January 24, 2025 • 32 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (01/24) - Alex Stone comes on the show to talk about the rain coming to SoCal and Pres. Trump's visit to SoCal. Records show that LA County missed multiple opportunities to improve water infrastructure that would have helped fight the recent fires. More on LA's lackluster response to the fires. The feds have arrested 538 criminal illegal immigrants.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
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what you missed, and we have a lot of fascinating
stuff today. We are going to have Rick Caruso coming
on at two thirty. There's also a poll that says
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if there was an election today, Caruso would get significantly
more votes than Karen Bass. The people were in a
sour mood, and we're going to talk to him about
what needs to be done to get the palisades built
up more quickly they would normally happen, and to talk
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about this some of the huge mistakes made by the
government in their preparations. So that's all ahead. We're also
going to talk with Owen Brennan, president of Madison McQueen.
That's the company that commissioned the poll. So that's that's
coming up.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
By first. Trump is landing in.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Los Angeles about three point thirty and is going to
take a tour of the Palisades, and we have Alex
Stone on the case. ABC News correspondent here on KFI
Alex God, Yeah, he's inbound right now, coming in from
Ashville Air Force One. He is flying here and they're
going to be landing in about two hours or so,
and then he's gonna chop her over to the Santa
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Monic area and then go on to Pacific Palisades. And
we know he's going to be on the ground in
the burn zone for about two hours before he heads
out to Vegas. He's going to meet with fire victims,
first responders, political leaders. One of those political leaders we
now know will be Governor Newsom, the two being political foes.
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The Newsom is going to greet him at lax.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
And there were questions until half an hour or so
ago because Newsom was not invited to any of this.
His name is not on any the attendee list. And
Newsom said yesterday, well, they hadn't been talking to anybody.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
I haven't we haven't had any contact with the White House.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
And it still appears he's not invited to the stops
that President Trump is going to be making. You know,
we've seen on a lot of these lists where you go, okay,
there's a lot of Democrats on here, White sides, it's
on here, Karen bass is on here.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
No Gavin Newsom. But what he gotta stalk.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Trump, Well, he made it seem that, no matter what,
he's going to be at Lax to greet him and
the cree there. So the governor's office put out a
statement in the last half an hour saying, in consultation
with the White House, he will be greeting President Trump.
So we assume that they have come to some kind
of an agreement where at least at Lax he'll be
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there as governors typically are as. Trump comes down the
stairs and the governor Newsom will be there, but not
go to these briefings and meetings Pacific Palisades. But you
got to remember these two had kind of a weird
romance a couple of years ago during the Palisades fire
and the wolves he and COVID and Newsom is saying
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he wants to get back to that with Trump. That
you remember that Trump even praised Newsom a little bit
at one time. He was talking fairly highly up until
the last couple of years with the Biden in office,
that he would talk somewhat highly of Newsom. They were
kind of buddy buddy. It was a little weird because
then they would.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Trash talk each other at other times, but talk about
how much that they were getting along.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
So he is saying. Newsom is saying he wants to
get back to that.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
We had a great relationship during COVID, well established, well defined.
I don't think there was a democratic governor in the
country that worked more collaborative with the President United States.
That's my mindset when it comes to mergencies and disasters.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
So we'll see how this goes. Today.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Apparently he's going to be at Lax, Newsom will be
and then it does not appear that he's going to
go into Pacific Palisades for the meetings with the President,
But we'll see. And Newsom Osco John is not liking
that President Trump today was saying that, and he's been
kind of hinting at this last couple of days, threatening
withholding emergency aid if voter ID rules don't change in
California and if water rules don't change that. Newsom is
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arguing that during an emergency shouldn't be contingent on politics.
But either way, the President will be on the ground
in about two hours. He's gonna go over to the
Pacific Palisades, look around, meet with the fire victims and
the firefighters, and then he's out of here.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Is he going out to Diana?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
No, not unless there's some surprise, nothing on the schedule
going down to Dina.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
All right, Uh, well we'll maybe we'll talk later. You
got it?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
All right, he's going to be touring, he's gonna be
landing what about three thirty, and then quickly going off
to Pacific Palisades. You know, putting all these random h
I said, I don't take Trump seriously like a lot
of people, do they They Oh my god, there's gonna
be strings attached. That's in humane, that's terrible. Oh he
wants he wants voter ID and it's he put all
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that aside because that's Trump, just says stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Right.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
What he should do this is if this is what
I would demand, is look how much money Newsom and
Bass have wasted on everything else, and know that if
you promise X billions of dollars to them, unless there's
extreme oversight by the Trump administration, that money is going
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to get squandered. And there's three easy examples, and we've
talked about them all many times. But there's the there's
the twenty four million dollars in state homeless money that
Newsom admitted they lost track of. They don't know exactly
where it went, and they don't know if anything worked.
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That's twenty four million. There's thirty to fifty million. They
couldn't track this exactly either. When when COVID happened and
they had federal money for unemployment benefits, much of that
money was accessed by fraudsters. Newsom did not have any
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security measures place to make sure that the people applying
for the money and getting the checks really were California citizens.
Eighty five percent of the fraudulent payouts went to people
living out of the country. Now, now that's thirty to
fifty billion.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
All right.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
So now at the low end of things, we're talking
fifty four billion wasted. Add another ten to fifteen billion
high speed rail. Now you're up to about sixty five
billion conservatively, conservatively a lot more. When somebody blows sixty
five billion dollars some of its state money, some of
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its federal money, and can't tell you where the money
went because when they do the high speed rail audits,
they found out that the trail went cold. It's like, yeah,
they spent the money, but we don't know who it
went to, let alone weather did any good. So you
have three big examples there, sixty five billion dollars. So
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I wouldn't give do some the money. He's like your
smarmy brother in law who's got a gambling problem and
a drinking problem and a drug problem and can't hold
a job. Yeah, he hits you up for a five
hundred here and a thousand there. At some point it's like, buddy,
that's it. I'm not giving you any more money. Newsom
cannot handle money. He's not responsible. You might have somebody
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in your family, you might have a kid where you
just don't finance them because they don't take care of money. Well,
and that's what you have with Newsom, and it's our money.
So I'm all for Trump sequestering the money in a
way so that Newsom and Karen Bass. His Karen Bass
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has spent so much money that La is actually insolvent.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
It's broke.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
She gave away the store and employee salaries and benefits,
and they're gonna have to borrow money to deal with
the fire before the federal government reimburses them. They don't
have any cash lying around. So Newsom and Bass are
financial disasters. You can go look it up yourself. It's true,
and I wouldn't trust them, but you know they're going
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to be asking for god knows how many billions of dollars.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
You can't. You can't give it to them. I don't
know who to give it to.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Be nice that they both resigned and somebody intelligent and
responsible took over the city in the state. But all right,
more coming up when we come back, we're going to
talk about, Well, we're gonna we're gonna talk about how
little La was prepared, was prepared. Excuse me, I have
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a very irritated system. Uh, oh, well I told you
what this is.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
My system is irritated from all the smoke and dirt
on my side of town. Yeah, and the allergens from
the winds and the three percent humidity.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
I don't do well with with sant Ana wins and
I'm wheezing.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
I don't actually have a cold. I have all this
discomfort in my system. You better not have a cold,
because I don't want to get sick. And it's all
about you, it is, It is all about me. That's right,
I know, you know.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Anyway, we'll get to all the things that the city
was told that they should have done for years and
years and years and never did to deal with a
fire of this magnitude, to deal with the water issues
that they had during the fire. This has been documented
for many years. Everybody who's run the city just didn't
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do anything about it. And I'll tell you about it. It
was in the LA Times today, extensive story.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
That's next.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Later on, Rick Caruso is coming on, and we're also
going to talk to a polster who released a poll
today some polsters do, which shows that Caruso would beat
by about seven points if there was an election today.
It looks like it took a fire, and it took
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six thousand homes burning to finally shake people up in
LA County that maybe we ought to do something different.
We'll get to that later on. Now Los Angeles Times,
and I will give credit to the LA Times. Last
couple of weeks, between two extensive stories on the empty
reservoir and then this one today, they are digging out
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the truth and some people get uncomfortable when they hear
this truth. But I told you this is the department
of blame, fingerpointing, Monday morning quarterbacking, and there was a
fourth department I forgot. But those departments are operating full
blast here because the only way to change things is
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to make life uncomfortable for those who were either negligent
or made stupid decisions. So we're gonna name names, and
we're gonna tell you specifically what they did wrong.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
You're not going to believe this.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
This is Connor Sheets wrote this story, and he writes
Records show that La County missed dozens of opportunities for
what are infrastructure improvements that would have likely helped firefighters
during the Palisades fire.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Dozens dozens, twenty.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Four, thirty six, forty eight didn't get a specific number here.
Some of the long delayed projects were specifically aimed at
improving fireflow, actually the water flow to put out fires,
and ensuring enough water during emergencies. One county official said
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the water system performed as designed, but the design was
way inadequate for modern life and real wildfires. I bet
you everybody in the Palisades and in Ballibu had no
idea that a water system that would make it easy
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to fight a wildfire didn't exist because the idiots that
have run this city and county for decades never built it.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
That's the truth.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
And not only did they never built they never built
the thing even though various commissions and investigations and recommendations
were made to saying, hey, you need this and that,
and nobody did anything about it. I saw a graphic
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somebody was going through the federal budget and Biden administration
spent in one year a trillion dollars on climate change programs.
Climate change programs, trillion dollars. I'd like to see how
many climate change programs we wasted enormous amounts of money
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here in La City and county, and also how many
DEI programs we wasted money on, how much we wasted
on excess salary for government workers. We waste a lot
of money. And it's about directing the money to the
most important needs of our town. Thousands of pages of state, county,
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and municipal records reviewed by the Times, thousands of pages
said the disaster was years in the making. Red tape,
budget shortfalls, government and action repeatedly stymied plans for water
system improvements, including some that specifically cited the need to
boost firefighting capacity. So you people were living happily in
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the Palisades, happily in Malibu, having no idea. You had
an antiquated system built in the middle of the last
century or well before, and it was rotting away. Yeah,
the system's underground, it's out of sight. And you trusted
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LA County supervisors or LA City council people to keep
the system, make it larger, bring it up to date, and.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
They failed you.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Whoever you voted for repeatedly for decades wasn't interested in it. Literally,
they didn't care if you died in a fire. They
didn't care. That's the only conclusion.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
I know. It sounds harsh, but it's true.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Otherwise they'd spend the money they do the construction, because
what's the consequence for not spending the money and doing
the doing the construction. You die in a fire. And
we had some of that. Many projects are on a
list of about three dozen highest priority upgrades compiled by
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county officials in twenty thirteen. They have yet to break ground.
This is twelve years later. Highest priority twelve years later,
and they've yet to break round. The County wrote that
the upgrades would achieve critical goals, including the ensuring that
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the system had enough water to meet fireflow needs. You
know what, The cost was only fifty seven million dollars.
Fifty seven million, you've heard what the estimates of the
damage are two hundred and fifty billion.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
For petties.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
They could have built a system that would have mitigated
some of the damage, maybe not everything, but some of it,
and they wouldn't spend your tax money on upgrading the system.
They had plans to build tanks that would have provided
more than a million gallons of water in Malibou and
Topanga left on the drawing board. Replacements of aging and
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severely deteriorated water tanks were postponed, along with upgrades to
pumping stations and leak prone water lines. The water system
is run by the DWP. No, this water system is
run by the DPW, the county Department of Public Works.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
I'll tell you more about this.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
This was quite a story worth reading if you can
get into the La Times. Quite shocking how people in
elected officials in La County don't care if you die
in a fire.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
You're listening to John Cobels on Demand from KFI A
six forty.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Coming up at two o'clock.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
We're going to talk with Owen Brennan, president of Madison McQueen.
This is a company that commissioned to poll who do
you want if you're an LA voter, you want Rick
Caruso or Karen Bass.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
He asked.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Eleven hundred people will tell you what the outcome is.
And then we're going to have ricos on after two
thirty to talk about a number of things, obvious things.
How quickly this is going to how quickly can they
start rebuilding? And what we have here is a disaster
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years in the making. According to the Los Angeles Times
that LA County missed dozens of opportunities for water infrastructure improvements, dozens.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
And.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
They would various commissions would draw up lists of projects
that you need to have. La was always growing, always
sprawling out, and you had this antiquated system. And if
I mean my house wasn't affected by the fire. And
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I'm furious because this lack of water infrastructure affects everybody,
everybody in the city and county. They have not spent
the money in decades to upgrade the system.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
What did they spend it on the other day. I
told you you want local government.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
To provide you with police on fire, and transmit water
and transmit power. Those are top four things for modern civilization.
An LA city in La County fail at all that miserably,
even though they have billions and billions and billions of
dollars in tax money, and these water projects weren't even
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that expensive. That's what really really is is heartbreaking. If
they spent just a little bit of money, they could
have saved many more homes. They'll never admit it. I
see quotes in all these stories. I'm not sure that
would have made a difference. Yes it would. You still
have people trying to say one hundred and seventeen million
gallons of water from the dry reservoir wouldn't have made
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a difference. Yes it would. People aren't idiots. They know
one hundred and seventeen million gallons would have put.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Out somebody's house. God, I can't believe.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
And then you got people writing columns in the La
Times along along those lines, what's wrong with you?
Speaker 1 (19:34):
One hundred and seventeen million gallons.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Oh, it wouldn't have done anything. Oh my god, just
get out of the business. And like a lot of
people should just get out of the business of journalism, media,
get out of the business and government because you just stink,
you just lie, or you're stupid. I don't know which.
So let me continue with all these upgrades. I told
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you there were three dozen highest priority upgrades compiled by
the county in twenty thirteen, and.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
A lot of the projects they never broke around on.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
From twelve years ago, they were going to build tanks
that would have provided another million gallons of water in
Malibou and to Panga.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Never did it.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Replacements of aging and severely deteriorated water tanks postponed. Now
I looked up to see who the La County supervisor
has been in that district, the third district, and it's
Lindsey Horvath now, who's a far left wing progressive nut.
And the woman before her was somebody we've kicked all
over the place for years, Sheila cule Shit.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
I mean, this is.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
What I and people voted for her repeatedly, Sheila Kle
And before that, zev Yaroslavsky, one of the biggest, most
incomp did blowhards that I've ever dealt with. And his
daughter in law now is an LA City council and
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Zev R. Slavsky once hung up on us some years ago.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Why what did you do to insult him?
Speaker 2 (21:12):
I just called him?
Speaker 1 (21:14):
What you just you called him? What you just called him?
Speaker 2 (21:16):
I don't remember, I don't recall your honor. I remember, though.
What it was about is that I said, why are
you spending money on X? You should be spending money
on why? And he got really mad because I was right,
he was wrong, and he goes, well, well, why don't
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you run for office and.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
You do the budget? And hung up.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Okay, I should run for office and do the budget
because you apparently can't add or you can't put together
proper priorities.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Zev. Let me say, I'm looking at this thing.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
He was elected in ninety four, twenty fourteen, so twenty years,
twenty years, and it covers the period that the La
Times has been discussing where there were dozens of these
water projects for Pacific Palisades in Malibu and they never
never got off the ground. The money was never spent
and nothing was ever built. And he was the supervisor.
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I haven't heard him talk in the last three weeks. Zev,
what were you doing? What did you spend the money on?
Because the amounts of small potatoes compared to the two
hundred and fifty billion dollars worth of damages. Then they
have this county public Works director quoted named Mark Bistrella.
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He's trying to say that the water system performed as designed.
It just was only built to supply enough water to
fight fires in individual homes or structures, not massive wildfires.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Well, let me go back to zeb Raslovsky.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Why didn't you Why didn't you spend the money on
a water system that would deal with wired wildfires. Palisades
is built in wildfire land, as is all the other
cities on the foot in the foothills, on both sides
of the Santa Monica Mountains.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Nobody.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
It means we're all still exposed in all these towns.
You go from the Palisades to Brent went to bel Air,
to Westwood, to Beverly Hills, to Hollywood, West Hollywood, out
to Lost Phelis at the uh anything in the hills,
and on the other side, Studio City in Sherman Oaks,
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and Ensino in Tarzana and Woodland Hills. They never upgraded
the water system on both sides of the mountain.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
We've had wildfires since for decades and decades. What did
sevier O Scott?
Speaker 2 (23:50):
And this is exactly the kind of argument I had
with him when he hung up. You spend money on
stupid stuff, you don't prioritize the right thing. How could
you not prioritize fire and water projects? How do you
do that? It's police, fire, water and power. Just do
those Costrella said that they had a a that list
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in twenty thirteen. Wasn't a promise to build, it's a
master plan. Well, but when the cost became an issue,
it kept getting delayed.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Why was there a cost? This cost we're looking.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
At the thirteen upgrades on the list was fifty nine million,
again compared to two hundred and fifty billion in damage.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Here's one the.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
A pipe to connect to the Las Virgines Water District
were to cost four million dollars. Never built four million dollars.
And then Pastrella was blaming the people in Malibu. The
community is not demanding it, he said, when asked by
so many projects failed to move forward.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
They're not pro development.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
They're still utilizing the water system as a way to
restrict development Malibu. That's the bottom line. That's why it's
not happening. At the pace it could happen at. He's saying,
every time they brought them an idea to upgrade the
water system, people didn't want to do it because then
they thought, well, that's going to bring more development, more
people are going to use it. So it's your fault
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if your house burned in the fire, it's your fault
if you died in the fire, or it's your neighbor's fault.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
He won't take no.
Speaker 6 (25:38):
No.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
I've yet to see a single person in government after
almost three weeks, I've yet to see one person take responsibility.
They're all fraid to because you know, there's probably gonna
be hundreds of lawsuits and and so they're they're all
going underground. And anyway, since when do you listen to
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a few ninnies who don't want development and use that
as an excuse for creating a dangerous situation for everybody.
There's a lot of anti police people in the world,
but you don't disband the police department because they don't
like it, although they tried a few years ago. You
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get the work done because it has to be done
for everybody's safety. You need the water system developed so
you can fight the fire. It doesn't matter if a
few people don't like it. Yes, and there's more in
this thing. You ought to read it. It's in the
La Times. Trump is going to be landing about three thirty.
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Rick Caruso's on our show at two thirty, and we're
gonna have a poster on at two o'clock. Who did
a series of questions? Versus Caruso? Who'd you vote for?
Tell you about that?
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Coming up?
Speaker 5 (26:58):
You're listening to John on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
I think I have smoke damage in my system. Are
you coughing again?
Speaker 2 (27:09):
It's very dry. My whole system is very dry. Owen
Brennan's coming on, President of Madison McQueen. That's a firm
that commissioned a poll. I'm going to tell you about
after Debra's news Bass versus Caruso, who do you want?
Tell you about the poul we'll talk to Owen Brennan.
Coming up, we gon spend a few minutes on the
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on the ice raids. As of this morning, according to
New York Post, the Feds have arrested five hundred thirty
eight criminal illegal aliens.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
They did that in what three days? Tuesday?
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Wednesday Thursday. They have arrested pedophiles, gang members, and a
suspected terrorist in New York. Now, these people are here
in Los Angeles, but Karen Bass wants.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
To protect them.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
These people are all over California, but Gavin Newsom wants
to protect them. Think about that digest that we told
you earlier this hour, that you had all these LA
City and county politicians who never ever bothered to spend
the money and build the water projects that were recommended
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that could have made a difference in the Palisades fire
and somebody's lost, six thousand homes and elet.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Of people died.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Now you have a governor and a mayor who do
not even want convicted violent criminals arrested by ice. They
don't want to help cooperate. Why is that we would
be wrong with Karen Bass that you wouldn't want pedophiles,
gang members, and suspected terrorists to be arrested.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
They had.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
They arrested five people just yesterday convicted of sexual crimes
against children. They arrested Gokhan Dreguzol from Turkey, a known
suspected terrorist. They also took in a known MS thirteen
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gang bang gang banger won Francisco Sanchez Contreras from al
Savador MS thirteen gang member living illegally in the United States.
Uh in Buffalo, Ice took three minute to custody Pedro
Julio Maha from Dominican Republic, previously previously convicted of sexual
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sexual conduct against the child. These people that Biden and
Kamala led into the country and kept him in the
country were sexually assaulting young children.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
And you may have voted for them.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Luis Alberto Espinoza Bocasaka from Ecuador convicted of rape.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
They nailed him in Buffalo.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Albert Mills from Canada, convicted of endangering the welfare of
a child criminal possession of stolen property.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Also nailed in Buffalo.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Two other individuals known to be members of South American gangs,
member of trend Uragua, the Venezuelan gang, Jose Mata Ribeci
and heyesus Alberto Baron Lavin, another Mexican national with the
gang Barrio Azteca. Why well and why do we have
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Gavin Newsom and Careen Bass not doing the work of
protecting and bonding from the fires to the fires, not
protecting us from the fires, not responding to the fires.
They were incompetent at that. But what they're really good
at is not cooperating with ICE to go after pedophiles,
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gang members and terrorists.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Why is that?
Speaker 2 (31:22):
And you keep voting for them? Listen to the Chicago
mayor here. This is Brandon Johnson on MSNBC, and he's
also defiant telling his people not to go along with
ICE's deportation.
Speaker 6 (31:37):
Listen to this not or find it unconscionable that this
administration would attempt to create not just a vision, but
fear within our public schools.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
I have directed all of.
Speaker 6 (31:48):
Our sister agencies, as well as all of our departments,
to stand firm and to uphold the local ordinance.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Terrorists, gang bangers, pedophiles, and Brandon Johnson is directing his
agencies not to cooperate with ICE so that the terrorist,
gang bangers and pedophiles can be protected and live freely
in his city. Not making it up. That's exactly what's
been going on for four years. When we come back,
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we're going to talk to It's hard to believe people's
brains freeze them. I guess they don't want to believe it.
It's so absurd and frightening. They just own Brandan's coming
on President of Madison McQueen. It's a polling firm that
had a poll on whether LA residents would want Rick
Caruso or Karen Bass.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
How did that turn out?
Speaker 2 (32:38):
We'll tell you after Debora Mark Live in the KFI
twenty four hour 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
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Can't. I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
We're on from one until four and if you miss
stuff after four o'clock, John Cobelt's show on demand on
the iHeart app. It's the podcast and you could hear
what you missed, and we have a lot of fascinating
stuff today. We are going to have Rick Caruso coming
on at two thirty. There's also a poll that says
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if there was an election today, Caruso would get significantly
more votes than Karen Bass. The people were in a
sour mood, and we're going to talk to him about
what needs to be done to get the palisades built
up more quickly they would normally happen, and to talk
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about this some of the huge mistakes made by the
government in their preparations. So that's all ahead. We're also
going to talk with Owen Brennan, president of Madison McQueen.
That's the company that commissioned the poll. So that's that's
coming up.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
By first. Trump is landing in.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Los Angeles about three point thirty and is going to
take a tour of the Palisades, and we have Alex
Stone on the case. ABC News correspondent here on KFI
Alex God, Yeah, he's inbound right now, coming in from
Ashville Air Force One. He is flying here and they're
going to be landing in about two hours or so,
and then he's gonna chop her over to the Santa
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Monic area and then go on to Pacific Palisades. And
we know he's going to be on the ground in
the burn zone for about two hours before he heads
out to Vegas. He's going to meet with fire victims,
first responders, political leaders. One of those political leaders we
now know will be Governor Newsom, the two being political foes.
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The Newsom is going to greet him at lax.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
And there were questions until half an hour or so
ago because Newsom was not invited to any of this.
His name is not on any the attendee list. And
Newsom said yesterday, well, they hadn't been talking to anybody.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
I haven't we haven't had any contact with the White House.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
And it still appears he's not invited to the stops
that President Trump is going to be making. You know,
we've seen on a lot of these lists where you go, okay,
there's a lot of Democrats on here, White sides, it's
on here, Karen bass is on here.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
No Gavin Newsom. But what he gotta stalk.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Trump, Well, he made it seem that, no matter what,
he's going to be at Lax to greet him and
the cree there. So the governor's office put out a
statement in the last half an hour saying, in consultation
with the White House, he will be greeting President Trump.
So we assume that they have come to some kind
of an agreement where at least at Lax he'll be
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there as governors typically are as. Trump comes down the
stairs and the governor Newsom will be there, but not
go to these briefings and meetings Pacific Palisades. But you
got to remember these two had kind of a weird
romance a couple of years ago during the Palisades fire
and the wolves he and COVID and Newsom is saying
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he wants to get back to that with Trump. That
you remember that Trump even praised Newsom a little bit
at one time. He was talking fairly highly up until
the last couple of years with the Biden in office,
that he would talk somewhat highly of Newsom. They were
kind of buddy buddy. It was a little weird because
then they would.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Trash talk each other at other times, but talk about
how much that they were getting along.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
So he is saying. Newsom is saying he wants to
get back to that.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
We had a great relationship during COVID, well established, well defined.
I don't think there was a democratic governor in the
country that worked more collaborative with the President United States.
That's my mindset when it comes to mergencies and disasters.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
So we'll see how this goes. Today.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Apparently he's going to be at Lax, Newsom will be
and then it does not appear that he's going to
go into Pacific Palisades for the meetings with the President,
But we'll see. And Newsom Osco John is not liking
that President Trump today was saying that, and he's been
kind of hinting at this last couple of days, threatening
withholding emergency aid if voter ID rules don't change in
California and if water rules don't change that. Newsom is
(04:02):
arguing that during an emergency shouldn't be contingent on politics.
But either way, the President will be on the ground
in about two hours. He's gonna go over to the
Pacific Palisades, look around, meet with the fire victims and
the firefighters, and then he's out of here.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Is he going out to Diana?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
No, not unless there's some surprise, nothing on the schedule
going down to Dina.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
All right, Uh, well we'll maybe we'll talk later. You
got it?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
All right, he's going to be touring, he's gonna be
landing what about three thirty, and then quickly going off
to Pacific Palisades. You know, putting all these random h
I said, I don't take Trump seriously like a lot
of people, do they They Oh my god, there's gonna
be strings attached. That's in humane, that's terrible. Oh he
wants he wants voter ID and it's he put all
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that aside because that's Trump, just says stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Right.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
What he should do this is if this is what
I would demand, is look how much money Newsom and
Bass have wasted on everything else, and know that if
you promise X billions of dollars to them, unless there's
extreme oversight by the Trump administration, that money is going
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to get squandered. And there's three easy examples, and we've
talked about them all many times. But there's the there's
the twenty four million dollars in state homeless money that
Newsom admitted they lost track of. They don't know exactly
where it went, and they don't know if anything worked.
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That's twenty four million. There's thirty to fifty million. They
couldn't track this exactly either. When when COVID happened and
they had federal money for unemployment benefits, much of that
money was accessed by fraudsters. Newsom did not have any
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security measures place to make sure that the people applying
for the money and getting the checks really were California citizens.
Eighty five percent of the fraudulent payouts went to people
living out of the country. Now, now that's thirty to
fifty billion.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
All right.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
So now at the low end of things, we're talking
fifty four billion wasted. Add another ten to fifteen billion
high speed rail. Now you're up to about sixty five
billion conservatively, conservatively a lot more. When somebody blows sixty
five billion dollars some of its state money, some of
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its federal money, and can't tell you where the money
went because when they do the high speed rail audits,
they found out that the trail went cold. It's like, yeah,
they spent the money, but we don't know who it
went to, let alone weather did any good. So you
have three big examples there, sixty five billion dollars. So
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I wouldn't give do some the money. He's like your
smarmy brother in law who's got a gambling problem and
a drinking problem and a drug problem and can't hold
a job. Yeah, he hits you up for a five
hundred here and a thousand there. At some point it's like, buddy,
that's it. I'm not giving you any more money. Newsom
cannot handle money. He's not responsible. You might have somebody
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in your family, you might have a kid where you
just don't finance them because they don't take care of money. Well,
and that's what you have with Newsom, and it's our money.
So I'm all for Trump sequestering the money in a
way so that Newsom and Karen Bass. His Karen Bass
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has spent so much money that La is actually insolvent.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
It's broke.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
She gave away the store and employee salaries and benefits,
and they're gonna have to borrow money to deal with
the fire before the federal government reimburses them. They don't
have any cash lying around. So Newsom and Bass are
financial disasters. You can go look it up yourself. It's true,
and I wouldn't trust them, but you know they're going
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to be asking for god knows how many billions of dollars.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
You can't. You can't give it to them. I don't
know who to give it to.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Be nice that they both resigned and somebody intelligent and
responsible took over the city in the state. But all right,
more coming up when we come back, we're going to
talk about, Well, we're gonna we're gonna talk about how
little La was prepared, was prepared. Excuse me, I have
(08:44):
a very irritated system. Uh, oh, well I told you
what this is.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
My system is irritated from all the smoke and dirt
on my side of town. Yeah, and the allergens from
the winds and the three percent humidity.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
I don't do well with with sant Ana wins and
I'm wheezing.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
I don't actually have a cold. I have all this
discomfort in my system. You better not have a cold,
because I don't want to get sick. And it's all
about you, it is, It is all about me. That's right,
I know, you know.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Anyway, we'll get to all the things that the city
was told that they should have done for years and
years and years and never did to deal with a
fire of this magnitude, to deal with the water issues
that they had during the fire. This has been documented
for many years. Everybody who's run the city just didn't
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do anything about it. And I'll tell you about it. It
was in the LA Times today, extensive story.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
That's next.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Later on, Rick Caruso is coming on, and we're also
going to talk to a polster who released a poll
today some polsters do, which shows that Caruso would beat
by about seven points if there was an election today.
It looks like it took a fire, and it took
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six thousand homes burning to finally shake people up in
LA County that maybe we ought to do something different.
We'll get to that later on. Now Los Angeles Times,
and I will give credit to the LA Times. Last
couple of weeks, between two extensive stories on the empty
reservoir and then this one today, they are digging out
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the truth and some people get uncomfortable when they hear
this truth. But I told you this is the department
of blame, fingerpointing, Monday morning quarterbacking, and there was a
fourth department I forgot. But those departments are operating full
blast here because the only way to change things is
(10:52):
to make life uncomfortable for those who were either negligent
or made stupid decisions. So we're gonna name names, and
we're gonna tell you specifically what they did wrong.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
You're not going to believe this.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
This is Connor Sheets wrote this story, and he writes
Records show that La County missed dozens of opportunities for
what are infrastructure improvements that would have likely helped firefighters
during the Palisades fire.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Dozens dozens, twenty.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Four, thirty six, forty eight didn't get a specific number here.
Some of the long delayed projects were specifically aimed at
improving fireflow, actually the water flow to put out fires,
and ensuring enough water during emergencies. One county official said
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the water system performed as designed, but the design was
way inadequate for modern life and real wildfires. I bet
you everybody in the Palisades and in Ballibu had no
idea that a water system that would make it easy
(12:10):
to fight a wildfire didn't exist because the idiots that
have run this city and county for decades never built it.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
That's the truth.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
And not only did they never built they never built
the thing even though various commissions and investigations and recommendations
were made to saying, hey, you need this and that,
and nobody did anything about it. I saw a graphic
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somebody was going through the federal budget and Biden administration
spent in one year a trillion dollars on climate change programs.
Climate change programs, trillion dollars. I'd like to see how
many climate change programs we wasted enormous amounts of money
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here in La City and county, and also how many
DEI programs we wasted money on, how much we wasted
on excess salary for government workers. We waste a lot
of money. And it's about directing the money to the
most important needs of our town. Thousands of pages of state, county,
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and municipal records reviewed by the Times, thousands of pages
said the disaster was years in the making. Red tape,
budget shortfalls, government and action repeatedly stymied plans for water
system improvements, including some that specifically cited the need to
boost firefighting capacity. So you people were living happily in
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the Palisades, happily in Malibu, having no idea. You had
an antiquated system built in the middle of the last
century or well before, and it was rotting away. Yeah,
the system's underground, it's out of sight. And you trusted
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LA County supervisors or LA City council people to keep
the system, make it larger, bring it up to date, and.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
They failed you.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Whoever you voted for repeatedly for decades wasn't interested in it. Literally,
they didn't care if you died in a fire. They
didn't care. That's the only conclusion.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
I know. It sounds harsh, but it's true.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Otherwise they'd spend the money they do the construction, because
what's the consequence for not spending the money and doing
the doing the construction. You die in a fire. And
we had some of that. Many projects are on a
list of about three dozen highest priority upgrades compiled by
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county officials in twenty thirteen. They have yet to break ground.
This is twelve years later. Highest priority twelve years later,
and they've yet to break round. The County wrote that
the upgrades would achieve critical goals, including the ensuring that
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the system had enough water to meet fireflow needs. You
know what, The cost was only fifty seven million dollars.
Fifty seven million, you've heard what the estimates of the
damage are two hundred and fifty billion.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
For petties.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
They could have built a system that would have mitigated
some of the damage, maybe not everything, but some of it,
and they wouldn't spend your tax money on upgrading the system.
They had plans to build tanks that would have provided
more than a million gallons of water in Malibou and
Topanga left on the drawing board. Replacements of aging and
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severely deteriorated water tanks were postponed, along with upgrades to
pumping stations and leak prone water lines. The water system
is run by the DWP. No, this water system is
run by the DPW, the county Department of Public Works.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
I'll tell you more about this.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
This was quite a story worth reading if you can
get into the La Times. Quite shocking how people in
elected officials in La County don't care if you die
in a fire.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
You're listening to John Cobels on Demand from KFI A
six forty.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Coming up at two o'clock.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
We're going to talk with Owen Brennan, president of Madison McQueen.
This is a company that commissioned to poll who do
you want if you're an LA voter, you want Rick
Caruso or Karen Bass.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
He asked.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Eleven hundred people will tell you what the outcome is.
And then we're going to have ricos on after two
thirty to talk about a number of things, obvious things.
How quickly this is going to how quickly can they
start rebuilding? And what we have here is a disaster
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years in the making. According to the Los Angeles Times
that LA County missed dozens of opportunities for water infrastructure improvements, dozens.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
And.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
They would various commissions would draw up lists of projects
that you need to have. La was always growing, always
sprawling out, and you had this antiquated system. And if
I mean my house wasn't affected by the fire. And
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I'm furious because this lack of water infrastructure affects everybody,
everybody in the city and county. They have not spent
the money in decades to upgrade the system.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
What did they spend it on the other day. I
told you you want local government.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
To provide you with police on fire, and transmit water
and transmit power. Those are top four things for modern civilization.
An LA city in La County fail at all that miserably,
even though they have billions and billions and billions of
dollars in tax money, and these water projects weren't even
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that expensive. That's what really really is is heartbreaking. If
they spent just a little bit of money, they could
have saved many more homes. They'll never admit it. I
see quotes in all these stories. I'm not sure that
would have made a difference. Yes it would. You still
have people trying to say one hundred and seventeen million
gallons of water from the dry reservoir wouldn't have made
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a difference. Yes it would. People aren't idiots. They know
one hundred and seventeen million gallons would have put.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Out somebody's house. God, I can't believe.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
And then you got people writing columns in the La
Times along along those lines, what's wrong with you?
Speaker 1 (19:34):
One hundred and seventeen million gallons.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Oh, it wouldn't have done anything. Oh my god, just
get out of the business. And like a lot of
people should just get out of the business of journalism, media,
get out of the business and government because you just stink,
you just lie, or you're stupid. I don't know which.
So let me continue with all these upgrades. I told
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you there were three dozen highest priority upgrades compiled by
the county in twenty thirteen, and.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
A lot of the projects they never broke around on.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
From twelve years ago, they were going to build tanks
that would have provided another million gallons of water in
Malibou and to Panga.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Never did it.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Replacements of aging and severely deteriorated water tanks postponed. Now
I looked up to see who the La County supervisor
has been in that district, the third district, and it's
Lindsey Horvath now, who's a far left wing progressive nut.
And the woman before her was somebody we've kicked all
over the place for years, Sheila cule Shit.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
I mean, this is.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
What I and people voted for her repeatedly, Sheila Kle
And before that, zev Yaroslavsky, one of the biggest, most
incomp did blowhards that I've ever dealt with. And his
daughter in law now is an LA City council and
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Zev R. Slavsky once hung up on us some years ago.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Why what did you do to insult him?
Speaker 2 (21:12):
I just called him?
Speaker 1 (21:14):
What you just you called him? What you just called him?
Speaker 2 (21:16):
I don't remember, I don't recall your honor. I remember, though.
What it was about is that I said, why are
you spending money on X? You should be spending money
on why? And he got really mad because I was right,
he was wrong, and he goes, well, well, why don't
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you run for office and.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
You do the budget? And hung up.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Okay, I should run for office and do the budget
because you apparently can't add or you can't put together
proper priorities.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Zev. Let me say, I'm looking at this thing.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
He was elected in ninety four, twenty fourteen, so twenty years,
twenty years, and it covers the period that the La
Times has been discussing where there were dozens of these
water projects for Pacific Palisades in Malibu and they never
never got off the ground. The money was never spent
and nothing was ever built. And he was the supervisor.
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I haven't heard him talk in the last three weeks. Zev,
what were you doing? What did you spend the money on?
Because the amounts of small potatoes compared to the two
hundred and fifty billion dollars worth of damages. Then they
have this county public Works director quoted named Mark Bistrella.
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He's trying to say that the water system performed as designed.
It just was only built to supply enough water to
fight fires in individual homes or structures, not massive wildfires.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Well, let me go back to zeb Raslovsky.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Why didn't you Why didn't you spend the money on
a water system that would deal with wired wildfires. Palisades
is built in wildfire land, as is all the other
cities on the foot in the foothills, on both sides
of the Santa Monica Mountains.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Nobody.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
It means we're all still exposed in all these towns.
You go from the Palisades to Brent went to bel Air,
to Westwood, to Beverly Hills, to Hollywood, West Hollywood, out
to Lost Phelis at the uh anything in the hills,
and on the other side, Studio City in Sherman Oaks,
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and Ensino in Tarzana and Woodland Hills. They never upgraded
the water system on both sides of the mountain.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
We've had wildfires since for decades and decades. What did
sevier O Scott?
Speaker 2 (23:50):
And this is exactly the kind of argument I had
with him when he hung up. You spend money on
stupid stuff, you don't prioritize the right thing. How could
you not prioritize fire and water projects? How do you
do that? It's police, fire, water and power. Just do
those Costrella said that they had a a that list
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in twenty thirteen. Wasn't a promise to build, it's a
master plan. Well, but when the cost became an issue,
it kept getting delayed.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Why was there a cost? This cost we're looking.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
At the thirteen upgrades on the list was fifty nine million,
again compared to two hundred and fifty billion in damage.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Here's one the.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
A pipe to connect to the Las Virgines Water District
were to cost four million dollars. Never built four million dollars.
And then Pastrella was blaming the people in Malibu. The
community is not demanding it, he said, when asked by
so many projects failed to move forward.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
They're not pro development.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
They're still utilizing the water system as a way to
restrict development Malibu. That's the bottom line. That's why it's
not happening. At the pace it could happen at. He's saying,
every time they brought them an idea to upgrade the
water system, people didn't want to do it because then
they thought, well, that's going to bring more development, more
people are going to use it. So it's your fault
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if your house burned in the fire, it's your fault
if you died in the fire, or it's your neighbor's fault.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
He won't take no.
Speaker 6 (25:38):
No.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
I've yet to see a single person in government after
almost three weeks, I've yet to see one person take responsibility.
They're all fraid to because you know, there's probably gonna
be hundreds of lawsuits and and so they're they're all
going underground. And anyway, since when do you listen to
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a few ninnies who don't want development and use that
as an excuse for creating a dangerous situation for everybody.
There's a lot of anti police people in the world,
but you don't disband the police department because they don't
like it, although they tried a few years ago. You
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get the work done because it has to be done
for everybody's safety. You need the water system developed so
you can fight the fire. It doesn't matter if a
few people don't like it. Yes, and there's more in
this thing. You ought to read it. It's in the
La Times. Trump is going to be landing about three thirty.
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Rick Caruso's on our show at two thirty, and we're
gonna have a poster on at two o'clock. Who did
a series of questions? Versus Caruso? Who'd you vote for?
Tell you about that?
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Coming up?
Speaker 5 (26:58):
You're listening to John on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
I think I have smoke damage in my system. Are
you coughing again?
Speaker 2 (27:09):
It's very dry. My whole system is very dry. Owen
Brennan's coming on, President of Madison McQueen. That's a firm
that commissioned a poll. I'm going to tell you about
after Debra's news Bass versus Caruso, who do you want?
Tell you about the poul we'll talk to Owen Brennan.
Coming up, we gon spend a few minutes on the
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on the ice raids. As of this morning, according to
New York Post, the Feds have arrested five hundred thirty
eight criminal illegal aliens.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
They did that in what three days? Tuesday?
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Wednesday Thursday. They have arrested pedophiles, gang members, and a
suspected terrorist in New York. Now, these people are here
in Los Angeles, but Karen Bass wants.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
To protect them.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
These people are all over California, but Gavin Newsom wants
to protect them. Think about that digest that we told
you earlier this hour, that you had all these LA
City and county politicians who never ever bothered to spend
the money and build the water projects that were recommended
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that could have made a difference in the Palisades fire
and somebody's lost, six thousand homes and elet.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Of people died.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Now you have a governor and a mayor who do
not even want convicted violent criminals arrested by ice. They
don't want to help cooperate. Why is that we would
be wrong with Karen Bass that you wouldn't want pedophiles,
gang members, and suspected terrorists to be arrested.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
They had.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
They arrested five people just yesterday convicted of sexual crimes
against children. They arrested Gokhan Dreguzol from Turkey, a known
suspected terrorist. They also took in a known MS thirteen
(29:25):
gang bang gang banger won Francisco Sanchez Contreras from al
Savador MS thirteen gang member living illegally in the United States.
Uh in Buffalo, Ice took three minute to custody Pedro
Julio Maha from Dominican Republic, previously previously convicted of sexual
(29:51):
sexual conduct against the child. These people that Biden and
Kamala led into the country and kept him in the
country were sexually assaulting young children.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
And you may have voted for them.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Luis Alberto Espinoza Bocasaka from Ecuador convicted of rape.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
They nailed him in Buffalo.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Albert Mills from Canada, convicted of endangering the welfare of
a child criminal possession of stolen property.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Also nailed in Buffalo.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Two other individuals known to be members of South American gangs,
member of trend Uragua, the Venezuelan gang, Jose Mata Ribeci
and heyesus Alberto Baron Lavin, another Mexican national with the
gang Barrio Azteca. Why well and why do we have
(30:53):
Gavin Newsom and Careen Bass not doing the work of
protecting and bonding from the fires to the fires, not
protecting us from the fires, not responding to the fires.
They were incompetent at that. But what they're really good
at is not cooperating with ICE to go after pedophiles,
(31:17):
gang members and terrorists.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Why is that?
Speaker 2 (31:22):
And you keep voting for them? Listen to the Chicago
mayor here. This is Brandon Johnson on MSNBC, and he's
also defiant telling his people not to go along with
ICE's deportation.
Speaker 6 (31:37):
Listen to this not or find it unconscionable that this
administration would attempt to create not just a vision, but
fear within our public schools.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
I have directed all of.
Speaker 6 (31:48):
Our sister agencies, as well as all of our departments,
to stand firm and to uphold the local ordinance.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Terrorists, gang bangers, pedophiles, and Brandon Johnson is directing his
agencies not to cooperate with ICE so that the terrorist,
gang bangers and pedophiles can be protected and live freely
in his city. Not making it up. That's exactly what's
been going on for four years. When we come back,
(32:17):
we're going to talk to It's hard to believe people's
brains freeze them. I guess they don't want to believe it.
It's so absurd and frightening. They just own Brandan's coming
on President of Madison McQueen. It's a polling firm that
had a poll on whether LA residents would want Rick
Caruso or Karen Bass.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
How did that turn out?
Speaker 2 (32:38):
We'll tell you after Debora Mark Live in the KFI
twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the
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