July 25, 2025 • 33 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (07/25) - Royal Oakes comes on the show to talk about the possibility of the US Supreme Court hearing Ghislaine Maxwell's case. Residents in Hollywood are concerned about recent fires in the Runyon Canyon area. More on Bryan Kohberger. The sidewalks in LA are so bad and the city keeps having to pay out lawsuit settlements to people.
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gonna talk now with Royal Oaks for ABC News. So
the news that's been swirling around all day from back
east is Gallainne Maxwell meeting with the Deputy Attorney General
Todd Blanche. Maxwell of course, was the close associate of
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Jeffrey Epstein, and she helped recruit and she got convicted
of a lot of felonies, and she's going to spend
at least twenty years in prison, and she's in her sixties.
Says she's desperate to try to mitigate the sentence in
some way, and now she's trying to come clean and
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give the government names. Now as of about oh, I
don't know one thirty. The New York Post reported that
Glenn Maxwell gave the Department of Justice the names of
one hundred different people connected to Jeffrey Epstein. Now when
these were linked to connected to again, there's no detail
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on if these were customers of the Jeffrey's services or not.
Trump could give her a pardon that's been swirling in
the air, but she's got to come up with information
that they can verify. Also, her lawyers are taking a
case to the Supreme Court that her conviction was invalid
because of a non prosecution agreement that prosecutors made with
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Epstein back in seven. So we'll talk about all this
with Royal Oaks, ABC News Legal analyst Royal, how are you.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I'm doing great.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Boy.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
It seems like everybody on both sides of the politic spectrum,
John are very interested in this. It's kind of like
we have to change our national motto from eurbazunam to
inquiring minds want to know because the left wants to
see right people named his clients, the right wants to
see left. But as you say, she's got a lot
of irons in the fire. She's interested in a pardon.
Her lawyer today said, well, you know, the President could
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pardon ms Maxwell, and we hope he will. But basically yes,
she by speaking for six hours with Trump's lawyer, Todd Branch,
the guy who represented him in the Stormy Daniels case,
and now he's in the Attorney General's office. She may
have some information. The non prosecution deal you mentioned, John
is really interesting. It's very rare that the prosecutors will say, look,
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you play ball with us and we won't go after
your spouse or a co conspirator. Very rare and not
against the big fish. And Maxwell probably qualifies as a
big fish in the Jeffrey Epstein world.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
So would she be covered by this?
Speaker 3 (02:56):
And because first I heard of this, you know, my
attention for this goes in and out. So Epstein was
charged and prosecuted in six got a sweetheart deal. He
was spending i think weekends under house arrest or some
such nonsense, right, and they said, okay, we'll go after
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anyone else on your side.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
That's right between that sweetheart deal. And then in twenty nineteen,
when he killed himself in prison awaiting sex trafficking trial,
there were lots of charges swirling around, and in the
course of that he cut a deal not to get
himself off the hook, but to reduce the number of charges.
And allegedly the deal didn't mention Maxwell, but did mention
co conspirators, So her lawyers have a hard job to
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convince a court that, yeah, this is an enforceable deal.
It's specific enough. He kind of reminds you of the
build Cosby deal where the original DA twenty five years
ago said okay, Bill, if you'll testify in your civil case,
we will prosecute you. He said, okay, Then he talked
about kayluds and women, and then suddenly he's prosecuted, and oh,
well the deal really, isn't there same thing here?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Wouldn't this have come up before?
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Though?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Before they started putting her on trial, the lawyers must
have brought this up.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Yeah, it's very weird that it's only coming to the
fore now. And I think it's just a function of
the bright light of publicity being shining on it, because
you're right, I mean, if it's a good deal for her,
why wouldn't she have raised it before? But when you
have an Attorney General Pambondi who comes into office in February,
then in March and April she's saying, oh, I got
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a client list, an Epstein client list, and my dad
we're kind of going through it. And then a couple
of months later, Oh, nothing to see here. And of
course Alan Dershowitz saw he did a piece in the
Wall Street Journal the day he said, I was Epstein's lawyer.
I've seen all this stuff. There's nobody high profile implicated
in any of these lists. So who knows if the
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courts will even allow the release of the grand jury stuff.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
There's been so much hype over lit and identities and
nothing pans out. I mean, if something must have been
going on all these years, right, he did have a
lot of teenage girls, and he had a lot of
people on his island and on his plane, and you know,
he was exceptionally perverse. And it is an interesting list
of people who end up being connected to him, you know,
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people like Woody Allen and Kevin Spacey and Bill Gates,
people who have had sexual stories swirling about them over
the years, Bill Clinton. Right, So you know it's all plausible. Now,
what would be these hundred people be I mean, I
know you don't know, but would she have to produce
one hundred or fifty or ten customers of Jeffrey Epstein
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that they could prosecute for being involved in child sex trafficking?
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Yeah, theoretically. I mean, the main thing now is to
tamp down the argument that it was the deep state.
There's no transparency. Whether you're on the left or you're right,
people are angry. But it comes to her actually producing stuff.
It can't be just her word. It has to be
her pointing to some sort of documentation connecting the dots.
Because as you say, you know, you've got lists of
people on the planes, You've got maybe the ages of
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the kids on the planes. It doesn't mean anybody else
on the plane did anything wrong, but still it could
lead you down the path. But I think at the
end of the road, your instinct is right. It's been
so many years and everybody assumed, well, there must be
a bunch of really powerful people who are just sweating
bullets because they were hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein. And
yet it's been years and years. You'd think a woman
or a document or something would surface, and it hasn't.
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So it may be a nothing burger. But I think
the government feels like they have to keep digging to
satisfy both the left and the right.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Why did Trump's people say that they had these lists,
they had evidence. Why have we heard that there's been
photos and a video system all these years. I don't
understand why this story keeps popping up and everybody's saying basic, oh,
just you wouldn't believe what's that there? And then nothing happened.
Nothing is kept secret. Like if Trump was involved with
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a fourteen year old, that would have come out by now.
Same thing with Bill Clinton, right, it would have come out.
Both of them had plenty of political enemies and enemies otherwise.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
I think the answer to your question is there were
a lot of people on the right, a lot of
people in magnation who are firmly believing that this is
the deep swamp, and there's so much secrecy and sexual rings,
all these rumors and so on. We just want complete transparency.
We think, you know, some prominent people on the left
were involved. The House Oversight Committee is getting involved. You know,
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they're going to get a deposition maybe from Maxwell on
August eleven about her the handling of her case. And
as you say, she's angling to her getting out to
you here, wants to pardon, she wants some court to say, Okay, yeah,
that was not really fair. Were you were cheated? You
were promised that there would be no prosecution. That's what
she was.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Well, somebody must have been having sex with these girls.
I mean the girls really existed, and Epstein really had
a weird operation going on.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
There must have been customers.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Right, Well, absolutely, that's a rational assumption. But did the
passage of time is so critical here. I mean it's
now been six years since he died, and you know,
twenty years or so since the Sweetheart Deal. So much
interest in this case, you'd think it would have surfaced.
That's why a lot of people are thinking. If it
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hasn't surfaced by now, you know, we're going to go
through the motions, but let's not look for any blockbuster.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
So we're six years?
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Would I would, if you'd ask me, I already guest
three years, it's been six years since he was found
dead in the jail.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
And implies when he's not having fun.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Yeah, all right, well I'm very good.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Thank you, Royle, all right, thank you, Royal.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Oaks, ABC News for KFFI we come back. You remember
a few weeks ago, some some joggers, some hikers found
owned and this was on video a guy starting a
fire and Runyon Canyon. Well, two more fires broke out
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at Runyan Canyon this week. And they've also gone into
the background of the man who set a fire two
weeks ago. Wait, do you hear how many times he's
been arrested? And this is to me the heart of
the problem here. You get a guy who is arrested
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so many times and he's still on the loose and
he's starting fires. And now maybe there's other people starting fires,
or maybe he's starting fires. Maybe he got released again.
We'll talk all about this coming up.
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Speaker 2 (09:52):
Now, do not go to the New York Post, Deborah.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
Why John.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
They have a story.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
About a dog groomer caught on video punching the dogs
that she's supposed to care for, and they had the
video on a loop.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
I saw it. That's bad. It's bad.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
Was in the grooming salon.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Oh yeah, yeah yeah. And and the dogs are hooked.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
Oh god, yes, I know what they do. I mean
when they're grooming. They yes, they can't go anywhere, right.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
The the the leash is on a hook, and so
the dog can't go anywhere, and she's just way on away.
Punch after punch after punch. They got video of two
different dogs, won a white one, one a blacky.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
Wait a second, there's nobody else in the room with
that person that's abusing the dogs.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Well, somebody was and they took video.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
Okay, so there.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
They didn't stop her. They took the video. Where is this?
Let me see?
Speaker 5 (10:50):
Here is this? A local grooming.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Salon North Carolina.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Kristin Raya Taylor arrested charged with four counts of fell
any animal cruelty. She was the employee brutalizing dogs at
a grooming business called Classy Critters.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
And I mean what.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
And these were sweet dogs and they weren't even fighting
back or barking or anything. They were just taking the
bunches and she's wailing away.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
I don't know what the hell is that.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
I don't I've never seen that.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
I'm not looking.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
No, don't look, No.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
I refused to look.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
So very upsetting.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
You know, I was going to text you guys this morning.
I was watching ABC seven, but I couldn't find it,
and then I got distracted. There was there was somebody
that was arrested. This was locally, I believe, and it
was outside. The dog, beautiful dog was sitting on a
curb and it had a leash and the owner was
just slapping the dog, slapping, slapping, slapping, and the dog
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wasn't doing anything.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
It's a lot of a lot of anger and mental illness.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
I mean, do people get off on that.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
People do that to their kids a lot?
Speaker 5 (12:03):
Yeah, I know that's true. I mean, I guess you
feel so powerful because the dog or the child isn't
able to fight back.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
I know, it's mental illness, it's anger, and you've got yeah,
you've got someone who has to sit and take it.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
How dare you abuse a dog, somebody's dog and a
grooming salon? Now I do take my dogs to get groomed. Now,
not that this really matters, but I have said in
the past when the people that I do like, they
leave and I say, look, I want the sweetest, kindest,
most gentle person that knows how to deal with dogs
and aren't mean nasty.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
You would think that only happens once, Right, the first
time you punch a dog, somebody reports you and and
you're you're thrown out of the place and the police
are called.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Right, but she must have been doing this for a while.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
Well unless the person that was recording her, they they
were the ones that got her fired. You know, they
saw it, but I just got it and they got
off on watching somebody do that.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
I don't think this is the first day of her
life that she was punching.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
Dark Probably not, but maybe it was the first time
she got caught.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Was it a hurt, it was he?
Speaker 1 (13:10):
It was a her.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
Yeah, I want to punch her.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Well, now what I what I mentioned before the news
Running Canyon is in the Hollywood area.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Uh, and I've walked there. It's in the Hollywood Hills.
It's really nice.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
They had two fires there in the past week, within
three days of each other. There was a third fire
two weeks ago on a hiking trail and I don't
know if you saw the video went around, but hikers
found the guy and tackled him and held him down.
Now he got arrested. But now there's been two more fires,
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and we are in the fire season. We've now had
an extended period of dry weather and once you get
into August, you're high fire season. In these news reports
covering the two new fires, they mentioned the one from
two weeks ago, and apparently the guy they arrested had
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previously been arrested fifteen times since twenty twenty, homeless guy
fifteen times. And how I know what's going on? They don't.
They don't prosecute anything. I guess this was the This
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was the gascon era, and so setting fires was not
that should put you in prison, that should put you
in a mental institution. Because there's one hiker there who
says it's a mental health issue in general, and that's
what it is. They have obsessions with setting fires. In
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six months, residents have counted seven fires. They've complained. No
officials have gotten back to them, nor they're city councilwoman,
this colossal idiot, Nythia Ramen, who's one of these socialist
communists and one of the residents, says she has not
addressed us. She has not let us know if there's
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an investigation, even from back in January. This is ridiculous.
We deserve to know what's going on, because there's been
seven fires since January. We're lucky this place hasn't caught
fire and has come down into the residential neighborhood. It's
very much like the Palisades, where you have the hills,
it's very dry, and then the fire can come down
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if you have sant Ana wins, it'll blow it to
the south and west, and there's a lot of residences there.
And we've gone through this with Nythia Ramen. You cannot
get her to care about anything. She does not care
about the degradation of the city. I saw an explanation
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as to why these politicians allow all the crazy homeless
mental patient.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Drug addicts.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
They don't think that their job and I've put Nithi
Romin in this category. She doesn't think her job is
to make the streets safe for the privileged. I had
never thought of it exactly those terms before, but when
I saw it written in one of these stories, it's like,
I exactly, there you go. That's what it is. They
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look at us as a bunch of spoiled, bratty whiners
because we want to walk around safe streets, and they're
looking at us saying, no, no, no, you're privileged. You're
the oppressors. These homeless mental patient drug addicts are the oppressed,
so make room for them. It's not fair. And what
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you're a comfortable, you feel in danger. Nitthia Raman doesn't care.
And if I can just somehow get that through everybody's head,
is that she wants it.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
This way. Karen Bass wants it this way.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
All these other left wing socialist, communist politicians on the
City Council. They think it's fair that us privileged people
put up with the discomfort because we have profited from
this American system and these poor souls have not, and
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we are living in relative wealth compared to these homeless
mental patients and drug addicts, and so that's why they
cover for them, that's why they fund them, that's why
they I read another homeless story today because you know,
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Losa has a new director, and all these people in
the homeless industry insist that if we just built everyone housing,
the problem would go away. They're homeless because of a
lack of housing. They completely reject, at least publicly. It's
their stick, the idea that they're mentally ill and they're
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addicted to drugs. They don't care, and that's why they
never spend any money on mental health or drugs. They
spend it on nonprofit boondoggles. They just steal the money.
It's a great cover. Again, I've been talked about this repeatedly.
They make you feel guilty for not wanting to help
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the homeless, and then they steal the money and then
tell you, well, we should be building housing.
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other things. All right, Brian Coberger, who is the murderer.
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He is now going to be in prison forever, four
consecutive life terms. He killed four University of Idaho students,
three women and one of their boyfriends, and now they're
releasing I guess this would have been the evidence had
this thing come to trial. The huge document dumps by
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the prosecution, and they had interviewed a number of people
who knew Coburger or interacted with him in some way,
including a guy an inmate when he was is in
prison awaiting trial. They were in maximum security prison together,
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and so they asked this other inmate what was he like,
and the inmates said, a bleeping weirdo. In fact, if
it wasn't for legal consequences, he would have assaulted Coburger.
Asked whether Coburger committed the murders, the guy said, yes,
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his eyes tell a story. Just look in the eyes,
and you know it's true. Murderers, serial killers, they have
dead eyes.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
I don't know exactly what that is.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
You know, it's hard to describe why eyes like communicate
things in a certain way, but you know it when you.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Look at it.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
Yeah, very true.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Right, Yes, you know there are people. I can tell
if people are intelligent or not by looking in their eyes. Really, yes,
people with dumb eyes.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Oh it's true.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
And then crazy people you can tell.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
Yes, crazy people, that's ovi.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
You have nice eyes.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Okay, thank you. Although sometimes you tell me I have
crazy Well.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
You're capable of pulling off the crazy eyes.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
I do that just to be weird and just to
irritate you.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
I know, I know you scare me and unnerve me
when you do that. It's in you.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
No, it's not in me. I'm an actor, Okay, an actor.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Another inmate at the Latack County Jail described a number
of encounters with Coburger and said that he would frequently
ask the inmate about his past crimes. I want to
know why he was being held in maximum security, said
Coburger was the smartest person he'd met while incarcerated. Well,
that's not hard to but Coburger had a lot of
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irritating obsessive habits. Where we're talking to the other day
about these guys have obsessive compulsive disorders to the extreme,
and the obsession could be fantasies about killing people or
raping well. Coburger reportedly washed his hands dozens of times
a day. He would spend forty five minutes to an
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hour in the shower, so he was constantly trying to
trying to maybe just wash all the dirty, ugly thoughts
out of his mind. He rarely slept at night. He
would nap during the day. At night he would pace
the cell and just constantly wash his hands. Coburger would
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talk with his mother on video chat for hours. During
During one such call, the inmate was watching sports. Okay,
so Coburger is talking to his mother. The inmate suddenly yelled,
you suck at a player on the TVs. Coburger immediately
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got out, got up and put his face real close
to the inmates because he took the comment personally. Now
here's one of my favorites. Somebody matched up with Coburger
on a dating.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
App while they're into serial killer.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
That was the This is why I'm telling you, if
you're a woman, never go on a dating app. I
don't care what people say. There are all kinds of criminals,
serial killers, guys who are fantasizing about going on a
murder sprae or going on some kind of a sexual attack.
That's what you find on dating sites. Why do you
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think I went to AM radio to find a girlfriend?
That's right, you're selling your body an AM radio. Well,
during the fall of twenty twenty two, this woman and
you're going to get a clue as to why they
might have matched. The two of them started chatting on
ten and they discussed his background as a criminology student.
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There shared interest in movies, and they started talking to
each other about the idea of death, and the woman
volunteered to Coburger what she thought the worst way to
die would be.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
What'd she say?
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Now, you know, before I got married, I was on
a fair number of dates. I don't remember a girl
ever volunteering the worst way to die?
Speaker 5 (24:31):
You, I don't think I've ever discussed that with anybody.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Did you ever bring that up?
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Now? No? All right?
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Well he she told Coburger the worst way to die would.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Be by knife?
Speaker 5 (24:44):
Oh jeez.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
And Coburger replied, replied, like a k bar. And that
is the knife that's very popular. It was adopted by
the Marine Corps their utility knife. It's called ka hyphen bar,
a k bar. This goes back one hundred years. And
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he offered like a K bar. Well, they found a
K bar sheath at the crime scene, and they found
that he had purchased a k bar knife and sheath
on Amazon before the homicides. Yes, you could go to
Amazon for your murder weapons. After the conversation petered out,
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they were going to meet over a Christmas holiday, but
she canceled. Coburger made her uncomfortable.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
What did he do? What besides talking about this knife?
What else did he do?
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Maybe just his general demeanor? Okay, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
There's no specifics, No, there's no specifics, but I guess
offering the brand of knife.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
Well, I'm curious how much she engaged with him after
he said that.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
It says after that conversation. I don't know, so it's
not written all that clearly, so I don't know.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
I would love to talk to her now and say, hmm,
what do.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
You think around Yeah, I know they.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
After the murders, she tried to contact authorities, but the
detective said the call could not be verified.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
They couldn't corroborate the tip.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
So I don't know.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Maybe she just disappeared because who wants to get involved
in this? All right, We've got more coming up.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
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Speaker 2 (26:36):
Coming up after three o'clock.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
We spent a lot of time in the first hour
with Michael Monks reporting on the changing of the guard
of there's a new director for that loss of atrocity
Los Angeles Housing Services Authority, you know, the one that
has failed miserably for decades reducing homelessness. Homeless This has
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actually increased dramatically since they created LASA, and Valisi Adams
Kellum is resigning.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
You know.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
A judge ordered an audit.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
The audit found two billion dollars unaccounted for she can't
explain it. The idiot who hired her, Karen Bass, can't
explain it either. So they're getting somebody new and the
county has pulled out entirely.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
We'll go through that, but with the backdrop of.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Trump's announcement that he's issuing an executive order and he
wants all the homeless people off the street all over
the country, all the mental patients, all the drug addicts gone.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Now, how he's going to do that, Well, we'll give you.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
We'll give you an explanation as to what it's an
executive order that's going to make it easier to remove
homeless people. All right, I've got to explain that if
I can. But you know what, you.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Know, what you do.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
What's needed is like an absolute order, and it's like, no,
they're going to be gone.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Enough of this. They have spent billions. It went up.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
I don't care how many times they try to defend
themselves and explain themselves. They are colossal failures. They have
to be taken off the streets. The cities that don't
have homeless people, and these mental patients and drug addicts
simply don't permit it.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
And enough is enough, No more. Debating this no more
going in circles.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
There is no way to fix this problem other than
forcing people, forcing people like police, taking them at gunpoint
if necessary, and putting them inside a mental institution or
a treatment center.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Period.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
And that's what we have to work towards. So we'll
talk about that coming up. This is hard to believe,
you know, the city is crumbling and it's costing us
an incredible amount of money. You go back, you go
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back just four years ago. Ron Galprian was the city
controller and he found that La had received seventeen hundred
claims and over a thousand lawsuits people saying they got
injured walking on the sidewalk. The city paid out thirty
five million lawsuits in the five years leading up to
(29:40):
twenty twenty one, thirty five million people tripping and falling,
and still the sidewalks weren't fixed. Now, the big headline
in the La Daily News that at least in one
section of the city in the northern San Fernando John
(30:00):
Lee is the councilman, they have a new program to
repair the sidewalks, and this gets a big news story
to big headline. This should be this is what's infuriating
about the Garcetti Bass years, the basic simple stuff was
never done, and whatever it costs to fix sidewalks is
dwarfed by the cost of the lawsuits from all the
(30:21):
people who tripped and got hurt walking on the sidewalks.
So then you do it in parts of Granada Hills, Chatsworth,
north Ridge, Port of Ranch, Vercida, and West Hills. Uh.
It sends small crews to make minor sidewalk repairs that
otherwise languish for years and become big problems.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Like tree roots, right, I.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
See them all over the place in the valley here.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
You walk a lot.
Speaker 5 (30:47):
Yeah, and I worry about tripping. I'm not kidding.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Yeah, you have to constantly be looking down because the
sidewalks are an even the roots pushed them up.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Sometimes it crack the sidewalks.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
I am astonished, how how how the city has crumbled
into literally little pieces the roads. So it's a small project.
He's getting a couple one hundred thousand dollars from these
different funds, and he just wants to complete twenty projects.
(31:22):
It's a pilot program. What is it to see if
it works?
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Well?
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Of course it'll work.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
They've been fixing sidewalks for I know since the beginning
of sidewalks. It's the amount of money that is wasted
on lawsuits. It's tremendous.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
And U.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
I'm what surprised me reading the story is how it
is treated like like some great breakthrough, like John Lee
should get some a standing ovation, maybe an awards dinner.
This this is all I want these hacks to do.
I don't want all their stupid social experiments which all
(32:08):
end up in failure. Pave the streets, fixed the roads fully,
thund the fire and police department. I don't know what else,
nothing else matters, get rid of all the social programs,
tell people to go get a job and figure it
out themselves. But yeah, yeah, like like like no money
(32:30):
spent on the sidewalks, and you have literally thousands of lawsuits,
billions spent on the homeless, and we ended up with
a vast increase in homelessness. They are so correct, you know,
I'd like to call them stupid because I enjoy calling
them stupid. They are stupid, but they primarily are corrupt.
(32:52):
All right, when we come back this Trump Executive Order
to end street Homelessness, we'll give you some details see
how this is going to work. But he's decided that
you know what, I kind of like. It's like, if
the local cities and states don't clean up their messes,
he's going to use every lever the federalment government has
(33:15):
to force them. That's next. Deborah Mark Live in the
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all of them, just run them continuously. All right, We're
gonna talk now with Royal Oaks for ABC News. So
the news that's been swirling around all day from back
east is Gallainne Maxwell meeting with the Deputy Attorney General
Todd Blanche. Maxwell of course, was the close associate of
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Jeffrey Epstein, and she helped recruit and she got convicted
of a lot of felonies, and she's going to spend
at least twenty years in prison, and she's in her sixties.
Says she's desperate to try to mitigate the sentence in
some way, and now she's trying to come clean and
(01:02):
give the government names. Now as of about oh, I
don't know one thirty. The New York Post reported that
Glenn Maxwell gave the Department of Justice the names of
one hundred different people connected to Jeffrey Epstein. Now when
these were linked to connected to again, there's no detail
(01:26):
on if these were customers of the Jeffrey's services or not.
Trump could give her a pardon that's been swirling in
the air, but she's got to come up with information
that they can verify. Also, her lawyers are taking a
case to the Supreme Court that her conviction was invalid
because of a non prosecution agreement that prosecutors made with
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Epstein back in seven. So we'll talk about all this
with Royal Oaks, ABC News Legal analyst Royal, how are you.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I'm doing great.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Boy.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
It seems like everybody on both sides of the politic spectrum,
John are very interested in this. It's kind of like
we have to change our national motto from eurbazunam to
inquiring minds want to know because the left wants to
see right people named his clients, the right wants to
see left. But as you say, she's got a lot
of irons in the fire. She's interested in a pardon.
Her lawyer today said, well, you know, the President could
(02:20):
pardon ms Maxwell, and we hope he will. But basically yes,
she by speaking for six hours with Trump's lawyer, Todd Branch,
the guy who represented him in the Stormy Daniels case,
and now he's in the Attorney General's office. She may
have some information. The non prosecution deal you mentioned, John
is really interesting. It's very rare that the prosecutors will say, look,
(02:41):
you play ball with us and we won't go after
your spouse or a co conspirator. Very rare and not
against the big fish. And Maxwell probably qualifies as a
big fish in the Jeffrey Epstein world.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
So would she be covered by this?
Speaker 3 (02:56):
And because first I heard of this, you know, my
attention for this goes in and out. So Epstein was
charged and prosecuted in six got a sweetheart deal. He
was spending i think weekends under house arrest or some
such nonsense, right, and they said, okay, we'll go after
(03:16):
anyone else on your side.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
That's right between that sweetheart deal. And then in twenty nineteen,
when he killed himself in prison awaiting sex trafficking trial,
there were lots of charges swirling around, and in the
course of that he cut a deal not to get
himself off the hook, but to reduce the number of charges.
And allegedly the deal didn't mention Maxwell, but did mention
co conspirators, So her lawyers have a hard job to
(03:44):
convince a court that, yeah, this is an enforceable deal.
It's specific enough. He kind of reminds you of the
build Cosby deal where the original DA twenty five years
ago said okay, Bill, if you'll testify in your civil case,
we will prosecute you. He said, okay, Then he talked
about kayluds and women, and then suddenly he's prosecuted, and oh,
well the deal really, isn't there same thing here?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Wouldn't this have come up before?
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Though?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Before they started putting her on trial, the lawyers must
have brought this up.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Yeah, it's very weird that it's only coming to the
fore now. And I think it's just a function of
the bright light of publicity being shining on it, because
you're right, I mean, if it's a good deal for her,
why wouldn't she have raised it before? But when you
have an Attorney General Pambondi who comes into office in February,
then in March and April she's saying, oh, I got
(04:33):
a client list, an Epstein client list, and my dad
we're kind of going through it. And then a couple
of months later, Oh, nothing to see here. And of
course Alan Dershowitz saw he did a piece in the
Wall Street Journal the day he said, I was Epstein's lawyer.
I've seen all this stuff. There's nobody high profile implicated
in any of these lists. So who knows if the
(04:54):
courts will even allow the release of the grand jury stuff.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
There's been so much hype over lit and identities and
nothing pans out. I mean, if something must have been
going on all these years, right, he did have a
lot of teenage girls, and he had a lot of
people on his island and on his plane, and you know,
he was exceptionally perverse. And it is an interesting list
of people who end up being connected to him, you know,
(05:20):
people like Woody Allen and Kevin Spacey and Bill Gates,
people who have had sexual stories swirling about them over
the years, Bill Clinton. Right, So you know it's all plausible. Now,
what would be these hundred people be I mean, I
know you don't know, but would she have to produce
one hundred or fifty or ten customers of Jeffrey Epstein
(05:45):
that they could prosecute for being involved in child sex trafficking?
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Yeah, theoretically. I mean, the main thing now is to
tamp down the argument that it was the deep state.
There's no transparency. Whether you're on the left or you're right,
people are angry. But it comes to her actually producing stuff.
It can't be just her word. It has to be
her pointing to some sort of documentation connecting the dots.
Because as you say, you know, you've got lists of
people on the planes, You've got maybe the ages of
(06:13):
the kids on the planes. It doesn't mean anybody else
on the plane did anything wrong, but still it could
lead you down the path. But I think at the
end of the road, your instinct is right. It's been
so many years and everybody assumed, well, there must be
a bunch of really powerful people who are just sweating
bullets because they were hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein. And
yet it's been years and years. You'd think a woman
or a document or something would surface, and it hasn't.
(06:35):
So it may be a nothing burger. But I think
the government feels like they have to keep digging to
satisfy both the left and the right.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Why did Trump's people say that they had these lists,
they had evidence. Why have we heard that there's been
photos and a video system all these years. I don't
understand why this story keeps popping up and everybody's saying basic, oh,
just you wouldn't believe what's that there? And then nothing happened.
Nothing is kept secret. Like if Trump was involved with
(07:04):
a fourteen year old, that would have come out by now.
Same thing with Bill Clinton, right, it would have come out.
Both of them had plenty of political enemies and enemies otherwise.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
I think the answer to your question is there were
a lot of people on the right, a lot of
people in magnation who are firmly believing that this is
the deep swamp, and there's so much secrecy and sexual rings,
all these rumors and so on. We just want complete transparency.
We think, you know, some prominent people on the left
were involved. The House Oversight Committee is getting involved. You know,
(07:40):
they're going to get a deposition maybe from Maxwell on
August eleven about her the handling of her case. And
as you say, she's angling to her getting out to
you here, wants to pardon, she wants some court to say, Okay, yeah,
that was not really fair. Were you were cheated? You
were promised that there would be no prosecution. That's what
she was.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Well, somebody must have been having sex with these girls.
I mean the girls really existed, and Epstein really had
a weird operation going on.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
There must have been customers.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Right, Well, absolutely, that's a rational assumption. But did the
passage of time is so critical here. I mean it's
now been six years since he died, and you know,
twenty years or so since the Sweetheart Deal. So much
interest in this case, you'd think it would have surfaced.
That's why a lot of people are thinking. If it
(08:29):
hasn't surfaced by now, you know, we're going to go
through the motions, but let's not look for any blockbuster.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
So we're six years?
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Would I would, if you'd ask me, I already guest
three years, it's been six years since he was found
dead in the jail.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
And implies when he's not having fun.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Yeah, all right, well I'm very good.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Thank you, Royle, all right, thank you, Royal.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Oaks, ABC News for KFFI we come back. You remember
a few weeks ago, some some joggers, some hikers found
owned and this was on video a guy starting a
fire and Runyon Canyon. Well, two more fires broke out
(09:09):
at Runyan Canyon this week. And they've also gone into
the background of the man who set a fire two
weeks ago. Wait, do you hear how many times he's
been arrested? And this is to me the heart of
the problem here. You get a guy who is arrested
(09:32):
so many times and he's still on the loose and
he's starting fires. And now maybe there's other people starting fires,
or maybe he's starting fires. Maybe he got released again.
We'll talk all about this coming up.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
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Speaker 2 (09:52):
Now, do not go to the New York Post, Deborah.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
Why John.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
They have a story.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
About a dog groomer caught on video punching the dogs
that she's supposed to care for, and they had the
video on a loop.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
I saw it. That's bad. It's bad.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
Was in the grooming salon.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Oh yeah, yeah yeah. And and the dogs are hooked.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
Oh god, yes, I know what they do. I mean
when they're grooming. They yes, they can't go anywhere, right.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
The the the leash is on a hook, and so
the dog can't go anywhere, and she's just way on away.
Punch after punch after punch. They got video of two
different dogs, won a white one, one a blacky.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
Wait a second, there's nobody else in the room with
that person that's abusing the dogs.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Well, somebody was and they took video.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
Okay, so there.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
They didn't stop her. They took the video. Where is this?
Let me see?
Speaker 5 (10:50):
Here is this? A local grooming.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Salon North Carolina.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Kristin Raya Taylor arrested charged with four counts of fell
any animal cruelty. She was the employee brutalizing dogs at
a grooming business called Classy Critters.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
And I mean what.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
And these were sweet dogs and they weren't even fighting
back or barking or anything. They were just taking the
bunches and she's wailing away.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
I don't know what the hell is that.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
I don't I've never seen that.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
I'm not looking.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
No, don't look, No.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
I refused to look.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
So very upsetting.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
You know, I was going to text you guys this morning.
I was watching ABC seven, but I couldn't find it,
and then I got distracted. There was there was somebody
that was arrested. This was locally, I believe, and it
was outside. The dog, beautiful dog was sitting on a
curb and it had a leash and the owner was
just slapping the dog, slapping, slapping, slapping, and the dog
(11:51):
wasn't doing anything.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
It's a lot of a lot of anger and mental illness.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
I mean, do people get off on that.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
People do that to their kids a lot?
Speaker 5 (12:03):
Yeah, I know that's true. I mean, I guess you
feel so powerful because the dog or the child isn't
able to fight back.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
I know, it's mental illness, it's anger, and you've got yeah,
you've got someone who has to sit and take it.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
How dare you abuse a dog, somebody's dog and a
grooming salon? Now I do take my dogs to get groomed. Now,
not that this really matters, but I have said in
the past when the people that I do like, they
leave and I say, look, I want the sweetest, kindest,
most gentle person that knows how to deal with dogs
and aren't mean nasty.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
You would think that only happens once, Right, the first
time you punch a dog, somebody reports you and and
you're you're thrown out of the place and the police
are called.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Right, but she must have been doing this for a while.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
Well unless the person that was recording her, they they
were the ones that got her fired. You know, they
saw it, but I just got it and they got
off on watching somebody do that.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
I don't think this is the first day of her
life that she was punching.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
Dark Probably not, but maybe it was the first time
she got caught.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Was it a hurt, it was he?
Speaker 1 (13:10):
It was a her.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
Yeah, I want to punch her.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Well, now what I what I mentioned before the news
Running Canyon is in the Hollywood area.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Uh, and I've walked there. It's in the Hollywood Hills.
It's really nice.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
They had two fires there in the past week, within
three days of each other. There was a third fire
two weeks ago on a hiking trail and I don't
know if you saw the video went around, but hikers
found the guy and tackled him and held him down.
Now he got arrested. But now there's been two more fires,
(13:49):
and we are in the fire season. We've now had
an extended period of dry weather and once you get
into August, you're high fire season. In these news reports
covering the two new fires, they mentioned the one from
two weeks ago, and apparently the guy they arrested had
(14:14):
previously been arrested fifteen times since twenty twenty, homeless guy
fifteen times. And how I know what's going on? They don't.
They don't prosecute anything. I guess this was the This
(14:38):
was the gascon era, and so setting fires was not
that should put you in prison, that should put you
in a mental institution. Because there's one hiker there who
says it's a mental health issue in general, and that's
what it is. They have obsessions with setting fires. In
(14:59):
six months, residents have counted seven fires. They've complained. No
officials have gotten back to them, nor they're city councilwoman,
this colossal idiot, Nythia Ramen, who's one of these socialist
communists and one of the residents, says she has not
addressed us. She has not let us know if there's
(15:20):
an investigation, even from back in January. This is ridiculous.
We deserve to know what's going on, because there's been
seven fires since January. We're lucky this place hasn't caught
fire and has come down into the residential neighborhood. It's
very much like the Palisades, where you have the hills,
it's very dry, and then the fire can come down
(15:41):
if you have sant Ana wins, it'll blow it to
the south and west, and there's a lot of residences there.
And we've gone through this with Nythia Ramen. You cannot
get her to care about anything. She does not care
about the degradation of the city. I saw an explanation
(16:05):
as to why these politicians allow all the crazy homeless
mental patient.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Drug addicts.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
They don't think that their job and I've put Nithi
Romin in this category. She doesn't think her job is
to make the streets safe for the privileged. I had
never thought of it exactly those terms before, but when
I saw it written in one of these stories, it's like,
I exactly, there you go. That's what it is. They
(16:37):
look at us as a bunch of spoiled, bratty whiners
because we want to walk around safe streets, and they're
looking at us saying, no, no, no, you're privileged. You're
the oppressors. These homeless mental patient drug addicts are the oppressed,
so make room for them. It's not fair. And what
(16:59):
you're a comfortable, you feel in danger. Nitthia Raman doesn't care.
And if I can just somehow get that through everybody's head,
is that she wants it.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
This way. Karen Bass wants it this way.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
All these other left wing socialist, communist politicians on the
City Council. They think it's fair that us privileged people
put up with the discomfort because we have profited from
this American system and these poor souls have not, and
(17:35):
we are living in relative wealth compared to these homeless
mental patients and drug addicts, and so that's why they
cover for them, that's why they fund them, that's why
they I read another homeless story today because you know,
(17:55):
Losa has a new director, and all these people in
the homeless industry insist that if we just built everyone housing,
the problem would go away. They're homeless because of a
lack of housing. They completely reject, at least publicly. It's
their stick, the idea that they're mentally ill and they're
(18:18):
addicted to drugs. They don't care, and that's why they
never spend any money on mental health or drugs. They
spend it on nonprofit boondoggles. They just steal the money.
It's a great cover. Again, I've been talked about this repeatedly.
They make you feel guilty for not wanting to help
(18:38):
the homeless, and then they steal the money and then
tell you, well, we should be building housing.
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other things. All right, Brian Coberger, who is the murderer.
(19:25):
He is now going to be in prison forever, four
consecutive life terms. He killed four University of Idaho students,
three women and one of their boyfriends, and now they're
releasing I guess this would have been the evidence had
this thing come to trial. The huge document dumps by
(19:45):
the prosecution, and they had interviewed a number of people
who knew Coburger or interacted with him in some way,
including a guy an inmate when he was is in
prison awaiting trial. They were in maximum security prison together,
(20:07):
and so they asked this other inmate what was he like,
and the inmates said, a bleeping weirdo. In fact, if
it wasn't for legal consequences, he would have assaulted Coburger.
Asked whether Coburger committed the murders, the guy said, yes,
(20:28):
his eyes tell a story. Just look in the eyes,
and you know it's true. Murderers, serial killers, they have
dead eyes.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
I don't know exactly what that is.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
You know, it's hard to describe why eyes like communicate
things in a certain way, but you know it when you.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Look at it.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
Yeah, very true.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Right, Yes, you know there are people. I can tell
if people are intelligent or not by looking in their eyes. Really, yes,
people with dumb eyes.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Oh it's true.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
And then crazy people you can tell.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
Yes, crazy people, that's ovi.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
You have nice eyes.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Okay, thank you. Although sometimes you tell me I have
crazy Well.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
You're capable of pulling off the crazy eyes.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
I do that just to be weird and just to
irritate you.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
I know, I know you scare me and unnerve me
when you do that. It's in you.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
No, it's not in me. I'm an actor, Okay, an actor.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Another inmate at the Latack County Jail described a number
of encounters with Coburger and said that he would frequently
ask the inmate about his past crimes. I want to
know why he was being held in maximum security, said
Coburger was the smartest person he'd met while incarcerated. Well,
that's not hard to but Coburger had a lot of
(21:57):
irritating obsessive habits. Where we're talking to the other day
about these guys have obsessive compulsive disorders to the extreme,
and the obsession could be fantasies about killing people or
raping well. Coburger reportedly washed his hands dozens of times
a day. He would spend forty five minutes to an
(22:19):
hour in the shower, so he was constantly trying to
trying to maybe just wash all the dirty, ugly thoughts
out of his mind. He rarely slept at night. He
would nap during the day. At night he would pace
the cell and just constantly wash his hands. Coburger would
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talk with his mother on video chat for hours. During
During one such call, the inmate was watching sports. Okay,
so Coburger is talking to his mother. The inmate suddenly yelled,
you suck at a player on the TVs. Coburger immediately
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got out, got up and put his face real close
to the inmates because he took the comment personally. Now
here's one of my favorites. Somebody matched up with Coburger
on a dating.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
App while they're into serial killer.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
That was the This is why I'm telling you, if
you're a woman, never go on a dating app. I
don't care what people say. There are all kinds of criminals,
serial killers, guys who are fantasizing about going on a
murder sprae or going on some kind of a sexual attack.
That's what you find on dating sites. Why do you
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think I went to AM radio to find a girlfriend?
That's right, you're selling your body an AM radio. Well,
during the fall of twenty twenty two, this woman and
you're going to get a clue as to why they
might have matched. The two of them started chatting on
ten and they discussed his background as a criminology student.
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There shared interest in movies, and they started talking to
each other about the idea of death, and the woman
volunteered to Coburger what she thought the worst way to
die would be.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
What'd she say?
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Now, you know, before I got married, I was on
a fair number of dates. I don't remember a girl
ever volunteering the worst way to die?
Speaker 5 (24:31):
You, I don't think I've ever discussed that with anybody.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Did you ever bring that up?
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Now? No? All right?
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Well he she told Coburger the worst way to die would.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Be by knife?
Speaker 5 (24:44):
Oh jeez.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
And Coburger replied, replied, like a k bar. And that
is the knife that's very popular. It was adopted by
the Marine Corps their utility knife. It's called ka hyphen bar,
a k bar. This goes back one hundred years. And
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he offered like a K bar. Well, they found a
K bar sheath at the crime scene, and they found
that he had purchased a k bar knife and sheath
on Amazon before the homicides. Yes, you could go to
Amazon for your murder weapons. After the conversation petered out,
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they were going to meet over a Christmas holiday, but
she canceled. Coburger made her uncomfortable.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
What did he do? What besides talking about this knife?
What else did he do?
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Maybe just his general demeanor? Okay, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
There's no specifics, No, there's no specifics, but I guess
offering the brand of knife.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
Well, I'm curious how much she engaged with him after
he said that.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
It says after that conversation. I don't know, so it's
not written all that clearly, so I don't know.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
I would love to talk to her now and say, hmm,
what do.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
You think around Yeah, I know they.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
After the murders, she tried to contact authorities, but the
detective said the call could not be verified.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
They couldn't corroborate the tip.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
So I don't know.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Maybe she just disappeared because who wants to get involved
in this? All right, We've got more coming up.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Coming up after three o'clock.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
We spent a lot of time in the first hour
with Michael Monks reporting on the changing of the guard
of there's a new director for that loss of atrocity
Los Angeles Housing Services Authority, you know, the one that
has failed miserably for decades reducing homelessness. Homeless This has
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actually increased dramatically since they created LASA, and Valisi Adams
Kellum is resigning.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
You know.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
A judge ordered an audit.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
The audit found two billion dollars unaccounted for she can't
explain it. The idiot who hired her, Karen Bass, can't
explain it either. So they're getting somebody new and the
county has pulled out entirely.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
We'll go through that, but with the backdrop of.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Trump's announcement that he's issuing an executive order and he
wants all the homeless people off the street all over
the country, all the mental patients, all the drug addicts gone.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Now, how he's going to do that, Well, we'll give you.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
We'll give you an explanation as to what it's an
executive order that's going to make it easier to remove
homeless people. All right, I've got to explain that if
I can. But you know what, you.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Know, what you do.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
What's needed is like an absolute order, and it's like, no,
they're going to be gone.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Enough of this. They have spent billions. It went up.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
I don't care how many times they try to defend
themselves and explain themselves. They are colossal failures. They have
to be taken off the streets. The cities that don't
have homeless people, and these mental patients and drug addicts
simply don't permit it.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
And enough is enough, No more. Debating this no more
going in circles.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
There is no way to fix this problem other than
forcing people, forcing people like police, taking them at gunpoint
if necessary, and putting them inside a mental institution or
a treatment center.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Period.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
And that's what we have to work towards. So we'll
talk about that coming up. This is hard to believe,
you know, the city is crumbling and it's costing us
an incredible amount of money. You go back, you go
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back just four years ago. Ron Galprian was the city
controller and he found that La had received seventeen hundred
claims and over a thousand lawsuits people saying they got
injured walking on the sidewalk. The city paid out thirty
five million lawsuits in the five years leading up to
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twenty twenty one, thirty five million people tripping and falling,
and still the sidewalks weren't fixed. Now, the big headline
in the La Daily News that at least in one
section of the city in the northern San Fernando John
(30:00):
Lee is the councilman, they have a new program to
repair the sidewalks, and this gets a big news story
to big headline. This should be this is what's infuriating
about the Garcetti Bass years, the basic simple stuff was
never done, and whatever it costs to fix sidewalks is
dwarfed by the cost of the lawsuits from all the
(30:21):
people who tripped and got hurt walking on the sidewalks.
So then you do it in parts of Granada Hills, Chatsworth,
north Ridge, Port of Ranch, Vercida, and West Hills. Uh.
It sends small crews to make minor sidewalk repairs that
otherwise languish for years and become big problems.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Like tree roots, right, I.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
See them all over the place in the valley here.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
You walk a lot.
Speaker 5 (30:47):
Yeah, and I worry about tripping. I'm not kidding.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Yeah, you have to constantly be looking down because the
sidewalks are an even the roots pushed them up.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Sometimes it crack the sidewalks.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
I am astonished, how how how the city has crumbled
into literally little pieces the roads. So it's a small project.
He's getting a couple one hundred thousand dollars from these
different funds, and he just wants to complete twenty projects.
(31:22):
It's a pilot program. What is it to see if
it works?
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Well?
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Of course it'll work.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
They've been fixing sidewalks for I know since the beginning
of sidewalks. It's the amount of money that is wasted
on lawsuits. It's tremendous.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
And U.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
I'm what surprised me reading the story is how it
is treated like like some great breakthrough, like John Lee
should get some a standing ovation, maybe an awards dinner.
This this is all I want these hacks to do.
I don't want all their stupid social experiments which all
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end up in failure. Pave the streets, fixed the roads fully,
thund the fire and police department. I don't know what else,
nothing else matters, get rid of all the social programs,
tell people to go get a job and figure it
out themselves. But yeah, yeah, like like like no money
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spent on the sidewalks, and you have literally thousands of lawsuits,
billions spent on the homeless, and we ended up with
a vast increase in homelessness. They are so correct, you know,
I'd like to call them stupid because I enjoy calling
them stupid. They are stupid, but they primarily are corrupt.
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All right, when we come back this Trump Executive Order
to end street Homelessness, we'll give you some details see
how this is going to work. But he's decided that
you know what, I kind of like. It's like, if
the local cities and states don't clean up their messes,
he's going to use every lever the federalment government has
(33:15):
to force them. That's next. Deborah Mark Live in the
KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to
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