June 26, 2025 • 28 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (06/25) - Reports indicate the US did in fact severely damage Iran's nuclear facilities despite what CNN has reported. More on Cudahy Vice Mayor Cynthia Gonzalez's controversial comments calling for gang members to defend their territories from ICE.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty.
Speaker 1 (00:02):
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That's the podcast version. Yesterday afternoon. During the show, there
was a moment where I looked up at the TV
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screens and I don't watch much cable news. I really
don't because I don't I don't want their agendas in
my head. I don't want their topic selection, their attitude.
They're a bit nothing I want to I'd rather read
about things. That's how I get most of my information.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
I read.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
But we keep it on because you never know when
something spectacular is going to happen. Right there could be
a car chase. And so Fox is on and CNN
is on and usually one of the local stations. And
I look up and Fox and CNN had exactly opposite
graphics on the screen. Fox saying that the nuclear sites
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in Era and Iran were obliterated, and CNN said, uh,
not much damage. I turned to the New York Times
and they just they had they had this rolling scroll.
For every few minutes they added another short story, you know,
the updates, the headlines and so on. The scroll was
not much damage. And I'm looking and I'm thinking, Okay,
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somebody's really wrong here. Somebody's really right, and somebody's really
wrong because they were extreme statements. It was neither one
was a middle ground statement. And I should have bet
that if there was one wrong, it would have been
the CNN story, because I was just going through my
head all the wrong big CNN stories such as the
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Russian hoax. All right, CNN was out on front with that,
and that beat that to death for three years turned
out to be fictitious. Then you had the Hunter Biden
laptop claiming the laptop story was a fake. Well, no,
it was extremely real. What else did they have? Oh yeah, yeah,
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that the that the virus, the COVID virus, started in
an animal market, not in the lab where they were
experimenting on the virus trying to make it stronger with
our tax Bundy. I'm thinking, oh my god, all these
telling me and telling us that Joe Biden was sharp
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and energetic and governing the country with great strength and energy.
I'm thinking just about every single big story they lift done. Now,
if you're sloppy, you have bad sources. I mean, everybody
makes mistakes, but if you're consistently sloppy or wrong on
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the biggest stories, you have to look at like, okay, well,
what direction are you wrong? And in every single case,
it was wrong against the Trump administration. Everything they never
accidentally was wrong on something that they never accidentally supported Trump.
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It was always supportive Biden and against Trump. And CNN
is just just near perfect with that record. And I
was watching this and then I found out the headlines
this morning, Actually we did a tremendous amount of destruction
and everybody's agreeing on that, and I'm thinking, why do
I even like I have it on now? I was like,
why do I have it on? I don't want to
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be distracted by it? And then say, oh, there's a
new headline, there's a new graphic on CNN. This's just happened.
It's like, I don't know, what are the odds that's wrong?
Like eighty twenty here's what's the truth? It looks like, Well,
first of all, the report that CNN was flogging came
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from some low level leaker at the Department of the
called the DA Defense Intelligence Agency. It was a preliminary
low confidence report. Low confidence report? What is that? What
is a low confidence report? It means, ah, maybe it's true.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Who releases a low confidence report. You're asking me to
this happen, could have happened. I don't know, can't prove it.
I got a feeling.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
But hey, who knows. That's not a report. That's not knows.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
That's somebody who has an inkling but doesn't have any
doesn't have any evidence, doesn't have a conclusion. Low confidence report. Well, here,
here's the uh, here are the confidence opinions. The Israel
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Defense Forces Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Ayal Zamir says
the nuclear program of Iran has been significantly damaged. The
Israel Atomic Energy Commission said the US strikes devastating.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Iran.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Hmm, let's take their opinion. The Foreign Ministry spokesman Ismael
Bogey said our nuclear installations have been badly damaged.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
That's for sure.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
That's the Iranian guy. Let's keep going here. Marco Rubio
says the story that CNN had was a false story
and it shouldn't be re reported because it doesn't accurately
reflect what's happening. Everything underneath that mountain is in bad shape.
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What would have to be We dropped, you know, we
dropped two hundred and fifty pounds of bomb on that
main site. Rubio said it was complete and total obliteration.
The International Atomic Energy Director the General, the Director General
Rafael Marianna Grossi said very significant damage.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Uh. He said.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
At the s Fahan nuclear site, additional buildings were hit
with the US confirming their use of cruise missiles. Then
there were three different buildings and there were different operations
going on. There were operations to enrich the uranium. If
you enrich it up to about three five percent, you
could use it for commercial purposes. They were at about
sixty percent headed towards ninety. At ninety you can have
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a nuclear weapon. Well, you also need to convert the
uranium so that it can become a weapon. And we
not only dropped two hundred and fifty thousand pounds of
bombs from those B two, we also had many many crews, missiles.
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We had. We had like a one hundred and twenty
five aircraft B two stealth bombers, dozens and dozens of
air refueling tankers, multiple fighter jets, a guided missile, submarine, intelligence,
surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft, hundreds of maintenance operational professionals, one
hundred and twenty five and nobody got hurt. Nobody got
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hurt down below underneath the bombs, and none of our
none of our military men got hurt flying all those planes.
So I I The one thing is if you're if
you're a sharp, smart person, what's happened since then? We
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haven't got in there to do more bombing. The Israelis
haven't got in there. What does that tell you?
Speaker 2 (07:58):
If if they had any sin that anything.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Useful from these nuclear installations survived, the Israelis would be
bombing the crap out of the place, and so would we.
We'd send the bombers back in there to do it
all over again. You notice nobody's flying.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Back in.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
And Iran is quiet. They're not doing anything. In fact,
they want to come and negotiate. Just use your eyes,
it'll tell you what's going on there. I'm gonna turn
off CNN.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
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AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
All right, this is just from Trump's truth social I
heard him talk about this this morning. He wants to
rename the Department of Defense and make it the Department
of War that used to be the name, like back
in World War two days and somewhere along the line,
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we got soft and instead of war it's defense. Well,
he wrote Secretary of Defense and in parentheses war with
an exclamation point. Pete Hegseth with military representatives, will be
holding a major news conference tomorrow morning, eight am Eastern
at the Pentagon in order to fight for the dignity
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of our great American pilots. Each word capitalized. These patriots
were very upset. After thirty six hours of dangerously flying
through enemy territory, they landed. They knew success was legendary
all caps, and then two days later they started reading
fake news by CNN and the failing New York Times.
They felt terribly fortunately for them and as usual, solely
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for the purpose of demeaning President Donald J. Trump, the
fake news Time and CNN lied totally misrepresented the facts,
none of which they had because it was too soon,
there were no facts out there yet. The news conference
will prove both interesting and irrefutable. Enjoy so they that's
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a heartfelt invitation of course that's five am. I don't
know why on every single issue the media is so
coiled up to declare everything he does a failure. You know,
it's clear he's kind of nuts and he takes a
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lot of risky gambles, but he's right on a lot
of things. And it's so it's great. If you're a journalists,
you should be skeptical. You shouldn't believe anybody anything, anybody
in power says. But you get this low level leak
and they think it was someone in a congressional office
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that leaked it.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
It was classified material.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Congress congress people have been complaining that they didn't get
enough of a heads up on this, they didn't get
the classified briefing. Well, this is why you don't give
out classified briefings. This was a low confidence, very early assessment. Obviously,
they did very little investigation to say that there was
not much damage. And had there really been not much damage,
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we would have been in there again and so at Israel.
Like I just said, but seeing and I listened. I
listened to CNN on the drive home yesterday, and they
were rabid with this story. They wanted it to be true.
Why do you want it to be true. Why don't
you want I mean, why why would you twist the
facts or ignore the facts or jump too early on
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a story.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Why would you do that?
Speaker 1 (11:51):
I know why you let me do it. We all
know why they do it. I just I just remember
the old CNN white I used to work there. Used
to be just a tremendous news operation and you really
could trust it, you know, you really, especially in time
of breaking more, any kind of breaking news, that would
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be the first place you go. Now they're dismantling it.
I mean, and they're they're they're doing new corporate restructuring,
they're letting go much of the expensive staff. It's probably
going to be a headline service before long. Seriously, I'm
not kidding. I mean, but they they did it to themselves. Plus,
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nobody's interested in news anymore. Don't say that, Well, they're
not interested in straight news like CNN used to do,
because if they did, CNN or try to do that.
But CNN tried to be, you know the opposite of Fox,
which occasionally has some hours of straight news, but mostly
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it's an opinion, often overheated opinion, and that that's what
drives the big ratings their news hours. Don't get anything
near their their opinion hours, and people confuse the opinion
shows with the news shows, like they confuse me with you.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
Yeah, I mean, look, I have plenty of opinions, but
as a newsperson, I'm not supposed.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
You have no idea the opinion she has. You think
I'm nuts.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
I have to temper it because I have to be gay.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
I don't know what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Maybe I have to get you liquored up, but I
want I want Deborah unleashed.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Okay, but here's the thing. What if our bosses happen
to be listening.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
They don't, that's true.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
But if they are listening and they hear me not
be objective, then what are you going to do when
I get fired as the newsperson? Are you going to
protect me?
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Of course I'm going to, yes, okay.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
And plus your opinions are correct, Okay, why why what's
the big deal about objective? If you have an opinion
your opinion is right, that's better than that being objective.
In fact, why that is being objective? You're telling the truth.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
But but again that's skewed because my opinion is it's
it's an opinion.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Other people are wrong.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
I mean, thank you for having you know so much,
uh your opinions.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
I know, I know, I know you're very volatile.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
But as a news person and.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
People have the wrong impression of you. Yes they did,
And I think if they heard what you're like off
the air, I chercle.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
People think they know me so well because I don't
eat animal products.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
I know that's the vegan thing, throwing things.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
I just got agitated. I see.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
You must be fun to be with at home. You
start throwing plates and that's what I do at home?
Is it?
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Oh yeah, I stand on my bed knife. Oh god,
your poor wife.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
All right, we come back. We're gonna do a rundown
of what's going on with Cynthy Gonzales, the vice mayor
of kut of Hey. She's still the vice mayor. She's
still in the La School district.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
I think so she.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Called on all the gang members. Yesterday we found another
clip of her. You know, she's buddies with Karen Bass.
She was appearing at a Karen Bass news conference recently.
What do you know the connections Karen Bass has with
all the radicals in this city, from taxpayer finance Turla
to this lunatic Wannabie Gang member sent the Gonzales.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
We'll get to all that coming up.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
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six forty.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
All right, just one thing left over from Trump and
the bad information that CNN broadcast about how all the
bombing of the Iranian nuclear facilities actually didn't accomplish month much.
Here's the problem. There was a Defense intelligence agency that
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had a low confidence preliminary assessment. They didn't have anybody
on the ground. I don't know how they came up
with this. It wasn't meant to be released.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
There is.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
An internal system called cap that the administration uses to
share classified information with Congress. All administrations have this with Congress.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
Right.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
It's a way to transmit classified reports because they're classified.
They're not meant for public broadcast, public consumption. And what
you have with early assessments, they're often wrong. Who knows
where they got this assessment from, but it was wildly wrong.
Somebody leaked it. Somebody in a congressional office leaked it.
The DIA's assessment was put on cap net late Monday.
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The next afternoon, CNN and The New York Times reported
snippets of the assessment, and the early reports indicated that
the program had been set back by a matter of
months instead of being obliterated. And now the White House
says they're not going to share classified documents with anybody
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because you can't trust anybody in Congress. Go figure, almost
as soon as we put the information out on it leaks.
There's no reason to do this again. The assessment was
put together twenty four hours after the bombing and was
based on a review of satellite photos and not on
the ground witnesses. It was one early snapshot from only
one of eighteen agencies in the intelligence community, and it
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was marked as low confidence. It was to be used
as a tool to guide whether the administration wanted to
bomb again. So it was a nonsense report.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
It was wrong, and of course it.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Was wildly overhyped with blaring graphics and headlines that see
at end of the New York Times. All right, let's
get on to this Cynthia Gonzalez. You remember her from yesterday.
She is the vice mayor. I want to get all
our credentials. Credentials are very important. Vice mayor of Cuta Haey,
which is a small city, mostly Latino in southwest La
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County and she's been with LAUSD for twenty three years teacher, administrator, principal.
She ran for the school board endorsed by the LA Times.
She's got four degrees, a bachelor's degree and then two
master's degrees and a doctorate in education from UCLA. And
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she takes all those credentials, all that allegibility and posts
this video of herself on social.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
Media not for nothing, But I want to know where
all the trollos are at.
Speaker 7 (18:32):
In Los Angeles, Eighteenth Street, Florentia. Where's the leadership at?
Because you guys are all.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
About territory and this is Eighteenth Street and this is
soord Anthea you they tag everything up payming hood and
now that your hood's being invaded by the biggest gang.
Speaker 7 (18:47):
There is, there ain't a peep out of you. It's
everyone else who's not about the gang.
Speaker 6 (18:52):
Life that's out there protesting and speaking up.
Speaker 8 (18:55):
We're out there life fighting, Arthur, protecting our tur protecting
our people, And like where you at?
Speaker 7 (19:04):
Are you at? Dude? They're running amuck all up in
your on your seat, on your streets and in your
city where you at? And the big gang guns come in? Nothing?
But like why we're out here, the regular ones that
have never.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
Been jumped in out here calling things down, trying to
organize people trying to do the thing.
Speaker 7 (19:24):
So don't be trying to clean no block, no nothing.
Speaker 6 (19:27):
If you're not showing up right now trying to like
help out and organize, I don't want to hear a
peep out of you once they're gone, trying to claim
that this is my block.
Speaker 7 (19:36):
This was not your block. You weren't even here helping out.
So whoever's the leadership over there, just can get your
members in order.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
The Los Angeles Police Protective League, she was calling out
the Eighteenth Street Gang and the Florencia Street Gang. Police
protectively says both gangs have been have a known history
of murdering police officers, citing the killing of Officer Phil
beck Ouestra by an Eighteenth Street Gang member in nineteen
ninety eight and several Florencia Gang members who were convicted
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in twenty twenty two of the murder of another officer,
Fernando Arroyos.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
I remember that one.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
And in two thousand and one, there were reports that
the Eighteenth Street Gang had placed a bounty for wounding
or murdering La police officers. So she was alive and
cut a hay for all this. She knows what they've done.
They have killed LAPD officers several times, these two gangs,
and basically was putting out the hit, putting out the
call for them to hit on ICE agents. Does ICE
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have a response to yees?
Speaker 4 (20:37):
So I was just looking on X and a senior
ICE official wrote Vice Mayor Cynthia Gonzalez, calling for the
vicious Eighteenth Street Gang and others to fight federal law
enforcement on the streets of LA is disgusting. This type
of dangerous rhetoric from elected officials in California is fueling
violence against those enforcing our nation's laws, who are already
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facing a five hundred percent increase in officer assaults. Roving
gang of murderers, rapists, and drug peddlers are not going
to protect American communities. ICE and federal partners are working
to protect public safety every day, contrary to the lies
spread by disingenuous elected officials.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Disingenuous that's a fancy polite word for liars. Yet Cynthia
Cynthia Gonzales challenges wanna be cop killers to go out
and kill cops. That's what we have and wouldn't you
know she is pals with Karen Bass. When we come back,
I'm going to play you a clip. She was part
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of a number of local public officials who stood with
Karen Bass on June eleventh at a press conference when
Bass wanted to heavily criticize ICE for enforcing federal law. Yes,
she was standing there and she spoke, and she didn't
sound anything like she did on her street video. This
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was the educated Cynthia good Zalas, the one with all
the degrees.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am
six forty.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
We were going through this incredibly idiotic post by the
vice mayor of Cuta Hae, Cynthia Gonzales, inviting two violent gangs,
Eighteenth Street Gang and the Florencia Gang to come to
Cuta Haey and I guess start killing law enforcements such
as ICE officers.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
And Channel five has.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
A report from about the LA Police Protective League that
I just told you in the last segment that they
went through the rich history of Eighteenth Street Gang members
killing police officers and Florencia Gang members killing LAPD officers.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
As late as twenty twenty two.
Speaker 9 (22:50):
So John, can I tell you earlier? This is Heather
By the way, can I tell you earlier? We got
a call in the newsroom. This man said, I am
an actual gang member, and he said, I want to
let you know that none of us gang members are
taking her seriously because that's not our code. We don't
live by that code, and that's not how we operate.
So they will strike when they want to strike on
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their terms, I guess, but he was saying that that's
not that's not how they operate, so they're not listening
to her.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
So it's good to know the gang members have some decency.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
He was like, let me talk to John. I'll tell
him what's up. I gave him her You keep no thanks.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
You could just keep passing messages right here is now
here's the Here's the opposite side of Cynthia Gonzales. She
was trying to be a street girl in the clip
that we've been playing here Karen bass of course, Karen
Basque pass asks her to speak at a press conference
denouncing ice on June eleventh with the other with a
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group of La County officials.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Listen to the way she speaks here.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
Good morning everyone, my name's doctor Cynthia Gonzales. I'm the
vice mayor for the city of Kadahe the Sela region,
and although the raids haven't happened in our small city,
they are happening in southeast.
Speaker 7 (24:08):
Los Angeles pretty heavily. And we stand united.
Speaker 10 (24:11):
And I also want to speak to Americans, especially to
those who have allowed our community to be the scapegoat
of this administration that made you feel that your American
dream hasn't happened because of us. I have a doctorate degree.
Speaker 8 (24:26):
All of us here are successful and.
Speaker 7 (24:29):
We are educated with our.
Speaker 8 (24:31):
Community behind us, documented or not undocumented people, the communities
that we represent where I grew up, they did not
interfere at all with my ability to be successful or
achieve the American dream.
Speaker 7 (24:43):
If at all, they helped. They helped feed us.
Speaker 8 (24:46):
They help take care of my daughter when I needed
babysitting and I couldn't have family members do it.
Speaker 7 (24:51):
There are neighbors.
Speaker 8 (24:52):
We don't ask our neighbors whether they have documentation or not.
Speaker 7 (24:56):
We are all united, and we are all here.
Speaker 8 (24:59):
And if you should have anger, it should be for
the goodding of medicaid. It should be for the goodding
of your social security and this should be for corporate
greed because that is who they're after, and they're using
our brown bodies to avoid the conversation that this administration
is a failure.
Speaker 7 (25:15):
And they do not know how to legislate.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Well, that's within normal boundaries of what political officials do.
She's wrong still because Ice is just enforcing the law.
But she could offer moral support for the legal immigrants
if she wants to. But look, as Heather said, even
the gang members are saying, whoa, this is over the line,
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calling on gang members basically.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
To kill police. Now, I don't know how. I don't
know how.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Ella Unified School District could have her as a teacher
or an administrator or a prince. How UCLA could have
her as a director of equity, How they could have
her as vice mayor of cut A.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Hey, how can this be?
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Even a gang member is calling it and saying, oh,
that's too far, that's too much. It's awful. But I
want to remind you she was standing next to Karen Bass.
She was invited by Karen Bass to speak at this
press conference to denounce Ice. This is these are the
radical people in the radical groups that Bass is deeply
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connected to like Churla giving out the Rapid Response Network information.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
In fact, I've got a.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
I've got a post here that she put on X
from Karen Bass, and this is about the LA Times
story may have heard. The LA Time says that most
of the people captured so far, we're not criminals, and
Bass says, confirming what we knew all along, this is
not about going after criminals. It's about chasing people through
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home depot parking lots. This does not make LA safer,
but you don't want them even going after criminals. You
created sanctuary, which explicitly included sanctuary for the criminals. You
can't have it both ways. She has never said one
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word about how wrong it is to harbor violent criminals
in Los Angeles. And she does and so does Newsome,
And she's very close to the organizations that fund the riots.
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She's very close to whack jobs like Cynthia Gonzalezes who's
calling on gangs to kill police. Where's Karen Bass's statement saying,
you can't be an elected office, you can't be an educator,
you can't be running a program at UCLA and calling
for gangs to shoot police officers or shoot ice officers.
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There's no I don't see a tweet on that. I
don't see a post, I don't see anything. She fools
people because she's got a nice smile and a grandmotherly demeanor,
but she's a crazy, whack job radical underneath. Look at
what she says, look at her policies. All Right, this
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one's not gonna go away. Conway is next. Heather Brooker
is live in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hey,
you've been listening to The John Cobalt Show podcast. You
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Speaker 2 (00:00):
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That's the podcast version. Yesterday afternoon. During the show, there
was a moment where I looked up at the TV
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screens and I don't watch much cable news. I really
don't because I don't I don't want their agendas in
my head. I don't want their topic selection, their attitude.
They're a bit nothing I want to I'd rather read
about things. That's how I get most of my information.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
I read.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
But we keep it on because you never know when
something spectacular is going to happen. Right there could be
a car chase. And so Fox is on and CNN
is on and usually one of the local stations. And
I look up and Fox and CNN had exactly opposite
graphics on the screen. Fox saying that the nuclear sites
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in Era and Iran were obliterated, and CNN said, uh,
not much damage. I turned to the New York Times
and they just they had they had this rolling scroll.
For every few minutes they added another short story, you know,
the updates, the headlines and so on. The scroll was
not much damage. And I'm looking and I'm thinking, Okay,
(01:26):
somebody's really wrong here. Somebody's really right, and somebody's really
wrong because they were extreme statements. It was neither one
was a middle ground statement. And I should have bet
that if there was one wrong, it would have been
the CNN story, because I was just going through my
head all the wrong big CNN stories such as the
(01:49):
Russian hoax. All right, CNN was out on front with that,
and that beat that to death for three years turned
out to be fictitious. Then you had the Hunter Biden
laptop claiming the laptop story was a fake. Well, no,
it was extremely real. What else did they have? Oh yeah, yeah,
(02:09):
that the that the virus, the COVID virus, started in
an animal market, not in the lab where they were
experimenting on the virus trying to make it stronger with
our tax Bundy. I'm thinking, oh my god, all these
telling me and telling us that Joe Biden was sharp
(02:32):
and energetic and governing the country with great strength and energy.
I'm thinking just about every single big story they lift done. Now,
if you're sloppy, you have bad sources. I mean, everybody
makes mistakes, but if you're consistently sloppy or wrong on
(02:52):
the biggest stories, you have to look at like, okay, well,
what direction are you wrong? And in every single case,
it was wrong against the Trump administration. Everything they never
accidentally was wrong on something that they never accidentally supported Trump.
(03:15):
It was always supportive Biden and against Trump. And CNN
is just just near perfect with that record. And I
was watching this and then I found out the headlines
this morning, Actually we did a tremendous amount of destruction
and everybody's agreeing on that, and I'm thinking, why do
I even like I have it on now? I was like,
why do I have it on? I don't want to
(03:36):
be distracted by it? And then say, oh, there's a
new headline, there's a new graphic on CNN. This's just happened.
It's like, I don't know, what are the odds that's wrong?
Like eighty twenty here's what's the truth? It looks like, Well,
first of all, the report that CNN was flogging came
(03:58):
from some low level leaker at the Department of the
called the DA Defense Intelligence Agency. It was a preliminary
low confidence report. Low confidence report? What is that? What
is a low confidence report? It means, ah, maybe it's true.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Who releases a low confidence report. You're asking me to
this happen, could have happened. I don't know, can't prove it.
I got a feeling.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
But hey, who knows. That's not a report. That's not knows.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
That's somebody who has an inkling but doesn't have any
doesn't have any evidence, doesn't have a conclusion. Low confidence report. Well, here,
here's the uh, here are the confidence opinions. The Israel
(05:03):
Defense Forces Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Ayal Zamir says
the nuclear program of Iran has been significantly damaged. The
Israel Atomic Energy Commission said the US strikes devastating.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Iran.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Hmm, let's take their opinion. The Foreign Ministry spokesman Ismael
Bogey said our nuclear installations have been badly damaged.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
That's for sure.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
That's the Iranian guy. Let's keep going here. Marco Rubio
says the story that CNN had was a false story
and it shouldn't be re reported because it doesn't accurately
reflect what's happening. Everything underneath that mountain is in bad shape.
(05:52):
What would have to be We dropped, you know, we
dropped two hundred and fifty pounds of bomb on that
main site. Rubio said it was complete and total obliteration.
The International Atomic Energy Director the General, the Director General
Rafael Marianna Grossi said very significant damage.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Uh. He said.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
At the s Fahan nuclear site, additional buildings were hit
with the US confirming their use of cruise missiles. Then
there were three different buildings and there were different operations
going on. There were operations to enrich the uranium. If
you enrich it up to about three five percent, you
could use it for commercial purposes. They were at about
sixty percent headed towards ninety. At ninety you can have
(06:42):
a nuclear weapon. Well, you also need to convert the
uranium so that it can become a weapon. And we
not only dropped two hundred and fifty thousand pounds of
bombs from those B two, we also had many many crews, missiles.
(07:03):
We had. We had like a one hundred and twenty
five aircraft B two stealth bombers, dozens and dozens of
air refueling tankers, multiple fighter jets, a guided missile, submarine, intelligence,
surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft, hundreds of maintenance operational professionals, one
hundred and twenty five and nobody got hurt. Nobody got
(07:26):
hurt down below underneath the bombs, and none of our
none of our military men got hurt flying all those planes.
So I I The one thing is if you're if
you're a sharp, smart person, what's happened since then? We
(07:49):
haven't got in there to do more bombing. The Israelis
haven't got in there. What does that tell you?
Speaker 2 (07:58):
If if they had any sin that anything.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Useful from these nuclear installations survived, the Israelis would be
bombing the crap out of the place, and so would we.
We'd send the bombers back in there to do it
all over again. You notice nobody's flying.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Back in.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
And Iran is quiet. They're not doing anything. In fact,
they want to come and negotiate. Just use your eyes,
it'll tell you what's going on there. I'm gonna turn
off CNN.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Now you're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
All right, this is just from Trump's truth social I
heard him talk about this this morning. He wants to
rename the Department of Defense and make it the Department
of War that used to be the name, like back
in World War two days and somewhere along the line,
(09:07):
we got soft and instead of war it's defense. Well,
he wrote Secretary of Defense and in parentheses war with
an exclamation point. Pete Hegseth with military representatives, will be
holding a major news conference tomorrow morning, eight am Eastern
at the Pentagon in order to fight for the dignity
(09:29):
of our great American pilots. Each word capitalized. These patriots
were very upset. After thirty six hours of dangerously flying
through enemy territory, they landed. They knew success was legendary
all caps, and then two days later they started reading
fake news by CNN and the failing New York Times.
They felt terribly fortunately for them and as usual, solely
(09:52):
for the purpose of demeaning President Donald J. Trump, the
fake news Time and CNN lied totally misrepresented the facts,
none of which they had because it was too soon,
there were no facts out there yet. The news conference
will prove both interesting and irrefutable. Enjoy so they that's
(10:12):
a heartfelt invitation of course that's five am. I don't
know why on every single issue the media is so
coiled up to declare everything he does a failure. You know,
it's clear he's kind of nuts and he takes a
(10:36):
lot of risky gambles, but he's right on a lot
of things. And it's so it's great. If you're a journalists,
you should be skeptical. You shouldn't believe anybody anything, anybody
in power says. But you get this low level leak
and they think it was someone in a congressional office
(10:59):
that leaked it.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
It was classified material.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Congress congress people have been complaining that they didn't get
enough of a heads up on this, they didn't get
the classified briefing. Well, this is why you don't give
out classified briefings. This was a low confidence, very early assessment. Obviously,
they did very little investigation to say that there was
not much damage. And had there really been not much damage,
(11:26):
we would have been in there again and so at Israel.
Like I just said, but seeing and I listened. I
listened to CNN on the drive home yesterday, and they
were rabid with this story. They wanted it to be true.
Why do you want it to be true. Why don't
you want I mean, why why would you twist the
facts or ignore the facts or jump too early on
(11:48):
a story.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Why would you do that?
Speaker 1 (11:51):
I know why you let me do it. We all
know why they do it. I just I just remember
the old CNN white I used to work there. Used
to be just a tremendous news operation and you really
could trust it, you know, you really, especially in time
of breaking more, any kind of breaking news, that would
(12:11):
be the first place you go. Now they're dismantling it.
I mean, and they're they're they're doing new corporate restructuring,
they're letting go much of the expensive staff. It's probably
going to be a headline service before long. Seriously, I'm
not kidding. I mean, but they they did it to themselves. Plus,
(12:33):
nobody's interested in news anymore. Don't say that, Well, they're
not interested in straight news like CNN used to do,
because if they did, CNN or try to do that.
But CNN tried to be, you know the opposite of Fox,
which occasionally has some hours of straight news, but mostly
(12:53):
it's an opinion, often overheated opinion, and that that's what
drives the big ratings their news hours. Don't get anything
near their their opinion hours, and people confuse the opinion
shows with the news shows, like they confuse me with you.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
Yeah, I mean, look, I have plenty of opinions, but
as a newsperson, I'm not supposed.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
You have no idea the opinion she has. You think
I'm nuts.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
I have to temper it because I have to be gay.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
I don't know what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Maybe I have to get you liquored up, but I
want I want Deborah unleashed.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Okay, but here's the thing. What if our bosses happen
to be listening.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
They don't, that's true.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
But if they are listening and they hear me not
be objective, then what are you going to do when
I get fired as the newsperson? Are you going to
protect me?
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Of course I'm going to, yes, okay.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
And plus your opinions are correct, Okay, why why what's
the big deal about objective? If you have an opinion
your opinion is right, that's better than that being objective.
In fact, why that is being objective? You're telling the truth.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
But but again that's skewed because my opinion is it's
it's an opinion.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Other people are wrong.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
I mean, thank you for having you know so much,
uh your opinions.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
I know, I know, I know you're very volatile.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
But as a news person and.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
People have the wrong impression of you. Yes they did,
And I think if they heard what you're like off
the air, I chercle.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
People think they know me so well because I don't
eat animal products.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
I know that's the vegan thing, throwing things.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
I just got agitated. I see.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
You must be fun to be with at home. You
start throwing plates and that's what I do at home?
Is it?
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Oh yeah, I stand on my bed knife. Oh god,
your poor wife.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
All right, we come back. We're gonna do a rundown
of what's going on with Cynthy Gonzales, the vice mayor
of kut of Hey. She's still the vice mayor. She's
still in the La School district.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
I think so she.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Called on all the gang members. Yesterday we found another
clip of her. You know, she's buddies with Karen Bass.
She was appearing at a Karen Bass news conference recently.
What do you know the connections Karen Bass has with
all the radicals in this city, from taxpayer finance Turla
to this lunatic Wannabie Gang member sent the Gonzales.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
We'll get to all that coming up.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
All right, just one thing left over from Trump and
the bad information that CNN broadcast about how all the
bombing of the Iranian nuclear facilities actually didn't accomplish month much.
Here's the problem. There was a Defense intelligence agency that
(15:45):
had a low confidence preliminary assessment. They didn't have anybody
on the ground. I don't know how they came up
with this. It wasn't meant to be released.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
There is.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
An internal system called cap that the administration uses to
share classified information with Congress. All administrations have this with Congress.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
Right.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
It's a way to transmit classified reports because they're classified.
They're not meant for public broadcast, public consumption. And what
you have with early assessments, they're often wrong. Who knows
where they got this assessment from, but it was wildly wrong.
Somebody leaked it. Somebody in a congressional office leaked it.
The DIA's assessment was put on cap net late Monday.
(16:32):
The next afternoon, CNN and The New York Times reported
snippets of the assessment, and the early reports indicated that
the program had been set back by a matter of
months instead of being obliterated. And now the White House
says they're not going to share classified documents with anybody
(16:54):
because you can't trust anybody in Congress. Go figure, almost
as soon as we put the information out on it leaks.
There's no reason to do this again. The assessment was
put together twenty four hours after the bombing and was
based on a review of satellite photos and not on
the ground witnesses. It was one early snapshot from only
one of eighteen agencies in the intelligence community, and it
(17:16):
was marked as low confidence. It was to be used
as a tool to guide whether the administration wanted to
bomb again. So it was a nonsense report.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
It was wrong, and of course it.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Was wildly overhyped with blaring graphics and headlines that see
at end of the New York Times. All right, let's
get on to this Cynthia Gonzalez. You remember her from yesterday.
She is the vice mayor. I want to get all
our credentials. Credentials are very important. Vice mayor of Cuta Haey,
which is a small city, mostly Latino in southwest La
(17:56):
County and she's been with LAUSD for twenty three years teacher, administrator, principal.
She ran for the school board endorsed by the LA Times.
She's got four degrees, a bachelor's degree and then two
master's degrees and a doctorate in education from UCLA. And
(18:17):
she takes all those credentials, all that allegibility and posts
this video of herself on social.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
Media not for nothing, But I want to know where
all the trollos are at.
Speaker 7 (18:32):
In Los Angeles, Eighteenth Street, Florentia. Where's the leadership at?
Because you guys are all.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
About territory and this is Eighteenth Street and this is
soord Anthea you they tag everything up payming hood and
now that your hood's being invaded by the biggest gang.
Speaker 7 (18:47):
There is, there ain't a peep out of you. It's
everyone else who's not about the gang.
Speaker 6 (18:52):
Life that's out there protesting and speaking up.
Speaker 8 (18:55):
We're out there life fighting, Arthur, protecting our tur protecting
our people, And like where you at?
Speaker 7 (19:04):
Are you at? Dude? They're running amuck all up in
your on your seat, on your streets and in your
city where you at? And the big gang guns come in? Nothing?
But like why we're out here, the regular ones that
have never.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
Been jumped in out here calling things down, trying to
organize people trying to do the thing.
Speaker 7 (19:24):
So don't be trying to clean no block, no nothing.
Speaker 6 (19:27):
If you're not showing up right now trying to like
help out and organize, I don't want to hear a
peep out of you once they're gone, trying to claim
that this is my block.
Speaker 7 (19:36):
This was not your block. You weren't even here helping out.
So whoever's the leadership over there, just can get your
members in order.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
The Los Angeles Police Protective League, she was calling out
the Eighteenth Street Gang and the Florencia Street Gang. Police
protectively says both gangs have been have a known history
of murdering police officers, citing the killing of Officer Phil
beck Ouestra by an Eighteenth Street Gang member in nineteen
ninety eight and several Florencia Gang members who were convicted
(20:06):
in twenty twenty two of the murder of another officer,
Fernando Arroyos.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
I remember that one.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
And in two thousand and one, there were reports that
the Eighteenth Street Gang had placed a bounty for wounding
or murdering La police officers. So she was alive and
cut a hay for all this. She knows what they've done.
They have killed LAPD officers several times, these two gangs,
and basically was putting out the hit, putting out the
call for them to hit on ICE agents. Does ICE
(20:36):
have a response to yees?
Speaker 4 (20:37):
So I was just looking on X and a senior
ICE official wrote Vice Mayor Cynthia Gonzalez, calling for the
vicious Eighteenth Street Gang and others to fight federal law
enforcement on the streets of LA is disgusting. This type
of dangerous rhetoric from elected officials in California is fueling
violence against those enforcing our nation's laws, who are already
(20:58):
facing a five hundred percent increase in officer assaults. Roving
gang of murderers, rapists, and drug peddlers are not going
to protect American communities. ICE and federal partners are working
to protect public safety every day, contrary to the lies
spread by disingenuous elected officials.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Disingenuous that's a fancy polite word for liars. Yet Cynthia
Cynthia Gonzales challenges wanna be cop killers to go out
and kill cops. That's what we have and wouldn't you
know she is pals with Karen Bass. When we come back,
I'm going to play you a clip. She was part
(21:37):
of a number of local public officials who stood with
Karen Bass on June eleventh at a press conference when
Bass wanted to heavily criticize ICE for enforcing federal law. Yes,
she was standing there and she spoke, and she didn't
sound anything like she did on her street video. This
(21:58):
was the educated Cynthia good Zalas, the one with all
the degrees.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am
six forty.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
We were going through this incredibly idiotic post by the
vice mayor of Cuta Hae, Cynthia Gonzales, inviting two violent gangs,
Eighteenth Street Gang and the Florencia Gang to come to
Cuta Haey and I guess start killing law enforcements such
as ICE officers.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
And Channel five has.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
A report from about the LA Police Protective League that
I just told you in the last segment that they
went through the rich history of Eighteenth Street Gang members
killing police officers and Florencia Gang members killing LAPD officers.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
As late as twenty twenty two.
Speaker 9 (22:50):
So John, can I tell you earlier? This is Heather
By the way, can I tell you earlier? We got
a call in the newsroom. This man said, I am
an actual gang member, and he said, I want to
let you know that none of us gang members are
taking her seriously because that's not our code. We don't
live by that code, and that's not how we operate.
So they will strike when they want to strike on
(23:12):
their terms, I guess, but he was saying that that's
not that's not how they operate, so they're not listening
to her.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
So it's good to know the gang members have some decency.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
He was like, let me talk to John. I'll tell
him what's up. I gave him her You keep no thanks.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
You could just keep passing messages right here is now
here's the Here's the opposite side of Cynthia Gonzales. She
was trying to be a street girl in the clip
that we've been playing here Karen bass of course, Karen
Basque pass asks her to speak at a press conference
denouncing ice on June eleventh with the other with a
(23:51):
group of La County officials.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Listen to the way she speaks here.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
Good morning everyone, my name's doctor Cynthia Gonzales. I'm the
vice mayor for the city of Kadahe the Sela region,
and although the raids haven't happened in our small city,
they are happening in southeast.
Speaker 7 (24:08):
Los Angeles pretty heavily. And we stand united.
Speaker 10 (24:11):
And I also want to speak to Americans, especially to
those who have allowed our community to be the scapegoat
of this administration that made you feel that your American
dream hasn't happened because of us. I have a doctorate degree.
Speaker 8 (24:26):
All of us here are successful and.
Speaker 7 (24:29):
We are educated with our.
Speaker 8 (24:31):
Community behind us, documented or not undocumented people, the communities
that we represent where I grew up, they did not
interfere at all with my ability to be successful or
achieve the American dream.
Speaker 7 (24:43):
If at all, they helped. They helped feed us.
Speaker 8 (24:46):
They help take care of my daughter when I needed
babysitting and I couldn't have family members do it.
Speaker 7 (24:51):
There are neighbors.
Speaker 8 (24:52):
We don't ask our neighbors whether they have documentation or not.
Speaker 7 (24:56):
We are all united, and we are all here.
Speaker 8 (24:59):
And if you should have anger, it should be for
the goodding of medicaid. It should be for the goodding
of your social security and this should be for corporate
greed because that is who they're after, and they're using
our brown bodies to avoid the conversation that this administration
is a failure.
Speaker 7 (25:15):
And they do not know how to legislate.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Well, that's within normal boundaries of what political officials do.
She's wrong still because Ice is just enforcing the law.
But she could offer moral support for the legal immigrants
if she wants to. But look, as Heather said, even
the gang members are saying, whoa, this is over the line,
(25:42):
calling on gang members basically.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
To kill police. Now, I don't know how. I don't
know how.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Ella Unified School District could have her as a teacher
or an administrator or a prince. How UCLA could have
her as a director of equity, How they could have
her as vice mayor of cut A.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Hey, how can this be?
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Even a gang member is calling it and saying, oh,
that's too far, that's too much. It's awful. But I
want to remind you she was standing next to Karen Bass.
She was invited by Karen Bass to speak at this
press conference to denounce Ice. This is these are the
radical people in the radical groups that Bass is deeply
(26:37):
connected to like Churla giving out the Rapid Response Network information.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
In fact, I've got a.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
I've got a post here that she put on X
from Karen Bass, and this is about the LA Times
story may have heard. The LA Time says that most
of the people captured so far, we're not criminals, and
Bass says, confirming what we knew all along, this is
not about going after criminals. It's about chasing people through
(27:07):
home depot parking lots. This does not make LA safer,
but you don't want them even going after criminals. You
created sanctuary, which explicitly included sanctuary for the criminals. You
can't have it both ways. She has never said one
(27:30):
word about how wrong it is to harbor violent criminals
in Los Angeles. And she does and so does Newsome,
And she's very close to the organizations that fund the riots.
(27:53):
She's very close to whack jobs like Cynthia Gonzalezes who's
calling on gangs to kill police. Where's Karen Bass's statement saying,
you can't be an elected office, you can't be an educator,
you can't be running a program at UCLA and calling
for gangs to shoot police officers or shoot ice officers.
(28:14):
There's no I don't see a tweet on that. I
don't see a post, I don't see anything. She fools
people because she's got a nice smile and a grandmotherly demeanor,
but she's a crazy, whack job radical underneath. Look at
what she says, look at her policies. All Right, this
(28:38):
one's not gonna go away. Conway is next. Heather Brooker
is live in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hey,
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