February 14, 2025 • 34 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (02/14) - Pres. Trump's Deputy Assistant and Principal Deputy Communications Director Alex Pfeiffer comes on the show to talk about immigration activists vowing to disrupt ICE raids in California. There has been a reverse flow at the border as illegal immigrants are turning around and going back to their country. Michael Monks comes on the show to talk about his news special airing this weekend on KFI called "LA Fires - A Path Forward". Antonio Villaraigosa's latest divorce is final.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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and we're gonna start up. We're going to talk with
representative for the White House because we have a series
of media leaks that are trying to undermine the immigration
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rates that Tom Homan and Trump are trying to pull
off here. And it's happened in Aurora, Colorado, it happened
in San Francisco, and also in Los Angeles. The La
Times had some leaked documents warning of a large scale
immigration raid coming uh sometime this month. Uh, We're gonna
talk out with Alex Speiffer, Alex's deputy Assistant to the
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President and principal deputy communications director, and we're going to
talk about these matters, Alex, how are you I'm doing.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Great, John Pleasure on your show.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
It's good to have you on. So how how much
interference are you getting from leakers inside the government and
these these advocate advocacy journalists who are spreading the word
to try to thwart the raids? How how how difficult
a problem has it been?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Look I Tom homans As and DJ Secretary Christy Noma's
spoken about this. Obviously, these leaks put ICE officers lives
in danger, and they're getting to the bottom of who's
responsible for it and will hold them to account. But
one thing I want your listeners to know about is
who you mentioned activists who are trying to, you know,
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stop raids. Who are these activists un to protect? So
I actually have a list here of some of the
illegal immigrants that are arrested by ICE yesterday. So yesterday
in ICE in Chicago, they arrested an illegal immigrant from
Mexico who have been convicted of sexual assaults. ICE in
Houston arrested in legal immigrant from Mexico who have been
convicted of aggravated sexual assault of a child. In Philadelphia,
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ICE arrested an illegal immigrant from Portugal who'd been convicted
of sexual exploitation of a minor and with child pornography
in Saint Paul Ice arrested, and illegal immigrant from South
Sudan who'd been convicted of homicide.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
You get the point.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Uh, These activists who don't want ICE to arrest criminal
legal legal immigrants are you know, quite literally trying to
defend murders and rapists from being arrested. And while you know,
leaks about raids are unfortunate, look, ICE is not. ICE
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is undeterred and fulfilling. It's it's mission. You know. I
also have to here some stats for you that I
think your listeners find interesting. So these are the increase
in arrests. This is comparing January twentieth, twenty twenty four
to February eighth, twenty twenty four. It's at the same
time period this year. So arrests of illegal immigrants with
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criminal histories is up ninety nine percent. Arrests of futuive
LLEO immigrants at large is of one hundred and fifty
six percent. We have doubled the arrests of gang members.
So look, these elites are are awful and they're getting
to the bottom of the leaks because they put ICE
officers who are going out in harm's way in danger.
But ICE remains undeterred.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
We haven't had a big raid that I know of
here in Los Angeles. I'm not looking for a leak here,
But is Los Angeles on the target list eventually, because
I mean, we've got about a million of aliens literally.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Yeah, I'm sure ICE is busy in Los Angeles. I'm
not an ICE spokesperson, so I don't have the exact
details on all their operations and whatnot, but ICE is.
I mean, the other day I saw a report of
ICE making an arrest in Guam, so I think if
they're making an arrest in Guama, they're making arrest in
Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
The when you capture these people, and you do have
a lot of them, where are they going? Where are
they ending up? Because I see conflicting news reports that
some of them are headed to Guantanamo Bay. Some of
them have actually been released with monitors. So what's the
disposal it's been.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
I think it's over fifty who have already been to Guantanamo.
I don't have an exact number. And those have been
many of our members of the trend a Ragua. It's
a vicious gang from Venezuela. A lot are put into
immigration detention centers, many are deported. You referenced reports of
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how people released. It's like the last I checked, it's
like four percent of a you know, it's a small number,
and it's people with like medical problems and people who
aren't about to be deported anytime soon. But people are
being put into immigration detention and so the Guantanamo number,
they are having people sent there, but that's not like
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your standard illegal immigrant arrest that is going to Guantanamo.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Yeah. Yeah, there's no context with these stories. That's why
I asked. I would imagine that guantanmao obay are are
the most violent, and like you said, some of the
people have been released, there's extenuating circumstances.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
And we've sent we have sent trend to Aragua members
there and also not only have they gone to Guantanamo.
One thing that happened earlier this week that hasn't really
gotten much attention was a huge diplomatic victory and also
a victory for immigration enforcement is we were finally able
to send illegal immigrants back to Venezuela, and we sent
back flights of trend Aragua legal immigrants, and Venezuela under
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Biden was not accepting flights of illegals, so essentially they
were unable to deport a lee immigrants from Venezuela, and
now we're able.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
To do that.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
So that's a huge, huge advancement.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
I think it's stunning that in a matter of days
so much has been accomplished. And I know you have
a lot of people on the case and they're working
very hard, but in a way, it wasn't. It's not
that complicated an operation because you guys have pulled it
off very very quickly in three weeks. And it just
what was the upside for the Biden administration to let
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these really horrible criminals run free. I ask myself that
every day. It's like, well, why wouldn't they arrest these
guys two three four years ago? How was this doing
any good?
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I have no clue why they did that. It was
an abdication of the law, and especially coming from people
who always used to like to talk about the rule
of law and no one is above the law. Well,
they certainly thought that legal immigrants were about the law.
And the thing is, and this is an important point
is when you don't enforce the law in the interior country,
when you don't arrest illegal immigrants. And also, to be clear,
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the illegal legal the illegal immigrants arrested are legal immigrants
with final orders of removal from judges. So there are
judges that they go through the whole immigration court process.
It's adjudicated a judge as federal agents needed to arrest
you and deport you, and the Biden administration was ignoring that.
So they were just ignoring judges' orders. And because of
that you had the record amount of illegal immigration that
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happened the past administration. And now that we're actually finally
arresting immigrants and supporting them, you see the numbers that
are southern border have plummeted. I mean their border encounters
are down over ninety percent in Sumarias.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Yeah, I saw it was like three hundred and fifty
nine in the last week on average per dame.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
You're seeing, you're seeing the flow now go the other way. Yeah,
there was this this past weekend. Fox News had a
great story on these two me two cbpmmos about groups
of legal immigrants in Mexico who had turned around. There
was a great store in the Washington Times this week
about Panama and Costa Rica preparing for migrants to come
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the other way. The fourth largest city in Mexico, Puebla,
recently announced a labor reintegration program for the port of
llegal immigrants. So south of the border, all these countries
are preparing for a flow down. So you know, it's
been a switchless flips that's changed immediately.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
That's stunning, that's I mean, that's why Biden could have
done this and gotten a lot accomplished very quickly, and
chose not to. And you know that that question is
just still hanging in the airs, like why wouldn't you
do this? Looking at the kind of people that you
guys have been rounding up? Now, why wouldn't you do
this as soon as you found out these guys existed.
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It's just terrible.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
I have no clue. Maybe you can book them on
your show next Yeah, I can't get into the head
of that decision. But President Trump has wasted no time
when it comes to combating legal immigration or many other issues.
I mean, just today we had approval for new liquid
natural gas terminal. So whether it's on energy or also
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on the transgender issue, you've seen hospital, a hospital where
your station is in the children's hospital Los Angeles stopped
giving puberty blockers because of our executive orders.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Another one, Why would you do that? Why would you
do that to children? Why would you change their hormones
when when they're when they're underage. I mean, so much
of this stuff was insane, and yet it went on
for years. Well, Alex, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
To try to explain blocking puberty, puberty for minors and
not supporting rapists, I have no clue. I cannot give
an explanation of why people would did that because, as
you say, it makes no sense.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Yeah, all right, Alex, thanks for coming on. Appreciate the time.
I hope we can talk to you again soon. Yes,
I loved him, Alex Speiffer. And he's deputy assistant to president,
principal deputy communications director, and and and the and the
stuff that we just discussed. You could. That was one
of the things in the last few years is concepts
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were coming up like blocking puberty and children, or letting
violent people have committed violent sexual crimes against women and children,
letting them run free. It's like, how did you even
think of this? Why would you do this unless you
wanted to somehow just destroy the society, just ruin the country.
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I mean, all you end up is with women and
children getting sexually attacked. All you end up is with
children getting getting like with bizarre medical experiments performed on
their bodies and their systems, Like what how did you
think of this? And and what's the upside? At the
end of this, We've got more. I want to talk
more about the last thing he mentioned. Uh, there's story
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on the reverse flow. There's now illegal aliens going back
home after being blocked by Trump's border and the countries
in Central and South America are going to have to
deal with the reverse flow. That is next.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
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Speaker 1 (11:15):
Next segment, we're gonna have Michael Monks from KFI News.
He has prepared a two hour special on the fires
in Palisades in Altadena. You're going to hear interviews with
the survivors who fled their homes, journalists who covered the story,
government officials trying to figure out what to do. Next,
Michael Monks put it all together, and he's going to
talk about this special that's going to air twice this weekend.
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Saturday at seven pm and then Sunday at two pm,
and then'll come up after Debor's news here. All right,
So we just had Alex spiferon. He's one of the
assistants to Trump and a principal deputy communications director, not
just a deputy communications director, a principal deputy titles amused
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me all the time, and one of the things he
mentioned near the end of our discussion was reverse flow,
reverse flow of illegal aliens. You know how many times
in the last four years did you hear some talking
head passing gas, whether it was a politician like Kamala
Harris or that little troll Alejandro Majorcis the DHS secretary,
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or you know, some some stupid commentator on television, an
activist maybe, and they were saying, well, you know the
root causes of immigration, Well, actually, our immigration issue is
very complex. And then in three weeks the flow has dropped.
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At the height of the Biden clown show, ten thousand
illegal aliens a day reported over the Porter ten thousand
a day, this past week, three hundred and fifty nine
a day. So the root cause of all the illegal
immigration is the border was wide open. That's it. That's
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your complexity there. It's it's like if you leave your
front door open, you're gonna get all kinds of creatures
coming into the house. You're gonna get you know, stray
dogs and cats and raccoons and bees and wasps and
maybe a few homeless people. You close the door, nobody's
getting in. It's simple. And I you know, this is like,
this is like a life lesson whenever you hear somebody
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tell you. And it's very complicated. If they ever use
that that that ridiculous phrase root causes, you shut them down.
It's like, no, no, it's not a root cause. It
is go to the end result. The end result is
they're coming over the border. I actually don't care why
they're coming over the border. Who cares, It's that they
came over the border. So how do you stop that? Oh? Yeah,
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you close the border, right, you get all your border
forces together, and if anybody sneaks through, you tackle them
and send it back. And you do that enough and
as fast as the news spread in Central South America
that the border was wide open, and here's what you
say to the border patrol agents. Here's how you claim
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asylum that went that was processed very quickly through regular
media down in Central America, social media through these activist groups. Well,
it works in reverse. All this bad news is now
funneling through social media and traditional media and all the
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other ways that people get information. The story that Alex
Ffifer mentioned in the Washington Times, the reverse flow is
happening and other countries are helping us. They quote Mario
Zamara Cordero, who's Costa Rica's Minister of Public Security, said
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Costa Costa Rica is a path through nation for this phenomenon,
and he goes, we want to guarantee an orderly, legal,
humanitarian and safe migratory flow. For example, twenty six migrants
surprised the border authorities in Nicaragua. They were coming from
Honduras to Nicaragua, and at first Nicaragua said no, no,
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you're not getting in here. But then they explained, and
it's like, all right, we'll eat you through as long
as you keep going, as long as you go out
the back end. You can come through our front door.
You're going out the back door. It was twenty three
migrants from Venezuela, three from Cuba, some of them families,
some of them had children, and they had gone on
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a march north, and they got as far as a
town in Honduras, and then they got word of what
awaited them at the West Mexico border, which was a
collection of law enforcement agencies from Mexico and the US.
And they realized, we're going to run into a wall.
Why waste our time walking further from Honduras to the
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US border when they're just going to block us or
throw us back. And now that word spreads. Everybody's texting,
everybody's calling, and suddenly people back home they get the text,
they get the social media response. It's like, oh, all right,
parties over, We're too late. It's not going to happen.
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And I'm reading in the paper. I forget the New
York Times, are the Alley Times, doesn't matter. They're all
the same, all these progressives. And they framed it as, oh,
these poor people. You know, they'd already started their march
towards America and then in the middle of their journey,
truck closed the border, and this has now crushed their
dreams of coming to America. They always use the word
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dream because it's an emotionally manipulative word to make you
feel sorry going, Oh they had a dream. Somebody has
a dream doesn't mean we automatically have to pay for it.
Otherwise we'd be paying for eight billion dreams. Having a
dream does not entitle you to free entrance into anybody's country.
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And I always say, it's like, you go try this
in any other nation. For example, another SOB story they
were writing is how uncomfortable some people feel now in
the US because they are here illegally and they don't
know how long that's gonna last. But for somebody knocks
on the door and they feel uncomfortable, it's like, well, sorry,
there's no constitutional right to feel comfortable. There's no god
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given right to feel comfortable. If you put yourself in
an uncomfortable situation like moving illegally to another nation, well yeah,
you're gonna feel uncomfortable. In fact, if you feel sorry
about that, why don't you go and move illegally to
Nicaragua or Venezuela. You go there and see if you're comfortable. No,
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you're gonna be afraid that the Venezuelan police or the
gangs are gonna knock on your door and do god
knows what. So that's why you're supposed to stay where
you're legally entitled to stay. You know, we don't don't.
We don't nullifyle our laws because somebody has a dream,
you're gonna have to find another dream, or you're gonna
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have to go through the legitimate legal process of getting
to your dream. But it's not a free for all.
We're all eight billion people who have a dream get
to barge in here and cost us hundreds of billions
of dollars. Those days are over. More coming up. We
got Michael Monks to explain his two hour special this
weekend on the Fires.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
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six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
We are on from one n till four and then
after four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand. It's the podcast.
It's the same as a radio sir show. So if
you miss something, you can it's like a makeup. Also,
we got them whistling twice today at three twenty and
three point fifteen. Now Michael Monk's from KFI News this here.
Michael's working very hard and he's put together very quickly
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a two hour special that's going to run this Saturday
at seven pm and then again on Sunday at two pm.
And it's about all the aspects of the fires in Pasadena,
and I'm sorry Palisades and Altadena, interviewing survivors, journalists, government officials.
Michael is here to tell us about it. So what
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does this have a title? This thing?
Speaker 4 (19:32):
We're calling it La Fires A path forward, and so
we are doing a little bit of looking back and
a little bit of looking ahead. What happened and what
happens now, So a quick recap of how it all.
It's hard to believe it's only been six weeks. I mean,
it feels like it's been a long time because it's
just been so much all at once, and so many
different moving parts to this. Goodness knows, you spend enough
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time talking about it, so you know exactly all of
the moving pieces of this and all of the different
characters who have emerged during it, and a lot of
the tragedy as well well. So we spent some time
talking about the coverage. We spent some time talking to
victims who lost their homes, and we look at some
of the historic losses. But there's also some economic components
that are broader. You know, if you have a home
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insurance policy here in California, you might be paying more
we look at a study that just explained the widespread
economic devastation all of us could be facing very soon.
But we also look at some more uplifting things too,
the way that the community broadly has responded in La
probably more so than ever before in history.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
So we'll exploil that over two hours. I know in
the Palisades because I lived not far from there and
I've got a lot of friends. There were a lot
of parents who went to my kids' schools who were
in the Palisades, and there's just this overwhelming sadness and
a deep anger against the public officials who it's clear
nobody was prepared for this.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
I heard some pretty shocking perspectives because we were on
the air. We know that the winds were so bad
that day that the fires could not be fought from
the sky. It was just too dangerous. But to hear
from people on the ground say they didn't see the
fires being fought from the ground, it felt like a
betrayal to them by the public services they invest in
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and expect help from. And so that was a bit
disturbing to hear. Regardless of whether you were in the
Palisades or whether you were in Alta Dina. People seem betrayed.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Yeah. Yeah, there was like a complete breakdown in the system.
One of my close friends just called me a few
days ago. I knew he had gotten burned out, but
I hadn't heard from him in about six weeks, and
he called me and he told the whole story. And
he's trying to he's trying to protect his house. He
got a pump, it was pumping out of his swimming pool,
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and he got anti fire foam, so he was prepared
as best he could. Right, he had the pool of water,
he had the pump, he had the foam, and he's
coating his house with the water and the foam, and
then here come the flames and he had to bolt.
But he said it was five thirty in the afternoon
when he left. Now this is a full seven hours.
He goes he saw a single fire truck. That story
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is very common.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
One story I heard was a woman running to a
firetruck and saying, there are three houses on fire right
now on our street. Can you get up there? And
they said, there's nothing we can do. We have no water,
we have no resources to do anything for you. So
can you imagine with this disaster unfolding. You actually see
the people who are supposed to be able to help
you telling you there's nothing we can do.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
I think the no water is maybe the most shocking
aspect of this. We're going to find out a lot
about that situation. We're hearing promises of a lot of
investigations that are supposed to come as soon as everything
calms down, as soon as the rain stops, as soon
as the mud slides stop, and then we can all
get our bearings right. That's what you're hearing from the
god that's stalling tactics because they're hoping that the anger
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subsides and people start getting involved in the rebuilding process
and their passions will lessen. And I don't think that's
going to happen.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
No, because these are folks who are now entering the
biggest pile of red tape they've ever seen in their
entire lives. You think it was hard to put a
deck on your house before or these things, Imagine rebuilding
entire parts of cities again.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Yeah, And the promises that they're making to cut all
the red tape, they made those promises in the past.
I was just reading about the Woolsey fire that was
Malibu and into Ventura County, and Newsom was making the
same promises that we're gonna cut the red tape, and
only a tiny number of homes have been built. And
that was twenty eighteen because it turned out the red
tape was just as tangled as ever.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
And there's a study out of UCLA that we also
explore in this special on Saturday where they examined the
economic impact and they base a lot of their findings
on historic fires like that, and it's just not a
good reflection of how the state responds to a fire.
So how on earth can people be optimistic about the
response to the worst ones ever?
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Yeah? Why is it that they can't respond? Why is
it that time and time again, everything has to go
down the same rattle.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
I think what we're gonna find in La County, in
La City is either a shift in prior by the
elected officials or an electorate that wants a new elected officials.
And I can already sense a shift in the posturing
at the city building and at the county building. You know,
I've been to a lot of those meetings, Oh yeah,
you know, and I see a lot of the stuff
that they talk about that doesn't seem all that consequential.
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Now they are dealing with the most serious issues they've
ever had to face, and who is the most serious
Those are going to be the who's taking this seriously?
Who are the so called adults in the room this time?
And you can see some arguments emerging on the city
council that rarely happens about this topic where we need
to put our priorities. I think this is obviously devastating
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the people in Altadena, devastating the people in Polisades, but
more broadly, this this is going to change I think
the way LA is governed.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Well, yeah, because a disaster can happen anywhere. This time
it happened in Pasadena. I'm sorry Palisades in Altadena, but
an earthquake that could devastate any part of the city
or the whole city at once, depending on where it happens.
So this is a warning because we're I keep telling Debra,
we're due for the big quake. Every every minute, we're
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getting a minute closer.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
Come on, stop.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
No, I had that that four that four point zero
we had in the fall. That was my first relatively.
I know it's nothing, I know, people, but like I'm
here two years, so that's the worst one I have welt.
We gotta rough you up, I know, that's what I mean,
Like when it gets bigger than that. I mean, we're
ten minutes closer since you started talking here. Oh man,
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all right, Michael again, give me the title.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
It's La Fires a Path Forward, and it's gonna run
Saturday from seven to nine pm in the evening and
then again Sunday from two to four, and you should
listen to it. Michael does great stuff here at K five. Thanks. John,
all right, she gets she gets a little rattled every
time I bring up that quake, which is another two
minutes closer.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Oh no, you're listening to John Cobbels on demand from
KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Coming up after two o'clock. We have had said Kashami
Kashani on over the phone in person, and we also
twice played his presentation before the Department of Water and Power.
He's an attorney who lost his home in the Palisades,
and he went up to the Department of Water and
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Power commissioners and really gave him a scorching over not
having the reservoir filled up, not having a water supply
to the Palisades and pointedly asked Janice Kinonyez why she
was so concerned with all kinds of diversity equity issues,
and she never once brought up that the sent in
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As reservoir was bone dry empty one hundred and seventeen
million gallons. Well, said Kashani is coming on because LEDWP,
which had which spent no money to refill the reservoir yesterday,
spent ten million dollars on a three year contract with
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a top law firm to try to defend the DWP
from all the lawsuits that are coming. And there's no
defense for this. It's the firm of Munger, Talis and Olson.
They're gonna need all three of those guys. I guess what,
And if you're a ratepayer to the DWP, this crew
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is charging about two thousand dollars an hour, two thousand
dollars an hour, and what are you going to tell us.
You're gonna tell us that not having one hundred and
seventeen million gallons of water had no effect on the
fire response. I can't wait for that anyway, Sayid Kashani,
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who's also an attorney. He's going to come on with us.
But now we have Tony Valar News. It's been a
long time and this just broke minutes ago. Tony Valar
history of the women guys, Well, that's exactly the issue here.
He's he's had numerous romantic entanglements and he's seventy two
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now and he's running for governor. And I saw Paul
this week. He's got four percent of the vote. And
that's just on the Democratic side. He's got four percent
of the vote. I like that, that's his own party. Anyway.
He's uh, he finalized his divorce to Patricia via re
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Gosa and the the agreement has gone public. Come on,
he's going to pay Patricia five hundred thousand dollars in
lieu of spousal support. It's a lump sum payment. And
he's also going to pay her one hundred thousand dollars
for her attorneys and her forensic accounting fees and costs.
(28:53):
I guess she got her own crew to go into
via Regosa's money. Her maiden name is Villa, and she's
reverting to that name. She does not want to be
known as Patricia via Regassa for the rest of her life.
One of the women, guys, I wonder is that the
reason for the divorce. I don't know. I mean, you
remember he had he's real We would call him Tony
(29:16):
Vallar because he's his real name is Tony Vallar. He
married a woman named Karinn Regosa decades ago, and she
was the first wife supported him early political career, and
he repaid her by having an affair with I believe.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
Was it the news anchor.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
No, that came later that he had an affair with
with I don't know, somebody on his staff or a
campaign staff or something like that. And so to make
it up to Karin, he said, look, to prove my love,
I want to merge my Valar with your Regosa. And
(29:56):
that's how he came up with this fake name via
Regosa Villa Garosa, and that one will allowed and then
he and then his name was Tony as a kid,
you know, he turned it into Antonio to sound more Hispanic, right,
And so Antonio via Goosi is a fake entity. It's
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like a stage name. Well, he's seventy two now, Patricia
is fifty is fifty two, and she's going to drop
the via Regosa name and update her information with DMV.
They put all the detail in this La Time story
and she agreed not to use the via Regosa name
for any social marketing or business purposes. Oh come on,
(30:42):
and uh, Patricia gets to keep two properties in Mexico,
fantastic a twenty sixteen range rover, along with bank accounts
and all the furniture, artwork and jewelry in her possession. Wow,
she made out. He gets to keep Evolvo. He gets
to keep his last name. Was that up for auction?
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (31:06):
And his bank accounts, his pension home at Beverly Hills.
He also gets to keep all the streaming services, including
the Netflix account. I like that couples fight over the
Netflix account.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
That would be so at the bottom of my list.
But actually, you know, I do watch a lot of Netflix.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Well but I I guess technically it's community property. But
wouldn't you just get your own Netflix account for it?
But it's the same. Yeah, it's right.
Speaker 5 (31:38):
Yeah, that makes that makes no sense.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
So this is really galling. The last time anyone could
see his tax returns is twenty seventeen when he ran
for governor, and it said he made more than four
million dollars as a consultant, including herbal Life Bank of California,
a water company called Kate is, a global public relations
firm Eaedelman and health Clank chain called Ultimate four million dollars.
(32:06):
What seriously, I'm not just being starky here, I mean
that serious. What knowledge or expertise would he would Antonio
Vira goes to have that's worth four million dollars? Where
the women are guys?
Speaker 5 (32:23):
He knows a lot about women.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
I don't see any you know, women oriented corporations here.
I that's really that's just stunning that at that a
guy like him. Let me see what else here? Oh,
he's home in Beverly Hills is worth three and a
half million, and there's two hundred thousand dollars loose here.
(32:50):
I see where I can't trying to figure out where
it is. Says two hundred thousand dollars should be awarded
to Patricia as her sole and separate property. That's a
lot of legalistic mumbo jumbo. Oh oh, Antonio agreed to
transfer Patricia her AT and T phone number. I'm on
my way out, everybody, and Patricia agreed to pay the
bills starting as of December twenty twenty four. And this,
(33:15):
this divorce took three years. Fantastic didn't last long they
got married in August of twenty sixteen and they were
separated by June of twenty eighteen. That's it. That's it.
That's all she can That's all they could take of
each other. Wow, But he keeps the Netflix account.
Speaker 5 (33:36):
Well, there's a lot of good shows on that Netflix.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
I like that. Does Netflix have like an x rated
session section? I don't know, an adult only section?
Speaker 5 (33:45):
I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
I mean, why would he be that interested because.
Speaker 5 (33:48):
There's a lot of good programming, a lot of good shows.
You know, when you're sitting around all.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
By yourself exactly you think you think Virags is by
himself very often? No, No, I think he has a
lot of company guys. Edie's making four million a year,
so he will always have any single, any single, Yeah eighties.
Did you ever have a run in with him? No,
you never run across.
Speaker 5 (34:08):
It's never met him.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
You're not missing much. Well, we've got we come back.
We're going to talk to Sayid Kashane, he's the attorney
who is told off the DWP Commission and Genie Kinoniez
and we're going to have him on to discuss how
la DWP is hiring a law firm at two thousand
dollars an hour to defend itself against all the wildfire lawsuits.
(34:34):
Deborah Mark live in the CAFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey,
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representative for the White House because we have a series
of media leaks that are trying to undermine the immigration
(00:44):
rates that Tom Homan and Trump are trying to pull
off here. And it's happened in Aurora, Colorado, it happened
in San Francisco, and also in Los Angeles. The La
Times had some leaked documents warning of a large scale
immigration raid coming uh sometime this month. Uh, We're gonna
talk out with Alex Speiffer, Alex's deputy Assistant to the
(01:06):
President and principal deputy communications director, and we're going to
talk about these matters, Alex, how are you I'm doing.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Great, John Pleasure on your show.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
It's good to have you on. So how how much
interference are you getting from leakers inside the government and
these these advocate advocacy journalists who are spreading the word
to try to thwart the raids? How how how difficult
a problem has it been?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Look I Tom homans As and DJ Secretary Christy Noma's
spoken about this. Obviously, these leaks put ICE officers lives
in danger, and they're getting to the bottom of who's
responsible for it and will hold them to account. But
one thing I want your listeners to know about is
who you mentioned activists who are trying to, you know,
(01:56):
stop raids. Who are these activists un to protect? So
I actually have a list here of some of the
illegal immigrants that are arrested by ICE yesterday. So yesterday
in ICE in Chicago, they arrested an illegal immigrant from
Mexico who have been convicted of sexual assaults. ICE in
Houston arrested in legal immigrant from Mexico who have been
convicted of aggravated sexual assault of a child. In Philadelphia,
(02:21):
ICE arrested an illegal immigrant from Portugal who'd been convicted
of sexual exploitation of a minor and with child pornography
in Saint Paul Ice arrested, and illegal immigrant from South
Sudan who'd been convicted of homicide.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
You get the point.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Uh, These activists who don't want ICE to arrest criminal
legal legal immigrants are you know, quite literally trying to
defend murders and rapists from being arrested. And while you know,
leaks about raids are unfortunate, look, ICE is not. ICE
(02:58):
is undeterred and fulfilling. It's it's mission. You know. I
also have to here some stats for you that I
think your listeners find interesting. So these are the increase
in arrests. This is comparing January twentieth, twenty twenty four
to February eighth, twenty twenty four. It's at the same
time period this year. So arrests of illegal immigrants with
(03:19):
criminal histories is up ninety nine percent. Arrests of futuive
LLEO immigrants at large is of one hundred and fifty
six percent. We have doubled the arrests of gang members.
So look, these elites are are awful and they're getting
to the bottom of the leaks because they put ICE
officers who are going out in harm's way in danger.
But ICE remains undeterred.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
We haven't had a big raid that I know of
here in Los Angeles. I'm not looking for a leak here,
But is Los Angeles on the target list eventually, because
I mean, we've got about a million of aliens literally.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Yeah, I'm sure ICE is busy in Los Angeles. I'm
not an ICE spokesperson, so I don't have the exact
details on all their operations and whatnot, but ICE is.
I mean, the other day I saw a report of
ICE making an arrest in Guam, so I think if
they're making an arrest in Guama, they're making arrest in
Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
The when you capture these people, and you do have
a lot of them, where are they going? Where are
they ending up? Because I see conflicting news reports that
some of them are headed to Guantanamo Bay. Some of
them have actually been released with monitors. So what's the
disposal it's been.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
I think it's over fifty who have already been to Guantanamo.
I don't have an exact number. And those have been
many of our members of the trend a Ragua. It's
a vicious gang from Venezuela. A lot are put into
immigration detention centers, many are deported. You referenced reports of
(04:56):
how people released. It's like the last I checked, it's
like four percent of a you know, it's a small number,
and it's people with like medical problems and people who
aren't about to be deported anytime soon. But people are
being put into immigration detention and so the Guantanamo number,
they are having people sent there, but that's not like
(05:17):
your standard illegal immigrant arrest that is going to Guantanamo.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Yeah. Yeah, there's no context with these stories. That's why
I asked. I would imagine that guantanmao obay are are
the most violent, and like you said, some of the
people have been released, there's extenuating circumstances.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
And we've sent we have sent trend to Aragua members
there and also not only have they gone to Guantanamo.
One thing that happened earlier this week that hasn't really
gotten much attention was a huge diplomatic victory and also
a victory for immigration enforcement is we were finally able
to send illegal immigrants back to Venezuela, and we sent
back flights of trend Aragua legal immigrants, and Venezuela under
(05:54):
Biden was not accepting flights of illegals, so essentially they
were unable to deport a lee immigrants from Venezuela, and
now we're able.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
To do that.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
So that's a huge, huge advancement.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
I think it's stunning that in a matter of days
so much has been accomplished. And I know you have
a lot of people on the case and they're working
very hard, but in a way, it wasn't. It's not
that complicated an operation because you guys have pulled it
off very very quickly in three weeks. And it just
what was the upside for the Biden administration to let
(06:30):
these really horrible criminals run free. I ask myself that
every day. It's like, well, why wouldn't they arrest these
guys two three four years ago? How was this doing
any good?
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I have no clue why they did that. It was
an abdication of the law, and especially coming from people
who always used to like to talk about the rule
of law and no one is above the law. Well,
they certainly thought that legal immigrants were about the law.
And the thing is, and this is an important point
is when you don't enforce the law in the interior country,
when you don't arrest illegal immigrants. And also, to be clear,
(07:04):
the illegal legal the illegal immigrants arrested are legal immigrants
with final orders of removal from judges. So there are
judges that they go through the whole immigration court process.
It's adjudicated a judge as federal agents needed to arrest
you and deport you, and the Biden administration was ignoring that.
So they were just ignoring judges' orders. And because of
that you had the record amount of illegal immigration that
(07:26):
happened the past administration. And now that we're actually finally
arresting immigrants and supporting them, you see the numbers that
are southern border have plummeted. I mean their border encounters
are down over ninety percent in Sumarias.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Yeah, I saw it was like three hundred and fifty
nine in the last week on average per dame.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
You're seeing, you're seeing the flow now go the other way. Yeah,
there was this this past weekend. Fox News had a
great story on these two me two cbpmmos about groups
of legal immigrants in Mexico who had turned around. There
was a great store in the Washington Times this week
about Panama and Costa Rica preparing for migrants to come
(08:05):
the other way. The fourth largest city in Mexico, Puebla,
recently announced a labor reintegration program for the port of
llegal immigrants. So south of the border, all these countries
are preparing for a flow down. So you know, it's
been a switchless flips that's changed immediately.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
That's stunning, that's I mean, that's why Biden could have
done this and gotten a lot accomplished very quickly, and
chose not to. And you know that that question is
just still hanging in the airs, like why wouldn't you
do this? Looking at the kind of people that you
guys have been rounding up? Now, why wouldn't you do
this as soon as you found out these guys existed.
(08:47):
It's just terrible.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
I have no clue. Maybe you can book them on
your show next Yeah, I can't get into the head
of that decision. But President Trump has wasted no time
when it comes to combating legal immigration or many other issues.
I mean, just today we had approval for new liquid
natural gas terminal. So whether it's on energy or also
(09:12):
on the transgender issue, you've seen hospital, a hospital where
your station is in the children's hospital Los Angeles stopped
giving puberty blockers because of our executive orders.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Another one, Why would you do that? Why would you
do that to children? Why would you change their hormones
when when they're when they're underage. I mean, so much
of this stuff was insane, and yet it went on
for years. Well, Alex, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
To try to explain blocking puberty, puberty for minors and
not supporting rapists, I have no clue. I cannot give
an explanation of why people would did that because, as
you say, it makes no sense.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Yeah, all right, Alex, thanks for coming on. Appreciate the time.
I hope we can talk to you again soon. Yes,
I loved him, Alex Speiffer. And he's deputy assistant to president,
principal deputy communications director, and and and the and the
stuff that we just discussed. You could. That was one
of the things in the last few years is concepts
(10:10):
were coming up like blocking puberty and children, or letting
violent people have committed violent sexual crimes against women and children,
letting them run free. It's like, how did you even
think of this? Why would you do this unless you
wanted to somehow just destroy the society, just ruin the country.
(10:32):
I mean, all you end up is with women and
children getting sexually attacked. All you end up is with
children getting getting like with bizarre medical experiments performed on
their bodies and their systems, Like what how did you
think of this? And and what's the upside? At the
end of this, We've got more. I want to talk
more about the last thing he mentioned. Uh, there's story
(10:56):
on the reverse flow. There's now illegal aliens going back
home after being blocked by Trump's border and the countries
in Central and South America are going to have to
deal with the reverse flow. That is next.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
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Speaker 1 (11:15):
Next segment, we're gonna have Michael Monks from KFI News.
He has prepared a two hour special on the fires
in Palisades in Altadena. You're going to hear interviews with
the survivors who fled their homes, journalists who covered the story,
government officials trying to figure out what to do. Next,
Michael Monks put it all together, and he's going to
talk about this special that's going to air twice this weekend.
(11:36):
Saturday at seven pm and then Sunday at two pm,
and then'll come up after Debor's news here. All right,
So we just had Alex spiferon. He's one of the
assistants to Trump and a principal deputy communications director, not
just a deputy communications director, a principal deputy titles amused
(11:56):
me all the time, and one of the things he
mentioned near the end of our discussion was reverse flow,
reverse flow of illegal aliens. You know how many times
in the last four years did you hear some talking
head passing gas, whether it was a politician like Kamala
Harris or that little troll Alejandro Majorcis the DHS secretary,
(12:22):
or you know, some some stupid commentator on television, an
activist maybe, and they were saying, well, you know the
root causes of immigration, Well, actually, our immigration issue is
very complex. And then in three weeks the flow has dropped.
(12:43):
At the height of the Biden clown show, ten thousand
illegal aliens a day reported over the Porter ten thousand
a day, this past week, three hundred and fifty nine
a day. So the root cause of all the illegal
immigration is the border was wide open. That's it. That's
(13:06):
your complexity there. It's it's like if you leave your
front door open, you're gonna get all kinds of creatures
coming into the house. You're gonna get you know, stray
dogs and cats and raccoons and bees and wasps and
maybe a few homeless people. You close the door, nobody's
getting in. It's simple. And I you know, this is like,
this is like a life lesson whenever you hear somebody
(13:29):
tell you. And it's very complicated. If they ever use
that that that ridiculous phrase root causes, you shut them down.
It's like, no, no, it's not a root cause. It
is go to the end result. The end result is
they're coming over the border. I actually don't care why
they're coming over the border. Who cares, It's that they
came over the border. So how do you stop that? Oh? Yeah,
(13:51):
you close the border, right, you get all your border
forces together, and if anybody sneaks through, you tackle them
and send it back. And you do that enough and
as fast as the news spread in Central South America
that the border was wide open, and here's what you
say to the border patrol agents. Here's how you claim
(14:12):
asylum that went that was processed very quickly through regular
media down in Central America, social media through these activist groups. Well,
it works in reverse. All this bad news is now
funneling through social media and traditional media and all the
(14:34):
other ways that people get information. The story that Alex
Ffifer mentioned in the Washington Times, the reverse flow is
happening and other countries are helping us. They quote Mario
Zamara Cordero, who's Costa Rica's Minister of Public Security, said
(14:56):
Costa Costa Rica is a path through nation for this phenomenon,
and he goes, we want to guarantee an orderly, legal,
humanitarian and safe migratory flow. For example, twenty six migrants
surprised the border authorities in Nicaragua. They were coming from
Honduras to Nicaragua, and at first Nicaragua said no, no,
(15:19):
you're not getting in here. But then they explained, and
it's like, all right, we'll eat you through as long
as you keep going, as long as you go out
the back end. You can come through our front door.
You're going out the back door. It was twenty three
migrants from Venezuela, three from Cuba, some of them families,
some of them had children, and they had gone on
(15:40):
a march north, and they got as far as a
town in Honduras, and then they got word of what
awaited them at the West Mexico border, which was a
collection of law enforcement agencies from Mexico and the US.
And they realized, we're going to run into a wall.
Why waste our time walking further from Honduras to the
(16:02):
US border when they're just going to block us or
throw us back. And now that word spreads. Everybody's texting,
everybody's calling, and suddenly people back home they get the text,
they get the social media response. It's like, oh, all right,
parties over, We're too late. It's not going to happen.
(16:27):
And I'm reading in the paper. I forget the New
York Times, are the Alley Times, doesn't matter. They're all
the same, all these progressives. And they framed it as, oh,
these poor people. You know, they'd already started their march
towards America and then in the middle of their journey,
truck closed the border, and this has now crushed their
dreams of coming to America. They always use the word
(16:50):
dream because it's an emotionally manipulative word to make you
feel sorry going, Oh they had a dream. Somebody has
a dream doesn't mean we automatically have to pay for it.
Otherwise we'd be paying for eight billion dreams. Having a
dream does not entitle you to free entrance into anybody's country.
(17:14):
And I always say, it's like, you go try this
in any other nation. For example, another SOB story they
were writing is how uncomfortable some people feel now in
the US because they are here illegally and they don't
know how long that's gonna last. But for somebody knocks
on the door and they feel uncomfortable, it's like, well, sorry,
there's no constitutional right to feel comfortable. There's no god
(17:35):
given right to feel comfortable. If you put yourself in
an uncomfortable situation like moving illegally to another nation, well yeah,
you're gonna feel uncomfortable. In fact, if you feel sorry
about that, why don't you go and move illegally to
Nicaragua or Venezuela. You go there and see if you're comfortable. No,
(17:58):
you're gonna be afraid that the Venezuelan police or the
gangs are gonna knock on your door and do god
knows what. So that's why you're supposed to stay where
you're legally entitled to stay. You know, we don't don't.
We don't nullifyle our laws because somebody has a dream,
you're gonna have to find another dream, or you're gonna
(18:21):
have to go through the legitimate legal process of getting
to your dream. But it's not a free for all.
We're all eight billion people who have a dream get
to barge in here and cost us hundreds of billions
of dollars. Those days are over. More coming up. We
got Michael Monks to explain his two hour special this
weekend on the Fires.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
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Speaker 1 (18:47):
We are on from one n till four and then
after four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand. It's the podcast.
It's the same as a radio sir show. So if
you miss something, you can it's like a makeup. Also,
we got them whistling twice today at three twenty and
three point fifteen. Now Michael Monk's from KFI News this here.
Michael's working very hard and he's put together very quickly
(19:09):
a two hour special that's going to run this Saturday
at seven pm and then again on Sunday at two pm.
And it's about all the aspects of the fires in Pasadena,
and I'm sorry Palisades and Altadena, interviewing survivors, journalists, government officials.
Michael is here to tell us about it. So what
(19:30):
does this have a title? This thing?
Speaker 4 (19:32):
We're calling it La Fires A path forward, and so
we are doing a little bit of looking back and
a little bit of looking ahead. What happened and what
happens now, So a quick recap of how it all.
It's hard to believe it's only been six weeks. I mean,
it feels like it's been a long time because it's
just been so much all at once, and so many
different moving parts to this. Goodness knows, you spend enough
(19:52):
time talking about it, so you know exactly all of
the moving pieces of this and all of the different
characters who have emerged during it, and a lot of
the tragedy as well well. So we spent some time
talking about the coverage. We spent some time talking to
victims who lost their homes, and we look at some
of the historic losses. But there's also some economic components
that are broader. You know, if you have a home
(20:14):
insurance policy here in California, you might be paying more
we look at a study that just explained the widespread
economic devastation all of us could be facing very soon.
But we also look at some more uplifting things too,
the way that the community broadly has responded in La
probably more so than ever before in history.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
So we'll exploil that over two hours. I know in
the Palisades because I lived not far from there and
I've got a lot of friends. There were a lot
of parents who went to my kids' schools who were
in the Palisades, and there's just this overwhelming sadness and
a deep anger against the public officials who it's clear
nobody was prepared for this.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
I heard some pretty shocking perspectives because we were on
the air. We know that the winds were so bad
that day that the fires could not be fought from
the sky. It was just too dangerous. But to hear
from people on the ground say they didn't see the
fires being fought from the ground, it felt like a
betrayal to them by the public services they invest in
(21:12):
and expect help from. And so that was a bit
disturbing to hear. Regardless of whether you were in the
Palisades or whether you were in Alta Dina. People seem betrayed.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Yeah. Yeah, there was like a complete breakdown in the system.
One of my close friends just called me a few
days ago. I knew he had gotten burned out, but
I hadn't heard from him in about six weeks, and
he called me and he told the whole story. And
he's trying to he's trying to protect his house. He
got a pump, it was pumping out of his swimming pool,
(21:42):
and he got anti fire foam, so he was prepared
as best he could. Right, he had the pool of water,
he had the pump, he had the foam, and he's
coating his house with the water and the foam, and
then here come the flames and he had to bolt.
But he said it was five thirty in the afternoon
when he left. Now this is a full seven hours.
He goes he saw a single fire truck. That story
(22:02):
is very common.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
One story I heard was a woman running to a
firetruck and saying, there are three houses on fire right
now on our street. Can you get up there? And
they said, there's nothing we can do. We have no water,
we have no resources to do anything for you. So
can you imagine with this disaster unfolding. You actually see
the people who are supposed to be able to help
you telling you there's nothing we can do.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
I think the no water is maybe the most shocking
aspect of this. We're going to find out a lot
about that situation. We're hearing promises of a lot of
investigations that are supposed to come as soon as everything
calms down, as soon as the rain stops, as soon
as the mud slides stop, and then we can all
get our bearings right. That's what you're hearing from the
god that's stalling tactics because they're hoping that the anger
(22:45):
subsides and people start getting involved in the rebuilding process
and their passions will lessen. And I don't think that's
going to happen.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
No, because these are folks who are now entering the
biggest pile of red tape they've ever seen in their
entire lives. You think it was hard to put a
deck on your house before or these things, Imagine rebuilding
entire parts of cities again.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Yeah, And the promises that they're making to cut all
the red tape, they made those promises in the past.
I was just reading about the Woolsey fire that was
Malibu and into Ventura County, and Newsom was making the
same promises that we're gonna cut the red tape, and
only a tiny number of homes have been built. And
that was twenty eighteen because it turned out the red
tape was just as tangled as ever.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
And there's a study out of UCLA that we also
explore in this special on Saturday where they examined the
economic impact and they base a lot of their findings
on historic fires like that, and it's just not a
good reflection of how the state responds to a fire.
So how on earth can people be optimistic about the
response to the worst ones ever?
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Yeah? Why is it that they can't respond? Why is
it that time and time again, everything has to go
down the same rattle.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
I think what we're gonna find in La County, in
La City is either a shift in prior by the
elected officials or an electorate that wants a new elected officials.
And I can already sense a shift in the posturing
at the city building and at the county building. You know,
I've been to a lot of those meetings, Oh yeah,
you know, and I see a lot of the stuff
that they talk about that doesn't seem all that consequential.
(24:16):
Now they are dealing with the most serious issues they've
ever had to face, and who is the most serious
Those are going to be the who's taking this seriously?
Who are the so called adults in the room this time?
And you can see some arguments emerging on the city
council that rarely happens about this topic where we need
to put our priorities. I think this is obviously devastating
(24:37):
the people in Altadena, devastating the people in Polisades, but
more broadly, this this is going to change I think
the way LA is governed.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Well, yeah, because a disaster can happen anywhere. This time
it happened in Pasadena. I'm sorry Palisades in Altadena, but
an earthquake that could devastate any part of the city
or the whole city at once, depending on where it happens.
So this is a warning because we're I keep telling Debra,
we're due for the big quake. Every every minute, we're
(25:05):
getting a minute closer.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
Come on, stop.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
No, I had that that four that four point zero
we had in the fall. That was my first relatively.
I know it's nothing, I know, people, but like I'm
here two years, so that's the worst one I have welt.
We gotta rough you up, I know, that's what I mean,
Like when it gets bigger than that. I mean, we're
ten minutes closer since you started talking here. Oh man,
(25:28):
all right, Michael again, give me the title.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
It's La Fires a Path Forward, and it's gonna run
Saturday from seven to nine pm in the evening and
then again Sunday from two to four, and you should
listen to it. Michael does great stuff here at K five. Thanks. John,
all right, she gets she gets a little rattled every
time I bring up that quake, which is another two
minutes closer.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Oh no, you're listening to John Cobbels on demand from
KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Coming up after two o'clock. We have had said Kashami
Kashani on over the phone in person, and we also
twice played his presentation before the Department of Water and Power.
He's an attorney who lost his home in the Palisades,
and he went up to the Department of Water and
(26:19):
Power commissioners and really gave him a scorching over not
having the reservoir filled up, not having a water supply
to the Palisades and pointedly asked Janice Kinonyez why she
was so concerned with all kinds of diversity equity issues,
and she never once brought up that the sent in
(26:41):
As reservoir was bone dry empty one hundred and seventeen
million gallons. Well, said Kashani is coming on because LEDWP,
which had which spent no money to refill the reservoir yesterday,
spent ten million dollars on a three year contract with
(27:03):
a top law firm to try to defend the DWP
from all the lawsuits that are coming. And there's no
defense for this. It's the firm of Munger, Talis and Olson.
They're gonna need all three of those guys. I guess what,
And if you're a ratepayer to the DWP, this crew
(27:26):
is charging about two thousand dollars an hour, two thousand
dollars an hour, and what are you going to tell us.
You're gonna tell us that not having one hundred and
seventeen million gallons of water had no effect on the
fire response. I can't wait for that anyway, Sayid Kashani,
(27:47):
who's also an attorney. He's going to come on with us.
But now we have Tony Valar News. It's been a
long time and this just broke minutes ago. Tony Valar
history of the women guys, Well, that's exactly the issue here.
He's he's had numerous romantic entanglements and he's seventy two
(28:07):
now and he's running for governor. And I saw Paul
this week. He's got four percent of the vote. And
that's just on the Democratic side. He's got four percent
of the vote. I like that, that's his own party. Anyway.
He's uh, he finalized his divorce to Patricia via re
(28:30):
Gosa and the the agreement has gone public. Come on,
he's going to pay Patricia five hundred thousand dollars in
lieu of spousal support. It's a lump sum payment. And
he's also going to pay her one hundred thousand dollars
for her attorneys and her forensic accounting fees and costs.
(28:53):
I guess she got her own crew to go into
via Regosa's money. Her maiden name is Villa, and she's
reverting to that name. She does not want to be
known as Patricia via Regassa for the rest of her life.
One of the women, guys, I wonder is that the
reason for the divorce. I don't know. I mean, you
remember he had he's real We would call him Tony
(29:16):
Vallar because he's his real name is Tony Vallar. He
married a woman named Karinn Regosa decades ago, and she
was the first wife supported him early political career, and
he repaid her by having an affair with I believe.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
Was it the news anchor.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
No, that came later that he had an affair with
with I don't know, somebody on his staff or a
campaign staff or something like that. And so to make
it up to Karin, he said, look, to prove my love,
I want to merge my Valar with your Regosa. And
(29:56):
that's how he came up with this fake name via
Regosa Villa Garosa, and that one will allowed and then
he and then his name was Tony as a kid,
you know, he turned it into Antonio to sound more Hispanic, right,
And so Antonio via Goosi is a fake entity. It's
(30:17):
like a stage name. Well, he's seventy two now, Patricia
is fifty is fifty two, and she's going to drop
the via Regosa name and update her information with DMV.
They put all the detail in this La Time story
and she agreed not to use the via Regosa name
for any social marketing or business purposes. Oh come on,
(30:42):
and uh, Patricia gets to keep two properties in Mexico,
fantastic a twenty sixteen range rover, along with bank accounts
and all the furniture, artwork and jewelry in her possession. Wow,
she made out. He gets to keep Evolvo. He gets
to keep his last name. Was that up for auction?
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (31:06):
And his bank accounts, his pension home at Beverly Hills.
He also gets to keep all the streaming services, including
the Netflix account. I like that couples fight over the
Netflix account.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
That would be so at the bottom of my list.
But actually, you know, I do watch a lot of Netflix.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Well but I I guess technically it's community property. But
wouldn't you just get your own Netflix account for it?
But it's the same. Yeah, it's right.
Speaker 5 (31:38):
Yeah, that makes that makes no sense.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
So this is really galling. The last time anyone could
see his tax returns is twenty seventeen when he ran
for governor, and it said he made more than four
million dollars as a consultant, including herbal Life Bank of California,
a water company called Kate is, a global public relations
firm Eaedelman and health Clank chain called Ultimate four million dollars.
(32:06):
What seriously, I'm not just being starky here, I mean
that serious. What knowledge or expertise would he would Antonio
Vira goes to have that's worth four million dollars? Where
the women are guys?
Speaker 5 (32:23):
He knows a lot about women.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
I don't see any you know, women oriented corporations here.
I that's really that's just stunning that at that a
guy like him. Let me see what else here? Oh,
he's home in Beverly Hills is worth three and a
half million, and there's two hundred thousand dollars loose here.
(32:50):
I see where I can't trying to figure out where
it is. Says two hundred thousand dollars should be awarded
to Patricia as her sole and separate property. That's a
lot of legalistic mumbo jumbo. Oh oh, Antonio agreed to
transfer Patricia her AT and T phone number. I'm on
my way out, everybody, and Patricia agreed to pay the
bills starting as of December twenty twenty four. And this,
(33:15):
this divorce took three years. Fantastic didn't last long they
got married in August of twenty sixteen and they were
separated by June of twenty eighteen. That's it. That's it.
That's all she can That's all they could take of
each other. Wow, But he keeps the Netflix account.
Speaker 5 (33:36):
Well, there's a lot of good shows on that Netflix.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
I like that. Does Netflix have like an x rated
session section? I don't know, an adult only section?
Speaker 5 (33:45):
I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
I mean, why would he be that interested because.
Speaker 5 (33:48):
There's a lot of good programming, a lot of good shows.
You know, when you're sitting around all.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
By yourself exactly you think you think Virags is by
himself very often? No, No, I think he has a
lot of company guys. Edie's making four million a year,
so he will always have any single, any single, Yeah eighties.
Did you ever have a run in with him? No,
you never run across.
Speaker 5 (34:08):
It's never met him.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
You're not missing much. Well, we've got we come back.
We're going to talk to Sayid Kashane, he's the attorney
who is told off the DWP Commission and Genie Kinoniez
and we're going to have him on to discuss how
la DWP is hiring a law firm at two thousand
dollars an hour to defend itself against all the wildfire lawsuits.
(34:34):
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