May 16, 2025 • 38 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (05/16) - CA State Assemblyman Carl DeMaio comes on the show to talk about the CA Assembly approving a new felony proposal for those who buy 16- and 17-year-olds for sex as well as exposing another lie Gavin Newsom told. Sex offenders account for more than 20% of the street homeless in 20 states across the country. Pacific Palisades Fire recovery update. Laura Ingle from NewsNation comes on the show to give an update on the Diddy trial in New York.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
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talking about all the big news of the week. And
again that's on Facebook and YouTube. Now we're going to
get to carl Demyo the Republican Assemblyment from San Diego,
and he ferreted out another big Gavin Newsom Lie Carlos.
(00:49):
Two things I want to talk to you about. I
want to talk about the reversal by the Pervert Caucus
on making sex with teenagers a felony again. But first
this Gavin Newsome. Why he made headlines this week because
he claimed that he was going to be cutting spending
on illegal alien healthcare, and you have found proof that
(01:13):
the opposite will happen.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Yeah, let me just say, whenever Gavin Newsom's mouth is moving,
just know that you're being lied to. Whether he's blaming
oil companies for the high gas prices when in fact
he did it, or he's somehow trying to blame utility
companies for high utility rates when again he did it,
or Trump Trump the Trump slump is to blame for
(01:36):
his budget deficit. That's what he said this week.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I saw that on TV and I actually broke up
laughing when I saw the graphic.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
It's his reckless spending because remember, the tariffs have not
even kicked into effect yet, and Florida has a massive surplus.
And I'm sorry, but I think they're subjected to the
same sort of international trade issues as we are. But
here's the deal. The deficit is twelve billion dollars, right,
that's what he admits. The state budget deficit is twelve
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billion dollars. Well, guess what we are spending twelve point
one billion dollars. I'm getting free healthcare to illegal immigrants
and that is in his budget proposals. He stood up
there at the podium and said, you know, we have
a budget deficit of twelve billion so we're going to
have to cut the illegal immigrant coverage on healthcare. And
(02:27):
that was difficult, but I've got to do it, you know,
I got to put priorities of citizens first. Well, guess
what the guy lied through his teeth. He spent nine
point five billion this year. He's actually increasing to twelve
point one billion. The amount of money that he's spending
on illegal immigrant health care. What he says is a
cut is actually an absolute increase. And no one in
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the media actually challenged him, and they went forward with
all of these headlines saying news Civil pauses to spend
health care for legal immigrants lie. The media absolutely fell
for it. And it's time that the voters know the
truth and.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
They the office. Newsom's office released numbers that match what
you've been saying, right, I mean, they basically confirmed your
story here.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
That's right. I went through the budget with the fine
two comb and the numbers were very clearly hidden in
plain sight, as I like to say, and I said, no,
he's a liar. He's not cutting this benefit. It's actually
increasing in terms of the financial outlays. And so the
Department of Finance late yesterday had to admit YEP, it's
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true the budget is spending more money on this, And
so I cautioned the media, this guy has lied to
you for six years. Why do you think you are
going to get into a single sintilla of truth out
of him? He always wants to blame everyone else for
the failures that he has caused.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
I don't understand why the media reporters aren't as upset
with what California has become as everyone else is. I
don't understand why they're not reporting on behalf of their
listeners and viewers and readers, Like, what's in it for
them to keep polishing his image?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Well, I think partly they're culpable in the scam. Remember
they're liberal and lazy, and they've allowed this to happen
or encouraged it to happen, and they can't admit that
what they did was wrong. Look how they're having so
much trouble right now trying to reconcile all the stuff
they did for Joe Biden to cover up his nonsense,
his incapacity in capabilities. And now they're, of course they're
(04:40):
tiptoeing around saying, oh, we never knew Davin k News
Some they're not there yet they're not there at the
point where they're trying to blame someone else for the
fact that the La Times, the Sacramento b the San
Francisco Chronicle, all of them, NBCLA, all of them are
absolutely negligent darrel of duty. And it's why media has
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an all time low rating.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I mean, no, I don't think any other state has
given out illegal alien healthcare for free, no guaranteed birth
to death this.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
No one else is doing this. And on the second topic,
no one else, no other state in the nation allows
minors sixteen or seventeen years old to be purchased for
sex and not consider it to be a felony.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Prime So, a couple of weeks ago, the first vote
fifty five, which you forced, fifty five Democrats voted against
making buying teenagers for sex a felony seen.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Two weeks ago. That was two weeks ago yesterday, and
they weren't expecting us to force the vote, and so
they voted basically their way. They actually believe. They're like, oh,
we got to vote against this, and within moments of
that vote being done, you put it up on the internet.
We started a campaign to educate voters. Came on your show.
(06:01):
Literally moments after the deal, the Dirney deed was done,
and we started lighting a fire with the people. And
let me tell you, if we had this massive public outrage,
the backlash was so off the chart. And I know
you encouraged your listeners to go to Assembly Member Nick
(06:22):
Schultz town hall the next day, and boy, you got
a lot of people in that room fired up and angry,
and they gave them, gave him a piece of their mind. Well,
fast forward to the following Tuesday. They tried running, you know,
just looting this leading ads blaming us.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
For the bill not passing. The Speaker's office reached out
and said, what will it take?
Speaker 3 (06:45):
And now my response was nothing but a full capitulation
and surrender.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
What wait wait wait wait so this is this is
Robert Reeves's office, he's the speaker.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Yeah, and it was totally committed to blocking this.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
What will it take to get you guys to back down?
And I said, only one capitulation is what we will
accept because these girls and boys, these sixteen and seventeen
year old minors, deserve to be protected. Both stop. This
is not a political game. It's not about saving faith.
You get your blank on that floor you get your
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blank on that floor and you reverse the vote that
you just took and make dis a felony.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
And that's exactly what they did yesterday. And they sat
there trying to take credits, and honestly, you know whatever,
you know, the only credit.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
That she did give it out, she gave to the
people of California, who rightfully held the piece of the
fire of these politicians.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Just the way that's phrased. What what can we do
to make it stop? It's obvious you may you may
find sixteen year olds for sex a felon. There's no
middle ground on that. It's either a serious crime or
it's not. There's no hass on that.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Yeah. So now the hot potato goes to the Senate,
the California State Senate, And so I hit a press
conference after the vote, and I made it quite clear.
I said, you put the state senators on notice. Don't
you dare try to water down a single word, a
single comma in this piece of legislation, because if you do,
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we're coming for you, and you're going to get the
same treatment that the Assembly members had to suffer for
the period of time that they were holding out. And
I'm telling you right now is sure that people power
can work in the state of California. These politicians need
to be held accountable for their extremism, and we have
a fight on our hands in the sense.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
That may no mistake about it. These state senators think
that they're a little more untouchable because they are four
year terms and people don't necessarily remember. So we have
a lot of hard work left to do to make
sure we're protecting kids from these special predators.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
All right, well, you let me know if there's resistance
and who's responsible for the resistance, and our listeners will
go to work real fast. Carl, excellent work there should be.
I wish there was one hundred of you in the legislature.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Thanks for coming on again, more are coming.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
All right, it's Carl Demil, the Republican. He's the assemblymen
down in the San Diego I love that. What do
we have to do make I don't know, what do
you think? So they didn't want to vote for it
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to make it a felony to buy teenagers for sex.
That's not the reason they would vote. They voted for
it to make all the outrage stop. They were tired
of being yelled at Okay, I'll vote for it just
to stop all the yelling. But they didn't vote for
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it because buying sixteen year olds for sex ought to
get you in prison. That's the reason you vote, because
you're buying sixteen year olds for sex. I mean, it's
self evident. We don't have to we don't have to
explain the morality of this. But that's not why they
voted for it. It's like, well, everybody keeps yelling at me.
(10:24):
All right, two thirty, we're gonna have Loura Angel on
from News Nation. She's been covering the Ditty trial. Oh,
I bet you these these Democratic Assembly people, they're probably
big Didty fans.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Huh. I bet you.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
They're all ordering their own thousand bottle supply of baby oil.
All Right, more coming up, and also, well there's a
lot of good stories and we'll get to it next.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
We We have lor Engel coming up just after two
thirty about the Ditty trial. More testimony from his former
girlfriend that he forced into sexual freak offs for.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Many years and beat her regularly.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Apparently they made her Probably the defense attorneys for Ditty,
made her read all the loving texts that she wrote
to Ditty over the years. We told you last hour
that what ought to be a five alarms scandal is
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getting some notice, but not enough. Something like this ordinarily
would should destroy somebody's political career. But then, hey, you know,
pal States Fire didn't do anything with Karen Bass, at
least not now.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Right.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
She still has her job. Janie Kinonia still has her job. Okay,
how about homeless people getting eaten by dogs that happened
in the Westlake District this week. Two people in a tent.
I guess they were doing drugs. This woman forty six,
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she's got six kids, she was a military veteran. She
ends up dead in the tent with the guy and
she's eaten by dogs. And this encampment has been around
for a long long time, and unys Hernandez, who's the
dangerous idiot socialist councilwoman for the district, does nothing about it.
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Karen Bass does nothing about it. LAPD does nothing about it.
It's been reported many, many times to various authorities and
the vagrants, many of them. You know, when the vagrant
crisis started exploding, it was about ten years ago. And
it was shortly after Jerry Brown emptied the prisons, and
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it makes perfect sense. They released thousands of felons who
hit the streets, had nowhere to live, didn't have a job,
wouldn't be able to get a job, and had a
lot of drug addictions.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
So there you go.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
You got violent drug addicts in the streets and they
have to steal in order to feed their drug habit
And that's why life changed or began to change about
ten years ago. And now there's a new report that
covers forty one states from the Cicero Institute and.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
They have found that there.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Is a significant percentage of sex offenders on state registries.
What they did is they compared sex offenders with the
homeless database count and according to their calculation, sex offenders
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account for more than twenty percent of the street homeless
in twenty states. In some states, more than fifty percent
of the street homeless is on the sex offender registry.
On average, the shrif of sex offenders among the street
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homeless was twenty percent. You know, these idiot progressives and
the idiot media that amplifies the progressive activists always say, well,
there's families and there's children, only five percent of the
street homeless. Are families five percent ninety five percent or not.
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But it's the elderly, No, that's fine. Five percent. Well
it's veterans, No, that's five percent. Well it's transgenders, Well
that's one percent.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Well it's it's AIDS patients. No, that's one percent.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Yet up families and elderly, veterans and transgenders and AIDS
patients and you get twenty two percent. Sex offenders by
themselves are twenty percent. So one out of you see
five guys on the street in an encampment, one out
of five is probably a sex offender. If you see
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twenty of them, you've had four sex offenders there. Remember
all the encampments you see around schools. According to the study,
tells you what we already know. But Basi and Newsoen
will not admit to these.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
These sex offenders have cognitive impairments, they're drug addicted, they
have severe mental illness. Many shelters refuse to admit sex offenders. Well,
at least they have some sense, so they're more likely
than any other group to be living on the streets,
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and sociologists often claim that sex offenders are not especially dangerous.
These are people who have raped or sexually molested, including children.
And then you have I don't know what sociologists should
(16:37):
not exist, all the sociology departments in this country. Those
people ought to be defunded, fired and deported. I hope
Trump gets to that that will pass some kind of
law banning sociology departments because this is what they come
up with. Sex offenders are not especially dangerous. Vagrants are
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generally more likely to commit crimes than non homeless people.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
There's a shock.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
San Diego Di Die's office found that homeless individuals were
hundreds of times more likely than the general population to
commit crimes like robbery, arson, and assault. What did we
tell you last hour? Since the first of January in
South LA, the vagrants have started one thousand fires. How
many fires have you started this year? A thousand fires?
(17:29):
They started trash fires. Study of homelessness by UC San
Francisco found eight and ten homeless people had gone to jail.
More than thirty percent had been in state prison. So
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that's what's on the streets. Just so you know, don't
go near them, don't talk to them, don't give them money,
don't listen to this crap. Of our fellow Andreline, our
brothers and sisters. No, that's all garbage. They're always lying
to you. We come back Laura Ingle and she's gonna
do a report on the Ditty trial. They were making
(18:14):
Cassie the girlfriend read all the love texts she sent
to Ditty over the years.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
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Whatever you miss you can pick up on the podcast
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posted shortly after four o'clock. Another day in the Sean
Ditty Combs trial, and in a couple of minutes, we're
going to get Laura Angele on from News Nation to
tell us what happened. His girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, had to
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testify again today, and it was a lot about the
sex that she was forced into for those freak offs
and how he how he beat her up, and then
she was forced to read hundreds of sexually explicit and
loving texts that she exchanged with Ditty over the years.
(19:15):
They made her do that because they're trying to discredit her,
and because the whole defensiers centered around that everything was consensual. Now,
remember he's Also, whatever he did to her is not
the charges. The charges are are sex trafficking, trafficking prostitutes
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bringing them in to have these freak offs. That that's
where the criminal charges are. But they want to set
the scene as to what was going on in the
ditty house and give people a good idea of what
his character is about. So as soon as lawyer was ready,
we're gonna we're gonna put her on. Coming up after
three o'clock, We're going to have David Howard, who's the
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sales manager here at KFI and iHeart, and he's in
the thick of it in the Palisades. His home was destroyed.
He's been on with us a few times before, and
he's had to experience just all kinds of frustration, and
it's making everybody crazy. There was a story in the
New York Times today that maybe we'll get to later
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and if not, on Monday, because it's a pretty extensive,
long story and it was just published a short time ago.
They tried to track where everybody in the Palisades and
everybody in Altadena where they've gone. And they actually contacted
some people to see, well where are you and and
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where did you go? And what is it like and
what are your struggles now? Alta Dina. It is obviously
much less wealthy than the Palace. So what they found
is people in the Palisades moved farther away because they could,
were people in Altadena generally stuck, more likely to be
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in the immediate area. A lot of them relocated to Pasadena.
The fires between the two of them, thirty seven thousand acres,
sixteen thousand structures that includes homes, schools, libraries, and businesses.
Thirty people were killed. And reading these stories, because they
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did highlight some of the personal stories, it really is heartbreaking.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
And all I can keep thinking of is I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Karen Bass flies to Africa after she was warned extremely
dangerous fires are coming to Los Angeles and she half
funded the fire department and the city council half. It
was fifty percent funded. And none of these people say
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boo about the tragedy. And then I'm reading how difficult
it is for all these families because not only they
lost their homes and they're dealing with the incredibly stupid bureaucracy,
but they lost seeing their friends, and their children lost
their schools, and they lost seeing their friends and all
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their daily habits and all the thing they things they loved,
whether out to Dina or the Palisades, the things they
enjoyed about their little villages, you know, family members split up,
and tremendous you know, financial displacement, especially for the people
in Alta Dina who are significantly less worth it, less,
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have less money, less wealthy than the people in the Palisades.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
And you just just read this stuff.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
And I was reading it during lunch and I was
just getting it's just getting so upset. It makes you
emotional because it didn't have to be this way, you know,
like if Karen Bassett I want. What I noticed about
her is that there's there's something important missing in her,
like the and in the city council. There's actually no humanity,
there's no there's no care. They don't talk about it
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at all. The loss is enormous and will be with
them for the rest of their lives. And it's everything
short of their lives, but everything. It's not just the possessions.
Of course, you could buy new stuff, you can rebuild
the house if your insurance covers you. But it's you know,
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going to the local coffee shop or bakery it's meeting
your friends at the restaurant. It's your your your kids
going you know, to playing soccer or baseball at the
field after school. It's it's going to the library with
with your your toddler, and and now and now everything
is a struggle. Everybody is separated and scattered. They actually
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have a map showing that some of well, well you know,
most people displaced into the immediate LA area. There's people
that scattered to San Francisco, Denver, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Austin, Chicago, Tampa,
New York City. You know, these are singles in families
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that are now separated by tens, hundreds, thousands of miles,
and then trying to trying to find that. You know,
what they did. I don't want to get into the
details of how they did this, but they tracked the
address changes. They have a database of change of address
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counts by the census. And there's also a company that
studies the movement of people use its postal records and
things of that nature, and they've gotten a pretty good
idea of where everybody went.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
And I just.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
There's so much pain out there and there's almost no help.
I mean, there's really a zero help. Coming from Karen
Bass's office the other day. I've played you the audio
of an Instagram video that Rick Caruso put out and
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he had an announcement how they have linked up with
an artificial intelligence company that should be able to process
permitting very rapidly. And give Gavin new some credit on
this one because he helped get this deal going, because
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he said the current pace of issuing permits is not
meeting the magnitude of the challenge. And there's an Australian
tech firm named Archiestar and they have donated it. Well, actually,
archer Star sold this software to Wildlife wildfire recovery foundations,
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I think, including Caruso's Steadfast LA, who in turn donated
it to the city and county. So when property owners
submit applications the software, the software will examine them for
basic compliance with zoning and building codes, suggest corrections, and
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provide a standardized report. And LA City and County officials
hope this will dramatically cut the time that employees now
use performing a lot of menial tasks. They've got to
measure building height, count parking spaces, they have to calculate setbacks,
and they do it very very slowly because generally government
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workers aren't very bright and they're not very motivated. Remember
it's not their home, it's not their lives, and they
get paid no matter what. They generally can't be fired,
and there is no expectation of output. And that's the truth.
Everybody says, oh, it's so harsh. Well, that's the truth.
That's what human beings. Human beings respond to carrots and sticks.
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In government work, there are no sticks and often there's
no There aren't carrots either. You don't get more money
for doing a better job. You get more money if
you last longer. They pay on seniority, they don't pay
on quality of work. Or we're going to get loweringal
on next segment to do the diddy thing. This is
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the first large scale use of artificial intelligence permitting technology
nationwide and Caruso did a lot to a broker this
deal because bastard nothing. Caruso took the lead on getting
the archer Star software and Caruso is covering much of
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the two million dollar tab for its implementation. I don't
repeat that Caruso took the lead to get the software
from this Australian company and is covering much of the
two million dollar tab through Steadfast LA. Not just him personally,
but Steadfast LA is his non profit operation. Again, you
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compare that to Caruso, that dope Steve sober Off that
they were going to hire for a half million dollars
a year, that consulting firm Haggarty that they're paying a
fortune to, and and the the La County Supervisors. They
are a total fail on this. We're just living in
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an area where there's no functioning government. So that's the
good news. The artificial intelligence should accelerate things. Newsome, it
seems to the way I'm reading this kind of forced
it on Bass. She probably haven't doesn't have the slightest
idea how any of this works. Anyway, all right, we'll
have Laura will come on to talk about the ditty trial.
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Cassie Ventura, another day of brutal testimony.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Moist lines coming up at three twenty and three point
fifteen next hour, right after Heather's three o'clock news, it's
we're going to talk to David Howard, who's a sales
manager here at KFI and iHeart and He's going through
all the terrible nonsense in the Pacific Palisades, trying to
get his home rebuilt after the fire. It's extremely frustrating.
(29:46):
David's gonna come on and talk about it when right
after Heather's News, let's get Laura Angel on.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Now.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Laura is covering the Ditty trial Sean Ditty Combs, and
it was another day of testimony from his former girlfriend
Cassie Ventura. She had to talk about the sex that
did he forced her into for these freak costs, had
to read hundreds of text messages, sexual and alleged loving
text messages that the two of them exchanged. She had
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to talk about the beatings. Laura tell us a rundown
specifically what went on.
Speaker 6 (30:20):
Hey, John, Well, it was another roller coaster kind of
day inside of federal court here in Lower Manhattan. You're
ride Cassa Ventura back on the stand under cross examination,
redirect from prosecutors back with defense, and you know, she
we covered a lot of ground. They're talking about multiple
years of abuse and what happened in certain frea cofts
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and one moment that I came in the court for
I witnessed Cassie on the stand and she was being
asked by prosecutors how she felt, specifically when she was
being beaten during the freak co ops, which is something
that apparently happened quite often. She testified to and she
starts to cry, and she said, I felt worthless. I
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felt like dirt, like I was nothing. I felt like
I was absolutely nothing. She was then asked, how did
you feel if you said no to the freak off safety.
If she said no, she was worried about her career,
her singing career, but she said, I was also in
love with him, so I was worried that he wouldn't
want to be with me if I didn't do it. So,
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you know, that kind of inside information about how this
all went on, and again the prosecution working to lay
down this relationship, the coersion, the intimidation. She testified that
he took her passport and her phone away many times.
This goes into some of the charges that sham Combs
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is saying because a lot of people are saying, you know,
we're talking a lot about freak offs and baby oil,
but what.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
About the charges.
Speaker 6 (31:51):
But this is the foundation that is going to lead
to some of the charges because one of the stories
that she also told was about getting on a plane
and going across the country after a freak off, and
then he showed her video on an iPad saying, if
you know, if you leave or if you do anything,
this video is going to come out. She was intimidated.
They got to LA across state lines did another freak off,
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So that is where a lot of.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
This testimony is going.
Speaker 6 (32:16):
And then suddenly she was off the stand, and then
we had a special agent from Homeland Security kind of
fill in a gap and give some foundation about what
the arrest was like, how he was involved in that.
And then the big bang, if you will, at the
end of testimony today came the witness we actually were
expecting to be right after Cassie.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
And her name is don Richard, and.
Speaker 6 (32:38):
A lot of people especially there in LA will probably
know that name. This is a woman who was in
an all grown band on all female band called Danny Kane.
But before that, she was also in this MTV reality
show that Diddy was, you know, an instructor on and
a big part of called Making the Band. And she
testified just at the end of the day near five
o'clock that back in two thousand and nine, she witnessed
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Sean Colmes hit Cassie over the head with a skillet
when he came down the stairs of the la home
that they were all at, saying where's my food? Smacks
her over the head with a skillet, She goes to
the floor, he hits her again, and she's in the
fetal position. And so Don Richard is talking about being
an eyewitness to this violence and the lifestyle that was
(33:22):
at hand. So that was kind of those are the
big chunks of testimony that we heard today, John.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
And she also had to read a lot of the
text messages that she and Diddy exchanged over the years,
sexually explicit text messages and quote loving text messages. I mean,
that must have been terribly uncomfortable, Oh.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
So uncomfortable, I think for everybody in the room.
Speaker 6 (33:47):
I mean she was talking about, you know, really at
the heart of it, John, it's just that she really
loved him. She talked about how much she loved him.
In fact, during testimony today she said, in this moment,
I don't hate him, she said, she said, I don't
hate him, and I remember being in love with him.
And at the end of the day, after they did
(34:08):
talk about text messages, and you're right. They went over
you know the freak constin do you want it? And
I can't wait to do it again, I can't wait
to see you get hot, and I want to be uncontrollable,
and all of that was read again when her attorney
came out afterwards, she read a statement from Cassi to
the public and saying that you know, she hopes that
her voices given other survivors the courage to speak up.
(34:32):
In part and said for me, the more I heal,
the more I can remember, and the more I can remember,
the more I will never forget. She was asked a
lot about her drug use and about you know, if
she couldn't remember something specific, the defense would say, well,
is that because.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
You were so high?
Speaker 6 (34:47):
Do you even really remember how this all played out?
So not about the drug use, a lot about Sean
Comb's drug use, about being an addict, about as the
overdose it she says he had in twenty twelve. So
we we were kind of all over the place in
terms of sex and drugs and lies and going back
(35:07):
and forth was cheating. They both were seeing other people.
And what was really interesting is we saw Alex Fine
the way he left court today that is Cassie Venture's husband.
We expect him to be called by the defense because
one of the things that was revealed in testimony today
was that after Cassie Ventura said that she was allegedly
(35:28):
raped by Combs in twenty eighteen, she saw him again
and had another sexual encounter with him. And during that
post alleged rape encounter, Alex Fine, who she was seeing,
face timed and she sent it to voicemail essentially, you know,
she rejected the call. So there's questions about Okay, so
(35:48):
he raped you. And look, domestic violence, we've talked about
this before, John, I mean, you know, people go back,
they do things that we don't understand, going back to
the person that hurt them. But that is going to
come into play as we when we finally you get
to the defense side.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
But we've got another.
Speaker 6 (36:02):
Full week, Week two coming up on Monday, back with
doh Nasharda.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
What's her demeanor as she goes through all these horrible
scenarios and reading the text messages and recounting the beatings
and recounting, you know, the sex freak offs. I mean,
what does she do this matter of factly? Is she
numb to it? All, or does she get emotional and breakdown.
Speaker 6 (36:22):
She The one time I saw her britt down today
was when she was saying that she felt like dirt
and that that was the really essentral theme about when
she was talking about kim Porter Sean Combe's ex and
who is the one who died, and she was talking
about how hurt she was that he referred to her
as you know, the love of his life of the
sultanate at her memorial, and you know she was. She
(36:43):
had texted Shawn Combs afterwards saying, where's the last eleven.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
Years been about for us? What had last several years
been about for us?
Speaker 5 (36:51):
You know?
Speaker 3 (36:51):
I thought that I was more important to you. You make
me feel like I'm just the peace on the side.
And so but in terms of she broke down the
Shan talk about feeling like Derek.
Speaker 6 (37:01):
But other than that, Sean, when she's shown stills of
the freak coughs. When she's reading these text messages, she
is very matter of.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
Fact, Yeah that was me, Yep, that happened. Yep, I
wrote that, Yep, I said that.
Speaker 6 (37:14):
You know, so it was just kind of very matter
of fact through all of it, all.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
Right, Laura Engel. News Nation Senior corresponded covering the Diddy trial.
Thanks very much for coming on. And Laura has a
YouTube channel called the Ingle Edit with a lot of
behind the scenes information for all the crime stories she
covered News Nation. It's where you can see it all.
Thanks for coming on. Talk with you again, sir. All right,
well we come back after three o'clock. Heather Brooker's going
(37:39):
to have the news, and then we're going to have
David Howard on. He's one of the sales managers here
at KFI lost everything. He and his family lost everything
in the Palisades fires, and he's really been on the
front lines, going to meetings, contacting officials, trying to see
if anything could be done quicker than it is. I
(38:00):
understand how they're responding to this, because really the mass
administration is doing a just a spectacularly bad job, not
only aiding the rebuilds, but communicating with people. We'll talk
to David Howard coming up and in for Debor Mark.
We got Heather Brooker live in the KFI twenty four
(38:20):
our newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the John Covelt
Show podcast. You can always hear the show live on
KFI AM six forty from one to four pm every
Monday through Friday, and of course anytime on demand on
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Can't. I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
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My wife has a video podcast, it's Deborah Cobelt Live
(00:24):
and it's on YouTube and Facebook. So go to Debora
Cobelt Live. And we just did a half hour show
talking about all the big news of the week. And
again that's on Facebook and YouTube. Now we're going to
get to carl Demyo the Republican Assemblyment from San Diego,
and he ferreted out another big Gavin Newsom Lie Carlos.
(00:49):
Two things I want to talk to you about. I
want to talk about the reversal by the Pervert Caucus
on making sex with teenagers a felony again. But first
this Gavin Newsome. Why he made headlines this week because
he claimed that he was going to be cutting spending
on illegal alien healthcare, and you have found proof that
(01:13):
the opposite will happen.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Yeah, let me just say, whenever Gavin Newsom's mouth is moving,
just know that you're being lied to. Whether he's blaming
oil companies for the high gas prices when in fact
he did it, or he's somehow trying to blame utility
companies for high utility rates when again he did it,
or Trump Trump the Trump slump is to blame for
(01:36):
his budget deficit. That's what he said this week.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I saw that on TV and I actually broke up
laughing when I saw the graphic.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
It's his reckless spending because remember, the tariffs have not
even kicked into effect yet, and Florida has a massive surplus.
And I'm sorry, but I think they're subjected to the
same sort of international trade issues as we are. But
here's the deal. The deficit is twelve billion dollars, right,
that's what he admits. The state budget deficit is twelve
(02:07):
billion dollars. Well, guess what we are spending twelve point
one billion dollars. I'm getting free healthcare to illegal immigrants
and that is in his budget proposals. He stood up
there at the podium and said, you know, we have
a budget deficit of twelve billion so we're going to
have to cut the illegal immigrant coverage on healthcare. And
(02:27):
that was difficult, but I've got to do it, you know,
I got to put priorities of citizens first. Well, guess
what the guy lied through his teeth. He spent nine
point five billion this year. He's actually increasing to twelve
point one billion. The amount of money that he's spending
on illegal immigrant health care. What he says is a
cut is actually an absolute increase. And no one in
(02:49):
the media actually challenged him, and they went forward with
all of these headlines saying news Civil pauses to spend
health care for legal immigrants lie. The media absolutely fell
for it. And it's time that the voters know the
truth and.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
They the office. Newsom's office released numbers that match what
you've been saying, right, I mean, they basically confirmed your
story here.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
That's right. I went through the budget with the fine
two comb and the numbers were very clearly hidden in
plain sight, as I like to say, and I said, no,
he's a liar. He's not cutting this benefit. It's actually
increasing in terms of the financial outlays. And so the
Department of Finance late yesterday had to admit YEP, it's
(03:39):
true the budget is spending more money on this, And
so I cautioned the media, this guy has lied to
you for six years. Why do you think you are
going to get into a single sintilla of truth out
of him? He always wants to blame everyone else for
the failures that he has caused.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
I don't understand why the media reporters aren't as upset
with what California has become as everyone else is. I
don't understand why they're not reporting on behalf of their
listeners and viewers and readers, Like, what's in it for
them to keep polishing his image?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Well, I think partly they're culpable in the scam. Remember
they're liberal and lazy, and they've allowed this to happen
or encouraged it to happen, and they can't admit that
what they did was wrong. Look how they're having so
much trouble right now trying to reconcile all the stuff
they did for Joe Biden to cover up his nonsense,
his incapacity in capabilities. And now they're, of course they're
(04:40):
tiptoeing around saying, oh, we never knew Davin k News
Some they're not there yet they're not there at the
point where they're trying to blame someone else for the
fact that the La Times, the Sacramento b the San
Francisco Chronicle, all of them, NBCLA, all of them are
absolutely negligent darrel of duty. And it's why media has
(05:02):
an all time low rating.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I mean, no, I don't think any other state has
given out illegal alien healthcare for free, no guaranteed birth
to death this.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
No one else is doing this. And on the second topic,
no one else, no other state in the nation allows
minors sixteen or seventeen years old to be purchased for
sex and not consider it to be a felony.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Prime So, a couple of weeks ago, the first vote
fifty five, which you forced, fifty five Democrats voted against
making buying teenagers for sex a felony seen.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Two weeks ago. That was two weeks ago yesterday, and
they weren't expecting us to force the vote, and so
they voted basically their way. They actually believe. They're like, oh,
we got to vote against this, and within moments of
that vote being done, you put it up on the internet.
We started a campaign to educate voters. Came on your show.
(06:01):
Literally moments after the deal, the Dirney deed was done,
and we started lighting a fire with the people. And
let me tell you, if we had this massive public outrage,
the backlash was so off the chart. And I know
you encouraged your listeners to go to Assembly Member Nick
(06:22):
Schultz town hall the next day, and boy, you got
a lot of people in that room fired up and angry,
and they gave them, gave him a piece of their mind. Well,
fast forward to the following Tuesday. They tried running, you know,
just looting this leading ads blaming us.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
For the bill not passing. The Speaker's office reached out
and said, what will it take?
Speaker 3 (06:45):
And now my response was nothing but a full capitulation
and surrender.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
What wait wait wait wait so this is this is
Robert Reeves's office, he's the speaker.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Yeah, and it was totally committed to blocking this.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
What will it take to get you guys to back down?
And I said, only one capitulation is what we will
accept because these girls and boys, these sixteen and seventeen
year old minors, deserve to be protected. Both stop. This
is not a political game. It's not about saving faith.
You get your blank on that floor you get your
(07:23):
blank on that floor and you reverse the vote that
you just took and make dis a felony.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
And that's exactly what they did yesterday. And they sat
there trying to take credits, and honestly, you know whatever,
you know, the only credit.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
That she did give it out, she gave to the
people of California, who rightfully held the piece of the
fire of these politicians.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Just the way that's phrased. What what can we do
to make it stop? It's obvious you may you may
find sixteen year olds for sex a felon. There's no
middle ground on that. It's either a serious crime or
it's not. There's no hass on that.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Yeah. So now the hot potato goes to the Senate,
the California State Senate, And so I hit a press
conference after the vote, and I made it quite clear.
I said, you put the state senators on notice. Don't
you dare try to water down a single word, a
single comma in this piece of legislation, because if you do,
(08:29):
we're coming for you, and you're going to get the
same treatment that the Assembly members had to suffer for
the period of time that they were holding out. And
I'm telling you right now is sure that people power
can work in the state of California. These politicians need
to be held accountable for their extremism, and we have
a fight on our hands in the sense.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
That may no mistake about it. These state senators think
that they're a little more untouchable because they are four
year terms and people don't necessarily remember. So we have
a lot of hard work left to do to make
sure we're protecting kids from these special predators.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
All right, well, you let me know if there's resistance
and who's responsible for the resistance, and our listeners will
go to work real fast. Carl, excellent work there should be.
I wish there was one hundred of you in the legislature.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Thanks for coming on again, more are coming.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
All right, it's Carl Demil, the Republican. He's the assemblymen
down in the San Diego I love that. What do
we have to do make I don't know, what do
you think? So they didn't want to vote for it
(09:41):
to make it a felony to buy teenagers for sex.
That's not the reason they would vote. They voted for
it to make all the outrage stop. They were tired
of being yelled at Okay, I'll vote for it just
to stop all the yelling. But they didn't vote for
(10:02):
it because buying sixteen year olds for sex ought to
get you in prison. That's the reason you vote, because
you're buying sixteen year olds for sex. I mean, it's
self evident. We don't have to we don't have to
explain the morality of this. But that's not why they
voted for it. It's like, well, everybody keeps yelling at me.
(10:24):
All right, two thirty, we're gonna have Loura Angel on
from News Nation. She's been covering the Ditty trial. Oh,
I bet you these these Democratic Assembly people, they're probably
big Didty fans.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Huh. I bet you.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
They're all ordering their own thousand bottle supply of baby oil.
All Right, more coming up, and also, well there's a
lot of good stories and we'll get to it next.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
We We have lor Engel coming up just after two
thirty about the Ditty trial. More testimony from his former
girlfriend that he forced into sexual freak offs for.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Many years and beat her regularly.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Apparently they made her Probably the defense attorneys for Ditty,
made her read all the loving texts that she wrote
to Ditty over the years. We told you last hour
that what ought to be a five alarms scandal is
(11:44):
getting some notice, but not enough. Something like this ordinarily
would should destroy somebody's political career. But then, hey, you know,
pal States Fire didn't do anything with Karen Bass, at
least not now.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Right.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
She still has her job. Janie Kinonia still has her job. Okay,
how about homeless people getting eaten by dogs that happened
in the Westlake District this week. Two people in a tent.
I guess they were doing drugs. This woman forty six,
(12:22):
she's got six kids, she was a military veteran. She
ends up dead in the tent with the guy and
she's eaten by dogs. And this encampment has been around
for a long long time, and unys Hernandez, who's the
dangerous idiot socialist councilwoman for the district, does nothing about it.
(12:45):
Karen Bass does nothing about it. LAPD does nothing about it.
It's been reported many, many times to various authorities and
the vagrants, many of them. You know, when the vagrant
crisis started exploding, it was about ten years ago. And
it was shortly after Jerry Brown emptied the prisons, and
(13:06):
it makes perfect sense. They released thousands of felons who
hit the streets, had nowhere to live, didn't have a job,
wouldn't be able to get a job, and had a
lot of drug addictions.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
So there you go.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
You got violent drug addicts in the streets and they
have to steal in order to feed their drug habit
And that's why life changed or began to change about
ten years ago. And now there's a new report that
covers forty one states from the Cicero Institute and.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
They have found that there.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Is a significant percentage of sex offenders on state registries.
What they did is they compared sex offenders with the
homeless database count and according to their calculation, sex offenders
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account for more than twenty percent of the street homeless
in twenty states. In some states, more than fifty percent
of the street homeless is on the sex offender registry.
On average, the shrif of sex offenders among the street
(14:35):
homeless was twenty percent. You know, these idiot progressives and
the idiot media that amplifies the progressive activists always say, well,
there's families and there's children, only five percent of the
street homeless. Are families five percent ninety five percent or not.
(14:57):
But it's the elderly, No, that's fine. Five percent. Well
it's veterans, No, that's five percent. Well it's transgenders, Well
that's one percent.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Well it's it's AIDS patients. No, that's one percent.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Yet up families and elderly, veterans and transgenders and AIDS
patients and you get twenty two percent. Sex offenders by
themselves are twenty percent. So one out of you see
five guys on the street in an encampment, one out
of five is probably a sex offender. If you see
(15:33):
twenty of them, you've had four sex offenders there. Remember
all the encampments you see around schools. According to the study,
tells you what we already know. But Basi and Newsoen
will not admit to these.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
These sex offenders have cognitive impairments, they're drug addicted, they
have severe mental illness. Many shelters refuse to admit sex offenders. Well,
at least they have some sense, so they're more likely
than any other group to be living on the streets,
(16:14):
and sociologists often claim that sex offenders are not especially dangerous.
These are people who have raped or sexually molested, including children.
And then you have I don't know what sociologists should
(16:37):
not exist, all the sociology departments in this country. Those
people ought to be defunded, fired and deported. I hope
Trump gets to that that will pass some kind of
law banning sociology departments because this is what they come
up with. Sex offenders are not especially dangerous. Vagrants are
(17:01):
generally more likely to commit crimes than non homeless people.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
There's a shock.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
San Diego Di Die's office found that homeless individuals were
hundreds of times more likely than the general population to
commit crimes like robbery, arson, and assault. What did we
tell you last hour? Since the first of January in
South LA, the vagrants have started one thousand fires. How
many fires have you started this year? A thousand fires?
(17:29):
They started trash fires. Study of homelessness by UC San
Francisco found eight and ten homeless people had gone to jail.
More than thirty percent had been in state prison. So
(17:51):
that's what's on the streets. Just so you know, don't
go near them, don't talk to them, don't give them money,
don't listen to this crap. Of our fellow Andreline, our
brothers and sisters. No, that's all garbage. They're always lying
to you. We come back Laura Ingle and she's gonna
do a report on the Ditty trial. They were making
(18:14):
Cassie the girlfriend read all the love texts she sent
to Ditty over the years.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Whatever you miss you can pick up on the podcast
John Cobelt Show on demand on the iHeart app that's
posted shortly after four o'clock. Another day in the Sean
Ditty Combs trial, and in a couple of minutes, we're
going to get Laura Angele on from News Nation to
tell us what happened. His girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, had to
(18:50):
testify again today, and it was a lot about the
sex that she was forced into for those freak offs
and how he how he beat her up, and then
she was forced to read hundreds of sexually explicit and
loving texts that she exchanged with Ditty over the years.
(19:15):
They made her do that because they're trying to discredit her,
and because the whole defensiers centered around that everything was consensual. Now,
remember he's Also, whatever he did to her is not
the charges. The charges are are sex trafficking, trafficking prostitutes
(19:40):
bringing them in to have these freak offs. That that's
where the criminal charges are. But they want to set
the scene as to what was going on in the
ditty house and give people a good idea of what
his character is about. So as soon as lawyer was ready,
we're gonna we're gonna put her on. Coming up after
three o'clock, We're going to have David Howard, who's the
(20:02):
sales manager here at KFI and iHeart, and he's in
the thick of it in the Palisades. His home was destroyed.
He's been on with us a few times before, and
he's had to experience just all kinds of frustration, and
it's making everybody crazy. There was a story in the
New York Times today that maybe we'll get to later
(20:25):
and if not, on Monday, because it's a pretty extensive,
long story and it was just published a short time ago.
They tried to track where everybody in the Palisades and
everybody in Altadena where they've gone. And they actually contacted
some people to see, well where are you and and
(20:50):
where did you go? And what is it like and
what are your struggles now? Alta Dina. It is obviously
much less wealthy than the Palace. So what they found
is people in the Palisades moved farther away because they could,
were people in Altadena generally stuck, more likely to be
(21:10):
in the immediate area. A lot of them relocated to Pasadena.
The fires between the two of them, thirty seven thousand acres,
sixteen thousand structures that includes homes, schools, libraries, and businesses.
Thirty people were killed. And reading these stories, because they
(21:31):
did highlight some of the personal stories, it really is heartbreaking.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
And all I can keep thinking of is I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Karen Bass flies to Africa after she was warned extremely
dangerous fires are coming to Los Angeles and she half
funded the fire department and the city council half. It
was fifty percent funded. And none of these people say
(22:01):
boo about the tragedy. And then I'm reading how difficult
it is for all these families because not only they
lost their homes and they're dealing with the incredibly stupid bureaucracy,
but they lost seeing their friends, and their children lost
their schools, and they lost seeing their friends and all
(22:22):
their daily habits and all the thing they things they loved,
whether out to Dina or the Palisades, the things they
enjoyed about their little villages, you know, family members split up,
and tremendous you know, financial displacement, especially for the people
in Alta Dina who are significantly less worth it, less,
(22:46):
have less money, less wealthy than the people in the Palisades.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
And you just just read this stuff.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
And I was reading it during lunch and I was
just getting it's just getting so upset. It makes you
emotional because it didn't have to be this way, you know,
like if Karen Bassett I want. What I noticed about
her is that there's there's something important missing in her,
like the and in the city council. There's actually no humanity,
there's no there's no care. They don't talk about it
(23:19):
at all. The loss is enormous and will be with
them for the rest of their lives. And it's everything
short of their lives, but everything. It's not just the possessions.
Of course, you could buy new stuff, you can rebuild
the house if your insurance covers you. But it's you know,
(23:40):
going to the local coffee shop or bakery it's meeting
your friends at the restaurant. It's your your your kids
going you know, to playing soccer or baseball at the
field after school. It's it's going to the library with
with your your toddler, and and now and now everything
is a struggle. Everybody is separated and scattered. They actually
(24:05):
have a map showing that some of well, well you know,
most people displaced into the immediate LA area. There's people
that scattered to San Francisco, Denver, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Austin, Chicago, Tampa,
New York City. You know, these are singles in families
(24:29):
that are now separated by tens, hundreds, thousands of miles,
and then trying to trying to find that. You know,
what they did. I don't want to get into the
details of how they did this, but they tracked the
address changes. They have a database of change of address
(24:52):
counts by the census. And there's also a company that
studies the movement of people use its postal records and
things of that nature, and they've gotten a pretty good
idea of where everybody went.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
And I just.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
There's so much pain out there and there's almost no help.
I mean, there's really a zero help. Coming from Karen
Bass's office the other day. I've played you the audio
of an Instagram video that Rick Caruso put out and
(25:33):
he had an announcement how they have linked up with
an artificial intelligence company that should be able to process
permitting very rapidly. And give Gavin new some credit on
this one because he helped get this deal going, because
(25:54):
he said the current pace of issuing permits is not
meeting the magnitude of the challenge. And there's an Australian
tech firm named Archiestar and they have donated it. Well, actually,
archer Star sold this software to Wildlife wildfire recovery foundations,
(26:18):
I think, including Caruso's Steadfast LA, who in turn donated
it to the city and county. So when property owners
submit applications the software, the software will examine them for
basic compliance with zoning and building codes, suggest corrections, and
(26:39):
provide a standardized report. And LA City and County officials
hope this will dramatically cut the time that employees now
use performing a lot of menial tasks. They've got to
measure building height, count parking spaces, they have to calculate setbacks,
and they do it very very slowly because generally government
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workers aren't very bright and they're not very motivated. Remember
it's not their home, it's not their lives, and they
get paid no matter what. They generally can't be fired,
and there is no expectation of output. And that's the truth.
Everybody says, oh, it's so harsh. Well, that's the truth.
That's what human beings. Human beings respond to carrots and sticks.
(27:22):
In government work, there are no sticks and often there's
no There aren't carrots either. You don't get more money
for doing a better job. You get more money if
you last longer. They pay on seniority, they don't pay
on quality of work. Or we're going to get loweringal
on next segment to do the diddy thing. This is
(27:44):
the first large scale use of artificial intelligence permitting technology
nationwide and Caruso did a lot to a broker this
deal because bastard nothing. Caruso took the lead on getting
the archer Star software and Caruso is covering much of
(28:08):
the two million dollar tab for its implementation. I don't
repeat that Caruso took the lead to get the software
from this Australian company and is covering much of the
two million dollar tab through Steadfast LA. Not just him personally,
but Steadfast LA is his non profit operation. Again, you
(28:29):
compare that to Caruso, that dope Steve sober Off that
they were going to hire for a half million dollars
a year, that consulting firm Haggarty that they're paying a
fortune to, and and the the La County Supervisors. They
are a total fail on this. We're just living in
(28:52):
an area where there's no functioning government. So that's the
good news. The artificial intelligence should accelerate things. Newsome, it
seems to the way I'm reading this kind of forced
it on Bass. She probably haven't doesn't have the slightest
idea how any of this works. Anyway, all right, we'll
have Laura will come on to talk about the ditty trial.
(29:14):
Cassie Ventura, another day of brutal testimony.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Moist lines coming up at three twenty and three point
fifteen next hour, right after Heather's three o'clock news, it's
we're going to talk to David Howard, who's a sales
manager here at KFI and iHeart and He's going through
all the terrible nonsense in the Pacific Palisades, trying to
get his home rebuilt after the fire. It's extremely frustrating.
(29:46):
David's gonna come on and talk about it when right
after Heather's News, let's get Laura Angel on.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Now.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Laura is covering the Ditty trial Sean Ditty Combs, and
it was another day of testimony from his former girlfriend
Cassie Ventura. She had to talk about the sex that
did he forced her into for these freak costs, had
to read hundreds of text messages, sexual and alleged loving
text messages that the two of them exchanged. She had
(30:13):
to talk about the beatings. Laura tell us a rundown
specifically what went on.
Speaker 6 (30:20):
Hey, John, Well, it was another roller coaster kind of
day inside of federal court here in Lower Manhattan. You're
ride Cassa Ventura back on the stand under cross examination,
redirect from prosecutors back with defense, and you know, she
we covered a lot of ground. They're talking about multiple
years of abuse and what happened in certain frea cofts
(30:42):
and one moment that I came in the court for
I witnessed Cassie on the stand and she was being
asked by prosecutors how she felt, specifically when she was
being beaten during the freak co ops, which is something
that apparently happened quite often. She testified to and she
starts to cry, and she said, I felt worthless. I
(31:03):
felt like dirt, like I was nothing. I felt like
I was absolutely nothing. She was then asked, how did
you feel if you said no to the freak off safety.
If she said no, she was worried about her career,
her singing career, but she said, I was also in
love with him, so I was worried that he wouldn't
want to be with me if I didn't do it. So,
(31:25):
you know, that kind of inside information about how this
all went on, and again the prosecution working to lay
down this relationship, the coersion, the intimidation. She testified that
he took her passport and her phone away many times.
This goes into some of the charges that sham Combs
(31:45):
is saying because a lot of people are saying, you know,
we're talking a lot about freak offs and baby oil,
but what.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
About the charges.
Speaker 6 (31:51):
But this is the foundation that is going to lead
to some of the charges because one of the stories
that she also told was about getting on a plane
and going across the country after a freak off, and
then he showed her video on an iPad saying, if
you know, if you leave or if you do anything,
this video is going to come out. She was intimidated.
They got to LA across state lines did another freak off,
(32:12):
So that is where a lot of.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
This testimony is going.
Speaker 6 (32:16):
And then suddenly she was off the stand, and then
we had a special agent from Homeland Security kind of
fill in a gap and give some foundation about what
the arrest was like, how he was involved in that.
And then the big bang, if you will, at the
end of testimony today came the witness we actually were
expecting to be right after Cassie.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
And her name is don Richard, and.
Speaker 6 (32:38):
A lot of people especially there in LA will probably
know that name. This is a woman who was in
an all grown band on all female band called Danny Kane.
But before that, she was also in this MTV reality
show that Diddy was, you know, an instructor on and
a big part of called Making the Band. And she
testified just at the end of the day near five
o'clock that back in two thousand and nine, she witnessed
(33:01):
Sean Colmes hit Cassie over the head with a skillet
when he came down the stairs of the la home
that they were all at, saying where's my food? Smacks
her over the head with a skillet, She goes to
the floor, he hits her again, and she's in the
fetal position. And so Don Richard is talking about being
an eyewitness to this violence and the lifestyle that was
(33:22):
at hand. So that was kind of those are the
big chunks of testimony that we heard today, John.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
And she also had to read a lot of the
text messages that she and Diddy exchanged over the years,
sexually explicit text messages and quote loving text messages. I mean,
that must have been terribly uncomfortable, Oh.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
So uncomfortable, I think for everybody in the room.
Speaker 6 (33:47):
I mean she was talking about, you know, really at
the heart of it, John, it's just that she really
loved him. She talked about how much she loved him.
In fact, during testimony today she said, in this moment,
I don't hate him, she said, she said, I don't
hate him, and I remember being in love with him.
And at the end of the day, after they did
(34:08):
talk about text messages, and you're right. They went over
you know the freak constin do you want it? And
I can't wait to do it again, I can't wait
to see you get hot, and I want to be uncontrollable,
and all of that was read again when her attorney
came out afterwards, she read a statement from Cassi to
the public and saying that you know, she hopes that
her voices given other survivors the courage to speak up.
(34:32):
In part and said for me, the more I heal,
the more I can remember, and the more I can remember,
the more I will never forget. She was asked a
lot about her drug use and about you know, if
she couldn't remember something specific, the defense would say, well,
is that because.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
You were so high?
Speaker 6 (34:47):
Do you even really remember how this all played out?
So not about the drug use, a lot about Sean
Comb's drug use, about being an addict, about as the
overdose it she says he had in twenty twelve. So
we we were kind of all over the place in
terms of sex and drugs and lies and going back
(35:07):
and forth was cheating. They both were seeing other people.
And what was really interesting is we saw Alex Fine
the way he left court today that is Cassie Venture's husband.
We expect him to be called by the defense because
one of the things that was revealed in testimony today
was that after Cassie Ventura said that she was allegedly
(35:28):
raped by Combs in twenty eighteen, she saw him again
and had another sexual encounter with him. And during that
post alleged rape encounter, Alex Fine, who she was seeing,
face timed and she sent it to voicemail essentially, you know,
she rejected the call. So there's questions about Okay, so
(35:48):
he raped you. And look, domestic violence, we've talked about
this before, John, I mean, you know, people go back,
they do things that we don't understand, going back to
the person that hurt them. But that is going to
come into play as we when we finally you get
to the defense side.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
But we've got another.
Speaker 6 (36:02):
Full week, Week two coming up on Monday, back with
doh Nasharda.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
What's her demeanor as she goes through all these horrible
scenarios and reading the text messages and recounting the beatings
and recounting, you know, the sex freak offs. I mean,
what does she do this matter of factly? Is she
numb to it? All, or does she get emotional and breakdown.
Speaker 6 (36:22):
She The one time I saw her britt down today
was when she was saying that she felt like dirt
and that that was the really essentral theme about when
she was talking about kim Porter Sean Combe's ex and
who is the one who died, and she was talking
about how hurt she was that he referred to her
as you know, the love of his life of the
sultanate at her memorial, and you know she was. She
(36:43):
had texted Shawn Combs afterwards saying, where's the last eleven.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
Years been about for us? What had last several years
been about for us?
Speaker 5 (36:51):
You know?
Speaker 3 (36:51):
I thought that I was more important to you. You make
me feel like I'm just the peace on the side.
And so but in terms of she broke down the
Shan talk about feeling like Derek.
Speaker 6 (37:01):
But other than that, Sean, when she's shown stills of
the freak coughs. When she's reading these text messages, she
is very matter of.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
Fact, Yeah that was me, Yep, that happened. Yep, I
wrote that, Yep, I said that.
Speaker 6 (37:14):
You know, so it was just kind of very matter
of fact through all of it, all.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
Right, Laura Engel. News Nation Senior corresponded covering the Diddy trial.
Thanks very much for coming on. And Laura has a
YouTube channel called the Ingle Edit with a lot of
behind the scenes information for all the crime stories she
covered News Nation. It's where you can see it all.
Thanks for coming on. Talk with you again, sir. All right,
well we come back after three o'clock. Heather Brooker's going
(37:39):
to have the news, and then we're going to have
David Howard on. He's one of the sales managers here
at KFI lost everything. He and his family lost everything
in the Palisades fires, and he's really been on the
front lines, going to meetings, contacting officials, trying to see
if anything could be done quicker than it is. I
(38:00):
understand how they're responding to this, because really the mass
administration is doing a just a spectacularly bad job, not
only aiding the rebuilds, but communicating with people. We'll talk
to David Howard coming up and in for Debor Mark.
We got Heather Brooker live in the KFI twenty four
(38:20):
our newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the John Covelt
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