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Speaker 2: According to the mayor and the LA Police Department Chief,
Speaker 2: you are safer than you have been in a very
Speaker 2: long time. Their Karen Bass LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell pulling
Speaker 2: a news conference yesterday and they say you are safer
Speaker 2: and you can thank us for that. You're welcome from
Speaker 2: our friends at the ABC seven.
Speaker 3: Homicides were down fourteen percent, with forty seven less people
Speaker 3: killed in the city of Los Angeles be.
Speaker 4: Forty seven fewer people killed, but go.
Speaker 3: On in twenty twenty four compared to twenty twenty three.
Speaker 3: There was also a nineteen percent decrease when it comes
Speaker 3: to shooting victims. Felony hit and runs also saw a
Speaker 3: drop of just over six percent. Despite the progress, local
Speaker 3: leaders acknowledge there is more work to be done.
Speaker 5: Any crime is unacceptable to us, and we know that
Speaker 5: everyone standing here today knows that we must continue to
Speaker 5: approach this issue with urgency and precision.
Speaker 2: Oh, urgency and precision. Oh, she's saying some really important
Speaker 2: stuff there. That is that's the kind of thing that
Speaker 2: gives you insight. It's certainly not platitudes and talking points.
Speaker 2: Thank goodness, we've got specificity from the mayor who says
Speaker 2: crime bad. We don't like crime, we should uncrime.
Speaker 3: The mayor and police chief acknowledge at street racing is
Speaker 3: still a problem that they're actively trying to combat. Another
Speaker 3: issue they're dealing with hiring more police officers join the force.
Speaker 3: As far as how twenty twenty five is looking in
Speaker 3: terms of crime, here's a police chief himself.
Speaker 6: So far this year we've seen a reduction in all
Speaker 6: major crime categories compared to the same time last year.
Speaker 6: We're optimistic that we can continue on the trend that
Speaker 6: we're seeing. But right now we're in a good.
Speaker 3: Spot and moving forward. A chief McDonald says, A big
Speaker 3: focus again is on building that trust with the community
Speaker 3: so they can feel comfortable coming to police officers and
Speaker 3: speaking with them openly and building that relationship. Another focus,
Speaker 3: of course.
Speaker 2: Sounds like a lot of community policing nonsense to me.
Speaker 2: The last thing we want to do is the community
Speaker 2: trusting their cops. What's next, All of a sudden, politicians
Speaker 2: are bad guys now, unbelievable.
Speaker 3: Another focus, of course on a staffing and keeping the
Speaker 3: community safe, reporting live and boil heights on that ABC
Speaker 3: seven I witness.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much. I appreciate that. So what do
Speaker 4: we have?
Speaker 2: They claim homicides are down fourteen percent. Now, listen, relax,
Speaker 2: let me tell you why I'm skeptical here. Homicides down
Speaker 2: fourteen percent last year compared with twenty twenty three, fewer
Speaker 2: people being hit by gunfire. Well, that seems positive. I
Speaker 2: hate the idea that we just have random people being
Speaker 2: hit by gunfire. Anyway, sitting in, police officials say that
Speaker 2: this is all there.
Speaker 4: Listen, this is our doing.
Speaker 2: But as we know, any crime is bad, and we're
Speaker 2: still going to rest forward with urgency and a sense
Speaker 2: of duty and blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: They're also all excited about taking guns off the streets,
Speaker 2: including seventy six hundred firearms from last year. They said
Speaker 2: that ten percent of those are all ghost guns. Oh
Speaker 2: you're gonna how you stop that? All you can do
Speaker 2: is take them? Oh you're gonna stop people from putting
Speaker 2: them together. Shootings down, they say, almost twenty percent from
Speaker 2: last year. Uh, they're being proactive. With more words from
Speaker 2: your corporate bingo card. Here's the problem is that the
Speaker 2: data that we're getting is for the last year, which
Speaker 2: is fine. The department, though, switch the way they count crime.
Speaker 2: There's there's the trouble that we're having. So as with anything,
Speaker 2: if all of a sudden you you change your well,
Speaker 2: i'm gonna say accounting procedures, but if you change the
Speaker 2: way that you're tracking things, you may see a change.
Speaker 2: If if and I'm trying to think of an example here,
Speaker 2: if all of a sudden you go from using miles
Speaker 2: to kilometers, all of a sudden, your car is gonna
Speaker 2: look like it's traveled a lot further because the numbers
Speaker 2: have changed. The numbers have changed, but what those numbers
Speaker 2: reflect are different. So even LAPD officials they did it,
Speaker 2: they had small print. While they were taking credit, patting
Speaker 2: themselves on the back. They said, also, year over year
Speaker 2: comparisons are nearly impossible for certain types of crimes since
Speaker 2: the department switched to a new record keeping system this year.
Speaker 2: So they don't really know, they say, we don't really
Speaker 2: know if this is true. We don't really know if
Speaker 2: this is accurate. Even by our own admission, we're not sure.
Speaker 4: But based on what.
Speaker 2: We have right now, we're just going to take credit
Speaker 2: anyway because politicians, and why wouldn't you just take credit
Speaker 2: while you could.
Speaker 4: So that's what's happening just the same.
Speaker 2: If there is any truth to what they're saying, that's great.
Speaker 2: We like to feel a little bit safer. The trouble is,
Speaker 2: we don't know if there's truth to what they're saying, because,
Speaker 2: by their own admission, the data is being counted differently,
Speaker 2: and they say it's nearly impossible to keep track of
Speaker 2: So why are you out and touting your own accomplishments
Speaker 2: because why wouldn't you be That's what being a politician
Speaker 2: is all about. Oh, that's right. And people don't like
Speaker 2: Bass right now because she was out of the country
Speaker 2: when the fires hit and then she blamed not knowing wind.
Speaker 2: So she's trying to try to she's trying to put
Speaker 2: some wins in her column, but it's not really working
Speaker 2: on it's not going great. If you are in the
Speaker 2: United and you're here with a visa and you're thinking, great,
Speaker 2: i'm here, I've got a green card, I'm good to go. Nope,
Speaker 2: you might still get deported. What rights do you have?
Speaker 2: What could stop you from being deported?
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Speaker 2: The questions are coming up about people being deported, especially
Speaker 2: when we find out that we're trying to deport people
Speaker 2: who have legal status in the United States, including green
Speaker 2: cards or well respected positions within major universities. It kind
Speaker 2: of started with this Machmud Khalil, who was a guy
Speaker 2: protesting at Columbia. Many many schools were protesting during the
Speaker 2: the demonstrations over the war in Goza, right, most of
Speaker 2: the protesters were pro Israeli protesters. And as we know,
Speaker 2: when it comes to protesting, you cannot be pro one
Speaker 2: side without being anti the other. That's how it works out.
Speaker 2: You can't say I love the Dodgers without people knowing
Speaker 2: that that means you hate the Yankees. Now maybe you
Speaker 2: do hate the Yankees, But is it possible that you're
Speaker 2: just rooting for your team.
Speaker 4: Possible. But when it comes to the world of politics.
Speaker 2: And especially when it comes to something so significant as
Speaker 2: war and war where religion is involved, you have to
Speaker 2: be my side or the other side. You're either with
Speaker 2: me or you're against me. So Khalil and Khalil was
Speaker 2: in large part part of the demonstrations at Columbia.
Speaker 4: We saw those at UCLA. You see your.
Speaker 2: Vine, Berkeley, Stanford, Santa Cruz all. There's been a a
Speaker 2: number of California schools. Of course we're taking part in
Speaker 2: these protests. Some of them did feel distinctly anti Semitic.
Speaker 2: That doesn't mean everybody there was, but it wasn't like
Speaker 2: they were stopping it from being anti semitic either, So
Speaker 2: we know how this played up. However, as much as
Speaker 2: we despise that anti semitism is not illegal in the
Speaker 2: United States, you're allowed to be anti Semitic, you're allowed
Speaker 2: to be racist. You're not allowed to hire base on
Speaker 2: racism or anti semitism, but you are allowed to be
Speaker 2: an a hole in America. That hasn't changed in the
Speaker 2: last two hundred and fifty years. You can still be
Speaker 2: a total a hole in America. The line is when
Speaker 2: you're being an a hole and it starts to threaten
Speaker 2: other people if there is demonstrable harm being done. Although
Speaker 2: did this guy, Makmu Khalil, actually demonstrate any harm. He
Speaker 2: was a negotiator that was representing the student protesters at Columbia.
Speaker 2: He is a permanent US resident. He was arrested March
Speaker 2: ninth at his apartment by Customs enforcement by ice. According
Speaker 2: to the ap agent said they were executing a State
Speaker 2: Department order to revoke his student visa.
Speaker 4: His lawyer says, he didn't have a student visa.
Speaker 2: He's a Green card holder, he's a permanent legal US resident.
Speaker 2: They said, oh, we're taking that too.
Speaker 4: What this is.
Speaker 2: This is like when you were a kid and the
Speaker 2: bully came by and punched you and said give me
Speaker 2: your lunch money, and you said, I've got my lunch money,
Speaker 2: but please don't take my allowance. I just got it,
Speaker 2: and the bully goes, oh, can give me that allowance too.
Speaker 2: That's basically what's going on. So the State department says,
Speaker 2: we want a student. We're taking away with the student visa.
Speaker 2: The lawyer says he didn't have a he's a permanent
Speaker 2: US resident. They go, oh, we're taking that away too.
Speaker 2: And why is that? Because Trump has signed an order,
Speaker 2: signed an executive order to cancel and deport the the
Speaker 2: students and all the student visas of any hamas sympathizers
Speaker 2: on college campuses.
Speaker 4: That's a tough one.
Speaker 2: And the reason it's tough is again, you're allowed to
Speaker 2: disagree even if your disagreement makes you a total a
Speaker 2: hole in the eyes of the majority of people, you
Speaker 2: are still allowed to disagree.
Speaker 4: In America.
Speaker 2: You may remember after nine to eleven there were a
Speaker 2: number of politicians who came out and they said.
Speaker 4: Look, nine to eleven was abhorrent.
Speaker 2: It was a terrible chapter in American history, and that said,
Speaker 2: you kind of understand why some people hate us, and
Speaker 2: they were lambassador. They were told, how dare you? You
Speaker 2: can't say such terrible things about America. Don't you know
Speaker 2: we're in a war against terrorism? And yet you're still
Speaker 2: allowed to say that. Even congress persons were saying that
Speaker 2: they don't approve of nine to eleven, but they kind
Speaker 2: of understand why other countries, why other groups hate us.
Speaker 4: Now dare you do that? The real kicker on.
Speaker 2: This case with the Khalil is that Marco Rubio, formerly
Speaker 2: known as Little Marco, did a press conference right after
Speaker 2: the arrest and he said, this is not about free speech.
Speaker 2: This is about people that don't have a right to
Speaker 2: be in the United States to begin with.
Speaker 4: But it sounds like by all accounts he did.
Speaker 2: He had a student visa, then he had a permanent
Speaker 2: green card and now we're just claiming you don't have
Speaker 2: a right to be here because we're policing your ideas now.
Speaker 4: But it's not just him.
Speaker 2: There was also a doctor who was detained, now a
Speaker 2: highly regarded kidney doctor.
Speaker 4: Just after six pm six from ABC seven.
Speaker 8: Saturday, planes carrying more than two hundred Venezuelan and prisoners
Speaker 8: left the US after the administration invoked the Alien Enemies Act,
Speaker 8: a law from the late seventeen hundreds that allows the
Speaker 8: government to deport non citizens without due process during wartime.
Speaker 4: All right, at war with that? Was anybody anybody? The
Speaker 4: answer is no.
Speaker 8: Less than an hour later, a federal judge temporarily blocked
Speaker 8: the president from invoking the law and ordered the planes
Speaker 8: to turn around, saying any plane containing these folks that
Speaker 8: is going to take off or is in the air
Speaker 8: needs to be returned to the United States. But the
Speaker 8: planes never turned around, and video shows the alleged gang
Speaker 8: members being marched into prison in El Salvador yesterday. Critics
Speaker 8: argue the administration defied the judge's orders, but the White
Speaker 8: House argues the judge has no jurisdiction over the president's
Speaker 8: conduct of foreign affairs. His authorities under the Alien Enemies
Speaker 8: Act and his core Article two powers to remove foreign alien.
Speaker 4: Terrorist the staff.
Speaker 2: All right, so that is key, and I guess I
Speaker 2: thought there was more of this deported doctor. I want
Speaker 2: to talk about this deported doctor or the detained doctor.
Speaker 2: I'll do that here in a second. But also, you
Speaker 2: just heard the report from ABC saying we didn't like
Speaker 2: what the judge had to say. The administration just says, hey,
Speaker 2: what jurisdiction judges have? What can federal judges? They don't
Speaker 2: really get to talk about us. They have no jurisdiction
Speaker 2: over us. We're the White House, for Pete's sake, which
Speaker 2: means that we no longer have checks and balances. We
Speaker 2: just have separate silos where judges issue rulings in vacuums
Speaker 2: that don't apply, and Congress writes laws that don't apply,
Speaker 2: and the White House executes laws.
Speaker 4: That they don't even have. So a lot of fun
Speaker 4: stuff happening right now. What could we even.
Speaker 2: Do if you have a rogue White House that says,
Speaker 2: forget about checks and balances, we're in charge now, what
Speaker 2: could even be done? Might be surprised to find out
Speaker 2: just how much the courts can do.
Speaker 7: That is next you're listening to Bill Handle on demand
Speaker 7: from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2: I mentioned before I'd boned up the audio that we
Speaker 2: had a doctor who was detained because she went to
Speaker 2: a funeral. Well, it happened to be the funeral of
Speaker 2: a Hezbollah leader. Is she a member of Hesbelad?
Speaker 4: No? By all accounts she is not.
Speaker 2: However, just being at the funeral, which attracted tens of
Speaker 2: thousands of people, was enough for the current administration to
Speaker 2: side eye her and say, we don't really like you
Speaker 2: doing that, so why don't you not come back again?
Speaker 4: ABC had the story.
Speaker 8: Another deportation in recent days is in the spotlight. Protesters
Speaker 8: are demanding the return of doctor Rasha Alawi, an assistant
Speaker 8: professor at Brown University who's a kidney transplant specialist.
Speaker 4: Oh, kidney transplant at Brown Universe? What is that? Who's that?
Speaker 2: It's not even a real college? Is there's so much
Speaker 2: ado about nothing? My god, we're just deporting Ivy League
Speaker 2: doctors now.
Speaker 8: She reportedly had a valid visa, but was detained last
Speaker 8: week at Boston's Logan Airport after returning from Lebanon. Federal
Speaker 8: officials not commenting on, only saying our CBP officers adhere
Speaker 8: to strict protocols to identify and stop threats. Nicode Antonio,
Speaker 8: ABC News, Washington, all right.
Speaker 4: Thank you very much, appreciate it.
Speaker 2: All right, So we don't really know why we're not
Speaker 2: being told a whole lot.
Speaker 4: It's a little bit like Doge, where.
Speaker 2: We just say, trust us, everything's gonna be better after
Speaker 2: you let us do whatever we want. So you've had
Speaker 2: judges that say, you can't just declare that we are,
Speaker 2: you know, wartime when there is no war.
Speaker 4: There's no war on Venezuela.
Speaker 2: And soon when you start finding Venezuelan gang members and
Speaker 2: then sending them to El Salvador using.
Speaker 4: The the seventeen ninety eight law, that doesn't fly.
Speaker 2: And of course the White House then in response said,
Speaker 2: speaking of flying, sorry, planes already in the air, Ali
Speaker 2: Ali oxen free. And a judge is not very happy
Speaker 2: about that. So the judge said, look back my courtroom.
Speaker 2: I want to know what's going on. And so the uh,
Speaker 2: the administration showed up back in court and the judge
Speaker 2: said what happened? They went, Uh, you don't have any
Speaker 2: jurisdiction over us. You can't really tell us what to do.
Speaker 2: And the judge said, yeah, here's the thing I can
Speaker 2: and he said, uh, what what's happening here? And they said,
Speaker 2: we're not really gonna We don't really have to tell
Speaker 2: you because judges aren't allowed to control the executive branch's
Speaker 2: legitimate power. That's our vice president said that he's a
Speaker 2: vice president, you're just a judge. So basically no, the
Speaker 2: White House claims to have an UNO reverse card. So
Speaker 2: what can happen if suddenly you've got a number of
Speaker 2: judges that are ruling against a president and the president says, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna follow that. Yeah I don't like your order. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you told me not to do this thing that I
Speaker 2: want to do, so.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna do it anyway.
Speaker 2: And at some point you'd think the rank and files
Speaker 2: would stop doing these things. But I think a lot
Speaker 2: of the rank and files that are enforcing some of
Speaker 2: these laws kind of like it, and I think that
Speaker 2: the people who don't like it are being weeded out.
Speaker 4: So you're ending up with a very loyal enforcement group.
Speaker 2: At CBP, at ICE, at the FBI, at the CIA,
Speaker 2: at all the executive branches. You're ending up was loyalists.
Speaker 2: Because if you're not loyal you're being identified and you're
Speaker 2: being given a scarlet tea, and or you may just
Speaker 2: be saying this is not for me any longer.
Speaker 4: I can't do this. I'm gonna head into the private sector.
Speaker 2: I'm going to try to find a job with my
Speaker 2: local police department or my sheriff's department, or you're if
Speaker 2: you're in a specialized division within one of those enforcement
Speaker 2: alphabet soup agencies.
Speaker 4: You may be saying, I can go make money doing
Speaker 4: this elsewhere.
Speaker 2: I have a friend of mine that was a she
Speaker 2: was an accountant.
Speaker 4: She was a forensic accountant with the CIA. Excuse me,
Speaker 4: with the FBI. My apologies.
Speaker 2: She's a forensic can count me with the FBI. And
Speaker 2: I was like, that's the coolest job. She's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I got a badge, I carry a gun, but all
Speaker 2: I do is I just run numbers all day. And
Speaker 2: I said that's so cool, and she goes it is
Speaker 2: I can make more money in the private sector, and
Speaker 2: eventually is.
Speaker 4: What she did. I'm gonna go make more money working
Speaker 4: for one of these big corporations. She did.
Speaker 2: So at some point, people are moving on, they're weeding
Speaker 2: themselves out. So what can the judges do if the
Speaker 2: president just ignores them, effectively nothing they can hold an
Speaker 2: agency in contempt. So you've got a district judge that
Speaker 2: holds the White House in contempt. And then what what
Speaker 2: if they don't want to be held in contempt?
Speaker 4: Nothing?
Speaker 2: Nothing, They don't take control away, they don't do anything,
Speaker 2: and the president can always parton himself anyway, So there is
Speaker 2: nothing The Marshall Service enforces the federal court orders.
Speaker 4: Do you know who the Marshal Service works for, the
Speaker 4: Department of Justice? You know who?
Speaker 2: The Department of Justice is under the executive branch. All
Speaker 2: of the orders trickle down from the White House. So
Speaker 2: if you have a rogue president, I'm not saying this
Speaker 2: is the case, but if you have a rogue president,
Speaker 2: there's pretty much nothing you can do to stop them
Speaker 2: other than politically. But is anybody politically going to stop
Speaker 2: this president? I don't see that happening either. If you
Speaker 2: have if you have a powerful president who's decided to
Speaker 2: ignore his own responsibilities to the office, there's no stopping
Speaker 2: that person. And that's when you end up with what
Speaker 2: they call a constitutional crisis.
Speaker 4: I think we've got an astronauts coming home. Indeed, we do.
Speaker 2: We've got JFK conspiracies that are that are right for
Speaker 2: the taken.
Speaker 4: However, I did want to jump on this story.
Speaker 2: It is fast to me that the DEI orders that
Speaker 2: have come out to limit and restrict DEI might be
Speaker 2: might have some unintended consequences. Who ever would have guessed
Speaker 2: what those are.
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Speaker 2: Do you remember it was a few years back that
Speaker 2: President Trump first term was paying tribute to the code
Speaker 2: talkers at a White House events.
Speaker 9: And I just want to thank you because you have
Speaker 9: very very special people. You were here long before any
Speaker 9: of us were here. Although we have a representative in
Speaker 9: Congress who they say was here a long time ago.
Speaker 9: They call her Pocahontas. But you know what, I like
Speaker 9: you because you are special. You are special people. You
Speaker 9: are really incredible people. And I have from the heart,
Speaker 9: from the absolute heart, we appreciate what you've done, how
Speaker 9: you've done it, the bravery that you displayed, and the love.
Speaker 4: That you have for your country. Yeah. Really from the heart,
Speaker 4: Not like that, Elizabeth Warren. Okay, So we pay.
Speaker 2: Tribute to the code talkers, especially because of what they
Speaker 2: contributed in both world wars, chalk Taw soldiers in World
Speaker 2: War One, Comanche troops at Utah Beach, the Navajo code talkers,
Speaker 2: of course, who you've heard so much about it iwo Jima.
Speaker 2: They were speaking in a language that the other troops
Speaker 2: couldn't They couldn't crack.
Speaker 4: Very difficult to uh.
Speaker 2: Very difficult to crack the language, and especially because the
Speaker 2: code talkers started changing up their own language, which is brilliant.
Speaker 2: So Utah Beach, you had commanches that there weren't words
Speaker 2: in Comanche for bombers.
Speaker 4: There wasn't a word.
Speaker 2: There was a he didn't have that word. So they
Speaker 2: came up with her. They called them pregnant airplanes. They
Speaker 2: didn't have a word for turtle for tank, excuse me,
Speaker 2: So they started calling those turtles. And so they would say,
Speaker 2: you know, turtles are inbound. And even if the even
Speaker 2: if the enemy could decipher some of what was saying,
Speaker 2: would they be able to understand that turtles meant tanks.
Speaker 4: May have come up with that.
Speaker 2: One may have may have been able to figure out
Speaker 2: pregnant airplanes, may have figured out when they called uh
Speaker 2: Adolf Hitler possa taboo that that meant crazy white Man
Speaker 2: could be.
Speaker 4: They could have, but they didn't.
Speaker 2: And we thank in large part the code talkers for
Speaker 2: the work that they did in those wars that ultimately
Speaker 2: flemixed our enemies and helped lead to victories in both
Speaker 2: World War One and World War Two.
Speaker 4: At least we used to thank them.
Speaker 2: Because if you go now to military websites that used
Speaker 2: to pay tribute to the Native American code talkers, the
Speaker 2: ones that you heard Trump praising while he bag on
Speaker 2: Elizabeth Warren from the bottom of his heart for loving
Speaker 2: the country so much, they've.
Speaker 4: Been removed from many of the websites.
Speaker 2: Several broken URLs on those websites are now labeled d
Speaker 2: e I. The Defense Department's URLs amended with the letters DEI,
Speaker 2: suggesting that those websites have been removed following the executive
Speaker 2: order ending federal Diversity Equity and Inclusion initiatives. Asked about
Speaker 2: the missing pages, Pentagon Press secretary replying in a statement
Speaker 2: that Pete Hegsith has said DEI is dead.
Speaker 4: At the Defense Department.
Speaker 2: We are pleased by the rapid compliance across the department
Speaker 2: with the directive removing DEI from all platforms. In the
Speaker 2: rare cases that content is removed that is out of
Speaker 2: the clearly outlined scope of the directive we instruct components. Accordingly,
Speaker 2: they did not address the code talkers being removed.
Speaker 4: They did not address whether.
Speaker 2: The code talkers are considered DEI figures. Although code talkers
Speaker 2: were part of a diversity push within the Department of Defense,
Speaker 2: they were part of a recruitment that sought to seek
Speaker 2: soldiers of different backgrounds.
Speaker 4: So maybe maybe code.
Speaker 2: Talkers, and I suppose, for that matter, the Tuskegee Airmen
Speaker 2: are the original deis and we've been able to put
Speaker 2: a stop to that and certainly put a stop to
Speaker 2: learning about diversity in American history.
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