendment extends the current security contract by twelve months and
provides Keynonias with a highly trained security agent and a
professional driver for travel, events and daily activities.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
This is what your.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Electric bill and your water bill, this is what it's
going for to protect this in empty, incompetent boob who
couldn't get around to filling up the reservoir one hundred
and seventeen million gallons when the fire hit. There should
have been one hundred seventeen million gallons of water in
(32:17):
there when the fire hit, but it was empty, completely empty,
not a drop And it was her fault.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
And so what does she get?
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Three quarters of a million dollars in salary, almost a
half million dollars in security. Keep paying your water and
electric bills. You didn't get water for the fire department.
They didn't turn off the electricity either in the Palisades,
which caused more fires to erupt.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
But she is making.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
Out, I mean, the insanity increases every day, if you
notice that every day? All right, Katie Grimes from California Globe.
Right after Brigina's news, there's now fotographic evidence of this
massive boondoggle, the state capital annex. They're spending a billion
(33:06):
and a half dollars on it, maybe more. And dozens
and dozens of Newsom administration officials and other Democratic political
operatives got a letter from the FBI. All their phone calls,
their texts, any electronic communications have been intercepted as part
(33:26):
of the federal corruption case that started with Newsom's former
chief of staff Dana Williamson. Wow, why do they need
to talk to dozens and dozens or not even talk
intercept their communications?
Speaker 1 (33:41):
What's going on in the Newsomb administration? I think we know?
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Debor Mark's off today Briginia Diagostinos live in the KFI
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the lineup today? Oh, after one point thirty, we're going
to talk to an ABC News investigative reporter, Olivia. Olivia, Olivia,
what's Ruben? That's right, And we're going to talk about
(00:29):
the next step in the Epstein case, which you know
is getting But there ought to be some some gold
at the end of this story. There ought to be
some bombshells. I mean, I want big names, I want
descriptions of what was going on. You know, I'm tired
of this, like twenty years of this story and we
(00:52):
know hardly anything more than we did ten years ago.
And we'll get to that. Also, there's no photographic evidence
that was published in the California Globe about the a
billion and a half dollars that Newsome and the legislature
are spending on this massive state capitol building project. They're
(01:16):
building themselves new offices, a huge building five hundred and
twenty five thousand square feet five hundred and twenty five
thousand square feet they're building for themselves with our money
minimum a billion and a half dollars, which is.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Triple the price.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Okay, so we're going to have Katie Grimes on on that,
among other things. But what I want to start off
with here is it looks like we have the third
fire chief this year who is running interference, covering up
(01:58):
the truth. Looking the way, I don't know how to
describe it. I'm really shocked. We got a new fire chief,
I mean Moore. He's been on the case for three
days and he's already barking about the criticism of the
fire department and the way they handled the palisade situation
(02:18):
because new stories are leaking out not flattering to the
fire department officials. And I've been very clear on separating
the officials from the regular firefighters who have to follow orders.
But the fire officials increasingly look to be incompetent and
(02:42):
stupid and destructive in their decisions.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
I don't know how is to put that.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
I mean, I just gotta you know, just if you
doubt me, if you think it's hyperbole. Go go drive
to the Palisades, you'd tell me. Because the first fire
chief this year, Kristen Crowley, well we know what she did.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
She didn't send.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Any personnel or equipment into the Palisades for hours and hours,
and she was not prepared to deal with the flare
up of the January first fire. I think that when
we found out it started, the fire actually started January first,
and then we found out it was never fully put out.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Well, I mean that.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Speaks to massive, massive incompetence and buffoonery on the part
of Kristin Crowley and Karen Bass.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
But you know she was in Africa.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Then the second chief that we had was Ronni van Aweva,
and I would have expected he would come in and
do a full, comprehensive investigative report, you know these after
action reports. Crowley was accused of not wanting to do one.
I could see why he was supposed to do one.
(03:58):
One comes out and it didn't have any of the
good stuff in it. And the good stuff is is
that the fire on January first, Well on January second,
it was still smoldering. You know, the ground, the tree stumps,
the rocks were hot and there was a group of
firefighters who wanted to stay and keep putting it out
(04:20):
because the fire is not out of its smoldering, and
it reignited during the eighty mile an hour winds five
days later. But the battalion chief, Mario Garcia, according to
the story, said everybody go home, roll up your hoses.
This came from fire department texts that the La Times
(04:43):
got a hold of, and there may have been another
battalion chief who was aware of this situation as well,
and that's where we left the story.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Now, the third the third fire chief is a guy named.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
I mean more Jimi Moore spoke before the fire commission
and Heimie Moore is very upset that people are criticizing
the Los Angeles Fire Department, and he's upset with the
stories about the texts. And I want to play you this.
I want to play a whole story from Channel seven,
(05:22):
but first I want to play this clip of Heimi
Moore upset with not Kristen Crowley or Ronnie Vanueva or
Mary Garcia or Karen Bass upset with the media because
the media has reporting the texts. Play cut four.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
The audacity for people to make comments and say that
there's text messages out there that says that we did
not put the fire out, that we did not extinguish
the fire. Yet I have yet to see any of
those text messages.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Well, why would anybody send them to you? Well, are
you saying that if it's not sent to you, it
doesn't exist? Are you saying these text messages were falsified?
The audacity for a news organization to say there's texts
out there. Well, the LA Times, for all its faults,
(06:22):
presumably saw the texts. And there's other people who saw
the texts, and maybe.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
It was true.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
And maybe you should be calling up Barrio Garcia and
tracking down who was on duty that day on January
tewod that was supposed to be bopping up. That's all
in the fire department records. Why don't you call those guys?
Why weren't those guys contacted and given immunity to explain
(06:52):
what happened?
Speaker 1 (06:54):
It looks like people have known for many months.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
I mean, the you know every you know, the all
these LA politicians they loved to whack on Trump. Well,
what I saw is that the federal investigation actually revealed
that it was an arsonist and that it started on
State Parkland, and that it turns out the LA Fire
Department was there after they thought they put out the
(07:21):
fire on January second, reported all this smoldering going on
and didn't.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Finish the job.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
And then yesterday we found out through records and photographic
evidence that the News of administration the Parks Department for
the state had sent an employee to the side of
the January first fire, that night of the fire, and
then the next day, January second, and this person was
(07:50):
ordering LA firefighters around. They didn't want anything bulldozed, they
didn't want protected plants to be destroyed. And it's the
opinion of the attorney for many of the Palis Aane's
residents that had they done the bulldozing and cleared out
all the vegetation, all the stuff that was smoldering, then
(08:10):
you would not have had a reignited fire. But somebody
from News's administration came and bullied the fire department didn't
want this cleaned up properly. There's a huge scandal and
now people are talking and apparently there is a report
(08:33):
that Channel seven broke. Actually this came out a couple
of weeks ago. There is a letter that let me
see here This letter was purportedly written by firefighters with
(08:54):
the Los Angeles Fire Department. They were sent it was
sent to Karen Back, some council members and ABC seven.
It's seven pages and in this letter from current and
former LAFT firefighters, they said, we have no faith in
(09:14):
the Los Angeles City Fire Department to investigate itself, no faith.
We have no faith in Chief Vietaweva to conduct an accurate,
comprehensive and impartial report related to the Lockman fire. The
new letter, signed by la Fire Department chief officers and
captains says they're beyond ashamed, beyond ashamed, and apparently more
(09:43):
as upset about that report as well, which we will play.
We will play you the latest report from ABC seven
Kevin Osbeck, because another layer to the scandal is that
the fire department has like oversight committee, except the oversight
committee can't overst anything. They only have one employee, so
they can't do any of their own investigations. They have
(10:07):
nobody working there. Not only was the fire department defunded
by Karen Vass and Eric Arcetti, the fire department overside
committee was defunded as well. There's simply no people. There's
not enough people working for the fire department, and there's
hardly anybody who working for the oversight committee. This is
(10:30):
crazy stuff. Everybody in the city is at risk if
more fires break out. Remember we get thousands of them
every year, set by the crazy homeless people. But there's Heimeymore,
the LA Fire Department chief. The hell was screaming about
the media. He's claiming the media is smearing the firefighters. No, no, no,
(10:53):
the media's releasing text messages from firefighters who say fire
management pulled them off the scene. So he's either misinformed
or he's lying. There's an no media smear of the firefighters.
The firefighters are reporting this. The firefighters wrote the letter
that they sent to Channel seven and Karen Bass, that's
(11:16):
wrong with you? So, Honey Moore, he's three days on
the job and he is whiffing one, two, three strikes
and three days. All right, We'll playing that report from
Kevin Osbeck ABC seven.
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eight seven seven moist stady six U. So the new
fire department chief has been around for three days. Yesterday
was day two, and he's always now complaining about the
media smearing firefighters because the LA Times had a report
(12:10):
they saw text messages, They saw the text messages from
LA firefighters that a battalion chief ordered them to roll
up their hoses and leave the area of the New
Year's Day fire, and that's where the new fire got
whipped up and spread. And of course that was again
(12:34):
discovered by the federal investigation, not by the news of administration,
and certainly not by the Los Angeles Fire Department. Certainly
wasn't in there after action reports. So why did those
firefighters leave?
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (12:48):
We got tantalizing indications yesterday from an attorney representing the
Palisades residents that it looks as if somebody from Newsom's administration,
from the California Parks the Apartment, came down and they
took over the side of the fire was on state land,
State parkland, and told the LA firefighters. Well, you can't
bulldoze here. You can't do this, you can't do that.
(13:11):
And then I had something to do with the firefighters
eventually leaving, and then the wind's kicked up, and he
had the big Palisades fire, apparently trying to protect some plants,
and none of those plants exist now, by the way,
I remember there was an early reporting by the La
Times they were trying to protect the milk vetch plant.
(13:31):
The milk vech plant is endangered here in California. Well
not anymore. They're all gone, at least the ones of
the Palisades. Listen to this report ABC seven reporter Kevin Osbeck.
There's a Los Angeles Fire Department oversight committee, but they
can't do oversight because they only have one employee.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
The Border Fire Commissioners is made up of five civilians
with one mission, and that's being a check.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
On the fire department.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
But the president of that commission says that's mission impossible
because the commission has a whopping staff size of just one.
Do you think this commission has been a successful check
on this fire department?
Speaker 6 (14:13):
I can tell you that ten years ago it was
a successful check. Do I think we're doing a good
job now No a brutally honest answer at a time
when the LAFD continues to face tough questions.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Jenthi Hudley Hayes has.
Speaker 7 (14:26):
Been the President of the Board of Fire Commissioners for
nearly two years. This civilian board of five has won
just one staff member to audit the LAFD. Hudley Hayes
wants to add three more, including a special investigator.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
We are completely handicapped at this point and those positions,
those three positions are critical if in fact the city
wants the Fire Commission to do its job.
Speaker 7 (14:54):
But with new Chief Jamie Moore now in place, Hudley
Hayes says, this is what she calls the beginning for
this commission.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
What were you not getting from previous chiefs that you
wanted to get?
Speaker 6 (15:05):
We weren't getting anything. When I made the request of
Chief Crowley about whether or not she was going to
do an after action review, she declined.
Speaker 7 (15:19):
To do one.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
My leadership will be grounded in openness.
Speaker 7 (15:22):
More promise to work with this commission and told anyone
inside the LAFT who has concerns to come to him directly.
He addressed critical reporting like we have done on this
letter claiming to be signed by LAFD chief officers and captains,
saying there beyond ashamed and LA Times reporting that some
(15:42):
firefighters who were at the Lockman mop up have tax
messages showing they warned there were still hotspots here at
the burn scar the.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Audacity for people to make comments and say that there's
text messages out there that says that we did not
put the fire out, that we did not distinguished the fire.
Yet I have yet to see any of those text messages.
Speaker 7 (16:06):
Mayor Karen Vass has taskeble we're getting to the bottom
of what all happens here at the Lockman scene. She
tells seven on your Side investigates more has these orders.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
That he looks at the leadership from top to bottom,
and there's gonna have to be significant evaluation and maybe changes.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Now regarding that allegation from the Commission president that the
former chief Crowley did not want to do an after
action review, that was one of the reasons Mayor Bath
cited for firing her as chief. Now today we did
reach out to Crowley and she is not commenting, but
in a legal claim she has filed against the city,
Crowley demands that the city to attract all false and
defamatory statements against her. She did also call her firing
(16:45):
Marcu Michelle retaliation for speaking the truth.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
We now have a third fire chief who does not
want to confront what happened here. Apparently Crowley didn't and
she must have balked in some way about it after
action report. You have vien Aweva, the interim chief. He
(17:12):
didn't do anything. Now you have this new chief, Heimie Moore,
who's angry with the media. And then on the other
side you have actual LA firefighters. Some of them have
written an open letter seven pages long, sent it to
bass and City council members and Channel seven and LA
(17:37):
Fire Department chief officers and captains who said, we have
no faith in Vienna Wavia to conduct an accurate, comprehensive
and impartial report. So now you have this replacement Chief,
Iimi Moore, and he's upset with the media for reporting
what fire officers and captains wrote in their letter. He's
(17:58):
blaming the media for what firefighters in their text messages
revealed about running off from the hotspot. The information is
coming from the people you now oversee, But the people
you oversee apparently haven't been questioned with these investigations, or
(18:19):
they're afraid to tell the truth for some reason.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Can't imagine what that would be.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
So this is the third fire department chief who's apparently
involved in.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Cover up, isn't it? Why is that his first reaction?
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Why is the first public statement he makes on day
two of the job that he's met at the media
for reporting on the text and he hasn't seen them. Well,
it's only you're only on the on the job day two.
Why don't you do why don't you find out? Maybe
(18:59):
you should talk to the firefighters again public record, fire
department knows who was on the scene that day, they
know who the battalion chief was. Unbelievable. This is pretty dark,
you know this, thirty two hundred uniform firefighters for LAFT
(19:20):
and apparently there's only one investigator that the oversight board
has to try to figure out what's going on. One person,
thirty two hundred firefighters. When we come back, we're going
to talk to Olivia Ruben from ABC News and about
(19:43):
the Epstein situation. What's next here? Trump's going to sign
this thing and then what are we going to learn
stuff that we don't know already?
Speaker 4 (19:50):
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Whatever you miss you get on the podcast John Cobet's
Show on demand, same as the radio show, so you
can catch up if you weren't available for a portion
of the program another day. And it looks like a
(20:16):
little bit closer to releasing the Epstein files. It's now
going to Trump's desk. It passed the House, it passed
the Senate nearly unanimously in the House, four twenty seven
to one, unanimously in the Senate, and he says he's
signing it. They're going to release all the information. How
(20:37):
that's going to work. Well, let's talk to Olivia Rubin
with ABC News, one of their investigative reporters.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Olivia, how are you?
Speaker 8 (20:44):
I'm good? How are you?
Speaker 1 (20:45):
I'm all right? So where where are we with this now?
Speaker 2 (20:49):
If Trump's going to sign it, and then what's the
process to releasing all the files publicly?
Speaker 8 (20:55):
Well, so what this is about is the records that
the Department of Justice has right once he signs it
that sort of triggers this thirty day window that the
Department of Justice has to release the files that are
in their possession. Now, there are going to be some
carve outs there. Of course, victim information they're going to
want to redact and not put that out there. Any
(21:15):
information that relates to any sort of child abuse there
are of course going to redact. But again, thirty days
is sort of the number to think here, And that's
not to say we'll take all of that time, but
that's what they have to sort of get these documents
ready and then get them out.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
And is this going to name names, because I think
the average person just wants to know what same as
people are going to be listed here as running around
with these young girls on Epstein Island.
Speaker 8 (21:42):
Well, look, whatever is in there is anyone's best guests,
and anyone who I think pretends to know what is
in there doesn't maybe necessarily know. But it's sort of
going to be a wait and see to see what
comes out. I think it's also worth remembering, you know,
Epstein was very powerful, he was very well connected. He
was talking to a lot of people, and certainly something
that we've seen is that just being in contact with
(22:05):
Jeffrey Epstein or just having your name in the files
as someone who was speaking to is not necessarily a
damning allegation of wrongdoing. Right. There are other aspects of
play here. I think what's also important to remember is
that earlier this year the Department of Justice and Pam
Bondi certainly was going through it's sort of review Pavondi
(22:28):
the Attorney General of the Epstein files, and they determined
based on these files that there wasn't really anyone else
worthy of being charged here. Their exact phrase was, quote,
we did not uncover evidence that could predicate an investigation
against uncharged third parties. Now, of course, there is a
new investigation that's been opened here, specifically at President Trump's request,
(22:52):
into Democrats. So really the question is what else could
be found in these documents?
Speaker 1 (22:57):
All right?
Speaker 2 (22:58):
I'm you know, this case been around for twenty years
and it never seems to present details of the crimes.
We know he was using sixteen year old girls. You know,
he's basically a pimp. He and Glaie Maxwell and these
these people would come over his various properties, and a
lot of them famous, rich, well connected. But it never
(23:22):
explained who these people were, who actually participated in activities
with the girls, what they did. I think that's what
I was getting at, Like, are we going to are
we going to get that kind of information? Because I
know he's got he had a thousand you know, email
friends and phone friends and social friends, people he had
dinner with and this and that. You know, he donated
a lot of money. But who were the people? Because
(23:44):
she's in prison, Gallainne Maxwell, he died in prison. He
was headed for a long sentence, So what are the crimes, like,
who participated? Who are the customers? Is that going to
come out?
Speaker 8 (23:57):
Well, according to the president, Department of Justice, the Attorney
General Pam Bondi, there is no client list. That's sort
of what if you think back to earlier this year,
that is sort of what caused a lot of this
new uproar and why a lot of the President's supporters
got so frustrated. It was because Pam Bondy and her
(24:20):
Department of Justice and the FBI came out and said
that their review found that there was no client list.
So again because of that, that's why again a lot
of this uproar this time around came about. But again
as you say, no one's really ever been prosecuted besides Maxwell,
of course Jeffrey Epstein, who was charged in twenty nineteen
(24:42):
and died by suicide there after being arrested. So again,
if you go off of what Trump's own attorney general
said earlier this year, was that there was no client
list determined by the Department of Justice.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
But these girls have known who the customers were. That's
what's strange. I mean, the Epstein and Maxwell were both
both put away in jail for running this operation, and
there's you know, a couple of people have been named,
but nothing definitive for most of the people that were
(25:20):
swirling around in their orbit. It's just kind of bad.
Everything about this is baffling. Like, I don't understand why
Trump was calling it a hoax. I don't know why
he's suddenly willing to sign it. I don't know why
the Democrats haven't been pursuing this for many years before
Trump became president. It's twenty years of this stuff. This
is really bizarre. Do most people never think it's bizarre
(25:41):
in Washington? Or is it just another day there?
Speaker 8 (25:44):
Well, I'm here in New York, where you know, of
course this case is prosecuted in SD and Y the
Southern District of New York. Is who charged and prosecuted
jillnn and who charged Jeffrey Epstein, and who Pam Bondi
has tapped to once again lead this investigation, this new
investigation that the President has ordered into Democrats ties to Epstein.
(26:06):
So a lot of this has played out in New York.
But you know, to your point, others like Prince Andrew
has certainly faced an allegation from Virginia Giuffrey. She's a
vocal Epstein survivor. Andrew has long denied any wrongdoing and
denied her claims, claimed she didn't remember meeting her. But yes,
to your point, certainly, not a lot of others there.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Yeah, yeah, So it's tough to come up with a
long list of names that have been definitively pegged to this,
and like you just said, even Prince Andrew has denied
most everything. All Right, well, thank you very much, Olivia.
We'll see I guess any day now. Olivia Rubin, ABC
News investigative reporter from New York on this whole thing.
(26:49):
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Katie Grimes, two things, two scandals in Sacramento. You know
(28:52):
they've built a new Capitol building or a five hundred
and twenty five thousand square foot annex five hundred and
twenty five thousand square feet. This is all for the legislators.
This is offices for themselves. They're supposed to cost a
half a billion, now it's a billion and a half.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
This is another version of high speed rail.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
What what was wrong with their old offices were way
in debt and this is what the legislature in Newsom
is spending the time, and they don't want to talk
about it.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
The other story is.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
The FBI intercepted communications of many, many Newsom administration officials
and other people in California politics. Of course, these are
all Democrats because there are no other people in California politics.
Dozens and dozens of Sacramento insiders they got FBI letters
in the last few days saying that their phone calls, texts,
(29:53):
or other electronic communications had been intercepted. Katie Grimes has
been talk about that too. I told you this a
few days ago. So starting to crumble. This couldn't go
on forever. And also the big wall that they built
around the truth regarding the Palisades fire, that's crumbling as well.
(30:13):
We talked a lot about that this hour. Spencer Pratt,
the reality TV star who lost his home and has
been quite outspoken. He puts out posts and videos nearly
every day, goes to all the meetings. Well, he's got
another one today because I spent a lot of time
on the reservoir yesterday that wasn't filled by Genie kenonas
(30:37):
the DWP CEO. How she makes seven hundred and fifty
thousand dollars and how the Los Angeles Times inexplicably gave
her an award. They gave her an award for being
a woman or something like that. Jenise Kenonas, all right,
(30:58):
This is from Spencer Pratt on November twelfth, twenty twenty five. Oh,
that would be a week ago. The LEDWP amended its
security agreement for Kenonias. The cost of for private security
has been bumped up another one hundred and ninety thousand
dollars a year. Now, get this, They're spending four hundred
(31:23):
fifty two thousand dollars a year on security for Genese
Kinonia's four hundred and fifty two thousand dollars on top
of her seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars salary.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
So we're talking about a total prize.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Package of about one million, two hundred thousand dollars. This
amendment extends the current security contract by twelve months and
provides Keynonias with a highly trained security agent and a
professional driver for travel, events and daily activities.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
This is what your.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Electric bill and your water bill, this is what it's
going for to protect this in empty, incompetent boob who
couldn't get around to filling up the reservoir one hundred
and seventeen million gallons when the fire hit. There should
have been one hundred seventeen million gallons of water in
(32:17):
there when the fire hit, but it was empty, completely empty,
not a drop And it was her fault.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
And so what does she get?
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Three quarters of a million dollars in salary, almost a
half million dollars in security. Keep paying your water and
electric bills. You didn't get water for the fire department.
They didn't turn off the electricity either in the Palisades,
which caused more fires to erupt.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
But she is making.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
Out, I mean, the insanity increases every day, if you
notice that every day? All right, Katie Grimes from California Globe.
Right after Brigina's news, there's now fotographic evidence of this
massive boondoggle, the state capital annex. They're spending a billion
(33:06):
and a half dollars on it, maybe more. And dozens
and dozens of Newsom administration officials and other Democratic political
operatives got a letter from the FBI. All their phone calls,
their texts, any electronic communications have been intercepted as part
(33:26):
of the federal corruption case that started with Newsom's former
chief of staff Dana Williamson. Wow, why do they need
to talk to dozens and dozens or not even talk
intercept their communications?
Speaker 1 (33:41):
What's going on in the Newsomb administration? I think we know?
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Debor Mark's off today Briginia Diagostinos live in the KFI
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