Katie Porter makes a bold claim about Eric Swalwell

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Speaker 1: And very happy Thursday to you. At twelve oh six. In the West, it's the John Phillips Show. Mister Randy Wang's in Culver City. John.

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Speaker 2: The knives are out for Eric Swalwell in the California governor's race. Apparently Swalwell skipped out on a forum in Sacramento he was supposed to be at, and Antonio Vira Gosa is going after him on social media, saying I'm very disappointed in Eric Swalwell. As more and more women come forward with sexual harassment allegations. Swawell skipped town to avoid facing tough questions about these allegations, and.

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Speaker 1: In response, Swalwell showed a picture of him in front of a live audience. I don't know about you, but every time I see Eric Swalwell on TV, whether he is in front of an audience, talking to reporters, waiving the people, whatever, he looks like a dead man walking. He looks like a guy who knows what's coming. He looks like a guy who knows that the storm clouds are a bruin and bad news is on the horizon.

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Speaker 2: It's not going to be a very fun April for Eric Swalwell.

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Speaker 1: That's for sure, I for one cannot wait because I love it when bad things happen to bad people.

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Speaker 2: Now, another thing that we found out yesterday, which is an interesting wrinkle to at least the person that is alleging all this behavior. Again, none of the claims have come out, they're still being substantiated by reporters and verified. But apparently the woman who is speaking out about all this that says she has friends that have complaints, she has some connections with Katie Porter.

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Speaker 1: That's right. Apparently she's a graduate of the University of California at Irvine Law School, which is where Katie Porter taught and Katie Porter lives.

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Speaker 2: And she was a supporter of Katie Porter's twenty twenty four Senate campaign.

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Speaker 1: I believe she was also a donor and would post pictures of herself with Porter on social media.

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Speaker 2: Now this doesn't mean that there's not a whole lot of truth to all the things this woman is saying. It's just interesting that we kind of know who her preferred candidate is, and.

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Speaker 1: If this story were to break and be true, the person who would most likely benefit from it the most, particularly when you look at the timeline, it's Katie Porter. Because if Eric Swallwell gets knocked out of the race for treating women badly, Katie is gonna say, I'm the feminist in the race. I'm the woman in the race. Stick it to the guys for treating women poorly by voting for the girl.

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Speaker 3: Sorry for the noise, I'm cutting carrots.

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Speaker 1: And I'll tell you something else. We're about to play some sound for you of Katie Porter on CNN yesterday. Every once in a while, there's a story that breaks where one of the principles involved knows a little bit more than what they've publicly admitted to. And when you listen to this article or this interview, I should say, with Katie Porter, you get the impression that she's sitting on all kinds of information that's not out yet, because she has a slip of the tongue halfway through the interview that not only did I catch, but the anchor at CNN caught, and it was kind of awkward.

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Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and listen to this interview. This aired yesterday on CNN. Here is Katie Porter on with Casey Hunt.

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Speaker 4: I want to.

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Speaker 5: Start with your reaction to the President's endorsement of mister Hilton in this race.

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Speaker 6: Do you think it's more likely now.

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Speaker 5: That at least one Democrat will make it to the November ballot.

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Speaker 1: It's very likely thanks Trump.

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Speaker 4: President Trump's endorsing Steve Hilton. Tracks.

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Speaker 3: It tracks with the things that Steve Hilton has been saying, which is that he will collaborate with support and uplift Donald Trump as he attacks Californians and as he drives up prices here. I do think it changes the dynamics of the race. I think we're going to see Republicans consolidate around Steve Hilton.

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Speaker 2: Poor Bianco. His little ballat stunt didn't get him enough attention. We're going to have to talk about this at a later date. But if Hilton starts to go up in the polls, I think what the strategy should be is to vote for whichever Republican is polling second. I prefer Steve Hilton to Chad Bianco, But if the election word today, I'd vote for Bianco because if we can get to as close as an even split as possible among Republicans, that is our only shot at winning this thing, and right now, that means the people who are paying attention the most should vote for Bianco That.

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Speaker 3: Means that there's a really a strong opportunity for a leading Democrat. I'm proud to be one of them to power through and get that spot. But Californians do not want a Trump enabler in our leadership as governor. They've been crystal clear about that every election that Trump's been on the ballot that they reject him. They reject his values, they reject his unhinged actions.

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Speaker 6: There are a number of Democrats now.

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Speaker 1: I don't think he endorsed in the John Cox race. I think he did. I think he endorsed John Cox. Oh, boy, don't forget Travis Allen, who was an assemblyman from Huntington Beach was running against John Cox, and that was a contested primary too. That was the first campaign, right, not the one with the bear right, that was the recall.

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Speaker 5: There are a number of Democrats now in this race, including a billionaire Tom Steyer, the Congressman Eric Swallwell, both of whom polls show are in almost a dead heat essentially with you. Obviously still some polling to be done here in the final weeks, but you can see there where everyone stands.

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Speaker 6: Do you think that at least one.

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Speaker 5: Of the top three Democrats here should drop out of this race in order to make it more likely, make it easier for Democrats to consolidate their vote.

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Speaker 2: Instead of asking for the one percent to drop out, let's ask for one of the ten percents to drop out.

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Speaker 1: Okay. This is also a tell from Casey Hunt. Casey Hunt knows that there's a story that's going to come out tomorrow that is going to make Eric Swallwell look really bad and knock him out of the race, which is why she framed the question should one of them drop out? Either Tom Steyer or Eric Swellwell, Because the framing prior to all of this was should the candidates polling in single digits drop out because there's no path to victory? And you notice how the framing changed overnight too, should be a Regozi dropout, Tony Thurman dropout, bet Ae dropout? Meant Mayheon drop out too? Should it be either Swallwell or Stier to drop out? Because she knows who's dropping out?

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Speaker 3: Oh boy, the three Democrats that are polling at the top, I'm one of them. We can continue to compete. This is a widely democratic state. There are plenty of voters to consider three candidates and make the best choice for California. I think that we should keep doing that. I think it is a large field. We always have very long ballots in California.

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Speaker 1: So sixty one candidates long. And I think there's a lot of candidates for many of those state wide offices.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, ballots in California.

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Speaker 2: So there's a lot of Delulu in the state of California.

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Speaker 3: Ballots in California, so this is no exception to that. But I think with Donald Trump endorsing Steve Hilton, what Democrats need to do is pick a candidate who stands up to Donald Trump.

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Speaker 1: Hoof, here we go, here comes her regular anti Trump stump speech, who.

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Speaker 3: Stands up to Donald Trump, who fights for them, who has a track record of working on bringing down prices like I do. And somebody who has shown that they will share.

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Speaker 2: What prices did she bring down? And when when she was in Congress talk about Delulu? What price did she bring down? If she's talking about bringing prices down, she's going to talk about food in about five four three two one lunchtime.

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Speaker 3: And somebody who has shown that they will shake up the status quo and Sacramento to deliver a more affordable life in California. So I'm looking forward to continuing to compete in this race. It's a very close race, as you mentioned, a three way tie among the Democrats, but we have plenty of voters here in California to be able to break that tie here in two months on primary day.

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Speaker 5: Is there anything in the backgrounds or platforms of your Democratic opponents that you think California voters should consider or that might be disqualifying in your view?

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Speaker 1: Boy, this is a serious dipateew Interview. Oh, I'm telling you this is the quintessential of both of these two ladies know what's coming, but they don't want to come out and say it until it actually breaks. They are trying to frame in a way where Katie Porter organically is about to say what she's about to say. But it sure seems like there's some coordination here. For sure.

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Speaker 3: That's for voters to make. But I will note that billionaires like Tom Steyer do not have familiarity with what it's like for everyday Californians. They don't push a shopping cart like I do.

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Speaker 1: There you go. You don't think Tom Styer is going to Airwan like the sun setting in the west. You knew she was going to talk about food.

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Speaker 3: Sorry for the noise, I'm cutting carrots.

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Speaker 2: It is the subject that brings us all together. John, it is the most common interest among all people.

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Speaker 1: Well, it's certainly top of mind for her.

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Speaker 3: They're not sitting around their kitchen table with teenagers worried about whether or not they're going to be able to afford to stay in California. So I think the fact that I have a background and affordability, that I'm a regular mom, I think that speaks to the moment that we're in. With regard to Congressman Swallwell, I have seen allegations coming from women's staffers. They are very, very troubling. Alligata is those women's stories to tell when they are ready, and I hope that they feel safe and supported if they choose to do so.

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Speaker 5: Have you seen additional evidence of that? We should know what we hear at CNN have seen the reports. We have not confirmed them at this point. But have you seen morrow?

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Speaker 2: That's when it's coming out. Huh tomorrow? Oh boy, you're going to be able to get any sleep tonight. It is going to be a little Christmas morning.

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Speaker 6: Ish evidence or additional information around this.

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Speaker 4: I have seen the allegations.

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Speaker 3: I have not spoken to any women who are saying that they're going to come forward. But again, our folks here ought to be on protecting these victims if they have been victims of sexual harassment sexual assault.

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Speaker 1: Oh boy, okay, that right, there is another tell. I have read just about everything that's out there regarding what is coming from these women about their time dealing with Eric Swalwell, either as an intern or a staffer. At no point has the word assault come up. Sexual harassment yes, abusive power yes, creepy behavior yes. At no point has sexual assault ever been brought up. And if you notice, and we'll go back and play the tape again, she starts out with sexual harassment and then she corrects herself and says sexual assault even though none of those allegations have come out.

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Speaker 3: These victims, if they have been victims of sexual harassment, sexual assault, we ought to be making sure that they feel safe and comfortable speaking up. This is about building a politics that works for people, that is focused on living our values, and I believe women. I think that has to be the starting place here. So when those women speak up, I will.

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Speaker 1: Be there, not if, but when again another tell I.

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Speaker 3: Will be there helping to amplify their truths. I think that's the important role that I can play.

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Speaker 2: She's ready to go. She is not getting shift gifted this time.

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Speaker 1: No, no, And I love how KABOOKI theater like this interview is.

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Speaker 2: It is fairly transparent that this entire interview is guysed as a reaction to Oh, Hilton got the endorsement, but this interview is getting ready to take down Swallwell, now let's see if Casey Hunt pretends to be surprised that Katie Porter said sexual assault.

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Speaker 5: Fair enough, Again, we should acknowledge we here at CNN have not confirmed any reports of I think you mentioned sexual assault. I just want to be clear and where we are on that. It's of course your issue to raise as his opponent.

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Speaker 2: Picture, Oh boy, Katie's going in for the kill shot. Oh it couldn't happen to a better guy.

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Speaker 6: Though, A big picture here. I wanted to ask you, I.

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Speaker 2: Mean, this story could get you what you've always wished for, which is four more months of us having to talk about Katie Porter. Oh my, and that can lead into four years of talking about Katie Porter.

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Speaker 1: I can't start drinking this early.

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Speaker 6: Just stop a big picture here.

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Speaker 5: I wanted to ask you there was a point where this California governor's race was yours to lose.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what happened out of my shot? Speaking of abuse?

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Speaker 6: Looking back? Would you do anything differently?

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Speaker 2: Maybe her defense will be, Hey, I only screamed at my staffers.

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Speaker 1: Well she did curse them out.

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Speaker 2: Oh this is Swalwell did much worse things with his efforts, allegedly.

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Speaker 1: We'll find out tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: Oh, this has been an exciting race. So many candidates who thought about entering. When I started the race, we thought that Vice President Kamala Harris might run.

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Speaker 4: We've had a lot.

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Speaker 2: What is her plan? She is pretty much I mean, if she's planning on another run. She's not in the public eye at all. Nobody is paying attention to Kamala.

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Speaker 1: I think she wants to be president again.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but if you wanted to be president, wouldn't you want to be I don't know, doing interviews left and right, talking, doing all that I told you, so is what have you like? She's nowhere in the public space. She's pretty much disappeared from everyone's consciousness.

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Speaker 1: No, what she's doing is she's traveling the state southern states with large black populations, because if you look at the early polls in the Democratic primary, she is the preferred candidate among black voters in that primary, and she's going to those southern states with large black populations and talking to them.

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Speaker 3: Tamala Harris might run. We've had a lot of people take a look at the race. Some candidates have exited, some more have entered.

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Speaker 1: And Alaney, what the hell was that about? I don't know, because if she hung around, she would be running away with this thing for Californians.

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Speaker 4: Some more have entered.

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Speaker 3: What is stayed consistent is my values, my willingness to fight for California, and my position at the top of the field. I am the only candidate in this race, Democrat or Republican who does not take corporate contributions.

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Speaker 6: All right.

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Speaker 1: I got Katie Porter Bingo. She talked about food and corporate contributions.

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Speaker 4: That is really an important difference.

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Speaker 3: I'm also a candidate who has a truck record of coming into politics to stand up to Donald Trump, voting twice to impeach him, and successfully taking on the Trump administration to deliver things like free COVID tests for every Californian.

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Speaker 4: There's always time.

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Speaker 2: About how she lowered costs because I just want to point out the free COVID testing is what led Barbara Ferrer to say everyone needs to test before they can go to school, and then that helps shut down the schools.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know if I'd want to run for governor as Barbara Ferrer's wingman.

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Speaker 3: There's always time for that retrospective after a campaign. But I'm really excited to be right at the top of this field and communicating with Californians about how we can make our state better and stand up to Donald Trump's attacks.

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Speaker 6: Now.

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Speaker 2: Now, Swalwell may want to be playing the denial game, but he knows what's coming and if he knows where it's coming from, does he have any retorts, like any Katie Porter staffers that have some new videos that we'll be seeing this April, Probably because.

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Speaker 1: When she was asked if there are other videos of her cursing Ount staffers, she couldn't say no.

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Speaker 2: Because I get to tell you if she kills Swalwell and then Swalwell kills her, it's going to be styre baby.

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Speaker 1: Allegedly, according to some of the victims that I've seen online. What Swalwell doing now is trying to dig up dirt on them to shut them up. Oh, that doesn't ever end well.

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Speaker 5: So, speaking of the field, you position yourself at the top of it.

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Speaker 2: C oh At the end of this, they ask if she's going to the debate that's going to be on CNN, which we'll see which candidates actually are still around by that May fourth debate.

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Speaker 1: Right now at it's time to open up. The California crime blodder used to catch it his dummy. We couldn't make this stuff up if we tried. I said, hell no, Bay boy, let me get up boat out of here. It's the California Crime Bloater and the first edition takes us to the city of Dumpy. Who else do we go call Superma.

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Speaker 2: There's a little bit of a crime spree going on in Oakland. Let's start off with the body shop that got burglarized. For more, here's Krown four.

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Speaker 7: Now at six thirty in Oakland auto body shop is out of tens of thousands of dollars after cars and tools were stolen.

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Speaker 8: Crown four Stephanie Rothman joining us in the studio.

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Speaker 1: Now after talking with the owner, Stephanie also.

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Speaker 2: What they stole cars that had giant dents in them.

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Speaker 1: What's the point?

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Speaker 2: Well, if you're not using the car for recreational purposes, it can be used as a battering ram to do what more damage to other businesses.

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Speaker 1: That's what you call a tease. For the next one, the.

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Speaker 9: Owner is still in shock, Dad and VICKI, and rightfully so. This brazen burglary happened in the middle of the night, tearing apart the body shop, even using stolen cars to make their escape and it was all caught on camera.

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Speaker 1: It's like fast and furious YEP.

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Speaker 9: Surveillance video on March twenty fifth shows multiple mass burglars hairy through car Conshaw's auto body shop at three in the morning in Oakland, stockpiling tools into his son's car in the garage for an oil change.

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Speaker 8: I'll just cut inside, said my wife's car. And they use a car to smash run over through the door.

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Speaker 1: Don't worry that little buff right out.

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Speaker 2: Oh boy, you can hear how expensive that is going to be to prepare.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah.

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Speaker 2: And then I wonder how many if it's ever happened where this autobody repair man got a car that came into the shop and it's like, what happened? Oh I crashed into a seven eleven on purpose?

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Speaker 1: Or how about this? You get involved in a fender bedder. You set your car to the body shop and it comes back missing the front end, and you go, hey, I had a ding in the back. What the hell happened to the front? Well Oakland to Oakland.

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Speaker 8: And then there was a car behind the door to got of their neighbors and they pushed all the way to.

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Speaker 9: The half street, taking off in the Sun's Honza would tens of thousands of dollars of power tools and scanners inside.

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Speaker 2: And nobody are they going to sell that stuff the mission probably and that's probably where they're going to dump the car too.

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Speaker 8: And nobody came by they too, The better they they knew which tours are going, which skinners are they took Evy.

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Speaker 9: Peaks opening in nineteen ninety four, Goozman says he hasn't had any issues until now.

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Speaker 1: Wow, that's quite a record. Yeah, he had a great run, but eventually the bell tolls for thee Why.

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Speaker 8: Twenty years, thirty two years? I mean, I've been agy to people with my cousin, with everybody not be happy to me, but why this happened partly to me?

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Speaker 1: At some point it's your turn, buddy. Everyone eventually has their turn, and.

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Speaker 8: There's too much after her here and they can be elected to me. So I feel like ali damage was.

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Speaker 1: Directed to me.

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Speaker 9: Now he has to work over time with older tools to save up to buy back what was stolen from him.

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Speaker 8: It's going to be happy because it looks like I'm gonna start again.

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Speaker 1: Oh boy, poor guy.

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Speaker 9: Unfortunately, so, while Oakland Police are investigating this, there are no rest so far.

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Speaker 1: Before we knew that was coming eventually, that always comes far.

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Speaker 9: But when we have more information, well, of course, bring.

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Speaker 4: It to you, back to you.

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Speaker 1: So there you go.

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Speaker 2: An Oakland body shop that's been in business since nineteen ninety four has never had a burglary until last month.

00:24:07
Speaker 1: Well, maybe the next edition of the Blotter will tell us what happened to that car.

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Speaker 2: A restaurant a Vietnamese restaurant in Oakland was repeatedly crashed into by a car, but apparently the car was not powerful enough to break into the business.

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Speaker 1: Uh oh for mare, Here's NBC in the.

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Speaker 7: Bay Nood eleven tonight. A longtime restaurant owner in Oakland is shaken up tonight after a car smashed into the front entrance of her eatery over and over again. Now she thinks the goal was to break in, but the would be thieves didn't pull it off.

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Speaker 4: However, they did leave it.

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Speaker 2: It's a Vietnamese restaurant. What are you going to steal beef bones that they used for the soup?

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Speaker 7: Now she thinks the goal was to break in, but the would be thieves didn't pull it off. However, they did leave a huge and very expensive mess behind NBC Bear is alicted Gored joins this li from Oakland, Alyssa tayhol That's restaurant's been around a long time.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, Jess, it has. This September will mark sixteen years in Oakland for the restaurant, and the owner says she loves having a restaurant in the town and she has been hesitant to have any kind of barriers out in front of her restaurant, But she says, after this incident, something has to change.

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Speaker 1: You know what she said when she saw the rebbel when she showed up to work. What'd she say? Oh my god, are you proud of yourself? You know what her husband said right before he hit her, what fow me to the moon?

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Speaker 10: At around four thirty Thursday morning, three cars are seen on surveillance video in front of Tahoe Restaurant on twelfth and Webster in Oakland. A masked person runs out and tries to ram a car into the restaurant.

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Speaker 1: Oh boy, you knew that was coming.

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Speaker 10: Then another person runs out and tries the same thing.

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Speaker 2: Apparently the walls were really strong in this restaurant.

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Speaker 1: It sounds like it.

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Speaker 10: Two cars drive off leaving the third lodged in the glass door.

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Speaker 1: That had to be a surprise.

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Speaker 4: Put all the.

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Speaker 11: Break ins in the pass nothing at this magnitude.

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Speaker 2: What happened in the good old days where they used to rock and a crowbar?

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Speaker 11: This is you know, it's like they deliberately break in with a car and ram in it over and over, restaurant owner Denise wins.

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Speaker 2: And I'm gonna guess, even though it's the middle of the night, you have somebody repeatedly trying to ram their car into a business and well, opd you'll be there the next day.

00:26:54
Speaker 1: Well, you have to fill out that form online. First.

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Speaker 10: Restaurant owner Denise win says, after tries these masked individuals.

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Speaker 2: Do you think when you hear the repeated sound of a car crashing into a building, anyone even calls nine one one?

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Speaker 10: Not in Oakland, restaurant owner Denise Wynn says, after several tries, these masked individuals appeared to give up. Nothing was taken from the inside, but they left tens of thousands of dollars in damage.

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Speaker 2: This Vietnamese restaurant has she's gonna have to raise the price on her bond mes buy a lot.

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Speaker 10: This Vietnamese restaurant has been here for fifteen years. The last break in they experienced was three years ago. Now the owner plans to install a gate outside, something that she's resisted doing. I feel like this is the last doll that, you know, the last effort that I'm going to do.

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Speaker 11: And if it doesn't work, I mean, I might have to take my business somewhere else.

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Speaker 2: She's moving to Freemont. If they keep crashing into her business.

00:27:51
Speaker 1: Who's got time to put up with that? I mean, none of us are full ever young.

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Speaker 12: Feel angry and upset that this happened. You know, even though crime is down, it's of.

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Speaker 2: Course what idiot just said that Charlene Wong no relation the city council person for this district.

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Speaker 12: We even though crime is down, it's incidents like this that are a stark reminder that we still have a long way to go.

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Speaker 10: Council Member Charlene Wong, who represents this area, says her office is pushing to increase police staffing and to make it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, good luck with that. How could you go on TV and say that with a straight face.

00:28:40
Speaker 2: That's what they do, That's what they all do, except for Ken Houston. He's a little more animated. We're going to get him on.

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Speaker 10: The show and to make it easier for businesses to protect themselves.

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Speaker 12: Using ballards and different ways of storefront hardening. That way, a car cannot go ahead and just use a car.

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Speaker 2: I'm telling you, if you want to make a lot of money in this state, you get to figure out the exact kind of infrastructure that storefront businesses need so a car cannot successfully crash into them.

00:29:15
Speaker 1: But here's the problem. You'll have no business in Arizona.

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Speaker 8: That way.

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Speaker 12: A car cannot go ahead and just use a car as essentially a weapon.

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Speaker 10: Whuinn says she's open to adding ballards in front of her business. Fortunately, the kitchen is still working and people rush to dine inside. Community members wrote.

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Speaker 2: Message you know the fus really really, really good when they're crawling through the rubble to get in there and get a ball.

00:29:42
Speaker 1: It's phenomenal.

00:29:45
Speaker 10: Community members wrote messages you.

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Speaker 2: Know, if this radio thing doesn't work out, you can just name Vietnamese restaurants.

00:29:52
Speaker 1: Oh trust me, I've thought about it.

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Speaker 10: Community members wrote messages of support and are fundraising to help the restaurant recover.

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Speaker 7: Show up to restaurant not just my restaurant show up to all those restaurants in Oakland to support all of us.

00:30:08
Speaker 10: And we reached out to Oakland Police about this as well. They say that the report for this case is still being finalized.

00:30:16
Speaker 1: They still haven't figured out the police report.

00:30:22
Speaker 10: Live in the East Bay Alyssa Gord NBC Bay Area News.

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00:31:27
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00:31:36
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00:31:46
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00:31:52
Speaker 1: The Califonia Crime Bladder with John all right, now, this one's an update on a story we brought you from the Blotter yesterday.

00:32:04
Speaker 2: Turns out the jackass that lit the toilet paper warehouse on fire in Ontario filmed himself doing it and put it on his Instagram. I'm surprised he wasn't at a mensa meeting for mar Here's NBC LA.

00:32:23
Speaker 4: There goes your inventory.

00:32:27
Speaker 1: Yeah, that won't come back to haunt you, dummy.

00:32:29
Speaker 4: This new video into our newsroom.

00:32:31
Speaker 2: It could be really hard to plead not guilty when you shot yourself committing the crime.

00:32:36
Speaker 1: What do you say if you're his defense attorney? Who was that guy that defended Casey Anthony Well I'll tell you what you do.

00:32:45
Speaker 2: Honestly, what you do in the state of California is you claim he has a mental illness and you get diversion. And believe you me, that works way more often than you think it would. That attorney's name is jose Baiez. And you know what Donna Coffin nicknamed him, that Wannie Cochrane.

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Speaker 11: This new video into our newsroom could be a critical piece of evidence in the fire that destroyed a warehouse in Ontario. It took one hundred and seventy five firefighters nearly fifteen hours to put this fire out.

00:33:16
Speaker 1: Yesterday has a big old TP fire.

00:33:19
Speaker 11: Oh yeah, yesterday. The contractor is now facing several arson charges. NBC four is Christian Coceres has the very latest on the investigation.

00:33:34
Speaker 10: Tonight.

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Speaker 13: New video on social media has surfaced of what appears to be inside a warehouse as someone is going around the room starting several fires while talking about their salary.

00:33:45
Speaker 1: Oh boy, that's what you call motive.

00:33:49
Speaker 4: All you had to do was pre using up to lit.

00:33:52
Speaker 14: I don't know, I don't know what's going through his head.

00:33:53
Speaker 1: Man.

00:33:54
Speaker 13: We caught up with Alex Montero on Wednesday.

00:33:56
Speaker 2: You can Also, you know, you don't have to work at a warehouse in Ontario. If you want to make more money, you can apply yourself and you can try to get better skills that make more money, or you can burn the whole thing down.

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Speaker 1: That's what junior college is for. Go retrain yourself, do something else with your time. If you want more money. I don't know, get into hvac. You can make six figures doing hvac and plumbing work. What are you doing complaining about Oh, I work at a warehouse. It's not our fault that you can't do any better than that. I don't know, I don't know. I was going through his head.

00:34:31
Speaker 6: Man.

00:34:31
Speaker 13: We caught up with Alex Montereo on Wednesday, who says he was working the night this Kimberly Clark warehouse along Hellman in Ontario caught fire. Monteto is stunned to see this video because this person, he says, is his fellow co worker, Samil abdul Kareem.

00:34:46
Speaker 4: It goes your inventory.

00:34:48
Speaker 14: And I had just got done talking to him. He had just came over and helped me out with my truck. I was five doors down from him.

00:34:54
Speaker 10: Fire official say the fire started on Tuesday.

00:34:57
Speaker 13: Just after midnight and quickly grew because of the law large amount of paper products inside the warehouse that fueled the flames.

00:35:03
Speaker 2: Well, and it wasn't just one fire he started. He started fires in like every single aisle.

00:35:09
Speaker 1: Hang on, I'm just about ready to buy some stock before the stock market closes. What's the name of the company that makes all the bidets?

00:35:22
Speaker 14: They called break and I went outside of sitting in my car and not even ten minutes go by and I heard the alarm.

00:35:29
Speaker 13: It took cru several hours to get the fire under control, even using drones to extinguish the hotspots. After all, twenty employees inside were evacuated. Moments later, Ontario police arrested up dul Kareem for arson and tonight. Kimberly Clark says the distribution center was operated by a third party logistic partner, NFI Industries, and added that a response team has been activated to help relocate impacted workers and minimize customer and consumer impact. How long have you been working there with the company?

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Speaker 14: About three weeks? Yeah, he started just started making good money, dude. You know they called us hoping to relocate to another warehouse.

00:36:07
Speaker 2: Hey, I'm glad that you're liking your job. Here the whole place burned down.

00:36:11
Speaker 1: You're out of luck, sir.

00:36:12
Speaker 14: But if anyone else is hiring, you know.

00:36:17
Speaker 4: New informed.

00:36:18
Speaker 1: Okay, there you go.

00:36:19
Speaker 2: That is the latest on the jackass that decided to light an entire warehouse on fire because he was mad about his salary.

00:36:28
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, and I know this is going to sound like it's hyperbole, it's not. In this state. Given our conditions, arsonists should get the death penalty. You could not only burn down a single building. If you're dumb enough to start a fire on purpose, you could burn down the whole state. And it negatively impacts all of us. This is why none of us can buy insurance because the idiots like this. Now, it's California and we don't keep anyone in prison, so that's never gonna happen. But I don't know. You gotta take this sort of thing seriously. Otherwise, someone who wants more money from their boss can burn down all of our homes. What are we supposed to do with no toilet paper? He burned down the toilet paper factory, but not Chipotle. Doesn't seem right