November 26, 2025 • 30 mins
Trump pardoned two turkeys ahead of Thanksgiving. He considered naming them Chuck and Nancy. The holiday travel season has begun, with lots of people currently trying to get to their destination ahead of the holiday weekend. An attorney representing Pacific Palisades wildfire victims has requested more information regarding the Lachman Fire, which ignited into the Palisades fire a week later in early January 2025. The body of Celeste Rivas Hernandez wasn’t frozen or decapitated when found in singer d4vd’s car, per the LAPD. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s brother’s ex has been taken into ICE detention. The California governor’s race has shifted, with businessman Stephen J. Cloobeck dropping out of the race and throwing his support behind Eric Swalwell.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Hey, good evening. I'm Chris Merrill.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Pleasure spending time with you. Thank you so much for
inviting me in on your Thanksgiving week.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
It is it's super dynamite.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
I guess, uh, Mark Ronner, my friend. I was listening
intently on all of your news stories, including the turkeys
that got pardoned, thank god.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Yeah, we don't know if they made a donation or not.
Oh that was good. I hadn't come up with that
one yet.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
I hadn't he so Trump was being his normal sort
of vicious humor self, and he said he was gonna
call the birds Chuck and Nancy. But then I realized
I wouldn't be pardoning them. I would never pardon those
two people. I wouldn't pardon them. That's rather unkind, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
It is?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
But kind of funny. He said he had a joke
about JB. Pritzker as well that he was gonna tell.
In fact, here's hold on. What did he say? I'm
not going to tell my pretty joke. That's the governor
of Illinois. I have a very cute little joke. Some
speechwriter wrote some joke about his weight. I would never
want to talk about his weight. I don't talk about
people being fat. I refuse to talk about the fact
(01:12):
that he's a fat slob.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
I don't mention it. Huh.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I don't talk about people being fat. He's a fat slob.
Model of self restraint.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
That's yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
And then wasn't it just last week that he called
Catherine Lucy piggy? You really want to drag me into this.
I'm just checking. I'm just asking for a fat Yes, yes,
it's done, ok. I believe it was quiet piggy, quiet piggy.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Yeah. So anyway, the birds are free. So we got
that going forward.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Yeah, I did see somebody said Trump pardon two turkeys
at the White House today.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Five minutes later, I judge stepped in and restored their sentence.
That was really funny. Nice nice. I appreciated that one. Meanwhile,
we got an awful lot of people that are that
are trying to travel, and then I heard the story
you had about the the what is it the catering
workers that are protesting at LAX.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Yeah, it looks like are trying to break that up.
Oh my god. As if traffic right now isn't awful
enough right at the airport. Yeah, I mean, as if
that's not a nightmare anyway.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
I mean driving somebody to lax is kind of a
that's like a deal breaker and a friendship in the
first place. Well, so this is funny you say that
because I was talking to Ali, you know, who's our
tech director?
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Ask you for a ride? No, so he said that
he has to What was it, Ali, Yeah, I have
to go pick up my girlfriend tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
So that's just dumper. No, well, I think this kind
of falls in the gray area. Okay, it depends on
how how strong their relationship is, doesn't it not very strong?
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Shift tomorrow? I can oh all it's smart. Oh yeah, honey,
grab an uber. Oh that's a good idea. That's a
good idea. Have you have you considered hitchhiking, sweetheart? Nothing
ever happens, nothing bad happens California freeways.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
To hitch.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
It won't be as crazy, right, you know what?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
All the best people right, Well, yeah, you're gonna get
the crazies. What do they say though, that you're you're
better off to fly early in the morning or late
at night. Isn't it like if you can land.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Early is better before twelve PM.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Oh, okay, all right, But if you're coming in from
a long ways away, you might not have that option.
I mean, if you're flying in from the east coast,
of course, because time change is on her.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
If you're flying global as well, you get what you're
given in terms of your landing time.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Oh that's true, that's true. I always that is the
one thing. I'd look at the time that the plane
is leaving, and I take a look at how long
the total duration is, because I don't want to be
stuck in a four hour layover, right.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I hate that stuff.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
So it's one of those deals where I might brave
the traffic if it means I get, say a direct flight,
but if I have to do a connection.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Somewhere, then I go, oh, this is going to be miserable.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Meanwhile, I guess people are already headed out and the
travel rush for the holidays has begun from ABC.
Speaker 7 (04:00):
Just like that, the holiday travel season takes off. No
matter how you're moving, you'll be in crowded company.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
They said that was only one seat empty. I was
expecting it's.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
You've ever been in a plane and they tell you
there's that We're nearly full, Just one empty seat and
the whole time you're praying to youar God, don't let
it be in the middle seat next to me, right, You're like,
come on, just skip right past me. This is the
advantage that I have. I'm a large man, and I'm
very unattractive, and so no one wants to sit by me.
So if it's you know, if it's three rows, I
(04:32):
try to get a window. But nobody wants to sit
next to the fat, ugly dude in the middle because
they just assume I smell bat or something. Right, And
I can't tell you how many times I've lucked out
and the empty seat on the plane has been the
one next to me.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
It's great, go figure.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Oh now, every now I get an advantage as a
preposterously handsome man.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
I can't do that.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
So what I have to do is open up my
laptop and fire up the worst movie I have on
it so that nobody wants to sit there.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
What's the movie, Well.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
You have a go to.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Well, it's either an Italian splatter film like a Luccio
fulcine there you go, like Beyond or something like that
with the spiders eating eyeballs, or well, pornography. Oh on
a plane that's a great idea. Yeah, no, I I
because you don't want kids sitting next to you on
a plane.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Hell ever, have you ever pulled out cannibal Holocaust?
Speaker 3 (05:19):
I have seen Cannibal Holocaust, and I like to watch
other people watch him Cannibal Holocaust because it's one of
the worst things ever perpetrated, and for the people who
are unaware of this vile piece of filth. The director
of it, Riguero Diodado, was hauled into court in Italy
to prove it wasn't a snuff film.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
It's terrible.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
It's so bad.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
It's even than I remember that he had.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
They thought they thought, yeah, they thought they were actually
killing people on screen. He basically had to show them
how he did it, didn't he It's traumatizing, and I
didn't mean to hijack the whole conversation. We were just
talking about strategies to keep people from sitting next to
you on the plane.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Yeah, I love that all right, Back to Lax feel
a little bit worse than it was, so I was pleasantly.
Speaker 7 (06:00):
Perhaps it's because she got out before the real rush.
The TSA anticipates tomorrow, November twenty fifth, will be the
biggest crush for air travelers trying to make it to
their Thanksgiving destinations.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
That's today, Today's twenty fifth just updates.
Speaker 7 (06:14):
Between now and next Tuesday, the agency expects to screen
more than seventeen million passengers, but getting through security screening
is only one step in the multi part airport slog.
Speaker 8 (06:25):
So we're supposed to be here two or three hours ago,
so we're ready for overnight.
Speaker 7 (06:29):
Weather has it still could snarl travel in parts of
the country, but with the government back open at full
capacity airspaces, two three hundred and sixty thousand flights are
expected to operate over the next week, in what the
Federal Aviation Administration says will be a fifteen year peak.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
I thought we were going broke. This is more evidence
of this K shaped recovery.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
If you're unfamiliar, the K shape recovery means that the
people that have money, their recovery is looking really good,
and on the chart it goes, you know, it starts
starts in the middle, and then it goes kind of
an upward curve, and those that don't have money things
continue to be more and more difficult as prices keep
going up.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
And there if you look at the chart.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
As far as you know recovery and such, it's kind
of a downward curve. So that's kind of what they
called the K shaped recovery. And uh, and I think
when you have, oh, we've got record numbers of travelers.
But I also heard mark in your in your news
how many people are expecting a recession in the coming year. Well,
by by some estimates, half the country is already in one.
(07:29):
It just depends on what you're reading. I think that
the recovery is more pear shaped than K shaped, like
we're getting squatted on to the bottom.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Is that right, something like that. Yeah, It's just it's
remarkable to me.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
And I wonder how many people, if you were to
interview people traveling, how do they think the following year
is going to be for them? And I kind of
wonder if they're thinking, Oh, I think I'm gonna be okay,
I can weather the storm. So when we say half
the country is in a recession, I know that's state
by state breakdown based on GDP and cost and blackah
blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
All the economist stuff.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
But honestly, I think it's almost a division between the
haves and the have nots. So you've got half the
country that feels Okay, I'm stable in my job, I
have a little bit of savings, I'm not sweating it
too bad.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Then you've got the other half that goes, I'm struggling.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
I haven't found a job, nobody's hiring, and so I
think I think we can almost look at that at
the kitchen table, right Main Street versus Wall Street. We go, man,
this this is Yeah. Half the country is in a
recession right now. It's the people that have been struggling
all along. Yeah, it's kind of weird the way it's
spread around. Like Idaho, for instance, obviously a red state
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and they tend to be the poorest states, but Idaho
is one of the states that is not now experience.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Yeah they're doing well. Yeah, yeah, Yeah, it's weird, weird all.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Right, coming up on a year since the Palisades fire,
and now somebody's ordering up emails and memos and sworn
statements and you may end up footing part of the bill.
You're gonna find out who's digging for dirt next. I'm
Chris Maryland.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
So what are we at now we're at about a year,
not quite a year or two eleven months, I guess,
since the Palisades Fire and the Eaton fire, and of
course we got the arrest and the Palisades fire, nobody's
gonna get arrested in the Eating fire because it sounds
like that's gonna be the power company.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
And I mean.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Lord knows you can't hold any sort of corporation responsible
for destroying lives and homes. But if we find out
that there was an individual that started the fire, then.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
We go, well, yeah, we lock them up anyway.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
So we got a judge now on this case that
is saying he wants he wants more deats on it.
He's he wants to try to piece together a timeline.
Speaker 9 (09:43):
On this Palisades fire.
Speaker 10 (09:45):
Victim's attorney Alex Robertson says it's a major win that
he says he hopes leads to answers about why the
Lackman fire that burned January first and appeared to be
out the next day wasn't fully extinguished.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
NBCLA, by the way, had this story.
Speaker 9 (10:00):
In court filings this week.
Speaker 10 (10:01):
Robertson says, this photo showing a State parks employee.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
With I can't see it.
Speaker 10 (10:05):
It's radio firefighters at the Lackman fire scene. Appears to
confirm anonymous reports. He says he's heard from firefighters that
they were told to leave the burn area before every
hotspot had been put out.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Yeah, so the defense on this is basically going to
say that their guy, you know, the dude that was
accused of the fire, that he uh, well, look, he
he started the Lachman fire, right, like, we get that.
But you can't throw him away for for life on
this because he didn't he didn't do the whole thing.
He just did this fire that just did some property damage,
(10:38):
just some some simple damage here that got put out.
So yeah, you can find him for that and if
you have to give him a little bit of time
to do it, but you can't hold him responsible.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
For the whole thing.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
It's Jonathan rinder Neckt you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Yes, thank you. I can't say his name. So that
rendered it? So anyway? Uh where was I? Damn Nikki?
Speaker 5 (10:59):
Sorry? Were you talking about it? Build? It just burns
some structures to fire the right.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
It didn't do much right, the lack ofman fire, but
then it resparked. It rekindled.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
But I come back to this and and and that
is that if if I'm driving drunk and I and
I hit you, and uh, and I and I put
you or your spouse or your kids in the ICU,
and then they start to they start to recover, they
start to do better, right, They're doing better. Oh, this
(11:33):
is great, And then all of a sudden, a few
days later, they take a turn for the worst. You know,
the doctors say, okay, well we're gonna get out of
ICU and we're gonna have you with a regular bed,
and then they take a turn for the worst, and
then they end up dying of their injuries.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
It's the other doctor's fault. I was the drunk driver, right,
So that's kind of my thing here.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Like, look, they're gonna say that it was irresponsible by
the parks and by the firefighters who abandon the efforts
to further quell this fire. But I don't know if
I'm on the jury. I keep coming back to that.
This video obtained by his law I can't see it.
It's radio off firm taken.
Speaker 10 (12:06):
By a Palisades resident on January second or third, appears
to show wisps of smoke still coming from the ground
in the burn area. The state has now turned over
the names of its employees who were there, and Robertson
says he'll now be able to ask them questions under oath.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
We've heard reports. That's fair.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Yeah, Look, your defense attorney, I think you should do
everything you can to defend your client. I'm just telling
you my perspective on this. But I also think that
he should have the most robust defense possible because I
believe in America still what a sucker I am.
Speaker 8 (12:39):
They showed the maps and there were certain exclusionary areas
of sensitive species of plants that the firefighters were told
they couldn't go and dig up.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
That is so California, and.
Speaker 8 (12:50):
I think that could have very well explained why hot
embers were left in place that later rekindled in the
Palisades firm.
Speaker 9 (12:56):
The judge today also allowed the depositions help.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
My client's not guilty. The environmentalists are.
Speaker 10 (13:03):
The judge today also allowed the depositions of a dozen
LA Fire Department firefighters who were there. They may include
the firefighters who exchanged text messages about why the Lackman
fire mop up was allegedly cut short. Now the subject
of a Justice Department subpoena.
Speaker 8 (13:19):
They may have been told by state parks people that
they couldn't do it overhaul and the entire burnscar area.
And that's why we want to take the depositions and
get the truth.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Here's and I am of course mocking that it's such
a California thing to say, oh, well, we can't continue
to fight fires because we don't want you to disturb
these plants. But obviously we know how it turns out.
So which is worse? You trample a few plants or
you wipe out the entire.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
What is it? Garden orchard? What planty area? I mean,
what's what makes where's the common sense in all of this?
Speaker 10 (13:59):
Federal secutors have charged twenty nine year old Jonathan Rinder
Kinesh with see he.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
Said render Kinesh, he said it wrong that.
Speaker 10 (14:07):
Causing the Lackman fire, and the ATF says it concluded
underground embers from that fire reignited and caused the Palisades fire.
The Lackman fire burn area includes areas within La city
limits and land that's also part of Tapega State Park,
which is why state park employees were involved.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Yeah, and have we not been worried about the plants.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Then we wouldn't even be talking about water pressure and
tanks up high. You know, still would have been hanging
out there and waiting for the next disaster.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
But we wouldn't have lost all those homes.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Potentially, I don't know for sure, but I can't can't
prove some can't prove a negative kind of just seems
so strange, like, oh, hang on, don't disturb the soil.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Oh, we have to set priorities here. Priorities have to
be safety first. Safety, that's it, okay, but the plants. Look,
I'm all for protecting the plants. I love protecting the plants.
I volunteer at the state park. It's my thing. But
I also want the state park to be there tomorrow.
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It's just it feels like we're just lacking basic common
sense on these things. Still to come rather grim discovery,
although not as grim when a dead body doesn't seem
quite so bad. I guess weird breaking news is next.
I'm Chris Maryland.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
You're listening to KFI AM six on demand.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
This this is just updated. NICKI just sent this to me. Producer.
NICKI sent it to me.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Carolyn Livitz, a family member abruptly arrested by ICE after
living in the US for decades. So her nephew's mama,
in other words, her brother's acts think they were married.
She was here as a as a doctor recipient, a
mother of the eleven year old nephew of Caroline Levitt,
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and the brother has since remarried. But I guess it's
stayed close with the baby mama and she just got
taken into custody. So well, there you go. I don't
know how you want to you want to wrap that up,
you want to call it irony, whatever.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
I just wonder what she did to get taken by ICE,
because they seem to be going after people who've committed some.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
No they're not, No, they're not.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
They really if you.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
Read a lot of the articles that come out about
people who suddenly nabbed, when you read down a few
paragraphs to go, oh, they did this decades ago and
they were given an order of removal in two thousand
and four. That's usually the case. So I wonder what
this one did.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Hang on just being for me, Nikki, just bring it
real quick.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Just find out what the ratio is, because I think
it's something like thirty percent don't have any other any
other record. Maybe it's not quite that high, but it's
you don't have you just And the thing is too
with the Dacca recipients, we thought, oh, you're here for Daka.
You know, you basically got the whole. I don't know
what you want to call it a sympathy card, but
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it's like your parents brought you here and we're not
gonna just boot you out of the only country you knew,
but now we are.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Now we're gonna go ahead do that anyhow. Uh Oh,
you ever have a sitch where you go, oh my gosh,
it's the dead body. Yeah, but it could be worse. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
So this whole story around the singer David and the
girl that was found in the trunk of his tesla
so weird. Evidently the story had some I don't know
if we wanna call it misreporting, but it seems like
there's miss misreporting. For a long time, we were hearing
about this this young girl that is a teenager who
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was found body was found in the trunk of this
tesla and like an impound yard or something, and we
were getting these reports that she had been frozen and decapitated, they.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Said, but they're not really going a homicide yet, and
we won Wait a minute, does she accidentally freeze and
cut her own head off? Because that and throw herself
in a trunk.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Because that seems weird, sounds like maybe some of the
reporting is different.
Speaker 11 (18:15):
We have breaking news right now in the case of
the girl found dead and singer David's car. The LAPD
is saying they have evidence that David traveled to the
Santa Barbara area sometime during spring of this year. The
reason for the trip is still under investigation, including if
at all it.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
Is relevant to the case.
Speaker 11 (18:33):
Police also saying today the reports of Celestri Vus Hernande's
body being frozen and decapitated are not true. In September,
the teen's body was discovered at a tow yard in
Testsa belonging to the singer. And we have previously reported
sources telling Eyewitness News that David is considered a suspect.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Okay, so there you go.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Not decapitated and frozen, all right, Okay, there it is.
Let me see only five This is from the Cato Institute,
which is kind of a libertarian leading group. Only five
percent of individuals booked into ice attention had a violent
criminal conviction. Last fiscal year, seventy three percent had no
(19:15):
conviction at all. Others had traffic convictions, property convictions or
whatever and other. So that's from the Cato Institute. Doesn't
mean they weren't arrested or detained for some of the reason,
but no convictions.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
So there you go, there you go. I don't know
what news stories you're reading, Nikki.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
I read everything.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
I know you do. I'll give you credit for that
you do, all right. So now that we found out
that it's not like this, this team wasn't decapitated, she
wasn't frozen. What then.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Are we still looking at this singer David as a suspect.
This from Katie La.
Speaker 12 (19:53):
As the LAPD zeroes in on possible suspects in the
death of fourteen year old Celeste Riva Hernandez. Investigat have
obtained a court order to keep the autopsy report in
the case secret.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Yeah, but now we know that she was not frozen.
Speaker 13 (20:08):
Which tells me that the findings are there. They know
the report is complete.
Speaker 12 (20:14):
Former LAPD detective Moses Castillo tells kt LA that still
means the cause of death could be determined or undetermined.
Speaker 13 (20:22):
The reason why they don't want to they don't want
to release that piece of information is because then it
tells the suspect or suspects involved what's out there, and
they definitely don't want them to know what's out there.
Speaker 12 (20:33):
Be Eleven weeks after the teen was found dead in
the trunk of a tesla owned by singer David Lapd
is withholding information. They have not made any arrest or
commented publicly on the case, and now they are concealing
the possible cause of death, a move criticized by the
La County Chief Medical Examiner.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Yeah, so is it a homicide or not? How does
somebody get in the trunk of the car.
Speaker 12 (20:59):
In a statement, he said, the practice of security holds
is virtually unheard of in other counties. We are dedicated
to serving our community with full transparency. However, the law
precludes us from doing so while the court order remains
in this case. There have been some wild media reports
about the case, including that the victim's body was partially
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frozen when she was found, something Castillo says. The commanding
officer for the Lapd Robbery Homicide Division has denied.
Speaker 13 (21:30):
Saying this in the summer, I mean she's been out
there for weeks. To think it was frozen, It doesn't
make sense.
Speaker 12 (21:37):
The girl's body is found in September and the tesla
impounded at a Hollywood tow yard. Defense attorney Mark Geragos,
who is not connected to the case.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Oh, Mark Geragos in the commentary that's great.
Speaker 12 (21:48):
Says police now are investigating a trip that David took
to a remote area of Santa Barbara County around the
same time they believe Rivas Hernandez died.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
So that seems not great. Yeah, seems not great, all right?
Speaker 4 (22:07):
From the talkbacks, Oh, this poor, this poor brit she
doesn't realize she's going against like a rabid liberal. He's
like super hi undred the collar right now. He has
to prove her wrong even though she's right.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Oh you hear that, Nikki, you're a Brit, You poor brit.
That's just really your poor brick. I'm a rabbit Liberal
and your poor brick. So he nailed it.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
Is he talking about Ali the action?
Speaker 3 (22:38):
No? No, no, no, no, he's talking about you, he said.
She doesn't realize.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
Yeah, listen, tend to do illegal things, right, Mark?
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Yeah, all right, So I pulled up the Cato Institute,
the right leaning institute.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
What'd you find, Nikki?
Speaker 6 (22:59):
I mean, I sent you something that kind of agrees
with you, but I don't buy it.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Oh okay, Oh man, I got another one. Oh, this
guy is great. I don't know if it's a guy
or not.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Yes, the guy.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Oh, I got to clean this up. All kinds of
swear words all over this one. I'm going to clean
it up. A lot of people supporting you, even though
you found data that supports my position.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
But that's great. I'd love it. Let's let your feelings
drive your facts. I love it.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
You'll hear more on the talk back in just a moment. Hey,
we are still a hear from the midterms, and already
you got a billion dollar donor waving the white flag.
He's now backing someone else who's going to get the
cash and the clearer path that is next.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Chris Meryl, you're listening to KFI AM sixty on demand.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Breaking news.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Carolyn Levitt's nephew's mama, her brother's baby mama.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
I just got arrested by I. She've been here as
a doctor RICID.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
So the Nikki was like, oh no, most of I
wonder what she did because they only arrest criminals.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
I was like, I think that's actually been kind of
a thing.
Speaker 6 (24:10):
Do you think I'm going to get deported from my
traffic violation?
Speaker 10 (24:14):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Well, yeah, you obviously broke the law. Yeah, but I'm
did you plead guilty?
Speaker 5 (24:18):
I haven't paid the ticket yet, but I got well.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Don't because as soon as you do, you're out of here.
Of course, if you don't, then you're a fugitive. So yeah,
you're basically out.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
I'm screwedy the way I know, but I'm vetted.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
That was before the ticket. I have some numbers for you.
If you're interested, this will be good.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Go on then, Mark, so hey, just before we get
going here, I did say convicted, and there are some
that have been like arrested but not convicted.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
And it was the Cato Institute that came up that
I found the numbers on. What'd you find? Mark?
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Approximately thirty to thirty five percent of ICE arrests are
of individuals with criminal convictions, while the majority are not.
Recent data from fiscal year twenty twenty four shows that
seventy one point seven of those arrested by ICE had
criminal convictions are pending charges. All sources like the American
Immigration Council and TRACK have stated that in recent years
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the percentage of arrest with criminal records has dropped significantly,
and a large portion of those taking into detention have
no criminal convictions.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
So little up, a little down, but apparently little up,
little down.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
The latest is that the vast majority do not have
criminal convictions.
Speaker 6 (25:28):
But I mean, coming to the country illegally in the
first place is an illegal act. And yours coming from
a person who was completely vetted to get into this end,
you're right about that.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
That is an illegal act. It is.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
It's a misdemeanor, but you're right, it is an illegal act.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
I grant you that.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
And they if they're deported to come back again that
it's a felony I totally agree with.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
And I'll let you even on a little maybe it's
not such a secret. But people who've been vetted to
come into this country, in other words, lawful, lawful nas
We don't really care for the illegals that we don't
support them.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
We don't support that.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
No, because you went through the you went through the
whole system.
Speaker 6 (26:10):
I had to have a genital check, you know, Oh
my gosh, I had to take vaccines, and I had.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
To do get oh, did you use your IMA?
Speaker 5 (26:19):
Then I did everything.
Speaker 6 (26:20):
I had to have background screenings for every other country.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Ever, look, I'm not debating any of that. I totally
get it. I totally get it. But like you know,
you got a doctor recipient who doesn't have any other
criminal record, actually didn't break the law of their parents
brought him in the country, and she's been arrested.
Speaker 6 (26:36):
Why didn't she get her US citizenship in the last
twenty five years that she's.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Been So that actually has been an issue is that
the doctor recipients basically were it became like a big hassle.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
This is this is this is something that goes back.
You said twenty five years. This goes back. They were arguing.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
You have to understand that in the in the nineteen
eighty presidential primary debate between Reagan and Bush, they were
arguing over who was going to be kinder to people
in this country without documentation, and that's how we ended
up with amnesty under Reagan.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
And then you end up with this.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
DACA thing and they're like, well, you can be a DACA,
but if your DACA, then where are you as far
as the pathway to citizenship? And you hear pathway to
citizenship has been this big debate for a very long time.
So then you end up with people who are dividing,
because that's where we are in this country now, where
you're either all in or you're all out right.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
So then you end up with the group that's build
a wall to port them all.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
You end up with this other group that goes and
this is where the Democrats have really they overplayed their
hand the other direction. They were like, oh, we have
to have pathway to citizenship for everyone, and it was like,
wait a minute, hang on here, It's is fine, there's
got to be there's gotta be a middle ground here.
Evidently the middle ground doesn't call the station because I
got this.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
Well at least extremely transparent today. I mean, you are
a piece of the way you just spoke to that.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Chick, Nikki. You're a chick. Me. Yeah, you're the chick.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
Who has more culture and sophistication than you ever would.
You're such a piece of want we go back to
where you came from and try that callie there.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Wow, go back. Okay, First of all, I love that
he's he's talking about culture and sophistication and called me
an f ing piece of s and a and a
P word, which is great because at least Trump would
grab me. And then he tells me to go back
to where I came from. Just try it there, like yeah,
like the.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Midwest, right, Okay, all right, well that's fun.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
I told you.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
I feel stimulated. Meanwhile, the governor race is shifting. We
just had somebody drop out. He was on with Alex Michelson,
Michael Micklesoner, Michaelson. I would say it wrong. Whichever way
it is, I always say the other way. Anyways, on
with Alex.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
So you're dropping out of the race. I am dropping
out of the race. That's Stephen Klubak, who was on
with me before when I was doing this show.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
And supporting Eric Swalwell as the next governor of California.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
And he will be the greatest leader of this great
state California. So and with that, God, Katie, Porter's got
to be just dying right now.
Speaker 9 (29:11):
You know, I've been with you and I brought props.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
You like a good prop. I like a good prop.
But I have this pen that I had made.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
It's golden bad It's the Golden Bear, and I give
it to you as I wore it proudly, and I
want you to wear it proudly.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Yeah, oh god, yeah, I will say this and this
is interesting. Uh swell well, according to Kelshi, today has
basically fallen off a cliff. He was a pretty pretty
big favorite. Now Kelshi, betters are shifting things. Tom Steyer
took a big jump. So Tom Steyer today leapt up
(29:51):
in the Calshi's where you can.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Bet on anything, you know.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
And so they've got the Tom Steyer Swallowell twenty six
percent chance, Stier twenty four percent chance, Katie Poor at
twelve percent on the latest from Kelshi.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
There you go a little shake up. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Maybe they think the CLUBEC endorsement hurts him. I don't
know that it does. Meanwhile, we've got all kinds of
shenanigans going on in DC and in the last In
the last administration, we would call it law fair. In
this administration, we call it rooting out the bad people.
I'm so confused as to how I'm supposed to look
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at this investigations into senators next Chris Meryll
Speaker 1 (30:30):
KFI AM six forty on demand
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Hey, good evening. I'm Chris Merrill.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Pleasure spending time with you. Thank you so much for
inviting me in on your Thanksgiving week.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
It is it's super dynamite.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
I guess, uh, Mark Ronner, my friend. I was listening
intently on all of your news stories, including the turkeys
that got pardoned, thank god.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Yeah, we don't know if they made a donation or not.
Oh that was good. I hadn't come up with that
one yet.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
I hadn't he so Trump was being his normal sort
of vicious humor self, and he said he was gonna
call the birds Chuck and Nancy. But then I realized
I wouldn't be pardoning them. I would never pardon those
two people. I wouldn't pardon them. That's rather unkind, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
It is?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
But kind of funny. He said he had a joke
about JB. Pritzker as well that he was gonna tell.
In fact, here's hold on. What did he say? I'm
not going to tell my pretty joke. That's the governor
of Illinois. I have a very cute little joke. Some
speechwriter wrote some joke about his weight. I would never
want to talk about his weight. I don't talk about
people being fat. I refuse to talk about the fact
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that he's a fat slob.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
I don't mention it. Huh.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I don't talk about people being fat. He's a fat slob.
Model of self restraint.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
That's yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
And then wasn't it just last week that he called
Catherine Lucy piggy? You really want to drag me into this.
I'm just checking. I'm just asking for a fat Yes, yes,
it's done, ok. I believe it was quiet piggy, quiet piggy.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Yeah. So anyway, the birds are free. So we got
that going forward.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Yeah, I did see somebody said Trump pardon two turkeys
at the White House today.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Five minutes later, I judge stepped in and restored their sentence.
That was really funny. Nice nice. I appreciated that one. Meanwhile,
we got an awful lot of people that are that
are trying to travel, and then I heard the story
you had about the the what is it the catering
workers that are protesting at LAX.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Yeah, it looks like are trying to break that up.
Oh my god. As if traffic right now isn't awful
enough right at the airport. Yeah, I mean, as if
that's not a nightmare anyway.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
I mean driving somebody to lax is kind of a
that's like a deal breaker and a friendship in the
first place. Well, so this is funny you say that
because I was talking to Ali, you know, who's our
tech director?
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Ask you for a ride? No, so he said that
he has to What was it, Ali, Yeah, I have
to go pick up my girlfriend tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
So that's just dumper. No, well, I think this kind
of falls in the gray area. Okay, it depends on
how how strong their relationship is, doesn't it not very strong?
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Shift tomorrow? I can oh all it's smart. Oh yeah, honey,
grab an uber. Oh that's a good idea. That's a
good idea. Have you have you considered hitchhiking, sweetheart? Nothing
ever happens, nothing bad happens California freeways.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
To hitch.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
It won't be as crazy, right, you know what?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
All the best people right, Well, yeah, you're gonna get
the crazies. What do they say though, that you're you're
better off to fly early in the morning or late
at night. Isn't it like if you can land.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Early is better before twelve PM.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Oh, okay, all right, But if you're coming in from
a long ways away, you might not have that option.
I mean, if you're flying in from the east coast,
of course, because time change is on her.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
If you're flying global as well, you get what you're
given in terms of your landing time.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Oh that's true, that's true. I always that is the
one thing. I'd look at the time that the plane
is leaving, and I take a look at how long
the total duration is, because I don't want to be
stuck in a four hour layover, right.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I hate that stuff.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
So it's one of those deals where I might brave
the traffic if it means I get, say a direct flight,
but if I have to do a connection.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Somewhere, then I go, oh, this is going to be miserable.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Meanwhile, I guess people are already headed out and the
travel rush for the holidays has begun from ABC.
Speaker 7 (04:00):
Just like that, the holiday travel season takes off. No
matter how you're moving, you'll be in crowded company.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
They said that was only one seat empty. I was
expecting it's.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
You've ever been in a plane and they tell you
there's that We're nearly full, Just one empty seat and
the whole time you're praying to youar God, don't let
it be in the middle seat next to me, right, You're like,
come on, just skip right past me. This is the
advantage that I have. I'm a large man, and I'm
very unattractive, and so no one wants to sit by me.
So if it's you know, if it's three rows, I
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try to get a window. But nobody wants to sit
next to the fat, ugly dude in the middle because
they just assume I smell bat or something. Right, And
I can't tell you how many times I've lucked out
and the empty seat on the plane has been the
one next to me.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
It's great, go figure.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Oh now, every now I get an advantage as a
preposterously handsome man.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
I can't do that.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
So what I have to do is open up my
laptop and fire up the worst movie I have on
it so that nobody wants to sit there.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
What's the movie, Well.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
You have a go to.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Well, it's either an Italian splatter film like a Luccio
fulcine there you go, like Beyond or something like that
with the spiders eating eyeballs, or well, pornography. Oh on
a plane that's a great idea. Yeah, no, I I
because you don't want kids sitting next to you on
a plane.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Hell ever, have you ever pulled out cannibal Holocaust?
Speaker 3 (05:19):
I have seen Cannibal Holocaust, and I like to watch
other people watch him Cannibal Holocaust because it's one of
the worst things ever perpetrated, and for the people who
are unaware of this vile piece of filth. The director
of it, Riguero Diodado, was hauled into court in Italy
to prove it wasn't a snuff film.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
It's terrible.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
It's so bad.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
It's even than I remember that he had.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
They thought they thought, yeah, they thought they were actually
killing people on screen. He basically had to show them
how he did it, didn't he It's traumatizing, and I
didn't mean to hijack the whole conversation. We were just
talking about strategies to keep people from sitting next to
you on the plane.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Yeah, I love that all right, Back to Lax feel
a little bit worse than it was, so I was pleasantly.
Speaker 7 (06:00):
Perhaps it's because she got out before the real rush.
The TSA anticipates tomorrow, November twenty fifth, will be the
biggest crush for air travelers trying to make it to
their Thanksgiving destinations.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
That's today, Today's twenty fifth just updates.
Speaker 7 (06:14):
Between now and next Tuesday, the agency expects to screen
more than seventeen million passengers, but getting through security screening
is only one step in the multi part airport slog.
Speaker 8 (06:25):
So we're supposed to be here two or three hours ago,
so we're ready for overnight.
Speaker 7 (06:29):
Weather has it still could snarl travel in parts of
the country, but with the government back open at full
capacity airspaces, two three hundred and sixty thousand flights are
expected to operate over the next week, in what the
Federal Aviation Administration says will be a fifteen year peak.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
I thought we were going broke. This is more evidence
of this K shaped recovery.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
If you're unfamiliar, the K shape recovery means that the
people that have money, their recovery is looking really good,
and on the chart it goes, you know, it starts
starts in the middle, and then it goes kind of
an upward curve, and those that don't have money things
continue to be more and more difficult as prices keep
going up.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
And there if you look at the chart.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
As far as you know recovery and such, it's kind
of a downward curve. So that's kind of what they
called the K shaped recovery. And uh, and I think
when you have, oh, we've got record numbers of travelers.
But I also heard mark in your in your news
how many people are expecting a recession in the coming year. Well,
by by some estimates, half the country is already in one.
(07:29):
It just depends on what you're reading. I think that
the recovery is more pear shaped than K shaped, like
we're getting squatted on to the bottom.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Is that right, something like that. Yeah, It's just it's
remarkable to me.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
And I wonder how many people, if you were to
interview people traveling, how do they think the following year
is going to be for them? And I kind of
wonder if they're thinking, Oh, I think I'm gonna be okay,
I can weather the storm. So when we say half
the country is in a recession, I know that's state
by state breakdown based on GDP and cost and blackah
blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
All the economist stuff.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
But honestly, I think it's almost a division between the
haves and the have nots. So you've got half the
country that feels Okay, I'm stable in my job, I
have a little bit of savings, I'm not sweating it
too bad.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Then you've got the other half that goes, I'm struggling.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
I haven't found a job, nobody's hiring, and so I
think I think we can almost look at that at
the kitchen table, right Main Street versus Wall Street. We go, man,
this this is Yeah. Half the country is in a
recession right now. It's the people that have been struggling
all along. Yeah, it's kind of weird the way it's
spread around. Like Idaho, for instance, obviously a red state
(08:34):
and they tend to be the poorest states, but Idaho
is one of the states that is not now experience.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Yeah they're doing well. Yeah, yeah, Yeah, it's weird, weird all.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Right, coming up on a year since the Palisades fire,
and now somebody's ordering up emails and memos and sworn
statements and you may end up footing part of the bill.
You're gonna find out who's digging for dirt next. I'm
Chris Maryland.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
So what are we at now we're at about a year,
not quite a year or two eleven months, I guess,
since the Palisades Fire and the Eaton fire, and of
course we got the arrest and the Palisades fire, nobody's
gonna get arrested in the Eating fire because it sounds
like that's gonna be the power company.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
And I mean.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Lord knows you can't hold any sort of corporation responsible
for destroying lives and homes. But if we find out
that there was an individual that started the fire, then.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
We go, well, yeah, we lock them up anyway.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
So we got a judge now on this case that
is saying he wants he wants more deats on it.
He's he wants to try to piece together a timeline.
Speaker 9 (09:43):
On this Palisades fire.
Speaker 10 (09:45):
Victim's attorney Alex Robertson says it's a major win that
he says he hopes leads to answers about why the
Lackman fire that burned January first and appeared to be
out the next day wasn't fully extinguished.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
NBCLA, by the way, had this story.
Speaker 9 (10:00):
In court filings this week.
Speaker 10 (10:01):
Robertson says, this photo showing a State parks employee.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
With I can't see it.
Speaker 10 (10:05):
It's radio firefighters at the Lackman fire scene. Appears to
confirm anonymous reports. He says he's heard from firefighters that
they were told to leave the burn area before every
hotspot had been put out.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Yeah, so the defense on this is basically going to
say that their guy, you know, the dude that was
accused of the fire, that he uh, well, look, he
he started the Lachman fire, right, like, we get that.
But you can't throw him away for for life on
this because he didn't he didn't do the whole thing.
He just did this fire that just did some property damage,
(10:38):
just some some simple damage here that got put out.
So yeah, you can find him for that and if
you have to give him a little bit of time
to do it, but you can't hold him responsible.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
For the whole thing.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
It's Jonathan rinder Neckt you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Yes, thank you. I can't say his name. So that
rendered it? So anyway? Uh where was I? Damn Nikki?
Speaker 5 (10:59):
Sorry? Were you talking about it? Build? It just burns
some structures to fire the right.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
It didn't do much right, the lack ofman fire, but
then it resparked. It rekindled.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
But I come back to this and and and that
is that if if I'm driving drunk and I and
I hit you, and uh, and I and I put
you or your spouse or your kids in the ICU,
and then they start to they start to recover, they
start to do better, right, They're doing better. Oh, this
(11:33):
is great, And then all of a sudden, a few
days later, they take a turn for the worst. You know,
the doctors say, okay, well we're gonna get out of
ICU and we're gonna have you with a regular bed,
and then they take a turn for the worst, and
then they end up dying of their injuries.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
It's the other doctor's fault. I was the drunk driver, right,
So that's kind of my thing here.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Like, look, they're gonna say that it was irresponsible by
the parks and by the firefighters who abandon the efforts
to further quell this fire. But I don't know if
I'm on the jury. I keep coming back to that.
This video obtained by his law I can't see it.
It's radio off firm taken.
Speaker 10 (12:06):
By a Palisades resident on January second or third, appears
to show wisps of smoke still coming from the ground
in the burn area. The state has now turned over
the names of its employees who were there, and Robertson
says he'll now be able to ask them questions under oath.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
We've heard reports. That's fair.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Yeah, Look, your defense attorney, I think you should do
everything you can to defend your client. I'm just telling
you my perspective on this. But I also think that
he should have the most robust defense possible because I
believe in America still what a sucker I am.
Speaker 8 (12:39):
They showed the maps and there were certain exclusionary areas
of sensitive species of plants that the firefighters were told
they couldn't go and dig up.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
That is so California, and.
Speaker 8 (12:50):
I think that could have very well explained why hot
embers were left in place that later rekindled in the
Palisades firm.
Speaker 9 (12:56):
The judge today also allowed the depositions help.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
My client's not guilty. The environmentalists are.
Speaker 10 (13:03):
The judge today also allowed the depositions of a dozen
LA Fire Department firefighters who were there. They may include
the firefighters who exchanged text messages about why the Lackman
fire mop up was allegedly cut short. Now the subject
of a Justice Department subpoena.
Speaker 8 (13:19):
They may have been told by state parks people that
they couldn't do it overhaul and the entire burnscar area.
And that's why we want to take the depositions and
get the truth.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Here's and I am of course mocking that it's such
a California thing to say, oh, well, we can't continue
to fight fires because we don't want you to disturb
these plants. But obviously we know how it turns out.
So which is worse? You trample a few plants or
you wipe out the entire.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
What is it? Garden orchard? What planty area? I mean,
what's what makes where's the common sense in all of this?
Speaker 10 (13:59):
Federal secutors have charged twenty nine year old Jonathan Rinder
Kinesh with see he.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
Said render Kinesh, he said it wrong that.
Speaker 10 (14:07):
Causing the Lackman fire, and the ATF says it concluded
underground embers from that fire reignited and caused the Palisades fire.
The Lackman fire burn area includes areas within La city
limits and land that's also part of Tapega State Park,
which is why state park employees were involved.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Yeah, and have we not been worried about the plants.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Then we wouldn't even be talking about water pressure and
tanks up high. You know, still would have been hanging
out there and waiting for the next disaster.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
But we wouldn't have lost all those homes.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Potentially, I don't know for sure, but I can't can't
prove some can't prove a negative kind of just seems
so strange, like, oh, hang on, don't disturb the soil.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Oh, we have to set priorities here. Priorities have to
be safety first. Safety, that's it, okay, but the plants. Look,
I'm all for protecting the plants. I love protecting the plants.
I volunteer at the state park. It's my thing. But
I also want the state park to be there tomorrow.
(15:15):
It's just it feels like we're just lacking basic common
sense on these things. Still to come rather grim discovery,
although not as grim when a dead body doesn't seem
quite so bad. I guess weird breaking news is next.
I'm Chris Maryland.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
You're listening to KFI AM six on demand.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
This this is just updated. NICKI just sent this to me. Producer.
NICKI sent it to me.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Carolyn Livitz, a family member abruptly arrested by ICE after
living in the US for decades. So her nephew's mama,
in other words, her brother's acts think they were married.
She was here as a as a doctor recipient, a
mother of the eleven year old nephew of Caroline Levitt,
(16:09):
and the brother has since remarried. But I guess it's
stayed close with the baby mama and she just got
taken into custody. So well, there you go. I don't
know how you want to you want to wrap that up,
you want to call it irony, whatever.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
I just wonder what she did to get taken by ICE,
because they seem to be going after people who've committed some.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
No they're not, No, they're not.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
They really if you.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
Read a lot of the articles that come out about
people who suddenly nabbed, when you read down a few
paragraphs to go, oh, they did this decades ago and
they were given an order of removal in two thousand
and four. That's usually the case. So I wonder what
this one did.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Hang on just being for me, Nikki, just bring it
real quick.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Just find out what the ratio is, because I think
it's something like thirty percent don't have any other any
other record. Maybe it's not quite that high, but it's
you don't have you just And the thing is too
with the Dacca recipients, we thought, oh, you're here for Daka.
You know, you basically got the whole. I don't know
what you want to call it a sympathy card, but
(17:14):
it's like your parents brought you here and we're not
gonna just boot you out of the only country you knew,
but now we are.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Now we're gonna go ahead do that anyhow. Uh Oh,
you ever have a sitch where you go, oh my gosh,
it's the dead body. Yeah, but it could be worse. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
So this whole story around the singer David and the
girl that was found in the trunk of his tesla
so weird. Evidently the story had some I don't know
if we wanna call it misreporting, but it seems like
there's miss misreporting. For a long time, we were hearing
about this this young girl that is a teenager who
(17:53):
was found body was found in the trunk of this
tesla and like an impound yard or something, and we
were getting these reports that she had been frozen and decapitated, they.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Said, but they're not really going a homicide yet, and
we won Wait a minute, does she accidentally freeze and
cut her own head off? Because that and throw herself
in a trunk.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Because that seems weird, sounds like maybe some of the
reporting is different.
Speaker 11 (18:15):
We have breaking news right now in the case of
the girl found dead and singer David's car. The LAPD
is saying they have evidence that David traveled to the
Santa Barbara area sometime during spring of this year. The
reason for the trip is still under investigation, including if
at all it.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
Is relevant to the case.
Speaker 11 (18:33):
Police also saying today the reports of Celestri Vus Hernande's
body being frozen and decapitated are not true. In September,
the teen's body was discovered at a tow yard in
Testsa belonging to the singer. And we have previously reported
sources telling Eyewitness News that David is considered a suspect.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Okay, so there you go.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Not decapitated and frozen, all right, Okay, there it is.
Let me see only five This is from the Cato Institute,
which is kind of a libertarian leading group. Only five
percent of individuals booked into ice attention had a violent
criminal conviction. Last fiscal year, seventy three percent had no
(19:15):
conviction at all. Others had traffic convictions, property convictions or
whatever and other. So that's from the Cato Institute. Doesn't
mean they weren't arrested or detained for some of the reason,
but no convictions.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
So there you go, there you go. I don't know
what news stories you're reading, Nikki.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
I read everything.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
I know you do. I'll give you credit for that
you do, all right. So now that we found out
that it's not like this, this team wasn't decapitated, she
wasn't frozen. What then.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Are we still looking at this singer David as a suspect.
This from Katie La.
Speaker 12 (19:53):
As the LAPD zeroes in on possible suspects in the
death of fourteen year old Celeste Riva Hernandez. Investigat have
obtained a court order to keep the autopsy report in
the case secret.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Yeah, but now we know that she was not frozen.
Speaker 13 (20:08):
Which tells me that the findings are there. They know
the report is complete.
Speaker 12 (20:14):
Former LAPD detective Moses Castillo tells kt LA that still
means the cause of death could be determined or undetermined.
Speaker 13 (20:22):
The reason why they don't want to they don't want
to release that piece of information is because then it
tells the suspect or suspects involved what's out there, and
they definitely don't want them to know what's out there.
Speaker 12 (20:33):
Be Eleven weeks after the teen was found dead in
the trunk of a tesla owned by singer David Lapd
is withholding information. They have not made any arrest or
commented publicly on the case, and now they are concealing
the possible cause of death, a move criticized by the
La County Chief Medical Examiner.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Yeah, so is it a homicide or not? How does
somebody get in the trunk of the car.
Speaker 12 (20:59):
In a statement, he said, the practice of security holds
is virtually unheard of in other counties. We are dedicated
to serving our community with full transparency. However, the law
precludes us from doing so while the court order remains
in this case. There have been some wild media reports
about the case, including that the victim's body was partially
(21:21):
frozen when she was found, something Castillo says. The commanding
officer for the Lapd Robbery Homicide Division has denied.
Speaker 13 (21:30):
Saying this in the summer, I mean she's been out
there for weeks. To think it was frozen, It doesn't
make sense.
Speaker 12 (21:37):
The girl's body is found in September and the tesla
impounded at a Hollywood tow yard. Defense attorney Mark Geragos,
who is not connected to the case.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Oh, Mark Geragos in the commentary that's great.
Speaker 12 (21:48):
Says police now are investigating a trip that David took
to a remote area of Santa Barbara County around the
same time they believe Rivas Hernandez died.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
So that seems not great. Yeah, seems not great, all right?
Speaker 4 (22:07):
From the talkbacks, Oh, this poor, this poor brit she
doesn't realize she's going against like a rabid liberal. He's
like super hi undred the collar right now. He has
to prove her wrong even though she's right.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Oh you hear that, Nikki, you're a Brit, You poor brit.
That's just really your poor brick. I'm a rabbit Liberal
and your poor brick. So he nailed it.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
Is he talking about Ali the action?
Speaker 3 (22:38):
No? No, no, no, no, he's talking about you, he said.
She doesn't realize.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
Yeah, listen, tend to do illegal things, right, Mark?
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Yeah, all right, So I pulled up the Cato Institute,
the right leaning institute.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
What'd you find, Nikki?
Speaker 6 (22:59):
I mean, I sent you something that kind of agrees
with you, but I don't buy it.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Oh okay, Oh man, I got another one. Oh, this
guy is great. I don't know if it's a guy
or not.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Yes, the guy.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Oh, I got to clean this up. All kinds of
swear words all over this one. I'm going to clean
it up. A lot of people supporting you, even though
you found data that supports my position.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
But that's great. I'd love it. Let's let your feelings
drive your facts. I love it.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
You'll hear more on the talk back in just a moment. Hey,
we are still a hear from the midterms, and already
you got a billion dollar donor waving the white flag.
He's now backing someone else who's going to get the
cash and the clearer path that is next.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Chris Meryl, you're listening to KFI AM sixty on demand.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Breaking news.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Carolyn Levitt's nephew's mama, her brother's baby mama.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
I just got arrested by I. She've been here as
a doctor RICID.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
So the Nikki was like, oh no, most of I
wonder what she did because they only arrest criminals.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
I was like, I think that's actually been kind of
a thing.
Speaker 6 (24:10):
Do you think I'm going to get deported from my
traffic violation?
Speaker 10 (24:14):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Well, yeah, you obviously broke the law. Yeah, but I'm
did you plead guilty?
Speaker 5 (24:18):
I haven't paid the ticket yet, but I got well.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Don't because as soon as you do, you're out of here.
Of course, if you don't, then you're a fugitive. So yeah,
you're basically out.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
I'm screwedy the way I know, but I'm vetted.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
That was before the ticket. I have some numbers for you.
If you're interested, this will be good.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Go on then, Mark, so hey, just before we get
going here, I did say convicted, and there are some
that have been like arrested but not convicted.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
And it was the Cato Institute that came up that
I found the numbers on. What'd you find? Mark?
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Approximately thirty to thirty five percent of ICE arrests are
of individuals with criminal convictions, while the majority are not.
Recent data from fiscal year twenty twenty four shows that
seventy one point seven of those arrested by ICE had
criminal convictions are pending charges. All sources like the American
Immigration Council and TRACK have stated that in recent years
(25:13):
the percentage of arrest with criminal records has dropped significantly,
and a large portion of those taking into detention have
no criminal convictions.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
So little up, a little down, but apparently little up,
little down.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
The latest is that the vast majority do not have
criminal convictions.
Speaker 6 (25:28):
But I mean, coming to the country illegally in the
first place is an illegal act. And yours coming from
a person who was completely vetted to get into this end,
you're right about that.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
That is an illegal act. It is.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
It's a misdemeanor, but you're right, it is an illegal act.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
I grant you that.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
And they if they're deported to come back again that
it's a felony I totally agree with.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
And I'll let you even on a little maybe it's
not such a secret. But people who've been vetted to
come into this country, in other words, lawful, lawful nas
We don't really care for the illegals that we don't
support them.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
We don't support that.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
No, because you went through the you went through the
whole system.
Speaker 6 (26:10):
I had to have a genital check, you know, Oh
my gosh, I had to take vaccines, and I had.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
To do get oh, did you use your IMA?
Speaker 5 (26:19):
Then I did everything.
Speaker 6 (26:20):
I had to have background screenings for every other country.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Ever, look, I'm not debating any of that. I totally
get it. I totally get it. But like you know,
you got a doctor recipient who doesn't have any other
criminal record, actually didn't break the law of their parents
brought him in the country, and she's been arrested.
Speaker 6 (26:36):
Why didn't she get her US citizenship in the last
twenty five years that she's.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Been So that actually has been an issue is that
the doctor recipients basically were it became like a big hassle.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
This is this is this is something that goes back.
You said twenty five years. This goes back. They were arguing.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
You have to understand that in the in the nineteen
eighty presidential primary debate between Reagan and Bush, they were
arguing over who was going to be kinder to people
in this country without documentation, and that's how we ended
up with amnesty under Reagan.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
And then you end up with this.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
DACA thing and they're like, well, you can be a DACA,
but if your DACA, then where are you as far
as the pathway to citizenship? And you hear pathway to
citizenship has been this big debate for a very long time.
So then you end up with people who are dividing,
because that's where we are in this country now, where
you're either all in or you're all out right.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
So then you end up with the group that's build
a wall to port them all.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
You end up with this other group that goes and
this is where the Democrats have really they overplayed their
hand the other direction. They were like, oh, we have
to have pathway to citizenship for everyone, and it was like,
wait a minute, hang on here, It's is fine, there's
got to be there's gotta be a middle ground here.
Evidently the middle ground doesn't call the station because I
got this.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
Well at least extremely transparent today. I mean, you are
a piece of the way you just spoke to that.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Chick, Nikki. You're a chick. Me. Yeah, you're the chick.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
Who has more culture and sophistication than you ever would.
You're such a piece of want we go back to
where you came from and try that callie there.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Wow, go back. Okay, First of all, I love that
he's he's talking about culture and sophistication and called me
an f ing piece of s and a and a
P word, which is great because at least Trump would
grab me. And then he tells me to go back
to where I came from. Just try it there, like yeah,
like the.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Midwest, right, Okay, all right, well that's fun.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
I told you.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
I feel stimulated. Meanwhile, the governor race is shifting. We
just had somebody drop out. He was on with Alex Michelson,
Michael Micklesoner, Michaelson. I would say it wrong. Whichever way
it is, I always say the other way. Anyways, on
with Alex.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
So you're dropping out of the race. I am dropping
out of the race. That's Stephen Klubak, who was on
with me before when I was doing this show.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
And supporting Eric Swalwell as the next governor of California.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
And he will be the greatest leader of this great
state California. So and with that, God, Katie, Porter's got
to be just dying right now.
Speaker 9 (29:11):
You know, I've been with you and I brought props.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
You like a good prop. I like a good prop.
But I have this pen that I had made.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
It's golden bad It's the Golden Bear, and I give
it to you as I wore it proudly, and I
want you to wear it proudly.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Yeah, oh god, yeah, I will say this and this
is interesting. Uh swell well, according to Kelshi, today has
basically fallen off a cliff. He was a pretty pretty
big favorite. Now Kelshi, betters are shifting things. Tom Steyer
took a big jump. So Tom Steyer today leapt up
(29:51):
in the Calshi's where you can.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Bet on anything, you know.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
And so they've got the Tom Steyer Swallowell twenty six
percent chance, Stier twenty four percent chance, Katie Poor at
twelve percent on the latest from Kelshi.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
There you go a little shake up. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Maybe they think the CLUBEC endorsement hurts him. I don't
know that it does. Meanwhile, we've got all kinds of
shenanigans going on in DC and in the last In
the last administration, we would call it law fair. In
this administration, we call it rooting out the bad people.
I'm so confused as to how I'm supposed to look
(30:25):
at this investigations into senators next Chris Meryll
Speaker 1 (30:30):
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