February 21, 2025 • 35 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (02/21) - Rick Caruso comes on the show to talk about Mayor Bass firing Kristin Crowley as LAFD Chief. Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer comes on the show to talk about the Chilean gang that is wreaking havoc on American citizens. Protestors physically blocked trucks carrying toxic debris from the fires into the Calabasas Landfill. Moist Line Rounds 1 & 2.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:01):
I am six forty. You're listening to the John Cobel
podcast on the iHeartRadio app. All right, it's ready to go.
Then let's get them right on here. We're on from
one to four. I got moistline twice this hour, and
let's get to Rick Crusoe on to talk about what
happened today, Karen Bass firing the LA Fire chief Kristin Crowley. Rick,
(00:21):
how are you? Thank you for coming on.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
I'm good.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
John.
Speaker 5 (00:24):
How are you doing today?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
I'm doing great, very active. Here. Tell me what your
reaction was when you heard that Bass was firing Crowley.
Speaker 5 (00:36):
Well, I was surprised, I think like all of us,
because the mayor, you know, up until what yesterday, was
saying that she needed to have an investigation in order
to answer questions on what had happened, and the interview
with Alex Michaelson, she kept saying she needed an investigation.
She couldn't answer questions, and then so it was surprising
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that you fire somebody without the investigation and know what
they were doing. You know, I just think, you know, John,
we're in this loop which is very unfortunate for our city,
which really staddage me about a series of you know,
bad judgments, and here's another one. And I feel like,
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I think like many people do that. You know, Crowley
stood up and was honest and went public with her
concerns about the budget being cut by the mayor, and
now she's paying the high price for it.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
What did you think of Karen Bass saying she wasn't
aware of the fire warnings?
Speaker 5 (01:40):
Well, I don't know who wasn't aware of the fire warnings, right,
I mean all of us got them. It couldn't have
been more public. Days before. I mean there was people
that called me from the East coast saying, oh my god,
what's going to happen to LA with these catastrophic winds
that are being warned? And the mayor herself posted on
January sixth on her X if you go to her
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her posts, you know, be careful with these wins. They're
going to be deadly catastrophic wins. So she knew about it.
She had to know about it. How could nobody? How
could you not know about it?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
But in Alex Michaelson's interview, she said, frankly, I wasn't aware.
And now today she blamed Kristin Crowley for not calling
her and said, well, she has my cell phone number.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
John.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
I think it's one of those things where it now.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Speaks for itself.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
It just speaks for itself.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I just you know, every few days, right, I mean.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
But I don't even interrupt you because it's almost comical.
Now there's nothing more you can say. You you know,
you're not prepared. Got you got warnings. The warnings were everywhere.
They were prolific, on your phone, on the news, on
the radio waves. And you go out of the country.
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You're not managing even one contract with Steve Sobrot properly.
That becomes the whole thing. And then now you've got this,
and so there's a real question on judgment and leadership
and character. Instead of saying, hey, I made a big mistake,
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I'm sorry, I'm taking I'm taking the heat on this one.
And she's refused to do that.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
So where do we all go from here? I don't
know of anybody, and I have plenty of friends in
the palisades like you do. I don't know of anybody
who has any confidence in her at all. And with
all the work that needs to be done, is what
is everybody supposed to do?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Now?
Speaker 5 (03:52):
Well, listen, I mean, it's really one of the reasons
I created this Steadfast La nonprofit that I'm doing, and
we had our first meeting yesterday and we've got so
many great solutions. We're going to be pushing the city
on to There's a lot of good people that are
donating their time and we're going to make this happen
in spite of the leadership at city Hall, and I
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would ask people to remain hopeful and positive. This city
is bigger and better than any one person or any
group of elected or appointed officials, and we're going to
get this community built back. I was just out at
Altadena today. They're actually the county is doing a much
better job. They're running about three months ahead of us
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on cleanup and getting people back, and as we announced yesterday, John,
we're donating about one hundred homes for people who are
the most impacted and financially strained to get back in
their homes. And based on the tour I had to
day with the county, we think we're going to start
putting homes in Altadena in about two to three months,
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which is fantastic, and you know, I'm hoping we do
the same in the Palicies. To get people back in
the community and start rebuilding it.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Can Can you talk about what are the things that
you're going to be pushing for here in the city
of Los Angeles. You said you have a number of
ideas or plans that you're going to be presenting. Can
can you give us an idea of what those might be.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
It's everything. It's everything from undergrounding all the power lines,
upgrading the utilities, upgrading the communications system, redoing the fire
hydrants and the water mains, all of that infrastructure. We're
going to have a plan to do that and finance
it so that when people start building, it's going to
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be the infrastructure will be the city of the twenty
first century, not of last century or early this century,
including things like creating an AI model, which we're well
on the way of with help from a lot of
smart people, to do plan check in a matter of
hours rather than weeks, so that people can get their
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building plans permitted quickly and start construction quickly. There's about
fifteen initiatives that we've got that we're working on, and
I'm very optimistic about it, no different than the one
we announced with Samara, the production home builder. To you know,
donate eighty to one hundred production homes and get them
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situated on people's properties so they can start moving in
and it will be the equivalent of a permanent home
for a lot of people. And they're beautifully done. And
if people go to steadfast dot com and look at
our website, you know, we'll be posting all our different
initiatives and people can sign up for a home and
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if they qualify, we're going to get people back in
their communities. We're working on rebuilding rec centers and schools
and a whole bunch of initiatives. And I'm very confident
we're going to get it done quicker than most people expect.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Steadfast La dot com you mean.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Right, yeah, steadfast La dot com. Yeah, okay, maybe that's
the first.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Tiode otherwise that goes to a financial company.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
Just check out La dot com.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I was wrong, Steadfast La dot Com.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
And obviously you're gonna need a lot of help from
from the city government and the d WP with all this. Uh.
Have they been cooperative the people that you're dealing with directly, You.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
Know, everybody has been cooperative. Everybody wants to lean in
and help. Yes, I think I think there's a great
attitude there. But you know, it's one of those things, John,
This the devastation is so big, it's so massive, it's
government alone can't do it. It's got to be a
pro public private partnership. And just like after nine to
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eleven in New York it was a public private partnership
that helped rebuild Lower Manhattan, that's got to be the
same effort here. So we're not doing it to be
critical of anybody. We're going to do it with the
spirit that we're going to bring great solutions and then
we're going to hold people accountable to get it done
in city government. And I think that's where everybody in
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this city has a role. When you say what do
we do. Let's hold our local officials accountable to get
this job done and get it quickly and honestly. When
Karen Bass the other day said it's going to be
three to five years, my response to that is, no,
it's not three.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
To five years.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Maybe if you leave it up to the government alone,
it is. I really believe people will be able to
start getting back into their homes and rebuilding their homes
before a year, and we're going to have community centers
going up at the same time, and parks being put in,
and we're going to open up businesses again, and we're
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going to start getting a sense of community. And I'm
going to spend every day with me and my team
to make sure that happens.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
And describe who is on your on your team in
terms of because you obviously you know you're leading this,
you and your staff are leading this, but you've got
to have a lot of other corporations, other other individuals.
I mean, who who are the players here that are
going to be able to pull this off in a
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much on a much quicker timeline.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
So here, here's the team that's all rolling up the sleeves.
We spent hours together yesterday. Andy Cohen, the head of Gensler,
one of the largest architectural firms, donating their time and talent,
the head of Walt Disney Imagineering. We've got Parsons donating
their time. We've got lawyers Lathan and Wakins donating their time,
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McKenzie donating time, eesr Ezray donating time, Oak Tree donating time,
Upfront Ventures, Kobe Fuller. It goes on and on and on.
Amazon is donating time and leaning against of course, samaraw
Horn with cvre is doing it, Nicole Levant, JP Morgan,
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Netflix is involved, Joe Lonsdale. It goes on and on
and on. Some of the brightest, most talented people are
all donating their time and talent on these initiatives, packaging
solutions in handing them off to the city and the
county of the state.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Well, that's quite a lineup. That's a lot of heavy
hitters you've got there.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
Hey, John, What I love about it is we announced
set fast LA two weeks ago and then this week
we announced donating one hundred homes for free for the
most needy of the victims of the fire. That's the
kind of speed and action we need on this assignment.
We're going to do it, and we're going to push
the city to run at the same pace that we're running.
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Maybe tough, but we're going to do it, all.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Right, Rick, and anyway we can help you, let us
know any any time you have an announcement or anything
that you think ought to be called out discussed, please
let us know.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
Okay, thank you, John, appreciate good time. Thanks for giving
me some aritime sure thing.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Rick Caruso there and Steadfast LA dot com go to
that site if you want to know what's going on
and if you need some help in the Palisades, I
think obviously a better bet is to start investigating what
Rick and all those other people he mentioned are doing here,
because I think they're going to make a lot of
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progress rapidly. Karen Bass and that crowd, I have no idea,
no recommendations, and what to do with them right now
if it isn't obvious that there has to be huge
changes there, and I don't know what else to say.
When we come back, we're going to have a voiceline.
And then also after three point thirty, we got Todd
Spitzer coming on because Todd is absolutely fed up with
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Chili sending their criminals here to America. You heard the
latest is seven Chilean criminals are accused of burglarizing the
homes of NFL and NBA stars, including Patrick Mahomes and
Travis Kelcey of the Chiefs. The Chileans have been thieving
here in La County, in Orange County for years, and
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finally Todd Spitzer says this has just got to stop
here because they're they're getting on planes, getting visas and
landing in Los Angeles among other places, and then stealing
whatever it is they want to steal. So we're going
to talk to him. We'll have more about Karen Bass firing,
Kristen Crowley and all all the nonsense.
Speaker 7 (12:33):
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Speaker 2 (12:40):
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Speaker 3 (12:50):
I'm so excited to hear from you.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
To mapcime.
Speaker 8 (12:53):
You know, all these city leaders and county leaders hating
themselves on the back or having a plan for the flooding,
for the water and everything, they've bible to realize that
what led up to this and these evacuations and the
preparation for the rain is because of the fires and
the lack of leadership and the missing mayor from the
fire that happened in the first place. Unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Don't you realize what's going to happen?
Speaker 9 (13:16):
Okay, that empty vessel Harris lost the presidency.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Now these stupid woke California and idiots here have no clue.
There's the old, poor poor Kamala. We got to give
her the governorship. Now that's what's going to happen, Darren Bess.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
She admitted to being long. We're going to Africa. Well
where she went wrong.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
He's cutting the police budget, cutting the fire budget and
letting let da Gas going go crazy and turn everybody
into the streets.
Speaker 10 (13:47):
Chad Biancle.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
He is greatly loved in Riverside County.
Speaker 10 (13:50):
He is it.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
We love him out in this area.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
You know it.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
I know it.
Speaker 11 (13:55):
Everybody knows that Kamala will be your next governor, which
is a stay has.
Speaker 12 (13:59):
To me too, all rank let's come to a line
where I've gone online.
Speaker 11 (14:09):
Just call anything to the left of your ideology socialism.
Speaker 13 (14:12):
Get a dictionary.
Speaker 8 (14:14):
You can't just call everything socialism.
Speaker 13 (14:16):
Can you imagine if our emergency services relied on electric vehicles,
they would have to be just like a fighter jet.
They have to return to base when they start getting
low on electrical charge.
Speaker 14 (14:28):
Unfit. I just can't believe Karen Bass She's the queen
idiot of all idiots. Time to get rid of her
and bringing in somebody who actually knows what the hell
they're doing.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
You have to get rid of Karen Baths. You can
tell she's a sociopaths. She has no empathy, she doesn't care.
Speaker 13 (14:43):
Time'm just meeting more comes out.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Of her mouth.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
It has to be removed. What do you think if
it's going to turn out that they didn't have those
extra firefighters on standby because the city of LA didn't.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Want to pay over time.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
I've been asking myself when did I Our practice is
gonna drop teams Louis, all the focuses, all this noose books,
like the Democrats with focus and.
Speaker 8 (15:08):
All this book stuff.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Now we're focus on all this kind of stuff that
don't make don't fit to my wallet. I disagree. I
think they're all winners because they're winning all our money
and they're living the life of kings.
Speaker 13 (15:24):
So now they're winners, not losers.
Speaker 10 (15:27):
So the Weather Service actually said life threatening wins, life
threatening fire danger, and Karen bas Is he it's cocktail
time and gonna pack your gettu out.
Speaker 15 (15:39):
You know, the city of Los Angeles should be able
to run without a mayor.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
It should be run without everybody.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
That's what we pay all these assistants for. I really
don't get it.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
Karon Bess wasn't aware win and fire runnings.
Speaker 15 (15:52):
I didn't send Barbara and I was aware of them
days before.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
They had problem with Karen Bass as a mayor is
she really had no experience to be a leader or
an executive with somebody that makes decisions.
Speaker 15 (16:05):
You know why Bess didn't know about the warnings because
she was too busy preparing the city.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
To save illegal aliens.
Speaker 12 (16:12):
That's her priority. The excuse that Karen Vass is using
that she did not know that it was going to
be a potential fire event, that's crazy.
Speaker 9 (16:23):
I live in San Diego.
Speaker 12 (16:24):
I'm not even the mayor of a city, and the
weather people were telling us for days leading up to
it that it was going to be a catastrophic wind event.
Speaker 15 (16:33):
Who were talking about Bass and not known her karma?
Speaker 7 (16:38):
They're smoking a bowl or having so whiskey.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Come on, Bass, looks like she's.
Speaker 14 (16:44):
High and drunk, just like Kamala three so Bianco, my
sheriff gets in.
Speaker 16 (16:50):
There's going to ruffle some feators like Trump.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Let's go John.
Speaker 16 (16:55):
I'm up here in the North Bay and I knew
that's sane. The wins were coming because I listened to KFI.
What the hell does the mayor listen to looney Tunes?
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Thank you for leaving.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
You're probably not camp goodbye.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
I want to remind you you weren't listening before. Karen
Vass has two hundred and thirty eight staffers in the
mayor's office. We pay in La City twenty five million
dollars a year for two hundred and thirty eight staffers.
She has fourteen deputy mayors, and the guy who's the
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deputy mayor in charge of overseeing the fire and police
department is on leave. He's being investigated for calling bomb
threats to city hall seriously, but none of the two
hundred and thirty eight people apparently called Karen Bass, especially
Kristin Crowley, the fire chief, and that's why she got fired.
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Before we're done here, going to have Tod Spitzer on
and he's going to talk about he's demanding that somebody
in the federal government stopped the Chilean gang members from
landing here in southern California after getting a cheap visa
and then running around and breaking in and burglarizing whatever
they want to do. It's still going on and the
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Kansas City chiefs Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelcey are the
latest victims. But it's been hitting Orange County in La
County for quite some time, and then we have to
talk at least briefly about the protesters who are blocking
with their bodies these semi trucks hauling in toxic waste
to the Calabasas landfill. This is another thing, you know,
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I was talking before how the traffic is impassable for
hours and hours down on the west side. There's so
much toxic junk that they're dragging to the beach of
all places, which I still don't understand how that's being allowed,
and they're trying to drag it to the Calabasas landf
And this is stuff that's ordinarily not allowed in the landfill.
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And everybody's freaking out in Calabasas because they're fraid to
getting cancer from it. And I don't know why they
don't take it out to the desert. But we'll touch
on that as well. So we got a lot to
do yet.
Speaker 7 (19:15):
You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI A
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Speaker 2 (19:21):
John Cobelt's show Conrad will be coming up after four
o'clock Moistline. In the next segment, We're gonna get We're
gonna get Todd Spitzer on the Orange County District Attorney.
Something that has been in the news for years now.
Chilean criminals gang members they land at lax and other places,
but they particularly have hit Orange County in LA for
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a long time. Well, they hit Kansas City and they
broke into Travis Kelcey's house and Patrick Mahomes's house from
the Chiefs, and that reignited the controversy over how and
why do these Chilean gang members keep getting visas to
company to this country and steal stuff they usually hit.
If they're not hitting shopping centers and stealing from jewelry
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stores or banks, they're going to high end neighborhoods and
stealing everything. They all the valuables they could find in
these people's bedrooms. Let's get Todd Spitzer on because he
was calling all this out again this week. Todd, how
are you hey?
Speaker 4 (20:21):
I'm great. What a day for news man. I really
appreciate Rick Caruso's leadership, so I can't wait to.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Hear from him some more.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
But let me just tell you that was a great interview, John,
Thank you. Look, why in the world do we need
professional athletes homes to get broken into? Before this is
at the top of the news again. I'm prosecuting almost
one hundred individuals from the country of Chile here in
Orange County alone. You know, they go into Disney World
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in Orlando to Orange County, Florida, they traverse across the
United States to Orange County, California, and they break into
homes all along the way. They're not here to go
to Disneyland. They're here to steal from us. And the
interesting thing is, you may recall, maybe six months ago,
I did a press conference with Martinez Strada when he
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was still in the United States Attorney for the Central District,
where he took down or the FBI took down a
rental car agency in West LA that was renting these
high end cars to these Chilean nationals so they would
fit into the neighborhoods with the you know, the like
kind of car they wouldn't, you know, they're not driving
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some Chilapi. They're driving you know, BMW's and everything, so
they would fit in while they were watching our homes
and surveying us. The FBI, John knows about this, The
Department of Justice knows about it, Homeland Security knows about it.
I've been all over television in the country of Chile.
Over this. Everybody knows about this, but the State Department
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and Homeland Security will not terminate this visa program for
the country at Chile. And to remind you, this is
an online application twenty one dollars. It's good for two years.
You can come here ninety days at a time, and
yet requires a background check conducted by the country of ChIL.
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They're the only remaining South American country still in the
program because every other South American country has sent their
criminals here and has been cut off. But no one
wants to cut off Chili.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
And why what do you think is there a story
we don't know about? Obviously there is. Have you heard
anything as to why we get Chile?
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Agree to tell you my speculation. Who's one of the
most powerful people in the government right now for our president,
mister Elon Musk, what's his major interest lithium batteries. What's
the number one export of the country of Chile to
the United States lithium? Now, I hope I'm wrong. I
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hope that I'm not plenty conspiratorial theorist right now, But
I will tell you why wouldn't this be done in
a heartbeat. Is it because of lithium? Somebody needs to
come out and tell me I'm absolutely wrong. I hope
I am absolute because this.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Seems like something that Trump's crowd would take care of
it about three minutes. It's just, you know, and this
visa program. So they can't spend twenty one bucks and
then steal unlimited goods from everybody here in southern California.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
I understand, and I think until the owners of these
various teams, the super wealthy, I don't know what it's
going to take. Let me tell you, what do we
have twenty eight burglaries last week in West the West
end of the valley. Here in Los Angeles, we had
like an unbelievable amount of burglaries. I can promise you.
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That's the Chileans. So when are people going to get
just so angry that they're telling all their representatives you've
got to do something about this. We had hearings. If
you remember Kevin McCarthy when he was a Speaker of
the House, my former colleague and the legislature we served together.
Good friend. He came here and we did briefings with
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the FBI, and we brought all this to their attention,
and Kevin heard it firsthand, and then he called hearings
in the House and we testified at those hearings. We
put it on the absolute Washington Capitol Hill agenda, and
now we have members of Congress asking Homeland Security what's
going on, and even their questions now renewed or not
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getting answered by Homeland. Now it's Homeland overwhelmed. Did the
new secretary just get appointed? Yes, but I would expect
because everybody knows about this, and the FBI has been
clamoring about this for years now. This should be shut
down at any moment, but it's not happening.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
And you think that Chili might retaliate in some way
that would affect us our ability to get lithium for
the lithium batteries. You know that Elon Musk needs for
his cars.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Well, listen, I'm just trying to connect dots.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
No, no, I'm all in for connecting dots. That's a
fascinating thing.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
We know that the Sultan Sea is not ready, and
we know the Sultan Sea is going to be a
major lithium producer, but it's in production or in development.
But right now, the demands for lithium batteries in this country.
A large portion is coming from the country at Chili.
So I just googled natural resources in Chili and I
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learned through Google that lithium is the number one export
to the United States from that country. And then I
connected dots who is running our government? And why isn't
this being shut down again? I'm making this pronouncement, John,
because I want somebody to tell me publicly I'm wrong,
but they're going to cut off the program.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Well, whether whether you're right or not about the lithium
from Jelly, they should end the program because these guys
have had free reign for many years and they've stolen
a lot of stuff. And maybe breaking into Travis Kelcey's
house and the homes house is what it takes to
get the attention to end it. I guess maybe that's
what it takes because they don't care what happens to
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people who are not star athletes. Everyone else's stuff can
be stolen, but not theirs.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
I don't know. But again, because of the athletes prominence,
it's getting the attention it deserves. I'll take whatever avenue
I can to get this program cut off. If the
athletes need to come together and the professional teams to talk.
It's not just football, it's all these athletes who travel
on the road. Yeah, their houses are being surveyed. People
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know they're not home and they're getting burglarized while they
are other way games.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
All right, Todd, thank you for coming on.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
All right, John, thanks so much.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
All right, Todd Spitzer, the Are County District Attorney. When
we come back, we got a round of the moistline,
and I've got to spend a couple of minutes on
the protesters in Calabasas physically blocking the trucks hauling toxic
waste to the Calabasas landfill. This is pretty wild what
they were doing. And this looks like people who are
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going to have to throw their bodies in front of
the trucks to stop all this disgusting waste from being
dumped into the into their towns. That'll be next.
Speaker 7 (27:29):
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Speaker 2 (27:35):
But very soon Voiceline Part two Conway will be in here.
I just want to spend a minute or two on
the people in the Calabasas area who threw their bodies
in front of a semi truck hauling toxic waste from
the Palisades. LA Times did a story on Kelly Martino.
She actually stood in front of a freight liner semi truck.
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Several dozen people protested they don't want the toxic ash
and debris and toxic soil carted to the landfill in
the area they live. The crowd started chanting back it up.
They were holding signs that said no toxic dumping and
the trucks. The line started getting longer and longer, and
the sheriff's deputies threatened to make arrests if people didn't disperse. Well,
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they would not disperse. Martito said, all the ash and
sludgeon debris is going to come here, and that is
not acceptable. And we're not going to wait for a
bunch of kids to get sick in twenty years. You know,
A Bass and Crowley ought to get arrested. If the
sheriffs have nothing to do, I think it'd be better
to arrest them and not these people trying to protest
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all this toxic waste. Why can't they take the toxic
waste far away where people don't live. And I hear
in on the West Side people were upset because these
trucks carrying the toxic waste are rumbling down Sunset Boulevard
and the dust and the ash is blowing in the air.
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They had another protest Saturday in Calabasas. Also in Granada
Hills there was one at the Sunshine Canyon landfill because
the dust is going to be drifting into all the
neighborhoods and it's also going to leak into the groundwater.
Because you're not supposed to bring this kind of waste
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to the Calabasas landfill or the one of Granada Hills.
It's supposed to go to special landfills that have liners
to prevent leakage and monitors. There's four and a half
million tons of ash and wreckage from the Eaton and
Palisades fire. It's one of the biggest ever in terms
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of debris. But if you go to the Calabasas Landfill,
there are a lot of signs that say no hazardous
waste and it's a local landfills for normal garbage. Another
signed list of the electronics and the household items that
are not accepted because they might contain toxic substances. It
says you have to have a certificate that Verita verifies
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it's non hazardous, but that only applies to private contractors,
not to federally hired crews. One resident says, you cannot
legally bring a battery or a can of spray paint
into this landfill, But now they're allowing hundreds of thousands
of tons of burnt batteries, paint chips, and other things
in the community. It's incomprehensible. Dallas Lawrence said that president
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of the Lust virgin of school Board, this is the
collateral damage because Bass and Crowley didn't do their jobs.
It's all those people who lost their homes, people who
lost their lives. Now nobody can drive around the West Side.
There's so much traffic, and the toxics garbage is being
taken to peaceful towns that had nothing to do with
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the fire. All right, round two, moistline, Let's go. Hey
if Sean, thanks for calling them oistline.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
I'm so excited to hear from you about time.
Speaker 15 (31:05):
Karen Bass is full up, but she doesn't know what
she's doing.
Speaker 14 (31:09):
She's blaming the president.
Speaker 13 (31:11):
Oh, the president asked me to go.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
The President also asked you to get rid.
Speaker 16 (31:15):
Of all those illegal immigrants in the prison and let him,
have him, but she won't do that.
Speaker 11 (31:20):
But Shul'll run off.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
Through Africa the drop of the hat.
Speaker 14 (31:24):
Yeah right, I needn't know what's kind of happening baloney.
Speaker 9 (31:28):
Thinking about Karen Bass and her ilk.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
They've been telling us for at least.
Speaker 9 (31:32):
Twelve to thirteen years that global warming and climate change
are going to trigger extreme weather episodes, and they didn't
prepare the preparation. Lack thereof is inexcusable from newsome on down.
Speaker 5 (31:46):
Karen Bass is so full of and she needs to
wipe that.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
You could smile off.
Speaker 6 (31:51):
Her face because there's nothing to be smiling about with
all the incompetence that she's done, between the television and
the Weather Force and the National Weather coming through and
breaking them on the radio.
Speaker 8 (32:04):
Everybody knew he's cool. He didn't know shared Bass is right,
there wasn't any preparation.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
God, I just wish there was someone.
Speaker 15 (32:11):
In like a good position to initiate preparations throughout, like, oh,
I don't know a mayor.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
The reason that Karen Bass disregarded the arch warning about
the winds is because they disregard their own narrative model
hyperbole with extreme weather events and all these other crap
that they throw out there.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
As Elon goes through all these books and all this
mismanagement and misplacement of money and spend did not show anything.
If you did that in the business, the IRS would
knock your door. So how about if we start sticking
the IRS on all these government agencies that don't know
how to spend their money properly.
Speaker 9 (32:45):
Just doesn't make sense that billions of dollars are going
places and nobody knows where it's going.
Speaker 16 (32:52):
Now, that doesn't make sense.
Speaker 15 (32:54):
Why would anybody take two trains plus a bus that takes.
Speaker 13 (32:58):
Seven hours to go from christ Field to LA when
you can drive from LA to San Francisco in eight
That doesn't make sense. Who was thinking about this? It's
absolutely ludicrous.
Speaker 14 (33:09):
John, Not only that it's not gonna be I see
because the damn train has to stop at stations along
the way, say I'll just get the speed and then
has to stop.
Speaker 11 (33:19):
So Baths basically admitted that she's not capable to do
this job, but yet she's still here. Yeah, I'm gonna
go tell my employer that I'm messing up my job.
I'm wanting how fast I get fired?
Speaker 14 (33:29):
John, Any sane person looked at the people in charge
avenuwsom baths, et cetera, et cetera. And how bad Calfiory
has been burned in the ground. Like me, I got
out of there three years ago. It's just really sad
Born and Raiz California had to go because it's just
being destroyed.
Speaker 15 (33:49):
Karen Bass wants to have I guess an investigation into
what way along with what happened with the fires. Well,
I say go ahead, let it happen. But if there's
gonna be an investigation, that said investigation out of her pocket.
She's the one has to clear herself, not the taxpayers.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
You really think ste so sober Off is not going
to receive this money. Yes, publicly they said he was
gonna do it for free.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Now after they.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Wanted to give him half a million.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Well, I'll guarantee Karen Bats is going to find a
way to still pay him that money she promised, and
absolutely guarantee.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Thank you for leaving your message.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
Please hang up goodbye.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
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Speaker 2 (00:01):
I am six forty. You're listening to the John Cobel
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Then let's get them right on here. We're on from
one to four. I got moistline twice this hour, and
let's get to Rick Crusoe on to talk about what
happened today, Karen Bass firing the LA Fire chief Kristin Crowley. Rick,
(00:21):
how are you? Thank you for coming on.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
I'm good.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
John.
Speaker 5 (00:24):
How are you doing today?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
I'm doing great, very active. Here. Tell me what your
reaction was when you heard that Bass was firing Crowley.
Speaker 5 (00:36):
Well, I was surprised, I think like all of us,
because the mayor, you know, up until what yesterday, was
saying that she needed to have an investigation in order
to answer questions on what had happened, and the interview
with Alex Michaelson, she kept saying she needed an investigation.
She couldn't answer questions, and then so it was surprising
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that you fire somebody without the investigation and know what
they were doing. You know, I just think, you know, John,
we're in this loop which is very unfortunate for our city,
which really staddage me about a series of you know,
bad judgments, and here's another one. And I feel like,
(01:19):
I think like many people do that. You know, Crowley
stood up and was honest and went public with her
concerns about the budget being cut by the mayor, and
now she's paying the high price for it.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
What did you think of Karen Bass saying she wasn't
aware of the fire warnings?
Speaker 5 (01:40):
Well, I don't know who wasn't aware of the fire warnings, right,
I mean all of us got them. It couldn't have
been more public. Days before. I mean there was people
that called me from the East coast saying, oh my god,
what's going to happen to LA with these catastrophic winds
that are being warned? And the mayor herself posted on
January sixth on her X if you go to her
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her posts, you know, be careful with these wins. They're
going to be deadly catastrophic wins. So she knew about it.
She had to know about it. How could nobody? How
could you not know about it?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
But in Alex Michaelson's interview, she said, frankly, I wasn't aware.
And now today she blamed Kristin Crowley for not calling
her and said, well, she has my cell phone number.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
John.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
I think it's one of those things where it now.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Speaks for itself.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
It just speaks for itself.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I just you know, every few days, right, I mean.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
But I don't even interrupt you because it's almost comical.
Now there's nothing more you can say. You you know,
you're not prepared. Got you got warnings. The warnings were everywhere.
They were prolific, on your phone, on the news, on
the radio waves. And you go out of the country.
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You're not managing even one contract with Steve Sobrot properly.
That becomes the whole thing. And then now you've got this,
and so there's a real question on judgment and leadership
and character. Instead of saying, hey, I made a big mistake,
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I'm sorry, I'm taking I'm taking the heat on this one.
And she's refused to do that.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
So where do we all go from here? I don't
know of anybody, and I have plenty of friends in
the palisades like you do. I don't know of anybody
who has any confidence in her at all. And with
all the work that needs to be done, is what
is everybody supposed to do?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Now?
Speaker 5 (03:52):
Well, listen, I mean, it's really one of the reasons
I created this Steadfast La nonprofit that I'm doing, and
we had our first meeting yesterday and we've got so
many great solutions. We're going to be pushing the city
on to There's a lot of good people that are
donating their time and we're going to make this happen
in spite of the leadership at city Hall, and I
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would ask people to remain hopeful and positive. This city
is bigger and better than any one person or any
group of elected or appointed officials, and we're going to
get this community built back. I was just out at
Altadena today. They're actually the county is doing a much
better job. They're running about three months ahead of us
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on cleanup and getting people back, and as we announced yesterday, John,
we're donating about one hundred homes for people who are
the most impacted and financially strained to get back in
their homes. And based on the tour I had to
day with the county, we think we're going to start
putting homes in Altadena in about two to three months,
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which is fantastic, and you know, I'm hoping we do
the same in the Palicies. To get people back in
the community and start rebuilding it.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Can Can you talk about what are the things that
you're going to be pushing for here in the city
of Los Angeles. You said you have a number of
ideas or plans that you're going to be presenting. Can
can you give us an idea of what those might be.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
It's everything. It's everything from undergrounding all the power lines,
upgrading the utilities, upgrading the communications system, redoing the fire
hydrants and the water mains, all of that infrastructure. We're
going to have a plan to do that and finance
it so that when people start building, it's going to
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be the infrastructure will be the city of the twenty
first century, not of last century or early this century,
including things like creating an AI model, which we're well
on the way of with help from a lot of
smart people, to do plan check in a matter of
hours rather than weeks, so that people can get their
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building plans permitted quickly and start construction quickly. There's about
fifteen initiatives that we've got that we're working on, and
I'm very optimistic about it, no different than the one
we announced with Samara, the production home builder. To you know,
donate eighty to one hundred production homes and get them
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situated on people's properties so they can start moving in
and it will be the equivalent of a permanent home
for a lot of people. And they're beautifully done. And
if people go to steadfast dot com and look at
our website, you know, we'll be posting all our different
initiatives and people can sign up for a home and
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if they qualify, we're going to get people back in
their communities. We're working on rebuilding rec centers and schools
and a whole bunch of initiatives. And I'm very confident
we're going to get it done quicker than most people expect.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Steadfast La dot com you mean.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Right, yeah, steadfast La dot com. Yeah, okay, maybe that's
the first.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Tiode otherwise that goes to a financial company.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
Just check out La dot com.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I was wrong, Steadfast La dot Com.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
And obviously you're gonna need a lot of help from
from the city government and the d WP with all this. Uh.
Have they been cooperative the people that you're dealing with directly, You.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
Know, everybody has been cooperative. Everybody wants to lean in
and help. Yes, I think I think there's a great
attitude there. But you know, it's one of those things, John,
This the devastation is so big, it's so massive, it's
government alone can't do it. It's got to be a
pro public private partnership. And just like after nine to
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eleven in New York it was a public private partnership
that helped rebuild Lower Manhattan, that's got to be the
same effort here. So we're not doing it to be
critical of anybody. We're going to do it with the
spirit that we're going to bring great solutions and then
we're going to hold people accountable to get it done
in city government. And I think that's where everybody in
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this city has a role. When you say what do
we do. Let's hold our local officials accountable to get
this job done and get it quickly and honestly. When
Karen Bass the other day said it's going to be
three to five years, my response to that is, no,
it's not three.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
To five years.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Maybe if you leave it up to the government alone,
it is. I really believe people will be able to
start getting back into their homes and rebuilding their homes
before a year, and we're going to have community centers
going up at the same time, and parks being put in,
and we're going to open up businesses again, and we're
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going to start getting a sense of community. And I'm
going to spend every day with me and my team
to make sure that happens.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
And describe who is on your on your team in
terms of because you obviously you know you're leading this,
you and your staff are leading this, but you've got
to have a lot of other corporations, other other individuals.
I mean, who who are the players here that are
going to be able to pull this off in a
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much on a much quicker timeline.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
So here, here's the team that's all rolling up the sleeves.
We spent hours together yesterday. Andy Cohen, the head of Gensler,
one of the largest architectural firms, donating their time and talent,
the head of Walt Disney Imagineering. We've got Parsons donating
their time. We've got lawyers Lathan and Wakins donating their time,
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McKenzie donating time, eesr Ezray donating time, Oak Tree donating time,
Upfront Ventures, Kobe Fuller. It goes on and on and on.
Amazon is donating time and leaning against of course, samaraw
Horn with cvre is doing it, Nicole Levant, JP Morgan,
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Netflix is involved, Joe Lonsdale. It goes on and on
and on. Some of the brightest, most talented people are
all donating their time and talent on these initiatives, packaging
solutions in handing them off to the city and the
county of the state.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Well, that's quite a lineup. That's a lot of heavy
hitters you've got there.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
Hey, John, What I love about it is we announced
set fast LA two weeks ago and then this week
we announced donating one hundred homes for free for the
most needy of the victims of the fire. That's the
kind of speed and action we need on this assignment.
We're going to do it, and we're going to push
the city to run at the same pace that we're running.
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Maybe tough, but we're going to do it, all.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Right, Rick, and anyway we can help you, let us
know any any time you have an announcement or anything
that you think ought to be called out discussed, please
let us know.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
Okay, thank you, John, appreciate good time. Thanks for giving
me some aritime sure thing.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Rick Caruso there and Steadfast LA dot com go to
that site if you want to know what's going on
and if you need some help in the Palisades, I
think obviously a better bet is to start investigating what
Rick and all those other people he mentioned are doing here,
because I think they're going to make a lot of
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progress rapidly. Karen Bass and that crowd, I have no idea,
no recommendations, and what to do with them right now
if it isn't obvious that there has to be huge
changes there, and I don't know what else to say.
When we come back, we're going to have a voiceline.
And then also after three point thirty, we got Todd
Spitzer coming on because Todd is absolutely fed up with
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Chili sending their criminals here to America. You heard the
latest is seven Chilean criminals are accused of burglarizing the
homes of NFL and NBA stars, including Patrick Mahomes and
Travis Kelcey of the Chiefs. The Chileans have been thieving
here in La County, in Orange County for years, and
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finally Todd Spitzer says this has just got to stop
here because they're they're getting on planes, getting visas and
landing in Los Angeles among other places, and then stealing
whatever it is they want to steal. So we're going
to talk to him. We'll have more about Karen Bass firing,
Kristen Crowley and all all the nonsense.
Speaker 7 (12:33):
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Speaker 3 (12:50):
I'm so excited to hear from you.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
To mapcime.
Speaker 8 (12:53):
You know, all these city leaders and county leaders hating
themselves on the back or having a plan for the flooding,
for the water and everything, they've bible to realize that
what led up to this and these evacuations and the
preparation for the rain is because of the fires and
the lack of leadership and the missing mayor from the
fire that happened in the first place. Unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Don't you realize what's going to happen?
Speaker 9 (13:16):
Okay, that empty vessel Harris lost the presidency.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Now these stupid woke California and idiots here have no clue.
There's the old, poor poor Kamala. We got to give
her the governorship. Now that's what's going to happen, Darren Bess.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
She admitted to being long. We're going to Africa. Well
where she went wrong.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
He's cutting the police budget, cutting the fire budget and
letting let da Gas going go crazy and turn everybody
into the streets.
Speaker 10 (13:47):
Chad Biancle.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
He is greatly loved in Riverside County.
Speaker 10 (13:50):
He is it.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
We love him out in this area.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
You know it.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
I know it.
Speaker 11 (13:55):
Everybody knows that Kamala will be your next governor, which
is a stay has.
Speaker 12 (13:59):
To me too, all rank let's come to a line
where I've gone online.
Speaker 11 (14:09):
Just call anything to the left of your ideology socialism.
Speaker 13 (14:12):
Get a dictionary.
Speaker 8 (14:14):
You can't just call everything socialism.
Speaker 13 (14:16):
Can you imagine if our emergency services relied on electric vehicles,
they would have to be just like a fighter jet.
They have to return to base when they start getting
low on electrical charge.
Speaker 14 (14:28):
Unfit. I just can't believe Karen Bass She's the queen
idiot of all idiots. Time to get rid of her
and bringing in somebody who actually knows what the hell
they're doing.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
You have to get rid of Karen Baths. You can
tell she's a sociopaths. She has no empathy, she doesn't care.
Speaker 13 (14:43):
Time'm just meeting more comes out.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Of her mouth.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
It has to be removed. What do you think if
it's going to turn out that they didn't have those
extra firefighters on standby because the city of LA didn't.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Want to pay over time.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
I've been asking myself when did I Our practice is
gonna drop teams Louis, all the focuses, all this noose books,
like the Democrats with focus and.
Speaker 8 (15:08):
All this book stuff.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Now we're focus on all this kind of stuff that
don't make don't fit to my wallet. I disagree. I
think they're all winners because they're winning all our money
and they're living the life of kings.
Speaker 13 (15:24):
So now they're winners, not losers.
Speaker 10 (15:27):
So the Weather Service actually said life threatening wins, life
threatening fire danger, and Karen bas Is he it's cocktail
time and gonna pack your gettu out.
Speaker 15 (15:39):
You know, the city of Los Angeles should be able
to run without a mayor.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
It should be run without everybody.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
That's what we pay all these assistants for. I really
don't get it.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
Karon Bess wasn't aware win and fire runnings.
Speaker 15 (15:52):
I didn't send Barbara and I was aware of them
days before.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
They had problem with Karen Bass as a mayor is
she really had no experience to be a leader or
an executive with somebody that makes decisions.
Speaker 15 (16:05):
You know why Bess didn't know about the warnings because
she was too busy preparing the city.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
To save illegal aliens.
Speaker 12 (16:12):
That's her priority. The excuse that Karen Vass is using
that she did not know that it was going to
be a potential fire event, that's crazy.
Speaker 9 (16:23):
I live in San Diego.
Speaker 12 (16:24):
I'm not even the mayor of a city, and the
weather people were telling us for days leading up to
it that it was going to be a catastrophic wind event.
Speaker 15 (16:33):
Who were talking about Bass and not known her karma?
Speaker 7 (16:38):
They're smoking a bowl or having so whiskey.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Come on, Bass, looks like she's.
Speaker 14 (16:44):
High and drunk, just like Kamala three so Bianco, my
sheriff gets in.
Speaker 16 (16:50):
There's going to ruffle some feators like Trump.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Let's go John.
Speaker 16 (16:55):
I'm up here in the North Bay and I knew
that's sane. The wins were coming because I listened to KFI.
What the hell does the mayor listen to looney Tunes?
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Thank you for leaving.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
You're probably not camp goodbye.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
I want to remind you you weren't listening before. Karen
Vass has two hundred and thirty eight staffers in the
mayor's office. We pay in La City twenty five million
dollars a year for two hundred and thirty eight staffers.
She has fourteen deputy mayors, and the guy who's the
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deputy mayor in charge of overseeing the fire and police
department is on leave. He's being investigated for calling bomb
threats to city hall seriously, but none of the two
hundred and thirty eight people apparently called Karen Bass, especially
Kristin Crowley, the fire chief, and that's why she got fired.
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Before we're done here, going to have Tod Spitzer on
and he's going to talk about he's demanding that somebody
in the federal government stopped the Chilean gang members from
landing here in southern California after getting a cheap visa
and then running around and breaking in and burglarizing whatever
they want to do. It's still going on and the
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Kansas City chiefs Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelcey are the
latest victims. But it's been hitting Orange County in La
County for quite some time, and then we have to
talk at least briefly about the protesters who are blocking
with their bodies these semi trucks hauling in toxic waste
to the Calabasas landfill. This is another thing, you know,
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I was talking before how the traffic is impassable for
hours and hours down on the west side. There's so
much toxic junk that they're dragging to the beach of
all places, which I still don't understand how that's being allowed,
and they're trying to drag it to the Calabasas landf
And this is stuff that's ordinarily not allowed in the landfill.
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And everybody's freaking out in Calabasas because they're fraid to
getting cancer from it. And I don't know why they
don't take it out to the desert. But we'll touch
on that as well. So we got a lot to
do yet.
Speaker 7 (19:15):
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Speaker 2 (19:21):
John Cobelt's show Conrad will be coming up after four
o'clock Moistline. In the next segment, We're gonna get We're
gonna get Todd Spitzer on the Orange County District Attorney.
Something that has been in the news for years now.
Chilean criminals gang members they land at lax and other places,
but they particularly have hit Orange County in LA for
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a long time. Well, they hit Kansas City and they
broke into Travis Kelcey's house and Patrick Mahomes's house from
the Chiefs, and that reignited the controversy over how and
why do these Chilean gang members keep getting visas to
company to this country and steal stuff they usually hit.
If they're not hitting shopping centers and stealing from jewelry
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stores or banks, they're going to high end neighborhoods and
stealing everything. They all the valuables they could find in
these people's bedrooms. Let's get Todd Spitzer on because he
was calling all this out again this week. Todd, how
are you hey?
Speaker 4 (20:21):
I'm great. What a day for news man. I really
appreciate Rick Caruso's leadership, so I can't wait to.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Hear from him some more.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
But let me just tell you that was a great interview, John,
Thank you. Look, why in the world do we need
professional athletes homes to get broken into? Before this is
at the top of the news again. I'm prosecuting almost
one hundred individuals from the country of Chile here in
Orange County alone. You know, they go into Disney World
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in Orlando to Orange County, Florida, they traverse across the
United States to Orange County, California, and they break into
homes all along the way. They're not here to go
to Disneyland. They're here to steal from us. And the
interesting thing is, you may recall, maybe six months ago,
I did a press conference with Martinez Strada when he
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was still in the United States Attorney for the Central District,
where he took down or the FBI took down a
rental car agency in West LA that was renting these
high end cars to these Chilean nationals so they would
fit into the neighborhoods with the you know, the like
kind of car they wouldn't, you know, they're not driving
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some Chilapi. They're driving you know, BMW's and everything, so
they would fit in while they were watching our homes
and surveying us. The FBI, John knows about this, The
Department of Justice knows about it, Homeland Security knows about it.
I've been all over television in the country of Chile.
Over this. Everybody knows about this, but the State Department
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and Homeland Security will not terminate this visa program for
the country at Chile. And to remind you, this is
an online application twenty one dollars. It's good for two years.
You can come here ninety days at a time, and
yet requires a background check conducted by the country of ChIL.
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They're the only remaining South American country still in the
program because every other South American country has sent their
criminals here and has been cut off. But no one
wants to cut off Chili.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
And why what do you think is there a story
we don't know about? Obviously there is. Have you heard
anything as to why we get Chile?
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Agree to tell you my speculation. Who's one of the
most powerful people in the government right now for our president,
mister Elon Musk, what's his major interest lithium batteries. What's
the number one export of the country of Chile to
the United States lithium? Now, I hope I'm wrong. I
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hope that I'm not plenty conspiratorial theorist right now, But
I will tell you why wouldn't this be done in
a heartbeat. Is it because of lithium? Somebody needs to
come out and tell me I'm absolutely wrong. I hope
I am absolute because this.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Seems like something that Trump's crowd would take care of
it about three minutes. It's just, you know, and this
visa program. So they can't spend twenty one bucks and
then steal unlimited goods from everybody here in southern California.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
I understand, and I think until the owners of these
various teams, the super wealthy, I don't know what it's
going to take. Let me tell you, what do we
have twenty eight burglaries last week in West the West
end of the valley. Here in Los Angeles, we had
like an unbelievable amount of burglaries. I can promise you.
(23:49):
That's the Chileans. So when are people going to get
just so angry that they're telling all their representatives you've
got to do something about this. We had hearings. If
you remember Kevin McCarthy when he was a Speaker of
the House, my former colleague and the legislature we served together.
Good friend. He came here and we did briefings with
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the FBI, and we brought all this to their attention,
and Kevin heard it firsthand, and then he called hearings
in the House and we testified at those hearings. We
put it on the absolute Washington Capitol Hill agenda, and
now we have members of Congress asking Homeland Security what's
going on, and even their questions now renewed or not
(24:35):
getting answered by Homeland. Now it's Homeland overwhelmed. Did the
new secretary just get appointed? Yes, but I would expect
because everybody knows about this, and the FBI has been
clamoring about this for years now. This should be shut
down at any moment, but it's not happening.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
And you think that Chili might retaliate in some way
that would affect us our ability to get lithium for
the lithium batteries. You know that Elon Musk needs for
his cars.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Well, listen, I'm just trying to connect dots.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
No, no, I'm all in for connecting dots. That's a
fascinating thing.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
We know that the Sultan Sea is not ready, and
we know the Sultan Sea is going to be a
major lithium producer, but it's in production or in development.
But right now, the demands for lithium batteries in this country.
A large portion is coming from the country at Chili.
So I just googled natural resources in Chili and I
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learned through Google that lithium is the number one export
to the United States from that country. And then I
connected dots who is running our government? And why isn't
this being shut down again? I'm making this pronouncement, John,
because I want somebody to tell me publicly I'm wrong,
but they're going to cut off the program.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Well, whether whether you're right or not about the lithium
from Jelly, they should end the program because these guys
have had free reign for many years and they've stolen
a lot of stuff. And maybe breaking into Travis Kelcey's
house and the homes house is what it takes to
get the attention to end it. I guess maybe that's
what it takes because they don't care what happens to
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people who are not star athletes. Everyone else's stuff can
be stolen, but not theirs.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
I don't know. But again, because of the athletes prominence,
it's getting the attention it deserves. I'll take whatever avenue
I can to get this program cut off. If the
athletes need to come together and the professional teams to talk.
It's not just football, it's all these athletes who travel
on the road. Yeah, their houses are being surveyed. People
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know they're not home and they're getting burglarized while they
are other way games.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
All right, Todd, thank you for coming on.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
All right, John, thanks so much.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
All right, Todd Spitzer, the Are County District Attorney. When
we come back, we got a round of the moistline,
and I've got to spend a couple of minutes on
the protesters in Calabasas physically blocking the trucks hauling toxic
waste to the Calabasas landfill. This is pretty wild what
they were doing. And this looks like people who are
(27:20):
going to have to throw their bodies in front of
the trucks to stop all this disgusting waste from being
dumped into the into their towns. That'll be next.
Speaker 7 (27:29):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
But very soon Voiceline Part two Conway will be in here.
I just want to spend a minute or two on
the people in the Calabasas area who threw their bodies
in front of a semi truck hauling toxic waste from
the Palisades. LA Times did a story on Kelly Martino.
She actually stood in front of a freight liner semi truck.
(28:00):
Several dozen people protested they don't want the toxic ash
and debris and toxic soil carted to the landfill in
the area they live. The crowd started chanting back it up.
They were holding signs that said no toxic dumping and
the trucks. The line started getting longer and longer, and
the sheriff's deputies threatened to make arrests if people didn't disperse. Well,
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they would not disperse. Martito said, all the ash and
sludgeon debris is going to come here, and that is
not acceptable. And we're not going to wait for a
bunch of kids to get sick in twenty years. You know,
A Bass and Crowley ought to get arrested. If the
sheriffs have nothing to do, I think it'd be better
to arrest them and not these people trying to protest
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all this toxic waste. Why can't they take the toxic
waste far away where people don't live. And I hear
in on the West Side people were upset because these
trucks carrying the toxic waste are rumbling down Sunset Boulevard
and the dust and the ash is blowing in the air.
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They had another protest Saturday in Calabasas. Also in Granada
Hills there was one at the Sunshine Canyon landfill because
the dust is going to be drifting into all the
neighborhoods and it's also going to leak into the groundwater.
Because you're not supposed to bring this kind of waste
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to the Calabasas landfill or the one of Granada Hills.
It's supposed to go to special landfills that have liners
to prevent leakage and monitors. There's four and a half
million tons of ash and wreckage from the Eaton and
Palisades fire. It's one of the biggest ever in terms
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of debris. But if you go to the Calabasas Landfill,
there are a lot of signs that say no hazardous
waste and it's a local landfills for normal garbage. Another
signed list of the electronics and the household items that
are not accepted because they might contain toxic substances. It
says you have to have a certificate that Verita verifies
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it's non hazardous, but that only applies to private contractors,
not to federally hired crews. One resident says, you cannot
legally bring a battery or a can of spray paint
into this landfill, But now they're allowing hundreds of thousands
of tons of burnt batteries, paint chips, and other things
in the community. It's incomprehensible. Dallas Lawrence said that president
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of the Lust virgin of school Board, this is the
collateral damage because Bass and Crowley didn't do their jobs.
It's all those people who lost their homes, people who
lost their lives. Now nobody can drive around the West Side.
There's so much traffic, and the toxics garbage is being
taken to peaceful towns that had nothing to do with
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the fire. All right, round two, moistline, Let's go. Hey
if Sean, thanks for calling them oistline.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
I'm so excited to hear from you about time.
Speaker 15 (31:05):
Karen Bass is full up, but she doesn't know what
she's doing.
Speaker 14 (31:09):
She's blaming the president.
Speaker 13 (31:11):
Oh, the president asked me to go.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
The President also asked you to get rid.
Speaker 16 (31:15):
Of all those illegal immigrants in the prison and let him,
have him, but she won't do that.
Speaker 11 (31:20):
But Shul'll run off.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
Through Africa the drop of the hat.
Speaker 14 (31:24):
Yeah right, I needn't know what's kind of happening baloney.
Speaker 9 (31:28):
Thinking about Karen Bass and her ilk.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
They've been telling us for at least.
Speaker 9 (31:32):
Twelve to thirteen years that global warming and climate change
are going to trigger extreme weather episodes, and they didn't
prepare the preparation. Lack thereof is inexcusable from newsome on down.
Speaker 5 (31:46):
Karen Bass is so full of and she needs to
wipe that.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
You could smile off.
Speaker 6 (31:51):
Her face because there's nothing to be smiling about with
all the incompetence that she's done, between the television and
the Weather Force and the National Weather coming through and
breaking them on the radio.
Speaker 8 (32:04):
Everybody knew he's cool. He didn't know shared Bass is right,
there wasn't any preparation.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
God, I just wish there was someone.
Speaker 15 (32:11):
In like a good position to initiate preparations throughout, like, oh,
I don't know a mayor.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
The reason that Karen Bass disregarded the arch warning about
the winds is because they disregard their own narrative model
hyperbole with extreme weather events and all these other crap
that they throw out there.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
As Elon goes through all these books and all this
mismanagement and misplacement of money and spend did not show anything.
If you did that in the business, the IRS would
knock your door. So how about if we start sticking
the IRS on all these government agencies that don't know
how to spend their money properly.
Speaker 9 (32:45):
Just doesn't make sense that billions of dollars are going
places and nobody knows where it's going.
Speaker 16 (32:52):
Now, that doesn't make sense.
Speaker 15 (32:54):
Why would anybody take two trains plus a bus that takes.
Speaker 13 (32:58):
Seven hours to go from christ Field to LA when
you can drive from LA to San Francisco in eight
That doesn't make sense. Who was thinking about this? It's
absolutely ludicrous.
Speaker 14 (33:09):
John, Not only that it's not gonna be I see
because the damn train has to stop at stations along
the way, say I'll just get the speed and then
has to stop.
Speaker 11 (33:19):
So Baths basically admitted that she's not capable to do
this job, but yet she's still here. Yeah, I'm gonna
go tell my employer that I'm messing up my job.
I'm wanting how fast I get fired?
Speaker 14 (33:29):
John, Any sane person looked at the people in charge
avenuwsom baths, et cetera, et cetera. And how bad Calfiory
has been burned in the ground. Like me, I got
out of there three years ago. It's just really sad
Born and Raiz California had to go because it's just
being destroyed.
Speaker 15 (33:49):
Karen Bass wants to have I guess an investigation into
what way along with what happened with the fires. Well,
I say go ahead, let it happen. But if there's
gonna be an investigation, that said investigation out of her pocket.
She's the one has to clear herself, not the taxpayers.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
You really think ste so sober Off is not going
to receive this money. Yes, publicly they said he was
gonna do it for free.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Now after they.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Wanted to give him half a million.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Well, I'll guarantee Karen Bats is going to find a
way to still pay him that money she promised, and
absolutely guarantee.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Thank you for leaving your message.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
Please hang up goodbye.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
That's the moistline eight seven seven Moist eighty six for
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the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey, you've been listening
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