February 4, 2025 • 31 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (02/04) - CA Assemblywoman Alexandra Macedo (R-Tulare) comes on the show to talk about her bill that would move money intended for high-speed rail to wildfire prevention. The fire hydrants in Pacific Palisades are 80 years old! Michael Monks comes on the show to talk about the ICE protests in Downtown LA that have taken place over the last few days. The New Jersey governor admitted to harboring an illegal alien and dared the Feds to come and get him.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty.
Speaker 3 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
We got the podcast running after four o'clock. In case
you missed any part of the radio show, it's the
same thing. There is a tremendous amount going on. We
opened the show because Trump was holding one of his
press conferences from the Oval office, and he was just
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ruminating on all kinds of things, and he got on
California's high speed route and said it was the worst
project he's ever seen, and he's seen a lot of
bad projects, and he's right. It's been seventeen years, it's
been at least ten and a half billion dollars, with
billions more to be spent. Nothing. There's no track was
supposed to be. It was supposed to be originally Sacramento
to San Diego. They kept emphasizing La to San Francisco.
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And right now they say, well, maybe Merced to Bakersfield,
and it's not even that. And we've got an assembly
woman from the Central Valley in t laure Alexandra at Messito,
who says, you know it's time we shut off the funding.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
We could use the two.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Billion dollars and use it for wildfire prevention and water infrastructure.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Look at all that's happened.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Why do we have this situation here in Altadida and
in the Palisades. Two biggest causes were a lack of water,
including that empty reservoir and a lack of water infrastructure
such as such as a modern modern piping, modern fire hydrants.
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And then fire prevention. There was so much dry brush
all over the place waiting to burn on government land
that they never cleared out. Billions of dollars ought to
be spent on water infrastructure and unclearing the brush.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
That's the government's job.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
This stupid, absurd high speed ran which I know, I guarantee.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
You it's criminal.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
If they do a criminal investigation, they should be putting
people in prison. Well, let's talk with Alexandra Mescito. She's
the assembly woman and to Lauria Republican in the Central Valley. Alexandra, welcome,
how are you, hi, John, I'm doing well.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Thanks for having me on today.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Talk about what you'd like done. There's an Inspector General
report and what did the Inspector General find and what
is your response to it?
Speaker 4 (02:35):
So before this report even came out, let me preface
this by saying, I am a lifelong Central Valley resident
that has first hand witnessed the failures of the High
Seed Rail project, and the Central Valley has been used
as a poster child for why this project is necessary
when the people from the Central Valley are saying, I
don't think that's quite right. So very quickly, I am
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a freshman legislator, and that I put forward to simply
build TO sixty seven, which will take the continuous funding
given each year to the California High Seed Rail and
instead appropriate it to things like wildfire prevention, water infrastructure projects.
And today, the High Speed Rail has spent thirteen point
seven billion dollars, including one point six billion on professional
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marketing materials and consultants. And the only thing that's been
even kind of completed is or could be completed, is
from an orchard to a field in the Central Valley.
But zero track speed of track have been laid. And
this is something that I did the research, and I
found that there was really no viability in this project,
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especially considering I don't believe federal funding is going to
be an option, and I can't touch some of the
state funding because it was voted in by the voters,
and I think they were misled to believe that this
project that originally was quoted at thirty billion dollars would
ever inflate itself to over one hundred billion dollars with
really not much to show. And so we decided to
find where discretionary funding is and we found that in
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the cap and trade negotiations that a billion dollars each
year is going to high speed rail. And with the
state Californias in we cannot spend billions of dollars on
a failed project. We have not made investments in wildfire
prevention or water infrastructure. For now, we're paying the price
for it, and a billion dollars doesn't even start to
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cover the amount of investment necessary, but it at least
is starting a conversation, with the STAFE budget being completely
upside down, that we had to get creative and make
sure that the investments we are making are high impact investments.
I think a lot of people were curious how my
bill would be received, and when the Inspector General report
came out yesterday saying no, you know what, this project
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really does not have a chance of being a reality.
It only confirms that what I had already researched and
found out, which was this has been a gross waste
of money. There's been a gross mismanagement of the funds.
That's what President Trump was talking about today his PET conference,
and that's why this investigation of where this money has
been going, I think is something long overdue and hopefully
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we can get some answers to the taxpayers, who ultimately
we should all be answering to.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
I want to read one line from the report, which
you also put in your press release. The Inspector General said,
it is increasingly unlikely that the authority will complete the
Merceaid to Bakersfield segment. So the one segment that they
had been pushing now for years as saying we're going
to get done, it looks like they're not going to
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get it done. And even if they did, it's Bakersfield.
To Mer said, there's virtually no market for a train,
let alone a high speed train to go from one's
from Bakersfield. To Mer said, I mean, it's it's a joke.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
It's an absolute joke. And that's why I said, as
somebody who lives in the Central Valley, they're not really
taking into account the people of the Central Valley that
they would hope to use this train. Additionally, from my mask,
I'm not a mathematician. This train would go two hundred
miles per hour, and I'm not really sure unless you
slingshot backwards to launch forward how that would work going
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Mercea to Bakersfield. But regardless, we're not a place that
this is going to be a benefit for. And the
project that was sold to the voters many years ago
is not the project it is today, and it's time
to pull the plug and put it towards things that
actually benefit the people of California.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Why has this project been protected for seventeen years. I mean,
it's clear a long time ago this thing was a disaster.
Why does it have special protection.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Well, once again, there is some protection for this project
because it was voted in on the ballot. So for
that reason, as legislators, there's not a lot that we
can do. I personally believe that Gavin Newsom doesn't care
for this project either, but he has some constraints. So truly,
if I was the ruler of the free world, this
would go back to the ballot and let's let the
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vot vote on this again. As the project stands, I
think President Trump's investigation will probably show a lot of
why this project has continued to have any momentum. And
that's where you know, I'm really grateful that we have
both state and federal attention on this issue. I think
there's local attention as well, but the state funding is
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up to the legislature and the governor.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
All right, Alexandra Messido, thank you for coming on with
US assembly woman from Tallara much all right. On the
high speed rail, she says it is time to stop
spending state money. She's got an Assembly bill because that's
another two billion dollars would be spent on what And
the Inspector General says it's never going to be even
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completed to run from Merced to Bakersfield. And Trump said
today there ought to be a criminal investigation looking into this.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
This has just got to stop here.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
When we come back the fire hydrant scandal in the Palisades,
What you got two billion dollars, maybe we ought to
spend it.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
On fire hydrants. We'll tell you about it coming up.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
If I.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Asked you to guess how old a lot of the
fire hydrants in the Palisades are what would you.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
Think fifty years for fifty fifty years old? Now, not fifty,
not sixty, not seventy. Would you believe eighty years old?
Speaker 2 (08:36):
That's old.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
That they're running on a water system, on an infrastructure
from the nineteen forties. Well, no wonder they ran out
of water, No wonder the hydrants did work. Is there
any appliance that you would use from the nineteen forties?
Would you drive a nineteen forties car that hasn't been upgraded?
Speaker 7 (08:58):
But isn't there somebody that goes around to all the
hydrants making sure they're full and in working condition.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
No, it turns out they're not. No, that was another
thing I found out a few days ago. There is
nobody to do that the Department of Water and Power
has We're looking at eighty plus year old fire hydrants. Well,
the Genie Kona is babbling about diversity and equity.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
By the way, she's still in.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Office, she's still getting paid by the taxpayers.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
She still hasn't quit, and nobody's fired her.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Tarenbats still hasn't fired Genis Quinonias, even after leading leaving
that that reservoir empty and as it turns out never
nobody ever upgraded the hydrants from the nineteen forties. New
York Times is a story today Mike Baker and Robert
gibble Off, and it says these these there's dozens of
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aging hydrants across several city blocks, and the firefighters needed
water from these hydrants, and each one of them has
a single two and a half inch outlet to attach
the hose. And the older hydrants with these single two
and a half inch outlets, quote, are not considered to
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be suitable for normal fire protection service, according to the
American Waterworks Association, which establishes the industry standards for fire
hydrants across the country. But in New York Times investigation
found them present and in many cases the only source
of water for firefighting in several areas of the Palisades
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and other neighborhoods in Los Angeles. The standard is now
four inches, and you could get a greater volume of
water from a four inch outlet compared to two and
a half inches. Fire chief from Michigan, Michael Fronamos, he's
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been pushing for fire departments to assess their hydrant systems.
He was surprised to see these old, small hydrants operating
in the Palisades. Hydrants with larger outlets are preferable because
water volume is more important than pressure when trying to
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put out a blaze. Remember you had firefighters complaining about
a lack of pressure. Well, even more important is the waterflow.
Having a wide waterflow. Of course you have to have
water for that, And since all their reservoirs and tanks
were dry, I guess it really didn't matter. Do you
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realize the city council has been passing budgets for eighty
years and never upgraded these fire hydrants. That's another thing
Karen Bass didn't do. I've got a story Michael Munks
is going to be on after two thirty about a
group of these socialists, illegal aliens supporting council people who
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want a new package of laws to protect the legal aliens.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
They want to spend money on that. I haven't these people.
Speaker 7 (12:14):
I have any idea, John, you want to hear it?
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Yeah, the DWP.
Speaker 7 (12:18):
You know how the DWP goes to people's homes and
you know, checks the meter to see how much?
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (12:25):
Right, Well, why don't they check all the hydrants as well?
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Oh there's some money in that?
Speaker 7 (12:31):
Well that that should be part of their job checking
the meters, right, and then alongside.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Check they check our water meters and our power meters.
Speaker 7 (12:39):
Yes, so let's check the fire hydrants.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
And there's often hydrants right in front of people's homes
and they never stopped to say, hey, is this working.
So the IT says having additional outlets with modern hydrants
can provide firefighters with the ability to attach more than
one homes. The outdated hydrants, they're known as red top
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hydrants or wharf hydrants, were installed in La neighborhoods in
the nineteen forties. Twenty four percent of those within the
Palisades Fire twenty four percent had only a two and
a half inch outlet, and seventeen percent of all the
hydrants in the city.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
This is astonishing.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Terry O'Connell, who worked in the hydrants program during his
time at the fire department, has said the unusual design
made firefighters aware that hydrants in those cases produced high pressure,
requiring some precaution, but it doesn't produce as high.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
A water flow, which is what they need. More.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
The Department of Water and Power is control is in
control of each hydrant. Fire department is supposed to conduct
tests but the water Department, the Water and Power Department.
The DWP declined to discuss with The New York Times
the hydrant system, but it's welcoming a review of the
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whole water system and will address any needed updates to
city codes.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
This is this is the thing.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
They're trying to black out all news, all information from
coming from the inside so that the public could know.
How incompetent Conunas and Bass did they ever have a
meeting in the last two years about having antique fire hydrants?
These fire hydrants should have been in a museum. They
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should have been in the Museum of Fire Hydrants to
show little school kids what it was like to fight
fires during World War II? How could you have hydrants
in the palisades from.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
World War II?
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Never upgraded, never discussed, never spent any money on.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
You believe this World War Two.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Luke Millik, a former captain, said many of the hydrants
in the city were ancient, ancient. During his years with
the city, there was no money for major upgrades. We
couldn't even get people to paint the hydrants. By the way,
there's a lot of other neighborhoods such as bel Air,
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bell Air, more than sixty percent of hydrants have a
single small outlet. So those of you in bel Air,
you're next. You've just been warned. You have hydrants from
World War two? How much described as ancient.
Speaker 7 (15:50):
Make against seven fifty.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year. Seven hundred
and fifty thousand dollars they had for Genie Kenonias. They
didn't have seventy five cents to great fire hydrant in
the Palisades and bel Air, which you ever been there?
Dense forest, God forbid if fire breaks out in that area,
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there is so much fuel to burn.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
I take a break.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A
six forty.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Round from one until four and then after four o'clock
John Cobelt Show on demand on the iHeart app, and
you can hear what you missed. It's the podcast same
as the radio show. The La City Council they have
no shame. They don't care about anyone's life unless you're
an illegal alien or.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
A criminal or a homeless person.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
But the people in Palisades, as far as the La
City Council can just go f off because they want
to spend money. They want to spend money protecting illegal
aliens from the Trump immigration orders. Michael Monks from KFI
News has been covering this story.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Michael, good afternoon to you. John.
Speaker 8 (17:07):
Yes, City Hall has been graffited with a lot of
foul language aimed towards the President and immigration enforcement officials
as part of a Sunday and Monday's protests down there.
There is of course a protest happening today involving a
lot of high school students, but so far it doesn't
look like any vandalism has taken place. So this press
conference today took place between two pillars that had been
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graffeited with swear words directed at Washington as Council member
Hugo Soda Martinez and a few other members of council
called for additional protections for illegal immigrants right here in La.
Among those include the Know Your Rights campaign. They call
this a citywide public education effort. They want to tell
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immigrants about what their rights are, how they can avoid
being discriminated against, and what to know about the sanctuary
city policy. They also want to explore policies that would
ensure that businesses that have ICE enforcement taking place on
their sites to alert the city so that the city
can then work with those employees to get legal support
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so that they know their rights.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Are you aware of how much money this is supposed
to cost?
Speaker 8 (18:19):
Right right now? This is a proposal, and so it
was not in it was introduced to it. It's like
these formalities you know at City Hall. So it was
introduced in the system, but it's not on the floor
for a vote yet. So it will go through committees
and be vetted. But the things that are related to money,
it basically says we want a report on how much
it would cost. For example, they want to bring funding
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back to legal services that they think may have been
frozen by the Trump administration. So what they're asking for
is an immediate report on how the city can support
maintaining immigration legal services that have been frozen.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Yeah, I've got I know.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Like Times reports said they're asking for five hundred and
forty thousand dollars for that to pay for three months
for immigration legal service providers whose federal support was frozen
by Trump. And therefore that's the only number that I
saw in these stories exactly. So there may be some
money that is available through the various council members' offices
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there's a lot of weird funds.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
In government and much fund call. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (19:20):
So the council members themselves even get a certical term, yeah,
slush fund, And so they can sometimes use their own
council money to help certain issues of pet projects or
even infrastructure situations in their own districts. But this was
council Member Hugo Soto Martinez, Councilwoman Amenc's Hernandez, and the
councilwoman Emaileda Padilla and the newest member of council, Councilwoman
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Isabelle Herado, who have spoken in support of this. And
we'll see how quickly it comes to the floor there
at City Hall. Oh, that's going to go quickly, right.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
But as far as explaining what went on in the
Palisades to lab at horrific fire, we're not. Have they
had a public meeting on any of this? Well about
you know, for example, the the reservoir being empty. Has
anybody said anything in a public setting about the reservoir
being empty?
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Just for starters.
Speaker 8 (20:13):
Part of the immediate request by members of council, particularly
from Tracy Park, who represents the Palisades at City Hall,
was to ensure that there will be some conversation, some
public hearings involving LEDWP and what their infrastructure situation is
is like, and to ensure that they are having more
regular conversations with the fire department about the water situation.
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So there has been a lot of city level of
legislation adopted already and some still moving through the process
related to the fire response.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Including today.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
All right, very good, Michael Munks, thank you my pleasure,
John for coming on there. Michael Munks cant finds this
is what Hugo Soda Martinez and those those other council
people that he mentioned. They have zero interest unless you're
an illegal alien, criminal, or a homeless person.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Zero.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
They don't represent you. You're a taxpayer, you are a fool.
This is what happened because we let in so much
illegal immigration. There are now power bases for politicians to
take our tax money and directed towards illegal alien representation.
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They don't want to help get the criminal aliens right.
They claim, well, that's a federal issue, except it's a
local issue. When they spend local money, suddenly it's not
a federal issue anymore. When they want to try to
protect the illegal aliens from.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
The law, from enforcement of federal law.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Now they're willing to spend at least five hundred and
forty thousand dollars on interfering with the enforcement of federal law.
They don't want to help because it's basically not their business,
but instead they want to interfere. It's just outrageous, and
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you know, I hope, I hope Tom Holman goes after
some of these officials because this is about aiding and
abetting illegal aliens. You're setting up you're setting up a
immigration legal Service fund for what if they're here illegally.
That means they're breaking the law and they can be deported.
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That's the way the law works. That this constant drumbeat
that well, basically, what there's things we shouldn't enforce the law.
It doesn't work that way anymore.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
That's over. We had an election. We tried it their
way for four years.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Longer than four years, but the Biden years certainly there
was no immigration law and it was disastrous. Eighty seven
percent of the public wants criminal aliens deported. Eighty seven percent.
You go look it up, it's a New York Times poll.
I save it on my iPad. I have a tab
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devoted to that page because nobody wants to believe it.
Big majorities of Democrats want criminal aliens deported. So Hugo
Sodo Martinez is living in twenty twenty. That era is
over now and the rest of the time. Let me
let me have a minute here. No, I don't want
to come back. I want to tell you. The governor
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of New Jersey, Phil Murphy, another guy living in twenty twenty.
He shut off his mouth and claimed that he has
an illegal immigrant living with his family, and he dared
the Feds to come and get him. Murphy and then
Tom Holman, Trump's border guy, said Okay, we'll come and
get you. You got to listen to these clips when
we come back.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
You're listening to John Kobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Coming up after three o'clock, we are going to talk
with Oaks from ABC News. Trump is as you are
trying to stop birthright citizenship. It is the Supreme Court
over the years has interpreted the Fourteenth Amendment as saying
that anybody who is born in the United States is
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automatically a citizen. Well, there's also a clause within that
amendment which has led a lot of legal scholars to
believe that that's not necessarily true. Specifically, if you have
two parents here illegally and they drop a baby, is
that baby really constitutionally a US citizen? Trump says no.
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He's got legal analysts who say no, and Trump's trying
to create a Supreme Court case out of it. Ultimately,
we're going to talk to royal oaks about the legal
arguments on both sides. It does seem a little that
two people could come here illegally, have a baby, and
suddenly the baby has citizenship and then we have to
pay for it. I've always thought that was wrong. We'll
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see where that case goes.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Now.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Phil Murphy, you may not know him. He's the new
Jersey governor. He's been there for two terms, and he's
a whack job progressive. He's got Newsom's politics, same guy,
and he is losing his grip on reality. He's so
upset over Ice enforcing the law and deporting criminal illegal aliens.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
This upset.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
This upsets a governor of a major state that the
federal government is enforcing federal law regarding criminal aliens, which
eighty seven percent of the public supports. So he decided
that he was going to challenge Tom Holman and Trump
and blurted out on television that he has an illegal
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alien living with him. Play cut number one.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
I don't want to get into too much detail, but
there's someone in our broader universe whose immigration status is
not yet at the point that they are trying to
get it to. And we said, you know what, let's
have her live at our house above our garage, and
good luck to the Fed's coming in to try to
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get her.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Daring Trump and Holman to come get this illegal alien
that Murphy is harboring, and that is a federal crime.
And Holman went on Fox News to respond and point
out the relevant law.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Play cut two.
Speaker 9 (26:38):
I think the governments pretty FOOLI same way said, because
I've gotten hold of it, we'll let it go. We'll
look into it. And if he's normally normally harboring, concealing
and illeguelian, that's a violation tie the way, and I
stays called thirteen twenty four. I would seek prosecution or
the secretary would seek prosecution. So maybe he's buffing. If
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he's not, we'll deal with that. Yeah, And as far
as soon and sanctuary cities will get in line, because
the Trump administration is going to do that. Already, Sanctuary
cities are sanctuary for criminals. There's one example, right if
the Young Sanctuarius Cities in New York City, if they
would have gave us over the killer of lakeln Riman
when he got the rest in New York City for
endangerous child, he would have been in jail and he
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would have never killed Lake and Riley sans furry cities
are responsible for deaths of thousands, thousands of young children
throughout my career. And we're going soon and we're going home.
And look if he's got going Supreme Court, that's what
President Trump wanted to do. He will end sancstorry cities.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Sanctuary cities harbor violent murderers and sexual predators. That's the truth.
And for Phil Murphy to claim that, you know, he's
going to have a sanctuary room in his over his garage.
The Daily Mail has a story following up and Murphy
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is starting to back off after seeing Homan said that
they'll come and arrest Murphy. I don't even understand this,
this new explanation. But Murphy got his director of communications,
Mahen Gunaratna Mahen and she came out and said that
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no one moved into the Murphy's home. The individual in
their orbit is a legal resident. Mahen says that Murphy
was only sharing a conversation that he was having with
his wife when he claimed that he invited an undocked
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an illegal alien. Mahen Gunaratna says no offer was ever
made to them, and Murphy and his wife only had
the discussion because the woman was concerned about the general climate.
Murphy's neighbors in Red Bank, New Jersey, are saying that
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Murphy's lied, that he was just trying to show off,
you know, virtue signal.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
One neighbor said that was all lie.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
I think he was rubbing the president the wrong way,
giving him the business. I don't know what he was
expecting as a result of it, that they were going
to go storm the house and look for her.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
It's been a proven a lie at this point.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
It's fictional, said Jerry Hurley, a firefighter who lives on
the same block. By the way, Murphy has a nine
million dollar home. Oh, just like Gavin Newsom, another nine
million dollar homeowner.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
He says.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
Hurley says, it doesn't make sense she's waiting for citizenship
and if that's the impression he gave. Why would you
do that? Now it's proven it's a fictional person. So
now the neighbors are saying that this this person doesn't
even exist. So first it was an illegal alien they
were harboring. Then it was somebody who was a legal
resident awaiting their citizenship. Now the person doesn't exist at all.
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Is everybody insane? I think we know the answer. Anyway,
Trump is going to keep pushing on this idea of
birthright citizenship not being in the constitution, and Rol Oaks
for ABC News is going to come on and explain
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it next hour. We're also going to talk to you
in detail. We did part of this early in the show.
We'll quickly review the first part and then give you
the second part. Steve Soberoff, who's promoted Karen Bass for years,
is trying to bail Bass out. Now he's a civic
leader who's in charge of the recovery effort for the
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time being in the Palisades, and he was giving inside
information to his wealthy friends in the entertainment industry about
how they could end up tripping the value of their
home or their lot if they live in the Palisades.
And also he was giving his advice as to whether
they could believe the Department of Water and Power in
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regards the safe drinking water. This is information that the
rest of the public doesn't have privy too. But Steve
Soberoff is giving all this information to his rich buddies
in Hollywood because they don't care about you. Believe me,
they don't. They can help their friends, they will, but
sober Off doesn't give a rats ass about you and
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the Palisades if you're not rich, Hollywood connected and influential.
And there's proof because the Washington Free Beacon got a
hold of this private zoom audio to prove it. Deborah
Mark is live in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hey,
you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You
can always hear the show live on KFI Am six
forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday,
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and of course, anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Can't.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty.
Speaker 3 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
We got the podcast running after four o'clock. In case
you missed any part of the radio show, it's the
same thing. There is a tremendous amount going on. We
opened the show because Trump was holding one of his
press conferences from the Oval office, and he was just
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ruminating on all kinds of things, and he got on
California's high speed route and said it was the worst
project he's ever seen, and he's seen a lot of
bad projects, and he's right. It's been seventeen years, it's
been at least ten and a half billion dollars, with
billions more to be spent. Nothing. There's no track was
supposed to be. It was supposed to be originally Sacramento
to San Diego. They kept emphasizing La to San Francisco.
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And right now they say, well, maybe Merced to Bakersfield,
and it's not even that. And we've got an assembly
woman from the Central Valley in t laure Alexandra at Messito,
who says, you know it's time we shut off the funding.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
We could use the two.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Billion dollars and use it for wildfire prevention and water infrastructure.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Look at all that's happened.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Why do we have this situation here in Altadida and
in the Palisades. Two biggest causes were a lack of water,
including that empty reservoir and a lack of water infrastructure
such as such as a modern modern piping, modern fire hydrants.
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And then fire prevention. There was so much dry brush
all over the place waiting to burn on government land
that they never cleared out. Billions of dollars ought to
be spent on water infrastructure and unclearing the brush.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
That's the government's job.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
This stupid, absurd high speed ran which I know, I guarantee.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
You it's criminal.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
If they do a criminal investigation, they should be putting
people in prison. Well, let's talk with Alexandra Mescito. She's
the assembly woman and to Lauria Republican in the Central Valley. Alexandra, welcome,
how are you, hi, John, I'm doing well.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Thanks for having me on today.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Talk about what you'd like done. There's an Inspector General
report and what did the Inspector General find and what
is your response to it?
Speaker 4 (02:35):
So before this report even came out, let me preface
this by saying, I am a lifelong Central Valley resident
that has first hand witnessed the failures of the High
Seed Rail project, and the Central Valley has been used
as a poster child for why this project is necessary
when the people from the Central Valley are saying, I
don't think that's quite right. So very quickly, I am
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a freshman legislator, and that I put forward to simply
build TO sixty seven, which will take the continuous funding
given each year to the California High Seed Rail and
instead appropriate it to things like wildfire prevention, water infrastructure projects.
And today, the High Speed Rail has spent thirteen point
seven billion dollars, including one point six billion on professional
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marketing materials and consultants. And the only thing that's been
even kind of completed is or could be completed, is
from an orchard to a field in the Central Valley.
But zero track speed of track have been laid. And
this is something that I did the research, and I
found that there was really no viability in this project,
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especially considering I don't believe federal funding is going to
be an option, and I can't touch some of the
state funding because it was voted in by the voters,
and I think they were misled to believe that this
project that originally was quoted at thirty billion dollars would
ever inflate itself to over one hundred billion dollars with
really not much to show. And so we decided to
find where discretionary funding is and we found that in
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the cap and trade negotiations that a billion dollars each
year is going to high speed rail. And with the
state Californias in we cannot spend billions of dollars on
a failed project. We have not made investments in wildfire
prevention or water infrastructure. For now, we're paying the price
for it, and a billion dollars doesn't even start to
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cover the amount of investment necessary, but it at least
is starting a conversation, with the STAFE budget being completely
upside down, that we had to get creative and make
sure that the investments we are making are high impact investments.
I think a lot of people were curious how my
bill would be received, and when the Inspector General report
came out yesterday saying no, you know what, this project
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really does not have a chance of being a reality.
It only confirms that what I had already researched and
found out, which was this has been a gross waste
of money. There's been a gross mismanagement of the funds.
That's what President Trump was talking about today his PET conference,
and that's why this investigation of where this money has
been going, I think is something long overdue and hopefully
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we can get some answers to the taxpayers, who ultimately
we should all be answering to.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
I want to read one line from the report, which
you also put in your press release. The Inspector General said,
it is increasingly unlikely that the authority will complete the
Merceaid to Bakersfield segment. So the one segment that they
had been pushing now for years as saying we're going
to get done, it looks like they're not going to
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get it done. And even if they did, it's Bakersfield.
To Mer said, there's virtually no market for a train,
let alone a high speed train to go from one's
from Bakersfield. To Mer said, I mean, it's it's a joke.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
It's an absolute joke. And that's why I said, as
somebody who lives in the Central Valley, they're not really
taking into account the people of the Central Valley that
they would hope to use this train. Additionally, from my mask,
I'm not a mathematician. This train would go two hundred
miles per hour, and I'm not really sure unless you
slingshot backwards to launch forward how that would work going
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Mercea to Bakersfield. But regardless, we're not a place that
this is going to be a benefit for. And the
project that was sold to the voters many years ago
is not the project it is today, and it's time
to pull the plug and put it towards things that
actually benefit the people of California.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Why has this project been protected for seventeen years. I mean,
it's clear a long time ago this thing was a disaster.
Why does it have special protection.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Well, once again, there is some protection for this project
because it was voted in on the ballot. So for
that reason, as legislators, there's not a lot that we
can do. I personally believe that Gavin Newsom doesn't care
for this project either, but he has some constraints. So truly,
if I was the ruler of the free world, this
would go back to the ballot and let's let the
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vot vote on this again. As the project stands, I
think President Trump's investigation will probably show a lot of
why this project has continued to have any momentum. And
that's where you know, I'm really grateful that we have
both state and federal attention on this issue. I think
there's local attention as well, but the state funding is
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up to the legislature and the governor.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
All right, Alexandra Messido, thank you for coming on with
US assembly woman from Tallara much all right. On the
high speed rail, she says it is time to stop
spending state money. She's got an Assembly bill because that's
another two billion dollars would be spent on what And
the Inspector General says it's never going to be even
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completed to run from Merced to Bakersfield. And Trump said
today there ought to be a criminal investigation looking into this.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
This has just got to stop here.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
When we come back the fire hydrant scandal in the Palisades,
What you got two billion dollars, maybe we ought to
spend it.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
On fire hydrants. We'll tell you about it coming up.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
If I.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Asked you to guess how old a lot of the
fire hydrants in the Palisades are what would you.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
Think fifty years for fifty fifty years old? Now, not fifty,
not sixty, not seventy. Would you believe eighty years old?
Speaker 2 (08:36):
That's old.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
That they're running on a water system, on an infrastructure
from the nineteen forties. Well, no wonder they ran out
of water, No wonder the hydrants did work. Is there
any appliance that you would use from the nineteen forties?
Would you drive a nineteen forties car that hasn't been upgraded?
Speaker 7 (08:58):
But isn't there somebody that goes around to all the
hydrants making sure they're full and in working condition.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
No, it turns out they're not. No, that was another
thing I found out a few days ago. There is
nobody to do that the Department of Water and Power
has We're looking at eighty plus year old fire hydrants. Well,
the Genie Kona is babbling about diversity and equity.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
By the way, she's still in.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Office, she's still getting paid by the taxpayers.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
She still hasn't quit, and nobody's fired her.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Tarenbats still hasn't fired Genis Quinonias, even after leading leaving
that that reservoir empty and as it turns out never
nobody ever upgraded the hydrants from the nineteen forties. New
York Times is a story today Mike Baker and Robert
gibble Off, and it says these these there's dozens of
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aging hydrants across several city blocks, and the firefighters needed
water from these hydrants, and each one of them has
a single two and a half inch outlet to attach
the hose. And the older hydrants with these single two
and a half inch outlets, quote, are not considered to
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be suitable for normal fire protection service, according to the
American Waterworks Association, which establishes the industry standards for fire
hydrants across the country. But in New York Times investigation
found them present and in many cases the only source
of water for firefighting in several areas of the Palisades
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and other neighborhoods in Los Angeles. The standard is now
four inches, and you could get a greater volume of
water from a four inch outlet compared to two and
a half inches. Fire chief from Michigan, Michael Fronamos, he's
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been pushing for fire departments to assess their hydrant systems.
He was surprised to see these old, small hydrants operating
in the Palisades. Hydrants with larger outlets are preferable because
water volume is more important than pressure when trying to
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put out a blaze. Remember you had firefighters complaining about
a lack of pressure. Well, even more important is the waterflow.
Having a wide waterflow. Of course you have to have
water for that, And since all their reservoirs and tanks
were dry, I guess it really didn't matter. Do you
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realize the city council has been passing budgets for eighty
years and never upgraded these fire hydrants. That's another thing
Karen Bass didn't do. I've got a story Michael Munks
is going to be on after two thirty about a
group of these socialists, illegal aliens supporting council people who
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want a new package of laws to protect the legal aliens.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
They want to spend money on that. I haven't these people.
Speaker 7 (12:14):
I have any idea, John, you want to hear it?
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Yeah, the DWP.
Speaker 7 (12:18):
You know how the DWP goes to people's homes and
you know, checks the meter to see how much?
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (12:25):
Right, Well, why don't they check all the hydrants as well?
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Oh there's some money in that?
Speaker 7 (12:31):
Well that that should be part of their job checking
the meters, right, and then alongside.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Check they check our water meters and our power meters.
Speaker 7 (12:39):
Yes, so let's check the fire hydrants.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
And there's often hydrants right in front of people's homes
and they never stopped to say, hey, is this working.
So the IT says having additional outlets with modern hydrants
can provide firefighters with the ability to attach more than
one homes. The outdated hydrants, they're known as red top
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hydrants or wharf hydrants, were installed in La neighborhoods in
the nineteen forties. Twenty four percent of those within the
Palisades Fire twenty four percent had only a two and
a half inch outlet, and seventeen percent of all the
hydrants in the city.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
This is astonishing.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Terry O'Connell, who worked in the hydrants program during his
time at the fire department, has said the unusual design
made firefighters aware that hydrants in those cases produced high pressure,
requiring some precaution, but it doesn't produce as high.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
A water flow, which is what they need. More.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
The Department of Water and Power is control is in
control of each hydrant. Fire department is supposed to conduct
tests but the water Department, the Water and Power Department.
The DWP declined to discuss with The New York Times
the hydrant system, but it's welcoming a review of the
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whole water system and will address any needed updates to
city codes.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
This is this is the thing.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
They're trying to black out all news, all information from
coming from the inside so that the public could know.
How incompetent Conunas and Bass did they ever have a
meeting in the last two years about having antique fire hydrants?
These fire hydrants should have been in a museum. They
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should have been in the Museum of Fire Hydrants to
show little school kids what it was like to fight
fires during World War II? How could you have hydrants
in the palisades from.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
World War II?
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Never upgraded, never discussed, never spent any money on.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
You believe this World War Two.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Luke Millik, a former captain, said many of the hydrants
in the city were ancient, ancient. During his years with
the city, there was no money for major upgrades. We
couldn't even get people to paint the hydrants. By the way,
there's a lot of other neighborhoods such as bel Air,
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bell Air, more than sixty percent of hydrants have a
single small outlet. So those of you in bel Air,
you're next. You've just been warned. You have hydrants from
World War two? How much described as ancient.
Speaker 7 (15:50):
Make against seven fifty.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year. Seven hundred
and fifty thousand dollars they had for Genie Kenonias. They
didn't have seventy five cents to great fire hydrant in
the Palisades and bel Air, which you ever been there?
Dense forest, God forbid if fire breaks out in that area,
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there is so much fuel to burn.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
I take a break.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A
six forty.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Round from one until four and then after four o'clock
John Cobelt Show on demand on the iHeart app, and
you can hear what you missed. It's the podcast same
as the radio show. The La City Council they have
no shame. They don't care about anyone's life unless you're
an illegal alien or.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
A criminal or a homeless person.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
But the people in Palisades, as far as the La
City Council can just go f off because they want
to spend money. They want to spend money protecting illegal
aliens from the Trump immigration orders. Michael Monks from KFI
News has been covering this story.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Michael, good afternoon to you. John.
Speaker 8 (17:07):
Yes, City Hall has been graffited with a lot of
foul language aimed towards the President and immigration enforcement officials
as part of a Sunday and Monday's protests down there.
There is of course a protest happening today involving a
lot of high school students, but so far it doesn't
look like any vandalism has taken place. So this press
conference today took place between two pillars that had been
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graffeited with swear words directed at Washington as Council member
Hugo Soda Martinez and a few other members of council
called for additional protections for illegal immigrants right here in La.
Among those include the Know Your Rights campaign. They call
this a citywide public education effort. They want to tell
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immigrants about what their rights are, how they can avoid
being discriminated against, and what to know about the sanctuary
city policy. They also want to explore policies that would
ensure that businesses that have ICE enforcement taking place on
their sites to alert the city so that the city
can then work with those employees to get legal support
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so that they know their rights.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Are you aware of how much money this is supposed
to cost?
Speaker 8 (18:19):
Right right now? This is a proposal, and so it
was not in it was introduced to it. It's like
these formalities you know at City Hall. So it was
introduced in the system, but it's not on the floor
for a vote yet. So it will go through committees
and be vetted. But the things that are related to money,
it basically says we want a report on how much
it would cost. For example, they want to bring funding
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back to legal services that they think may have been
frozen by the Trump administration. So what they're asking for
is an immediate report on how the city can support
maintaining immigration legal services that have been frozen.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Yeah, I've got I know.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Like Times reports said they're asking for five hundred and
forty thousand dollars for that to pay for three months
for immigration legal service providers whose federal support was frozen
by Trump. And therefore that's the only number that I
saw in these stories exactly. So there may be some
money that is available through the various council members' offices
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there's a lot of weird funds.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
In government and much fund call. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (19:20):
So the council members themselves even get a certical term, yeah,
slush fund, And so they can sometimes use their own
council money to help certain issues of pet projects or
even infrastructure situations in their own districts. But this was
council Member Hugo Soto Martinez, Councilwoman Amenc's Hernandez, and the
councilwoman Emaileda Padilla and the newest member of council, Councilwoman
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Isabelle Herado, who have spoken in support of this. And
we'll see how quickly it comes to the floor there
at City Hall. Oh, that's going to go quickly, right.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
But as far as explaining what went on in the
Palisades to lab at horrific fire, we're not. Have they
had a public meeting on any of this? Well about
you know, for example, the the reservoir being empty. Has
anybody said anything in a public setting about the reservoir
being empty?
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Just for starters.
Speaker 8 (20:13):
Part of the immediate request by members of council, particularly
from Tracy Park, who represents the Palisades at City Hall,
was to ensure that there will be some conversation, some
public hearings involving LEDWP and what their infrastructure situation is
is like, and to ensure that they are having more
regular conversations with the fire department about the water situation.
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So there has been a lot of city level of
legislation adopted already and some still moving through the process
related to the fire response.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Including today.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
All right, very good, Michael Munks, thank you my pleasure,
John for coming on there. Michael Munks cant finds this
is what Hugo Soda Martinez and those those other council
people that he mentioned. They have zero interest unless you're
an illegal alien, criminal, or a homeless person.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Zero.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
They don't represent you. You're a taxpayer, you are a fool.
This is what happened because we let in so much
illegal immigration. There are now power bases for politicians to
take our tax money and directed towards illegal alien representation.
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They don't want to help get the criminal aliens right.
They claim, well, that's a federal issue, except it's a
local issue. When they spend local money, suddenly it's not
a federal issue anymore. When they want to try to
protect the illegal aliens from.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
The law, from enforcement of federal law.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Now they're willing to spend at least five hundred and
forty thousand dollars on interfering with the enforcement of federal law.
They don't want to help because it's basically not their business,
but instead they want to interfere. It's just outrageous, and
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you know, I hope, I hope Tom Holman goes after
some of these officials because this is about aiding and
abetting illegal aliens. You're setting up you're setting up a
immigration legal Service fund for what if they're here illegally.
That means they're breaking the law and they can be deported.
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That's the way the law works. That this constant drumbeat
that well, basically, what there's things we shouldn't enforce the law.
It doesn't work that way anymore.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
That's over. We had an election. We tried it their
way for four years.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Longer than four years, but the Biden years certainly there
was no immigration law and it was disastrous. Eighty seven
percent of the public wants criminal aliens deported. Eighty seven percent.
You go look it up, it's a New York Times poll.
I save it on my iPad. I have a tab
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devoted to that page because nobody wants to believe it.
Big majorities of Democrats want criminal aliens deported. So Hugo
Sodo Martinez is living in twenty twenty. That era is
over now and the rest of the time. Let me
let me have a minute here. No, I don't want
to come back. I want to tell you. The governor
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of New Jersey, Phil Murphy, another guy living in twenty twenty.
He shut off his mouth and claimed that he has
an illegal immigrant living with his family, and he dared
the Feds to come and get him. Murphy and then
Tom Holman, Trump's border guy, said Okay, we'll come and
get you. You got to listen to these clips when
we come back.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
You're listening to John Kobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Coming up after three o'clock, we are going to talk
with Oaks from ABC News. Trump is as you are
trying to stop birthright citizenship. It is the Supreme Court
over the years has interpreted the Fourteenth Amendment as saying
that anybody who is born in the United States is
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automatically a citizen. Well, there's also a clause within that
amendment which has led a lot of legal scholars to
believe that that's not necessarily true. Specifically, if you have
two parents here illegally and they drop a baby, is
that baby really constitutionally a US citizen? Trump says no.
(24:47):
He's got legal analysts who say no, and Trump's trying
to create a Supreme Court case out of it. Ultimately,
we're going to talk to royal oaks about the legal
arguments on both sides. It does seem a little that
two people could come here illegally, have a baby, and
suddenly the baby has citizenship and then we have to
pay for it. I've always thought that was wrong. We'll
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see where that case goes.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Now.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Phil Murphy, you may not know him. He's the new
Jersey governor. He's been there for two terms, and he's
a whack job progressive. He's got Newsom's politics, same guy,
and he is losing his grip on reality. He's so
upset over Ice enforcing the law and deporting criminal illegal aliens.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
This upset.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
This upsets a governor of a major state that the
federal government is enforcing federal law regarding criminal aliens, which
eighty seven percent of the public supports. So he decided
that he was going to challenge Tom Holman and Trump
and blurted out on television that he has an illegal
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alien living with him. Play cut number one.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
I don't want to get into too much detail, but
there's someone in our broader universe whose immigration status is
not yet at the point that they are trying to
get it to. And we said, you know what, let's
have her live at our house above our garage, and
good luck to the Fed's coming in to try to
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get her.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Daring Trump and Holman to come get this illegal alien
that Murphy is harboring, and that is a federal crime.
And Holman went on Fox News to respond and point
out the relevant law.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Play cut two.
Speaker 9 (26:38):
I think the governments pretty FOOLI same way said, because
I've gotten hold of it, we'll let it go. We'll
look into it. And if he's normally normally harboring, concealing
and illeguelian, that's a violation tie the way, and I
stays called thirteen twenty four. I would seek prosecution or
the secretary would seek prosecution. So maybe he's buffing. If
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he's not, we'll deal with that. Yeah, And as far
as soon and sanctuary cities will get in line, because
the Trump administration is going to do that. Already, Sanctuary
cities are sanctuary for criminals. There's one example, right if
the Young Sanctuarius Cities in New York City, if they
would have gave us over the killer of lakeln Riman
when he got the rest in New York City for
endangerous child, he would have been in jail and he
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would have never killed Lake and Riley sans furry cities
are responsible for deaths of thousands, thousands of young children
throughout my career. And we're going soon and we're going home.
And look if he's got going Supreme Court, that's what
President Trump wanted to do. He will end sancstorry cities.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Sanctuary cities harbor violent murderers and sexual predators. That's the truth.
And for Phil Murphy to claim that, you know, he's
going to have a sanctuary room in his over his garage.
The Daily Mail has a story following up and Murphy
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is starting to back off after seeing Homan said that
they'll come and arrest Murphy. I don't even understand this,
this new explanation. But Murphy got his director of communications,
Mahen Gunaratna Mahen and she came out and said that
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no one moved into the Murphy's home. The individual in
their orbit is a legal resident. Mahen says that Murphy
was only sharing a conversation that he was having with
his wife when he claimed that he invited an undocked
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an illegal alien. Mahen Gunaratna says no offer was ever
made to them, and Murphy and his wife only had
the discussion because the woman was concerned about the general climate.
Murphy's neighbors in Red Bank, New Jersey, are saying that
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Murphy's lied, that he was just trying to show off,
you know, virtue signal.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
One neighbor said that was all lie.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
I think he was rubbing the president the wrong way,
giving him the business. I don't know what he was
expecting as a result of it, that they were going
to go storm the house and look for her.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
It's been a proven a lie at this point.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
It's fictional, said Jerry Hurley, a firefighter who lives on
the same block. By the way, Murphy has a nine
million dollar home. Oh, just like Gavin Newsom, another nine
million dollar homeowner.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
He says.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
Hurley says, it doesn't make sense she's waiting for citizenship
and if that's the impression he gave. Why would you
do that? Now it's proven it's a fictional person. So
now the neighbors are saying that this this person doesn't
even exist. So first it was an illegal alien they
were harboring. Then it was somebody who was a legal
resident awaiting their citizenship. Now the person doesn't exist at all.
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Is everybody insane? I think we know the answer. Anyway,
Trump is going to keep pushing on this idea of
birthright citizenship not being in the constitution, and Rol Oaks
for ABC News is going to come on and explain
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it next hour. We're also going to talk to you
in detail. We did part of this early in the show.
We'll quickly review the first part and then give you
the second part. Steve Soberoff, who's promoted Karen Bass for years,
is trying to bail Bass out. Now he's a civic
leader who's in charge of the recovery effort for the
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time being in the Palisades, and he was giving inside
information to his wealthy friends in the entertainment industry about
how they could end up tripping the value of their
home or their lot if they live in the Palisades.
And also he was giving his advice as to whether
they could believe the Department of Water and Power in
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regards the safe drinking water. This is information that the
rest of the public doesn't have privy too. But Steve
Soberoff is giving all this information to his rich buddies
in Hollywood because they don't care about you. Believe me,
they don't. They can help their friends, they will, but
sober Off doesn't give a rats ass about you and
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the Palisades if you're not rich, Hollywood connected and influential.
And there's proof because the Washington Free Beacon got a
hold of this private zoom audio to prove it. Deborah
Mark is live in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hey,
you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You
can always hear the show live on KFI Am six
forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday,
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