February 3, 2026 • 35 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (02/03) - Alex Stone comes on the show to talk about the latest going on in the search for Today Show host Savannah Guthrie’s mother Nancy who has gone missing. LAFD Chief Jaime Moore dodged a question about if we are closer to finding out who altered the Palisades Fire after-action report. Mayor Karen Bass gave her "State of the City" speech and John did not like a lot of what she had to say.
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Speaker 1 (00:36):
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Speaker 2 (00:36):
This is such a strange story, and as we get
into this, the way the PMA County Sheriff is responding
to media questions it's also kind of odd as well.
But first let's get to and you may have heard,
Nancy Guthrie is the mother of Savannah Guthrie, who's a
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Today Show host on NBC, and she's eighty four years
old and she doesn't move very well. She is though
cognitively there, so this is not a case of somebody
with dementia wandering off. Let's go to Alex Stone from
ABC News to see what the latest is. Hey, they're John, Yeah,
very clear. Now after two days of Nancy Gothrie missing
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that her whereabouts are a mystery, and we know there's
a lot of activity at this point. TMZ is saying
in the last few minutes that they were emailed a
ransom note asking four millions of dollars in bitcoin. Just
now as you're coming to me, the Sheriff's department in
Pmac County getting back to us, saying that they know
that there are reports out there of a ransom note
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or ransom notes coming from different people, and that they're
going to look into all of them. That they don't
know that any of them are authentic or verified. You know,
it's like swatting calls. The people around the world are
going to be making claims and trying to get money
or thinking it's funny, and so they got to figure
all of these out. But the ransom was sent to
the ransom Tomz is sent to TMZ, and TMZ says
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they sentate just a little while ago to the Sheriff's department.
TMZ claims Harvey Levin that that there are some details
in there that they think are not public that maybe
could indicate that it is a real thing, but the
Sheriff's department saying that they don't know. The FBI will
will look into all of them, and that typically in
a case like this, you're gonna get a lot of
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fake ones and maybe one of them will be real.
We don't know yet, But Sheriff Chris Nantas a little
while ago came out with the FBI to plead again
for the public's help, saying they don't know where she is,
they don't know who took her, saying, Nancy was taken
from a home against her whell and that's where we're at.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
He said.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
There is no DNA to indicate who the suspects were
who were in the home that has come back from
the lab. Only her DNA has been found in the home.
No information on any cars seen in the area. Nobody
saw anything. They don't know if it was random or
it was targeted. There are no tire tracks or footprints
around the home or on the driveway dirt driveway indicating
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who was there.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
We're falling all leads we have.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
That's all I can tell you.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
We've got hundreds of leads, and it's from you that
produced those leads by telling people we need help, and
I'm grateful for that, but I'm yeah, I'm not going
to get into all that.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
We have a team designated to deal with all of
our leads.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
They're looking into all of that.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
And he says all that DNA is being looked at.
The FBI is going through today cell phone data, cell
tower data to know who is in the area.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
He has We've submitted all all kinds of samples for
DNA and we've gotten some back, but nothing to indicate
any suspects.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Yeah, but at this point, they say they're interviewing witnesses.
A lot of leads have been coming in. They put
out a QR code last night for people to easily
upload photos and videos. They don't know where she is.
They don't have any indication she is alive. They don't
have any indication that she is dead. That clock was
ticking of. They say that she needed medication within twenty
four hours. That time is come and gone if it
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was really going to be deadly if she didn't have
the medication. They hope to find her alive, but they
don't know. They believe she was kidnapped, but they don't
know where she is no ring camera video in the neighborhood. No,
So the neighborhood is pretty remote out in the desert.
They're nice homes, but it's down a kind of more
rustic road. And then what looks like dirt driveway is
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coming off of it and cacked his type plants that
are in between the road and the home. Now there
are cameras around the home. What's not clear that the
sheriff says for some reason they haven't been able to
get into the server to get the video, and that
they're working with the manufacturer to try to get in there.
Which I mean, it seems like, you know every ring
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account I've ever known, it's pretty easy to get into
her the family would be able to get into it,
well yeah, I mean wouldn't wouldn't her daughter be able
to you? Would you would think know what the password
probably is or have set it up. I know with
my parents, I'm essentially their it guy. So you don't
know everything for my eighty year old Terrance. And there
is one camera on the front of the home that
is missing, But the sheriff said he doesn't know if
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that's been gone for months or years, or if the
bad guy took it. They don't know that that could
have nothing to do with this. There is a place
where a camera was but that reporters have seen is
not there any longer. And yeah, and even investigators could
have taken it down trying to get into it, but
they don't know if that's.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Part of this.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
There's a report this morning there was some blood found
at the scene. Was that true? So that is what
some sources have said that The sheriff says he doesn't
want to talk about what the DNA is. He will
say that it's pretty clear that she was taken against
her will, but he won't say that it was blood.
He says that they have taken DNA in a number
of different places around the home, and everything that has
come back so far has been for her. Now, if
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it is blood, we know that there are indicators that
harm was done to her, so it may very well be.
If it was, it probably would have been a better
thing had it been blood of somebody else, because that
would have left them to somebody else. Blood to her
doesn't help out much. But there are cameras. There are cameras, yes,
side or outside. Do we know they're around the property?
I don't know if they're they're in the home. I
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get the feeling that they're probably outside, but they're on
the property and they're trying to get into those right now.
I'm just noticing some of the responses from the p
Mac County sheriff, Chris Nanos. And he was asked if
the public was in danger, and he says, well, we
have crime and tucson all the time. Didn't know what
that meant, and then he goes, well, the scene is done,
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we're done with the residents. We don't know where she is,
no clue. Yeah, yeah, there's like an abruptness about him.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yeah. The uh.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
And when asking about if anybody's in danger, when he
went on after saying that there's crime and tuson all
the time, he said, you know, I would say that
that you're in danger if we had somebody kidnapping a
bunch of eighty four year old women around town. He says,
we haven't seen any pattern of anything, so he doesn't
think people are in danger, but he's he's putting it
based on that. Today he was much more guarded. He
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says that yesterday he learned his lesson that he's a
small town sheriff and he was bombarded by media questions
and everybody picked apart his words to say, Okay, he
said this, so he must mean that. So today he
came out and he said, I'm done. We're not going
to do this again until Thursday unless there's a break. So,
by the way, if we find out that there's a
briefing tonight, that means there's a break in the case,
because he said otherwise, he's got to take some time
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away from reporters. That he did non stop interviews yesterday
and everybody was, you know, taking what he said, and
then he said twisting it, and so he wanted to
do the Q and A today and then he said
he needs a couple of days to get everything. Have
you ever been to p MC County. Yeah, yeah, one
of my sons that played baseball there for a little while.
That is a god forsaken place, boy, Tucson.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
It can be hot, yeah, not too much this time
of the year, but.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
It can be hot, yeah, really hot, really desert ye
and just really depressing.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
All right, thank you, Alex.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Yeah, well, you know, if we hear anything, please you know,
now with these letters potentially coming and we'll see, maybe
they'll get a break tonight Stone ABC News on the
mother of Savannah Guthrie, the NBC Today's Show host Nancy
Guthrie eighty four years old and is missing. And I
don't know if you can take verbatim what what police
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people say publicly, because if they if they if they
know stuff, but they haven't caught the bad guy, they're
not going to give all kinds of details. And his
answers were pretty short. And maybe he has had it
with the media because he's never had to deal with
it before. I'm looking at I'm looking at TMZ. And
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the note was sent to TMZ Tuesday morning and demands
a specific substantial amount of bitcoin is what they wrote.
The amount is in the millions, and the note demands
that the cryptocurrency be sent to a specific bitcoin address,
and TMZ has verified that the bitcoin wine address is real.
And this is largely what bitcoin is used for. I
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think ransom notes and uh and a way to launch
your money if you're a drug runner or you're involved
in financial fraud. That this this is what what bitcoin
is used for. In case you were always puzzled by it,
not It's like it's like most electric cars, they're really
not useful. In real life you hear about it all
the time and people bet on the value of the
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currency like it's a zeno. But as far as uh
practical uses uh near zero.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
All right, we are going to uh what did what
did I want to do? First? Here?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Oh, I want to play you one of the most
galling soundbites you'll ever hear from the new fire chief
for the Los Angeles Fire Department. This one really pissed
me off. And that is next.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
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Speaker 2 (10:00):
I actually saw this online this morning and it was
posted by the Fox eleven reporter Matthew Seedorf. And this
is so infuriating. You know, we had Haimi Moron, He's
the third Los Angeles Fire Department chief, and he never
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ever would budge and explain why the commanders of the
fire department did so many stupid things and botched the
fire preparation and the fire response so badly. No names,
no explanations, just vague promises of we will do better
(10:49):
something along those lines, and obviously well prepared by attorneys
and public relations people. And it's really a sticking a
finger in the eye of all the victims who either
lost family members or lost their homes, lost their their town,
their neighbors, their schools. He is so terrified of Karen
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bass I really thought firefighters are more courageous, right, If
you're willing to take on a wall of flames or
burst into a burning building to rescue children, you'd be
able to stand down that little communist that we have
impersonating a mayor. But it looks like Heimi Moore. I
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guess he's got to protect his pension or he finally
made it to fire chief. Maybe that was his dream.
I don't know, but listen to this response to Fox
eleven reporter Matthew Seedorf. It's it's short, it's one question.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Pretty closer to learning who ordered down this report? And
you ordered not to be watered down.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
So, just like the mayor's State of the City address,
I think we need to look forward. We need to
look for what's ahead behind us.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Kind of want those answers.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
Well, I understand that, but they have to understand what
are they going to do with those answers. They want
to point fingers, they want to point Blaine, I've taken ownership.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
And he's referring specifically there to the nonsense BS after
action report that didn't explain why the fire commanders performed
so badly bad decisions, didn't show up, didn't follow up
to put out the original fire from January first. And
(12:36):
I'm just writing down these phrases, look forward, look ahead.
This is what bast did yesterday in her speech too.
And we're going to play you clips of that look forward,
I mean that is that is so infuriating. No, we
don't have to look forward, you guys aft up were
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that any fire department has ever left up in the
history of the United States, from the fire chief on
down to the battalion chiefs or the assistant chiefs or
whatever complicated titles you guys give yourselves. You put your
firefighters in horrible positions. There's nobody with any confidence in
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the department anymore. And you want to look forward and
look ahead? No, no, no, we wanted And specifically what Matthew
Sheedorf was asking was that ridiculous after action report, which
was supposed to be the investigation that answered all the questions,
and instead it was rewritten six times. They used the
phrase watered down. It was more like disemboweled. There's no
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substance in the report anymore. Yes, we're looking to point fingers. Yes,
we're looking to point blame. Yes, I want to know
which people were so horribly incompetent that we lost seven
thousand buildings and we had twelve people die, twelve people
burned to death. You can't respond after twelve people burned
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to death. Really, let's look forward. I don't think those twelve,
those twelve burnt bodies are gonna be looking forward. How's
their family going to look forward? And you got thousands
of people who are about That's another thing we're gonna
get to next hour or two o'clock. We're gonna talk
to a woman in Alta, Dina. Nobody's helped in Altadena
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at all, nobody, And she says, she's gonna tell you
a lot of the residents are getting foreclosed on now
because they've been forced to pay off their mortgage, or
they have to pay off their mortgage now and they
have to pay rent and they can't afford it, so
they're gonna get foreclosed and they're gonna have to give
up their homes and have a little to show for it.
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So we're not looking ahead. We're not looking forward. It's
impossible to. And I really resent the arrogance and obnoxiousness
of this guy hid me more, telling everybody to look
forward and look ahead. No, you work for us, you
and the rest of the people in fire management. We're
never supposed to let this happen. And you guys did,
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and you made repeated, compound errors and you still do
to this day. And then you're covering everything up, and
you're covering everything up, and everybody's lying about everything, and
you're all afraid of Karen Bass, and it's just disgusting.
It's absolutely disgusting. I saw this clip this morning. I
kept like put it on repeat and repeat. It's like,
are you crazy? Are you a crazy person? We don't
(15:37):
want to point figures, we want to point play. Yes,
I want to know exactly who to blame for this.
I am pointing my finger and I want to know
who to play. Eventually we're going to find out. Remember
this was what other trick did Bass pull When they
were doing depositions and I started interviewing fire personnel. Bass's
attorneys pulled this maneuver where everything had to be sealed
(15:59):
for at least thirty days while they review it. No,
it's it's bass is running for reelection. She's doing her
two State of the City speeches. We're gonna play some
clips from yesterday's and you know that's it's it's all
nonsense and bs. But she she's she's using the same
manipulation in your speeches, the fake empathy.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
And then she wants to move forward. That's not possible.
That's not going to happen, not here at least. I
don't buy into the public relations lawyer.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
BS.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Oh yes, just keep saying move forward, and then eventually
people are gonna go, Yeah, I guess we should move No,
nobody should move forward. It should stick to all these
people like tar for the rest of their lives. And
I mean Moore, that is that is a terrible thing
to say. Who you are so afraid of? Karen bass Boy,
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she's got them in a jar in her desk, doesn't she.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
We need to look forward.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
We need now play the whole thing again, the whole
thing again.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Were closer to learning who ortered down this report and
you ordered that to be watered down.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
So, just like the mayor's State of the City address,
I think we need to look forward. We need to
look for what's ahead. That's behind us kind of want
those answers. Well, I understand that, but they have to
understand what are they going to do with those answers.
They want to point fingers, they want to point blame.
I've taken ownership.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
What are they gonna do with those answers?
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Then we'll know who's part of the cover up, who's
covering up the truth, who's covering up the truth? Yes,
who botched the fire preparation, who botched the firefighting execution,
who botched the follow up? Who botched the January first fire?
(17:47):
I want the truth, every bit of it. I want
the names of everybody. I want to know who's liable
for this, who's responsible. He takes ownership. I don't think
he was part of that decision made process.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
And if he was.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Part of it, then why doesn't he explain what he
screwed up? Personally? I take ownership of That's that new
Cat's phrase that the PR people teach you, the lawyers
to oh yeah, yeah yeah, show empathy and tell them
you own this and say things, this is all like
customer service stuff. Yes, I hear you, Yes, I hear
what you're saying. When people say that to me, I've
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heard that from people on the job and there's an issue. Oh,
I hear what you're saying. I know you can hear.
I see your ears. Why did this happen? What are
you gonna do about it? Same thing here. Don't give
me public relations nonsense. Don't give me customer service can responses.
You know I could call an airline for that. So,
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I mean, Moore, you're on the list. We're gonna keep
after you too. That was the worst answer I've ever heard.
We come back. Oh more bad answers clips. I hope
you haven't had lunch. This will make you up, Chuck.
Karen Bass held some kind of state of the City
address yesterday. She did talk about the fire, same theme,
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though the theme is let's pretend it didn't happen.
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for you you to enjoy. All right, Well, we just
played you this atrocious comment from the fire chief Heimi Moore,
who's apparently so terrified of Karen Bass that when he
was asked by Fox eleven report Matthew Seedorf, hey, when
are we gonna find out who watered down and why
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they watered it down the after action report. It's part
of the big cover ups so that the public doesn't know.
And he said pretty much. He said, well, you know,
what would they do with that information if they didn't know?
You know, just point fingers, point blame. Fingers need to
be pointed at the likes of you and Ronnie Viennaweva,
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your predecessor, and Kristin Crowley, who is on duty as
fire chief when Palisades fire happened. Yes, lots of fingers.
Karen Bass. It's hard to believe that she wasn't the
one who ordered it to be to be eviscerated. That
report was eviscerated.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
I'd never heard, I never heard of public officials say
that had the biggest tragedy that's ever occurred because of
a fire in a major city in the history of
the United States.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Well, what's the point of knowing who's responsible for the
bad preparation and the bad execution and the cover up
and the lies. What are they gonna do with that information?
You're just the taxpayers. The contempt they have for all
of us is incredible, and why do people put up
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with it? It's like like some form of battered wife syndrome,
some kind of Stockholm syndrome, where people are identifying with
the batterer, people are identifying with their captors and not
standing up and saying, buddy, we pay your salary. That
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should be public information. That is public information. Give it up,
Explain who's screwed up, and who lied, who covered up?
What are they gonna do with it? What are they
gonna do with it? We want to look forward. And
here's another one here, and you know she's a boy.
(22:05):
She ought to be taken out in cuffs. Karen Bass
State of the City Speech. Let's play cut number one
about the Palisades fire.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
I want to speak plainly, from one Angelino to another
agen about our shared resilience, our spirit, our faith in
one another, and how we must move forward together.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Stop stop how many how many upchuck moments are right
there Angelino to Angelino, our resilience. How we have to
move forward. So you notice the company line here from
the PR agents. Jimi Moore says, look forward. Karen Bass
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says move forward. No again, you're not getting it. This
is enraging, this is infuriating. Nobody normal wants to allow
you to look forward and move forward so you can
continue earning your exorbitant salaries and all your perks, and
you continue destroying the city.
Speaker 6 (23:06):
Continue and how we must move forward together last January,
as flames tore through the palisades, it's.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Not what's with the phony voice like Joe Biden would
use when he whispers.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
You know, it's like breathy, it's really soft. It's a
fake voice. You know.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
When she's being herself, she's a screeching lunatic, like like
when she sees ICE agents, when she sees illegal aliens,
when she sees illegal alien criminals getting rounded up, then
she's screeching like a crazy person.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
That's the real Karen Bass. But what's this with the
gentle soothing tone?
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Such a freaking phony, a complete and utter phony play.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Some more.
Speaker 6 (23:59):
Neighbors ran untoward danger to escape. Others we saw courage
in its purest form. We saw firefighters who worked around
the clock, even when some of them knew they might
lose their own homies.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Stop stop, stop, stop stop.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
How many people you want me to call and have
them come on the air who saw no firefighters at
all the first day, or the second day or the
third day. I know the firefighters who showed up did
everything they well, I guess they did. But I all
my people I meet in the Palisades, friends I have
said they saw no firefighters, or they were standing around,
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or there was a lot of them clustered at the
beach eating.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
You know, I'm all.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Into supporting the firefighters and the police, but it's like
teachers and nurses. They want to be a protected species,
impervious to any criticism, impervious to describing what the reality is.
The reality is it may not have been the fault
of the firefighters, but a lot of people didn't show up.
They didn't even show up, and they're all afraid of
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getting fired. So nobody wants to explain what really happened,
and you got these big lawsuits out there nothing. By
the way, you might as well tell the truth. It
is going to come out in the lawsuit and it's
really going to be ugly for the taxpayers because we're
all going to have to pay these damages. But we're
gonna find out eventually. Once you admit it. You could
tell these people don't have consciences, nothing bothers them. Well,
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let's move forward, Let's look forward, says Heimimore. Let's move forwards.
As Karen Bass, that is the behavior of sociopaths. You
should be racked with guilt for what you did. The
same way that everybody in the Palisades is racked with
grief after a year, especially the ones who had somebody
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die in their family. I'm so sick of sociopathic public servants.
Public servants. I play some more.
Speaker 6 (26:08):
Angelinos reached out with food, clothing, and open arms, and
Angelinos of all kinds handed out water and masks and
guided strangers to safety.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
You didn't. You were an athles.
Speaker 6 (26:20):
The city refused to turn away from one another.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
You did.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
Now over the past year, Angelino's I have heard your grief.
I've heard your anger, see I heard you your exhaustion.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
I can hear you.
Speaker 6 (26:35):
I have sat with Palisades families who lost their homes,
their livelihoods, and all sense of normalcy.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Stop stop, and.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
She claims to have sat with them had no impact
on her, because otherwise she would tell all the truth,
and she'd make all the fire fighters and all the
fire managers, the commanders, the assistant chiefs, the battalion chiefs,
everybody tell the truth. Now today, that's what she would do,
That's what people want to know. But on the one hand, she.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Goes, yes, I've I've heard, I've heard the grief.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
On the other hand, but we're not gonna We're not
gonna tell you who caused the grief. And it starts
with her because she never had any meetings that week
to prepare the fire department and everyone else. Why did
Denise Kinonyez empty that reservoir and never refill it? Did
Karen Bess know about it? Why didn't she do something
(27:31):
about it? She had seven days of a high wind
and fired danger warnings. What did you do about it?
Jud and fired chef? You deleted all your text messages
from the month of January. Why'd you do that? You
destroyed evidence is what you did. This after action report
(27:52):
rewritten six times. It's basically destroying evidence.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Again. All you do is destroy evidence and cover her
up and then tell.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Them I'm gonna talk to Angelino in a fake voice
with fake empathy.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Ah more coming out. I'll play play another clip or
two in the next segment. I gotta go, and I
think we're gonna go throw up.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
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Speaker 2 (28:20):
A six moistline is eight seven seven Moist eighty six
eight seven seven Moist eighty six, or usually talkback feature
on the iHeart app. Coming up after two o'clock, We're
gonna talk with a woman named Heavenly Hughes.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
If you remember, we had a documentary filmmaker on a
couple of weeks ago about the about the Altadena fire,
because the people in Altadena are also still suffering a lot,
and the county government is is incredibly incompetent and they're
not getting any help. And Heavenly was supposed to be
on with us at the time we were talking about
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the documentary. Uh, But we have it on today in
just a few minutes. And I spoke with her briefly
over the weekend. And there are a lot of people
in Alta Dina fire victims. Homes are gone and they're
going to have to pay rent and they still have
to pay their mortgage, and they're not getting any help
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from any level of government. They can't afford paying their
mortgage and paying rent on a new place, and so
they're going to get foreclosed on. There's a lot of
people in danger getting foreclosed on in Altadena, and it's
a travesty, and the five bumbling women, the fools who
(29:38):
run the La County Supervisor Board, are doing nothing to help.
There's nobody in Sacramento from the embarrassingly handsome Gavin Newsom
on down who's helping. Nobody in the legislature, which leads
me to this clip from the State of the Cesspool
speech by Karen Bass. She says she's going up to
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Sacramento to try to get legislators to help rebuild the Palisades.
Play cut four, cut three.
Speaker 6 (30:11):
Next week, I will travel to Sacramento along with councilwomen,
Park and a delegation of Palisadians to make clear to
the state that continued investment in rebuilding the Palisades is
not optional, it is essential.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
It's almost four hundred days since the fire, and in
those four hundred days, all the Democratic Assembly and State Senators,
because they have a super majority, So it's entirely on
the Democrats. They are not helping out the Democratic leader
and the Democratic city council and the Democratic supervisors in
La County. So she has to go to Sacramento to
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talk members, talk to members of her own party to
get funding to help out the taxpayers that pay all
their salaries. Now, after four hundred days, four hundred freaking days,
now she's going up there because they haven't helped yet.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
How can that be?
Speaker 2 (31:12):
They have tens of billions of dollars they've spent on
illegal alien healthcare. If you just took all the money
spent on illegal aliens, you could rebuild the palisades and
out the Dina. Now she's going up there to beg
Isn't that incredibly outrageous? Again, you talk about battered voter syndrome,
(31:38):
battered taxpayer syndrome. They let your homes burn, They don't
give you any aid to rebuild. They won't give you
the permits to rebuild until you can't afford the situation
you're in and you have to sell or you have to.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Get foreclosed on.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
They don't give you the permits and they don't give
you the aid, so you have to be foreclosed on,
or you're forced to sell at a cheap price, and
you'll vote for them again. Wow, let's go to cut
two now, the state of the Cesspool speech, Bass talking
(32:24):
about the fire victims wanting to feel normal again.
Speaker 6 (32:29):
I also know that many of you ask when will
life ever feel normal again. I want you to know
that every day without a home is a day too long.
Every argument with your insurance company is another hour that
you won't get back.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Stop stop, And who's responsible for the insurance situation? Gavin
Newsom and cal Fart Lara cut a deal with insurance
companies about two months before the fire and create a
gigantic loopholes so that these insurance companies could cut customers
by the tens of thousands. So they did. They canceled
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policies by the tens of thousands, including many people in
the Palisades. So the insurance issue was created again by
your teammates, Gavin Newsom Ricardo Lara. New York Times did
an extensive peace on it. You go rid it yourself
if you think I'm just frothing at the mouth. New
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York Times didn't a long, long piece about just how
incompetently negotiated. This deal was with the insurance industry, and
the insurance industry got everything they wanted. They got to
cancel thousands of policies. Two months later, the fire happened
and people realized they were uninsured. Some of them didn't
even know, or they were thrown into the Fair Plan,
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which is now bankrupt, and they were only covered for
a fraction of their homes worth. And as bad as
it is in the Palace Ad, it's even worse than Altadena.
Oh and by the way, in Alta Diena, from what
I understand, there's developers now willing to buy up these
foreclosed properties so they can start building mega mansions in
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West Altadena, which formerly was a middle class, argely black neighborhood.
But that middle class black neighborhood was never warned about
the fire. The Los Angeles County Fire Department, the County
Emergency Services, the County Sheriff's department, nobody warned those people.
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And I believe there were nineteen more deaths there, but
I guess they didn't rate. And you can't get any
of the any of the council, any of the supervisors
talk about that. You know, Catherine Barger build a slice
jenis Han, you know, the Genius Hall of Fame. So
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we come back, We're going to talk with Heavenly.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Hughes.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Heavenly Hughes, she was part of a documentary recently and
she's become a community leader and she's trying to get
help for the Altadena residents who can't carry a mortgage
and a rental bill at the same time, who can't
get the insurance that they need the insurance settlement, and
now they're basically they're I mean they're going bankrupt, they're
(35:28):
getting foreclosed on, or they've got a sal real cheap
to these developers, they're going to put up mega mansions
for the wealthy. That's coming up next, Heavenly Hughes, right
after Deborah Mark Live in the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey,
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Speaker 1 (00:36):
By.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
This is such a strange story, and as we get
into this, the way the PMA County Sheriff is responding
to media questions it's also kind of odd as well.
But first let's get to and you may have heard,
Nancy Guthrie is the mother of Savannah Guthrie, who's a
(00:59):
Today Show host on NBC, and she's eighty four years
old and she doesn't move very well. She is though
cognitively there, so this is not a case of somebody
with dementia wandering off. Let's go to Alex Stone from
ABC News to see what the latest is. Hey, they're John, Yeah,
very clear. Now after two days of Nancy Gothrie missing
(01:23):
that her whereabouts are a mystery, and we know there's
a lot of activity at this point. TMZ is saying
in the last few minutes that they were emailed a
ransom note asking four millions of dollars in bitcoin. Just
now as you're coming to me, the Sheriff's department in
Pmac County getting back to us, saying that they know
that there are reports out there of a ransom note
(01:43):
or ransom notes coming from different people, and that they're
going to look into all of them. That they don't
know that any of them are authentic or verified. You know,
it's like swatting calls. The people around the world are
going to be making claims and trying to get money
or thinking it's funny, and so they got to figure
all of these out. But the ransom was sent to
the ransom Tomz is sent to TMZ, and TMZ says
(02:06):
they sentate just a little while ago to the Sheriff's department.
TMZ claims Harvey Levin that that there are some details
in there that they think are not public that maybe
could indicate that it is a real thing, but the
Sheriff's department saying that they don't know. The FBI will
will look into all of them, and that typically in
a case like this, you're gonna get a lot of
(02:27):
fake ones and maybe one of them will be real.
We don't know yet, But Sheriff Chris Nantas a little
while ago came out with the FBI to plead again
for the public's help, saying they don't know where she is,
they don't know who took her, saying, Nancy was taken
from a home against her whell and that's where we're at.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
He said.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
There is no DNA to indicate who the suspects were
who were in the home that has come back from
the lab. Only her DNA has been found in the home.
No information on any cars seen in the area. Nobody
saw anything. They don't know if it was random or
it was targeted. There are no tire tracks or footprints
around the home or on the driveway dirt driveway indicating
(03:04):
who was there.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
We're falling all leads we have.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
That's all I can tell you.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
We've got hundreds of leads, and it's from you that
produced those leads by telling people we need help, and
I'm grateful for that, but I'm yeah, I'm not going
to get into all that.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
We have a team designated to deal with all of
our leads.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
They're looking into all of that.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
And he says all that DNA is being looked at.
The FBI is going through today cell phone data, cell
tower data to know who is in the area.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
He has We've submitted all all kinds of samples for
DNA and we've gotten some back, but nothing to indicate
any suspects.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Yeah, but at this point, they say they're interviewing witnesses.
A lot of leads have been coming in. They put
out a QR code last night for people to easily
upload photos and videos. They don't know where she is.
They don't have any indication she is alive. They don't
have any indication that she is dead. That clock was
ticking of. They say that she needed medication within twenty
four hours. That time is come and gone if it
(04:01):
was really going to be deadly if she didn't have
the medication. They hope to find her alive, but they
don't know. They believe she was kidnapped, but they don't
know where she is no ring camera video in the neighborhood. No,
So the neighborhood is pretty remote out in the desert.
They're nice homes, but it's down a kind of more
rustic road. And then what looks like dirt driveway is
(04:23):
coming off of it and cacked his type plants that
are in between the road and the home. Now there
are cameras around the home. What's not clear that the
sheriff says for some reason they haven't been able to
get into the server to get the video, and that
they're working with the manufacturer to try to get in there.
Which I mean, it seems like, you know every ring
(04:44):
account I've ever known, it's pretty easy to get into
her the family would be able to get into it,
well yeah, I mean wouldn't wouldn't her daughter be able
to you? Would you would think know what the password
probably is or have set it up. I know with
my parents, I'm essentially their it guy. So you don't
know everything for my eighty year old Terrance. And there
is one camera on the front of the home that
is missing, But the sheriff said he doesn't know if
(05:06):
that's been gone for months or years, or if the
bad guy took it. They don't know that that could
have nothing to do with this. There is a place
where a camera was but that reporters have seen is
not there any longer. And yeah, and even investigators could
have taken it down trying to get into it, but
they don't know if that's.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Part of this.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
There's a report this morning there was some blood found
at the scene. Was that true? So that is what
some sources have said that The sheriff says he doesn't
want to talk about what the DNA is. He will
say that it's pretty clear that she was taken against
her will, but he won't say that it was blood.
He says that they have taken DNA in a number
of different places around the home, and everything that has
come back so far has been for her. Now, if
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it is blood, we know that there are indicators that
harm was done to her, so it may very well be.
If it was, it probably would have been a better
thing had it been blood of somebody else, because that
would have left them to somebody else. Blood to her
doesn't help out much. But there are cameras. There are cameras, yes,
side or outside. Do we know they're around the property?
I don't know if they're they're in the home. I
(06:10):
get the feeling that they're probably outside, but they're on
the property and they're trying to get into those right now.
I'm just noticing some of the responses from the p
Mac County sheriff, Chris Nanos. And he was asked if
the public was in danger, and he says, well, we
have crime and tucson all the time. Didn't know what
that meant, and then he goes, well, the scene is done,
(06:30):
we're done with the residents. We don't know where she is,
no clue. Yeah, yeah, there's like an abruptness about him.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yeah. The uh.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
And when asking about if anybody's in danger, when he
went on after saying that there's crime and tuson all
the time, he said, you know, I would say that
that you're in danger if we had somebody kidnapping a
bunch of eighty four year old women around town. He says,
we haven't seen any pattern of anything, so he doesn't
think people are in danger, but he's he's putting it
based on that. Today he was much more guarded. He
(07:01):
says that yesterday he learned his lesson that he's a
small town sheriff and he was bombarded by media questions
and everybody picked apart his words to say, Okay, he
said this, so he must mean that. So today he
came out and he said, I'm done. We're not going
to do this again until Thursday unless there's a break. So,
by the way, if we find out that there's a
briefing tonight, that means there's a break in the case,
because he said otherwise, he's got to take some time
(07:23):
away from reporters. That he did non stop interviews yesterday
and everybody was, you know, taking what he said, and
then he said twisting it, and so he wanted to
do the Q and A today and then he said
he needs a couple of days to get everything. Have
you ever been to p MC County. Yeah, yeah, one
of my sons that played baseball there for a little while.
That is a god forsaken place, boy, Tucson.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
It can be hot, yeah, not too much this time
of the year, but.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
It can be hot, yeah, really hot, really desert ye
and just really depressing.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
All right, thank you, Alex.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Yeah, well, you know, if we hear anything, please you know,
now with these letters potentially coming and we'll see, maybe
they'll get a break tonight Stone ABC News on the
mother of Savannah Guthrie, the NBC Today's Show host Nancy
Guthrie eighty four years old and is missing. And I
don't know if you can take verbatim what what police
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people say publicly, because if they if they if they
know stuff, but they haven't caught the bad guy, they're
not going to give all kinds of details. And his
answers were pretty short. And maybe he has had it
with the media because he's never had to deal with
it before. I'm looking at I'm looking at TMZ. And
(08:41):
the note was sent to TMZ Tuesday morning and demands
a specific substantial amount of bitcoin is what they wrote.
The amount is in the millions, and the note demands
that the cryptocurrency be sent to a specific bitcoin address,
and TMZ has verified that the bitcoin wine address is real.
And this is largely what bitcoin is used for. I
(09:03):
think ransom notes and uh and a way to launch
your money if you're a drug runner or you're involved
in financial fraud. That this this is what what bitcoin
is used for. In case you were always puzzled by it,
not It's like it's like most electric cars, they're really
not useful. In real life you hear about it all
the time and people bet on the value of the
(09:26):
currency like it's a zeno. But as far as uh
practical uses uh near zero.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
All right, we are going to uh what did what
did I want to do? First? Here?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Oh, I want to play you one of the most
galling soundbites you'll ever hear from the new fire chief
for the Los Angeles Fire Department. This one really pissed
me off. And that is next.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
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Speaker 2 (10:00):
I actually saw this online this morning and it was
posted by the Fox eleven reporter Matthew Seedorf. And this
is so infuriating. You know, we had Haimi Moron, He's
the third Los Angeles Fire Department chief, and he never
(10:24):
ever would budge and explain why the commanders of the
fire department did so many stupid things and botched the
fire preparation and the fire response so badly. No names,
no explanations, just vague promises of we will do better
(10:49):
something along those lines, and obviously well prepared by attorneys
and public relations people. And it's really a sticking a
finger in the eye of all the victims who either
lost family members or lost their homes, lost their their town,
their neighbors, their schools. He is so terrified of Karen
(11:15):
bass I really thought firefighters are more courageous, right, If
you're willing to take on a wall of flames or
burst into a burning building to rescue children, you'd be
able to stand down that little communist that we have
impersonating a mayor. But it looks like Heimi Moore. I
(11:36):
guess he's got to protect his pension or he finally
made it to fire chief. Maybe that was his dream.
I don't know, but listen to this response to Fox
eleven reporter Matthew Seedorf. It's it's short, it's one question.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Pretty closer to learning who ordered down this report? And
you ordered not to be watered down.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
So, just like the mayor's State of the City address,
I think we need to look forward. We need to
look for what's ahead behind us.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Kind of want those answers.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
Well, I understand that, but they have to understand what
are they going to do with those answers. They want
to point fingers, they want to point Blaine, I've taken ownership.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
And he's referring specifically there to the nonsense BS after
action report that didn't explain why the fire commanders performed
so badly bad decisions, didn't show up, didn't follow up
to put out the original fire from January first. And
(12:36):
I'm just writing down these phrases, look forward, look ahead.
This is what bast did yesterday in her speech too.
And we're going to play you clips of that look forward,
I mean that is that is so infuriating. No, we
don't have to look forward, you guys aft up were
(13:00):
that any fire department has ever left up in the
history of the United States, from the fire chief on
down to the battalion chiefs or the assistant chiefs or
whatever complicated titles you guys give yourselves. You put your
firefighters in horrible positions. There's nobody with any confidence in
(13:24):
the department anymore. And you want to look forward and
look ahead? No, no, no, we wanted And specifically what Matthew
Sheedorf was asking was that ridiculous after action report, which
was supposed to be the investigation that answered all the questions,
and instead it was rewritten six times. They used the
phrase watered down. It was more like disemboweled. There's no
(13:48):
substance in the report anymore. Yes, we're looking to point fingers. Yes,
we're looking to point blame. Yes, I want to know
which people were so horribly incompetent that we lost seven
thousand buildings and we had twelve people die, twelve people
burned to death. You can't respond after twelve people burned
(14:11):
to death. Really, let's look forward. I don't think those twelve,
those twelve burnt bodies are gonna be looking forward. How's
their family going to look forward? And you got thousands
of people who are about That's another thing we're gonna
get to next hour or two o'clock. We're gonna talk
to a woman in Alta, Dina. Nobody's helped in Altadena
(14:33):
at all, nobody, And she says, she's gonna tell you
a lot of the residents are getting foreclosed on now
because they've been forced to pay off their mortgage, or
they have to pay off their mortgage now and they
have to pay rent and they can't afford it, so
they're gonna get foreclosed and they're gonna have to give
up their homes and have a little to show for it.
(14:56):
So we're not looking ahead. We're not looking forward. It's
impossible to. And I really resent the arrogance and obnoxiousness
of this guy hid me more, telling everybody to look
forward and look ahead. No, you work for us, you
and the rest of the people in fire management. We're
never supposed to let this happen. And you guys did,
(15:16):
and you made repeated, compound errors and you still do
to this day. And then you're covering everything up, and
you're covering everything up, and everybody's lying about everything, and
you're all afraid of Karen Bass, and it's just disgusting.
It's absolutely disgusting. I saw this clip this morning. I
kept like put it on repeat and repeat. It's like,
are you crazy? Are you a crazy person? We don't
(15:37):
want to point figures, we want to point play. Yes,
I want to know exactly who to blame for this.
I am pointing my finger and I want to know
who to play. Eventually we're going to find out. Remember
this was what other trick did Bass pull When they
were doing depositions and I started interviewing fire personnel. Bass's
attorneys pulled this maneuver where everything had to be sealed
(15:59):
for at least thirty days while they review it. No,
it's it's bass is running for reelection. She's doing her
two State of the City speeches. We're gonna play some
clips from yesterday's and you know that's it's it's all
nonsense and bs. But she she's she's using the same
manipulation in your speeches, the fake empathy.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
And then she wants to move forward. That's not possible.
That's not going to happen, not here at least. I
don't buy into the public relations lawyer.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
BS.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Oh yes, just keep saying move forward, and then eventually
people are gonna go, Yeah, I guess we should move No,
nobody should move forward. It should stick to all these
people like tar for the rest of their lives. And
I mean Moore, that is that is a terrible thing
to say. Who you are so afraid of? Karen bass Boy,
(16:53):
she's got them in a jar in her desk, doesn't she.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
We need to look forward.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
We need now play the whole thing again, the whole
thing again.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Were closer to learning who ortered down this report and
you ordered that to be watered down.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
So, just like the mayor's State of the City address,
I think we need to look forward. We need to
look for what's ahead. That's behind us kind of want
those answers. Well, I understand that, but they have to
understand what are they going to do with those answers.
They want to point fingers, they want to point blame.
I've taken ownership.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
What are they gonna do with those answers?
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Then we'll know who's part of the cover up, who's
covering up the truth, who's covering up the truth? Yes,
who botched the fire preparation, who botched the firefighting execution,
who botched the follow up? Who botched the January first fire?
(17:47):
I want the truth, every bit of it. I want
the names of everybody. I want to know who's liable
for this, who's responsible. He takes ownership. I don't think
he was part of that decision made process.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
And if he was.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Part of it, then why doesn't he explain what he
screwed up? Personally? I take ownership of That's that new
Cat's phrase that the PR people teach you, the lawyers
to oh yeah, yeah yeah, show empathy and tell them
you own this and say things, this is all like
customer service stuff. Yes, I hear you, Yes, I hear
what you're saying. When people say that to me, I've
(18:25):
heard that from people on the job and there's an issue. Oh,
I hear what you're saying. I know you can hear.
I see your ears. Why did this happen? What are
you gonna do about it? Same thing here. Don't give
me public relations nonsense. Don't give me customer service can responses.
You know I could call an airline for that. So,
(18:47):
I mean, Moore, you're on the list. We're gonna keep
after you too. That was the worst answer I've ever heard.
We come back. Oh more bad answers clips. I hope
you haven't had lunch. This will make you up, Chuck.
Karen Bass held some kind of state of the City
address yesterday. She did talk about the fire, same theme,
(19:09):
though the theme is let's pretend it didn't happen.
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for you you to enjoy. All right, Well, we just
played you this atrocious comment from the fire chief Heimi Moore,
who's apparently so terrified of Karen Bass that when he
was asked by Fox eleven report Matthew Seedorf, hey, when
are we gonna find out who watered down and why
(20:02):
they watered it down the after action report. It's part
of the big cover ups so that the public doesn't know.
And he said pretty much. He said, well, you know,
what would they do with that information if they didn't know?
You know, just point fingers, point blame. Fingers need to
be pointed at the likes of you and Ronnie Viennaweva,
(20:26):
your predecessor, and Kristin Crowley, who is on duty as
fire chief when Palisades fire happened. Yes, lots of fingers.
Karen Bass. It's hard to believe that she wasn't the
one who ordered it to be to be eviscerated. That
report was eviscerated.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
I'd never heard, I never heard of public officials say
that had the biggest tragedy that's ever occurred because of
a fire in a major city in the history of
the United States.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Well, what's the point of knowing who's responsible for the
bad preparation and the bad execution and the cover up
and the lies. What are they gonna do with that information?
You're just the taxpayers. The contempt they have for all
of us is incredible, and why do people put up
(21:22):
with it? It's like like some form of battered wife syndrome,
some kind of Stockholm syndrome, where people are identifying with
the batterer, people are identifying with their captors and not
standing up and saying, buddy, we pay your salary. That
(21:44):
should be public information. That is public information. Give it up,
Explain who's screwed up, and who lied, who covered up?
What are they gonna do with it? What are they
gonna do with it? We want to look forward. And
here's another one here, and you know she's a boy.
(22:05):
She ought to be taken out in cuffs. Karen Bass
State of the City Speech. Let's play cut number one
about the Palisades fire.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
I want to speak plainly, from one Angelino to another
agen about our shared resilience, our spirit, our faith in
one another, and how we must move forward together.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Stop stop how many how many upchuck moments are right
there Angelino to Angelino, our resilience. How we have to
move forward. So you notice the company line here from
the PR agents. Jimi Moore says, look forward. Karen Bass
(22:45):
says move forward. No again, you're not getting it. This
is enraging, this is infuriating. Nobody normal wants to allow
you to look forward and move forward so you can
continue earning your exorbitant salaries and all your perks, and
you continue destroying the city.
Speaker 6 (23:06):
Continue and how we must move forward together last January,
as flames tore through the palisades, it's.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Not what's with the phony voice like Joe Biden would
use when he whispers.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
You know, it's like breathy, it's really soft. It's a
fake voice. You know.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
When she's being herself, she's a screeching lunatic, like like
when she sees ICE agents, when she sees illegal aliens,
when she sees illegal alien criminals getting rounded up, then
she's screeching like a crazy person.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
That's the real Karen Bass. But what's this with the
gentle soothing tone?
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Such a freaking phony, a complete and utter phony play.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Some more.
Speaker 6 (23:59):
Neighbors ran untoward danger to escape. Others we saw courage
in its purest form. We saw firefighters who worked around
the clock, even when some of them knew they might
lose their own homies.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Stop stop, stop, stop stop.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
How many people you want me to call and have
them come on the air who saw no firefighters at
all the first day, or the second day or the
third day. I know the firefighters who showed up did
everything they well, I guess they did. But I all
my people I meet in the Palisades, friends I have
said they saw no firefighters, or they were standing around,
(24:40):
or there was a lot of them clustered at the
beach eating.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
You know, I'm all.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Into supporting the firefighters and the police, but it's like
teachers and nurses. They want to be a protected species,
impervious to any criticism, impervious to describing what the reality is.
The reality is it may not have been the fault
of the firefighters, but a lot of people didn't show up.
They didn't even show up, and they're all afraid of
(25:11):
getting fired. So nobody wants to explain what really happened,
and you got these big lawsuits out there nothing. By
the way, you might as well tell the truth. It
is going to come out in the lawsuit and it's
really going to be ugly for the taxpayers because we're
all going to have to pay these damages. But we're
gonna find out eventually. Once you admit it. You could
tell these people don't have consciences, nothing bothers them. Well,
(25:34):
let's move forward, Let's look forward, says Heimimore. Let's move forwards.
As Karen Bass, that is the behavior of sociopaths. You
should be racked with guilt for what you did. The
same way that everybody in the Palisades is racked with
grief after a year, especially the ones who had somebody
(25:56):
die in their family. I'm so sick of sociopathic public servants.
Public servants. I play some more.
Speaker 6 (26:08):
Angelinos reached out with food, clothing, and open arms, and
Angelinos of all kinds handed out water and masks and
guided strangers to safety.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
You didn't. You were an athles.
Speaker 6 (26:20):
The city refused to turn away from one another.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
You did.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
Now over the past year, Angelino's I have heard your grief.
I've heard your anger, see I heard you your exhaustion.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
I can hear you.
Speaker 6 (26:35):
I have sat with Palisades families who lost their homes,
their livelihoods, and all sense of normalcy.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Stop stop, and.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
She claims to have sat with them had no impact
on her, because otherwise she would tell all the truth,
and she'd make all the fire fighters and all the
fire managers, the commanders, the assistant chiefs, the battalion chiefs,
everybody tell the truth. Now today, that's what she would do,
That's what people want to know. But on the one hand, she.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Goes, yes, I've I've heard, I've heard the grief.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
On the other hand, but we're not gonna We're not
gonna tell you who caused the grief. And it starts
with her because she never had any meetings that week
to prepare the fire department and everyone else. Why did
Denise Kinonyez empty that reservoir and never refill it? Did
Karen Bess know about it? Why didn't she do something
(27:31):
about it? She had seven days of a high wind
and fired danger warnings. What did you do about it?
Jud and fired chef? You deleted all your text messages
from the month of January. Why'd you do that? You
destroyed evidence is what you did. This after action report
(27:52):
rewritten six times. It's basically destroying evidence.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Again. All you do is destroy evidence and cover her
up and then tell.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Them I'm gonna talk to Angelino in a fake voice
with fake empathy.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Ah more coming out. I'll play play another clip or
two in the next segment. I gotta go, and I
think we're gonna go throw up.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
A six moistline is eight seven seven Moist eighty six
eight seven seven Moist eighty six, or usually talkback feature
on the iHeart app. Coming up after two o'clock, We're
gonna talk with a woman named Heavenly Hughes.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
If you remember, we had a documentary filmmaker on a
couple of weeks ago about the about the Altadena fire,
because the people in Altadena are also still suffering a lot,
and the county government is is incredibly incompetent and they're
not getting any help. And Heavenly was supposed to be
on with us at the time we were talking about
(28:55):
the documentary. Uh, But we have it on today in
just a few minutes. And I spoke with her briefly
over the weekend. And there are a lot of people
in Alta Dina fire victims. Homes are gone and they're
going to have to pay rent and they still have
to pay their mortgage, and they're not getting any help
(29:18):
from any level of government. They can't afford paying their
mortgage and paying rent on a new place, and so
they're going to get foreclosed on. There's a lot of
people in danger getting foreclosed on in Altadena, and it's
a travesty, and the five bumbling women, the fools who
(29:38):
run the La County Supervisor Board, are doing nothing to help.
There's nobody in Sacramento from the embarrassingly handsome Gavin Newsom
on down who's helping. Nobody in the legislature, which leads
me to this clip from the State of the Cesspool
speech by Karen Bass. She says she's going up to
(30:01):
Sacramento to try to get legislators to help rebuild the Palisades.
Play cut four, cut three.
Speaker 6 (30:11):
Next week, I will travel to Sacramento along with councilwomen,
Park and a delegation of Palisadians to make clear to
the state that continued investment in rebuilding the Palisades is
not optional, it is essential.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
It's almost four hundred days since the fire, and in
those four hundred days, all the Democratic Assembly and State Senators,
because they have a super majority, So it's entirely on
the Democrats. They are not helping out the Democratic leader
and the Democratic city council and the Democratic supervisors in
La County. So she has to go to Sacramento to
(30:52):
talk members, talk to members of her own party to
get funding to help out the taxpayers that pay all
their salaries. Now, after four hundred days, four hundred freaking days,
now she's going up there because they haven't helped yet.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
How can that be?
Speaker 2 (31:12):
They have tens of billions of dollars they've spent on
illegal alien healthcare. If you just took all the money
spent on illegal aliens, you could rebuild the palisades and
out the Dina. Now she's going up there to beg
Isn't that incredibly outrageous? Again, you talk about battered voter syndrome,
(31:38):
battered taxpayer syndrome. They let your homes burn, They don't
give you any aid to rebuild. They won't give you
the permits to rebuild until you can't afford the situation
you're in and you have to sell or you have to.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Get foreclosed on.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
They don't give you the permits and they don't give
you the aid, so you have to be foreclosed on,
or you're forced to sell at a cheap price, and
you'll vote for them again. Wow, let's go to cut
two now, the state of the Cesspool speech, Bass talking
(32:24):
about the fire victims wanting to feel normal again.
Speaker 6 (32:29):
I also know that many of you ask when will
life ever feel normal again. I want you to know
that every day without a home is a day too long.
Every argument with your insurance company is another hour that
you won't get back.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Stop stop, And who's responsible for the insurance situation? Gavin
Newsom and cal Fart Lara cut a deal with insurance
companies about two months before the fire and create a
gigantic loopholes so that these insurance companies could cut customers
by the tens of thousands. So they did. They canceled
(33:09):
policies by the tens of thousands, including many people in
the Palisades. So the insurance issue was created again by
your teammates, Gavin Newsom Ricardo Lara. New York Times did
an extensive peace on it. You go rid it yourself
if you think I'm just frothing at the mouth. New
(33:30):
York Times didn't a long, long piece about just how
incompetently negotiated. This deal was with the insurance industry, and
the insurance industry got everything they wanted. They got to
cancel thousands of policies. Two months later, the fire happened
and people realized they were uninsured. Some of them didn't
even know, or they were thrown into the Fair Plan,
(33:53):
which is now bankrupt, and they were only covered for
a fraction of their homes worth. And as bad as
it is in the Palace Ad, it's even worse than Altadena.
Oh and by the way, in Alta Diena, from what
I understand, there's developers now willing to buy up these
foreclosed properties so they can start building mega mansions in
(34:15):
West Altadena, which formerly was a middle class, argely black neighborhood.
But that middle class black neighborhood was never warned about
the fire. The Los Angeles County Fire Department, the County
Emergency Services, the County Sheriff's department, nobody warned those people.
(34:39):
And I believe there were nineteen more deaths there, but
I guess they didn't rate. And you can't get any
of the any of the council, any of the supervisors
talk about that. You know, Catherine Barger build a slice
jenis Han, you know, the Genius Hall of Fame. So
(35:02):
we come back, We're going to talk with Heavenly.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Hughes.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Heavenly Hughes, she was part of a documentary recently and
she's become a community leader and she's trying to get
help for the Altadena residents who can't carry a mortgage
and a rental bill at the same time, who can't
get the insurance that they need the insurance settlement, and
now they're basically they're I mean they're going bankrupt, they're
(35:28):
getting foreclosed on, or they've got a sal real cheap
to these developers, they're going to put up mega mansions
for the wealthy. That's coming up next, Heavenly Hughes, right
after Deborah Mark Live in the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey,
you've been listening to The John Cobalt Show podcast. You
can always hear the show live on KFI Am six
(35:50):
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