January 3, 2024 • 35 mins
Deputy DA John McKinney comes on the show to talk about his campaign to be the next DA of LA County and some retaliatory measures George Gascon has taken against him. More on Gascon. Laura Ingle comes on the show to talk about the Epstein list and when it could be released. More on the decline of San Francisco.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can I am six forty you're listening to the John
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could listen to whatever you missed. We have George Gascon
in a primary on March fifth. It's just about two
months until we can evict him from office. It's a
primary where he's got I've seen up to eleven competitors.
One of the one of the best choices. John McKinney,
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a Deputy DA who's running against Gascone. He was in
the Major Crimes Unit and he prosecuted about forty capital
murder cases. His record almost perfect for convictions. But then
Gascone reassigns him to handle misdemeanors in East LA because McKinney, well,
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we'll ask John exactly what it was that he did
or said that I got Gascone that upset. He's retaliated
to at least twenty five Deputy das who have filed
lawsuits in civil court against Gascon, and two of them
have already goun to trial and he's lost. So we'll
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get to rundown on that coming up now because John
McKinnie is here ready to go. John, how are you.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Good afternoon, and congratulations on your new show.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Thank you very much and it's good to have you on.
And first of all, how's the campaign going for you? Hey?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
The campaign is going great. It's going great. Everything up
to this point has been a prelude to what will
be a sprint over the next two months. Fundraising is
going well. I got a good infrastructure, a leadership team
in place. I'm fired up and ready to go.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Talk about the retailal that Gascone unleashed against you, your
personal story here. First of all, talk about your career.
I mean, that's incredible that you prosecuted forty capital murder
cases and he relegated you to misdemeanors. I mean that
alone is enough for his dismissal.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yeah, you know great, Thank you for the opportunity to
talk about this. I want to go back even before
my career, John, I think you know a little bit
about my background. I was born in a low income,
high crime environment. I lost both my parents before I
finished kindergarten. I was raised by my eldest sister, who
raised five children by herself. I grew up during the
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crack cocaine epidemic. I had to navigate some very troubled
streets day in and day out, and I did everything,
you know, pretty well. You know, I played by the rules.
I worked hard. I worked myself through college. I managed
to get into one of the greatest law schools in
the world here at UCLA, and that is quite an
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accomplishment coming from where I started. You know, life delped
me a pretty low hand in the beginning, and I
played it. I played it well. I got to this
law school, a great opportunity for a great future. I
decided to go into public service and I started my
professional career with the DA's office, where I've been now
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for over twenty five years. And I started at the bottom.
I started doing misdemeanors. I worked my way to the top.
And the top in the DA's office, in my point
of view of many others, is the Major Crimes Division.
It's a division that houses one percent of the attorneys
in the office. We handle the most complex and most
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high profile cases in the DA's system. And I did well, there,
as you said, over my career, I prosecuted about forty
murder cases involving about fifty plus defendants, convicted everyone. I
had a perfect record in the Major Crimes Division. I
had just successfully cut at the case involving the death
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of Nipsey Hustle, which was one of the higher profile
cases in the last ten years, and the thanks I
got for that was to get unceremoniously kicked out of
the unit and put in an assignment here in East
LA where I supervise young attorneys who are prosecuting misdemeanor cases.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Yikes, what is it you did that or said that
upset Gascon?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Well, you know, I had been speaking out against his
policies from the very beginning. But I had been speaking
out against his policies up to that point for a
couple of years, and he had never taken any action
against me. I think what happened, John, is that once
I successfully prosecuted the Nipsey Hustle case, I had already
intimated that I would run for DA I think mister
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Gascon got nervous. He realized that I have an incredible
personal profile in a ro markable record as a prosecutor
over twenty five years. I think he understands that if
I could get my story and my profile out in
front of the public here in Los Angeles County, They're
going to like me. They're going to want me to
be the future leader of the office. And he wanted
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to get me off the big stage, you know. He
wanted to get me out of a place where I
was getting attention and put me in a place where
he hoped nobody would hear or see from me. Again.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
That is really dirty, that is I mean, as you
were going through, first of all the struggles you had
when you were very young because your family situation, and
then make it all the way to the Major Crimes Division,
and then prosecute forty cases, fifty defendants and win every
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single one, and for him to trash that record and
sendya basically to Siberia is chest. As you were telling
that story, I mean, I was getting song because your
story is something that all of a celebrated admired, your
role model for everybody else, trying to make you out
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of a bad circumstance. And what do you do. You
put away a lot of bad guys who hurt a
lot of people, who killed people, and you make day
to day life better and this is what he does.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Yeah, I gotta say, John, I was incredibly disappointed and
angry too, not because I got transferred. I was upset
because of the why you know it was why I
was being transferred. It was to serve his own political
self interest. The job I have now is a great job.
I've learned a lot as a supervisor here of misdemeanors.
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Misdemeanors are very important in the County of Los Angelesy,
and the aggregate affect people a lot more than some
of the lower level felony cases. But the reason I
wanted to tell the backstory of my life is so
that people can appreciate how hard I did work to
get to the pinnacle of For any criminal trial attorney,
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major crimes is the highest level you can go in
the largest prosecuting agency in the United States of America.
So to go from where I started on the day
I was told my dad died to where I got
to in major crimes handling those kinds of cases was
quite an accomplishment for me, because some people it might
seem like a small thing, but for me, it took
a lot of work to get there, and then to
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have a guy just come along and ball that all
up and toss it to the side, just because he could.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Infuriate me, just disgraceful. At No, I'm not the only one.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
He the only one right, right, And so the public
has to understand that a real leader does not face
twenty five to thirty lawsuits from the people he's supposed
to be leading. A real leader doesn't face a nearly
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ninety eight percent uh plebiscite of of his deputies who
want to see him recalled and replaced. A real leader
doesn't stand against half the cities in Los Angeles County
voting no confidence in his leadership. And that's where we
are with George Gascon and that's why we need to change.
And as you said, we have this, this, you know,
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uniquely American opportunity to evict him from office.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
What what when you're you're out campaigning and you're talking
to normal people, right, what what do you hear from them?
I imagine that this is an unusually high level of
interest for this campaign, more so than usual in a
DA's race, especially a primary. What do you what are
you hearing from gat?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
You know, I'm hearing everything from disappointment to disgust. So
there's a lot of people who are just absolutely disgusted
with him and they're ready to vote for almost anyone else.
And then there are other people who don't feel quite
that strongly, but they are disappointed and they do recognize
that mistakes were made back in twenty twenty, and they
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want to see things going in a new direction. But
it's important to them that it be the right person.
And I believe I'm the right person. I believe I
have the personal background. I have the lived experience of
growing up in a crime written environment. I understand victimization.
I saw it firsthand. I know what it's like to
have friends who are arrested in charge with crime and
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want due process for them. And then you know, I've
had this amazing career here in the DIA's office for
twenty five years with a remarkably spotless record, and I
think that puts me in position to be the next
District Attorney of Los Angeles County.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Before you go, what's the most important thing you want
to accomplish if you win?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
I think it's very important to restore trust in the
criminal justice system. I think part of Gascon's design has
been to undermine trust the institution of our courts and
our prosecuting agency. He is the agent of chaos, and
we've got to start rebuilding that trust. It's going to
take a person of integrity, a person of character, a
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person who proved it long before this campaign started, which
I think I've done over the course of my life.
Once we restore trust and get the public on our side,
get the public behind us, and we can make some
of the other changes that are so sorely needed.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
All Right, John, we'll talk with you again. I want
to get you on in even a longer format, all
right before the election.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Well, thank you John, John, and thank you for allowing
me to tell a little bit about my story. People
can learn more about me at my website mckenni four
la dot com.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Well you're a good man. You talk about integrity and
ethics and all that. You certainly have that and I
really wish you a lot of luck. Thank you, John,
I hope you do well. Thanks for coming on. We'll
talk again soon. All right. That's John McKinney and he
is running against George Gascone for district attorney. And how
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much how different would the world be if we had
John McKinney in office the last four years instead of
I mean, I had despicable. I'm out of adjectives to
describe my disgust for George Gascon. This guy, you discipline
this guy. You heard his story. It's a true story,
how he had to grow up, what he had to overcome,
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and to fight his way to the top of the
La County District Attorney's office and major crimes, a perfect record,
forty cases he won. And you take that knowledge and
that experience out of the system to prosecute misdemeanors. Because
McKinney is running for Gascon's office, so petty, so cowardly,
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so wrong. I don't know how anybody listened to John
McKinney's story could possibly vote for George Gascon. I mean,
he is such a pet little dictator, just a really small,
petty man. All Right, we come back. I'm going to
tell you about Gascon's influence on the parole process has
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caused more convicted felons, more convicted violent people to be
on the streets. Explain how this happens on the John
Cobelt Show.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
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Speaker 1 (12:29):
Hold on, I got it this well. Lore Engele coming
back on the show. She is the national correspondent for
News Nation. Have you seen News Nation. It's an excellent
cable news channel. Find News Nation on your cable TV.
And lour Ingle's there and she is going to tell
us as to why we haven't seen the Jeffrey Epstein
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documents yet and one hundred and eighty seven names that
are connected to the case. It's supposed to happen today.
Something's holding it up. Laura knows sell me on coming
up after three point thirty. Thomas Buckley did a great
piece on gascone today in the California Globe dot Com,
which is a news outlet California Globe dot Com and
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gust goone. He says is known as a decarcerationist. I
have never heard this word, a decarcerationist. He wants as
few people in jail as possible. This is a this
is a progressive philosophy that has taken root among all
the people that are destroying our country. And you know,
George Soros funded this idea to get these woke district
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attorneys into office. And Buckley's written a story about this.
One of the things that Gascone did he ruled that
his staff could not attend parole hearings on behalf of
the victims because normally when a prisoner is up for parole,
the victims or the family of the victim can be
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part of the hearing. And he quotes Kathleen Katie, and
we've had her on the show. She is an advocate
who works for free on behalf of victims, and Katie said,
not surprisingly, not having a prosecutor at parole hearings has
resulted in a higher grant rate of parole. In twenty
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twenty one, the grant rate was thirty one percent when
a prosecutor went to a parole hearing, but thirty eight
percent when a prosecutor was absent. In twenty twenty two,
they granted parole twenty five percent of the time when
a prosecutor participated, but it was thirty three percent without
a prosecutor. So these inmates, these are inmates serving possibly
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a life sentence, but they're eligible for parole along the way,
and the victim or the surviving members of the victim
is not allowed to have a prosecutor there to represent them.
And so instead of one in four prisoners being released,
it's one in three. Because a prosecutor means access to
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the prisoner's record while he's in prison. A prosecutor is
allowed to review an inmate's prison record before the parole hearing,
and they can share that information with the victim and
their families. For example, a hearing for an inmate with
a clean prison record will proceed differently than a problem prisoner.
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But if the victim doesn't have that information, then how
can they make their case effectively that the guy should
stay in prison. In This is the trick that Gascone pulled.
Because you may think, well, why do you have to
have a prosecutor with you? Do you need your handheld?
You can go by yourself. No, because the prosecutor would
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bring the prison record with him and a victim or
family members don't have access to that. If there's no prosecutor,
there's no information for the victim in their family that
they could use to make their case to keep the
inmate in prison. Gascon's assistant Diana Tern, notified the prison
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to stop allowing La County prosecutors to access prison records.
Gascone's office no longer even provides the parole board with
a prison packet detailing the facts of the case. Normally,
the board can look at things like the original police report,
transcripts of the interviews, case notes before making its decision,
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but this detailed information is not necessarily sent to the
prison at the time of the incarceration, and if the
prison doesn't have it, the board will not see it.
And without a prosecuting being involved. Not only does the
victim and the family have no access to the whole story,
neither does the parole board. You see how they rig
the system. They always have a good reason. It's like, well,
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I'm sorry, according to our regulations, according to our rule.
Well they rig the rules in the regulation. Apparently. Diana
Teuran Gasconne's assistant originally said it was a pilot project,
but this pilot project has been sticking around for several
years now. And again, the whole point is, and they
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know what they're doing is to send violent criminals, even
violent criminals subject to life sentences, given parole. Early. It's
not life without role, it's life with parole. So periodically
they come up for a hearing this is this may
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be the worst guy we've ever had in public office
at any level. I cannot remember ever doing as many
stories as we've done on a single office holder than
George Gascone. I can't. I mean, we've literally had hundreds
of stories over the last three years, but the fourth
year to come all right, we come back. We're going
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to talk with Lora Angele and she's with News Nation.
News Nation is the hottest newest cable news channel. It's
a good channel. And she's covering the Jeffrey Epstein case
in New York. And today was the day they were
supposed to release hundreds of pages of documents with about
a couple of hundred names of people connected to the case.
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Where we're going to get to see the names of
some of Epstein's customers. We don't know, but it was
supposed to be out. It's not been out. And why
is this? We're gonna have Loringle on coming up next
on the John Cobelt Show.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
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Speaker 1 (19:14):
On from one until four after four o'clock John Cobelt
Show on demand on the iHeart app Conway coming up
after four o'clock. Well, you know, I started the show.
I was all excited because it was one o'clock here,
it was four o'clock on the East coast, and I
figured within an hour or two we were going to
get the big document, drop hundreds of pages of Jeffrey
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Epstein court documents. It was going to have a couple
of one hundred names of people connected to the case.
Don't know in what capacity, but everybody's excited. Right. There
are rumors that Bill Clinton was mentioned multiple times, and then,
as often happens, a lot of hype, a big build up,
and nothing. Why is this? Well, we're gonna get lore
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angle on again. She's with News Nation. As I said,
News Nation is a really good cable news channel. It's
fairly new and you should go find it on your
cable system and you'll see Laurel. She's their national correspondent
based in New York and she's covering the Epstein case. Laura,
how are you? I am good.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
We've got to add in the former KFI re porter, right,
that's right. All the years that we've been doing and
I cannot believe this. I cannot believe this is happening
right now. I have been waiting to talk to you.
I have been on the air for two days talking
about the Jeffrey Epstein documents about to be unsealed. We've
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been waiting. I was here until midnight last night. They
just came out. So I'm not going to be able
to stay with you because I have to get on TV.
Nine hundred and thirty four pages have just been released
by the Southern District here in New York. This is
I'll give it to you quick. The court released an
order earlier today that the unsealing of the documents and
the records containing names of those who associated with Jeffrey Epstein,
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but again who are not criminally charged.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Here.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
We're supposed to come out at some point.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
We've been hitting.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Refresh, refresh, refresh on PACER, which is the court system,
all day long. I literally just walk out of the
newsroom to come and do this hit with you, and
I'm just getting messages right now saying please come back.
It's just been dropped on PACER. So again, the court
is releasing these documents electronically, so now we're about to
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dive into them. Here's the question. Who's on the list.
Those who are on the list know that they're on
the list because these are court documents, court records, depositions
that happen for people that were interviewed during the defamation
lawsuit of Epstein's former girlfriend, Jaselle Maxwell. And everybody in
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this document knows who they are. A lot of them
do not want their names released. So the District Executive
of this court told us earlier today that some of
these names there are two John Doe and a Jane,
two people listed as number one oh seven and one
ten were granted a special condition that their names would
not be released until January twenty second. The rest of
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them just got released. So we're about to dig into it.
I can certainly come back to you when I get
a minute, but I have to go back into the newsroom.
And so we have a plan in place. We've got
a team of people and we're all going to take
a chunk of this. We heard it was going to
be a couple of hundred pages. Now getting the message,
it's nine hundred and thirty four.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Wow, all right, we'll probably talk to you tomorrow in
detail about all this.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Yes, but a very big everybody who's you know, all
the talk shows here in New York have been saying,
you know, there's a lot of nervous people over Christmas
in New Year's because a lot of people don't want
their names in it. And here is the day, the
day that people some people have been dreading, is now
here and we are about to see who is on
the list. Remember, these are people who could be associates,
they could be accusers, they could be employees, they could
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be people that we've never even thought would have connections
to Jeffrey Epstein. And that's what we're going to find out.
We'll let you know what we get, all.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Right, Laura, we'll talk with you tomorrow. Thanks, Go do it,
all right, Laura Angel, formerly of Cathine News now with
the News Nation cable TV news channel. You should look
up and watch. Well, you know, while she was talking,
I was looking at various news sites and nobody has
any details so yet. As she said, it just came
over the internal court communications system there and all the
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reporters have to run and now they've got to pour
through for the nine hundred and thirty four pages. Right,
that's what you said, And there's at least a couple
of hundred names. But again, nobody knows whether these are
people who knew Epstein socialized with Epstein worked for Epstein
some capacity not related to his procuring process. Some of
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them will be how many are clients, how many are
well known clients whose names you'll recognize, how many people
are going to be jumping off buildings? But you know,
the thing I have seen in common with these stories
when it involves somebody procuring young women for sex, whether
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it's create like Epstein and Glaine Mock Maxwell or the
Madams stories that pop up usually in New York or Washington, DC,
it's always prominent people, maybe not famous people, but prominent
in their industry. And it's usually people who make a
lot of money. This is what guys do when they
have a lot of money and they travel, or they
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have a lot of money and they're not traveling, and
doesn't matter if they're married, they got to have six
kids at home. This is what they do. And I
don't know what's done to keep some people's names out
of publicity like this. I don't know if they write
a big check. I don't know if they issue horrible,
vile threats. But somehow, most of the time, the little
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Black Book never gets revealed. We never find out the
contents of what's going on. Is this going to be different.
We don't know to see here, because you're gonna you're
gonna hear names, but it it may not be that
the names you hear were actual clients. But if for
some reason this judge got tired of everything being under
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seal and everything being redacted, we will find out coming up,
maybe in a matter of minutes later or later in
the day, or certainly we'll go in depth tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
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Speaker 1 (25:35):
We just had lower Angle on and we thought, well,
let me tell you one o'clock. I thought, okay, sometime
in the next hour, we're gonna have the Jeffrey Epstein document. Dube,
this is what I'm we're talking about at one o'clock.
Because two o'clock, end of the business day. I figured
they promised the release, the judge is ready to go,
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and nothing happens. It's supposed to get hundreds of names
of people connected to the Epstein case. Nothing And it
turned out there were two people who were requesting from
the judge special protection that they're not going to have
their names released for a period of time while they
appeal and one of the women is in a foreign
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country and claims she will be in danger if she's
named in her culturally conservative country. So the judge said, okay,
you got thirty days to appeal, and that would delay
the release of the name unless she can prove that
she will be in grave danger if her name is unredacted.
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And there was somebody else with that situation as well,
and we're talking about one hundred and eighty seven people, right,
so there's one hundred and eighty five left. But I
guess that tied things up long enough that they're relie
So we had lour Angel come on from News Nation
and right at three thirty five, shoes posted at least well,
she was going to tell us what the hold up
was about and what the expectations were, And as she
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came on, she said, they just released the names. They
just released nine hundred and thirty four pages of these documents.
And now at Newsdation that staff is going through, and
I guess all the networks and news sites are going through.
I was checking all the online sites and nobody even
had the bulletin that the documents had been released when
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I was looking. So that will come out momentarily as
fast as as all these reporters and staffers can make
their way through nine hundred and thirty four pages. I'm
just looking here. Yeah, CNN is saying the same thing.
They're reviewing the documents, hundreds of pages unsealed. They're expecting
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almost two hundred names some of his accusers, prominent business people, politicians,
and more people that work for them. The court order
was on December eighteenth, and h boy, it must must
be exciting behind the scenes. We're definitely gonna have war
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on tomorrow or somebody for sure, uh to talk to
talk about the case, because this could this is going
to shake up a lot of lives. We think, like
I said, often, you know, you get this, uh, you
get all this hype, you get this burst of energy,
all this anticipation, and then poof, something happens. The names
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aren't released because you know, these names are not one
hundred and eighty seven customers. So there's you know, obviously Epstein.
Epstein cultivated just hundreds and hundreds of acquaintanceships people passed
through he had. He seemed to have a strange magnetism.
Although I read a lot of people said that dinner
with him was kind of boring. It's not like he
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knew a lot of stuff, but he seemed to know
a lot of people, and he just had this mysterious
air about him. And I guess the real attraction was
he was providing you know, fresh flesh, young girls, all
these creepy, weirdo guys. That was the That was the
beginning and end of the story. So we'll find out
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tomorrow to hear about in San Francisco about this. There's
a video going around about a guy he's a fentinyl user.
This speaks to the to the depravity of San Francisco.
I mean, I actually have I'm collecting stories on the
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depravity of San Francisco, and I have had a thick
folder here. This one came out a few days ago.
Video of a man high and fentanyl thrashing around on
the ground for two hours. For two hours, people stood
and watched and took video. Nobody helped him, because what
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are you going to do with him? First of all,
you don't know what kind of diseases he's got, and
if he's thrashing, he could be violent, and then where
would you take him. There's no treatment for people against
their will. There's not even treatment if they do want
to get it now. Remember when the California I'm sorry,
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when the Chinese leader, President G came to San Francisco,
Newsom made sure the city was cleaned up. It was spotless,
it was ready for like a July fourth parade, squeaky clean,
to show off to G how great California is. G
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knew better, Newsom knows better. It's all to manipulate the
television news stories. And of course it works because the
dumb asses and TV news just generally report what they see.
They didn't they didn't see the cleanup, so we don't know.
So you got this guy. Apparently a local journalist got
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the video and he says, these homeless advocates are trying
to cover up these kind of stories. There is an
account on x called Dodge Place, Tenderloin, SF. They shared
the video on that account. The man screamed for two hours.
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He has his pants pulled down to his ankles. And
I've watched some of this video and it's true. This
really happened. He is rolling around on the ground, hitting himself,
moaning incoherently. Although that sounds like meth more than fentinyl,
because fentanyl puts you in a daze. You know, it's
(31:50):
a more intense cousin of heroin. And Erica Sandberg is
a host of San Francisco Beat. She's an independent journalist.
We've had her on the air. We should get her
back on the air to talk about this. I realize,
I realized, I recognize this name. And she says, what
frustrates the homeless advocates is they can't stop these images
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and videos from going public. How sick and psychotic do
you have to be to be an advocate for this,
for this guy suffering from this f fentinal seizure. And
what is the upside of advocating this? I guess it's
too so you could continue getting tax funding for your
(32:33):
stupid fake nonprofit. I mean, that's got to be it.
I mean, you can't be proud of creating a policy
or enabling a policy that has a man thrashing around
on the ground for two hours. Erica wrote, what frustrates
the so called homeless activists They can't stop these images
and videos from going public. All the threats and shaming
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attempts are feudal. We are going to share what is
happening to our fellow human beings on the streets, and
we will identify those responsible because the glow of November
when they cleaned up the streets for President g is gone.
That was the Apex summit, and that wrapped up November seventeenth,
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and now, like one one architect was quoted as saying,
as you walk around here, you have to do the
poopy dance, always avoiding stepping in bleep. So we got
we gotta get Erica Sandberg on and talk about this
Conway is here.
Speaker 5 (33:30):
Hey, now, hey, look, we're setting up here for a
beautiful sunset. The sun's gonna be spectacular line because there's
no clouds in the west, but there's clouds over the
valley and then Orange County, so we're setting up for
one of those beautiful early January sunsets.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
So let's get outside the sunsets over the ocean. That's right,
that's right, I got to see the sunset. Look, no, no, no,
you're gonna.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
If you live in Orange County or in the valley,
you're gonna see the spectacular arsense. Okay, all right, we
have the other names coming out with Epstein that you know,
hopefully we'll have some of those nas nine hundred plus
pages of documents, man, oh man, and then some of
them have enough power to delay it until the late January.
I don't know what that buys them, but I guess something.
(34:13):
Big Bear Lake is getting its first snowfall of the winter.
That's cool for people like to ski. I don't know
if you're a skier or not.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Oh I tried, no good. Oh it was horrible. It
was you know. I had mothers screaming at me. Really,
I lost control and I ended up criss crossing onto
the bunny hill. Oh no, And mothers were taking their
little toddlers and swinging them in the air. Wow, because
I was flying past them, lying flat on my back. Oh.
(34:43):
And oh, was that the time you skied nude? I
was nude. This is really why they were screened. I
ended up crashing into a wooden fence. Oh no, no,
it's true. Where were you Big Bear?
Speaker 2 (34:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Yeah, or maybe mammoth. I don't know, man, you shouldn't
be No.
Speaker 5 (34:59):
Orange County hospitals are busy with an uptick in sick patients.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
I don't know what's going on there.
Speaker 5 (35:03):
And there's a warning issued as rain again brings back
danger to the beaches. After rain, you can't go in
that ocean, man floating duties.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
It's fecal back tome my god, Oh, it's disgust. It's
the worst.
Speaker 5 (35:15):
So we're going to get a cold spell tonight, tomorrow,
and Friday.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
It's gonna be cold as hell, all right, Yeah, dig
dong with you, Conway a weather sunset information.
Speaker 5 (35:24):
Yes, John colevelt Show. That bring it on, the Names
of Pedophiles. That's Friday, all.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Right, Conway. Next, Crozier's got the news live in the
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could listen to whatever you missed. We have George Gascon
in a primary on March fifth. It's just about two
months until we can evict him from office. It's a
primary where he's got I've seen up to eleven competitors.
One of the one of the best choices. John McKinney,
(00:43):
a Deputy DA who's running against Gascone. He was in
the Major Crimes Unit and he prosecuted about forty capital
murder cases. His record almost perfect for convictions. But then
Gascone reassigns him to handle misdemeanors in East LA because McKinney, well,
(01:03):
we'll ask John exactly what it was that he did
or said that I got Gascone that upset. He's retaliated
to at least twenty five Deputy das who have filed
lawsuits in civil court against Gascon, and two of them
have already goun to trial and he's lost. So we'll
(01:24):
get to rundown on that coming up now because John
McKinnie is here ready to go. John, how are you.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Good afternoon, and congratulations on your new show.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Thank you very much and it's good to have you on.
And first of all, how's the campaign going for you? Hey?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
The campaign is going great. It's going great. Everything up
to this point has been a prelude to what will
be a sprint over the next two months. Fundraising is
going well. I got a good infrastructure, a leadership team
in place. I'm fired up and ready to go.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Talk about the retailal that Gascone unleashed against you, your
personal story here. First of all, talk about your career.
I mean, that's incredible that you prosecuted forty capital murder
cases and he relegated you to misdemeanors. I mean that
alone is enough for his dismissal.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yeah, you know great, Thank you for the opportunity to
talk about this. I want to go back even before
my career, John, I think you know a little bit
about my background. I was born in a low income,
high crime environment. I lost both my parents before I
finished kindergarten. I was raised by my eldest sister, who
raised five children by herself. I grew up during the
(02:38):
crack cocaine epidemic. I had to navigate some very troubled
streets day in and day out, and I did everything,
you know, pretty well. You know, I played by the rules.
I worked hard. I worked myself through college. I managed
to get into one of the greatest law schools in
the world here at UCLA, and that is quite an
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accomplishment coming from where I started. You know, life delped
me a pretty low hand in the beginning, and I
played it. I played it well. I got to this
law school, a great opportunity for a great future. I
decided to go into public service and I started my
professional career with the DA's office, where I've been now
(03:19):
for over twenty five years. And I started at the bottom.
I started doing misdemeanors. I worked my way to the top.
And the top in the DA's office, in my point
of view of many others, is the Major Crimes Division.
It's a division that houses one percent of the attorneys
in the office. We handle the most complex and most
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high profile cases in the DA's system. And I did well, there,
as you said, over my career, I prosecuted about forty
murder cases involving about fifty plus defendants, convicted everyone. I
had a perfect record in the Major Crimes Division. I
had just successfully cut at the case involving the death
(04:02):
of Nipsey Hustle, which was one of the higher profile
cases in the last ten years, and the thanks I
got for that was to get unceremoniously kicked out of
the unit and put in an assignment here in East
LA where I supervise young attorneys who are prosecuting misdemeanor cases.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Yikes, what is it you did that or said that
upset Gascon?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Well, you know, I had been speaking out against his
policies from the very beginning. But I had been speaking
out against his policies up to that point for a
couple of years, and he had never taken any action
against me. I think what happened, John, is that once
I successfully prosecuted the Nipsey Hustle case, I had already
intimated that I would run for DA I think mister
(04:54):
Gascon got nervous. He realized that I have an incredible
personal profile in a ro markable record as a prosecutor
over twenty five years. I think he understands that if
I could get my story and my profile out in
front of the public here in Los Angeles County, They're
going to like me. They're going to want me to
be the future leader of the office. And he wanted
(05:17):
to get me off the big stage, you know. He
wanted to get me out of a place where I
was getting attention and put me in a place where
he hoped nobody would hear or see from me. Again.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
That is really dirty, that is I mean, as you
were going through, first of all the struggles you had
when you were very young because your family situation, and
then make it all the way to the Major Crimes Division,
and then prosecute forty cases, fifty defendants and win every
(05:47):
single one, and for him to trash that record and
sendya basically to Siberia is chest. As you were telling
that story, I mean, I was getting song because your
story is something that all of a celebrated admired, your
role model for everybody else, trying to make you out
(06:09):
of a bad circumstance. And what do you do. You
put away a lot of bad guys who hurt a
lot of people, who killed people, and you make day
to day life better and this is what he does.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Yeah, I gotta say, John, I was incredibly disappointed and
angry too, not because I got transferred. I was upset
because of the why you know it was why I
was being transferred. It was to serve his own political
self interest. The job I have now is a great job.
I've learned a lot as a supervisor here of misdemeanors.
(06:43):
Misdemeanors are very important in the County of Los Angelesy,
and the aggregate affect people a lot more than some
of the lower level felony cases. But the reason I
wanted to tell the backstory of my life is so
that people can appreciate how hard I did work to
get to the pinnacle of For any criminal trial attorney,
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major crimes is the highest level you can go in
the largest prosecuting agency in the United States of America.
So to go from where I started on the day
I was told my dad died to where I got
to in major crimes handling those kinds of cases was
quite an accomplishment for me, because some people it might
seem like a small thing, but for me, it took
a lot of work to get there, and then to
(07:28):
have a guy just come along and ball that all
up and toss it to the side, just because he could.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Infuriate me, just disgraceful. At No, I'm not the only one.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
He the only one right, right, And so the public
has to understand that a real leader does not face
twenty five to thirty lawsuits from the people he's supposed
to be leading. A real leader doesn't face a nearly
(07:58):
ninety eight percent uh plebiscite of of his deputies who
want to see him recalled and replaced. A real leader
doesn't stand against half the cities in Los Angeles County
voting no confidence in his leadership. And that's where we
are with George Gascon and that's why we need to change.
And as you said, we have this, this, you know,
(08:18):
uniquely American opportunity to evict him from office.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
What what when you're you're out campaigning and you're talking
to normal people, right, what what do you hear from them?
I imagine that this is an unusually high level of
interest for this campaign, more so than usual in a
DA's race, especially a primary. What do you what are
you hearing from gat?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
You know, I'm hearing everything from disappointment to disgust. So
there's a lot of people who are just absolutely disgusted
with him and they're ready to vote for almost anyone else.
And then there are other people who don't feel quite
that strongly, but they are disappointed and they do recognize
that mistakes were made back in twenty twenty, and they
(09:06):
want to see things going in a new direction. But
it's important to them that it be the right person.
And I believe I'm the right person. I believe I
have the personal background. I have the lived experience of
growing up in a crime written environment. I understand victimization.
I saw it firsthand. I know what it's like to
have friends who are arrested in charge with crime and
(09:27):
want due process for them. And then you know, I've
had this amazing career here in the DIA's office for
twenty five years with a remarkably spotless record, and I
think that puts me in position to be the next
District Attorney of Los Angeles County.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Before you go, what's the most important thing you want
to accomplish if you win?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
I think it's very important to restore trust in the
criminal justice system. I think part of Gascon's design has
been to undermine trust the institution of our courts and
our prosecuting agency. He is the agent of chaos, and
we've got to start rebuilding that trust. It's going to
take a person of integrity, a person of character, a
(10:12):
person who proved it long before this campaign started, which
I think I've done over the course of my life.
Once we restore trust and get the public on our side,
get the public behind us, and we can make some
of the other changes that are so sorely needed.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
All Right, John, we'll talk with you again. I want
to get you on in even a longer format, all
right before the election.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Well, thank you John, John, and thank you for allowing
me to tell a little bit about my story. People
can learn more about me at my website mckenni four
la dot com.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Well you're a good man. You talk about integrity and
ethics and all that. You certainly have that and I
really wish you a lot of luck. Thank you, John,
I hope you do well. Thanks for coming on. We'll
talk again soon. All right. That's John McKinney and he
is running against George Gascone for district attorney. And how
(11:06):
much how different would the world be if we had
John McKinney in office the last four years instead of
I mean, I had despicable. I'm out of adjectives to
describe my disgust for George Gascon. This guy, you discipline
this guy. You heard his story. It's a true story,
how he had to grow up, what he had to overcome,
(11:27):
and to fight his way to the top of the
La County District Attorney's office and major crimes, a perfect record,
forty cases he won. And you take that knowledge and
that experience out of the system to prosecute misdemeanors. Because
McKinney is running for Gascon's office, so petty, so cowardly,
(11:51):
so wrong. I don't know how anybody listened to John
McKinney's story could possibly vote for George Gascon. I mean,
he is such a pet little dictator, just a really small,
petty man. All Right, we come back. I'm going to
tell you about Gascon's influence on the parole process has
(12:12):
caused more convicted felons, more convicted violent people to be
on the streets. Explain how this happens on the John
Cobelt Show.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Hold on, I got it this well. Lore Engele coming
back on the show. She is the national correspondent for
News Nation. Have you seen News Nation. It's an excellent
cable news channel. Find News Nation on your cable TV.
And lour Ingle's there and she is going to tell
us as to why we haven't seen the Jeffrey Epstein
(12:52):
documents yet and one hundred and eighty seven names that
are connected to the case. It's supposed to happen today.
Something's holding it up. Laura knows sell me on coming
up after three point thirty. Thomas Buckley did a great
piece on gascone today in the California Globe dot Com,
which is a news outlet California Globe dot Com and
(13:19):
gust goone. He says is known as a decarcerationist. I
have never heard this word, a decarcerationist. He wants as
few people in jail as possible. This is a this
is a progressive philosophy that has taken root among all
the people that are destroying our country. And you know,
George Soros funded this idea to get these woke district
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attorneys into office. And Buckley's written a story about this.
One of the things that Gascone did he ruled that
his staff could not attend parole hearings on behalf of
the victims because normally when a prisoner is up for parole,
the victims or the family of the victim can be
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part of the hearing. And he quotes Kathleen Katie, and
we've had her on the show. She is an advocate
who works for free on behalf of victims, and Katie said,
not surprisingly, not having a prosecutor at parole hearings has
resulted in a higher grant rate of parole. In twenty
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twenty one, the grant rate was thirty one percent when
a prosecutor went to a parole hearing, but thirty eight
percent when a prosecutor was absent. In twenty twenty two,
they granted parole twenty five percent of the time when
a prosecutor participated, but it was thirty three percent without
a prosecutor. So these inmates, these are inmates serving possibly
(15:00):
a life sentence, but they're eligible for parole along the way,
and the victim or the surviving members of the victim
is not allowed to have a prosecutor there to represent them.
And so instead of one in four prisoners being released,
it's one in three. Because a prosecutor means access to
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the prisoner's record while he's in prison. A prosecutor is
allowed to review an inmate's prison record before the parole hearing,
and they can share that information with the victim and
their families. For example, a hearing for an inmate with
a clean prison record will proceed differently than a problem prisoner.
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But if the victim doesn't have that information, then how
can they make their case effectively that the guy should
stay in prison. In This is the trick that Gascone pulled.
Because you may think, well, why do you have to
have a prosecutor with you? Do you need your handheld?
You can go by yourself. No, because the prosecutor would
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bring the prison record with him and a victim or
family members don't have access to that. If there's no prosecutor,
there's no information for the victim in their family that
they could use to make their case to keep the
inmate in prison. Gascon's assistant Diana Tern, notified the prison
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to stop allowing La County prosecutors to access prison records.
Gascone's office no longer even provides the parole board with
a prison packet detailing the facts of the case. Normally,
the board can look at things like the original police report,
transcripts of the interviews, case notes before making its decision,
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but this detailed information is not necessarily sent to the
prison at the time of the incarceration, and if the
prison doesn't have it, the board will not see it.
And without a prosecuting being involved. Not only does the
victim and the family have no access to the whole story,
neither does the parole board. You see how they rig
the system. They always have a good reason. It's like, well,
(17:24):
I'm sorry, according to our regulations, according to our rule.
Well they rig the rules in the regulation. Apparently. Diana
Teuran Gasconne's assistant originally said it was a pilot project,
but this pilot project has been sticking around for several
years now. And again, the whole point is, and they
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know what they're doing is to send violent criminals, even
violent criminals subject to life sentences, given parole. Early. It's
not life without role, it's life with parole. So periodically
they come up for a hearing this is this may
(18:11):
be the worst guy we've ever had in public office
at any level. I cannot remember ever doing as many
stories as we've done on a single office holder than
George Gascone. I can't. I mean, we've literally had hundreds
of stories over the last three years, but the fourth
year to come all right, we come back. We're going
(18:33):
to talk with Lora Angele and she's with News Nation.
News Nation is the hottest newest cable news channel. It's
a good channel. And she's covering the Jeffrey Epstein case
in New York. And today was the day they were
supposed to release hundreds of pages of documents with about
a couple of hundred names of people connected to the case.
(18:54):
Where we're going to get to see the names of
some of Epstein's customers. We don't know, but it was
supposed to be out. It's not been out. And why
is this? We're gonna have Loringle on coming up next
on the John Cobelt Show.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
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six forty.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
On from one until four after four o'clock John Cobelt
Show on demand on the iHeart app Conway coming up
after four o'clock. Well, you know, I started the show.
I was all excited because it was one o'clock here,
it was four o'clock on the East coast, and I
figured within an hour or two we were going to
get the big document, drop hundreds of pages of Jeffrey
(19:37):
Epstein court documents. It was going to have a couple
of one hundred names of people connected to the case.
Don't know in what capacity, but everybody's excited. Right. There
are rumors that Bill Clinton was mentioned multiple times, and then,
as often happens, a lot of hype, a big build up,
and nothing. Why is this? Well, we're gonna get lore
(19:58):
angle on again. She's with News Nation. As I said,
News Nation is a really good cable news channel. It's
fairly new and you should go find it on your
cable system and you'll see Laurel. She's their national correspondent
based in New York and she's covering the Epstein case. Laura,
how are you? I am good.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
We've got to add in the former KFI re porter, right,
that's right. All the years that we've been doing and
I cannot believe this. I cannot believe this is happening
right now. I have been waiting to talk to you.
I have been on the air for two days talking
about the Jeffrey Epstein documents about to be unsealed. We've
(20:36):
been waiting. I was here until midnight last night. They
just came out. So I'm not going to be able
to stay with you because I have to get on TV.
Nine hundred and thirty four pages have just been released
by the Southern District here in New York. This is
I'll give it to you quick. The court released an
order earlier today that the unsealing of the documents and
the records containing names of those who associated with Jeffrey Epstein,
(21:00):
but again who are not criminally charged.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Here.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
We're supposed to come out at some point.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
We've been hitting.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Refresh, refresh, refresh on PACER, which is the court system,
all day long. I literally just walk out of the
newsroom to come and do this hit with you, and
I'm just getting messages right now saying please come back.
It's just been dropped on PACER. So again, the court
is releasing these documents electronically, so now we're about to
(21:26):
dive into them. Here's the question. Who's on the list.
Those who are on the list know that they're on
the list because these are court documents, court records, depositions
that happen for people that were interviewed during the defamation
lawsuit of Epstein's former girlfriend, Jaselle Maxwell. And everybody in
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this document knows who they are. A lot of them
do not want their names released. So the District Executive
of this court told us earlier today that some of
these names there are two John Doe and a Jane,
two people listed as number one oh seven and one
ten were granted a special condition that their names would
not be released until January twenty second. The rest of
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them just got released. So we're about to dig into it.
I can certainly come back to you when I get
a minute, but I have to go back into the newsroom.
And so we have a plan in place. We've got
a team of people and we're all going to take
a chunk of this. We heard it was going to
be a couple of hundred pages. Now getting the message,
it's nine hundred and thirty four.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Wow, all right, we'll probably talk to you tomorrow in
detail about all this.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Yes, but a very big everybody who's you know, all
the talk shows here in New York have been saying,
you know, there's a lot of nervous people over Christmas
in New Year's because a lot of people don't want
their names in it. And here is the day, the
day that people some people have been dreading, is now
here and we are about to see who is on
the list. Remember, these are people who could be associates,
they could be accusers, they could be employees, they could
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be people that we've never even thought would have connections
to Jeffrey Epstein. And that's what we're going to find out.
We'll let you know what we get, all.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Right, Laura, we'll talk with you tomorrow. Thanks, Go do it,
all right, Laura Angel, formerly of Cathine News now with
the News Nation cable TV news channel. You should look
up and watch. Well, you know, while she was talking,
I was looking at various news sites and nobody has
any details so yet. As she said, it just came
over the internal court communications system there and all the
(23:23):
reporters have to run and now they've got to pour
through for the nine hundred and thirty four pages. Right,
that's what you said, And there's at least a couple
of hundred names. But again, nobody knows whether these are
people who knew Epstein socialized with Epstein worked for Epstein
some capacity not related to his procuring process. Some of
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them will be how many are clients, how many are
well known clients whose names you'll recognize, how many people
are going to be jumping off buildings? But you know,
the thing I have seen in common with these stories
when it involves somebody procuring young women for sex, whether
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it's create like Epstein and Glaine Mock Maxwell or the
Madams stories that pop up usually in New York or Washington, DC,
it's always prominent people, maybe not famous people, but prominent
in their industry. And it's usually people who make a
lot of money. This is what guys do when they
have a lot of money and they travel, or they
(24:31):
have a lot of money and they're not traveling, and
doesn't matter if they're married, they got to have six
kids at home. This is what they do. And I
don't know what's done to keep some people's names out
of publicity like this. I don't know if they write
a big check. I don't know if they issue horrible,
vile threats. But somehow, most of the time, the little
(24:53):
Black Book never gets revealed. We never find out the
contents of what's going on. Is this going to be different.
We don't know to see here, because you're gonna you're
gonna hear names, but it it may not be that
the names you hear were actual clients. But if for
some reason this judge got tired of everything being under
(25:13):
seal and everything being redacted, we will find out coming up,
maybe in a matter of minutes later or later in
the day, or certainly we'll go in depth tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
All right, you're listening to John Cobelt on demand from
KFI A M six forty, and.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
We just had lower Angle on and we thought, well,
let me tell you one o'clock. I thought, okay, sometime
in the next hour, we're gonna have the Jeffrey Epstein document. Dube,
this is what I'm we're talking about at one o'clock.
Because two o'clock, end of the business day. I figured
they promised the release, the judge is ready to go,
(25:57):
and nothing happens. It's supposed to get hundreds of names
of people connected to the Epstein case. Nothing And it
turned out there were two people who were requesting from
the judge special protection that they're not going to have
their names released for a period of time while they
appeal and one of the women is in a foreign
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country and claims she will be in danger if she's
named in her culturally conservative country. So the judge said, okay,
you got thirty days to appeal, and that would delay
the release of the name unless she can prove that
she will be in grave danger if her name is unredacted.
(26:41):
And there was somebody else with that situation as well,
and we're talking about one hundred and eighty seven people, right,
so there's one hundred and eighty five left. But I
guess that tied things up long enough that they're relie
So we had lour Angel come on from News Nation
and right at three thirty five, shoes posted at least well,
she was going to tell us what the hold up
was about and what the expectations were, And as she
(27:02):
came on, she said, they just released the names. They
just released nine hundred and thirty four pages of these documents.
And now at Newsdation that staff is going through, and
I guess all the networks and news sites are going through.
I was checking all the online sites and nobody even
had the bulletin that the documents had been released when
(27:25):
I was looking. So that will come out momentarily as
fast as as all these reporters and staffers can make
their way through nine hundred and thirty four pages. I'm
just looking here. Yeah, CNN is saying the same thing.
They're reviewing the documents, hundreds of pages unsealed. They're expecting
(27:45):
almost two hundred names some of his accusers, prominent business people, politicians,
and more people that work for them. The court order
was on December eighteenth, and h boy, it must must
be exciting behind the scenes. We're definitely gonna have war
(28:06):
on tomorrow or somebody for sure, uh to talk to
talk about the case, because this could this is going
to shake up a lot of lives. We think, like
I said, often, you know, you get this, uh, you
get all this hype, you get this burst of energy,
all this anticipation, and then poof, something happens. The names
(28:26):
aren't released because you know, these names are not one
hundred and eighty seven customers. So there's you know, obviously Epstein.
Epstein cultivated just hundreds and hundreds of acquaintanceships people passed
through he had. He seemed to have a strange magnetism.
Although I read a lot of people said that dinner
with him was kind of boring. It's not like he
(28:48):
knew a lot of stuff, but he seemed to know
a lot of people, and he just had this mysterious
air about him. And I guess the real attraction was
he was providing you know, fresh flesh, young girls, all
these creepy, weirdo guys. That was the That was the
beginning and end of the story. So we'll find out
(29:08):
tomorrow to hear about in San Francisco about this. There's
a video going around about a guy he's a fentinyl user.
This speaks to the to the depravity of San Francisco.
I mean, I actually have I'm collecting stories on the
(29:29):
depravity of San Francisco, and I have had a thick
folder here. This one came out a few days ago.
Video of a man high and fentanyl thrashing around on
the ground for two hours. For two hours, people stood
and watched and took video. Nobody helped him, because what
(29:55):
are you going to do with him? First of all,
you don't know what kind of diseases he's got, and
if he's thrashing, he could be violent, and then where
would you take him. There's no treatment for people against
their will. There's not even treatment if they do want
to get it now. Remember when the California I'm sorry,
(30:18):
when the Chinese leader, President G came to San Francisco,
Newsom made sure the city was cleaned up. It was spotless,
it was ready for like a July fourth parade, squeaky clean,
to show off to G how great California is. G
(30:42):
knew better, Newsom knows better. It's all to manipulate the
television news stories. And of course it works because the
dumb asses and TV news just generally report what they see.
They didn't they didn't see the cleanup, so we don't know.
So you got this guy. Apparently a local journalist got
(31:07):
the video and he says, these homeless advocates are trying
to cover up these kind of stories. There is an
account on x called Dodge Place, Tenderloin, SF. They shared
the video on that account. The man screamed for two hours.
(31:29):
He has his pants pulled down to his ankles. And
I've watched some of this video and it's true. This
really happened. He is rolling around on the ground, hitting himself,
moaning incoherently. Although that sounds like meth more than fentinyl,
because fentanyl puts you in a daze. You know, it's
(31:50):
a more intense cousin of heroin. And Erica Sandberg is
a host of San Francisco Beat. She's an independent journalist.
We've had her on the air. We should get her
back on the air to talk about this. I realize,
I realized, I recognize this name. And she says, what
frustrates the homeless advocates is they can't stop these images
(32:12):
and videos from going public. How sick and psychotic do
you have to be to be an advocate for this,
for this guy suffering from this f fentinal seizure. And
what is the upside of advocating this? I guess it's
too so you could continue getting tax funding for your
(32:33):
stupid fake nonprofit. I mean, that's got to be it.
I mean, you can't be proud of creating a policy
or enabling a policy that has a man thrashing around
on the ground for two hours. Erica wrote, what frustrates
the so called homeless activists They can't stop these images
and videos from going public. All the threats and shaming
(32:54):
attempts are feudal. We are going to share what is
happening to our fellow human beings on the streets, and
we will identify those responsible because the glow of November
when they cleaned up the streets for President g is gone.
That was the Apex summit, and that wrapped up November seventeenth,
(33:15):
and now, like one one architect was quoted as saying,
as you walk around here, you have to do the
poopy dance, always avoiding stepping in bleep. So we got
we gotta get Erica Sandberg on and talk about this
Conway is here.
Speaker 5 (33:30):
Hey, now, hey, look, we're setting up here for a
beautiful sunset. The sun's gonna be spectacular line because there's
no clouds in the west, but there's clouds over the
valley and then Orange County, so we're setting up for
one of those beautiful early January sunsets.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
So let's get outside the sunsets over the ocean. That's right,
that's right, I got to see the sunset. Look, no, no, no,
you're gonna.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
If you live in Orange County or in the valley,
you're gonna see the spectacular arsense. Okay, all right, we
have the other names coming out with Epstein that you know,
hopefully we'll have some of those nas nine hundred plus
pages of documents, man, oh man, and then some of
them have enough power to delay it until the late January.
I don't know what that buys them, but I guess something.
(34:13):
Big Bear Lake is getting its first snowfall of the winter.
That's cool for people like to ski. I don't know
if you're a skier or not.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Oh I tried, no good. Oh it was horrible. It
was you know. I had mothers screaming at me. Really,
I lost control and I ended up criss crossing onto
the bunny hill. Oh no, And mothers were taking their
little toddlers and swinging them in the air. Wow, because
I was flying past them, lying flat on my back. Oh.
(34:43):
And oh, was that the time you skied nude? I
was nude. This is really why they were screened. I
ended up crashing into a wooden fence. Oh no, no,
it's true. Where were you Big Bear?
Speaker 2 (34:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Yeah, or maybe mammoth. I don't know, man, you shouldn't
be No.
Speaker 5 (34:59):
Orange County hospitals are busy with an uptick in sick patients.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
I don't know what's going on there.
Speaker 5 (35:03):
And there's a warning issued as rain again brings back
danger to the beaches. After rain, you can't go in
that ocean, man floating duties.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
It's fecal back tome my god, Oh, it's disgust. It's
the worst.
Speaker 5 (35:15):
So we're going to get a cold spell tonight, tomorrow,
and Friday.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
It's gonna be cold as hell, all right, Yeah, dig
dong with you, Conway a weather sunset information.
Speaker 5 (35:24):
Yes, John colevelt Show. That bring it on, the Names
of Pedophiles. That's Friday, all.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Right, Conway. Next, Crozier's got the news live in the
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