January 23, 2024 • 39 mins
Judge Debra Archuleta comes on the show to talk about her campaign for DA. Avocados are ruining Mexico's ecosystem. More audio from the US Senate debate last night.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John
coblt podcast on the iHeartRadio app on the radio one
until four and after four o'clock John cobelts show on
demand on the iHeart app. Deborah Archiletta Judge. Deborah Archiletta
is one of the candidates to replace Los Angeles District
Attorney George Gascon that so many of us know and love.
(00:25):
She was part of the debate last week, and she's
been with us before, and she's here again. Judge, how
are you.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Well?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Good afternoon? Before we get started, I want to stand
my condolences to the Berera family, because not only are
they devastated, I feel devastated, as should the residents of
the County of Los Angeles with what has transpired with
this tragic case. So I wanted to at least get
that out of there.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
No, No, I'm glad you did. I just for people
just joining us. She's referring to Pedro Brera, who is
killed by a man named Victor to Messius. Dort to
Messius was fleeing the cops, crashed into Barrera's carre totally
an innocent driver. First, it severed Brera's arm and then
(01:12):
six weeks later he died. The thing is he was
let doorda Messius, was let out no bail on his
own recognizance, and now he blew through his court date
and he's never been charged with murder or any or
manslaughter or anything like that. So now, because I was
(01:32):
reading this story, I just became aware of it last hour.
Fox eleven had did something last night on it. What's
the protocol here? I mean, is this a George Gascon policy?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Well, this sounds like a George Gascon special because in
the twenty six years I was a prosecutor in the
district Attorney's office, this would never have been allowed to happen.
So this is the lack of leadership by the current
district attorney. And frankly, I was shocked. I was made
aware of this first thing this morning about six am,
about what had happened about this story and the fact
(02:11):
that not only did Gascone not have a filing when
this man tragically died of his injuries, but that there
was not a district attorney a deputy district attorney in
court asking for bail is an abomination and is an
affront to all of the law abiding citizens of Los
Angeles County. There is a lot of blame to go
(02:31):
around here. I don't want to be in the blame
game that I have to tell you. When I spent
twenty six years in the DA's office and there are
many candidates still in the office in this race, how
does this happen. It's unacceptable. It's a complete breakdown in
the criminal justice system from the lack of leadership by
(02:52):
George Gauiscone.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
What was your experience in the debate with Gascone and
all the other recompetitors. Just talk about how you felt
about the debate and your role in it and his role.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Well, the format I thought favored him. They gave him
a lot of time. The LA magazine debate, he routinely
got extra allowance for time compared to everyone else. I
don't feel that several of us had adequate time to
be fully heard. However, the Empowerment Congress debate which was
(03:26):
held a week ago last Saturday, hosted by Tavis Smiley
and Giselle Fernandez, it's on YouTube. I would suggest that
your listeners take a look at that particular debate. It
was a smaller debate stage with fewer candidates, we got
more time, more directed questions. In fact, we had to
fill out a twenty nine page questionnaire to get on
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the debate stage. So I felt that that format actually
allowed each of us candidates to be heard more in
depth than the last debate on LA magazine. It's a
crowded field, as we all know. However, everyone is buying
to get into the runoff with him or to take
(04:09):
him out completely on the primary on March fifth, so
I thought that the format could have been a little
bit better. I think that the public is getting familiar
with who we are and what we stand for. But
the Empowerment Congress was really a very eye opening debate
because once again Gascon stood up there at the Empowerment
Congress debate and started spewing his lies and his erroneous
(04:33):
false statistics, thinking that the electorate is ignorant and they're
going to buy his nonsense. I stood there with my
cell phone citing statistics from the Attorney General Rob Bont's
report from twenty twenty two, statistics that were released in
twenty twenty three at the end of the year, and
(04:53):
cutting him down at every opportunity. The only category that
has fallen were homicides. But other than that, every single
violent crime, larceny, theft, retail robberies, everything else is up.
And yet Gascon thinks we are so ignorant and stupid
as voters that he's just going to tell us his
lives and we're going to believe him, which once again
(05:16):
is why the La Times endorsed him over the weekend,
because they, like the Democratic Socialists of America, think that
we are not very intelligent, educated voters. But I think
that he is going to get a riot awakening on
March the fifth.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Well, people can see if they go to their local
drug store how much stuff is locked up now, I mean.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Just not on the shelf at all, all right.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Yeah, because it's already been cleared out by the thieves,
or they just stop stocking the shelves. I mean, I'm
shocked how much of that is going on. And I
don't need gasco AND's fake statistics to tell me what
I can see with my own eyes, to see how
I feel, how my wife feels when we walk around
it and I just walk into a restaurant or she
(06:02):
wants to go shopping. Everybody I know is scared. And
he was sitting through your debate, the LA Magazine debate,
acting as if everything is wonderful, not even that we
have challenges.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Yeah, go ahead, Well, I don't mean to interrupt. I apologize.
She asked us. One of the questions was, on a
scale of one to ten, how safe do you feel
in LA And I was the first person to answer
that question, and I unequivocally and loudly stated zero, And
there was applause in the audience. Zero. People do not
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feel safe. Are we safer now than we were three
years ago? And unequivocally, I don't care if I go
to Maywood, to Malibu, Palmdale, to Pomona and every place
in between. People do not feel safer now than when
he took over the helm of the District Attorney's office.
And he can feed has his problem, his statistics, his lies.
(07:02):
But as Mark Twain, the great American philosopher, once stated,
there's lies, there's damn lives, and then there's statistics. And
he does not feel that we know what we are
talking about when he stands up there and feeds us
his fake, lying statistics. When we are all living in
La County where people don't go to the malls they
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go to the drug stores, the shelves are empty. We
see the newsreels every single night. We see the encampments,
the tents, the tarks on the streets of LA. So
you know, George, we're smarter than that, even though you
in the La Times are not. We the voting public,
are smarter than that. And we will prove that to
him on March the fifth, before we.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Go for people who are not familiar with you. What's
what would the DA's office be like if Judge Debra
Archiletta was in charge. What's going to.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Change the first day, I'm revoking all of his blanket
police and we are restoring order to the chaos. I
am going to impose bail. I am going to impose
gun enhancements. I am going to impose strikes on the
violent and serious repeat offenders. Juveniles that do adult crimes
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will be doing adult time in the state prison that
has specifically set aside for juvenile offenders. We're not going
to put seventeen year olds in with thirty seven year olds.
We have a place to house these juveniles who are
being used as pawns in the organized crime retail theft
robbery ring. So the first day is going to look
very different because I am the judge. I'm going to
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enforce the law. I would ask your listeners and viewers
to go to Judge da for DA dot com this
afternoon or this evening. There's going to be a very
interesting drop on my website, and I will give you
a hint. I don't know. For those of you that
saw the debate last week, there was a discussion about
the gascon special Sadly, much like the case we're reading
(08:58):
about all over the news today and that you've covered
so eloquently and professionally, on behalf of the Bearrera family,
the defendants go into court and ask for a gascon special.
I asked if that is something we can order at
in and out. So if you check my website, my Instagram,
my Facebook, my Twitter tonight, there will be a video
(09:22):
I was at an in out out this morning ordering
a gascon special.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Okay, give me the name of your website again, it's
very simple.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
It's Judge DA for DA dot com. And we are
going to return sanity to the criminal justice system. Upon
my taking over the reigns and leadership of the District
Attorney's Office. Between being in the office for twenty eight
years and the elected superior Court judge in the race,
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the only other candidate besides Gascone who's won a county
wide race. I am the person with the experience, the
life experience, the qualifications, the trial experience. I've done over
one hundred jury trials, I've gone to one hundred and
fifty prole board hearings, and I've spent thirty five years
in a courtroom. George has never tried one case. He's
(10:18):
never attended one parleboard hearing on behalf of the victims
of violent and serious crimes. And I guarantee you he's
not spend one day in a courtroom as a prosecutor,
much less a year. All Right, we'll talk to restore
order to the chaos.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Okay, that's Judge DA for DA.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
That's correct, Debra Archiletta for DA District Attorney dot com.
All right, Judge DA for DA dot com.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
All right, thank you for coming on with us, and
we'll talk again.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Be well, and thank you for your coverage.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
You're welcome. All right. That's Judge Debrah Archiletta running for
Gascon's seat. Coming up Avocados. Oh there there's that. Well, no, no,
avocados are causing a lot of damage in Mexico. Your
consumption of avocados is leading to the destruction of the
Mexico ecosystems.
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at KFI. Your avocado habit is destroying the Mexican ecosystem.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
I just had an avocado today.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Yeah, so you did a little bit more damage.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
You don't know that my avocado's from Mexico.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Well, Mexican avocados are eighty percent of the market in
the United States.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Don't you remember? Somebody has some listener has an avocado
farm and sent me, I don't know twenty five avocados.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Well those have to be gone by now, Well they are.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
But I'm just saying there are places to get avocados.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
I'm assuming you're eating Mexican avocados and you're not even
checking to see I may check. And the reason this
has come up before is that the drug cartels have
gotten involved in avocado farming because it's so lucrative. But
this story doesn't even touch on the drug cartels. This
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is Max shooning in the La Times. Los Angeles is
the avocado capital of the United States. Over one hundred
and forty million avocados were sold here last year, more
than any other metropolitan areas. That seem ridiculous, one hundred
and forty million avocados, No for one metropolitan area. Well,
(19:16):
Max visited twenty five communities in two western Mexico states
that supply eighty percent of the avocado sold in the
United States. And it is leading to widespread deforestation and
water scarcity because they are chopping down a lot of
(19:37):
forestland to install avocado orchards, and you're using a massive
amount of water. They are creating private reservoirs, some as
big as two NFL football fields, common sights in these
drought prone states, and the indigenous communities and the other
(19:58):
residents are trying to protect the forests and the water
supply from avocado production. And you know what they're met with,
what threats and violence? Now he won't say it because
it's the La Times and they don't tell the truth.
But where you think the threats and violence are coming from,
it would be the drug cartels, and it says many
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people are trying to document the destruction of the forest.
I mean, doesn't this make you feel a little bit guilty,
nose a little bit sad?
Speaker 5 (20:27):
Yes, I do feel sad, but I really make sure
that I would say most of my avocados do not
come from Mexico.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Well, I don't know how you're doing that.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
Well, because when you go to a farmer's market or
again that listener, right, there are there are avocado farms
in southern California, right, there are places to buy local
avocados that are not from Mexico.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Well, he writes that, you know, there's a US Mexico
avocado certification program, but that is focused on pest control.
But they have GPS maps of every single avocado orchid
that is certified for US export, and he said they
could use this technology to track, uh, you know, whether
these avocados are being grown and environmentally sensitive areas because
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the the these avocado harvesters, again, the drug cartels, but
he won't say it. They're illegally deforesting the land. The
Times asked them what they were doing to ensure that
their suppliers do not raise the forests and steal the water,
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and they don't want to answer. So I just want
all the precious West Siders. You know, you're a whole
rab there.
Speaker 5 (21:46):
I don't live on the West side, the West Valley.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Similar similar, because you think you're you know, your your
diet is so organic and proper and precious. You're eating
avocados and you're not eating meat. Yes, well, but you're
destroying massive amounts of forest.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
I just told you that most of my avocados don't
come from Mexico.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
So he writes the last line, one thing you can
trust when when you eat guacam Mollie, or avocado toast,
there's a big risk it has a backstory of environmental
degradation and abuse. In next, Molly, wuacam, what did I say?
Guacamley said? Guacam Molly, Guacamoley.
Speaker 13 (22:30):
He's never had it.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
I never had it, so how would I know how
to stay? I just use American words. Guacam Molly.
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Around the radio one until four after four o'clock John
Cobelt's show on demand the podcast, and on that podcast,
we played a lot of clips in the one o'clock
hour of the debate between Steve Garvey and the three
demos about Garvey not wanting to say yet whether he's
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voting for Donald Trump, and it caused quite a disturbance.
The question was posed by the guest questioner, Moe Kelly
from KFI, and it started quite a ruckus that went
on for at least eight minutes by my count. Here
all the cuts that we have, I'm not gonna play
those now. We played most of them in the one
o'clock hours. You should go to the podcast and listen
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to them because they covered other things. And we also
had Steve Garvey on in the first hour as well,
and I find his approach to be really refreshing and
in contrast to the screechiness of Adam Schiff, Barbara Lee,
Katie Porter, who lecture everyone with the same old, tired
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progressive slogans. This progressive politics has failed us, period. Obviously.
Just look around, all right. I mean, we've got terrible inflation,
especially in the grocery store and at the gas pump,
and the border has unleashed a tsunami of humans that
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no city can house, can't school, can't take care of them.
It's a terrible policy. And I noticed in some of
the polling, and if they will probably get more in
this tomorrow, most Democrats are feeling this way. Majority of Democrats.
It was a new poll, I think by Harvard Harris,
and they said that the border's busted. It's got to
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be fixed. But it's Biden's worst issue by far, and
it's the most important issue in many of the polls.
It's becoming more important than the economy. And here in California,
the woke progressive politics that led to massive homelessness and
rampant crime see George Gascon. It's all got to come
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to an end. And I don't care how loud Adam
Shift bellows with his nonsens or how much Katie Porter
and Barber Lee screeches. Steve Garvey is right. He needs
our representative ought to be listening to us, and he
needs to go over to Washington and start cutting deals.
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And both parties have got to start compromising and cutting
deals and making things better. I'm sick of hearing people
preaching their ideology. It's just it's hit a dead end.
It's not working. Okay, we're in a failed state here.
Let's go to some of the other issues outside of Trump.
(25:39):
And this is cut seven. This is how Steve Garvey
answered the homeless question.
Speaker 8 (25:45):
And it's the last time and I view any of
you went to t inner city actually walked up to
the homeless as I have over these last three weeks.
I've gone to San Diego and Los Angeles and Sacramento,
and actually, because this is part of you know, I'm
not a politician, but I needed to talk to the
people who they say I needed to talk to the homeless,
(26:06):
went up to them and touched them and listen to them,
and you want. They looked at me and they said,
you're the first time.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Anybody's come up and asked us about our life.
Speaker 8 (26:14):
The homeless man who spent five years on the street
in Sacramento. They don't get it. When I go back
to the Senate a year from now, when i'm your
alex elected US Senator from California, the first thing I'll
do is an audit.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Where have the thirty billion.
Speaker 8 (26:31):
Dollars the federal government has spent. Just look at the
Alpha Project in San Diego and the Dream Center right
close to here. These are examples of what can be
done when you spend your money wisely. And by the way,
these are career politicians. They talk about Washington being dysfunctional.
Speaker 6 (26:50):
Thank you, mister Garvey, you're Washington.
Speaker 19 (26:52):
I know I'm the youngest person on this stage, but
my career didn't just last five years. I was elected
to Congress five years ago. I am not a career politician,
but I'm proud of the work I've done in Congress.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
That a second. So that's what Katie Porter got out
of it. She felt insulted being called a career politician
instead of addressing what Steve Garvey said about homelessness, it's
interesting narcissists there. All she got out of it is like, wait,
wait a second, I've only been here five years. What
(27:28):
has she done in five years that's alleviated homelessness. Maybe
she voted for Dill's to spend more money. I don't know.
That is a failure to spending more money. And then
you heard Barbara Lee jump in there. Can you roll
back the tape just a few seconds, and I want
to hear Barbara Lee, again.
Speaker 19 (27:48):
Not a career politician, but I'm proud of the work
I've done in Congress.
Speaker 17 (27:53):
Patrone, and I have just got to say, is somebody
who's been unsheltered. I cannot believe how he described his
walk and touching and being there.
Speaker 8 (28:08):
Well, you do really care, if you care about let's
get some order.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Let's get some.
Speaker 10 (28:16):
Order in there.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Okay, Garvey sounded normal. These people sounded like they're just screeching.
What did he say that was wrong? Oh? This I
noticed when I heard some of the debate last night.
Barbara Lee, We're now gone. We're beyond homeless and unhoused.
Now it's unsheltered, unsheltered. She constantly was. I mean, you know,
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and you know what I resent. I read an Alley
Times columnists today, Mark Barbarack. I think his name is
whatever it is, it doesn't matter. He's there one of
their political course, he writes. He writes a column, and
the immediate assumption is, uh, Garvey has little to no
chance of winning. So here we are in January, we're
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still six weeks away from the primary, we're ten months
away from November. But he falls into the same lame,
cliched coverage he didn't write extensively about what Garvey said
or what the other candidates said. It's like, well, you know,
it's the attitude was, well, you know, California's Democratic states
or republican is very legit. Let's this switch stop a second.
(29:26):
You listen to what he said. Is this really a
Republican Democrat issue? Or is this an issue of why
don't we do what works? Why don't we figure out
what might work? Because clearly what we're doing is a failure.
Why doesn't every so called journalist and so called columnist,
Why don't you approach one time from that point of view?
(29:47):
What's worked in California? Virtually nothing? Garve? You picked out
a couple of isolated programs, All right, is that a
model that you could scale up? Why don't you write
about that in SA Republican? Sorry, he's got little to do. Jay.
Maybe if we reframe the way we talk about these
issues and the way we listen to people about these issues,
(30:09):
we could keep asking the question does this work? Use
your own eyes? Does this work?
Speaker 18 (30:16):
No?
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Let's play Adam schiff on Unshelteredness got eight.
Speaker 20 (30:25):
First of all, this will be my one and only
baseball analogy for the evening. Okay, Christer Gray, I'm sorry
that was a total swing and I miss that was
a total whiff of an answer. And I say that
you know credit where creditors do?
Speaker 1 (30:38):
You're a hell of a ball player?
Speaker 20 (30:39):
Can I just say that you're a heal of a ballplayer?
Speaker 1 (30:42):
But here's the thing.
Speaker 20 (30:43):
This is predominantly a problem of not enough housing.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
It's a supply problem. Oh crap.
Speaker 20 (30:49):
And we need to build hundreds of thousands of units
of new housing. We can do that if we incentivize
through tax credits the building of affordable housing. Otherwise we're
not we're going to solve this problem. We need to
make sure also local government responds quickly to the need
for housing with approvals of housing. We also need to
make sure that people been stay in housing, and when
(31:10):
we do find shelter for those who are homeless, that
they get the services mental health services, substance abuse services
they need to stay sheltered. You know, I want to
go back to something that Barbara Lee said in her
first answer on this Housing is a human right.
Speaker 10 (31:26):
You know, it pains me to see so many people
living on the street.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
And then the state is prosperous.
Speaker 20 (31:31):
Is this one is utterly unnecessary and therefore utterly shameful
that we don't do more to address this problem.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Holy crap, he's one of those guys. We just got
to build everybody a free house. And then what no
mention that the border is overrun with fentdel deliveries. And
then the people here in La and San Francisco inject
fentital by the thousands, and by the thousands they die.
(32:01):
And that is on Shift and his party and his president,
they're directly responsible for allowing the fentinl and the meth
over the border. But what what what shiff wants to
do is build houses. Do you have any idea what
kind of cost that is? This idea that housing is
a human right. Here's how it works in the real world.
You got to get up in the morning and go
(32:22):
to work and earn a paycheck, and that's how you
get you get shelter. That's the only way to do it.
There is no other way. You can't waste your life
on drugs and booze and have your mental illness go untreated.
You can't do that. I got to build a house
for you. We've got some more about the border coming up.
(32:46):
When we return.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
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Speaker 1 (32:54):
Got some more clips from last night's debate between Adam Schiff,
Barbara Lee, and the Katie Porter, the three Democrats, and
Steve the only Republican who came across as a reasonable person,
a normal person amidst all their fanaticism and screeching of
these progressives, who really I you know, it's got to
(33:14):
be said every day progressivism has killed California, has made
California unlivable, and so we got to change, We got
to do something else. It's a failure, and you know
it's a failure. These people are in it for their careers,
but they can't credibly claim any of this is successful.
(33:34):
On the border issue, listen to Barbara Lee.
Speaker 17 (33:40):
As I said earlier, I was born and raised in
a borders city, El Paso, Texas, in an immigrant community. Secondly,
no person is illegal.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Thirdly, we have got to.
Speaker 17 (33:51):
Have an immigration policy that provides for due process, that's orderly,
and that is humane. Right now, the President is trying
to get Republicans, mind you, to step up and support
over a billion dollars to make sure that immigrants are
treated fairly in the communities where Governor Abbott and DeSantis
are sending migrants, pinning migrants against residents. And so what
(34:16):
I intend to do is first make sure that we
get this funding so that these communities can treat immigrants
properly and make sure that the jobs that are yearning
for employees are filled.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Thank you, thank you, Congress.
Speaker 17 (34:31):
I've come to this country for a better life. Oh,
economy depends on the good work of immigrants.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Why, boy, she's a nut tired, stale cliches. No person
is illegal. Oh, I haven't heard that one before. Nobody
ever asks this crowd. So how many can come in?
How many right now? We're getting three million a year?
Should it be just twelve million, okay, since none of
them are illegal? Twenty million, thirty million? And she says,
(35:00):
you know, we've got to get We've got to get
into the jobs that I guess they're sitting there unfilled.
The unemployment rate is extremely low. They brag about the
low unemployment rate, and then they claim there's all these
job openings for all these migrants. No, there's not. It's
our job openings. It's working under the table at a
a at what at subminimum wage way below minimum wage. Hell, uh,
(35:28):
this is Steve Garvey on the border.
Speaker 20 (35:30):
Kennelly, I think this question deserves a lot more than
thirty seconds.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Now cut ten, I'm looking for.
Speaker 10 (35:40):
Hold on.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
We've just got to reboot. And this is Garvey and
he mentions, uh, Lee's comment about no one being illegal,
but okay, temporarily lost. But this is the problem with debates, campaigns,
(36:01):
political coverage. It's the same sound baits, the same cliches.
Somebody should confront Barbara Lee and let's get beyond no
person is illegal. What a dumb comment. It's about whether
they're admitted to the country legally or not. It's not
about walking up to a person saying you are illegal.
This thing still lost. Yeah, all right, well we'll get
(36:24):
get to it tomorrow. We have both Conway, hey, no,
and Thompson.
Speaker 12 (36:30):
Yes, that's what I call radio ding dong, Yes, ding
and dog.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
That's right. That's what what do you got going on?
Speaker 12 (36:38):
Well, we had Christina Pascucci missed out on that debate
last night because I don't know, they're anti woman or.
Speaker 10 (36:43):
Something, robbed your debate time.
Speaker 12 (36:46):
Yeah, so we'll have her on tonight five to clarify
her points and give her some of Mo Kelly's questions.
Speaker 10 (36:52):
Oh yeah, I saw Mo asking questions.
Speaker 12 (36:56):
Great, best thing about the remote. Yeah, and then we
have the homeless count is underway, so they're count on
how they do that?
Speaker 10 (37:04):
Is John involved in that?
Speaker 1 (37:05):
I don't think so.
Speaker 9 (37:06):
I'd like to see John Cobeld out there on the
homeless You want to go tonight?
Speaker 10 (37:10):
Tonight? I have plans.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Maybe if you always have plans every year, I asked
you to do the homeless.
Speaker 10 (37:15):
Town when there's a homeless count, I have plans.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
It looks at like outside your comfort zone. How do
they do that?
Speaker 12 (37:21):
I mean, don't these guys move around pretty good?
Speaker 1 (37:24):
They do it at night. They do like you get
to go to skid Row at two in the morning
and count homeless.
Speaker 12 (37:30):
And then the La Times editors said, look, if you
have to leave the state of California, we get it,
but don't trash the rest of us on the way out.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
I saw that. Don't insult us. Don't insult us on
the way. LA Times lost one hundred and fifteen people.
They're in trouble, sadly, Yeah, one hundred and fifteen. Not
the boot.
Speaker 9 (37:49):
You're not a fan, but I think it's just said, journalism,
pro journalism hurting.
Speaker 10 (37:54):
That's not good.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
No, it is sad because we're not going to have
a paper anymore.
Speaker 10 (37:57):
Yeah, Angeles, I agree.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
Did Jim Murray you make it? Or did he get cut?
Jim passed on a few years.
Speaker 10 (38:03):
Yeah, Jim maybe, Yeah, crack that sports.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
The Grantlin Rice he died too. Breeze Airways is around.
Speaker 12 (38:11):
Then they announced they would be adding three new seasonal
flights from Lax.
Speaker 10 (38:15):
So that's cool. And where are they going?
Speaker 12 (38:17):
They're going from Lax, Orange County.
Speaker 9 (38:19):
Yeah, yeah, it's there. I guess a lot of people
don't like that drive anymore.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
No, he's making these stories up, but I don't.
Speaker 10 (38:27):
I just got caught on.
Speaker 12 (38:28):
Hey listen, it's a NonStop. They don't have to refuel
and Pomona.
Speaker 15 (38:33):
No.
Speaker 12 (38:34):
Well, they used to stop in Long Beach and then
people got pissed like that. You can't make it all
the way down, and now they go straight from Lax,
Orange County.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
I gotta get out of here day, Thompson.
Speaker 10 (38:44):
I say that usually about an hour in.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
I don't know how you do it. Kruze has got
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demand on the iHeart app. Deborah Archiletta Judge. Deborah Archiletta
is one of the candidates to replace Los Angeles District
Attorney George Gascon that so many of us know and love.
(00:25):
She was part of the debate last week, and she's
been with us before, and she's here again. Judge, how
are you.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Well?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Good afternoon? Before we get started, I want to stand
my condolences to the Berera family, because not only are
they devastated, I feel devastated, as should the residents of
the County of Los Angeles with what has transpired with
this tragic case. So I wanted to at least get
that out of there.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
No, No, I'm glad you did. I just for people
just joining us. She's referring to Pedro Brera, who is
killed by a man named Victor to Messius. Dort to
Messius was fleeing the cops, crashed into Barrera's carre totally
an innocent driver. First, it severed Brera's arm and then
(01:12):
six weeks later he died. The thing is he was
let doorda Messius, was let out no bail on his
own recognizance, and now he blew through his court date
and he's never been charged with murder or any or
manslaughter or anything like that. So now, because I was
(01:32):
reading this story, I just became aware of it last hour.
Fox eleven had did something last night on it. What's
the protocol here? I mean, is this a George Gascon policy?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Well, this sounds like a George Gascon special because in
the twenty six years I was a prosecutor in the
district Attorney's office, this would never have been allowed to happen.
So this is the lack of leadership by the current
district attorney. And frankly, I was shocked. I was made
aware of this first thing this morning about six am,
about what had happened about this story and the fact
(02:11):
that not only did Gascone not have a filing when
this man tragically died of his injuries, but that there
was not a district attorney a deputy district attorney in
court asking for bail is an abomination and is an
affront to all of the law abiding citizens of Los
Angeles County. There is a lot of blame to go
(02:31):
around here. I don't want to be in the blame
game that I have to tell you. When I spent
twenty six years in the DA's office and there are
many candidates still in the office in this race, how
does this happen. It's unacceptable. It's a complete breakdown in
the criminal justice system from the lack of leadership by
(02:52):
George Gauiscone.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
What was your experience in the debate with Gascone and
all the other recompetitors. Just talk about how you felt
about the debate and your role in it and his role.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Well, the format I thought favored him. They gave him
a lot of time. The LA magazine debate, he routinely
got extra allowance for time compared to everyone else. I
don't feel that several of us had adequate time to
be fully heard. However, the Empowerment Congress debate which was
(03:26):
held a week ago last Saturday, hosted by Tavis Smiley
and Giselle Fernandez, it's on YouTube. I would suggest that
your listeners take a look at that particular debate. It
was a smaller debate stage with fewer candidates, we got
more time, more directed questions. In fact, we had to
fill out a twenty nine page questionnaire to get on
(03:49):
the debate stage. So I felt that that format actually
allowed each of us candidates to be heard more in
depth than the last debate on LA magazine. It's a
crowded field, as we all know. However, everyone is buying
to get into the runoff with him or to take
(04:09):
him out completely on the primary on March fifth, so
I thought that the format could have been a little
bit better. I think that the public is getting familiar
with who we are and what we stand for. But
the Empowerment Congress was really a very eye opening debate
because once again Gascon stood up there at the Empowerment
Congress debate and started spewing his lies and his erroneous
(04:33):
false statistics, thinking that the electorate is ignorant and they're
going to buy his nonsense. I stood there with my
cell phone citing statistics from the Attorney General Rob Bont's
report from twenty twenty two, statistics that were released in
twenty twenty three at the end of the year, and
(04:53):
cutting him down at every opportunity. The only category that
has fallen were homicides. But other than that, every single
violent crime, larceny, theft, retail robberies, everything else is up.
And yet Gascon thinks we are so ignorant and stupid
as voters that he's just going to tell us his
lives and we're going to believe him, which once again
(05:16):
is why the La Times endorsed him over the weekend,
because they, like the Democratic Socialists of America, think that
we are not very intelligent, educated voters. But I think
that he is going to get a riot awakening on
March the fifth.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Well, people can see if they go to their local
drug store how much stuff is locked up now, I mean.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Just not on the shelf at all, all right.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Yeah, because it's already been cleared out by the thieves,
or they just stop stocking the shelves. I mean, I'm
shocked how much of that is going on. And I
don't need gasco AND's fake statistics to tell me what
I can see with my own eyes, to see how
I feel, how my wife feels when we walk around
it and I just walk into a restaurant or she
(06:02):
wants to go shopping. Everybody I know is scared. And
he was sitting through your debate, the LA Magazine debate,
acting as if everything is wonderful, not even that we
have challenges.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Yeah, go ahead, Well, I don't mean to interrupt. I apologize.
She asked us. One of the questions was, on a
scale of one to ten, how safe do you feel
in LA And I was the first person to answer
that question, and I unequivocally and loudly stated zero, And
there was applause in the audience. Zero. People do not
(06:39):
feel safe. Are we safer now than we were three
years ago? And unequivocally, I don't care if I go
to Maywood, to Malibu, Palmdale, to Pomona and every place
in between. People do not feel safer now than when
he took over the helm of the District Attorney's office.
And he can feed has his problem, his statistics, his lies.
(07:02):
But as Mark Twain, the great American philosopher, once stated,
there's lies, there's damn lives, and then there's statistics. And
he does not feel that we know what we are
talking about when he stands up there and feeds us
his fake, lying statistics. When we are all living in
La County where people don't go to the malls they
(07:24):
go to the drug stores, the shelves are empty. We
see the newsreels every single night. We see the encampments,
the tents, the tarks on the streets of LA. So
you know, George, we're smarter than that, even though you
in the La Times are not. We the voting public,
are smarter than that. And we will prove that to
him on March the fifth, before we.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Go for people who are not familiar with you. What's
what would the DA's office be like if Judge Debra
Archiletta was in charge. What's going to.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Change the first day, I'm revoking all of his blanket
police and we are restoring order to the chaos. I
am going to impose bail. I am going to impose
gun enhancements. I am going to impose strikes on the
violent and serious repeat offenders. Juveniles that do adult crimes
(08:15):
will be doing adult time in the state prison that
has specifically set aside for juvenile offenders. We're not going
to put seventeen year olds in with thirty seven year olds.
We have a place to house these juveniles who are
being used as pawns in the organized crime retail theft
robbery ring. So the first day is going to look
very different because I am the judge. I'm going to
(08:37):
enforce the law. I would ask your listeners and viewers
to go to Judge da for DA dot com this
afternoon or this evening. There's going to be a very
interesting drop on my website, and I will give you
a hint. I don't know. For those of you that
saw the debate last week, there was a discussion about
the gascon special Sadly, much like the case we're reading
(08:58):
about all over the news today and that you've covered
so eloquently and professionally, on behalf of the Bearrera family,
the defendants go into court and ask for a gascon special.
I asked if that is something we can order at
in and out. So if you check my website, my Instagram,
my Facebook, my Twitter tonight, there will be a video
(09:22):
I was at an in out out this morning ordering
a gascon special.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Okay, give me the name of your website again, it's
very simple.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
It's Judge DA for DA dot com. And we are
going to return sanity to the criminal justice system. Upon
my taking over the reigns and leadership of the District
Attorney's Office. Between being in the office for twenty eight
years and the elected superior Court judge in the race,
(09:55):
the only other candidate besides Gascone who's won a county
wide race. I am the person with the experience, the
life experience, the qualifications, the trial experience. I've done over
one hundred jury trials, I've gone to one hundred and
fifty prole board hearings, and I've spent thirty five years
in a courtroom. George has never tried one case. He's
(10:18):
never attended one parleboard hearing on behalf of the victims
of violent and serious crimes. And I guarantee you he's
not spend one day in a courtroom as a prosecutor,
much less a year. All Right, we'll talk to restore
order to the chaos.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Okay, that's Judge DA for DA.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
That's correct, Debra Archiletta for DA District Attorney dot com.
All right, Judge DA for DA dot com.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
All right, thank you for coming on with us, and
we'll talk again.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Be well, and thank you for your coverage.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
You're welcome. All right. That's Judge Debrah Archiletta running for
Gascon's seat. Coming up Avocados. Oh there there's that. Well, no, no,
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at KFI. Your avocado habit is destroying the Mexican ecosystem.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
I just had an avocado today.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Yeah, so you did a little bit more damage.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
You don't know that my avocado's from Mexico.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Well, Mexican avocados are eighty percent of the market in
the United States.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Don't you remember? Somebody has some listener has an avocado
farm and sent me, I don't know twenty five avocados.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Well those have to be gone by now, Well they are.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
But I'm just saying there are places to get avocados.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
I'm assuming you're eating Mexican avocados and you're not even
checking to see I may check. And the reason this
has come up before is that the drug cartels have
gotten involved in avocado farming because it's so lucrative. But
this story doesn't even touch on the drug cartels. This
(18:53):
is Max shooning in the La Times. Los Angeles is
the avocado capital of the United States. Over one hundred
and forty million avocados were sold here last year, more
than any other metropolitan areas. That seem ridiculous, one hundred
and forty million avocados, No for one metropolitan area. Well,
(19:16):
Max visited twenty five communities in two western Mexico states
that supply eighty percent of the avocado sold in the
United States. And it is leading to widespread deforestation and
water scarcity because they are chopping down a lot of
(19:37):
forestland to install avocado orchards, and you're using a massive
amount of water. They are creating private reservoirs, some as
big as two NFL football fields, common sights in these
drought prone states, and the indigenous communities and the other
(19:58):
residents are trying to protect the forests and the water
supply from avocado production. And you know what they're met with,
what threats and violence? Now he won't say it because
it's the La Times and they don't tell the truth.
But where you think the threats and violence are coming from,
it would be the drug cartels, and it says many
(20:20):
people are trying to document the destruction of the forest.
I mean, doesn't this make you feel a little bit guilty,
nose a little bit sad?
Speaker 5 (20:27):
Yes, I do feel sad, but I really make sure
that I would say most of my avocados do not
come from Mexico.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Well, I don't know how you're doing that.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
Well, because when you go to a farmer's market or
again that listener, right, there are there are avocado farms
in southern California, right, there are places to buy local
avocados that are not from Mexico.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Well, he writes that, you know, there's a US Mexico
avocado certification program, but that is focused on pest control.
But they have GPS maps of every single avocado orchid
that is certified for US export, and he said they
could use this technology to track, uh, you know, whether
these avocados are being grown and environmentally sensitive areas because
(21:19):
the the these avocado harvesters, again, the drug cartels, but
he won't say it. They're illegally deforesting the land. The
Times asked them what they were doing to ensure that
their suppliers do not raise the forests and steal the water,
(21:40):
and they don't want to answer. So I just want
all the precious West Siders. You know, you're a whole
rab there.
Speaker 5 (21:46):
I don't live on the West side, the West Valley.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Similar similar, because you think you're you know, your your
diet is so organic and proper and precious. You're eating
avocados and you're not eating meat. Yes, well, but you're
destroying massive amounts of forest.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
I just told you that most of my avocados don't
come from Mexico.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
So he writes the last line, one thing you can
trust when when you eat guacam Mollie, or avocado toast,
there's a big risk it has a backstory of environmental
degradation and abuse. In next, Molly, wuacam, what did I say?
Guacamley said? Guacam Molly, Guacamoley.
Speaker 13 (22:30):
He's never had it.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
I never had it, so how would I know how
to stay? I just use American words. Guacam Molly.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI. Am
six forty.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Around the radio one until four after four o'clock John
Cobelt's show on demand the podcast, and on that podcast,
we played a lot of clips in the one o'clock
hour of the debate between Steve Garvey and the three
demos about Garvey not wanting to say yet whether he's
(23:06):
voting for Donald Trump, and it caused quite a disturbance.
The question was posed by the guest questioner, Moe Kelly
from KFI, and it started quite a ruckus that went
on for at least eight minutes by my count. Here
all the cuts that we have, I'm not gonna play
those now. We played most of them in the one
o'clock hours. You should go to the podcast and listen
(23:27):
to them because they covered other things. And we also
had Steve Garvey on in the first hour as well,
and I find his approach to be really refreshing and
in contrast to the screechiness of Adam Schiff, Barbara Lee,
Katie Porter, who lecture everyone with the same old, tired
(23:50):
progressive slogans. This progressive politics has failed us, period. Obviously.
Just look around, all right. I mean, we've got terrible inflation,
especially in the grocery store and at the gas pump,
and the border has unleashed a tsunami of humans that
(24:15):
no city can house, can't school, can't take care of them.
It's a terrible policy. And I noticed in some of
the polling, and if they will probably get more in
this tomorrow, most Democrats are feeling this way. Majority of Democrats.
It was a new poll, I think by Harvard Harris,
and they said that the border's busted. It's got to
(24:38):
be fixed. But it's Biden's worst issue by far, and
it's the most important issue in many of the polls.
It's becoming more important than the economy. And here in California,
the woke progressive politics that led to massive homelessness and
rampant crime see George Gascon. It's all got to come
(24:58):
to an end. And I don't care how loud Adam
Shift bellows with his nonsens or how much Katie Porter
and Barber Lee screeches. Steve Garvey is right. He needs
our representative ought to be listening to us, and he
needs to go over to Washington and start cutting deals.
(25:19):
And both parties have got to start compromising and cutting
deals and making things better. I'm sick of hearing people
preaching their ideology. It's just it's hit a dead end.
It's not working. Okay, we're in a failed state here.
Let's go to some of the other issues outside of Trump.
(25:39):
And this is cut seven. This is how Steve Garvey
answered the homeless question.
Speaker 8 (25:45):
And it's the last time and I view any of
you went to t inner city actually walked up to
the homeless as I have over these last three weeks.
I've gone to San Diego and Los Angeles and Sacramento,
and actually, because this is part of you know, I'm
not a politician, but I needed to talk to the
people who they say I needed to talk to the homeless,
(26:06):
went up to them and touched them and listen to them,
and you want. They looked at me and they said,
you're the first time.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Anybody's come up and asked us about our life.
Speaker 8 (26:14):
The homeless man who spent five years on the street
in Sacramento. They don't get it. When I go back
to the Senate a year from now, when i'm your
alex elected US Senator from California, the first thing I'll
do is an audit.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Where have the thirty billion.
Speaker 8 (26:31):
Dollars the federal government has spent. Just look at the
Alpha Project in San Diego and the Dream Center right
close to here. These are examples of what can be
done when you spend your money wisely. And by the way,
these are career politicians. They talk about Washington being dysfunctional.
Speaker 6 (26:50):
Thank you, mister Garvey, you're Washington.
Speaker 19 (26:52):
I know I'm the youngest person on this stage, but
my career didn't just last five years. I was elected
to Congress five years ago. I am not a career politician,
but I'm proud of the work I've done in Congress.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
That a second. So that's what Katie Porter got out
of it. She felt insulted being called a career politician
instead of addressing what Steve Garvey said about homelessness, it's
interesting narcissists there. All she got out of it is like, wait,
wait a second, I've only been here five years. What
(27:28):
has she done in five years that's alleviated homelessness. Maybe
she voted for Dill's to spend more money. I don't know.
That is a failure to spending more money. And then
you heard Barbara Lee jump in there. Can you roll
back the tape just a few seconds, and I want
to hear Barbara Lee, again.
Speaker 19 (27:48):
Not a career politician, but I'm proud of the work
I've done in Congress.
Speaker 17 (27:53):
Patrone, and I have just got to say, is somebody
who's been unsheltered. I cannot believe how he described his
walk and touching and being there.
Speaker 8 (28:08):
Well, you do really care, if you care about let's
get some order.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Let's get some.
Speaker 10 (28:16):
Order in there.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Okay, Garvey sounded normal. These people sounded like they're just screeching.
What did he say that was wrong? Oh? This I
noticed when I heard some of the debate last night.
Barbara Lee, We're now gone. We're beyond homeless and unhoused.
Now it's unsheltered, unsheltered. She constantly was. I mean, you know,
(28:41):
and you know what I resent. I read an Alley
Times columnists today, Mark Barbarack. I think his name is
whatever it is, it doesn't matter. He's there one of
their political course, he writes. He writes a column, and
the immediate assumption is, uh, Garvey has little to no
chance of winning. So here we are in January, we're
(29:05):
still six weeks away from the primary, we're ten months
away from November. But he falls into the same lame,
cliched coverage he didn't write extensively about what Garvey said
or what the other candidates said. It's like, well, you know,
it's the attitude was, well, you know, California's Democratic states
or republican is very legit. Let's this switch stop a second.
(29:26):
You listen to what he said. Is this really a
Republican Democrat issue? Or is this an issue of why
don't we do what works? Why don't we figure out
what might work? Because clearly what we're doing is a failure.
Why doesn't every so called journalist and so called columnist,
Why don't you approach one time from that point of view?
(29:47):
What's worked in California? Virtually nothing? Garve? You picked out
a couple of isolated programs, All right, is that a
model that you could scale up? Why don't you write
about that in SA Republican? Sorry, he's got little to do. Jay.
Maybe if we reframe the way we talk about these
issues and the way we listen to people about these issues,
(30:09):
we could keep asking the question does this work? Use
your own eyes? Does this work?
Speaker 18 (30:16):
No?
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Let's play Adam schiff on Unshelteredness got eight.
Speaker 20 (30:25):
First of all, this will be my one and only
baseball analogy for the evening. Okay, Christer Gray, I'm sorry
that was a total swing and I miss that was
a total whiff of an answer. And I say that
you know credit where creditors do?
Speaker 1 (30:38):
You're a hell of a ball player?
Speaker 20 (30:39):
Can I just say that you're a heal of a ballplayer?
Speaker 1 (30:42):
But here's the thing.
Speaker 20 (30:43):
This is predominantly a problem of not enough housing.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
It's a supply problem. Oh crap.
Speaker 20 (30:49):
And we need to build hundreds of thousands of units
of new housing. We can do that if we incentivize
through tax credits the building of affordable housing. Otherwise we're
not we're going to solve this problem. We need to
make sure also local government responds quickly to the need
for housing with approvals of housing. We also need to
make sure that people been stay in housing, and when
(31:10):
we do find shelter for those who are homeless, that
they get the services mental health services, substance abuse services
they need to stay sheltered. You know, I want to
go back to something that Barbara Lee said in her
first answer on this Housing is a human right.
Speaker 10 (31:26):
You know, it pains me to see so many people
living on the street.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
And then the state is prosperous.
Speaker 20 (31:31):
Is this one is utterly unnecessary and therefore utterly shameful
that we don't do more to address this problem.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Holy crap, he's one of those guys. We just got
to build everybody a free house. And then what no
mention that the border is overrun with fentdel deliveries. And
then the people here in La and San Francisco inject
fentital by the thousands, and by the thousands they die.
(32:01):
And that is on Shift and his party and his president,
they're directly responsible for allowing the fentinl and the meth
over the border. But what what what shiff wants to
do is build houses. Do you have any idea what
kind of cost that is? This idea that housing is
a human right. Here's how it works in the real world.
You got to get up in the morning and go
(32:22):
to work and earn a paycheck, and that's how you
get you get shelter. That's the only way to do it.
There is no other way. You can't waste your life
on drugs and booze and have your mental illness go untreated.
You can't do that. I got to build a house
for you. We've got some more about the border coming up.
(32:46):
When we return.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Got some more clips from last night's debate between Adam Schiff,
Barbara Lee, and the Katie Porter, the three Democrats, and
Steve the only Republican who came across as a reasonable person,
a normal person amidst all their fanaticism and screeching of
these progressives, who really I you know, it's got to
(33:14):
be said every day progressivism has killed California, has made
California unlivable, and so we got to change, We got
to do something else. It's a failure, and you know
it's a failure. These people are in it for their careers,
but they can't credibly claim any of this is successful.
(33:34):
On the border issue, listen to Barbara Lee.
Speaker 17 (33:40):
As I said earlier, I was born and raised in
a borders city, El Paso, Texas, in an immigrant community. Secondly,
no person is illegal.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Thirdly, we have got to.
Speaker 17 (33:51):
Have an immigration policy that provides for due process, that's orderly,
and that is humane. Right now, the President is trying
to get Republicans, mind you, to step up and support
over a billion dollars to make sure that immigrants are
treated fairly in the communities where Governor Abbott and DeSantis
are sending migrants, pinning migrants against residents. And so what
(34:16):
I intend to do is first make sure that we
get this funding so that these communities can treat immigrants
properly and make sure that the jobs that are yearning
for employees are filled.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Thank you, thank you, Congress.
Speaker 17 (34:31):
I've come to this country for a better life. Oh,
economy depends on the good work of immigrants.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Why, boy, she's a nut tired, stale cliches. No person
is illegal. Oh, I haven't heard that one before. Nobody
ever asks this crowd. So how many can come in?
How many right now? We're getting three million a year?
Should it be just twelve million, okay, since none of
them are illegal? Twenty million, thirty million? And she says,
(35:00):
you know, we've got to get We've got to get
into the jobs that I guess they're sitting there unfilled.
The unemployment rate is extremely low. They brag about the
low unemployment rate, and then they claim there's all these
job openings for all these migrants. No, there's not. It's
our job openings. It's working under the table at a
a at what at subminimum wage way below minimum wage. Hell, uh,
(35:28):
this is Steve Garvey on the border.
Speaker 20 (35:30):
Kennelly, I think this question deserves a lot more than
thirty seconds.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Now cut ten, I'm looking for.
Speaker 10 (35:40):
Hold on.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
We've just got to reboot. And this is Garvey and
he mentions, uh, Lee's comment about no one being illegal,
but okay, temporarily lost. But this is the problem with debates, campaigns,
(36:01):
political coverage. It's the same sound baits, the same cliches.
Somebody should confront Barbara Lee and let's get beyond no
person is illegal. What a dumb comment. It's about whether
they're admitted to the country legally or not. It's not
about walking up to a person saying you are illegal.
This thing still lost. Yeah, all right, well we'll get
(36:24):
get to it tomorrow. We have both Conway, hey, no,
and Thompson.
Speaker 12 (36:30):
Yes, that's what I call radio ding dong, Yes, ding
and dog.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
That's right. That's what what do you got going on?
Speaker 12 (36:38):
Well, we had Christina Pascucci missed out on that debate
last night because I don't know, they're anti woman or.
Speaker 10 (36:43):
Something, robbed your debate time.
Speaker 12 (36:46):
Yeah, so we'll have her on tonight five to clarify
her points and give her some of Mo Kelly's questions.
Speaker 10 (36:52):
Oh yeah, I saw Mo asking questions.
Speaker 12 (36:56):
Great, best thing about the remote. Yeah, and then we
have the homeless count is underway, so they're count on
how they do that?
Speaker 10 (37:04):
Is John involved in that?
Speaker 1 (37:05):
I don't think so.
Speaker 9 (37:06):
I'd like to see John Cobeld out there on the
homeless You want to go tonight?
Speaker 10 (37:10):
Tonight? I have plans.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Maybe if you always have plans every year, I asked
you to do the homeless.
Speaker 10 (37:15):
Town when there's a homeless count, I have plans.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
It looks at like outside your comfort zone. How do
they do that?
Speaker 12 (37:21):
I mean, don't these guys move around pretty good?
Speaker 1 (37:24):
They do it at night. They do like you get
to go to skid Row at two in the morning
and count homeless.
Speaker 12 (37:30):
And then the La Times editors said, look, if you
have to leave the state of California, we get it,
but don't trash the rest of us on the way out.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
I saw that. Don't insult us. Don't insult us on
the way. LA Times lost one hundred and fifteen people.
They're in trouble, sadly, Yeah, one hundred and fifteen. Not
the boot.
Speaker 9 (37:49):
You're not a fan, but I think it's just said, journalism,
pro journalism hurting.
Speaker 10 (37:54):
That's not good.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
No, it is sad because we're not going to have
a paper anymore.
Speaker 10 (37:57):
Yeah, Angeles, I agree.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
Did Jim Murray you make it? Or did he get cut?
Jim passed on a few years.
Speaker 10 (38:03):
Yeah, Jim maybe, Yeah, crack that sports.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
The Grantlin Rice he died too. Breeze Airways is around.
Speaker 12 (38:11):
Then they announced they would be adding three new seasonal
flights from Lax.
Speaker 10 (38:15):
So that's cool. And where are they going?
Speaker 12 (38:17):
They're going from Lax, Orange County.
Speaker 9 (38:19):
Yeah, yeah, it's there. I guess a lot of people
don't like that drive anymore.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
No, he's making these stories up, but I don't.
Speaker 10 (38:27):
I just got caught on.
Speaker 12 (38:28):
Hey listen, it's a NonStop. They don't have to refuel
and Pomona.
Speaker 15 (38:33):
No.
Speaker 12 (38:34):
Well, they used to stop in Long Beach and then
people got pissed like that. You can't make it all
the way down, and now they go straight from Lax,
Orange County.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
I gotta get out of here day, Thompson.
Speaker 10 (38:44):
I say that usually about an hour in.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
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