April 17, 2025 • 31 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (04/17) - California State Senator Brian Jones joins John to explain how the closure of the Valero Benicia refinery will push California's gas prices even higher, hurting middle-class residents. John breaks down new gas tax hikes and questions the feasibility of the state's push for electric vehicles amid infrastructure concerns. Later, John exposes Democratic hypocrisy around the controversial deportation of Salvadoran citizen Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Plus, an update on the fatal pit bull attack in Santa Monica, as police identify the dog's owner but withhold his identity, raising accountability concerns.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
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brother's hearing to get resentenced is going on this afternoon,
and we're going to have a report from Michael Monk's
next hour on that. Also, there's been a school shooting
at Florida State University in Tallahassee. And what's the casualty
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account there, because I know it seems to change.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Well, Yeah, and first we had maybe five people killed,
then five people injured, six people killed, then six people injured.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Now we're hearing five people injured. So it's been all
over the map.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
But we do know that at least one person has
been taken into custody. That person is in a hospital,
So we don't know if anybody was killed. There is
going to be a news conference at one point thirty
this afternoon our time.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
All right, we'll keep track of that. But first, what
we're going to deal with here is this, this just.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Just never ends.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Is the price of gas is going to be shooting
up even higher in California. Yesterday, the LERO announced it
was closing one of the major refineries in northern California
in Benetia. We're going to talk now to Brian Jones.
He's the Senate minority leader, a Republican. Let me give you,
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let me give you this. Here's what you need to know.
Our our state gasoline average for regulars four dollars in
eighty five cents for eighty five. Twenty one states sell
gas for under three dollars. Forty four stars sell it
for under three point forty, the national average three sixteen,
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our price for eighty five. And we've got another refinery closing.
We don't have that many left. I think about eighty
percent of the refineries in the state have closed. Let's
talk to Brian Jones now and see what's going on here.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
Brian, Yeah, Jeffine, and John, how are you to day?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
I'm I'm doing good, but this this gas price situation
is already extremely difficult for most people, and it seems
like it's going to get worse.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
John, It's unbelievable, and it is going to get worse,
and I believe it's getting worse faster than the governor
even planned. Look, let's not be let's not be naive
about this whole thing. This is a grand scheme by
the governor and the people that he appoints to the PUC,
the CARB, California Air Resources Board, the CEC, the California
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Energy Commission. They're all on the same page on this,
and him and all of the people that he points
to these boards is to drive up the price of
gasoline so high that Californians can't afford to drive a
gasoline car and either forced there. Ultimately, they would love
to force all of us on the public transit, but
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in the meantime, force us all into evs, whether we
want them or not, and whether we can afford them
or not, and whether or not the state has the
infrastructure to provide the electricity for all of those evs,
which it doesn't. And so this is a man made,
self determined crisis under the direction and leadership of the governor,
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it's on purpose and it's solely at his feet.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Did you see that USC professor the study Michael MChE
And he said he looked at fifty years of California data,
and the price increases here are.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Solely due to the government for all the reasons.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Stylistic, the term he uses is largely self inflicted.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
And there's there's there's a little evidence of price gouging
or price manipulation on the part of the oil companies.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
Look, we knew that from the beginning, John, when when
the governor did his scam of a special session back
in the fall to you know, go after the oil
companies and their price gouging. And then nothing ever came
of that special session. I don't even think there was
one hearing or anything about it. And he just let
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it die. He got he got his name into the newspaper,
obviously in California and nationwide. I'm taking on the oil
companies and then nothing, which is which is the way
this guy operates. He gets a big, flashy headline one day,
makes a big proclamation of a big plan that he's
going to come up with, and then nothing that the
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day after or any day later of what he's actually
going to do. And we learned this through COVID too,
with him doing the press conferences. It's all about and
he's very good at it. His press people are very good.
He's very good about getting his name in the news,
and then nothing of substenance actually happened.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
He's really good because because nobody in the media, nobody
in the media challenges him.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Well, that's changing, John, I'll tell you that. And there's
a group of media professionals in Sacramento that are fed up.
They've had it and you've start you've started to see
their coverage and you guys have always done a good job.
But the Sacramento press corps they're they're coming after him,
They're coming after the Democratic leadership. They finally have seen
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through the charade that they've been playing over the last
couple of decades and are starting to hold him accountable.
And I am thankful for that.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
I hope so.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
But because four eighty five makes it really tough on
people in the middle and working classes. And and if
the oil companies were gouging anyone, why would they let
the other forty nine states live with much lower prices?
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Right?
Speaker 5 (06:08):
If they were gouging Why would they be shutting down
and leaving the state. If they were gouging, they'd want
to stay here and make more money. Obviously that's not happening.
And John, I think the important thing, and I'm sure
you know this, Phillips sixty six announced last month that
they're closing their refinery by October. This Vlero closure is
just one more closure. And to your point earlier, and
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when you open the segment, this is the handful of
refineries that I've already closed over the past decade. If
this continues on, it is gonna well, it's already becoming
a crisis. It is a crisis, but it's going to
be it's going to wipe out the economy of California,
and it's gonna wipe out. It's gonna be the final
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death knew to the middle class in California. Californians who
in your case, up in LA live in the Inland
Empire and drive into LA, or they live up in
the northern part of LA and drive into the city,
or down here in San Diego on riverside, live in
Temecula and driving into San Diego. When gas prices get
over five bucks and then six dollars and then seven
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dollars and eight dollars a gallon. Those people have to
make very serious economic decisions, which in a lot of
cases requires them to move out of state and continues
to undermine the economy here in California.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
What are we down to now? Eight refineries?
Speaker 2 (07:32):
I've read we used to have forty three and now
we're down to eight, and we're importing oil from Saudi Arabia.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
After Valero, there'll be seven or eight open, that's correct,
and they're not the you know, they're not the super
big ones. And then they have to close occasionally for maintenance.
So I don't think there's ever any time that we're
at full productivity because there's a rotation of when the
refinery is shut down for maintenance. Not only John, not
only are we importing oil from Saudi Arabia, which is
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bad enough and far enough, but we're importing oil from
El Salvador, which the rain the oil comes out of
the rainforest, the Amazon rainforest. We're importing oil a small
amount from Russia through other countries. We're importing oil from
the Southeast Asia. But John worse than the oil that
we're bringing in because of our capacity to refine gasoline.
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We're now importing gasoline on these thinker ships across the ocean.
It's dangerous enough to be transporting crude oil across the ocean,
it's exponentially more dangerous to be transporting gasoline across the ocean.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
They say they're doing all this for the sake of
climate change, and yet if they're importing gas and oil
from the four corners of the Earth, I wonder is
there some other motivator here? Is there a piece of
the story that I'm not aware of? Do you know,
is it really for climate change? Because it's had no
effect on the climate, and they're busy now having oil
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tankers run from halfway around the world to California.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
I don't see the point of this.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
We're John, You're correct, We're at the point now, and
we reached this point several years ago where every environmental
policy that the governor and the Democrats and Sacramento pass
and add on to the regulations that we already have
only makes the climate situation worse. Bunkering bringing this oil
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over in ships, burning bunker oil, and refining it in
third world countries that don't have the environmental protections that
we have and getting it extracting it out of the
ground without the environmental protections that we have here in
Calibernia only makes the environment worse. So yeah, you are correct,
it's beyond the environment. They're not protecting the environment. They're
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making the environment worse. So why are the doing this?
What is the real reason? I would propose and theorize
that their whole goal is to drive up the price
of gasoline so high that we have to everything has
to be all electric for whatever reason they have justified
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in their mind to make that happen, which reasonable people
like you and me and your listeners, We can't rationalize
that and make that mean.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
We don't have an electrical grid for that exactly if
they don't have, if they got.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
What they want, the whole system would collapse.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
Absolutely, even if we had the even if we had
the transmission and the infrastructure for that electricity, we don't
have the capacity to produce that electricity because they want
to rely on wind and solar only, and that's not
a solution, all right.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Brian Jones, Sentimentarity Leader Republican, thank you for coming on
with us.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
Thanks Bohn, I appreciate you coming. This is an important
issue and look, your listeners can make a difference by
who they vote for in twenty twenty six and if
they want to follow me on social media, my handle
is se and Brian Jones.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
All right, thank you very much, Brian, and Professor Michael
Mischi is coming back on tomorrow at two o'clock to
talk about this. He's reached out to us and he
has more to say. We interviewed him last week.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
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Speaker 2 (11:31):
Like I said, we are tracking the Menendez brothers resentencing hearing,
which began this afternoon. Was to begin this afternoon. Michael
Monks from KFI News is going to give us a
report coming up a half and a half hour. We'll
also monitor any press conference coming out of Florida over
that Florida State University school shooting. There's been a confusing
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information on how many dead or injured. We just had
Brian Jones on and we talked about this. Yeah, yesterday
when the news broke the Larro is closing one of
their refineries in northern California in Benetia, and that's going
to happen at the end of April twenty twenty six.
Phillip sixty six is closing a pair of refineries here
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in the LA area, and we are looking at gas
that's at four eighty five a gallon. The national average
is three point sixteen, and there's twenty one states that
sell gas for under three dollars. Mississippi and Tennessee are
the lowest to two dollars and seventy cents. So we're
getting closer to the point where our gas prices are
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double what they are on the East Coast, and in fact,
we'll pass that point soon. None of this includes the
sixty five cent a gallon gas price increase because of
the California Air Resources Board. It also doesn't account for
the gas tax increase that goes into a on July first,
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which is just two and a half months away. The
exact date that the sixty five cent increase is not certain.
This has to do with a new low carbon fuel
standard that CARB imposed on oil refiners. It will happen, though,
and this is going to bring the price of gasoline
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above five dollars and fifty cents. And right now, like
I said, Tennessee and Mississippi is at two seventy so
we'll have more than double the gas. Now, we just
had Brian jones On, he's the Senate Minority leader. They
started this claiming it was for climate change. It's had
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no effect on the climate. In fact, all the California
fires have reversed whatever climate savings we've accumulated in the
past few decades.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
The climate around the world is the same.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Scientists may detect a degree here or there of warming,
but what we've done here in California has had no
effect on it. No effect on the world climate, no
effect on the California climate. It is very much like
a religion. It's very much like a cult. There is
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no benefit to all this other than that you're paying
nearly double the price for gas. If we switch to
electric cars, most people don't like them, most people can't
afford them. And we don't have the electrical generating capability
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to produce enough juice. We don't have the transmission lines,
we don't have the generation plants, we don't have it,
not even close. You know, a few years ago we
were skirting with blackouts because we were consuming more likelectricity.
Then we were making well we're still in that case.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
I mean it.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Remember Newsom was scrambling. They were going to take a
nuclear plant offline. He reversed that decision. He was going
to permanently close some natural gas plants. He reversed that decision.
They're all frustrated because they can't get the reliable power
from the wind and the solar generation machines that they
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had set up the wind and solar transmission networks. What
works best, what's most reliable, what's the least expensive is
gas and oil. It's always been that way, and it's
going to be that way for the foreseeable future. And
they've done this bizarre experiment and they.
Speaker 7 (15:47):
Haven't even gotten they haven't even affected the planet's climate
at all. It's been a complete failure in a waste
and at this point the damage is great. I mean,
we got three refineries closing, and then next year the
gas is almost double what it is in other states,
and there's more coming. And everybody on all these commissions
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that control the gas prices, they're all appointed by Gavin Newsom,
who's who's insane. He's stupid and he's insane, and he's
running for president. You go figure, you'd think he tried
to make life a tiny bit more comfortable so he'd
have a positive story to tell when he runs out
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there and embarrasses himself anyway, Like, oh, by the way,
everything I'm telling you is indisputable. It's it's not an opinion,
it's not one side of the issue. It's a fact
our gas prices are way higher than everywhere else and
we've had no effect on the climate.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
And Gavin Newsom is a liar. That's a fact. He
can come sue me. Michael MChE the professor at USC
is going to be on tomorrow's show and he wants
to come on to talk the price increases because he
was on with us. He did a study looked at
fifty years worth of data, found that it's largely self inflicted.
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High gas prices by the California government largely self inflicted,
and there's little evidence of any price gouging or price manipulation.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
So Newsom is lying, lying and lying.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
And we have a neutered media for the most part
here in California that apparently have cut off their own
genitals and sacrificed them on the altar of progressive politics.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Who knows why, but when.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
You're in a cult, you go along with whatever whatever
the leader says, right, if he tells you to mutilate yourself,
you go and mutilate yourself.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
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Speaker 1 (18:12):
We have Michael.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Monks coming on in about a half an hour. Michael
is going to report on the UH On the trial, well,
I should call it a hearing, a resentencing hearing. It
plays out like a trial. Both sides are going to
lay the case out. Menendez Brothers, Menendez Brothers have the
resentencing hearing beginning today. It's probably going to last in
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tomorrow and maybe even beyond that. And it's Nathan Hockman's
staff up against Mark Garagos's people, and Michael Monks will
be with us to tell us what's going on. One
of the most absurd, overheated, ridiculous, distorted, biased stories of
the of the week has been this illegal alien that
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Trump Sentel Salvador and he's sitting in a supermax prison
and I his name's Kilmore Abrego Garcia. And if you've
been tracking the news or listening to our show, you've
heard about this guy.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
He was an.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Illegal alien who got caught up in Trump's roundup of
gang members. Tread Dearagua Venezuelan gang members, MS thirteen L
Salvadoran gang members. Two plains worth of migrants were taken
to L. Salvador, I think two hundred and sixty seven
of them, and the El Salvadoran president was given six
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million dollars to put the whole crowd in one of
his supermax prisons.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
And these are all bad guys. Now, after.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
After the Democratic Party, all the Democratic politicians and all
the progressive members of the news media cheerleaded for Biden,
covered up his sinility, just flat out lied that he
was qualified to be president anymore, they're now trying to
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sell the story that some grievous harm has come because
A Brego Garcia was part of this deportation effort. They
don't think the Trump administration did the proper paperwork, went
through the proper channels, made the proper case, and they've
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really gotten extreme and emotional about it, hysterical about it,
to the point where there was a Democratic state senator,
I'm sorry, Democratic US senator from Maryland who went dramatically
to El Salvador and demanded that he get to speak
to a Brego Garcia, and El Salvador administration says, go home,
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get out of here.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
What are you doing.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
I don't know why they kept claiming that the whole
story wasn't in this is Democrat said, we don't have
evidence that he deserved to be deported this way. We
don't know there's no evidence of the of the reason behind. Well,
now the evidence is coming out. Why did they climb
this tree? Why did they go out on this limb?
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Why do they get so emotional about vicious criminal, illegal
alien gang members?
Speaker 1 (21:29):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (21:30):
What is the psychological dynamic at play here? This is
not the other side of a political issue. This is
what do you do with people are here illegally and
have a history of violence? What do you do with them?
You just get rid of them? Why does it matter
how we get rid of them? In other countries they
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were just get shot dead. So here's what's coming out
in the last day. Kiar Abrego Garcia held the rank
of che Keo and had the street name Chile within
the MS thirteen organization. This is from the US Attorney General,
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Pam Bondi. This is new evidence to support that Abrego
Garcia is a member of MS thirteen and should be
deported back to his home country. By the way, so
the Al Salvadoran president has his own citizen in the
supermax prison, he could let him out and we'd have
no say about that. He was found socializing with MS
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thirteen gang members in a parking lot at a Maryland
home depot March of twenty nineteen, and a source told
a Hyattsville detective that he was an active member of
MS thirteen. According to the Gang Field interview sheet, Abrego
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Garcia carried the rank of che Keo c h e
qu Eo.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
His nickname was Chile.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
His clothing was a Chicago bulls hat and hoodie with
rolls of money covering the eyes, ears, and mouth of
the presidents on the different denominations, which is indicative of
Hispanic gang culture. See you'd see you might see a
snarky news report saying he committed the crime of wearing
a Chicago Bulls hat and hoodie. Well, except that's what
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certain gang members wear. That's a sign. It's not a
sign that he's a sports fan. That's a sign that
he's part of the part of the murderous gang. Wearing
the Chicago Bulls hat represents that a member is in
good standing with MS thirteen, according to the cops in
the report. But what's even more chilling, at least for
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the wife, is they released the petition that she filled
out a protective order because he was beating her up.
So all these politicians and journalists and activists who are
fighting to free Abrego Garcia, they're fighting for a guy
who punches out his wife in her own headwriting, and
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I have a copy of it right in front of me,
she says. Abrego Garcia punched and scratched her on her eye,
left her bleeding after throwing her laptop on the floor.
On another day, he got angry again, started yelling, ripped
her shirt and shorts off, then grabbed her arm, leaving Marx.
In November twenty twenty, he hit me with his work boot.
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In August of twenty twenty, he hit me in the eye,
leaving a purple eye. He is a repeat wife beat
she wrote her handwriting. I have it in front of me.
At this point, I'm afraid to be close to him.
I have multiple photos and videos of how violent he
can be and all the bruises he has left me.
This is the guy that that Maryland senator stormed off
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to El Salvador with to see demanding the release. So
now you have politicians and media people fighting for the
return of a violent illegal alien gang member who beats
the crap out of his wife and leaves leaves her
all bruised up. I mean, if that's what you want
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to do, if that's how you want to blow your credibility,
although I don't think there's any credibility left.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
With this crowd. I'm just baffled by the behavior. I
don't understand.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
I they're they're fighting it out with an Obama appointed
judge named Paula Paula zenit x I n Is. She's
the one who claims that the Trump administration did the
wrong thing.
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Speaker 1 (26:22):
In a few minutes, we're gonna have.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Michael Munkston from KFI News to see if there's been
any progress in the Menendez brothers hearing. The violent psychopaths
could be set free. Nathan Hakman, the La County DA
is trying to start this, trying to stop this release,
and his crew is going to be fighting in court
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against Mark Geragos's staff of attorneys. And this is a
last minute gift from Gascon. This is like the final
third that dropped out of Gascon right before he got
his ass kicked in the election by Hawkman decided he'd
start this re sentencing hearing process for the Menendez brothers.
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This is a big middle finger at FU. And I've
had it with the weirdo family crying and babbling because
they're murderous nephews may not be released. I mean, that's
just that those two people are too much. I mean
there's some bad genetics throughout that entire family. You know,
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I never liked bad stories just to disappear without a trace.
They have identified the owner of the pitbull murdered the
toy poodle in Santa Monica. They don't have a name yet.
I've been looking all over there and used to name.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
They haven't released it.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
I did that story yesterday and I was I was
asking people here. I said, well, who is it? But
they're not I think for obvious reasons. They're not announcing
his name right.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Well, they should announce his name and whatever content sequences
they are there are. I but see, this is what's
disturbing here, Santa Monica police. Now, you know in Santa
Monica there's virtually nothing that's out and now illegal. If
you've been there, you'll see what I mean. They said
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they're gonna city attorney's going to evaluate whether any municipal
or criminal violations may apply. We want to be transparent
in acknowledging that under current law, many dog on dog
attacks and related violations fall under civil or misdemeanor level offenses.
This may include violation of leash laws, failure to control
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a dangerous animal, or failure to provide information following a
dog bite. Now, it doesn't sound like the pit bull
owner is going to go to prison.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Well does it say leaving the scene after the dog
after your dog killed another dog?
Speaker 2 (28:56):
I guess that falls under failure to provide information following
a dog bite. That was more than a dog bite,
that was like dog consumption.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
And that's more than failure to provide information.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
If you didn't know, it was a small toy poodle
named Dublin walking with its owners, Christopher Dietrich and Alyssa Klug.
And it was five point thirty Friday afternoon, Main Street
and the Strand and the pit bull owner. You could
see about a security camera running away and the owner
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and the dog ran into an apartment building in the
Ocean Park.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Neighborhood, so they know who he is.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
I assume by now they've probably knocked on his door,
but there's no evidence that anything's going to happen. Now.
When the pit bull at least get terminated.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
That's usually what happens.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
I think the pit bull and the owner, well, I don't.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
Think the owner will be eliminated, but I think the
pit bull will.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
I like that, well, something ought to happen there. You
walk around with a loaded weapon, I mean, these pit
bulls ought to be treated like he was walking around
with a submachine gun. You end up with the same
result that poor poodle though, that's just there's just no justice.
And you're not going to find justice in Santa Monica either,
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And now there's a cover up here. You know, they're
not even announcing the guy's name when we come back.
Michael Monks, KFI News. The Menendez brothers they're having their
hearing today, could go on a while re sentencing so
that these murderous psychopaths can be free and live amongst us.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Wouldn't that be nice?
Speaker 6 (30:39):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Wouldn't that be nice if this pit bull and the
Menendez brothers are both free. Debra Mark is live in
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hey, you've been listening
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lot going on simultaneously. The Menendez brother hearing. The Menendez
brother's hearing to get resentenced is going on this afternoon,
and we're going to have a report from Michael Monk's
next hour on that. Also, there's been a school shooting
at Florida State University in Tallahassee. And what's the casualty
(00:46):
account there, because I know it seems to change.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Well, Yeah, and first we had maybe five people killed,
then five people injured, six people killed, then six people injured.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Now we're hearing five people injured. So it's been all
over the map.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
But we do know that at least one person has
been taken into custody. That person is in a hospital,
So we don't know if anybody was killed. There is
going to be a news conference at one point thirty
this afternoon our time.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
All right, we'll keep track of that. But first, what
we're going to deal with here is this, this just.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Just never ends.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Is the price of gas is going to be shooting
up even higher in California. Yesterday, the LERO announced it
was closing one of the major refineries in northern California
in Benetia. We're going to talk now to Brian Jones.
He's the Senate minority leader, a Republican. Let me give you,
(01:45):
let me give you this. Here's what you need to know.
Our our state gasoline average for regulars four dollars in
eighty five cents for eighty five. Twenty one states sell
gas for under three dollars. Forty four stars sell it
for under three point forty, the national average three sixteen,
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our price for eighty five. And we've got another refinery closing.
We don't have that many left. I think about eighty
percent of the refineries in the state have closed. Let's
talk to Brian Jones now and see what's going on here.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
Brian, Yeah, Jeffine, and John, how are you to day?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
I'm I'm doing good, but this this gas price situation
is already extremely difficult for most people, and it seems
like it's going to get worse.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
John, It's unbelievable, and it is going to get worse,
and I believe it's getting worse faster than the governor
even planned. Look, let's not be let's not be naive
about this whole thing. This is a grand scheme by
the governor and the people that he appoints to the PUC,
the CARB, California Air Resources Board, the CEC, the California
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Energy Commission. They're all on the same page on this,
and him and all of the people that he points
to these boards is to drive up the price of
gasoline so high that Californians can't afford to drive a
gasoline car and either forced there. Ultimately, they would love
to force all of us on the public transit, but
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in the meantime, force us all into evs, whether we
want them or not, and whether we can afford them
or not, and whether or not the state has the
infrastructure to provide the electricity for all of those evs,
which it doesn't. And so this is a man made,
self determined crisis under the direction and leadership of the governor,
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it's on purpose and it's solely at his feet.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Did you see that USC professor the study Michael MChE
And he said he looked at fifty years of California data,
and the price increases here are.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Solely due to the government for all the reasons.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Stylistic, the term he uses is largely self inflicted.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
And there's there's there's a little evidence of price gouging
or price manipulation on the part of the oil companies.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
Look, we knew that from the beginning, John, when when
the governor did his scam of a special session back
in the fall to you know, go after the oil
companies and their price gouging. And then nothing ever came
of that special session. I don't even think there was
one hearing or anything about it. And he just let
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it die. He got he got his name into the newspaper,
obviously in California and nationwide. I'm taking on the oil
companies and then nothing, which is which is the way
this guy operates. He gets a big, flashy headline one day,
makes a big proclamation of a big plan that he's
going to come up with, and then nothing that the
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day after or any day later of what he's actually
going to do. And we learned this through COVID too,
with him doing the press conferences. It's all about and
he's very good at it. His press people are very good.
He's very good about getting his name in the news,
and then nothing of substenance actually happened.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
He's really good because because nobody in the media, nobody
in the media challenges him.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Well, that's changing, John, I'll tell you that. And there's
a group of media professionals in Sacramento that are fed up.
They've had it and you've start you've started to see
their coverage and you guys have always done a good job.
But the Sacramento press corps they're they're coming after him,
They're coming after the Democratic leadership. They finally have seen
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through the charade that they've been playing over the last
couple of decades and are starting to hold him accountable.
And I am thankful for that.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
I hope so.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
But because four eighty five makes it really tough on
people in the middle and working classes. And and if
the oil companies were gouging anyone, why would they let
the other forty nine states live with much lower prices?
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Right?
Speaker 5 (06:08):
If they were gouging Why would they be shutting down
and leaving the state. If they were gouging, they'd want
to stay here and make more money. Obviously that's not happening.
And John, I think the important thing, and I'm sure
you know this, Phillips sixty six announced last month that
they're closing their refinery by October. This Vlero closure is
just one more closure. And to your point earlier, and
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when you open the segment, this is the handful of
refineries that I've already closed over the past decade. If
this continues on, it is gonna well, it's already becoming
a crisis. It is a crisis, but it's going to
be it's going to wipe out the economy of California,
and it's gonna wipe out. It's gonna be the final
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death knew to the middle class in California. Californians who
in your case, up in LA live in the Inland
Empire and drive into LA, or they live up in
the northern part of LA and drive into the city,
or down here in San Diego on riverside, live in
Temecula and driving into San Diego. When gas prices get
over five bucks and then six dollars and then seven
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dollars and eight dollars a gallon. Those people have to
make very serious economic decisions, which in a lot of
cases requires them to move out of state and continues
to undermine the economy here in California.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
What are we down to now? Eight refineries?
Speaker 2 (07:32):
I've read we used to have forty three and now
we're down to eight, and we're importing oil from Saudi Arabia.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
After Valero, there'll be seven or eight open, that's correct,
and they're not the you know, they're not the super
big ones. And then they have to close occasionally for maintenance.
So I don't think there's ever any time that we're
at full productivity because there's a rotation of when the
refinery is shut down for maintenance. Not only John, not
only are we importing oil from Saudi Arabia, which is
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bad enough and far enough, but we're importing oil from
El Salvador, which the rain the oil comes out of
the rainforest, the Amazon rainforest. We're importing oil a small
amount from Russia through other countries. We're importing oil from
the Southeast Asia. But John worse than the oil that
we're bringing in because of our capacity to refine gasoline.
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We're now importing gasoline on these thinker ships across the ocean.
It's dangerous enough to be transporting crude oil across the ocean,
it's exponentially more dangerous to be transporting gasoline across the ocean.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
They say they're doing all this for the sake of
climate change, and yet if they're importing gas and oil
from the four corners of the Earth, I wonder is
there some other motivator here? Is there a piece of
the story that I'm not aware of? Do you know,
is it really for climate change? Because it's had no
effect on the climate, and they're busy now having oil
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tankers run from halfway around the world to California.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
I don't see the point of this.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
We're John, You're correct, We're at the point now, and
we reached this point several years ago where every environmental
policy that the governor and the Democrats and Sacramento pass
and add on to the regulations that we already have
only makes the climate situation worse. Bunkering bringing this oil
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over in ships, burning bunker oil, and refining it in
third world countries that don't have the environmental protections that
we have and getting it extracting it out of the
ground without the environmental protections that we have here in
Calibernia only makes the environment worse. So yeah, you are correct,
it's beyond the environment. They're not protecting the environment. They're
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making the environment worse. So why are the doing this?
What is the real reason? I would propose and theorize
that their whole goal is to drive up the price
of gasoline so high that we have to everything has
to be all electric for whatever reason they have justified
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in their mind to make that happen, which reasonable people
like you and me and your listeners, We can't rationalize
that and make that mean.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
We don't have an electrical grid for that exactly if
they don't have, if they got.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
What they want, the whole system would collapse.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
Absolutely, even if we had the even if we had
the transmission and the infrastructure for that electricity, we don't
have the capacity to produce that electricity because they want
to rely on wind and solar only, and that's not
a solution, all right.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Brian Jones, Sentimentarity Leader Republican, thank you for coming on
with us.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
Thanks Bohn, I appreciate you coming. This is an important
issue and look, your listeners can make a difference by
who they vote for in twenty twenty six and if
they want to follow me on social media, my handle
is se and Brian Jones.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
All right, thank you very much, Brian, and Professor Michael
Mischi is coming back on tomorrow at two o'clock to
talk about this. He's reached out to us and he
has more to say. We interviewed him last week.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
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six forty.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Like I said, we are tracking the Menendez brothers resentencing hearing,
which began this afternoon. Was to begin this afternoon. Michael
Monks from KFI News is going to give us a
report coming up a half and a half hour. We'll
also monitor any press conference coming out of Florida over
that Florida State University school shooting. There's been a confusing
(11:52):
information on how many dead or injured. We just had
Brian Jones on and we talked about this. Yeah, yesterday
when the news broke the Larro is closing one of
their refineries in northern California in Benetia, and that's going
to happen at the end of April twenty twenty six.
Phillip sixty six is closing a pair of refineries here
(12:14):
in the LA area, and we are looking at gas
that's at four eighty five a gallon. The national average
is three point sixteen, and there's twenty one states that
sell gas for under three dollars. Mississippi and Tennessee are
the lowest to two dollars and seventy cents. So we're
getting closer to the point where our gas prices are
(12:39):
double what they are on the East Coast, and in fact,
we'll pass that point soon. None of this includes the
sixty five cent a gallon gas price increase because of
the California Air Resources Board. It also doesn't account for
the gas tax increase that goes into a on July first,
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which is just two and a half months away. The
exact date that the sixty five cent increase is not certain.
This has to do with a new low carbon fuel
standard that CARB imposed on oil refiners. It will happen, though,
and this is going to bring the price of gasoline
(13:23):
above five dollars and fifty cents. And right now, like
I said, Tennessee and Mississippi is at two seventy so
we'll have more than double the gas. Now, we just
had Brian jones On, he's the Senate Minority leader. They
started this claiming it was for climate change. It's had
(13:44):
no effect on the climate. In fact, all the California
fires have reversed whatever climate savings we've accumulated in the
past few decades.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
The climate around the world is the same.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Scientists may detect a degree here or there of warming,
but what we've done here in California has had no
effect on it. No effect on the world climate, no
effect on the California climate. It is very much like
a religion. It's very much like a cult. There is
(14:22):
no benefit to all this other than that you're paying
nearly double the price for gas. If we switch to
electric cars, most people don't like them, most people can't
afford them. And we don't have the electrical generating capability
(14:43):
to produce enough juice. We don't have the transmission lines,
we don't have the generation plants, we don't have it,
not even close. You know, a few years ago we
were skirting with blackouts because we were consuming more likelectricity.
Then we were making well we're still in that case.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
I mean it.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Remember Newsom was scrambling. They were going to take a
nuclear plant offline. He reversed that decision. He was going
to permanently close some natural gas plants. He reversed that decision.
They're all frustrated because they can't get the reliable power
from the wind and the solar generation machines that they
(15:26):
had set up the wind and solar transmission networks. What
works best, what's most reliable, what's the least expensive is
gas and oil. It's always been that way, and it's
going to be that way for the foreseeable future. And
they've done this bizarre experiment and they.
Speaker 7 (15:47):
Haven't even gotten they haven't even affected the planet's climate
at all. It's been a complete failure in a waste
and at this point the damage is great. I mean,
we got three refineries closing, and then next year the
gas is almost double what it is in other states,
and there's more coming. And everybody on all these commissions
(16:09):
that control the gas prices, they're all appointed by Gavin Newsom,
who's who's insane. He's stupid and he's insane, and he's
running for president. You go figure, you'd think he tried
to make life a tiny bit more comfortable so he'd
have a positive story to tell when he runs out
(16:31):
there and embarrasses himself anyway, Like, oh, by the way,
everything I'm telling you is indisputable. It's it's not an opinion,
it's not one side of the issue. It's a fact
our gas prices are way higher than everywhere else and
we've had no effect on the climate.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
And Gavin Newsom is a liar. That's a fact. He
can come sue me. Michael MChE the professor at USC
is going to be on tomorrow's show and he wants
to come on to talk the price increases because he
was on with us. He did a study looked at
fifty years worth of data, found that it's largely self inflicted.
(17:08):
High gas prices by the California government largely self inflicted,
and there's little evidence of any price gouging or price manipulation.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
So Newsom is lying, lying and lying.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
And we have a neutered media for the most part
here in California that apparently have cut off their own
genitals and sacrificed them on the altar of progressive politics.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Who knows why, but when.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
You're in a cult, you go along with whatever whatever
the leader says, right, if he tells you to mutilate yourself,
you go and mutilate yourself.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
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Speaker 2 (17:52):
But we're on every day from one until four and
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The moistline is tomorrow already eight seven seven Moist eighty six,
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twice in the three o'clock hour.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
We have Michael.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Monks coming on in about a half an hour. Michael
is going to report on the UH On the trial, well,
I should call it a hearing, a resentencing hearing. It
plays out like a trial. Both sides are going to
lay the case out. Menendez Brothers, Menendez Brothers have the
resentencing hearing beginning today. It's probably going to last in
(18:34):
tomorrow and maybe even beyond that. And it's Nathan Hockman's
staff up against Mark Garagos's people, and Michael Monks will
be with us to tell us what's going on. One
of the most absurd, overheated, ridiculous, distorted, biased stories of
the of the week has been this illegal alien that
(18:59):
Trump Sentel Salvador and he's sitting in a supermax prison
and I his name's Kilmore Abrego Garcia. And if you've
been tracking the news or listening to our show, you've
heard about this guy.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
He was an.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Illegal alien who got caught up in Trump's roundup of
gang members. Tread Dearagua Venezuelan gang members, MS thirteen L
Salvadoran gang members. Two plains worth of migrants were taken
to L. Salvador, I think two hundred and sixty seven
of them, and the El Salvadoran president was given six
(19:38):
million dollars to put the whole crowd in one of
his supermax prisons.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
And these are all bad guys. Now, after.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
After the Democratic Party, all the Democratic politicians and all
the progressive members of the news media cheerleaded for Biden,
covered up his sinility, just flat out lied that he
was qualified to be president anymore, they're now trying to
(20:12):
sell the story that some grievous harm has come because
A Brego Garcia was part of this deportation effort. They
don't think the Trump administration did the proper paperwork, went
through the proper channels, made the proper case, and they've
(20:33):
really gotten extreme and emotional about it, hysterical about it,
to the point where there was a Democratic state senator,
I'm sorry, Democratic US senator from Maryland who went dramatically
to El Salvador and demanded that he get to speak
to a Brego Garcia, and El Salvador administration says, go home,
(20:57):
get out of here.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
What are you doing.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
I don't know why they kept claiming that the whole
story wasn't in this is Democrat said, we don't have
evidence that he deserved to be deported this way. We
don't know there's no evidence of the of the reason behind. Well,
now the evidence is coming out. Why did they climb
this tree? Why did they go out on this limb?
(21:22):
Why do they get so emotional about vicious criminal, illegal
alien gang members?
Speaker 1 (21:29):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (21:30):
What is the psychological dynamic at play here? This is
not the other side of a political issue. This is
what do you do with people are here illegally and
have a history of violence? What do you do with them?
You just get rid of them? Why does it matter
how we get rid of them? In other countries they
(21:54):
were just get shot dead. So here's what's coming out
in the last day. Kiar Abrego Garcia held the rank
of che Keo and had the street name Chile within
the MS thirteen organization. This is from the US Attorney General,
(22:16):
Pam Bondi. This is new evidence to support that Abrego
Garcia is a member of MS thirteen and should be
deported back to his home country. By the way, so
the Al Salvadoran president has his own citizen in the
supermax prison, he could let him out and we'd have
no say about that. He was found socializing with MS
(22:44):
thirteen gang members in a parking lot at a Maryland
home depot March of twenty nineteen, and a source told
a Hyattsville detective that he was an active member of
MS thirteen. According to the Gang Field interview sheet, Abrego
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Garcia carried the rank of che Keo c h e
qu Eo.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
His nickname was Chile.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
His clothing was a Chicago bulls hat and hoodie with
rolls of money covering the eyes, ears, and mouth of
the presidents on the different denominations, which is indicative of
Hispanic gang culture. See you'd see you might see a
snarky news report saying he committed the crime of wearing
a Chicago Bulls hat and hoodie. Well, except that's what
(23:41):
certain gang members wear. That's a sign. It's not a
sign that he's a sports fan. That's a sign that
he's part of the part of the murderous gang. Wearing
the Chicago Bulls hat represents that a member is in
good standing with MS thirteen, according to the cops in
the report. But what's even more chilling, at least for
(24:07):
the wife, is they released the petition that she filled
out a protective order because he was beating her up.
So all these politicians and journalists and activists who are
fighting to free Abrego Garcia, they're fighting for a guy
who punches out his wife in her own headwriting, and
(24:31):
I have a copy of it right in front of me,
she says. Abrego Garcia punched and scratched her on her eye,
left her bleeding after throwing her laptop on the floor.
On another day, he got angry again, started yelling, ripped
her shirt and shorts off, then grabbed her arm, leaving Marx.
In November twenty twenty, he hit me with his work boot.
(24:52):
In August of twenty twenty, he hit me in the eye,
leaving a purple eye. He is a repeat wife beat
she wrote her handwriting. I have it in front of me.
At this point, I'm afraid to be close to him.
I have multiple photos and videos of how violent he
can be and all the bruises he has left me.
This is the guy that that Maryland senator stormed off
(25:15):
to El Salvador with to see demanding the release. So
now you have politicians and media people fighting for the
return of a violent illegal alien gang member who beats
the crap out of his wife and leaves leaves her
all bruised up. I mean, if that's what you want
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to do, if that's how you want to blow your credibility,
although I don't think there's any credibility left.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
With this crowd. I'm just baffled by the behavior. I
don't understand.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
I they're they're fighting it out with an Obama appointed
judge named Paula Paula zenit x I n Is. She's
the one who claims that the Trump administration did the
wrong thing.
Speaker 6 (26:08):
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Speaker 1 (26:22):
In a few minutes, we're gonna have.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Michael Munkston from KFI News to see if there's been
any progress in the Menendez brothers hearing. The violent psychopaths
could be set free. Nathan Hakman, the La County DA
is trying to start this, trying to stop this release,
and his crew is going to be fighting in court
(26:43):
against Mark Geragos's staff of attorneys. And this is a
last minute gift from Gascon. This is like the final
third that dropped out of Gascon right before he got
his ass kicked in the election by Hawkman decided he'd
start this re sentencing hearing process for the Menendez brothers.
(27:04):
This is a big middle finger at FU. And I've
had it with the weirdo family crying and babbling because
they're murderous nephews may not be released. I mean, that's
just that those two people are too much. I mean
there's some bad genetics throughout that entire family. You know,
(27:27):
I never liked bad stories just to disappear without a trace.
They have identified the owner of the pitbull murdered the
toy poodle in Santa Monica. They don't have a name yet.
I've been looking all over there and used to name.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
They haven't released it.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
I did that story yesterday and I was I was
asking people here. I said, well, who is it? But
they're not I think for obvious reasons. They're not announcing
his name right.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Well, they should announce his name and whatever content sequences
they are there are. I but see, this is what's
disturbing here, Santa Monica police. Now, you know in Santa
Monica there's virtually nothing that's out and now illegal. If
you've been there, you'll see what I mean. They said
(28:16):
they're gonna city attorney's going to evaluate whether any municipal
or criminal violations may apply. We want to be transparent
in acknowledging that under current law, many dog on dog
attacks and related violations fall under civil or misdemeanor level offenses.
This may include violation of leash laws, failure to control
(28:40):
a dangerous animal, or failure to provide information following a
dog bite. Now, it doesn't sound like the pit bull
owner is going to go to prison.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Well does it say leaving the scene after the dog
after your dog killed another dog?
Speaker 2 (28:56):
I guess that falls under failure to provide information following
a dog bite. That was more than a dog bite,
that was like dog consumption.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
And that's more than failure to provide information.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
If you didn't know, it was a small toy poodle
named Dublin walking with its owners, Christopher Dietrich and Alyssa Klug.
And it was five point thirty Friday afternoon, Main Street
and the Strand and the pit bull owner. You could
see about a security camera running away and the owner
(29:27):
and the dog ran into an apartment building in the
Ocean Park.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Neighborhood, so they know who he is.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
I assume by now they've probably knocked on his door,
but there's no evidence that anything's going to happen. Now.
When the pit bull at least get terminated.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
That's usually what happens.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
I think the pit bull and the owner, well, I don't.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
Think the owner will be eliminated, but I think the
pit bull will.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
I like that, well, something ought to happen there. You
walk around with a loaded weapon, I mean, these pit
bulls ought to be treated like he was walking around
with a submachine gun. You end up with the same
result that poor poodle though, that's just there's just no justice.
And you're not going to find justice in Santa Monica either,
(30:20):
And now there's a cover up here. You know, they're
not even announcing the guy's name when we come back.
Michael Monks, KFI News. The Menendez brothers they're having their
hearing today, could go on a while re sentencing so
that these murderous psychopaths can be free and live amongst us.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Wouldn't that be nice?
Speaker 6 (30:39):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Wouldn't that be nice if this pit bull and the
Menendez brothers are both free. Debra Mark is live in
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