July 10, 2025 • 35 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (07/10) - Chris LeGras comes on the show to talk about CA State Sen. Scott Weiner's SB79 which would allow single-family home neighborhoods into low-income housing. Telemundo reporter Enrique Chiabra interview Mayor Karen Bass and the interview centered around the ICE raid at MacArthur Park earlier this week.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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We talked about yesterday a lot about how Sacramento Democrats
come Hell or high Water, want to force single family
neighborhoods to accept high rise apartment buildings filled with low
income residents. This would just destroy local zoning laws. Let's
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get Chris on to talk about this. A lot of
people don't believe it. I was talking to some friends
yesterday and they're just looking at me like I dropped
off the moon. But this is a real thing, Chris,
isn't it.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Oh, It's probably the single biggest agenda item on the
California political classes radar these days. This is their Manhattan project.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
So if you have a neighbor, he'd be able to
sell to developer who would bulldoze the single family house
next door to you and put up a four plex,
put up a high rise apartment building and fill it
with I could fill it with low income people, homeless people,
you know, whatever kind of deal he could get to
finance it.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Right, Well, that's right, And I think in terms of
the quality of life, it's really it's it's just a
degree of horribles because once that new stack I pack
as we call them, goes in next door to your
single family home. I mean, your property value is going
to be affected. Obviously, your quality of life and your
neighbor's quality of life is going to be affected. And
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this is all based on just such a demonstrably false
and this whole notion that single family neighborhoods, which by
the way, is where eighty two percent of Californians live,
and last I checked, eighty two percent of Californians aren't white.
So I mean, of everybody chooses to live in that
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type of neighborhood a low dense single family or small
multifamily or suburban or what have you, people will add
hours to their commutes every day to get that dream.
That's just human nature.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Do you mean leaders trying to sell this as this
this is an excessive white privilege single family home sports.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Of course, that's their go to that our neighborhoods were
the creations of segregation and redlining and racial covenants and
all that. And you know that was true eighty years ago.
But the fact of the matter is the single fastest
growing cohorted home buyers in California or Latino. So what
is more racist than these democrats pretending like millions of
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non white homeowners in the suburbs don't exist because it
doesn't fit their political narrative. I mean, if you can
come up with something that's more racist than that, I'm
all ears.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
He tried a version of this a few years ago,
all the way back to twenty nineteen, and now he's back.
He didn't have the support in twenty nineteen. Does he
have it now?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Well, he he got very clear, He got close when
people realized it was literally the eleventh hour. It actually
that was SB fifty talking about Senate Bill fifty, which
would have done what this current bill, Senate Bill seventy nine,
And everybody, by the way, needs to be calling your
Assembly members and your senators and raising holy hell about
SB seventy nine. But it actually did pass. The crazy
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thing is there's this old, this old timy requirement of
the legislature that when the second House, that is, the
house where the bill did not originate, passes a bill,
they have to literally carry a paper copy of it
down the hall back to the house where it originated
so they can vote on what's called a reconciliation vote.
The only reason SB fifty didn't pass is because they
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literally ran out of time. It passed the Assembly at
like eleven fifty eight pm on August thirty, first of
twenty nineteen, and they just literally did not have time
before midnight and the recess for it to get back
to the Senate. So you know, let's be under no
illusions that Wiener, Scott Wiener, the Democratic Senator, doesn't have support.
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And that's why it's so crucial for individual Californians to
be raising their voices right now. Call your assembly member,
call your senator, say no on SB seventy nine, because
it would hurt working class and lower income neighborhoods first
and worst. And that's not speculative or or theoretical. It's
happening as we speak, even without SB seventy nine. And
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if you don't think that they are jonesing for the
Palisades and Alpadina right now, well, we saw the news
yesterday that Newsom has just allocated one hundred million dollars
for low income and homeless housing in the burn zones.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
So well, any question, those are the pestle pieces I
was putting together yesterday. Number one, Karen Vass is hardly
issuing any permits. Number two Scott Wiener has this bill
stripping neighborhoods of local zoning laws and allowing these apartment
monstrosities to be built for low income housing. And number
three Newsom has already kicked off kicked off the festivities
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with one hundred million dollars for low income housing in
the Palisades.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
So this is what's happening.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I think bass is intentionally delaying these permits so that
these people are exhausted and they surrender and they just
sell to a developer and let the developer do what
he wants.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
I really think that's going on. What do you think.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I wish I had an argument against that, and I
wish I could say I was wearing my tinfoil hat
right now, but I think the evidence all points in
that direction. I think they're slow walking all of this recovery,
absolutely intentionally, starting with the soil testing and the ground
testing and the water testing, which that ate up a
few months when people were trying to get that basic step,
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which happens after every other natural disaster, by the way,
except this one. So they slow that, which made it
more difficult for people to deal with their insurers, because
one of the first things the insurer asks the adjust
ask is what's the status, what's the quality of the
of the soil? So they've been doing everything they can
to slow walk this and I think they're trying to
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start people out, John, I really do. And I hate
to say that, and maybe I sound like a crazy
That's what I think.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
That's why I think I bring this up with people.
And like you said, what's the argument against it? If
that wasn't the plan, what would they be doing differently?
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Right?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Well, and here's another tell John, you know who the
You remember our good friends over at the Streets for All,
Michael Schneider and his crowds. Yeah, that we're behind Measure HLA,
the transit bill that or the Transit Initiative. Well, they're
also one of the key sponsors of SB seventy nine.
So any questions, this all fits together. It's the same players,
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it's the same special interests, it's the same billionaires. I mean,
this gold rush that's coming to California thanks to SB
seventy nine is going to make the original gold rush
look like a sandbox fight in kindergarten.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
A huge payoff to the developers, and I guess they
are the ones who are greasing things in the legislature.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
They're the ones who are greasing things, who have donated
millions of dollars to these lawmakers. Scott Wiener, who is
behind many of these bills, has received far and away
more real estate money and venture capital money and black
Rock style money than any other lawmaker in California. And
here you go, this is there. They are getting a
lot of bang for their buck with Scott Weiener.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
I'll tell you yeah, well, and then he gets to
position it to the public as either racial equity or
a climate sensitivity or any of the other trendy issues
of the day. But the truth is he's taken in
big bucks for his campaigns from these developers who are
going to make a fortune developing the Palisades lots into
low income housing, apartment housing.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
They're going to turn it into their social housing utopia.
That that is the plan. And by the way, anybody
has any questions in both out of the and Palisades.
I have a couple of folks who send me reports
every few weeks of parcels that have been sold, and
they are far fewer in the Palisades than at Altada.
But it's starting to pick up of the parcels that
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have already sold. More than sixty percent have been sold
to LLC's blind trusts or corporations, so including several in
the Palisades, several LLC's that have purchased two or three
adjacent parcels.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
When are they voting on this?
Speaker 2 (09:31):
SB seventy nine is going to go, is going to
be voted and the Local Government Committee in the Assembly
next Wednesday. Then the legislature goes on recess from July
eighteenth to August eighteenth, So that month is the time
to be cut because you're you're a lawmaker, your your
assembly member, your senator will be back in town. They'll
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be back in the district and that's when you call
them and if you can show up at their office,
write an email. I mean, the only is to make noise.
And I know we're coming up on it, but really quickly,
we came within one vote because of the grass roots
doing what I'm just describing. We came within one vote
of killing SB seventy nine in the Senate, so we're
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doing the same thing in the Assembly. Of this bill
is far from a done deal, but we need the grassroots.
We need everyone who's listening to my voice. Right now,
take the fifteen seconds and pick up the phone and
call your assembly member and your senator and say I'm
a constituent and I oppose SB seventy nine. It really
is that quick. You can go to a website, our
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Neighborhood Voices dot com. We're sort of helping with a
couple other groups, Neighbors United here in La as well.
Our Neighborhood Voices is helping lead this charge. But it
comes down to individuals. I mean, it'suns hope, the grassroots works.
The grassroots work.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Chris got to do the news. Thank you for coming on.
We will continue talking about this.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Absolutely, Thank you, John. And by the way, we also
got to talk about this question shennigans last week. That's
actually almost more shameful.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
All right, we'll do that.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
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Speaker 1 (11:11):
Telemundo reporter Enrique Chiabra did an interview with Karen Bass yesterday.
She is running for reelection. Spent a lot of time
on the ice Wars and the latest incident MacArthur Park
where Bass was seen yelling on the phone and she
was talking to Greg Bovino, who is the head of
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Customs and Border Patrol in Los Angeles. Let's do cut
three here. Excuse Meiabra asking Bass to respond to a
comment Bovino made publicly.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
She said, thank you, does some work for you, and
they're going to stay here as much as needed to
continue with their mission. What do you have to say
about that?
Speaker 7 (11:52):
Well, first of all, I think both of us work
for the American people and taxpayers pay us out, and
we are both public servants. He said that they were
going to be here as long as they wanted. But
that goes back to the origin of the problem. What
the administration is doing is experimenting with Los Angeles to
experiment with what happens. What is the public response when
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the federal government goes into the state and seizes power
and authority from the governor and deploying National Guard in
our city and they weren't even asked for because they
were not needed.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Oh my god, that is such bs. The federal government
has complete and total power over the border and immigration laws.
Karen Pass has none. No mayor has that power, No
governor has that power. And it goes both ways. They
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found that out in Arizona. Arizona wanted to start arresting
illegal aliens on their own, and the Supreme Court said
you can't.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
At the time, the Obama administration.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
The court sided with the federal government just because the
Obama administration had looser rules on the border than the
Arizona governor. Arizona governor, she had no right to arrest people.
Arizona legislature had no right at all. Well, it works
both ways. Karen Bass has no right to overrule the
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federal government. The Trump administration, Congress House said it whole thing.
It is not up to her. She doesn't have a say,
She doesn't have a vote at all. Karen Bass doesn't
work for the American people. She works for the citizens
of Los Angeles. The federal government employees like Greg Bovino
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work for the American people as a whole. It's local, state, federal,
that's the hierarchy. Karen Bass is at the bottom of
the pyramid there. Enrique chob Giabra from Telemundo the n
asked Bass if Boveno confirmed that the ice raids would end,
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I guess sometime soon.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
Did he confirm or say when this would end? Do
you know when the raids are going to stop? Careel
Center no.
Speaker 7 (14:16):
Once again, everything that's been happening in the city has
been by rumors. So there's a lot of rumors. So
it's supposed to last thirty days, sixty days, but there
has never been an answer from the administration as to
how long this was going to last. And if you
look at it, what have they accomplished except for spritings,
fear and terror in our community? What have they accomplished
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instead except for damaging the economy and ripping the economy
apart in some neighborhoods. I went to restaurants that catered
to the Central American population Salvador, El Salvador and Honduras.
Those restaurants were empty. The owner said that this was
worse than COVID.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
They not only wait, wait, hold on, hold on.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Caaren Bath said nothing when Newsome shut down all the restaurants,
said nothing, When who is the Barbara Ferrer, the La
County public health director, she to shut down all the
county restaurants.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Garcetti was shutting that. She never said anything.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Somehow, you have some El Salvadoran restaurants shut down that
catered to illegal aliens, like, oh my.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
God, it's ruining the economy.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
No Newsom and Garcetti and Barbara Ferrara and the LA
County supervisors. They actually destroyed thousands of businesses. Holy crap.
Another thing, she said that Trump came in uninvited and
took control of the National Guard. Well, so far in court,
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Trump has been backed up by federal judges, including a
Biden nominee. So so far, the way these judges see it,
Trump has the right to do that. She has like zero.
Did she really not understand or is just more of
the stupid political posturing what she's pretending She's an idiot
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or she's actually an idiot. Federal government obviously, the president
does have a power to take over the National Guard.
The National Guard is part of the military. All Right,
we got more clips to play. We come back.
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have been as severely disrupted as they were. Continuing here
with Karen Bass, who you know, hold on to that
to that clip about her and the fire, by the way,
just for long term use, because it's like I heard
it almost an hour ago and I'm still infuriated by it.
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They will play it again before four o'clock, but I
want to play these clips. She was on an interview
with the Telemundo reporter Enrique Chiabra, where she and now
she's running for reelection and expects to win. Chiabra asked
Bass a lot about the illegal aliens and the National
Guard and the riots. And this is Chiabra asking Bass
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if she can promise that La is going to stay
a same ctuary city got.
Speaker 6 (18:01):
So such amonistation issuing you because of the sanctuary policy
that we have in the city. Can you promise that
Los Angeles is going to stay as a sanctuary city
even though we're facing or you're facing the city is facing.
Speaker 7 (18:12):
Oh, I can promise that, but I don't control the courts,
and so there is a scenario in which the courts
overturn our policy. Now I hope that doesn't happen, but
I cannot make a commitment that I'm going to violate
the law.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
So potentially we could see this people stop.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Stop. You didn't tell me that was on there. I
wanted to save it for a dramatic effect.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
That means she knows it's the law, she knows the
courts are going to overturn it. She's intentionally violating the
law and protecting illegal aliens. She can't violate the law.
Of course, I told you this the other day. Sanctuary
cities are not a thing. Sanctuary states are not a thing.
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There is no such legal concept as a sanctuary from
federal law. It doesn't exist. It was entirely made up
by these asinine aniotic politicians and activists.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
There's no sanctuary from federal law.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
There's no sanctuary in the entire world from immigration law.
Every country has immigration law, and it's up to that
country to decide how they're going to enforce it. But
there isn't a square foot of land on the globe
where your exec exempt from from from immigration law. There
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is no sanctuary on the entire in the entire world.
She's you know, it's not that she's a moron, it's
that she's such a liar. She and knews them. There's
such liars. They deceive, they missdirect, they mislead, any variation
on lying, whatever word.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
You want to use.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
That's all they do because they think, and maybe they're right,
is that most people are stupid or ignorant, don't pay attention,
don't understand what the law is.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
I mean, what was that pall we had the other day?
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Like a third of people gen Z, which is ages
eighteen to twenty nine, think that Independence Day is about
us declaring independence from Native Americans. Okay, so there you go.
There's a nice base to run for office with. Right,
Is there any more to that clip?
Speaker 3 (20:26):
A little bit?
Speaker 6 (20:28):
Right?
Speaker 7 (20:28):
Continue, But I cannot make a commitment that I'm going
to violate the law.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
So potentially we could see this being it.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Is so is it is possible?
Speaker 7 (20:38):
But I think anything is possible. I'm certainly gonna hope
for the best, and I'm gonna fight for the best. Absolutely,
I'm not going to just assume it's going to fail.
If that was my assumption, then I wouldn't have participated
at all.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
The law either a state or a city has priority
over federal immigration law, or it doesn't. It doesn't. There
is no question about this has been contested several times
over the years. In recent times, you don't get to
overrule federal immigration law, period full stop.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Take that.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
All right, here's Telmando and Rique Chiabra. This is going
to be cut eight. Asking Bess if she thinks ice
raids are the beginning stages of a coup.
Speaker 6 (21:23):
Going back to the MacArthur situation on Monday, you said
that this is the way a city looks before a coop.
Do you really think there's a coup that's been planned.
Speaker 7 (21:32):
I will certainly hope there is not, But it's important
for me to point out the similarities. As I've spent
a fair amount of time going to countries and visiting
cities that were in conflict zone. You don't see the
military descending on its civilians, and you no ever see
that in our country, and the fact that we're seeing
it in peaceful times is a little crazy. There were
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no protests, there was no rioting, There was no vandalism
or writing going.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
On in Arthur Park.
Speaker 7 (22:01):
Now, does MacArthur Park have problems? Absolutely? Were there people
in the park who are addicted to drugs? Absolutely, and
we're addressing that problem. No, you're not warranted military intervention.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
They didn't arrest anybody MacArthur Park. They were doing a
staging exercise. Clearly, maybe they were sending a message to
people like we're here and we're not going away, so
maybe you should make other plans if you're in the
country illegally. Again, they're simply enforcing federal law. People haven't
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seen it enforced in a generation. So everybody is like, really,
flum oxen or is this a coup? A coup is
when the military overthrows a president or king or whoever
the ruler is. That's a coup. The federal government going
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into a state that's part of the Union. But California
is not its own nation, it's part of the United States.
There is all kinds of federal law being violated here
in California, and Bass and Newsome are aiding and abetting it,
and the Ice, the ICE people are getting are getting
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shot at. There were ten people they arrested for attempted
murder in Texas. I mean I mean ten people. The
ar fifteen's they confiscated. So yeah, they need backup. Yes
they need the National Guard. Yes they need the Marines.
Do you think Trump and Tom Homan are going to
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suddenly not enforce federal law? Do you think that they're
going to allow their their ICE troops to be murdered?
You think they're going to allow that? Should they allow that?
Should they let all the ICE enforcement men and women
get their heads blown off by these Antifa lunatics?
Speaker 3 (24:13):
I don't understand they should not enforce federal law.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Karen Bass is a public official, so's Newsome. They know
how dangerous it is out there. Why would you give
permission and license to crazy people to assassinate law enforcement?
Federal law enforcement? Wow, all right, we'll get to the
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drug addicts and MacArthur Park next.
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John Cobelt's show, Thompson in for Conway coming up in
a few moments. Let's continue with this absolutely enraging an
you with Enrique Chiabre of Telemundo talking to Karen Bass.
She has said all kinds, she has spattered all kinds
of lies and misdirection and nonsense regarding not only the fires,
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but the uh, the the ice situation here in Los Angeles,
with the ice agents and patrol officers, you know, claim
claiming that, by the way, MacArthur MacArthur Park is a
horrific area.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
If you've never been to it, uh, don't go to it.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Trust me, all right, because cal five years ago used
to be situated just a few blocks from MacArthur Park.
It was terrible years ago. I've gone there within the
last year. It is like one hundred times worse. It
is unbelievable. How to praved it is there?
Speaker 3 (25:47):
I cannot.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
There's no way on the radio to describe the stink,
the filth, the drugs, the bent over, whacked out, drugged
out mental patience and lunatics. Uh yeah, there, it's wall
to wall illegal aliens. They've got tables and tables of
junk they're selling and it's all stolen the idea. Well
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look at look at the as if these are small businessmen,
Well look at the economy here talking.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
About they steal. Somebody steals that stuff, They take.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
It to a fence, and then the illegal aliens line
up and collect it to sell on their tables, on
their cheap card tables. And that's what lines the streets.
One of the maybe one of the most beautiful parks
in the city, absolute cesspool, run by gangs, run by
all kinds of violent thugs and cartels and the whole.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Yeah, yai. So here's Enrique Chiabra. This will be cut
nine asking Bass about MacArthur Park.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (26:52):
Some Republican MAGA followers are saying that you were there
on Monday because you're defending drug addicts and criminals, because
Mark Karth is well known for having those issues. What
do you have to say to them?
Speaker 3 (27:03):
To those people criticizing you, that's.
Speaker 7 (27:05):
Not even worth a response. Honestly, what I'm defending is
our democracy. What I'm defending is our local authority. And
what I'm defending our people who have immigrated to this
country theos and I will protect them.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Boy, there was so much, There was so much garbage
stuffed into that answer. First of all, his question, it's
Republicans and mega people who says that that drug addicts
and and and and gang members there, it's.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Because there are.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
That's a fact. That's not an opinion of a mega person.
That is a fact. And Karen Bass says she's not
protecting them. She's protecting them. Yes, she's protecting them. Otherwise
they would all be arrested and the illegal ones deported,
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and the homeless ones and the drug addicts rounded up
and forced into treatment. Of course she's protecting them because
those criminals had been running MacArthur Park for many, many years.
She's been there for the last two years, and somehow
she's doing an even worse job than Eric Carcetti, which
I didn't think was possible. Of Course, she's protecting them.
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Otherwise they wouldn't be there. She doesn't want illegal alien
criminals to port it. In all this interview, did she
ever say it's like, look, I don't want working people.
I don't want people working in grocery stores and working
on farms and working at the car washes. I don't
want those people. I don't want the nannies and the
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gardeners to be deported. But all the criminals and drug
cartel members of MacArthur parkers, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
They ought to be deported.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
She didn't say any of that because she doesn't believe it.
That's not part of her value system. And this tell
Amunda reporter, it's mag of people and Republicans. No, it's
anyone normal. You think you think normal Democrats are going
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to MacArthur Park for the weekend and taking their kids
to play. Seriously, you're gonna go take a stroll a
MacArthur Park at nine o'clock at night, have a little
romantic walk.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
What was I gonna do? Sixteen?
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Yeah, all right, Chiabra talking to bass. Oh a message
to illegal aliens just ought.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
To be good.
Speaker 6 (29:34):
Give a message for Angelinos who are undocumented, who are
living in fear, who.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
You know, yes on the offenses, they just.
Speaker 6 (29:41):
Moved there to work, to have a better life for
their children, and like now they're basically facing this situation
where they don't they can't work because they feel like
they're gonna get arrested, or even sending their children to
school or like like how you were mentioning the whole
situation on MacArthur Park. It was a camp and then
the kids were taking away, so a mess such for them.
Speaker 7 (30:01):
Sure, my message is my number one job as mayor
is to protect Angelino's. They're not angelinos, all Angelinos, regardless
of their immigration status, regardless of what they're not, they
got here or.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Why they're here.
Speaker 7 (30:14):
And I want you to know, and I want Angelinos
to know that this is a part of my core values.
This is not a political issue for me because of
the moment. I've been involved in immigration reform efforts for many,
many years when I was in Congress, when I was
a community activist, and the major immigration bill went through
Congress was in nineteen eighty six, the Simpson and Mazzoli
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bill fighting against Proposition one eighty seven.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Stop saying again. She doesn't ever address the criminal aliens.
The drug car tells the MS thirteen gangs. I've been
running MacArthur Park and she knows this. I know if
she's scared of taking them on, but she doesn't take
them mind, she does protect them. Hervalues are aligned with criminals,
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gang members, cartel members, illegal aliens, homeless people, drug addicts.
That's who she protects. People in the palisades are just
supposed to pay the bill, and the palisades they're not
supposed to be there. So she's not unhappy that that
burned down. She sees a great opportunity to turn the
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Palisades into MacArthur Park and set up those low income
high rises.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
I'd play one more here cut eighteen. People thought that.
Speaker 6 (31:40):
Because we're sanctuary city, there was no way that agents
could come into the city and do rags. But people
have to understand that it's a whole different mini sanctuary city.
It's the fact that local authorities can culporate, but they
can still come into whatever they want, as we've seen
it for the past thirty days.
Speaker 7 (31:56):
People, and hopefully you will participate in this in terms
of educating the audience the difference between the federal, the state,
the county, and the local government. The federal government is
at the top and that preempts all of the laws
going down, and so we can do everything that is possible.
But I will tell you that this city has a
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long history of fighting for immigrant rights, but we have
never seen in our lifetime what is happening right now.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
It's not She just admitted the federal government supersedes local government,
and under federal government law, no, they don't have any
rights to stay, and yes, ICE can come in and
take them out. And she knows that she's going to
fight for immigrant rights. You'd actually have to change the
(32:45):
Constitution in federal law. The way everything's written, what's going
on is absolutely legal.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
I gotta lie down. Mark Thompson's here.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
I heard a little bit of you and the NIH
Guide today like that Jay by a Chrriot. That was
a really great conversation. Not a big not a big
Fauci fan. I'm picking up. No, No, he was never
really on the Fauci train.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Oh well, if you read his background, he was. He
wasn't crazy. He just you know, he thought the vaccines
worked out well. He understood while the first few months
everyone was in a panic. But you know, when the
when the data came in, it was clear that it
was largely the elderly and the Yeah, you kind.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
Of made that point, like why didn't policy sort of
follow that data? But it was just and I thought
he was quite open and talking about the fact that
certain decisions are informed by other stuff that's going on.
And the Wuhan lockdown. That was a really interesting thing.
So if I would encourage people to check it out
on your pod, Yeah, on your world famous podcast. So
(33:50):
this Camill Farm thing, I know you, uh, I mean, I.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
Don't know what.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Michael Monks came on for five minutes. Yeah, I have
no idea what this one's about.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
Well, I mean, I guess it's about sort of what
they're doing where they drop a lot of ICE agents
and federal immigration enforcement into an area that they know
is rich with people who are probably not here illegally.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
I was wondering if the company was getting investigated. Yeah,
I mean the way that a Peril company was downtown.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
Sure.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
Sure, I mean you know this goes to something that
if you're really crafting immigration policy you have to look at,
which is, you know, should there be employer sanctions for
this sort of thing? Should you have to be sure
that the people you're employing are conforming with the law.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
They have this thing called Everify, which just most companies
don't use because you're not forced to use Everify. It's
like running a credit card check and you find out
legal or illegal.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
But why would you use it if there's no incentive
to use it or disincentive to not use it. A
lot of companies don't use, of course not they want
the low the immigrant labor they can hire a low costs.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
I've always thought, going back a long time that you
go after the employers because that the employers have an
incentive not to hire.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
Well, that drains the market.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Sure, and then put up something orderly where you match
the number of immigrants to the industries where you really
can't get enough Americans to take.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
The job, like a Brasero program. Yeah, yeah, just organize everything.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
And you could hear.
Speaker 4 (35:15):
Trump the other day kind of thinking that out loud
when he said, oh, we ought to have a thing
for the You know, you got.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
To quicken his thinking process and get it done.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
Lady.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
All right, anyway, we got a big show. Mark Thompson
in for Conway. Coming up next, Deborah mark Is, she's
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did an interview with Jay Batticheria. He is the new
director of the National Institute of Health, replacing Anthony Fauci,
(00:24):
and he was one he may have been the most
prominent critic of all the COVID not lockdowns and all
the restrictive policies that caused so much damage that we
feel to this day both physically mentally, and what happened
to to everybody's children in school, what happened to so
many businesses in the state that all came out of
(00:48):
the lockdowns. And he was against him almost from day
one and made it clear, and he was vilified for that. Well,
now he's running things and trying to change things in Washington.
You'll want to And that's beginning of the one o'clock
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After four o'clock, Chris Lagraz coming on now, the journalist.
(01:10):
We talked about yesterday a lot about how Sacramento Democrats
come Hell or high Water, want to force single family
neighborhoods to accept high rise apartment buildings filled with low
income residents. This would just destroy local zoning laws. Let's
(01:32):
get Chris on to talk about this. A lot of
people don't believe it. I was talking to some friends
yesterday and they're just looking at me like I dropped
off the moon. But this is a real thing, Chris,
isn't it.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Oh, It's probably the single biggest agenda item on the
California political classes radar these days. This is their Manhattan project.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
So if you have a neighbor, he'd be able to
sell to developer who would bulldoze the single family house
next door to you and put up a four plex,
put up a high rise apartment building and fill it
with I could fill it with low income people, homeless people,
you know, whatever kind of deal he could get to
finance it.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Right, Well, that's right, And I think in terms of
the quality of life, it's really it's it's just a
degree of horribles because once that new stack I pack
as we call them, goes in next door to your
single family home. I mean, your property value is going
to be affected. Obviously, your quality of life and your
neighbor's quality of life is going to be affected. And
(02:34):
this is all based on just such a demonstrably false
and this whole notion that single family neighborhoods, which by
the way, is where eighty two percent of Californians live,
and last I checked, eighty two percent of Californians aren't white.
So I mean, of everybody chooses to live in that
(02:55):
type of neighborhood a low dense single family or small
multifamily or suburban or what have you, people will add
hours to their commutes every day to get that dream.
That's just human nature.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Do you mean leaders trying to sell this as this
this is an excessive white privilege single family home sports.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Of course, that's their go to that our neighborhoods were
the creations of segregation and redlining and racial covenants and
all that. And you know that was true eighty years ago.
But the fact of the matter is the single fastest
growing cohorted home buyers in California or Latino. So what
is more racist than these democrats pretending like millions of
(03:38):
non white homeowners in the suburbs don't exist because it
doesn't fit their political narrative. I mean, if you can
come up with something that's more racist than that, I'm
all ears.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
He tried a version of this a few years ago,
all the way back to twenty nineteen, and now he's back.
He didn't have the support in twenty nineteen. Does he
have it now?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Well, he he got very clear, He got close when
people realized it was literally the eleventh hour. It actually
that was SB fifty talking about Senate Bill fifty, which
would have done what this current bill, Senate Bill seventy nine,
And everybody, by the way, needs to be calling your
Assembly members and your senators and raising holy hell about
SB seventy nine. But it actually did pass. The crazy
(04:25):
thing is there's this old, this old timy requirement of
the legislature that when the second House, that is, the
house where the bill did not originate, passes a bill,
they have to literally carry a paper copy of it
down the hall back to the house where it originated
so they can vote on what's called a reconciliation vote.
The only reason SB fifty didn't pass is because they
(04:48):
literally ran out of time. It passed the Assembly at
like eleven fifty eight pm on August thirty, first of
twenty nineteen, and they just literally did not have time
before midnight and the recess for it to get back
to the Senate. So you know, let's be under no
illusions that Wiener, Scott Wiener, the Democratic Senator, doesn't have support.
(05:12):
And that's why it's so crucial for individual Californians to
be raising their voices right now. Call your assembly member,
call your senator, say no on SB seventy nine, because
it would hurt working class and lower income neighborhoods first
and worst. And that's not speculative or or theoretical. It's
happening as we speak, even without SB seventy nine. And
(05:36):
if you don't think that they are jonesing for the
Palisades and Alpadina right now, well, we saw the news
yesterday that Newsom has just allocated one hundred million dollars
for low income and homeless housing in the burn zones.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
So well, any question, those are the pestle pieces I
was putting together yesterday. Number one, Karen Vass is hardly
issuing any permits. Number two Scott Wiener has this bill
stripping neighborhoods of local zoning laws and allowing these apartment
monstrosities to be built for low income housing. And number
three Newsom has already kicked off kicked off the festivities
(06:12):
with one hundred million dollars for low income housing in
the Palisades.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
So this is what's happening.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I think bass is intentionally delaying these permits so that
these people are exhausted and they surrender and they just
sell to a developer and let the developer do what
he wants.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
I really think that's going on. What do you think.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I wish I had an argument against that, and I
wish I could say I was wearing my tinfoil hat
right now, but I think the evidence all points in
that direction. I think they're slow walking all of this recovery,
absolutely intentionally, starting with the soil testing and the ground
testing and the water testing, which that ate up a
few months when people were trying to get that basic step,
(06:54):
which happens after every other natural disaster, by the way,
except this one. So they slow that, which made it
more difficult for people to deal with their insurers, because
one of the first things the insurer asks the adjust
ask is what's the status, what's the quality of the
of the soil? So they've been doing everything they can
to slow walk this and I think they're trying to
(07:14):
start people out, John, I really do. And I hate
to say that, and maybe I sound like a crazy
That's what I think.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
That's why I think I bring this up with people.
And like you said, what's the argument against it? If
that wasn't the plan, what would they be doing differently?
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Right?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Well, and here's another tell John, you know who the
You remember our good friends over at the Streets for All,
Michael Schneider and his crowds. Yeah, that we're behind Measure HLA,
the transit bill that or the Transit Initiative. Well, they're
also one of the key sponsors of SB seventy nine.
So any questions, this all fits together. It's the same players,
(07:52):
it's the same special interests, it's the same billionaires. I mean,
this gold rush that's coming to California thanks to SB
seventy nine is going to make the original gold rush
look like a sandbox fight in kindergarten.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
A huge payoff to the developers, and I guess they
are the ones who are greasing things in the legislature.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
They're the ones who are greasing things, who have donated
millions of dollars to these lawmakers. Scott Wiener, who is
behind many of these bills, has received far and away
more real estate money and venture capital money and black
Rock style money than any other lawmaker in California. And
here you go, this is there. They are getting a
lot of bang for their buck with Scott Weiener.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
I'll tell you yeah, well, and then he gets to
position it to the public as either racial equity or
a climate sensitivity or any of the other trendy issues
of the day. But the truth is he's taken in
big bucks for his campaigns from these developers who are
going to make a fortune developing the Palisades lots into
low income housing, apartment housing.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
They're going to turn it into their social housing utopia.
That that is the plan. And by the way, anybody
has any questions in both out of the and Palisades.
I have a couple of folks who send me reports
every few weeks of parcels that have been sold, and
they are far fewer in the Palisades than at Altada.
But it's starting to pick up of the parcels that
(09:12):
have already sold. More than sixty percent have been sold
to LLC's blind trusts or corporations, so including several in
the Palisades, several LLC's that have purchased two or three
adjacent parcels.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
When are they voting on this?
Speaker 2 (09:31):
SB seventy nine is going to go, is going to
be voted and the Local Government Committee in the Assembly
next Wednesday. Then the legislature goes on recess from July
eighteenth to August eighteenth, So that month is the time
to be cut because you're you're a lawmaker, your your
assembly member, your senator will be back in town. They'll
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be back in the district and that's when you call
them and if you can show up at their office,
write an email. I mean, the only is to make noise.
And I know we're coming up on it, but really quickly,
we came within one vote because of the grass roots
doing what I'm just describing. We came within one vote
of killing SB seventy nine in the Senate, so we're
(10:14):
doing the same thing in the Assembly. Of this bill
is far from a done deal, but we need the grassroots.
We need everyone who's listening to my voice. Right now,
take the fifteen seconds and pick up the phone and
call your assembly member and your senator and say I'm
a constituent and I oppose SB seventy nine. It really
is that quick. You can go to a website, our
(10:37):
Neighborhood Voices dot com. We're sort of helping with a
couple other groups, Neighbors United here in La as well.
Our Neighborhood Voices is helping lead this charge. But it
comes down to individuals. I mean, it'suns hope, the grassroots works.
The grassroots work.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Chris got to do the news. Thank you for coming on.
We will continue talking about this.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Absolutely, Thank you, John. And by the way, we also
got to talk about this question shennigans last week. That's
actually almost more shameful.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
All right, we'll do that.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Telemundo reporter Enrique Chiabra did an interview with Karen Bass yesterday.
She is running for reelection. Spent a lot of time
on the ice Wars and the latest incident MacArthur Park
where Bass was seen yelling on the phone and she
was talking to Greg Bovino, who is the head of
(11:33):
Customs and Border Patrol in Los Angeles. Let's do cut
three here. Excuse Meiabra asking Bass to respond to a
comment Bovino made publicly.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
She said, thank you, does some work for you, and
they're going to stay here as much as needed to
continue with their mission. What do you have to say
about that?
Speaker 7 (11:52):
Well, first of all, I think both of us work
for the American people and taxpayers pay us out, and
we are both public servants. He said that they were
going to be here as long as they wanted. But
that goes back to the origin of the problem. What
the administration is doing is experimenting with Los Angeles to
experiment with what happens. What is the public response when
(12:15):
the federal government goes into the state and seizes power
and authority from the governor and deploying National Guard in
our city and they weren't even asked for because they
were not needed.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Oh my god, that is such bs. The federal government
has complete and total power over the border and immigration laws.
Karen Pass has none. No mayor has that power, No
governor has that power. And it goes both ways. They
(12:51):
found that out in Arizona. Arizona wanted to start arresting
illegal aliens on their own, and the Supreme Court said
you can't.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
At the time, the Obama administration.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
The court sided with the federal government just because the
Obama administration had looser rules on the border than the
Arizona governor. Arizona governor, she had no right to arrest people.
Arizona legislature had no right at all. Well, it works
both ways. Karen Bass has no right to overrule the
(13:25):
federal government. The Trump administration, Congress House said it whole thing.
It is not up to her. She doesn't have a say,
She doesn't have a vote at all. Karen Bass doesn't
work for the American people. She works for the citizens
of Los Angeles. The federal government employees like Greg Bovino
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work for the American people as a whole. It's local, state, federal,
that's the hierarchy. Karen Bass is at the bottom of
the pyramid there. Enrique chob Giabra from Telemundo the n
asked Bass if Boveno confirmed that the ice raids would end,
(14:09):
I guess sometime soon.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
Did he confirm or say when this would end? Do
you know when the raids are going to stop? Careel
Center no.
Speaker 7 (14:16):
Once again, everything that's been happening in the city has
been by rumors. So there's a lot of rumors. So
it's supposed to last thirty days, sixty days, but there
has never been an answer from the administration as to
how long this was going to last. And if you
look at it, what have they accomplished except for spritings,
fear and terror in our community? What have they accomplished
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instead except for damaging the economy and ripping the economy
apart in some neighborhoods. I went to restaurants that catered
to the Central American population Salvador, El Salvador and Honduras.
Those restaurants were empty. The owner said that this was
worse than COVID.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
They not only wait, wait, hold on, hold on.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Caaren Bath said nothing when Newsome shut down all the restaurants,
said nothing, When who is the Barbara Ferrer, the La
County public health director, she to shut down all the
county restaurants.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Garcetti was shutting that. She never said anything.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Somehow, you have some El Salvadoran restaurants shut down that
catered to illegal aliens, like, oh my.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
God, it's ruining the economy.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
No Newsom and Garcetti and Barbara Ferrara and the LA
County supervisors. They actually destroyed thousands of businesses. Holy crap.
Another thing, she said that Trump came in uninvited and
took control of the National Guard. Well, so far in court,
(15:44):
Trump has been backed up by federal judges, including a
Biden nominee. So so far, the way these judges see it,
Trump has the right to do that. She has like zero.
Did she really not understand or is just more of
the stupid political posturing what she's pretending She's an idiot
(16:07):
or she's actually an idiot. Federal government obviously, the president
does have a power to take over the National Guard.
The National Guard is part of the military. All Right,
we got more clips to play. We come back.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
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(16:50):
was one of the leading critics of the lockdown policies,
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vocal about it early on, took an enormous amount of
incoming fire over it. But now he's he's running things
in Washington, and the world might be in a better
place now that he's taken over. I wish he was
in charge five years ago and our lives would not
(17:13):
have been as severely disrupted as they were. Continuing here
with Karen Bass, who you know, hold on to that
to that clip about her and the fire, by the way,
just for long term use, because it's like I heard
it almost an hour ago and I'm still infuriated by it.
(17:35):
They will play it again before four o'clock, but I
want to play these clips. She was on an interview
with the Telemundo reporter Enrique Chiabra, where she and now
she's running for reelection and expects to win. Chiabra asked
Bass a lot about the illegal aliens and the National
Guard and the riots. And this is Chiabra asking Bass
(17:57):
if she can promise that La is going to stay
a same ctuary city got.
Speaker 6 (18:01):
So such amonistation issuing you because of the sanctuary policy
that we have in the city. Can you promise that
Los Angeles is going to stay as a sanctuary city
even though we're facing or you're facing the city is facing.
Speaker 7 (18:12):
Oh, I can promise that, but I don't control the courts,
and so there is a scenario in which the courts
overturn our policy. Now I hope that doesn't happen, but
I cannot make a commitment that I'm going to violate
the law.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
So potentially we could see this people stop.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Stop. You didn't tell me that was on there. I
wanted to save it for a dramatic effect.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
That means she knows it's the law, she knows the
courts are going to overturn it. She's intentionally violating the
law and protecting illegal aliens. She can't violate the law.
Of course, I told you this the other day. Sanctuary
cities are not a thing. Sanctuary states are not a thing.
(18:58):
There is no such legal concept as a sanctuary from
federal law. It doesn't exist. It was entirely made up
by these asinine aniotic politicians and activists.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
There's no sanctuary from federal law.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
There's no sanctuary in the entire world from immigration law.
Every country has immigration law, and it's up to that
country to decide how they're going to enforce it. But
there isn't a square foot of land on the globe
where your exec exempt from from from immigration law. There
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is no sanctuary on the entire in the entire world.
She's you know, it's not that she's a moron, it's
that she's such a liar. She and knews them. There's
such liars. They deceive, they missdirect, they mislead, any variation
on lying, whatever word.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
You want to use.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
That's all they do because they think, and maybe they're right,
is that most people are stupid or ignorant, don't pay attention,
don't understand what the law is.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
I mean, what was that pall we had the other day?
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Like a third of people gen Z, which is ages
eighteen to twenty nine, think that Independence Day is about
us declaring independence from Native Americans. Okay, so there you go.
There's a nice base to run for office with. Right,
Is there any more to that clip?
Speaker 3 (20:26):
A little bit?
Speaker 6 (20:28):
Right?
Speaker 7 (20:28):
Continue, But I cannot make a commitment that I'm going
to violate the law.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
So potentially we could see this being it.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Is so is it is possible?
Speaker 7 (20:38):
But I think anything is possible. I'm certainly gonna hope
for the best, and I'm gonna fight for the best. Absolutely,
I'm not going to just assume it's going to fail.
If that was my assumption, then I wouldn't have participated
at all.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
The law either a state or a city has priority
over federal immigration law, or it doesn't. It doesn't. There
is no question about this has been contested several times
over the years. In recent times, you don't get to
overrule federal immigration law, period full stop.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Take that.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
All right, here's Telmando and Rique Chiabra. This is going
to be cut eight. Asking Bess if she thinks ice
raids are the beginning stages of a coup.
Speaker 6 (21:23):
Going back to the MacArthur situation on Monday, you said
that this is the way a city looks before a coop.
Do you really think there's a coup that's been planned.
Speaker 7 (21:32):
I will certainly hope there is not, But it's important
for me to point out the similarities. As I've spent
a fair amount of time going to countries and visiting
cities that were in conflict zone. You don't see the
military descending on its civilians, and you no ever see
that in our country, and the fact that we're seeing
it in peaceful times is a little crazy. There were
(21:56):
no protests, there was no rioting, There was no vandalism
or writing going.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
On in Arthur Park.
Speaker 7 (22:01):
Now, does MacArthur Park have problems? Absolutely? Were there people
in the park who are addicted to drugs? Absolutely, and
we're addressing that problem. No, you're not warranted military intervention.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
They didn't arrest anybody MacArthur Park. They were doing a
staging exercise. Clearly, maybe they were sending a message to
people like we're here and we're not going away, so
maybe you should make other plans if you're in the
country illegally. Again, they're simply enforcing federal law. People haven't
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seen it enforced in a generation. So everybody is like, really,
flum oxen or is this a coup? A coup is
when the military overthrows a president or king or whoever
the ruler is. That's a coup. The federal government going
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into a state that's part of the Union. But California
is not its own nation, it's part of the United States.
There is all kinds of federal law being violated here
in California, and Bass and Newsome are aiding and abetting it,
and the Ice, the ICE people are getting are getting
(23:28):
shot at. There were ten people they arrested for attempted
murder in Texas. I mean I mean ten people. The
ar fifteen's they confiscated. So yeah, they need backup. Yes
they need the National Guard. Yes they need the Marines.
Do you think Trump and Tom Homan are going to
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suddenly not enforce federal law? Do you think that they're
going to allow their their ICE troops to be murdered?
You think they're going to allow that? Should they allow that?
Should they let all the ICE enforcement men and women
get their heads blown off by these Antifa lunatics?
Speaker 3 (24:13):
I don't understand they should not enforce federal law.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Karen Bass is a public official, so's Newsome. They know
how dangerous it is out there. Why would you give
permission and license to crazy people to assassinate law enforcement?
Federal law enforcement? Wow, all right, we'll get to the
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drug addicts and MacArthur Park next.
Speaker 5 (24:45):
You're listening to John cobelts on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
John Cobelt's show, Thompson in for Conway coming up in
a few moments. Let's continue with this absolutely enraging an
you with Enrique Chiabre of Telemundo talking to Karen Bass.
She has said all kinds, she has spattered all kinds
of lies and misdirection and nonsense regarding not only the fires,
(25:15):
but the uh, the the ice situation here in Los Angeles,
with the ice agents and patrol officers, you know, claim
claiming that, by the way, MacArthur MacArthur Park is a
horrific area.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
If you've never been to it, uh, don't go to it.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Trust me, all right, because cal five years ago used
to be situated just a few blocks from MacArthur Park.
It was terrible years ago. I've gone there within the
last year. It is like one hundred times worse. It
is unbelievable. How to praved it is there?
Speaker 3 (25:47):
I cannot.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
There's no way on the radio to describe the stink,
the filth, the drugs, the bent over, whacked out, drugged
out mental patience and lunatics. Uh yeah, there, it's wall
to wall illegal aliens. They've got tables and tables of
junk they're selling and it's all stolen the idea. Well
(26:11):
look at look at the as if these are small businessmen,
Well look at the economy here talking.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
About they steal. Somebody steals that stuff, They take.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
It to a fence, and then the illegal aliens line
up and collect it to sell on their tables, on
their cheap card tables. And that's what lines the streets.
One of the maybe one of the most beautiful parks
in the city, absolute cesspool, run by gangs, run by
all kinds of violent thugs and cartels and the whole.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Yeah, yai. So here's Enrique Chiabra. This will be cut
nine asking Bass about MacArthur Park.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (26:52):
Some Republican MAGA followers are saying that you were there
on Monday because you're defending drug addicts and criminals, because
Mark Karth is well known for having those issues. What
do you have to say to them?
Speaker 3 (27:03):
To those people criticizing you, that's.
Speaker 7 (27:05):
Not even worth a response. Honestly, what I'm defending is
our democracy. What I'm defending is our local authority. And
what I'm defending our people who have immigrated to this
country theos and I will protect them.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Boy, there was so much, There was so much garbage
stuffed into that answer. First of all, his question, it's
Republicans and mega people who says that that drug addicts
and and and and gang members there, it's.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Because there are.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
That's a fact. That's not an opinion of a mega person.
That is a fact. And Karen Bass says she's not
protecting them. She's protecting them. Yes, she's protecting them. Otherwise
they would all be arrested and the illegal ones deported,
(27:59):
and the homeless ones and the drug addicts rounded up
and forced into treatment. Of course she's protecting them because
those criminals had been running MacArthur Park for many, many years.
She's been there for the last two years, and somehow
she's doing an even worse job than Eric Carcetti, which
I didn't think was possible. Of Course, she's protecting them.
(28:21):
Otherwise they wouldn't be there. She doesn't want illegal alien
criminals to port it. In all this interview, did she
ever say it's like, look, I don't want working people.
I don't want people working in grocery stores and working
on farms and working at the car washes. I don't
want those people. I don't want the nannies and the
(28:42):
gardeners to be deported. But all the criminals and drug
cartel members of MacArthur parkers, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
They ought to be deported.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
She didn't say any of that because she doesn't believe it.
That's not part of her value system. And this tell
Amunda reporter, it's mag of people and Republicans. No, it's
anyone normal. You think you think normal Democrats are going
(29:09):
to MacArthur Park for the weekend and taking their kids
to play. Seriously, you're gonna go take a stroll a
MacArthur Park at nine o'clock at night, have a little
romantic walk.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
What was I gonna do? Sixteen?
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Yeah, all right, Chiabra talking to bass. Oh a message
to illegal aliens just ought.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
To be good.
Speaker 6 (29:34):
Give a message for Angelinos who are undocumented, who are
living in fear, who.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
You know, yes on the offenses, they just.
Speaker 6 (29:41):
Moved there to work, to have a better life for
their children, and like now they're basically facing this situation
where they don't they can't work because they feel like
they're gonna get arrested, or even sending their children to
school or like like how you were mentioning the whole
situation on MacArthur Park. It was a camp and then
the kids were taking away, so a mess such for them.
Speaker 7 (30:01):
Sure, my message is my number one job as mayor
is to protect Angelino's. They're not angelinos, all Angelinos, regardless
of their immigration status, regardless of what they're not, they
got here or.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Why they're here.
Speaker 7 (30:14):
And I want you to know, and I want Angelinos
to know that this is a part of my core values.
This is not a political issue for me because of
the moment. I've been involved in immigration reform efforts for many,
many years when I was in Congress, when I was
a community activist, and the major immigration bill went through
Congress was in nineteen eighty six, the Simpson and Mazzoli
(30:37):
bill fighting against Proposition one eighty seven.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Stop saying again. She doesn't ever address the criminal aliens.
The drug car tells the MS thirteen gangs. I've been
running MacArthur Park and she knows this. I know if
she's scared of taking them on, but she doesn't take
them mind, she does protect them. Hervalues are aligned with criminals,
(31:03):
gang members, cartel members, illegal aliens, homeless people, drug addicts.
That's who she protects. People in the palisades are just
supposed to pay the bill, and the palisades they're not
supposed to be there. So she's not unhappy that that
burned down. She sees a great opportunity to turn the
(31:25):
Palisades into MacArthur Park and set up those low income
high rises.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
I'd play one more here cut eighteen. People thought that.
Speaker 6 (31:40):
Because we're sanctuary city, there was no way that agents
could come into the city and do rags. But people
have to understand that it's a whole different mini sanctuary city.
It's the fact that local authorities can culporate, but they
can still come into whatever they want, as we've seen
it for the past thirty days.
Speaker 7 (31:56):
People, and hopefully you will participate in this in terms
of educating the audience the difference between the federal, the state,
the county, and the local government. The federal government is
at the top and that preempts all of the laws
going down, and so we can do everything that is possible.
But I will tell you that this city has a
(32:17):
long history of fighting for immigrant rights, but we have
never seen in our lifetime what is happening right now.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
It's not She just admitted the federal government supersedes local government,
and under federal government law, no, they don't have any
rights to stay, and yes, ICE can come in and
take them out. And she knows that she's going to
fight for immigrant rights. You'd actually have to change the
(32:45):
Constitution in federal law. The way everything's written, what's going
on is absolutely legal.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
I gotta lie down. Mark Thompson's here.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
I heard a little bit of you and the NIH
Guide today like that Jay by a Chrriot. That was
a really great conversation. Not a big not a big
Fauci fan. I'm picking up. No, No, he was never
really on the Fauci train.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Oh well, if you read his background, he was. He
wasn't crazy. He just you know, he thought the vaccines
worked out well. He understood while the first few months
everyone was in a panic. But you know, when the
when the data came in, it was clear that it
was largely the elderly and the Yeah, you kind.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
Of made that point, like why didn't policy sort of
follow that data? But it was just and I thought
he was quite open and talking about the fact that
certain decisions are informed by other stuff that's going on.
And the Wuhan lockdown. That was a really interesting thing.
So if I would encourage people to check it out
on your pod, Yeah, on your world famous podcast. So
(33:50):
this Camill Farm thing, I know you, uh, I mean, I.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
Don't know what.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Michael Monks came on for five minutes. Yeah, I have
no idea what this one's about.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
Well, I mean, I guess it's about sort of what
they're doing where they drop a lot of ICE agents
and federal immigration enforcement into an area that they know
is rich with people who are probably not here illegally.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
I was wondering if the company was getting investigated. Yeah,
I mean the way that a Peril company was downtown.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
Sure.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
Sure, I mean you know this goes to something that
if you're really crafting immigration policy you have to look at,
which is, you know, should there be employer sanctions for
this sort of thing? Should you have to be sure
that the people you're employing are conforming with the law.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
They have this thing called Everify, which just most companies
don't use because you're not forced to use Everify. It's
like running a credit card check and you find out
legal or illegal.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
But why would you use it if there's no incentive
to use it or disincentive to not use it. A
lot of companies don't use, of course not they want
the low the immigrant labor they can hire a low costs.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
I've always thought, going back a long time that you
go after the employers because that the employers have an
incentive not to hire.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
Well, that drains the market.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Sure, and then put up something orderly where you match
the number of immigrants to the industries where you really
can't get enough Americans to take.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
The job, like a Brasero program. Yeah, yeah, just organize everything.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
And you could hear.
Speaker 4 (35:15):
Trump the other day kind of thinking that out loud
when he said, oh, we ought to have a thing
for the You know, you got.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
To quicken his thinking process and get it done.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
Lady.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
All right, anyway, we got a big show. Mark Thompson
in for Conway. Coming up next, Deborah mark Is, she's
on her round. It's Michael Krazer, who looks nothing like
Deborah Mark Wive in the CAFI twenty four hour Newsmen. Hey,
you've been listening to The John Cobalt Show podcast. You
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