October 3, 2024 • 37 mins
More on the Shanice Dyer case. FEMA has reportedly run out of money to help hurricane victims because they spent it all on illegal migrants. Royal Oakes comes on the show to talk about how Trump is still desperately trying to overturn the 2020 election. Meta glasses can be used to find people's names and addresses.
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sites at John Cobelt Radio. All right now, I was
kind of surprised. I don't think this may This wasn't.
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This wasn't on the La Times website. Early. I have
been tracking the La Times because it's obviously a horrific
I wouldn't even call it a newspaper. I don't know
what the hell to call it, but it's a it's
not an accurate, reliable source of news, but I look
at it every day. Occasionally I could find a few things,
and I noticed they have been silent on the Gascone
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Hawkman race. They didn't cover a lot of the Gascone
controversies over the last few years. They just ignored them.
And I'm with the election season going on and Hawkman's
up by about twenty five points and several polls I
was waiting to see, is the time's just gonna let
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the election pass without comment? And I'm not talking about
the editorial page. I'm not talking about opinion columns or anything.
But they can comment by choosing what to cover and
where to place the story. And so they have finally,
they have finally covered a story that we've been on
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for a few days now, and that is the That
is the case of Shenice Amanda Dyer, who is a
seventeen year old girl back in twenty nineteen, a member
of the Cryps gang in South la and they were
having a dispute with the Florencia gang and I guess
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the Florencias had killed somebody from the Crips, and Shanise Dyer,
again a seventeen year old girl, was told, you know,
go caused some trouble, which means go shoot people in
that neighborhood. It doesn't matter who. So she randomly started
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firing and killed two men, and this is an especially
sad tragedy. One of them was in Jose Antonio Flores Vasquez,
an aspiring astrophysicist in UC Irvine in the doc Thrid program.
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He was dropping off a baby gift to his friend
Alfredo Carrera. Alfredo, an expectant father, was the other guy
gunned down shot to death. Carrera and Vasquez are standing
outside a car. A car pulls up and Shanis Dire
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starts blasting away. Dire and two other defendants killed both men.
Third man down the street was wounded in the back
as he was loading his one year old daughter into
a car seat. So these were family people who were
shot in two cases killed. Carrera. Carrera, his his fiance
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was having a baby shower. They were expecting. She watched
her fiance die right there in the street, So I
mean you have to understand this. Jose and Jose was
the astrophysicist student. Alfredo was the fiance. He and his
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girlfriend expecting a baby, having a baby shower. They're gathering
outside because it's baby shower day, and here comes Shinise Dyer.
Dyer sent text messages around admitting she did the shooting,
saying she was satisfied. It made headlines. This was new satisfied,
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it made headlines, and here comes George Gascon. And I
swear to God, if you hear this story, and I
understand this story, and you still go out and vote
for George Gascone, you're not even human. Because Dyer was
supposed to be trying as an adult, That's what Jackie
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Lacey wanted to do. But then the pandemic came, the
stupid shutdown, the case got delayed. When it was finally ready,
Gascone was in charge, and at that moment, he had
a strict policy that juveniles were never going to be
prosecuted as adults. So even though Shenise Dyer had killed
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those two innocent, innocent men who were just beginning what
looked like we're going to be successful lives, she didn't
kill two gang bangers who were headed to prison anyway. No,
she took on an astrophysicist student, an expecting father. She
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was She admits to the crime. She's tried as a juvenile.
She only spends four years in a juvenile detention center.
She was released last February. Six months later, she's arrested.
There's another murder and Suddenly here we are in October
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of twenty twenty four, thirty four days to the election,
and the La Times, in this news story admits that
Dyer's case is one of several in which a defendant
whom gascon showed leniency leniency has been released only to
be accused of another violent crime. Well, of course, because
these people are psychotic, they have no conscience, they're psychopaths.
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It doesn't bother them. After she kills these two guys,
who I don't think she even knew, She sends out texts,
she was satisfied that it made headlines. She was admiring
her work, tried as a juvenile let out last year,
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and now it seems it's permeating at least the La Times,
those thick skulls at what used to be a great
newspaper that wow, you know, we should be telling people
about this. This is major news because the guy who
refused to put this psychopath in prison is now up
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for reelection, and the only reason he has even twenty
five percent of the vote I think is just out
of sheer ignorance. Much of the public, even the ones
who vote, don't follow the news, because where are you
going to hear about a story like this. You know,
they do the quick drive by minute and fifteen second
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story on the TV news and then it's there and
it's gone. Nothing in the LA Times about this stuff?
What else is there? Handful of suburban papers who have
no staff. Our show. Our show probably covers more of
this than any other media outlet in southern California, But
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we don't have everybody listening, And so people vote for Hawkman,
not knowing, not knowing that he really is evil. This
is evil. This is stuff Satan would do. You let
a psycho who is bragging about killing two innocent people
and you let them free after four years and juvenile detention.
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Nathan Hackman's going to come on at three o'clock. He
is projected to be the next district attorney. I can
guarantee you when Nathan Hakman is elected, you're not going
to hear about a Shanese dire situation. That's just not
going to happen. Who's going through this La Times article?
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Kascon is described as the godfather of progressive prosecutors. Doesn't
that make you want to wretch the godfather? Gascone, halfway
through his term, decided to start allowing prosecutors to seek
transfers to adult court in some instances. That came after
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the Hannah Tubbs case, that guy who pretends to be
a woman, and he was tried in juvenile court for
a sexual assault on a young girl. Tubbs was a
teenager and got a break. Eventually he was convicted of
a murder up in Bakersfield. But that was such a
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notorious case because Gascone was fooled by the fake transgender
claims that Tubbs made. He was full too. I mean
it's on tape Tubbs telling his dad that play along
with me. I'm going to pretend I'm a woman. And
Gascone was the only one who brought into it. So
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he's not only he's not only evil with really destructive policies,
he's stupid too. But see charging charging juveniles as adults
requires a judge's approval. Two thirds of attempts to transfer
teams to adult court failed last year. See some of
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the judges are as woke, its stupid as gascon. So
just changing Gascone doesn't necessarily solve all the problems here,
but it's a huge start because I think Nathan Hoffman
and his team is going to be more persuadable than
Gascone because Gascon doesn't even try. All right, we got
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more coming up.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
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six forty.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
At one thirty. The Special Council has unleashed one hundred
and sixty five pages of detail things he claimed Trump
said and did that in the events that led up
to the January sixth, the insurrection and what was going
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on that day. It was a court filing and the
judge allowed it to go public. We are going to
talk with Royal Oaks from ABC News to see if
it means anything. Of course, if Trump gets elected, it
means nothing because Trump will dissolve the investigation. But Trump
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is saying anything that he said or did he has
immunity from because he was president at the time. So
we'll get into all those issues with Royal Oaks coming
up now on the UH on the Kamala Harris side,
this is one of those stories. I saw that and
I go, oh, come by, this can't be true, right
because you're you're you're detector has to be on high
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right now for false stories, bs, political misdirection, hyperbole. You
really have to be careful because both sides are just
going to dump all kinds of poop into the media ecosystem.
But this is real. The federal government FEMA, specifically, they're
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supposed to be helping out tens of thousands of American
citizens whose homes have been destroyed by Hurricane Helene. In fact,
one hundred and fifty thousand people have applied for federal
assistance because of the damage or the total destruction done
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to their homes, one hundred and fifty thousand Today today,
out loud, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro mayorcis the man who
brought you the wide open border, the man who brought
you ten million illegal aliens, admitted that FEMA is out
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of money. FEMA does not have the money to help
one hundred and fifty thousand American citizens who've suffered serious
damage to their lives. This was the exact quote. FEMA
does not have the funds to make it through the season.
Turns out that that FEMA has blown billions of dollars
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on illegal alien funding. Not making this up. Just over
the last two years, FEMA has handed out more than
one billion dollars in tax money to support illegal migrants
with housing a billion dollars just for illegal alien housing
and now that American citizens need their homes rebuilt, Mayorcis
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said out loud, I'm sorry, we don't have the money.
This window is closed. Too many customers we have. We
have nothing left. Death tolls one hundred and eighty people
from the storm, and there's something else brewing the Gulf
of Mexico right now. They may get more heavy rains
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in Florida within the next few days. FEMA was given
six hundred and forty million dollars for illegal aliens in
the twenty twenty four fiscal year, and people are saying, well,
why don't you reallocate any unspent money to the American
citizens who got whacked by Helene. FEMA's answer is no, no,
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So they're not really out of money, they're just out
of money allocated to help Americans. They still have more
money for illegal aliens, and it's like, well, why don't
you just do a transfer here, transfer from an account
DAT to account B. FEMA says no. The Texas Governor
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Greg Abbott posted on X Mayorcis and FEMA immediately stop
spending money on a legal immigration resettlement, redirect those funds
to areas hit by the hurricane. I mean people actually
have to Abbot actually has to post that publicly. Isn't
it obvious If you were running government, wouldn't you say, Okay,
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party's over. You might want to go back to the
home country because we can't give you any more money
to live here. We've got the American citizens who pay
the taxes. They need help. I'm not a guy who's
big on government help, right. I think you mostly ought
to be able to handle your own life, to the
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point where I think you shouldn't build homes in places
that are prone to natural disasters. You know, building on
a beach in a hurricane prone area. I think that's
more on you than the US government. Same thing, if
you build in an obvious fire zone, what are you thinking?
What do you what did you think was going to happen? However,
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if there is this unlimited pot of money that taxpayers
have have filled, wouldn't you give it to the American
citizens first? I mean, we are giving a lot of
money to support foreign wars, which may be necessary, but
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what's also necessary is to help out American citizens when
you have an unusually strong hurricane. Now, this is going
to be like the second most damaging hurricane in American history.
That's what I heard this morning. There are different ways
to calculate that, but this, this, this, this is one
of the biggies. And it veered inland and hit a
lot of the rural towns in the mountains. Normally you
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don't get this kind of damage. But something freaky happened,
and you got a lot of people who've lost their homes.
You've got a lot of people who are dead, and
they go to they go to FEMA. I don't know
who else. Who else would you go to? Right, that's FEMA,
that's supposed to take care of the disasters. And FEMA's
going we're out of money, nothing more accounts at zero.
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But what about that account there? You got hundreds of
millions for illegal aliens. Ah, you can't touch that. No, no, no, no.
American citizens go to the back of the line, stand
in line and wait. Tell we can print more money
or borrow more money from China. Whatever pocus pocus magic
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they do. Isn't this isn't this awful? Alero majorcis oh
and I got another story about him because New York
Times had a long piece today. The Secret Service is
a bigger disaster than you could have ever imagined. Take
whatever you've heard in the past couple of months since
Trump got shot at and just multiply it by one hundred.
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You won't believe how bad. And he's ultimately in charge
of the Secret Service because he's Homeland Security. He may
be the worst bureaucrat in American history that I can remember.
He is incompetent, not only at the border, but the
Secret Service and now FEMA. But you know, if you
want to start an insurrection, deny one hundred and fifty
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thousand American citizens FEMA money and give it to millions
of illegal aliens, give them housing. Yeah, people are not
going to put up with this forever. All right, we
come back Royal Oaks. They take another run at Trump.
Jack Smith, the special counsel, he's investigating Insurrection Day and
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he released I believe, about one hundred and sixty five
pages of things Trump said and did during that time
to bolster his case that Trump ought to be put
in jail. We'll talk with Royal Oaks. ABC News Legal
correspondent coming up.
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On from one until four and then after four o'clock
John Cobot show on demand on the iHeart app and
you can hear what you missed. Jack Smith. The Independent
Council in the insurrection case against Trump has refiled the charges.
They're the same charges, but they come with one hundred
and sixty five pages of new stories, additional evidence as
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to what Trump did during that period which led to
thousands of people storming the capitol. And among the things
that jumped out in some of these news stories was
that he was going to declare victory no matter what,
before the ballots were counted, before any winner was projected,
and when Mike Pence was cornered and they were panting
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to hang them. When Trump was informed as to what
was going on, his response was so and that he
was going to fight no matter what was going on.
Let's get Royal Oaks, ABC News correspondent, Actually legal aists
to be more exact and see if this amounts to anything.
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Roy always seemed to be going through this story over
and over and over again periodically. Was there anything in
this superseding indictment because Jack Smith had to conform with
certain Supreme Court decisions, is there anything new in here
that we didn't know or anything more incriminating or more
that would provide more trouble for Trump.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
It is kind of like groundhog Day, isn't it. You know,
they dropped a couple of allegations because the Supreme Court said, yeah,
there's the ultra super official duties. You can't prosecute somebody.
But basically the case is intact. But I mean, you
need a scorecard, keep track of all the cases. Again,
this is one of the four criminal cases against Trump
pending in Washington, DC, and months and months ago, Trump
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filed a motion to dismiss, saying, hey, a president is
immune from prosecution, so goodbye lawsuit or good bye a
court case. The trial judge said, nice try Donald, there
is no immunity. And now the Court of Appeal said,
nice try Donald, there is no immunity. Then the Supreme
Court took up the case. And remember back in July,
Supreme Court said, actually, if a president is performing his
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official constitutional duties, he's probably immune from prosecution. So the
High Court sent the case back to the trial court
and instructed her look set up two buckets. Put all
the allegations against Trump that are official in one bucket.
You may not prosecute him. But if there's a bucket
with personals, nonofficial criminal stuff, okay, you can do that,
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and that's your job for the next several months. That
led to yesterday's filing by Special Castulo Jacksmith. His arguments
that you describe accurately all this evidence. He said, Trump's
conduct was not official. He just tried to overturn the election.
So what if Mike Pants is going to be hanged, etc.
You know the other side of the coin. And Trump's
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going to respond to this. He's going to say, look, judge,
my job as president was to enforce all federal laws,
including election laws and dog gunn and I really felt
contrary to all the rumors and hearsay and the guy
on the helicopter who over heard me say oh, we're screwed,
we lost, in fact, I really thought we had a
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legitimate shot to overturn the thing. So that's what's going
to happen in the trial court. Inevitably disjudged is not
like Trump. She is going to say, yeah, I agree
with you, Jack Smith, everything belongs in the personal bucket.
And then Trump will it like that. He'll go back
up to the Court of Appeals and if the Supreme
Court is in the mood to help him again. They will,
but as you point it out a couple of minutes ago,
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if Donald Trump wins, it'll all go bye bye. Because
it is inaugural address. He will say, well, welcome, folks.
First thing is, I'm dismissing the cases against me, and
I'm pardoning in all the defendants, and then they'll get
on to the other political stuff.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
I'm looking through, you know, a summary, because I don't
think no living human could read all one hundred and
sixty five league pages right through the summary. It seems
a lot of it is about just stuff he said
in the hallway or in his office, putting pressure on,
you know, the governor of Arizona, for example, putting pressure
on Mike Pince to not certified the election, trying to
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get the Arizona governor to somehow change that outcome. Are
all those crimes if you're sitting and shouting things at people,
Maybe some of it's crazy, maybe some of it's real.
Are those federal crimes? And that that's where my mind
always comes to. It's like, all right, this could.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Be this is a great question. This is a great question.
There are crimes if it's part of a sort of
an enterprise to obstruct justice and the law. And you're
making a good distinction. If somebody's just shooting the breeze,
sitting around the office saying stuff, that's not a crime.
But what Smith is saying is if you take me,
you know what the White House they had overheard on
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the helicopter ride, it doesn't matter if you wander laws.
You still have to fight like hell or so what
if Mike Pence's hanged. What they're saying is that those
boil down to three specific crimes. One is he tried
to overturn a lawful election, told all sorts of officials
to fight, and told Mike Pence, you know, send the
whole thing back to the States. And secondly, they say
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it's a conspiracy against the right of the American public
to have their vote counted properly. So it's conspiracy, it's
obstruction of official proceedings. So yeah, Smith translates all of
the sort of casual conversation stuff and he says it
was like a mob boss, a criminal enterprise guy who
was trying to break the law and deprive everybody of
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their right to have a legitimate election.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Are trying to filter that through the Supreme Court decision
that gave him some limited immunity. If he's the president
of the United States, he's still in office right after
election day, and he's in the White House, he's barking
orders at the people who work for him. Is it
seems like some of that under this Supreme Court decision
would be protected. That this isn't yeah, and this isn't
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private conduct.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Exactly, that's right, And that gets back to the argument
that he was arguably trying to enforce the law. But
you know that the decision, it was so interesting when
Chief Justice Roberts wrote it. He made it clear he
was concerned about weaponization of the legal system, which a
lot of people have been concerned about over the last
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two or three years. It's not fair for judges and
prosecutors to go after politicians because they hate them, and
so Roberts to fight against that, carved out this immunity
rule that seems a little problematic. I mean, for example,
Roberts said, if it's an official act, absolutely may never
be prosecuted. And what are the official acts of the constitution, Well,
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like pardoning somebody or appointing an ambassador. But what if
you pardon somebody or appointed him ambassador to Luxembourg based
on a bribe or a payoff, Well, shouldn't that person
be convicted or prosecuted. One answer is, well, he can
be impeached, or he could change the constitution to say,
you know, pardons are null and void if they're for
a criminal reason. Bottom line is, it's hard to defend
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Robert's argument that he should be absolutely immune. And yet
I think Roberts just felt so frustrated that all of
these actions civil and criminal actions against Trump. I mean,
people were even thinking about prosecuting George W. Bush for
prosecuting the war in Iraq. Vincent Buliosi right, and Manson
prosecutor wrote a whole book arguing for that, if you
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have some you know, da from Biloxi, Mississippi, or Chicago,
Illinois that has it in for a politician, you don't
want that to happen.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Every president, at least in modern times, seems to get
some version of this, some attack from the other party.
Clinton went through a lot of stuff, some of which
nobody even understood at the time, but there was a
relentless attack on him. They were going after George W. Bush,
Trump and you know Biden has had to deal with
all kinds of accusations too. Is this just modern politics
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where both sides are going to use the judiciary and
investigations to attack one another now, And is Roberts right
to try to put a stop to this because this
leads to chaos.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
I think you're right. I think what we are seeing
is toxic partisanship on the steroids, because, as you point out,
I mean a look at Richard Nixon, there was such
strong feeling against Richard Nixon, obviously led to his resignation.
And again, yeah, as you say Clinton, some presidents, you know, Eisenhower,
Jerry for Jimmy Carter. You know, people got strong opinions,
but it's not like some sort of a death match.
(27:56):
So yeah, I think we're in an era where, unfortunately,
whether whoever is in power, they got to worry about
prosecutors going against them. And you know Chief Justice Roberts
was trying to strike against that.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Yes, the thing the president's presidency often was boring and
it didn't stir up huge passions in people, and now
everything is incendiary, and you wonder about the motivations of
a lot of these investigations. Obviously right these there's something
about the sheer number of investigations which makes you think, no,
this is uh, this is this is warfare. This is
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where the word lawfare came within the last year or two,
that this is not the way normal life was in
the past.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Yeah, there's no excuse for anybody using the system, the
criminal justice system, as some sort of a weapon for
their personal advancement or just political opposition. I mean, remember
the Ducla Cross guys who were accused of rape and
the only reason they got off was because they had
a really super sleuth Sherlock Holmes investigator who uncovered DNA
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evidence that the DA hid, and these guys would still
be rotting in prison for rapes that they didn't commit
if that guy hadn't found it, and the DA is
lucky he didn't wind up in prison. They took his
law license away. So yeah, I mean, I think that's
just a real downside to our era right now.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Yeah, because it seems like a lot of people believe
that anything goes doesn't matter if it's true or not,
or fair or not. It's like I want my side
to win, on the other side to die, all right,
thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Ro Oaks.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Good to talk with you again. Rol Oaks from ABC News.
Coming up after and we'll play a little piece of
this video. And after two o'clock we are going to
talk with Todd Bensman. Todd Bensman is with the Center
for Immigration Studies. He has written many stories and he's
produced videos on the insanity at the US Mexico border.
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We were going to have him on yesterday. He may
have heard me promoting it yesterday and we were scheduled
for today. He has an eleven minute video centering on
the world's most organized human smuggling operation, that's what he
calls it. It starts in a Columbia village in the northwest.
The village is called Kuppurghana. It's controlled by a paramilitary
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organization and they transport thousands and thousands and thousands of
illegal aliens from all over the world and they take
them through the Darien Gap, which is this narrow strip
of land that connects North America with South America. It's
actually at the bottom of Central America, connects to Panama
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with Colombia, and it's in virtually inaccessible, heavily forested mountainous.
Nobody lives there but somehow this smuggling operation brings thousands
and thousands of people through it and eventually to the
Mexican border and eventually in America, and they make a
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lot of money along the way. It's fascinating video to watch.
You can go to Cia and Todd Benzman is his name.
We're going to talk to. This is a cool story.
After two o'clock.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
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Speaker 2 (31:15):
I have to stress coming up after two o'clock, you
got to hear Todd Benson. We're going to play in
ninety seconds of that story coming up in just a moment.
Because we talk about immigration a lot and it seems
like very distant and abstract, but how it really works
is fascinating. And how this power military organization in Colombia
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transfers many, many thousands of migrants from all over the
world through one of the most difficult regions to pass through,
the Darien Gap, which connects North and South America. It's
really fascinating. So Tod's going to tell us about it
because he went there. But first, do you know that
meta Facebook has these smart glasses that they've been selling
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and you're able, I guess to work the Internet through
these smart glasses. Well, two Harvard students have taken the
capabilities even further and they built an X ray what
they're called the I x ray component. He uses AI
(32:24):
follow me on this and facial recognition. So let's say
I'm wearing these glasses and I see you in the street. Yeah,
and I look at you. It'll instantly do facial recognition
and match you bet your face to wherever it is
on the Internet, and immediately tell me what your name
is and your address. I'll get all your private information,
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the names of your family members, your work history. It'll
be all on screen as it were in my glasses.
I don't like that these two guys, see, I think
these geniuses have to be taken away and imprisoned. It's
someone named on fu Win and Caine ar Dafio, two
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engineers at Harvard. They're not releasing it. It's not for misuse.
They want to demonstrate what these smart glasses can do
with AI public databases, search engines.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
But why this is not gonna lead to anything good?
Why don't you cure cancer?
Speaker 2 (33:29):
I think they're saying, Look, if we don't do it,
somebody is going to do it, so we're first, here's
what it's going to do you better?
Speaker 4 (33:36):
Yeah, but I think that there's so many I mean,
if you're so smart and you're figuring this stuff out, seriously,
let's cure cancer and some other diseases. Why do we
need to know people's personal information? And I mean that's invasive.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Somebody, if I look at you on the street, I'll
have your home address, phone number, age relatives, all from
public available records, social media profiles. They wrote an app
on the phone to process this. It works automatically, so
you can walk down the street and just you Let's
say you're some creepy guy like Zuckerberg used to be,
(34:10):
and you just look at every beautiful woman you're attracted to.
You can get all their vital information in your eye,
on your eyeball. Yeah, that's not safe. No, that's not safe.
I want to see who's going to stop this now? Though?
Speaker 4 (34:24):
Well again, why don't you create glasses that can detect
cancer and figure.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Out a cure? But they don't. No one's interested in
that's that's not cool. Tends of research isn't cool.
Speaker 4 (34:37):
You know what it should be.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
There's no big payoff for that. All right, let's plays
as a teaser as a warm up, this little ninety
second clip from Todd Bensman's video report on this paramilitary
smuggling organization in Columbia.
Speaker 5 (34:53):
You get a taste as a primary staging area for
people that are heading into the gap into Panama. Behind me,
this is the dock, and behind me you're seeing immigrants
that are actually unloading right now as we speak, on
(35:13):
their way to the trailheads. The trailheads are probably still
a good you know, twenty or thirty miles from here.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
There is a.
Speaker 5 (35:25):
Process in place, very organized process, because so many hundreds
of thousands of people have come through here over the
past few years to take advantage of Joe Biden's policy
of creating kind of a super highway out of the
Darien Gap. Much in the way of US National and
(35:46):
Homeland Security is writing on Panama's plan to close the
Darien Gap. The Biden Harris White House was supposed to
help Panama pressure it to ally Columbia to shut this down.
Promised American for deportation flights out of Panama hasn't showed up,
forcing Panama to keep its side of the border open.
(36:07):
Still but the Clandel Gulfo, the United Nations, migrant health groups,
and the Colombian government, and thousands upon thousands of illegal
immigrants who will end up living in America are still
on the machine. All for one and one for all
here in northwestern Colombia. I'm Todd Bensman, set up for
(36:28):
Immigration Studies in Colombia.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
That's a ninety second clip out of eleven minute report
which you go to CIS dot org and Todd is
coming on next to talk about his experiences. All right,
Tod ben'sman. Next. You stay listening. First, you listen to Deborah.
Thank you, she knows things I do. Deborah Mark Live,
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sites at John Cobelt Radio. All right now, I was
kind of surprised. I don't think this may This wasn't.
(00:45):
This wasn't on the La Times website. Early. I have
been tracking the La Times because it's obviously a horrific
I wouldn't even call it a newspaper. I don't know
what the hell to call it, but it's a it's
not an accurate, reliable source of news, but I look
at it every day. Occasionally I could find a few things,
and I noticed they have been silent on the Gascone
(01:11):
Hawkman race. They didn't cover a lot of the Gascone
controversies over the last few years. They just ignored them.
And I'm with the election season going on and Hawkman's
up by about twenty five points and several polls I
was waiting to see, is the time's just gonna let
(01:33):
the election pass without comment? And I'm not talking about
the editorial page. I'm not talking about opinion columns or anything.
But they can comment by choosing what to cover and
where to place the story. And so they have finally,
they have finally covered a story that we've been on
(01:55):
for a few days now, and that is the That
is the case of Shenice Amanda Dyer, who is a
seventeen year old girl back in twenty nineteen, a member
of the Cryps gang in South la and they were
having a dispute with the Florencia gang and I guess
(02:20):
the Florencias had killed somebody from the Crips, and Shanise Dyer,
again a seventeen year old girl, was told, you know,
go caused some trouble, which means go shoot people in
that neighborhood. It doesn't matter who. So she randomly started
(02:42):
firing and killed two men, and this is an especially
sad tragedy. One of them was in Jose Antonio Flores Vasquez,
an aspiring astrophysicist in UC Irvine in the doc Thrid program.
(03:03):
He was dropping off a baby gift to his friend
Alfredo Carrera. Alfredo, an expectant father, was the other guy
gunned down shot to death. Carrera and Vasquez are standing
outside a car. A car pulls up and Shanis Dire
(03:27):
starts blasting away. Dire and two other defendants killed both men.
Third man down the street was wounded in the back
as he was loading his one year old daughter into
a car seat. So these were family people who were
shot in two cases killed. Carrera. Carrera, his his fiance
(03:55):
was having a baby shower. They were expecting. She watched
her fiance die right there in the street, So I
mean you have to understand this. Jose and Jose was
the astrophysicist student. Alfredo was the fiance. He and his
(04:19):
girlfriend expecting a baby, having a baby shower. They're gathering
outside because it's baby shower day, and here comes Shinise Dyer.
Dyer sent text messages around admitting she did the shooting,
saying she was satisfied. It made headlines. This was new satisfied,
(04:39):
it made headlines, and here comes George Gascon. And I
swear to God, if you hear this story, and I
understand this story, and you still go out and vote
for George Gascone, you're not even human. Because Dyer was
supposed to be trying as an adult, That's what Jackie
(05:01):
Lacey wanted to do. But then the pandemic came, the
stupid shutdown, the case got delayed. When it was finally ready,
Gascone was in charge, and at that moment, he had
a strict policy that juveniles were never going to be
prosecuted as adults. So even though Shenise Dyer had killed
(05:23):
those two innocent, innocent men who were just beginning what
looked like we're going to be successful lives, she didn't
kill two gang bangers who were headed to prison anyway. No,
she took on an astrophysicist student, an expecting father. She
(05:46):
was She admits to the crime. She's tried as a juvenile.
She only spends four years in a juvenile detention center.
She was released last February. Six months later, she's arrested.
There's another murder and Suddenly here we are in October
(06:09):
of twenty twenty four, thirty four days to the election,
and the La Times, in this news story admits that
Dyer's case is one of several in which a defendant
whom gascon showed leniency leniency has been released only to
be accused of another violent crime. Well, of course, because
these people are psychotic, they have no conscience, they're psychopaths.
(06:39):
It doesn't bother them. After she kills these two guys,
who I don't think she even knew, She sends out texts,
she was satisfied that it made headlines. She was admiring
her work, tried as a juvenile let out last year,
(06:59):
and now it seems it's permeating at least the La Times,
those thick skulls at what used to be a great
newspaper that wow, you know, we should be telling people
about this. This is major news because the guy who
refused to put this psychopath in prison is now up
(07:24):
for reelection, and the only reason he has even twenty
five percent of the vote I think is just out
of sheer ignorance. Much of the public, even the ones
who vote, don't follow the news, because where are you
going to hear about a story like this. You know,
they do the quick drive by minute and fifteen second
(07:44):
story on the TV news and then it's there and
it's gone. Nothing in the LA Times about this stuff?
What else is there? Handful of suburban papers who have
no staff. Our show. Our show probably covers more of
this than any other media outlet in southern California, But
(08:06):
we don't have everybody listening, And so people vote for Hawkman,
not knowing, not knowing that he really is evil. This
is evil. This is stuff Satan would do. You let
a psycho who is bragging about killing two innocent people
and you let them free after four years and juvenile detention.
(08:28):
Nathan Hackman's going to come on at three o'clock. He
is projected to be the next district attorney. I can
guarantee you when Nathan Hakman is elected, you're not going
to hear about a Shanese dire situation. That's just not
going to happen. Who's going through this La Times article?
(08:52):
Kascon is described as the godfather of progressive prosecutors. Doesn't
that make you want to wretch the godfather? Gascone, halfway
through his term, decided to start allowing prosecutors to seek
transfers to adult court in some instances. That came after
(09:13):
the Hannah Tubbs case, that guy who pretends to be
a woman, and he was tried in juvenile court for
a sexual assault on a young girl. Tubbs was a
teenager and got a break. Eventually he was convicted of
a murder up in Bakersfield. But that was such a
(09:35):
notorious case because Gascone was fooled by the fake transgender
claims that Tubbs made. He was full too. I mean
it's on tape Tubbs telling his dad that play along
with me. I'm going to pretend I'm a woman. And
Gascone was the only one who brought into it. So
(09:57):
he's not only he's not only evil with really destructive policies,
he's stupid too. But see charging charging juveniles as adults
requires a judge's approval. Two thirds of attempts to transfer
teams to adult court failed last year. See some of
(10:18):
the judges are as woke, its stupid as gascon. So
just changing Gascone doesn't necessarily solve all the problems here,
but it's a huge start because I think Nathan Hoffman
and his team is going to be more persuadable than
Gascone because Gascon doesn't even try. All right, we got
(10:40):
more coming up.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
At one thirty. The Special Council has unleashed one hundred
and sixty five pages of detail things he claimed Trump
said and did that in the events that led up
to the January sixth, the insurrection and what was going
(11:13):
on that day. It was a court filing and the
judge allowed it to go public. We are going to
talk with Royal Oaks from ABC News to see if
it means anything. Of course, if Trump gets elected, it
means nothing because Trump will dissolve the investigation. But Trump
(11:34):
is saying anything that he said or did he has
immunity from because he was president at the time. So
we'll get into all those issues with Royal Oaks coming
up now on the UH on the Kamala Harris side,
this is one of those stories. I saw that and
I go, oh, come by, this can't be true, right
because you're you're you're detector has to be on high
(11:55):
right now for false stories, bs, political misdirection, hyperbole. You
really have to be careful because both sides are just
going to dump all kinds of poop into the media ecosystem.
But this is real. The federal government FEMA, specifically, they're
(12:22):
supposed to be helping out tens of thousands of American
citizens whose homes have been destroyed by Hurricane Helene. In fact,
one hundred and fifty thousand people have applied for federal
assistance because of the damage or the total destruction done
(12:44):
to their homes, one hundred and fifty thousand Today today,
out loud, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro mayorcis the man who
brought you the wide open border, the man who brought
you ten million illegal aliens, admitted that FEMA is out
(13:05):
of money. FEMA does not have the money to help
one hundred and fifty thousand American citizens who've suffered serious
damage to their lives. This was the exact quote. FEMA
does not have the funds to make it through the season.
Turns out that that FEMA has blown billions of dollars
(13:29):
on illegal alien funding. Not making this up. Just over
the last two years, FEMA has handed out more than
one billion dollars in tax money to support illegal migrants
with housing a billion dollars just for illegal alien housing
and now that American citizens need their homes rebuilt, Mayorcis
(13:53):
said out loud, I'm sorry, we don't have the money.
This window is closed. Too many customers we have. We
have nothing left. Death tolls one hundred and eighty people
from the storm, and there's something else brewing the Gulf
of Mexico right now. They may get more heavy rains
(14:16):
in Florida within the next few days. FEMA was given
six hundred and forty million dollars for illegal aliens in
the twenty twenty four fiscal year, and people are saying, well,
why don't you reallocate any unspent money to the American
citizens who got whacked by Helene. FEMA's answer is no, no,
(14:48):
So they're not really out of money, they're just out
of money allocated to help Americans. They still have more
money for illegal aliens, and it's like, well, why don't
you just do a transfer here, transfer from an account
DAT to account B. FEMA says no. The Texas Governor
(15:09):
Greg Abbott posted on X Mayorcis and FEMA immediately stop
spending money on a legal immigration resettlement, redirect those funds
to areas hit by the hurricane. I mean people actually
have to Abbot actually has to post that publicly. Isn't
it obvious If you were running government, wouldn't you say, Okay,
(15:31):
party's over. You might want to go back to the
home country because we can't give you any more money
to live here. We've got the American citizens who pay
the taxes. They need help. I'm not a guy who's
big on government help, right. I think you mostly ought
to be able to handle your own life, to the
(15:53):
point where I think you shouldn't build homes in places
that are prone to natural disasters. You know, building on
a beach in a hurricane prone area. I think that's
more on you than the US government. Same thing, if
you build in an obvious fire zone, what are you thinking?
What do you what did you think was going to happen? However,
(16:17):
if there is this unlimited pot of money that taxpayers
have have filled, wouldn't you give it to the American
citizens first? I mean, we are giving a lot of
money to support foreign wars, which may be necessary, but
(16:39):
what's also necessary is to help out American citizens when
you have an unusually strong hurricane. Now, this is going
to be like the second most damaging hurricane in American history.
That's what I heard this morning. There are different ways
to calculate that, but this, this, this, this is one
of the biggies. And it veered inland and hit a
lot of the rural towns in the mountains. Normally you
(17:02):
don't get this kind of damage. But something freaky happened,
and you got a lot of people who've lost their homes.
You've got a lot of people who are dead, and
they go to they go to FEMA. I don't know
who else. Who else would you go to? Right, that's FEMA,
that's supposed to take care of the disasters. And FEMA's
going we're out of money, nothing more accounts at zero.
(17:27):
But what about that account there? You got hundreds of
millions for illegal aliens. Ah, you can't touch that. No, no, no, no.
American citizens go to the back of the line, stand
in line and wait. Tell we can print more money
or borrow more money from China. Whatever pocus pocus magic
(17:48):
they do. Isn't this isn't this awful? Alero majorcis oh
and I got another story about him because New York
Times had a long piece today. The Secret Service is
a bigger disaster than you could have ever imagined. Take
whatever you've heard in the past couple of months since
Trump got shot at and just multiply it by one hundred.
(18:10):
You won't believe how bad. And he's ultimately in charge
of the Secret Service because he's Homeland Security. He may
be the worst bureaucrat in American history that I can remember.
He is incompetent, not only at the border, but the
Secret Service and now FEMA. But you know, if you
want to start an insurrection, deny one hundred and fifty
(18:35):
thousand American citizens FEMA money and give it to millions
of illegal aliens, give them housing. Yeah, people are not
going to put up with this forever. All right, we
come back Royal Oaks. They take another run at Trump.
Jack Smith, the special counsel, he's investigating Insurrection Day and
(18:57):
he released I believe, about one hundred and sixty five
pages of things Trump said and did during that time
to bolster his case that Trump ought to be put
in jail. We'll talk with Royal Oaks. ABC News Legal
correspondent coming up.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A six.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
On from one until four and then after four o'clock
John Cobot show on demand on the iHeart app and
you can hear what you missed. Jack Smith. The Independent
Council in the insurrection case against Trump has refiled the charges.
They're the same charges, but they come with one hundred
and sixty five pages of new stories, additional evidence as
(19:38):
to what Trump did during that period which led to
thousands of people storming the capitol. And among the things
that jumped out in some of these news stories was
that he was going to declare victory no matter what,
before the ballots were counted, before any winner was projected,
and when Mike Pence was cornered and they were panting
(20:02):
to hang them. When Trump was informed as to what
was going on, his response was so and that he
was going to fight no matter what was going on.
Let's get Royal Oaks, ABC News correspondent, Actually legal aists
to be more exact and see if this amounts to anything.
(20:25):
Roy always seemed to be going through this story over
and over and over again periodically. Was there anything in
this superseding indictment because Jack Smith had to conform with
certain Supreme Court decisions, is there anything new in here
that we didn't know or anything more incriminating or more
that would provide more trouble for Trump.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
It is kind of like groundhog Day, isn't it. You know,
they dropped a couple of allegations because the Supreme Court said, yeah,
there's the ultra super official duties. You can't prosecute somebody.
But basically the case is intact. But I mean, you
need a scorecard, keep track of all the cases. Again,
this is one of the four criminal cases against Trump
pending in Washington, DC, and months and months ago, Trump
(21:08):
filed a motion to dismiss, saying, hey, a president is
immune from prosecution, so goodbye lawsuit or good bye a
court case. The trial judge said, nice try Donald, there
is no immunity. And now the Court of Appeal said,
nice try Donald, there is no immunity. Then the Supreme
Court took up the case. And remember back in July,
Supreme Court said, actually, if a president is performing his
(21:30):
official constitutional duties, he's probably immune from prosecution. So the
High Court sent the case back to the trial court
and instructed her look set up two buckets. Put all
the allegations against Trump that are official in one bucket.
You may not prosecute him. But if there's a bucket
with personals, nonofficial criminal stuff, okay, you can do that,
(21:51):
and that's your job for the next several months. That
led to yesterday's filing by Special Castulo Jacksmith. His arguments
that you describe accurately all this evidence. He said, Trump's
conduct was not official. He just tried to overturn the election.
So what if Mike Pants is going to be hanged, etc.
You know the other side of the coin. And Trump's
(22:12):
going to respond to this. He's going to say, look, judge,
my job as president was to enforce all federal laws,
including election laws and dog gunn and I really felt
contrary to all the rumors and hearsay and the guy
on the helicopter who over heard me say oh, we're screwed,
we lost, in fact, I really thought we had a
(22:32):
legitimate shot to overturn the thing. So that's what's going
to happen in the trial court. Inevitably disjudged is not
like Trump. She is going to say, yeah, I agree
with you, Jack Smith, everything belongs in the personal bucket.
And then Trump will it like that. He'll go back
up to the Court of Appeals and if the Supreme
Court is in the mood to help him again. They will,
but as you point it out a couple of minutes ago,
(22:54):
if Donald Trump wins, it'll all go bye bye. Because
it is inaugural address. He will say, well, welcome, folks.
First thing is, I'm dismissing the cases against me, and
I'm pardoning in all the defendants, and then they'll get
on to the other political stuff.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
I'm looking through, you know, a summary, because I don't
think no living human could read all one hundred and
sixty five league pages right through the summary. It seems
a lot of it is about just stuff he said
in the hallway or in his office, putting pressure on,
you know, the governor of Arizona, for example, putting pressure
on Mike Pince to not certified the election, trying to
(23:31):
get the Arizona governor to somehow change that outcome. Are
all those crimes if you're sitting and shouting things at people,
Maybe some of it's crazy, maybe some of it's real.
Are those federal crimes? And that that's where my mind
always comes to. It's like, all right, this could.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Be this is a great question. This is a great question.
There are crimes if it's part of a sort of
an enterprise to obstruct justice and the law. And you're
making a good distinction. If somebody's just shooting the breeze,
sitting around the office saying stuff, that's not a crime.
But what Smith is saying is if you take me,
you know what the White House they had overheard on
(24:11):
the helicopter ride, it doesn't matter if you wander laws.
You still have to fight like hell or so what
if Mike Pence's hanged. What they're saying is that those
boil down to three specific crimes. One is he tried
to overturn a lawful election, told all sorts of officials
to fight, and told Mike Pence, you know, send the
whole thing back to the States. And secondly, they say
(24:34):
it's a conspiracy against the right of the American public
to have their vote counted properly. So it's conspiracy, it's
obstruction of official proceedings. So yeah, Smith translates all of
the sort of casual conversation stuff and he says it
was like a mob boss, a criminal enterprise guy who
was trying to break the law and deprive everybody of
(24:56):
their right to have a legitimate election.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Are trying to filter that through the Supreme Court decision
that gave him some limited immunity. If he's the president
of the United States, he's still in office right after
election day, and he's in the White House, he's barking
orders at the people who work for him. Is it
seems like some of that under this Supreme Court decision
would be protected. That this isn't yeah, and this isn't
(25:21):
private conduct.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Exactly, that's right, And that gets back to the argument
that he was arguably trying to enforce the law. But
you know that the decision, it was so interesting when
Chief Justice Roberts wrote it. He made it clear he
was concerned about weaponization of the legal system, which a
lot of people have been concerned about over the last
(25:43):
two or three years. It's not fair for judges and
prosecutors to go after politicians because they hate them, and
so Roberts to fight against that, carved out this immunity
rule that seems a little problematic. I mean, for example,
Roberts said, if it's an official act, absolutely may never
be prosecuted. And what are the official acts of the constitution, Well,
(26:04):
like pardoning somebody or appointing an ambassador. But what if
you pardon somebody or appointed him ambassador to Luxembourg based
on a bribe or a payoff, Well, shouldn't that person
be convicted or prosecuted. One answer is, well, he can
be impeached, or he could change the constitution to say,
you know, pardons are null and void if they're for
a criminal reason. Bottom line is, it's hard to defend
(26:27):
Robert's argument that he should be absolutely immune. And yet
I think Roberts just felt so frustrated that all of
these actions civil and criminal actions against Trump. I mean,
people were even thinking about prosecuting George W. Bush for
prosecuting the war in Iraq. Vincent Buliosi right, and Manson
prosecutor wrote a whole book arguing for that, if you
(26:48):
have some you know, da from Biloxi, Mississippi, or Chicago,
Illinois that has it in for a politician, you don't
want that to happen.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Every president, at least in modern times, seems to get
some version of this, some attack from the other party.
Clinton went through a lot of stuff, some of which
nobody even understood at the time, but there was a
relentless attack on him. They were going after George W. Bush,
Trump and you know Biden has had to deal with
all kinds of accusations too. Is this just modern politics
(27:22):
where both sides are going to use the judiciary and
investigations to attack one another now, And is Roberts right
to try to put a stop to this because this
leads to chaos.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
I think you're right. I think what we are seeing
is toxic partisanship on the steroids, because, as you point out,
I mean a look at Richard Nixon, there was such
strong feeling against Richard Nixon, obviously led to his resignation.
And again, yeah, as you say Clinton, some presidents, you know, Eisenhower,
Jerry for Jimmy Carter. You know, people got strong opinions,
but it's not like some sort of a death match.
(27:56):
So yeah, I think we're in an era where, unfortunately,
whether whoever is in power, they got to worry about
prosecutors going against them. And you know Chief Justice Roberts
was trying to strike against that.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Yes, the thing the president's presidency often was boring and
it didn't stir up huge passions in people, and now
everything is incendiary, and you wonder about the motivations of
a lot of these investigations. Obviously right these there's something
about the sheer number of investigations which makes you think, no,
this is uh, this is this is warfare. This is
(28:31):
where the word lawfare came within the last year or two,
that this is not the way normal life was in
the past.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Yeah, there's no excuse for anybody using the system, the
criminal justice system, as some sort of a weapon for
their personal advancement or just political opposition. I mean, remember
the Ducla Cross guys who were accused of rape and
the only reason they got off was because they had
a really super sleuth Sherlock Holmes investigator who uncovered DNA
(29:01):
evidence that the DA hid, and these guys would still
be rotting in prison for rapes that they didn't commit
if that guy hadn't found it, and the DA is
lucky he didn't wind up in prison. They took his
law license away. So yeah, I mean, I think that's
just a real downside to our era right now.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Yeah, because it seems like a lot of people believe
that anything goes doesn't matter if it's true or not,
or fair or not. It's like I want my side
to win, on the other side to die, all right,
thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Ro Oaks.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Good to talk with you again. Rol Oaks from ABC News.
Coming up after and we'll play a little piece of
this video. And after two o'clock we are going to
talk with Todd Bensman. Todd Bensman is with the Center
for Immigration Studies. He has written many stories and he's
produced videos on the insanity at the US Mexico border.
(29:51):
We were going to have him on yesterday. He may
have heard me promoting it yesterday and we were scheduled
for today. He has an eleven minute video centering on
the world's most organized human smuggling operation, that's what he
calls it. It starts in a Columbia village in the northwest.
The village is called Kuppurghana. It's controlled by a paramilitary
(30:13):
organization and they transport thousands and thousands and thousands of
illegal aliens from all over the world and they take
them through the Darien Gap, which is this narrow strip
of land that connects North America with South America. It's
actually at the bottom of Central America, connects to Panama
(30:34):
with Colombia, and it's in virtually inaccessible, heavily forested mountainous.
Nobody lives there but somehow this smuggling operation brings thousands
and thousands of people through it and eventually to the
Mexican border and eventually in America, and they make a
(30:56):
lot of money along the way. It's fascinating video to watch.
You can go to Cia and Todd Benzman is his name.
We're going to talk to. This is a cool story.
After two o'clock.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
I have to stress coming up after two o'clock, you
got to hear Todd Benson. We're going to play in
ninety seconds of that story coming up in just a moment.
Because we talk about immigration a lot and it seems
like very distant and abstract, but how it really works
is fascinating. And how this power military organization in Colombia
(31:37):
transfers many, many thousands of migrants from all over the
world through one of the most difficult regions to pass through,
the Darien Gap, which connects North and South America. It's
really fascinating. So Tod's going to tell us about it
because he went there. But first, do you know that
meta Facebook has these smart glasses that they've been selling
(32:03):
and you're able, I guess to work the Internet through
these smart glasses. Well, two Harvard students have taken the
capabilities even further and they built an X ray what
they're called the I x ray component. He uses AI
(32:24):
follow me on this and facial recognition. So let's say
I'm wearing these glasses and I see you in the street. Yeah,
and I look at you. It'll instantly do facial recognition
and match you bet your face to wherever it is
on the Internet, and immediately tell me what your name
is and your address. I'll get all your private information,
(32:47):
the names of your family members, your work history. It'll
be all on screen as it were in my glasses.
I don't like that these two guys, see, I think
these geniuses have to be taken away and imprisoned. It's
someone named on fu Win and Caine ar Dafio, two
(33:10):
engineers at Harvard. They're not releasing it. It's not for misuse.
They want to demonstrate what these smart glasses can do
with AI public databases, search engines.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
But why this is not gonna lead to anything good?
Why don't you cure cancer?
Speaker 2 (33:29):
I think they're saying, Look, if we don't do it,
somebody is going to do it, so we're first, here's
what it's going to do you better?
Speaker 4 (33:36):
Yeah, but I think that there's so many I mean,
if you're so smart and you're figuring this stuff out, seriously,
let's cure cancer and some other diseases. Why do we
need to know people's personal information? And I mean that's invasive.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Somebody, if I look at you on the street, I'll
have your home address, phone number, age relatives, all from
public available records, social media profiles. They wrote an app
on the phone to process this. It works automatically, so
you can walk down the street and just you Let's
say you're some creepy guy like Zuckerberg used to be,
(34:10):
and you just look at every beautiful woman you're attracted to.
You can get all their vital information in your eye,
on your eyeball. Yeah, that's not safe. No, that's not safe.
I want to see who's going to stop this now? Though?
Speaker 4 (34:24):
Well again, why don't you create glasses that can detect
cancer and figure.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Out a cure? But they don't. No one's interested in
that's that's not cool. Tends of research isn't cool.
Speaker 4 (34:37):
You know what it should be.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
There's no big payoff for that. All right, let's plays
as a teaser as a warm up, this little ninety
second clip from Todd Bensman's video report on this paramilitary
smuggling organization in Columbia.
Speaker 5 (34:53):
You get a taste as a primary staging area for
people that are heading into the gap into Panama. Behind me,
this is the dock, and behind me you're seeing immigrants
that are actually unloading right now as we speak, on
(35:13):
their way to the trailheads. The trailheads are probably still
a good you know, twenty or thirty miles from here.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
There is a.
Speaker 5 (35:25):
Process in place, very organized process, because so many hundreds
of thousands of people have come through here over the
past few years to take advantage of Joe Biden's policy
of creating kind of a super highway out of the
Darien Gap. Much in the way of US National and
(35:46):
Homeland Security is writing on Panama's plan to close the
Darien Gap. The Biden Harris White House was supposed to
help Panama pressure it to ally Columbia to shut this down.
Promised American for deportation flights out of Panama hasn't showed up,
forcing Panama to keep its side of the border open.
(36:07):
Still but the Clandel Gulfo, the United Nations, migrant health groups,
and the Colombian government, and thousands upon thousands of illegal
immigrants who will end up living in America are still
on the machine. All for one and one for all
here in northwestern Colombia. I'm Todd Bensman, set up for
(36:28):
Immigration Studies in Colombia.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
That's a ninety second clip out of eleven minute report
which you go to CIS dot org and Todd is
coming on next to talk about his experiences. All right,
Tod ben'sman. Next. You stay listening. First, you listen to Deborah.
Thank you, she knows things I do. Deborah Mark Live,
CAFI twenty four Hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to
(36:53):
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