April 17, 2025 • 31 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (04/17) - John reacts to a surprising new poll showing Kamala Harris leading the pack for California’s 2026 governor’s race, even as Gov. Newsom’s approval hits new lows. KFI's Michael Monks joins live from downtown L.A. with updates on the Menendez Brothers resentencing hearing, which has now been postponed indefinitely amid last-minute legal drama and a contested risk assessment from DA Nathan Hochman. Plus, John slams LAUSD Superintendent Alberto Carvalho for focusing on immigration outrage instead of student achievement.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can if I am six forty you're listening to the
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Show on demand same as the radio show. You could
listen to what you missed. We're going to go right
to Michael Monks.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Is he there? Is he ready?
Speaker 1 (00:22):
And he's covering the resentencing hearing for the Menendez brothers
and it's had If you heard Michael a couple of
minutes ago, there's been a twist.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
What's going on?
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Yeah, that twist came late last night actually, when Ellie
keunty Da Nathan Hawkman said maybe we should continue this
thing and fouled such a motion to the judge saying
we got some new information you might want to take
a look at it now. The judge this morning said, no, thanks,
We're going to proceed with this. However, what we learned
from Nathan Hakman himself before he went into the courthouse
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was this new piece of information was the risk assessment
that Governor knew some apps the Parole Commission to gather
what risk do the Menindez brothers pose to society should
they be released? This was delivered to Nathan Hawkman's office
just a couple of days ago. He says, they didn't
ask for it. It just showed up. And the defense team
has not seen this. The judge has not seen this.
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Hawkman says, this is relevant to these proceedings. The judge says,
not necessarily. So they took a long break that is
just now this moment ended so that they could call
the state, the governor's office and get some clarification.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Is it okay?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
If the defense team sees this, is it okay? If
the judge takes a look at it. If it is okay,
then they're going to have to take a break much
longer than the two hours they took here. They'll have
to continue this until a later date. If it's not okay,
if it's privileged information, then they're going to proceed.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
And the size of this risk assessment report is this
something that could take a while to go through and
analyze and come up with the strategies on both sides
to deal with it.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
I imagine it must be highly detailed. When you're talking
about letting to kill out of prison as a possible
end result of this information, and that's thirty five years
worth of prison that they have to go through. So
every little incident probably has to be evaluated. Every little
triumph that the brothers have said they've had in prison.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Has to be detailed. But we don't know.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Nathan Hochman did not tell us what's in the document
that he would not share with us yet, so it's
not public information. Again, it's not even information that defense Attorney.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Mark Gerrenghs has had yet.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
So we are still waiting to see whether we can
get our hands on this risk assessment. The answer is
probably know for quite some time.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
But this is something This is the reason Hakman wanted
to put off this hearing until this assessment came out,
and then it just suddenly showed up at his office.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
I don't know if it was a weird thing that
it showed up.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
He made it sound like we didn't expect it to
show up. We didn't ask for it.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
We have not been collaborating with the Parole Commission in
any way, shape or form, but we got the document
a couple days ago. It was interesting to find that
this document had not been shared with the defense team
and had not been given to the court directly.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
But on the other hand, this is the state case.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Remember, there are multiple avenues that the Menindez team is
looking at to get them out of prison. This is
from one of the other ones, not what's happening here
in Van Nis. This is the motion to be resentenced.
This isn't the request for a new trial, and this
is not the request for clemency. That parole evaluation comes
from the clemency request.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
But now that it's out there.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Nathan Hockman says it's worth looking at because this thing
happening in Van Nuys could also lead to their release.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
I wonder if somebody leaked it, like, was this officially
mailed to Hawkman's I know, you don't know. I'm just
thinking out loud here. Was it officially mailed to Hawkman's office,
or was there somebody in this state parole office who said, Hey,
I think you'd be interested in this before you have
your hearing.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
I hope and it comes out he'll give us a
little more clarification on that. It just made it sound
like they didn't ask for it and it came down
to the office. I don't know if this was a
courtesy if this is the proper procedure. But he's got
his hands on it, he thinks the others should have
their hands on it.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
In my mind, if you were going to leak something,
then if it was if it was supportive of Hawkman,
you'd leak it to Hakman. If it was supportive of
the Menendez brother's case, then you'd leak it to Garagos.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Right.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
That would make sense, right, I mean, if you wanted
to bolster somebody's argument here, then of course you'd want
them to take a look at it.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
On your behalf.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
But Mark Erragos, who's still arguing that this should proceed,
has reportedly not seen the contents of this thing. So
whether it reflects positively or poorly on his clients, that
we don't.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Know, No, don't, we don't know. I'm just going through
a logical It's like, if you're going to leak this thing,
you want to help somebody, right, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
But on the other hand, you know, there's also been
commentary that, look, somebody's got to make the ultimate decision
about whether the men and Deez brothers stay in prison
or not. And I think there are some people who
don't want to ultimately make that decision. And if it
is here, then that can reflect one way on the
LA County District Attorney's office. But if it goes up
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to Sacramento, then it's on Governor Newsom, a lame duck governor,
and I think there are some people involved here that
would prefer that.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
I just wonder if there's somebody who's not a fan
of the Menendez brothers in the parole office and thought
he would try to bolster Hawkman. Well, we'll see, and
we'll find out soon. Soon enough, I guess the judge
is forced to consider it. I mean, if this is
the real assessment report, then it's real evidence that has
to be dealt with one way or the other.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
So I forgot they back.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
So that's what the question was. The judge wanted to proceed.
He denied the motion this morning that Nathan Hawkman had filed,
like let's just take a break, let's pump the brakes
here and let's get some time to look at this document.
But ultimately they hit a wall around eleven o'clock this
morning when the question was raised whether other people should
have access to this risk assessment, including the judge himself,
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including the defense team. Since the prosecutors have looked at it,
so they wanted clarification. They are in court right now
just so the audience knows. We can't be in there
and reporting or recording or anything. So that's why I'm
outside and we will get that information as soon as
it's available. To think, what's going on right now, It's
possible this whole time comes to an end momentarily.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
When you find out the next step. Come right back
on with us. All right, first guy, I'm gonna call
that better be all right, Michael Monks, can't find news.
Thank you for coming, you got it. But oh well,
now why was that suddenly leaked to Hawkman's office?
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Who did that? Why did they do it?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Because they had the Hawkman wanted a delay and who knows.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
You know how long delays can be.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
It can be days, it could be weeks until the
report is processed and printed and then analyzed and argued over.
Seemed like he was asking for a significant delay, and
then it just suddenly hears the judge says, no, we're
not going to delay it, and whoops, there it is.
(07:06):
If it's a leak, then there's somebody somebody in the
pro office has a rooting interest one way or the other. Well,
we'll find out. It's obviously we're gonna get some kind
of information this afternoon. I think that's Michael Monks. Also,
next hour we're going to talk to I like when
we have regular people who end up being correspondence for
(07:29):
the show. We're going to talk to say Ed Kashaani.
He's an attorney out of the Pacific Palisades, but he's
an attorney who lost his home because of the fire,
and he has been a one man band trying to
get information, trying to get publicity about the LEDWP.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
And he was the one who went to a.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
DWP meeting and excoriated the board members and wanted to
know why they didn't fill a reservoir, and why Jennie Kinonias,
the incompetent CEO, why was she so obsessed with diversity
and never spoke about the empty reservoir. Well, in the
past week, the DWP has been in court and their
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lawyers are arguing that they cannot be sued for a
lack of water, for an empty reservoir, for broken fire hydrants,
for only having three million gallons when they needed hundreds
of millions of gallons, and Sayid Kashani is going to
tell us what he knows, and that's coming up at
three o'clock.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Do you remember a couple of weeks ago, right before
we threw at the dumpster, we found out that the
head of LASA, the homeless agency, the County City homeless
agency that has squandered billions of dollars and people there
have stolen billions and the homeless nonprofits have looted LASSA.
(09:02):
And the woman who was running it was Valicia Adams Kellum,
and she quit after being thrown in the dumpster, having
her microphone cut off by the county supervisors after an
audit found that there's over two billion dollars on accounting for.
But the last thing she was able to say before
(09:23):
her microphone was cut off is that she used to
be homeless.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
And I heard that, go, oh my god.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
They actually hired a formerly homeless person to run the
multi billion dollar homeless agency. Of course the place would
be a disaster. Well, guess what else? Another disaster in
La City is the La Unified School District, a horrendous
(09:56):
disaster that costs billions of dollars in tax money.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
For little benefit for anybody.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Well, New York Times did this story on the superintendent,
Alberto Carvallo, and the hook of the story was that
last week there were two immigration agents that showed up
at two LA elementary schools. They were looking for who
(10:27):
They're looking for welfare checks on students who they said
were here illegally. And so everybody freaked out. Right, God forbid,
you have a government agency enforcing the law. And Carvallo
got all upset, and then he told the world that
he was an illegal alien and he was a homeless person.
(10:50):
So the disastrous homeless agency was run by a formerly
homeless person and the school district run by a formerly
homeless person. Well, no wonder, no wonder, it's a wreck.
This is this is you know. Some places hire, you know,
from the ivy leagues, or some people hire, let's say,
(11:19):
from companies that are regarded as the best in their field,
or you hire from school districts that are ranked at
the top in test scores. Right, that's what you should do.
You should hire the people who performed the best. And
then here in Los Angeles City and County, we hire
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people who are homeless I and he's homeless because he
came from a poor family in Portugal and he arrived
on a visitor visa and he overstated his visa that's illegal,
(12:03):
and he started traveling. He was didn't speak English. He
worked at different odd jobs, restaurants, farms, and construction sites.
He said it wasn't difficult to find a job without documents.
That's the that's the phrase they used throughout the story.
He was undocumented, He was without documents, and then he
(12:24):
said he was homeless in Miami. He slept in a
U haul truck parked under a bridge. Eventually, though, he
got a student visa which led to a Social Security
number and he could work illegally.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
And now he's the superintendent of schools.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
And a lot of people go, well, that's that the
wonderful American the theft.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Story, except as he's a failure because.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Two months ago the test scores came out for Los
Angeles Unified, right, Like, you know, I think I think
Adams Kellum, the head of the Homeless agegency. After being homeless,
she went to Stanford. It's like, oh, isn't that wonderful?
Shollow as she turned her life around. Yeah, except she
was a total failure. I mean, she lost track of
(13:12):
billions of dollars, so I guess whatever she studied at Stanford,
it wasn't math.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
And then you know she gave two million.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Dollars to her husband's nonprofit, so I guess she didn't
study ethics either. And I don't know what Carvallo studied
before he became head of the LA Unified District, but
I guess it wasn't teaching math and reading, because the
test scores for LA Unified, according to the UH Nation's
(13:43):
report Card, proficiency for fourth graders in math twenty seven percent.
I mean, seventy three percent of fourth graders are not
proficient in math. In other words, they don't hit the
minimum level of knowing what they're doing. Eighth grade is
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eighth grade reading is at twenty two percent, So seventy
eight percent of eighth graders can't read at the minimum
grade level.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Seventy eight percent.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Fourth graders are at twenty five percent proficiency. Wow, so
it actually gets worse. The more time they spend in school,
the less they know how to read. At fourth grade
twenty five percent of proficient. By eighth grade it's twenty
(14:47):
two percent, and it's well below the state average. The
state's twenty nine. We're at twenty two. So across the
state kids can't read. We have among the highest per
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pupil spending every grade level. According to another standardized test,
showed a drop in math in eleventh grade. There was
almost a ten point drop off down to about nineteen percent.
Whoa eighty one percent of eleventh graders are not proficient
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in math. You're running out of time in eleventh grade.
You got one more year and then they give you
a fake diploma and say thank you for all your accomplishments.
They probably give you honors and a medal and you
can go get your job at Burger King.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Eleventh grade was down ten points. Eighth graders and sixth
graders were down six points. And Uh. Alberto Carvallo is
worried about a couple of kids being questioned by the
federal government. I don't know to do them. It doesn't
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do that many good to be here if they probably
can't speak English and the parents probably can't speak English.
So I guess we're just providing daycare. Huh. And we
got to pay for the daycare. Uh.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
There's a.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Usc Professor of Education, Morgan Polkoff, who said, seems like
we've hit a new level, we've established a new floor.
We haven't really fundamentally changed anything. Yeah, all you educators
out there, all you members of the teachers Union, you
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couldn't be a bigger failure.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
It's impossible.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
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eighty six if you want to get in there and
vent your disapproval about the world. Also, you can usually
talkback feature on that iHeart app. Now, a poll came out.
There's a lot of polls, and when they're early, I
tend to ignore them, but this one, I want to
talk about California politics. That's a political news website and
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Emerson College and another news site called The Hill. They
teamed up to pay for a poll of California voters.
And you know it's getting closer and closer to the
day where we might have to decide to play the
Kamala Harris Dorito clip every single show.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Somebody has to do something to stop this.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
And I don't know what to do because there is
just a lingering desire that some people in this state
have to listen to that bubblehead to have her run
the state. Like what does she have to do to
prove that she's got nothing going on in her head?
Speaker 2 (18:34):
What does she have to do? So this poll.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Says in June twenty twenty six, so we're talking about
just thirteen and a half months, there's going to be
a primary for governor. Among the following candidates, who would
you support at this time? Kamala Harris thirty one percent
of the vote. Second place is missus potato Head Katie
(19:04):
Porter eight percent, former Congresswoman, So Kamala Harris wins by
at least thirty one to eight. I you guys are
gonna have to help me decide what the day is
where we decide.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Okay, every show we play it. Uh.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Chad Bianco is third at four percent. Probably most people
don't know who he is. The sheriff Riverside County.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
And then.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Some of these people I never heard of. Well I
heard of this woman, Laney Kunelakis. She's the lieutenant governor.
Two percent of the Oh no, Tony Vallar. Now he's
got some name wrecord. Well, he's only got two percent.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
I believe a man nobody else does two percent.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
God, I mean he's been on stage in this state
in top positions for thirty years, thirty years, and he's
got two percent.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Somebody named Kyle Langford is two percent. Who is that?
Have you heard of that? Nope? That a man, a woman,
Kyle Kyle, Kyle Langford. How DoD I mean? I never
we never heard of him? And he's got too He's
got just as much as a twenty years old.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
If that's the guy, yep?
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Are you?
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Are you allowed to be governor at twenty four? But
what what does he do?
Speaker 5 (20:47):
It says he has he's with the Republican Party and uh,
that's it.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
He's a construction manager and the executive director of the
California First PC. He's got his high school diploma from
Lake Oswego High School.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
All right, Well, that's that's enough for two percent. Jeez.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
Oh here, wait, this is something interesting. That Newsweek says.
It says that he has proposed forcing immigrant women living
in the country illegally to marry American in cells to
avoid deportations.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Is that a new way to create an acer? Baby?
Speaker 5 (21:36):
I can't make this stuff up.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
I'm just gonna ask you. Did you make that?
Speaker 6 (21:42):
No?
Speaker 2 (21:42):
I did not.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
I googled him.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Is that from some parody site?
Speaker 5 (21:47):
It's said Newsweek?
Speaker 6 (21:48):
So it's literally if you type in Kyle Langford on Google,
it is literally the third link that pops up.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
It's literally from yesterday. And there's enough in cells in
the state that know of him and are willing to
vote for him for governor. I mean two percent of
the vote. That that's thousands and thousands of votes. Okay, yeah,
Now there's another question about Kamala Harris. Should she run
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for governor or not? Fifty percent say no, fifty percent
say yes, And they had a question taking her name
out of the race. So, if there's a primary in
June twenty twenty six, and here's a list of candidates
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and it's the same group, just know Kamala Harris, missus
potato head. Katie Porter gets twelve percent and Via ra
Gosa shoots up to five, Chad Bianco is at four,
Kyle Langford still at two out.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Maybe we should get him on.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
There's gotta be more than forcing immigrant women to be
the wives of incelts. God, what's going undecided is fifty
four percent. So the Kamala crowd if Kamala's not in
the race, they don't know what to do. They're not
they haven't decided, they don't know any They probably don't
know any of these people. All right, here's where we
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got some time. Here's two Gavin Newsom questions. Do you
approve or disapprove of the job Gavin Newsom is doing
as governor? Thirty three percent? Only thirty three percent approve.
WHOA that's below Joe Biden. That's below Trumpet in his
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worst days, thirty three percent approval. His disapproval is forty
two percent, and twenty four percent are neutral. How can
you be neutral about him? Your second question, should Gavin
Newsom run for president in twenty twenty eight or not?
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Fifty nine percent of Californians said no, fifty nine percent.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
How does he run?
Speaker 1 (24:15):
On that? It's like much of the status turned on him.
They hate him now, well for obvious reasons. What do
you think is the most important issue facing California? Number one,
forty percent was jobs, inflation, economy, jobs, inflation, taxes, and
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second was housing affordability at twenty four percent, which is,
you know, it's all the same category. People don't have
enough money, have enough money to get buy from week
to week. And this is what I'm saying. Our gas
prices are for eighty five a gallon in Tennessee. It's
two dollars and seventy cents, and sometime this year we're
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gonna be up over five point fifty because there's a
sixty five cent increase coming from the from California Resources Board,
and there's another separate gas tax coming.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
And uh.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
And what people are worried about is taxes and jobs
and inflation, housing affordability. People can't afford to live here,
and yet Newsom gets away with selling gas for two
bucks more than any than many other states. I don't understand.
I don'nut and I don'nut what is he going to
(25:35):
run on? Is he gonna run on the highest taxes,
the worst homelessness, We got the second highest unemployment rate,
we got the worst housing situation. What's he running on?
Where people around the country are going to go. Yeah,
I want that more of that, all right, Deborah Mark,
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Oh uh wait a second, three.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
O'clock, three o'clock, I know we're doing something important.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Oh yes, I had Kashani. He's the Palisades attorney who
is burned out and he's been fighting with the DWP,
especially about that reservoir, and DWP is arguing in court
they can't be sued for not having any water to
put out the fire.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI six John.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Cobelt here, and right after three o'clock we are going
to have that attorney from the Palisades who has been
fighting with the DWP. His house got burned out, and
he's been willing to go to the d WP meetings
and state his case over the incompetence of Genie Kinonnez
the empty reservoir. And he's got more to say because
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the DWP in court, with their high priced attorneys that
you're paying for, is claiming that they can't be sued
over not having enough water.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
For the fire.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Coming up right after three o'clock, Deborrah has a major
news bulletin here.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
So a recensing hearing for Eric and Lyell Menendez has
now been postponed indefinitely. The judge has scheduled a May
ninth motion hearing, and that's where attorneys are going to
be talking about the admissibility of that state Parole Board
risk assessment report, and defense attorney Mark Erragis is also
expected to file emotion seeking to recuse the DA's office
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from the Menendez case. And there was supposed to be
another hearing tomorrow or another receensing hereing tomorrow, so that
of course has been cancelednother supposed to be a press
conference I think at three o'clock, so if that happens,
we will try and go to that live.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
So risk assessment was done by the Parole Board, and
that was for Newsome's purposes. He asked for it because
it's possible this case could end up before him if
the Menandez brother want clemency, if they want him to
shorten the sentence. So and even if even if this
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re sentencing happened through this judge, it would still go
to the parole board. So all roads lead to the
parole board. Newsom said, we'll do a risk assessment because
before anybody's released from prison, they have to go through
that process, and I wonder what's in it because it
caused this to grind to a halt.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
And remember and are we gonna get Michael on next
hour again?
Speaker 5 (28:33):
Yeah, he's right now, he's in court, so he cannot go.
He can't he can't talk to us. But as soon
as he's available, then we will get him.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Okay, we'll have him one again after we talk to
that Palistage attorney if we can. Because what Michael said
is is you know the uh, the Hawkman had gone
into court this week and he asked the judge hold
off on this hearing until we can look at the
risk assessment. And the judge said, no, let's do the hearing.
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And then all of a sudden it showed up in
Hakman's office and now, uh, now everybody wants to put
a halt to this. In fact, Gargos, I guess, wants
to keep it from being submitted.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
He wants he wants Hawkman off the case completely.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
He wants he wants Hawkman well where that makes no sense,
But Gargos does a lot of things that make no sense.
He just likes to create a distracting headline. So you
end up arguing something irrelevant. What matters right, The second
is what's in that assessment? Yeah, he wants hawkman if
there's bad stuff in that assessment, of course he doesn't
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want Hawkman arguing it in court. I don't know something.
Something's fishy. I smell something, you do?
Speaker 2 (29:55):
I do?
Speaker 1 (29:56):
There's an odor, you think coming out of Garagos? Yeah,
at a Garagos's office. There there's a bad odor.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Did you see?
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Joe Biden showed up at Harvard University for a surprise
appearance and the poor guy dropped his ice cream bar
on the floor.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
He he bit into a melting ice cream bar and
it was after he was done with his talk and
it plopped on the floor. So no ice cream for Joe.
He also had his usual bumbling mistakes. He accidentally referred
to Ukraine as a rock and his senior advisor had
(30:41):
to correct him. So he hasn't he hasn't missed a beat.
He has slipped just a little more into simility over
the last couple of months while he's been in hiding.
All right, when we come back, we are going to
talk to Sayid Kashani, the attorney from the Palisades whose
home was burned out and he's putting up with it.
He's been fighting the DWP to explain why the reservoir
(31:05):
wasn't filled, why they don't even want to talk about it.
DWP says it can't be sued for having no water
to fight the fire.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Site's an attorney. He's got a lot to say.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
He'll be on next and if Michael Monks says more
on this twist in the Menendez case, he'll be on two.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
A lot to come.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Deborah Mark Live in the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey,
you've been listening to the John Covelt Show podcast. You
can always hear the show live on KFI Am six
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Show on demand same as the radio show. You could
listen to what you missed. We're going to go right
to Michael Monks.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Is he there? Is he ready?
Speaker 1 (00:22):
And he's covering the resentencing hearing for the Menendez brothers
and it's had If you heard Michael a couple of
minutes ago, there's been a twist.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
What's going on?
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Yeah, that twist came late last night actually, when Ellie
keunty Da Nathan Hawkman said maybe we should continue this
thing and fouled such a motion to the judge saying
we got some new information you might want to take
a look at it now. The judge this morning said, no, thanks,
We're going to proceed with this. However, what we learned
from Nathan Hakman himself before he went into the courthouse
(00:55):
was this new piece of information was the risk assessment
that Governor knew some apps the Parole Commission to gather
what risk do the Menindez brothers pose to society should
they be released? This was delivered to Nathan Hawkman's office
just a couple of days ago. He says, they didn't
ask for it. It just showed up. And the defense team
has not seen this. The judge has not seen this.
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Hawkman says, this is relevant to these proceedings. The judge says,
not necessarily. So they took a long break that is
just now this moment ended so that they could call
the state, the governor's office and get some clarification.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Is it okay?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
If the defense team sees this, is it okay? If
the judge takes a look at it. If it is okay,
then they're going to have to take a break much
longer than the two hours they took here. They'll have
to continue this until a later date. If it's not okay,
if it's privileged information, then they're going to proceed.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
And the size of this risk assessment report is this
something that could take a while to go through and
analyze and come up with the strategies on both sides
to deal with it.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
I imagine it must be highly detailed. When you're talking
about letting to kill out of prison as a possible
end result of this information, and that's thirty five years
worth of prison that they have to go through. So
every little incident probably has to be evaluated. Every little
triumph that the brothers have said they've had in prison.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Has to be detailed. But we don't know.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Nathan Hochman did not tell us what's in the document
that he would not share with us yet, so it's
not public information. Again, it's not even information that defense Attorney.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Mark Gerrenghs has had yet.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
So we are still waiting to see whether we can
get our hands on this risk assessment. The answer is
probably know for quite some time.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
But this is something This is the reason Hakman wanted
to put off this hearing until this assessment came out,
and then it just suddenly showed up at his office.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
I don't know if it was a weird thing that
it showed up.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
He made it sound like we didn't expect it to
show up. We didn't ask for it.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
We have not been collaborating with the Parole Commission in
any way, shape or form, but we got the document
a couple days ago. It was interesting to find that
this document had not been shared with the defense team
and had not been given to the court directly.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
But on the other hand, this is the state case.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Remember, there are multiple avenues that the Menindez team is
looking at to get them out of prison. This is
from one of the other ones, not what's happening here
in Van Nis. This is the motion to be resentenced.
This isn't the request for a new trial, and this
is not the request for clemency. That parole evaluation comes
from the clemency request.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
But now that it's out there.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Nathan Hockman says it's worth looking at because this thing
happening in Van Nuys could also lead to their release.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
I wonder if somebody leaked it, like, was this officially
mailed to Hawkman's I know, you don't know. I'm just
thinking out loud here. Was it officially mailed to Hawkman's office,
or was there somebody in this state parole office who said, Hey,
I think you'd be interested in this before you have
your hearing.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
I hope and it comes out he'll give us a
little more clarification on that. It just made it sound
like they didn't ask for it and it came down
to the office. I don't know if this was a
courtesy if this is the proper procedure. But he's got
his hands on it, he thinks the others should have
their hands on it.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
In my mind, if you were going to leak something,
then if it was if it was supportive of Hawkman,
you'd leak it to Hakman. If it was supportive of
the Menendez brother's case, then you'd leak it to Garagos.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Right.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
That would make sense, right, I mean, if you wanted
to bolster somebody's argument here, then of course you'd want
them to take a look at it.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
On your behalf.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
But Mark Erragos, who's still arguing that this should proceed,
has reportedly not seen the contents of this thing. So
whether it reflects positively or poorly on his clients, that
we don't.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Know, No, don't, we don't know. I'm just going through
a logical It's like, if you're going to leak this thing,
you want to help somebody, right, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
But on the other hand, you know, there's also been
commentary that, look, somebody's got to make the ultimate decision
about whether the men and Deez brothers stay in prison
or not. And I think there are some people who
don't want to ultimately make that decision. And if it
is here, then that can reflect one way on the
LA County District Attorney's office. But if it goes up
(05:05):
to Sacramento, then it's on Governor Newsom, a lame duck governor,
and I think there are some people involved here that
would prefer that.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
I just wonder if there's somebody who's not a fan
of the Menendez brothers in the parole office and thought
he would try to bolster Hawkman. Well, we'll see, and
we'll find out soon. Soon enough, I guess the judge
is forced to consider it. I mean, if this is
the real assessment report, then it's real evidence that has
to be dealt with one way or the other.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
So I forgot they back.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
So that's what the question was. The judge wanted to proceed.
He denied the motion this morning that Nathan Hawkman had filed,
like let's just take a break, let's pump the brakes
here and let's get some time to look at this document.
But ultimately they hit a wall around eleven o'clock this
morning when the question was raised whether other people should
have access to this risk assessment, including the judge himself,
(06:01):
including the defense team. Since the prosecutors have looked at it,
so they wanted clarification. They are in court right now
just so the audience knows. We can't be in there
and reporting or recording or anything. So that's why I'm
outside and we will get that information as soon as
it's available. To think, what's going on right now, It's
possible this whole time comes to an end momentarily.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
When you find out the next step. Come right back
on with us. All right, first guy, I'm gonna call
that better be all right, Michael Monks, can't find news.
Thank you for coming, you got it. But oh well,
now why was that suddenly leaked to Hawkman's office?
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Who did that? Why did they do it?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Because they had the Hawkman wanted a delay and who knows.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
You know how long delays can be.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
It can be days, it could be weeks until the
report is processed and printed and then analyzed and argued over.
Seemed like he was asking for a significant delay, and
then it just suddenly hears the judge says, no, we're
not going to delay it, and whoops, there it is.
(07:06):
If it's a leak, then there's somebody somebody in the
pro office has a rooting interest one way or the other. Well,
we'll find out. It's obviously we're gonna get some kind
of information this afternoon. I think that's Michael Monks. Also,
next hour we're going to talk to I like when
we have regular people who end up being correspondence for
(07:29):
the show. We're going to talk to say Ed Kashaani.
He's an attorney out of the Pacific Palisades, but he's
an attorney who lost his home because of the fire,
and he has been a one man band trying to
get information, trying to get publicity about the LEDWP.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
And he was the one who went to a.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
DWP meeting and excoriated the board members and wanted to
know why they didn't fill a reservoir, and why Jennie Kinonias,
the incompetent CEO, why was she so obsessed with diversity
and never spoke about the empty reservoir. Well, in the
past week, the DWP has been in court and their
(08:17):
lawyers are arguing that they cannot be sued for a
lack of water, for an empty reservoir, for broken fire hydrants,
for only having three million gallons when they needed hundreds
of millions of gallons, and Sayid Kashani is going to
tell us what he knows, and that's coming up at
three o'clock.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Do you remember a couple of weeks ago, right before
we threw at the dumpster, we found out that the
head of LASA, the homeless agency, the County City homeless
agency that has squandered billions of dollars and people there
have stolen billions and the homeless nonprofits have looted LASSA.
(09:02):
And the woman who was running it was Valicia Adams Kellum,
and she quit after being thrown in the dumpster, having
her microphone cut off by the county supervisors after an
audit found that there's over two billion dollars on accounting for.
But the last thing she was able to say before
(09:23):
her microphone was cut off is that she used to
be homeless.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
And I heard that, go, oh my god.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
They actually hired a formerly homeless person to run the
multi billion dollar homeless agency. Of course the place would
be a disaster. Well, guess what else? Another disaster in
La City is the La Unified School District, a horrendous
(09:56):
disaster that costs billions of dollars in tax money.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
For little benefit for anybody.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Well, New York Times did this story on the superintendent,
Alberto Carvallo, and the hook of the story was that
last week there were two immigration agents that showed up
at two LA elementary schools. They were looking for who
(10:27):
They're looking for welfare checks on students who they said
were here illegally. And so everybody freaked out. Right, God forbid,
you have a government agency enforcing the law. And Carvallo
got all upset, and then he told the world that
he was an illegal alien and he was a homeless person.
(10:50):
So the disastrous homeless agency was run by a formerly
homeless person and the school district run by a formerly
homeless person. Well, no wonder, no wonder, it's a wreck.
This is this is you know. Some places hire, you know,
from the ivy leagues, or some people hire, let's say,
(11:19):
from companies that are regarded as the best in their field,
or you hire from school districts that are ranked at
the top in test scores. Right, that's what you should do.
You should hire the people who performed the best. And
then here in Los Angeles City and County, we hire
(11:42):
people who are homeless I and he's homeless because he
came from a poor family in Portugal and he arrived
on a visitor visa and he overstated his visa that's illegal,
(12:03):
and he started traveling. He was didn't speak English. He
worked at different odd jobs, restaurants, farms, and construction sites.
He said it wasn't difficult to find a job without documents.
That's the that's the phrase they used throughout the story.
He was undocumented, He was without documents, and then he
(12:24):
said he was homeless in Miami. He slept in a
U haul truck parked under a bridge. Eventually, though, he
got a student visa which led to a Social Security
number and he could work illegally.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
And now he's the superintendent of schools.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
And a lot of people go, well, that's that the
wonderful American the theft.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Story, except as he's a failure because.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Two months ago the test scores came out for Los
Angeles Unified, right, Like, you know, I think I think
Adams Kellum, the head of the Homeless agegency. After being homeless,
she went to Stanford. It's like, oh, isn't that wonderful?
Shollow as she turned her life around. Yeah, except she
was a total failure. I mean, she lost track of
(13:12):
billions of dollars, so I guess whatever she studied at Stanford,
it wasn't math.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
And then you know she gave two million.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Dollars to her husband's nonprofit, so I guess she didn't
study ethics either. And I don't know what Carvallo studied
before he became head of the LA Unified District, but
I guess it wasn't teaching math and reading, because the
test scores for LA Unified, according to the UH Nation's
(13:43):
report Card, proficiency for fourth graders in math twenty seven percent.
I mean, seventy three percent of fourth graders are not
proficient in math. In other words, they don't hit the
minimum level of knowing what they're doing. Eighth grade is
(14:11):
eighth grade reading is at twenty two percent, So seventy
eight percent of eighth graders can't read at the minimum
grade level.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Seventy eight percent.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Fourth graders are at twenty five percent proficiency. Wow, so
it actually gets worse. The more time they spend in school,
the less they know how to read. At fourth grade
twenty five percent of proficient. By eighth grade it's twenty
(14:47):
two percent, and it's well below the state average. The
state's twenty nine. We're at twenty two. So across the
state kids can't read. We have among the highest per
(15:09):
pupil spending every grade level. According to another standardized test,
showed a drop in math in eleventh grade. There was
almost a ten point drop off down to about nineteen percent.
Whoa eighty one percent of eleventh graders are not proficient
(15:33):
in math. You're running out of time in eleventh grade.
You got one more year and then they give you
a fake diploma and say thank you for all your accomplishments.
They probably give you honors and a medal and you
can go get your job at Burger King.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Eleventh grade was down ten points. Eighth graders and sixth
graders were down six points. And Uh. Alberto Carvallo is
worried about a couple of kids being questioned by the
federal government. I don't know to do them. It doesn't
(16:17):
do that many good to be here if they probably
can't speak English and the parents probably can't speak English.
So I guess we're just providing daycare. Huh. And we
got to pay for the daycare. Uh.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
There's a.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Usc Professor of Education, Morgan Polkoff, who said, seems like
we've hit a new level, we've established a new floor.
We haven't really fundamentally changed anything. Yeah, all you educators
out there, all you members of the teachers Union, you
(16:55):
couldn't be a bigger failure.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
It's impossible.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
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eighty six if you want to get in there and
vent your disapproval about the world. Also, you can usually
talkback feature on that iHeart app. Now, a poll came out.
There's a lot of polls, and when they're early, I
tend to ignore them, but this one, I want to
talk about California politics. That's a political news website and
(17:47):
Emerson College and another news site called The Hill. They
teamed up to pay for a poll of California voters.
And you know it's getting closer and closer to the
day where we might have to decide to play the
Kamala Harris Dorito clip every single show.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Somebody has to do something to stop this.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
And I don't know what to do because there is
just a lingering desire that some people in this state
have to listen to that bubblehead to have her run
the state. Like what does she have to do to
prove that she's got nothing going on in her head?
Speaker 2 (18:34):
What does she have to do? So this poll.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Says in June twenty twenty six, so we're talking about
just thirteen and a half months, there's going to be
a primary for governor. Among the following candidates, who would
you support at this time? Kamala Harris thirty one percent
of the vote. Second place is missus potato Head Katie
(19:04):
Porter eight percent, former Congresswoman, So Kamala Harris wins by
at least thirty one to eight. I you guys are
gonna have to help me decide what the day is
where we decide.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Okay, every show we play it. Uh.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Chad Bianco is third at four percent. Probably most people
don't know who he is. The sheriff Riverside County.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
And then.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Some of these people I never heard of. Well I
heard of this woman, Laney Kunelakis. She's the lieutenant governor.
Two percent of the Oh no, Tony Vallar. Now he's
got some name wrecord. Well, he's only got two percent.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
I believe a man nobody else does two percent.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
God, I mean he's been on stage in this state
in top positions for thirty years, thirty years, and he's
got two percent.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Somebody named Kyle Langford is two percent. Who is that?
Have you heard of that? Nope? That a man, a woman,
Kyle Kyle, Kyle Langford. How DoD I mean? I never
we never heard of him? And he's got too He's
got just as much as a twenty years old.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
If that's the guy, yep?
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Are you?
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Are you allowed to be governor at twenty four? But
what what does he do?
Speaker 5 (20:47):
It says he has he's with the Republican Party and uh,
that's it.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
He's a construction manager and the executive director of the
California First PC. He's got his high school diploma from
Lake Oswego High School.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
All right, Well, that's that's enough for two percent. Jeez.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
Oh here, wait, this is something interesting. That Newsweek says.
It says that he has proposed forcing immigrant women living
in the country illegally to marry American in cells to
avoid deportations.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Is that a new way to create an acer? Baby?
Speaker 5 (21:36):
I can't make this stuff up.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
I'm just gonna ask you. Did you make that?
Speaker 6 (21:42):
No?
Speaker 2 (21:42):
I did not.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
I googled him.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Is that from some parody site?
Speaker 5 (21:47):
It's said Newsweek?
Speaker 6 (21:48):
So it's literally if you type in Kyle Langford on Google,
it is literally the third link that pops up.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
It's literally from yesterday. And there's enough in cells in
the state that know of him and are willing to
vote for him for governor. I mean two percent of
the vote. That that's thousands and thousands of votes. Okay, yeah,
Now there's another question about Kamala Harris. Should she run
(22:16):
for governor or not? Fifty percent say no, fifty percent
say yes, And they had a question taking her name
out of the race. So, if there's a primary in
June twenty twenty six, and here's a list of candidates
(22:38):
and it's the same group, just know Kamala Harris, missus
potato head. Katie Porter gets twelve percent and Via ra
Gosa shoots up to five, Chad Bianco is at four,
Kyle Langford still at two out.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Maybe we should get him on.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
There's gotta be more than forcing immigrant women to be
the wives of incelts. God, what's going undecided is fifty
four percent. So the Kamala crowd if Kamala's not in
the race, they don't know what to do. They're not
they haven't decided, they don't know any They probably don't
know any of these people. All right, here's where we
(23:25):
got some time. Here's two Gavin Newsom questions. Do you
approve or disapprove of the job Gavin Newsom is doing
as governor? Thirty three percent? Only thirty three percent approve.
WHOA that's below Joe Biden. That's below Trumpet in his
(23:46):
worst days, thirty three percent approval. His disapproval is forty
two percent, and twenty four percent are neutral. How can
you be neutral about him? Your second question, should Gavin
Newsom run for president in twenty twenty eight or not?
(24:06):
Fifty nine percent of Californians said no, fifty nine percent.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
How does he run?
Speaker 1 (24:15):
On that? It's like much of the status turned on him.
They hate him now, well for obvious reasons. What do
you think is the most important issue facing California? Number one,
forty percent was jobs, inflation, economy, jobs, inflation, taxes, and
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second was housing affordability at twenty four percent, which is,
you know, it's all the same category. People don't have
enough money, have enough money to get buy from week
to week. And this is what I'm saying. Our gas
prices are for eighty five a gallon in Tennessee. It's
two dollars and seventy cents, and sometime this year we're
(25:01):
gonna be up over five point fifty because there's a
sixty five cent increase coming from the from California Resources Board,
and there's another separate gas tax coming.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
And uh.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
And what people are worried about is taxes and jobs
and inflation, housing affordability. People can't afford to live here,
and yet Newsom gets away with selling gas for two
bucks more than any than many other states. I don't understand.
I don'nut and I don'nut what is he going to
(25:35):
run on? Is he gonna run on the highest taxes,
the worst homelessness, We got the second highest unemployment rate,
we got the worst housing situation. What's he running on?
Where people around the country are going to go. Yeah,
I want that more of that, all right, Deborah Mark,
(25:56):
Oh uh wait a second, three.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
O'clock, three o'clock, I know we're doing something important.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Oh yes, I had Kashani. He's the Palisades attorney who
is burned out and he's been fighting with the DWP,
especially about that reservoir, and DWP is arguing in court
they can't be sued for not having any water to
put out the fire.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI six John.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Cobelt here, and right after three o'clock we are going
to have that attorney from the Palisades who has been
fighting with the DWP. His house got burned out, and
he's been willing to go to the d WP meetings
and state his case over the incompetence of Genie Kinonnez
the empty reservoir. And he's got more to say because
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the DWP in court, with their high priced attorneys that
you're paying for, is claiming that they can't be sued
over not having enough water.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
For the fire.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Coming up right after three o'clock, Deborrah has a major
news bulletin here.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
So a recensing hearing for Eric and Lyell Menendez has
now been postponed indefinitely. The judge has scheduled a May
ninth motion hearing, and that's where attorneys are going to
be talking about the admissibility of that state Parole Board
risk assessment report, and defense attorney Mark Erragis is also
expected to file emotion seeking to recuse the DA's office
(27:27):
from the Menendez case. And there was supposed to be
another hearing tomorrow or another receensing hereing tomorrow, so that
of course has been cancelednother supposed to be a press
conference I think at three o'clock, so if that happens,
we will try and go to that live.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
So risk assessment was done by the Parole Board, and
that was for Newsome's purposes. He asked for it because
it's possible this case could end up before him if
the Menandez brother want clemency, if they want him to
shorten the sentence. So and even if even if this
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re sentencing happened through this judge, it would still go
to the parole board. So all roads lead to the
parole board. Newsom said, we'll do a risk assessment because
before anybody's released from prison, they have to go through
that process, and I wonder what's in it because it
caused this to grind to a halt.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
And remember and are we gonna get Michael on next
hour again?
Speaker 5 (28:33):
Yeah, he's right now, he's in court, so he cannot go.
He can't he can't talk to us. But as soon
as he's available, then we will get him.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Okay, we'll have him one again after we talk to
that Palistage attorney if we can. Because what Michael said
is is you know the uh, the Hawkman had gone
into court this week and he asked the judge hold
off on this hearing until we can look at the
risk assessment. And the judge said, no, let's do the hearing.
(29:05):
And then all of a sudden it showed up in
Hakman's office and now, uh, now everybody wants to put
a halt to this. In fact, Gargos, I guess, wants
to keep it from being submitted.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
He wants he wants Hawkman off the case completely.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
He wants he wants Hawkman well where that makes no sense,
But Gargos does a lot of things that make no sense.
He just likes to create a distracting headline. So you
end up arguing something irrelevant. What matters right, The second
is what's in that assessment? Yeah, he wants hawkman if
there's bad stuff in that assessment, of course he doesn't
(29:45):
want Hawkman arguing it in court. I don't know something.
Something's fishy. I smell something, you do?
Speaker 2 (29:55):
I do?
Speaker 1 (29:56):
There's an odor, you think coming out of Garagos? Yeah,
at a Garagos's office. There there's a bad odor.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Did you see?
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Joe Biden showed up at Harvard University for a surprise
appearance and the poor guy dropped his ice cream bar
on the floor.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
He he bit into a melting ice cream bar and
it was after he was done with his talk and
it plopped on the floor. So no ice cream for Joe.
He also had his usual bumbling mistakes. He accidentally referred
to Ukraine as a rock and his senior advisor had
(30:41):
to correct him. So he hasn't he hasn't missed a beat.
He has slipped just a little more into simility over
the last couple of months while he's been in hiding.
All right, when we come back, we are going to
talk to Sayid Kashani, the attorney from the Palisades whose
home was burned out and he's putting up with it.
He's been fighting the DWP to explain why the reservoir
(31:05):
wasn't filled, why they don't even want to talk about it.
DWP says it can't be sued for having no water
to fight the fire.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Site's an attorney. He's got a lot to say.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
He'll be on next and if Michael Monks says more
on this twist in the Menendez case, he'll be on two.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
A lot to come.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Deborah Mark Live in the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey,
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