In this episode of the California Underground Podcast, hosts Phil and Camille discuss the recent chaos in Los Angeles, sparked by ICE raids and subsequent protests. They review news shorts from the past weekend and comment on political leaders like Newsom and Bass who appear to be posturing for political purposes rather than out of principle. They end the show discussing the human cost of allowing these protests and riots to go on.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction to Los Angeles' Political Chaos
03:25 The Timeline of Protests and ICE Raids
06:20 The Role of Local Leaders and Law Enforcement
09:17 Media Coverage and Public Perception
12:25 Political Responses and Accountability
15:08 The Impact of Federal Intervention
17:43 Concluding Thoughts on the Situation
37:34 Federalizing the National Guard: Historical Context
39:37 Political Pride and the Refusal for Help
42:33 Gavin Newsom's Leadership and Accountability
45:39 Democracy vs. Citizens' Needs in California
47:46 The Shift in Public Opinion on Immigration
51:32 Gavin Newsom's Presidential Aspirations
58:15 Media Reactions and Public Sentiment
01:02:21 The Humanitarian Perspective on Immigration
01:07:25 The Need for Immigration Reform
01:12:35 The Impact of Political Posturing on Citizens
01:19:53 Final Thoughts: The Human Cost of Political Decisions
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What's going on, everybody? Thanks for tuning in to another
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episode of the California Underground podcast, the most
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trusted podcast for all things California politics.
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I am your host Phil and as always with me, my trusty Co
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host, the best, the fastest researcher in the West.
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Camille, Are you ready for a jam packed show tonight 'cause we
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have a lot to get to. High this, ready as I'll ever
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be. We're just going to jump right
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into it this there might be more stuff to talk about on this
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specific episode than the wildfire episode 'cause
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remember, Ellie's given us a lot of stuff to talk about this
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year. The wildfires was definitely one
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of them, but this one in the span of like 3648 hours, there
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is a lot to talk about and we're going to try and get to all of
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it. Also, we just got news literally
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like minutes before we hopped on that Gavin Newsom is going to
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give some performative speech or something like that.
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It's. Not a state of the state, right?
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It is not a state of the state, even though he's still yet to
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give one. So we might switch over to that.
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We have so many videos to get to, so unless you've been living
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under a rock, LA has been completely taken over by
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protests and riots and absolute chaos.
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OK, wait, I'm. Going to correct you.
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I apologize. LA has not been completely taken
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over, but portion, yeah, there is a portion.
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LA is huge there. There is a portion that is that
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has been completely taken over. I'm sorry, I don't mean to
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correct you, but because I people are going to be like, I'm
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in LA. There's no protest going on
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outside my door. Like yes, yes, we no.
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No, no, fair, fair correction. Because there were people like
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Alex Michaelson who said, and we're going to get to him in a
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little bit. They were like, well, you know,
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99% of the city is actually doing just fine.
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I'm like, I don't, I don't think that's a good argument to make
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that still 1% of the city is under like complete chaos and
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anarchy. I don't think any part of your
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city should be under chaos or anarchy.
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And they keep shutting down the one O 1 which that does wreak
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have it across the whole almost county for especially at this
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time of day whenever one's trying to get from here to
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there. And they did it over the weekend
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too. And actually my husband was out
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of town and was affected by coming home like they had to
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reroute. But you know on a Monday evening
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that that is complete chaos for people trying to get home from
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work, whether whichever direction they're going,
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shutting down the one O 1 does cause a lot of chaos.
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So. Yeah, so if you're in the chat
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tonight, This is why we do this live, so you can provide
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commentary. If you guys have comments,
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thoughts, anything like that, feel free to hop in the chat and
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let us know already. So there's a greetings from San
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Diego. Yeah.
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What's up? What's up?
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San Diego representing. All right, let's get into this
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timeline because in case, like I said, you've been living under a
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rock. All this stuff happened over the
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weekend. It escalated.
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Basically, it started on Friday. There were ICE raids.
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They reported that 44 people were administratively arrested
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for alleged immigration violations with one additional
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arrest for obstruction. Bill Asaley, who we had talked
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about previously, is doing this guardian Angel program where
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basically they have figured out if they issue federal arrest
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warrants, they can, I guess you pick up illegal immigrants
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faster than they were before with detainer requests.
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So by the afternoon, word was getting out that there were ICE
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raids going on or that people were getting picked up from by
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ICE, and protests had already started on Friday and there was
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already people getting out, pushing back on the federal
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agents. By the evening, more protesters
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were starting to clash with the LAPD and federal agents all out
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in riot gear. LAPD starts to deploy tear gas.
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Now, mind you, this is still the first day.
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And this is important because we're going to get to this stuff
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in a little bit about what Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass have been
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saying. They're protesting David Huerta,
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who is the president of the SEIU union here in California.
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He was arrested for blocking a federal vehicle.
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Big player here in California. That is a huge union.
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By Saturday, protests were continuing.
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Confrontation started to occur in front of a Home Depot in
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Paramount. The Department of Homeland
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Security estimated 1000 protesters were at the Paramount
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Home Depot. Then by the evening, and this is
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where I think it really started to pick up, is that Donald Trump
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announced that there was going to be a deployment of 2000
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California National Guard troops to Los Angeles over the
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objections of Gavin Newsom. And this is really the tensions.
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So they issued that they federalized the National Guard
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Sunday. Basically everything went into
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complete chaos. That's when you saw all the
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burning, looting. We were watching it on Sunday
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night and it just looked like you were watching like a like a
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Batman movie and Gotham was tearing itself apart.
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It was bad. So I think that's generally the
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timeline. Like we, you could go into
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detail of how much happened. Basically, what I want people
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who are listening or watching to know is Friday there were ice
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raids. People were upset, which I think
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was also in part because two weeks ago San Diego had an ice
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ray at Bona Fuqueta. So that kind of stirred the pot
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a little bit, got everyone kind of on edge.
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Friday turned into Saturday, more protests.
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Things were getting out of hand. National Guard was federalized
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by President Trump Sunday. Then it all just popped off and
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that's when a lot of the yesterday was a lot quieter.
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Nothing's happened. But as of right now, I'm also
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keeping and I, if you guys have see many, if you could see how
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many tabs and like screens I have open right now.
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I feel like I'm like trying to land a spaceship.
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I have my iPad open to the local LA news.
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It looks like right now Karen Bass is announcing there is a
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curfew right now. This is breaking news curfew in
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downtown LA starting at 8:00 PM tonight until 6:00 AM.
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So, well, we'll see how well that goes, but it but I think
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that that kind of gives us a good framework to work in,
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right? And I the most important thing
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is Friday protests started, People were getting in the face
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of federal law enforcement. Saturday, the National Guard was
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federalized by President Trump. Then Sunday, things popped off.
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So I want to make sure everyone's clear on sort of that
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123 step. Does that sound like, like a
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good summation? So, so far, yeah.
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I thought something started Thursday but now I I'm not
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trying to correct you again I just I thought things.
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I thought today was day 5 but I could be very wrong so.
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I think it was Friday 'cause we were going into the weekend,
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Yeah, I feel like it was Friday. So regardless, it's happening.
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Regardless, it's happened, and this weekend.
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'S been, it's happening, it's still happening.
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And like you mentioned, you have a million tabs open and like 4
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different screens and a million tabs on each one.
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And we've been sending each other links all day long trying
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to, you know, what is this? Is this true?
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Is this information, what happened here?
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And so yes, this is messy, this is chaotic.
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There's so much going on, there's so much, there's so much
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going on, but there's also so much misinformation coming out.
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And I think that's why we're kind of trying to break this
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down is because we've really been trying to figure out what
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is true, what is not true. How did we get here?
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Where are we going? What are we doing?
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Yeah. Deep breath.
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Deep breath. Yeah, the the parameters had to
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be set up because this weekend not to let a crisis go to waste.
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In the words of the infamous Rahm Emanuel, every Democratic,
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congressional, whatever you call them, showed up to because of
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David Huerta, who we had mentioned as the president.
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SEI SEII want to keep saying EE IOU like the verb, like the
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vowels, but that's not it. I'm just going to start calling
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it SEIOU and he's very powerful. Unions control California
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Democrats. They have all the power in
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California. They they pull the puppet
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strings for all the California Democrats.
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Him being in jail obviously prompted a lot of people to show
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up. One of them was California's
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long time and I, I emphasize the long time serving congresswoman
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from the LA area, Auntie Maxine, who wanted to show up and flex
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her congressional muscle and go see David Huerta.
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And there's a video of it. It's pretty funny.
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So we're going to take a quick look at what happened to old
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Auntie Maxine you. Want to take?
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No, I I want you to. Hello, Hello, hello,
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Congresswoman Walter, I just came to use my congressional
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authority to check on David. We're logging security.
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Now to all visitors. Excuse me, I need to get in.
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Contact our public apparel. I need to get in.
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What are you hoping to do, Congresswoman?
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I just want to see David Werta right 6. 7.
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Would a congressperson normally be able to enter the?
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Normally, yes. What is happening here?
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Well, there were some of the authorities, I don't know who
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they were, and I'm trying to get in to see David Wurton, who they
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have arrested. He is the head of SEIU local
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union here. I don't know why he was
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targeted. I don't know what they're doing
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with him. I don't know whether they're
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going to deport him. I want to report back to my
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caucus about what's happening, but they have.
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So denied by ICE. Nope.
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They literally slammed the door in her face and said, Nope,
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can't come in, don't care that you're a congresswoman, get out
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of here. I wanted to look into this
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because she came marching up about this whole congressional
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authority as if that's like the golden ticket to get in.
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And the reporter asked, well, is this normal that you have the
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congressional authority to just walk into an ICE facility?
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I looked it up. Well, yes, Congress does have
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the power to oversee executive branches.
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That's part of their oversight power.
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Typically, contrary to what A&T Maxine is saying, it's not
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normal to just show up and demand to be let in.
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Most times you actually have to request a visit to an ICE
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detention facility. And the reason for that is
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obviously because of safety concerns, logistics, having a
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congressperson in the ICE detention facility, not to
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mention the fact that there is an active, like, protest going
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on outside of this facility. So there's a lot of chaos going
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on. And they're trying to make sure
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that they protected the officers and the personnel inside the
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federal building that was holding David Huerta.
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So it is, while yes, they do have the authority, it is not
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normally done where you just March up.
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And there's other instances, if you remember the famous AOC,
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she's standing like outside with the fence and she's standing in
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a parking lot and she's crying. She's got all white on and stuff
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like that. They're like, wait, won't let us
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end. Well, again, you have to request
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like, hey, we're going to come and check everything out, not
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just March up. And I feel like maybe either she
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didn't know, which is kind of sad because she's been in
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Congress for about 2000 years, which would be longer than
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America's been around. She's been, she's been there
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forever. She should know this by now that
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you can't just March into an ICE detention facility.
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Or she is being like purposefully naive where she's
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like, oh, this normally, they normally let me in.
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I don't understand why they wouldn't let me in so anti
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Maxine denied, but she got her little video and she she got to
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be she was able to blow that out all over social media and make
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that look like she's some big freedom fighter and the only
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person she cared about is David Huerta.
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She didn't care about did you know she didn't care about the
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other detainees? She wasn't asking about them.
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She just said, oh, I got to I got to see David Huerta.
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I rushed here from DC to make sure my boss is OK.
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I. Just need to make sure that his
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campaign contribution is still going to happen.
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Next designed before he gets. Deported.
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Now, Auntie Maxine also went on record and this has become the
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new talking point right now is that I think you had said it in
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our chat. It's like the the GIF of like
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Naked Gun where he's going like nothing to see here, nothing to
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see here. It's like everything's blowing
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up behind him and stuff like that.
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Well, the new but thanks. Maybe in all the messages
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between on like our whole team, maybe that's what happened there
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was this is the new talking point is that hey, it's not that
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bad. I don't know what you guys are
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talking about. There's nothing going on here.
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Like it's there's literally nothing going on.
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So, Auntie Max. Saying it could be worse, yet a
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lot of things could be worse, but it's.
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Not the point. So she could.
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She went back and she said this in back when she was in DC and
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should this was her assessment of how it's going on the ground.
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Protests and even those who were out of step with what we are
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advocating, peaceful protest did not create any violence.
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Nobody was shot, nobody was killed.
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Get it in your head. And so when martial law is
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called, what are you going to say?
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I missed the point. Don't miss the point.
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You all don't think that somehow because they called out the
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National Guard, there was violence.
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There was no violence. I was on the street, I know.
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And I went from downtown detention back out into the
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community talking to people. What happened in Paramount, what
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happened in Compton, What happened in Englewood.
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So first of all, get it straight and don't just rely on what
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you're being told are the few incidents that you saw.
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Don't believe you're lying eyes is basically what you're saying.
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Even though you see on the news and social media cars being
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burned, concrete being banged up to turn into rocks, window smash
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graffiti everywhere. Don't believe you're lying eyes.
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There is no violence going on in LA.
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And also I didn't know this but I guess martial law was declared
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I I must have missed that. I did.
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I didn't hear that. Yeah, she she said martial law
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was is announced in LA, which I don't remember if that's what
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happened, but sure. Auntie Maxine getting getting a
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little fuzzy up in the head in her older age.
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All right, so Auntie Maxine didn't make it in.
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She did her performative dance. Hopefully she still gets the
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contributions from SEIU David Huerta because those are very
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important. So on to the next thing because
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we do have a lot to cover tonight.
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Obviously, Sunday night was out of control.
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I think that was the most like violence and.
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I want to go back to that really, really quick.
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David Huerta was arrested for obstructing arrest, correct?
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Like he wasn't arrested as a possible deportation, but she
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just wanted to get that little sound clip in, I think.
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Right, Yeah, De Huerta is an SEIU president, so I would
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assume he's not up. He it was because he was
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blocking a federal vehicle. Like, he went down to the
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protest and was getting up in their face and trying to do
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something. And, you know, when you impede
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law enforcement, guess what's going to happen?
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They're going to arrest you. So people giving love to San
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Diego in the chat? Yeah, San Diego.
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What's it? Guess it's a good thing the
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Dodgers are down here playing the Padres this week because it
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would be pretty bad on the 101 if they were protesting.
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You were trying to get to a Dodger game.
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Yeah. So moving on to the police
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chief, Police chief had a press conference on Sunday night and I
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want to watch a little bit of it.
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It was 22 minutes long, but I found a smaller clip of it.
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And apologies to people that this is, we're kind of moving
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quickly it feels like in this episode.
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But there's like so much video stuff we have to get to because
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it's just a lot like if you saw the videos that we were sending
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each other that didn't make it, there's probably like 2 times as
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many videos that didn't make it. All right, so this is the LAPD
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Chief, Jim McConnell giving a press conference about what is
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going on Sunday night. Meanwhile, you can see what's
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going on in the background while he's giving this.
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So we will watch and give our comments.
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So I want to just take an opportunity to speak directly to
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the people of Los Angeles, clarify LAP DS roles and the
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events that have been playing out over these past couple of
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days. This includes our response to
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protests, our public safety responsibilities, and recent
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claims that you've seen made by some federal officials.
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Today I met with Governor Newsom, Mayor Bass, US attorney
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general of Central District of California Bill Saley, and ICE
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acting director Todd Lyons. Now, let me begin by reaffirming
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a core principle. The LAPD supports and protects
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the First Amendment right to free speech.
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In recent days, many protests across the city have been
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peaceful, and we thank the community for expressing their
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views and their frustration in a responsible manner.
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However, when peaceful demonstrations devolve into acts
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of vandalism or violence, especially violence directed at
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innocent people, law enforcement officers, and others, we must
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respond firmly. An act of violence, whether
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toward officers, demonstrators of the public, will be met with
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swift and lawful action. Our goal is to maintain order
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without escalating conflict and to protect everybody's right to
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safety. Recent public statements have
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misrepresented LAPD's action from an incident the other
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night. Specifically, there was a claim
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that LAPD delayed responding to a federal officer's request for
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assistance by more than two hours.
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When we heard that, I think anybody who's a police officer
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can't, couldn't believe it and certainly anyone with LAPD
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couldn't imagine how that would happen.
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Well, it didn't happen and I just want to go into that just a
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little bit. LAPD was not given advance
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notice that the federal operation, federal operations
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would occur in that area. As a result, we were not pre
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positioned to respond immediately to unrest related to
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those actions. I want to take a minute right
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there to bring up a point. He is complaining that the
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federal authorities did not alert them that they were going
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to conduct an ICE raid, while Los Angeles city, as of just
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last year, I think December, re proclaim that they are a
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sanctuary city and that law enforcement is not supposed to
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aid in any way. Any sort of ice rays or anything
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like that? So he's mad you didn't give us
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the heads up, but also we're not supposed to help you do
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anything. Right.
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So. Right, doesn't seem like.
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You have you was doesn't seem like you can have it both ways.
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You can't be a city where you say, well, our local law
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enforcement is not going to work with you and we're going to
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disregard everything. But also we're we're kind of
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miffed that you didn't tell us you were going to do this.
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So. Once the call for assistance
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came in, LAPD responded within 38 minutes and that sounds like
00:21:04
a long time, but I'll tell you why that is.
00:21:08
The response was impacted by traffic crowd density in the in
00:21:12
the area with unrest occurring hazardous conditions caused by
00:21:17
tear gas that was previously deployed by federal agents at
00:21:20
the at that location. Many of our officers, because it
00:21:23
was put together in a mobile field force configuration
00:21:28
without advance notice, we're not equipped with gas masks.
00:21:31
But despite these challenges, we moved in quickly and as safely
00:21:34
as possible. At no point did LAPD ignore or
00:21:38
intentionally delay any requests for help.
00:21:41
I also want to be unequivocally clear, the Los Angeles Police
00:21:44
Department does not participate in or coordinate with
00:21:47
Immigration and Customs Enforcement on and civil
00:21:50
immigration enforcement. We've said this over and over
00:21:54
again and I can't stress it enough for the people in to in
00:21:57
our community who have high levels of anxiety.
00:22:01
So he just reiterates, we don't coordinate with them, but we're
00:22:05
upset that you didn't coordinate with us.
00:22:09
Yes, he is. He's just to clarify.
00:22:12
He's upset that they didn't tell him, but he also says, just to
00:22:18
be clear, we don't work with the federal authorities and we don't
00:22:22
coordinate. So how would you coordinate with
00:22:25
the federal authorities under sanctuary city law but also get
00:22:30
notified? Yeah, I do want to say I
00:22:33
completely understand that this is 2/2 separate issues.
00:22:37
There is, you know, they are the local and the ICE is federal.
00:22:41
I I 100% get that. But yes, he does keep
00:22:45
clarifying. We don't work with them.
00:22:48
Fine, that's, that's fine. But don't be upset when they
00:22:52
don't work with you. They had the authority to come
00:22:55
in for the federal issue and I I'm not upset at the delayed
00:23:00
response because I actually completely understand that.
00:23:03
Like I haven't watched this video, but when he is starting
00:23:07
to explain, my first thought was, well, where do you know LA
00:23:10
traffic's really bad. Now Add all this on to it.
00:23:12
Yes, it's going to be double trouble worse.
00:23:14
So of course I expect the response time is going to be
00:23:17
quite delayed. Like I, I get that that makes
00:23:20
perfect sense, but it again, it's just this whole placing
00:23:25
blame. We don't coordinate with them.
00:23:28
I want to reiterate, we don't coordinate with them.
00:23:30
We don't work with them. We don't assist them, but how
00:23:35
dare they not give us a heads up so that we can coordinate with
00:23:37
them. That's that's where I'm like,
00:23:39
no, that doesn't. No pushing the blame on everyone
00:23:43
else. Let's keep going.
00:23:45
About this issue that we want everybody to believe and be able
00:23:50
to call the LAPD in time of need if they've been a victim of a
00:23:54
crime or a witness to a crime, we need that.
00:23:56
Otherwise the system does not work.
00:23:59
That has been our policy and remains our policy and it went
00:24:02
into effect in 1979, so 46 years ago.
00:24:06
That's been the way we do business.
00:24:08
On the other hand, however, when a law enforcement agency, any
00:24:12
agency. And if you look in the back, it
00:24:13
looks very peaceful, like, you know, things are going really
00:24:16
well. They're shooting non lethals at
00:24:18
citizens. It's.
00:24:19
Totally adorable to shut down the streets of LA and just
00:24:22
vandalize things. Requests emergency assistance to
00:24:26
protect lives. We are obligated to respond, and
00:24:29
we do. Public safety is our duty, and
00:24:32
we will answer every legitimate call for help from anyone.
00:24:36
We recognize that immigration enforcement operations can cause
00:24:39
a deep fear and anxiety, particularly in immigrant
00:24:42
communities. That's why we're committed to
00:24:44
transparency, accountability, and treating every Angelino with
00:24:48
respect, regardless of their immigration status.
00:24:52
Our job is not to divide communities or politicize law
00:24:55
enforcement. Our job is simply to keep
00:24:57
everyone safe. I want to express my sincere
00:25:00
appreciation to all of our officers and partner agencies
00:25:03
for their dedication and professionalism during these
00:25:06
very challenging times. Their commitment to upholding
00:25:09
the law, even in the face of hostility, is a reflection of
00:25:12
the values that we. I was, I've I've was watching
00:25:16
this live. I did not catch the giant
00:25:18
fireball that just went right through.
00:25:21
You saw that. I was like, what was that?
00:25:24
It's not funny. It's not funny, but is it OK?
00:25:28
I don't think that's funny. I am laughing because as,
00:25:33
because they were all trying to claim everything was peaceful
00:25:36
and and that's why I'm laughing because as as they're up there
00:25:40
being like this is fine. Everything's fine.
00:25:43
Nothing to see here, folks. Yeah, it it's quite literally a
00:25:47
good meme of like Chief McDonald says, everything's going well.
00:25:52
Oh, that tree just blew up in the background.
00:25:55
Wonder what happened there. Yeah, I didn't catch that the
00:25:58
first. That is not OK.
00:26:00
OK, yeah, things look like they're going great.
00:26:04
That we stand for. We're working together to keep
00:26:06
everyone safe, our officers and the public alike alike, and this
00:26:10
remains our top priority. We'll continue to support
00:26:13
peaceful protests and enforce the law when criminal acts
00:26:16
occur. The LAPD remains focused on its
00:26:19
core mission to protect lives, safeguard constitutional rights,
00:26:23
and serve. Serve every neighborhood in Los
00:26:25
Angeles with integrity. All right, so that's what's
00:26:30
that. Fireworks show at the end there.
00:26:32
Yeah, well, there were a lot of fireworks if you watched on
00:26:35
Sunday night, they were tossing around.
00:26:37
There was a part when we were watching it live and I was
00:26:40
trying to find it, but I think it might have been too long of a
00:26:42
clip. There was a part where the LAPD
00:26:44
chief was asked a question by the press and they go they they
00:26:49
asked like, well, you know, how is it going?
00:26:52
What's the status and, and something, and are you guys able
00:26:55
to handle this? And his honest response was, no,
00:27:00
we were, we were overwhelmed in that thick like Massachusetts
00:27:04
accent. He talks about like, oh, we were
00:27:05
overwhelmed. It was too much for us.
00:27:08
And then the next question was, well, why don't you reach out to
00:27:11
the president and ask for help from the National Guard?
00:27:15
Oh, no, we're fine. We don't need help from the
00:27:17
National Guard. We're good.
00:27:18
Everything's under control. It's like you just admitted 2
00:27:21
minutes ago, you're completely overwhelmed.
00:27:23
You're out manned. You can't control the situation.
00:27:27
And now he's saying, well, we don't need the National Guard.
00:27:29
What do we need the National Guard for?
00:27:30
And my, my theory as soon as I heard that was this guy is quite
00:27:36
literally playing politics with this.
00:27:39
He knows what happened to the LA Fire Department chief is she
00:27:43
spoke out, she spoke up for herself.
00:27:45
You know, he could have said we're overwhelmed.
00:27:48
I disagree with the mayor. I think we need as much help as
00:27:50
possible. And she got fired for speaking
00:27:53
up about what happened. He played it very politically
00:27:57
where he did not want to say, yeah, I would accept help from
00:28:02
President Trump and the National Guard and maybe the Marines or
00:28:04
whatever. He knew that if he did that,
00:28:08
he's getting fired, which is sad and frustrating because this guy
00:28:15
is playing politics just to keep his job while he has officers
00:28:22
out there on the ground facing all of this.
00:28:25
He's putting these officers in danger of their lives and
00:28:28
injury, risk of injury, anything like that for politics.
00:28:32
And and that's what's probably the most disturbing to me is
00:28:35
that he quite literally danced around that subject and won't
00:28:39
ask for help because he wants to keep his job.
00:28:43
Did you get that that feeling as well that he kind of danced
00:28:46
around everything? I did exactly that.
00:28:48
Like, like suddenly he realized what he said and he kind of had
00:28:52
to backtrack or he knew he would be out of a job.
00:28:56
Yeah, it's it was very the. Chat, the chat is going crazy.
00:29:02
So hi, thank you everybody who's joining us on this very messy
00:29:07
topic. Somebody said he definitely
00:29:09
hasn't. He's got Yeah, I first thought
00:29:11
it was Boston. It's as someone who grew up in
00:29:14
Jersey, it's not a New Jersey accent.
00:29:15
It's definitely more of a Massachusetts, New England
00:29:20
accent. So yeah, it's it's frustrating
00:29:23
that he played politics with it. He won't ask for help.
00:29:26
Speaking of someone who always likes to put the blame on
00:29:31
somebody else, Mayor Karen Bass went on the news and figured out
00:29:35
a way to put the blame on everyone else but herself for
00:29:39
the fact that downtown, I don't want to say the city downtown
00:29:43
was devolving into complete chaos and anarchy.
00:29:46
So this was her on CNN. We'll watch that.
00:29:50
If you have any comments we can just pause it.
00:29:55
Now, the Los Angeles Mayor, Karen Bass.
00:29:58
Hi, Mayor, thank you so much for joining us.
00:30:00
Hi, Aye, So what? Are you and your?
00:30:03
Police force, I know how busy you are preparing for the hours
00:30:06
ahead. What are you expecting on that
00:30:08
front? Well, I just have to say that if
00:30:12
you dial back time and go to Friday, if immigration raids had
00:30:16
not happened here, we would not have the disorder that went on
00:30:21
last night. I will tell you that it is
00:30:23
peaceful now, but we do not know where and when the next raids
00:30:27
will be. That is the concern because
00:30:30
people in this city have a rapid response network.
00:30:34
If they see ice, they go out and they protest.
00:30:37
And so it's just a recipe for. Again, you made your bed, now
00:30:44
you have to lie in it. You passed this law or this
00:30:48
ordinance in LA where you're a sanctuary city and you don't
00:30:53
coordinate with ICE and now you're mad that ICE isn't
00:30:58
telling you where they're going to be.
00:31:00
So I, I don't know what they want.
00:31:03
They, they can't make up their mind.
00:31:05
They're talking about both sides that they want to know where ICE
00:31:07
is so they can go assist them, but they also don't want to
00:31:10
coordinate with ICE. Yeah, I don't know.
00:31:13
But she says, you know, then they go out and protest.
00:31:17
Everyone has a right to peaceful protest.
00:31:19
I support your right to peaceful protest.
00:31:21
You, you can take side with any side with any issue that you
00:31:25
want and go out and protest it. And I am 100% OK with that
00:31:28
regardless if I believe in your stance or not.
00:31:31
But she says it knowing these aren't protesters, these are
00:31:34
rioters. Not I'm not everybody.
00:31:36
I don't want to say that everybody that went out is a
00:31:39
rioter. I don't want to say that that
00:31:40
everyone's breaking the law. But she's saying we need to know
00:31:46
so that we can know if there's going to be protesters.
00:31:48
Well, if they stuck to peaceful protesters, there wouldn't be an
00:31:51
issue. But she knows they're rioting
00:31:53
and she, so she's not saying the words out loud, but she's like,
00:31:57
we want to know because we know that people are going to go
00:31:59
insane and star ish. And there is no excuse.
00:32:05
There's no excuse for riots. Stick to the law.
00:32:10
I found some post like I was looking for something else on
00:32:13
Facebook today and was like searching through my stuff and I
00:32:15
found some posts from 2016 where I was like, I didn't want to
00:32:19
vote for Donald Trump. So I didn't vote for Donald
00:32:22
Trump. I did not go and throw bricks at
00:32:25
police cars to make my point. I simply did not vote for him.
00:32:29
It was very simple, you know, like you don't things don't have
00:32:35
to get violent, especially in situations like this.
00:32:38
Because what this is helping nothing.
00:32:40
You guys are destroying not an entire city, but you're
00:32:43
destroying destroying blocks. You're destroying police cars.
00:32:45
Waymo. What does Waymo have to like
00:32:47
They are, are they helping ICE? Like anyway, I'm going to stop
00:32:52
ranting because I know we have much to get to.
00:32:55
I'm keeping an eye on Newsome as well.
00:32:58
Like we expected, he's he's late.
00:33:01
So which is? P for pandemonium.
00:33:05
That is completely unnecessary. Nothing was happening here.
00:33:09
Los Angeles was peaceful before Friday.
00:33:12
When we find out when and where the other raids are going to
00:33:15
happen, that will determine how the police respond.
00:33:18
Mayor Bassett's Wolf Blitzer here in THE SITUATION ROOM as
00:33:21
well. The state of California, as you
00:33:23
well know, is expected to file a formal lawsuit over President
00:33:27
Trump's deployment of the National Guard, perhaps as early
00:33:30
as today, which breaking news as of like two hours ago, the judge
00:33:35
denied and threw out. So just an update for everybody,
00:33:38
Spoiler. Alert lawsuit thrown out.
00:33:41
Spoiler alert, yeah, that lawsuit was thrown out, so that
00:33:45
was fast. But they used taxpayer money to
00:33:48
fund the lawsuit. Your own police chief says the
00:33:51
level of violence he's seeing in Los Angeles is, quote,
00:33:54
disgusting. So why not welcome more boots on
00:33:58
the ground? Well, no, I think the issue here
00:34:02
is state power and state sovereignty.
00:34:04
And so we do not believe and that what the governor is doing
00:34:08
is separate from what's happening in the city.
00:34:10
But what was the reason that the president had to take the power
00:34:15
from the governor and federalize the National Guard?
00:34:19
The night before this action was taken, there was a protest that
00:34:23
got a little unruly a Laden. A little unruly, a little
00:34:29
unruly. I had done a video, I think it
00:34:33
was Saturday, showing how bad it got, and that was Saturday.
00:34:39
This was before Sunday before it got really bad.
00:34:41
So for her to say it got a little unruly, it was it was
00:34:46
pretty out of control on Friday. Late at night it was 100 people,
00:34:52
27 people were arrested. There wasn't a reason for this.
00:34:57
That is the concern. Almost, almost 30% of the
00:35:02
people, 100 people, 27 got arrested.
00:35:04
So 27% of the protests were arrested.
00:35:07
That's not that's a big chunk of a a little, Yeah, you know,
00:35:11
that's. Serious.
00:35:12
That's a lot of people causing problems to be 30% of the people
00:35:15
that were there. And I think it wasn't 100
00:35:16
people. I think it was closer to like
00:35:17
1000 people. OK, sorry.
00:35:21
I was just if, if it was truly 100 people and then she says 27
00:35:25
of them were arrested, that's a big chunk, you know, But if it
00:35:29
was 1000 people, OK, that is so much smaller.
00:35:32
Well, if she's saying it's 30 of 100, that's still bad.
00:35:35
I mean, that's not proving her point.
00:35:37
She's like you're saying you're saying, yeah, it's makes the
00:35:40
point of like, yeah, 30% of these protesters were out of
00:35:43
control and had to be arrested. It's not a good look.
00:35:46
And if there was, the way it happens traditionally is, is
00:35:50
that requests are made on the local level of the governor to
00:35:53
send National Guard troops. No requests came from the city
00:35:57
of Los Angeles. What has happened now is an
00:36:00
entirely different situation. You know, and Speaking of now,
00:36:04
there are also what about 500 active duty U.S.
00:36:07
Marine, you know, this is a lot happened in 24 hours and it
00:36:16
looked like it was descending into out of control chaos.
00:36:21
Well, I guess chaos is naturally out of control, but like
00:36:24
spreading chaos really quickly. And if you're President Trump,
00:36:30
you don't want 2020 to happen all over again, like the George,
00:36:34
Florida riots in the summer of love.
00:36:37
And you have federal agents who are being attacked.
00:36:40
LAPD wasn't doing what they, you know, they weren't responding as
00:36:44
quickly or doing as much. So his duty and looking at it
00:36:50
from President Trump's perspective is I have to protect
00:36:54
federal troops and federal law enforcement.
00:36:56
I'm the commander in chief of these federal forces and the
00:36:59
federal building. I have to protect them.
00:37:01
So I'm going to call up the National Guard because we need
00:37:03
help. They're right in the middle of
00:37:04
downtown. Things are getting out of hand.
00:37:07
I'm not sure, based on how things were going Friday into
00:37:11
Saturday, that Newsom or Karen Bass had control of the
00:37:17
situation. And if I was the president and I
00:37:21
wanted to nip it in the bud right away, I could understand
00:37:26
why he federalized so quickly without asking for Gavin
00:37:29
Newsom's permission, which he's allowed to do, which is why his
00:37:33
lawsuit was kicked out immediately.
00:37:34
President is allowed to federalize the National Guard if
00:37:37
he needs to for protection of the any federal property or
00:37:41
federal law enforcement in like a supportive role.
00:37:44
It's been done before. JFK did it when there was
00:37:47
integration in the South and it was George Wallace was the
00:37:49
governor back then. He just federalized the National
00:37:52
Guard and integrated schools. LBJ did it for the Selma
00:37:56
marches. It was done in 1992 by George
00:38:01
Herbert Walker Bush. Papa Bush during the LA riots.
00:38:05
So it's been done before. I think the only time it was
00:38:09
done without permission was JFK with integration, George
00:38:12
Wallace. Other times they were asked,
00:38:15
like they asked for that help. But regardless, I can see why
00:38:19
President Trump jumped on it right away because he's seen how
00:38:22
bad it can get in LA. He's seen how these riots can
00:38:25
get out of hand. They, they, they are not
00:38:27
organic. As much as people want to
00:38:30
pretend they are all organic. They're they're very organized
00:38:35
in the sense of people descend upon these places, know exactly
00:38:39
what they're doing. They are professional agitators.
00:38:43
And he wanted to kind of nip it in the bud right away.
00:38:46
But the National Guard isn't actually out there on the
00:38:49
streets. That's the other thing as well.
00:38:51
So even though President Trump is saying, well, it wasn't, it's
00:38:54
not coming down until ISON and the National Guard, the National
00:38:57
Guard's not out there in the streets.
00:38:59
It's the LAPD and the County Sheriff and all that.
00:39:01
They're out there kind of butting heads with the
00:39:03
protesters. National Guard is just
00:39:05
protecting the ICE facility. So just to clarify that as well,
00:39:10
like there is this claim that the National Guard is quelling
00:39:13
it or like it's getting better because of the National Guard.
00:39:17
They're just there to protect it.
00:39:18
So just to clarify, I understand why he did it and why he had to
00:39:22
do it without their permission because they wouldn't do it
00:39:24
anyway. And yeah, anything that Trump
00:39:27
says, they're going to do the opposite.
00:39:29
So if he asked for National Guard help, they would say no.
00:39:32
And then things would get out of hand and put his his federal
00:39:34
employees in danger. Any thoughts on that?
00:39:37
Yeah, I'm going to say something insane.
00:39:39
Oh gosh. I think that Newsome wouldn't
00:39:45
have called or won't call because of his pride and how
00:39:52
much he hates Trump. I think he would rather let
00:39:54
everything get out of control than actually admit that he
00:39:57
needs to call Trump and ask for help.
00:40:02
Say that again, I. Was I think, sorry, I think
00:40:05
Newsome would refuse to call Trump and ask for help out of
00:40:08
pride and out of his hate for Trump.
00:40:10
Like I think he would never want to admit that he like that one,
00:40:15
that he like let California down in a sense and you know, and
00:40:18
wasn't able to stop this on his own.
00:40:20
And two, that he needed to call Trump and request help from
00:40:22
Trump because I you know, he really wants to present that he
00:40:28
has everything under control. He's above Trump.
00:40:31
He's better than Trump. Trump's the enemy.
00:40:33
And you know, Trump is is the end all be all for everything.
00:40:37
That's horrific. And Newsom is our savior.
00:40:40
And so if he. Speaking of Newsom.
00:40:43
Is he live? He is live right now, so we'll
00:40:45
we'll watch a couple minutes. I don't want to watch the rest
00:40:47
of the episodes, but let's watch a couple of what Newsome has to
00:40:50
say. Since Congress is nowhere to be
00:40:53
found, Speaker Johnson has completely abdicated that
00:40:56
responsibility. The rule of law has increasingly
00:41:00
been given way to the rule of Don.
00:41:03
The Founding Fathers, they didn't live and die to see this
00:41:06
kind of moment. It's time for all of us to stand
00:41:09
up. Justice Brandeis, we said it
00:41:12
best. In a democracy, the most
00:41:14
important office, with all due respect, Mr. President, is not
00:41:17
the presidency and it's certainly not governor.
00:41:20
The most important office is office of citizen.
00:41:23
At this moment, this moment, we all need to stand up and be held
00:41:27
to account. A higher level of
00:41:29
accountability. If you exercise your First
00:41:32
Amendment rights, please, please do it peacefully.
00:41:35
I know many of you are are feeling deep anxiety, stress and
00:41:39
fear, but I want you to know that you are the antidote to
00:41:43
that fear and that anxiety. What Donald Trump wants most is
00:41:48
your fealty, your silence to be complicit in this moment.
00:41:52
Do not give in to him. Was that it?
00:42:04
Oh, OK, that's it. That was a short little address
00:42:07
from Gavin Newsom that just popped in live.
00:42:10
This is sometimes why we do the show live.
00:42:12
So things like this hat. Yeah, that's it.
00:42:15
It's over. OK, literally a couple minutes.
00:42:20
All right, well, I wanted to say he said something about the
00:42:23
Office of Citizen and I'm going to go on a little bit of a rant
00:42:30
and I may get a little upset about this, but granted, he he
00:42:34
does that, he gets gets me agitated.
00:42:38
Gavin Newsom in California have no, no, and I emphasize no room
00:42:45
to talk about what is the most important office and call it the
00:42:49
office of the citizen. As if democracy is everything
00:42:53
that is the most important thing and that democracy should be
00:42:58
held up above everything else. This is the state where Prop 36
00:43:04
just this past year passed by an overwhelming majority, where
00:43:09
every single county in California, every single 50 plus
00:43:17
counties voted for Prop 36. You would be hard pressed to
00:43:22
find any issue or proposition where you're going to get all
00:43:28
the counties of California to agree on something.
00:43:32
The Legislature in Gavin Newsom in the in the budget he
00:43:35
proposed, has no funding for Prop 36.
00:43:40
None. They're just like that.
00:43:42
We're not going to fund it. And we know that he hated Prop
00:43:44
36 from the beginning. He actively campaigned against
00:43:48
Prop 36 and he was against it. He introduced every poison pill
00:43:53
law he could to stop Prop 36 from going into effect.
00:43:58
So First off is he's going to sit here and pretend that the
00:44:01
office of the citizen is the most important.
00:44:05
He would not even listen to the wants and needs of the his own
00:44:10
citizenry here in California. Second, this notion that you are
00:44:16
standing up to Trump as if it's like this big resistance.
00:44:22
You lost the election. Your party lost the election by
00:44:28
a landslide, right? And it was Trump won every
00:44:33
single swing state on the economy and #2 big number 2 was
00:44:40
immigration. And that he was going to enforce
00:44:42
immigration laws and do a mass deportation.
00:44:45
That is what the American people wanted.
00:44:48
And California, for some reason is taking that voice and that
00:44:54
vote away from the American people and saying, I'm not going
00:44:57
to listen to you. We're not going to enforce
00:45:00
immigration. We're not going to do any
00:45:02
deportations. We're going to thumb our nose.
00:45:04
We don't care if the rest of the country elected a president who
00:45:08
is in support of mass deportation and stricter
00:45:11
enforcement of immigration laws. We don't care.
00:45:15
We we are not going to listen to the voice of the people.
00:45:18
Democracy doesn't matter when it doesn't fit our narrative.
00:45:21
So I'm sorry I'm going to call a big fat bullshit on him saying
00:45:26
that this is the office of the citizen is the most powerful in
00:45:30
in all the land. It's you don't listen to
00:45:32
citizens anyway, so rant over. Any thoughts I.
00:45:42
Have yeah, I agree. He he really doesn't take the
00:45:49
citizens into account. It's it's very much just his
00:45:53
way. I mean, we can, we won't, but we
00:45:56
could rehash so many things where it really is just about
00:46:00
him. And his his whole argument of
00:46:04
democracy at a crossroads. So I, I think if you look at in
00:46:10
the light that I just said where democracy that, yeah, it looks
00:46:14
like California, it just doesn't want to listen to what the
00:46:17
people want. And that people in California
00:46:19
for some reason, and I'm still trying to put my finger on it.
00:46:22
There's probably numerous reasons.
00:46:24
And if you're in the chat, you know, throw up your theories as
00:46:27
to why this is such a 1/3 rail that they don't want to touch
00:46:30
illegal immigration. It it's almost to the point now
00:46:33
where you almost want to look these Democratic officials in
00:46:36
the eye and go, do you believe in deportation at all?
00:46:40
Like do you believe in deportation of anyone?
00:46:43
Just be honest. Like I know that you, you say
00:46:46
violent felons and all that stuff because it, it pulls well
00:46:49
with voters. Just be honest.
00:46:51
Do you believe in deportation at all?
00:46:53
Because that's what it's starting to seem like and
00:46:56
they're completely on the wrong side of this issue.
00:46:59
Based on 2024. There was ACNM poll in a
00:47:02
different video I saw where at 2020 they polled a whole bunch
00:47:08
of people and it said, you know, favorability of illegal
00:47:12
immigrants here in the country. And it was like plus 20.
00:47:16
So plus 20 in favor of illegal immigrants who are here in the
00:47:20
country. Now in 2024, it's -6 So this
00:47:27
shift is not in Democrats favor at all on immigration and them
00:47:33
thumbing their nose at ICE and federal enforcement and all of
00:47:37
this. It's only making it much worse.
00:47:40
So do you have any other thoughts?
00:47:43
We have a couple more videos I wanted to get to go ahead.
00:47:46
So, OK, well, while we're on the topic of Gavin, here's what he
00:47:51
said the other day, you know, speaking in hyperbolic terms
00:47:56
about what's going on. And the worst part, he
00:48:00
completely lied. He said in a tweet that
00:48:03
everything's now safe, everything's fine.
00:48:05
Is that the case, Mr. Trump? He said, because he deployed the
00:48:08
National Guard. The Guard hadn't even been
00:48:10
deployed when he said this. It's Orwellian, simply lying to
00:48:14
people, unconstitutional, illegal act.
00:48:18
His mess, We're trying to clean it up.
00:48:21
I had tweeted this out before. Was it today or yesterday, sort
00:48:26
of the same video, same kind of vein about democracy?
00:48:31
If there's anyone who needs to take a seat with that whole
00:48:35
authoritarian language, it is absolutely Gavin Newsom.
00:48:39
It wasn't too long ago, Mr. Newsom, old Noodles.
00:48:45
If you remember, you were telling people they could not
00:48:49
exercise their First Amendment right to go to church not too
00:48:53
long ago, and you lost at the Supreme Court on that issue.
00:48:58
And you were asked he he asked us to tattletale on our
00:49:01
neighbors who broke these rules. He he wanted you to tattle.
00:49:06
He wanted you to become the the secret police for him.
00:49:11
He told you how many family members you could celebrate the
00:49:16
holidays with or you even if you could celebrate the holidays
00:49:18
with your family members, Thanksgiving, Christmas.
00:49:20
He decided whether or not you could do that, closed businesses
00:49:25
arbitrarily based on this whole map of color coding, whatever
00:49:30
the heck you wanted to do. Closed beaches, which we then
00:49:33
found out that beaches are great because of the vitamin D and
00:49:36
fresh air and people gain exercise.
00:49:38
Closed beaches, arrested people wouldn't allow people to go to
00:49:43
skate parks. Like, let's, let's pump the
00:49:46
brakes with the authoritarian language here, Gavin Newsom,
00:49:48
because this you calling him authoritarian for just trying to
00:49:53
protect federal property is kind of laughable.
00:49:57
Any thoughts on that? I just, yeah, I mean it just
00:50:03
he's he's trying to show people that he somehow has the
00:50:09
qualifications to be president. And I don't know.
00:50:13
It's it is funny to me how much he like, he can hate Trump and
00:50:16
he has every right to hate Trump.
00:50:19
But it's funny to me how much he tears Trump down because I want
00:50:21
to, I just want to like shake his shoulders and be like
00:50:24
Newsome. He's he's not, you're not going
00:50:27
up against him in 2028 like you're fighting the the wrong
00:50:30
fight. I know you want to be president
00:50:32
and I know that this is what everything that you're doing is
00:50:34
now based on that. But Trump is not going to be
00:50:37
your competition come 2028. So pick a pick a fight with
00:50:41
someone else. I don't know.
00:50:43
Yeah, why don't the the best campaign he can run is just fix
00:50:48
California, I guess. Yeah, just like do the things
00:50:51
that help California. And literally, yeah, exactly.
00:50:54
He could be like, I'm not doing it Trump's way.
00:50:56
And look at me. Look what I did.
00:50:58
And like, I think if we all actually saw that happen, we'd
00:51:01
be like, wait, hold on. Look what?
00:51:02
Look what he did. And in spite of Trump being
00:51:04
president and he really turned California around without Trump.
00:51:07
And I, I mean, I think you and I, even as much as we sit here
00:51:10
and hate on you some, we'd be like, wait a second, who, who is
00:51:14
this man? Who, who can do this?
00:51:16
If he can do this for California of all states, certainly what
00:51:20
could you do for America? Yeah, I mean, politics is all
00:51:24
about track record and he has a horrible track.
00:51:27
Record. He does have a horrible track
00:51:29
record, so he's got to quickly turn that around.
00:51:32
I mean, he's getting plenty of nice snapshots and stuff like
00:51:35
that. I know he was begging Tom Holman
00:51:37
to come and arrest him, which I was like, stop, we all know you
00:51:41
want to be arrested because you think you're going to get the
00:51:43
cool mug shot like Trump got, but doesn't work like that.
00:51:46
So no one will think you're cool if you get a mug shot for doing
00:51:51
what you're doing. All right, couple more videos I
00:51:55
want to get to before we end for tonight.
00:51:59
We actually did a pretty good job.
00:52:00
We're we're we're still on time making good time chat is is
00:52:04
lively people are hanging out love it.
00:52:07
If you got if you guys have any questions or comments, let us
00:52:11
know A couple more videos. Alex Michaelson, who we met nice
00:52:16
guy he's for is it fox LA 11 or something like that?
00:52:22
It no, that's Bill Malujian. Yeah, he has.
00:52:26
I forget the name of his show I and I'm such a fan of his and
00:52:29
I'm suddenly can't like I. I truly believe that he's
00:52:32
usually very fair and balanced reporting and I can't think of
00:52:38
the name of his show. I can't think of it either, but
00:52:41
he he's up there with like Ashley Zavala if you if you're
00:52:43
looking for like local California reporters who are a
00:52:47
good follow on X Alex Michaelson 1.
00:52:50
Ashley Zavala is the best when it comes to calling out
00:52:54
Sacramento. So there are several who are
00:52:57
good. But anyway, this was Alex.
00:52:59
This is the. Issue said that he would show
00:53:02
this is the issue. Is that what it is?
00:53:04
This is the issue? I don't know.
00:53:07
I don't know. I don't apologize.
00:53:09
Not that he's going to see this, but I apologize because I.
00:53:11
Actually, he may be on the chat right now.
00:53:13
Alex, if you're on the chat, maybe he's a fan of the show.
00:53:15
All right, we're going to watch this video.
00:53:17
And like I said, he's a nice guy and he doesn't usually lose his
00:53:22
cool, but this is an interesting video.
00:53:29
Those things occurred. The what you're seeing is not
00:53:33
spontaneous in any event, it's just not.
00:53:37
And, and law enforcement on the ground, fully uniformed law
00:53:42
enforcement can't say that. And that's, that's the
00:53:45
unfortunate circumstance that we're seeing.
00:53:46
This could have been stopped. It wasn't stopped because of
00:53:49
politically motivated agendas. I don't see why it can't be
00:53:54
stopped right now. I mean, you got all these people
00:53:56
out there and, and, and we see what's happening and every
00:53:59
station showing this happening and, and they're smashing up
00:54:03
rocks and they're setting fires on the street.
00:54:05
And yet everybody's allowed to just wander and do their thing.
00:54:08
And yet if we are, if where our parking meter goes 2 minutes too
00:54:13
long, there's a ticket right there.
00:54:15
How does that happen? I mean, who are we protecting?
00:54:18
What are our priorities right now as a society that this guy's
00:54:22
allowed not to hack the sidewalk, but but you know, God
00:54:25
forbid I'm I'm 2 minutes late on my parking meter you.
00:54:29
Are so funny. This should be ended right now.
00:54:35
And so I would look at the chief of police of Los Angeles and I
00:54:39
would look at the sheriff of LA County and I would, and I would
00:54:43
ask that those two people, those very serious questions because
00:54:47
this could be ended right now. It's not being ended right now.
00:54:50
And the people deserve better. This is much broader than just
00:54:53
law enforcement community that are under attack that deserve
00:54:57
better. The people of LA County, the
00:54:59
people of the city of Los Angeles deserve better.
00:55:02
Look at what you're seeing. This looks like a third world
00:55:04
country right now what I'm seeing on your screen and so
00:55:08
should this be ended? Can it be ended?
00:55:10
Absolutely. Is it No.
00:55:13
Well, there will be those who will agree with you and those
00:55:16
who will disagree with you on the National Guard and the
00:55:19
Marines and how that all happened.
00:55:22
But my question in general, a lot of people are watching this
00:55:25
and have great sympathy for law enforcement and the police
00:55:29
officers and sheriff's deputies that are there on the ground.
00:55:33
Not sure why this crowd's moving like they are, but at the
00:55:36
moment. So my point is there are people
00:55:38
who despite their political views, do have a sympathy for
00:55:42
law enforcement doing a very difficult job over these four
00:55:46
days. How can people help out if they
00:55:48
want to? Non politically at all, They
00:55:51
just want to help out law enforcement.
00:55:53
Yeah, Christine, it's a great question.
00:55:55
And at the end of the day, you have to take politics out of of
00:55:59
this entire scenario. The people of Los Angeles, if
00:56:02
they want to help, need to call on their elected officials and
00:56:05
ask for them to to to to support their troops on the ground, to
00:56:10
support their local law enforcement and make this stop
00:56:13
immediately. This has nothing to do with
00:56:16
politics, but politics unfortunately, has immersed
00:56:18
itself into the daily operational command and control
00:56:22
structure and response of law enforcement that needs to end.
00:56:26
If they want this to end, they need to call on their local
00:56:29
officials and ask for the them to support their law enforcement
00:56:34
officers and bring this to an end immediately.
00:56:37
Because if not, there will be more destruction to business
00:56:40
businesses and, you know, more injuries to innocent people who
00:56:44
are just trying to survive every single day.
00:56:47
Right. And innocent businesses that
00:56:48
have been vandalized tonight. And I mean, literally what we
00:56:52
were just looking at together was somebody taking a hammer to
00:56:56
the sidewalk to then be able to get rocks in their bag to throw
00:57:02
at law enforcement. That's what we're watching.
00:57:05
I mean, that's what's happening right now live on our cameras
00:57:08
that that, that LAPD headquarters is watching too,
00:57:11
that all the different law enforcement agencies that are
00:57:14
down there are watching. That's what's going on.
00:57:17
And, and, and, and so and, and so let's be clear.
00:57:21
And, and the governor of California told me yesterday and
00:57:24
the mayor of Los Angeles told me yesterday that violence is not
00:57:27
OK, that we're not going to accept this sort of thing, that
00:57:30
we need to crack down on these these these thugs and anarchists
00:57:35
and idiots is the word that the governor used.
00:57:37
So it's happening now. So when are we going to crack
00:57:41
down? What's the time to make well
00:57:44
make that that call? That's a great point.
00:57:47
There's a fire. Now that's being set.
00:57:50
It is and and this these are not.
00:57:52
This is not the first time. This is called arson.
00:57:55
This is this is a felony. This is an arson.
00:57:58
OK? Every single police officer and
00:58:01
deputy sheriff right now wants this to end.
00:58:03
They because they, they swear to uphold the peace.
00:58:07
They swear to, you know, put their lives on the line so that
00:58:11
this does not continue. So is Alex Michelson of Fox LA.
00:58:19
Like I said, he does. He's a pretty even keel guy.
00:58:22
But for him to get that fired up shows you how there's a lot of
00:58:29
people who I think are probably fed up with this stuff.
00:58:32
And I don't know if I brought this up.
00:58:34
I just think that in my opinion, you can agree with me or not.
00:58:41
I honestly think this is doing the opposite effect of whatever
00:58:45
they think they were doing. I think if you're trying to be
00:58:49
the resistance or these like, you know, folk heroes out there,
00:58:53
these resistance heroes to like fight Trump and get the people
00:58:58
on your side. I, I think you've done quite
00:59:00
literally the opposite and made more people back Trump on this.
00:59:06
And, and I think it's backfired completely when people like Alex
00:59:10
Michaelson are getting that upset live on air about what
00:59:16
people are doing to a city. I, I think you're losing, you're
00:59:20
losing the plot. And I think more people are
00:59:22
looking at at this going, yeah, this is what we voted for.
00:59:26
We, we voted for this. And you guys are going nuts and
00:59:29
throwing temper tantrums. We don't care.
00:59:34
Like, and you know, you're going to make it worse if you're the
00:59:38
Democrats and you're a leftist or you're on that, on that side.
00:59:43
I think you're making it worse because when you create this
00:59:47
chaos, you give the fodder for a strong man to come in.
00:59:53
And Trump was, you know, Trump is a strong man.
00:59:55
Let's just admit Trump, Trump is the strong man that people voted
00:59:58
for to get this done. But if you keep doing this and
01:00:01
you keep going down this path, you may be shocked at the next
01:00:06
strong man who comes in after Donald Trump.
01:00:09
So. You know, I think they're on the
01:00:12
wrong side of this and this is not helping when you're losing
01:00:16
people like Alex Michaelson, who's a nice guy.
01:00:18
He's a fair guy, but very, you know, very professional.
01:00:22
So for him to lose it on air is, and I want to say lose it.
01:00:25
I, I mean lose it means he was like going nuts.
01:00:27
I would say yeah, he, he got, he was emotional, I should say.
01:00:32
Right. Exactly.
01:00:33
Yeah. For someone who's usually just
01:00:34
very even tempered that there was a little bit of you could
01:00:38
you could hear the passion in his voice.
01:00:41
Yeah, they're so the Instagram account St.
01:00:43
People of Los Angeles has obviously been sharing a lot of
01:00:46
videos of stuff going on. And one of the videos they
01:00:48
shared yesterday was a media van that was parked and people were
01:00:56
smashing it up, you know, spray painting it, throwing bricks at
01:01:00
it, kicking it and destroying it.
01:01:03
And but then you see on the van, it's Telemundo, like this is the
01:01:08
mainstream media that tends to be on the side of the people
01:01:11
that are protesting. This is the mainstream media
01:01:15
that is in Spanish. They're protesting against.
01:01:19
They're, you know, they're waving the Mexico flag while
01:01:22
protesting against people being sent back to Mexico.
01:01:27
They're trying to proclaim how wonderful Mexico is while saying
01:01:30
don't send anyone back there. How dare you.
01:01:33
And now we're going to smash in the span in Spanish that is
01:01:36
trying to report to the Spanish speaking people on what is going
01:01:41
on. And it's like, do you not see
01:01:43
what you're doing here? You're you're it's not helping
01:01:46
get your message out. That's kind of preventing
01:01:49
getting your message out, in fact.
01:01:51
Yeah, you're kind of you're, you're you're harming the people
01:01:55
who are probably trying to help you the most and get your
01:01:58
message out. But the Iceman brought up in the
01:02:01
chat, I've brought this up in other videos.
01:02:04
We all let this happen by ignoring immigration reform for
01:02:06
decades. And this is like where like the
01:02:11
the humanitarian in me, this is where the conflict is for me
01:02:15
personally, is that on the humanitarian side?
01:02:19
I feel bad for people who get swept up in this.
01:02:22
Maybe they're not felons. Maybe they're not like the
01:02:24
people who they were going after who were convicted violent
01:02:27
felons, sexual offenders, drug offenders, cartel members,
01:02:30
people who get swept up in this, the humanitarian side of me.
01:02:35
But it it still doesn't change my basic principle of, well, the
01:02:39
law is the law. Like this is the law.
01:02:42
Like I, I don't, there's no emotional sob story that's going
01:02:46
to make me go, yeah, OK, you can ignore this law.
01:02:49
Like the, the constant thing that people always say, oh,
01:02:52
well, they came here for a better life and that's what they
01:02:54
wanted. So just let them have it.
01:02:55
Like, why don't you just why do you care about it?
01:02:58
What do you care? It's like, well, everybody wants
01:03:00
a better life. You know, I'd, I'd love to have
01:03:03
a brand new Range Rover. Doesn't mean I can walk into a
01:03:05
dealership and drive off without paying one for one.
01:03:07
Like, that's not how it works. Like there are laws and either
01:03:11
we are a country of laws or we're not.
01:03:13
And I'm not saying our immigration system is 100%
01:03:16
perfect and we nailed it. There could be reform, sure.
01:03:22
Could we make it easier for people to become legal citizens?
01:03:27
Maybe. Maybe that would disincentivize
01:03:29
people from crossing the border and being illegal in the 1st
01:03:32
place. But Democrats love to go out
01:03:36
there and talk about all this stuff and, and they were
01:03:39
empowered several times between 2008 when Barack Obama was
01:03:44
elected by a landslide, mind you, and had the mandate of the
01:03:49
world. They didn't do anything.
01:03:51
He was elected twice. Yeah.
01:03:53
Joe Biden in there with the auto pen.
01:03:55
They could have signed off on anything.
01:03:58
You didn't do anything. So OK, the law is the law right
01:04:02
now, and you got to abide by the law.
01:04:03
So that's sort of where I am like on the you can be both, I
01:04:07
guess you can say you can be, you can feel sad for the people
01:04:11
because this is a hard thing to go through.
01:04:15
On this other side, you're like, but you sort of knew this was
01:04:18
the law. Like you knew when you came you
01:04:21
were already breaking the law to begin with.
01:04:23
So I don't know you have any thoughts about a conflict of
01:04:29
being a humanitarian? I do, yes.
01:04:31
We, we are human and we are capable of feeling multiple
01:04:35
things at once, holding multiple opinions at once.
01:04:38
And I agree, we absolutely need immigration reform.
01:04:42
People do come here for a better life that are not trying to come
01:04:45
here and wreak havoc. Absolutely.
01:04:48
We were discussing earlier, which we discussed on the
01:04:51
podcast last week, the week before, about the ICE raids that
01:04:54
happened near you in San Diego at the restaurant.
01:04:59
I don't know if, besides crossing the border illegally,
01:05:03
if the restaurant workers committed any other crimes or
01:05:06
any crimes while here. As far as I know, they they
01:05:10
didn't. So we'll just call them innocent
01:05:13
people for the sake of this discussion.
01:05:15
So these innocent workers came here for a better life, but then
01:05:20
they end up working for this restaurant owner who is
01:05:22
literally taking advantage of them as slave labor and making
01:05:25
them work long hours without breaks and low pay.
01:05:28
I think it was like under the table is how he kind of managed
01:05:31
that. And, and if we're if we're, if
01:05:35
people are not going to come here legally, then we are going
01:05:37
to get a lot of situations like that.
01:05:39
The owner did get arrested as we discussed, and you know it.
01:05:44
That's an abusive situation. We don't want that for people.
01:05:47
That's not compassionate, that's not giving them a better life.
01:05:51
And then I think that they come here and they get in it and it's
01:05:54
like that's they probably think this is good of a situation as
01:05:57
they're going to get. And then they're afraid to get
01:05:59
out of that situation because then they're afraid to just get
01:06:01
deported. And so they just they keep they
01:06:04
stay in that situation where again, they're literally slave
01:06:07
labor. We've talked about when we had
01:06:10
the episode with Jorge Ventura and you know, a lot of the
01:06:13
cartel sneaking people in and stuff and how they're they end
01:06:17
up being like traffickers on these marijuana farms under
01:06:22
horrible conditions and stuff. If we have legal migration, we
01:06:27
can prevent so much of this. And that's the compassionate way
01:06:31
to go. Like it's, it's not evil.
01:06:36
It's not evil of us to want things to to go legally.
01:06:39
It's not evil of us for people like to want people to be able
01:06:43
to migrate here and still have a better life and have you know,
01:06:47
and follow the law like the rest of us.
01:06:49
It's like, yes, come here, come here legally, follow the rules
01:06:53
and let's get you, let's let's get you in the in the schools
01:06:56
and in the jobs and for a better life. 100%.
01:07:00
I am all for that. But unfortunately, when we have
01:07:03
these under the table situations, these marijuana
01:07:06
farming situations, we're ending up with a lot of traffic and
01:07:08
we're running up with slave labor.
01:07:09
We're ending up with sex trafficking.
01:07:11
It it's a nightmare and and no reform and all the legal stuff
01:07:15
isn't going to 100% cut all that out, but it it we could avoid a
01:07:20
lot of this if we just get some rules and follow some rules.
01:07:25
Yeah, not to make light of the situation.
01:07:28
I mean, as someone like myself who has been deported from a
01:07:33
country, I, you know, I know the feeling of being deported from a
01:07:36
country. So there might be a lot of new
01:07:38
viewers on here who don't know the the story of how I got
01:07:41
deported from Mexico. That may be for another time for
01:07:43
all you new listeners and people watching.
01:07:46
I got deported from Mexico so recently.
01:07:50
Recently. Wasn't it just a couple months
01:07:52
ago? So again, case in point, if you
01:07:55
don't follow the rules and do what you're supposed to in
01:07:59
Mexico, they will deport you. So it wasn't that big of a deal,
01:08:05
but it it is a a. But yet that even they have
01:08:08
rules to follow, like you don't just get to go into their land
01:08:11
without your proper identification and the process.
01:08:14
And you learned that by accident very quickly.
01:08:18
Yeah, you, you learn. Next time bring your passport.
01:08:22
Somebody said perhaps we can use some immigration reform.
01:08:25
However, when we are also going to hold these countries
01:08:27
accountable to take care of their citizens so they don't
01:08:30
feel like they have to flee here.
01:08:32
I I don't want to go down the road of help it What?
01:08:37
I don't want to go down the road where we feel like we have to
01:08:40
make these countries better so that they don't come here like
01:08:44
that's that's something they have to do.
01:08:46
And I think we reform has to be, we have to be stricter in sort
01:08:51
of deportations. I think it has to be a little
01:08:55
bit of both carrot and stick of like if you're here illegally,
01:08:58
there's a faster process to get deported, almost a no nonsense.
01:09:02
And this is me just spouting off and brainstorming.
01:09:06
But I also think we could probably reform the process to
01:09:10
become a legal citizen a little bit better.
01:09:14
We had a family member who went through, you know, getting his
01:09:17
green card and it took a long time and a lot of money.
01:09:20
And it's very confusing. There's a lot of paperwork.
01:09:22
So I'm sure there's a lot of stuff that like can be done to
01:09:27
reform and make the process easier because a lot of people
01:09:31
who want to come here are like, well, I can't afford to become a
01:09:34
citizen, so I'm just going to come here illegally.
01:09:37
So I think it's a little bit of both that you have to do.
01:09:41
I haven't really. Kind of.
01:09:42
I just think it's not perfect. Knowing from personal experience
01:09:47
that it's not perfect and it's not not easy.
01:09:51
Yeah. I think when you become a
01:09:52
citizen, something brought up, there are reasons they should
01:09:54
apply for citizenship. They learn some English and
01:09:56
other things. Stop and be.
01:09:58
I think you have to learn English, don't you?
01:10:00
You have to know English to become a citizen of America.
01:10:04
I thought so. I think the test is in English.
01:10:07
So true. Maybe.
01:10:10
And then you have to learn. I feel like a lot of.
01:10:12
Immigrants. And I know this is the point of
01:10:15
tonight's episode, but on that, I don't mean to shush anybody up
01:10:20
in the chat or anything, but why is it America's responsibility
01:10:25
to reform all these other countries?
01:10:28
And something I think that America did wrong in general is
01:10:33
that when we, I don't know, whenever like Christian society
01:10:36
decided that we need to go and be missionaries in the world and
01:10:40
westernize everything. I think countries can be great
01:10:43
without being America. They don't need to be us.
01:10:46
They can have their their ways with, you know, there's
01:10:50
obviously a few things that they shouldn't have, but I think that
01:10:53
they can be them and their culture and without being
01:10:56
westernized, if that makes sense.
01:10:58
Like they, we don't need to kind of like a make every other
01:11:01
country America for them to want to stay and nor should it be our
01:11:05
responsibility to do that. I think that we need to respect
01:11:08
that other countries have different ways of doing things.
01:11:13
I don't know if I'm making sense and we don't really have a whole
01:11:14
lot of time, but I just, I just like, I, I grew up in a
01:11:18
Christian home and I've read a lot of like missionary work.
01:11:21
And I feel like one of the things that a lot of
01:11:22
missionaries did was like, go in and be like, OK, we need to
01:11:25
teach these people to be American.
01:11:26
And it's like, that's not the answer.
01:11:28
And I, and I'm not even saying that the person in the chat said
01:11:30
that, but I just feel like we don't need to make them like us.
01:11:34
We need to appreciate cultural differences and different
01:11:37
countries differences and that that not our way of doing things
01:11:40
works for everybody else. Yeah, I, I, I also realize we're
01:11:46
$40 trillion in debt. So any idea of reforming anybody
01:11:50
else? Everything we do doesn't work
01:11:51
for us. We got, we got problems.
01:11:53
We're not doing so well on our own.
01:11:54
So yeah, I mean even. Without immigration, we have a
01:12:00
lot of crime, a lot of like we have our debt, we have a lot of
01:12:03
crime. We we have all kinds of issues
01:12:04
we need to reform and so. Yeah.
01:12:08
All right. So this last video I had kind of
01:12:11
briefly alluded to the the politicians going back and forth
01:12:15
is, you know, you have Karen Bass who's posturing and you
01:12:18
have Newsome's who posturing and then you have President Trump in
01:12:22
the White House and all this. And it's a lot of like it's just
01:12:25
kind of a staring contest for a lack of term.
01:12:27
It's like a one big pissing match between them all.
01:12:31
And the, the thing that kind of upsets me and people, maybe Alex
01:12:36
Michelson alluded to it a little bit, is really the citizens and
01:12:40
the people of LA are the ones who are getting screwed.
01:12:43
And that's the saddest part of all this is that, you know,
01:12:48
whether he did federalize too early or he asked for help or he
01:12:52
wasn't supposed to. And they're getting back and
01:12:54
forth. And at the end of the day, like
01:12:56
you look at downtown LA and, and businesses are burned to the
01:12:59
ground. People are suffering like this
01:13:02
is bad. It's kind of like the summer of
01:13:03
love of how much property was damaged, how many businesses
01:13:07
were destroyed because of that. And these politicians are
01:13:12
fighting over nonsense and posturing and it's the people
01:13:15
who get hurt. So I I want to put this
01:13:17
together. Obviously when LAPD is focused
01:13:22
solely on the protesters, because they were everywhere on
01:13:25
Sunday night and a little bit on Monday night too, there's a lack
01:13:30
of personnel to take care of a lot of other things going on.
01:13:34
And obviously bad actors and people took advantage of the
01:13:37
situation. And we're going to watch a quick
01:13:39
little video and then we'll we'll wrap up the show.
01:14:39
None. What's
01:15:10
up? Around.
01:16:14
Yeah. Cameras and neighbors.
01:16:28
Called the. Great.
01:16:31
Because they don't have no. How does it feel that it
01:16:36
happened to the screen? It's horrible years of work.
01:17:24
It's a somber note to end on, but I think it's it's important.
01:17:29
I think it's important, like I said, that it's a lot of
01:17:33
posturing and people in power are doing this and, and
01:17:40
politically posturing for their own benefit.
01:17:43
And at the end of the day, this poor woman, I think that last
01:17:46
clip hit the hardest where years of work, she probably worked
01:17:52
really hard, sacrificed a ton to build and, and start what looked
01:17:57
like a little boutique clothing store.
01:18:00
And in the blink of an eye, because for some reason those in
01:18:04
power just don't care, it's all gone.
01:18:09
So it's, you know, and people will say, oh, don't feel bad for
01:18:12
her. There's insurance.
01:18:14
And it's like, it's not that easy.
01:18:16
You know, everyone thinks insurance is this magic wand
01:18:18
that's going to bring everything back.
01:18:20
And it's like, she could be out of business because insurance
01:18:24
doesn't pay out for months. And it's not easy to get
01:18:28
insurance money. They don't pay immediately.
01:18:30
They have to send people out. It's a long process.
01:18:33
She may need that revenue to pay for her mortgage or her rent or
01:18:36
her kids school like and people, they, they unleash this
01:18:42
environment where bad actors felt emboldened to do this.
01:18:47
And this is the result Los Angelinos got.
01:18:51
They got clobbered. And that's the saddest part of
01:18:54
all this is at the end of the day, while they're all fighting
01:18:57
over ice raids and protests and stuff like that, this is the end
01:19:02
result. The people get screwed.
01:19:03
So sorry, that's a somber way to, to kind of fix it or, or
01:19:08
kind of finish the show. But I, I think that's what I
01:19:12
want people to kind of walk away from this episode with is we all
01:19:16
get wrapped up in the, we, we all get wrapped up in the news
01:19:22
and the, the inflammatory images and stuff like that.
01:19:25
And we all throw it around. But I think we have to all start
01:19:30
if we're going to fix anything, especially in California or
01:19:33
anything in this country. I think we all have to kind of
01:19:36
take a step back and think about the humanitarian side of it and
01:19:39
go, these people are doing it. The, the people in power are
01:19:43
doing it because of their own personal things.
01:19:46
Gavin Newsom is doing it because he wants to run for president.
01:19:48
Karen Bass is doing it because she wants to get the next rung
01:19:51
up the ladder. And at the end of the day, this
01:19:54
poor woman lost her business. So that's my my final thoughts
01:19:58
for anything to add to that. I just, I want to clarify.
01:20:02
So that video was looting because the police were
01:20:07
distracted also where people took advantage of an opportunity
01:20:10
to to go in and. Yeah, it it was.
01:20:17
Yeah. It's when when LAPD is stretched
01:20:20
that thin and there's so much chaos going on it, it's not
01:20:27
shocking that people took advantage because they they knew
01:20:30
smash and grabs. Again, coming back to what we
01:20:32
said at the top earlier in the episode, Gavin Newsom doesn't
01:20:36
want to fund Prop 36, which was supposed to stop stuff like
01:20:40
this. But when there's not as many
01:20:43
police and they're overwhelmed, looters take advantage.
01:20:46
I mean, we saw as there was an Adidas store and I'm, you know,
01:20:49
I'm not going to sit here and feel sad for Adidas or Jordans
01:20:53
or whatever, but that was looted CVS, all these places where I
01:20:58
mean that poor guy who was the the jeweler his you know, how
01:21:02
how long had that shot been in his family?
01:21:05
That guy just looked like he was in shock.
01:21:06
Like why are you probably? Already dealt with such blows
01:21:09
for COVID and then he like got through that and then and now
01:21:15
this. It's like he just wants to catch
01:21:17
a break and feed his family. Yeah, someone said why would she
01:21:21
even reopen again anyway? Yeah, why would you reopen in
01:21:25
downtown? True, you could.
01:21:27
If you do reopen, you could probably go somewhere like
01:21:30
Glendale or just go down the five and go to Orange County.
01:21:34
It's much nicer down in. Orange County, you know, out of
01:21:37
control. So all right, that's our episode
01:21:42
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