October 5, 2025 • 36 mins
Michael points out the "trade imbalance" and proposes tariffs on Los Angeles on behalf of down-trodden Cincinnati sports fans as the Dodgers and UCLA roll; Former USC quarterback and FOX football broadcaster Matt Sanchez is arrested in a stabbing in Indianapolis; Immigration enforcement ramps up in other cities as LA looks to keep city workers from joining the ranks of ICE; and ground is broken on LA's $2.6 billion convention center expansion where even supporters seem uncertain about being able to afford it.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
So I'm Michael Monks from kf I News with you
on this Saturday night in Burbbank, California. A big night
for the Dodgers. They beat the Phillies in Game one
of the Division Series five to three. Trailed three to
nothing after the second inning, but scored the last five
runs in the game, putting up two in the six, three,
and the seventh, and that was enough to win. So
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the street continues, the Dodgers continue to roll. I brought
in a technical director, Eric Sklar, you may know him
from the John Cobelt Show. He's been working overtime on
the weekends lately, joining us on Saturday night so we
can get Mario in good shape and Eric, big night,
huge night, huge day. How love sports? Well?
Speaker 3 (00:46):
So, like you said, Dodgers started out trailing three to
nothing in the second inning, and there was a specific
play where there was a fly ball to right center
field and Teoscar Hernandez, the right fielder for the Dodgers,
who have not been happy with him at a lot
of points this season because of some laxadaisical defense. Is
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the polite way to put it, on FCC airwaves. I
think it's lackadaisal. I think you said laxadaisical. Okay, sorry
I said the wrong, Yeah you did. But hey, no
one's perfect anyway. Ti Oscar Hernandez had a very lazy
play where he could have cut off the ball and
maybe even saved a run or two during that play
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where the Phillies ended up scoring their first two runs
of the game, and he was getting eviscerated online on
Twitter by Dodgers fans being like, why why is he
even out there? He's been lazy all season, his defense
is poor, blah blah blah. Well and behold, he ends
up hitting the three run home run to give the
Dodgers the lead five to two and ends up being
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the hero of the game.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
A little bit of redemption. Yeah, and that point that
you're raising is something I want to talk about in
just a moment. But as you hinted, it was a
big day in LA sports because the Bruins. Yeah, Brwins
have been terrible. I thought they were going to go
twelve this year. It was not looking good. I mean
this is coming from a Kentucky football fan. University of
Kentucky not a great program. Got their butts whooped again today.
It looked like UCLA UK. It's kind of the same thing,
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big big name schools that are just going through it.
UCLA zero and four coming into this game at the
Rose Bowl against seventh ranked Penn State. UCLA wins the game.
The spread was like twenty four twenty five points, so
Penn State favored by like twenty plus points. Yes, and
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and somehow a week after or a couple weeks after,
two weeks after firing the coach.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Yeah, so right now they have interim head coach Tim Skipper.
And then this week they named a new interim offensive
coordinator who happens to be former UCLA quarterback and son
of the former coach new Heiseel. Oh, this is Jerry
new Heiseel. Yeah, so, Jerry new Heiseel is the now
interim offensive coordinator for UCLA. And in his first game,
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when UCLA had not led in any a single second,
a single second of the entire season that they did
not have a lead at any point so far, they
dropped forty two points on the number seven team in
the nation, Penn State.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I saw an image of Jerry new Heiseel as I
was watching this game and I thought that dude, epitomizes
what I expect somebody from Los Angeles to look like
like he is. He is the quintessential LA looking guy. Well,
is that the difference? Did they need more La in
their veins? They must have.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
But what's crazy is is, obviously the team today was ecstatic.
They lifted Jerry Newheiseel onto their shoulders, carried him off.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
For shielding Jerry from the crowd. Oh yeah, not a
big crowd.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
No, well, we don't need to talk about how big
the crowd was. Let's talk about the game. But the
image of Jerry Newheisel getting carried off by the UCLA
players was almost a replica of when Jerry Newheisel was
the quarterback for the Bruins and he led a come
back victory and the team carried him off. And it's
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literally Instagram and the Internet they're putting the two pictures
side by side and it's almost identical. It's really it's
a phenomenal, phenomenal story.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Does this look like some sort of turn in the
season for UCLA? Is this something that.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
They I'm not gonna get that ahead of myself, all right,
all right, No, let's just enjoy the moment if you're
a Bruins fan, and then move on.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
USC was off today. They got Michigan next week, and
so that's a big game for the Trojans, who have
had a pretty decent season so far. But maybe UCLA
is turning it around and we'll have a couple of
good end of the second half of the season here
in Los Angeles. I really wanted to talk to you today, Eric,
because I know you're a big Dodgers fan. You're a
big LA sports fan in general, and I heard a
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lot from you and LA Dodgers fans in general, and
I'm just I will stay for the record. I'm a
journalist in LA. I'm a I'm a generic go home
team guy. I want I want people like you, who
are in my life, in professional capacities, neighbors and all that,
to be happy that your teams are winning. So I'm
you know, I know it's good for LA when the
LA teams are winning, but I am from somewhere else.
You grow up liking other teams, and it's hard to
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just cut that off completely. It happened to be from
the Cincinnati aera Northern Kentucky, and so you grow up
a Reds fan. And when I hear people like you
Eric talk about the bullpen, the Dodgers bullpen, for ex
I know there was some troubles this year, and they
had a bit of a rough patch there in the season.
They were kind of collapsing.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Not that long ago, they were almost collapsing versus the
Reds in the eighth inning, right, exactly. Bullpen problems, yes,
but yet here you are kick the Reds butts two
games easily, a couple of scares. I suppose the Reds threatened,
couldn't pull it off, yes, and now one game one
against the Phillies. Here the Dodgers are the defending World
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Series champions. Yes, they're back in the playoffs again, already
into the Division Series against the Phillies.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Twelfth Division title in thirteen years. Exactly. I mean, even
the Angels have a World Series title this century, and
the struggled recently, but they got a World Series title
this century. The Dodgers have two in the last five years.
The Lakers have six titles this century. Yes, the Kings
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have two Stanley Cups which happened since twenty ten, which
happened two and three years. The Galaxy six mls Cups,
most MLS Cups and MLS history won it in twenty
twenty four, most recently LAFC champs in twenty two. Yep,
the Rams twenty one Super Bowl champs and who did
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we beat? Cincinnati Bengals. And this is my point. If
you are a sports fan of Los Angeles, do you
know how good you have it? Yes? And we like
to let people know how good we have it?
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Do you?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Oh? Yeah? Because you seem so miserable sometimes. And when
you're talking about the bullpen, here's I'm thinking. Do you
know that the Cincinnati Reds have not won a playoff
game since nineteen ninety five I was one years old.
Bengals have never won a Super Bowl? Yes? This is
what And now the Bengals this season. You know, every
year the Bengals fans get their hopes up. They got
the star quarterback who's a bit of a national sensation,
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Joey Burrow. He's out. Yeah, and the team has completely collapsed.
I mean it's laughable how poorly they've done the past
couple of weeks. And now it feels like that season's
already over. You don't know what it's like being a
sports fan in a place like Cincinnati. Do you know
how good you have Do you really know how good
you have? It? Yes?
Speaker 3 (07:28):
And the reason why we get so worked up over
little things is literally because of everything you just mentioned.
You just mentioned how many championships all the LA teams
have in the last century. That's the expectation every year
for LA teams. And if you don't meet those expectations,
the fans are gonna get upset. And so when you
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are a Dodgers team that is the defending World Series champions,
and you spend all this money in the off season
bringing in bullpen help because the bullpen struggled last year
as well, and then the guys you signed like Tanner
Scott and Kirby Yates end up not performing up to
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the contracts that they were signed.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Fans are gonna have an issue with that. The standard
for all the teams here, yes, is championship.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
LA is the city of champions. It is championship or bus.
You gotta love it. And I'll tell you this.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Also, there is some significant and unique connections between sports
and Los Angeles and where I'm from, either Kentucky or Cincinnati.
I don't know if you are aware of this. I'm
very confused. What road you're about to go? Yeah? So,
I mean, first of all, here, here's you a Los
Angeles native. Here's me, a Kentucky native, on the finest
radio station in the land based in Los Angeles, KFI.
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So that's one example. Okay, But what does the name
John wouldn't mean to you? Oh? Of course greatest cause
as Westwood. Yeah, UCLA. Do you know that before he
came out here, he was the head coach at Dayton
High School in kentuck, Uck, just two miles down from
my home. Wow. Absolutely, Mitt Cronin, current UCLA head coach. Yes,
he came from the University of sincsnani directly. Yes, he did,
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head coach at Murray State and Kentucky assistant under Rick
Patino at Louisville. I'm liking this connections here. Denny Crumb.
Do you know Denny Crumb? You may not. He was
an assistant under John Wooden, was wooed to be his replacement,
you know when Wooden was But he went on to
be a Hall of Fame coach at the University of Louisville,
won two national titles in the nineteen eighties. What's the
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name pat Riley mean? To you a lot. I mean
Showtime Lakers. Yeah, where did he play basketball in college? Kentucky?
Can tuy for eight off Rupe? Absolutely he did and
was on the team in nineteen sixty five that famously
lost the UTA Black team from Texas Western. They were
called it the techs now UTEP Sandy Kofax, I mean
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are you? I mean, second greatest Dodgers pitcher of all
time in my opinion because of Clayton Kershaw, but greatest
Jewish pitcher of all time college baseball player University of Cincinnati.
There we go, Nick van Exel, definitely, Cincinnati Bearcat, CINCINNTI Bearcat.
And those are just some that I pulled out of
my head.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
I mean that's no, that is quite the same. I
bring this list up to say we have a connection
Los Angeles, Cincinnati, Kentucky. Can you give some of these
excellent standards back? I mean kind of like the Denny
Crumb thing. Dinny Crumb went to Louisville and turned that
into a national powerhouse. We need more of that, We
need more of the success flowing back.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
I think you guys have done such a great job
at importing your talent to hear we started on.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
George Clooney, Johnny Depp, Jennifer Lawrence. I think we should
just keep that import route going. This is this, This
is where I need President Trump involved because this is
a trade in balance. And I am ready to tear
off Los Angeles sports until you start sending us some
stuff back. Well, you're not getting show he al Tani.
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I'll tell you that, right, I know. Hey, congratulations Dodgers
five to three over the Phillies. Thank you, Eric sklark
any director here. Always fun to talk sports with you.
A big quick shout out back in Northern Kentucky. My
niece Jazzlyn Rose Monks, Happy birthday to you today. I
know you're celebrating with some friends. Happy, Happy, happy birthday.
She wants to live in Los Angeles too. She'll be
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the next import to LA. So she she's not great
at sports, but she has a she's she's great at
a lot of other things like like uh, and I
shouldn't have said that, a Jazz, you are great at sports.
You're just like me, not great at sports, but you're
gonna be great in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
So I'll look forward to you coming out here too. Well,
she's got someone who can get her a job out here. Yeah,
we're ready coming out jazz and before we go to news.
I know I'm already late. I'm sorry, Brigitta.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Just to end this Cincinnati segment, I'm gonna I'm gonna
end it with this.
Speaker 6 (11:44):
I come from.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Innati, go back to Homy.
Speaker 7 (11:51):
I'm no higher say a Thursday College Simpsey, but Sippy.
Speaker 8 (12:02):
Girls are Brady and this Crady l Little City.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Babes and Toilene. That was Keanu Reeves. Those are quite
the dance moves listeners got to see. Shout out Cincinnati,
but go l a happy for Los Angeles to night.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Look, you're listening to k f I A M six
forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Michael Monks reports on Michael Monks from k f I
News with you till nine o'clock tonight. Now, if you
heard our first segment there, I was talking with the
Duke of Sports, Eric Skar, technical director here at KFI.
Usually hear him during the John coblt Show Monday through Friday.
I want you to know this is not a sports show.
This is a news show. But we have more sports
to talk about. And that's because a former usc An
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NFL quarterback stabbed in Indianapolis, and when word first got
out about this, there was a lot of critique online
about the state of cities in America and the amount
of crime that's taking place in them, even in Midwestern
large cities like Indianapolis. But this story has taken a
bit of a turn as to the narrative.
Speaker 9 (13:39):
Former quarterback and current NFL analyst Mark Sanchez was hospitalized
in critical condition due to severe wounds from a stabbing
incident that occurred in downtown Indianapolis at about twelve thirty
this morning. Sanchez was in town for tomorrow's game between
the Colts and the Raiders, where he was slated to
be in the broadcast booth. Still a lot of questions
about what actually caused the altercation. After Sanchez was rushed
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to the hospital in critical condition, authorities are now saying
he's a stable and police are calling it an isolated incident.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Yes, he's stable. They're calling it an isolated incident. Police
are and they've arrested Mark Sanchez. Now he's still apparently
in the hospital, but he is under arrest, facing multiple
misdemeanor charges battery with injury, unlawful injury of a motor vehicle,
and public intoxication. Indiana Police, excuse me. Indianapolis police are
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saying Sanchez had not been booked in the detention center yet.
He is still in stable condition, but they say earlier
in the day they were investigating this confrontation between two
men when Sanchez was stabbed, but what exactly went down
is still unclear. There are some reports out here that
Sanchez got into it with a food delivery driver over
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a parking space and that the situation escalated from there.
But initially it looked like Mark Sanchez was the victim
of a violent crime in Indianapolis, and now, according to police,
he was actually the perpetrator of that violent crime in Indianapolis,
where he has gone to work a game for Fox tomorrow.
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I want to see if he appears on the air then.
He was born in Long Beach, grew up in Whittier,
Pico Rivera, and Rancho Santa Margarita, and was the quarterback
for the Trojans at usc from five to eight, the
fifth pick in the first round of the NFL Draft
back in two thousand and nine, and went on to
play for the Jets, the Eagles, the Cowboys, the Bears,
and the Redskins In stable conditions, so that's good, and
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then we will hopefully figure out the rest of this story.
More quick football talk with national implications. We know everybody
loves the Super Bowl, whether you followed professional football or not.
It's a big deal in America and the halftime show
is a big part of that, not just the teams
that play in it, and Bad Bunny has been selected
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to play.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
Bad Bunny technically made his Super Bowl in twenty twenty
with Shakira and Jennifer Lopez. Bad Bunny, dubbed the King
of Latin Trap, is having quite the year already, with a.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
New album release Hie.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
Wrapping a sold out thirty one show residency in his
native Puerto Rico, creating an economic boom in the process.
Bad Bunny taking over football's biggest night. The three time
Grammy winner, whose real name is Benito Antonio Martinez a Casio,
will headline the Super Bowl sixty halftime show in February,
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saying in a statement, what I'm feeling goes beyond myself.
It's for those who came before me, continuing, this is
for my people, my culture, and.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Our history now. The announcement drew excitement and also derision
from folks who don't like the idea of someone who
speaks Spanish primarily leading that halftime show. They've also expressed
disdain towards his feelings about immigration enforcement, and it turns
out that immigration enforcement may be present at the twenty
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twenty six Super Bowl game when it comes to Santa Clara.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
That Bunny had stopped performing in the US because he
said he was worried about ice raids at his concerts,
telling ID magazine quote, there was the issue of like
ice could be outside my concert, and it's something that
we were talking about and very concerned about. When the
super Bowl kicks off in Santa Clara, California in February,
ICE will be there conducting immigration enforcement. At least according
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to Corey Lewandowski, former Trump twenty sixteen campaign manager and
current special government employee at the Department of Homeland Security,
telling the Benny Johnson podcast.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
There is nowhere that you can provide safe have in
two people who are in this country illegally, Not the
super Bowl and nowhere else.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
Sederal agents from law enforcement agencies like ICE typically helped
to secure Super Bowl venues from terror attacks because they
are such high profile events.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
So ICE will be in Santa Clara for the Super Bowl,
and they may have said that directly because of the
large Latino following that, Bad Bunny has. Bad Bunny, by
the way, is the host of Saturday Night Live tonight,
as that show kicks off its fifty first season. More
immigration news just ahead. There is a lot of movement
taking place in Chicago, movement taking place in Portland that
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is very similar to what we saw earlier in the
summer here in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, the LA City Council
has made a big decision related to immigration agents, and
the LA County Board of Supervisors has opened up a
fund for businesses affected by immigration enforcement here. We'll talk
about those next when Michael Monks reports continue.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
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Speaker 2 (18:45):
There is movement on the immigration enforcement front, with some
large scale actions either already taking place or possibly taking
place in Chicago and Portland, similar to what we saw
here in Los Angeles. Back in the late spring and
in the early summer. President Trump as attempted to deploy
the National Guard to Chicago, where the government said Border
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patrol agents shot and injured a woman while firing at
someone who tried to run them over. We'll get the
Chicago momentarily, but first let's hear about this decision related
to the National Guard in Portland. Late breaking news tonight.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
The Trump appointed federal judge in Oregon says a president's
argument for deployment of federalized National Guard troops in Portland
risks quote blurring the line between civil and military federal
powers end quote. The judge finding the Trump administration's claims
of chaos in Portland are quote simply untethered from the
facts end quote. The judge finding the president violated the
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law and the Constitution, saying the deployment was not conceived
in good faith and that it violates a tenth Amendment
infringing on Oregon's sovereignty. When President Trump federalized Oregon's National
Guard in recent days, like he did in in California
in June, or again.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Took him to court. Now with troops deployed.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
In Oregon but in training learning crowd control, a Trump
appointed federal judge in Portland ruling Trump's allegations of chaos
in Portland and at being war ravaged are quote simply
untethered from the facts end quote, and the judge ruling
the president likely exceeded his constitutional authority, the judge, saying
protests in Portland have not been significantly violent and the
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president exceeded his authority under federal law.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Governor Newsom says that some National Guard troops from California
were being sent to Portland to help train the soldiers
that were to be deployed there by President Trump. Here's
Lisa Taylor.
Speaker 10 (20:40):
Newsom told the San Francisco Chronicle Friday night that he
might sue the Trump administration over the move, depending on
what the soldiers are asked to do. The governor said
he was told Thursday that some of the troops currently
deployed to Los Angeles would be sent to Portland to
help with training exercises, and called the move deeply alarming.
Newsom is already suing the administration over its deployment of
troops to Lausus Angeles over the summer, Ainley said Taylor.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Meanwhile, Chicago turned violent today as protests got underway there
after deadly shooting involving a woman and federal officials. Hear
some reaction from witnesses and also some news reports from
the scene.
Speaker 6 (21:16):
Hi hi.
Speaker 11 (21:19):
Hi, hi, hi hi, Why why you know we came
out here.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
I was basically invaded Chicago.
Speaker 11 (21:34):
There were reports that they shot a woman earlier in
this neighborhood and that people were gathering to protest.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
That you were in a Brighton Park in Chicago.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
I'm thirty ninth.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
I can't see was a shooting earlier, a nice involved.
Speaker 7 (21:46):
Shooting, or one of the men an investigation got the
escaladeen bilence.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
This happened in the Brighton Park neighborhood or they said
the person that they shot was a woman.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
She was someone that was known to CBP.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
She had been in a bullet and they were aware
of postings that she had made online urging folks.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
In that neighborhood to attack agents.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
You have this individual, this woman, who was a part
of a intelligence bulletin, and she was someone that was
known to authorities as a potential person of violence.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
They're saying that.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
You know, she was a part of this group of
what appears to be an organized action of these ten
cars roughly ramming agents, which ultimately resulted in an authority
involved shooting here.
Speaker 12 (22:31):
Well, we actually just saw this protest clear out because
federal agents left this area for the first time since
this incident. Unfolded here this morning. As they left the
scene here in our Brighton Park neighborhood, the crowd erupting
and cheer from those protests. DHS telling us that their
Border Patrol agents were conducting routine patrol operations in this neighborhood.
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When they say they were boxed in by ten vehicles,
that's when DHS says their Border patrol officers got out
of the vehicles and one of those protesters apparently tried
to run them over, and that's when DHS officials says
that they fired their weapons, hitting one woman. That woman
was taken to a nearby hospital. We are told at
this hour that she is in stable condition.
Speaker 7 (23:14):
It is terrorizing our community.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
People are scared to go out, kids are afraid to
go to school. We should not be living like this.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
We see it on the news, we see it on
our phones, but to see it live is just shocking.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
That this is America.
Speaker 7 (23:30):
This is the country that we love, that we work for,
that we protect.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
As we see the news come in from Chicago and
Portland and the reaction, it does look and sound very
similar to what happened here in Los Angeles, where things
have remained relatively quiet compared to what we saw in
the late spring and in the early summer. But you
heard it there at the Department of Homeland Security acknowledge
that a woman was shot by agents on the southwest
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side of Chicago. The department set in a statement that
Border patrol agents were on patrol when they were rammed
by vehicles and boxed in by ten cars, and when
they got out of their trapped vehicle, the woman allegedly
tried to run them over, forcing the officers to fire defensively.
This woman was a US citizen and they say she
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was armed with a semi automatic weapon. She has apparently
accused the US Customs and Border Protection agents of various things,
and was in an intelligence bulletin last week of accused
of docksing the agents, meaning releasing private information about them,
such as identities and their addresses. So she's been treated
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and released, apparently from a hospital. No officers from the
federal agencies were hurt. Closer to home, on the immigration front,
the La City Council has pushed forward an attempt to
block any city workers from finding secondary employment with federal
immigration agencies, and the council voted unanimously this week to
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approve this motion introduced by councilwomen Monica Rodriguez and Isabelle Herado,
and the motion would ban all workers sworn police, street
service people. All of them and the council women say
it's critical to maintaining community trust and ensuring legal compliance
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with city and state policies. The City Attorney's Office, the
Chief Legislative Office, and the City Administrative Office have all
been directed by the City Council to draft and ordinance,
so this has not become law yet. What the council
voted on this week was to have the law written
and then it will come back to council for a vote.
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Council Member Rodriguez said during the meeting, I thought it
was important for us to really enshrine our city values
and what would not be considered or entertained is the
opportunity to seek outside employment with an agency that has
constantly rolled into our city and countless other cities across
the country and assaulted and abducted members of our community.
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The La County Board of Supervisors has also approved a
fund to support businesses that claim to have been impacted
by immigration enforcement and raids. An LA County Supervisor hill
To announced the fund this week. Back on Monday, sheld
news conference, and what they're offering is up to five
thousand dollars in direct relief, so there is a lot
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of money available here. Overall, it's one point eight million
dollars from the county's Care First Community investment program, So
if you're divvying that out five thousand dollars at a time,
it's a lot of businesses who will be coming and
claiming that they have been impacted by immigration enforcement activity.
What Salice says is that small businesses are the backbone
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of our communities and local economy. When they are disrupted
by actions that create fear and instability, we must act
quickly and support them. She introduced this motion earlier in
the summer to have this fund created and was fully approved.
So now the fund will be out there as a
way that the county supervisors say will protect the economic
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stability of those who are affected. What they say is
that it's not just folks who have been detained, it's
folks who fear being detained, so they don't go to
work anymore, and so jobs are missing employees, our jobs,
workplaces are not even opening, and there's a ripple effect
throughout the local economy, so this fund has been stood
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up by LA County. Coming up next, I'm going to
revisit that convention center situation in downtown Los Angeles. As
you know by now if you've listened to me, either
on this show or any of the weekday shows, I've
been talking about this two point six billion dollar expansion
of the convention center. Not so sure that the city
can afford this risk, and it's clear to me that
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the groundbreaking this week, the mayor's not so sure either.
I'm gonna play a clip from that and let you
be the judge about what she said. And frankly, there's
bad news for Los Angeles beyond just the price tag.
Convention centers are for visitors, and we are seeing far
fewer visitors than usual. That's next, when Michael Monks Reports continues.
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comments a little bit later in the show. After weeks
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of covering this Convention Center expansion project in downtown Los Angeles,
local officials and civic leaders, they have broken ground. One
of those ceremonial situations where folks in suits pick up
a shovel and scoop a little bit of dirt out
of a bucket and toss it on the ground and
then somebody else comes and cleans it up. That happened
this week. We're not turning back now. The Convention Center
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project and it's two point six billion dollar price tag
are moving forward now. If you've heard my reporting on this,
if you've heard me talk about it on this program
or with John Cobalt or Tim Conway or Gary and Shannon.
You've heard me mention that I'm not so sure based
on the city's financial condition that they are able to
afford two point six billion dollars that they are financing
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over thirty years that could cost them each year. We're
somewhere maybe between eighty to two hundred million dollars, considering
they just barely by the skin of their teeth and
through some clever maneuvering, managed to avoid laying off more
than sixteen hundred workers at the city as they thought
they were going to have to do just six months ago.
Now I have covered this and shared various reactions from
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supportive people, people who support the project sort of hedging
their votes. I know this is risky, it's the biggest
vote we've ever taken, that sort of thing, But they
think this gamble will pay off and be a serious
boon to the local economy, even if it goes against
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many of their previous statements about fiscal responsibility, and they're
worries about whether other departments will have to be cut.
Once Mayor Bass came out expressly in favor of the project,
it was pretty clear that the city council was going
to vote in favor of it, and they did so
with only one dissenting voice on the council, the chairwoman
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of the Budget Committee, Katie Arslavsky. Two other council members
who appear to have been against this were not present
for that meeting, Monica Rodriguez and Bob Bloomenfield, but the
vote was like eleven or twelve to one, with the
budget chair saying we should not do this. I'm going
to play a clip from Mayor Karen Bass at this
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week's groundbreaking ceremony and then let's have a chat about it.
Speaker 7 (31:33):
We take bold actions to assure that we can deliver
in a way that is of course fiscally responsible. That
includes implementing cost saving measures and streamlining processes which will
be key to ensure that the Convention Center has an
on time completion. So while today is an important step
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in our city's future, we take this step knowing that
there is more important work to do.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
But I know that.
Speaker 7 (32:01):
Angelino's are more than ready to meet the moment.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Is that right? More than many ready to meet the moment.
Speaker 7 (32:09):
Thank you everyone, and I will be so excited to
come back here in a few years when the world
comes all of the conventions that I know will be
coming to our city.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
So a couple of things. There were some platitudes there
early in that clip, basically saying, oh, we're going to
be responsible, We're going to have cost saving measures, but
no direct mention about specifics and how they're going to
do this. And that's why I will be curious in
about six months when the next budget cycle begins, maybe
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around April, and we get to see what the city's
financial outlook looks like the impact of this decision and
whether they've been able to implement those cost saving measures.
But the other part that I want to direct your
attention to again is.
Speaker 7 (33:00):
Sure that the convention Center has an on time completion.
So while today is an important step in our city's future,
we take this step knowing that there is more important
work to do.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
But I know that.
Speaker 7 (33:13):
Angelinos are more.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Than ready to meet the moment. Angelino's are more than
ready to meet the moment. That is something that I
would expect to hear from a mayor, a governor, senator,
president in the week of a tragedy, all the river
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has flooded the town or a fire has happened earthquake.
We can do this together. That remark from the mayor
really struck me as interesting because that looked like her
hedge on this. We already heard council members hedge their vote,
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propping up their fiscal bona fides and saying they're going
to keep an eye on this project to make sure
that it's it's paid for correctly and doesn't hurt other
departments and services. But this didn't sound like certainty from
the mayor that we can meet this moment, we can
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pay for this two point six billion dollar project together.
You know, we'll continue to follow that and continue to
talk about it, but I think we're going to be
able to give the convention center story a break for now.
Now the ground is broken and work has begun. It
is supposed to create about thirteen thousand construction jobs. They
also estimate that it will create two thousand jobs a
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year outside of construction, I mean once the project is
open and will have jobs that come because of the
businesses that open up around it. So those are part
of the projections too. So there are some rosy numbers
that they have offered, but we will have to monitor
very quickly though. Convention centers are for visitors, as are
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many of our tourist attractions, of course, and we are
not getting as many as we used to. A new
report out by Visit California shows a nearly eight percent
decrease in August compared to the same month last year
in California, and the numbers in Southern California have also
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seen a pretty notable drop. Now some are blaming tariffs,
immigration policies, those sorts of things. The wildfires have certainly
maybe slowed people's desire to come here, But tourism in California,
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specifically Southern California too down. And so if folks aren't
coming here already, what difference will it make if we
have a much larger and prettier and shinier convention center.
As I said, we'll continue to follow. We have another
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hour together here on Michael Monk's reports on KFI. We're
gonna go to El Segundo and recap that situation from
the fire at the Chevron refinery, and also recap the
after action report that came out of another fire, a
couple of fires in fact Palisades and the Eaten fire.
And we're going to wrap up the next hour with
a strange series of animal stories that have happened in
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southern California, including hawks that have been stolen from SOFI
Stadium and a python found at a fast food restaurant.
Keep it right here on KFI AM
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Six KFI AM six forty on demand
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
So I'm Michael Monks from kf I News with you
on this Saturday night in Burbbank, California. A big night
for the Dodgers. They beat the Phillies in Game one
of the Division Series five to three. Trailed three to
nothing after the second inning, but scored the last five
runs in the game, putting up two in the six, three,
and the seventh, and that was enough to win. So
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the street continues, the Dodgers continue to roll. I brought
in a technical director, Eric Sklar, you may know him
from the John Cobelt Show. He's been working overtime on
the weekends lately, joining us on Saturday night so we
can get Mario in good shape and Eric, big night,
huge night, huge day. How love sports? Well?
Speaker 3 (00:46):
So, like you said, Dodgers started out trailing three to
nothing in the second inning, and there was a specific
play where there was a fly ball to right center
field and Teoscar Hernandez, the right fielder for the Dodgers,
who have not been happy with him at a lot
of points this season because of some laxadaisical defense. Is
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the polite way to put it, on FCC airwaves. I
think it's lackadaisal. I think you said laxadaisical. Okay, sorry
I said the wrong, Yeah you did. But hey, no
one's perfect anyway. Ti Oscar Hernandez had a very lazy
play where he could have cut off the ball and
maybe even saved a run or two during that play
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where the Phillies ended up scoring their first two runs
of the game, and he was getting eviscerated online on
Twitter by Dodgers fans being like, why why is he
even out there? He's been lazy all season, his defense
is poor, blah blah blah. Well and behold, he ends
up hitting the three run home run to give the
Dodgers the lead five to two and ends up being
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the hero of the game.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
A little bit of redemption. Yeah, and that point that
you're raising is something I want to talk about in
just a moment. But as you hinted, it was a
big day in LA sports because the Bruins. Yeah, Brwins
have been terrible. I thought they were going to go
twelve this year. It was not looking good. I mean
this is coming from a Kentucky football fan. University of
Kentucky not a great program. Got their butts whooped again today.
It looked like UCLA UK. It's kind of the same thing,
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big big name schools that are just going through it.
UCLA zero and four coming into this game at the
Rose Bowl against seventh ranked Penn State. UCLA wins the game.
The spread was like twenty four twenty five points, so
Penn State favored by like twenty plus points. Yes, and
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and somehow a week after or a couple weeks after,
two weeks after firing the coach.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Yeah, so right now they have interim head coach Tim Skipper.
And then this week they named a new interim offensive
coordinator who happens to be former UCLA quarterback and son
of the former coach new Heiseel. Oh, this is Jerry
new Heiseel. Yeah, so, Jerry new Heiseel is the now
interim offensive coordinator for UCLA. And in his first game,
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when UCLA had not led in any a single second,
a single second of the entire season that they did
not have a lead at any point so far, they
dropped forty two points on the number seven team in
the nation, Penn State.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I saw an image of Jerry new Heiseel as I
was watching this game and I thought that dude, epitomizes
what I expect somebody from Los Angeles to look like
like he is. He is the quintessential LA looking guy. Well,
is that the difference? Did they need more La in
their veins? They must have.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
But what's crazy is is, obviously the team today was ecstatic.
They lifted Jerry Newheiseel onto their shoulders, carried him off.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
For shielding Jerry from the crowd. Oh yeah, not a
big crowd.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
No, well, we don't need to talk about how big
the crowd was. Let's talk about the game. But the
image of Jerry Newheisel getting carried off by the UCLA
players was almost a replica of when Jerry Newheisel was
the quarterback for the Bruins and he led a come
back victory and the team carried him off. And it's
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literally Instagram and the Internet they're putting the two pictures
side by side and it's almost identical. It's really it's
a phenomenal, phenomenal story.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Does this look like some sort of turn in the
season for UCLA? Is this something that.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
They I'm not gonna get that ahead of myself, all right,
all right, No, let's just enjoy the moment if you're
a Bruins fan, and then move on.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
USC was off today. They got Michigan next week, and
so that's a big game for the Trojans, who have
had a pretty decent season so far. But maybe UCLA
is turning it around and we'll have a couple of
good end of the second half of the season here
in Los Angeles. I really wanted to talk to you today, Eric,
because I know you're a big Dodgers fan. You're a
big LA sports fan in general, and I heard a
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lot from you and LA Dodgers fans in general, and
I'm just I will stay for the record. I'm a
journalist in LA. I'm a I'm a generic go home
team guy. I want I want people like you, who
are in my life, in professional capacities, neighbors and all that,
to be happy that your teams are winning. So I'm
you know, I know it's good for LA when the
LA teams are winning, but I am from somewhere else.
You grow up liking other teams, and it's hard to
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just cut that off completely. It happened to be from
the Cincinnati aera Northern Kentucky, and so you grow up
a Reds fan. And when I hear people like you
Eric talk about the bullpen, the Dodgers bullpen, for ex
I know there was some troubles this year, and they
had a bit of a rough patch there in the season.
They were kind of collapsing.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Not that long ago, they were almost collapsing versus the
Reds in the eighth inning, right, exactly. Bullpen problems, yes,
but yet here you are kick the Reds butts two
games easily, a couple of scares. I suppose the Reds threatened,
couldn't pull it off, yes, and now one game one
against the Phillies. Here the Dodgers are the defending World
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Series champions. Yes, they're back in the playoffs again, already
into the Division Series against the Phillies.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Twelfth Division title in thirteen years. Exactly. I mean, even
the Angels have a World Series title this century, and
the struggled recently, but they got a World Series title
this century. The Dodgers have two in the last five years.
The Lakers have six titles this century. Yes, the Kings
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have two Stanley Cups which happened since twenty ten, which
happened two and three years. The Galaxy six mls Cups,
most MLS Cups and MLS history won it in twenty
twenty four, most recently LAFC champs in twenty two. Yep,
the Rams twenty one Super Bowl champs and who did
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we beat? Cincinnati Bengals. And this is my point. If
you are a sports fan of Los Angeles, do you
know how good you have it? Yes? And we like
to let people know how good we have it?
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Do you?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Oh? Yeah? Because you seem so miserable sometimes. And when
you're talking about the bullpen, here's I'm thinking. Do you
know that the Cincinnati Reds have not won a playoff
game since nineteen ninety five I was one years old.
Bengals have never won a Super Bowl? Yes? This is
what And now the Bengals this season. You know, every
year the Bengals fans get their hopes up. They got
the star quarterback who's a bit of a national sensation,
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Joey Burrow. He's out. Yeah, and the team has completely collapsed.
I mean it's laughable how poorly they've done the past
couple of weeks. And now it feels like that season's
already over. You don't know what it's like being a
sports fan in a place like Cincinnati. Do you know
how good you have Do you really know how good
you have? It? Yes?
Speaker 3 (07:28):
And the reason why we get so worked up over
little things is literally because of everything you just mentioned.
You just mentioned how many championships all the LA teams
have in the last century. That's the expectation every year
for LA teams. And if you don't meet those expectations,
the fans are gonna get upset. And so when you
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are a Dodgers team that is the defending World Series champions,
and you spend all this money in the off season
bringing in bullpen help because the bullpen struggled last year
as well, and then the guys you signed like Tanner
Scott and Kirby Yates end up not performing up to
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the contracts that they were signed.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Fans are gonna have an issue with that. The standard
for all the teams here, yes, is championship.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
LA is the city of champions. It is championship or bus.
You gotta love it. And I'll tell you this.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Also, there is some significant and unique connections between sports
and Los Angeles and where I'm from, either Kentucky or Cincinnati.
I don't know if you are aware of this. I'm
very confused. What road you're about to go? Yeah? So,
I mean, first of all, here, here's you a Los
Angeles native. Here's me, a Kentucky native, on the finest
radio station in the land based in Los Angeles, KFI.
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So that's one example. Okay, But what does the name
John wouldn't mean to you? Oh? Of course greatest cause
as Westwood. Yeah, UCLA. Do you know that before he
came out here, he was the head coach at Dayton
High School in kentuck, Uck, just two miles down from
my home. Wow. Absolutely, Mitt Cronin, current UCLA head coach. Yes,
he came from the University of sincsnani directly. Yes, he did,
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head coach at Murray State and Kentucky assistant under Rick
Patino at Louisville. I'm liking this connections here. Denny Crumb.
Do you know Denny Crumb? You may not. He was
an assistant under John Wooden, was wooed to be his replacement,
you know when Wooden was But he went on to
be a Hall of Fame coach at the University of Louisville,
won two national titles in the nineteen eighties. What's the
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name pat Riley mean? To you a lot. I mean
Showtime Lakers. Yeah, where did he play basketball in college? Kentucky?
Can tuy for eight off Rupe? Absolutely he did and
was on the team in nineteen sixty five that famously
lost the UTA Black team from Texas Western. They were
called it the techs now UTEP Sandy Kofax, I mean
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are you? I mean, second greatest Dodgers pitcher of all
time in my opinion because of Clayton Kershaw, but greatest
Jewish pitcher of all time college baseball player University of Cincinnati.
There we go, Nick van Exel, definitely, Cincinnati Bearcat, CINCINNTI Bearcat.
And those are just some that I pulled out of
my head.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
I mean that's no, that is quite the same. I
bring this list up to say we have a connection
Los Angeles, Cincinnati, Kentucky. Can you give some of these
excellent standards back? I mean kind of like the Denny
Crumb thing. Dinny Crumb went to Louisville and turned that
into a national powerhouse. We need more of that, We
need more of the success flowing back.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
I think you guys have done such a great job
at importing your talent to hear we started on.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
George Clooney, Johnny Depp, Jennifer Lawrence. I think we should
just keep that import route going. This is this, This
is where I need President Trump involved because this is
a trade in balance. And I am ready to tear
off Los Angeles sports until you start sending us some
stuff back. Well, you're not getting show he al Tani.
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I'll tell you that, right, I know. Hey, congratulations Dodgers
five to three over the Phillies. Thank you, Eric sklark
any director here. Always fun to talk sports with you.
A big quick shout out back in Northern Kentucky. My
niece Jazzlyn Rose Monks, Happy birthday to you today. I
know you're celebrating with some friends. Happy, Happy, happy birthday.
She wants to live in Los Angeles too. She'll be
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the next import to LA. So she she's not great
at sports, but she has a she's she's great at
a lot of other things like like uh, and I
shouldn't have said that, a Jazz, you are great at sports.
You're just like me, not great at sports, but you're
gonna be great in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
So I'll look forward to you coming out here too. Well,
she's got someone who can get her a job out here. Yeah,
we're ready coming out jazz and before we go to news.
I know I'm already late. I'm sorry, Brigitta.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Just to end this Cincinnati segment, I'm gonna I'm gonna
end it with this.
Speaker 6 (11:44):
I come from.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Innati, go back to Homy.
Speaker 7 (11:51):
I'm no higher say a Thursday College Simpsey, but Sippy.
Speaker 8 (12:02):
Girls are Brady and this Crady l Little City.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Babes and Toilene. That was Keanu Reeves. Those are quite
the dance moves listeners got to see. Shout out Cincinnati,
but go l a happy for Los Angeles to night.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Look, you're listening to k f I A M six
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Speaker 2 (12:54):
Michael Monks reports on Michael Monks from k f I
News with you till nine o'clock tonight. Now, if you
heard our first segment there, I was talking with the
Duke of Sports, Eric Skar, technical director here at KFI.
Usually hear him during the John coblt Show Monday through Friday.
I want you to know this is not a sports show.
This is a news show. But we have more sports
to talk about. And that's because a former usc An
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NFL quarterback stabbed in Indianapolis, and when word first got
out about this, there was a lot of critique online
about the state of cities in America and the amount
of crime that's taking place in them, even in Midwestern
large cities like Indianapolis. But this story has taken a
bit of a turn as to the narrative.
Speaker 9 (13:39):
Former quarterback and current NFL analyst Mark Sanchez was hospitalized
in critical condition due to severe wounds from a stabbing
incident that occurred in downtown Indianapolis at about twelve thirty
this morning. Sanchez was in town for tomorrow's game between
the Colts and the Raiders, where he was slated to
be in the broadcast booth. Still a lot of questions
about what actually caused the altercation. After Sanchez was rushed
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to the hospital in critical condition, authorities are now saying
he's a stable and police are calling it an isolated incident.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Yes, he's stable. They're calling it an isolated incident. Police
are and they've arrested Mark Sanchez. Now he's still apparently
in the hospital, but he is under arrest, facing multiple
misdemeanor charges battery with injury, unlawful injury of a motor vehicle,
and public intoxication. Indiana Police, excuse me. Indianapolis police are
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saying Sanchez had not been booked in the detention center yet.
He is still in stable condition, but they say earlier
in the day they were investigating this confrontation between two
men when Sanchez was stabbed, but what exactly went down
is still unclear. There are some reports out here that
Sanchez got into it with a food delivery driver over
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a parking space and that the situation escalated from there.
But initially it looked like Mark Sanchez was the victim
of a violent crime in Indianapolis, and now, according to police,
he was actually the perpetrator of that violent crime in Indianapolis,
where he has gone to work a game for Fox tomorrow.
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I want to see if he appears on the air then.
He was born in Long Beach, grew up in Whittier,
Pico Rivera, and Rancho Santa Margarita, and was the quarterback
for the Trojans at usc from five to eight, the
fifth pick in the first round of the NFL Draft
back in two thousand and nine, and went on to
play for the Jets, the Eagles, the Cowboys, the Bears,
and the Redskins In stable conditions, so that's good, and
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then we will hopefully figure out the rest of this story.
More quick football talk with national implications. We know everybody
loves the Super Bowl, whether you followed professional football or not.
It's a big deal in America and the halftime show
is a big part of that, not just the teams
that play in it, and Bad Bunny has been selected
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to play.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
Bad Bunny technically made his Super Bowl in twenty twenty
with Shakira and Jennifer Lopez. Bad Bunny, dubbed the King
of Latin Trap, is having quite the year already, with a.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
New album release Hie.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
Wrapping a sold out thirty one show residency in his
native Puerto Rico, creating an economic boom in the process.
Bad Bunny taking over football's biggest night. The three time
Grammy winner, whose real name is Benito Antonio Martinez a Casio,
will headline the Super Bowl sixty halftime show in February,
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saying in a statement, what I'm feeling goes beyond myself.
It's for those who came before me, continuing, this is
for my people, my culture, and.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Our history now. The announcement drew excitement and also derision
from folks who don't like the idea of someone who
speaks Spanish primarily leading that halftime show. They've also expressed
disdain towards his feelings about immigration enforcement, and it turns
out that immigration enforcement may be present at the twenty
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twenty six Super Bowl game when it comes to Santa Clara.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
That Bunny had stopped performing in the US because he
said he was worried about ice raids at his concerts,
telling ID magazine quote, there was the issue of like
ice could be outside my concert, and it's something that
we were talking about and very concerned about. When the
super Bowl kicks off in Santa Clara, California in February,
ICE will be there conducting immigration enforcement. At least according
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to Corey Lewandowski, former Trump twenty sixteen campaign manager and
current special government employee at the Department of Homeland Security,
telling the Benny Johnson podcast.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
There is nowhere that you can provide safe have in
two people who are in this country illegally, Not the
super Bowl and nowhere else.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
Sederal agents from law enforcement agencies like ICE typically helped
to secure Super Bowl venues from terror attacks because they
are such high profile events.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
So ICE will be in Santa Clara for the Super Bowl,
and they may have said that directly because of the
large Latino following that, Bad Bunny has. Bad Bunny, by
the way, is the host of Saturday Night Live tonight,
as that show kicks off its fifty first season. More
immigration news just ahead. There is a lot of movement
taking place in Chicago, movement taking place in Portland that
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is very similar to what we saw earlier in the
summer here in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, the LA City Council
has made a big decision related to immigration agents, and
the LA County Board of Supervisors has opened up a
fund for businesses affected by immigration enforcement here. We'll talk
about those next when Michael Monks reports continue.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
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Speaker 2 (18:45):
There is movement on the immigration enforcement front, with some
large scale actions either already taking place or possibly taking
place in Chicago and Portland, similar to what we saw
here in Los Angeles. Back in the late spring and
in the early summer. President Trump as attempted to deploy
the National Guard to Chicago, where the government said Border
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patrol agents shot and injured a woman while firing at
someone who tried to run them over. We'll get the
Chicago momentarily, but first let's hear about this decision related
to the National Guard in Portland. Late breaking news tonight.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
The Trump appointed federal judge in Oregon says a president's
argument for deployment of federalized National Guard troops in Portland
risks quote blurring the line between civil and military federal
powers end quote. The judge finding the Trump administration's claims
of chaos in Portland are quote simply untethered from the
facts end quote. The judge finding the president violated the
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law and the Constitution, saying the deployment was not conceived
in good faith and that it violates a tenth Amendment
infringing on Oregon's sovereignty. When President Trump federalized Oregon's National
Guard in recent days, like he did in in California
in June, or again.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Took him to court. Now with troops deployed.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
In Oregon but in training learning crowd control, a Trump
appointed federal judge in Portland ruling Trump's allegations of chaos
in Portland and at being war ravaged are quote simply
untethered from the facts end quote, and the judge ruling
the president likely exceeded his constitutional authority, the judge, saying
protests in Portland have not been significantly violent and the
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president exceeded his authority under federal law.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Governor Newsom says that some National Guard troops from California
were being sent to Portland to help train the soldiers
that were to be deployed there by President Trump. Here's
Lisa Taylor.
Speaker 10 (20:40):
Newsom told the San Francisco Chronicle Friday night that he
might sue the Trump administration over the move, depending on
what the soldiers are asked to do. The governor said
he was told Thursday that some of the troops currently
deployed to Los Angeles would be sent to Portland to
help with training exercises, and called the move deeply alarming.
Newsom is already suing the administration over its deployment of
troops to Lausus Angeles over the summer, Ainley said Taylor.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Meanwhile, Chicago turned violent today as protests got underway there
after deadly shooting involving a woman and federal officials. Hear
some reaction from witnesses and also some news reports from
the scene.
Speaker 6 (21:16):
Hi hi.
Speaker 11 (21:19):
Hi, hi, hi hi, Why why you know we came
out here.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
I was basically invaded Chicago.
Speaker 11 (21:34):
There were reports that they shot a woman earlier in
this neighborhood and that people were gathering to protest.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
That you were in a Brighton Park in Chicago.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
I'm thirty ninth.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
I can't see was a shooting earlier, a nice involved.
Speaker 7 (21:46):
Shooting, or one of the men an investigation got the
escaladeen bilence.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
This happened in the Brighton Park neighborhood or they said
the person that they shot was a woman.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
She was someone that was known to CBP.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
She had been in a bullet and they were aware
of postings that she had made online urging folks.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
In that neighborhood to attack agents.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
You have this individual, this woman, who was a part
of a intelligence bulletin, and she was someone that was
known to authorities as a potential person of violence.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
They're saying that.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
You know, she was a part of this group of
what appears to be an organized action of these ten
cars roughly ramming agents, which ultimately resulted in an authority
involved shooting here.
Speaker 12 (22:31):
Well, we actually just saw this protest clear out because
federal agents left this area for the first time since
this incident. Unfolded here this morning. As they left the
scene here in our Brighton Park neighborhood, the crowd erupting
and cheer from those protests. DHS telling us that their
Border Patrol agents were conducting routine patrol operations in this neighborhood.
(22:52):
When they say they were boxed in by ten vehicles,
that's when DHS says their Border patrol officers got out
of the vehicles and one of those protesters apparently tried
to run them over, and that's when DHS officials says
that they fired their weapons, hitting one woman. That woman
was taken to a nearby hospital. We are told at
this hour that she is in stable condition.
Speaker 7 (23:14):
It is terrorizing our community.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
People are scared to go out, kids are afraid to
go to school. We should not be living like this.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
We see it on the news, we see it on
our phones, but to see it live is just shocking.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
That this is America.
Speaker 7 (23:30):
This is the country that we love, that we work for,
that we protect.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
As we see the news come in from Chicago and
Portland and the reaction, it does look and sound very
similar to what happened here in Los Angeles, where things
have remained relatively quiet compared to what we saw in
the late spring and in the early summer. But you
heard it there at the Department of Homeland Security acknowledge
that a woman was shot by agents on the southwest
(23:57):
side of Chicago. The department set in a statement that
Border patrol agents were on patrol when they were rammed
by vehicles and boxed in by ten cars, and when
they got out of their trapped vehicle, the woman allegedly
tried to run them over, forcing the officers to fire defensively.
This woman was a US citizen and they say she
(24:18):
was armed with a semi automatic weapon. She has apparently
accused the US Customs and Border Protection agents of various things,
and was in an intelligence bulletin last week of accused
of docksing the agents, meaning releasing private information about them,
such as identities and their addresses. So she's been treated
(24:41):
and released, apparently from a hospital. No officers from the
federal agencies were hurt. Closer to home, on the immigration front,
the La City Council has pushed forward an attempt to
block any city workers from finding secondary employment with federal
immigration agencies, and the council voted unanimously this week to
(25:04):
approve this motion introduced by councilwomen Monica Rodriguez and Isabelle Herado,
and the motion would ban all workers sworn police, street
service people. All of them and the council women say
it's critical to maintaining community trust and ensuring legal compliance
(25:28):
with city and state policies. The City Attorney's Office, the
Chief Legislative Office, and the City Administrative Office have all
been directed by the City Council to draft and ordinance,
so this has not become law yet. What the council
voted on this week was to have the law written
and then it will come back to council for a vote.
(25:49):
Council Member Rodriguez said during the meeting, I thought it
was important for us to really enshrine our city values
and what would not be considered or entertained is the
opportunity to seek outside employment with an agency that has
constantly rolled into our city and countless other cities across
the country and assaulted and abducted members of our community.
(26:09):
The La County Board of Supervisors has also approved a
fund to support businesses that claim to have been impacted
by immigration enforcement and raids. An LA County Supervisor hill
To announced the fund this week. Back on Monday, sheld
news conference, and what they're offering is up to five
thousand dollars in direct relief, so there is a lot
(26:33):
of money available here. Overall, it's one point eight million
dollars from the county's Care First Community investment program, So
if you're divvying that out five thousand dollars at a time,
it's a lot of businesses who will be coming and
claiming that they have been impacted by immigration enforcement activity.
What Salice says is that small businesses are the backbone
(26:53):
of our communities and local economy. When they are disrupted
by actions that create fear and instability, we must act
quickly and support them. She introduced this motion earlier in
the summer to have this fund created and was fully approved.
So now the fund will be out there as a
way that the county supervisors say will protect the economic
(27:14):
stability of those who are affected. What they say is
that it's not just folks who have been detained, it's
folks who fear being detained, so they don't go to
work anymore, and so jobs are missing employees, our jobs,
workplaces are not even opening, and there's a ripple effect
throughout the local economy, so this fund has been stood
(27:34):
up by LA County. Coming up next, I'm going to
revisit that convention center situation in downtown Los Angeles. As
you know by now if you've listened to me, either
on this show or any of the weekday shows, I've
been talking about this two point six billion dollar expansion
of the convention center. Not so sure that the city
can afford this risk, and it's clear to me that
(27:57):
the groundbreaking this week, the mayor's not so sure either.
I'm gonna play a clip from that and let you
be the judge about what she said. And frankly, there's
bad news for Los Angeles beyond just the price tag.
Convention centers are for visitors, and we are seeing far
fewer visitors than usual. That's next, when Michael Monks Reports continues.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
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comments a little bit later in the show. After weeks
(29:12):
of covering this Convention Center expansion project in downtown Los Angeles,
local officials and civic leaders, they have broken ground. One
of those ceremonial situations where folks in suits pick up
a shovel and scoop a little bit of dirt out
of a bucket and toss it on the ground and
then somebody else comes and cleans it up. That happened
this week. We're not turning back now. The Convention Center
(29:35):
project and it's two point six billion dollar price tag
are moving forward now. If you've heard my reporting on this,
if you've heard me talk about it on this program
or with John Cobalt or Tim Conway or Gary and Shannon.
You've heard me mention that I'm not so sure based
on the city's financial condition that they are able to
afford two point six billion dollars that they are financing
(29:57):
over thirty years that could cost them each year. We're
somewhere maybe between eighty to two hundred million dollars, considering
they just barely by the skin of their teeth and
through some clever maneuvering, managed to avoid laying off more
than sixteen hundred workers at the city as they thought
they were going to have to do just six months ago.
Now I have covered this and shared various reactions from
(30:22):
supportive people, people who support the project sort of hedging
their votes. I know this is risky, it's the biggest
vote we've ever taken, that sort of thing, But they
think this gamble will pay off and be a serious
boon to the local economy, even if it goes against
(30:43):
many of their previous statements about fiscal responsibility, and they're
worries about whether other departments will have to be cut.
Once Mayor Bass came out expressly in favor of the project,
it was pretty clear that the city council was going
to vote in favor of it, and they did so
with only one dissenting voice on the council, the chairwoman
(31:05):
of the Budget Committee, Katie Arslavsky. Two other council members
who appear to have been against this were not present
for that meeting, Monica Rodriguez and Bob Bloomenfield, but the
vote was like eleven or twelve to one, with the
budget chair saying we should not do this. I'm going
to play a clip from Mayor Karen Bass at this
(31:28):
week's groundbreaking ceremony and then let's have a chat about it.
Speaker 7 (31:33):
We take bold actions to assure that we can deliver
in a way that is of course fiscally responsible. That
includes implementing cost saving measures and streamlining processes which will
be key to ensure that the Convention Center has an
on time completion. So while today is an important step
(31:54):
in our city's future, we take this step knowing that
there is more important work to do.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
But I know that.
Speaker 7 (32:01):
Angelino's are more than ready to meet the moment.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Is that right? More than many ready to meet the moment.
Speaker 7 (32:09):
Thank you everyone, and I will be so excited to
come back here in a few years when the world
comes all of the conventions that I know will be
coming to our city.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
So a couple of things. There were some platitudes there
early in that clip, basically saying, oh, we're going to
be responsible, We're going to have cost saving measures, but
no direct mention about specifics and how they're going to
do this. And that's why I will be curious in
about six months when the next budget cycle begins, maybe
(32:41):
around April, and we get to see what the city's
financial outlook looks like the impact of this decision and
whether they've been able to implement those cost saving measures.
But the other part that I want to direct your
attention to again is.
Speaker 7 (33:00):
Sure that the convention Center has an on time completion.
So while today is an important step in our city's future,
we take this step knowing that there is more important
work to do.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
But I know that.
Speaker 7 (33:13):
Angelinos are more.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Than ready to meet the moment. Angelino's are more than
ready to meet the moment. That is something that I
would expect to hear from a mayor, a governor, senator,
president in the week of a tragedy, all the river
(33:39):
has flooded the town or a fire has happened earthquake.
We can do this together. That remark from the mayor
really struck me as interesting because that looked like her
hedge on this. We already heard council members hedge their vote,
(34:02):
propping up their fiscal bona fides and saying they're going
to keep an eye on this project to make sure
that it's it's paid for correctly and doesn't hurt other
departments and services. But this didn't sound like certainty from
the mayor that we can meet this moment, we can
(34:23):
pay for this two point six billion dollar project together.
You know, we'll continue to follow that and continue to
talk about it, but I think we're going to be
able to give the convention center story a break for now.
Now the ground is broken and work has begun. It
is supposed to create about thirteen thousand construction jobs. They
also estimate that it will create two thousand jobs a
(34:45):
year outside of construction, I mean once the project is
open and will have jobs that come because of the
businesses that open up around it. So those are part
of the projections too. So there are some rosy numbers
that they have offered, but we will have to monitor
very quickly though. Convention centers are for visitors, as are
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many of our tourist attractions, of course, and we are
not getting as many as we used to. A new
report out by Visit California shows a nearly eight percent
decrease in August compared to the same month last year
in California, and the numbers in Southern California have also
(35:30):
seen a pretty notable drop. Now some are blaming tariffs,
immigration policies, those sorts of things. The wildfires have certainly
maybe slowed people's desire to come here, But tourism in California,
(35:52):
specifically Southern California too down. And so if folks aren't
coming here already, what difference will it make if we
have a much larger and prettier and shinier convention center.
As I said, we'll continue to follow. We have another
(36:12):
hour together here on Michael Monk's reports on KFI. We're
gonna go to El Segundo and recap that situation from
the fire at the Chevron refinery, and also recap the
after action report that came out of another fire, a
couple of fires in fact Palisades and the Eaten fire.
And we're going to wrap up the next hour with
a strange series of animal stories that have happened in
(36:35):
southern California, including hawks that have been stolen from SOFI
Stadium and a python found at a fast food restaurant.
Keep it right here on KFI AM
Speaker 1 (36:48):
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