July 7, 2025 • 29 mins
#SWAMPWATCH – Trump criticizes Elon’s new political party. A pediatrician has been accused of killing her daughter, claiming that she drowned, while the father believes she is mentally unstable and has been trying to gain custody of their child. KFI – Michael Monks reports that federal agents have been seen in an armored vehicle at MacArthur Park.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to k
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demand on the iHeartRadio app. Gary is Audi is on vacation.
In fact, he just texted me a picture.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Do you know people like this in your life? I mean,
he deserves a vacation.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
But at ten thirty this morning, he sent me a
picture of Maui palm trees, what appears to be a backyard,
possibly of his airbnb.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
There's a pool anyway.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
It's a beautiful picture of clearly Hawaii, clearly palm trees,
and he deserves to have a great time. But he
sends this to me knowing full well, I'm in a
padded room in Burbank doing the show which I love
to do.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I would rather be here than on Maui. I really would.
I really would.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
I'm gonna keep telling myself that and then it'll sink in.
But we are following all of the news for you,
of course, here at KFI on the Gary and Shannon Show.
Did you hear about the two women from the UK? Oh,
my goodness, UK and New Zealand actually two elderly female tourists.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
You know you've lived your life.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
You've done your job, you've raised your kids, and now
it's time for some me time. So you and your buddy,
your other friend, you're like, let's go on a safari.
So they go on a safari and Zambia is where.
It was a national park in Zambia and they were
killed by an elephant. They were attacked by a female
elephant who was with her baby in the national park.
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Safari guides or with the group tried to stop the
elephant from charging at the women by shooting at it.
The elephant was hit but just injured. The two tourists
were killed. My goodness, But what a way to go
as well. You've lived your life, you raise your kids,
you had a good time. You're on a safari and
that's how you go by nature. Well, Trump today is
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slamming first buddy Elon Musk for this story that won't
die Musk's assertion that we need a third political party
in this country. Trump spoke with reporters before boarding Air
Force one today in Bedminster, New Jersey.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
He had this to say.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
I think it's ridiculous to start a third party. We
have a tremendous success with the Republican Party. The Democrats
have lost their way.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
But it's always been a two party system and I
think starting a third party.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Just adds to confusion. It really seems to have been
developed for two parties.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Third parties have.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Never worked, so.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
He can have fun with it, but I think it's ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
All right.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
So this all started over the weekend when Musk took
to his musk own Twitter to talk about it's where
we kick off swamp Watch.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
I'm a politician, which means I'm a cheat and a liar.
And when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing their lollipops. Yeah,
we got.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
The real problem is that our leaders are done.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
The other side never quits. I'm not going anywhere.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
So how you.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Train the swat?
Speaker 2 (03:05):
I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by
what has been. You know, Americans have always been going
at present.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
They're not stupid.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
How political flunder is when a politician actually tells the truth.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Why have the people voted for you were not swamp Watch?
They're all counter knowing.
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the Donald Trump Elon Musk feud began Over the weekend.
There was a viral poll on independence stay July fourth,
on x where Elon Musk asked whether voters wanted independence
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from what he called the two party systems. Some would
say uniparty. I gotta say the first poll he put
up there that asked this, I voted yes. I think
that I am not alone in being frustrated over the
two party polarization circus that we find ourselves in. What's
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become of both parties are not what I remember from
even twenty years ago. But anyway, so he asks whether
voters want independence from this party system, and over one
point two million votes were cast, sixty five point four
percent said yes. He posted on Saturday, by a factor
of two to one. You want a new political party,
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and you shall have it. He went on to say,
when it comes to bankrupting our country with waste and graft,
we live in a one party system, not a democracy. Today,
the America Party is formed to give you back your freedom.
Trump sees this jumps on truth Social to go after
Musk and giving some insight on what was the straw
(04:50):
that broke the friendships back. And I remember dialing in
on this and realizing this is what it was in
real time because it was obvious to me. But Trump
takes truth Social and says, I'm very saddened to watch
Elon Musk go completely off the rails, becoming a train
wreck over the past five weeks. He even wants to
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start a third political party, despite the fact that they
have never succeeded in the US. The system seems not
designed for them. Trump said the one thing third parties
are good for as a creation of complete and total
disruption and chaos. And we have enough of that with
the radical left Democrats who have lost their confidence and
their minds. He went on to talk about Republicans have
running a smooth running machine. Trump has said he has
(05:34):
been strongly opposed to the ev mandate from the very beginning,
and that this new bill that was passed on Friday
allows customers consumers to buy whatever type of vehicle they want,
whether it's electric, gas or hybrid hybrid powered. This is
the bill that eliminates the electric vehicle mandate, and it
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has been said that this is what has angered Elon Musk. Trump,
for his part, says, I can't pined on this for
two years. And when Elon gave me his total and
unquestioned endorsement, I asked him whether or not he knew
that I was going to terminate the EV mandate. It
was in every speech I made, every conversation I had.
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Trump said, And you know that's the thing about Trump,
You know who the guy is. He's like McDonald's. Don't
be surprised by the McChicken sandwich. It's just been the
same your whole lifetime. I was watching that Barbara Walters
documentary on Hulu. I believe it was with my mom
last week. And Barbara Walters, by the way they she
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was said to not do well with women. I'm interviewing women.
They had women that she had interviewed, Bette Midler, Oprah,
and I got to say from their interviews, but Barbara
Walters did not do well with women.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Not a lot of love loss there.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
But she's interviewing Trump from the I want to say,
early eighties, maybe mid eighties, and he's talking about the
press back then, and he's telling barbar alters to her face.
I don't believe in you. I think that you lie.
I think the media lies. I mean, this is a
guy who really does stick to.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
His talking points.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Very rarely is this somebody who changes up the tune
of what of what they're they're saying or what they're selling.
And he's right, he has struck out against the av
mandate in every speech. So it was odd when Elon
Musk was the single biggest contributor to his campaign and
then became his buddy, and the two were inseparable, as
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inseparable as those two personality types can be in recent months.
But I don't know where this goes from here other
than Musk holding polls. We've all we've all fallen for
the third party idea, the promise, the ideology of oh,
a different way of doing it. This isn't the first
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time that sixty five point four percent of people polled
are frustrated with both the parties. The biggest third party
effort in recent history was going Toad Ross Parro and
if you're barely even my age, you need a refresher.
Ross Proro ran in ninety two. He earned nearly nineteen
percent of the popular vote. As an independent did not
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win a single electoral college vote, and the electoral college
is really where the buck stops. As long as that
system is in place, it's going to be really hard
to break through. That was the closest a third party
candidate got to the White House after Teddy Roosevelt and
his Bull Moose Party run in nineteen twelve against his
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one time protege William Howard Taft. For that chapter in
presidential history, you'll have to tune into another podcast.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
But you know the Ralph.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
I voted for Ralph Nader at one point he tried
with the Green Party.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
I voted for Gary Johnson.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
This is something I've fallen for a couple times, but
no third party candidate comes close to winning the presidency.
And every time we talk about a third party candidate,
I think we're in uncharted waters.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
No, but this is the time. This is the time.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
We're more frustrated now than we ever have been before.
This is the time. But it's never the time. You
just need too much money and legally it's just too
hard to do. So either fix what we've got or
throw the whole damn system out. Those are your only options.
If we're going to be realistic about it, all right.
Coming up next, we got a little bit of true
crime Monday. A pediatrician is in trouble for killing her daughter,
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A daughter, she says, drowned.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
We'll tell you what we know.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
It's very fresh case that is raising eyebrows, I believe
in Indianapolis.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
We'll talk about it when we come back.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
This story peaked my interest because it involves a woman
and a murder, and not just that, but a pediatrician,
and not just that but the murder of her daughter.
Police have arrested a doctor from Oklahoma City accused of
killing her four year old daughter. It's an odd It's
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an odd headline on its face that a doctor, a pediatrician,
a female would kill their child, let alone a daughter,
let alone a four year old. The child was found
floating in the pool of their rental home in Miami.
The doctor's name is Naha, she's thirty six, and Neha
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was arrested and will be charged with first degree murder.
According to Miami Dade. They say that officers responded to
a nine to one to one call saying a child
was drowning in a swimming pool. There was an autopsy performed,
and the doctor who performed the autopsy on the four
year old girl did not find water in the child's
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lungs or the stomach, which means we've watched enough true crime,
haven't we. If there is no water in the child's
lungs or stuff, that means that the child died before
they were put into the water. Drowning could not have
been the cause of death. Look at us detectives. An
actual detective, Kevin Rodriguez with the Miami Dade Sheriff's Office,
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said he believed that mom attempted to conceal the killing
of the girl by staging this accidental drowning. The Sheriff's
office says Naha and her daughter Aria had traveled from
Oklahoma City June twenty fifth, and we're staying at a
rental property when the little girl was found in the pool.
Not out of the realm of possibility. You're in Oklahoma City.
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You want to go to Florida for the summer for
a time with your kid, right, But mom subsequently traveled
back to Oklahoma City after the little girl was found dead,
and a multi state investigation was opened. She was booked
into the Oklahoma County Detention Center. She was charged with
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fleeing to avoid persecution, prosecut cutionin and she's pending extradition
as we speak now. Her lawyer has said this is
all boloney. He says, my client did not murder her daughter.
These charges are absurd. Of course she came back. This
is this is insane, This is ridiculous, he told the
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Associated Press. No one thought in a million years should
be charged with murder. She's simply coming home. She gave
voluntarily multiple statements with me to the police, and they
were always consistent. This is Mom's story. Mom says she
woke up. Excuse me. Mom says that she woke up
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her daughter, who was asleep after a day at the beach.
The two had gone to the beach and the daughter
came home, took a nap, and she woke her up
about nine pm so they could have dinner, get something
in her stomach because she'd been sleeping, and that she
and her daughter eventually went to sleep together about twelve
thirty am in the main bedroom of that rental home.
About three am, Mom wakes up, here's a noise and
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she realizes that her daughter is not in the bed
and that a sliding glass door connecting the bedroom with
the outside patio is open now. Mom says that she
had previously locked it, or she thought she did, and
that when she looks outside, she sees her daughter submerged
in the pool, and that she tried to get her
out but couldn't because she doesn't know how to swim.
Mom says that after trying for about ten minutes, she
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called nine to one one. That's odd, right, Even if
you can't swim, Everything in your body jumps in that pool.
Every cell in your being jumps in that pool. It
would jump in the mouth of a tiger to save
your daughter, you would think, right. Apparently, the autopsy found
that the injuries are consistent with exphyxiation by smothering, that
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she was dead the little girl before being placed in
the pool, and that the lawyer, however, is saying that
they are rushing to this arrest without investigating none of
the tools the investment, good investigatory tools have come to
fruition his words that she's being labeled as a murderer
sitting in jail and she should be bearing her child
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will Apparently, look no further than the lengthy legal battle
for custody and dad saying I didn't even know my
ex wife took my daughter to Florida PS. I've been
fighting so hard for custody because my ex is a
crazy pants, and I've been hoping that there'd be some
court ordered psych treatment going on because she showed signs
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of being a crazy pants. I'll probably hear more about
this again. A pediatrician thirty six years old, kills charged
with killing her four year old daughter, says that.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
She didn't do it all right.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
When we come back, we'll stay on top of all
of the action at MacArthur Park downtown. Federal agents are
carrying out in operation that a report from the scene.
We've got protesters now, Karen Bass walked through there. Gavin
Newsom's supposed to be in town today. The two are
supposed to hold some sort of press availability about the
raids at new So keep it right here. We've got
more information coming up.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
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Speaker 1 (15:09):
We continue to follow the breaking news out of downtown
Los Angeles MacArthur Park to be exact now, the Associated
Press is reporting that about ninety National Guard troops over
a dozen humvs have been sent to protect immigration officers
in this Los Angeles operation. You have that report out
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of Washington, but then you have the reports out of
MacArthur Park that many of the federal authorities were gathered
in the vicinity of MacArthur Park appear to be leaving
the area in a.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Series of vehicles.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Dozens of protesters have descended on the scene. This began
unfolding about maybe thirty five forty minutes ago, where the
first reports of federal immigration agents a massing near MacArthur
Park came to our attend Officers were staging in the area,
Border patrol agents on horseback moving through the park. Michael
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Monks has been on this activity in downtown LA since
the protests and the raids began and has been following
this today. And is this in conjunction of Michael with
the fact that Gavin Newsom and Mayor Bass will be
holding an availability today.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
I mean, you can't hold it against the federal government
because of the ongoing battle between the local and state
authorities and President Trump. I know they would love to
stick it to the I don't know though, that that
would play a role in their plans to enforce the
immigration policy that they are here to enforce. This, however,
started as a scene that looked larger than any we
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have seen since all of this began in early June.
As it began in Earnest, this scene was huge. They
had people on horseback riding through MacArthur Park, and if
you know MacArthur Park, huge immigrant population. There, a lot
of street vendors. The area is also crime ridden. We've
heard a lot about Langers Delhi, for example, complaining about
the situation out there. I mean, it is a desperate
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part of the city, but it is full of immigrants.
What exactly these federal agents were looking to do is
unclear with such a massive response and then such a
quick turnaround and departure, because protesters did show up, as
they do at every LA operation, a pretty significant number
of protesters, but so did Mayor Bass. Mayor Bass was
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there very very quickly. I saw her around some federal agents.
She took a phone from a federal agent. It looked
like she had been connected to somebody somewhere to talk,
and then she also left the scene. She's supposed to
be speaking with the governor to the public very soon
about the six month mark since the wildfires in January.
I'm sure that the activity of MacArthur Park has changed
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her plan remarks a little bit, So hopefully we'll hear
from her about this.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Yeah, we're going to make no doubt about that, because
this has been their unofficial purpose politically. When you look
at a nationwide kind of feel for this story, it's
landed on Los Angeles, landed on Governor Newsom, Karen Bass.
Both have been lifted up when it comes to notoriety
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on a national scale because of them facing off against
the president. So you wonder what the genesis was of this,
who was behind this raid? It was it was it
the federal government that knew Newsom was in town and
let's make some hay.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Out of this, or was it Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
It's obviously worthy of speculation, but that's all we can
do at this point because we don't know for certain.
What we do know is that borders are Tom Holman
just said today, Look, we're coming for the sanctuary cities.
We are ramping up enforcement there. The immigration cruise. They
got a pretty significant boost in funding from the One
Big Beautiful Bill and.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
How about Karen Bass being seen at an act of
what appears to be an active federal immigration rate.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
It's pretty ballsy.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
And she got shouted at by some of the protesters too,
I mean.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
Because she didn't set this up for cameras. No, No,
she just appeared. She was probably on our way to
meet the governor. And again I'm not exactly sure when
she got word that this immigration activity was unfolding, but
she did show up as it was unfolding and walked
through the midst of it. And again I had a
quick conversation with an agent on the ground, took a
phone I don't know who she was connected to, and
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then she left and the federal agents also left. So
whatever they were looking to do there, it doesn't look
like they executed that plan.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Somewhere, Gavin Newsom's like, get me there.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
Yeah, the hairspray is loaded and he's ready. But I imagine,
like I said that, you know, they were here to
talk about the fires the six month mark, but they're
probably gonna have to say something about this.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
It's hard to ignore this.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
I mean, the pressure on the federal government to stop
the raids has only gotten heavier.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
And this was nothing like the car wash raids that
we've seen or the home depot raids. You might have
three or four federal vehicles show up at those. You see,
you know, a handful of people detained. This looked like
a military op. This was a massive response.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
MacArthur Park is always the seems always the backdrop for
major immigration movements because, as you mentioned, it's such a
hub for the immigrant community, and many in the immigrant
community will be the first to say we need to
clean up MacArthur Park because of the zombies and the
open drug market and all of that that has completely
ruined you can enjoy a park, you cannot and they
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can't do their businesses either. So I think there's a
divide in that community over whether they want the police
presence there. Sure, if you're a sanctuary city, bring in
the police. If they're not going to send us away,
they're not going to hassle us for papers or what
have you. You want the police there to I don't know,
get rid of that drug market that's able to continually operate.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
I mean, any sensible person would want to clean up
that park. Again, it's one of those things like it's
not on paper, it's a beautiful situation. You have this
grassy oasis in the middle of an urban backdrop. But
I've been over there and you really can't sit because
there is so much open air drug activity that takes
place there. And there's been complaints about the sidewalk street fending,
which does include a lot of immigrants maybe a varying statuses,
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who are blocking a lot of the sidewalks selling the
goods there. We've heard from the borders are that they
will probably be targeting work sites as well as they
ramp up enforcement in sanctuary cities like Los Angeles. So
whatever that had to do with today is unclear, but
hopefully we'll know more soon.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
All right, And Langers, you're not going to get a
better pastromi samwich? Do it Rye sauer Kraut thousand Island
Swiss cheese the way a pastrami should be done. Really
a rubin you know. Sorry, I got sidey and they
took their exert charge off, so oh you can head
down there row.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
An egg on that bad boy. So this is it
a noon press conference.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
They're supposed to be starting any minute. The governor and
the mayor pressors do tend to be a little slow
on the draw.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Where is it supposed to be.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
It's in one of the fire zones. Forgive me, I
didn't bring my note in, but it's either in Palisades
or in Altadena.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
They're not going to get there anytime soon.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Right For MacArthur Park, that's at.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Least an hour from If you're looking at the Palisades,
it's an hour and a half summer traffic.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Is she going to go buy air?
Speaker 4 (22:10):
She was in a vehicle.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
She was in a vehicle.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
I don't think she was flying.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Huh, well, the yeah, City of LA they'd have to
do it in the Palisades's.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
You know, the governor is going to be streaming it,
So that's how I are svp'd for it, so you
can watch it in your underwear, so I can bring
you more news throughout the day, so I won't be
on site.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Unfortunately, do you wear your underwear in the newsroom. There's
not that many people who work there anymore. So I
was wondering if you could get away with.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
You me just like visibly. Yeah, no, no, I'm still
a gentleman. Because you have cubicles that are kind of
cut off, kind of you could do.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
I don't know why this conversation derailed I boxers or briefs,
boxer briefs.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Oh right, yeah, yeah, we've talked about that before. Thank you, Michael.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
All right, we will monitor the press conference from the
mayor and the governor and bring you in pertinent information.
We've got a massive twelve o'clock hour coming up and
a story about how chatbots may be beneficial to humans.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
We don't do that often.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
We're getting some details from the Department of Defense, some
details from Washington about what's going on right in our
backyard here in MacArthur Park in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
The defense officials.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Say about ninety members of the California National Guard and
over a dozen military vehicles like humvies are helping protect
immigration officers. Remember there was earlier today officers fired.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Upon somewhere else. I want to say it was Texas.
I will look it up.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
But this has been a contentious situation with these raids,
as you can imagine. So all the activity that has
been reported on has drawn protesters there in MacArthur Park
with federal agents, the extra agents who appear to be agents,
but are actually National Guard and military personnel. They are
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there to protect the agents. Apparently that's according to the
Defense officials. This is going on in MacArthur Park. Of course,
Trump has stepped up efforts in these raids recently, officials
telling reporters that this is not a military operation, but
that the size and the scope of the guards participation
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today may make it look like. One of the public
officials from the Defense Department, speaking on the condition of
anonymity to provide details about this these were not details
that were announced publicly, by the way, the raid details
before it happened, but one of the officials that it's
just going to be more overt and larger than we
usually participate in. That the role of the service members
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would be to protect the immigration enforcement officers in case
a hostile crowd gathered, but they are not participating in
any law enforcement arrests. Service members can temporarily detain citizens
if necessary, before handing them over to law enforcement. They
said they're trying to differentiate them by outfits, that the
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officers enforcing immigration laws are planning to wear a dark
blue top to differentiate them from the troops, and that
officers would still be wearing camouflage pants. That means nothing
to me if I'm somebody who's here illegally in MacArthur
Park about who's wearing what, what outfit is the guy
with the with the weapons or the badges. It's just
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it's all very confusing, I would imagine for people there,
and traffic is now backing up there along MacArthur Park.
Mayor Karen Bass was out there as well, walking through
the areas. She has since left, as Michael Monks told us,
she is set to have an availability with Gavin Newsome. Ironically,
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if this is all going on, just happenstance on the
same time, in the same day that he's in town.
They're supposed to talk about fires and where they are
six months from after those fires ripped through the palisades
in Altadena. In terms of red tape and permits and such.
I'm assuming they're taking some sort of victory lap about
removing some of that red tape. But apparently the word
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is now from Washington that the reason federal agents are
there and that there's a bit of a military presence.
A federal military presence is because they're there to protect
the agents who may be doing some raids there. In
MacArthur Park. Now when they showed pictures overhead pictures, it
was abandoned and MacArthur Park has been pretty much a
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ghost town, much like other hubs if you know, you
know right of illegal immigrants and their businesses in southern California,
those places have cleared out, they have gone underground. If
any businesses still are operating with illegal immigrant in the
illegal immigrant community, they're not at the places out in
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public where they used to congregate, like MacArthur Park, So
that place has kind of been a ghost town recently.
I don't know if people have started trickling back there,
but right now looking at the overhead shots, not a
lot of commerce going on in MacArthur Park today.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Now.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
One of the reasons, and I mentioned it, and thankfully
Keana has sent me the details, one of the reasons
why they may have sent in extra protection for the
agents is what happened early this morning in McCallen, Texas,
where a shooter filed fired dozens of shots at a
Border patrol building injuring three people, including two officers, before
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he was shot and killed by law enforcement authorities. It
was about six am local time there when officers the
McCallen Police Department responded to ICE's McCallen station after reports
of a shooting. Many dozens of rounds fired at the
building and the agents inside. The shooter did not enter
(28:12):
the building, but the Border Patrol agents returned fire and
killed him.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Apparently.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
One of the injured Ishmael Garcia, tenure veteran of the force.
He is in stable condition. He was hit by a bullet,
the other two by shrapnel or things like that. We
don't know a motive. The shooter was identified as a
twenty seven year old and he may have been wearing
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tactical gear. But you've got a guy in maybe tactical
gear opening fire on ICE and local police agents in
the area of raids, You're gonna see stepped up security
around these raids elsewhere, and I think that's exactly what
we're seeing in MacArthur Park. So my assumption is Karen
Bassard there was a military presence in MacArthur Park along
(29:03):
with these agents carrying out potential raids, and that's why
she went there right away, like, Oh, if they're sending
in the federal military and to my city, I'm going
to be there. So she may have stopped on her
way to that press conference. We'll see all right. We've
got the big twelve o'clock, twelve o'clock hour coming up next.
We've got everything that's happening everywhere on tap for you.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
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In fact, he just texted me a picture.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Do you know people like this in your life? I mean,
he deserves a vacation.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
But at ten thirty this morning, he sent me a
picture of Maui palm trees, what appears to be a backyard,
possibly of his airbnb.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
There's a pool anyway.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
It's a beautiful picture of clearly Hawaii, clearly palm trees,
and he deserves to have a great time. But he
sends this to me knowing full well, I'm in a
padded room in Burbank doing the show which I love
to do.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I would rather be here than on Maui. I really would.
I really would.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
I'm gonna keep telling myself that and then it'll sink in.
But we are following all of the news for you,
of course, here at KFI on the Gary and Shannon Show.
Did you hear about the two women from the UK? Oh,
my goodness, UK and New Zealand actually two elderly female tourists.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
You know you've lived your life.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
You've done your job, you've raised your kids, and now
it's time for some me time. So you and your buddy,
your other friend, you're like, let's go on a safari.
So they go on a safari and Zambia is where.
It was a national park in Zambia and they were
killed by an elephant. They were attacked by a female
elephant who was with her baby in the national park.
(01:34):
Safari guides or with the group tried to stop the
elephant from charging at the women by shooting at it.
The elephant was hit but just injured. The two tourists
were killed. My goodness, But what a way to go
as well. You've lived your life, you raise your kids,
you had a good time. You're on a safari and
that's how you go by nature. Well, Trump today is
(01:59):
slamming first buddy Elon Musk for this story that won't
die Musk's assertion that we need a third political party
in this country. Trump spoke with reporters before boarding Air
Force one today in Bedminster, New Jersey.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
He had this to say.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
I think it's ridiculous to start a third party. We
have a tremendous success with the Republican Party. The Democrats
have lost their way.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
But it's always been a two party system and I
think starting a third party.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Just adds to confusion. It really seems to have been
developed for two parties.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Third parties have.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Never worked, so.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
He can have fun with it, but I think it's ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
All right.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
So this all started over the weekend when Musk took
to his musk own Twitter to talk about it's where
we kick off swamp Watch.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
I'm a politician, which means I'm a cheat and a liar.
And when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing their lollipops. Yeah,
we got.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
The real problem is that our leaders are done.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
The other side never quits. I'm not going anywhere.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
So how you.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Train the swat?
Speaker 2 (03:05):
I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by
what has been. You know, Americans have always been going
at present.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
They're not stupid.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
How political flunder is when a politician actually tells the truth.
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Why have the people voted for you were not swamp Watch?
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the Donald Trump Elon Musk feud began Over the weekend.
There was a viral poll on independence stay July fourth,
on x where Elon Musk asked whether voters wanted independence
(03:45):
from what he called the two party systems. Some would
say uniparty. I gotta say the first poll he put
up there that asked this, I voted yes. I think
that I am not alone in being frustrated over the
two party polarization circus that we find ourselves in. What's
(04:05):
become of both parties are not what I remember from
even twenty years ago. But anyway, so he asks whether
voters want independence from this party system, and over one
point two million votes were cast, sixty five point four
percent said yes. He posted on Saturday, by a factor
of two to one. You want a new political party,
(04:28):
and you shall have it. He went on to say,
when it comes to bankrupting our country with waste and graft,
we live in a one party system, not a democracy. Today,
the America Party is formed to give you back your freedom.
Trump sees this jumps on truth Social to go after
Musk and giving some insight on what was the straw
(04:50):
that broke the friendships back. And I remember dialing in
on this and realizing this is what it was in
real time because it was obvious to me. But Trump
takes truth Social and says, I'm very saddened to watch
Elon Musk go completely off the rails, becoming a train
wreck over the past five weeks. He even wants to
(05:10):
start a third political party, despite the fact that they
have never succeeded in the US. The system seems not
designed for them. Trump said the one thing third parties
are good for as a creation of complete and total
disruption and chaos. And we have enough of that with
the radical left Democrats who have lost their confidence and
their minds. He went on to talk about Republicans have
running a smooth running machine. Trump has said he has
(05:34):
been strongly opposed to the ev mandate from the very beginning,
and that this new bill that was passed on Friday
allows customers consumers to buy whatever type of vehicle they want,
whether it's electric, gas or hybrid hybrid powered. This is
the bill that eliminates the electric vehicle mandate, and it
(05:54):
has been said that this is what has angered Elon Musk. Trump,
for his part, says, I can't pined on this for
two years. And when Elon gave me his total and
unquestioned endorsement, I asked him whether or not he knew
that I was going to terminate the EV mandate. It
was in every speech I made, every conversation I had.
(06:15):
Trump said, And you know that's the thing about Trump,
You know who the guy is. He's like McDonald's. Don't
be surprised by the McChicken sandwich. It's just been the
same your whole lifetime. I was watching that Barbara Walters
documentary on Hulu. I believe it was with my mom
last week. And Barbara Walters, by the way they she
(06:38):
was said to not do well with women. I'm interviewing women.
They had women that she had interviewed, Bette Midler, Oprah,
and I got to say from their interviews, but Barbara
Walters did not do well with women.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Not a lot of love loss there.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
But she's interviewing Trump from the I want to say,
early eighties, maybe mid eighties, and he's talking about the
press back then, and he's telling barbar alters to her face.
I don't believe in you. I think that you lie.
I think the media lies. I mean, this is a
guy who really does stick to.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
His talking points.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Very rarely is this somebody who changes up the tune
of what of what they're they're saying or what they're selling.
And he's right, he has struck out against the av
mandate in every speech. So it was odd when Elon
Musk was the single biggest contributor to his campaign and
then became his buddy, and the two were inseparable, as
(07:31):
inseparable as those two personality types can be in recent months.
But I don't know where this goes from here other
than Musk holding polls. We've all we've all fallen for
the third party idea, the promise, the ideology of oh,
a different way of doing it. This isn't the first
(07:52):
time that sixty five point four percent of people polled
are frustrated with both the parties. The biggest third party
effort in recent history was going Toad Ross Parro and
if you're barely even my age, you need a refresher.
Ross Proro ran in ninety two. He earned nearly nineteen
percent of the popular vote. As an independent did not
(08:14):
win a single electoral college vote, and the electoral college
is really where the buck stops. As long as that
system is in place, it's going to be really hard
to break through. That was the closest a third party
candidate got to the White House after Teddy Roosevelt and
his Bull Moose Party run in nineteen twelve against his
(08:35):
one time protege William Howard Taft. For that chapter in
presidential history, you'll have to tune into another podcast.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
But you know the Ralph.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
I voted for Ralph Nader at one point he tried
with the Green Party.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
I voted for Gary Johnson.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
This is something I've fallen for a couple times, but
no third party candidate comes close to winning the presidency.
And every time we talk about a third party candidate,
I think we're in uncharted waters.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
No, but this is the time. This is the time.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
We're more frustrated now than we ever have been before.
This is the time. But it's never the time. You
just need too much money and legally it's just too
hard to do. So either fix what we've got or
throw the whole damn system out. Those are your only options.
If we're going to be realistic about it, all right.
Coming up next, we got a little bit of true
crime Monday. A pediatrician is in trouble for killing her daughter,
(09:29):
A daughter, she says, drowned.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
We'll tell you what we know.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
It's very fresh case that is raising eyebrows, I believe
in Indianapolis.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
We'll talk about it when we come back.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
This story peaked my interest because it involves a woman
and a murder, and not just that, but a pediatrician,
and not just that but the murder of her daughter.
Police have arrested a doctor from Oklahoma City accused of
killing her four year old daughter. It's an odd It's
(10:09):
an odd headline on its face that a doctor, a pediatrician,
a female would kill their child, let alone a daughter,
let alone a four year old. The child was found
floating in the pool of their rental home in Miami.
The doctor's name is Naha, she's thirty six, and Neha
(10:30):
was arrested and will be charged with first degree murder.
According to Miami Dade. They say that officers responded to
a nine to one to one call saying a child
was drowning in a swimming pool. There was an autopsy performed,
and the doctor who performed the autopsy on the four
year old girl did not find water in the child's
(10:52):
lungs or the stomach, which means we've watched enough true crime,
haven't we. If there is no water in the child's
lungs or stuff, that means that the child died before
they were put into the water. Drowning could not have
been the cause of death. Look at us detectives. An
actual detective, Kevin Rodriguez with the Miami Dade Sheriff's Office,
(11:14):
said he believed that mom attempted to conceal the killing
of the girl by staging this accidental drowning. The Sheriff's
office says Naha and her daughter Aria had traveled from
Oklahoma City June twenty fifth, and we're staying at a
rental property when the little girl was found in the pool.
Not out of the realm of possibility. You're in Oklahoma City.
(11:37):
You want to go to Florida for the summer for
a time with your kid, right, But mom subsequently traveled
back to Oklahoma City after the little girl was found dead,
and a multi state investigation was opened. She was booked
into the Oklahoma County Detention Center. She was charged with
(11:57):
fleeing to avoid persecution, prosecut cutionin and she's pending extradition
as we speak now. Her lawyer has said this is
all boloney. He says, my client did not murder her daughter.
These charges are absurd. Of course she came back. This
is this is insane, This is ridiculous, he told the
(12:19):
Associated Press. No one thought in a million years should
be charged with murder. She's simply coming home. She gave
voluntarily multiple statements with me to the police, and they
were always consistent. This is Mom's story. Mom says she
woke up. Excuse me. Mom says that she woke up
(12:41):
her daughter, who was asleep after a day at the beach.
The two had gone to the beach and the daughter
came home, took a nap, and she woke her up
about nine pm so they could have dinner, get something
in her stomach because she'd been sleeping, and that she
and her daughter eventually went to sleep together about twelve
thirty am in the main bedroom of that rental home.
About three am, Mom wakes up, here's a noise and
(13:03):
she realizes that her daughter is not in the bed
and that a sliding glass door connecting the bedroom with
the outside patio is open now. Mom says that she
had previously locked it, or she thought she did, and
that when she looks outside, she sees her daughter submerged
in the pool, and that she tried to get her
out but couldn't because she doesn't know how to swim.
Mom says that after trying for about ten minutes, she
(13:24):
called nine to one one. That's odd, right, Even if
you can't swim, Everything in your body jumps in that pool.
Every cell in your being jumps in that pool. It
would jump in the mouth of a tiger to save
your daughter, you would think, right. Apparently, the autopsy found
that the injuries are consistent with exphyxiation by smothering, that
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she was dead the little girl before being placed in
the pool, and that the lawyer, however, is saying that
they are rushing to this arrest without investigating none of
the tools the investment, good investigatory tools have come to
fruition his words that she's being labeled as a murderer
sitting in jail and she should be bearing her child
(14:09):
will Apparently, look no further than the lengthy legal battle
for custody and dad saying I didn't even know my
ex wife took my daughter to Florida PS. I've been
fighting so hard for custody because my ex is a
crazy pants, and I've been hoping that there'd be some
court ordered psych treatment going on because she showed signs
(14:29):
of being a crazy pants. I'll probably hear more about
this again. A pediatrician thirty six years old, kills charged
with killing her four year old daughter, says that.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
She didn't do it all right.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
When we come back, we'll stay on top of all
of the action at MacArthur Park downtown. Federal agents are
carrying out in operation that a report from the scene.
We've got protesters now, Karen Bass walked through there. Gavin
Newsom's supposed to be in town today. The two are
supposed to hold some sort of press availability about the
raids at new So keep it right here. We've got
more information coming up.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
We continue to follow the breaking news out of downtown
Los Angeles MacArthur Park to be exact now, the Associated
Press is reporting that about ninety National Guard troops over
a dozen humvs have been sent to protect immigration officers
in this Los Angeles operation. You have that report out
(15:30):
of Washington, but then you have the reports out of
MacArthur Park that many of the federal authorities were gathered
in the vicinity of MacArthur Park appear to be leaving
the area in a.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Series of vehicles.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Dozens of protesters have descended on the scene. This began
unfolding about maybe thirty five forty minutes ago, where the
first reports of federal immigration agents a massing near MacArthur
Park came to our attend Officers were staging in the area,
Border patrol agents on horseback moving through the park. Michael
(16:06):
Monks has been on this activity in downtown LA since
the protests and the raids began and has been following
this today. And is this in conjunction of Michael with
the fact that Gavin Newsom and Mayor Bass will be
holding an availability today.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
I mean, you can't hold it against the federal government
because of the ongoing battle between the local and state
authorities and President Trump. I know they would love to
stick it to the I don't know though, that that
would play a role in their plans to enforce the
immigration policy that they are here to enforce. This, however,
started as a scene that looked larger than any we
(16:43):
have seen since all of this began in early June.
As it began in Earnest, this scene was huge. They
had people on horseback riding through MacArthur Park, and if
you know MacArthur Park, huge immigrant population. There, a lot
of street vendors. The area is also crime ridden. We've
heard a lot about Langers Delhi, for example, complaining about
the situation out there. I mean, it is a desperate
(17:03):
part of the city, but it is full of immigrants.
What exactly these federal agents were looking to do is
unclear with such a massive response and then such a
quick turnaround and departure, because protesters did show up, as
they do at every LA operation, a pretty significant number
of protesters, but so did Mayor Bass. Mayor Bass was
(17:24):
there very very quickly. I saw her around some federal agents.
She took a phone from a federal agent. It looked
like she had been connected to somebody somewhere to talk,
and then she also left the scene. She's supposed to
be speaking with the governor to the public very soon
about the six month mark since the wildfires in January.
I'm sure that the activity of MacArthur Park has changed
(17:45):
her plan remarks a little bit, So hopefully we'll hear
from her about this.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Yeah, we're going to make no doubt about that, because
this has been their unofficial purpose politically. When you look
at a nationwide kind of feel for this story, it's
landed on Los Angeles, landed on Governor Newsom, Karen Bass.
Both have been lifted up when it comes to notoriety
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on a national scale because of them facing off against
the president. So you wonder what the genesis was of this,
who was behind this raid? It was it was it
the federal government that knew Newsom was in town and
let's make some hay.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Out of this, or was it Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
It's obviously worthy of speculation, but that's all we can
do at this point because we don't know for certain.
What we do know is that borders are Tom Holman
just said today, Look, we're coming for the sanctuary cities.
We are ramping up enforcement there. The immigration cruise. They
got a pretty significant boost in funding from the One
Big Beautiful Bill and.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
How about Karen Bass being seen at an act of
what appears to be an active federal immigration rate.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
It's pretty ballsy.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
And she got shouted at by some of the protesters too,
I mean.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
Because she didn't set this up for cameras. No, No,
she just appeared. She was probably on our way to
meet the governor. And again I'm not exactly sure when
she got word that this immigration activity was unfolding, but
she did show up as it was unfolding and walked
through the midst of it. And again I had a
quick conversation with an agent on the ground, took a
phone I don't know who she was connected to, and
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then she left and the federal agents also left. So
whatever they were looking to do there, it doesn't look
like they executed that plan.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Somewhere, Gavin Newsom's like, get me there.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
Yeah, the hairspray is loaded and he's ready. But I imagine,
like I said that, you know, they were here to
talk about the fires the six month mark, but they're
probably gonna have to say something about this.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
It's hard to ignore this.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
I mean, the pressure on the federal government to stop
the raids has only gotten heavier.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
And this was nothing like the car wash raids that
we've seen or the home depot raids. You might have
three or four federal vehicles show up at those. You see,
you know, a handful of people detained. This looked like
a military op. This was a massive response.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
MacArthur Park is always the seems always the backdrop for
major immigration movements because, as you mentioned, it's such a
hub for the immigrant community, and many in the immigrant
community will be the first to say we need to
clean up MacArthur Park because of the zombies and the
open drug market and all of that that has completely
ruined you can enjoy a park, you cannot and they
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can't do their businesses either. So I think there's a
divide in that community over whether they want the police
presence there. Sure, if you're a sanctuary city, bring in
the police. If they're not going to send us away,
they're not going to hassle us for papers or what
have you. You want the police there to I don't know,
get rid of that drug market that's able to continually operate.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
I mean, any sensible person would want to clean up
that park. Again, it's one of those things like it's
not on paper, it's a beautiful situation. You have this
grassy oasis in the middle of an urban backdrop. But
I've been over there and you really can't sit because
there is so much open air drug activity that takes
place there. And there's been complaints about the sidewalk street fending,
which does include a lot of immigrants maybe a varying statuses,
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who are blocking a lot of the sidewalks selling the
goods there. We've heard from the borders are that they
will probably be targeting work sites as well as they
ramp up enforcement in sanctuary cities like Los Angeles. So
whatever that had to do with today is unclear, but
hopefully we'll know more soon.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
All right, And Langers, you're not going to get a
better pastromi samwich? Do it Rye sauer Kraut thousand Island
Swiss cheese the way a pastrami should be done. Really
a rubin you know. Sorry, I got sidey and they
took their exert charge off, so oh you can head
down there row.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
An egg on that bad boy. So this is it
a noon press conference.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
They're supposed to be starting any minute. The governor and
the mayor pressors do tend to be a little slow
on the draw.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Where is it supposed to be.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
It's in one of the fire zones. Forgive me, I
didn't bring my note in, but it's either in Palisades
or in Altadena.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
They're not going to get there anytime soon.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Right For MacArthur Park, that's at.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Least an hour from If you're looking at the Palisades,
it's an hour and a half summer traffic.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Is she going to go buy air?
Speaker 4 (22:10):
She was in a vehicle.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
She was in a vehicle.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
I don't think she was flying.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Huh, well, the yeah, City of LA they'd have to
do it in the Palisades's.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
You know, the governor is going to be streaming it,
So that's how I are svp'd for it, so you
can watch it in your underwear, so I can bring
you more news throughout the day, so I won't be
on site.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Unfortunately, do you wear your underwear in the newsroom. There's
not that many people who work there anymore. So I
was wondering if you could get away with.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
You me just like visibly. Yeah, no, no, I'm still
a gentleman. Because you have cubicles that are kind of
cut off, kind of you could do.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
I don't know why this conversation derailed I boxers or briefs,
boxer briefs.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Oh right, yeah, yeah, we've talked about that before. Thank you, Michael.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
All right, we will monitor the press conference from the
mayor and the governor and bring you in pertinent information.
We've got a massive twelve o'clock hour coming up and
a story about how chatbots may be beneficial to humans.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
We don't do that often.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
We're getting some details from the Department of Defense, some
details from Washington about what's going on right in our
backyard here in MacArthur Park in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
The defense officials.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Say about ninety members of the California National Guard and
over a dozen military vehicles like humvies are helping protect
immigration officers. Remember there was earlier today officers fired.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Upon somewhere else. I want to say it was Texas.
I will look it up.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
But this has been a contentious situation with these raids,
as you can imagine. So all the activity that has
been reported on has drawn protesters there in MacArthur Park
with federal agents, the extra agents who appear to be agents,
but are actually National Guard and military personnel. They are
(24:12):
there to protect the agents. Apparently that's according to the
Defense officials. This is going on in MacArthur Park. Of course,
Trump has stepped up efforts in these raids recently, officials
telling reporters that this is not a military operation, but
that the size and the scope of the guards participation
(24:35):
today may make it look like. One of the public
officials from the Defense Department, speaking on the condition of
anonymity to provide details about this these were not details
that were announced publicly, by the way, the raid details
before it happened, but one of the officials that it's
just going to be more overt and larger than we
usually participate in. That the role of the service members
(24:59):
would be to protect the immigration enforcement officers in case
a hostile crowd gathered, but they are not participating in
any law enforcement arrests. Service members can temporarily detain citizens
if necessary, before handing them over to law enforcement. They
said they're trying to differentiate them by outfits, that the
(25:22):
officers enforcing immigration laws are planning to wear a dark
blue top to differentiate them from the troops, and that
officers would still be wearing camouflage pants. That means nothing
to me if I'm somebody who's here illegally in MacArthur
Park about who's wearing what, what outfit is the guy
with the with the weapons or the badges. It's just
(25:45):
it's all very confusing, I would imagine for people there,
and traffic is now backing up there along MacArthur Park.
Mayor Karen Bass was out there as well, walking through
the areas. She has since left, as Michael Monks told us,
she is set to have an availability with Gavin Newsome. Ironically,
(26:06):
if this is all going on, just happenstance on the
same time, in the same day that he's in town.
They're supposed to talk about fires and where they are
six months from after those fires ripped through the palisades
in Altadena. In terms of red tape and permits and such.
I'm assuming they're taking some sort of victory lap about
removing some of that red tape. But apparently the word
(26:30):
is now from Washington that the reason federal agents are
there and that there's a bit of a military presence.
A federal military presence is because they're there to protect
the agents who may be doing some raids there. In
MacArthur Park. Now when they showed pictures overhead pictures, it
was abandoned and MacArthur Park has been pretty much a
(26:54):
ghost town, much like other hubs if you know, you
know right of illegal immigrants and their businesses in southern California,
those places have cleared out, they have gone underground. If
any businesses still are operating with illegal immigrant in the
illegal immigrant community, they're not at the places out in
(27:15):
public where they used to congregate, like MacArthur Park, So
that place has kind of been a ghost town recently.
I don't know if people have started trickling back there,
but right now looking at the overhead shots, not a
lot of commerce going on in MacArthur Park today.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Now.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
One of the reasons, and I mentioned it, and thankfully
Keana has sent me the details, one of the reasons
why they may have sent in extra protection for the
agents is what happened early this morning in McCallen, Texas,
where a shooter filed fired dozens of shots at a
Border patrol building injuring three people, including two officers, before
(27:52):
he was shot and killed by law enforcement authorities. It
was about six am local time there when officers the
McCallen Police Department responded to ICE's McCallen station after reports
of a shooting. Many dozens of rounds fired at the
building and the agents inside. The shooter did not enter
(28:12):
the building, but the Border Patrol agents returned fire and
killed him.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Apparently.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
One of the injured Ishmael Garcia, tenure veteran of the force.
He is in stable condition. He was hit by a bullet,
the other two by shrapnel or things like that. We
don't know a motive. The shooter was identified as a
twenty seven year old and he may have been wearing
(28:40):
tactical gear. But you've got a guy in maybe tactical
gear opening fire on ICE and local police agents in
the area of raids, You're gonna see stepped up security
around these raids elsewhere, and I think that's exactly what
we're seeing in MacArthur Park. So my assumption is Karen
Bassard there was a military presence in MacArthur Park along
(29:03):
with these agents carrying out potential raids, and that's why
she went there right away, like, Oh, if they're sending
in the federal military and to my city, I'm going
to be there. So she may have stopped on her
way to that press conference. We'll see all right. We've
got the big twelve o'clock, twelve o'clock hour coming up next.
We've got everything that's happening everywhere on tap for you.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
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