Karen Bass Kisses The Ring in DC

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Speaker 1: And we continue at two oh five in the afternoon on The John Phillips Show, Mister Randy Wangs in Culver City.

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Speaker 2: Henry Lee is going to need to move down to Los Angeles.

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Speaker 3: It's happened yet again.

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Speaker 2: We are now at twenty burglaries in the last two weeks in the San Fernando Valley. Twenty Are you looking at property in Orange County two?

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Speaker 1: It's not a bad idea eight hundred two two two five two two two is jellphone number one eight hundred two two two five two two two. Well, we know that Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is having a tough time winning a second term as mayor of America's second largest city. According to recent polls, if the election were held today, under half of city voters would give her high marks, and she would likely to be headed to a runoff. The candidate who's been polling in second place most consistently is reality TV Spencer Pratt, but it has appeared on this program. If she has held under fifty percent, she would then go into a runoff on the November ballot motto Amano one on one with her and whoever finishes second, which if the polls are correct, would be Spencer Pratt. So she's trying to right the ship, and what better way to write the ship than to go to Washington, d C. And bring money back for fire victims. The problem is that she's trying to win another four years by exclusively running against Donald Trump. Well, as it so happens, Donald Trump is in charge of the federal government right now, at least the executive branch. If she wants any money out of Washington, d C. She has to go through him. So what did La mayor mother Goose do. She went to Washington d C. In the White House with a tin cup in hand.

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Speaker 2: She went to kiss the ring and then she spoke on the phone to NBC four about it. So here's La right now.

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Speaker 4: At four thirty theyre Karen Bass and President Trump just wrapped up a conversation about funding to rebuild following the Palisades fire.

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Speaker 5: Mara Bass joys us live on the phone with the exclusive details of her conversation with the President that you're going to hear for the first time. Marre Bass, we appreciate your timing this afternoon.

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Speaker 2: By the way, this is three days in a row where Karen vass is trying to insert herself into the headlines because she is scared to death that she is going to get knocked out. So you had the press conference on the burglaries on Monday, you had the press conference on film LA on Tuesday, and here it is Wednesday, and she flies to DC.

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Speaker 1: She is underwater, thank you.

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Speaker 6: Thank you, thank you, glad to have the opportunity to speak.

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Speaker 2: And she's asking every reporter that I'll talk to her to interview her about this. She even she had been stonewalling Seedorf forever and ever and ever about homelessness. And she calls Seedorf and says, hey, I'll talk to you for two minutes about meeting Trump.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about it.

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Speaker 5: What specifically did you ask the president for and what will the money be used for?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 6: Sure, Well, the bottom line is is that in order for the Palisades to be rebuilt, there is a lot of money needed to put the infrastructure back together again, whether we were talking about the streets or what's underneath the streets, undergrounding, the electrical So there's a lot of infrastructure work that needs to be done and the city cannot afford it. So getting the resources.

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Speaker 2: You can hear the anchors are googling something.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, there's a fact check of coming, so getting or they're shopping. That happens sometimes.

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Speaker 6: So getting the resources from the federal government, which is normal, is absolutely essential because our general fund could never withstand the hit because we are talking about several billion dollars and so Afterine Barger and I have been working with the administration on.

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Speaker 1: So Catherine Barger is the one Republican in Los Angeles in elected office. So anytime they need something from Donald Trump or Republican Congress, they go to her because she is the one person who has an open line of communication. It's so weird what kind of relationship they have with her because they constantly vote against her. She loses many votesport to one, and I'm sure they would prefer to have a Democrat in that seat, but oh boy, does she come in handy when they need something from Washington. She is the most valuable player on that board of supervisors by far.

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Speaker 2: The question that I have is did Catherine Barger utter the phrase that pays inside the Oval office?

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Speaker 1: Quite frankly, my guess is yes.

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Speaker 6: The funding that is needed as well as you know. Of course, the governor has been working on this as well.

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Speaker 2: Well, Gavin's been sending out mean tweets. Well, is it Gavin or is it Izzy? Gavin through Izzy has been sending out mean tweets.

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Speaker 6: And so that was the nature of our meeting. It was a very positive meeting. I do believe that we will get the resources that we need. The individuals in the meeting was the President's chief of staff as well as the head of the Office of Management and Budget, which is essentially where the resources would come from. Russ Voight was in the meeting, and so it was very positive. And the fact that Russ was there since the signal from the President.

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Speaker 2: When she flew to DC, do you think for a second she thought, what the hell did I leave Congress for?

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Speaker 1: She had the easiest job in the world. She had a safe district in los angele Jelis. No one was ever going to beat her, even if they did redistricting. All of the neighboring areas were also deeply blue. She had a job for life and she gave that up. She was the city.

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Speaker 2: She was relatively anonymous. She had a lot of passion projects in Africa. Could have flown to Ghana as many times as she wanted to, and nobody would have blinked an eye.

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Speaker 1: Yep, but that job was here today, gonea tomorrow that he.

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Speaker 6: Wants to get this done. So there had a lot of follow up for us to do. But we had been working with the administration ever since. He sent EPA administrator Lee Zelden out to help us, and we've been working closely with him for me.

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Speaker 1: Hey, Lee, can you get down to the Tijuana River Katie Porter can give you a tour.

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Speaker 6: Who and we've been working closely with him for me. It was very, very helpful because Zeldendministrator Zelden was a colleague of mine in the House of Representatives. We worked on.

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Speaker 2: This interview is quickly turning into a campaign commercial.

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Speaker 1: It is, and it sounds like the anchors are, I don't know, playing grand theft auto or something.

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Speaker 6: We worked on very controversial issues together, obviously our politics.

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Speaker 2: Well you know what probably happened. Typically, you know, the human brain works in interesting ways. You get associated with something and something pops in your head. So maybe, just maybe the anchors at NBC four got Karen Bass on the line and they thought about looking up or place to get fish for dinner.

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Speaker 6: We worked on very controversial issues.

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Speaker 2: Chilean Sea. Bass sounds good tonight.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 1: I think the Angel broadcasters do that every time Mike Trout comes up to that.

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Speaker 6: We worked on very controversial issues together. Obviously our politics are very, very different.

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Speaker 2: But see this is Karen Bass trying to tell everyone, Hey, I'm not some left wing lunatic. I work across the aisle.

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Speaker 1: I'm getting things done.

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Speaker 6: We worked on the George Floyd Justice and Policing Act.

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Speaker 2: That didn't pass.

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Speaker 1: She is trying to play any angle she can to get money.

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Speaker 2: I'm never seen in la an incumbent that is this underwater. It is as awful as things are in the city. Her struggling right now is a little delicious.

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Speaker 1: The last time I could remember this happening was with Jim Hahn and he ended up losing the Via Ragosa and so when.

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Speaker 6: The President appointed him, I immediately started talking to him and we've been able to work together.

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Speaker 2: So I think, now, do you think that Zelden and Karen Bass, they're on a first name basis, So like when she calls Zelden, that just comes up on the phone.

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Speaker 1: Karen, No.

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Speaker 6: Think what's important is in spite of the profound differences that I have with the administration. There's no city around that can function without federal support, and especially in the wake of the disaster that we experienced in our city and in our county, and so it is imperative that we I.

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Speaker 2: Think one of them is writing a novel now, I think so.

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Speaker 6: And so it is imperative that we do have a line of communication while pushing back where it's need it.

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Speaker 4: And Mayor Bass, there are still a lot of complaints. We've heard them. I know, you have to about the speed of the rebuilt. Only a few dozen times have been rebuilt. They're permitting the insurance process. It's really frustrating, and it's something that's handled on the local levels.

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Speaker 2: So any so it's your fault.

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Speaker 4: Any word, how the president is going to help from Washington.

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Speaker 6: Yes, Well let me just say too that it's important to know the numbers. So we have issued over two thousand permits.

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Speaker 1: Twelve thousand homes burned down. That's not a great batting average, is it.

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Speaker 2: And in fact, it was either Colmiers or the pPIC one of them did a report showing that while Karen Bass was touting over and over and over again that yes, it's slow, but it's faster than Paradise. The state that we are of rebuild is now slower than the Parrot campfire, slower than the Tubs fire, slower than the Wolsey fire. And if you think about it, there's no excuse for it. Because in Los Angeles you have a gazillion contractors. The city of Los Angeles, in theory, has larger departments with more resources to fast track these things. We have the ability that small towns in the middle of nowhere that are isolated do not. Yet they are real rebuilding faster than Los Angeles. That tells you everything you need to know about the bureaucracy in the city. Well, Shangy was telling us about this for years and we just didn't listen.

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Speaker 7: The bureaucracy is real, that's true.

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Speaker 1: I miss her.

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Speaker 6: There are four hundred and fifty homes actively under construction.

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Speaker 2: Six thousand in the Palisades burned down, and it is a year is almost a year and a half.

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Speaker 6: Later now, and we have expedited, as you know, everything possible. But what we needed most from the President was his advocacy around the insurance industry and the banking industry. You may or may not know that we had right a new chapter.

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Speaker 1: You know, California has an entire department of insuring it's supposed to do this. We have an insurance commissioner who is gallivanting around the world, going from hot vacation destination to hot vacation destination to DJ Kitty Glitter instead of doing his job. No one is willing to call him out because he's a fellow Democrat, and you're going to go to a Republican president to beg for help on how to get the insurance companies to fulfill their contractual obligations.

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Speaker 6: You may or may not know that we had worked so that he would do essentially call on the carpet the insurance industry. He did a tweet, a very harsh tweet about the insurance industry, and I know.

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Speaker 2: He's done harsher tweets.

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Speaker 6: Probably today, tweet about the insurance industry. And I know, in talking to several Palisadeans that all of us.

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Speaker 1: Do people in the Palisades, even all themselves, that that sounds like something from outer space.

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Speaker 2: Like maybe it's just me. I am born and raised in Los Angeles. I have never been or ever wanted to be called an Angelino.

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Speaker 6: All of a sudden, the insurance industry is being a bit more responsive returning phone calls, and hopefully that will result in the payments that people need.

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Speaker 1: Not yet, you talk to any of the fire victims, it's been a nightmare all the way around, with the banks, with the insurance companies, and os with departments that are directly under your umbrella, like Building in Safety and everyone else that has the permits.

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Speaker 6: But we also need the banking industry to extend for bearans. So it's very hard to pay a mortgage on a vacant lot when you're trying to rebuild. We want those mortgages extended.

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Speaker 2: Well, you had said that everything was going to get built so quickly that one year probably seemed like play.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, remember that big meeting that she had with Trump when Trump came to town and Trump was telling her that he wanted everything rebuilt lickety split, And she said, oh, yes, oh yes, mister Trump, Yes, mister Trump. We'll get it done fast. We'll do everything we can. We'll move heaven and earth and look at us now.

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Speaker 6: So if you have a thirty year mortgage, then now you have a thirty two or a thirty three year mortgage.

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Speaker 2: How long are you expecting these homes to take?

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Speaker 1: Well, didn't we talk to someone who called in who was an expert in this, who said it's going to be five, six, seven years before they're moved back in.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and a lot of them they're just not going to do it.

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Speaker 1: No.

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Speaker 6: So, in other words, you don't have to pay your mortgage while you are rebuilding. It's added on to the end of your mortgage.

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Speaker 2: So, I mean, I know people have attachments to their neighborhoods, but do you really want to live in a trailer for si seven years while you're rebuilding your house.

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Speaker 1: I would be in Orange County so fast your head would spin of you.

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Speaker 2: You got to remember, from twenty twenty five to twenty twenty six, the County of Los Angeles lost a population of fifty five thousand people. Some of those were probably the fire victims. That's enough to fill Dodger Stadium.

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Speaker 6: Of your mortgage. So asking him now to do advocacy with the banking industry like he did with the insurance industry, and I frankly think three ways that he can impact things in a profound way that will help people in the Palisades and in Altadena is one. Obviously the resources in terms of the FEMA reimbursement and an additional rule.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but who's going to be in charge of dolling that money out? Because we saw what happened with the concert for LA and fire aid.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, none of you can be trusted reimburse.

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Speaker 6: And then additional resources you know on toime.

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Speaker 2: You know what that is. Producer told the anchor, Hey, we got to wrap this up. Gass isn't coming up for air.

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Speaker 6: And then additional resources, you know, on top of that. And the other way is his bully pulpit on these two private industries that we, of course are unable to impact on a local level. I did.

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Speaker 2: You could be calling out State Farm every day and you're not.

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Speaker 1: You could be calling out the insurance commissioner for not sitting on them.

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Speaker 2: It's the weirdest thing. We played that sound yesterday of all the candidates, including Steve Hilton, nobody wants to go after Ricardo Laura.

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Speaker 1: I'm very kind of scheduled.

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Speaker 6: On a local level. I did take a delegation of Palisadians up the Sacramento. We are advocating for state legislation, but at the end of the day, the advocacy coming from the White House about the insurance industry and the banking industry. He has the ability to move those two industries. As we know, he works very closely with banking and insurance because he is a builder, and so we need that advocacy. And I think that we'll watch in the coming days and we will see tweets related to the banking industry and the insurance industry.

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Speaker 2: We're not advocating for policy, We're advocating for tweets.

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Speaker 1: She's taken anything she can get.

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Speaker 2: Oh boy, related she is. This trip means that she is desperate. But this might backfire on her because the Nithia people are going to look like what she did, she met with the enemy.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, this gives them.

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Speaker 6: An opening related to the banking industry and the insurance industry. Those tweets have already had impact and we want it to continue and now be extended to banking.

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Speaker 5: Mayor Bass, we have about ten seconds. Last i'd have to ask you to the president all wish you well on your mayoral run.

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Speaker 6: We were not trying to talk politics.

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Speaker 5: All right, we'll leave it there, Marrabask. We appreciate your time here. This outteron and thanks for being with us.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Bye, Mother Goose goes to Washington.

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Speaker 2: You know I learned at the end of that piece. We've got this week we had the Next Star Debate. Next week we got the CBS debate that we were invited to. The week after that, you've got on Tuesday the CNN debate, and then on Wednesday or Thursday, NBC is having a mayoral debate and a governor debate.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it means you know how busy things are going to be in two weeks. We're gonna be a have to be talking debates on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.

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Speaker 8: Hello, I was just wondering if the radiser have come in on the debate last night, which I didn't watch. And I also want to know what you think of the Angels this year.

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm always optimistic about the Angels this time of year. But if you talk to me around August and you ask me what I think I'll be doing in October. My answer will be watching reruns of Judge Judy.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, they got to do something about the bullpen. Seems when the bullpen comes in, they lose. But let us know when you hear anything about the ratings or the debate last night.

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Speaker 2: I'm looking it up right now and I haven't found anything. Maybe Next Star is in a fight with Nielsen too.

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Speaker 8: All righty, all right, thank you.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Greg and NAPA. Greg.

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Speaker 9: Hello, So if you would have used the name Trump for your drinking game last night, you would been passed out drunk halfway through that debate.

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Speaker 1: If we did the drinking game last night and took a shot every time the name Trump came up, let me tell you, if Eric Swallwell were around, he'd tried to take advantage of us.

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Speaker 9: One other question, I can't believe the questions that were on crawn were pretty good, but then when they went streaming they were so bad. I was just waiting for someone to come up with the bullet train scam. Who is gonna be in favor of it? Because that is very important to me as a Californian. Do not want to fund that anymore.

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Speaker 2: I got over that train too, I got to imagine that it wasn't addressed at this debate, but I know the CBS debate, they're probably going to bring that up, and that debate is on Tuesday.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, Wayne, thanks guys.

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Speaker 1: All right, right now, it's time to open up the California Crime Blodder. Dummy, we shouldn't make this stuff up if we tried, I said, hell no, very boy, let me get up on out of here. It's the California Crime Blowder and the first edition takes us to the Chinese rest Someone.

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Speaker 2: Tried to smash a car into a Chinese restaurant to steal one.

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Speaker 1: Time's for more.

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Speaker 2: Here's Fox forty in Sacramento.

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Speaker 10: Yeah that's right, Eric. We're here off of twenty fourth Street. You can see it right behind me. We're at Wayne's Walk, the Chinese restaurant. You can see their front door.

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Speaker 2: Here is all Wayne's Walk, like a Chinese restaurant. Take on Wayne's World.

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Speaker 1: Remember Yan can Cook when he had his cooking show and he would have all the play on words with the word walk walk like an Egyptian. Oh no, walk the dog walk this way. I can think a few of those that are very inappropriate. I bet you, kid, Yeah, that's right, Eric. We're here off of twenty fourth Street. You can see it right behind me. We're at Wayne's Walk, the Chinese restaurant. You can see their front door here is all boarded up after that car crashed burglary this morning. You can see some of the damage that took place as well. We have all these kind of bent metal door frames and some broken glass over there as well.

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Speaker 10: This was one of two businesses that were burglarized this morning, but thanks to the Sacramento Police Department, a suspect has now been arrested. Early this morning, a burglary suspect allegedly put the smash in smash and grab using a car to.

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Speaker 1: You know what it sounded like when the car went through the wall. What did it sound like? Cun pow.

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Speaker 2: That's your first warning. You do three lame Chinese jokes in this story, and we're moving on.

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Speaker 10: Early this morning, a burglary suspect allegedly put the smash in smash and grab using a car to break through the front doors of two restaurants overnight.

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Speaker 11: Gir was completely smashed in and the whole entire front wall was also just sparged in.

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Speaker 1: There's motion in the dining room.

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Speaker 10: Alan Kwong, the manager at Wayne's Walk who we spoke with over the phone, says he was woken up around three point thirty this morning by an ad T alert.

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Speaker 11: I just saw a.

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Speaker 2: Hey, there's a giant hole in your restaurant, shaped like a Kia.

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Speaker 1: I just saw a.

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Speaker 11: Person going through the store with a flashlight and they were masks, they had a hoodie on. They were just going through the store and just destroying, just destroying everything.

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Speaker 10: Wayne's wasn't the only business hit.

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Speaker 11: And I saw that another, uh, the one the Baskin Robbins and Togo store.

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Speaker 2: Were they trying to steal all thirty one of the flavors?

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Speaker 1: Well, certainly the rum raisin.

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Speaker 2: By the way, it wasn't at full basket Robbins. It was a half basket Robbins half Togos, which is an interesting combo.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what's the deal with that? They must be on by the same people.

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Speaker 2: It's like a Kentaco hot.

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Speaker 10: Togo store got hit two Sacramento police hit.

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Speaker 2: I didn't know Togos was still a thing. I'm sorry.

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Speaker 1: What's the point of destroying the Chinese restaurant after you drive a car through the wall? You're looking for a safe. You can't find it. You're going through all their stuff. Let's see what do we have here? Okay, we got MSG here, we have MSG here, we have MSG here. Where's the safe? Nope, there's more MSG.

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Speaker 10: Sacrament Of police say. The same suspect then drove to the fourteen hundred block of Meadow View Road, where he again rammed a car through a storefront.

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Speaker 2: Is this all the same car because that car should be advertising how durable it is.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no kidding, car and driver take note.

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Speaker 10: Fox forty captured officers on scene at that location this morning. Police now say, burglary detectives, using the public safety camera network, we're able to track down the suspect, locating the vehicle and after a break.

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Speaker 2: This is why all these privacy advocates need to shut up. Having these lights, reading cameras in a real time information center is making the police able to do their jobs.

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Speaker 1: Well, come on, how how much information do you need to find a car that has an indentation of Wayne's walk in the front.

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Speaker 10: Locating the vehicle and after a brief pursuit, detaining the driver. Twenty year old Rodney Foster of Sacramento, who's since been arrested in connection with both burglaries, but the damage left behind, including shattered glass, was clear at both locations. We were there as staff at Wayne's Walk worked to clean up, sweeping, vacuuming, and dragging out broken glass panels. Trying to reopen after yet another burglary at this location.

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Speaker 1: It's already happened before. Times are tough.

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Speaker 11: We were noting by that the foundation was kind of messed up, so it's not as stable house.

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Speaker 1: And we've been.

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Speaker 11: Open for over twenty years, so we've been there for a long time. But every time it happens, it's just kind of.

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Speaker 1: It hurts.

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Speaker 11: It definitely hurts, not only just fixing it, but it also hurts the business because people might be more hesitant to come buy.

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Speaker 2: Well, you feel a little less safe eating lunch at a Chinese restaurant when any minute a car could come crashing through it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think as good as that one time suit might be. I don't know if the risk reward thing is working out in my favor.

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Speaker 10: Never something that you want to have happen to your business. But the good news is that you can see right there is that Wayne's Walk is now back open, that sign is all lit up right now. They're only asking that instead of using the front door there, that you come around here and you use their side door.

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Speaker 2: Because the front door is currently a haul.

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Speaker 10: Instead. But as for to the Baskin Robbins Combo, they were also able to open and back up today. We saw customers going in there when we were over there earlier today. So really kind of a silver lining with the incidents that took place earlier this morning, live here in Sacramento, covering local news that matters, No Anderson, Fox forty News.

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Speaker 2: There you go the Chinese restaurant that got smashed into, and then they smashed into the Baskin Robins and Togos, and then they wanted to smash into another place after that.

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Speaker 1: And the restaurant was called Wayne's Walk right.

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Speaker 2: Yes, And Johnny, I want to applaud you after that first warning, you showed some real restraint. As I was walking my dogs this morning listening to the story, I was convinced that you were going to do the dumbest, oldest joke in the book and say that well, after he smashed into the Chinese restaurant, he was still hungry, so he smashed into another one Nope, didn't do it. I'm so proud of you didn't do it.

00:30:54
Speaker 1: After listening to this whole report, I'm just thankful after they hit Wayne's walk, at least they didn't drive a car through Garth General Cell's chicken.

00:31:07
Speaker 2: By the way, the emailers love your dumb com pow joke.

00:31:14
Speaker 1: Clearly they have great taste and wisdom. All right, let's open up the California crime blaughter.

00:31:23
Speaker 10: It's happened yet again.

00:31:26
Speaker 1: Nice see. Time for the California crime blodder. And this one takes us to the grocery store.

00:31:37
Speaker 2: A woman was shopping at Varta for probably some carne asada that they have really good carne asada there. I don't know what you're assuming, and she got pantsed and groped by some creep, was it, Eric Swallwell, I don't think so, but apparently this guy is a serial assaulter. And you did like six more women all in the same day. For more, here is kt LA tonight.

00:32:02
Speaker 7: The LAPD is detailing several incidents, including the one caught on camera in Winetka.

00:32:08
Speaker 6: Kt is Carlos sasset alive in Winnetka with details for US tonight.

00:32:11
Speaker 7: Carlos Micah Share. Six women were targeted on Sunday, but police fear there could be more victims now. One of the incidents happened behind me inside the Vayata Supermarket grocery store here in Winetka, Deny. Police have identified the suspect who was wanted for multiple sex crimes.

00:32:31
Speaker 2: And by the way, if you're not sure exactly where this is, it's on Van Owen and Corbin, which is just a few blocks away from Victory and Tampa, which is the Vons where this happened.

00:32:45
Speaker 1: Have you ever been to one of those Viarta grocery stores before, Oh.

00:32:50
Speaker 2: All the time. In fact, they rebuilt one on Woodley and Sherman Way and it's gorgeous.

00:32:56
Speaker 1: Okay, So there's one in my area. And in the front there is a literal cage with bars like you'd see in jail, where they have a I don't know if it's a Western Union or something along those lines, where I guess you can also get your passport done.

00:33:16
Speaker 2: Maybe you're remitting some cash.

00:33:18
Speaker 1: I've never seen one of those in a grocery store before. Not once have I seen a cage.

00:33:27
Speaker 7: A serial sexual assault suspect is on the loose in the valley after he allegedly targeted six different women at various locations Sunday in just a matter of hours. LAPD detectives have identified the man as twenty nine year old Damien Denzel Robinson.

00:33:43
Speaker 2: Always got three names, by the way, he's under thirty and his middle name is Denzel. That is not a family name. Oh no, but we know what mommy's into it.

00:33:59
Speaker 7: Convicted sex off, damn.

00:34:01
Speaker 2: We know who mommy was thinking about when she was impregnated.

00:34:05
Speaker 1: It wasn't Montel Williams, Damn.

00:34:08
Speaker 7: He is seen in this cell phone video inside the Vayarta supermarket on Vanoen and Corbin and Wineka fleeing after allegedly grabbing a shopper from behind sexually assaulting her. The victim is heard screaming for security as a bystander records the aftermath.

00:34:27
Speaker 12: It's instinct drop everything and just kind of rush over there real quick. And as soon as I come around the turn, I noticed this large man like rushing past me.

00:34:37
Speaker 7: Jason Pirillo was shopping when he heard the commotion from the next aisle over and says he had to do something.

00:34:44
Speaker 12: This man just touched me on my butt.

00:34:47
Speaker 1: And my breast oh no, oh dear, and I'm like, oh.

00:34:55
Speaker 12: God, and I'm just trying to get what I can, you know, with my camera.

00:34:59
Speaker 7: Next thing, you know, he starts heading out towards the door. The ONLYPD says the incident was one of six sexual assaults committed by the same man that day. The crime spree started just after nine am, targeting women, some of whom were elderly. The suspects mo pulling down the victims pants.

00:35:17
Speaker 2: Wait, he's pantsing grannies?

00:35:21
Speaker 1: What a sick, sick pervert.

00:35:25
Speaker 7: Some of whom were elderly. The suspects mom pulling down the victims pants, grabbing them from behind, and in some cases, recording the incident on his cell phone.

00:35:35
Speaker 1: What is going on here? Okay, this person has to be on meth. Correct, it's definitely possible. But this isn't your typical meth behavior. Math usually involves stabbing, not pantsing somebody and filming it.

00:35:51
Speaker 7: The assaults occurred inside of multiple businesses such as retail and grocery stores, even inside a restroom. Some shoppers now say they know longer feel comfortable.

00:36:02
Speaker 2: Just another notch on the belt for the valley this week. Yeah, maybe it's time for orange County.

00:36:11
Speaker 8: Came with the kids, and I want to feel like comfortable to be here.

00:36:19
Speaker 7: Police describe Robinson as six feet three inches tall.

00:36:23
Speaker 2: Wait, oh, okay, six feet three inches.

00:36:27
Speaker 1: Yeah. That was an awkward pause, wasn't it.

00:36:30
Speaker 2: I wasn't sure what they were describing.

00:36:35
Speaker 7: Police describe Robinson as six feet three inches tall, weighing roughly two hundred pounds, lasting, wearing eyeglasses of black baseball camp, white shirt, tam pants with blue and white Nike shoes.

00:36:50
Speaker 2: That is a very detailed description with everything, but his rais tonight.

00:36:55
Speaker 7: That suspect is still at large.

00:36:57
Speaker 3: Again.

00:36:58
Speaker 7: Police believed there could be more victim out there. They encourage additional victims to come forward. We're live in Wineka, Corlos Alcevo k Telly five US.

00:37:08
Speaker 2: If you have been pantsed by somebody and groped in the grocery store and you're over sixty, call the LAPD. They want to talk to you.

00:37:18
Speaker 1: Well, it's a var at a grocery store, so I don't know if he's taking down their panties or their chonies.

00:37:32
Speaker 2: I like those v Artes really good salsa bars.

00:37:37
Speaker 1: Yeah. I like the tomales, oh yeah, and usually they've got a fresh thing of tortillas there, and their corn tortillas are always solid, they're not super breakable or flimsy, and they're like a dollar for a sixteen pack.

00:37:52
Speaker 2: It's great.

00:37:54
Speaker 1: So if you go in there hankering for a tamale, make sure they're in the back of your head. You might want to wear suspenders, harder for you to get pantsed, especially if your name's Milly.