June 10, 2025 • 27 mins
Marines are deploying to the Los Angeles area as protests against ICE continue. June 14th marks the 250th anniversary of the military, and it also happens to be President Trump's birthday. A large celebration is planned for both occasions, which will include tanks on the streets.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
These protests, but last night was only a one torch
car night as opposed to a five torch car.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Night from Sunday, So maybe it's getting better.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Although the number of arrests was up last night compared
to the night before, this is.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
So small compared to other protests that we have covered.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
In Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
This is such pageantry for all of the nation to see,
and that is exactly what it is. More deployment of
National Guard members and Marines get a cost, by the way,
one hundred and thirty four million dollars the Defense Department
came out with today, one hundred and thirty four million dollars.
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I think where that could go. Well, we could play
that game all day, couldn't we. But this is something
that the LAPD and the Sheriff's Department and the CHP
know how to handle, and it's nowhere near what they
have handled in the past.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
There's what The one thing that I think is different
this time is that it's ongoing.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
It's been four nights now they're looking for a fifth.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
It's but what's been ongoing a group of a couple
dozen people that come on.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
What I don't understand is they're they're totally playing into
if if Trump says the l A p D can't
handle it or the Sheriff's Department of c HP they
can't handle it. So we're going to send in the
federal troops to to take care of the rioters and
the looters, and then people come out and riot and loot.
What is what's the end game for those people? But
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what's the endgame for somebody who shows up not at
noon at Grand Park to uh.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I can't control the people. I can't control the agitators.
I can't control the people that that. I can't control anybody.
But I I don't want to worry about those people
because they're not the adults in the room. The adults
in the room should know better. I mean, this is
leave the leave the person personalities and the politics aside.
This is a big deal to send in the National
(02:04):
Guard without a governor's okay, leave aside, it's Gavin Newsom,
leave aside, it's Trump. Sixty years, this hasn't happened. It's
not normal. It is for the political pageantry of it
all on both sides. And the last time the National
Guard was called in and the Marines were called in
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were the riots of nineteen ninety two. Widespread, wide spread
city on fire, sixty three people killed.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
That assaults ourson. We don't need to relive that.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
You've all seen the documentaries if you weren't here for it.
It was a city wide mess, and it wasn't just
two blocks downtown, it was everywhere. Now, there was another
occasion I read about this morning. In nineteen ninety two
LAPD officers and the Marines were called to respond to
a domestic disturbance at a local home. It's not just
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the pageantry that I'm worried about. It's the fact that
these are two different entities, agencies trained differently, different protocols.
When you have multiple agencies together, problems happen. There's a
reason why there is a big dog and pony show
at every press conference where all the agencies congratulate each other.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
When they actually work well together, it's rare. They weren't
even on the.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Same radio frequencies, and that was on display on nine
to eleven. So I just really quick what happened in
nineteen ninety two, when the LAPD officers and the Marines
were called to that disturbance at a local home. When
they arrived, a shotgun was fired out the front door,
and a police officer yelled cover me. To the police,
that means prepare to shoot if necessary, but to hold
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your fire. For Marines mean cover me means open fire,
use firepower. The Marines shot more than two hundred bullets
instantly as a response to that command, and three children
were killed inside. And then they left and they haven't
been back since.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Chief McDonald did make a point about that last night
in the news conference of adding a federal layer to this,
on top of the LAPD and the Sheriff's department in
the HP only makes it more confused.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
The introduction of a federal military personnel without direct coordination
creates logistical challenges and risks confusion during critical incidents.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Because I mean exactly to your point that this unit
of the Marine Corps that's supposedly on its way or
here in LA I haven't seen any images I have here,
but it.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Just crossed the wire.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
A military convoy stopped on the ninety one at Weir
Canyon Road. Unclear if this is what the Marines might
be them.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
So this second Battalion, seventh Marines are supposed to come
in and support the National Guard units that are already
here and have been placed under federal command, and their
job to protect federal personnel and buildings. They are not
unless something goes really wrong. They're not standing shoulder to
shoulder with LAPD on a a skirmish line, pushing people
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back across Alameda Street or anything like that. They're there
to protect the federal buildings, whether it's over in Westwood
or right downtown at the roy Ball Building.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
That's what their job is.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
And there the Pentagon has to specifically spell out what
their orders are. And along those lines, the Marine Corps,
who is world renowned for killing bad guys and breaking stuff,
that's what they do.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Their job is to protect stuff right now, So.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
There are literal cards that are going to be handed
out to these Marines that explains to them what their
orders are while they're here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
I'm for I.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Said yesterday that I never thought it was going to
come to this, that I never thought we would see
US Marines boots on the ground in downtown line.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
I don't think that President Trump understands the gravity of
what that means. I think he likes the idea. I
think he likes the pageantry. It goes back to his
military school days. It's ramping up to his birthday parade
for a seventy ninth birthday next week, where it's gonna
be the Kim Jong Un Show in Washington. I mean,
all of this is very much a show, and he
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is a show min Unfortunately, because of the things we've
just laid out, there is the potential for this to
go very wrong. And I'm not talking about the protesters
acting up. I'm talking about there being communication problems between
all of these agencies, and the protocols and the way
to handle things.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
And the precedent that this would set.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
And well, yeah, I don't think that this would happen
with another president.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
I don't think they'd be like well Trump said in
the National Guard in the Marines back in twenty twenty five,
I don't.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Think it would, you know, I think it's very different.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
I think that I don't think there's any precedents being
set with this administration in terms of charting new territory
that other people will follow suit on.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Well, there's this. There's a lot going on. We do
expect Mayor Bass to have a news conference. I believe
it about ten o'clock our time, and we're going to listen
in live to that. Michael Monks has been covering the
story for KFI News. He'll join us a little later
in the show as well.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
There's something going on because everyone on Twitter and all
the social media, they're amplifying this. People who have no
idea about Los Angeles. LA is covered in protesters. Okay,
it's a couple dozen people downtown from time to time
in two square blocks whatever.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
But there's this other.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Thing going on where everyone's getting all up in arms
about the Mexican flags.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Listen, this is a Los Angeles thing.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
It doesn't mean we don't love America. A lot of us,
a lot of people here came from Mexico. That's just
the way it is. And a lot of people here
love Mexico and love the United States, and we have
all made peace with it. It's all copasetic here. But
suddenly on Twitter it's look at these people in their
Mexican flags, and as somebody who is white as the
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day is long and did not grow up in last angels,
but it's been here for a couple decades. I take
umbrage to that. It pisses me off.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Well, it's also, I think, to your point, it's not
new exactly, La. It's not new. Welcome to La. This
is what we've done. We show the people saying, oh, the.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Democrats are doing no good.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
They're not doing themselves any favors flying the Mexican flags.
Getto come on, you know what else isn't doing any good. Honestly,
when I listened to the John Cobell interview yesterday with
Tom Homan, when John says and hands him the freaking
melon sized softball over the plate, Hey, you're not coming
in and resting people's nannies, right, that's not what this
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is about. And Tom Homan goes, wow, f them too,
essentially like that, you're not doing yourself any favors On
that side of the argument, I mean, he didn't say
f them too, but he said, no, if you're if
you're here illegally, you have a problem.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Yeah, you go back. Basically, we'll pay you.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
That thousand dollars to get back home, what have you.
That's not that's not helping the conversation either, right, well.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
There's more a lot more to this.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
Obviously, you're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from
KFI Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
We are awaiting a press conference from the mayor coming
up in just about a half an hour.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
So they moved it to about ten thirty is what
we're looking at now.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Well, that was nice of them because it wasn't going
to start at ten anyway, so it's nice that they
went ahead and officially moved it.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
These things usually run a little bit late.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
There was a masked group of individuals seen hanging out
riot gear to protesters yesterday.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Yeah, I saw this.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Fox eleven I think was the original TV station that
showed this, and they were handing out some masks specifically
that I saw.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
And riot shields and gas masks.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Yeah, and the masks are they're not as advanced as
you might think. They're shields over your face. And they
say that I remember what the bionic shield, bionic shield.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Therefore, autobody shops, if you're working for metals and sparks
and things like that, that's to protect your face. The
very simple question is who the f is doing that?
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Well, their law enforcement shield. Law enforcement wears those from
time to time.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Yes, but there are different ballistic and higher end these
were like twenty five thirty five.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Gets set together, two hands that stuff out.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Listen.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
There's plenty of coverage, there's plenty of opportunity for them
to find who did that, and that I'm not I'm
not sure what law they would break, but I'm sure
there's plenty of them that they could get them for.
And they are stupid enough to drive into a crowd
like that, into a I think it was a Tacoma Toyota,
Tacoma pickup truck and pass that stuff out with their
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license plate showing. So you can imagine that they will
be able to pick up some of those people.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
The DA's office Nathan Hawkman says that he and other
prosecutors are going to be going through social media video
to find violent protesters to bring them to justice. There's
been a lot of call for people not to wear
masks protesting that it's illegal, and we saw a lot
of that even before COVID. Think about the May Day
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protests of years prior, where people use bandanas as masks
and things like that. I would totally put a mask
on if I was protesting because of the effective tear
gas or anything else they're going to shoot out, Like
I can understand it's frustrating, but I can understand why
you would want to have a mask in the event
if something like that happened.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
But outside of a gas mask, a little surgical mask
or a little bandana is not going to prevent the symptom, not.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Going to invent.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
It's a psychosomatic thing.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
If I'm not breathing it in, I think that it's
I'm faring better.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Last night, multiple people arrested after break ins at several
stores downtown, the Adida Store, there was an Apple store
that was looted, the Shoe Palace, a CVS.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
And a marijuana to just Rea Pharmacy jewelry store.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
It just like politicians will let no crisis, not that
this is a crisis, but will let no issue go unused.
Criminals will let no crisis go unused as well. Where
there's going to be protesters, always going to be looting,
and the looters have nothing to do with the messaging.
Usually usually, but we've seen it in every protest, especially
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up in Portland and during the George Floyd protests. Remember
that that looting was extensive, and I listen.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
I said it yesterday.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
This is one of the things that Trump campaigned on
was He's not going to allow our cities to turn
into what Portland became in the summer of twenty twenty,
which was consistent night after night, it went on for
weeks in a couple of months, the ongoing clashes between
at the time there were you know, they're protecting the
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federal building in Portland.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Well, and that's the conversation to have, right It's like,
on one hand, it is this is overkill. There's no
way we need the National Guard, let alone the Marines
coming in.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
We've got this.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
But on the other hand, if you're going to have
the whole conversation, it's, well, he doesn't want it to
get to the level where you do need the National Guard.
You see a smaller issue, you want to squash it
right away so it doesn't become a bigger issue. I
understand that if you want to have a zero tolerance
policy for any sort of protesting in America, that's another part.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Of the conversation to have.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
If you have a zero tolerance policy for anybody in
the streets, even when things go a little bit awry in.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
The scope of things.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Things went awry, but it was only a little bit
in the grand scheme of protests in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Yeah, and we were talking yesterday about there's got to
be a hard line. One thing happens, whatever that is,
a car has torched, a window is broken, a water
bottle is lobbed at the police officer or something that
one line is.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Crossed, but everybody gets cleared off the street. Thing is
is we're built on doing that kind of stuff. The
whole country's built on that. On what what do you
mean I'm protesting.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Yeah, but not not assaulting officers. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Is that's a line.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
That's a line, right, that's a broken window, setting a fire.
Go back to the freaking tea party, you know what
I mean? Like all of this with you start assaulting officers. Yes,
it gets violent, even between officers and protesters, Yes, but
the line cannot be something that comes with a protest
when it comes to a broken window.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Well, that's where I think this has to be established
clearly from the beginning.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
There should be an acknowledgment.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Everybody should know that if you do the thing, whatever
that thing is, it's over and everybody's going to be
cleared off the streets of LA. There are questions about,
by the way, what the Marine Corps is going to do,
how it what it can do.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
We'll talk that.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Pete Heggsuff was actually on Capitol Hill today answering questions
from Congress about some of this.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
So that's coming up.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
A lot going on on this Tuesday, June tenth. President
Trump is actually speaking from the Oval Office right now.
He was there with some Cabinet members and they were
discussing wildfires as we get into the warmer season around
the country. Of course, there were questions about the authorization
of the more National Guard and the Marines that are
coming to California are coming to Los Angeles specifically.
Speaker 6 (15:35):
When I see people the kind of people that I
saw on your network doing danger to the police and
to the military and to the National Guard. Now it's okay,
you know, you running out of people when you have
two thousand people. From this National Guard standpoint, we have
a very big military, but the National Guard they needed
a little extra help, and we said to them, and
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we did a great job. Last night.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
We had well a lot of.
Speaker 6 (16:03):
Cars go up in smoke and plant and a lot
of bad scenes, but it was pretty minor by comparison.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
This morning, it's very calm.
Speaker 6 (16:11):
We'll see what happens later, but they know if they
go there, they're not going to get anywhere because we
have the national that we backed it up with a
number of Marinesia.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
The one thing about the oversaturation of amateur citizen reporters
and things is nothing goes unnoticed. There used to be
protests or really anything that reached national news where you
didn't really get the whole story. People lied to you,
police lied to you, Politicians lied to you about what
was truly happening. At least with the advent of cell
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phones and cameras in everyone's pocket, we're hearing about everything.
If something crazy happened with someone assaulting an officer, we're going.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
To see it on social media.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
When a cops rubber bullet hits the Australian reporter, we're
going to see it. When somebody torches a way MO car.
We see all of this thing because so many people
have armed themselves with their phones and are documenting all
of it in real time.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
I'm I'm curious what he the President is seeing though,
because he's talking about the National Guard doing a great job,
which they have been defending the detention center there, which
has been the scene of a handful of skirmishes, and
there were people out there last night, obviously, But it's
not the National Guard, that's clear it.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
If I've learned one thing from George W.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Bush, it's if you appoint someone to do a job
and they go and do it, you say you're doing
a great job, because it's a reflection of you.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Even if they're not the ones that are actively repelling protesters, looters,
and writers.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Well, the way that Trump looks at it, he probably
thinks those are Newsome's LAPD officers and that the National
Guard troops are his troops, So his troops are doing
a much better job.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
About seventeen hundred members of the California Army National Guards
seventy ninth Infantry Brigade Combat Team, or the one that
are here in la but also in Paramount and Compton
that second Battalion, seventh Marines would be, are the ones
that are coming in to support the soldiers have been
placed under federal command in order to protect federal personnel
and buildings according to According to Northcom, now the Pentagon
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has to come up with rules for engagement for lack
of a better term, what is it that these marines
are going to be doing now? Obviously if they're in
an overseas war zone, it's very different. They have to
be guided by standing rules for the use of force
on American soil that are established and approved by Northern Command.
One United States official even indicated that each of the
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Marines that would be deployed the seven hundred or so
would receive a card that outlines what they could and
could not can and cannot do.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
What kind of cards are going to have these orders,
garry or the index cards?
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Is that what they do? They check your index card
for your orders.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Guys, check your index cards for your orders?
Speaker 5 (18:56):
You school wing nut idiot.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Yes, north Com says each marine will receive a card
that outlines what they can and cannot do. Things like
use of force warning shots would be prohibited. Marines are
first instructed to de escalate, which they have received training
and doing, but they are permitted to act in self defense.
The Pentagon is also developing rules for protecting federal personnel,
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federal property, and for potential detaining civilians if they ever
come under assault. So, yes, those rules are going to
be deployed to I guess is the right term.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
How comes the individual marine?
Speaker 4 (19:41):
How come when I call you those names you don't
chuckle like that.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Because you don't do it with the passion that I
wish that you really lead into it alone. I always say,
with kind of a sly smile, you call me an
f and numb skull.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
No, that was another one that I had to delete.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
But what was What was the other word?
Speaker 3 (20:02):
It was the R word?
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Oh yeah, all right, Well coming up next, As I mentioned,
the president has a big birthday celebration with a military
parade set for this weekend. In conjunction with that, or
to protest that, there are several protests planned around the
country no Kings, protests declaring that we will not be
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a land where a king like Trump will rule. What
could go wrong?
Speaker 3 (20:32):
What could go wrong?
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Maybe it'll be nothing. You thought the Marines weren't coming in.
I thought the kids were going to march out of
the schools. Listen, we're in uncharted territory. Everything you knew,
throw it out the windows, New world order here, that's right, Yes,
you're listening.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
To Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
As I mentioned saying that Diddy's favorite show was you
want to make a guess on what Diddy's favorite.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Real Housewives of Mormonville or whatever that means.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
No, but you're not totally far off. It's one of
all of our favorite shows, Dateline. And if I ever
get murdered, I will be so pissed if it's not
Keith Morrison. Now I celebrate the whole lineup of Dateline.
I think they all do a great job. But if
I don't have Keith Morrison, Keith Morrison, I will be
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real pissed. I'm coming back to haunt whoever made that
decision unless it's Keith Morrison.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Couldn't quite put up with that mouth.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Sometimes I'll say to my husband, like, come on, we'd
get Keith Morrison, right.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
We'd qualify for Keith Morrison. Come on.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
There was a body last night, by the way, a
death investigation underway after a man's body found on a
sidewalk downtown LA, which has been right in that same
area of the protests and the lootings they were called to.
Police were called to the area West third and Broadway
just after about one thirty, they said they found an
unresponsive man. I guess a T mobile store right there
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in that intersection had been looted earlier in the night,
but they're not sure if this had anything to do
with that.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Who wants to loot at tea Mobiles?
Speaker 2 (22:15):
And we've also obviously been talking about the ongoing standoff
between the White House and Governor Newsom, the order to
deploy seven hundred active duty Marines that are apparently on
their way to LA two thousand additional National Guard troops.
There was also a discussion a lot of people have
been complaining that if, excuse me, if the President so
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hip on deploying National Guard units to LA, why weren't
national Guard units deployed during January sixth? There were hundreds
of National Guard units in and around the Capitol before
the January sixth riots took place. It was the DC
leadership that called for them at the time. It wasn't
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President Trump, so obviously he didn't go around the mayor
of DC at the time. But there were National Guard
troops on the ground there on January sixth, twenty twenty one.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
I can't even remember.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
I just say January sixth, I guess it was twenty
twenty one as opposed to twenty twenty.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Yeah, okay, twenty Yes, I did the math. I'm okay
with math.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
I'm right there with you. Listen, it's been We've got
there's been a lot of things that have happened.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
There's a lot, there is a So the other thing
is the two hundred and fifty two hundred and fiftieth
birthday slash anniversary, whatever you want to call it of
the Army is on June fourteenth. You know what else
is June fourteenth, President Trump's birthday. So they're doing a
huge military celebration to honor the two hundred and fiftieth birthday.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
It's a weird way to say it.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Of the army, and it's Trump's birthday, So he's gonna
he's gonna play that up pretty well.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
This isn't just an air show we've all delighted in.
This is a rolling of the tanks through this streets
of DC. Uh just logistics alone. What does that do
to the streets?
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Well, the military, the Army has said they're covering it
like they got it.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
They know what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
It's not really as if a tank is going straight
it's probably not a big deal, but if a tank
has to make a ninety degree turn on those intersections,
it could easily tear up and destroy whatever asphalt is there.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
Picture our streets, but worse.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
They're all it's all going to look like I five
through Burbank pretty soon. Yeah, but the military says they
have plans they're putting iron steel plates down on some
of those places.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
So I mean, just in terms of like aging infrastructure
and in streets and like that, it's it's it's it's
even worse in DC.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
There are also no kings protests that are being planned
for Saturday, that were being planned before what we've seen
the last few days here in LA. But you can
imagine it's probably going to pick up some speed before
June fourteenth.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
The crows up with the names of these things.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
I don't know pr firms.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
One of the co founders of one of these groups,
you don't need to know his name or the name
of the group, said the goal of the protest is
to send a message that the United States has no kings. Duh.
He this is again the guy referring to President Trump.
He is planning your role tanks through the streets of
DC in celebration of his birthday. And that's the thing
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you normally see or wouldn't see in a constitutional republic,
certainly not America. Well, to be clear again, yes, he's
going to take advantage of the fact that it's his birthday.
Plans were made long before Trump was elected president again
for this to be a celebration for the army.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Remember when we got the fire weather forecast before the
big fires and the Palisades and Altadena broke out, and
we sat here and we could feel the urgency and
the horror that was to come.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
Just getting the forecast alone, we could feel it.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
There have been times when we could feel the temperature
of the country ratcheting up or the city ratching it up.
May Day two thousand and six, you could feel the
momentum of the movement almost.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
I'm not feeling that here.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
It's only Tuesday, but I'm not feeling the momentum of
there being huge counter protests to Trump's birthday this weekend.
Yet it is Tuesday, like I said, but I'm just
not feeling it yet. This still seems to me to
be a little weak stream. This no Kings protest.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
I hope you're right, I do too, all right more
when we come back.
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
These protests, but last night was only a one torch
car night as opposed to a five torch car.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Night from Sunday, So maybe it's getting better.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Although the number of arrests was up last night compared
to the night before, this is.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
So small compared to other protests that we have covered.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
In Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
This is such pageantry for all of the nation to see,
and that is exactly what it is. More deployment of
National Guard members and Marines get a cost, by the way,
one hundred and thirty four million dollars the Defense Department
came out with today, one hundred and thirty four million dollars.
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I think where that could go. Well, we could play
that game all day, couldn't we. But this is something
that the LAPD and the Sheriff's Department and the CHP
know how to handle, and it's nowhere near what they
have handled in the past.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
There's what The one thing that I think is different
this time is that it's ongoing.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
It's been four nights now they're looking for a fifth.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
It's but what's been ongoing a group of a couple
dozen people that come on.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
What I don't understand is they're they're totally playing into
if if Trump says the l A p D can't
handle it or the Sheriff's Department of c HP they
can't handle it. So we're going to send in the
federal troops to to take care of the rioters and
the looters, and then people come out and riot and loot.
What is what's the end game for those people? But
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what's the endgame for somebody who shows up not at
noon at Grand Park to uh.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I can't control the people. I can't control the agitators.
I can't control the people that that. I can't control anybody.
But I I don't want to worry about those people
because they're not the adults in the room. The adults
in the room should know better. I mean, this is
leave the leave the person personalities and the politics aside.
This is a big deal to send in the National
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Guard without a governor's okay, leave aside, it's Gavin Newsom,
leave aside, it's Trump. Sixty years, this hasn't happened. It's
not normal. It is for the political pageantry of it
all on both sides. And the last time the National
Guard was called in and the Marines were called in
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were the riots of nineteen ninety two. Widespread, wide spread
city on fire, sixty three people killed.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
That assaults ourson. We don't need to relive that.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
You've all seen the documentaries if you weren't here for it.
It was a city wide mess, and it wasn't just
two blocks downtown, it was everywhere. Now, there was another
occasion I read about this morning. In nineteen ninety two
LAPD officers and the Marines were called to respond to
a domestic disturbance at a local home. It's not just
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the pageantry that I'm worried about. It's the fact that
these are two different entities, agencies trained differently, different protocols.
When you have multiple agencies together, problems happen. There's a
reason why there is a big dog and pony show
at every press conference where all the agencies congratulate each other.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
When they actually work well together, it's rare. They weren't
even on the.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Same radio frequencies, and that was on display on nine
to eleven. So I just really quick what happened in
nineteen ninety two, when the LAPD officers and the Marines
were called to that disturbance at a local home. When
they arrived, a shotgun was fired out the front door,
and a police officer yelled cover me. To the police,
that means prepare to shoot if necessary, but to hold
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your fire. For Marines mean cover me means open fire,
use firepower. The Marines shot more than two hundred bullets
instantly as a response to that command, and three children
were killed inside. And then they left and they haven't
been back since.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Chief McDonald did make a point about that last night
in the news conference of adding a federal layer to this,
on top of the LAPD and the Sheriff's department in
the HP only makes it more confused.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
The introduction of a federal military personnel without direct coordination
creates logistical challenges and risks confusion during critical incidents.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Because I mean exactly to your point that this unit
of the Marine Corps that's supposedly on its way or
here in LA I haven't seen any images I have here,
but it.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Just crossed the wire.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
A military convoy stopped on the ninety one at Weir
Canyon Road. Unclear if this is what the Marines might
be them.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
So this second Battalion, seventh Marines are supposed to come
in and support the National Guard units that are already
here and have been placed under federal command, and their
job to protect federal personnel and buildings. They are not
unless something goes really wrong. They're not standing shoulder to
shoulder with LAPD on a a skirmish line, pushing people
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back across Alameda Street or anything like that. They're there
to protect the federal buildings, whether it's over in Westwood
or right downtown at the roy Ball Building.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
That's what their job is.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
And there the Pentagon has to specifically spell out what
their orders are. And along those lines, the Marine Corps,
who is world renowned for killing bad guys and breaking stuff,
that's what they do.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Their job is to protect stuff right now, So.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
There are literal cards that are going to be handed
out to these Marines that explains to them what their
orders are while they're here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
I'm for I.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Said yesterday that I never thought it was going to
come to this, that I never thought we would see
US Marines boots on the ground in downtown line.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
I don't think that President Trump understands the gravity of
what that means. I think he likes the idea. I
think he likes the pageantry. It goes back to his
military school days. It's ramping up to his birthday parade
for a seventy ninth birthday next week, where it's gonna
be the Kim Jong Un Show in Washington. I mean,
all of this is very much a show, and he
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is a show min Unfortunately, because of the things we've
just laid out, there is the potential for this to
go very wrong. And I'm not talking about the protesters
acting up. I'm talking about there being communication problems between
all of these agencies, and the protocols and the way
to handle things.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
And the precedent that this would set.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
And well, yeah, I don't think that this would happen
with another president.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
I don't think they'd be like well Trump said in
the National Guard in the Marines back in twenty twenty five,
I don't.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Think it would, you know, I think it's very different.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
I think that I don't think there's any precedents being
set with this administration in terms of charting new territory
that other people will follow suit on.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Well, there's this. There's a lot going on. We do
expect Mayor Bass to have a news conference. I believe
it about ten o'clock our time, and we're going to listen
in live to that. Michael Monks has been covering the
story for KFI News. He'll join us a little later
in the show as well.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
There's something going on because everyone on Twitter and all
the social media, they're amplifying this. People who have no
idea about Los Angeles. LA is covered in protesters. Okay,
it's a couple dozen people downtown from time to time
in two square blocks whatever.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
But there's this other.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Thing going on where everyone's getting all up in arms
about the Mexican flags.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Listen, this is a Los Angeles thing.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
It doesn't mean we don't love America. A lot of us,
a lot of people here came from Mexico. That's just
the way it is. And a lot of people here
love Mexico and love the United States, and we have
all made peace with it. It's all copasetic here. But
suddenly on Twitter it's look at these people in their
Mexican flags, and as somebody who is white as the
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day is long and did not grow up in last angels,
but it's been here for a couple decades. I take
umbrage to that. It pisses me off.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Well, it's also, I think, to your point, it's not
new exactly, La. It's not new. Welcome to La. This
is what we've done. We show the people saying, oh, the.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Democrats are doing no good.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
They're not doing themselves any favors flying the Mexican flags.
Getto come on, you know what else isn't doing any good. Honestly,
when I listened to the John Cobell interview yesterday with
Tom Homan, when John says and hands him the freaking
melon sized softball over the plate, Hey, you're not coming
in and resting people's nannies, right, that's not what this
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is about. And Tom Homan goes, wow, f them too,
essentially like that, you're not doing yourself any favors On
that side of the argument, I mean, he didn't say
f them too, but he said, no, if you're if
you're here illegally, you have a problem.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Yeah, you go back. Basically, we'll pay you.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
That thousand dollars to get back home, what have you.
That's not that's not helping the conversation either, right, well.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
There's more a lot more to this.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
Obviously, you're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from
KFI Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
We are awaiting a press conference from the mayor coming
up in just about a half an hour.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
So they moved it to about ten thirty is what
we're looking at now.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Well, that was nice of them because it wasn't going
to start at ten anyway, so it's nice that they
went ahead and officially moved it.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
These things usually run a little bit late.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
There was a masked group of individuals seen hanging out
riot gear to protesters yesterday.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Yeah, I saw this.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Fox eleven I think was the original TV station that
showed this, and they were handing out some masks specifically
that I saw.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
And riot shields and gas masks.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Yeah, and the masks are they're not as advanced as
you might think. They're shields over your face. And they
say that I remember what the bionic shield, bionic shield.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Therefore, autobody shops, if you're working for metals and sparks
and things like that, that's to protect your face. The
very simple question is who the f is doing that?
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Well, their law enforcement shield. Law enforcement wears those from
time to time.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Yes, but there are different ballistic and higher end these
were like twenty five thirty five.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Gets set together, two hands that stuff out.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Listen.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
There's plenty of coverage, there's plenty of opportunity for them
to find who did that, and that I'm not I'm
not sure what law they would break, but I'm sure
there's plenty of them that they could get them for.
And they are stupid enough to drive into a crowd
like that, into a I think it was a Tacoma Toyota,
Tacoma pickup truck and pass that stuff out with their
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license plate showing. So you can imagine that they will
be able to pick up some of those people.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
The DA's office Nathan Hawkman says that he and other
prosecutors are going to be going through social media video
to find violent protesters to bring them to justice. There's
been a lot of call for people not to wear
masks protesting that it's illegal, and we saw a lot
of that even before COVID. Think about the May Day
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protests of years prior, where people use bandanas as masks
and things like that. I would totally put a mask
on if I was protesting because of the effective tear
gas or anything else they're going to shoot out, Like
I can understand it's frustrating, but I can understand why
you would want to have a mask in the event
if something like that happened.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
But outside of a gas mask, a little surgical mask
or a little bandana is not going to prevent the symptom, not.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Going to invent.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
It's a psychosomatic thing.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
If I'm not breathing it in, I think that it's
I'm faring better.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Last night, multiple people arrested after break ins at several
stores downtown, the Adida Store, there was an Apple store
that was looted, the Shoe Palace, a CVS.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
And a marijuana to just Rea Pharmacy jewelry store.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
It just like politicians will let no crisis, not that
this is a crisis, but will let no issue go unused.
Criminals will let no crisis go unused as well. Where
there's going to be protesters, always going to be looting,
and the looters have nothing to do with the messaging.
Usually usually, but we've seen it in every protest, especially
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up in Portland and during the George Floyd protests. Remember
that that looting was extensive, and I listen.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
I said it yesterday.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
This is one of the things that Trump campaigned on
was He's not going to allow our cities to turn
into what Portland became in the summer of twenty twenty,
which was consistent night after night, it went on for
weeks in a couple of months, the ongoing clashes between
at the time there were you know, they're protecting the
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federal building in Portland.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Well, and that's the conversation to have, right It's like,
on one hand, it is this is overkill. There's no
way we need the National Guard, let alone the Marines
coming in.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
We've got this.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
But on the other hand, if you're going to have
the whole conversation, it's, well, he doesn't want it to
get to the level where you do need the National Guard.
You see a smaller issue, you want to squash it
right away so it doesn't become a bigger issue. I
understand that if you want to have a zero tolerance
policy for any sort of protesting in America, that's another part.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Of the conversation to have.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
If you have a zero tolerance policy for anybody in
the streets, even when things go a little bit awry in.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
The scope of things.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Things went awry, but it was only a little bit
in the grand scheme of protests in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Yeah, and we were talking yesterday about there's got to
be a hard line. One thing happens, whatever that is,
a car has torched, a window is broken, a water
bottle is lobbed at the police officer or something that
one line is.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Crossed, but everybody gets cleared off the street. Thing is
is we're built on doing that kind of stuff. The
whole country's built on that. On what what do you
mean I'm protesting.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Yeah, but not not assaulting officers. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Is that's a line.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
That's a line, right, that's a broken window, setting a fire.
Go back to the freaking tea party, you know what
I mean? Like all of this with you start assaulting officers. Yes,
it gets violent, even between officers and protesters, Yes, but
the line cannot be something that comes with a protest
when it comes to a broken window.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Well, that's where I think this has to be established
clearly from the beginning.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
There should be an acknowledgment.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Everybody should know that if you do the thing, whatever
that thing is, it's over and everybody's going to be
cleared off the streets of LA. There are questions about,
by the way, what the Marine Corps is going to do,
how it what it can do.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
We'll talk that.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Pete Heggsuff was actually on Capitol Hill today answering questions
from Congress about some of this.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
So that's coming up.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
A lot going on on this Tuesday, June tenth. President
Trump is actually speaking from the Oval Office right now.
He was there with some Cabinet members and they were
discussing wildfires as we get into the warmer season around
the country. Of course, there were questions about the authorization
of the more National Guard and the Marines that are
coming to California are coming to Los Angeles specifically.
Speaker 6 (15:35):
When I see people the kind of people that I
saw on your network doing danger to the police and
to the military and to the National Guard. Now it's okay,
you know, you running out of people when you have
two thousand people. From this National Guard standpoint, we have
a very big military, but the National Guard they needed
a little extra help, and we said to them, and
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we did a great job. Last night.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
We had well a lot of.
Speaker 6 (16:03):
Cars go up in smoke and plant and a lot
of bad scenes, but it was pretty minor by comparison.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
This morning, it's very calm.
Speaker 6 (16:11):
We'll see what happens later, but they know if they
go there, they're not going to get anywhere because we
have the national that we backed it up with a
number of Marinesia.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
The one thing about the oversaturation of amateur citizen reporters
and things is nothing goes unnoticed. There used to be
protests or really anything that reached national news where you
didn't really get the whole story. People lied to you,
police lied to you, Politicians lied to you about what
was truly happening. At least with the advent of cell
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phones and cameras in everyone's pocket, we're hearing about everything.
If something crazy happened with someone assaulting an officer, we're going.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
To see it on social media.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
When a cops rubber bullet hits the Australian reporter, we're
going to see it. When somebody torches a way MO car.
We see all of this thing because so many people
have armed themselves with their phones and are documenting all
of it in real time.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
I'm I'm curious what he the President is seeing though,
because he's talking about the National Guard doing a great job,
which they have been defending the detention center there, which
has been the scene of a handful of skirmishes, and
there were people out there last night, obviously, But it's
not the National Guard, that's clear it.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
If I've learned one thing from George W.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Bush, it's if you appoint someone to do a job
and they go and do it, you say you're doing
a great job, because it's a reflection of you.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Even if they're not the ones that are actively repelling protesters, looters,
and writers.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Well, the way that Trump looks at it, he probably
thinks those are Newsome's LAPD officers and that the National
Guard troops are his troops, So his troops are doing
a much better job.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
About seventeen hundred members of the California Army National Guards
seventy ninth Infantry Brigade Combat Team, or the one that
are here in la but also in Paramount and Compton
that second Battalion, seventh Marines would be, are the ones
that are coming in to support the soldiers have been
placed under federal command in order to protect federal personnel
and buildings according to According to Northcom, now the Pentagon
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has to come up with rules for engagement for lack
of a better term, what is it that these marines
are going to be doing now? Obviously if they're in
an overseas war zone, it's very different. They have to
be guided by standing rules for the use of force
on American soil that are established and approved by Northern Command.
One United States official even indicated that each of the
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Marines that would be deployed the seven hundred or so
would receive a card that outlines what they could and
could not can and cannot do.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
What kind of cards are going to have these orders,
garry or the index cards?
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Is that what they do? They check your index card
for your orders.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Guys, check your index cards for your orders?
Speaker 5 (18:56):
You school wing nut idiot.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Yes, north Com says each marine will receive a card
that outlines what they can and cannot do. Things like
use of force warning shots would be prohibited. Marines are
first instructed to de escalate, which they have received training
and doing, but they are permitted to act in self defense.
The Pentagon is also developing rules for protecting federal personnel,
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federal property, and for potential detaining civilians if they ever
come under assault. So, yes, those rules are going to
be deployed to I guess is the right term.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
How comes the individual marine?
Speaker 4 (19:41):
How come when I call you those names you don't
chuckle like that.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Because you don't do it with the passion that I
wish that you really lead into it alone. I always say,
with kind of a sly smile, you call me an
f and numb skull.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
No, that was another one that I had to delete.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
But what was What was the other word?
Speaker 3 (20:02):
It was the R word?
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Oh yeah, all right, Well coming up next, As I mentioned,
the president has a big birthday celebration with a military
parade set for this weekend. In conjunction with that, or
to protest that, there are several protests planned around the
country no Kings, protests declaring that we will not be
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a land where a king like Trump will rule. What
could go wrong?
Speaker 3 (20:32):
What could go wrong?
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Maybe it'll be nothing. You thought the Marines weren't coming in.
I thought the kids were going to march out of
the schools. Listen, we're in uncharted territory. Everything you knew,
throw it out the windows, New world order here, that's right, Yes,
you're listening.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
To Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
As I mentioned saying that Diddy's favorite show was you
want to make a guess on what Diddy's favorite.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Real Housewives of Mormonville or whatever that means.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
No, but you're not totally far off. It's one of
all of our favorite shows, Dateline. And if I ever
get murdered, I will be so pissed if it's not
Keith Morrison. Now I celebrate the whole lineup of Dateline.
I think they all do a great job. But if
I don't have Keith Morrison, Keith Morrison, I will be
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real pissed. I'm coming back to haunt whoever made that
decision unless it's Keith Morrison.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Couldn't quite put up with that mouth.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Sometimes I'll say to my husband, like, come on, we'd
get Keith Morrison, right.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
We'd qualify for Keith Morrison. Come on.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
There was a body last night, by the way, a
death investigation underway after a man's body found on a
sidewalk downtown LA, which has been right in that same
area of the protests and the lootings they were called to.
Police were called to the area West third and Broadway
just after about one thirty, they said they found an
unresponsive man. I guess a T mobile store right there
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in that intersection had been looted earlier in the night,
but they're not sure if this had anything to do
with that.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Who wants to loot at tea Mobiles?
Speaker 2 (22:15):
And we've also obviously been talking about the ongoing standoff
between the White House and Governor Newsom, the order to
deploy seven hundred active duty Marines that are apparently on
their way to LA two thousand additional National Guard troops.
There was also a discussion a lot of people have
been complaining that if, excuse me, if the President so
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hip on deploying National Guard units to LA, why weren't
national Guard units deployed during January sixth? There were hundreds
of National Guard units in and around the Capitol before
the January sixth riots took place. It was the DC
leadership that called for them at the time. It wasn't
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President Trump, so obviously he didn't go around the mayor
of DC at the time. But there were National Guard
troops on the ground there on January sixth, twenty twenty one.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
I can't even remember.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
I just say January sixth, I guess it was twenty
twenty one as opposed to twenty twenty.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Yeah, okay, twenty Yes, I did the math. I'm okay
with math.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
I'm right there with you. Listen, it's been We've got
there's been a lot of things that have happened.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
There's a lot, there is a So the other thing
is the two hundred and fifty two hundred and fiftieth
birthday slash anniversary, whatever you want to call it of
the Army is on June fourteenth. You know what else
is June fourteenth, President Trump's birthday. So they're doing a
huge military celebration to honor the two hundred and fiftieth birthday.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
It's a weird way to say it.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Of the army, and it's Trump's birthday, So he's gonna
he's gonna play that up pretty well.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
This isn't just an air show we've all delighted in.
This is a rolling of the tanks through this streets
of DC. Uh just logistics alone. What does that do
to the streets?
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Well, the military, the Army has said they're covering it
like they got it.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
They know what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
It's not really as if a tank is going straight
it's probably not a big deal, but if a tank
has to make a ninety degree turn on those intersections,
it could easily tear up and destroy whatever asphalt is there.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
Picture our streets, but worse.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
They're all it's all going to look like I five
through Burbank pretty soon. Yeah, but the military says they
have plans they're putting iron steel plates down on some
of those places.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
So I mean, just in terms of like aging infrastructure
and in streets and like that, it's it's it's it's
even worse in DC.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
There are also no kings protests that are being planned
for Saturday, that were being planned before what we've seen
the last few days here in LA. But you can
imagine it's probably going to pick up some speed before
June fourteenth.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
The crows up with the names of these things.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
I don't know pr firms.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
One of the co founders of one of these groups,
you don't need to know his name or the name
of the group, said the goal of the protest is
to send a message that the United States has no kings. Duh.
He this is again the guy referring to President Trump.
He is planning your role tanks through the streets of
DC in celebration of his birthday. And that's the thing
(25:32):
you normally see or wouldn't see in a constitutional republic,
certainly not America. Well, to be clear again, yes, he's
going to take advantage of the fact that it's his birthday.
Plans were made long before Trump was elected president again
for this to be a celebration for the army.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Remember when we got the fire weather forecast before the
big fires and the Palisades and Altadena broke out, and
we sat here and we could feel the urgency and
the horror that was to come.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
Just getting the forecast alone, we could feel it.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
There have been times when we could feel the temperature
of the country ratcheting up or the city ratching it up.
May Day two thousand and six, you could feel the
momentum of the movement almost.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
I'm not feeling that here.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
It's only Tuesday, but I'm not feeling the momentum of
there being huge counter protests to Trump's birthday this weekend.
Yet it is Tuesday, like I said, but I'm just
not feeling it yet. This still seems to me to
be a little weak stream. This no Kings protest.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
I hope you're right, I do too, all right more
when we come back.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
You've been listening to The Gary and Shannon Show.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
You can always hear us live on KFI AM six
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