January 23, 2025 • 34 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (01/23) - More on the empty reservoir issue in Pacific Palisades. There are a bunch of greedy landlords trying to take advantage of fire victims with high rent prices. Momentum is gaining for a recall of Newsom and Bass after the fires. Jim Acosta got into it with Congressman Tim Burchett (R-TN).
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
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a new story on this reservoir disaster.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
And if.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
You lost a home in the Palisades or you're connected
in some way to this, this terrible tragedy.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
This is really going to inflame you. There.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
There is a whole system failure in Los Angeles government
that encompasses not just the Mayor's office and the City
Council and the city administration, but the upper echelons of
the Fire Department and the Department of Water Power. It's
the management, it's the decision makers, it's and it's it's
it's a carav Bass takes the responsibility because she's in
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charge of the fire Department, she's in charge of the
police Department and the DWP. She she picked Jennie's queen
on As to be the to be the CEO, the
head of the d WP. So this is this is
all on bath and the things you're going to find
out here is something a mayor should know. I keep
running in my head. It's like, all right, if you're
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starting a government from stratch, from scratch one of the
let let's say we could start a new government. We've
established a new city on an island somewhere. What do
you want the government to do?
Speaker 1 (01:35):
First?
Speaker 2 (01:35):
And most importantly, you want to create a police and
fire department, and you want to be able to transmit
water and power. Right, I can't think of anything more
important than that. Then police and fire, water and power.
You want to do the school system, but that's a
complete failure and the mayor doesn't have any control over that. Anyway, here,
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the roads could be are very important, but less important
than the fire and the police. You're generally not gonna
die because of bad roads, and there are different jurisdictions
that control different roads. So I'm thinking, okay, what are
the pure departments that a civilization must have in the
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modern world, and that's police, fire, water and power. And
how much failure did we get from the water and
power department? How much failure did we get from the
management in the fire department? Well enough to have sixty
three hundred structures destroyed in the Palisades and enough to
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kill eleven people.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
And the more the.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Times and other places report on this, the more you
just can't believe the incompetence, the stupidity. I don't get it,
and nobody seems to want to explain it. I mentioned
early on when the fires broke out, the bell Air
fire in nineteen sixty one, bell Air and Brentwood, that
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was LA's most famous fire for a long time. Five
hundred homes were wiped out, and there was a big
public ruckus over that. So over the next three years,
by nineteen sixty four, city leaders added thirteen fire stations,
They mapped out fire hydrants, that bought helicopters, and dispatched
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more crews to the Santa Monica Mountains. Because the Palisades
and Bretwood and bel Air occupy the foothills the lower
reaches of the Santa Monica Mountains.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
To accommodate growth of.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
The Palisades, they built a reservoir in sent to Inez
Canyon and a pumping station specifically to increase fire protection.
That is an exact quote from the chief water engineer
in nineteen seventy two.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
For LADWP. His name was Gerald W. Jones.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
He told the La Times in nineteen seventy two that
they're building a reservoir and said to it as canyon
and a pumping station to increase fire protection. Some of
the Palisades' residents at the time didn't like the reservoir.
I thought it was too close because in nineteen sixty
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three in Baldwin Hills, our reservoir had failed, killing five
people and destroying two hundred and eighty homes. I guess
they were all flooded out. You know, we've had we've
had trouble with competent people building and maintaining the infrastructure
in LA for a long long time. But they built
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the reservoir one hundred and seventeen million gallons. One woman
is quoted here as saying I used to say all
the time, boy, I know one thing that will never
happen is our place will burn down. Peggy Holter nineteen
seventy eight. She purchased a townhouse in the Highlands close
to the reservoir. It was the one thing I never
worried about. And her townhouse condo complex burned down because
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the water pressure went down to nothing, and she says,
I think if the reservoir had been there and they
were sucking water out of it, I'm sure our building
would have been saved. It was offline, as you know
now for repairs. It's been offline for a year. There's
two lawsuits. Hair Gel is demanding an investigation. Bass is
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promising a complete assessment. But the question is how could
this happen? How many people were involved and a decision
that went on for a year not to fill a
reservoir have it full with an upcoming fire season. Well,
the whole reason they built the reservoir was to increase
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fire protection. The people who built the reservoir said it
was to increase fire protection. So why would you drain
it and keep it absolutely empty before a fire season
when you knew the potential could be could be bad.
I mean it could be a bad fire season. We
had two years of excessive rain, lots of dense vegetation,
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eight months it's drying out. Why would you pick that
time to keep it empty. In fact, they think the
repairs are not going to be finished until April or
May of this year. Now we're talking about almost a
year and a half and all it is is a
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tear in the cover, how did you end up with
a year and a half worth of empty reservoir. So
this goes back to January twenty twenty four, a year
ago a DWP property manager spotted a tear in the
floating cover. Now, Barney, here is that for decades the
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reservoir was uncovered. From the nineteen sixties until twenty twelve,
there wasn't a cover, and then they changed some state
regulation and you were supposed to have a cover so
animals in debris, animals wouldn't poop, birds wouldn't poop, other
garbage wouldn't contaminate the water.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
And so.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
A DWP property manager saw there was a tear two
days later. It was growing larger, and at the time
the reservoir held about fifty six million gallons of water,
which is less than half its capacity anyway. Now policy
calls for minor repairs to be addressed within forty eight hours.
Major repairs require specialized skills and are contracted out. The
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manual says make rare repairs as soon as possible, as
directed by the engineer. And now we're a year later
and nothing's been repaired. They sent it out for a
contract bid and that took months. Why there was only
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one bid. They found the tar in January. They didn't
put out the contract bid until April. The cost eighty
nine thousand, but it wasn't until it wasn't until November
that the company that turned in the bid said they'll
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do it for one hundred and thirty So one hundred
and thirty thousand dollars is all they had to spend.
And it took them all year just to settle on
the one company that had offered. It's not like they
had seventeen companies and they were I mean, besides, this
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should have been an emergency, right. You hear about the
emergency declarations all the time. It's like, hey, hey, this
one hundred and seventeen million gallon reservoir is at of service,
fire season, coming emergency. Let's fix it one hundred thirty
thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Now.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
The residents didn't notice because the water system, the city
water system, was still supplying water. They didn't even need
the reservoir to get through their daily water requirements, the
DWP said in the statement. Repairs were subject to the
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city Charter's competitive bidding process, which requires time. Why does
it require time for something this important that you needed
this quickly, just following the manual and the regulations. That's
what it's said.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Now.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
On Tuesday, jeniez Z was supposed to publicly address at
a meeting of the La City Council's Energy and Environment Committee,
but Kenonias was blocked by the city attorney Heidi Feldstein's Soto.
I'm not making this up, Heidi Feldstein Soto. She didn't
want him to talk because of all the lawsuits against
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the city, so kes would be available at a closed
door meeting. Wow, they leave the palisades to burn, they
leave the reservoir empty, they have the firefighters show up
an hour and a half late. Heidi Feldstein's Soto did
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not respond to requests for a comment. Cononia's is not
speaking publicly. More lawsuits are expected. You had one job
fill the reservoir and the thing is, for fifty years
there wasn't to cover anyway, and they weren't even using
it for their daily drinking water in the past year.
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Just keep it filled with or without the cover for
fire season, and nobody did. What did they do all day?
You have one job supply water, well two jobs supply
water and supply power.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
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Speaker 2 (11:41):
You know, of all of all the things, all the
bad guys the government could be going after, what does
the U are the silly Attorney General Reha Rob Bonta.
He's a he's a newsome wanna bee. Literally he wants
he wants to be the next governor. And so he's
trying to make his mark as attorney general. And you
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know all the problems we have here. I mean, wait,
wait till Trump's Ice team comes to LA and does
a raid, and you're going to see all the murderers
and rapists that the Ice team picks out of Los Angeles.
Uh and and and Bonta doesn't want to cooperate with
with Trump and Ice at all.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
But you know what he's doing.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
He's going after real estate agents if he thinks an
agent has jacked up the price of a house too
high during.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
This fire tragedy.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
And you know, they put a ten percent limit on
how much you can raise a home price for for
rent for you know, the next few months, because there's
a lot of people who obviously been displaced. So this
couple wanted to rent a property Lakanyata flint Ridge. They
lost their home in the Altadena fire and they go
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to Mike Kobeesse he runs kobees Properties. Now, he originally
offered the house at for eighty seven hundred dollars a
month and then realized he made a mistake. It was
below market, so he increased it to twelve thousand dollars
because he learned the area had switched school districts, and
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that is really important. People buy homes and pay more
for homes based on the school district. So he says
he looked and he realized, oh, my mistake. It's in
a better school district. So instead of eighty seven hundred,
it's going to be twelve thousand. And the media rent
for house in La Kaanyada Flintridge is thirteen thousand, so
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this was still below the median. Now, the rent was
increased a few days after the La wildfires, but says
the fires had nothing to do with it, and the
listing was very and based on the median rent. Sounds
that way right, Bonta is jumping down his ass for
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price gouging. You imagine this, this is the guy Bonta
goes after.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
It.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Very well, may have been a coincidence. If you have
a suspicion, isn't this something, you call him up privately
and see if the story checks out. Instead, he's publicly
shamed and he's up on a misdemeanor charge.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
He was charged, Hobies.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
He was charging the superior court with misdemeanor price gouging
for unlawfully raising the rental prices advertising. Now if this
happened at any other time, nobody would have noticed. He
has a plausible explanation.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
I made a mistake.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
I realized it was in a different school district. I
raised the price still below the medium. This is what
Robb is going after, and he won't help out Ice
get the rapists and the murderers that are living with
us in Los Angeles. This is I mean, this is
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so bizarre. This is fascinating, Kobeesi said. Eventually, he rented
the home to another family affected by the wildfires, and
when he learned about the situation, the property owner lowered
the price from twelve thousand to ninety five seventy in
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game of three months of rent, free months rent and
a five thousand dollars moving allowance, which was very compassionate
and generous, and I think the whole thing was just
a mistake, seems to me. But this is the guy
Bonta has made a statewide example of I, because you
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could end up you can end up in prison for
a year, in county jail. That's who they're gonna put
in jail. Meanwhile, my neighborhood was overrun by looters last week,
and I'm sure these looters have been repeatedly arrested and
set free. Those guys aren't in jail. They're looting my neighborhood.
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They're going after a real estate agent. A. This is
just this is so oppressive, This is so absurd. The
state has sent five hundred warning letters to hotels and
landlords who've been accused of price gouging. You know how
you deal with price gouging. You say no, it's called
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the free market. You say no, I'm not paying that.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
I don't understand why why.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
This is the problem I have with with with the
regulate minimum wage and regulate prices, wages, everything. Just say no,
you don't have to live in that house. You don't
have to if you don't want to pay that money.
Same thing with jobs. I mean, if you don't like
the payoffer, don't take the job. You have the control.
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Collectively we set prices and wages. No, it is a
very powerful word. But you need this guy going to prison.
This is what Bonta does. Absolutely astonishing.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
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six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
We are gonna, well, what do we got coming up
at three o'clock? I know we got somebody coming on
from the Center for Immigration Studies, right Art Arthur, Yes,
and we're going to talk about what's what's going on
with all these secutive orders and and Ice had it.
I think you know, we'll play played Bill Illusion's report
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again from from Fox News because he got uh he
was he got a ride along with Ice this week
early in the morning. It was five degrees and Ice
went and busted a number of criminal violent fellon illegal
aliens because Boston is a sanctuary city, just like stupid La.
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Wait to you see the guys that they busted. If
you haven't heard or seen this report, your hair is
going to fall out. This is what's going on. And
we've got the exact same psycho progressive mentality here with
Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom speaking of bass in Newsom.
You might have heard debor just had a story about. Uh,
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it was about the Newsom recall. Right, yeah, well there's
there's They had one going for Newsom.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Newsom's had eight of these.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
Yeah, I didn't realize eat.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Well, he's been.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Bad from day one. I think I think the French
laundry ignited the only recall that made it to the ballot.
And you see and and and that was the that
was the moment there. And I don't want to get
into the whole thing, but that that was the moment
to nail them and and and affected. He then got
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he got re elected. It's just, so, what do you
think you're gonna get after we've seen him bumble around
for six years? It's it's never gonna get better. When
you don't have a certain intelligence that this is, this
is i Q, this is, this is pure intelligence.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
When you don't have.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
That, you can't get better. People with high intelligence they
use their intelligence in order to improve certain skills that
might not be they're strong points, but because they're smart,
they learn what they have to do to turn to
make those skills stronger and more effective. But when you're
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not when when when you're low power, low candlewot power
to begin with, There's nothing you can do. It's the
same thing with Karen Pass There's nothing she can do.
I told you she was.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
On this.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Zoom meeting with people in our in our neighborhood. It
was like a homeowner's association meeting. And she was the
first face I saw on the zoom screen and he
just looked into those empty, frightened eyes, and I knew
before she even opened her mouth. It's like, Wow, she's
in over her head. The whole world's crashing down on her,
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and she doesn't know what to do, and she does
have the slightest she doesn't have the slightest idea to
get out of us. Oh, speaking of we've got Rick
Caruso coming on the show tomorrow. How many of you
wish Rick Caruso is the mayor right now? How many
of you wish Rick Caruso was the mayor? You know
in the past year, you think the response would have
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been the same in the Palisades.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
Well, the people that you talked to in your neighborhood,
what do they feel, how do they feel did they
vote for Bass? And what do they think?
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Now?
Speaker 2 (21:15):
What I noticed there was a running comment colin along
the right side of the zoom screen, and there is
zero support for bass. There was one person. There's always
this like goodie good and I imagine she was like
an elderly person because there's certain elderly women just like well,
I'm sure everybody's trying their best, you know, and there's
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a lot of pressure here, and I'm sure she has
good intention. It was kind of like that, but it
was more like a general support. There are people they
have such a I guess they're the ones in school
actually believed what the teachers were saying about government and
public service and being a noble enterprise, and that these
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people sacrifice their lives and they sacrifice making more money
and getting more prestige in order to serve the rest
of us.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
And I don't know.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
I think by high school I figured out that there's
no such thing. There's no person who gets into government
because I just want to serve everyone else. None on
the political level, not not when it comes to politicians
running for office. They serve themselves. They're worried about the
political careers. That's beginning an end of it, And I
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actually feel sorry for people who go, well, I'm sure,
she's trying her best. She just wants to serve the
public and do No, she doesn't care about serving the public.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Stop it.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Nope, none of them do, None of them do. How
long do you have to live? How many experience does
do you have to have? This blind faith in government
workers or in political servants just astonishes me. So anyway,
here's the There's a group called Saving California and they're
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starting up the recall. They only need fifty signatures for
a notice of intent, and it says the grounds for
this recall are as follows. Gavin Newsom's tenure has been
marked by a series of catastrophic failures that directly impact
our daily lives. His gross mismanagement during the Los Angeles
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County fires, with inadequate resources and delayed responses left communities devastated.
Under his watch, we've seved an unbearable rise in the
cost of living, from gasoline to electricity to insurance.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
And all of that is true.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
We're paying two bucks more gallon, the electricity is double
what it is in other states. The insurance is expensive
or non existent. Crime rates of sword policy is more
lenient on offenders than insuring our safety.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
We collectively know all this. Yet what is he doing.
He's putting together a president. She'll run.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Drug epidemic border issues despite our high taxes. There's little
to show for it. And whoever wrote that is right
on every single point. But between apathy and people who
have religious like devotion to political figures, we're stuck with
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the oppressor. We're stuck with this guy who owes most
of his success.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
There was jawline in his hair.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
Yeah, people really do think he's hot. I was talking
to somebody. We were talking about him and this woman. Yeah,
she said that she would miss seeing his beautiful face
if he was no longer the governor of California.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Oh really recently she said this, Huh, even after the fires.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
She was not affected by the fire.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Oh, I see.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
I love people who are not affected by the destruction
that politics spring. I mean, he his his moment to
that Palisades mother where he was pretending to be on
the phone with Joe Biden. To me, that's even more
devastating than the French laundry. He actually lied to this
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crying mother.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
I think the French laundry was more offensive, just because
everybody was told. Yeah, and everybody was told you know,
make sure that you wear a mask and you, you know,
take your mask off in between what is it bites?
And I can't even remember what he.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Oh, no, you're right it was. You go to a restaurant.
You're supposed to take a bite, put the mask up. Yeah,
take a sip, put the mask up.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
And there he was with a ton of people.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
He was basically partying, like Karen Bass was partying in
Ghana while while the Palisades was burning, London breed the
mayor of San Francisco. She was caught partying in a
in a in a dance club.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
There's nothing worse than hypocrite.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
I so now now I'm Bass. Nobody has seen Newsome.
The recall mechanism was already in place, This group had
already started. There wasn't a mechanism already set up for Bass.
But there are one hundred and sixty one thousand signatures
from people who want her to resign. That's that online
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position petition at change dot org.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
Do you really think she's going to resign?
Speaker 2 (26:28):
John not willingly No, because none of these people. You
have to have a conscience. You have to say, boy,
I really, I really, I'm not good at this. I
did a very bad job. The city was not prepared.
That's that's what encouraged me going back to the Zoom meeting.
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Because the organization that put on the Zoom meeting, they
sent out an email later with a general summary of
what happened in case you missed it, and at the
end they said the general takeaway that the city was
unprepared or incapable of responding to the fires properly paraphrase.
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And that's the bottom line. And I didn't see anybody,
and I stuck around for an hour and a half.
Nobody on the scroll supported what the city did. Nobody
supported what Bass did. It's a unanius verdict. I mean,
the thing is, we need immediate removal. I mean, this
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is a moment that I don't think outside of maybe
New Orleans during Katrina New York City after nine to eleven,
Remember Rudy Giuliani stepped up and took control. That was
the same version of Rudy Giuliani. This almost never happens
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in life, and certainly a fire. I can't think of
a fire to a major city.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
You need it.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Very smart, very wrong, very talented people now to try
to direct the recovery, and that is not bast and newsome.
And I don't know why we have to spend another
two years floundering around waiting for a replacement.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
I mean, I mean they don't have it.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
They should resign, They should say I'm not good at
this and I don't have what it takes for the
next two years to start the recovery process.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
But they're never gonna say that. They don't feel that
they's the thing.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
They don't because they have huge egos. I saw it
in her eyes though that extreme close up on the
zoom screen. I could tell. And the way she talked
to she just protected herself with platitudes and cliches. There
wasn't a down to earth, honest reckoning in what she
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was saying.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
Can you imagine if she said, hey, guys, I uh,
I screwed up. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
If she is capable of that, she never would have
done it to begin with. I can't think of anything
more important than police and fire. There's nothing else in
that annual budget more important than police and fire, and
the fire department half funded.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
If you ran a city, would you have fund the
fire department?
Speaker 5 (29:18):
Are we giving them raises?
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Yeah? Well, you know, not just raisons, but more people,
more equip.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFII.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
We're going to talk with Arthur coming up from the
Center for Immigration Studies after three o'clock because today was
a big day.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
The new world is.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
That ICE teams are now busting into criminals apartments and
dragging them off for deportation. In Boston, ICE picked up
a number of violent felons, some of them convicted, some
of them charged in awaiting trial. And Bill Belushan had
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a front row seat literally he was able to go
on a ride along with the Boston ICE team. And
Boston is a sanctuary city, so this could have been
done a long time ago. Boston doesn't cooperate, and Biden
was actively well in one case, got one of these
One of these felons.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Was flown with our tax money.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
We were flying people from these countries into the United
States and then he committed sexual assault against one of
our women. We'll talk about all that coming up next hour.
CNN is pretty much going out of business. It looks
like they're going to be cutting about two hundred, two
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hundred people, two hundred jobs in their television operations. I
think Fox had over ten million people watching on Inauguration Day,
more than any of the broadcast networks. In fact, more
than double than any of the broadcast networks. CNN had
less than two million. They had less than twenty percent
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of Fox's audience. And so they're going broke on the
TV side, and the CEO, Mark Thompson, not that. Mark
Thompson has said, you know, CNN is being the CNN
television is being threatened with extincsion and they have a
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small audience, not much influence anymore. And congressman who may
have feared CNN in the past are now ripping on
the anchors. Here's an example. You're gonna hear Congressman Tim Burchett,
Republican from Tennessee with Jim Acosta, who's that obnoxious, pompous
fool who was Trump's main agitator during the first term.
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So listen, a Costa was hosting and Tim Burchett was
being questioned, and listen, I was.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
At the White House covering the first Trump administration when
they had riding outside of the White House. I mean
that was covered on CN on what you're saying this is,
this is not Fox Congressman. You can't just spin a
tail and pull the wall out of people's eyes.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Now, this is CNN, this is the news. We're asking
to come out and tell the truth.
Speaker 6 (32:21):
And that's why more people are watching the cartoon Network
SpongeBob reruns right now. Jim, Look, I left the White
House here in a riot. My life was threatened. My
life has been threatened within the last few weeks. Yet
there's no coverage of that, and you all continue this,
this narrative of Trap attacking Trump. You just can't stand
the fact that he won and that America spokeview.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Is very demands on your view is very domaindused.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
More people are watching the cartoon Network SpongeBob reruns, you
know that's true. Though I've looked. I've looked up the ratings.
There was there was one week, uh, I think Jake Tapper.
They gave him an evening show for a few months,
and if you looked at the ratings, CNN was ranked
like number fifty one among all the cable channels, fifty one.
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In fact, they were beaten by reruns of gun Smoke.
There was a cable channel that runs old black and
white westerns from the fifties and sixties, and they had
they I looked up the channel and yeah, they have
black and white gun smokes and that, and gun Smoke
beat CNN that night. I but you know what, they
(33:34):
lied too many times. Cartoons are more popular. And Jim
Acosta is the last guy there and they've offered a
Costa a midnight job because he's toxic, he's poisonous, and
Acosta is angry and fumfering and threatening to quit CNN.
It's like when they offer you the midnight job, it
means they want you to quit. If one year you're
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the White House Chief correspondent and a couple of years
later they're asking you to be on at two in
the morning. Well, I think you know which way your
career is going. We come back Arthur from the Center
for Immigration Studies, and we're gonna also play Bill Malugin's
piece from Fox. He went on a ride along with
Ice in Boston and they were capturing the most vicious
(34:20):
rapists and murderers that were in the country legally thanks
to Biden and Harris and these sanctuary city mayors. And
we have one of those, and Karen Bass I'll tell
you about it. Coming up after Deborah's news live in
the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been listening
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Can't. I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
We're on every day from one until four o'clock, and
then after four o'clock we transform magically into a podcast,
the same as the radio show, John Cobelt Show on
demand on the iHeart app. The Los Angeles Times has
a new story on this reservoir disaster.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
And if.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
You lost a home in the Palisades or you're connected
in some way to this, this terrible tragedy.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
This is really going to inflame you. There.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
There is a whole system failure in Los Angeles government
that encompasses not just the Mayor's office and the City
Council and the city administration, but the upper echelons of
the Fire Department and the Department of Water Power. It's
the management, it's the decision makers, it's and it's it's
it's a carav Bass takes the responsibility because she's in
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charge of the fire Department, she's in charge of the
police Department and the DWP. She she picked Jennie's queen
on As to be the to be the CEO, the
head of the d WP. So this is this is
all on bath and the things you're going to find
out here is something a mayor should know. I keep
running in my head. It's like, all right, if you're
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starting a government from stratch, from scratch one of the
let let's say we could start a new government. We've
established a new city on an island somewhere. What do
you want the government to do?
Speaker 1 (01:35):
First?
Speaker 2 (01:35):
And most importantly, you want to create a police and
fire department, and you want to be able to transmit
water and power. Right, I can't think of anything more
important than that. Then police and fire, water and power.
You want to do the school system, but that's a
complete failure and the mayor doesn't have any control over that. Anyway, here,
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the roads could be are very important, but less important
than the fire and the police. You're generally not gonna
die because of bad roads, and there are different jurisdictions
that control different roads. So I'm thinking, okay, what are
the pure departments that a civilization must have in the
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modern world, and that's police, fire, water and power. And
how much failure did we get from the water and
power department? How much failure did we get from the
management in the fire department? Well enough to have sixty
three hundred structures destroyed in the Palisades and enough to
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kill eleven people.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
And the more the.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Times and other places report on this, the more you
just can't believe the incompetence, the stupidity. I don't get it,
and nobody seems to want to explain it. I mentioned
early on when the fires broke out, the bell Air
fire in nineteen sixty one, bell Air and Brentwood, that
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was LA's most famous fire for a long time. Five
hundred homes were wiped out, and there was a big
public ruckus over that. So over the next three years,
by nineteen sixty four, city leaders added thirteen fire stations,
They mapped out fire hydrants, that bought helicopters, and dispatched
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more crews to the Santa Monica Mountains. Because the Palisades
and Bretwood and bel Air occupy the foothills the lower
reaches of the Santa Monica Mountains.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
To accommodate growth of.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
The Palisades, they built a reservoir in sent to Inez
Canyon and a pumping station specifically to increase fire protection.
That is an exact quote from the chief water engineer
in nineteen seventy two.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
For LADWP. His name was Gerald W. Jones.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
He told the La Times in nineteen seventy two that
they're building a reservoir and said to it as canyon
and a pumping station to increase fire protection. Some of
the Palisades' residents at the time didn't like the reservoir.
I thought it was too close because in nineteen sixty
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three in Baldwin Hills, our reservoir had failed, killing five
people and destroying two hundred and eighty homes. I guess
they were all flooded out. You know, we've had we've
had trouble with competent people building and maintaining the infrastructure
in LA for a long long time. But they built
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the reservoir one hundred and seventeen million gallons. One woman
is quoted here as saying I used to say all
the time, boy, I know one thing that will never
happen is our place will burn down. Peggy Holter nineteen
seventy eight. She purchased a townhouse in the Highlands close
to the reservoir. It was the one thing I never
worried about. And her townhouse condo complex burned down because
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the water pressure went down to nothing, and she says,
I think if the reservoir had been there and they
were sucking water out of it, I'm sure our building
would have been saved. It was offline, as you know
now for repairs. It's been offline for a year. There's
two lawsuits. Hair Gel is demanding an investigation. Bass is
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promising a complete assessment. But the question is how could
this happen? How many people were involved and a decision
that went on for a year not to fill a
reservoir have it full with an upcoming fire season. Well,
the whole reason they built the reservoir was to increase
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fire protection. The people who built the reservoir said it
was to increase fire protection. So why would you drain
it and keep it absolutely empty before a fire season
when you knew the potential could be could be bad.
I mean it could be a bad fire season. We
had two years of excessive rain, lots of dense vegetation,
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eight months it's drying out. Why would you pick that
time to keep it empty. In fact, they think the
repairs are not going to be finished until April or
May of this year. Now we're talking about almost a
year and a half and all it is is a
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tear in the cover, how did you end up with
a year and a half worth of empty reservoir. So
this goes back to January twenty twenty four, a year
ago a DWP property manager spotted a tear in the
floating cover. Now, Barney, here is that for decades the
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reservoir was uncovered. From the nineteen sixties until twenty twelve,
there wasn't a cover, and then they changed some state
regulation and you were supposed to have a cover so
animals in debris, animals wouldn't poop, birds wouldn't poop, other
garbage wouldn't contaminate the water.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
And so.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
A DWP property manager saw there was a tear two
days later. It was growing larger, and at the time
the reservoir held about fifty six million gallons of water,
which is less than half its capacity anyway. Now policy
calls for minor repairs to be addressed within forty eight hours.
Major repairs require specialized skills and are contracted out. The
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manual says make rare repairs as soon as possible, as
directed by the engineer. And now we're a year later
and nothing's been repaired. They sent it out for a
contract bid and that took months. Why there was only
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one bid. They found the tar in January. They didn't
put out the contract bid until April. The cost eighty
nine thousand, but it wasn't until it wasn't until November
that the company that turned in the bid said they'll
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do it for one hundred and thirty So one hundred
and thirty thousand dollars is all they had to spend.
And it took them all year just to settle on
the one company that had offered. It's not like they
had seventeen companies and they were I mean, besides, this
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should have been an emergency, right. You hear about the
emergency declarations all the time. It's like, hey, hey, this
one hundred and seventeen million gallon reservoir is at of service,
fire season, coming emergency. Let's fix it one hundred thirty
thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Now.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
The residents didn't notice because the water system, the city
water system, was still supplying water. They didn't even need
the reservoir to get through their daily water requirements, the
DWP said in the statement. Repairs were subject to the
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city Charter's competitive bidding process, which requires time. Why does
it require time for something this important that you needed
this quickly, just following the manual and the regulations. That's
what it's said.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Now.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
On Tuesday, jeniez Z was supposed to publicly address at
a meeting of the La City Council's Energy and Environment Committee,
but Kenonias was blocked by the city attorney Heidi Feldstein's Soto.
I'm not making this up, Heidi Feldstein Soto. She didn't
want him to talk because of all the lawsuits against
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the city, so kes would be available at a closed
door meeting. Wow, they leave the palisades to burn, they
leave the reservoir empty, they have the firefighters show up
an hour and a half late. Heidi Feldstein's Soto did
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not respond to requests for a comment. Cononia's is not
speaking publicly. More lawsuits are expected. You had one job
fill the reservoir and the thing is, for fifty years
there wasn't to cover anyway, and they weren't even using
it for their daily drinking water in the past year.
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Just keep it filled with or without the cover for
fire season, and nobody did. What did they do all day?
You have one job supply water, well two jobs supply
water and supply power.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A
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Speaker 2 (11:41):
You know, of all of all the things, all the
bad guys the government could be going after, what does
the U are the silly Attorney General Reha Rob Bonta.
He's a he's a newsome wanna bee. Literally he wants
he wants to be the next governor. And so he's
trying to make his mark as attorney general. And you
(12:05):
know all the problems we have here. I mean, wait,
wait till Trump's Ice team comes to LA and does
a raid, and you're going to see all the murderers
and rapists that the Ice team picks out of Los Angeles.
Uh and and and Bonta doesn't want to cooperate with
with Trump and Ice at all.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
But you know what he's doing.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
He's going after real estate agents if he thinks an
agent has jacked up the price of a house too
high during.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
This fire tragedy.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
And you know, they put a ten percent limit on
how much you can raise a home price for for
rent for you know, the next few months, because there's
a lot of people who obviously been displaced. So this
couple wanted to rent a property Lakanyata flint Ridge. They
lost their home in the Altadena fire and they go
(13:06):
to Mike Kobeesse he runs kobees Properties. Now, he originally
offered the house at for eighty seven hundred dollars a
month and then realized he made a mistake. It was
below market, so he increased it to twelve thousand dollars
because he learned the area had switched school districts, and
(13:28):
that is really important. People buy homes and pay more
for homes based on the school district. So he says
he looked and he realized, oh, my mistake. It's in
a better school district. So instead of eighty seven hundred,
it's going to be twelve thousand. And the media rent
for house in La Kaanyada Flintridge is thirteen thousand, so
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this was still below the median. Now, the rent was
increased a few days after the La wildfires, but says
the fires had nothing to do with it, and the
listing was very and based on the median rent. Sounds
that way right, Bonta is jumping down his ass for
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price gouging. You imagine this, this is the guy Bonta
goes after.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
It.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Very well, may have been a coincidence. If you have
a suspicion, isn't this something, you call him up privately
and see if the story checks out. Instead, he's publicly
shamed and he's up on a misdemeanor charge.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
He was charged, Hobies.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
He was charging the superior court with misdemeanor price gouging
for unlawfully raising the rental prices advertising. Now if this
happened at any other time, nobody would have noticed. He
has a plausible explanation.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
I made a mistake.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
I realized it was in a different school district. I
raised the price still below the medium. This is what
Robb is going after, and he won't help out Ice
get the rapists and the murderers that are living with
us in Los Angeles. This is I mean, this is
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so bizarre. This is fascinating, Kobeesi said. Eventually, he rented
the home to another family affected by the wildfires, and
when he learned about the situation, the property owner lowered
the price from twelve thousand to ninety five seventy in
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game of three months of rent, free months rent and
a five thousand dollars moving allowance, which was very compassionate
and generous, and I think the whole thing was just
a mistake, seems to me. But this is the guy
Bonta has made a statewide example of I, because you
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could end up you can end up in prison for
a year, in county jail. That's who they're gonna put
in jail. Meanwhile, my neighborhood was overrun by looters last week,
and I'm sure these looters have been repeatedly arrested and
set free. Those guys aren't in jail. They're looting my neighborhood.
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They're going after a real estate agent. A. This is
just this is so oppressive, This is so absurd. The
state has sent five hundred warning letters to hotels and
landlords who've been accused of price gouging. You know how
you deal with price gouging. You say no, it's called
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the free market. You say no, I'm not paying that.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
I don't understand why why.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
This is the problem I have with with with the
regulate minimum wage and regulate prices, wages, everything. Just say no,
you don't have to live in that house. You don't
have to if you don't want to pay that money.
Same thing with jobs. I mean, if you don't like
the payoffer, don't take the job. You have the control.
(17:19):
Collectively we set prices and wages. No, it is a
very powerful word. But you need this guy going to prison.
This is what Bonta does. Absolutely astonishing.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI Am
six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
We are gonna, well, what do we got coming up
at three o'clock? I know we got somebody coming on
from the Center for Immigration Studies, right Art Arthur, Yes,
and we're going to talk about what's what's going on
with all these secutive orders and and Ice had it.
I think you know, we'll play played Bill Illusion's report
(18:06):
again from from Fox News because he got uh he
was he got a ride along with Ice this week
early in the morning. It was five degrees and Ice
went and busted a number of criminal violent fellon illegal
aliens because Boston is a sanctuary city, just like stupid La.
(18:28):
Wait to you see the guys that they busted. If
you haven't heard or seen this report, your hair is
going to fall out. This is what's going on. And
we've got the exact same psycho progressive mentality here with
Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom speaking of bass in Newsom.
You might have heard debor just had a story about. Uh,
(18:51):
it was about the Newsom recall. Right, yeah, well there's
there's They had one going for Newsom.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Newsom's had eight of these.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
Yeah, I didn't realize eat.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Well, he's been.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Bad from day one. I think I think the French
laundry ignited the only recall that made it to the ballot.
And you see and and and that was the that
was the moment there. And I don't want to get
into the whole thing, but that that was the moment
to nail them and and and affected. He then got
(19:23):
he got re elected. It's just, so, what do you
think you're gonna get after we've seen him bumble around
for six years? It's it's never gonna get better. When
you don't have a certain intelligence that this is, this
is i Q, this is, this is pure intelligence.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
When you don't have.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
That, you can't get better. People with high intelligence they
use their intelligence in order to improve certain skills that
might not be they're strong points, but because they're smart,
they learn what they have to do to turn to
make those skills stronger and more effective. But when you're
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not when when when you're low power, low candlewot power
to begin with, There's nothing you can do. It's the
same thing with Karen Pass There's nothing she can do.
I told you she was.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
On this.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Zoom meeting with people in our in our neighborhood. It
was like a homeowner's association meeting. And she was the
first face I saw on the zoom screen and he
just looked into those empty, frightened eyes, and I knew
before she even opened her mouth. It's like, Wow, she's
in over her head. The whole world's crashing down on her,
(20:43):
and she doesn't know what to do, and she does
have the slightest she doesn't have the slightest idea to
get out of us. Oh, speaking of we've got Rick
Caruso coming on the show tomorrow. How many of you
wish Rick Caruso is the mayor right now? How many
of you wish Rick Caruso was the mayor? You know
in the past year, you think the response would have
(21:05):
been the same in the Palisades.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
Well, the people that you talked to in your neighborhood,
what do they feel, how do they feel did they
vote for Bass? And what do they think?
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Now?
Speaker 2 (21:15):
What I noticed there was a running comment colin along
the right side of the zoom screen, and there is
zero support for bass. There was one person. There's always
this like goodie good and I imagine she was like
an elderly person because there's certain elderly women just like well,
I'm sure everybody's trying their best, you know, and there's
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a lot of pressure here, and I'm sure she has
good intention. It was kind of like that, but it
was more like a general support. There are people they
have such a I guess they're the ones in school
actually believed what the teachers were saying about government and
public service and being a noble enterprise, and that these
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people sacrifice their lives and they sacrifice making more money
and getting more prestige in order to serve the rest
of us.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
And I don't know.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
I think by high school I figured out that there's
no such thing. There's no person who gets into government
because I just want to serve everyone else. None on
the political level, not not when it comes to politicians
running for office. They serve themselves. They're worried about the
political careers. That's beginning an end of it, And I
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actually feel sorry for people who go, well, I'm sure,
she's trying her best. She just wants to serve the
public and do No, she doesn't care about serving the public.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Stop it.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Nope, none of them do, None of them do. How
long do you have to live? How many experience does
do you have to have? This blind faith in government
workers or in political servants just astonishes me. So anyway,
here's the There's a group called Saving California and they're
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starting up the recall. They only need fifty signatures for
a notice of intent, and it says the grounds for
this recall are as follows. Gavin Newsom's tenure has been
marked by a series of catastrophic failures that directly impact
our daily lives. His gross mismanagement during the Los Angeles
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County fires, with inadequate resources and delayed responses left communities devastated.
Under his watch, we've seved an unbearable rise in the
cost of living, from gasoline to electricity to insurance.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
And all of that is true.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
We're paying two bucks more gallon, the electricity is double
what it is in other states. The insurance is expensive
or non existent. Crime rates of sword policy is more
lenient on offenders than insuring our safety.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
We collectively know all this. Yet what is he doing.
He's putting together a president. She'll run.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Drug epidemic border issues despite our high taxes. There's little
to show for it. And whoever wrote that is right
on every single point. But between apathy and people who
have religious like devotion to political figures, we're stuck with
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the oppressor. We're stuck with this guy who owes most
of his success.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
There was jawline in his hair.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
Yeah, people really do think he's hot. I was talking
to somebody. We were talking about him and this woman. Yeah,
she said that she would miss seeing his beautiful face
if he was no longer the governor of California.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Oh really recently she said this, Huh, even after the fires.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
She was not affected by the fire.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Oh, I see.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
I love people who are not affected by the destruction
that politics spring. I mean, he his his moment to
that Palisades mother where he was pretending to be on
the phone with Joe Biden. To me, that's even more
devastating than the French laundry. He actually lied to this
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crying mother.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
I think the French laundry was more offensive, just because
everybody was told. Yeah, and everybody was told you know,
make sure that you wear a mask and you, you know,
take your mask off in between what is it bites?
And I can't even remember what he.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Oh, no, you're right it was. You go to a restaurant.
You're supposed to take a bite, put the mask up. Yeah,
take a sip, put the mask up.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
And there he was with a ton of people.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
He was basically partying, like Karen Bass was partying in
Ghana while while the Palisades was burning, London breed the
mayor of San Francisco. She was caught partying in a
in a in a dance club.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
There's nothing worse than hypocrite.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
I so now now I'm Bass. Nobody has seen Newsome.
The recall mechanism was already in place, This group had
already started. There wasn't a mechanism already set up for Bass.
But there are one hundred and sixty one thousand signatures
from people who want her to resign. That's that online
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position petition at change dot org.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
Do you really think she's going to resign?
Speaker 2 (26:28):
John not willingly No, because none of these people. You
have to have a conscience. You have to say, boy,
I really, I really, I'm not good at this. I
did a very bad job. The city was not prepared.
That's that's what encouraged me going back to the Zoom meeting.
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Because the organization that put on the Zoom meeting, they
sent out an email later with a general summary of
what happened in case you missed it, and at the
end they said the general takeaway that the city was
unprepared or incapable of responding to the fires properly paraphrase.
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And that's the bottom line. And I didn't see anybody,
and I stuck around for an hour and a half.
Nobody on the scroll supported what the city did. Nobody
supported what Bass did. It's a unanius verdict. I mean,
the thing is, we need immediate removal. I mean, this
(27:33):
is a moment that I don't think outside of maybe
New Orleans during Katrina New York City after nine to eleven,
Remember Rudy Giuliani stepped up and took control. That was
the same version of Rudy Giuliani. This almost never happens
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in life, and certainly a fire. I can't think of
a fire to a major city.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
You need it.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Very smart, very wrong, very talented people now to try
to direct the recovery, and that is not bast and newsome.
And I don't know why we have to spend another
two years floundering around waiting for a replacement.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
I mean, I mean they don't have it.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
They should resign, They should say I'm not good at
this and I don't have what it takes for the
next two years to start the recovery process.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
But they're never gonna say that. They don't feel that
they's the thing.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
They don't because they have huge egos. I saw it
in her eyes though that extreme close up on the
zoom screen. I could tell. And the way she talked
to she just protected herself with platitudes and cliches. There
wasn't a down to earth, honest reckoning in what she
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was saying.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
Can you imagine if she said, hey, guys, I uh,
I screwed up. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
If she is capable of that, she never would have
done it to begin with. I can't think of anything
more important than police and fire. There's nothing else in
that annual budget more important than police and fire, and
the fire department half funded.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
If you ran a city, would you have fund the
fire department?
Speaker 5 (29:18):
Are we giving them raises?
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Yeah? Well, you know, not just raisons, but more people,
more equip.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFII.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
We're going to talk with Arthur coming up from the
Center for Immigration Studies after three o'clock because today was
a big day.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
The new world is.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
That ICE teams are now busting into criminals apartments and
dragging them off for deportation. In Boston, ICE picked up
a number of violent felons, some of them convicted, some
of them charged in awaiting trial. And Bill Belushan had
(30:02):
a front row seat literally he was able to go
on a ride along with the Boston ICE team. And
Boston is a sanctuary city, so this could have been
done a long time ago. Boston doesn't cooperate, and Biden
was actively well in one case, got one of these
One of these felons.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Was flown with our tax money.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
We were flying people from these countries into the United
States and then he committed sexual assault against one of
our women. We'll talk about all that coming up next hour.
CNN is pretty much going out of business. It looks
like they're going to be cutting about two hundred, two
(30:48):
hundred people, two hundred jobs in their television operations. I
think Fox had over ten million people watching on Inauguration Day,
more than any of the broadcast networks. In fact, more
than double than any of the broadcast networks. CNN had
less than two million. They had less than twenty percent
(31:10):
of Fox's audience. And so they're going broke on the
TV side, and the CEO, Mark Thompson, not that. Mark
Thompson has said, you know, CNN is being the CNN
television is being threatened with extincsion and they have a
(31:31):
small audience, not much influence anymore. And congressman who may
have feared CNN in the past are now ripping on
the anchors. Here's an example. You're gonna hear Congressman Tim Burchett,
Republican from Tennessee with Jim Acosta, who's that obnoxious, pompous
fool who was Trump's main agitator during the first term.
(31:56):
So listen, a Costa was hosting and Tim Burchett was
being questioned, and listen, I was.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
At the White House covering the first Trump administration when
they had riding outside of the White House. I mean
that was covered on CN on what you're saying this is,
this is not Fox Congressman. You can't just spin a
tail and pull the wall out of people's eyes.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Now, this is CNN, this is the news. We're asking
to come out and tell the truth.
Speaker 6 (32:21):
And that's why more people are watching the cartoon Network
SpongeBob reruns right now. Jim, Look, I left the White
House here in a riot. My life was threatened. My
life has been threatened within the last few weeks. Yet
there's no coverage of that, and you all continue this,
this narrative of Trap attacking Trump. You just can't stand
the fact that he won and that America spokeview.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Is very demands on your view is very domaindused.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
More people are watching the cartoon Network SpongeBob reruns, you
know that's true. Though I've looked. I've looked up the ratings.
There was there was one week, uh, I think Jake Tapper.
They gave him an evening show for a few months,
and if you looked at the ratings, CNN was ranked
like number fifty one among all the cable channels, fifty one.
(33:08):
In fact, they were beaten by reruns of gun Smoke.
There was a cable channel that runs old black and
white westerns from the fifties and sixties, and they had
they I looked up the channel and yeah, they have
black and white gun smokes and that, and gun Smoke
beat CNN that night. I but you know what, they
(33:34):
lied too many times. Cartoons are more popular. And Jim
Acosta is the last guy there and they've offered a
Costa a midnight job because he's toxic, he's poisonous, and
Acosta is angry and fumfering and threatening to quit CNN.
It's like when they offer you the midnight job, it
means they want you to quit. If one year you're
(33:56):
the White House Chief correspondent and a couple of years
later they're asking you to be on at two in
the morning. Well, I think you know which way your
career is going. We come back Arthur from the Center
for Immigration Studies, and we're gonna also play Bill Malugin's
piece from Fox. He went on a ride along with
Ice in Boston and they were capturing the most vicious
(34:20):
rapists and murderers that were in the country legally thanks
to Biden and Harris and these sanctuary city mayors. And
we have one of those, and Karen Bass I'll tell
you about it. Coming up after Deborah's news live in
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