April 5, 2024 • 38 mins
The Center for Immigration Studies' Todd Bensman talks about migrants illegally crossing the boarder. Richard Branson's Employee Mediterranean Cruise. KFI's Michael Monks talks New Citizen Citations in LA. Gavin Newsom's Baseball Career.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio
app Moistline. Next hour at three twenty and three fifty
and two Hacks in a Dumpster, Hack in a Dumpster
Coming up after Dever's three thirty news Here on KFI,
we're going to talk with Todd Bensman here. He is
a journalist who has been stationed at the border covering
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just unbelievable experiences. And he's got another one. Todd writes
for many publications. This particular piece was in the Daily Mail.
He's also affiliated with the Center for Immigration Studies and
he's provided a lot of first person coverage to us
over the last couple of years. He was near the
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town of Buarez, which is right where New Mexico, Texas
and Mexico come together, and they came face to face
with drug cartel operatives as they were trying to film
some of the bad guys climbing over the border fence.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Uh, it's quite a story. Let's get todt on here.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Welcome, Hey, great to be here. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yeah, this is a thriller of the story here. So
you and you and your you have a colleague with you, right,
and you're you're trying.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
To I use a translator when I'm down in Mexico and.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
You're driving along on a road parallel to the US
border and you encounter these, uh, these migrants climbing the fence.
Just describe your experiences and describe your encounters with drug
cartel employees.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Sure, and it happens. You don't ever want it to happen,
but it does happen if you're if you're reporting in
their in the heart of their business terror, And that's
what this was. It's about an eight mile stretch of
old wall from the Bush era. It's kind of like
the steel mesh, and it's mostly across from New Mexico.
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So when you drive through there, you can see holes
cut all the way from like all eight miles as
about thousands of holes cut into it and repaired. And
that's obviously a major source of what we call runners
and got aways into the United States. And if you
really want to understand at least half of the border crisis,
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you have to also cover the runners, not the ones
that just turn themselves in, as many hundreds of thousands do,
but many millions more are running into the gaps that
are left vacant by border patrol. Anyway, that's what this was,
and so I wanted to go see what was happening.
Hundreds of every single day are being seen crossing in
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and over and through this particular stretch of wall. It's
very very busy, heavily concentrated. So there's probably a pretty
good chance that we were going to run into some
bad guys. And sure enough, there's some a group climbing,
five of them, you know, climbing over and we spotted
them and I said, pull over. Let's let's film them
and see if we could talk to them as they're
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going over. And they're going over, and at first they
didn't want to go over because they didn't know who
we were, and we said, well, we're Pattiodiste's journalists. Just
do what you were going to do. We're not going
to capture you or something or interfere. It's not our business.
And so we were watching them and filming them as
they as they climbed, and then all of a sudden,
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like almost out of nowhere, these two gunmen show up
out of the desert and our car and they're accusing
us of being rival smugglers. Who brought these guys there.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
And didn't pay.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
So they were like, you know, you're going to have
to pay us for these guys, and so you know,
my translator is like, no, no, no, no, you know,
we're two journalists here. We didn't bring them here. We
don't know you anything. We're just filming them and there
we had to show some video that we were and
they had guns, well one of them had that we
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could see at a pistol and his waistband. They did
accept the story that we gave them and then said, well,
we're going to have to you need to not film
what we're about to do next, which is to enforce
on these guys that were climbing up the wall. Still
three of them had already run off on the New
Mexico side, and we just took that as our queue
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to get out of there as fast as possible, and
so you know, we drove off.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
What were they What were they going to do to
the stragglers who had made over the fans forced them
to pay?
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Yes, absolutely, it probably beat them up or if they
could catch them, But I don't think they could have
caught those ones because they were pretty high up on
that wall. But we weren't going to stick around to
watch anything or be a witness to anything. We're just
going to get out of there and be glad that
we were allowed to get out of there, because you
just never know what these guys there, you know, these
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cartel guys, all they got to do is, you know,
say get in my car, you know, at the point
of a gun, and your whole life has changed.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
You know, well take a shoot you dead right there,
or take you in the car and dump your body somewhere,
and there are no consequences for that right now, they
don't have to answer to anyone.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Well, I guess if they killed me, they'd probably be
a little bit more because it's an American who's kind
of somewhat known. There would have been problem for them there.
But I wouldn't have taken any comfort in that because I'd.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Be dead now.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Indeed, these guys climbing the stands, I mean, obviously you
can go to any traditional checkpoint and you're going to
be let into the United States. So the ones climbing
the fence or sneaking, sneaking through to America, a lot
of these gentlemen are bad guys. They've got criminal records there.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
That's exactly right. That's that's why this is such an
important element of the overall border crisis that I think
it's lost. Most people just see the thousands of immigrants
that are kind of waiting, congregating together on the US
side and having just illegally crossed, they turn themselves in.
They're looking for border patrol because the policy from Washington
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is for border patrol to let everybody in to process
them directly in in a day or two. So that's
what most Americans are familiar with. They are not going
to have criminal histories that are easy to find anyway.
They know that they're going to probably pass a database check.
But if you know that you are not going to
pass a database check, that you're you've been in the
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US before and you've been convicted of something in you
your fingerprints are on file. Your only way in, your
only way in is if you pay the cartels and
UH to to bring you in and and to run
and hide and dodge UH and then that's what's happening.
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Most of the ones that are that are running are
going to be criminals. They're going to be people with
with histories, They're going to be killers, people that have
been convicted of rape, robbery, uh, you know everything, sexual offenses,
you name it, and uh, that's how they get in.
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They want to they want to come back. They always
want to come back after the deportations. If you if
you finish your conviction, your sentence, then we deport you
right away.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
And most of them stay away. But in this policy environment, uh,
this per missive policy environment where border patrol is too
busy to chase people down like this because they're processing
all the ones that gave themselves up. It's like a
beautiful opportunity for them to come in. And they are
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coming in. Almost two million runners who have become god
aways that we've never caught. We know that they cross
by video or footprints in the sand, or a drone
caught wind of them, but we never caught them. Two
million of them have gotten into the country millions, and
that two million runners have become god aways and.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Two million individuals. These are not individuals, These are individuals.
Two million are in the country and they went out
of their way not to be recorded at a traditional checkpoint,
like they've got something they want to.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Hide from themselves in like everybody else, because obviously we
would find that we'd run their prints or whatever, and
we definitely to pour them. Right. Even this administration will
deport a rapist who's been convicted. But you know, maybe
you know, but but there you especially, so these guys
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are crossing in New Mexico, Well that's interesting. That's that's
why that's such a busy crossing point for it, for runners,
is because that's a democratic governor over there who refuses
to put a state police anywhere near the border governor
unlike Texas.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Yea, that governor is happy if murderers, rapists, child molesters
come climbing over the fence and take off into the brush.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
They're okay with.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
It, absolutely no, absolutely, no problem with it none, or
they would be doing what Greg Abbott does, which is
to stop, block, catch them the term, do whatever they
can to fill the gaps left by border patrol who
are off dueing the processing. You'd have New Mexican state
police down there. But this wall is all across from
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New Mexico on purpose. This is the hot spot for
this because there's nobody over there. There's a few border
patrol and other than that, and you know, if you
look at read my piece, I you know I ran
across a welder, a worker who's a federal contractor. In fact,
I just put a video up on my ex account
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of this guy short clip and he's welding a hole
back together in the wall. And I found him and
I interviewed him, and he says he puts, he puts,
it fills about twelve holes a day, and he says,
by the next morning, there's twelve new ones. And so
it's this never ending hamster wheel of him welding and
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his crew welding holes shut on this fence. And while
he's welding them shut, they're a quarter of a mile away,
you know, cutting a new one. And it's just this
NonStop cutting and repairing and cutting and repairing that you
can never get ahead of on this wall because it's
New Mexico across there and there's nobody over there. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Oh, this is so nuts. Todd.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
I've got to go. Thank you for coming on again.
Thank you, Todd Benzman And you can read his piece
at the Daily Mail Cartel Secrets Exposed. He affiliated with
the Center for Immigration Studies, writes for many publications, and
he's written books on this.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
More coming up.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Coming up after two thirty.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
How about you're tootling along the roadway, maybe you're going
a little too fast, maybe roll through a stop sign.
You get pulled over by a civilian who wants to
give you a ticket. A civilian, not a cop, you know,
an unarmed civilian. Michael Monks with with this particular story
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coming up. This is another City of Los Angeles project,
and it never knows. Well, we both know how much
we enjoy all the people who don't show up.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
For work anymore, especially Fridays.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
People who call in while riding their bike, checking to
see if things are going well. Well, here's this news story.
Richard Branson. He's got a cruise line. It's called Virgin
Voyages and he owns Virgin Airlines. And it's a four
week cruises so remote workers can spend a month at
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sea in Southern Europe. What yes, it's called the Scarlet
Summer Season. Pass two people about ten thousand dollars. You
get a room, meals, fitness classes, Wi Fi, laundry services,
and all the other normal things. It's a package deal.
It's thirty percent cheaper than booking four separate weeks. You
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just booked the whole month and you can work from
the ship and they cruise southern Europe.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Yeah, so that guy calling in to see how things
are going today is now half naked on a lounge chair.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
That's not fair. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Within twenty four hours, more than two thousand of these
deadbeats registered interest in it, and the spots sold out
in forty eight hours.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
I think we should take our show. Let's do our
show on a cruise.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Sign me up, That's what I was thinking. Yes, let's
do it.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Why should all these cubical workers end up on the
on the lounges laying in the sun.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Yeah, you know, we're the ones.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
We're the ones that have shown up to work every day.
Let's just even talk about the pandemic when we came
every single day.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
And we're actually have to attract the listeners right right,
We're not doing the paperwork or whatever the hell they
do in those cubicles exactly. Uh the uh, it's it's
it's the Scarlet Lady and the Resilient ladyships. They can
each accommodate about twenty seven hundred people, and the cruises
are going to run from June to September this year,
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and all these people work now, they're going to be
upside down. They're coming from America.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
They're gonna that's that's tough with that time difference.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
But you know, I don't know, are people really working
when they're working remotely anyway?
Speaker 1 (14:27):
A lot of them. I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
I don't think. I don't think so easy. They're they're
riding their bike, that's what they're doing.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
They're taking long strolls or hiking.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
In the bathroom, and then they send back selfies of
themselves taking bike rides.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Life is not fair.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
No no, uh and you know it's an adult's only
cruise too. Oh really, yeah, this is this is pretty exciting.
The uh well, the employers claim that they can't force
people back the office because then people quit and they
go work for another company that doesn't demand that you
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show up, and everyone is under the impression that things
are working just fine when people don't show up for
work anymore. That's what they say. What they think data, Yeah,
I do too. When we come back. Michael Monks, if
a civilian pulls you over, are you gonna bother listening
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to him when he tries to give you a ticket. Well,
we're going to test that out, I guess in Los Angeles.
Gonna find out the details from Michael Monks CAFI News.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Next, you're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Michael Monks is here from KFI News.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Are you here? Now?
Speaker 2 (15:47):
You're gonna have to explain this. I don't entirely understand
this is the way I see this. Because I've got
this complicated legal document, the civilians are going to be
able to pull me over and give me a ticket?
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Is that? Is that the bottom line here?
Speaker 6 (16:03):
Honestly, if you look at it the way that we've
looked at it today, which is just in the document
with all the government ease, you know, a document.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Thousands of words here, what does it we add up to?
Speaker 6 (16:14):
I'm going to get And I don't want you to
feel bad about not fully understanding, because the people who
put it together and the people who voted on it
this week, they don't fully seem to understand it either.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
This is just like the third thing this week I've
been presented that I didn't understand.
Speaker 6 (16:27):
Yeah, and it's also the first thing where the city
of la is considering alternatives to providing police to respond
to certain calls. Earlier the week, we talked about mental
health issues and dispatching social services people.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Anybody except an officer with a gun. Right, this is different.
This is what this will work out.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
This is not.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
Supposedly related to say, pulling over John Colebelt for speeding
down the road to get into burbank on time.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Right. This is supposed to be.
Speaker 6 (16:54):
For non moving violations and for like equipment violations related
to your car, if it's smog or tail lights out,
that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
I'm going to get pulled over by a civilian because
my tail light is out.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
It's possible.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
What it looks like is why, let's take it back
a little bit, just to get the audience idea.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
What's the store?
Speaker 4 (17:17):
No?
Speaker 6 (17:17):
No, because your confusion is completely legit. I feel it.
And again I want to reiterate, the task force that
put this together wasn't clear, and the committee, the City
Council Transportation Committee that voted on it this week, they
don't understand either.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
So they voted on it.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
A little bit of government sausage making here. The city
Council as a task force to examine an alternative transportation
enforcement model. Okay, so that's a I guess a government
way of saying, give us alternative options for enforcing traffic violations.
And this task force took months and months. This was
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initiated in twenty twenty in the wake of the racial
justice movement and a lot of policies that were impacted
by that. This task force took months and months, and
they came back and and this week the Transportation Committee
approved the recommendations that five recommendations, and yes, one of
those recommendations is the use of unarmed civilians who are
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focused exclusively on road safety to enforce safety related traffic
violations like speeding, and to create john care based teams
responsible for.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Care based I don't know what that means. They're going
to scare for my tailit exactly.
Speaker 6 (18:30):
You know why, because they think instead of getting a
ticket that might be one hundred fifty bucks two hundred bucks,
that you should be able to get a voucher that
will cover that VTU and not. And you know, there
are some arguments about, hey, this is a person who
couldn't afford to get this this situation fixed. Uh, and
now they're being ticketed on top of not having the
money to pay for what If I can afford to
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get it fixed, then you will pay for it. Then
I will I will get a ticket in this language,
in this is to consent to consider alternative fine and
fee models that are means based, which is another way
of saying social Well, you've got Cobalt money, you're paying
for this.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
If you've got Monks money, you might get a voucher.
Speaker 6 (19:12):
No, I want you to pay too, Well, right now,
we would, right, you and I would pay the same amount.
This is a suggestion, and this is communist so and
they want it more self enforcing infrastructure investments.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
I mean you're talking.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
What does that mean, Well, it might mean something like
speed humps, you know, something like that, like let's slow
down speeding in some of these neighborhoods with some of
that type of infrastructure instead of having so many police around.
And then the other recommendation is, quote, identify local obstacles
that limit officer accountability and reduce the ability of the
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chief of police to discipline officers for misconduct such as
excessive use of force, racial profiling, and other vile Let
me sure.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Some joker pulls me over and he's got a problem
with my tail light or whatever. Why I have to
listen to him. He doesn't have a gun. Why can't
I just start my car up and zoom away or
never even never even pull over?
Speaker 1 (20:07):
We heard from the LAPD on this case.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Yeah, and then now I'm gonna open Now they're going
to send the armed officers.
Speaker 6 (20:12):
Assistant Chief Don Graham said that this might not be safe.
You know, I think that he was making the argument
in this committee meeting this week, not not directly, but
it seemed heavily suggested that this might not be a
good idea because even non moving violations such as broken
windows or there's some type of equipment failure, they could
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turn into dangerous situations. And as you're suggesting, if you've
got an unarmed person there, you will eventually have to
get an armed guy there.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
A lot of bad guys have broken down cars that
they drive around. That's just the way it is. That's
why those people are pulled over, because that's a sign.
If you have a car in disrepair, it often means,
you know, you you don't spend your nights working for
your wife and two kids.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Legitimate job.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
All right, there's a reason people get pulled over and
the cops know they can tell by looking at the
cars and the condition of the cars, and.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
There's certainly training involved in policing on how to pull
people over, the type of behavior that you engage in.
This month's long work by this task force analyzed a
lot of the emotions that both parties feel and they
determine that yes, police feel heightened emotions as well, but
it's harder on the person who's being pulled over. I
think we can agree with that you get nervous when
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you get pulled over because.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
He has a gun and I don't. He's got a
gun everything? Well, right, I don't see any reason to
pull over because some fat slub. It's like it's like
those slubs who who do the parking meter routine. Why
should I listen to those people?
Speaker 6 (21:43):
Well, the question that was raised in this committee meeting,
even by a council member who ultimately voted in favor
of pushing this forward, Tracy Park said, how will we
protect the folks who would be civilians right and doing
this work? And there wasn't a clear answer on this.
Because here's how this is going to work, John, This
is a month long effort by this task force to
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put these recommendations together. And so now this committee, the
Transportation Committee, and it's also going before the Public Safety Committee.
They'll they'll weigh in on it, and then they'll shoot
it up to the Council and then the full council
would vote, and then the city administrators and the Legal
Department and the police department, they'll all have ninety days
to report back on the feasibility of.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
This, which are they going to have the legal authority
of police?
Speaker 6 (22:26):
It doesn't sound like they will have the legal authority
to even create this. There's questions about whether this is
because do you need to be a sworn peace officer
to commit these acts?
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Is the question.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
And if they can't answer no, then this program could
not possibly proceed.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
This sounds really half asked and half baked.
Speaker 6 (22:48):
What I learned from the folks who were served on
the task force and spoke on this this week was
they did explore a lot of feelings involved with communities
that feel marginalized or ostracized or overly penalized by police,
but then took those feelings and attached it to policing reforms.
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And it will be to be seen whether the city
is able to take those police.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Either you committed the crime or you didn't. And I'm
sick of hearing these these racial arguments. It's like, are
they guilty, are they not guilty? That's all that matters.
Their skin color or their ethnicity or anything else has
no bearing on this.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
It's just whether you're guilty.
Speaker 6 (23:34):
I think what this task force said was that there's
over policing in communities of color, and that people of
color may have different feelings when being pulled over by police.
Then say a white person, based on history, she was
happy about being pulled over.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
No one not freaking out.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
One that was clear in this report too, is that
everybody's nervous when you get pulled over, including the policemen.
But the the policeman is often, you know, as we
heard from the police in this argument today, the police
are concerned about what's happening too, because it could be
an unsafe environment.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
For all.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
You have meter maids pulling me over. I'm not getting
pulled over. You can go chase me now, I'd rather
be on Channel five news. That sounds like a confession, Yeah,
pre confession.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Yeah, that's right, you'll know, you'll see me, all right, Michael,
very good. Thanks John.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Apparently you're the only guy who understands this stuff. That's
two this week that you had I didn't understand. Is
this your new beat? Napp to try to translate in
comprehensible legislation.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Ask forces all right.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Now coming up after three o'clock. We got quite an
hour At three o'clock. We're supposed to have Mark Closs on.
Did you hear him yesterday? We had him on for
half an hour. Mark class is Polycloss's dad. Polycloss was
killed back in nineteen ninety three. One of the earliest
news stories we covered. Twelve years old kidnapped. She was
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hosting a sleepover slumber party with her friends, and Richard
Allen Davis, who's now sixty nine years old, came in
and put pillowcases over the girl's heads, dragged Polly off,
and raped and murdered her, and dumped her body along
the side of the road, covered it up with plywood,
and she lay there for two months until police discovered
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her and eventually arrested Davis, who'd already committed horrible crimes
years before, and was let out because of bad policies
that Jerry Brown instituted the first time the California idiot
voters made him governor back in the nineteen seventies. This
crap's been going on for fifty years between him and
Gavin Newsom. Anyway, Richard Allen Davis was sentenced to death.
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He has not been executed, And today he was supposed
to be in court because Newsom signed to Bill. So
a guy like Richard Allen Davis can get a re
sentencing hearing and officially wipe out his death sentence. What
would replace it?
Speaker 1 (25:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
This is all new, this stuff, and we're gonna have
Mark Klassan. He was supposed to be at the at
the hearing today. He was on with us yesterday for
about half an hour, just absolutely out of his mind, angry.
And I don't know what's wrong with you people. I
don't know why you vote for guys like Newsome. You know,
(26:23):
if he's not driving fast food franchise, he's out of business.
He's oh, you know, he's pulling everybody off death row.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
I got a story about Newsom too that I want
to do in the next segment. Do you know he's
led people to believe that he was a star college
baseball player, nearly drafted by the Texas Rangers, and he
never played a single varsity baseball game. Cal Matters, which
is a political news site. I couldn't believe this story.
And for twenty years he's been letting people believe that
(26:58):
he You know, there are frauds to and this. This
guy is a Hall of Famer when it comes to fraud.
But you know, keep voting for him. I'll tell you
about Newsom's fake baseball.
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we're going to see how your drive is looking on
the fifty seven and.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM six.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Forty after three o'clock, Mark Class will come on with again,
on with us again.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
He's Polly's father.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
She was killed thirty years ago by Richard Allen Davis,
a brutal rape and murder of a twelve year old,
and Davis earned a hearing to get his death penalty
conviction resentenced because of Gavin Newsom's sign up a new
disgusting law that opens a door for Richard Allen Davis
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after what he did to Polly. But hey, you know
what Newsom is that kind of guy. He's the kind
of guy who lies and misleads people about his college
baseball career.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Believe it or not. Now, I love baseball.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Some plays college baseball and it's a difficult business. And
Gavin Newsom, over the last twenty years has basked in
unearned glory for being a college baseball player. Of note,
let me just tell the story and you'll see how
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gregeous this is. He is such a phony. Let's go
back twenty years. San Francisco Giants they're having their home
opener two thousand and four, and they invited a special
guest to throw out the first pitch. The story, by
the way, is in cal Matters. The special guest is
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Gavin Newsom, new mayor of San Francisco, had just gotten elected.
He went to the Pictures Mound wearing his dress shoes
and a button down shirt underneath his Giants Jersey, and
the announcer informed the crowd that he played first base
for the University of Santa Clara and was drafted by
the Texas Rangers. Now, any decent person would say, no, no, no, no,
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that didn't happen. None of that is true. No Newsom,
let it stand. So the whole Giants crowd, many of
whom voted for Newsom and probably thought he was a
handsome hunt.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
They all plotted.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
So Newsom threw the pitch and nearly hit a photographer
with the ball, almost wiped the guy out.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
In the stands.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
That day, a group of former Santa Clara University baseball
players who were seething Newsom get this. Never played a
game for Santa Clara.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Never.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
He was never on the varsity roster. It's not that
he was on the bench. It's not that he was
stuck in the bullpen. He was never on the varsity roster,
not one game. Here's the story. His dad again, William Newsom,
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was a San Francisco judge and a financial advisor to
the Getties, the wealthy oil family. See Newsom used to
tell this story that he was headed to community college
until he got a call from Santa Clara, the baseball coaches.
He got a partial scholarship and it changed his life.
And you lead he leads people to believe that he
had this cool baseball career, almost got drafted by the
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Texas Rangers. Well, it was actually arranged by William Newsom,
his dad and the Gettys. One of William Newston's friends
connected Newsom to the baseball.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Program, and.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
One of the Getties was on the board of regents,
wrote him a record a record of a letter of recommendation.
Mike Cummins, the former assistant coach at Santa Clara, said
the governor has embellished his baseball career a little bit
at times, a little bit.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Never played a single fing game.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Cummins is now the head baseball coach at cal State
East Bay, said that Newsom never played in the varsity game.
He may have played some scrimmages. He's embellished. It's half truths.
He was recruited Santa Clara, he was there in the fall,
but he never played. He didn't have a varsity career there.
Apparently what he did was he played in some false
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scrimmages freshman and sophomore year, but it was never never
played in the springtime.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
That was it.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Kevin Schneider, who pitched for two seasons at Santa Clara,
said he didn't earn it. He didn't earn the right
to say it. I worked my ass off, so did
everyone else on the team. For him to go all
these years to say he did something that he didn't,
that takes not just talent, but also dedication and effort
and sacrifice, it is not right. He only played during
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the fall tryouts for his freshman and sophomore years, then
he would leave the baseball program before the regular season began.
He does not appear on the Santa Clara Broncos all
time roster. He does not appear in any immedia guys
publish any media guides published by the athletic department when
they preview the upcoming season. So he was never on
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the Santa Clara baseball team and never played during the seasons.
He did fall tryouts and he probably sucked and they
cut him because in the fall is where they do
the evaluations and then you're told to go home. He
led people to believe that the Texas Rangers either drafted him,
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recruited him somehow showed interest. K Newsome Apparently it was
among hundreds of high school players across the country that
the Rangers looked at while preparing their annual amateur draft.
Former scouts said, we did watch him play in high school,
but we don't remember specifically scouting him.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
What happens is the scouts go to.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
Games and they're usually interested in a couple of standout players,
but they keep their eye on everybody else to see, Hey,
you know, maybe there's a surprise year, maybe there's someone
I hadn't heard of who will impress. Newsom was never
that guy.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
He said.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Major league teams are very thorough and scout in California,
and it's likely there were several players on this particular
high school team that our scouts had interested in seeing.
But at one time one scout may have come up
to him and introduced himself and Newsom there. Somehow that
got turned in too. He got drafted by the Texas Rangers.
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He's his scholarship was five hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Is this right here?
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Yeah, he was on the Judi varsity team. He got
five hundred dollars during the fall quarter of his freshman year.
And Newsom's now the attendance the tuition at Santa Clara
that year was ten and fifty one dollars, so he
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got five hundred bucks. That would be a five percent scholarship.
He got letters of recommendation from former governor Jerry Brown. Oh,
he's the guy who enabled Richard Allen Davis to run
around free to begin with. In fact, Jerry Brown appointed
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Kevin Husom's father to the Superior Court and to the
Court of Appeal.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
That's disgusting he had.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
He should be you know, he can't feel shamed because
he's a sociopath, but he should be ashamed of himself
running around all these years pretending that he was a
high school baseball star.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
He was at Santa Clara. He was a star.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
You have to be a star if you're gonna get
drafted by the Texas Rangers. And he'll let the announcer
announce that on opening day for the San Francisco Giants
while he's standing on the mound throwing out the first
ball and nearly killing a photographer.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
I am offended. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 5 (36:00):
I know this.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
It's you know, no, it does. It's hard.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
It's it's hard to succeed in baseball, and isn't isn't
it classic though for a guy like Newsom stolen valor
they call it in the military.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
When somebody yep.
Speaker 5 (36:14):
But so many people they have these inflated egos and
they have to inflate stuff about them that just kind of.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Yeah, he's this is what, this is what insecure. See,
he knows on some level, he knows he's a fake.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
He's like this cardboard cutout who got this because his
dad was influential, The Getties were rich, and between his
dad and the Getties, they set them up in business
so he could have his plump jerk winery and the restaurants.
And he was a good looking guy, and he Brown
knowsed Willie Brown, and he got himself into the system.
And now he spouts all this left wing progressive nonsense.
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But he's been given power. And next thing you know,
Richard Allen Davis is up for a hearing to get
resentenced after raping brutally and murdering brutally Polycloss. Which is
the next chapter here in the Newsome case, We're gonna
have Mark class Polly's dad on because can't believe it,
we had them on for a half hour yesterday. Thirty
years later, there's the Richard Allen Davis story. He should
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have been long dead, He should have been long executed?
All right, Mark class coming up.
Speaker 6 (37:21):
Next, And people have died in these illegal street races
involving cars and crowds. Assembly Bill thirty eighty five would
increase penalties for participants, and the LA City Council adopted
a resolution in support of it. It's sponsored by Democratic
Assemblyman Mike Gibson and al Maritsucci of the South Bay area.
The bill would allow cars to be impounded and forfeited
even if the driver isn't arrested, and would require defendants,
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if convicted, to attend a victim impact program. The city
Council voted ten to two. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 5 (37:49):
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Speaker 2 (37:54):
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Coming up after Dever's three thirty news Here on KFI,
we're going to talk with Todd Bensman here. He is
a journalist who has been stationed at the border covering
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just unbelievable experiences. And he's got another one. Todd writes
for many publications. This particular piece was in the Daily Mail.
He's also affiliated with the Center for Immigration Studies and
he's provided a lot of first person coverage to us
over the last couple of years. He was near the
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town of Buarez, which is right where New Mexico, Texas
and Mexico come together, and they came face to face
with drug cartel operatives as they were trying to film
some of the bad guys climbing over the border fence.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Uh, it's quite a story. Let's get todt on here.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Welcome, Hey, great to be here. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yeah, this is a thriller of the story here. So
you and you and your you have a colleague with you, right,
and you're you're trying.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
To I use a translator when I'm down in Mexico and.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
You're driving along on a road parallel to the US
border and you encounter these, uh, these migrants climbing the fence.
Just describe your experiences and describe your encounters with drug
cartel employees.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Sure, and it happens. You don't ever want it to happen,
but it does happen if you're if you're reporting in
their in the heart of their business terror, And that's
what this was. It's about an eight mile stretch of
old wall from the Bush era. It's kind of like
the steel mesh, and it's mostly across from New Mexico.
(02:13):
So when you drive through there, you can see holes
cut all the way from like all eight miles as
about thousands of holes cut into it and repaired. And
that's obviously a major source of what we call runners
and got aways into the United States. And if you
really want to understand at least half of the border crisis,
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you have to also cover the runners, not the ones
that just turn themselves in, as many hundreds of thousands do,
but many millions more are running into the gaps that
are left vacant by border patrol. Anyway, that's what this was,
and so I wanted to go see what was happening.
Hundreds of every single day are being seen crossing in
(03:01):
and over and through this particular stretch of wall. It's
very very busy, heavily concentrated. So there's probably a pretty
good chance that we were going to run into some
bad guys. And sure enough, there's some a group climbing,
five of them, you know, climbing over and we spotted
them and I said, pull over. Let's let's film them
and see if we could talk to them as they're
(03:23):
going over. And they're going over, and at first they
didn't want to go over because they didn't know who
we were, and we said, well, we're Pattiodiste's journalists. Just
do what you were going to do. We're not going
to capture you or something or interfere. It's not our business.
And so we were watching them and filming them as
they as they climbed, and then all of a sudden,
(03:44):
like almost out of nowhere, these two gunmen show up
out of the desert and our car and they're accusing
us of being rival smugglers. Who brought these guys there.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
And didn't pay.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
So they were like, you know, you're going to have
to pay us for these guys, and so you know,
my translator is like, no, no, no, no, you know,
we're two journalists here. We didn't bring them here. We
don't know you anything. We're just filming them and there
we had to show some video that we were and
they had guns, well one of them had that we
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could see at a pistol and his waistband. They did
accept the story that we gave them and then said, well,
we're going to have to you need to not film
what we're about to do next, which is to enforce
on these guys that were climbing up the wall. Still
three of them had already run off on the New
Mexico side, and we just took that as our queue
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to get out of there as fast as possible, and
so you know, we drove off.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
What were they What were they going to do to
the stragglers who had made over the fans forced them
to pay?
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Yes, absolutely, it probably beat them up or if they
could catch them, But I don't think they could have
caught those ones because they were pretty high up on
that wall. But we weren't going to stick around to
watch anything or be a witness to anything. We're just
going to get out of there and be glad that
we were allowed to get out of there, because you
just never know what these guys there, you know, these
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cartel guys, all they got to do is, you know,
say get in my car, you know, at the point
of a gun, and your whole life has changed.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
You know, well take a shoot you dead right there,
or take you in the car and dump your body somewhere,
and there are no consequences for that right now, they
don't have to answer to anyone.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Well, I guess if they killed me, they'd probably be
a little bit more because it's an American who's kind
of somewhat known. There would have been problem for them there.
But I wouldn't have taken any comfort in that because I'd.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Be dead now.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Indeed, these guys climbing the stands, I mean, obviously you
can go to any traditional checkpoint and you're going to
be let into the United States. So the ones climbing
the fence or sneaking, sneaking through to America, a lot
of these gentlemen are bad guys. They've got criminal records there.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
That's exactly right. That's that's why this is such an
important element of the overall border crisis that I think
it's lost. Most people just see the thousands of immigrants
that are kind of waiting, congregating together on the US
side and having just illegally crossed, they turn themselves in.
They're looking for border patrol because the policy from Washington
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is for border patrol to let everybody in to process
them directly in in a day or two. So that's
what most Americans are familiar with. They are not going
to have criminal histories that are easy to find anyway.
They know that they're going to probably pass a database check.
But if you know that you are not going to
pass a database check, that you're you've been in the
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US before and you've been convicted of something in you
your fingerprints are on file. Your only way in, your
only way in is if you pay the cartels and
UH to to bring you in and and to run
and hide and dodge UH and then that's what's happening.
(07:22):
Most of the ones that are that are running are
going to be criminals. They're going to be people with
with histories, They're going to be killers, people that have
been convicted of rape, robbery, uh, you know everything, sexual offenses,
you name it, and uh, that's how they get in.
(07:42):
They want to they want to come back. They always
want to come back after the deportations. If you if
you finish your conviction, your sentence, then we deport you
right away.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
And most of them stay away. But in this policy environment, uh,
this per missive policy environment where border patrol is too
busy to chase people down like this because they're processing
all the ones that gave themselves up. It's like a
beautiful opportunity for them to come in. And they are
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coming in. Almost two million runners who have become god
aways that we've never caught. We know that they cross
by video or footprints in the sand, or a drone
caught wind of them, but we never caught them. Two
million of them have gotten into the country millions, and
that two million runners have become god aways and.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Two million individuals. These are not individuals, These are individuals.
Two million are in the country and they went out
of their way not to be recorded at a traditional checkpoint,
like they've got something they want to.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Hide from themselves in like everybody else, because obviously we
would find that we'd run their prints or whatever, and
we definitely to pour them. Right. Even this administration will
deport a rapist who's been convicted. But you know, maybe
you know, but but there you especially, so these guys
(09:13):
are crossing in New Mexico, Well that's interesting. That's that's
why that's such a busy crossing point for it, for runners,
is because that's a democratic governor over there who refuses
to put a state police anywhere near the border governor
unlike Texas.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Yea, that governor is happy if murderers, rapists, child molesters
come climbing over the fence and take off into the brush.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
They're okay with.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
It, absolutely no, absolutely, no problem with it none, or
they would be doing what Greg Abbott does, which is
to stop, block, catch them the term, do whatever they
can to fill the gaps left by border patrol who
are off dueing the processing. You'd have New Mexican state
police down there. But this wall is all across from
(10:03):
New Mexico on purpose. This is the hot spot for
this because there's nobody over there. There's a few border
patrol and other than that, and you know, if you
look at read my piece, I you know I ran
across a welder, a worker who's a federal contractor. In fact,
I just put a video up on my ex account
(10:26):
of this guy short clip and he's welding a hole
back together in the wall. And I found him and
I interviewed him, and he says he puts, he puts,
it fills about twelve holes a day, and he says,
by the next morning, there's twelve new ones. And so
it's this never ending hamster wheel of him welding and
(10:49):
his crew welding holes shut on this fence. And while
he's welding them shut, they're a quarter of a mile away,
you know, cutting a new one. And it's just this
NonStop cutting and repairing and cutting and repairing that you
can never get ahead of on this wall because it's
New Mexico across there and there's nobody over there. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Oh, this is so nuts. Todd.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
I've got to go. Thank you for coming on again.
Thank you, Todd Benzman And you can read his piece
at the Daily Mail Cartel Secrets Exposed. He affiliated with
the Center for Immigration Studies, writes for many publications, and
he's written books on this.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
More coming up.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Coming up after two thirty.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
How about you're tootling along the roadway, maybe you're going
a little too fast, maybe roll through a stop sign.
You get pulled over by a civilian who wants to
give you a ticket. A civilian, not a cop, you know,
an unarmed civilian. Michael Monks with with this particular story
(12:02):
coming up. This is another City of Los Angeles project,
and it never knows. Well, we both know how much
we enjoy all the people who don't show up.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
For work anymore, especially Fridays.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
People who call in while riding their bike, checking to
see if things are going well. Well, here's this news story.
Richard Branson. He's got a cruise line. It's called Virgin
Voyages and he owns Virgin Airlines. And it's a four
week cruises so remote workers can spend a month at
(12:38):
sea in Southern Europe. What yes, it's called the Scarlet
Summer Season. Pass two people about ten thousand dollars. You
get a room, meals, fitness classes, Wi Fi, laundry services,
and all the other normal things. It's a package deal.
It's thirty percent cheaper than booking four separate weeks. You
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just booked the whole month and you can work from
the ship and they cruise southern Europe.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Yeah, so that guy calling in to see how things
are going today is now half naked on a lounge chair.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
That's not fair. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Within twenty four hours, more than two thousand of these
deadbeats registered interest in it, and the spots sold out
in forty eight hours.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
I think we should take our show. Let's do our
show on a cruise.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Sign me up, That's what I was thinking. Yes, let's
do it.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Why should all these cubical workers end up on the
on the lounges laying in the sun.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Yeah, you know, we're the ones.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
We're the ones that have shown up to work every day.
Let's just even talk about the pandemic when we came
every single day.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
And we're actually have to attract the listeners right right,
We're not doing the paperwork or whatever the hell they
do in those cubicles exactly. Uh the uh, it's it's
it's the Scarlet Lady and the Resilient ladyships. They can
each accommodate about twenty seven hundred people, and the cruises
are going to run from June to September this year,
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and all these people work now, they're going to be
upside down. They're coming from America.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
They're gonna that's that's tough with that time difference.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
But you know, I don't know, are people really working
when they're working remotely anyway?
Speaker 1 (14:27):
A lot of them. I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
I don't think. I don't think so easy. They're they're
riding their bike, that's what they're doing.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
They're taking long strolls or hiking.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
In the bathroom, and then they send back selfies of
themselves taking bike rides.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Life is not fair.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
No no, uh and you know it's an adult's only
cruise too. Oh really, yeah, this is this is pretty exciting.
The uh well, the employers claim that they can't force
people back the office because then people quit and they
go work for another company that doesn't demand that you
(15:05):
show up, and everyone is under the impression that things
are working just fine when people don't show up for
work anymore. That's what they say. What they think data, Yeah,
I do too. When we come back. Michael Monks, if
a civilian pulls you over, are you gonna bother listening
(15:26):
to him when he tries to give you a ticket. Well,
we're going to test that out, I guess in Los Angeles.
Gonna find out the details from Michael Monks CAFI News.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Next, you're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Michael Monks is here from KFI News.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Are you here? Now?
Speaker 2 (15:47):
You're gonna have to explain this. I don't entirely understand
this is the way I see this. Because I've got
this complicated legal document, the civilians are going to be
able to pull me over and give me a ticket?
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Is that? Is that the bottom line here?
Speaker 6 (16:03):
Honestly, if you look at it the way that we've
looked at it today, which is just in the document
with all the government ease, you know, a document.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Thousands of words here, what does it we add up to?
Speaker 6 (16:14):
I'm going to get And I don't want you to
feel bad about not fully understanding, because the people who
put it together and the people who voted on it
this week, they don't fully seem to understand it either.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
This is just like the third thing this week I've
been presented that I didn't understand.
Speaker 6 (16:27):
Yeah, and it's also the first thing where the city
of la is considering alternatives to providing police to respond
to certain calls. Earlier the week, we talked about mental
health issues and dispatching social services people.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Anybody except an officer with a gun. Right, this is different.
This is what this will work out.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
This is not.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
Supposedly related to say, pulling over John Colebelt for speeding
down the road to get into burbank on time.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Right. This is supposed to be.
Speaker 6 (16:54):
For non moving violations and for like equipment violations related
to your car, if it's smog or tail lights out,
that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
I'm going to get pulled over by a civilian because
my tail light is out.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
It's possible.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
What it looks like is why, let's take it back
a little bit, just to get the audience idea.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
What's the store?
Speaker 4 (17:17):
No?
Speaker 6 (17:17):
No, because your confusion is completely legit. I feel it.
And again I want to reiterate, the task force that
put this together wasn't clear, and the committee, the City
Council Transportation Committee that voted on it this week, they
don't understand either.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
So they voted on it.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
A little bit of government sausage making here. The city
Council as a task force to examine an alternative transportation
enforcement model. Okay, so that's a I guess a government
way of saying, give us alternative options for enforcing traffic violations.
And this task force took months and months. This was
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initiated in twenty twenty in the wake of the racial
justice movement and a lot of policies that were impacted
by that. This task force took months and months, and
they came back and and this week the Transportation Committee
approved the recommendations that five recommendations, and yes, one of
those recommendations is the use of unarmed civilians who are
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focused exclusively on road safety to enforce safety related traffic
violations like speeding, and to create john care based teams
responsible for.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Care based I don't know what that means. They're going
to scare for my tailit exactly.
Speaker 6 (18:30):
You know why, because they think instead of getting a
ticket that might be one hundred fifty bucks two hundred bucks,
that you should be able to get a voucher that
will cover that VTU and not. And you know, there
are some arguments about, hey, this is a person who
couldn't afford to get this this situation fixed. Uh, and
now they're being ticketed on top of not having the
money to pay for what If I can afford to
(18:52):
get it fixed, then you will pay for it. Then
I will I will get a ticket in this language,
in this is to consent to consider alternative fine and
fee models that are means based, which is another way
of saying social Well, you've got Cobalt money, you're paying
for this.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
If you've got Monks money, you might get a voucher.
Speaker 6 (19:12):
No, I want you to pay too, Well, right now,
we would, right, you and I would pay the same amount.
This is a suggestion, and this is communist so and
they want it more self enforcing infrastructure investments.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
I mean you're talking.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
What does that mean, Well, it might mean something like
speed humps, you know, something like that, like let's slow
down speeding in some of these neighborhoods with some of
that type of infrastructure instead of having so many police around.
And then the other recommendation is, quote, identify local obstacles
that limit officer accountability and reduce the ability of the
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chief of police to discipline officers for misconduct such as
excessive use of force, racial profiling, and other vile Let
me sure.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Some joker pulls me over and he's got a problem
with my tail light or whatever. Why I have to
listen to him. He doesn't have a gun. Why can't
I just start my car up and zoom away or
never even never even pull over?
Speaker 1 (20:07):
We heard from the LAPD on this case.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Yeah, and then now I'm gonna open Now they're going
to send the armed officers.
Speaker 6 (20:12):
Assistant Chief Don Graham said that this might not be safe.
You know, I think that he was making the argument
in this committee meeting this week, not not directly, but
it seemed heavily suggested that this might not be a
good idea because even non moving violations such as broken
windows or there's some type of equipment failure, they could
(20:34):
turn into dangerous situations. And as you're suggesting, if you've
got an unarmed person there, you will eventually have to
get an armed guy there.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
A lot of bad guys have broken down cars that
they drive around. That's just the way it is. That's
why those people are pulled over, because that's a sign.
If you have a car in disrepair, it often means,
you know, you you don't spend your nights working for
your wife and two kids.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Legitimate job.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
All right, there's a reason people get pulled over and
the cops know they can tell by looking at the
cars and the condition of the cars, and.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
There's certainly training involved in policing on how to pull
people over, the type of behavior that you engage in.
This month's long work by this task force analyzed a
lot of the emotions that both parties feel and they
determine that yes, police feel heightened emotions as well, but
it's harder on the person who's being pulled over. I
think we can agree with that you get nervous when
(21:29):
you get pulled over because.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
He has a gun and I don't. He's got a
gun everything? Well, right, I don't see any reason to
pull over because some fat slub. It's like it's like
those slubs who who do the parking meter routine. Why
should I listen to those people?
Speaker 6 (21:43):
Well, the question that was raised in this committee meeting,
even by a council member who ultimately voted in favor
of pushing this forward, Tracy Park said, how will we
protect the folks who would be civilians right and doing
this work? And there wasn't a clear answer on this.
Because here's how this is going to work, John, This
is a month long effort by this task force to
(22:05):
put these recommendations together. And so now this committee, the
Transportation Committee, and it's also going before the Public Safety Committee.
They'll they'll weigh in on it, and then they'll shoot
it up to the Council and then the full council
would vote, and then the city administrators and the Legal
Department and the police department, they'll all have ninety days
to report back on the feasibility of.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
This, which are they going to have the legal authority
of police?
Speaker 6 (22:26):
It doesn't sound like they will have the legal authority
to even create this. There's questions about whether this is
because do you need to be a sworn peace officer
to commit these acts?
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Is the question.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
And if they can't answer no, then this program could
not possibly proceed.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
This sounds really half asked and half baked.
Speaker 6 (22:48):
What I learned from the folks who were served on
the task force and spoke on this this week was
they did explore a lot of feelings involved with communities
that feel marginalized or ostracized or overly penalized by police,
but then took those feelings and attached it to policing reforms.
(23:11):
And it will be to be seen whether the city
is able to take those police.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Either you committed the crime or you didn't. And I'm
sick of hearing these these racial arguments. It's like, are
they guilty, are they not guilty? That's all that matters.
Their skin color or their ethnicity or anything else has
no bearing on this.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
It's just whether you're guilty.
Speaker 6 (23:34):
I think what this task force said was that there's
over policing in communities of color, and that people of
color may have different feelings when being pulled over by police.
Then say a white person, based on history, she was
happy about being pulled over.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
No one not freaking out.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
One that was clear in this report too, is that
everybody's nervous when you get pulled over, including the policemen.
But the the policeman is often, you know, as we
heard from the police in this argument today, the police
are concerned about what's happening too, because it could be
an unsafe environment.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
For all.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
You have meter maids pulling me over. I'm not getting
pulled over. You can go chase me now, I'd rather
be on Channel five news. That sounds like a confession, Yeah,
pre confession.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Yeah, that's right, you'll know, you'll see me, all right, Michael,
very good. Thanks John.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Apparently you're the only guy who understands this stuff. That's
two this week that you had I didn't understand. Is
this your new beat? Napp to try to translate in
comprehensible legislation.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Ask forces all right.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Now coming up after three o'clock. We got quite an
hour At three o'clock. We're supposed to have Mark Closs on.
Did you hear him yesterday? We had him on for
half an hour. Mark class is Polycloss's dad. Polycloss was
killed back in nineteen ninety three. One of the earliest
news stories we covered. Twelve years old kidnapped. She was
(24:56):
hosting a sleepover slumber party with her friends, and Richard
Allen Davis, who's now sixty nine years old, came in
and put pillowcases over the girl's heads, dragged Polly off,
and raped and murdered her, and dumped her body along
the side of the road, covered it up with plywood,
and she lay there for two months until police discovered
(25:19):
her and eventually arrested Davis, who'd already committed horrible crimes
years before, and was let out because of bad policies
that Jerry Brown instituted the first time the California idiot
voters made him governor back in the nineteen seventies. This
crap's been going on for fifty years between him and
Gavin Newsom. Anyway, Richard Allen Davis was sentenced to death.
(25:43):
He has not been executed, And today he was supposed
to be in court because Newsom signed to Bill. So
a guy like Richard Allen Davis can get a re
sentencing hearing and officially wipe out his death sentence. What
would replace it?
Speaker 1 (25:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
This is all new, this stuff, and we're gonna have
Mark Klassan. He was supposed to be at the at
the hearing today. He was on with us yesterday for
about half an hour, just absolutely out of his mind, angry.
And I don't know what's wrong with you people. I
don't know why you vote for guys like Newsome. You know,
(26:23):
if he's not driving fast food franchise, he's out of business.
He's oh, you know, he's pulling everybody off death row.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
I got a story about Newsom too that I want
to do in the next segment. Do you know he's
led people to believe that he was a star college
baseball player, nearly drafted by the Texas Rangers, and he
never played a single varsity baseball game. Cal Matters, which
is a political news site. I couldn't believe this story.
And for twenty years he's been letting people believe that
(26:58):
he You know, there are frauds to and this. This
guy is a Hall of Famer when it comes to fraud.
But you know, keep voting for him. I'll tell you
about Newsom's fake baseball.
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Speaker 4 (27:34):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM six.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Forty after three o'clock, Mark Class will come on with again,
on with us again.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
He's Polly's father.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
She was killed thirty years ago by Richard Allen Davis,
a brutal rape and murder of a twelve year old,
and Davis earned a hearing to get his death penalty
conviction resentenced because of Gavin Newsom's sign up a new
disgusting law that opens a door for Richard Allen Davis
(28:06):
after what he did to Polly. But hey, you know
what Newsom is that kind of guy. He's the kind
of guy who lies and misleads people about his college
baseball career.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Believe it or not. Now, I love baseball.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Some plays college baseball and it's a difficult business. And
Gavin Newsom, over the last twenty years has basked in
unearned glory for being a college baseball player. Of note,
let me just tell the story and you'll see how
(28:43):
gregeous this is. He is such a phony. Let's go
back twenty years. San Francisco Giants they're having their home
opener two thousand and four, and they invited a special
guest to throw out the first pitch. The story, by
the way, is in cal Matters. The special guest is
(29:04):
Gavin Newsom, new mayor of San Francisco, had just gotten elected.
He went to the Pictures Mound wearing his dress shoes
and a button down shirt underneath his Giants Jersey, and
the announcer informed the crowd that he played first base
for the University of Santa Clara and was drafted by
the Texas Rangers. Now, any decent person would say, no, no, no, no,
(29:30):
that didn't happen. None of that is true. No Newsom,
let it stand. So the whole Giants crowd, many of
whom voted for Newsom and probably thought he was a
handsome hunt.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
They all plotted.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
So Newsom threw the pitch and nearly hit a photographer
with the ball, almost wiped the guy out.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
In the stands.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
That day, a group of former Santa Clara University baseball
players who were seething Newsom get this. Never played a
game for Santa Clara.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Never.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
He was never on the varsity roster. It's not that
he was on the bench. It's not that he was
stuck in the bullpen. He was never on the varsity roster,
not one game. Here's the story. His dad again, William Newsom,
(30:33):
was a San Francisco judge and a financial advisor to
the Getties, the wealthy oil family. See Newsom used to
tell this story that he was headed to community college
until he got a call from Santa Clara, the baseball coaches.
He got a partial scholarship and it changed his life.
And you lead he leads people to believe that he
had this cool baseball career, almost got drafted by the
(30:53):
Texas Rangers. Well, it was actually arranged by William Newsom,
his dad and the Gettys. One of William Newston's friends
connected Newsom to the baseball.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Program, and.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
One of the Getties was on the board of regents,
wrote him a record a record of a letter of recommendation.
Mike Cummins, the former assistant coach at Santa Clara, said
the governor has embellished his baseball career a little bit
at times, a little bit.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Never played a single fing game.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Cummins is now the head baseball coach at cal State
East Bay, said that Newsom never played in the varsity game.
He may have played some scrimmages. He's embellished. It's half truths.
He was recruited Santa Clara, he was there in the fall,
but he never played. He didn't have a varsity career there.
Apparently what he did was he played in some false
(31:54):
scrimmages freshman and sophomore year, but it was never never
played in the springtime.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
That was it.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Kevin Schneider, who pitched for two seasons at Santa Clara,
said he didn't earn it. He didn't earn the right
to say it. I worked my ass off, so did
everyone else on the team. For him to go all
these years to say he did something that he didn't,
that takes not just talent, but also dedication and effort
and sacrifice, it is not right. He only played during
(32:30):
the fall tryouts for his freshman and sophomore years, then
he would leave the baseball program before the regular season began.
He does not appear on the Santa Clara Broncos all
time roster. He does not appear in any immedia guys
publish any media guides published by the athletic department when
they preview the upcoming season. So he was never on
(32:53):
the Santa Clara baseball team and never played during the seasons.
He did fall tryouts and he probably sucked and they
cut him because in the fall is where they do
the evaluations and then you're told to go home. He
led people to believe that the Texas Rangers either drafted him,
(33:17):
recruited him somehow showed interest. K Newsome Apparently it was
among hundreds of high school players across the country that
the Rangers looked at while preparing their annual amateur draft.
Former scouts said, we did watch him play in high school,
but we don't remember specifically scouting him.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
What happens is the scouts go to.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
Games and they're usually interested in a couple of standout players,
but they keep their eye on everybody else to see, Hey,
you know, maybe there's a surprise year, maybe there's someone
I hadn't heard of who will impress. Newsom was never
that guy.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
He said.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Major league teams are very thorough and scout in California,
and it's likely there were several players on this particular
high school team that our scouts had interested in seeing.
But at one time one scout may have come up
to him and introduced himself and Newsom there. Somehow that
got turned in too. He got drafted by the Texas Rangers.
(34:23):
He's his scholarship was five hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Is this right here?
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Yeah, he was on the Judi varsity team. He got
five hundred dollars during the fall quarter of his freshman year.
And Newsom's now the attendance the tuition at Santa Clara
that year was ten and fifty one dollars, so he
(34:55):
got five hundred bucks. That would be a five percent scholarship.
He got letters of recommendation from former governor Jerry Brown. Oh,
he's the guy who enabled Richard Allen Davis to run
around free to begin with. In fact, Jerry Brown appointed
(35:16):
Kevin Husom's father to the Superior Court and to the
Court of Appeal.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
That's disgusting he had.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
He should be you know, he can't feel shamed because
he's a sociopath, but he should be ashamed of himself
running around all these years pretending that he was a
high school baseball star.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
He was at Santa Clara. He was a star.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
You have to be a star if you're gonna get
drafted by the Texas Rangers. And he'll let the announcer
announce that on opening day for the San Francisco Giants
while he's standing on the mound throwing out the first
ball and nearly killing a photographer.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
I am offended. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 5 (36:00):
I know this.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
It's you know, no, it does. It's hard.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
It's it's hard to succeed in baseball, and isn't isn't
it classic though for a guy like Newsom stolen valor
they call it in the military.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
When somebody yep.
Speaker 5 (36:14):
But so many people they have these inflated egos and
they have to inflate stuff about them that just kind of.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Yeah, he's this is what, this is what insecure. See,
he knows on some level, he knows he's a fake.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
He's like this cardboard cutout who got this because his
dad was influential, The Getties were rich, and between his
dad and the Getties, they set them up in business
so he could have his plump jerk winery and the restaurants.
And he was a good looking guy, and he Brown
knowsed Willie Brown, and he got himself into the system.
And now he spouts all this left wing progressive nonsense.
(36:52):
But he's been given power. And next thing you know,
Richard Allen Davis is up for a hearing to get
resentenced after raping brutally and murdering brutally Polycloss. Which is
the next chapter here in the Newsome case, We're gonna
have Mark class Polly's dad on because can't believe it,
we had them on for a half hour yesterday. Thirty
years later, there's the Richard Allen Davis story. He should
(37:17):
have been long dead, He should have been long executed?
All right, Mark class coming up.
Speaker 6 (37:21):
Next, And people have died in these illegal street races
involving cars and crowds. Assembly Bill thirty eighty five would
increase penalties for participants, and the LA City Council adopted
a resolution in support of it. It's sponsored by Democratic
Assemblyman Mike Gibson and al Maritsucci of the South Bay area.
The bill would allow cars to be impounded and forfeited
even if the driver isn't arrested, and would require defendants,
(37:43):
if convicted, to attend a victim impact program. The city
Council voted ten to two. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 5 (37:49):
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