May 15, 2024 • 32 mins
Michael Monks comes on the show to talk about property crimes being down in LA but murders and robberies are at a rise. John continues to cover Stephanie Wiggins and the dangerous climate in the Metro systems. Alex Stone comes on the show to talk about Boeing being in trouble with the DOJ. The White House says inflation is down 60%.
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now going to talk. Well, there's you know, we're in
a state here because we don't have we don't have
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prosecutions the bad guys. And when you don't have prosecutions
the bad guys, the bad guys run and steal more
stuff and act out with their violence.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
We have.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Michael Michael Monks from KFI News. The LAPD Interim Chief
Dominic Choi spoke before the LA Police Commission this week
the Board of Police Commissioners and ran through some statistics
on what's going on in la in recent months, and
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most of them weren't good stuff you care about. Not
good because how could it be good if you don't
want to put bad guys in jail or in prison.
So let's talk about to Michael Monks and see what
he learned. Michael, how are you.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
I'm well, Good afternoon, John, Thanks for having me back on.
This is a weekly meeting you know that the police
chief has with the Board of Police Commissioners and he
gives updates. But man, it's really been top of mind
for a lot of us with what's been going on
around town, particularly on Metro. And so some of these
statistics and some of the questions he faced from the
Board of Commissioners were directly related to the violent crimes
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that are going on, which he says, by the way,
violent crime overall in the city is only up zero
point four percent compared to this time last year, but.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
There's a nine point three percent increase in homicides.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Yeah, And so these statistics come in a way that.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Can often be difficult to discern because they rapid fire them.
They're in these different charts that you know, they're comparing
one period to another period, right, and then be compared
to a different period, So you can.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Cherry pick and try to make it look better than
it is if you want, you can.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
But I don't know if this is to the Department's
credit or not, but they did provide a statistic that's
just in the past six weeks that robberies are up
twelve point six percent, and they're seeing a significant increase
in robberies, particularly at small businesses around the city. And
he identified restaurants, mini marts, little clothing stores, liquor stores,
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gas stations, small department stores. But those particular ones are
up thirty six point nine percent.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Well, well thirty six point nine percent, which category the robberies,
robbery those types of locations.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Really yes, just in what the first four months of
the year.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Compared to compared to at this point last year.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Oh my god, that's huge.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
That's really important because you see some of the stories
on the news and then when people get angry at officials,
the officials go, wow, you know, just some high profile
incidents exaggerated by the news media, and it's not there's
a much greater quantity thirty six percent over the first
four months. That's a big hike in business robberies.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
To add on to your sentiment, it's connected to a
lot of the feelings about what's happened on Metro right.
We certainly rush to the scene to report when someone
is tragically killed or someone is stabbed, But all day
long on the system, you've got people who are complaining
about people having serious mental health episodes creating fear. You've
got people breaking all kinds of doing drugs on the system,
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and those are the types of things that aren't necessarily
reflected in statistics because no action is taken.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Right, if you don't arrest them, then no crime existed.
That's exactly right.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
And so what we've seen basically for these small business
robberies that are up compared to this time last year,
I want to be specific about that up thirty six
point nine percent on May fifteenth compared to May fifteenth
of twenty twenty three, small businesses like restaurants and little
convenience stores. The chief also noted that the areas that
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are hit hardest by this spike downtown the Central Division
up twenty point seven percent, and South LA Is also
up about nineteen percent compared to last year. So that's
where the bulk of these things appared to be.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
These are major double digit increases in a number of neighborhoods,
and it's specifically robbing small businesses exactly.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
And so you've see numbers like that and you think, well, well,
these are people who must see the city differently than
other officials who are reporting different things, because, as the
chief even mentions, isn't his own report violent crime across
the city up zero point four percent. Property crime is
actually down across the city year over year three point
six percent. Overall crime down two point seven percent. But
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when you're a downtown minimart owner and you and your
fellow shop owners are seeing a twenty point seven percent
increase year over year in properties, it's a different style.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
It's terry picking. Also, these numbers, if they come down
two percent, it's two percent from a very high number.
So it doesn't mean we're living in a good period
here in Los Angeles. So he presents these numbers, is
there anything more than a discussion of numbers, or does
he say I need help, I need more money, I
need more officers, I need this law changed, I need
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gasco and to prosecute people. Does he offer anything beyond
the numbers.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
What happens is the chief will present these statistics every
week at these meetings and also offer updates on any
what they call major incidents that might have happened. In
this case, this week he gave an update on the
obstruction at the Pomona College graduation that did take place
within the city of la and LAPD's jurisdiction. So there
was some, you know, some scuffles there involving some protesters
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and police, but mostly it's just here are the statistics.
He did receive some questions from folks on the commission,
particularly as it relates to Metro. And keep in mind
this was before that third incident that took place within
the twenty four hour period, so it's already top of mind, and.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
What are they asking him about these police commissioners? Well,
what are the plans? You know?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
And honestly, his quotes about it are reflective of similar
quotes you see from officials, whether they be at city
Hall or the county building, even at the Metro Board
of Directors, very vague expressing concern and notifying folks that
there are talks that are ongoing and so no specific
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action has been detailed on what type of state of
emergency is going to be declared about what's happening on
buses and trains and at the stations.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Well, Metro has to request any type of action beyond
what LAPD provides now, and they have to be willing
to pay for it. I mean, it's the Metro board,
it's their train line. So they've got to give LAPD
the freedom to do their job, and they're not, and
they haven't for a very long time.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
That was one of the concerns at a recent board
Metro board meeting, County Supervisor Catherine Barge, who also serves
on the Metro Board of Directors and expressed that she's
personally afraid to ride the system by herself. She made
that exact remark that you know, we've told police over
a recent period of time to stand down, and now
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we're not sure what to do about this increase in crime.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
So it's mixed signals. Well, yeah, because that's why you
have the corn. Look, this is not complicated.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
You have a strong police presence, armed police, you're going
to get less crime. If you have ambassadors wearing colorful jerseys,
you're going to get more crime.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
If you don't have somebody policing the train car.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Then you know, people are going to urinate and defecate
and inject drugs and carry on screaming and you know,
just behave in a dangerous manner.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Of course, that's going to go.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
On its budget season. Across all governments, the fiscal year
is coming to an end. A new fiscal year is
set to begin on July one for most government agencies,
including the City of the County and Metro. And today
at three o'clock, Metro will host a public hearing on
its proposed budget and john Within that budget as far
as security goes, one of the highlights that the CEO
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flagged in her budget summary is that they plan to
hire fifty three additional Metro security officers and they are
going to make the ambassador program an internal operation. Right now,
they're hired by an outside entity, and I believe paid,
you know, through that system being brought inside to be
permanent Metro employees.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Fifty three Is that a significant number? I don't think so.
It doesn't sound like it to me.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Doesn't seem like fifty three people over the course of
a seven day week, twenty four hours a day, and
this sprawling system, all right, very good.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Thank you, Michael.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
My pleasure, John thinks Michael Monks CAFI News on this
LA Police Commission meeting. My god, some of those neighborhoods.
Thirty six percent increase in business robberies. Small business robberies
thirty six percent increase in the first four months of
the year. It's out of control, and it's happening because
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gascon won't put people away. Why do they want this? Well,
I gotta take a break, got more coming up. I
go off and we get behind time and debor doesn't
get to speak.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Yeah, and what a travesty that is. I know, no
Earth gets out of its orbit.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
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six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
We were just talking with Michael Monks from KFI News.
Because Dominic Choi, who is the UH, who's the interim
chief of LAPD, he gives a weekly report to the
Police Commission, and we've got not surprising, We've got some
crimes that are skyrocketing in.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Some neighborhoods.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Big double digits increase in business robberies thirty six percent.
In the City of Los Angeles. Business robberies are up
first four months of this year, compared to last year.
It's a huge increase. And homicides are up nine point
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three percent. Burglaries are up, some burglaries, robberies, homicides all
up and everybody standing around what should we do? And
they also covered Metro. Metro is an absolute disaster. It's terrifying,
and Michael said that apparently Stephanie Wiggins, who's the CEO
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of Metro, all right, she should not have that job.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
She should be.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Fired because people are getting seriously injured and they're dying
because of her policies. I don't know why anybody doesn't
see the obvious here, but she's in over her head,
she's incompetent. We read you her statement that she made
when she was hired in twenty twenty one. She was
babbling about bringing equity to the Metro system. There's no
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sane person who understands what that means or cares. Nobody
cares about equity on a train. It's an absurd concept.
You're selling seats so that you can move from one
place to the other. There's no concept of equity at
stake here. If you have the money, you get the seat,
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you get to your destination, and all they should be
doing is making sure that the train gets to the
destination on time and without any casualties, without any deaths
or severe injuries. Is that too much to ask that
you get on a train, get off a train, and
during that process you're not stabbed in the neck. Stephanie
Wiggins can't make Metro safe because she doesn't do the
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one thing that makes it safe, and that hires a
lot of armed police or armed security. Instead, she's in
love with stupid ambassadors. That concept is the most idiotic
concept I have ever heard.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
I've never understood.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
It started becoming popularized a few years ago and it's like, Okay,
let's see how the ambassadors do. And it's a joke. Okay,
the ambassadors can't do anything. They can give directions if
they're in the mood. But Michael Munk said, she's got
a security budget coming out and it's gonna hire fifty
three fifty three security personnel. You have a twenty four
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to seven metro line that covers I don't know how
many hundreds and hundreds of square miles in all directions.
Fifty three is nothing. Hiring fifty three is like hiring zero.
It's gonna have no effect. And then they're going to
take the ambassador program in house. Stephanie Wiggins is a disaster.
She's another one making hundreds of thousands of dollars. And
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the least you can expect is you can get on
and off the train without getting a knife in the
neck from a crazy person, a mental patient, or a
drug addict who the other branches of government should have
put away in a prison or a mental health facility
or a drug treatment facility. And we had another one
happen yesterday, three assaults in twenty four hours on the
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metro train or bus.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Yesterday.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
It was a bus in Encino, and originally it was
reported as a stabbing, which would have made three stabbings
in twenty four hours, but later they corrected it and
the guy robbed a man's cell phone and then hit
him in the chest, but not an actual stabbing. Remember
there was one stabbing on a bus in Glendale, another
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one on the Sea Line train in South LA And
everybody who gets on board these trains say they're terrified. Everybody,
And Reginald McKinney rides the system every day and is
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quoted by Channel seven oftentimes it doesn't feel very safe.
There's been a purse snatching. I've seen a lady get
her phone out of her hand, get knocked out of
her hand. Watched a kid run out of the train,
nobody stopped him. I've seen some fights homeless people. By
the way, most of this is not even reported, but
a normal person doesn't want to witness any of this
even once, because it's too terrifying.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
You have a bunch of a.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Bunch of kids grabbing phones, beating each other up. You
got the homeless people defecating. I mean, somebody said yesterday
in one of the reports, they're sitting on a bus.
Somebody pulls down their pants and fires went out right
in front of them, and then the dump sits there
and starts.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Just starts steaming in the hot bus, and the.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Bus driver doesn't do anything. Stephanie Wiggins ought to be fired.
I don't know what the mechanism is, but Karen Bass
could probably do something. She's the chair of the board
for Metro. She's in charge of the Metro board. You
have a CEO of Stephanie Wiggins who's an absolute failure,
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complete loser, incompetent. People are dying and she won't do
anything about it. All She does is babble about equity. Well,
we have equity because we have people from all races,
all socioeconomic backgrounds getting beaten up, stabbed and robbed. Okay,
they're getting everybody, So you've achieved equity. You'll see. She
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might hang around for years. We got to start running
up maybe like a death toll count under Stephanie Wiggins,
a robbery count, a stabing count. Let's have all these categories.
How many people have been and god knows what the
unreported crimes would show, because most people, if something bad
happens to them, they just scurry off the train. They
see something terrible, they just get home as quickly as
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they can. All right, we got Alex Stone coming up.
This is interesting more Boeing news. The Department of Justice
wants to reopen possible federal charges for the twenty eighteen
and twenty nineteen overseas crashes of those Max jets that
Boeing made. There was a deferred prosecution deal, and they
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say Boeing is not living up to their end. So
the Department of Justice may want to prosecute for those
old crashes, let alone the door plug business.
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Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and run from one
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you missed. Boeing having another bad day. They've had a
bad day almost every day this year. You know what's
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happened in recent months. But remember back in twenty eighteen
and twenty nineteen, two of their seven thirty seven Max
aircraft they crashed overseas, killed hundreds of people, and now
the Justice Department might reopen a federal case, a criminal
case against Boweing. Let's talk to Alex Stone from ABC
News and see what this is about. Hey there, John, Yet,
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this is something that the families of the victims on
board those two the Ethiopian Airlines and Lion Air, that
they've been calling for for the last number of years,
that they didn't like that the deal was made in secret,
a deferred prosecution agreement. They had no saying it. All
of a sudden it was announced that Boeing would not
be prosecuted in twenty twenty twenty twenty one for those
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earlier crashes that the DOJ had come to an agreement.
There was a monetary value on it, and Boeing agreed
that it would clean things up internally and make sure
that that in the development of aircraft and the production
of aircraft that everything was good and then they would
not be prosecuted and sent a Boeing executive to Corton,
Texas to say they were sorry and that they were
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good from here on out. Well, the DJ saying, with
everything that's gone on over the last couple of months,
the last Airlines door plug that flew off all the
other the whistleblowers out of it, that they have now
voided that deal and now Boeing can be prosecuted, something
the families have been calling for. Nisha Ryan lost her
husband on one of the maxes that went down. This
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deferred prosecution agreement was a miscarriage of justice right from
the start.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
It should never have come about.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
And the real heart of this being reopened, of the
voiding out the settlement agreement to not be prosecuted, he
is that last Airlines door plug of now that the
NTSB has found that it probably never had any bolts
on it when it left the factory, that they had
taken them off to fix some rivets on the fuselage,
and likely they were never put back on. Number of
other things that went into it. I just John got
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off of a zoom call with Mark Lindquist. He's an
attorney represents fan families of the Max crash victims and
those who were on board the last Caroline's flight, all
of them.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
He told me this.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Boeing has not yet been held fully accountable for the
deaths of three hundred and forty six people. Boeing's not
been held fully accountable for the continuing problematic issues in
their company.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
So the DOJ has until July seventh to decide what
it's going to do, if it's going to file charges,
if it's going to do anything against Boeing, against anybody
in the company specifically, or do nothing, which is an
option there. But if they're bringing this back up again,
likely it would seem that did they have plans to
maybe do something here, But Linquist said I.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
Would expect to see a full blown prosecution, possibly another
plea bargain, but a much more severe plea bargain. Boeing
is facing penalties. It could be ten times as much
as the billions they've already paid John.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
What do you do to a company the size of Boeing.
They've got space exploration, they've got military, they've got commercial aircraft.
I mean, they are so big that what do you
do to prosecute them? And it's likely not going to
be against specific people in the company, but families want that.
I also today talked to Michael Stumo, his daughter was
killed on the Ethiopian Airlines Max crash the wind down.
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He wants Boeing executives to go to prison.
Speaker 6 (20:18):
If they go to jail, they feel it and it
sends a message elsewhere. Otherwise it's just a check comes
from shareholders, comes from the company, doesn't touch them.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
But the families are calling this a big win for justice.
They have been calling for this. They say it'll be
about safety in the skies. They also want a corporate
monitored oversee Boeing and the factories and development of aircraft
to make sure that they're safe. Boeing tells US in
a statement that they believe they've adhered to the settlement agreement,
that they have done everything the way they were supposed
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to do it, and they'll argue it in court. Well,
the criminal charge was to be fraud that the company
misled a federal Yeah, lied to the FAA and developing
the MAX. Do they have the names of the people
who lied, well, I mean the families believe that they do.
They named, and then they believe it came from the top,
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that it was the CEO at the time and maybe
the CEO now, and a number of other people said
they have their views of who it would be. We
know that the DJ has done a lot of investigating
and interviewing into the MAX. And this all goes back
if you remember it. I mean these are terms of
years ago. We were talking quite a bit about the
MCAST system on board, which was that autopilot system that
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brings the nose of the MAX down because it had
a propensity to bring the the nose would naturally go
up because of where the larger engines were placed on
the wing, so they had to put in a computer
system that would bring the nose down. Well, when things
malfunctioned on board with what are called the pedo tubes
with the speed and whatnot, that then it would that
system wouldn't work and it would slam the nose of
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the aircraft down. But they never told pilots about it
and never told regulators about it, just thinking it was
just another thing. The aircrafts of the pilots didn't know
how to react to it. Well, they paid up two
and a half billion dollars with that plea bargain deal
that they made a few years ago, two and a
half billion dollars, and that didn't change their behavior, and
they lost a lot of business, or a lot of
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business ended up getting delayed because they have to dramatically
slow down the production lines. So I'm thinking if all
that financial turmoil didn't convince executives to change their ways,
I'm with the with the families. You got to throw
a couple of guys in jail because these executives have
to be terrified that they're going to be sitting in
a federal prison. That would be unprecedented if the DJ
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went down that road, and if there were trials and
everything that they would potentially send executives at a company
like Boeing to prison. No indication that they would do that,
that they would try for that, but that is what
the families want. They're saying, hey make them personally pay that.
If you just find the company, it doesn't really change
anything because it's not their money and they don't really
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feel it. Well did they Did they admit to fraud
when they made the plea bargain? You know, that's a
good question. I don't know if they if actually admitting
to it was the it was part of the deal, but.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
They did not admit wrongdoing.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Yeah, I mean, it's usually one of those where but
they promised that, you know, from here on out, everything's
going to be good. I mean, look for the federal government,
they need Boeing healthy and operating between military production that
they do and that we all rely on. I think
can go overper Bank Airport. It's ninety Boing aircraft that
they need them. They need them to work. That's that's
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why I think rather than cost them billions more because
they need that money, is sacrifice a couple executives and
have them end up in a federal prison.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
I mean, that's what the families want.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
And we'll see in a couple of weeks a DJ
now they come back after giving the families this. The
families had met in Washington with prosecutors a couple of
weeks ago and they did not feel like the DJ
was going to move on this, and then poof yesterday,
it came out that they were avoiding the the AG
and that Boeing could be prosecuted. So today the families
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have this victory feeling that they feel like finally Boeing
is going to pay the price for their loved ones
dying years ago, and that they feel like that this
is the beginning of some big movement that could make
big change in the safety of aviation and the safety
at Boeing. But the dj could decide, you know what,
they don't see a case there and they're not going
to go forward with it, or they could throw the
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book at Boeing and we'll see in a couple of weeks.
All right, Thank you very much, Alex Stone, ABC News.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
You got a thank John.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
We had the problem in California some years ago with
PG and E when PG and E was murdering people
with the fires that started because PG and E didn't
maintain its equipment and its electrical lines, and the board
of directors should have gone to prison. Instead, there were
big fines and eventually rate payers had to pay off
the fines. It's always rate payers or taxpayers to get
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hosed for all these these corporate criminals. And if you
just threw the whole pg ANDE board into prison. You
wouldn't see any more any more electrical towers or electrical
lines falling down anymore. Remember they wouldn't even turn off
the electricity when they knew winds were gonna blow eighty
miles an hour. And then that town of Paradise burned
to the ground. Almost entirely same thing here. If everybody
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in the corporate chain knew they could end up in
prison and have to deal with other violent felons, you
put them in maximum security. Violent fell in prison, you'll
see things. See that production line will be spotless. Are
more coming up?
Speaker 4 (25:29):
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Speaker 1 (25:35):
And coming up after three o'clock. Oh, you are not
going to believe this.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
The La County Board of Supervisors has voted and said
that taxpayers in La County should pay for the legal
assistance for the pro Hamas pro terrorist demonstrators at UCLA.
So the people who were shutting down UC chanting their
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support of the murderous Hamas terrorists, we're supposed to pay
their legal fees.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
This was from Lindsey Horvath.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
She's the supervisor who authored the motion and I guess
it was four to one because it says only Catherine
Barker voter know we are going to pay for pro
terrorists demonstrators who shut down UCLA. Taxpayers are going to
pay their legal fees. Seriously, I keep thinking of misreading this.
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We're going to talk with Laura Powell coming up. Laura's
an attorney, and she says, this is completely outrageous. Oh
my god, is this completely out of control? Why should
we fund people who run around screaming hatred about Jews
and supporting a terrorist organization that rapes women, burns babies,
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shoots parents in front of the kids, shoots kids in
front of the parents, And our tax money's going to
support this? Is Lindsay fo are of that completely out
of her mind?
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Yeah, I really don't want to pay with my taxes
the legal defense for people that want to kill me.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
I'm good on that.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
I can't believe anybody even thought of this. Well, we're
going to talk with attorney Laura Powell coming up. After
three o'clock. When you're way behind in the polls, you
have to just start lying. And it looks like again yesterday,
Joe Biden claimed that when he took office, inflation was
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nine percent. He says, I think inflation has gone up slightly.
It was at nine percent when I came in, and
now it's down around three percent. No, it was one
point four percent when when Biden took over. He made that.
He told that lie twice in five days. And why
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would this be? Jim Garretty wrote a piece for the
National Review. Either Biden knows it's false and he's deliberately lying,
or he doesn't remember what the inflation rate was and
he doesn't remember the correct numbers, and or or when
he gets corrected, he forgets the correction, or nobody's correcting him. Yeah,
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I mean, you don't know. He's senile. His brain's jealom.
But the inflation rate last month of Trump was one
point four About a year and a half later it
was nine. But listen to this. Here's another way to
tell a little clay cut number four. This is the
White House Press spokes sole Karine Jean Pierre, with her
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analysis of inflation. We're still seeing inflation above normal levels
despite everything the administration and the fet is doing.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Do you have a sense.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Of when households can expect to see prices lunch?
Speaker 7 (29:00):
So Look, here's what I can tell you. What we're
going to continue to do is make sure that we
are when it comes to our priority as it relates
to the economy, we want to make sure that we're
fighting inflation and continue to do so. And so we
understand we have a lot more work to do.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
We get that.
Speaker 7 (29:15):
But will I would state that inflation is down more
than sixty percent, with the lowest core inflation in three years,
and grocery prices fell over the last three months. Wages
are up more than the price is over the last year.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
If the inflation rate is three and a half percent,
it means everything costs three and a half percent more.
It's not down. The prices are up. They're not going
up as quickly as they were, but they're still going up.
And it's compounded. You know, if you're paying nine percent
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inflation one year and the next year is three and
a half percent, well that three and a half percent
is on top of the nine percent. And if you
remember the Wall Street you did this story a few
weeks ago. I was thinking of doing it again.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Today.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Wall Street Journal had a story, if you add up
all the inflation since twenty nineteen, grocery prices are up
fifty percent. So if you paid one hundred dollars for
groceries in twenty nineteen, you're paying one hundred and fifty now,
and you're paying that every week. So there's nothing going down.
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It goes up more quickly or less quickly, but nothing's
going down. Prices are not shrinking. And for God's sakes,
to have the president constantly insists that the inflation was
nine percent, that is easily provable as a lie. And
if he's not the biggest liar in the world, then
he's completely senile and ought to be removed from office
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because that is total, absolute nonsense. But you know, I
guess you've seen the polls on Biden. You want Biden
to win. He is in trouble.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
I looked up.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
You saw Trump campaigning in New Jersey on that beach,
and New Jersey hasn't gone for a Republican president probably
since the nineteen eighties, either Reagan or Bush. It's five
point differential in New Jersey. Biden is ahead forty one
thirty six and Trump had eighty thousand people on the beach.
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I don't think Biden's going to.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Dry eight thousand people on the Beach.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
So, just like twenty sixteen, something may be happening out
there that people are either intentionally ignoring or are not
capable of understanding. When we come back, all right, we're
going to talk with attorney Laura Powell.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
LA County Board of Supervisors want to pay the legal
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prosecutions the bad guys. And when you don't have prosecutions
the bad guys, the bad guys run and steal more
stuff and act out with their violence.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
We have.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Michael Michael Monks from KFI News. The LAPD Interim Chief
Dominic Choi spoke before the LA Police Commission this week
the Board of Police Commissioners and ran through some statistics
on what's going on in la in recent months, and
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most of them weren't good stuff you care about. Not
good because how could it be good if you don't
want to put bad guys in jail or in prison.
So let's talk about to Michael Monks and see what
he learned. Michael, how are you.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
I'm well, Good afternoon, John, Thanks for having me back on.
This is a weekly meeting you know that the police
chief has with the Board of Police Commissioners and he
gives updates. But man, it's really been top of mind
for a lot of us with what's been going on
around town, particularly on Metro. And so some of these
statistics and some of the questions he faced from the
Board of Commissioners were directly related to the violent crimes
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that are going on, which he says, by the way,
violent crime overall in the city is only up zero
point four percent compared to this time last year, but.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
There's a nine point three percent increase in homicides.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Yeah, And so these statistics come in a way that.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Can often be difficult to discern because they rapid fire them.
They're in these different charts that you know, they're comparing
one period to another period, right, and then be compared
to a different period, So you can.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Cherry pick and try to make it look better than
it is if you want, you can.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
But I don't know if this is to the Department's
credit or not, but they did provide a statistic that's
just in the past six weeks that robberies are up
twelve point six percent, and they're seeing a significant increase
in robberies, particularly at small businesses around the city. And
he identified restaurants, mini marts, little clothing stores, liquor stores,
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gas stations, small department stores. But those particular ones are
up thirty six point nine percent.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Well, well thirty six point nine percent, which category the robberies,
robbery those types of locations.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Really yes, just in what the first four months of
the year.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Compared to compared to at this point last year.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Oh my god, that's huge.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
That's really important because you see some of the stories
on the news and then when people get angry at officials,
the officials go, wow, you know, just some high profile
incidents exaggerated by the news media, and it's not there's
a much greater quantity thirty six percent over the first
four months. That's a big hike in business robberies.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
To add on to your sentiment, it's connected to a
lot of the feelings about what's happened on Metro right.
We certainly rush to the scene to report when someone
is tragically killed or someone is stabbed, But all day
long on the system, you've got people who are complaining
about people having serious mental health episodes creating fear. You've
got people breaking all kinds of doing drugs on the system,
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and those are the types of things that aren't necessarily
reflected in statistics because no action is taken.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Right, if you don't arrest them, then no crime existed.
That's exactly right.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
And so what we've seen basically for these small business
robberies that are up compared to this time last year,
I want to be specific about that up thirty six
point nine percent on May fifteenth compared to May fifteenth
of twenty twenty three, small businesses like restaurants and little
convenience stores. The chief also noted that the areas that
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are hit hardest by this spike downtown the Central Division
up twenty point seven percent, and South LA Is also
up about nineteen percent compared to last year. So that's
where the bulk of these things appared to be.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
These are major double digit increases in a number of neighborhoods,
and it's specifically robbing small businesses exactly.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
And so you've see numbers like that and you think, well, well,
these are people who must see the city differently than
other officials who are reporting different things, because, as the
chief even mentions, isn't his own report violent crime across
the city up zero point four percent. Property crime is
actually down across the city year over year three point
six percent. Overall crime down two point seven percent. But
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when you're a downtown minimart owner and you and your
fellow shop owners are seeing a twenty point seven percent
increase year over year in properties, it's a different style.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
It's terry picking. Also, these numbers, if they come down
two percent, it's two percent from a very high number.
So it doesn't mean we're living in a good period
here in Los Angeles. So he presents these numbers, is
there anything more than a discussion of numbers, or does
he say I need help, I need more money, I
need more officers, I need this law changed, I need
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gasco and to prosecute people. Does he offer anything beyond
the numbers.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
What happens is the chief will present these statistics every
week at these meetings and also offer updates on any
what they call major incidents that might have happened. In
this case, this week he gave an update on the
obstruction at the Pomona College graduation that did take place
within the city of la and LAPD's jurisdiction. So there
was some, you know, some scuffles there involving some protesters
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and police, but mostly it's just here are the statistics.
He did receive some questions from folks on the commission,
particularly as it relates to Metro. And keep in mind
this was before that third incident that took place within
the twenty four hour period, so it's already top of mind, and.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
What are they asking him about these police commissioners? Well,
what are the plans? You know?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
And honestly, his quotes about it are reflective of similar
quotes you see from officials, whether they be at city
Hall or the county building, even at the Metro Board
of Directors, very vague expressing concern and notifying folks that
there are talks that are ongoing and so no specific
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action has been detailed on what type of state of
emergency is going to be declared about what's happening on
buses and trains and at the stations.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Well, Metro has to request any type of action beyond
what LAPD provides now, and they have to be willing
to pay for it. I mean, it's the Metro board,
it's their train line. So they've got to give LAPD
the freedom to do their job, and they're not, and
they haven't for a very long time.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
That was one of the concerns at a recent board
Metro board meeting, County Supervisor Catherine Barge, who also serves
on the Metro Board of Directors and expressed that she's
personally afraid to ride the system by herself. She made
that exact remark that you know, we've told police over
a recent period of time to stand down, and now
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we're not sure what to do about this increase in crime.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
So it's mixed signals. Well, yeah, because that's why you
have the corn. Look, this is not complicated.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
You have a strong police presence, armed police, you're going
to get less crime. If you have ambassadors wearing colorful jerseys,
you're going to get more crime.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
If you don't have somebody policing the train car.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Then you know, people are going to urinate and defecate
and inject drugs and carry on screaming and you know,
just behave in a dangerous manner.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Of course, that's going to go.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
On its budget season. Across all governments, the fiscal year
is coming to an end. A new fiscal year is
set to begin on July one for most government agencies,
including the City of the County and Metro. And today
at three o'clock, Metro will host a public hearing on
its proposed budget and john Within that budget as far
as security goes, one of the highlights that the CEO
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flagged in her budget summary is that they plan to
hire fifty three additional Metro security officers and they are
going to make the ambassador program an internal operation. Right now,
they're hired by an outside entity, and I believe paid,
you know, through that system being brought inside to be
permanent Metro employees.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Fifty three Is that a significant number? I don't think so.
It doesn't sound like it to me.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Doesn't seem like fifty three people over the course of
a seven day week, twenty four hours a day, and
this sprawling system, all right, very good.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Thank you, Michael.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
My pleasure, John thinks Michael Monks CAFI News on this
LA Police Commission meeting. My god, some of those neighborhoods.
Thirty six percent increase in business robberies. Small business robberies
thirty six percent increase in the first four months of
the year. It's out of control, and it's happening because
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gascon won't put people away. Why do they want this? Well,
I gotta take a break, got more coming up. I
go off and we get behind time and debor doesn't
get to speak.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Yeah, and what a travesty that is. I know, no
Earth gets out of its orbit.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
We were just talking with Michael Monks from KFI News.
Because Dominic Choi, who is the UH, who's the interim
chief of LAPD, he gives a weekly report to the
Police Commission, and we've got not surprising, We've got some
crimes that are skyrocketing in.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Some neighborhoods.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Big double digits increase in business robberies thirty six percent.
In the City of Los Angeles. Business robberies are up
first four months of this year, compared to last year.
It's a huge increase. And homicides are up nine point
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three percent. Burglaries are up, some burglaries, robberies, homicides all
up and everybody standing around what should we do? And
they also covered Metro. Metro is an absolute disaster. It's terrifying,
and Michael said that apparently Stephanie Wiggins, who's the CEO
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of Metro, all right, she should not have that job.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
She should be.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Fired because people are getting seriously injured and they're dying
because of her policies. I don't know why anybody doesn't
see the obvious here, but she's in over her head,
she's incompetent. We read you her statement that she made
when she was hired in twenty twenty one. She was
babbling about bringing equity to the Metro system. There's no
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sane person who understands what that means or cares. Nobody
cares about equity on a train. It's an absurd concept.
You're selling seats so that you can move from one
place to the other. There's no concept of equity at
stake here. If you have the money, you get the seat,
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you get to your destination, and all they should be
doing is making sure that the train gets to the
destination on time and without any casualties, without any deaths
or severe injuries. Is that too much to ask that
you get on a train, get off a train, and
during that process you're not stabbed in the neck. Stephanie
Wiggins can't make Metro safe because she doesn't do the
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one thing that makes it safe, and that hires a
lot of armed police or armed security. Instead, she's in
love with stupid ambassadors. That concept is the most idiotic
concept I have ever heard.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
I've never understood.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
It started becoming popularized a few years ago and it's like, Okay,
let's see how the ambassadors do. And it's a joke. Okay,
the ambassadors can't do anything. They can give directions if
they're in the mood. But Michael Munk said, she's got
a security budget coming out and it's gonna hire fifty
three fifty three security personnel. You have a twenty four
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to seven metro line that covers I don't know how
many hundreds and hundreds of square miles in all directions.
Fifty three is nothing. Hiring fifty three is like hiring zero.
It's gonna have no effect. And then they're going to
take the ambassador program in house. Stephanie Wiggins is a disaster.
She's another one making hundreds of thousands of dollars. And
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the least you can expect is you can get on
and off the train without getting a knife in the
neck from a crazy person, a mental patient, or a
drug addict who the other branches of government should have
put away in a prison or a mental health facility
or a drug treatment facility. And we had another one
happen yesterday, three assaults in twenty four hours on the
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metro train or bus.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Yesterday.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
It was a bus in Encino, and originally it was
reported as a stabbing, which would have made three stabbings
in twenty four hours, but later they corrected it and
the guy robbed a man's cell phone and then hit
him in the chest, but not an actual stabbing. Remember
there was one stabbing on a bus in Glendale, another
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one on the Sea Line train in South LA And
everybody who gets on board these trains say they're terrified. Everybody,
And Reginald McKinney rides the system every day and is
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quoted by Channel seven oftentimes it doesn't feel very safe.
There's been a purse snatching. I've seen a lady get
her phone out of her hand, get knocked out of
her hand. Watched a kid run out of the train,
nobody stopped him. I've seen some fights homeless people. By
the way, most of this is not even reported, but
a normal person doesn't want to witness any of this
even once, because it's too terrifying.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
You have a bunch of a.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Bunch of kids grabbing phones, beating each other up. You
got the homeless people defecating. I mean, somebody said yesterday
in one of the reports, they're sitting on a bus.
Somebody pulls down their pants and fires went out right
in front of them, and then the dump sits there
and starts.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Just starts steaming in the hot bus, and the.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Bus driver doesn't do anything. Stephanie Wiggins ought to be fired.
I don't know what the mechanism is, but Karen Bass
could probably do something. She's the chair of the board
for Metro. She's in charge of the Metro board. You
have a CEO of Stephanie Wiggins who's an absolute failure,
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complete loser, incompetent. People are dying and she won't do
anything about it. All She does is babble about equity. Well,
we have equity because we have people from all races,
all socioeconomic backgrounds getting beaten up, stabbed and robbed. Okay,
they're getting everybody, So you've achieved equity. You'll see. She
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might hang around for years. We got to start running
up maybe like a death toll count under Stephanie Wiggins,
a robbery count, a stabing count. Let's have all these categories.
How many people have been and god knows what the
unreported crimes would show, because most people, if something bad
happens to them, they just scurry off the train. They
see something terrible, they just get home as quickly as
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they can. All right, we got Alex Stone coming up.
This is interesting more Boeing news. The Department of Justice
wants to reopen possible federal charges for the twenty eighteen
and twenty nineteen overseas crashes of those Max jets that
Boeing made. There was a deferred prosecution deal, and they
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say Boeing is not living up to their end. So
the Department of Justice may want to prosecute for those
old crashes, let alone the door plug business.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
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Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and run from one
until four and after four o'clock John Cobelt Show on
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you missed. Boeing having another bad day. They've had a
bad day almost every day this year. You know what's
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happened in recent months. But remember back in twenty eighteen
and twenty nineteen, two of their seven thirty seven Max
aircraft they crashed overseas, killed hundreds of people, and now
the Justice Department might reopen a federal case, a criminal
case against Boweing. Let's talk to Alex Stone from ABC
News and see what this is about. Hey there, John, Yet,
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this is something that the families of the victims on
board those two the Ethiopian Airlines and Lion Air, that
they've been calling for for the last number of years,
that they didn't like that the deal was made in secret,
a deferred prosecution agreement. They had no saying it. All
of a sudden it was announced that Boeing would not
be prosecuted in twenty twenty twenty twenty one for those
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earlier crashes that the DOJ had come to an agreement.
There was a monetary value on it, and Boeing agreed
that it would clean things up internally and make sure
that that in the development of aircraft and the production
of aircraft that everything was good and then they would
not be prosecuted and sent a Boeing executive to Corton,
Texas to say they were sorry and that they were
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good from here on out. Well, the DJ saying, with
everything that's gone on over the last couple of months,
the last Airlines door plug that flew off all the
other the whistleblowers out of it, that they have now
voided that deal and now Boeing can be prosecuted, something
the families have been calling for. Nisha Ryan lost her
husband on one of the maxes that went down. This
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deferred prosecution agreement was a miscarriage of justice right from
the start.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
It should never have come about.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
And the real heart of this being reopened, of the
voiding out the settlement agreement to not be prosecuted, he
is that last Airlines door plug of now that the
NTSB has found that it probably never had any bolts
on it when it left the factory, that they had
taken them off to fix some rivets on the fuselage,
and likely they were never put back on. Number of
other things that went into it. I just John got
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off of a zoom call with Mark Lindquist. He's an
attorney represents fan families of the Max crash victims and
those who were on board the last Caroline's flight, all
of them.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
He told me this.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Boeing has not yet been held fully accountable for the
deaths of three hundred and forty six people. Boeing's not
been held fully accountable for the continuing problematic issues in
their company.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
So the DOJ has until July seventh to decide what
it's going to do, if it's going to file charges,
if it's going to do anything against Boeing, against anybody
in the company specifically, or do nothing, which is an
option there. But if they're bringing this back up again,
likely it would seem that did they have plans to
maybe do something here, But Linquist said I.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
Would expect to see a full blown prosecution, possibly another
plea bargain, but a much more severe plea bargain. Boeing
is facing penalties. It could be ten times as much
as the billions they've already paid John.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
What do you do to a company the size of Boeing.
They've got space exploration, they've got military, they've got commercial aircraft.
I mean, they are so big that what do you
do to prosecute them? And it's likely not going to
be against specific people in the company, but families want that.
I also today talked to Michael Stumo, his daughter was
killed on the Ethiopian Airlines Max crash the wind down.
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He wants Boeing executives to go to prison.
Speaker 6 (20:18):
If they go to jail, they feel it and it
sends a message elsewhere. Otherwise it's just a check comes
from shareholders, comes from the company, doesn't touch them.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
But the families are calling this a big win for justice.
They have been calling for this. They say it'll be
about safety in the skies. They also want a corporate
monitored oversee Boeing and the factories and development of aircraft
to make sure that they're safe. Boeing tells US in
a statement that they believe they've adhered to the settlement agreement,
that they have done everything the way they were supposed
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to do it, and they'll argue it in court. Well,
the criminal charge was to be fraud that the company
misled a federal Yeah, lied to the FAA and developing
the MAX. Do they have the names of the people
who lied, well, I mean the families believe that they do.
They named, and then they believe it came from the top,
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that it was the CEO at the time and maybe
the CEO now, and a number of other people said
they have their views of who it would be. We
know that the DJ has done a lot of investigating
and interviewing into the MAX. And this all goes back
if you remember it. I mean these are terms of
years ago. We were talking quite a bit about the
MCAST system on board, which was that autopilot system that
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brings the nose of the MAX down because it had
a propensity to bring the the nose would naturally go
up because of where the larger engines were placed on
the wing, so they had to put in a computer
system that would bring the nose down. Well, when things
malfunctioned on board with what are called the pedo tubes
with the speed and whatnot, that then it would that
system wouldn't work and it would slam the nose of
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the aircraft down. But they never told pilots about it
and never told regulators about it, just thinking it was
just another thing. The aircrafts of the pilots didn't know
how to react to it. Well, they paid up two
and a half billion dollars with that plea bargain deal
that they made a few years ago, two and a
half billion dollars, and that didn't change their behavior, and
they lost a lot of business, or a lot of
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business ended up getting delayed because they have to dramatically
slow down the production lines. So I'm thinking if all
that financial turmoil didn't convince executives to change their ways,
I'm with the with the families. You got to throw
a couple of guys in jail because these executives have
to be terrified that they're going to be sitting in
a federal prison. That would be unprecedented if the DJ
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went down that road, and if there were trials and
everything that they would potentially send executives at a company
like Boeing to prison. No indication that they would do that,
that they would try for that, but that is what
the families want. They're saying, hey make them personally pay that.
If you just find the company, it doesn't really change
anything because it's not their money and they don't really
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feel it. Well did they Did they admit to fraud
when they made the plea bargain? You know, that's a
good question. I don't know if they if actually admitting
to it was the it was part of the deal, but.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
They did not admit wrongdoing.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Yeah, I mean, it's usually one of those where but
they promised that, you know, from here on out, everything's
going to be good. I mean, look for the federal government,
they need Boeing healthy and operating between military production that
they do and that we all rely on. I think
can go overper Bank Airport. It's ninety Boing aircraft that
they need them. They need them to work. That's that's
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why I think rather than cost them billions more because
they need that money, is sacrifice a couple executives and
have them end up in a federal prison.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
I mean, that's what the families want.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
And we'll see in a couple of weeks a DJ
now they come back after giving the families this. The
families had met in Washington with prosecutors a couple of
weeks ago and they did not feel like the DJ
was going to move on this, and then poof yesterday,
it came out that they were avoiding the the AG
and that Boeing could be prosecuted. So today the families
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have this victory feeling that they feel like finally Boeing
is going to pay the price for their loved ones
dying years ago, and that they feel like that this
is the beginning of some big movement that could make
big change in the safety of aviation and the safety
at Boeing. But the dj could decide, you know what,
they don't see a case there and they're not going
to go forward with it, or they could throw the
(24:26):
book at Boeing and we'll see in a couple of weeks.
All right, Thank you very much, Alex Stone, ABC News.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
You got a thank John.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
We had the problem in California some years ago with
PG and E when PG and E was murdering people
with the fires that started because PG and E didn't
maintain its equipment and its electrical lines, and the board
of directors should have gone to prison. Instead, there were
big fines and eventually rate payers had to pay off
the fines. It's always rate payers or taxpayers to get
(24:52):
hosed for all these these corporate criminals. And if you
just threw the whole pg ANDE board into prison. You
wouldn't see any more any more electrical towers or electrical
lines falling down anymore. Remember they wouldn't even turn off
the electricity when they knew winds were gonna blow eighty
miles an hour. And then that town of Paradise burned
to the ground. Almost entirely same thing here. If everybody
(25:14):
in the corporate chain knew they could end up in
prison and have to deal with other violent felons, you
put them in maximum security. Violent fell in prison, you'll
see things. See that production line will be spotless. Are
more coming up?
Speaker 4 (25:29):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
And coming up after three o'clock. Oh, you are not
going to believe this.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
The La County Board of Supervisors has voted and said
that taxpayers in La County should pay for the legal
assistance for the pro Hamas pro terrorist demonstrators at UCLA.
So the people who were shutting down UC chanting their
(26:01):
support of the murderous Hamas terrorists, we're supposed to pay
their legal fees.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
This was from Lindsey Horvath.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
She's the supervisor who authored the motion and I guess
it was four to one because it says only Catherine
Barker voter know we are going to pay for pro
terrorists demonstrators who shut down UCLA. Taxpayers are going to
pay their legal fees. Seriously, I keep thinking of misreading this.
(26:34):
We're going to talk with Laura Powell coming up. Laura's
an attorney, and she says, this is completely outrageous. Oh
my god, is this completely out of control? Why should
we fund people who run around screaming hatred about Jews
and supporting a terrorist organization that rapes women, burns babies,
(26:59):
shoots parents in front of the kids, shoots kids in
front of the parents, And our tax money's going to
support this? Is Lindsay fo are of that completely out
of her mind?
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Yeah, I really don't want to pay with my taxes
the legal defense for people that want to kill me.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
I'm good on that.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
I can't believe anybody even thought of this. Well, we're
going to talk with attorney Laura Powell coming up. After
three o'clock. When you're way behind in the polls, you
have to just start lying. And it looks like again yesterday,
Joe Biden claimed that when he took office, inflation was
(27:42):
nine percent. He says, I think inflation has gone up slightly.
It was at nine percent when I came in, and
now it's down around three percent. No, it was one
point four percent when when Biden took over. He made that.
He told that lie twice in five days. And why
(28:03):
would this be? Jim Garretty wrote a piece for the
National Review. Either Biden knows it's false and he's deliberately lying,
or he doesn't remember what the inflation rate was and
he doesn't remember the correct numbers, and or or when
he gets corrected, he forgets the correction, or nobody's correcting him. Yeah,
(28:25):
I mean, you don't know. He's senile. His brain's jealom.
But the inflation rate last month of Trump was one
point four About a year and a half later it
was nine. But listen to this. Here's another way to
tell a little clay cut number four. This is the
White House Press spokes sole Karine Jean Pierre, with her
(28:47):
analysis of inflation. We're still seeing inflation above normal levels
despite everything the administration and the fet is doing.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Do you have a sense.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Of when households can expect to see prices lunch?
Speaker 7 (29:00):
So Look, here's what I can tell you. What we're
going to continue to do is make sure that we
are when it comes to our priority as it relates
to the economy, we want to make sure that we're
fighting inflation and continue to do so. And so we
understand we have a lot more work to do.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
We get that.
Speaker 7 (29:15):
But will I would state that inflation is down more
than sixty percent, with the lowest core inflation in three years,
and grocery prices fell over the last three months. Wages
are up more than the price is over the last year.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
If the inflation rate is three and a half percent,
it means everything costs three and a half percent more.
It's not down. The prices are up. They're not going
up as quickly as they were, but they're still going up.
And it's compounded. You know, if you're paying nine percent
(29:53):
inflation one year and the next year is three and
a half percent, well that three and a half percent
is on top of the nine percent. And if you
remember the Wall Street you did this story a few
weeks ago. I was thinking of doing it again.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Today.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Wall Street Journal had a story, if you add up
all the inflation since twenty nineteen, grocery prices are up
fifty percent. So if you paid one hundred dollars for
groceries in twenty nineteen, you're paying one hundred and fifty now,
and you're paying that every week. So there's nothing going down.
(30:25):
It goes up more quickly or less quickly, but nothing's
going down. Prices are not shrinking. And for God's sakes,
to have the president constantly insists that the inflation was
nine percent, that is easily provable as a lie. And
if he's not the biggest liar in the world, then
he's completely senile and ought to be removed from office
(30:46):
because that is total, absolute nonsense. But you know, I
guess you've seen the polls on Biden. You want Biden
to win. He is in trouble.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
I looked up.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
You saw Trump campaigning in New Jersey on that beach,
and New Jersey hasn't gone for a Republican president probably
since the nineteen eighties, either Reagan or Bush. It's five
point differential in New Jersey. Biden is ahead forty one
thirty six and Trump had eighty thousand people on the beach.
(31:18):
I don't think Biden's going to.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Dry eight thousand people on the Beach.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
So, just like twenty sixteen, something may be happening out
there that people are either intentionally ignoring or are not
capable of understanding. When we come back, all right, we're
going to talk with attorney Laura Powell.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
LA County Board of Supervisors want to pay the legal
fees for all those protesters at UCLA who want all
the Jews dead. That's coming up next, Debor Mark Live
in the CAFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been
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