April 29, 2025 • 30 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (04/29) - Pacific Palisades resident and attorney Saied Kashani comes on the show to talk about new leaks in the Santa Ynez Reservoir cover. More on the Santa Ynez reservoir in Pacific Palisades being out of service again. Democrats in the CA Assembly are blocking a bill that would make the solicitation of 16 and 17 year old's for sex a felony in the state. More student visas have been revoked by the Trump administration.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
If I am six forty, you're listening to the John
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until four and then after four o'clock John Cobelt Show
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We have spent a fair amount of time today on
the Palisades again because tonight the government is setting the
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Palisades on fire again. I'm not making that up right,
that's what they're doing Tonight. The US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
Firearms and Explosives, also known as the ATF, are going
to start a controlled burn. It's going to run until Thursday.
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They're trying to determine the exact point of origin and
how it during the windstorm. It raced from the hills
to the ocean. Well, it raced from the hills to
the ocean because of the windstorm. That part, I think
we know. Talk about that coming up also the sant
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Andez Reservoir. We're getting said at Kashani On he's the
attorney who got burned out of his Palisades home. He's
gone actually gone to the DWP meetings and has witnessed
in horror the insanity nobody has been held responsible for
anything yet, and now the the reservoirs being drained again.
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It was it was filled up twenty five percent because
they'd installed the new cover or fixed the old cover.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
It's confusing reading these news stories.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
In any event, the new cover has tears and holes
in it, so they've got to fix it again and
they've got to drain the water again. Let's talk to
Sayid Kashani, see what he knows.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
How are you hello, sir? It's good to be back.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Uh yeah, I know. It's not always good news though.
When you come back usually there's not a there's not
happy news that you bring us.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
What's going on? What do you know?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Well with the DWPS, just more cover up and more incompetence.
Let's go back to that cover, I mean the cover.
The reservoir was constructed in the nineteen sixties specifically to
provide water in case of wildfires. That was a specific
reason it was designed and built after the bell Air
Fire to avoid another bell Air fire. That reservoir was
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fine without a cover for forty years. Then in early
two thousand, they decided they needed to put a cover
on the reservoir, not to prevent evaporation. But because there
was a belief promulgated by the EPA and the DWP
is not clear whether it's the state EPA or the
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federal EPA. There was a belief that twigs, branches, organic
material falls into the reservoir, combines with the chlorine, a
small amount of chlorine that's used for decontamination, and some
byproducts that could be harmful. That's the theory. There's never
been any evidence that anyone ever got sick from drinking
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that kind of water. And the water is filtered and
treated again when it leaves the reservoir, so the whole
thing's kind of nonsensical. Anyway, it was a big boon
for the company's installing covers and back in two thousand
and three company called the Layfield gew Synthetics put the
cover on the Senian As Reservoir. And this cover is
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a floating cover. It's a plastic imagine a big float
like a pool float, but enormous that floats on top
of the cover. Now that was installed. Now, of course
that had a tear in it. Who knows it's been
so they drained the entire reservoir and it's been drained
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and empty for a year and a half, they brought
the same company back to supposedly repair it, and obviously
nobody checked or nobody checked it very carefully. So when
they started refilling the reservoir again, they saw again terrors
in the cover. Now one thing that's been reported, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
The same cover, because I originally thought they were replacing it.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Well, supposedly they repaired it. Listen, if I were in
charge of this organization, I would have walked personally every
inch of that new cover and the repair and checked
it very carefully to avoid any problems. And obviously they
didn't do that. In fact, if you go to the
DWP commission meetings, there has been absolutely no.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Discussion.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
There's been no discussion of the reservoir. In fact, this
week when the leads in the reservoir were disclosed, they
spent all their time talking about Earth Day. Uh and
we've been.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Playing that, we've been playing that clip. Yeah, it's hysterical.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
I mean, that's a priority. They have no not delivering water,
they're not doing what they're supposed to do. They're talking
about Earth Day. But let's talk about something what's really
going on here. The cover is only needed even from
an epa point of view, if the reservoirs for drinking water. Now,
it is true that the reservoir can connect to the
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drinking water system, but it's clear that it's not necessary
for drinking water because the reservoir was offline and empty
for a year and a half and there was no
shortage of drinking water in the Palisades. They had three
small tanks that are more than enough to satisfy the
drinking water need. The reservoir is only for emergencies and firewater.
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So one's a simple solution to avoid even this alleged
problem with the drinking water is close the valve, keep
the reservoir full, close the valve so it doesn't connect
to the drinking water system, and then in an emergency,
open the valve and you have all the water that
you need for fighting wildfires. But they don't do that. Instead,
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they keep pretending this is a drinking water reservoir when
it's for wildfires. Now, there's a reason for that, which
I can get into if you.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Like, Yes, I would love to hear whatever reasons you have.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
The DWP, with their attorneys, have been promulgating this essentially myth,
this story that this reservoir is for drinking water. It's
not to fight wildfires, and therefore we had to cover
it for drinking water. Oh and by the way, because
it's only for drinking water, it would not have made
any difference in the fire. Ah. So you have to
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keep pretending this is a drinking water reservoir when that's ridiculous.
This is for wildfires, and that's why the cover doesn't matter.
But you have to keep pretending it's drinking water. So
you have to pretend to fix the cover.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Well, but why do they go through the whole charade?
They went forty years of out of cover. It's not
being used for drinking water. The cover could be fixed
relatively quickly. I don't get the upside of draining the
reservoir and exposing the Palisades to this horrible danger. And
the danger actually happened and seven thousand homes got wiped out.
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Why would they go through this entire theatrical presentation.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
It's nonsense.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Well, not only could it happen, not only did it happen,
but it could happen again. We're having hot days again,
we're having windy days again, and the reservoir is still empty.
We have exactly the same conditions as on January seventh,
and I hope it doesn't happen, but it could easily happen.
Though you have another fire and again you won't have water.
Why because you're pretending it's a drinking water reservoir. I
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think it's part of their litigation strategy. If you look
at the DWP's responses in court and their legal response,
they keep saying, this is for drinking water, this is
a drinking water system, this is an urban water system.
In the water system world, urban water system is code
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for what we call drinking water or domestic water, which
is basically drinking and washing. As long as you can
pretend that your system is only for drinking water, you
can pretend that well, we satisfied our responsibility because we
delivered drinking water. But once you admit that your reservoir
is for fire and it was drained before the fire,
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then you have a legal problem.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
So all this nonsense is to try to protect the
dwp from the billions of dollars of lawsuits that they're
now dealing with. That's the reason it makes no sense,
because they needed a defense that makes no sense to
argue something in court.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
They need to keep pretending that this is not a
system designed to fight wildfires. And if you can see
every press release they've been sitting out keeps even on
the on the day after the fire, they refer to
the reservoir as a drinking water reservoir. In other words,
this is just for drinking. Now, there are the reservoir
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holds one hundred and seventy million gallons that was shut down.
That was empty. Now what was supplying water for the
Palisades for a year and a half three one million
gallon tanks. So three one million gallon tanks are sufficient
for all the drinking and domestic water use of the Palisades.
And I was proven by the fact that you had
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no reservoir for a year and a half and no
one went thirsty. But you need this reservoir to fight fires.
And that's what the DWT doesn't want to admit.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
And that's what it was built for. I mean, I
looked at the old news stories. The bail Air fire
happened in nineteen sixty one, and so by sixty four
they had built this new reservoir specifically to protect that
region in case another fire broke out. Do you do
you have more stuff because I got to take break
for news. Did we cover everything you wanted to? Or
I can we can go further?
Speaker 3 (09:57):
No, I think that's it. I appreciate the opportunity, and
we have more information, I'll certainly share it with Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
You just yeah, keep it, keep us connected. We'll talk
again soon. That's Sayid Kashani, an attorney in the Palisades,
And it's just one layer of nonsense on top of
another layer. Okay, I think I understand things now the
way you explained it. We'll talk some more when we
come back.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
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six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
All right, I think I'm beginning to understand what's going
on here. God, there's so many layers of lying and
deception going on with the DWP in La County and
La City government regarding this fire and make your head spin.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
I wonder how I wonder.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
What these guys talk about behind closed doors, because they
have to keep track of the plot. They have to
keep track of the cover up the lies that they're telling. Right,
everybody's got to be in on it. Unfortunately, all we
get are bumper sticker press releases where they're knowingly lying
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to us. There's they know nobody in the media is
going to hold them accountable. Other than this Joe, no
one else is even going to talk about it. We
just talked to Sayaed Kashani. He's an attorney whose house
was burned out in the Palisades and he's been fighting
the LADWP board, which by the way, is a complete
and utter joke all by himself, because there's been zero
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discussion of the reservoir being empty, or why the power
lines were energized and may have started a good deal
of the fire. There may have been two admission points
for the fire, one in the morning and the other
in the evening. Instead, here's what they do at the DWP.
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This is the chief idiot, Genie keinonez Well.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
I'd like to start by highlighting the commons that Commissioner
Kat says and wishing everybody a happy Earth. They have
as of April ten and you exhibit in the lobby
at the museum space call sustainability at lee WP a
greener Tomorrow. This new multi panels of it was created
a celebration of Earth.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Month, Earth Day, Earth Month. It's all nonsense. Earth Day,
Earth Month. Earth Day started during the hippie era. It's
just silly performative theater, that's all. None of these people
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have any impact on the environment or the atmosphere or
any of that except when they mismanage or water and
power supply to the point that they burn the palisades
down to the ground. That's the effect they have. They
have no positive effect on the environment. They only have
a destructive effect. And there's two reasons for it. They
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have a part of the fire they started when the
DWPS fire poles collapsed, brought the lines down, ignited vegetation.
That was the evening fire. The morning fire they don't
want to admit to yet. That's why the federal government's
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doing a controlled burned tonight to like recreate fire conditions
in case you see fire and smoke coming out of
the palis ades, that's the federal government doing an experiment.
The ATF God knows what's going to happen. But the
DWP had the reservoir empty, and they had the power
lines energized for the first time in years, and the
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power lines were not turned off once the morning fire
started twelve hours in these these these fire poles collapsed
power lines right power poles collapsed and brought the the
wires down to the ground, ignited the vegetation, and then
the fire was really off and running on that side
of town. And so the DWPA has to lie about
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all this. And as far as the reservoir is concerned,
they're claiming it was a drinking water reservoir, it was not.
They don't need a drinking water reservoir. They don't use
it as a drinking water reservoir. They used it was
built for fire purposes because of the nineteen sixty one
bel air fire. Absolutely was built for that. But now
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I get it publicly when they're not ignoring the issue entirely.
If it's forced to be discussed, they have to, and
they put the some of up press releases. And these
are all the lying, stinking lawyers that we're paying for.
We're paying for all this, but they're lying. There are
a bunch of incompetent boobs. That reservoir existed for forty
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years without a cover until a government agency suggested they
should have one, and then they built one and then
it ended up torn and the company drained the reservoir,
never fixed the cover, and now they supposedly fixed it
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but I got torn again. I mean, everybody does their
job badly. Even the private sector companies that contract with
the DWP, they do their jobs badly. It's like that
Haggarty consulting firm that Karen Bass hired to try to
help the allegedly help the residents rebuild, that meeting that
they had a couple of weeks ago. The whole Palisades residence,
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all the Palisades residents were an open revolt. Not easy
to do on a zoom meeting because Haggarty, the dope
that came as the representative, had no answers for anybody,
and the DWP has no answers, and this other company
with the pool cover has no answers, and everybody's getting
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sued and they're all, they're all, I don't know what
they're afraid of. They're not going to be held liable.
All the money is going to come from the rate
payers or the taxpayers. Now you got you got two
federal judges who lost their homes in the Palisades.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
They're suing.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
And I'm telling you, if you have two federal judges,
they probably use their legal superior legal analysis. They're rigorous
minds to realize Wow, this is entirely a government fire.
The whole disaster is government engineered and they probably looked
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at the case the way they would if the case
came before their court. But they're involved because they lost
their homes.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
But they applied. You know, they're decades worth.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Of experience saying yeah, yeah, we'll sue the government here.
We got screwed too. We lost our homes because it
is their fault. This is a government engineered fire, and
that's why everybody has shut down. Where are all the investigations?
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You notice four months nothing useful.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
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Speaker 1 (17:19):
Forty 'ron every day from one until four. You're just
joining us. Shame, shame, I missed a lot of good stuff.
I'd listen to the iHeart Radio app for the podcast
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Speaker 2 (17:33):
You really should.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
We're doing this story tomorrow, but I've got to give
you a preview now. Carmel Tomorrow is gonna come on tomorrow.
The Republican Assembly who hosted the show most of last week,
he's gonna come on. You're not going to believe this,
But the sexual perverts among the Democrats in the Assembly
have blocked a proposal. Got this, They've blocked a proposal
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that would make buying a sixteen or seventeen year old
for sex an automatic felony. Buying or selling selling a
sixteen or seventeen year old automatic felony.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Even Newsom is appalled.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Newsom has to try to figure out how to run
for president when he has a bunch of what are
they pedophiles in the Assembly?
Speaker 2 (18:28):
The Democrats?
Speaker 1 (18:29):
I'm asking this progressive crowd, are you guys pedophiles? Are
you buying sixteen and seventeen year old to yourself for sex?
I would have thought it's already a felony right underage girls?
Boys you buy it. It's a felony that I didn't
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know that you could do that, and it's not an
automatic Wow, absolutely unbelievable. Newsom is waving his hands, screaming,
what are you doing to me? How's this guy going
to tour the country while his party, the people in
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the Assembly are busy passing a law blocking blocking a
proposal that makes it an automatic felony to buy a
sixteen or seventeen year old for sex. You're buying them
you're giving money to the human traffickers and the pimps
who sell young boys and girls for sexual pleasure.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Good lord, it's what these guys are into.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
I'm guessing some of these progressives are into this, and
they don't want their gravy train up ended. Right after
spending a hard day releasing criminals and blowing our tax money,
they want to let off a little steam with a
sixteen year old girl or boy. It must be what
they do. Why would they be so passionate to block
this proposal, Why would they'd be afraid of making it
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an automatic felony. They must be engaging in this sort
of thing. I don't know what the other I don't
know what the other conclusion could possibly be. Listen to
this story also courtesy of state government. And this is
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another plea to Newsom. In San Luis Obispo in the county,
they have a DA named Dan Dowe and he has
just sent Gavin Newsom a letter begging Newsom to reverse
a decision by the Board of Parole to release a
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guy named Ali Brown. Ali Brown was convicted of killing
his baby daughter. He murdered his own daughter, Lily Brown,
when Lily was only twenty two months old and still
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in diapers. Oh my god, is this another one of these? Okay,
this guy is a transgender. He was born Herbert Brown,
and he transitioned and became Ali Brown. This is like
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that guy Tubbs that we talked about a few years ago.
So Herbert Brown became Ali Brown. I've been staring at
the story all afternoon and I couldn't figure out why.
I couldn't understand it. Now I finally got it. Herbert
Brown is Ali Brown. He was a guy. Now he
claims he's a woman. When he was a guy, he
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shook his He shook his baby daughter to death. Please
showed up and Lily was unresponsive. Baby had bruises on
her legs and head, and Brown said, well, the baby
was playing and the dog pulled on a leash and
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had slammed Lily into a door jam blamed it on
the dog. So baby Lily was in critical condition. And
the doctor there sound numerous bruises which he said, we're
two to three days old, fractured skull, hammha, drink in
her brain. Apparently the dog was constantly pulling her into
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the doorknob. Doctor said the baby was violently shaken her
head was slammed against something hard at least once, and
eventually she was pronounced dead. So this Herbert Brown allegedly transitioned,
is Ali Brown probably pulling a scam.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
And this happened in twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
He got fifteen to life and he's being let out now,
the California Board of Parole is letting him out. Now,
how comey he didn't get a life sentence. How come
he didn't get a death penalty? Oh my god. It
we run by dangerous, crazy, sick, disgusting perverts.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
So the DA dan dall ray, we should get this guy,
get this da on. So he sent news some a
letter saying you got to reverse this decision. Dave was
released as a press release. It is shameful for the
Parole Board to grant Herbert David Brown the third Yeah,
let's call him by his real name. He was under
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the influence of amphetamines, meth amphetamine, and he didn't even
serve the minimum fifteen years. The way this crap is
going on all the time, it's just occasionally somebody in
the media. I guess it's from the California Globe.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
God forbid. This makes the La Times you know, and
we had Rex Paris on last hour.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
He's the mayor of Lancaster and he made the news
last week because he said, you know, we should just
be handing out free Fentinel to all the homeless people
because the ones who are drug addicts and they don't
want help, just you know, let him have all the
Fentanel they want. And he's right, he's absolutely right. But
what he pointed out and is often forgotten, is the
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homelessness exploded exactly after Jerry Brown dumped tens of thousands
of prisoners out of prison. And it makes perfect sense
because these guys were dumped out, they were not rehabilitated.
Nobody even tries to rehabilitate these people. They didn't serve
their time. As you can see here. You kill your
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baby daughter, geez, did he transition? Did we pay for that?
I wanted to did we pay for that? Because if
we did, that's exactly what Kamala Harris is, That's what
sunker presidential campaign, because she was in favor of paying
for what this guy probably wants if he hasn't had
it already, and that's a that's a sexual.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Transition operation. But anyway, going back to Rex Paris.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
He said, yeah, they released all the prisoners, Like, yeah,
that's right. I always forget the timing on that. What's
been littering the streets. The reason that they're they're they're
so crime prone, their drug addicts is they were dumped
into the streets. Obviously weren't going to get hired anywhere,
so all they could do is get hooked on drugs
to while away their time, which means they'd have to
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start stealing to finance the drugs, and they certainly know
how to do that. They just got out of state,
so they know how to hurt people and they know
how to steal. And that's what was unleashed on us.
And this started in twenty eleven with Jerry Brown. This
is all connected. This is all an ongoing fourteen year
story in case you wonder why the world suddenly went
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berserk in California, and it seemed to intensify a year
after year. They kept dumping out prisoners who kept ending
up on the street, who started doing more and more drugs,
who had to steal to finance their their drug habits.
I mean, if they're letting out a baby murderer, a
guy who killed his own daughter.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Imagine what they've let.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Out board of Parole. Those are evil people. Those are
really evil, horrible people. And what's newse I'm going to do?
And I knew some's got to try to convince the
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legislature to pass proposal to make buying a sixteen and
seventeen year old for sex a felony. The Democrats don't
want to do it. They're blocking it. We have some
really defective, diseased perverts and psychopaths in the Assembly, in
the state Senate.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Wow, it's sickening, just amazing. We're coming up.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
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Speaker 1 (27:31):
Moistline for Friday is eight seven seven mois staty six
eight seven seven Moist steady six, usually talkback feature on
the iHeartRadio app. Ah Today's deportation news. Trump administration has
revoked four thousand visas foreign students, most of them, more
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than ninety percent of them, committed crimes. And we're not
talking about traffic violations. We're talking arson, assault, robbery, human trafficking,
child endangerment, domestic abuse, DUI.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
More than ninety.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Percent of the students who had their visas canceled, had
committed these crimes arson, human trafficing, wildlife trafficking. The hell
is that more than five hundred had assault charges. So
they came to this country and they started committing felonies.
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Four thousand. State Department worked with Homeland Security. They went
into the databases, They looked at law enforcement records. They
only looked at serious cases. They were not, they say,
grabbing people who were charged with littering or somebody who
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had charges dropped. The serious charges, often felony charges that
were real. Thousands of students, most of them from Asia
and the Middle East. Some had already deported themselves because
they knew what was coming, and the rest of them
are going to be rounded up. They said they're gonna
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have a zero tolerance policy. No one's entitled to a
student visa, said Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
If you come to the country as a.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Student, we expect you to go to class and study
and get a degree. If you come here to vandalize
a library, take over a campus, and do all kinds
of crazy things, We're going to get rid of these
people four thousand. Who goes to a foreign country on
a visa and you start committing felonies?
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Who does that? And then we're the bad guys? Right
all right?
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Conway's up next. Michael Kruzer has the news live in
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We have spent a fair amount of time today on
the Palisades again because tonight the government is setting the
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Palisades on fire again. I'm not making that up right,
that's what they're doing Tonight. The US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
Firearms and Explosives, also known as the ATF, are going
to start a controlled burn. It's going to run until Thursday.
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They're trying to determine the exact point of origin and
how it during the windstorm. It raced from the hills
to the ocean. Well, it raced from the hills to
the ocean because of the windstorm. That part, I think
we know. Talk about that coming up also the sant
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Andez Reservoir. We're getting said at Kashani On he's the
attorney who got burned out of his Palisades home. He's
gone actually gone to the DWP meetings and has witnessed
in horror the insanity nobody has been held responsible for
anything yet, and now the the reservoirs being drained again.
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It was it was filled up twenty five percent because
they'd installed the new cover or fixed the old cover.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
It's confusing reading these news stories.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
In any event, the new cover has tears and holes
in it, so they've got to fix it again and
they've got to drain the water again. Let's talk to
Sayid Kashani, see what he knows.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
How are you hello, sir? It's good to be back.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Uh yeah, I know. It's not always good news though.
When you come back usually there's not a there's not
happy news that you bring us.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
What's going on? What do you know?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Well with the DWPS, just more cover up and more incompetence.
Let's go back to that cover, I mean the cover.
The reservoir was constructed in the nineteen sixties specifically to
provide water in case of wildfires. That was a specific
reason it was designed and built after the bell Air
Fire to avoid another bell Air fire. That reservoir was
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fine without a cover for forty years. Then in early
two thousand, they decided they needed to put a cover
on the reservoir, not to prevent evaporation. But because there
was a belief promulgated by the EPA and the DWP
is not clear whether it's the state EPA or the
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federal EPA. There was a belief that twigs, branches, organic
material falls into the reservoir, combines with the chlorine, a
small amount of chlorine that's used for decontamination, and some
byproducts that could be harmful. That's the theory. There's never
been any evidence that anyone ever got sick from drinking
(03:09):
that kind of water. And the water is filtered and
treated again when it leaves the reservoir, so the whole
thing's kind of nonsensical. Anyway, it was a big boon
for the company's installing covers and back in two thousand
and three company called the Layfield gew Synthetics put the
cover on the Senian As Reservoir. And this cover is
(03:32):
a floating cover. It's a plastic imagine a big float
like a pool float, but enormous that floats on top
of the cover. Now that was installed. Now, of course
that had a tear in it. Who knows it's been
so they drained the entire reservoir and it's been drained
(03:52):
and empty for a year and a half, they brought
the same company back to supposedly repair it, and obviously
nobody checked or nobody checked it very carefully. So when
they started refilling the reservoir again, they saw again terrors
in the cover. Now one thing that's been reported, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
The same cover, because I originally thought they were replacing it.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Well, supposedly they repaired it. Listen, if I were in
charge of this organization, I would have walked personally every
inch of that new cover and the repair and checked
it very carefully to avoid any problems. And obviously they
didn't do that. In fact, if you go to the
DWP commission meetings, there has been absolutely no.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Discussion.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
There's been no discussion of the reservoir. In fact, this
week when the leads in the reservoir were disclosed, they
spent all their time talking about Earth Day. Uh and
we've been.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Playing that, we've been playing that clip. Yeah, it's hysterical.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
I mean, that's a priority. They have no not delivering water,
they're not doing what they're supposed to do. They're talking
about Earth Day. But let's talk about something what's really
going on here. The cover is only needed even from
an epa point of view, if the reservoirs for drinking water. Now,
it is true that the reservoir can connect to the
(05:18):
drinking water system, but it's clear that it's not necessary
for drinking water because the reservoir was offline and empty
for a year and a half and there was no
shortage of drinking water in the Palisades. They had three
small tanks that are more than enough to satisfy the
drinking water need. The reservoir is only for emergencies and firewater.
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So one's a simple solution to avoid even this alleged
problem with the drinking water is close the valve, keep
the reservoir full, close the valve so it doesn't connect
to the drinking water system, and then in an emergency,
open the valve and you have all the water that
you need for fighting wildfires. But they don't do that. Instead,
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they keep pretending this is a drinking water reservoir when
it's for wildfires. Now, there's a reason for that, which
I can get into if you.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Like, Yes, I would love to hear whatever reasons you have.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
The DWP, with their attorneys, have been promulgating this essentially myth,
this story that this reservoir is for drinking water. It's
not to fight wildfires, and therefore we had to cover
it for drinking water. Oh and by the way, because
it's only for drinking water, it would not have made
any difference in the fire. Ah. So you have to
(06:37):
keep pretending this is a drinking water reservoir when that's ridiculous.
This is for wildfires, and that's why the cover doesn't matter.
But you have to keep pretending it's drinking water. So
you have to pretend to fix the cover.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Well, but why do they go through the whole charade?
They went forty years of out of cover. It's not
being used for drinking water. The cover could be fixed
relatively quickly. I don't get the upside of draining the
reservoir and exposing the Palisades to this horrible danger. And
the danger actually happened and seven thousand homes got wiped out.
(07:15):
Why would they go through this entire theatrical presentation.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
It's nonsense.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Well, not only could it happen, not only did it happen,
but it could happen again. We're having hot days again,
we're having windy days again, and the reservoir is still empty.
We have exactly the same conditions as on January seventh,
and I hope it doesn't happen, but it could easily happen.
Though you have another fire and again you won't have water.
Why because you're pretending it's a drinking water reservoir. I
(07:44):
think it's part of their litigation strategy. If you look
at the DWP's responses in court and their legal response,
they keep saying, this is for drinking water, this is
a drinking water system, this is an urban water system.
In the water system world, urban water system is code
(08:04):
for what we call drinking water or domestic water, which
is basically drinking and washing. As long as you can
pretend that your system is only for drinking water, you
can pretend that well, we satisfied our responsibility because we
delivered drinking water. But once you admit that your reservoir
is for fire and it was drained before the fire,
(08:25):
then you have a legal problem.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
So all this nonsense is to try to protect the
dwp from the billions of dollars of lawsuits that they're
now dealing with. That's the reason it makes no sense,
because they needed a defense that makes no sense to
argue something in court.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
They need to keep pretending that this is not a
system designed to fight wildfires. And if you can see
every press release they've been sitting out keeps even on
the on the day after the fire, they refer to
the reservoir as a drinking water reservoir. In other words,
this is just for drinking. Now, there are the reservoir
(09:05):
holds one hundred and seventy million gallons that was shut down.
That was empty. Now what was supplying water for the
Palisades for a year and a half three one million
gallon tanks. So three one million gallon tanks are sufficient
for all the drinking and domestic water use of the Palisades.
And I was proven by the fact that you had
(09:27):
no reservoir for a year and a half and no
one went thirsty. But you need this reservoir to fight fires.
And that's what the DWT doesn't want to admit.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
And that's what it was built for. I mean, I
looked at the old news stories. The bail Air fire
happened in nineteen sixty one, and so by sixty four
they had built this new reservoir specifically to protect that
region in case another fire broke out. Do you do
you have more stuff because I got to take break
for news. Did we cover everything you wanted to? Or
I can we can go further?
Speaker 3 (09:57):
No, I think that's it. I appreciate the opportunity, and
we have more information, I'll certainly share it with Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
You just yeah, keep it, keep us connected. We'll talk
again soon. That's Sayid Kashani, an attorney in the Palisades,
And it's just one layer of nonsense on top of
another layer. Okay, I think I understand things now the
way you explained it. We'll talk some more when we
come back.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
All right, I think I'm beginning to understand what's going
on here. God, there's so many layers of lying and
deception going on with the DWP in La County and
La City government regarding this fire and make your head spin.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
I wonder how I wonder.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
What these guys talk about behind closed doors, because they
have to keep track of the plot. They have to
keep track of the cover up the lies that they're telling. Right,
everybody's got to be in on it. Unfortunately, all we
get are bumper sticker press releases where they're knowingly lying
(11:01):
to us. There's they know nobody in the media is
going to hold them accountable. Other than this Joe, no
one else is even going to talk about it. We
just talked to Sayaed Kashani. He's an attorney whose house
was burned out in the Palisades and he's been fighting
the LADWP board, which by the way, is a complete
and utter joke all by himself, because there's been zero
(11:25):
discussion of the reservoir being empty, or why the power
lines were energized and may have started a good deal
of the fire. There may have been two admission points
for the fire, one in the morning and the other
in the evening. Instead, here's what they do at the DWP.
(11:47):
This is the chief idiot, Genie keinonez Well.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
I'd like to start by highlighting the commons that Commissioner
Kat says and wishing everybody a happy Earth. They have
as of April ten and you exhibit in the lobby
at the museum space call sustainability at lee WP a
greener Tomorrow. This new multi panels of it was created
a celebration of Earth.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Month, Earth Day, Earth Month. It's all nonsense. Earth Day,
Earth Month. Earth Day started during the hippie era. It's
just silly performative theater, that's all. None of these people
(12:34):
have any impact on the environment or the atmosphere or
any of that except when they mismanage or water and
power supply to the point that they burn the palisades
down to the ground. That's the effect they have. They
have no positive effect on the environment. They only have
a destructive effect. And there's two reasons for it. They
(12:58):
have a part of the fire they started when the
DWPS fire poles collapsed, brought the lines down, ignited vegetation.
That was the evening fire. The morning fire they don't
want to admit to yet. That's why the federal government's
(13:18):
doing a controlled burned tonight to like recreate fire conditions
in case you see fire and smoke coming out of
the palis ades, that's the federal government doing an experiment.
The ATF God knows what's going to happen. But the
DWP had the reservoir empty, and they had the power
lines energized for the first time in years, and the
(13:40):
power lines were not turned off once the morning fire
started twelve hours in these these these fire poles collapsed
power lines right power poles collapsed and brought the the
wires down to the ground, ignited the vegetation, and then
the fire was really off and running on that side
of town. And so the DWPA has to lie about
(14:03):
all this. And as far as the reservoir is concerned,
they're claiming it was a drinking water reservoir, it was not.
They don't need a drinking water reservoir. They don't use
it as a drinking water reservoir. They used it was
built for fire purposes because of the nineteen sixty one
bel air fire. Absolutely was built for that. But now
(14:26):
I get it publicly when they're not ignoring the issue entirely.
If it's forced to be discussed, they have to, and
they put the some of up press releases. And these
are all the lying, stinking lawyers that we're paying for.
We're paying for all this, but they're lying. There are
a bunch of incompetent boobs. That reservoir existed for forty
(14:50):
years without a cover until a government agency suggested they
should have one, and then they built one and then
it ended up torn and the company drained the reservoir,
never fixed the cover, and now they supposedly fixed it
(15:14):
but I got torn again. I mean, everybody does their
job badly. Even the private sector companies that contract with
the DWP, they do their jobs badly. It's like that
Haggarty consulting firm that Karen Bass hired to try to
help the allegedly help the residents rebuild, that meeting that
they had a couple of weeks ago. The whole Palisades residence,
(15:37):
all the Palisades residents were an open revolt. Not easy
to do on a zoom meeting because Haggarty, the dope
that came as the representative, had no answers for anybody,
and the DWP has no answers, and this other company
with the pool cover has no answers, and everybody's getting
(15:58):
sued and they're all, they're all, I don't know what
they're afraid of. They're not going to be held liable.
All the money is going to come from the rate
payers or the taxpayers. Now you got you got two
federal judges who lost their homes in the Palisades.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
They're suing.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
And I'm telling you, if you have two federal judges,
they probably use their legal superior legal analysis. They're rigorous
minds to realize Wow, this is entirely a government fire.
The whole disaster is government engineered and they probably looked
(16:38):
at the case the way they would if the case
came before their court. But they're involved because they lost
their homes.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
But they applied. You know, they're decades worth.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Of experience saying yeah, yeah, we'll sue the government here.
We got screwed too. We lost our homes because it
is their fault. This is a government engineered fire, and
that's why everybody has shut down. Where are all the investigations?
(17:10):
You notice four months nothing useful.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI, a six.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Forty 'ron every day from one until four. You're just
joining us. Shame, shame, I missed a lot of good stuff.
I'd listen to the iHeart Radio app for the podcast
after four o'clock John Cobelt's show on demand.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
You really should.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
We're doing this story tomorrow, but I've got to give
you a preview now. Carmel Tomorrow is gonna come on tomorrow.
The Republican Assembly who hosted the show most of last week,
he's gonna come on. You're not going to believe this,
But the sexual perverts among the Democrats in the Assembly
have blocked a proposal. Got this, They've blocked a proposal
(18:02):
that would make buying a sixteen or seventeen year old
for sex an automatic felony. Buying or selling selling a
sixteen or seventeen year old automatic felony.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Even Newsom is appalled.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Newsom has to try to figure out how to run
for president when he has a bunch of what are
they pedophiles in the Assembly?
Speaker 2 (18:28):
The Democrats?
Speaker 1 (18:29):
I'm asking this progressive crowd, are you guys pedophiles? Are
you buying sixteen and seventeen year old to yourself for sex?
I would have thought it's already a felony right underage girls?
Boys you buy it. It's a felony that I didn't
(18:52):
know that you could do that, and it's not an
automatic Wow, absolutely unbelievable. Newsom is waving his hands, screaming,
what are you doing to me? How's this guy going
to tour the country while his party, the people in
(19:16):
the Assembly are busy passing a law blocking blocking a
proposal that makes it an automatic felony to buy a
sixteen or seventeen year old for sex. You're buying them
you're giving money to the human traffickers and the pimps
who sell young boys and girls for sexual pleasure.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Good lord, it's what these guys are into.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
I'm guessing some of these progressives are into this, and
they don't want their gravy train up ended. Right after
spending a hard day releasing criminals and blowing our tax money,
they want to let off a little steam with a
sixteen year old girl or boy. It must be what
they do. Why would they be so passionate to block
this proposal, Why would they'd be afraid of making it
(20:02):
an automatic felony. They must be engaging in this sort
of thing. I don't know what the other I don't
know what the other conclusion could possibly be. Listen to
this story also courtesy of state government. And this is
(20:25):
another plea to Newsom. In San Luis Obispo in the county,
they have a DA named Dan Dowe and he has
just sent Gavin Newsom a letter begging Newsom to reverse
a decision by the Board of Parole to release a
(20:46):
guy named Ali Brown. Ali Brown was convicted of killing
his baby daughter. He murdered his own daughter, Lily Brown,
when Lily was only twenty two months old and still
(21:06):
in diapers. Oh my god, is this another one of these? Okay,
this guy is a transgender. He was born Herbert Brown,
and he transitioned and became Ali Brown. This is like
(21:29):
that guy Tubbs that we talked about a few years ago.
So Herbert Brown became Ali Brown. I've been staring at
the story all afternoon and I couldn't figure out why.
I couldn't understand it. Now I finally got it. Herbert
Brown is Ali Brown. He was a guy. Now he
claims he's a woman. When he was a guy, he
(21:51):
shook his He shook his baby daughter to death. Please
showed up and Lily was unresponsive. Baby had bruises on
her legs and head, and Brown said, well, the baby
was playing and the dog pulled on a leash and
(22:14):
had slammed Lily into a door jam blamed it on
the dog. So baby Lily was in critical condition. And
the doctor there sound numerous bruises which he said, we're
two to three days old, fractured skull, hammha, drink in
her brain. Apparently the dog was constantly pulling her into
(22:34):
the doorknob. Doctor said the baby was violently shaken her
head was slammed against something hard at least once, and
eventually she was pronounced dead. So this Herbert Brown allegedly transitioned,
is Ali Brown probably pulling a scam.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
And this happened in twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
He got fifteen to life and he's being let out now,
the California Board of Parole is letting him out. Now,
how comey he didn't get a life sentence. How come
he didn't get a death penalty? Oh my god. It
we run by dangerous, crazy, sick, disgusting perverts.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
So the DA dan dall ray, we should get this guy,
get this da on. So he sent news some a
letter saying you got to reverse this decision. Dave was
released as a press release. It is shameful for the
Parole Board to grant Herbert David Brown the third Yeah,
let's call him by his real name. He was under
(23:44):
the influence of amphetamines, meth amphetamine, and he didn't even
serve the minimum fifteen years. The way this crap is
going on all the time, it's just occasionally somebody in
the media. I guess it's from the California Globe.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
God forbid. This makes the La Times you know, and
we had Rex Paris on last hour.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
He's the mayor of Lancaster and he made the news
last week because he said, you know, we should just
be handing out free Fentinel to all the homeless people
because the ones who are drug addicts and they don't
want help, just you know, let him have all the
Fentanel they want. And he's right, he's absolutely right. But
what he pointed out and is often forgotten, is the
(24:41):
homelessness exploded exactly after Jerry Brown dumped tens of thousands
of prisoners out of prison. And it makes perfect sense
because these guys were dumped out, they were not rehabilitated.
Nobody even tries to rehabilitate these people. They didn't serve
their time. As you can see here. You kill your
(25:05):
baby daughter, geez, did he transition? Did we pay for that?
I wanted to did we pay for that? Because if
we did, that's exactly what Kamala Harris is, That's what
sunker presidential campaign, because she was in favor of paying
for what this guy probably wants if he hasn't had
it already, and that's a that's a sexual.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Transition operation. But anyway, going back to Rex Paris.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
He said, yeah, they released all the prisoners, Like, yeah,
that's right. I always forget the timing on that. What's
been littering the streets. The reason that they're they're they're
so crime prone, their drug addicts is they were dumped
into the streets. Obviously weren't going to get hired anywhere,
so all they could do is get hooked on drugs
to while away their time, which means they'd have to
(25:55):
start stealing to finance the drugs, and they certainly know
how to do that. They just got out of state,
so they know how to hurt people and they know
how to steal. And that's what was unleashed on us.
And this started in twenty eleven with Jerry Brown. This
is all connected. This is all an ongoing fourteen year
story in case you wonder why the world suddenly went
(26:16):
berserk in California, and it seemed to intensify a year
after year. They kept dumping out prisoners who kept ending
up on the street, who started doing more and more drugs,
who had to steal to finance their their drug habits.
I mean, if they're letting out a baby murderer, a
guy who killed his own daughter.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Imagine what they've let.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Out board of Parole. Those are evil people. Those are
really evil, horrible people. And what's newse I'm going to do?
And I knew some's got to try to convince the
(26:58):
legislature to pass proposal to make buying a sixteen and
seventeen year old for sex a felony. The Democrats don't
want to do it. They're blocking it. We have some
really defective, diseased perverts and psychopaths in the Assembly, in
the state Senate.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Wow, it's sickening, just amazing. We're coming up.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Moistline for Friday is eight seven seven mois staty six
eight seven seven Moist steady six, usually talkback feature on
the iHeartRadio app. Ah Today's deportation news. Trump administration has
revoked four thousand visas foreign students, most of them, more
(27:54):
than ninety percent of them, committed crimes. And we're not
talking about traffic violations. We're talking arson, assault, robbery, human trafficking,
child endangerment, domestic abuse, DUI.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
More than ninety.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Percent of the students who had their visas canceled, had
committed these crimes arson, human trafficing, wildlife trafficking. The hell
is that more than five hundred had assault charges. So
they came to this country and they started committing felonies.
(28:35):
Four thousand. State Department worked with Homeland Security. They went
into the databases, They looked at law enforcement records. They
only looked at serious cases. They were not, they say,
grabbing people who were charged with littering or somebody who
(28:56):
had charges dropped. The serious charges, often felony charges that
were real. Thousands of students, most of them from Asia
and the Middle East. Some had already deported themselves because
they knew what was coming, and the rest of them
are going to be rounded up. They said they're gonna
(29:22):
have a zero tolerance policy. No one's entitled to a
student visa, said Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
If you come to the country as a.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Student, we expect you to go to class and study
and get a degree. If you come here to vandalize
a library, take over a campus, and do all kinds
of crazy things, We're going to get rid of these
people four thousand. Who goes to a foreign country on
a visa and you start committing felonies?
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Who does that? And then we're the bad guys? Right
all right?
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Conway's up next. Michael Kruzer has the news live in
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