WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.640 --> 00:00:05.440 You're listening to kf I AM six forty wake Up Call with me Amy King 2 00:00:05.719 --> 00:00:13.199 on demand on the iHeartRadio apps KFI hand KOST HD two, Los Angeles, 3 00:00:13.199 --> 00:00:22.559 Orange County. It's time for your morning wake up call. Here's Amy King. 4 00:00:28.199 --> 00:00:32.320 This is your wake up call for Thursday, August seventeenth. Good morning, 5 00:00:32.679 --> 00:00:36.200 I'm Amy King. Thanks for waking up with us this morning. Fat 6 00:00:36.240 --> 00:00:41.520 Kno, we got Ann You got Tyler hanging out with you. Lots of 7 00:00:41.520 --> 00:00:45.679 good stuff coming up on wake up call today. Here's some of the things 8 00:00:45.719 --> 00:00:48.880 that are ahead. Three to five inches of rain up to fifty mile per 9 00:00:48.880 --> 00:00:54.079 hour winds are expected to hit La as a rare tropical storm heads towards southern 10 00:00:54.079 --> 00:00:58.679 California. Tropical Storm Hillary, which could become a hurricane later today, is 11 00:00:58.719 --> 00:01:03.120 expected to make landfall on Monday. A Gucci store at South Coast Plaza has 12 00:01:03.200 --> 00:01:07.400 been robbed of about one hundred thousand dollars in merchandise in the latest smash and 13 00:01:07.480 --> 00:01:12.519 grab flash mob robbery in the Southland, and the SpaceX Falcon nine rocket launch 14 00:01:12.599 --> 00:01:18.760 from Vandenburg Space Force Space in Santa Barbara County has been delayed to early tomorrow. 15 00:01:18.840 --> 00:01:21.400 Is supposed to lift off at midnight. Let's get started with some of 16 00:01:21.400 --> 00:01:25.239 the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Forecasters say people 17 00:01:25.280 --> 00:01:30.640 in southern California should get ready for heavy rains possible flooding as Tropical Storm Hillary 18 00:01:30.680 --> 00:01:33.959 makes its way up the coast. The storm is strengthening off the coast of 19 00:01:34.000 --> 00:01:38.439 Mexico and is expected to hit Baja California before reaching San Diego and then La 20 00:01:38.560 --> 00:01:44.319 on Monday. The National Weather Services isolated flooding is possible near burn scars. 21 00:01:44.719 --> 00:01:49.560 Hillary is expected to produce hurricane force winds up to seventy four miles per hour 22 00:01:49.680 --> 00:01:53.640 over the next five days. Officials say federal, state, and local assistance 23 00:01:53.799 --> 00:01:59.519 is now available for those affected by the wildfires on Maui. Maui County Mayor 24 00:01:59.680 --> 00:02:05.000 Richard Bisson says everything's being done that can be done. I'm authorizing waiving property 25 00:02:05.040 --> 00:02:10.080 taxes for this year that includes structures as well as land. The taxes that 26 00:02:10.120 --> 00:02:15.639 have already been paid will be refunded to those families. Bisson says they're working 27 00:02:15.680 --> 00:02:20.319 to get people displaced by the wildfires more semi permanent housing. He says more 28 00:02:20.360 --> 00:02:24.080 than a thousand hotel rooms and Airbnb homes are now available for those who need 29 00:02:24.120 --> 00:02:29.360 a place to stay. Officials on Maui are getting ready for their arrival of 30 00:02:29.520 --> 00:02:32.159 President Biden. Hawaii Governor Josh Green says the area is hardest hit by the 31 00:02:32.199 --> 00:02:36.680 deadly wildfires last week. Are safe enough for the President to enter. Will 32 00:02:36.680 --> 00:02:40.360 spend time viewing the site. First Lady will be here as well, and 33 00:02:40.439 --> 00:02:46.000 we'll be able to give him additional understanding about Hawaii. He's been very gracious, 34 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:50.639 Green says. One of his first phone calls following the destructive fires was 35 00:02:50.719 --> 00:02:55.039 to President Biden. The President announced yesterday a one hundred percent reimbursement from THEMA 36 00:02:55.199 --> 00:03:00.319 to people in need on Maui. Steve Gregory k if I News. City 37 00:03:00.319 --> 00:03:06.360 Councilwoman Tracy Park is asking LA for more money to fight homelessness through a countywide 38 00:03:06.400 --> 00:03:09.319 tax. Measure H is a point two five percent sales tax that funds homeless 39 00:03:09.360 --> 00:03:15.039 services. Councilwoman Tracy Park says, before voters decide to continue the tax past 40 00:03:15.080 --> 00:03:17.879 twenty twenty seven, when it expires, she wants LA to demand a bigger 41 00:03:17.960 --> 00:03:22.560 chunk of the funds from it. My motion asks for a seat at the 42 00:03:22.599 --> 00:03:27.800 table, our fair share of the funding and oversight. The Accountability Park says 43 00:03:27.879 --> 00:03:30.560 LA deserves more money because the majority of homeless people in the county are in 44 00:03:30.599 --> 00:03:35.560 the city. Measure h is expected to raise three billion dollars by the time 45 00:03:35.599 --> 00:03:39.319 it expires. Blake Trolley k if I News. The Fulton County DA has 46 00:03:39.400 --> 00:03:45.039 proposed a March start date for the trial of former President Trump and eighteen others 47 00:03:45.039 --> 00:03:49.759 on charges related to efforts to overturn the twenty twenty election results in Georgia. 48 00:03:50.280 --> 00:03:53.919 Aaron Katurski says Trump is already supposed to be on trial in March in New 49 00:03:53.000 --> 00:03:57.879 York for his hush money case. Then there's the political calendar March fourth, 50 00:03:58.080 --> 00:04:03.520 just one day before the super two day primaries. Willis also suggested yesterday the 51 00:04:03.599 --> 00:04:10.199 arraignment in the case take place in just three weeks. The indictment, unsealed 52 00:04:10.280 --> 00:04:15.080 Monday, accuses Trump and his allies of being part of a criminal enterprise. 53 00:04:15.759 --> 00:04:20.079 The coach of the US women's national team in soccer has resigned. The move 54 00:04:20.160 --> 00:04:24.560 comes less than two weeks after the team was knocked out of the Women's World 55 00:04:24.680 --> 00:04:28.480 Cup. The US scored just four goals over the course of the tournament. 56 00:04:28.600 --> 00:04:32.639 Last week the team's exit was the earliest in tournament history for the US. 57 00:04:33.079 --> 00:04:38.519 Let's say good morning to ABC's Alex Stone, who's on the ground in Maui 58 00:04:39.000 --> 00:04:43.439 or on Maui. Alex. Another impossibly difficult day as residents in the burn 59 00:04:43.600 --> 00:04:46.639 zone are allowed to go home for the first time. Yeah, they've been 60 00:04:46.959 --> 00:04:51.000 at least in the surrounding area around Lahina. People can't get into Lahina itself 61 00:04:51.279 --> 00:04:56.360 because there is still the active search is going on. But coming into town 62 00:04:56.399 --> 00:05:00.319 for the many folks who vacation on Maui, you know the bypass that goes 63 00:05:00.360 --> 00:05:04.120 around town, and that is now open, and as you're coming in, 64 00:05:04.199 --> 00:05:10.800 you can see down on the community and the entire town just obliterated. It 65 00:05:10.879 --> 00:05:15.319 is. The color is gone. It is a white and gray ash color. 66 00:05:15.839 --> 00:05:20.199 Then you reach the ocean and it is the bright turquoise blue waters that 67 00:05:20.680 --> 00:05:26.279 Leahina is so famous for, that dichotomy between the two going right down the 68 00:05:27.360 --> 00:05:31.399 middle from the gray ash to bright blue. And people are now able if 69 00:05:31.399 --> 00:05:34.759 they live in the surrounding areas, to finally go home and to get out 70 00:05:34.800 --> 00:05:38.160 of the area for those who are trapped in the area, and to go 71 00:05:38.199 --> 00:05:42.439 get food and get support and whatever they need, but also to get in 72 00:05:42.519 --> 00:05:46.040 and to go to work and to see loved ones. I went into to 73 00:05:46.199 --> 00:05:48.560 one neighborhood and amy it's, you know, kind of every man and woman 74 00:05:48.600 --> 00:05:54.000 for themselves right now. Yes, Maui police are roaming around, but people 75 00:05:54.040 --> 00:05:58.199 are kind of taking it upon themselves to handle their own security. There are 76 00:05:58.240 --> 00:06:02.160 now checkpoints that have been set up by the residents to find out who you 77 00:06:02.199 --> 00:06:06.199 are coming in. There is a lot of suspicion about outsiders coming in, 78 00:06:06.240 --> 00:06:11.800 whether they be tourists or reporters or FEMA coming in that if you're not from 79 00:06:11.879 --> 00:06:15.120 the island, they want to know what you're doing here and what your intentions 80 00:06:15.160 --> 00:06:19.879 are. And they had a big sign handwritten in blue paint reading no tourists 81 00:06:19.879 --> 00:06:25.040 allowed. And they're checking cars going in. And I talked to eleven year 82 00:06:25.079 --> 00:06:29.680 old Hanol. Hanley says at night he does this well, at nighttime, 83 00:06:29.759 --> 00:06:34.079 I stay up and security their role. Let me do like luders you know 84 00:06:34.160 --> 00:06:38.199 what luders? Yeah, yeah, we do that. He says. He's 85 00:06:38.240 --> 00:06:41.639 on patrol all night. That that is his job in their neighborhood to make 86 00:06:41.680 --> 00:06:44.399 sure nobody is going to come in and take advantage of them. But he 87 00:06:44.399 --> 00:06:48.800 says, overall, it's bad that it's happened, but at least we're all 88 00:06:48.920 --> 00:06:55.439 together with helping the community out together. There are major worries in those neighborhoods. 89 00:06:55.439 --> 00:06:59.519 Are afraid of looting, They're afraid of people coming in and taking advantage 90 00:06:59.519 --> 00:07:02.360 of them in any number of ways. So the suspicions are heightened right now. 91 00:07:02.399 --> 00:07:06.720 While right down the road cadaver dogs are working. There are more cadaver 92 00:07:06.839 --> 00:07:12.079 dogs coming in. FEMA has about thirty here right now, thirty teams, 93 00:07:12.120 --> 00:07:15.800 many of them from California, from La County Fire and Riverside and elsewhere, 94 00:07:15.120 --> 00:07:18.480 and they're going to get ten more that they've decided they need more. There's 95 00:07:18.519 --> 00:07:23.680 an order for more coming in, so they'll be heading this way. Okay. 96 00:07:23.680 --> 00:07:27.040 And you were mentioning the neighborhoods, the ones that they've been allowed to 97 00:07:27.079 --> 00:07:31.240 go back to. Are those neighborhoods all unaffected? I mean they're affected by 98 00:07:31.279 --> 00:07:34.480 the fire. But are all the homes still standing? Are there? Some 99 00:07:34.680 --> 00:07:39.079 homes are burned and some are not, or is it pretty much all still 100 00:07:39.120 --> 00:07:42.199 standing? Yeah? So in Hanlay's neighborhood, it's pretty amazing. The fire 101 00:07:42.240 --> 00:07:46.279 burned right up to their backyards. And then yeah, they said that they 102 00:07:46.319 --> 00:07:49.800 fought it, that firefighters fought it, and clearly based on the burn pattern, 103 00:07:49.879 --> 00:07:54.319 it wasn't raging when it got to their backyards, but still it burned 104 00:07:54.399 --> 00:07:59.120 up to their backyards, and so their neighborhood is okay. But there's kind 105 00:07:59.120 --> 00:08:03.480 of a wall because like so many wind driven wildfires, and we see whenever 106 00:08:03.519 --> 00:08:07.959 the Santana winds blow in SoCal that it is a very defined pattern where the 107 00:08:09.279 --> 00:08:13.480 fire went. It was pushed by the wind. It didn't spread way out. 108 00:08:13.959 --> 00:08:16.959 It's not that big of a fire. It just it's where it was 109 00:08:16.040 --> 00:08:20.240 and what it moved through and where it started. It then was like a 110 00:08:20.319 --> 00:08:24.720 blowtorch to the ocean and it went right there on a line to the ocean 111 00:08:24.759 --> 00:08:30.279 and then essentially went out there. So it doesn't spread very far out. 112 00:08:30.720 --> 00:08:35.440 It is pretty much like somebody and it's cliche, but like somebody dropped a 113 00:08:35.480 --> 00:08:39.080 bomb on Lahinah and it didn't touch anything else around it. It went right 114 00:08:39.080 --> 00:08:41.399 through the town and that was about it. That's so amazing. And I 115 00:08:41.399 --> 00:08:43.879 know, like the pictures you were describing on the white dust that kind of 116 00:08:43.879 --> 00:08:48.679 covers everything in Lahinah and then you see again all the pictures that I see 117 00:08:48.679 --> 00:08:54.440 on TV are of that row of cars right up against the ocean wall that 118 00:08:54.480 --> 00:08:58.399 are just burned out, and like it's just embedded in my brain. That 119 00:09:00.039 --> 00:09:05.480 burned that fast and that hot. Yeah, thousand degrees and yeah, moving 120 00:09:05.559 --> 00:09:09.039 moving through. And those were people who were trying to get out. It 121 00:09:09.159 --> 00:09:13.720 picked pretty bumper traffic, a quick evacuation, trying to bail out of the 122 00:09:13.799 --> 00:09:18.000 area, either go south or go north up into Kanapali and get out, 123 00:09:18.399 --> 00:09:22.200 and they couldn't do it. It was too many people trying to get out 124 00:09:22.200 --> 00:09:26.960 at once, similar to what we saw in Paradise in northern California in twenty 125 00:09:26.039 --> 00:09:33.559 eighteen, where the evacuation it's chaos and pandemonium in that moment. In this 126 00:09:33.600 --> 00:09:35.799 case, those cars were overtaken. Some people didn't get out. They found 127 00:09:35.879 --> 00:09:39.320 a family of four and one of the vehicles with children in it. They 128 00:09:39.320 --> 00:09:43.960 don't know who they were. They only were children based on the size of 129 00:09:43.000 --> 00:09:46.840 the human remains. It's going to take DNA. But they were trying to 130 00:09:46.840 --> 00:09:50.279 get out. Yeah, and you said that they're bringing in even more cadaver 131 00:09:50.440 --> 00:09:54.639 dogs. Are they are they finding things or is there anything left? To 132 00:09:54.679 --> 00:09:58.159 find. Yeah, they're well, they're finding human remains and I mean not 133 00:09:58.200 --> 00:10:03.200 to get too graphic, but the victims were essentially cremated, so it's it's 134 00:10:03.360 --> 00:10:07.080 bones and and just things that the dogs are hitting on. And that's why 135 00:10:07.120 --> 00:10:11.639 it's going to be a while to ide a lot of the people. They 136 00:10:11.759 --> 00:10:16.840 brought in FEMA mobile morgue with twenty two tons of equipment with examination tables and 137 00:10:16.960 --> 00:10:20.919 X ray machines and DNA help. Some of that won't be needed for most 138 00:10:20.960 --> 00:10:26.080 of the victims who they're finding, but it just shows you the grim reality 139 00:10:26.120 --> 00:10:30.840 of what this is. Maui County can't handle whatever this number is going to 140 00:10:30.960 --> 00:10:33.120 end up being. And that's the thing. Nobody knows what the number is 141 00:10:33.159 --> 00:10:37.399 going to be. It is today at one hundred eleven, Tomorrow, it'll 142 00:10:37.440 --> 00:10:41.960 probably be up from that and then up from that. And they've only been 143 00:10:41.960 --> 00:10:46.240 able to search less than half of Lahinah and they've really got to get into 144 00:10:46.240 --> 00:10:48.919 the neighborhoods. And that's the concern is when they get into the dense neighborhoods 145 00:10:50.399 --> 00:10:52.720 that the numbers are going to go up. There are still so many people 146 00:10:52.759 --> 00:10:56.159 amy who are missing here. Where are they some of them on the list 147 00:10:56.240 --> 00:10:58.000 probably never existed, and that you know, somebody says, well, I 148 00:10:58.000 --> 00:11:01.720 saw a guy on a bike and I haven't seen him since, and he 149 00:11:01.759 --> 00:11:03.600 gets added to the list. Well, maybe that person never existed, or 150 00:11:05.440 --> 00:11:09.519 the different spellings, or somebody goes by a different first name and that's not 151 00:11:09.600 --> 00:11:13.080 known, and there will be duplications and things on that list. But there 152 00:11:13.080 --> 00:11:16.679 are a lot of people at last it's unofficial because there are several different lists, 153 00:11:16.720 --> 00:11:20.639 but last count, probably nine hundred to a thousand people on that list. 154 00:11:20.759 --> 00:11:24.120 Where are they and nobody knows and are they making any headway on the 155 00:11:24.120 --> 00:11:28.200 list? Doesn't I mean, it still sounds like that number is still so 156 00:11:28.320 --> 00:11:31.519 high. Yeah, it's it's hovering pretty high. They don't know where most 157 00:11:31.559 --> 00:11:35.799 of those people are. Yeah, I gotta say, compared to some disasters, 158 00:11:37.799 --> 00:11:41.200 the list is very unofficial here. It's kind of a well we've seen 159 00:11:41.240 --> 00:11:45.440 this, we've saw that online. Yeah, people have reported this, so 160 00:11:45.480 --> 00:11:48.919 we don't have a real good sense of what the number actually is. But 161 00:11:48.919 --> 00:11:52.919 but no, it doesn't seem like they're they're able to bring that down much. 162 00:11:52.200 --> 00:11:54.679 Okay, Alex Stone, thank you so much for your time and insight 163 00:11:54.759 --> 00:11:56.919 this morning. Appreciate you got it. Thanks Sammy, talk to you again 164 00:11:58.000 --> 00:12:03.600 soon. On a happier note, the El Segundo Little leaguers have advanced to 165 00:12:03.600 --> 00:12:07.480 the Little League World Series and they play their first game today. So they 166 00:12:07.600 --> 00:12:13.519 got the twentieth and final spot when they played last week against San Ramon that 167 00:12:13.559 --> 00:12:18.960 was the Northern California team and so now they are in william Sport, Pennsylvania, 168 00:12:18.519 --> 00:12:26.480 and El Segundo is playing the Wounded Ju the Great Lakes regional champion. 169 00:12:26.559 --> 00:12:30.639 So there's games that will be played all day. El Sagundo plays at four 170 00:12:30.679 --> 00:12:35.519 o'clock hour time. It'll be aired on ESPN, also on Fubo. So 171 00:12:37.360 --> 00:12:41.159 let's cheer on the team and hopefully we'll have some good news coming out of 172 00:12:41.159 --> 00:12:43.120 Southern California. So we haven't had a Southern California team win the Little League 173 00:12:43.159 --> 00:12:48.159 World Series in years and years and years and years, so wouldn't that be 174 00:12:48.320 --> 00:12:54.759 cool. Five taco trucks and taco stands have been robbed at gunpoint overnight around 175 00:12:54.799 --> 00:12:58.559 Los Angeles. The workers forced to give up cash, even their own Robert 176 00:12:58.840 --> 00:13:01.799 wallets in the robbery. The former mayor of Anaheim has agreed to plead guilty 177 00:13:01.840 --> 00:13:05.639 to federal corruption charges for pushing the sale of Angel Stadium in the Plea. 178 00:13:05.799 --> 00:13:09.440 Harry Sidou, who resigned last May, admits he led to the FBI about 179 00:13:09.480 --> 00:13:13.759 what he would get for the sale. A guy accused of peeping into a 180 00:13:13.799 --> 00:13:18.960 home in Glendale and sniffing women at a bookstore in Burbank has been released from 181 00:13:18.000 --> 00:13:22.039 custody. Please say. The thirty seven year old has been arrested forty times 182 00:13:22.039 --> 00:13:26.240 for sex crimes, robbery, and burglary. At five thirty five, it 183 00:13:26.320 --> 00:13:30.799 is Thursday, so Amy's on it. That's me. I'll tell you about 184 00:13:30.799 --> 00:13:33.919 my most reach, a recent binge, and whether it's worth your time too. 185 00:13:35.080 --> 00:13:37.399 At six oh five, it's handled on the news. A group has 186 00:13:37.440 --> 00:13:41.360 posted names and addresses of Grand jurors in Georgia, the ones tied to the 187 00:13:41.399 --> 00:13:46.080 indictment of President Trump and eighteen others. Okay, A couple of really special 188 00:13:46.120 --> 00:13:50.159 and intimate shows are coming to southern California. One of the songs you're you'll 189 00:13:50.159 --> 00:14:01.759 hear is this one Superman. It's not easy. I can't stand to fly. 190 00:14:05.200 --> 00:14:16.320 I'm not nice, I'm just to fine. The better part of me. 191 00:14:16.480 --> 00:14:22.919 I'm more than a bar. You're waking up to Grammy nominated Platinum selling 192 00:14:22.120 --> 00:14:28.159 Artists five for Fighting, also known as John, I'm Drassick. Thank you 193 00:14:28.320 --> 00:14:33.480 so much for joining us this morning. John. What I love about the 194 00:14:33.600 --> 00:14:39.960 songs of yours that I know in Superman obviously is it It's a big song, 195 00:14:39.039 --> 00:14:41.720 but it's also intimate, and I think that that kind of leads us 196 00:14:41.720 --> 00:14:48.000 to what you're doing next month. Well, years ago I started doing symphony 197 00:14:48.080 --> 00:14:52.360 shows, which were so wonderful because I have worked with incredible composers, and 198 00:14:52.440 --> 00:14:54.399 to be able to play my songs with a symphony, I think really adds 199 00:14:54.399 --> 00:14:58.480 a new dynamic, and we wanted to take it to smaller intimate venues, 200 00:14:58.120 --> 00:15:01.240 so kind of we were deduced the arrangement to string quartet. In the last 201 00:15:01.279 --> 00:15:05.000 five or six years, during the fall, we go out and do a 202 00:15:05.039 --> 00:15:07.679 string quartet tour. So it's it's me, it's a string quartet. The 203 00:15:07.720 --> 00:15:13.360 players or New York you know prodigies. My violin player Katie just won a 204 00:15:13.440 --> 00:15:18.200 Tony for Mulin Rouge, and they're just incredible musicians. And so we really 205 00:15:18.240 --> 00:15:20.879 do this intimate show where I can kind of talk about the songs, tell 206 00:15:20.960 --> 00:15:26.399 some stories, and play with this this amazing set of musicians and really add 207 00:15:26.720 --> 00:15:28.960 I think a new dynamic, not to just stay hits like you know, 208 00:15:28.000 --> 00:15:33.360 Superman one hundred years chances, but the whole experience. For me, sometimes 209 00:15:33.399 --> 00:15:35.519 I get lost just watching them. So yeah, we'll be you know, 210 00:15:35.600 --> 00:15:39.120 TiO Santa Clarita, my own stomping ground, and playing at home is always 211 00:15:39.200 --> 00:15:43.360 very special as well. Okay, so you're gonna be playing at the Sure 212 00:15:43.440 --> 00:15:48.679 Forum. Yeah, the Bank of America Performing Arts Center on September seventh and 213 00:15:48.919 --> 00:15:52.559 the eighth, but the eighth is already sold out. Yeah, so too 214 00:15:52.679 --> 00:15:56.279 bad, but then you'll be there. You'll be on September ninth in Santa 215 00:15:56.360 --> 00:16:00.559 Clarita at the Santa Clarita Performing Arts Center. And how big are these venues? 216 00:16:00.840 --> 00:16:03.600 Yeah, they're five hundred and two thousand, which is like perfect, 217 00:16:03.720 --> 00:16:06.919 you know for me. I don't know about you, but I love to 218 00:16:06.960 --> 00:16:11.039 see my favorite artists in a small venue kind of with their instrument, like 219 00:16:11.120 --> 00:16:14.000 James Taylor with the guitar. That's it. Well, I need I want 220 00:16:14.000 --> 00:16:17.120 to hear where you wrote the songs, some stories, play it, how 221 00:16:17.159 --> 00:16:21.399 you wrote it, and it's it's really wonderful. And I think adding adding 222 00:16:21.440 --> 00:16:26.000 these string players again adds a dynamic that really enhances the whole experience. Okay. 223 00:16:26.039 --> 00:16:29.320 And you mentioned that one of the songs that you're going to be singing, 224 00:16:29.360 --> 00:16:32.480 of course, is one of your hits one hundred years and you have 225 00:16:32.519 --> 00:16:36.720 a little a special rendition for wake up call for us. I sure do. 226 00:16:36.919 --> 00:16:44.080 Okay, let's play that right now. I'm fifty Forum moment coding between 227 00:16:44.399 --> 00:16:51.159 ten and twenty and I'm just dreaming kind in the ways to where you are 228 00:17:02.279 --> 00:17:11.119 this never wish love that song. Okay. I want to ask you one 229 00:17:11.119 --> 00:17:17.400 more thing because I read that you just recently went to Kiev. Yeah, 230 00:17:17.440 --> 00:17:19.039 tell me about that. Well. I wish we had a couple of hours. 231 00:17:19.079 --> 00:17:22.680 It was insane. It actually started with Afghanistan. I'd written a song 232 00:17:22.799 --> 00:17:29.200 kind of critical of the Afghan withdraw and it became kind of very point within 233 00:17:29.240 --> 00:17:33.519 the Afghan vett community, and I actually started getting emails from people trapped in 234 00:17:33.559 --> 00:17:36.960 Afghanistan. So I didn't know what to do. So I started working with 235 00:17:37.000 --> 00:17:41.279 some NGOs, one being a group called Save Our Allies, who rescued sixteen 236 00:17:41.319 --> 00:17:45.599 thousand Afghan Allies in nine days. Wow. And so I'd had this experience 237 00:17:45.640 --> 00:17:48.319 with them, and they moved some of their operations to Ukraine when the war 238 00:17:48.480 --> 00:17:51.960 started, and I'd written a song called can One Man Save the World, 239 00:17:52.039 --> 00:17:56.400 kind of recognizing the fortitude of the Ukrainian people, and we got word that 240 00:17:56.440 --> 00:18:00.519 the ministry was open to us going over there and playing a song with Ukrainian 241 00:18:00.599 --> 00:18:03.960 orchestra. And it was surreal. It was humbling every emotion you can imagine. 242 00:18:03.960 --> 00:18:07.559 It's just incredibly angrying when you see see what was happening. But we 243 00:18:07.680 --> 00:18:12.799 put this orchestra in front of the symbol of Ukrainian independence. It's actually an 244 00:18:12.839 --> 00:18:18.839 airplane. It's called the Maria. It flew missions during COVID. It's the 245 00:18:18.920 --> 00:18:22.680 largest cargo plane in the world. It's the symbol on their army patch and 246 00:18:22.759 --> 00:18:25.920 putin blew it up in the first few days of the roar when he tried 247 00:18:25.960 --> 00:18:29.440 to take Kiv. So it's in this bombed out airport. But we put 248 00:18:29.440 --> 00:18:33.599 the kind of orchestra in front of this plane on hollow ground and put my 249 00:18:33.640 --> 00:18:38.279 piano in a pool of jet fuel and recorded this song with these amazing people. 250 00:18:38.319 --> 00:18:41.599 Every member that orchestra either had a family member killed, missing around the 251 00:18:41.599 --> 00:18:45.480 front line, So we really, I think got a sense of what's going 252 00:18:45.519 --> 00:18:49.319 on there and it was surreal and as you can imagine, you know, 253 00:18:49.799 --> 00:18:53.200 very moving. And where can we see that? Yeah, it's called can 254 00:18:53.240 --> 00:18:56.440 One Man Save the World with Ukrainian Orchestra. It's on YouTube. Oh I 255 00:18:56.480 --> 00:19:00.519 gotta do. It's just you know, put that in your YouTube and you'll 256 00:19:00.559 --> 00:19:06.119 see firsthand our experience there. And I look forward to going back when they 257 00:19:06.160 --> 00:19:10.799 win this war and playing it again for those amazing heroque people who are kind 258 00:19:10.799 --> 00:19:15.119 of fighting this goliath. And you can always see it on YouTube, but 259 00:19:15.599 --> 00:19:18.480 if you really want to see it in an intimate setting, the place to 260 00:19:18.519 --> 00:19:25.079 see it is when Five for Fighting is performing next month. We actually play 261 00:19:25.079 --> 00:19:27.440 a little video of our experience in Ukraine while I play the song and we 262 00:19:27.480 --> 00:19:32.200 play the audio of the Ukrainian Orchestra so people can sense what we felt that 263 00:19:32.319 --> 00:19:36.839 day. So we're very excited about these dates. So cool. Thank you, 264 00:19:37.000 --> 00:19:38.799 John and Drawsick. To hear the complete interview, you can check out 265 00:19:38.799 --> 00:19:42.799 our wake Up Call page on KFI AM six forty dot com. You're going 266 00:19:42.839 --> 00:19:48.359 to hear how Superman really changed John's life and his career. Also how we 267 00:19:48.440 --> 00:19:52.160 got the name for five for Fighting because he's actually a one man band and 268 00:19:52.160 --> 00:19:56.759 then plus the full special KFI performance of one hundred Years Again. His shows 269 00:19:56.759 --> 00:20:02.319 are September and seventh and ninth Thousand Oaks and then in Santa Clarita. Tickets 270 00:20:02.359 --> 00:20:06.000 are available at five four fighting dot com. Let's get back to some of 271 00:20:06.000 --> 00:20:08.240 the stories coming out of the Kfight twenty four hour newsroom. A Gucci store 272 00:20:08.319 --> 00:20:12.519 at South Coast Plaza has been robbed of about one hundred thousand dollars in merchandise 273 00:20:12.559 --> 00:20:17.559 and the latest smash and grab flash mob robbery in the Southland. Will say 274 00:20:17.720 --> 00:20:21.359 nothing to close the shop and I saw about eight guys whiskey mask on the 275 00:20:21.440 --> 00:20:22.880 face, did look at me, and then I closed the door because I 276 00:20:22.960 --> 00:20:26.480 kind of scab And twenty seconds later they were running the other way with hands 277 00:20:26.519 --> 00:20:30.559 full of clothes. Will you say? Up to ten people grabbed armfuls of 278 00:20:30.599 --> 00:20:33.640 bags last night then ran out. LA County District Attorney Gascon is promising to 279 00:20:33.680 --> 00:20:37.559 go after these retail thieves. I'm personally outreach, but what is going on 280 00:20:37.680 --> 00:20:42.200 and we will use every tool available under the law when there is an arrest 281 00:20:42.440 --> 00:20:47.920 me to make sure that this individuals are hell accountable. The robbery at South 282 00:20:47.920 --> 00:20:52.279 Coast Plaza, follows smash and grab robberies at the American at Grand and the 283 00:20:52.319 --> 00:20:56.039 Nordstroom in Kanoka Park in the last few days. A man who was arrested 284 00:20:56.039 --> 00:21:00.160 for allegedly peeping into a home in Glendale and sniping women at a Barnes and 285 00:21:00.200 --> 00:21:04.839 Noble in Burbank has been released from jail because of overcrowding. The man appeared 286 00:21:04.920 --> 00:21:10.519 in court Tuesday and pleaded no contest to peeping charges. A woman who recorded 287 00:21:10.519 --> 00:21:14.640 the man following her on TikTok tells KTLA, it's scary he's out there. 288 00:21:14.799 --> 00:21:19.000 I've been so anxious and almost had a panic attack the other day because someone 289 00:21:19.079 --> 00:21:22.799 was knocking on my door, you know, and everyone's telling me to be 290 00:21:22.839 --> 00:21:26.559 careful. La County jail records show the man has been arrested more than forty 291 00:21:26.640 --> 00:21:30.119 times. He was recently sentenced to sixty days in jail in fifty two weeks 292 00:21:30.119 --> 00:21:36.200 of sexual impulse rehab therapy. A second analysis of the gun used in the 293 00:21:36.200 --> 00:21:40.279 twenty twenty one fatal shooting of a cinematographer on a movie set in New Mexico, 294 00:21:40.640 --> 00:21:45.839 alleges Alec Baldwin pulled the trigger. Baldwin says he never pulled the trigger 295 00:21:45.920 --> 00:21:48.599 and that the gun went off by accident. Oh, we're so far if 296 00:21:48.680 --> 00:21:52.039 the new report will lead to Baldwin facing new charges. In voluntary manslaughter charges 297 00:21:52.039 --> 00:21:57.720 against Baldwin were dismissed in April. ABC's Jason Nathanson says prosecutors reserved the right 298 00:21:57.759 --> 00:22:03.960 to refile charges after reanalyzing the evidence. The report from earlier this month found 299 00:22:03.000 --> 00:22:07.960 the gun used in the shooting was not modified, contrary to what prosecutors said 300 00:22:07.960 --> 00:22:11.640 they originally thought. And a jaywalking desert tortoise has been saved from the middle 301 00:22:11.680 --> 00:22:15.839 of a four way intersection thanks to San Bernardino County Fire. Video shared by 302 00:22:15.839 --> 00:22:21.440 the department yesterday shows a firefighter picking up the rule breaking tortoise and moving it 303 00:22:21.480 --> 00:22:25.960 off the roadway into some nearby shrubs. The department says, warm or cold 304 00:22:26.000 --> 00:22:29.720 blooded, We're proud to serve you. Desert tortoises are considered threatened on the 305 00:22:29.720 --> 00:22:33.519 California and Federal endangered species lists. When we come back, Amy's on it, 306 00:22:33.680 --> 00:22:37.559 and then stick around because we're gonna be talking with ABC's Brad Garrett at 307 00:22:37.559 --> 00:22:42.000 five fifty about reco charges, what they are, and what prosecutors need to 308 00:22:42.079 --> 00:22:47.119 do to prove that Donald Trump and others violated them tied to the twenty twenty 309 00:22:47.160 --> 00:22:52.480 election. In Georgia, we have a tropical storm headed to southern California. 310 00:22:52.920 --> 00:22:56.160 It's making its way up the coast of Mexico, now expected to hit San 311 00:22:56.200 --> 00:23:03.160 Diego first and then the remnants of them are supposed to hit La on Monday, 312 00:23:03.319 --> 00:23:06.920 with three to five inches of rain possible and up to fifty mile per 313 00:23:06.960 --> 00:23:11.359 hour winds, possibly some flooding. The storm is named Hillary. A Gucci 314 00:23:11.440 --> 00:23:15.640 store at South Coast Plaza has been robbed of about one hundred thousand dollars in 315 00:23:15.720 --> 00:23:19.240 merchandise in the latest smash and grab flash mob robbery in the Southland. At 316 00:23:19.319 --> 00:23:23.079 least one hundred eleven people have been confirmed dead in the wind driven wildfire they 317 00:23:23.160 --> 00:23:27.720 destroyed Lahina on Maui. President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden are set to 318 00:23:27.799 --> 00:23:32.920 visit the island Monday. At six oh five, it's handled on the news. 319 00:23:33.039 --> 00:23:36.160 Police are talking about what led up to the shooting of an off duty 320 00:23:36.279 --> 00:23:40.759 sheriff's deputy on a golf course in Fontana. And at five fifty we're gonna 321 00:23:40.759 --> 00:23:45.480 be talking with ABC's Crime and Terrorism analyst Brad Garrett about what prosecutors are going 322 00:23:45.519 --> 00:23:48.960 to need to do if they want to prove that Donald Trump at eighteen others 323 00:23:48.039 --> 00:23:52.599 conspired to overturn the twenty twenty election in Georgia. We're else going to talk 324 00:23:52.599 --> 00:23:57.319 a little more in depth about RICO laws and the possible violation of those. 325 00:24:08.400 --> 00:24:14.759 What am I on. I'm on streaming shows, whether it's series or movies 326 00:24:15.039 --> 00:24:18.440 or documentary. Sometimes network shows, but a lot of streaming because there's so 327 00:24:18.640 --> 00:24:25.160 much content out there. And a survey done by platform Plex found that just 328 00:24:25.319 --> 00:24:27.920 eleven percent of people look at ratings and they when they decide what to watch, 329 00:24:29.279 --> 00:24:33.440 forty one percent turned to the opinions of friends and families when they decide 330 00:24:33.519 --> 00:24:37.559 what shows to invest their time in. My friends and family are my go 331 00:24:37.759 --> 00:24:41.759 to and hopefully I can be that for you too. So here is just 332 00:24:41.279 --> 00:24:45.960 a really interesting show. It's on Paramount Plus called Mayor of Kingstown. And 333 00:24:47.119 --> 00:24:52.559 I will tell you that I really resisted this show because honestly, Ted Lasso 334 00:24:52.680 --> 00:24:56.880 is my kind of show. Feel good, makes you'll laugh, restores your 335 00:24:56.880 --> 00:25:00.559 faith in humanity. That's my kind of show. And I'm a big Disney 336 00:25:00.599 --> 00:25:03.119 fan, So I kind of you know, I'm attracted to that kind of 337 00:25:03.160 --> 00:25:07.720 show. This show is not that it stars Jeremy Renner. My friend Amy 338 00:25:07.839 --> 00:25:10.119 has been telling me, you gotta watch it, you gotta watch it. 339 00:25:10.920 --> 00:25:15.200 But it's very dark, it's very violent, and so I thought I'm not 340 00:25:15.279 --> 00:25:19.400 gonna like this, but I really really did so. Jeremy Renner's an ex 341 00:25:19.519 --> 00:25:25.039 con. He knows what it's like on the inside. His brother is this 342 00:25:25.200 --> 00:25:30.279 guy who's like a fixer and a liaison in the town. And quickly Jeremy 343 00:25:30.359 --> 00:25:37.319 Renner's character takes Mike McClusky takes over the role as the mayor of Kingstown and 344 00:25:37.960 --> 00:25:42.599 it happens in Michigan, and the whole premises the mayor tries to keep the 345 00:25:42.680 --> 00:25:48.640 peace between the inmates, the guards, the police, and those on the 346 00:25:48.759 --> 00:25:56.000 outside. It's really complicated with relationships, you know, like Jeremy Renner's relationship 347 00:25:56.079 --> 00:26:00.440 with his mom, Diane Weez, who is a very gentle soul and she's 348 00:26:00.440 --> 00:26:04.160 always calming and works with prison inmates to try to better their lives. And 349 00:26:04.200 --> 00:26:11.200 there's conflicts between that, his relationships with the police, with the das, 350 00:26:11.319 --> 00:26:15.799 with the prosecutors, with the convicts, and even with the ex cons who 351 00:26:15.799 --> 00:26:18.880 are on the outside making the rules on the inside. And I talked to 352 00:26:18.000 --> 00:26:22.359 somebody who actually said this kind of stuff actually goes on who who knew. 353 00:26:22.759 --> 00:26:26.160 But it's an interesting story. Like I said, it's very violent, very 354 00:26:26.279 --> 00:26:32.359 compelling. There are now two seasons out. The third seasons in question because 355 00:26:32.359 --> 00:26:36.440 they had planned on it, but then Jeremy Renner got injured in that snowplow 356 00:26:36.599 --> 00:26:40.400 accident, so they're talking about it, but it hasn't happened yet. But 357 00:26:40.720 --> 00:26:44.880 the two seasons are definitely worth the watch. Here are some of the stories 358 00:26:45.000 --> 00:26:48.480 coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Officials in northern California started 359 00:26:48.799 --> 00:26:55.599 installing and testing warning sirens in Paradise in the event of another wildfire or natural 360 00:26:55.640 --> 00:27:00.480 disaster. The sirens are nearly ready in time for the five year aniversary of 361 00:27:00.480 --> 00:27:03.839 the wildfire that killed eighty five people. Hard to believe that that's been five 362 00:27:03.960 --> 00:27:07.039 years since that happened. The tests come as officials in Hawaii you're facing questions 363 00:27:07.279 --> 00:27:11.680 after their siren system wasn't activated at the start of the wildfire that has killed 364 00:27:11.920 --> 00:27:15.640 more than one hundred ten people. The La City councils asked to pause a 365 00:27:15.720 --> 00:27:21.279 hotel project in Benedict Canyon. Following some concerns about how the project would impact 366 00:27:21.319 --> 00:27:26.440 the environment and public safety. The council voted to support emotion, ordering the 367 00:27:26.519 --> 00:27:32.079 city to reconsider building the proposed Bulgari hotel in a residential area. The council 368 00:27:32.160 --> 00:27:37.119 decided yesterday it was not in the city's best interest to spend resources and taxpayer 369 00:27:37.160 --> 00:27:41.759 money on a project that goes against everything it's doing from a climate and public 370 00:27:41.839 --> 00:27:45.759 safety perspective. A man has been fatally hit by a semi truck while he 371 00:27:45.920 --> 00:27:52.160 walked on the seventy four in Riverside County. Chpeceas a man driving a freight 372 00:27:52.240 --> 00:27:56.359 liner tractor towing a trailer hit the man yesterday morning. CHP says the man 373 00:27:56.519 --> 00:27:59.680 was sent onto the shoulder of the road. Paramedics took the guide of the 374 00:27:59.720 --> 00:28:03.440 hospital, but he died there. A flood control channel in Huntington Beach can 375 00:28:03.519 --> 00:28:08.000 now handle a one hundred year storm thanks to an eighty three million dollar projects 376 00:28:08.240 --> 00:28:12.359 greater magnitude of what these channels were originally designed for. OSI Public Works Shannon 377 00:28:12.400 --> 00:28:18.119 Weidor says the eighty three million dollar project transformed the trapezoid shaped channel into a 378 00:28:18.200 --> 00:28:22.480 rectangle shape, increasing water capacity by fifty percent. It's actually just one piece 379 00:28:22.559 --> 00:28:26.279 of the puzzle. Well, we'll have future projects along this channel leading up 380 00:28:26.319 --> 00:28:30.519 to the fort five Freeway, and all of those projects combined over the next 381 00:28:30.599 --> 00:28:33.759 ten years or so. They're designed to remove the large floodplane funk Orange County. 382 00:28:33.839 --> 00:28:37.119 The next phase to improve three of the channel's bridges starts next month in 383 00:28:37.240 --> 00:28:41.839 Orange County. Corbin Carson k if I News. As if we didn't have 384 00:28:41.960 --> 00:28:45.240 enough to deal with, officials say a flesh eating bacteria found in salt water 385 00:28:45.359 --> 00:28:49.400 has killed three people. Luckily it's across the country. The desks were reported 386 00:28:49.400 --> 00:28:56.839 in New York City and Connecticut from vibriosis. Doctor Shannatou Nick says people can 387 00:28:56.920 --> 00:29:03.000 get infected through an open wound or by eating raw infected shellfish. Just we're 388 00:29:03.039 --> 00:29:06.240 going kind of floats in the water. It's associated with oysters, which are 389 00:29:06.519 --> 00:29:11.039 there to kind of filter the water. Nike says people with diabetes reduced blood 390 00:29:11.079 --> 00:29:18.880 flow to the limbs, anyone on immunosuppression medications should be careful with raw seafood. 391 00:29:18.160 --> 00:29:22.880 Some officials say vibriosis cases have increased over the years because of rising water 392 00:29:23.079 --> 00:29:29.680 temperatures. That's where bacteria can thrive. More than a dozen dogs rescued from 393 00:29:29.720 --> 00:29:33.160 a car parked at a casino in Hawthorne are now ready to find their forever 394 00:29:33.319 --> 00:29:41.519 homes. SPCA las Anna Bosco Bosios says someone called for help Sunday night and 395 00:29:41.839 --> 00:29:45.079 brought the puppies to the shelter. The dogs were unspained neutered, so that 396 00:29:45.240 --> 00:29:49.000 they have been breeding and creating more and more and more, so now we 397 00:29:49.119 --> 00:29:53.680 have fifteen available for adoption, the shelter says. The ten males and five 398 00:29:53.799 --> 00:30:00.279 female dogs are terrier Chihuahua mixes. Bustio says the shelter has sixty percent more 399 00:30:00.440 --> 00:30:06.640 animals now than this time last year, so adoption fees have been waived through 400 00:30:06.720 --> 00:30:10.720 Sunday in case you're looking for a dog or a cat. An employee at 401 00:30:10.759 --> 00:30:14.839 the British Museum in London has been dismissed as police investigate the disappearance and damage 402 00:30:14.960 --> 00:30:18.480 of a number of items from the museum's collection. The AdeM's including gold jewelry, 403 00:30:18.559 --> 00:30:22.480 gems and semi freshious stones and glass dating from the fifteenth century BC to 404 00:30:22.599 --> 00:30:29.839 the eighteen hundreds. ABC's Dave Packers says the items had not been on public 405 00:30:29.920 --> 00:30:33.119 display and were mainly used for research. The museum said yesterday it will be 406 00:30:33.279 --> 00:30:40.759 taking legal action against the employee. Lawyers for the twoies say they plan to 407 00:30:40.960 --> 00:30:45.640 end the NFL star Michael Orr's conservatorship Or file a petition Monday in Tennessee accusing 408 00:30:45.839 --> 00:30:51.799 the Ties of lying to him by having him signed papers that make him to 409 00:30:51.920 --> 00:30:56.440 make them his conservators rather than his adoptive parents. That was back in two 410 00:30:56.480 --> 00:30:59.880 thousand four. Or story, of course, turned into the Oscar winning film 411 00:31:00.200 --> 00:31:03.680 The blind Side in two thousand and nine. It was fabulous Or is asking 412 00:31:03.759 --> 00:31:10.240 for a full accounting of assets, considering his life story produced millions of dollars. 413 00:31:10.440 --> 00:31:15.279 The twoy's attorney says Or knew he was never adopted. The couple's attorney 414 00:31:15.359 --> 00:31:21.799 also says the twoies and Or have been estranged for about a decade. That 415 00:31:21.960 --> 00:31:26.279 is so sad to hear that was such an inspiring, wonderful movie. Five 416 00:31:26.359 --> 00:31:30.759 taco trucks and taco stands have been robbed at gunpoint overnight around Los Angeles. 417 00:31:30.079 --> 00:31:33.440 The workers forced to give up cash, even their own wallets. During the 418 00:31:33.519 --> 00:31:37.480 robberies. The former mayor of Anaheim is agreed to plead guilty to federal corruption 419 00:31:37.599 --> 00:31:41.640 charges for pushing for the sale of Angel Stadium. In the plea, Harry 420 00:31:41.680 --> 00:31:47.799 Sadou, who resigned last mate May, admits that he lied to the FBI 421 00:31:47.920 --> 00:31:51.880 about what he would get for the sale after it closed. Mattel's going to 422 00:31:51.920 --> 00:31:56.400 honor late Mexican actress Maria Felix with a new barbie. Mattel says it'll celebrate 423 00:31:56.440 --> 00:32:02.640 the legendary actress's legacy contributions to cinema and cultural betterment, and to her advocacy 424 00:32:02.759 --> 00:32:07.039 for women's equality and indigenous groups. We're just minutes away from handling the news 425 00:32:07.119 --> 00:32:13.079 this morning. More smash and grab flash mobs have struck at a luxury retail 426 00:32:13.119 --> 00:32:15.759 store in Hancock Park and in Orange County at the Gucci store at South Coast 427 00:32:15.839 --> 00:32:20.240 Plaza. We'll take a deeper look into that, but right now, let's 428 00:32:20.240 --> 00:32:24.680 say good morning to ABC's crime and Terrorism analyst Brad Garrett. Brad is our 429 00:32:24.759 --> 00:32:28.640 go to guide to dig into complex issues. Make him makes sense, which 430 00:32:28.680 --> 00:32:30.920 helps my brain, and has a whole lot of experience digging into the heads 431 00:32:30.960 --> 00:32:35.880 of the bad guys. So Brad, good morning, morning, and Amy, 432 00:32:36.039 --> 00:32:39.559 Donald Trump and others have been charged with violating RICO laws in that case 433 00:32:39.680 --> 00:32:44.319 in Georgia. So first, before you get started, what does RICO stand 434 00:32:44.440 --> 00:32:47.799 for? And then what are they accused of doing. So it's a rocketeering 435 00:32:49.079 --> 00:32:53.359 charge originally in nineteen seventy passed by the federal government so the FBI could go 436 00:32:53.480 --> 00:33:00.279 after organized crime mob bosses basically, and what did she used for is it's 437 00:33:00.319 --> 00:33:05.160 like a conspiracy. So if you're part of the conspiracy, in other words, 438 00:33:05.519 --> 00:33:08.920 let's just use the mob boss, his or her lieutenants and people that 439 00:33:09.400 --> 00:33:15.000 did work for the mob. It was a common theme to keep the criminal 440 00:33:15.039 --> 00:33:20.400 activity going or promote whatever they wanted to promote it. And so what it 441 00:33:20.720 --> 00:33:24.240 does is that you if you're part of this conspiracy. Let's just say former 442 00:33:24.319 --> 00:33:29.480 President Trump that he doesn't have to be there for every one of these alleged 443 00:33:29.559 --> 00:33:34.079 acts to have occurred, but he's the guy in charge of it. He 444 00:33:34.279 --> 00:33:38.200 knows what is going on, and so he's just as culpable under the law, 445 00:33:38.480 --> 00:33:43.839 or under the RICO law to those charges. So you can see how 446 00:33:44.960 --> 00:33:50.920 it's very appealing to prosecutors because they can pull all these defendants into one case 447 00:33:52.759 --> 00:33:57.440 without without the requirement of like in a normal case you have to put the 448 00:33:57.519 --> 00:34:00.519 person you know with the gun at the location. You don't have to do 449 00:34:00.680 --> 00:34:06.200 that in this case. So we'll see. It's a very complicated case, 450 00:34:06.359 --> 00:34:08.079 as you well know. I mean, it's got all sorts of tentacles of 451 00:34:08.760 --> 00:34:13.960 from aligning to election officials to tampering with voting machines. It just goes on 452 00:34:14.199 --> 00:34:16.199 and on and on. This case is going to take a long time to 453 00:34:16.320 --> 00:34:21.559 try. So if it's going to take a long time to try, but 454 00:34:21.639 --> 00:34:27.119 they want to start trying it pretty quickly. Well, she being at Fanny 455 00:34:27.199 --> 00:34:31.239 Willis, the DA of Fulton County in Atlanta, wants to start in March. 456 00:34:32.000 --> 00:34:35.320 I think it would be great if it could start in March. I 457 00:34:35.440 --> 00:34:38.079 think it's probably a pipe dream, but we'll see. I mean, you've 458 00:34:38.119 --> 00:34:44.079 got now nineteen lawyers probably that are going to be fighting you that that's you 459 00:34:44.159 --> 00:34:47.760 know, it's not real, it's unrealistic. It's going to take the president's 460 00:34:49.000 --> 00:34:54.920 ability to successfully run for reelection in effect, and so we'll see. I 461 00:34:55.000 --> 00:35:00.960 mean, many of the legal degals I talked to think it won't go until 462 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:06.960 after the election, which would translate into sometime in twenty twenty five, because 463 00:35:07.199 --> 00:35:12.360 and the lawyers for the defendants are going to be saying, we need the 464 00:35:12.480 --> 00:35:15.800 time to put our cases together too, as they're trying to get the cases 465 00:35:15.840 --> 00:35:20.679 dismissed. I would imagine, well, of course, and then the real 466 00:35:20.800 --> 00:35:24.280 question, of course, amy is how many of them will flip, because 467 00:35:24.360 --> 00:35:28.719 that's the whole idea here, of course, that when you charge people in 468 00:35:28.800 --> 00:35:35.159 these conspiracies, that some people, particularly at a lower level, will you 469 00:35:35.480 --> 00:35:40.920 offer up what they know for an exchange for a lesser sentence. So and 470 00:35:42.119 --> 00:35:45.280 some of that may have already occurred. I have no idea. I mean, 471 00:35:45.960 --> 00:35:49.360 you end up indicting people that are working with you because you really have 472 00:35:49.599 --> 00:35:52.119 to, but it certainly will affect what sort of sentence they will get, 473 00:35:52.159 --> 00:35:57.920 assuming they follow through, testify, etc. You know, based on the 474 00:35:58.199 --> 00:36:00.320 plea agreement. Okay, And then basically there's nineteen people, and some of 475 00:36:00.400 --> 00:36:04.760 them we know, like Rudy Giuliani, we know, Mark Meadows, we 476 00:36:04.840 --> 00:36:08.800 know. But there are so many Like they were showing pictures on CNN or 477 00:36:08.920 --> 00:36:12.639 Fox or something, and I was like, who's that, Who's that? 478 00:36:12.880 --> 00:36:15.639 I don't know these people? And so are those the people that the prosecutors 479 00:36:15.679 --> 00:36:22.320 would be more likely to go after well maybe, but you know, could 480 00:36:22.400 --> 00:36:28.800 Rudy Giuliani turn around in this case? Who knows. I don't know if 481 00:36:28.840 --> 00:36:30.719 that's would be high on my list if somebody you've got to flip. But 482 00:36:31.000 --> 00:36:34.840 but you know, he's an older gentleman. I mean, can he really 483 00:36:34.920 --> 00:36:37.360 afford to go to prison at this point? I don't think so. So, 484 00:36:37.880 --> 00:36:44.360 so we'll see. I mean, it's what happens is basically you get 485 00:36:44.360 --> 00:36:47.760 people to turn against each other. Uh, and it's got to be Like 486 00:36:47.880 --> 00:36:52.480 I said, my guess is some of that's already occurred. I think more 487 00:36:52.559 --> 00:36:57.559 of it will occur. Okay, And what's the what's the potential image damage 488 00:36:57.599 --> 00:37:00.679 here? I mean, like, why is this case potentially more damaging then 489 00:37:00.760 --> 00:37:05.000 the others that have been filed against the former president? Amy think about it 490 00:37:05.119 --> 00:37:08.599 this way, that you're going to have common, everyday, hard working folks 491 00:37:08.920 --> 00:37:15.639 that many of them maybe were involuntary positions at election polls or counting votes or 492 00:37:15.760 --> 00:37:21.280 in charge of voting machines. I mean they are they are the victims. 493 00:37:21.360 --> 00:37:27.719 In some cases there the defendants because they did things illegally that Trump's associates asked 494 00:37:27.760 --> 00:37:31.719 them to do so they've also been charged, but others are just victims. 495 00:37:32.079 --> 00:37:37.320 And having those people on the stand and you know, maybe having their lives 496 00:37:37.440 --> 00:37:42.239 destroyed because of this, I think could be really powerful. And I think 497 00:37:42.280 --> 00:37:46.880 it's a terrific idea that it's going to be televised. Do you think that 498 00:37:46.960 --> 00:37:51.199 it will be? Oh, because it's it's not a federal one, so 499 00:37:51.400 --> 00:37:54.719 that it can be. It can be in Georgia? Does that so? 500 00:37:54.960 --> 00:38:00.360 I think Fanny Willis says it will be. I think it's just great because 501 00:38:00.440 --> 00:38:05.000 then people can form their own opinions about what they think of this case and 502 00:38:05.320 --> 00:38:10.119 in the acts broken down in the indictment. And if you end up having 503 00:38:10.239 --> 00:38:16.280 all nineteen people, would they have nineteen lawyers plus the nineteen defendants all sitting 504 00:38:16.320 --> 00:38:20.719 at the defense table? I mean, how does that even happen? I 505 00:38:20.880 --> 00:38:25.280 know somebody asked me that earlier today and I said, I you will the 506 00:38:25.480 --> 00:38:30.800 judge allow some of these cases to break out and be separate trials? I 507 00:38:30.920 --> 00:38:35.320 don't know. That then becomes complicated because you have to keep repeating in many 508 00:38:35.400 --> 00:38:42.519 cases the same evidence. That's another really from a management standpoint, I mean, 509 00:38:42.639 --> 00:38:44.920 you could sort of lose your mind. As a judge right, trying 510 00:38:44.960 --> 00:38:50.079 to keep up with nineteen defendants and he said, she said they did it. 511 00:38:51.360 --> 00:38:53.960 It could be tricky. Okay, well, interesting to see. So 512 00:38:55.079 --> 00:39:00.400 so the DA is looking for March fourth, but probably not going to happen 513 00:39:00.440 --> 00:39:06.000 that early. That's my guess. Okay, Brad Garrett, ABC News Crime 514 00:39:06.079 --> 00:39:08.400 and Terrorism Analysts, thanks again for breaking it down. We'll talk to you 515 00:39:08.480 --> 00:39:14.000 again soon. Sounds great, see Amy, Thank you. Hey. Earlier 516 00:39:14.360 --> 00:39:19.039 we've talked to John o'drasik or on dras sick. Sorry about that with five 517 00:39:19.159 --> 00:39:22.119 for fighting And in case you missed it, you can hear the complete interview 518 00:39:22.320 --> 00:39:25.599 on the wake Up Call page on kf I AM six forty. 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