March 25, 2025 • 33 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (03/25) - Attorney Roger Behle comes on the show to talk about a new lawsuit regarding the Palisades Fire saying that LADWP covered up a second ignition site that enhanced the severity of the Palisades Fire. More on this new lawsuit against LADWP as the LADWP has officially released a statement regarding the lawsuit. Boston's mayor hasn't been cooperating with ICE all that much. Mayor Karen Bass was in Sacramento begging for money after LA's billion dollar budget shortfall. A pilot forgot his passport and didn't realize until 2 hours into the flight.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
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and it's the same as the radio show. Last Hour,
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I read you parts of the lawsuit that's been filed
in La Superior Court by the plaintiffs, the residents of
what used to be Pacific Palisades, against LADWP and the
City of Los Angeles because the LADWP failed in so
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many ways, traumatic ways, and we learned new stuff by
reading this just the introduction to a lengthy filing. We're
going to talk to Roger Bailey now, he's the lead
attorney on this case.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Roger, how are.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
You hi, John doing well? Nice to be with you again.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yeah, good to have you on again. So I went through.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I guess this is like the twenty seven page complaint
that you filed. Read some of it on the air
Last Hour. Let's start with the claim that there was
a second source of ignition for the fire at ten
thirty that night, discuss what ignited the fire and created
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an even worse situation at ten thirty PM.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Sure, and just by way of background, you remember when
we last spoke back in January, we were focused and
filed based on the lack of water. But what you
didn't know was at that time we also had some
indication that the ledwp's electrical equipment had sparked and started
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one of several fires in the area. But when the
LEDWP came public and said, oh no, those circuits were
all abandoned and had been abandoned for five years, we
decided to keep our powder dry and wait to see
how that evidence ultimately unfolded. And last week, after several
months of US probing and asking for more detail on
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this electrical circuit, the ladwp's lawyers admitted that, in fact,
that particular circuit was energized at the time of the fire.
And so what we have is we have a small
fire starting in the morning hours, and as the day progresses,
we have the wind picking up as everybody remembers, and
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that circuit, which is just above the summit Temescal Canyon
Ridge actually starts seeing seventy eighty mile an hour winds.
We know from post fire photographs the poles in that
area snapped to the ground, and then we have elements
of art arking in spotfires starting. And then most tellingly,
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we've got reports from clients that live in the summit
of a wall of fire coming down from that area,
which is different from the original point of origin that
was identified in the morning, a totally different area. We've
got a wall of fire being reported by residents right
out of that same area where those poles are, and
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of course it spread down to the summit and elsewhere
into the palisades.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
So this was directly ignited because the power poles collapsed
and the transmission lines hit the vegetation. There was thick
vegetation down below on the ground, so it's almost as
if it was a separate fire, correct.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
And on top of that, we have evidence in the
form of videos, and there was even some local news
broadcasts that showed after the fire was moving through the community.
We have transformers exploding, we have the power lines which
were still energized through the palisades and not just up
on the ridge there. The power grid in the Palisades
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remain energized, and we have a multiple spot fires starting
through the Palisades. So in Esmens, you've got a series
of little fires that become big fires that all converge
into the massive fire we know as the Palace Palasades fire.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
And there was virtually no water available after a few
hours to put out any of the fires that had started.
I mean when I was reading through your complaint, ninety
seven and a half percent of the normal available water
didn't exist because of the scent and as reservoir being empty,
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and also a second reservoir, the Chautauqua, being empty as well.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Yeah, that's right, like we talked about last time, within
hours of these fires starting, firefighters tapped into hydrants and
had no water available and reported to many homeowners, sorry
I could have saved your home, but I have no water.
And eventually they stopped sending people out because there was
nothing for them to do with no water. So it
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was a combination of not de energizing the grid which
resulted in these multiple additional spotfires starting, and not having
any water resources available that prevented firefighters from doing their job.
I mean they were out there trying to do their job,
but were unable to do that because they had no water.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
This is just stunning because there's two things that the
DWP is supposed to do, supply water and power, and
their power lines started this particular fire and they didn't
have the water available.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
I mean, that's right.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
It gets worse. Yeah, it just keeps getting worse the
more we dig into it. And remember this information about
the power grid We've been asking for for months, and
originally they said, oh, the lines were abandoned. They have
since come clean to say that that was a misunderstanding.
These lines were actually active, which explained all of the
wall of fire reports we got from people that live
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in the summit.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Do you have any information what started the original fire
at ten thirty in the morning.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Well, I can tell you that there is an ongoing
investigation by cal Fire. But what it seems to be,
and I'm an underscore seems to be is there was
a small adacre brush fire that occurred on New Year's
Eve into New Year's Day, and many people that live
in the Palisades remember seeing that fire. That fire was
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extinguished or believed to be extinguished. On New Year's Day.
Six days later, we had the Santanna wind event. That
we all remember kickup. And it looks as though embers
from that earlier New Year's Day fire reignited, but that
was in an area a good distance away from these
power lines, and the wall of fire that I described
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that looks like what was a rekindling, but that was
moving in a different direction than the fire that we're
talking about here.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
It seems like, yeah, two separate fires. Now, why would
they not de energize the lines after the first fire erupted? Well, well,
I mean I thought that would be an automatic policy.
It's like turn it, let's turn off the power so
it doesn't get worse.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Well, and that's exactly right. I mean Edison has approval
from the PUC to do exactly that. Because when you
have high winds, you don't want tree limbs falling into
power lines. You don't want lines arcing or transformers exploding,
which is why you de energize the grid as an
added safety measure. So, even if the DWP did de
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energize some of the grids, we know from evidence, video
and other evidence that the Palisades remained energized. You know,
the power system, the grids throughout the Palisades remain energized,
because we've got video of the transformers explode causing more fires,
pole fires, you know, starting because there's energy running through
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the lines. So we don't know why they wouldn't de
energize the grid. The protocol would have been de energized
and prevent other fires from starting.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
What have you found about why they infill the Sandy
Inez Reservoir was it really didn't want to spend the
money because the money was only one hundred and thirty
grand and they could have done it cheaper in house.
It's you know, in the grand scheme of things of government,
one hundred and thirty grand isn't very much. And the
reservoir was originally designed to fight fires.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Well, that was one of the reasons it was built
that back in the late sixties and early seventies, was
to provide a source of water. And remember it wasn't
only for the hydrants, but they used to fly helicopters
over Satainnez and pick up water for water drops, and
so a lot of people that lived in the area
felt comforted that the Santinez Reservoir was nearby and helicopters
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could drop into it in the event of a fire
and and you know use that to tend fires. But
with it empty, we had not only no water in
the hydrants, and we had no ability for those helicopters
to go draw water either out of standing as or Chautauqua.
You're basically both hands tied behind your back with no resource.
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And as the why why, yeah, as the why, there
was a tear in the cover that was identified back
in early twenty twenty four. That should have been and
according to the you know led TOWP union leadership, could
have been fixed in house within a month. There were
several weeks.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Okay, so why didn't they do that?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Because they claimed we had to go out to bid.
Our protocol is we've got to put this out to bid.
So months later it goes out to bid, there's bids
of contractors awarded, and even after the contractors awarded, no
work has begun, and of course January arrives and there's
no water in the reservoir, no repair work has begun.
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Then we know the aftermath.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
But this is an emergency safety situation.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
You don't have to put it out for barrier, and
you could speed up the bidding process. You don't have
to put it out for bid when it's a matter
of life and death.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Fire season is coming.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
That's right, and that's the worst time to leave a
reservoir or multiple reservoirs empty. And the other thing is
we heard, well the water wasn't drinkable because of this
tear in the cover. Okay, fine, you know what, Then
leave water in there for the helicopters, or leave water
in there solely for firefighting purposes until you get the
cover fixed. People don't have to drink out of it.
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Let if helicopters go draw water out of it as
an added safety measure.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Well, what have they been drinking for the last year
that the reservoir has been offline?
Speaker 3 (10:50):
You know, they have tanks that they fill from other locations.
They have three one million gallon tanks. They keep those
filled for normal consumption. But the event of a fire
like this, you needed one hundred and seventeen million gallons
of extra water that san In has offered. And of
course that was when the three tanks ran out. There
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was no water for any purpose, drinking or firefighting.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Why hasn't anyone from the DWP City Council Mayor's office
addressed all these issues publicly? They haven't said anything about it,
as if they're hoping it all goes away and everyone forgets.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Yeah, it's been crickets. You know, we've been expecting, you know,
public explanations. You know, the community has been wanting answers
and haven't received any answers other than we're looking into it.
We're investigating. But you know, it isn't that complicated. There's
an explanation for why they didn't fill and maybe they
don't want to acknowledge what it is. And there's a
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further explanation for why they didn't turn the power off
right as they.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Should have right, and why they didn't fund the fire
department fully to begin with, and why they didn't fix
all the fire engines, and why didn't they hire enough mechanics.
I mean, the level of mismanagement and stupidity is overwhelming.
All right, Roger, So you filed this lawsuit this week yesterday, yesterday, yesterday.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Okay, what's what's the next step here?
Speaker 3 (12:14):
We'll be in front of the court uh in April,
and at that time different dates will be set and uh,
you know we'll get the uh, we'll get the litigation going.
When there are several hundred families already that are part
of this, and more being added daily. And uh, you
know now that people are after the they've realized they've
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lost everything, the shock has worn off, and now they're
they're more than ever wanting the answers, and we're gonna
we're going to provide those in this case.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Those depositions are going to be entertaining. Thank you very much,
Robert tra Bailey, stay in touch with us. Let us
know we absolutely any new, any news, all right, Roger Bailey,
and he's the lead attorney on the Palisades fire representing
many Palisades residents.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
The LADWP has just issued a statement regarding the lawsuit
that I was talking about with the lead attorney, Roger
Bailey a few minutes ago. If you're just joining us,
the LEDWP is getting sued by many Palisades residents because
the plaintiffs and their attorneys believe that there was a
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second fire. First one started at ten thirty in the morning.
Second one started at ten thirty at night near the
summit up in the Highlands that's north of the main
village up in the Hills and this was caused when
an H frame set of power poles collapsed, snapped in half,
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sending power lines down. Well, the power lines were downed,
fell on heavy vegetation and ignited this fire. The LEDWP
made a false to a Washington Post reporter claiming that
those lines had long been abandoned and deenergized for five years,
and it wasn't until five days ago when the LADWP
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attorney finally admitted in a footnote that it was energized
at the time of the fire. So once again it
looks and smells like a big cover up. In the lawsuit,
there's color photos of the h and it and you
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know it's a the H frame poles, and it describes
what the poles look like. It's two vertical poles and
then there are three horizontal poles across connecting them, so
it looks roughly like it's the shape of an H
And what happened is those poles collapsed, the energized power
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lines fell to the ground. And they have video because
agencies like you see San Diego has cameras in the hills,
and you could see that the homes in the Summit
neighborhood had electricity. You can see the lights on in
the homes or the street lights are on. And you
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could also see where a hotspot explodes at ten thirty six,
because there were embers blowing towards the homes after the
fire ignited and it went to hell quickly. Heavy fire
activity just above the Summit neighborhood at the THAMESCA Water tank.
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So that's what I see with my eyes in the
photos that's included of The DWP has said, yes, the
power lines were de energized for several years, but re
energized in twenty twenty four. It was energized at the
time the fire started. Did the DWP says the ATF,
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the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco on Firearms, is investigating the
origin and cause of the fire. LEDWP has provided extensive
information and the ATF knows that the line was energized.
But the ATF and neither the ATF or any other
investigating authority has indicated that LADWP facilities were involved in
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the ignition. And then it goes on. It's interesting they
they try to provide some kind of response to the
power lines going down and maybe starting this second big
fire in the Palisades that night. I don't see any
statements about the reservoir why it was empty. And you
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combine that with the fire response. Because Kristin Crowley's decisions,
a thousand firefighters were sent home. Karen Bass defunded the
fire department. There's only it's only fifty percent funded. They
spend most of their days putting out homeless fires seventeen
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thousand a year. A lot of fire engines are broken,
over one hundred. There's no mechanics to fix them, so
they were out of service. You add this up and
between the fire management, the mayor, the city council, the DWP,
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they're problems. Not filling the reservoir, not de energizing the
power lines that night of the fire. Oh my god.
Every way they could fail they failed. They failed every
way possible. Many different people failed, Like there wasn't one
smart guy or smart woman in the whole bureaucracy. Nobody,
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nobody at DWP, nobody in Karen Bass's office, nobody in
city council, nobody in the fire department. Nobody. Wow, total complete,
overwhelming failure. Every wrong decision that could be made was made.
Every place that you could neglect they neglected. But outside
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of Kristan Crowley. Everybody still has their jobs. We'll have
I got all kinds of.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Stuff to do here.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A
six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Coming up after three o'clock.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
You know, eighty percent of the country does not want
boys playing girl sports. Doesn't matter that they claim their
transgender if they're biological boys. Eighty percent of the country
says no. But in Sacramento, the Assembly Democrats just blocked
a bill that would stop boys from playing in girls
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sports and would stop boys from being in a girl's
locker room, whether they were transgender or not.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Bill A.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Sale wrote the bill the Republican from the Inland Empire.
He's coming on with us after three o'clock. It is shocking.
It really shocks me, and I shouldn't be on. How
the Democratic Party has decided that women now have to
compete against biological males and that women have to sit
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in locker rooms and restrooms with biological males.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
That is so.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Bizarre, and most of the country sees it that way.
Why is it always California? Why is it always California
holding on to the weirdest, strangest In some cases, most
destructive policies, people keep voting for it. We'll talk to
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Bill Sale coming up. I'm also und that certain Democrats
keep defending illegal alien violent criminals. One of them is
Michelle Wou. She's the mayor of Boston. Boston is a
sanctuary city. She gave a speech the other day, a
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strong speech claiming that no one tells Boston how to
take care of our own, not kings and not presidents
who think they are kings. Boston was born facing down bullies.
Do you remember they rebelled against King George back in
seventeen seventy four, the Tea Party closing a Boston harbor
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protesting taxes from King George. And she's comparing that to
protecting violent criminal illegal aliens who rape and kill, that
they have to be protected against Donald Trump. In fact,
you're not going to believe this, but Michelle Wu considers
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the illegal alien rapists and murderers to be family. This
is her exact quote. We may not always agree or
see eye to eye, but at the end of the day,
we are a family. If you come for one of us,
you will get all of us. She's pledging that everyone
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in Boston is going to protect the illegal alien violent criminals,
including the murderers and the rapists. So CBS investigated in
Boston because Ice had been claiming that they arrested three
hundred and seventy illegal aliens, and more than two hundred
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of the three seventy were arrested for homicide, rape, manslaughter,
and other significant crimes.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
You want to hear some of these Boston family members.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Well, one family member a Guatemalan three counts of aggravated
child rape. He was released in Boston on seventy five
hundred dollars bail. Now, I cannot fathom what aggravated child
rape means. I don't even want to look it up.
I don't want to even picture that. But Michelle will
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these the progressive democrats running these cities, and Karen Bass
has the same feelings. She has not cooperated at all
with the murderers and rapists then need to be deported
here in La she is less outspoken about it. Michelle
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Wou really doesn't care. She's so sure she's right that
an aggravated child rapist be protected. I just had a
detainer on this guy, but they let him out on
seventy five hundred dollars bail. Here's another one, also from Guatemala,
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also aggravated child rape. The victim was age nine or younger.
Also released on seventy five hundred dollars bail. Also an
ICE detainer ignored. These are two separate men. Here's a
Honduran charged with assaalt to rape, masked arm robbery, released
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on his own recognaissance with zero dollars bail. Allegal alien
in Boston. This is CBS reporting Wooster County had two
illegal alien inmates charged with child rape. They both got
out on five hundred dollars bail. Another was charged with
fentanyl trafficking, released on four thousand dollars bond before Ice
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could arrive. This is what Michelle wou Is proudly defined
of the progressives running these governments are the sickest, most
destructive people I've ever encountered in my life. There is
nothing political. There's no political debate over deporting aggravated child
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rapists or arresting aggravated child rapists, but they release them
for pennies in Boston. Now, I heard that Trump. In fact,
I don't know if if anyone can check. Trump was
going to be signing an executive order banning sanctuary cities.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
I don't know if that's been done. I don't know
how you enforce that.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
But this this concept, and they stand there, all smug arrogant, smiling,
proud of themselves. And there's nothing that Karen Bass disagrees
with the y'all wou on here, except she keeps it
to herself. She gives that silly smile. Speaking of a
silly smile, she was up in Sacramento begging for money.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
She wants.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
A couple of billion dollars to bail out LA for
the fire. We're going to play you a clip of
Karen Bass. Now you listen very specifically to the question,
and notice that Karen Bass spews a lot of words.
This was like a word stew never answers the question directly,
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just spins and circles. This is Cacra and Sacramento. The
reporter is Ashley Zavala. Cut One right now.
Speaker 5 (25:45):
Is dealing with a really uncertain budget situation in terms
of its Medicaid funds, in terms of what federal funding
looks like in the future. Of tax returns in your
district are delayed until October, so lawmakers are going to
have to formulate a budget plan that they don't really
even know how much money they're working with. So what's
your I guess what's your message to California taxpayers and
other parts of the states to sort of see these
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challenges ahead for the state while you know you yourself
have your challenge.
Speaker 6 (26:11):
Right right and we are fortunate to have the state
legislature and governor that we do. And we are concerned
because we don't know what awaits us from Washington, d C.
But the state will have a better sense of the
finances after April fifteenth, when taxes are due that may
revise when the budget is updated based on the tax returns,
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will give us a better idea. But that's why we're
here now, because the subcommittees in the Assembly and in
the Senate that decide the budget that the governor put
forward our meeting right now.
Speaker 7 (26:41):
Jesus.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
We make sure.
Speaker 6 (26:42):
That La City is included in that. We've been working
lockstep with the county. The county was here last week,
so we wanted to make sure that our voices were.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Heard as well.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
She missed the part that there's a lot of people
who don't have in La who don't have to file
their taxes until October I believe they got a delay
because of all the natural disasters we had in Los Angeles,
So she completely ignored that part of the question. And
she needs billions of dollars from the state government. But
the state is seventy six billion dollars in deficit as well.
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And all this stuff in LA is self inflicted, including this,
as we've gone over in the first two hours, this
huge fire. There were so many things that the city
and the Department of Water and Power did to the
residents here to make this far, far worse than it
had to be. All right, coming up after three o'clock.
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You know what, the Democrats in the Assembly are interested
in having boys dressed up as girls in high school
locker rooms.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
They should be allowed to play.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Girl sports, being girls, locker rooms, being girls' restrooms.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Bill a sale.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
The Republican wrote a bill to stop this nonsense. Eighty
percent of the country wants this stopped. Democrats block the bill.
We'll talk about it after three.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
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Follow us on social media at John coblt Radio. At
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hitting twenty five thousand after three o'clock, Bill a salely
the Republican assemblyman to come on, He's got a simple bill,
keep boys out of girls sports and out of girls'
locker rooms. Eighty percent of Americans say yes to that. Enough, okay, enough,
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But the Democrats in the Assembly shot down that bill
by a wide margin. Bill Sale is going to come on,
we'll talk about it now. This is really one of
the strangest excuses I've ever heard for a flight being delayed.
This was a United Airline flight once again out of well,
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it came out of Los Angeles here and it was
headed to Shanghai. And it took off and it flew
about two hours over the ocean when the pilot discovered
that he had forgotten his passport.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
The pilot forgot his passport.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Uh huh, Yeah, the pilot forgot his passport. So they
had to turn the flight around and divert it to
San Francisco. And there were two hundred and fifty seven
passengers who ended up getting delayed six hours.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
I would be so pissed off.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
You know what they would give you for being pissed off.
They gave these passengers fifteen dollar meal voucher.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
You know, that's why bother that happened to me one time.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
I'll take fifteen hundred and it says in some other compensation,
but it's not specified. Maybe they got like a thousand
frequent fire miles or something. I don't know, but fifteen
dollars meal vouchers.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Here.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
You can't even buy a hamburger at an airport fifteen No,
you can't.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
You can't.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
So a new crew had to take over, and the
flight departed at nine o'clock out of San Francisco, six
hours behind schedule. The pilot announced on the intercom that
he forgot his passport.
Speaker 7 (30:32):
I definitely would not have done that. I would have
blamed some sort of mechanical issue or something. It's not
safe to fly. I'm not going to say that I'm
an idiot. I forgot my passport two hours into the flight.
Come on, now, it'd be like forgetting to get dressed.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
The United finally put out an official statement, and they
did not mention the passport. They wrote, your flight diverted
to San Francisco due to an unexpected crew related issue,
requiring a new crew. Once they arrive, we'll get you
back get you back on your way to Shanghai as
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soon as possible. Uh, the passengers really pissed off.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
I have not heard that one.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
So he would he would landed in China, and you
see see how everyone is afraid of other countries immigration laws. Yeah,
like this guy freaked out and turned the plane around,
knowing he's probably gonna get severely disciplined and and get
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get embarrassed around the world. But that's better than facing
whatever the Chinese government was going to do to him. Right,
He's got to spend the night there. He can't turn
the plane around and come back.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
You'd have to stay on the plane. Would even be
able to stay on the plane without.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
I don't know, I don't know how that works, but
you see, he didn't want to find out, right, he
didn't want to end up in some Chinese prison because
you know, they enforced their laws in China.
Speaker 7 (32:05):
I had a layover in Russia and we were told
you are not allowed to leave the airport.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Oh yeah, I wouldn't. I wouldn't screw with that. I'm
going to shoot you dead as soon as you stepped
on the tarmac. Yeah, that's that's the thing everybody else
enforces the law and every you know, and you're afraid.
You're afraid to do anything wrong. You're afraid to cross
the street the wrong way in some of these countries.
All Right, we come back, bill a sale on the
Republican assemblyman and he had a bill AB eight forty four.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
It would keep.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Boys at a girl sports at a girl's locker rooms.
The Sacramento wacko Democrats shot it down, locked the bill. Really,
so they're so sick these people. Debra Mark is 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 forty from
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Can't. I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
We are on every day from one until four o'clock
and there's no excuse if you miss anything, and you
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It's going to be on the iHeart app as well though.
That's where the podcast is. John Cobelt Show on Demand
and it's the same as the radio show. Last Hour,
(00:23):
I read you parts of the lawsuit that's been filed
in La Superior Court by the plaintiffs, the residents of
what used to be Pacific Palisades, against LADWP and the
City of Los Angeles because the LADWP failed in so
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many ways, traumatic ways, and we learned new stuff by
reading this just the introduction to a lengthy filing. We're
going to talk to Roger Bailey now, he's the lead
attorney on this case.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Roger, how are.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
You hi, John doing well? Nice to be with you again.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yeah, good to have you on again. So I went through.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I guess this is like the twenty seven page complaint
that you filed. Read some of it on the air
Last Hour. Let's start with the claim that there was
a second source of ignition for the fire at ten
thirty that night, discuss what ignited the fire and created
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an even worse situation at ten thirty PM.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Sure, and just by way of background, you remember when
we last spoke back in January, we were focused and
filed based on the lack of water. But what you
didn't know was at that time we also had some
indication that the ledwp's electrical equipment had sparked and started
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one of several fires in the area. But when the
LEDWP came public and said, oh no, those circuits were
all abandoned and had been abandoned for five years, we
decided to keep our powder dry and wait to see
how that evidence ultimately unfolded. And last week, after several
months of US probing and asking for more detail on
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this electrical circuit, the ladwp's lawyers admitted that, in fact,
that particular circuit was energized at the time of the fire.
And so what we have is we have a small
fire starting in the morning hours, and as the day progresses,
we have the wind picking up as everybody remembers, and
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that circuit, which is just above the summit Temescal Canyon
Ridge actually starts seeing seventy eighty mile an hour winds.
We know from post fire photographs the poles in that
area snapped to the ground, and then we have elements
of art arking in spotfires starting. And then most tellingly,
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we've got reports from clients that live in the summit
of a wall of fire coming down from that area,
which is different from the original point of origin that
was identified in the morning, a totally different area. We've
got a wall of fire being reported by residents right
out of that same area where those poles are, and
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of course it spread down to the summit and elsewhere
into the palisades.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
So this was directly ignited because the power poles collapsed
and the transmission lines hit the vegetation. There was thick
vegetation down below on the ground, so it's almost as
if it was a separate fire, correct.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
And on top of that, we have evidence in the
form of videos, and there was even some local news
broadcasts that showed after the fire was moving through the community.
We have transformers exploding, we have the power lines which
were still energized through the palisades and not just up
on the ridge there. The power grid in the Palisades
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remain energized, and we have a multiple spot fires starting
through the Palisades. So in Esmens, you've got a series
of little fires that become big fires that all converge
into the massive fire we know as the Palace Palasades fire.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
And there was virtually no water available after a few
hours to put out any of the fires that had started.
I mean when I was reading through your complaint, ninety
seven and a half percent of the normal available water
didn't exist because of the scent and as reservoir being empty,
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and also a second reservoir, the Chautauqua, being empty as well.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Yeah, that's right, like we talked about last time, within
hours of these fires starting, firefighters tapped into hydrants and
had no water available and reported to many homeowners, sorry
I could have saved your home, but I have no water.
And eventually they stopped sending people out because there was
nothing for them to do with no water. So it
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was a combination of not de energizing the grid which
resulted in these multiple additional spotfires starting, and not having
any water resources available that prevented firefighters from doing their job.
I mean they were out there trying to do their job,
but were unable to do that because they had no water.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
This is just stunning because there's two things that the
DWP is supposed to do, supply water and power, and
their power lines started this particular fire and they didn't
have the water available.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
I mean, that's right.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
It gets worse. Yeah, it just keeps getting worse the
more we dig into it. And remember this information about
the power grid We've been asking for for months, and
originally they said, oh, the lines were abandoned. They have
since come clean to say that that was a misunderstanding.
These lines were actually active, which explained all of the
wall of fire reports we got from people that live
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in the summit.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Do you have any information what started the original fire
at ten thirty in the morning.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Well, I can tell you that there is an ongoing
investigation by cal Fire. But what it seems to be,
and I'm an underscore seems to be is there was
a small adacre brush fire that occurred on New Year's
Eve into New Year's Day, and many people that live
in the Palisades remember seeing that fire. That fire was
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extinguished or believed to be extinguished. On New Year's Day.
Six days later, we had the Santanna wind event. That
we all remember kickup. And it looks as though embers
from that earlier New Year's Day fire reignited, but that
was in an area a good distance away from these
power lines, and the wall of fire that I described
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that looks like what was a rekindling, but that was
moving in a different direction than the fire that we're
talking about here.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
It seems like, yeah, two separate fires. Now, why would
they not de energize the lines after the first fire erupted? Well, well,
I mean I thought that would be an automatic policy.
It's like turn it, let's turn off the power so
it doesn't get worse.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Well, and that's exactly right. I mean Edison has approval
from the PUC to do exactly that. Because when you
have high winds, you don't want tree limbs falling into
power lines. You don't want lines arcing or transformers exploding,
which is why you de energize the grid as an
added safety measure. So, even if the DWP did de
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energize some of the grids, we know from evidence, video
and other evidence that the Palisades remained energized. You know,
the power system, the grids throughout the Palisades remain energized,
because we've got video of the transformers explode causing more fires,
pole fires, you know, starting because there's energy running through
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the lines. So we don't know why they wouldn't de
energize the grid. The protocol would have been de energized
and prevent other fires from starting.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
What have you found about why they infill the Sandy
Inez Reservoir was it really didn't want to spend the
money because the money was only one hundred and thirty
grand and they could have done it cheaper in house.
It's you know, in the grand scheme of things of government,
one hundred and thirty grand isn't very much. And the
reservoir was originally designed to fight fires.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Well, that was one of the reasons it was built
that back in the late sixties and early seventies, was
to provide a source of water. And remember it wasn't
only for the hydrants, but they used to fly helicopters
over Satainnez and pick up water for water drops, and
so a lot of people that lived in the area
felt comforted that the Santinez Reservoir was nearby and helicopters
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could drop into it in the event of a fire
and and you know use that to tend fires. But
with it empty, we had not only no water in
the hydrants, and we had no ability for those helicopters
to go draw water either out of standing as or Chautauqua.
You're basically both hands tied behind your back with no resource.
(09:21):
And as the why why, yeah, as the why, there
was a tear in the cover that was identified back
in early twenty twenty four. That should have been and
according to the you know led TOWP union leadership, could
have been fixed in house within a month. There were
several weeks.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Okay, so why didn't they do that?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Because they claimed we had to go out to bid.
Our protocol is we've got to put this out to bid.
So months later it goes out to bid, there's bids
of contractors awarded, and even after the contractors awarded, no
work has begun, and of course January arrives and there's
no water in the reservoir, no repair work has begun.
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Then we know the aftermath.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
But this is an emergency safety situation.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
You don't have to put it out for barrier, and
you could speed up the bidding process. You don't have
to put it out for bid when it's a matter
of life and death.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Fire season is coming.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
That's right, and that's the worst time to leave a
reservoir or multiple reservoirs empty. And the other thing is
we heard, well the water wasn't drinkable because of this
tear in the cover. Okay, fine, you know what, Then
leave water in there for the helicopters, or leave water
in there solely for firefighting purposes until you get the
cover fixed. People don't have to drink out of it.
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Let if helicopters go draw water out of it as
an added safety measure.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Well, what have they been drinking for the last year
that the reservoir has been offline?
Speaker 3 (10:50):
You know, they have tanks that they fill from other locations.
They have three one million gallon tanks. They keep those
filled for normal consumption. But the event of a fire
like this, you needed one hundred and seventeen million gallons
of extra water that san In has offered. And of
course that was when the three tanks ran out. There
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was no water for any purpose, drinking or firefighting.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Why hasn't anyone from the DWP City Council Mayor's office
addressed all these issues publicly? They haven't said anything about it,
as if they're hoping it all goes away and everyone forgets.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Yeah, it's been crickets. You know, we've been expecting, you know,
public explanations. You know, the community has been wanting answers
and haven't received any answers other than we're looking into it.
We're investigating. But you know, it isn't that complicated. There's
an explanation for why they didn't fill and maybe they
don't want to acknowledge what it is. And there's a
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further explanation for why they didn't turn the power off
right as they.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Should have right, and why they didn't fund the fire
department fully to begin with, and why they didn't fix
all the fire engines, and why didn't they hire enough mechanics.
I mean, the level of mismanagement and stupidity is overwhelming.
All right, Roger, So you filed this lawsuit this week yesterday, yesterday, yesterday.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Okay, what's what's the next step here?
Speaker 3 (12:14):
We'll be in front of the court uh in April,
and at that time different dates will be set and uh,
you know we'll get the uh, we'll get the litigation going.
When there are several hundred families already that are part
of this, and more being added daily. And uh, you
know now that people are after the they've realized they've
(12:36):
lost everything, the shock has worn off, and now they're
they're more than ever wanting the answers, and we're gonna
we're going to provide those in this case.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Those depositions are going to be entertaining. Thank you very much,
Robert tra Bailey, stay in touch with us. Let us
know we absolutely any new, any news, all right, Roger Bailey,
and he's the lead attorney on the Palisades fire representing
many Palisades residents.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
The LADWP has just issued a statement regarding the lawsuit
that I was talking about with the lead attorney, Roger
Bailey a few minutes ago. If you're just joining us,
the LEDWP is getting sued by many Palisades residents because
the plaintiffs and their attorneys believe that there was a
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second fire. First one started at ten thirty in the morning.
Second one started at ten thirty at night near the
summit up in the Highlands that's north of the main
village up in the Hills and this was caused when
an H frame set of power poles collapsed, snapped in half,
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sending power lines down. Well, the power lines were downed,
fell on heavy vegetation and ignited this fire. The LEDWP
made a false to a Washington Post reporter claiming that
those lines had long been abandoned and deenergized for five years,
and it wasn't until five days ago when the LADWP
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attorney finally admitted in a footnote that it was energized
at the time of the fire. So once again it
looks and smells like a big cover up. In the lawsuit,
there's color photos of the h and it and you
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know it's a the H frame poles, and it describes
what the poles look like. It's two vertical poles and
then there are three horizontal poles across connecting them, so
it looks roughly like it's the shape of an H
And what happened is those poles collapsed, the energized power
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lines fell to the ground. And they have video because
agencies like you see San Diego has cameras in the hills,
and you could see that the homes in the Summit
neighborhood had electricity. You can see the lights on in
the homes or the street lights are on. And you
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could also see where a hotspot explodes at ten thirty six,
because there were embers blowing towards the homes after the
fire ignited and it went to hell quickly. Heavy fire
activity just above the Summit neighborhood at the THAMESCA Water tank.
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So that's what I see with my eyes in the
photos that's included of The DWP has said, yes, the
power lines were de energized for several years, but re
energized in twenty twenty four. It was energized at the
time the fire started. Did the DWP says the ATF,
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the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco on Firearms, is investigating the
origin and cause of the fire. LEDWP has provided extensive
information and the ATF knows that the line was energized.
But the ATF and neither the ATF or any other
investigating authority has indicated that LADWP facilities were involved in
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the ignition. And then it goes on. It's interesting they
they try to provide some kind of response to the
power lines going down and maybe starting this second big
fire in the Palisades that night. I don't see any
statements about the reservoir why it was empty. And you
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combine that with the fire response. Because Kristin Crowley's decisions,
a thousand firefighters were sent home. Karen Bass defunded the
fire department. There's only it's only fifty percent funded. They
spend most of their days putting out homeless fires seventeen
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thousand a year. A lot of fire engines are broken,
over one hundred. There's no mechanics to fix them, so
they were out of service. You add this up and
between the fire management, the mayor, the city council, the DWP,
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they're problems. Not filling the reservoir, not de energizing the
power lines that night of the fire. Oh my god.
Every way they could fail they failed. They failed every
way possible. Many different people failed, Like there wasn't one
smart guy or smart woman in the whole bureaucracy. Nobody,
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nobody at DWP, nobody in Karen Bass's office, nobody in
city council, nobody in the fire department. Nobody. Wow, total complete,
overwhelming failure. Every wrong decision that could be made was made.
Every place that you could neglect they neglected. But outside
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of Kristan Crowley. Everybody still has their jobs. We'll have
I got all kinds of.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Stuff to do here.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A
six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Coming up after three o'clock.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
You know, eighty percent of the country does not want
boys playing girl sports. Doesn't matter that they claim their
transgender if they're biological boys. Eighty percent of the country
says no. But in Sacramento, the Assembly Democrats just blocked
a bill that would stop boys from playing in girls
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sports and would stop boys from being in a girl's
locker room, whether they were transgender or not.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Bill A.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Sale wrote the bill the Republican from the Inland Empire.
He's coming on with us after three o'clock. It is shocking.
It really shocks me, and I shouldn't be on. How
the Democratic Party has decided that women now have to
compete against biological males and that women have to sit
(19:26):
in locker rooms and restrooms with biological males.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
That is so.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Bizarre, and most of the country sees it that way.
Why is it always California? Why is it always California
holding on to the weirdest, strangest In some cases, most
destructive policies, people keep voting for it. We'll talk to
(19:53):
Bill Sale coming up. I'm also und that certain Democrats
keep defending illegal alien violent criminals. One of them is
Michelle Wou. She's the mayor of Boston. Boston is a
sanctuary city. She gave a speech the other day, a
(20:16):
strong speech claiming that no one tells Boston how to
take care of our own, not kings and not presidents
who think they are kings. Boston was born facing down bullies.
Do you remember they rebelled against King George back in
seventeen seventy four, the Tea Party closing a Boston harbor
(20:40):
protesting taxes from King George. And she's comparing that to
protecting violent criminal illegal aliens who rape and kill, that
they have to be protected against Donald Trump. In fact,
you're not going to believe this, but Michelle Wu considers
(21:04):
the illegal alien rapists and murderers to be family. This
is her exact quote. We may not always agree or
see eye to eye, but at the end of the day,
we are a family. If you come for one of us,
you will get all of us. She's pledging that everyone
(21:24):
in Boston is going to protect the illegal alien violent criminals,
including the murderers and the rapists. So CBS investigated in
Boston because Ice had been claiming that they arrested three
hundred and seventy illegal aliens, and more than two hundred
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of the three seventy were arrested for homicide, rape, manslaughter,
and other significant crimes.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
You want to hear some of these Boston family members.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Well, one family member a Guatemalan three counts of aggravated
child rape. He was released in Boston on seventy five
hundred dollars bail. Now, I cannot fathom what aggravated child
rape means. I don't even want to look it up.
I don't want to even picture that. But Michelle will
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these the progressive democrats running these cities, and Karen Bass
has the same feelings. She has not cooperated at all
with the murderers and rapists then need to be deported
here in La she is less outspoken about it. Michelle
(22:48):
Wou really doesn't care. She's so sure she's right that
an aggravated child rapist be protected. I just had a
detainer on this guy, but they let him out on
seventy five hundred dollars bail. Here's another one, also from Guatemala,
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also aggravated child rape. The victim was age nine or younger.
Also released on seventy five hundred dollars bail. Also an
ICE detainer ignored. These are two separate men. Here's a
Honduran charged with assaalt to rape, masked arm robbery, released
(23:35):
on his own recognaissance with zero dollars bail. Allegal alien
in Boston. This is CBS reporting Wooster County had two
illegal alien inmates charged with child rape. They both got
out on five hundred dollars bail. Another was charged with
fentanyl trafficking, released on four thousand dollars bond before Ice
(23:59):
could arrive. This is what Michelle wou Is proudly defined
of the progressives running these governments are the sickest, most
destructive people I've ever encountered in my life. There is
nothing political. There's no political debate over deporting aggravated child
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rapists or arresting aggravated child rapists, but they release them
for pennies in Boston. Now, I heard that Trump. In fact,
I don't know if if anyone can check. Trump was
going to be signing an executive order banning sanctuary cities.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
I don't know if that's been done. I don't know
how you enforce that.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
But this this concept, and they stand there, all smug arrogant, smiling,
proud of themselves. And there's nothing that Karen Bass disagrees
with the y'all wou on here, except she keeps it
to herself. She gives that silly smile. Speaking of a
silly smile, she was up in Sacramento begging for money.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
She wants.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
A couple of billion dollars to bail out LA for
the fire. We're going to play you a clip of
Karen Bass. Now you listen very specifically to the question,
and notice that Karen Bass spews a lot of words.
This was like a word stew never answers the question directly,
(25:36):
just spins and circles. This is Cacra and Sacramento. The
reporter is Ashley Zavala. Cut One right now.
Speaker 5 (25:45):
Is dealing with a really uncertain budget situation in terms
of its Medicaid funds, in terms of what federal funding
looks like in the future. Of tax returns in your
district are delayed until October, so lawmakers are going to
have to formulate a budget plan that they don't really
even know how much money they're working with. So what's
your I guess what's your message to California taxpayers and
other parts of the states to sort of see these
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challenges ahead for the state while you know you yourself
have your challenge.
Speaker 6 (26:11):
Right right and we are fortunate to have the state
legislature and governor that we do. And we are concerned
because we don't know what awaits us from Washington, d C.
But the state will have a better sense of the
finances after April fifteenth, when taxes are due that may
revise when the budget is updated based on the tax returns,
(26:31):
will give us a better idea. But that's why we're
here now, because the subcommittees in the Assembly and in
the Senate that decide the budget that the governor put
forward our meeting right now.
Speaker 7 (26:41):
Jesus.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
We make sure.
Speaker 6 (26:42):
That La City is included in that. We've been working
lockstep with the county. The county was here last week,
so we wanted to make sure that our voices were.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Heard as well.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
She missed the part that there's a lot of people
who don't have in La who don't have to file
their taxes until October I believe they got a delay
because of all the natural disasters we had in Los Angeles,
So she completely ignored that part of the question. And
she needs billions of dollars from the state government. But
the state is seventy six billion dollars in deficit as well.
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And all this stuff in LA is self inflicted, including this,
as we've gone over in the first two hours, this
huge fire. There were so many things that the city
and the Department of Water and Power did to the
residents here to make this far, far worse than it
had to be. All right, coming up after three o'clock.
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You know what, the Democrats in the Assembly are interested
in having boys dressed up as girls in high school
locker rooms.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
They should be allowed to play.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Girl sports, being girls, locker rooms, being girls' restrooms.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Bill a sale.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
The Republican wrote a bill to stop this nonsense. Eighty
percent of the country wants this stopped. Democrats block the bill.
We'll talk about it after three.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
You're listening to John cobelts on demand from KFI Am sixty.
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Follow us on social media at John coblt Radio. At
John Cobelt Radio, we're listing one thousand followers away from
hitting twenty five thousand after three o'clock, Bill a salely
the Republican assemblyman to come on, He's got a simple bill,
keep boys out of girls sports and out of girls'
locker rooms. Eighty percent of Americans say yes to that. Enough, okay, enough,
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But the Democrats in the Assembly shot down that bill
by a wide margin. Bill Sale is going to come on,
we'll talk about it now. This is really one of
the strangest excuses I've ever heard for a flight being delayed.
This was a United Airline flight once again out of well,
(29:12):
it came out of Los Angeles here and it was
headed to Shanghai. And it took off and it flew
about two hours over the ocean when the pilot discovered
that he had forgotten his passport.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
The pilot forgot his passport.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Uh huh, Yeah, the pilot forgot his passport. So they
had to turn the flight around and divert it to
San Francisco. And there were two hundred and fifty seven
passengers who ended up getting delayed six hours.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
I would be so pissed off.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
You know what they would give you for being pissed off.
They gave these passengers fifteen dollar meal voucher.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
You know, that's why bother that happened to me one time.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
I'll take fifteen hundred and it says in some other compensation,
but it's not specified. Maybe they got like a thousand
frequent fire miles or something. I don't know, but fifteen
dollars meal vouchers.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Here.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
You can't even buy a hamburger at an airport fifteen No,
you can't.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
You can't.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
So a new crew had to take over, and the
flight departed at nine o'clock out of San Francisco, six
hours behind schedule. The pilot announced on the intercom that
he forgot his passport.
Speaker 7 (30:32):
I definitely would not have done that. I would have
blamed some sort of mechanical issue or something. It's not
safe to fly. I'm not going to say that I'm
an idiot. I forgot my passport two hours into the flight.
Come on, now, it'd be like forgetting to get dressed.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
The United finally put out an official statement, and they
did not mention the passport. They wrote, your flight diverted
to San Francisco due to an unexpected crew related issue,
requiring a new crew. Once they arrive, we'll get you
back get you back on your way to Shanghai as
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soon as possible. Uh, the passengers really pissed off.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
I have not heard that one.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
So he would he would landed in China, and you
see see how everyone is afraid of other countries immigration laws. Yeah,
like this guy freaked out and turned the plane around,
knowing he's probably gonna get severely disciplined and and get
(31:40):
get embarrassed around the world. But that's better than facing
whatever the Chinese government was going to do to him. Right,
He's got to spend the night there. He can't turn
the plane around and come back.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
You'd have to stay on the plane. Would even be
able to stay on the plane without.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
I don't know, I don't know how that works, but
you see, he didn't want to find out, right, he
didn't want to end up in some Chinese prison because
you know, they enforced their laws in China.
Speaker 7 (32:05):
I had a layover in Russia and we were told
you are not allowed to leave the airport.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Oh yeah, I wouldn't. I wouldn't screw with that. I'm
going to shoot you dead as soon as you stepped
on the tarmac. Yeah, that's that's the thing everybody else
enforces the law and every you know, and you're afraid.
You're afraid to do anything wrong. You're afraid to cross
the street the wrong way in some of these countries.
All Right, we come back, bill a sale on the
Republican assemblyman and he had a bill AB eight forty four.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
It would keep.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Boys at a girl sports at a girl's locker rooms.
The Sacramento wacko Democrats shot it down, locked the bill. Really,
so they're so sick these people. Debra Mark is 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 forty from
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