January 10, 2025 • 34 mins
Rachel Darvish comes back on the show to talk about if she has heard from Gov. Newsom after confronting him yesterday in Pacific Palisades. More on the lack of preparedness and lack of response by officials to the fires burning in the Southland.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty.
Speaker 1 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
All right, so I signed the change dot org petition
demanding the resignation of Karen Bass. It's let's see how
many signatures it's got. I normally don't do this, but
I'm fed up. I even put in a little money
because the more money that gets donated, the more they're
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going to spread. The spread the word that you can
sign the petition. It's demand the immediate resignation of Mayor
Karen Bass. Go to change dot org. They have a
search box and putting Karen Bass and you'll see it,
and it's already got. Let's see how many signatures now,
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three thirty seven, three hundred and sixty. So it's up
about one thousand signatures just in the last fifteen minutes
or so. This has got to end. You know, the
more signatures it gets, the more media coverage it'll get.
And because she she has to be forced out no
other way. The other person that has to be forced
out is Gavin Newsom. And we're gonna we're gonna talk
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to Rachel Darvish, the woman who confronted Newsom in the
Palisades yesterday outside his suv. But if you haven't heard
or seen the moment, uh, we're gonna play it for
you here. She owns a home in the Palisades which
did survive, but her daughter's school burned down, and Newsom
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immediately lies to her, claiming that he was on the
phone with Joe Biden. Listen to this. This is really extraordinary, Governor.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
You got a second.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Governor.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Governor, I live here, Governor, that was my daughter's school.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Governor, Please tell me what you're gonna do. But I'm
not hurt, my promise.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
I'm literally talking to the President right now to specifically
answer the question of what we can do for you
and your daughter.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Can I hear it? Can I hear your call? Because
I don't believe it?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Can I literally I've tried five That's why I'm walking
around to make.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Why is the President not taking your call because it's
not going through. Why I have to get cell service,
Let's get it, let's get it.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I want to be here when you call the President.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
I'm doing that right now, and it's to immediately get reimbursements,
individual assistance.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
And to help you o death looking for I'm so sorry,
especially for your daughter. I have the four.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Kids, everyone who went to school there.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
They lost their homes.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
They lost two homes because they were living in one
and building another. Kevin, please tell me, tell me what
are you going to do with the president.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Right now we're getting we're getting the resources to help rebuild.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Why is there no water in the hydrants?
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Governor?
Speaker 5 (02:39):
It's all literally?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Is it going to be different next time?
Speaker 1 (02:42):
It has to be?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
It has to be.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Of course, what are you going to do to fill
the hydrants?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
I would fill them up personally.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
You know that.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I literally I.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Would fill up the hydrants myself.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I understand, but would you do that? I would do
whatever I can.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
But you're not. I see the Do you know there's
water dripping of there?
Speaker 7 (03:00):
Governor?
Speaker 3 (03:01):
There's water coming out there.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
You can use it. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
I'm going to make the call to address everything I
can right now, including making sure.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
People can I have an opportunity to at least tell
people you're doing what you're saying you're doing. Did somebody
have a contact?
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Can I have your contact? Uh?
Speaker 1 (03:21):
This revealed Gavin Newsom's character. Under pressure, He'll say anything,
He'll lie. He told a whopper there. He's literally on
the phone with Joe Biden right now. And when Rachel said,
I want to hear it, well, I'm trying to call.
That's why I'm walking around. I've tried to call five times.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Oh, well you know, we'll go get a cell, We'll get.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
A cell signal. I want to hear this. And then
all of a sudden, he wasn't calling Biden. Was he
Let's get Rachel Darvish back on the line. Rachel, I'm here, Didvin?
Did Gavin call you back yet?
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Gavin has never called me, does has not has not
called me. I did get a contact information for someone
who works in his office, and I was I did
immediately get in touch with him. We've had a few
back and forth. The very last one was at about
eleven am today where I was informed he couldn't get
back to me until the press conferency was that was over,
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and that was a couple of hours ago. So I
have not heard back from them. They did ask me
what I wanted. What do I want? And I want
the schools back up. I need the kids need to
go to school, and how are we going to do that?
We don't have a town. We got no water, we
got even if you have a home. You know, my
plan was, let's get the kids in our house if
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our house is up when I saw it yesterday. But
there's no way to go back there. And yeah, the
governor lied to me about this, so I want to
know what can we do with all of the obstacles.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
I think you're the first person ever called him on
his lie. It was so slick. I'm literally on the
phone now, Oh yeah, I want to hear it. And
he got flustered. He didn't know what to do. Nobody
ever done that him before.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Well, look, you're you've got to take the situation. It
was such a you know, a moment that you could
not manufacture. I'm leaving, you know. I was leaving when
a crew had taken me there. I asked him to
take me to see if the school was still up.
I had heard the playground had burned, but I wanted
to see for myself. And when we got there, we
it was so devastating. I really couldn't even put myself together.
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And as we were leaving, I noticed him and I thought,
that can't be. This is just a person walking around
aimlessly and not doing anything. And then when I was
walked up to him, I noticed he walked into his car.
He's trying to get into his car, So it was
it was a very weird situation that he did show
me his phone and that's when I knew. Okay, so
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they do call him a liar and he did lie
to me, But you know what, those are not the
important things right now. I can. I can go past
it right now because I don't think he's gonna have
a job very soon. But I want my town back.
I want the kids to have a pool. And he's
not going to do it for me.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
No, he's not.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
And I don't know who is in Neither is our
mayor and neither is our mayor. And I'm sad about that.
I'm sad about that because it's not about their d's
and their rs. And I want to make that clear.
I don't want anyone thinking I'm in here for a
political political position side shoes. No, do you think it
mattered what sign was next to your name in your house?
Speaker 1 (06:26):
That I bless there are mayors and governors from both
parties that can execute competently when there are and they
also can provide the type of preparation that prevents or
mitigates these disasters. It has nothing to do with politics.
It has to do whether you execute the basics of
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your job.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
And that's why I said, I think a couple of
days ago, my position was, you pick any mom. You
pick any mom in California, and man, that mom will
will tackle any of these problems in a much different approach.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Oh, I believe that I know a lot of Westside Monds. Absolutely, Yeah,
they got a lot way more going for them than
Gavin Newsom does, that's for sure. So you're I mean,
are you involved in in any Are there any citizens
or organizations getting together right now to try to, you know,
get a school open?
Speaker 2 (07:22):
What's the plan for your schools? Palisades Elementary?
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Right, that's gone?
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Yeah, so we're what's going to happen to the kids?
Speaker 3 (07:30):
She doesn't go there, she's my daughter's in preschool. She
goes to the preschool across the street from palais Elementary.
They both burned down. I went to Palisades Elementary, I
went to Paul Revere Junior High. I went to Palisades
High School. Or all this is my history is gone,
and I don't know, if there's really a future immediately
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in the Palistads, how long you think it's going to build,
even if you have a house in the Palistas, how
long you think it's going to be until someone can
get into their house.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
I I nobody in government knows how to answer any
of those questions. They don't know what to do. They're
not qualified to rebuild a town. They weren't qualified to
protect the town. They certainly had no idea how to
build one.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
But you know, I think that in these types of
situations there have to be ways to bypass the BTS
red tape that exists that we do not need in
particular times of need like this. How do you do that?
It's easy. We're humans. We know we can. We can judge.
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That's the difference between us. So that is something that
we need in the person who is running Los Angeles
with all the money we have, guys, come on, we
can do better Los Angeleans.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Well, everyone's got to demand it. And people have been
asleep for a real long time in this city, in
this state. And if this doesn't wait, yeah, all right, well, Rachel,
we will keep in touch. Excellent work. You did more
to unmask newsome than all the media in the world
has failed to unmask him over the last seven years,
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and you did it in about two minutes.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Just talk to a mom.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
I hear that every day at.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Home, exactly what I mean.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Oh, I know.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
I watched my wife build a home from the ground up, supervising.
It took a year. I know it can be done
very quickly. I know a year from now, all the
moms in the Pacific Palisades because have their all their
homes built in a year and the city would be better. Correct,
It's going to be the correct I've seen it with
my own eyes, and I just get out of the
way when that happens. All right, Rachel, talk with you
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again soon. Thank you for coming on, Thanks so much.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Thanks for okay bye.
Speaker 7 (09:54):
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Speaker 1 (10:00):
Round from one until four, and then after four o'clock
you listened to John Cobelt's show on demand on the iheartapp.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
There is a petition on change dot org.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
I can't remember the last time I told people to
sign a petition, but this one you must. When you
go to change dot org, search for Karen Bass. It's
demand the immediate resignation of Mayor Karen Bass. It's got
thirty seven, eight hundred and fifty signatures.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Sign the petition.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Donate a few bucks so that they can send out
more notices. She has to go and there has to
be an overwhelming response here. We have posted the link
to change dot org to the Karen Bass petition on
Twitter and on Instagram stories or simply do it yourself.
It's not that hard. Change dot org and typing Karen Bass.
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And she has to go. And we have a lot
more information why. Last hour we played a piece of
an interview that Fox eleven's Gigi Grassi It did with
the LA Fire Chief Kristin Crowley, and Crowley said, yes,
the city failed the Los Angeles Fire Department.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
And we have more proof.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
This is from an online journalist, I guess Chuck Colesto.
He got a hold of a leaked memo showing that
LA Mayor Karen Bass ordered the fire department to cut
an additional forty nine million dollars just one week before
the wildfires erupted. Okay, I've got more information on that here. Now,
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this memo is dated on January sixth, so she went
to Ghana and.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Whipped up a memo.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
That went out to cut the fire department budget by
forty nine million dollars. And then the fire happened two
days later. Wow, it would close sixteen more fire stations.
Sixteen fire stations forty nine million dollars. She already had
cut seventeen point six million in her latest budget, and
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now she wanted to slash more than double that. The
memo was obtained from an LA Fire Department whistleblower who
posts on social media under the name LAFD Watchdog. The
memo was sent and I have a copy of the
memo in front of me. This is a real thing.
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I have something from the Operations Valley Bureau Department Update
January sixth, twenty twenty five. The LAFD is still going
through the fiscal year twenty twenty four twenty twenty five
process forty eight point eight million budget reduction. The fire chief,
if the Board of Fire Commissioners and other organizations are
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steadfast in their message of defending what resources we currently
have in place, the only way to provide a cost
savings would be to close as many as sixteen fire stations.
This would be at least one fire station per city
council district. So this is what she was doing. She
was cutting the fire department a big, a big cut
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just two days before the wildfires broke out.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
When she said she was handling things from Ghana, is
this how she handled things?
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Remember, on Thursday, the National Weather Service issued a warning
that we had extreme fire danger coming on Thursday. She
goes on a plane on Saturday. On Monday, a memo
is issued to cut forty nine million, and then Tuesday
Civic Palisades burns. And now she's running around doing press
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conferences saying, well, I have to look at the future.
I want to save lives and save property.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
We found out that a one hundred and seventeen gallon
reservoir in the Palisades.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Is sitting empty.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
DWP closed it for maintenance one hundred and seventeen million gallons.
They only had three million gallons in the water tanks.
This is like so outrageous.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
She's got to go.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
She was actively disemboweling the fire department during fire season,
during an extreme fire warning from the National Weather Service.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Why to fund the homeless.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Who are starting fourteen thousand fires a year?
Speaker 2 (15:05):
La is broke? La is broke.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Because we spend billions of dollars on the homeless.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
And illegal aliens.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
And DEI initiatives, and the fire department gets screwed and
the police department gets screwed.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
You know, there should be a pyramid of what the public.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Expects the government should do, and it starts with police
and fire.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Is there anything more important than police and fire? Don't
we see this? Now?
Speaker 1 (15:44):
We've had a ridiculous crime wave that went on for years.
We now have the worst fire in Los Angeles history,
and we find out that the reservoir is empty. Bass
is trying to cut nearly fifty million dollars out of
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the budget and close more fire stations, and she's getting
all pissing indignanet reporters. And that's the first thing I
want to play when we come back, is an exchange
she had with again CBS News reporter Jonathan Vigliotti. He's
the one who pressed Bass yesterday, pressed her again and
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she got upset again.
Speaker 7 (16:29):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
I'm doing things I don't normally do because we are
in a state of emergency here. I told you that
I really really think everybody listening, whether you're in LA
or not, should ask demand that Karen Bass resigned. There
is a change dot org petition that demands she resigned
for obvious reasons. So you go to change dot org,
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type in Karen Bass in the search box and put
your name to it, because the number of people signing
up is increasing rapidly. There's also, and I'm going to
put a caveat on this because I don't know this
to be true, but it's going around the internet. There
is a venture capitalist here in California named Sean McGuire.
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You spell his name shau n. He's from Sequoia Capital.
He is saying sources from within the LAPD that that
Chilean crime syndicate you know that has been plaguing Los
Angeles for years now. They fly in from Chile to
LAX they're on tourist visas, they call it tourist crime.
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They come to LA and they start breaking into businesses,
breaking into wealthy people's homes. They have been terrorizing the
West Side at times.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Well.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Sean McGuire said he has sources from within LAPD that
this Chilean crime syndicate is now working the fires in California.
They are starting fires in California to create chaos. Then
people have to evacuate, and then they go in and
loot the homes. And I know there's been on the
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West Side a lot of looting going on, just based
on all the neighborhood apps that exist and the crime
apps that exist. There are people reporting crimes. I don't
know if they get officially reported, but a lot of
crimes don't get reported or LAPD loses the reports. I'm
not sure how, but he says there are gangs in
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LA deliberately starting fires so that people evacuate and then
they can rob their homes. This is happening at a
large scale, at least one hundred robbers, likely the Chilean
crime Syndicate, And there is a Chilean crime syndicate, and
they're often in Los Angeles, and they're also often burglarizing
homes and running off with large amounts of money and
jewels and other valuables. Just putting it out there that
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that could be going on. I don't know for sure,
but one thing I have come to realize is that
public officials either will not tell you the truth or
they're going to lie about it, and the media will
not tell you the truth or they're going to lie
about it.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
So we're all on our own here.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Because because I think we're actually in a state of
collapse here in Los Angeles now, every press conference I
see makes me sick. I have no confidence in any
of these people. And if you do, bless you. I
don't see it at all. And here's an example. This morning,
we're going to play a cut for CBS News reporter
Jonathan Vigliotti, second day in a row, making Karen Bass uncomfortable.
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Bass was asking for patients from LA residents yesterday.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
You asked for the public's patients. As you assess the response,
as you well know, then millionllions of people receive false alarms.
It's been acknowledged here in this room that many may
now be deactivating their alerts on their phones. I have
heard from many people who are ignoring them altogether. We
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have red flag warnings still in effect. They will resume
again next week. There is no rate in the forecast.
What are you doing at this point to earn back
people's trusts and to make sure these mistakes don't happen again.
Speaker 6 (20:27):
Well, first of all, I think that that was addressed
at the beginning of the press conference by Kevin McGowan.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
I would like that from you. I don't You're the opposition.
Speaker 6 (20:37):
So let me just be clear. I am going to
spend every moment that I can making sure that I
am in as many areas as possible, meeting and talking
to residents to see what is needed in the recovery.
But I also mentioned that we're moving into recovery mode
at the same time, meaning that we want to see
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the city rebuilt. We want to see Los Angeles come together.
Let me finish, we want to see Los Angeles come together.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
Who are deflect you from the question? Do you have
millions of people here who get these alerts?
Speaker 2 (21:13):
They are ignoring them.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
You still have red flag warnings and up here is
a real threat here. What is your message to your
constituents who are losing faith?
Speaker 6 (21:23):
Have you started as I want the residents of Los
Angeles region to have faith in what we are doing
twenty four hours a day, I can say on behalf
of our first responders, from the fire Department, the police department,
we are doing everything we can to bring the situation
under control, and success.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Has been reported.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
We know that we're going to have a possible increase
in the force of the winds at the beginning of
next week, and getting Los Angeles prepared doing everything we
can to save lives. That is our number one job,
to protect people's homes, to protect people's businesses, and to
prepare to rebuild Los Angeles in a much better way.
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We're going to stand united, We're going to stand together,
and we are not going to allow politics to interfere
and we're not going to allow people to divide us
for political gain. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
She's lying. As I told you a few minutes ago.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
She put out a memo on Monday, two days before
the fires, and this said that forty eight million dollars
needs to be cut from the Los Angeles Fire Department
on top of the seventeen million she already cut in
the last budget. Forty eight million dollar budget reduction. It
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would mean at least sixteen fire stations close. We had
the memo here from the Operations Valley Bureau because everyone
in the fire department was really pissed off. And earlier
in the show, we played you a clip of the
LA Fire Chief Kristin Crowley, telling Gigi graciet that the
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city has failed the Los Angeles Fire Department. So no,
I don't have any faith and I don't know anybody
who has any faith in Karen Bass or the city.
This is what she's reduced to, cheap, lame, hollow platitudes.
She's trying to unite the city, the cities united, the
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cities united, because we all know that you failed us
miserably and you had more damage that you were going
to do to the fire department. How are you going
to preserve life and property when you were going to
cut almost fifty million dollars out of the budget, And
what were you going to do with the money? Give
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it to the fire starters, the homeless? And how many
of these fires are started by arsonists?
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Really?
Speaker 1 (24:03):
I thought of this last night, even before I read
this Sean McGuire tweet. Are there Chilean gang members starting
these fires? Last night? My phone went off like two, three, four,
five times. All our phones went off. Got a new
fire here, a new fire there, a new fire there.
Fire department was able to put them out quickly because
the winds had died down. But how could that many
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fires go off at once? Nothing's happening? Power lines aren't
down lightning isn't striking. It has to be humans. And
since the homeless start fourteen thousand a day, and since
criminals are running a mock all of a sudden you
have the sheriff Luna saying, well, oh, we're gonna rush
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them and charge them. No sighting releases. I guess that's
all they've been doing, is sitan releases. Because you had
to make a point of saying, no, we're not going
to sit and release. Why would you even bring that up?
In fact, I never used to hear anything about sight
and release. I never knew there was a concept like that.
When it came to burglary robbery and Nathan Hoffman repeated
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about three four times that anybody found looting is going
to be prosecuted to the fullist extent of the law.
He was particularly forceful, and I'm thinking, all right, what's
going on? Because he's repeating it over and over as
he should, Luna is suddenly insisting no sight and release.
There's a curfew now. You probably heard in the fire
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areas and the mandatory evacuation areas. So there's a lot
of bad stuff going on. The neighborhood apps that are
blowing up everybody's posting all kinds of wild stuff. I
got a photo in front of me of a gas
can sending underneath an electrical poll on the west side.
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There's vagrants and mental patients. There's low level burglars wandering
around like that do every day. There might be this
Chilean gang, there's pranksters, and everybody's going insane. And she
won't take any responsibility. She won't even take responsibility for
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all the erroneous arms.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
That went off.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
I mean, I mean there was there's three of them
right because there was you guy, I.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
Got one yesterday at four o'clock. There's one four this morning.
I don't know about the third. Those are the only
two I know, but I.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Well, there's one yesterday afternoon at four o'clock right.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
Now, that the one that was about the fire near
me that was sent out to ten million people in
the county and it was only supposed to be for
the West Hills Calabasas area.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
And Derek, you had one at four in the morning. Yeah,
I'd won at three fifty seven this.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Morning, okay, And at news report I heard there was
one later this past morning. I don't know if I
I got that one maybe that was a more regional art. Anyway,
it was false. We come back on a play and
we got to do your story, Deborah, Yeah, I know,
we got to do that, And I want to play
you the clip of Fox eleven Bob de Castro questioning
the Department of Emergency Services Kevin McGowan over these false
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alarms that they're sending out.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
It's like, yeah, why should we believe these alarms?
Speaker 4 (27:09):
Yeah, and then when it's real, people are not going
to be taking it seriously.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
All right. So Deborah Mark has news now in the
CAFI News Center.
Speaker 7 (27:17):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am
six forty.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
You're not going to believe this one.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
The New York Post is reporting that Karen Bass rejected
an offer from the New York Fire Department to help
contain the fires, even though obviously, well they've admitted LA
Fire Department has admitted they don't have enough firefighters themselves.
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They were asking for volunteers. Tuesday night, Channel eleven was
running a graphic with a phone number if I guess,
I don't know, out of work firefighters, retired firefighters, people
on vacation. They were looking for people to join the
LA Fire Department immediately, So the New York City Fire
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Commissioner Robert Tucker made an offer to Bass, and Jet
Blue offered to pay for the firefighters flights across country
from New York to LA. According to sources, this is
again in the New York Post, but the offers were rejected.
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Newsom accepted help from Mexico, and we have firefighters from Colorado,
New Mexico and Utah coming in. But people in the
New York Fire Department were stunned. LA Fire Chief Anthony
Moron had acknowledged Wednesday that his forces we're fighting a
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losing battle, says the Post. When it came to enough staffing,
Maroone said, LA County and all twenty nine fire departments
in our county are not prepared for this kind of
widespread disaster, which.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Is why it's a really good idea. The Karen Bass.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Just on Monday send out a memo demanding forty nine
million dollars in cuts in the LA Fire Department. Forty
nine million dollars in cuts on Monday. All hell breaks
out on Tuesday, and now we have these these evacuation
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alert system It's going haywire.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Let's play well, we've all right. Let me play the
apology first. How much time do I have?
Speaker 1 (29:53):
This is Kevin McGowan, director of the Office of Emergency Services.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Let's play cut three.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
First starts the press conference apologizing for all the false
evacuation alarms.
Speaker 8 (30:02):
There is an extreme amount of frustration, anger, fear with
regards to the erroneous messages that have been being sent
out through the wireless emergency alert system across LA County.
I can't express enough how sorry I am for this experience.
First of all, I want to clarify this is not
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human driven. There is no one sitting at a desk
right now initiating emergency alerts. I want to restate that
stop stop.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Is that supposed to make us feel better? Maybe there
should be? Does it make you feel better? I was
gonna say the same thing.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Okay, so you got some kind of algorithm has gone
hay wire in the computer and it keeps put out
at least three of these.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
That's supposed to make us feel better? So there's no
human to blame. Be better.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
If there was a human to blame, you could fire
him and find somebody better. But what are we supposed
to do with a machine gun?
Speaker 5 (30:59):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Wire. Why should we trust these anymore? Yesterday it was
almost exactly four o'clock and my phone went off. Conway
was in here, his phone went off. My wife is
calling me at the same time. Her phone went off,
and she says, come home immediately, we have to evacuate.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
And it didn't make sense to me.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
I said, no, the palis a spire hasn't moved, because
we're about five miles away. I thought it was because
of the West Hills fire. That's why I went off
here in Burbank.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Well, that's what it was for. Only for that, only
for that. But everybody got this. Edward in the county
got this. Yes, ten million people. Where were we all
supposed to go?
Speaker 1 (31:40):
What kind of alert is necessary for ten million people
to evacuate? Even if a nuclear bomb went off? What
good would it do to have ten million people all
go in the same direction at once? I all right,
let me let's play a little bit at Bob de
Castro Fox eleven should be cut five in interviewing McGowan.
Speaker 9 (32:03):
Even after yesterday that errant message was sent out to
Los Angeles counties, some ten million people overnight, people were
still receiving many messages and we were even fielding calls
from our own newsroom, from people as far as San
Bernardino that were receiving calls. You had no idea why
people are getting these alerts and being startled in the
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middle of the night when they're already on edge in
the Inland Empire. Why does that happened? You have no idea?
And you also asked that people verify and get onto
a website. Not everybody has the ability to jump on
a website when they're panicked to try and figure out
whether or not this is an actual.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Alert when you have no power.
Speaker 8 (32:43):
I appreciate the thoughts you're sharing in the question. I
would take a second to explain how wait.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Stop, where did this wiinner come from? Person of all, he
sounds like he's gonna cry.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
He's embarrassed. I start to have faith and confidence.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
And this guy, he's in charge of emergency services, the director,
he's the director.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Holy hell, whirro on our own here? Aren't we? We
got nobody to help us? Not Bass Bass is in Africa.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Newsom is lying to a mother in the Palisades, claiming
he's talking to the president like he has some kind
of hallucination or delusion. The Office of Emergency Services director
is a puddle of tears.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
What's going on.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
The fire The fire chief says.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
She got screwed by Karen Bass.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
They cut the money and we find out Bass was
cutting money as late as Monday. It's over. It's over. Yeah,
they're gonna rebuild. They're gonna rebuild out to Dina. They're
going to rebuild the Palisades. This crew, huh.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
We have to have faith, we have to be united.
FN you stay.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Strong, stay strong, Let's stay Los Angeles strong.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
All right, we come back.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
We're gonna talk to Royal Oaks, are legal analyst from
ABC News. He's had to evacuate as well, and he's
got a story to tell. And then we've got to
hear Debor's story. Debra was the lead story on the
news last night. It was crazy. One of these possible
arsonists was loose in their neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
What's going on?
Speaker 4 (34:31):
I'm ready to.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Leave the state. Yeah, maybe it's maybe it's time we
all go.
Speaker 7 (34:37):
I think it is.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Deborah Mark live in the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey,
you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You
can always hear the show live on KFI AM six
forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday,
and of course anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Can't.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty.
Speaker 1 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
All right, so I signed the change dot org petition
demanding the resignation of Karen Bass. It's let's see how
many signatures it's got. I normally don't do this, but
I'm fed up. I even put in a little money
because the more money that gets donated, the more they're
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going to spread. The spread the word that you can
sign the petition. It's demand the immediate resignation of Mayor
Karen Bass. Go to change dot org. They have a
search box and putting Karen Bass and you'll see it,
and it's already got. Let's see how many signatures now,
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three thirty seven, three hundred and sixty. So it's up
about one thousand signatures just in the last fifteen minutes
or so. This has got to end. You know, the
more signatures it gets, the more media coverage it'll get.
And because she she has to be forced out no
other way. The other person that has to be forced
out is Gavin Newsom. And we're gonna we're gonna talk
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to Rachel Darvish, the woman who confronted Newsom in the
Palisades yesterday outside his suv. But if you haven't heard
or seen the moment, uh, we're gonna play it for
you here. She owns a home in the Palisades which
did survive, but her daughter's school burned down, and Newsom
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immediately lies to her, claiming that he was on the
phone with Joe Biden. Listen to this. This is really extraordinary, Governor.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
You got a second.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Governor.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Governor, I live here, Governor, that was my daughter's school.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Governor, Please tell me what you're gonna do. But I'm
not hurt, my promise.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
I'm literally talking to the President right now to specifically
answer the question of what we can do for you
and your daughter.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Can I hear it? Can I hear your call? Because
I don't believe it?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Can I literally I've tried five That's why I'm walking
around to make.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Why is the President not taking your call because it's
not going through. Why I have to get cell service,
Let's get it, let's get it.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I want to be here when you call the President.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
I'm doing that right now, and it's to immediately get reimbursements,
individual assistance.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
And to help you o death looking for I'm so sorry,
especially for your daughter. I have the four.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Kids, everyone who went to school there.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
They lost their homes.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
They lost two homes because they were living in one
and building another. Kevin, please tell me, tell me what
are you going to do with the president.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Right now we're getting we're getting the resources to help rebuild.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Why is there no water in the hydrants?
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Governor?
Speaker 5 (02:39):
It's all literally?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Is it going to be different next time?
Speaker 1 (02:42):
It has to be?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
It has to be.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Of course, what are you going to do to fill
the hydrants?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
I would fill them up personally.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
You know that.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I literally I.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Would fill up the hydrants myself.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I understand, but would you do that? I would do
whatever I can.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
But you're not. I see the Do you know there's
water dripping of there?
Speaker 7 (03:00):
Governor?
Speaker 3 (03:01):
There's water coming out there.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
You can use it. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
I'm going to make the call to address everything I
can right now, including making sure.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
People can I have an opportunity to at least tell
people you're doing what you're saying you're doing. Did somebody
have a contact?
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Can I have your contact? Uh?
Speaker 1 (03:21):
This revealed Gavin Newsom's character. Under pressure, He'll say anything,
He'll lie. He told a whopper there. He's literally on
the phone with Joe Biden right now. And when Rachel said,
I want to hear it, well, I'm trying to call.
That's why I'm walking around. I've tried to call five times.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Oh, well you know, we'll go get a cell, We'll get.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
A cell signal. I want to hear this. And then
all of a sudden, he wasn't calling Biden. Was he
Let's get Rachel Darvish back on the line. Rachel, I'm here, Didvin?
Did Gavin call you back yet?
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Gavin has never called me, does has not has not
called me. I did get a contact information for someone
who works in his office, and I was I did
immediately get in touch with him. We've had a few
back and forth. The very last one was at about
eleven am today where I was informed he couldn't get
back to me until the press conferency was that was over,
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and that was a couple of hours ago. So I
have not heard back from them. They did ask me
what I wanted. What do I want? And I want
the schools back up. I need the kids need to
go to school, and how are we going to do that?
We don't have a town. We got no water, we
got even if you have a home. You know, my
plan was, let's get the kids in our house if
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our house is up when I saw it yesterday. But
there's no way to go back there. And yeah, the
governor lied to me about this, so I want to
know what can we do with all of the obstacles.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
I think you're the first person ever called him on
his lie. It was so slick. I'm literally on the
phone now, Oh yeah, I want to hear it. And
he got flustered. He didn't know what to do. Nobody
ever done that him before.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Well, look, you're you've got to take the situation. It
was such a you know, a moment that you could
not manufacture. I'm leaving, you know. I was leaving when
a crew had taken me there. I asked him to
take me to see if the school was still up.
I had heard the playground had burned, but I wanted
to see for myself. And when we got there, we
it was so devastating. I really couldn't even put myself together.
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And as we were leaving, I noticed him and I thought,
that can't be. This is just a person walking around
aimlessly and not doing anything. And then when I was
walked up to him, I noticed he walked into his car.
He's trying to get into his car, So it was
it was a very weird situation that he did show
me his phone and that's when I knew. Okay, so
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they do call him a liar and he did lie
to me, But you know what, those are not the
important things right now. I can. I can go past
it right now because I don't think he's gonna have
a job very soon. But I want my town back.
I want the kids to have a pool. And he's
not going to do it for me.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
No, he's not.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
And I don't know who is in Neither is our
mayor and neither is our mayor. And I'm sad about that.
I'm sad about that because it's not about their d's
and their rs. And I want to make that clear.
I don't want anyone thinking I'm in here for a
political political position side shoes. No, do you think it
mattered what sign was next to your name in your house?
Speaker 1 (06:26):
That I bless there are mayors and governors from both
parties that can execute competently when there are and they
also can provide the type of preparation that prevents or
mitigates these disasters. It has nothing to do with politics.
It has to do whether you execute the basics of
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your job.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
And that's why I said, I think a couple of
days ago, my position was, you pick any mom. You
pick any mom in California, and man, that mom will
will tackle any of these problems in a much different approach.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Oh, I believe that I know a lot of Westside Monds. Absolutely, Yeah,
they got a lot way more going for them than
Gavin Newsom does, that's for sure. So you're I mean,
are you involved in in any Are there any citizens
or organizations getting together right now to try to, you know,
get a school open?
Speaker 2 (07:22):
What's the plan for your schools? Palisades Elementary?
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Right, that's gone?
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Yeah, so we're what's going to happen to the kids?
Speaker 3 (07:30):
She doesn't go there, she's my daughter's in preschool. She
goes to the preschool across the street from palais Elementary.
They both burned down. I went to Palisades Elementary, I
went to Paul Revere Junior High. I went to Palisades
High School. Or all this is my history is gone,
and I don't know, if there's really a future immediately
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in the Palistads, how long you think it's going to build,
even if you have a house in the Palistas, how
long you think it's going to be until someone can
get into their house.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
I I nobody in government knows how to answer any
of those questions. They don't know what to do. They're
not qualified to rebuild a town. They weren't qualified to
protect the town. They certainly had no idea how to
build one.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
But you know, I think that in these types of
situations there have to be ways to bypass the BTS
red tape that exists that we do not need in
particular times of need like this. How do you do that?
It's easy. We're humans. We know we can. We can judge.
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That's the difference between us. So that is something that
we need in the person who is running Los Angeles
with all the money we have, guys, come on, we
can do better Los Angeleans.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Well, everyone's got to demand it. And people have been
asleep for a real long time in this city, in
this state. And if this doesn't wait, yeah, all right, well, Rachel,
we will keep in touch. Excellent work. You did more
to unmask newsome than all the media in the world
has failed to unmask him over the last seven years,
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and you did it in about two minutes.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Just talk to a mom.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
I hear that every day at.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Home, exactly what I mean.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Oh, I know.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
I watched my wife build a home from the ground up, supervising.
It took a year. I know it can be done
very quickly. I know a year from now, all the
moms in the Pacific Palisades because have their all their
homes built in a year and the city would be better. Correct,
It's going to be the correct I've seen it with
my own eyes, and I just get out of the
way when that happens. All right, Rachel, talk with you
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again soon. Thank you for coming on, Thanks so much.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Thanks for okay bye.
Speaker 7 (09:54):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Round from one until four, and then after four o'clock
you listened to John Cobelt's show on demand on the iheartapp.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
There is a petition on change dot org.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
I can't remember the last time I told people to
sign a petition, but this one you must. When you
go to change dot org, search for Karen Bass. It's
demand the immediate resignation of Mayor Karen Bass. It's got
thirty seven, eight hundred and fifty signatures.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Sign the petition.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Donate a few bucks so that they can send out
more notices. She has to go and there has to
be an overwhelming response here. We have posted the link
to change dot org to the Karen Bass petition on
Twitter and on Instagram stories or simply do it yourself.
It's not that hard. Change dot org and typing Karen Bass.
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And she has to go. And we have a lot
more information why. Last hour we played a piece of
an interview that Fox eleven's Gigi Grassi It did with
the LA Fire Chief Kristin Crowley, and Crowley said, yes,
the city failed the Los Angeles Fire Department.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
And we have more proof.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
This is from an online journalist, I guess Chuck Colesto.
He got a hold of a leaked memo showing that
LA Mayor Karen Bass ordered the fire department to cut
an additional forty nine million dollars just one week before
the wildfires erupted. Okay, I've got more information on that here. Now,
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this memo is dated on January sixth, so she went
to Ghana and.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Whipped up a memo.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
That went out to cut the fire department budget by
forty nine million dollars. And then the fire happened two
days later. Wow, it would close sixteen more fire stations.
Sixteen fire stations forty nine million dollars. She already had
cut seventeen point six million in her latest budget, and
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now she wanted to slash more than double that. The
memo was obtained from an LA Fire Department whistleblower who
posts on social media under the name LAFD Watchdog. The
memo was sent and I have a copy of the
memo in front of me. This is a real thing.
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I have something from the Operations Valley Bureau Department Update
January sixth, twenty twenty five. The LAFD is still going
through the fiscal year twenty twenty four twenty twenty five
process forty eight point eight million budget reduction. The fire chief,
if the Board of Fire Commissioners and other organizations are
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steadfast in their message of defending what resources we currently
have in place, the only way to provide a cost
savings would be to close as many as sixteen fire stations.
This would be at least one fire station per city
council district. So this is what she was doing. She
was cutting the fire department a big, a big cut
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just two days before the wildfires broke out.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
When she said she was handling things from Ghana, is
this how she handled things?
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Remember, on Thursday, the National Weather Service issued a warning
that we had extreme fire danger coming on Thursday. She
goes on a plane on Saturday. On Monday, a memo
is issued to cut forty nine million, and then Tuesday
Civic Palisades burns. And now she's running around doing press
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conferences saying, well, I have to look at the future.
I want to save lives and save property.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
We found out that a one hundred and seventeen gallon
reservoir in the Palisades.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Is sitting empty.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
DWP closed it for maintenance one hundred and seventeen million gallons.
They only had three million gallons in the water tanks.
This is like so outrageous.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
She's got to go.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
She was actively disemboweling the fire department during fire season,
during an extreme fire warning from the National Weather Service.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Why to fund the homeless.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Who are starting fourteen thousand fires a year?
Speaker 2 (15:05):
La is broke? La is broke.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Because we spend billions of dollars on the homeless.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
And illegal aliens.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
And DEI initiatives, and the fire department gets screwed and
the police department gets screwed.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
You know, there should be a pyramid of what the public.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Expects the government should do, and it starts with police
and fire.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Is there anything more important than police and fire? Don't
we see this? Now?
Speaker 1 (15:44):
We've had a ridiculous crime wave that went on for years.
We now have the worst fire in Los Angeles history,
and we find out that the reservoir is empty. Bass
is trying to cut nearly fifty million dollars out of
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the budget and close more fire stations, and she's getting
all pissing indignanet reporters. And that's the first thing I
want to play when we come back, is an exchange
she had with again CBS News reporter Jonathan Vigliotti. He's
the one who pressed Bass yesterday, pressed her again and
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she got upset again.
Speaker 7 (16:29):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
I'm doing things I don't normally do because we are
in a state of emergency here. I told you that
I really really think everybody listening, whether you're in LA
or not, should ask demand that Karen Bass resigned. There
is a change dot org petition that demands she resigned
for obvious reasons. So you go to change dot org,
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type in Karen Bass in the search box and put
your name to it, because the number of people signing
up is increasing rapidly. There's also, and I'm going to
put a caveat on this because I don't know this
to be true, but it's going around the internet. There
is a venture capitalist here in California named Sean McGuire.
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You spell his name shau n. He's from Sequoia Capital.
He is saying sources from within the LAPD that that
Chilean crime syndicate you know that has been plaguing Los
Angeles for years now. They fly in from Chile to
LAX they're on tourist visas, they call it tourist crime.
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They come to LA and they start breaking into businesses,
breaking into wealthy people's homes. They have been terrorizing the
West Side at times.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Well.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Sean McGuire said he has sources from within LAPD that
this Chilean crime syndicate is now working the fires in California.
They are starting fires in California to create chaos. Then
people have to evacuate, and then they go in and
loot the homes. And I know there's been on the
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West Side a lot of looting going on, just based
on all the neighborhood apps that exist and the crime
apps that exist. There are people reporting crimes. I don't
know if they get officially reported, but a lot of
crimes don't get reported or LAPD loses the reports. I'm
not sure how, but he says there are gangs in
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LA deliberately starting fires so that people evacuate and then
they can rob their homes. This is happening at a
large scale, at least one hundred robbers, likely the Chilean
crime Syndicate, And there is a Chilean crime syndicate, and
they're often in Los Angeles, and they're also often burglarizing
homes and running off with large amounts of money and
jewels and other valuables. Just putting it out there that
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that could be going on. I don't know for sure,
but one thing I have come to realize is that
public officials either will not tell you the truth or
they're going to lie about it, and the media will
not tell you the truth or they're going to lie
about it.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
So we're all on our own here.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Because because I think we're actually in a state of
collapse here in Los Angeles now, every press conference I
see makes me sick. I have no confidence in any
of these people. And if you do, bless you. I
don't see it at all. And here's an example. This morning,
we're going to play a cut for CBS News reporter
Jonathan Vigliotti, second day in a row, making Karen Bass uncomfortable.
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Bass was asking for patients from LA residents yesterday.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
You asked for the public's patients. As you assess the response,
as you well know, then millionllions of people receive false alarms.
It's been acknowledged here in this room that many may
now be deactivating their alerts on their phones. I have
heard from many people who are ignoring them altogether. We
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have red flag warnings still in effect. They will resume
again next week. There is no rate in the forecast.
What are you doing at this point to earn back
people's trusts and to make sure these mistakes don't happen again.
Speaker 6 (20:27):
Well, first of all, I think that that was addressed
at the beginning of the press conference by Kevin McGowan.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
I would like that from you. I don't You're the opposition.
Speaker 6 (20:37):
So let me just be clear. I am going to
spend every moment that I can making sure that I
am in as many areas as possible, meeting and talking
to residents to see what is needed in the recovery.
But I also mentioned that we're moving into recovery mode
at the same time, meaning that we want to see
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the city rebuilt. We want to see Los Angeles come together.
Let me finish, we want to see Los Angeles come together.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
Who are deflect you from the question? Do you have
millions of people here who get these alerts?
Speaker 2 (21:13):
They are ignoring them.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
You still have red flag warnings and up here is
a real threat here. What is your message to your
constituents who are losing faith?
Speaker 6 (21:23):
Have you started as I want the residents of Los
Angeles region to have faith in what we are doing
twenty four hours a day, I can say on behalf
of our first responders, from the fire Department, the police department,
we are doing everything we can to bring the situation
under control, and success.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Has been reported.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
We know that we're going to have a possible increase
in the force of the winds at the beginning of
next week, and getting Los Angeles prepared doing everything we
can to save lives. That is our number one job,
to protect people's homes, to protect people's businesses, and to
prepare to rebuild Los Angeles in a much better way.
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We're going to stand united, We're going to stand together,
and we are not going to allow politics to interfere
and we're not going to allow people to divide us
for political gain. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
She's lying. As I told you a few minutes ago.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
She put out a memo on Monday, two days before
the fires, and this said that forty eight million dollars
needs to be cut from the Los Angeles Fire Department
on top of the seventeen million she already cut in
the last budget. Forty eight million dollar budget reduction. It
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would mean at least sixteen fire stations close. We had
the memo here from the Operations Valley Bureau because everyone
in the fire department was really pissed off. And earlier
in the show, we played you a clip of the
LA Fire Chief Kristin Crowley, telling Gigi graciet that the
(23:09):
city has failed the Los Angeles Fire Department. So no,
I don't have any faith and I don't know anybody
who has any faith in Karen Bass or the city.
This is what she's reduced to, cheap, lame, hollow platitudes.
She's trying to unite the city, the cities united, the
(23:33):
cities united, because we all know that you failed us
miserably and you had more damage that you were going
to do to the fire department. How are you going
to preserve life and property when you were going to
cut almost fifty million dollars out of the budget, And
what were you going to do with the money? Give
(23:54):
it to the fire starters, the homeless? And how many
of these fires are started by arsonists?
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Really?
Speaker 1 (24:03):
I thought of this last night, even before I read
this Sean McGuire tweet. Are there Chilean gang members starting
these fires? Last night? My phone went off like two, three, four,
five times. All our phones went off. Got a new
fire here, a new fire there, a new fire there.
Fire department was able to put them out quickly because
the winds had died down. But how could that many
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fires go off at once? Nothing's happening? Power lines aren't
down lightning isn't striking. It has to be humans. And
since the homeless start fourteen thousand a day, and since
criminals are running a mock all of a sudden you
have the sheriff Luna saying, well, oh, we're gonna rush
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them and charge them. No sighting releases. I guess that's
all they've been doing, is sitan releases. Because you had
to make a point of saying, no, we're not going
to sit and release. Why would you even bring that up?
In fact, I never used to hear anything about sight
and release. I never knew there was a concept like that.
When it came to burglary robbery and Nathan Hoffman repeated
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about three four times that anybody found looting is going
to be prosecuted to the fullist extent of the law.
He was particularly forceful, and I'm thinking, all right, what's
going on? Because he's repeating it over and over as
he should, Luna is suddenly insisting no sight and release.
There's a curfew now. You probably heard in the fire
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areas and the mandatory evacuation areas. So there's a lot
of bad stuff going on. The neighborhood apps that are
blowing up everybody's posting all kinds of wild stuff. I
got a photo in front of me of a gas
can sending underneath an electrical poll on the west side.
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There's vagrants and mental patients. There's low level burglars wandering
around like that do every day. There might be this
Chilean gang, there's pranksters, and everybody's going insane. And she
won't take any responsibility. She won't even take responsibility for
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all the erroneous arms.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
That went off.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
I mean, I mean there was there's three of them
right because there was you guy, I.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
Got one yesterday at four o'clock. There's one four this morning.
I don't know about the third. Those are the only
two I know, but I.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Well, there's one yesterday afternoon at four o'clock right.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
Now, that the one that was about the fire near
me that was sent out to ten million people in
the county and it was only supposed to be for
the West Hills Calabasas area.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
And Derek, you had one at four in the morning. Yeah,
I'd won at three fifty seven this.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Morning, okay, And at news report I heard there was
one later this past morning. I don't know if I
I got that one maybe that was a more regional art. Anyway,
it was false. We come back on a play and
we got to do your story, Deborah, Yeah, I know,
we got to do that, And I want to play
you the clip of Fox eleven Bob de Castro questioning
the Department of Emergency Services Kevin McGowan over these false
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alarms that they're sending out.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
It's like, yeah, why should we believe these alarms?
Speaker 4 (27:09):
Yeah, and then when it's real, people are not going
to be taking it seriously.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
All right. So Deborah Mark has news now in the
CAFI News Center.
Speaker 7 (27:17):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am
six forty.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
You're not going to believe this one.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
The New York Post is reporting that Karen Bass rejected
an offer from the New York Fire Department to help
contain the fires, even though obviously, well they've admitted LA
Fire Department has admitted they don't have enough firefighters themselves.
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They were asking for volunteers. Tuesday night, Channel eleven was
running a graphic with a phone number if I guess,
I don't know, out of work firefighters, retired firefighters, people
on vacation. They were looking for people to join the
LA Fire Department immediately, So the New York City Fire
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Commissioner Robert Tucker made an offer to Bass, and Jet
Blue offered to pay for the firefighters flights across country
from New York to LA. According to sources, this is
again in the New York Post, but the offers were rejected.
(28:39):
Newsom accepted help from Mexico, and we have firefighters from Colorado,
New Mexico and Utah coming in. But people in the
New York Fire Department were stunned. LA Fire Chief Anthony
Moron had acknowledged Wednesday that his forces we're fighting a
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losing battle, says the Post. When it came to enough staffing,
Maroone said, LA County and all twenty nine fire departments
in our county are not prepared for this kind of
widespread disaster, which.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Is why it's a really good idea. The Karen Bass.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Just on Monday send out a memo demanding forty nine
million dollars in cuts in the LA Fire Department. Forty
nine million dollars in cuts on Monday. All hell breaks
out on Tuesday, and now we have these these evacuation
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alert system It's going haywire.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Let's play well, we've all right. Let me play the
apology first. How much time do I have?
Speaker 1 (29:53):
This is Kevin McGowan, director of the Office of Emergency Services.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Let's play cut three.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
First starts the press conference apologizing for all the false
evacuation alarms.
Speaker 8 (30:02):
There is an extreme amount of frustration, anger, fear with
regards to the erroneous messages that have been being sent
out through the wireless emergency alert system across LA County.
I can't express enough how sorry I am for this experience.
First of all, I want to clarify this is not
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human driven. There is no one sitting at a desk
right now initiating emergency alerts. I want to restate that
stop stop.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Is that supposed to make us feel better? Maybe there
should be? Does it make you feel better? I was
gonna say the same thing.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Okay, so you got some kind of algorithm has gone
hay wire in the computer and it keeps put out
at least three of these.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
That's supposed to make us feel better? So there's no
human to blame. Be better.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
If there was a human to blame, you could fire
him and find somebody better. But what are we supposed
to do with a machine gun?
Speaker 5 (30:59):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Wire. Why should we trust these anymore? Yesterday it was
almost exactly four o'clock and my phone went off. Conway
was in here, his phone went off. My wife is
calling me at the same time. Her phone went off,
and she says, come home immediately, we have to evacuate.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
And it didn't make sense to me.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
I said, no, the palis a spire hasn't moved, because
we're about five miles away. I thought it was because
of the West Hills fire. That's why I went off
here in Burbank.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Well, that's what it was for. Only for that, only
for that. But everybody got this. Edward in the county
got this. Yes, ten million people. Where were we all
supposed to go?
Speaker 1 (31:40):
What kind of alert is necessary for ten million people
to evacuate? Even if a nuclear bomb went off? What
good would it do to have ten million people all
go in the same direction at once? I all right,
let me let's play a little bit at Bob de
Castro Fox eleven should be cut five in interviewing McGowan.
Speaker 9 (32:03):
Even after yesterday that errant message was sent out to
Los Angeles counties, some ten million people overnight, people were
still receiving many messages and we were even fielding calls
from our own newsroom, from people as far as San
Bernardino that were receiving calls. You had no idea why
people are getting these alerts and being startled in the
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middle of the night when they're already on edge in
the Inland Empire. Why does that happened? You have no idea?
And you also asked that people verify and get onto
a website. Not everybody has the ability to jump on
a website when they're panicked to try and figure out
whether or not this is an actual.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Alert when you have no power.
Speaker 8 (32:43):
I appreciate the thoughts you're sharing in the question. I
would take a second to explain how wait.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Stop, where did this wiinner come from? Person of all, he
sounds like he's gonna cry.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
He's embarrassed. I start to have faith and confidence.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
And this guy, he's in charge of emergency services, the director,
he's the director.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Holy hell, whirro on our own here? Aren't we? We
got nobody to help us? Not Bass Bass is in Africa.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Newsom is lying to a mother in the Palisades, claiming
he's talking to the president like he has some kind
of hallucination or delusion. The Office of Emergency Services director
is a puddle of tears.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
What's going on.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
The fire The fire chief says.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
She got screwed by Karen Bass.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
They cut the money and we find out Bass was
cutting money as late as Monday. It's over. It's over. Yeah,
they're gonna rebuild. They're gonna rebuild out to Dina. They're
going to rebuild the Palisades. This crew, huh.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
We have to have faith, we have to be united.
FN you stay.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Strong, stay strong, Let's stay Los Angeles strong.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
All right, we come back.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
We're gonna talk to Royal Oaks, are legal analyst from
ABC News. He's had to evacuate as well, and he's
got a story to tell. And then we've got to
hear Debor's story. Debra was the lead story on the
news last night. It was crazy. One of these possible
arsonists was loose in their neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
What's going on?
Speaker 4 (34:31):
I'm ready to.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Leave the state. Yeah, maybe it's maybe it's time we
all go.
Speaker 7 (34:37):
I think it is.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Deborah Mark live in the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey,
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