January 22, 2025 • 34 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (01/21) - Michael Monks comes on the show with the latest information on the Hughes Fire burning near Castaic Lake. Pres. Trump's Border Czar Tom Homan was on Fox News giving an update on the border crisis now that Trump is back in office. Pres. Trump signed an Executive Order that said sanctuary cities who interfere with federal investigations will have federal funds withheld. LA is broke.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
I am six forty. You're listening to the John Cobalt
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show on demand on the iHeart app. I swear before
the show, I was taking a little nap and the
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world here was peaceful, And I woke up from the
nap a half hour later and there was a major
fire that had spread incredibly quickly in the Castaic area.
Michael Monks from KFI News is tracking it. What's going on?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
This was fast and it's big, so fast it has
it's reminiscent of two weeks ago. How quickly this thing
blew up, because this started just after eleven o'clock this
morning in the area around Lake Caustaic, and the original
reports as we were watching it was this is about
forty or fifty acres, which is of great concern because
we know of the wind conditions that we're dealing with,
the red flag conditions we're dealing with, and that it
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could move fast and that it did within ninety minutes.
It has exploded to thirty four hundred acres. There are
evacuation warnings around Lake Castaic. Excuse me, mandatory evacuations around
Lake Castaic, and evacuation warnings even farther out. They've already
got an evacuation center open at Valencia High School on
Dixon Drive, so you can see even from our TV
(01:17):
friends that there are people in neighborhoods near there they're
packing up. I think the hard lessons learned in Altadena
and the Palisade shows how quickly your life can be
upended by one of these things. So people are packing
up things that are important to them, things that mean
something sentimentally to them, and they're getting out of the way.
These flames are crazy looking. Yeah, I've heard, we got
(01:38):
I think you were telling me that. One of our
listeners said, like, there's only one way in, one way
out of a particular community. We did just get a
call from a guy who wanted me to alert the
host and our fellow news team members that he says
a lot of the neighborhoods in and around Castaic basically
have one way in and one way out, so do
not clog up the roads. Basically a warning to folks,
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please don't come to the air area. If you do
not need to be here. The serious situation is serious.
They have evacuated some areas, including one of the elementary schools,
North Lake Hills Elementary School just west of the Lake
there had to be evacuated and students were also moved
out of Castaic High School. So I mean it's a
fast moving situation. Ten did this start? Yeah, like eleven
eleven thirty is when we got the first sighting of it.
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But this is what we've only one o'clock and it's
thirty ninety minutes this thing exploded. That's what they mean
when they talk about the dangers of these winds and
the red flag warnings and the conditions that this is
all dry vegetation too. Remember we had had to drop
a rain and so long in these areas, and all
that is fresh fuel for this thing, and the fire
is just gobbling it up quickly. They're attacking it, the
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firefighters from the air, they are they are doing their best.
It seems to get a handle on it, but so far,
no slow to this spread.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
I guess the terrain is so difficult it would be
hard to attack it from the ground.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
It absolutely is, and it's bad news for the people
who live there. The positive compared to two weeks ago
is that it's not as densely populated as the Palisades
or Altadena. So this one is a little more or
common to what we're used to seeing where wildfires, fires
are and the type of destruction that they can take,
but not so many homes around there. However, there are
homes near there, and those folks have been told. We're
already got the two scoop super scoopers working on. Yeah,
(03:12):
they are up in the air and dropping water fast.
But you can see from the video that the flames
are significant. They are whipping in this wind and taking
as many acres as they can right now.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Right, don't fly your stupid drones. Yeah, you took out
a super Scooper exactly we ago. Hopefully we've all learned
some lessons, I would think. So, you know, the knuckleheads
who do that stuff, don't listen to the radio. Listen
to us giving out the war. That's right, all right,
We'll keep good Michael, and just burst in here. Anytime
that you've got more stuff, more has more sea.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
So you know that fire that we were just saying,
thirty four hundred acres more than five thousand, no, yes.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Five thousand, half yep, yike yes.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Watch Duty just updated. It's also on TV. More than
five thousand acres.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
And we're looking a huge flames, long line of fire
snaking its way through the mountains up there around Castaic.
It's called the Lake Hughes Fire. I've been up that
way to Lake Hughes. Have you ever gone up there?
Speaker 5 (04:14):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Yeah, it's a pretty lake. It's a really nice area
and they have very mountainous and a lot of vegetation,
and as Michael said, it's all extremely dry, and they're
looking at winds gusting thirty to fifty miles an hour
this afternoon. The strongest winds are going to be through
six o'clock tonight, and they're expecting rapid fire growth and
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a lot of blowing ash in debris. I heard one
listener calling into Gari and Shannon saying it was just
raining ash all over the place. They have. What's the
status on the five? Is that now closed? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Well the direction GY's going to have more on that,
but yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Yeah, all right. So what what Michael was saying is
get out. I think we've all seen what happens and
and it's really awful when people either don't get the
warnings or are trapped in some way or are lack
of daisical about it. Uh, the speed of this this
particular fire is exceptional, so uh you you don't have time.
(05:18):
I'm been watching now on one of the one of
the channels, Fox eleven, and they show a woman who
lives on a on a cliff behind a gated fence,
and she's got a swimming pool, and she looks like
she's taken a dog dish and she's tossing water out
of the dog dish onto the on onto the slope
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just beyond her pool fence to try to I guess,
you know, slow down any fire that is going to
make its way up. And so that's uh, that's I
I I understand. You know, it's weird because some of
the people who stayed behind in the Pacific Palisades to
uh water down their property, water down their home, whatever
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they could do, and it worked for them, but it's
really risky, you know, you're playing roulette there and they
were able to save their home or mitigate the damage.
But because these people on Fox eleven, you can see
the wind whipping through their hair, they're looking at the
fire through there. They have a green metal gate for
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a fence around the pool, and they're looking at the
spot fires that are suddenly appearing in the hills behind
their house. And I understand the instinct, especially since you know,
we did not get a great immediate response from the
government that I'm sure a lot of people have decided, well,
the hell with the government, the hell with what they
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tell me in the warnings. But if the fire actually
invades your area, you're no match for it at all.
There's no possible way, so we will continue. That's the
Castaic fire. And there's also a lot going on in
the world because Trump is breaking a lot of furniture.
We have an interview with Tom Hoeman who is on
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Fox and Friends this morning, and he's trying to drill
a message through to everybody that really, these ice raids
are going on now and they're going to continue to
go on, and this is a huge operation. No kidding,
This is not braggadocio here. This is the real thing,
and we're going to listen to the stuff he told
Fox this morning. Let's go to Deborn Mark now live
(07:29):
in the Cafe twenty four our newsroom.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Coming up at the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
That firing Castaic has now burned more than five thousand acres.
Nineteen thousand people are reportedly under evacuation orders. We are
going to go to Ginny now and she's going to
tell us about what is closed near the fire areas well.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
First off, the five Sound found is completely shut down
right at the one thirty eight. You're going to be
diverted over to the one thirty eight now. Lake Hughes
Road is closed. Both directions between the five over to
Pine Canyon Road, the five north on and on ramps
are shut down at Parker Road on an off ramp,
Castake Road and the Lake Hues on and off ramps.
(08:07):
Ridge Route Road is shut down both directions from Lake
Ques Road over to Templan Highway and dry Gold Road
is shut down. In France, Sisquito side, so you've got
a lot of closures around there. Again, that five northbound,
you've got those on and off ramps shut down for
Parker Road, Lake Ques and Castey. Also in Sherman Oaks
four oh five northbound before Burbank Boulevard got a car fire.
(08:29):
That right lane is blocked. And in Costa Mesa fifty
five northbound coming up on the four oh five. We've
got an overturn accident. The two right lanes are blocked.
We Southern California's most accurate traffic reports. I'm Jenny Harmon.
Speaker 7 (08:41):
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Speaker 1 (09:39):
I mentioned before, I just to take a little lap
late this morning, and by the time I woke up,
this huge fire had erupted in Castaic, and I noticed
I have fourteen notifications on that firewatch app, which is
an excellent app. I heard the guy interviewed, who's put
this together? And it's gone off fourteen times in just
(09:59):
an hour and forty minutes. And the fire has jumped
to the south side of Lake Hughes Road, south of
Dry Gulch Road and is fifty to seventy acres on
that side of the road, and the firewatch reporters are
listening to I guess police radio traffic, fire radio traffic.
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Five fifty four acres in about an hour and fifty minutes.
It's an incredible, fast moving fire, spectacular video on TV.
Just a very thick black smoke, you know, mostly on
the hillsides right now, fiery red orange flame and it's
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all the flame is a long line of fire down
down the hillside. So this is a major, major blaze
going on in the Castaic area. Lake Hughes fire. It's
known as the Hughes fire specifically. All right, let me
get to what was on this morning before maybe the
fire takes over the whole show. Tom Homan, trump'sporters are.
(11:04):
He went on Fox and Friends talk to the host
Lawrence Jones to lay down as clearly as possible what's
going on and what will be going on, because there's
some left there's some progressive politicians who are barking about
trying to resist the ice roundups and rests, and he's
(11:25):
not putting up with it. Let's play cut number one.
Speaker 7 (11:28):
Can you give me the latest numbers on the border.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
Absolutely, look the greatest president in my lifetime, he's back
because in two days, last twenty four hours, total apprehensions
on the Southwest border seven hundred and sixty six. Compare
that to the ten of twelve thousand Biden had at
one time. CBP one releases zero CHNVQBA hating Nicaraguo Benzewheeler
(11:52):
releases zero total of seven hundred and sixty six across.
Speaker 7 (11:56):
The entire Southwest border. That is a game changer.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
So only seven hundred and sixty six people even tried
to cross the border within sight of these border patrol agents.
And as he said, during the Biden time, it was
ten to twelve thousand a day. Most people in Central
and South America are not even attempting to cross the border.
They got the message, they heard it. And see that's
the most important thing, not only the roundups going on
(12:24):
and the arrests of the criminals, it's the deterrence factor
is tremendous. And it shows you how easy it was,
how quick it was. We didn't have to spend an
extra dollar on this. For all of Biden trying to
distract from the issue by saying, well, we needed Congress
to approve of funding. Yeah, somewhere down the road, yes,
(12:44):
But in the moment, all he had to do was
sign the paperwork authorizing the border patrol or directing the
border patrol to do what it's exactly done in two days.
In two days, they got the number of apprehensions down
from the over ten thousand some months ago now to
seven sixty six. And here in this clip he tells
(13:05):
Lawrence Jones and Fox just how many how many criminals
were arrested in the last twenty four hours.
Speaker 8 (13:12):
What would a person have to do to get a
visit from Ice.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
Being the country illegally? First of all, I mean, there's
nothing in the immigration law says you got to be
convicted of a serious crime to be removed under the INA.
So if the being the country illegally, ICE CONVISI you.
But right now, as we said repeatedly, the President trust
been clear, we're concentrating on the worst first, the public
safety threats, and that's security threats. And just yesterday, in
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the last twenty four hours, I rusted over three hundred
and eight three hundred and eight serious criminals. Some of
them were murderers, some of them were rapists, some of
them raped the child, some were a sexual sullivant child.
So ICE is doing their job. They're prioritizing just as
the President said they would. So the ICE is performing
excellent right now out in the field, and they're going
to continue every day.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
I'd like to know when he says murder some rapists,
did they commit those crimes here or in their home countries?
Had they been arrested but out on bail? Have they
been convicted? And somehow weaseled out of out of jail
because of George Gascone style. District attorneys interested to find
out about that. Laurence Jones from Fox asked home in here,
(14:21):
what is the next step to keep the.
Speaker 7 (14:24):
Cust next option on the table to get more safety
in this country.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
Well, D D Will Will They're going they're going to
assistances on the boarder. They already started on that plan,
so we won't have some military on the border. We're
going to continue building infrastructure, were continue building the wall.
As far as the interior enforcement, we're going to keep
looking for the worst first and look saying story cities,
I've said this many times, let us into the jail.
We're it's safer for an agent to rest the bad guy.
(14:49):
It's safer for the bad guy to be rested in
the jail, and it's safer for the community if when
you release the public sainty back in the community, that
for the communitate great risks crime and it puts our
officers at great risk. And now they've got arrested bad
guy in his church if he has access to who
knows what weapons, and it puts a public at risk.
You know, for God's sakes, these anxious cities, you know,
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let us into your jail. We're just trying to help
public safety in your community. Help work with us because
you forced us in the community. Here's what going to happen.
We'll find a bad guy, but when we find him,
he's gonna be with others, others that may not be
a criminal priority. But guess what if during the United
States leave me, They're gonna be arrested to So sanctuary
City is gonna get exactly what they don't want, more
agents in the communities, more people arrested, more claud was arrested.
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So that's the game they want to play game on.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
I am astonished when you hear somebody lay out exactly
what this This sanctuary city, our sanctuary state philosophy is about.
Remember our state, Gavin Newsom, and our city and here
in Los Angeles will not let Ice come into the
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jails in prison and grab the illegal aliens. They will
not let Ice know that, hey, we have some of
the guys you want, and these are felons, violent felons
in some cases. Instead you let them go, maybe on bail,
maybe because you can't. I mean, they were letting people
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out of jail in prison just to let them out.
But what happens then they go back to some crummy
Rundown apartment building. That apartment building is filled with dozens,
hundreds of people. These guys are living with others, and
now Ice has to enter. You could easily end up
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in a gunfight ice agentsert risk, the criminal himself could
get killed, anybody that he's living with in that apartment,
anybody in that apartment building or walking by on the
street could end up getting a bullet somewhere. Why would
you do that? How responsible and stupid is it for
Gavin Newsom to have a sanctuary state policy that puts
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more people at risk of getting caught in a firefight
instead of just calmly walking into a jailer prison and
apprehending the criminal illegal alien. That's what a normal person
would do. But a whack job who's married to this
weird religious like philosophy that illegal aliens can't be touched
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no matter what they've done either here in their home country,
no matter what the charge is absolutely crazy and I
can't believe we put up with this stupid concept all
these years. Here's another one is Arizona Attorney General, a
woman named Chris Bays. She's way out progressive and she said,
I will have I will also will not have any
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part of and will fight the attempt to set up
what I believe are essentially concentration camps and family set
operation camps in the state of Arizona. And Hulban went
nuts over that. He says, concentration camps, ICE has detention centers.
We just lost a Border Patrol agent who was shooting
in Vermont yesterday, and they're the Gestapo. The detention centers
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have the best standards in the entire industry. I'll compare
ICE detention centers in any state or federal facility or
any county facility in the entire world. We have the
highest detention standards. So that's an insult, and that's a lie.
And that's what these whack job progressives do standing up
to protect violent criminals who are here illegally. That's what
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they do. That's their constituency. That's why they got into office,
to protect them and let us be the victims of
their violence. Absolutely, a Newsom is part of this crowd.
So is Karen Bass. They all, they all signed sanctuary
city laws, embraced them, four to five them if necessary,
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preach publicly about them. They're insane people. They are mentally unwell.
If you would decide that you're going to side with
criminal aliens, violent criminal aliens and not let the federal
government take them away, and not help the federal government
take them away, and you're absolutely off your rocker. You
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should not be in office. Just another set of reasons
as if you know do some in bass didn't do
enough damage with their fire policies or lack of fire policies.
Here's what they're doing on the side, helping to protect
illegal alien criminals. Oh, this is going to be some
year coming up.
Speaker 8 (19:43):
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A lot is happening in the Castaic area. The Hues
fire near Lake Hughes is over five thousand and fifty acres.
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It is a massive blaze, huge flames and lots of thick,
dark smoke. It's covering a wide area long, a long
snake of fire in the hills, and thousands of people
are being evacuated already, and it's quite a sight if
you can get near a television screen. And we're supposed
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to have windy weather, very windy weather for the rest
of the afternoon at least, and we've got the news
department on top of this and they'll break in when
there's anything new. And we opened the show, we were
talking about the fire, and then Tom Holman on Fox
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News he's the borders are and he was detailing just
how many arrests they got accomplished four hours of criminal
illegal aliens, many cases violent criminals, and how how much
they cut the traffic at the border, where during the
worst of Joe Biden's days, there were ten to twelve
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thousand people apprehended at the border and most of them
given a chance to apply for asylum. Yesterday it was
seven hundred and sixty six people. This is how deterrence works.
There are a lot of people not only self deporting,
but thousands and thousands are not making the trip anymore
to the Mexican border because most of the people who
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made it to the border during the Biden days and
applied for asylum, they'll be denied asylum. They don't qualify.
They're not in danger, they're not being oppressed, they're not
being attacked for some reason. They just wanted to come
here because they wanted to come here, And you can't
have an immigration policy based on that, or we're going
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to blow up to about two billion people. Now to
tie both issues together, the fire and the funding needed
to clean up after the fire and the illegal alien issue.
This story out of the La Times, Trump signed an
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executive order that directs federal officials to make sure that
sanctuary jurisdictions which try to interfere with the lawful exercise
of federal law enforcement operations do not receive access to
federal funds. Now, the LA City Council approved another sanctuary
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city law back in November forbidding city employees and resources
from being involved in federal immigration enforcement. If they interfere
in some way, they'll lose funding. The city officials are claiming, no, no, no,
we just said we're not going to help. You can't
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force a city or a county or a state to help.
But if the city, county, or state gets in the
way under this directive, they'll lose federal funds. And so
you are going to see if there's any lovers of
criminal illegal aliens. You are not going to see any
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La or California official resist the roundups that are coming,
the rest that are coming, because if just one city
official gets in the way somehow you could see your
city or county or the whole state lose federal funding.
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And those are the kind of strings that have to
be attached because what if they get in the way,
they're violating federal law. And what I want to see
in Homan has promised he'll do this if any estate
or local officials do get in the way in a
visible way, but they get arrested because it's illegal to
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harbor an illegal alien. That's not too redundant. The writer
of this, Hugo Soda Martinez, he's the city council member
who wrote this idiotic sanctuary of law. He's the one
who's claiming that they're not going to interfere with federal law.
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It's just that city resources and staff are not used
to collaborate with immigration authorities. How you know, as Hugosda
Martinez represents a district near downtown LA or Hollywood, I
think Hollywood, and it's really dirty, filthy district. Somebody posted
(24:53):
a video on Instagram the other day that I saw
they did a walking tour of Hugo Soda Martinez his
district in hollyw Would you wouldn't believe the amount of garbage. Yeah,
I just was overwhelmed. The guys who are shooting the
video were overwhelmed as well. It is so disgusting. And
that's just another aspect of what we pay for in
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Los Angeles we don't get. You know, We're way underfunded
for fire, way underfunded for police, apparently way underfunded for sanitation,
for just basically cleaning up garbage unless the workers are
just not bothering anymore. And the ironic thing, And I
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you know, I don't have time to do an in
depth study on this, but why is it the people
who live in some of the most crime prone neighborhoods
or garbage strewn neighborhoods vote for a clown like Hugo
Soda Martinez who apparently has no problem with the crime,
no problem with the illegal alien underground economy that clots
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up the streets in his district, and no problem with
the filth in the garbage. I like, why did he
run to represent the district when he does nothing to
ease the crime, nothing to ease the invasion of all
the illegal aliens, nothing to ease the amount of garbage
piling up on the streets in his district, And why
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do people vote for this. It's just it's just overwhelming.
Of course, these all these stupid sanctuary laws were started
by Eric Garcetti, and the amount of damage that Garcetti
(26:43):
did to the city in nine and a half years
cannot be quantified. But he was another one. I didn't
understand why. I didn't understand how he got reelected, and
it was that second term, which they extended to five
and a half years to align with an election schedule
that was consistent with the rest of the state. He
ended up getting five and a half years in his
(27:04):
second term. And wow, you know, if he had nuked
the place, it would have done less damage. I'm going
to continue coming up.
Speaker 8 (27:14):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Today I went on my wife, Deborah Cobelt her podcast,
it's called Deborah Cobelt Live. To make sure I get
the title right, Deborah Cobelt Live. It's already up on YouTube,
so go watch it. She and I talked about the fires,
and we talked about the incoming Trump administration. We recorded
it this morning and it's out there already on YouTube
(27:41):
Deborah Cobelt Live, and enjoy it now. In the present moment,
Daniel Guss is reporting that the City of Los Angeles
appears to be broke. And Gus says that for one
hundred and eighty days, LA will get one hundred percent
(28:05):
reimbursement for all their fire expenses. One hundred percent reimbursement
to LA for six months. But as he was looking
over the statements, there was one council member, Monica Rodriguez,
was discussing how all these expenses is going to impact
(28:27):
something called prioritized hiring, and Gus was wondering, what is that?
What is prioritized hiring? And he also noticed that the
city must front the money for these expenses and then
get reimbursement from the federal government. But they don't have
any money. They might have to take a loan first
(28:50):
to pay for the fire expenses and then submit an
expense sheet to the federal government. Because they're already borrowing
tens of millions of dollars to pay injury settlements for
the cracked sidewalks all over the city. So many people
have sued because they never fixed the sidewalks for like
twenty years. So now they're borrowing money for those settlements,
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and now they're going to have to borrow money to
pay for the fire expenses and then hope the FEDS
reimburse them properly. Meantime, Monica Rodriguez wants to hire more
people I don't know to do. What if it's not
police and it's not fire, then they shouldn't be hiring
anybody to do anything, probably to reinforce the DEI office.
(29:36):
Speaking of the federal DEI offices are going to close
for good in about seven minutes. Right, it's five o'clock
Eastern time, in seven minutes two o'clock our time. And
Trump issued an executive order that all the DEI government
employees go on paid leave. Well, that's not going to
make a difference, because they're all home anyway, and they're
(29:57):
all getting paid, and they're they must be doing nothing,
because when you work at a DEI office, Wait a second,
if you work at home for a DEI agency, what
is it that you do exactly? How come there's never
been an investigation into that racket? What do DEI employees
do when they work at home? Make sure there's enough
(30:20):
equal spoons and knives and forks, and they do they
change into work robes and fuzzy slippers, Like, do they
have their robe and fuzzy slippers when they're lounging in
their off time and then you know, nine o'clock hits
and it's work time, they put on their formal robes
and fuzzy slippers. I don't know one quickie here before
(30:43):
Debra does the news raised not in today, otherwise I
would be taunting him. They arrested two guys in San
Bernardino County of operating for operating a cockfighting ring involving
more than two hundred roosters.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Isn't that awful?
Speaker 1 (31:01):
You see this thing? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (31:02):
I talked about that yesterday. I guess you missed it.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Uh, I guess I missed because I don't work for
the government in the DII department, all right, I got
a job here. I know it gets They they it
was an illegal cockfighting ring. Well, of course it's an
illegal it's not there's no legal cockfighting rings avenue E
and u Kaipa. That must be a nice neighborhood. When
decbutes arrived, fifty vehicles fifty vehicles were at the house
(31:29):
and they all jumped in and tried to drive away.
You know, Tom Holman might want to pay a visit
to this neighborhood. I think avenue E and u Kaipa
would be a good place for one of Holman's raids
because you have a bunch of criminals here. Who are
I mean they tie razor blades to the rooster's legs, right.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Can you explain to me why people get off on that.
I mean, seriously, I really don't understand what you could
possibly what enjoyment to see these roosters.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
They bet, They bet on the roosters.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
Let's find something else to bet on.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
This is what guys do.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
No, you know what? You know what I'm going to say.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
What those people that are arrested tie raisors to each
other and then throw them in a ring where they
can't get out, and let them go at it and
see how it feel.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
You'll bet on them. One of the drivers started to
speed his car towards a police officer a police unit
and the deputy had to dodge the car and we
ended up with the police pursuit. They ended up arresting
the driver in three others. Six roosters were found in
(32:39):
the cargo of the car. Thirty three spectators were at
the cockfight. Two hundred and fifty roosters, along with a
fighting ring, a scoreboard, a scoreboards, and steal talents which
I guess they were attaching to the rooster's legs. They
found another guy named Carlos Romero hiding inside a truck.
(33:01):
He had seven more roosters with him. They found some
money and a semi automatic handgun. And seriously, they ought
to do an immigration round up on this block, in
this neighborhood. They did a search wart on the property,
found all kinds of steel talons, two dozen firearms. They
(33:25):
red tagged the buildings, including a trailer, and they found
seventeen dead roosters, eight live roosters, and they found sixty
one roosters tagged in boxes.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
In boxes and boxes. This is so cruel, inhumane.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
It's a huge operation. I know, this is what's going on.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
We throw all these people in prison and throw away
the keys.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
This is what's going on in Kaipa. And that's that's
on a Tuesday afternoon, I know.
Speaker 4 (33:51):
Can you imagine what they do on a Saturday night.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
But really, all right, when we come back, we're going
to talk about We touched on this briefly yesterday at
the end of the show when the story broke. What
the hell happened? What the La County is going to
be on the hot seat now. La City got a
lot of roasting for the bad response by the government
(34:14):
with the Palisades fire, but Out to Dina was really
bad as well. La County was nine hours late in
issuing a warning to Western out toa Dina and seventeen
people died in that fire. Why was it nine hours late?
What's wrong with the warning system? Talk about it? Coming
up Debra Mark Live in the CAFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey,
(34:37):
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show on demand on the iHeart app. I swear before
the show, I was taking a little nap and the
(00:21):
world here was peaceful, And I woke up from the
nap a half hour later and there was a major
fire that had spread incredibly quickly in the Castaic area.
Michael Monks from KFI News is tracking it. What's going on?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
This was fast and it's big, so fast it has
it's reminiscent of two weeks ago. How quickly this thing
blew up, because this started just after eleven o'clock this
morning in the area around Lake Caustaic, and the original
reports as we were watching it was this is about
forty or fifty acres, which is of great concern because
we know of the wind conditions that we're dealing with,
the red flag conditions we're dealing with, and that it
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could move fast and that it did within ninety minutes.
It has exploded to thirty four hundred acres. There are
evacuation warnings around Lake Castaic. Excuse me, mandatory evacuations around
Lake Castaic, and evacuation warnings even farther out. They've already
got an evacuation center open at Valencia High School on
Dixon Drive, so you can see even from our TV
(01:17):
friends that there are people in neighborhoods near there they're
packing up. I think the hard lessons learned in Altadena
and the Palisade shows how quickly your life can be
upended by one of these things. So people are packing
up things that are important to them, things that mean
something sentimentally to them, and they're getting out of the way.
These flames are crazy looking. Yeah, I've heard, we got
(01:38):
I think you were telling me that. One of our
listeners said, like, there's only one way in, one way
out of a particular community. We did just get a
call from a guy who wanted me to alert the
host and our fellow news team members that he says
a lot of the neighborhoods in and around Castaic basically
have one way in and one way out, so do
not clog up the roads. Basically a warning to folks,
(01:58):
please don't come to the air area. If you do
not need to be here. The serious situation is serious.
They have evacuated some areas, including one of the elementary schools,
North Lake Hills Elementary School just west of the Lake
there had to be evacuated and students were also moved
out of Castaic High School. So I mean it's a
fast moving situation. Ten did this start? Yeah, like eleven
eleven thirty is when we got the first sighting of it.
(02:20):
But this is what we've only one o'clock and it's
thirty ninety minutes this thing exploded. That's what they mean
when they talk about the dangers of these winds and
the red flag warnings and the conditions that this is
all dry vegetation too. Remember we had had to drop
a rain and so long in these areas, and all
that is fresh fuel for this thing, and the fire
is just gobbling it up quickly. They're attacking it, the
(02:40):
firefighters from the air, they are they are doing their best.
It seems to get a handle on it, but so far,
no slow to this spread.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
I guess the terrain is so difficult it would be
hard to attack it from the ground.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
It absolutely is, and it's bad news for the people
who live there. The positive compared to two weeks ago
is that it's not as densely populated as the Palisades
or Altadena. So this one is a little more or
common to what we're used to seeing where wildfires, fires
are and the type of destruction that they can take,
but not so many homes around there. However, there are
homes near there, and those folks have been told. We're
already got the two scoop super scoopers working on. Yeah,
(03:12):
they are up in the air and dropping water fast.
But you can see from the video that the flames
are significant. They are whipping in this wind and taking
as many acres as they can right now.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Right, don't fly your stupid drones. Yeah, you took out
a super Scooper exactly we ago. Hopefully we've all learned
some lessons, I would think. So, you know, the knuckleheads
who do that stuff, don't listen to the radio. Listen
to us giving out the war. That's right, all right,
We'll keep good Michael, and just burst in here. Anytime
that you've got more stuff, more has more sea.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
So you know that fire that we were just saying,
thirty four hundred acres more than five thousand, no, yes.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Five thousand, half yep, yike yes.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Watch Duty just updated. It's also on TV. More than
five thousand acres.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
And we're looking a huge flames, long line of fire
snaking its way through the mountains up there around Castaic.
It's called the Lake Hughes Fire. I've been up that
way to Lake Hughes. Have you ever gone up there?
Speaker 5 (04:14):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Yeah, it's a pretty lake. It's a really nice area
and they have very mountainous and a lot of vegetation,
and as Michael said, it's all extremely dry, and they're
looking at winds gusting thirty to fifty miles an hour
this afternoon. The strongest winds are going to be through
six o'clock tonight, and they're expecting rapid fire growth and
(04:38):
a lot of blowing ash in debris. I heard one
listener calling into Gari and Shannon saying it was just
raining ash all over the place. They have. What's the
status on the five? Is that now closed? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Well the direction GY's going to have more on that,
but yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Yeah, all right. So what what Michael was saying is
get out. I think we've all seen what happens and
and it's really awful when people either don't get the
warnings or are trapped in some way or are lack
of daisical about it. Uh, the speed of this this
particular fire is exceptional, so uh you you don't have time.
(05:18):
I'm been watching now on one of the one of
the channels, Fox eleven, and they show a woman who
lives on a on a cliff behind a gated fence,
and she's got a swimming pool, and she looks like
she's taken a dog dish and she's tossing water out
of the dog dish onto the on onto the slope
(05:40):
just beyond her pool fence to try to I guess,
you know, slow down any fire that is going to
make its way up. And so that's uh, that's I
I I understand. You know, it's weird because some of
the people who stayed behind in the Pacific Palisades to
uh water down their property, water down their home, whatever
(06:02):
they could do, and it worked for them, but it's
really risky, you know, you're playing roulette there and they
were able to save their home or mitigate the damage.
But because these people on Fox eleven, you can see
the wind whipping through their hair, they're looking at the
fire through there. They have a green metal gate for
(06:23):
a fence around the pool, and they're looking at the
spot fires that are suddenly appearing in the hills behind
their house. And I understand the instinct, especially since you know,
we did not get a great immediate response from the
government that I'm sure a lot of people have decided, well,
the hell with the government, the hell with what they
(06:44):
tell me in the warnings. But if the fire actually
invades your area, you're no match for it at all.
There's no possible way, so we will continue. That's the
Castaic fire. And there's also a lot going on in
the world because Trump is breaking a lot of furniture.
We have an interview with Tom Hoeman who is on
(07:06):
Fox and Friends this morning, and he's trying to drill
a message through to everybody that really, these ice raids
are going on now and they're going to continue to
go on, and this is a huge operation. No kidding,
This is not braggadocio here. This is the real thing,
and we're going to listen to the stuff he told
Fox this morning. Let's go to Deborn Mark now live
(07:29):
in the Cafe twenty four our newsroom.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Coming up at the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
That firing Castaic has now burned more than five thousand acres.
Nineteen thousand people are reportedly under evacuation orders. We are
going to go to Ginny now and she's going to
tell us about what is closed near the fire areas well.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
First off, the five Sound found is completely shut down
right at the one thirty eight. You're going to be
diverted over to the one thirty eight now. Lake Hughes
Road is closed. Both directions between the five over to
Pine Canyon Road, the five north on and on ramps
are shut down at Parker Road on an off ramp,
Castake Road and the Lake Hues on and off ramps.
(08:07):
Ridge Route Road is shut down both directions from Lake
Ques Road over to Templan Highway and dry Gold Road
is shut down. In France, Sisquito side, so you've got
a lot of closures around there. Again, that five northbound,
you've got those on and off ramps shut down for
Parker Road, Lake Ques and Castey. Also in Sherman Oaks
four oh five northbound before Burbank Boulevard got a car fire.
(08:29):
That right lane is blocked. And in Costa Mesa fifty
five northbound coming up on the four oh five. We've
got an overturn accident. The two right lanes are blocked.
We Southern California's most accurate traffic reports. I'm Jenny Harmon.
Speaker 7 (08:41):
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Speaker 1 (09:39):
I mentioned before, I just to take a little lap
late this morning, and by the time I woke up,
this huge fire had erupted in Castaic, and I noticed
I have fourteen notifications on that firewatch app, which is
an excellent app. I heard the guy interviewed, who's put
this together? And it's gone off fourteen times in just
(09:59):
an hour and forty minutes. And the fire has jumped
to the south side of Lake Hughes Road, south of
Dry Gulch Road and is fifty to seventy acres on
that side of the road, and the firewatch reporters are
listening to I guess police radio traffic, fire radio traffic.
(10:19):
Five fifty four acres in about an hour and fifty minutes.
It's an incredible, fast moving fire, spectacular video on TV.
Just a very thick black smoke, you know, mostly on
the hillsides right now, fiery red orange flame and it's
(10:40):
all the flame is a long line of fire down
down the hillside. So this is a major, major blaze
going on in the Castaic area. Lake Hughes fire. It's
known as the Hughes fire specifically. All right, let me
get to what was on this morning before maybe the
fire takes over the whole show. Tom Homan, trump'sporters are.
(11:04):
He went on Fox and Friends talk to the host
Lawrence Jones to lay down as clearly as possible what's
going on and what will be going on, because there's
some left there's some progressive politicians who are barking about
trying to resist the ice roundups and rests, and he's
(11:25):
not putting up with it. Let's play cut number one.
Speaker 7 (11:28):
Can you give me the latest numbers on the border.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
Absolutely, look the greatest president in my lifetime, he's back
because in two days, last twenty four hours, total apprehensions
on the Southwest border seven hundred and sixty six. Compare
that to the ten of twelve thousand Biden had at
one time. CBP one releases zero CHNVQBA hating Nicaraguo Benzewheeler
(11:52):
releases zero total of seven hundred and sixty six across.
Speaker 7 (11:56):
The entire Southwest border. That is a game changer.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
So only seven hundred and sixty six people even tried
to cross the border within sight of these border patrol agents.
And as he said, during the Biden time, it was
ten to twelve thousand a day. Most people in Central
and South America are not even attempting to cross the border.
They got the message, they heard it. And see that's
the most important thing, not only the roundups going on
(12:24):
and the arrests of the criminals, it's the deterrence factor
is tremendous. And it shows you how easy it was,
how quick it was. We didn't have to spend an
extra dollar on this. For all of Biden trying to
distract from the issue by saying, well, we needed Congress
to approve of funding. Yeah, somewhere down the road, yes,
(12:44):
But in the moment, all he had to do was
sign the paperwork authorizing the border patrol or directing the
border patrol to do what it's exactly done in two days.
In two days, they got the number of apprehensions down
from the over ten thousand some months ago now to
seven sixty six. And here in this clip he tells
(13:05):
Lawrence Jones and Fox just how many how many criminals
were arrested in the last twenty four hours.
Speaker 8 (13:12):
What would a person have to do to get a
visit from Ice.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
Being the country illegally? First of all, I mean, there's
nothing in the immigration law says you got to be
convicted of a serious crime to be removed under the INA.
So if the being the country illegally, ICE CONVISI you.
But right now, as we said repeatedly, the President trust
been clear, we're concentrating on the worst first, the public
safety threats, and that's security threats. And just yesterday, in
(13:37):
the last twenty four hours, I rusted over three hundred
and eight three hundred and eight serious criminals. Some of
them were murderers, some of them were rapists, some of
them raped the child, some were a sexual sullivant child.
So ICE is doing their job. They're prioritizing just as
the President said they would. So the ICE is performing
excellent right now out in the field, and they're going
to continue every day.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
I'd like to know when he says murder some rapists,
did they commit those crimes here or in their home countries?
Had they been arrested but out on bail? Have they
been convicted? And somehow weaseled out of out of jail
because of George Gascone style. District attorneys interested to find
out about that. Laurence Jones from Fox asked home in here,
(14:21):
what is the next step to keep the.
Speaker 7 (14:24):
Cust next option on the table to get more safety
in this country.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
Well, D D Will Will They're going they're going to
assistances on the boarder. They already started on that plan,
so we won't have some military on the border. We're
going to continue building infrastructure, were continue building the wall.
As far as the interior enforcement, we're going to keep
looking for the worst first and look saying story cities,
I've said this many times, let us into the jail.
We're it's safer for an agent to rest the bad guy.
(14:49):
It's safer for the bad guy to be rested in
the jail, and it's safer for the community if when
you release the public sainty back in the community, that
for the communitate great risks crime and it puts our
officers at great risk. And now they've got arrested bad
guy in his church if he has access to who
knows what weapons, and it puts a public at risk.
You know, for God's sakes, these anxious cities, you know,
(15:11):
let us into your jail. We're just trying to help
public safety in your community. Help work with us because
you forced us in the community. Here's what going to happen.
We'll find a bad guy, but when we find him,
he's gonna be with others, others that may not be
a criminal priority. But guess what if during the United
States leave me, They're gonna be arrested to So sanctuary
City is gonna get exactly what they don't want, more
agents in the communities, more people arrested, more claud was arrested.
(15:35):
So that's the game they want to play game on.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
I am astonished when you hear somebody lay out exactly
what this This sanctuary city, our sanctuary state philosophy is about.
Remember our state, Gavin Newsom, and our city and here
in Los Angeles will not let Ice come into the
(15:59):
jails in prison and grab the illegal aliens. They will
not let Ice know that, hey, we have some of
the guys you want, and these are felons, violent felons
in some cases. Instead you let them go, maybe on bail,
maybe because you can't. I mean, they were letting people
(16:22):
out of jail in prison just to let them out.
But what happens then they go back to some crummy
Rundown apartment building. That apartment building is filled with dozens,
hundreds of people. These guys are living with others, and
now Ice has to enter. You could easily end up
(16:43):
in a gunfight ice agentsert risk, the criminal himself could
get killed, anybody that he's living with in that apartment,
anybody in that apartment building or walking by on the
street could end up getting a bullet somewhere. Why would
you do that? How responsible and stupid is it for
Gavin Newsom to have a sanctuary state policy that puts
(17:07):
more people at risk of getting caught in a firefight
instead of just calmly walking into a jailer prison and
apprehending the criminal illegal alien. That's what a normal person
would do. But a whack job who's married to this
weird religious like philosophy that illegal aliens can't be touched
(17:29):
no matter what they've done either here in their home country,
no matter what the charge is absolutely crazy and I
can't believe we put up with this stupid concept all
these years. Here's another one is Arizona Attorney General, a
woman named Chris Bays. She's way out progressive and she said,
I will have I will also will not have any
(17:52):
part of and will fight the attempt to set up
what I believe are essentially concentration camps and family set
operation camps in the state of Arizona. And Hulban went
nuts over that. He says, concentration camps, ICE has detention centers.
We just lost a Border Patrol agent who was shooting
in Vermont yesterday, and they're the Gestapo. The detention centers
(18:16):
have the best standards in the entire industry. I'll compare
ICE detention centers in any state or federal facility or
any county facility in the entire world. We have the
highest detention standards. So that's an insult, and that's a lie.
And that's what these whack job progressives do standing up
to protect violent criminals who are here illegally. That's what
(18:38):
they do. That's their constituency. That's why they got into office,
to protect them and let us be the victims of
their violence. Absolutely, a Newsom is part of this crowd.
So is Karen Bass. They all, they all signed sanctuary
city laws, embraced them, four to five them if necessary,
(19:03):
preach publicly about them. They're insane people. They are mentally unwell.
If you would decide that you're going to side with
criminal aliens, violent criminal aliens and not let the federal
government take them away, and not help the federal government
take them away, and you're absolutely off your rocker. You
(19:24):
should not be in office. Just another set of reasons
as if you know do some in bass didn't do
enough damage with their fire policies or lack of fire policies.
Here's what they're doing on the side, helping to protect
illegal alien criminals. Oh, this is going to be some
year coming up.
Speaker 8 (19:43):
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A lot is happening in the Castaic area. The Hues
fire near Lake Hughes is over five thousand and fifty acres.
(20:10):
It is a massive blaze, huge flames and lots of thick,
dark smoke. It's covering a wide area long, a long
snake of fire in the hills, and thousands of people
are being evacuated already, and it's quite a sight if
you can get near a television screen. And we're supposed
(20:31):
to have windy weather, very windy weather for the rest
of the afternoon at least, and we've got the news
department on top of this and they'll break in when
there's anything new. And we opened the show, we were
talking about the fire, and then Tom Holman on Fox
(20:53):
News he's the borders are and he was detailing just
how many arrests they got accomplished four hours of criminal
illegal aliens, many cases violent criminals, and how how much
they cut the traffic at the border, where during the
worst of Joe Biden's days, there were ten to twelve
(21:14):
thousand people apprehended at the border and most of them
given a chance to apply for asylum. Yesterday it was
seven hundred and sixty six people. This is how deterrence works.
There are a lot of people not only self deporting,
but thousands and thousands are not making the trip anymore
to the Mexican border because most of the people who
(21:38):
made it to the border during the Biden days and
applied for asylum, they'll be denied asylum. They don't qualify.
They're not in danger, they're not being oppressed, they're not
being attacked for some reason. They just wanted to come
here because they wanted to come here, And you can't
have an immigration policy based on that, or we're going
(21:58):
to blow up to about two billion people. Now to
tie both issues together, the fire and the funding needed
to clean up after the fire and the illegal alien issue.
This story out of the La Times, Trump signed an
(22:21):
executive order that directs federal officials to make sure that
sanctuary jurisdictions which try to interfere with the lawful exercise
of federal law enforcement operations do not receive access to
federal funds. Now, the LA City Council approved another sanctuary
(22:42):
city law back in November forbidding city employees and resources
from being involved in federal immigration enforcement. If they interfere
in some way, they'll lose funding. The city officials are claiming, no, no, no,
we just said we're not going to help. You can't
(23:06):
force a city or a county or a state to help.
But if the city, county, or state gets in the
way under this directive, they'll lose federal funds. And so
you are going to see if there's any lovers of
criminal illegal aliens. You are not going to see any
(23:27):
La or California official resist the roundups that are coming,
the rest that are coming, because if just one city
official gets in the way somehow you could see your
city or county or the whole state lose federal funding.
(23:47):
And those are the kind of strings that have to
be attached because what if they get in the way,
they're violating federal law. And what I want to see
in Homan has promised he'll do this if any estate
or local officials do get in the way in a
visible way, but they get arrested because it's illegal to
(24:09):
harbor an illegal alien. That's not too redundant. The writer
of this, Hugo Soda Martinez, he's the city council member
who wrote this idiotic sanctuary of law. He's the one
who's claiming that they're not going to interfere with federal law.
(24:31):
It's just that city resources and staff are not used
to collaborate with immigration authorities. How you know, as Hugosda
Martinez represents a district near downtown LA or Hollywood, I
think Hollywood, and it's really dirty, filthy district. Somebody posted
(24:53):
a video on Instagram the other day that I saw
they did a walking tour of Hugo Soda Martinez his
district in hollyw Would you wouldn't believe the amount of garbage. Yeah,
I just was overwhelmed. The guys who are shooting the
video were overwhelmed as well. It is so disgusting. And
that's just another aspect of what we pay for in
(25:16):
Los Angeles we don't get. You know, We're way underfunded
for fire, way underfunded for police, apparently way underfunded for sanitation,
for just basically cleaning up garbage unless the workers are
just not bothering anymore. And the ironic thing, And I
(25:38):
you know, I don't have time to do an in
depth study on this, but why is it the people
who live in some of the most crime prone neighborhoods
or garbage strewn neighborhoods vote for a clown like Hugo
Soda Martinez who apparently has no problem with the crime,
no problem with the illegal alien underground economy that clots
(26:01):
up the streets in his district, and no problem with
the filth in the garbage. I like, why did he
run to represent the district when he does nothing to
ease the crime, nothing to ease the invasion of all
the illegal aliens, nothing to ease the amount of garbage
piling up on the streets in his district, And why
(26:22):
do people vote for this. It's just it's just overwhelming.
Of course, these all these stupid sanctuary laws were started
by Eric Garcetti, and the amount of damage that Garcetti
(26:43):
did to the city in nine and a half years
cannot be quantified. But he was another one. I didn't
understand why. I didn't understand how he got reelected, and
it was that second term, which they extended to five
and a half years to align with an election schedule
that was consistent with the rest of the state. He
ended up getting five and a half years in his
(27:04):
second term. And wow, you know, if he had nuked
the place, it would have done less damage. I'm going
to continue coming up.
Speaker 8 (27:14):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Today I went on my wife, Deborah Cobelt her podcast,
it's called Deborah Cobelt Live. To make sure I get
the title right, Deborah Cobelt Live. It's already up on YouTube,
so go watch it. She and I talked about the fires,
and we talked about the incoming Trump administration. We recorded
it this morning and it's out there already on YouTube
(27:41):
Deborah Cobelt Live, and enjoy it now. In the present moment,
Daniel Guss is reporting that the City of Los Angeles
appears to be broke. And Gus says that for one
hundred and eighty days, LA will get one hundred percent
(28:05):
reimbursement for all their fire expenses. One hundred percent reimbursement
to LA for six months. But as he was looking
over the statements, there was one council member, Monica Rodriguez,
was discussing how all these expenses is going to impact
(28:27):
something called prioritized hiring, and Gus was wondering, what is that?
What is prioritized hiring? And he also noticed that the
city must front the money for these expenses and then
get reimbursement from the federal government. But they don't have
any money. They might have to take a loan first
(28:50):
to pay for the fire expenses and then submit an
expense sheet to the federal government. Because they're already borrowing
tens of millions of dollars to pay injury settlements for
the cracked sidewalks all over the city. So many people
have sued because they never fixed the sidewalks for like
twenty years. So now they're borrowing money for those settlements,
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and now they're going to have to borrow money to
pay for the fire expenses and then hope the FEDS
reimburse them properly. Meantime, Monica Rodriguez wants to hire more
people I don't know to do. What if it's not
police and it's not fire, then they shouldn't be hiring
anybody to do anything, probably to reinforce the DEI office.
(29:36):
Speaking of the federal DEI offices are going to close
for good in about seven minutes. Right, it's five o'clock
Eastern time, in seven minutes two o'clock our time. And
Trump issued an executive order that all the DEI government
employees go on paid leave. Well, that's not going to
make a difference, because they're all home anyway, and they're
(29:57):
all getting paid, and they're they must be doing nothing,
because when you work at a DEI office, Wait a second,
if you work at home for a DEI agency, what
is it that you do exactly? How come there's never
been an investigation into that racket? What do DEI employees
do when they work at home? Make sure there's enough
(30:20):
equal spoons and knives and forks, and they do they
change into work robes and fuzzy slippers, Like, do they
have their robe and fuzzy slippers when they're lounging in
their off time and then you know, nine o'clock hits
and it's work time, they put on their formal robes
and fuzzy slippers. I don't know one quickie here before
(30:43):
Debra does the news raised not in today, otherwise I
would be taunting him. They arrested two guys in San
Bernardino County of operating for operating a cockfighting ring involving
more than two hundred roosters.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Isn't that awful?
Speaker 1 (31:01):
You see this thing? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (31:02):
I talked about that yesterday. I guess you missed it.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Uh, I guess I missed because I don't work for
the government in the DII department, all right, I got
a job here. I know it gets They they it
was an illegal cockfighting ring. Well, of course it's an
illegal it's not there's no legal cockfighting rings avenue E
and u Kaipa. That must be a nice neighborhood. When
decbutes arrived, fifty vehicles fifty vehicles were at the house
(31:29):
and they all jumped in and tried to drive away.
You know, Tom Holman might want to pay a visit
to this neighborhood. I think avenue E and u Kaipa
would be a good place for one of Holman's raids
because you have a bunch of criminals here. Who are
I mean they tie razor blades to the rooster's legs, right.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Can you explain to me why people get off on that.
I mean, seriously, I really don't understand what you could
possibly what enjoyment to see these roosters.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
They bet, They bet on the roosters.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
Let's find something else to bet on.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
This is what guys do.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
No, you know what? You know what I'm going to say.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
What those people that are arrested tie raisors to each
other and then throw them in a ring where they
can't get out, and let them go at it and
see how it feel.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
You'll bet on them. One of the drivers started to
speed his car towards a police officer a police unit
and the deputy had to dodge the car and we
ended up with the police pursuit. They ended up arresting
the driver in three others. Six roosters were found in
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the cargo of the car. Thirty three spectators were at
the cockfight. Two hundred and fifty roosters, along with a
fighting ring, a scoreboard, a scoreboards, and steal talents which
I guess they were attaching to the rooster's legs. They
found another guy named Carlos Romero hiding inside a truck.
(33:01):
He had seven more roosters with him. They found some
money and a semi automatic handgun. And seriously, they ought
to do an immigration round up on this block, in
this neighborhood. They did a search wart on the property,
found all kinds of steel talons, two dozen firearms. They
(33:25):
red tagged the buildings, including a trailer, and they found
seventeen dead roosters, eight live roosters, and they found sixty
one roosters tagged in boxes.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
In boxes and boxes. This is so cruel, inhumane.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
It's a huge operation. I know, this is what's going on.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
We throw all these people in prison and throw away
the keys.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
This is what's going on in Kaipa. And that's that's
on a Tuesday afternoon, I know.
Speaker 4 (33:51):
Can you imagine what they do on a Saturday night.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
But really, all right, when we come back, we're going
to talk about We touched on this briefly yesterday at
the end of the show when the story broke. What
the hell happened? What the La County is going to
be on the hot seat now. La City got a
lot of roasting for the bad response by the government
(34:14):
with the Palisades fire, but Out to Dina was really
bad as well. La County was nine hours late in
issuing a warning to Western out toa Dina and seventeen
people died in that fire. Why was it nine hours late?
What's wrong with the warning system? Talk about it? Coming
up Debra Mark Live in the CAFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey,
(34:37):
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