Guy Benson on the State of the Governor's and LA Mayor's Race

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Speaker 1: And we continue at two oh five in the afternoon on The John Phillips Show, broadcasting live from Santa Fe, New Mexico. Mister Randy Wang is downstairs. John.

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Speaker 2: Republicans in the California Assembly want a special session to investigate all of the fraud that has been uncovered not only by Bobby Bontavonta, but also by Bill A. Sale, but also by Nick Shirley. I don't feel like Gavin's going to go along with that.

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Speaker 1: I don't think so either, because if they want to find waste fraud abuse in California, all they have to do is pay attention to the state auditor, who does a pretty good job at finding it. They just choose not to do anything with that information. Eight hundred two two two five two two two is telephone number. What eight hundred two two two five two two two. It is our pleasure to welcome our next guest to the program. He is a commentator at the Fox News Channel. You can also hear him weekdays on seven ninety KABC at three o'clock right after we sign off here on this program. You can follow him on Exit Guy Benson. Guy Benson, Welcome, great to be back.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: Well, thanks so much for stopping by. So let's start out with the big bombshell story that broke last Friday regarding California Congressman and candidate for governor Eric Swallwell, who apparently has a million and one problems that he's dealing with now privately, not as an elected official because he resigned from Congress. But we're now learning today that Politico, the publication, had this story back when he was a candidate for president. I was back in twenty twenty, maybe even twenty nineteen, because he dropped out pretty early on in those primaries. But after he dropped out of the race, they decided not to do anything with it. Well, he was able to go back to a safe seat in the House of Representatives and continue to abuse women allegedly, and then he decided that because he's been getting away with it so long, he was bulletproof, why not run for governor. There's no way a news media that loves me and what I'm doing will ever report these allegations. And this time apparently he got stun What do you make of the fact that this story was out there within the news media, within those circles, those social networks for as long as it was and no one blew the whistle.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it's to me a huge part of the overall story. Now that you know, you've got a congressman resigned, he's out, he's not going to run for governor anymore. Okay, where does the story go from there? Well, it could involve some of his cohorts and friends. I know there's rumors and discussions and at least questions surrounding for example, Senator Reuben Diego from Arizona, who swears they were very very very very close, but he didn't know any of it. And I think there are some people who are rather skeptical of that, and we'll see if anything comes of it. But the media angle, I think is interesting because you're right if they have the story Politico and others years ago. And in fact, I saw a tweet when this whole thing finally blew wide open from a local journalist in California saying that some of this stuff was like an open secret within California Democratic politics in Swalwell's district and in his county there like people knew at least some version of this story dating back. This guy said to when he was on the city council Swalwell, so years and years ago. I just don't understand you on the whole. You know, we speak truth to power and we afflict the powerful and whatever. You've got a sit in congressman. If he is rumored to have subordinates that he is sexually harassing or worse, including you know, allegedly interns in all of that, how does that story cease to be a story because he's no longer running for president but still is a member of the United States Congress. I don't understand that, especially when you consider his hypocrisy, his positions, and the things that he said during the Me Too movement and Brett Kavanaugh, you go down the list. I mean, if this guy was in fact abusing women, misusing his office, abusing his power, etc. If he's victimizing people either with some sort of you know, sordid sexual misconduct with a power dynamic imbalance, or worse, because he's accused of assault and drugging a woman, that there's some pretty really ugly allegations against him. If you knew that there were at least elements of the scandal brewing and smoked to that fire years ago, not only are you potentially, you know, dropping a story or sort of covering for a guy from the media's preferred political party. Are you not just biologically extension opening up more women, future women, future victims to similar and potentially escalating behavior if this is the fact pattern that you've either ascertained or have rumored, if you just sort of like, oh, well, he's not seeking office high enough in a way that we think affects our relationship with him, so we're just going to drop it. A. I don't think that's journalistically sound at all. B. What does that mean for victims or potential or alleged victims that he maybe hadn't gone after yet who he then subsequently did. I mean, I just think that's pretty disturbing.

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Speaker 1: Actually, let's move to the top performing Democrat in recent polls who's left in the race, and that is billionaire Tom Steyer, who is running on a platform that is truly radical. His platform includes getting rid of Proposition thirteen, or at least getting rid of the split role, where he would go after commercial property in California and try to eliminate Prop thirteen protections for that land. He's also running on the platform of single payer healthcare, something that a state that is currently broke could never do unless you jack taxes up to the point to where there's nobody left to pay them. Gavin Newsom ran on that and then quickly understood once he saw the books, that that's just something that's just never going to happen. Tom Steyer says he's going to put his political capital behind it and once socialized medicine here in California. He also is running against ICE. He said that ICE should be abolished. How he would have the power to do that as governor of California, I don't know, but he said, yeah, he wants to abolish ICE, and he wants to arrest ICE agents if they come into the state of California and arrest their superiors. You can't do that. There's a thing called federal supremacy, and federal law superseded state law. But he says he's going to move forward with that, and he said he's going to treat the mob or the ICE agents the same way that prosecutors treated the mob back in the old days. Do you think it's possible as far to the left as the Democratic electorate has moved in recent cycles, that they could stomach someone with those extreme politics.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I mean, you tell me John, you live out there. But I mean I put absolutely nothing past the voters of California at this point, and I'd love to be wrong. I love this hypothetical scenario where with the jungle primary end up with two Republicans running against each other for governor. I think it's possible, but unlikely. And if Sire emerges as because of what the teachers Union came in for him, this guy is, it's actually, in some ways perfect for the California left. He is a communist billionaire. It's perfect. It does nothing to help working in middle class people who are getting squeezed. It will drive if this guy somehow gets elected, people who are successful out of that state even further. The thing is, in today's Democrat politics generally, a rule of thumb that I have, unfortunately is it can always get worse. Right. So I live in the DC area, and you've got the mayor there, Muriel Bowser, who's bad, but the city council is a lot worse, and she decided not to run free election. There's a very good chance that whoever succeeds Bowser will be substantially worse than Bowser. I lived in Chicago for years, LORI Lightfoot was a disaster of a mayor, and then we got Brandon Johnson, who's even worse. So you, Gavin Newsom is atrocious. He's an awful governor for so many reasons. And yet I think if the election were held tomorrow, for example, there'd be a pretty good chance that someone demonstrably worse than Gavin Newsom could take the helm. And it's just I mean, I do not envy the sane people, the same voters of California, because I mean, this stuff is madness. I hope that there'd be some sort of a coalition to stand up and say no to someone like Tom Seyer, But I don't know. If it ends up in the top two a Republican and him, money would have to be on him.

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Speaker 1: You have Democratic friends. I have Democratic friends. They're not aware of the bad government that they receive here. They don't like the fact that they have to buy their shampoo through bulletproof class they don't like the fact that they're homeless encampments everywhere. They don't like the fact that their local pharmacies are shutting down due to retail theft, but they don't associate that with their vote. They complain about it, they realize it's going on, they don't like it, but they continue to vote for the same people and the same policies that produce it. And they think that by complaining about it, that's going to get it to change. And that's enough. But they're not mad enough about it to change the way that they vote.

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Speaker 3: Right, because ultimately they make everything about well, at least SO and SO is not a Republican and you've got to stand up to Trump, and that supersedes everything else, including like the safety and friendliness and affordability of your state and your community. And I just don't know how long that can sustain itself. But you know, you keep wondering, will there be some sort of a wake up moment where people are willing to try something different? And you know, until I see it, I won't believe it in a place like California. Not to be overly gloomy about it, but I mean, you paint me a negative scenario about California politics, and I'm inclined to believe it. That's sort of where my head is.

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Speaker 1: Right now now, Speaking of which we also have a mayoral election going on in Los Angeles where Karen Bass, who has about as awful of a record as you could possibly have as a chief executive of a major city, and then still want to run for reelection. For whatever reason, she is putting her name back on the ballot. The candidate that is polling in second place is Spencer Pratt of reality TV fame, and I know that there are many that dismiss him as someone who's never been in elected office before, someone who is new to the game. I'll tell you I had him on my show, and I know you have him on your show today, and I'm curious to get your reaction. I was deeply impressed with him because not only did he answer every question that I asked him, and I had him in for an hour and I peppered him with questions, and he gave me direct answers to each and every one of them that were well read, He thought through, and he had something ready to go on just about everything that I hit him with. I think if we end up with a November election that pits Karen Bass against Spencer Pratt, he's got a good chance at winning that election.

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Speaker 3: Well, I hope you're right about that, and you're right. On the show today and the hour that you guys get at KBC, you'll hear the Spencer Pratt interview. And I mean he is just, you can tell, viscerally genuinely pissed off about what's happening to Los Angeles, the place that he obviously loves. And it's not just I mean we saw his house burned down and the Palisades fire, his family's house was destroyed, his parents. I mean, it's a terrible, terrible mismanagement and abuses and all of that, and the you know, slow as molasses rebuild all of those things. You guys know that very very well, front row seat to all of it down there in southern California at KBC Land. But he's not just furious about it. I think that opened his eyes to like, we have to do something, and the people in charge are so terrible and so incompetent. We've got to just change directions and if no one else is going to step up, I'm going to do it. So like he's channeling that anger that I think a lot of Angelino's definitely feel at the system and the failures and then when they try to just dismiss miss this in like, you know, sort of stupid callo reality TV guy. Then you see his interviews, including the one you mentioned on your show, the one he did with me today. You know he he's much more intelligent that they would have you believe. He realizes that he doesn't know everything and would want to bring in smart people to help him. But you know, when they hit him with the oh, you know, what have you ever done experienced? YadA, YadA, YadA, his counterpoint, which is, you know, both kind of obvious and brilliant, and I don't know what they what they can say to come back against this, which is, you guys are all a bunch of like entrenched quote unquote political experts, and look at what you've done to this place. So like I at least have This is what he told me today, common sense. I believe in enforcing the laws, and why don't we start there because you people won't even do that. And you know you have your finger on the pulse of LA way more than I do, John, I would hope, especially with if Karen bass is on that ballot or he was talking about this, this democrat socialist from the city counts who's in the mix as well. I would hope in a one on one shot conceivably that he would really have a chance to win, because you think at some point, again the fed up coalition of people saying, we keep trying this, let's try that.

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Speaker 1: Well, when people criticize him and go, you don't have the pedigree to be mayor of Los Angeles, he fires back with, well, the woman with the correct resume burned my house down.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good that's a fair point, right, And what is she done well?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 3: It doesn't seem like her approval rating is good at all. It seems like she's annoyed many people for many different reasons, and failure on top of failure brought to you by the political class of California. So you can keep going to the political class, or you can try something different. And I think that's that's his whole pitch. I am different and I have common sense and what's happening is a disgrace, and I'm pissed and so are you. So let's change it. And I hope that does not fall on Jeff.

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Speaker 1: Hears Guy Benson, Fox News contributor host of The Guy Benson Show, which you can listen to at three o'clock on talk radio seven ninety k ABC in Los Angeles, and you can follow him. Follow him on exit, Guy P. Benson, that's Guy P. Benson on X. Guy Benson, thanks so much for stopping buy and we'll I'll be listening to you today at three.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you bet, Thanks so much for having me.

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Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is a telephone number one eight hundred two two two five two two two, And right now it's time to open up. The California Crime Blodder is dummy.

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Speaker 4: We couldn't make this stuff up if we tried.

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Speaker 1: I said, hell no, vy boy, let me get up one out of here.

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Speaker 4: It's the California Crime Blodder.

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Speaker 1: And Randy, this one takes us to the OC. Now.

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Speaker 2: We know that a lot of cities in californ have these things called license plate reading cameras flock cameras, and the whole idea is if someone steals your car, we can track where that car is going with these cameras. It has actually been instrumental in reducing car thefts in the state of California.

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Speaker 1: But every once in.

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Speaker 2: A while you do get a rogue law enforcement officer using these things for what they are not intended for. And there was a cop and Coasta Mesa who got caught using the flock cameras to spy on his mistress. Uh oh for more here is CBSLA.

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Speaker 5: Developing is tonight a police officer is caught using police cameras to spy on his mistress.

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Speaker 4: Mike Rodgers.

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Speaker 6: There were already privacy concern about these cameras, and then this happens.

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Speaker 7: And you know, this guy was accused of spying on his mistress, his mistress's new lovers as well as his current wife.

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Speaker 1: WHOA. This guy has a messy life.

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Speaker 2: This guy is super duper paranoid, so he's pissed off that the mistress is sleeping with somebody else.

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Speaker 7: That's some hutzbah all happening in the city of Coasta Mesa. We'll show you some video hear of the flock system cameras that we are talking about. The flock cameras have been wildly controversial, especially recently when there was a data issue that came to light. But the Orange County DIA's office says this former Coast to Mason police officer not only is these flock cameras to track his mistress, her new boyfriends as well as his current wife.

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Speaker 2: Wait boyfriends, okay, so they're all whores, her new boyfriends as well as his current wife, but also use confidential law enforcement systems to be able to run people a number of times that had nothing to do with his work. So he's running background checks on the mistress and all the people that she's sleeping with. Is there no crime in Coast to Mesa where he has time to do all this?

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Speaker 1: It is Coast to Mesa.

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Speaker 2: No, soone broke a window at South Coast Plaza.

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Speaker 1: As a law enforcement officer.

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Speaker 7: They also allege that he contacted his mistress thousands of times via social media, text and phone calls, as many as one hundred times in one day.

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Speaker 1: WHOA Okay, this guy has a problem, or should I say many problems. If you have a text thread on your phone and all you see is blue because you're the only one sending messages, you might have a problem.

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Speaker 7: Just for one example here, Robert J. Josett, thirty five years old, pleaded one guilty to three misdemeanor counts as related to all of this. He's been ordered for a fifty two week domestic violence program, as well as three years of informal probation. Now they allege that he repeatedly was sending messages to her, texting, or calling her through social media and the phone, sometimes as many as fifty eight times a day.

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Speaker 1: This guy was obsessed, it sounds like it.

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Speaker 7: He then began calling her new boyfriend and then would let use these systems to try to track them down and then in some cases go meet them at those locations.

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Speaker 1: Okay, maybe being a police officer wasn't the right job for him.

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Speaker 7: The Orange Count of DA says, even after he was suspended from Coast to Mesa PD, he still used the flock camera system to track his mistress.

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Speaker 1: All of this. Now he's a former police officer.

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Speaker 7: And now if Blood has pleaded guilty to these three misdemeanor counts related.

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Speaker 4: To it, where did you find the time? Mic? Incredible and when he was suspended he had some more time indeed. Okay, thanks, There you.

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Speaker 2: Go, a Coasta Mesa police officer trying to use flock cameras and background checks to spy on his mitre, his mistress, and her new lovers.

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Speaker 1: All right, it's time to reopen the California Crime Blodder.

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Speaker 8: It's happened yet again.

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Speaker 9: This whow whoa What's help you?

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Speaker 4: Dundun dun dun, dundun dun. Creachs the Califonia Crime Bladder with Jun.

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Speaker 1: And this edition takes us to the San Fernando Valley.

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Speaker 2: We had back to back burglaries in Valley Village and Valley Glen, two neighborhoods that I think used to be called North.

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Speaker 1: Hollywood until the realtors got involved. For more, here is ABC seven Eyewitness News.

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Speaker 2: Two burglaries and two multimillion dollar homes, all within two miles of each other in the San Fernando Valley.

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Speaker 9: The pair of break.

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Speaker 2: Ins happened in the span of just fifteen minutes overnight, and.

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Speaker 10: There could be something linking at least one of these crimes to a similar burglary spree in the Valley from over the weekend.

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Speaker 2: Eyewitnessed, Yeah, I'm definitely canceling that return ticket.

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Speaker 1: Home, Sweet Home, Randy.

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Speaker 10: Eyewitness news reporter David Gonzalez is live in Valley Village with the new details.

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Speaker 1: David, my old hood the Double V's.

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Speaker 11: Hey, good morning, Philip and LIZZI. Yeah, we've been here all morning long, and we were actually here when the homeowner from this home came home around seventy am. She says she spent the night at her son's house, and even after this terribly scary situation, she talked to us. She was very sweet, and she told us that she's heard about several breakings in this community over the last few weeks, but she never expected to be the victim of one.

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Speaker 9: Answer.

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Speaker 11: Broken glass from a shattered sliding glass store remains untouched, and it's not Meat's home on Hatterast Street. The morning after burglars broke in.

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Speaker 9: I can't even think of it.

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Speaker 12: But again, I'm trying to look at the beta huff.

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Speaker 9: What can I do. I'll fix it.

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Speaker 2: And boy, she's trying to be optimistic, but she sounds defeated.

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Speaker 1: You can say, you can tell that she's struggling with it.

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Speaker 9: We'll continue living.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, he seems so positive right now.

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Speaker 12: Just what can I do? What can I do? It happened already, Oh it's not.

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Speaker 11: Tow's on her way home Tuesday nights around nine pm when she got a call from her alarm company that a censor was going off.

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Speaker 9: So I said, disregarded.

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Speaker 12: But then they called two minutes after and they said that they hear that the backdoor sensori zone.

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Speaker 9: So I said, oh she called.

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Speaker 1: At that point she knew there was someone in her house that shouldn't be there.

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Speaker 2: The first time, she probably thought, oh, it's the damn cat again.

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Speaker 9: Backdoor sensori zone. So I said, oh.

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Speaker 11: She called her son and they found the Valley Village house without power.

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Speaker 12: The house was black, no no light at all, which is usually we have lights outside. He walked the stairs and he saw some part of my jewelries on the stairs.

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Speaker 9: The neighbor gave us.

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Speaker 12: Some video of two people leaving the house from the front door, maybe a minute before we came.

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Speaker 9: That is scary.

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Speaker 11: Lapd is also investigating another possible burglary in Valley Village on Hissby Street Tuesday night. It took place fifteen.

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Speaker 1: Boy, it's just a spray in the old double v's. And keep in mind, the San Fernando Valley is a place where people pay a fortune to live there, and this is what they have to deal with.

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Speaker 2: The whole deal was, it was expensive, but it was supposed to be safe and boring. Now it's expensive and boring and not safe. And I reiterate how boring the valley is.

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Speaker 11: It took place fifteen minutes before Osnott's home was broken into. The suspects got in through a back window. Right now, we do not know how many suspects were involved, what may have been taken, or if the burglaries are linked. Oh doesn't know what else she could have done to protect herself.

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Speaker 9: I did what I could.

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Speaker 12: I had an alarm, I was tried to be safe, she.

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Speaker 1: Had the appearance of safety. She did everything that she could possibly do to make sure that she wasn't a victim of crime except move to Orange County.

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Speaker 9: I guess they can do.

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Speaker 12: You know, if they decide to do something, they will do it anyway.

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Speaker 11: And as you heard, Oh's not right there. She says she did everything could she could to protect herself. But she says right now, she cannot live in fear. As far as a possible getaway vehicle, police right now believe it possibly could be a Kia Sedan.

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Speaker 1: You don't say, which means it's a stolen car.

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Speaker 11: And it's similar to another Kia Sedan that was seen leaving the scene of a break in in the Hollywood Hills on Friday or right now, we.

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Speaker 10: Do not see.

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Speaker 2: Here's the difference between LA and Oakland. In LA, they use the Kia as the getaway car. In Oakland they use the Kia as the battering ram.

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Speaker 1: Well, they usually steal too. In Oakland, one stolen Kia is the battering Ram and one stolen Kia is the getaway car.

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Speaker 11: Of a break in in the Hollywood Hills on Friday or right now, we do not know if these burglaries are linked. If you have any information, you urge and call police immediately reporting live in Valley Village. Dave Gonzalez, ABC seven, I would.

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Speaker 2: Assume there you go even more burglaries in the San Fernando Valley.

00:26:42
Speaker 1: I don't know what we're going to have to do to get you on that plane to go home, but I'm picturing a scene from the A team where Ba barakas played by Mister t was afraid of flying and they used to have to shoot them with a tranquilizer gun and put them on the plane.

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Speaker 2: That way might be the only way you're getting me out of this town and going back to the valley.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, I don't know what it is about Long Beach, but every time we do a story about Long Beach, it seems to involve gasoline. Whether it is at a gas station where the gasoline is being stolen straight out of the ground. We remember that is the cas dummy or gasoline that's being stolen straight out of people's gas tanks, which is apparently what's going on in Long Beach right now. So let's reopen the blodder.

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Speaker 8: It's happened yet again.

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Speaker 1: This wow, Wow, what's up here?

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Speaker 4: Dumb Beach? The Califonia crime bladder with jun.

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Speaker 2: And forget the old nineteen seventy style siphoning hose. Is now the thieves now are just drilling holes into your gas tank.

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Speaker 1: That is so rude.

00:27:59
Speaker 2: For more, here is Fox eleven in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 13: Plan Fox eleven is shocking new theft trend in Long Beach has left one truck owner with thousands, excuse me, thousands of repair bills after thieves drilled straight into his fuel tank. Fox elevens of Matthew Sedorf has the exclusive video warning every driver needs to hear.

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Speaker 14: This is something people could need to be on the lookout for. Thieves drilling holes in the gas tanks to steal fuel from cars. A possible new crime trend.

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Speaker 1: The sinking poor guy. Okay, if that happens to you, it's going to cost you a fortune to fix that. Someone may get seventy dollars of gas, assuming that you've just filled up at the gas station. What you get is you get a car that has thousands of dollars in damage done to it.

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Speaker 14: This sinking moment a man in Long Beach realizes someone didn't just steal his gas, they drilled a hole straight through his tank to get it.

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Speaker 15: I've heard about people siphoning gas like with a hose, but never drilling into the into the gas stand of that.

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Speaker 14: Jose Figures says he filled up Sunday, but Monday morning his tank was.

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Speaker 4: Empty consistent stream of gasoline.

00:29:12
Speaker 14: At the gas station. He quickly realized why. With fuel pouring out like a shower from underneath his truck.

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Speaker 2: Oh no surprise, I hear like its like when you have a faucet running and I look down and there's this gasping all over the.

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Speaker 14: Whole about the size of a dime, even covered with tape.

00:29:31
Speaker 4: They taped it up.

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Speaker 14: The cost far worse than the crime itself.

00:29:35
Speaker 4: How much do you think that they took from you?

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Speaker 15: It was eighty dollars with the gas, but the repairs are like two thousand dollars.

00:29:40
Speaker 4: Oh my goodsh sure.

00:29:41
Speaker 8: They apparently they can, like, you can't patch that up.

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Speaker 14: This happened right next to Drake Park, where cameras are always watching. Despite that, neighbors tell me crime is commonly.

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Speaker 2: Cameras just helped the news illustrate the crime. But the cameras do not deter from the crime because there's no fear of getting caught for a lot of these crimes.

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Speaker 1: No, you have to do something with that information, and word has to leak out that if you break the law and you get caught, you go to jail. But that's not what we do.

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Speaker 2: It's for eighty dollars a gas. Even if they caught these guys, they're not going to jail.

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Speaker 16: It's not only stilling gas but he's uh breaking the cars, breaking into houses, drive like crayci lui. They were in the freeways.

00:30:26
Speaker 1: So is I don't think the dog likes Seedorf or maybe the dog doesn't like her. I don't know.

00:30:35
Speaker 14: Is common.

00:30:35
Speaker 1: It's not only.

00:30:36
Speaker 16: Stelling gas, but he's uh breaking the cars, breaking into houses, drive like craycil.

00:30:43
Speaker 1: They were in there.

00:30:44
Speaker 2: Maybe the dog is a security dog and it can smell that someone else's gas tanket's getting drilled while they're doing this interview.

00:30:51
Speaker 1: Hey, look at the cabri. Look at the Camri. The dog's trying to.

00:30:53
Speaker 16: Say, drive like crayci lui. They were in the freeways. So it's really bad.

00:30:59
Speaker 14: Gas price is in La now climbing above six dollars a gallon, possibly causing more theft cases like this.

00:31:06
Speaker 8: So my trug got picked up by the tow truck company? How was their fifth person?

00:31:11
Speaker 17: What?

00:31:12
Speaker 4: Yeah, so there's other.

00:31:13
Speaker 2: People five and one day of getting drilled.

00:31:18
Speaker 1: That's so ridiculous.

00:31:20
Speaker 14: Yeah, so there's other people definitely in the Long Beach area that this has happened to. Real left a costly crime that could leave you stranded in paying the price.

00:31:30
Speaker 1: So we have enough.

00:31:31
Speaker 15: Worries, you know, The last thing you want to worry about is someone's stealing our gas.

00:31:35
Speaker 14: Triple A tells us time that they haven't noticed a significant trend, but gas prices right now definitely high. Reporting a Long Beach, Matthew sed or Fox elevenues.

00:31:45
Speaker 1: There you go.

00:31:45
Speaker 2: There are jackass criminals in Long Beach who are stealing your gasoline by drilling a hole in your gas tank.

00:31:53
Speaker 1: So rude.

00:31:55
Speaker 15: In downtown LA early this morning, NBC forth Tracy Leong joining us live now from downtown LA near where it happened, with reaction from concerned writers here, Tracy, I.

00:32:05
Speaker 2: Don't understand why more people don't want to live in a high rise in downtown LA and just take transit and just.

00:32:10
Speaker 1: Think about this. If you're taking the bus because you think it's being green, think about the emissions that have to come out when the ambulance has to take you to the hospital after you get stabbed.

00:32:23
Speaker 6: Yeah, and Jonathan, the attack happened as the metro bus was approaching the bus stop right behind me here on Grand and Olympic. LAPD said they got the report just before seven this morning on the metro Line seventy six. According to police, a man on board the bus stabbed a passenger. Police describe the attacker as a man around twenty to thirty years old, wearing a black hat and a gray sweatshirt, armed with a knife. By the time officers arrived, the attacker had already left.

00:32:50
Speaker 2: What happened to that whole idea jannisad where we're going to have detection systems to make sure that we knew if people were bringing weapons on board. I guess there's no way to do that. On I thought she'd loved the bus driver. Well, it's one thing we know about janis on I.

00:33:06
Speaker 7: Love the bus driver.

00:33:08
Speaker 6: By the time officers arrived, the attacker had already left the bus. They searched the surrounding area but were unable to locate him. The woman who was stabbed was tacked in the midsection. The La Fire Department took the injured woman to the hospital with non life threatening injuries.

00:33:24
Speaker 9: We spoke to people who use the Metro, They say safety is always a.

00:33:27
Speaker 1: Is she doing this report outside of a drag race? Sounds like it.

00:33:32
Speaker 9: We spoke to people who use the Metro.

00:33:34
Speaker 6: They say safety is always a concern while riding.

00:33:38
Speaker 18: As far as like public transportation goes, I think that's just like one of the assumed risks. I lived in New York City for a year, and it's like the similar problems exists there. So it's kind of just like an understood risk that you kind of have to take on when you do decide to say, public transport.

00:33:53
Speaker 1: That's a risk I'm not willing to day. Could you imagine putting that in the advertisement. Come ride the bus. It's cheaper than driving a car, it's better for the environment than driving a car, but you might get stabbed.

00:34:09
Speaker 18: The transportation goes. I think that's just like one of the assumed risks. I lived in New York City for a year and it's like the similar problems exists there. So it's kind of just like an understood risk that you kind of have to take on when you do decide to take public transport. It's obviously like very sad, and that shouldn't be the rally that we live in. And you should always practice like vigilance and like really you know, be.

00:34:29
Speaker 1: Careful, just have a good sense of your surroundings.

00:34:32
Speaker 2: Just assume that everyone on the train wants to stab you.

00:34:35
Speaker 1: Oh, I assume that, and that's why I don't ride the train.

00:34:38
Speaker 6: Metro released a statement saying they are aware of the stabbing and encouraged anyone who may have information on this attack to contact the LAPD. Reporting live in downtown La Traceling on NBC four News.

00:34:50
Speaker 2: There you go, just the latest Metro stabbing in Los Angeles County. And just remember we are less than two years away from the transit only Olympics.

00:35:03
Speaker 1: And Randy, we have time for one more addition to the blodder.

00:35:08
Speaker 8: It's happened yet again.

00:35:09
Speaker 1: This wow, Wow, what's up you?

00:35:12
Speaker 4: Dunn Dumb reached the Califonia crime Blodder with Jundy.

00:35:19
Speaker 1: At surprise, surprise, Randy, this one takes us right back to your neighborhood.

00:35:24
Speaker 2: This time it's a couple of break ins in Sherman Oaks. Here is NBCLA.

00:35:29
Speaker 5: We are following multiple break ins this weekend, including a violent robbery in the Hollywood Hills, where police tell NBC four investigates a seventy five year old man was attacked and one hundred and fifty thousand dollars and jewelry was stolen.

00:35:42
Speaker 7: NBC Force Keenan Willard explains why securities, What.

00:35:45
Speaker 1: Is that like for rolexes?

00:35:47
Speaker 7: Maybe NBC Force Keenan Willard explains why security systems and cameras may not be enough to stop your home from becoming a target.

00:35:57
Speaker 2: We're gonna need robots, had robots, RoboCop, Yes, we need robocops.

00:36:05
Speaker 17: It's a familiar scene, police helicopters flying overhead, and then you.

00:36:09
Speaker 2: Have a sign on the front of your door. The robot is trained to shoot on site.

00:36:15
Speaker 17: It's a familiar scene, police helicopters flying overhead and concern neighbors in the street. After a six figure home robbery in the Hollywood Hills, it happened around nine thirty last night on Macappa Drive. The Lap details NBC four investigates. Two men broke in through a window at this home and we're stealing one hundred and fifty thousand dollars worth of jewelry.

00:36:34
Speaker 4: When the homeowners.

00:36:35
Speaker 17: Arrived police, a burglar punched one of the homeowners, a seventy five year old man, multiple times as they left the home.

00:36:41
Speaker 1: And that's just adding insult to injury.

00:36:44
Speaker 17: That's elder abuse, and then drove away in a Silver Sedan. Investigators now searching for them.

00:36:50
Speaker 15: Criminals tend to do their homework and they're not looking at zip cooks. They're looking at opportunity.

00:36:56
Speaker 17: It's the latest hit on a home on this street off Mulholland Drive. A neighbor a few doors down says his home was ransacked two years ago by thieves. Your neighbor down the street just got robbed horribly last night.

00:37:06
Speaker 5: How does that make you feel?

00:37:07
Speaker 4: Sable?

00:37:08
Speaker 17: On the valley side of the Hills in Sherman Oaks, the LAPD says this house on Devana Terrace was broken into twice and twenty four hours this weekend.

00:37:16
Speaker 1: Twice. That's so beyond ridiculous.

00:37:21
Speaker 17: The thieves here also breaking in through a window.

00:37:24
Speaker 15: When you have these high end homes in the Hollywood Hills, Mauland Drive and the Shriman Oaks area, you know these are all high value property homes.

00:37:33
Speaker 17: Law enforcement experts say thieves are targeting homes in these neighborhoods sometimes.

00:37:36
Speaker 2: There was a couple of years ago where the former LAPD police chief said, you can't walk around with fancy jeelie. You should be driving a fancy car, and now apparently you cannot own a fancy home.

00:37:47
Speaker 1: Nope.

00:37:49
Speaker 17: Law enforcement experts say thieves are targeting homes in these neighborhoods, sometimes watching for weeks to see what's inside and when homeowners are usually away.

00:37:57
Speaker 15: They tend to have large of cash, high end value jewelry, expensive vehicles. So this is why it's very important to take extra measures to protect yourself and your loved ones.

00:38:13
Speaker 2: I'm telling you it's time for the robocops.

00:38:15
Speaker 1: Let's go