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 k f I News with
you on this Saturday night in Burdbank, 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 coblt 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.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
How love sports? Well?
Speaker 4 (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 Taoscar 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 3 (01:49):
A little bit of redemption.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
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, Bruins have been terrible. I thought
they were gonna 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.
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It's kind of the same thing, 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.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
UCLA wins the game. The spread was like twenty four
to twenty five points.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
So Penn State favored by like twenty plus points. Yes,
and and somehow a week after or a couple of
weeks after two weeks after firing the coach. 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 Ritt new Heizel. Oh, this is Jerry
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new Heiseel.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Yeah, so, Jerry new Heiseel is the now interim offensive
coordinator for UCLA. And in his first game, 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,
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Penn State.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I saw an image of Jerry new Heeiseel 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?
Speaker 3 (03:30):
They must have.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
But what's crazy is is obviously the team today was ecstatic.
They lifted Jerry Newhiseel onto their shoulders, carried him off
for shielding Jerry from the crowd. Oh yeah, not a
big crowd. 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
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the UCLA players was almost a replica of when Jerry
Newheisel was the quarterback for the Bruins and he led
a com back victory and the team carried him off.
And it's 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 4 (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 3 (04:22):
USC was off today.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
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 lot from
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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 just cut that off completely.
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It happened to be from the Cincinnatieria, 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 e I know, there were some troubles
this year, and they had a bit of a rough
patch there in the season. They were kind of collapsing.
Speaker 4 (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.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Here the Dodgers are the defending World Series champions. Yes,
they're back in the playoffs again, already into the Division
Series against the Phillies.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Twelfth Division title in thirteen years. Exactly. I mean, even
the Angels have a World Series title this century, and
it 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.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Yes, the Kings have two Stanley Cups, which happened since
twenty ten, which happened two in three years.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
The Galaxy six MLS Cups, most MLS Cups in MLS history.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Won it in twenty twenty four, most recently LAFC champs
in twenty two. Yep, the Rams twenty one Super Bowl champs.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
And who did we beat? Cincinnati Bengals. And this is
my point. If you are a sports fan in 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 3 (06:47):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (06:48):
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, Joey Burrow.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
He's out.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Yeah, and the team's 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?
Speaker 5 (07:28):
It?
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (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 the contracts that they were signed. Fans are gonna
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have an issue with that. The standard for all the
teams here, yes, is championship. LA is the city of
champions It is championship or bus. You gotta love it.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
And I'll tell you this also, there is some significant
and unique connections between sports and Los Angeles and where
I'm from, either Kentucky or Cincinnati.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
I don't know if you were aware of this. I'm
very confused. What road you're about to go? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
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.
So that's one example. Okay, But what is the name?
John woodn't mean to you?
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Of course, greatest cause as Westwood. Yeah, UCLA.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Do you know that?
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Before he came out here, he was the head coach
at Dayton High School in Kentucky, just two miles down
from my home.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Absolutely, Mitt cronin current UCLA head coaches he came from
the University of Sinstani directly bey. He did head coach
at Murray State and Kentucky, assistant under Rick Patino at Louisville.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
I'm liking this connections here. Denny Crumb. Do you know
Denny Crumb? You may not.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
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 name pat Riley mean to you
a lot. I mean Showtime Lakers.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Where did he play basketball in college? Kentucky can tight
off rope? Absolutely he did, and was on the team
in nineteen sixty five that famously lost to the Utahac
team from Texas Western. They were called it the Tees
now UTEP Sandy Kofax, I mean are you?
Speaker 4 (09:53):
I mean, second greatest Dodgers pitcher of all time in
my opinion because of Clayton Kershaw, but greatest Jewish pitcher
of all time.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
College baseball player University of Cincinnati. There we go, Nick
van Exel, Oh, definitely, Cincinnati Bearcat. Cincinnati Bearcat. And those
are just some that I pulled out of my head.
Speaker 6 (10:08):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
I mean that's no, that is quite the same.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
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 4 (10:29):
I think you guys have done such a great job
at importing your talent to hear we started.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
On George Clooney, Johnny Depp, Jennifer Lawrence.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
I think we should just keep that import route going.
This is this east.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
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.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Well, you're not getting show he al Tani. I'll tell
you that, right.
Speaker 7 (10:56):
I know.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
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 Monk's 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
the next import to LA. So she she's not great
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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.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
A Jazz, you are great at sports.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
You're just like me, not great at sports, but you're
gonna be great Los Angeles.
Speaker 4 (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 8 (11:44):
I come from the.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Incinnati and homy No High say that.
Speaker 9 (11:54):
Thursday College six.
Speaker 10 (12:01):
Heay girls are City Brady and this crazy lt City.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Babes and Toilene that was Kanu reeves. Those are quite
the dance moves listeners got to see.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
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 scar technical director here at KFI.
Usually hear him during the John Cobelt 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 7 (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. Both 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 8 (15:58):
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 3 (16:10):
New album release by.
Speaker 8 (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 our history now.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
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 twenty six Super
Bowl game when it comes to Santa Clara.
Speaker 6 (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 haven to
people who are in this country illegally, not the Super
Bowl and nowhere else.
Speaker 6 (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 6 (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 sovereignty. When President Trump federalized Oregon's National
Guard in recent days like he did in in California
in June, or again took him to court now with
troops deployed in Oregon but in training learning crowd control,
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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 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.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Here's Lisa Taylor.
Speaker 11 (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 Lusus Angeles over the summer. I'my se 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 1 (21:16):
Hi hi, hi's hi's Hi's up?
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Hip? Why up?
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Why you know we came out here? I was basically
invaded Chicago.
Speaker 12 (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 from
thirty nine.
Speaker 9 (21:44):
I can't see was a shooting earlier, a nice involved shooting,
or one of the men an investigation.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
I got the escaladen bilence.
Speaker 12 (21:51):
This happened in the Brighton Park neighborhood or they said
the person that they shot was a woman. She was
someone that was known to CBP. She had been in
a bold bullet and they were aware of postings that
she had made online urging folks in that neighborhood to
attack agents. You have this individual, this woman, who was
a part of a intelligence bulletin, and she was someone
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that was known to authorities as a potential person of violence.
They're saying that, 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 5 (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.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Operations in this neighborhood.
Speaker 5 (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 1 (23:14):
It is terrorizing our community. People are scared to go out,
kids are afraid.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
To go to school. We should not be living like this.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
We see it on the news, we see.
Speaker 9 (23:24):
It on our phones, but to see it live is
just shocking.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
That this is America.
Speaker 3 (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. The Department of Homeland Security acknowledged that
a woman was shot by agents on the southwest side
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of Chicago. The department said 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.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
All of them.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
And the councilomen say it's critical to maintaining community trust
and ensuring legal compliance 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.
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What the council voted on this week was to have
the law written and then it will come back to
council for a vote. 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
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other cities across the country and assaulted and abducted members
of our community. 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
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on Monday, sheled news conference, and what they're offering is
up to five thousand dollars in direct relief, So there
is a lot 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
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by immigration enforcement activity. What Salice says is that small
businesses are the backbone 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
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out there as a way that the county supervisors say
will protect the economic 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 when workplaces are not even opening, and
there's a ripple effect throughout the local economy, so this
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fund has been stood 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
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to me that the groundbreaking this week may'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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button and we'll play some of your comments a little
bit later in the show. After weeks 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
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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 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,
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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
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
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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
supportive people, people who support the project sort of hedging
their votes. I know this is risky, it's the biggest
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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
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,
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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
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
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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
week's groundbreaking ceremony, and then let's have a chat about it.
Speaker 9 (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. But I know
that Angelino's are more than ready to meet the moment.
Speaker 6 (32:06):
Is that right?
Speaker 9 (32:07):
More than many ready to meet the moment. 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 3 (32:21):
So a couple of things.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
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 around April, and we get to see
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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 9 (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. But I know that Angelinos are more
than ready to meet the moment.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Angelinos are more than ready to meet the moment. That
is something that I would expect to hear from a mayor,
a governor, senator, or president in the week of a tragedy. Oh,
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the river 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.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
Though.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
Convention centers are for visitors, as are 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
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the numbers in Southern California have also 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, specifically Southern
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California too.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
Down.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
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 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,
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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 southern California, including hawks that have
been stolen from Sofi Stadium and a python found at
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a fast food restaurant. Keep it right here on KFI
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
So I'm Michael Monks from k f I News with
you on this Saturday night in Burdbank, 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 coblt 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.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
How love sports? Well?
Speaker 4 (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 Taoscar 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 3 (01:49):
A little bit of redemption.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
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, Bruins have been terrible. I thought
they were gonna 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.
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It's kind of the same thing, 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.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
UCLA wins the game. The spread was like twenty four
to twenty five points.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
So Penn State favored by like twenty plus points. Yes,
and and somehow a week after or a couple of
weeks after two weeks after firing the coach. 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 Ritt new Heizel. Oh, this is Jerry
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new Heiseel.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Yeah, so, Jerry new Heiseel is the now interim offensive
coordinator for UCLA. And in his first game, 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,
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Penn State.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I saw an image of Jerry new Heeiseel 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?
Speaker 3 (03:30):
They must have.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
But what's crazy is is obviously the team today was ecstatic.
They lifted Jerry Newhiseel onto their shoulders, carried him off
for shielding Jerry from the crowd. Oh yeah, not a
big crowd. 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
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the UCLA players was almost a replica of when Jerry
Newheisel was the quarterback for the Bruins and he led
a com back victory and the team carried him off.
And it's 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 4 (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 3 (04:22):
USC was off today.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
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 lot from
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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 just cut that off completely.
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It happened to be from the Cincinnatieria, 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 e I know, there were some troubles
this year, and they had a bit of a rough
patch there in the season. They were kind of collapsing.
Speaker 4 (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.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Here the Dodgers are the defending World Series champions. Yes,
they're back in the playoffs again, already into the Division
Series against the Phillies.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Twelfth Division title in thirteen years. Exactly. I mean, even
the Angels have a World Series title this century, and
it 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.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Yes, the Kings have two Stanley Cups, which happened since
twenty ten, which happened two in three years.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
The Galaxy six MLS Cups, most MLS Cups in MLS history.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Won it in twenty twenty four, most recently LAFC champs
in twenty two. Yep, the Rams twenty one Super Bowl champs.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
And who did we beat? Cincinnati Bengals. And this is
my point. If you are a sports fan in 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 3 (06:47):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (06:48):
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, Joey Burrow.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
He's out.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Yeah, and the team's 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?
Speaker 5 (07:28):
It?
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (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 the contracts that they were signed. Fans are gonna
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have an issue with that. The standard for all the
teams here, yes, is championship. LA is the city of
champions It is championship or bus. You gotta love it.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
And I'll tell you this also, there is some significant
and unique connections between sports and Los Angeles and where
I'm from, either Kentucky or Cincinnati.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
I don't know if you were aware of this. I'm
very confused. What road you're about to go? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
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.
So that's one example. Okay, But what is the name?
John woodn't mean to you?
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Of course, greatest cause as Westwood. Yeah, UCLA.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Do you know that?
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Before he came out here, he was the head coach
at Dayton High School in Kentucky, just two miles down
from my home.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Absolutely, Mitt cronin current UCLA head coaches he came from
the University of Sinstani directly bey. He did head coach
at Murray State and Kentucky, assistant under Rick Patino at Louisville.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
I'm liking this connections here. Denny Crumb. Do you know
Denny Crumb? You may not.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
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 name pat Riley mean to you
a lot. I mean Showtime Lakers.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Where did he play basketball in college? Kentucky can tight
off rope? Absolutely he did, and was on the team
in nineteen sixty five that famously lost to the Utahac
team from Texas Western. They were called it the Tees
now UTEP Sandy Kofax, I mean are you?
Speaker 4 (09:53):
I mean, second greatest Dodgers pitcher of all time in
my opinion because of Clayton Kershaw, but greatest Jewish pitcher
of all time.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
College baseball player University of Cincinnati. There we go, Nick
van Exel, Oh, definitely, Cincinnati Bearcat. Cincinnati Bearcat. And those
are just some that I pulled out of my head.
Speaker 6 (10:08):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
I mean that's no, that is quite the same.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
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 4 (10:29):
I think you guys have done such a great job
at importing your talent to hear we started.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
On George Clooney, Johnny Depp, Jennifer Lawrence.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
I think we should just keep that import route going.
This is this east.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
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.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Well, you're not getting show he al Tani. I'll tell
you that, right.
Speaker 7 (10:56):
I know.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
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 Monk's 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
the next import to LA. So she she's not great
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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.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
A Jazz, you are great at sports.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
You're just like me, not great at sports, but you're
gonna be great Los Angeles.
Speaker 4 (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 8 (11:44):
I come from the.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Incinnati and homy No High say that.
Speaker 9 (11:54):
Thursday College six.
Speaker 10 (12:01):
Heay girls are City Brady and this crazy lt City.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Babes and Toilene that was Kanu reeves. Those are quite
the dance moves listeners got to see.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
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 scar technical director here at KFI.
Usually hear him during the John Cobelt 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 7 (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. Both 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
(14:28):
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 8 (15:58):
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 3 (16:10):
New album release by.
Speaker 8 (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 our history now.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
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 twenty six Super
Bowl game when it comes to Santa Clara.
Speaker 6 (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 haven to
people who are in this country illegally, not the Super
Bowl and nowhere else.
Speaker 6 (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
(19:08):
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 6 (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
(19:46):
law and the Constitution, saying the deployment was not conceived
in good faith and that it violates a tenth Amendment
infringing on Oregon sovereignty. When President Trump federalized Oregon's National
Guard in recent days like he did in in California
in June, or again took him to court now with
troops deployed in Oregon but in training learning crowd control,
(20:06):
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 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.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Here's Lisa Taylor.
Speaker 11 (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 Lusus Angeles over the summer. I'my se 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 1 (21:16):
Hi hi, hi's hi's Hi's up?
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Hip? Why up?
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Why you know we came out here? I was basically
invaded Chicago.
Speaker 12 (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 from
thirty nine.
Speaker 9 (21:44):
I can't see was a shooting earlier, a nice involved shooting,
or one of the men an investigation.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
I got the escaladen bilence.
Speaker 12 (21:51):
This happened in the Brighton Park neighborhood or they said
the person that they shot was a woman. She was
someone that was known to CBP. She had been in
a bold bullet and they were aware of postings that
she had made online urging folks in that neighborhood to
attack agents. You have this individual, this woman, who was
a part of a intelligence bulletin, and she was someone
(22:14):
that was known to authorities as a potential person of violence.
They're saying that, 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 5 (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.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Operations in this neighborhood.
Speaker 5 (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 1 (23:14):
It is terrorizing our community. People are scared to go out,
kids are afraid.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
To go to school. We should not be living like this.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
We see it on the news, we see.
Speaker 9 (23:24):
It on our phones, but to see it live is
just shocking.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
That this is America.
Speaker 3 (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. The Department of Homeland Security acknowledged that
a woman was shot by agents on the southwest side
(23:57):
of Chicago. The department said 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.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
All of them.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
And the councilomen say it's critical to maintaining community trust
and ensuring legal compliance 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.
(25:41):
What the council voted on this week was to have
the law written and then it will come back to
council for a vote. 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
(26:03):
other cities across the country and assaulted and abducted members
of our community. 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
(26:25):
on Monday, sheled news conference, and what they're offering is
up to five thousand dollars in direct relief, So there
is a lot 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
(26:46):
by immigration enforcement activity. What Salice says is that small
businesses are the backbone 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
(27:10):
out there as a way that the county supervisors say
will protect the economic 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 when workplaces are not even opening, and
there's a ripple effect throughout the local economy, so this
(27:33):
fund has been stood 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
(27:55):
to me that the groundbreaking this week may'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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Speaker 2 (29:04):
Open up that iHeartRadio app and click on the talkback
button and we'll play some of your comments a little
bit later in the show. After weeks 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
(29:25):
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 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,
(29:48):
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
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
(30:10):
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
supportive people, people who support the project sort of hedging
their votes. I know this is risky, it's the biggest
(30:31):
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
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,
(30:55):
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
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
(31:16):
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
week's groundbreaking ceremony, and then let's have a chat about it.
Speaker 9 (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. But I know
that Angelino's are more than ready to meet the moment.
Speaker 6 (32:06):
Is that right?
Speaker 9 (32:07):
More than many ready to meet the moment. 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 3 (32:21):
So a couple of things.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
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 around April, and we get to see
(32:44):
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 9 (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. But I know that Angelinos are more
than ready to meet the moment.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Angelinos are more than ready to meet the moment. That
is something that I would expect to hear from a mayor,
a governor, senator, or president in the week of a tragedy. Oh,
(33:38):
the river 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.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
Though.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
Convention centers are for visitors, as are 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
(35:27):
the numbers in Southern California have also 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, specifically Southern
(35:53):
California too.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
Down.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
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 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,
(36:21):
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 southern California, including hawks that have
been stolen from Sofi Stadium and a python found at
(36:41):
a fast food restaurant. Keep it right here on KFI
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