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Speaker 3: Gotta me feel fun Jay Saturday k if I AM
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Speaker 3: go Saturdays with Tiffany. I'm Tiffany Hobbs here from five
Speaker 3: to seven pm. And as you know, as you've been
Speaker 3: listening to the station, a lot has been going on today,
Speaker 3: a lot has been going on this week, a lot
Speaker 3: has been going on this month, this year, it seems already.
Speaker 3: But we're certainly going to cover the main stories. And
Speaker 3: I feel that there are three things, and I want
Speaker 3: to keep us kind of focused so we don't get overwhelmed.
Speaker 3: It's really easy to get overwhelmed with this on slot
Speaker 3: of information. It's information overload, and it can cause you
Speaker 3: to become fatigued and start to tune things out when
Speaker 3: you should, in fact be paying attention. So if I
Speaker 3: were to categorize the three main stories, I would certainly
Speaker 3: say that we would cover today's protests.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, We're going to get.
Speaker 3: To today's no kings Day protests in downtown LA.
Speaker 4: They're still going on.
Speaker 3: They've more or less wrapped, but there are still some
Speaker 3: remnants of that protest now coalescing with the ongoing anti
Speaker 3: ice raid protests. And we're going to talk to independent
Speaker 3: reporter Chris Adler around five fifteen, five twenty or so,
Speaker 3: and she's going to give us her first hand account
Speaker 3: of everything that she experienced today in downtown LA. We're also,
Speaker 3: of course going to cover the current military parade that's
Speaker 3: happening right there in Washington, DC. It's celebrating the two
Speaker 3: hundred and fiftieth birthday of the arm ME. President Trump's
Speaker 3: birthday is seventy ninth birthday and Flag Day, although President
Speaker 3: Trump does say that none of these things have to
Speaker 3: do with his birthday.
Speaker 4: It's just a happy little coincidence.
Speaker 3: Well, we'll cover some updates about that as it's happening.
Speaker 3: I'll be sure to share the news with you about
Speaker 3: this parade because it is certainly very interesting to watch
Speaker 3: or watching it right here in the studio. And then
Speaker 3: also I really want to spend a few minutes covering
Speaker 3: this horrific story out of Minnesota. I want to start
Speaker 3: here because I feel like it's setting, or is at
Speaker 3: least a reflection of a very dangerous and volatile precedence
Speaker 3: that's being set when it comes to the relations between
Speaker 3: the political parties and people outside of the party, down
Speaker 3: party lines even and people who are using the opportunity
Speaker 3: to express their own disdain and ways. That then find
Speaker 3: two politicians at the on the other side of assassinations
Speaker 3: or attempted assassinations. So let's start here and then we'll
Speaker 3: move on over to the local news. So I'm talking
Speaker 3: about this story out of Minnesota. Just north of Minneapolis.
Speaker 3: There are two prominent politicians from Minnesota, one a lawmaker,
Speaker 3: Representative Melissa Hortman, and also senator sitting Senator John Hoffman,
Speaker 3: and overnight, both of them were victimized by one person,
Speaker 3: and that person's name has since been released. He is
Speaker 3: the suspect in this crime, fifty seven year old Vance
Speaker 3: Luther Bolter, who appeared at Senator Hoffman's home in a
Speaker 3: two am hour and made his way inside, shooting the
Speaker 3: senator and his wife, and then about an hour later,
Speaker 3: made his way into Representative Melissa Hortman's home, in which
Speaker 3: he then assassinated Melissa Hortman and her husband We have
Speaker 3: some audio about this story, and I'd love to for
Speaker 3: you to hear straight from Minneapolis, Minnesota about what's going
Speaker 3: on right there.
Speaker 4: Can we go to the audio.
Speaker 5: Circumstances then folded in Brooklyn Park this morning is that
Speaker 5: we assisted the Champlain Police Department on a shooting. That
Speaker 5: shooting was made wear by one of our sergeants that
Speaker 5: it was at Senator Hoffman's home, and hearing that that
Speaker 5: very intuitive sergeant asked our officers to go check on
Speaker 5: Melissa Hartman's home, the representative that lives in our community.
Speaker 5: Just proactively as due diligence to swing by. That police
Speaker 5: officer and his partner pulled down the street. When they
Speaker 5: arrived at Melissa's house, they noticed that there was a
Speaker 5: police vehicle in the driveway with the lights emergency lights
Speaker 5: on and what appeared to be a police officer at
Speaker 5: the door coming out of the house. When our officers
Speaker 5: confronted him, the individually immediately fired upon the officers, who
Speaker 5: exchanged gunfire, and the suspect retreated back into the home.
Speaker 5: This ise, yes, The question is was it a real
Speaker 5: person or person personating impersonating in a police officer. It
Speaker 5: was not a real police officer. This is somebody that
Speaker 5: clearly had been impersonating a police officer again using the
Speaker 5: trust of this badge in this uniform to manipulate their way.
Speaker 6: Into the homely fishful affair of personnel only was wearing
Speaker 6: a badge was a police officer. Then they approached their victims,
Speaker 6: they had call with licensires.
Speaker 5: Yes, the question is how what kind of vehicle? How
Speaker 5: were they dressed? They did drive a vehicle that looked
Speaker 5: exactly like an SUV squad car. It was equipped with lights,
Speaker 5: emergency lights that looked exactly like a police vehicle. And yes,
Speaker 5: they were wearing a vest with taser other equipment that
Speaker 5: would a badge very similar to mine. That no question.
Speaker 5: If they were in this room, you would assume that
Speaker 5: they are a police officer.
Speaker 3: So this is absolutely incredible, incredible news coming out of Minnesota,
Speaker 3: and it continues to unfold. So again, the fifty seven
Speaker 3: year old suspect, Vance Luther Bolter, who either owned or
Speaker 3: worked for a private security firm. Information still coming out
Speaker 3: about that. His linked in, because of course all of
Speaker 3: this information is coming out about Vance Luthor Bolter. His
Speaker 3: LinkedIn says that Bolter is well traveled, very experienced and
Speaker 3: with his connections to the security industry, it would be
Speaker 3: very easy for him to come into weaponry and even
Speaker 3: these sorts of squad cars that look like law enforcement cars,
Speaker 3: which would then grant him the trust required to be
Speaker 3: able to gain access to these two homes of the politicians,
Speaker 3: both in which he shot two who were killed. Again,
Speaker 3: this is Representative Melissa Hortman who was killed and her
Speaker 3: husband and gravely wounded but now out of surgery, and
Speaker 3: Governor Tim Walt says they are cautiously optimistic was Senator
Speaker 3: John Hoffman and his wife. Now photos are all over
Speaker 3: the media for Vance Luthor Bolter. They're circulating nationwide because
Speaker 3: he is on the run. He has not yet been apprehended.
Speaker 3: They will get the They will get this guy. Don't
Speaker 3: know when, but they certainly will get this man. And
Speaker 3: until that happens, Minnesota at large is on lockdown and
Speaker 3: all politicians are having their security ramped up to be
Speaker 3: able to meet this moment again. This act has been
Speaker 3: condemned as an act of targeted political violence by Governor
Speaker 3: Tim Walls and the presidents. That this continues to reflect
Speaker 3: is this volatile relationship to politicians. We just had this week,
Speaker 3: Senator Alex Padilla of California be cuffed and thrown to
Speaker 3: the ground. We've seen as well the political outcry and
Speaker 3: the political violence against protesters, just recently at Western and Beverly,
Speaker 3: where a group of protesters who had gone west from
Speaker 3: downtown LA were run into deliberately by a person driving
Speaker 3: a car.
Speaker 4: So we are in this sort of moment.
Speaker 3: It's that kind of weekend, and the news will continue
Speaker 3: to unfold. When we come back, we're going to talk
Speaker 3: to Chris Adler. Chris Atler, my dear friend, an amazing reporter.
Speaker 3: She was down there in downtown LA, and she's going
Speaker 3: to give us her recount of what happened at the
Speaker 3: No Kings protest, what she saw, what she heard, and
Speaker 3: all things informational right there right here on KFI AM
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Speaker 3: Tiffany Hobbs here with you at Saturdays with Tiffany, And
Speaker 3: of course we're talking about the protests happening all across
Speaker 3: the nation specifically right here in our backyard in Los Angeles,
Speaker 3: even more specifically in downtown LA. Now, the No Kings
Speaker 3: protests they stretched from Santa Barbara down to Torrence, into
Speaker 3: Orange County out to Antelope Valley, all throughout Los Angeles,
Speaker 3: but of course we had a huge one that's just
Speaker 3: now starting to wrap up in downtown LA. And as
Speaker 3: it is wrapping up, we're starting to see an emergence
Speaker 3: of the i'd say, the narrative or the rhetoric that
Speaker 3: was more closely associated with the anti Ice raid protest.
Speaker 3: So it's all coalescing right there in that area and
Speaker 3: it was largely a peaceful day. And reporter Chris Atler,
Speaker 3: my dear friend, super reporter Chris Atler, was right there
Speaker 3: on the scene, and she's going to give us what
Speaker 3: she saw in downtown today at the No Kings protests.
Speaker 4: Chris Adler, Hello, uh oh, I don't hear her. Is
Speaker 4: she what we're gonna get her on?
Speaker 3: She's definitely there because we've certainly been messaging offline.
Speaker 4: Chris.
Speaker 3: There you are, Hey, Chris, Tiffany, can you hear me?
Speaker 4: I can hear you? Just fine, awesome.
Speaker 7: It's so great to hear you. How are you.
Speaker 3: It's so great to hear you as well. I'm well,
Speaker 3: I'm safe in the studio. You were out there in
Speaker 3: downtown la surrounded by thousands of people.
Speaker 7: Thousands of people showed out for the No Kings protests today, thousands.
Speaker 7: I got there a little bit after nine am. People
Speaker 7: started trickling in. I was over by City Hall near
Speaker 7: First in Maine, right near the LAPD building where LAPD
Speaker 7: was posted outside in a skirmish line guarding the building.
Speaker 7: As you know, the National Guard was also out partying
Speaker 7: the Federal building LAPD guarding the city Hall buildings. So
Speaker 7: a big presence of police, National Guard, law enforcement around
Speaker 7: these buildings. Now, as you probably know, you are aware,
Speaker 7: the protests were peaceful for most of the days, say
Speaker 7: about four pm, things started to get a little tense.
Speaker 7: I am seeing and hearing reports that protesters were allegedly
Speaker 7: throwing things, throwing objects, no kind of convening too close
Speaker 7: to the skirmish line where the troops were standing at LAPD,
Speaker 7: and so it's not clear if that is what happened,
Speaker 7: but flash bangs and tear gas were let off into
Speaker 7: the crowds and people were running LAPD on horses forcibly
Speaker 7: removing people from the area. There was a lot of confusion.
Speaker 7: People didn't know where to go. There was initially no
Speaker 7: sense of direction where police wanted people to go. But
Speaker 7: it was interesting company because for the most part it
Speaker 7: was very peaceful. I was surprised I was in town
Speaker 7: gear today. I had my goggles, I had my vest.
Speaker 7: People were like, why are you wearing this? Why are
Speaker 7: you out here wearing this? Because of this how quickly
Speaker 7: these protests can turn. And what I've noticed is that
Speaker 7: I think it's later in the day is when these
Speaker 7: protests ten tend to turn, Tiffanie.
Speaker 4: They do.
Speaker 3: And you know, as we're watching this unfold live on
Speaker 3: the local outlets, we are seeing evidence that the protest
Speaker 3: in downtown LA is in fact turning into that more violent, disruptive,
Speaker 3: agitator heavy sort of situation that again was not present
Speaker 3: for the majority of the day. We're not hearing stories
Speaker 3: around the country about these No Kings protests becoming disruptive
Speaker 3: or violent. So it's really unfortunate now that the downtown
Speaker 3: LA one specifically will be associated with what we're seeing
Speaker 3: now in this last kind of these last few remnants
Speaker 3: of the protest.
Speaker 7: It is a disappointing to see because of how dangerous
Speaker 7: things can turn, and this can get violent, This can
Speaker 7: get very deadly, and fortunately nobody has been killed. But
Speaker 7: I've said, you know, when when tensions rise like this
Speaker 7: and people are out there and they're protesting, and and
Speaker 7: I also don't want to I don't want to just
Speaker 7: say protesters because I was out there marching.
Speaker 4: You were a protester in a sense.
Speaker 7: Well, I I was protest walking with I was walking
Speaker 7: with the protesters and from Grand Park to Pershing Square
Speaker 7: and it was peaceful. And I will also tell you
Speaker 7: there were protesters offering the National Guard troops who were
Speaker 7: standing guard water face white, telling them thank you for
Speaker 7: your service, thanks you for being out here. It was peaceful.
Speaker 7: So to see it turned to what it has just
Speaker 7: turned to, it is disappointing. And I'm sure, as you know,
Speaker 7: the story develops, will find out exactly what happened. And
Speaker 7: you know, Mayor Bath had went on record and said
Speaker 7: she didn't want to see this happened. She wanted peaceful,
Speaker 7: peacefully protest as the first Amendment right to be out
Speaker 7: there protests and have their voice heard, but to do
Speaker 7: it peacefully.
Speaker 3: Now, did you see mayor Baths or anyone from the
Speaker 3: mayor's office, or any of our local politicians or political figures.
Speaker 3: Were they there in attendance for this protest.
Speaker 7: I didn't see any during my time while I was
Speaker 7: walking with the protesters, but I was also looking for
Speaker 7: counter protesters. I was looking to interview counter protesters to
Speaker 7: see if there if somebody would be willing to speak
Speaker 7: with me, And to be completely honest, I didn't see
Speaker 7: any counter protesters.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 7: They may have been out there, but if they weren't,
Speaker 7: they didn't make themselves visible and it wasn't clear that
Speaker 7: they were out there. So we've seen these We've seen
Speaker 7: these protests. We've been covering, you know, like I said,
Speaker 7: during the day, it seems earlier in the day, it
Speaker 7: seems to be more subdued, where there's protesters out there
Speaker 7: just chantying and walking together collectively. But as the the
Speaker 7: sun starts to go down, we see like this tension.
Speaker 8: And I will tell you.
Speaker 7: I have personally seen educators, personally seen agitators try to
Speaker 7: get a response from the troops, try to get a
Speaker 7: response from LAPD. But that is not the I would
Speaker 7: say that is not the majority. That is definitely the
Speaker 7: minority out there.
Speaker 3: That's good to know because everyone seems to get lumped
Speaker 3: in together as being monolithic and being agitated, an agitating
Speaker 3: group to be able to get that sort of rise
Speaker 3: or response.
Speaker 4: I'm happy that you.
Speaker 3: Delineated that that's not the entire case for what you saw.
Speaker 7: No, definitely not. And I will tell you there were
Speaker 7: a protester offering water and offering food to other protesters,
Speaker 7: and just there was this camaraderie of people from LA
Speaker 7: and walking together, from all colors and all backgrounds, and
Speaker 7: it was it was nice to see that a protest
Speaker 7: can be people. And you know, Tiffany, when during my
Speaker 7: time at KFI, I was the protest girl, I was
Speaker 7: the strike girl, I was on I have never seen
Speaker 7: a massive protest to this magnitude would also be as
Speaker 7: peaceful as it was peaceful, with as big as it was,
Speaker 7: So it was really something to see.
Speaker 4: Chris.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much for coming on with us and
Speaker 3: offering your insight about the No Kings protest in downtown LA.
Speaker 3: Should you find yourself back out there, you make sure
Speaker 3: you're safe okay, and you're always welcome to call.
Speaker 4: Back in anytime. Thanks Tiffany, You're so welcome.
Speaker 3: We're just talking with Chris Atler. She's an amazing reporter
Speaker 3: and she was right there on the ground in the
Speaker 3: middle of the protests in downtown LA today that unfortunately
Speaker 3: have started in the last maybe half an hour to
Speaker 3: take a turn toward a more violent, volatile direction. So
Speaker 3: hopefully that will not continue, especially with the curfew in place,
Speaker 3: but will continue to follow everything as it breaks. When
Speaker 3: we come back, we're gonna get into this military parade
Speaker 3: in Washington, DC. It's well underway. It's about eight thirty
Speaker 3: pm in DC. It's been going on for the last
Speaker 3: two hours or so, and I have quite a few
Speaker 3: updates to share with you as well as what's going
Speaker 3: on with the Department of Homeland Security in LA. How
Speaker 3: long do they plan to stay, and who exactly are
Speaker 3: they detaining. All of that and more right here on
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Speaker 3: KFI AM six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3: Tiffany Hobbs here with you until seven Saturdays with Tiffany,
Speaker 3: and we just spoke with reporter Chris Atler, and she
Speaker 3: gave us a first hand retelling of what she experienced
Speaker 3: right there on the ground in downtown LA earlier today
Speaker 3: for our No Kings protest. And I do say hours,
Speaker 3: because there are fifty protests or excuse me, fifty states
Speaker 3: that are having multiple protests throughout the state for today's
Speaker 3: No Kings Day coordinated protest effort. And while the protest
Speaker 3: in downtown LA has wrapped up officially, now the agitators
Speaker 3: have emerged, and we know this to be true, it happens.
Speaker 3: I'm looking at flash bangs, I'm looking at tear gas.
Speaker 3: I'm looking at standoffs between these officers who are heavily
Speaker 3: armed and protesters who are there deliberately intentionally provoking the police.
Speaker 3: I just saw one person run up and try and
Speaker 3: physically it looks to be push a police officer as
Speaker 3: these police are moving or pushing the line looks to
Speaker 3: be back south, away down. I think this is Maine,
Speaker 3: Maine or Alameda. I'm looking at both right over here
Speaker 3: by the mall downtown in La.
Speaker 4: So as this is happening.
Speaker 3: Of course, will continue to give you information while these
Speaker 3: situations unfold and What's also happening concurrently is the huge
Speaker 3: military parade in Washington, DC that coincides with President Trump's
Speaker 3: seventy ninth birthday, although he says it has nothing to
Speaker 3: do with his birthday, just happened to fall on the
Speaker 3: same day as Flag Day and the two hundred and
Speaker 3: fiftieth birthday of the United States Military. Now some recaps
Speaker 3: for this particular parade. It was supposed to start at
Speaker 3: six thirty pm DC time. It did start at six
Speaker 3: pm d C time, three o'clock hour time because of rain.
Speaker 3: They said, rainorsheine, this is happening, and they went ahead
Speaker 3: and pushed it or excuse me, moved it up about
Speaker 3: thirty minutes to try to avoid what they thought was
Speaker 3: going to be an incoming rain storm. It's been well
Speaker 3: attended by the looks of it. It's been carried on
Speaker 3: our local outlets, CNN and others as well. And what
Speaker 3: I've seen, what I've got leaned from this military parade
Speaker 3: thus far, is that if you are a student of history,
Speaker 3: like I find myself being I love history, especially wartime history,
Speaker 3: then you will then be up close and personal to history,
Speaker 3: being able to be in conversation if you will with
Speaker 3: what's going on at the parade. As these military service
Speaker 3: members are interacting with the crowd walking down this parade line.
Speaker 3: It is giving the attendees the opportunity to see World
Speaker 3: War two vehicles, tanks, B twenty five bombers, modern military technology,
Speaker 3: technology that is possibly to be possible to be used
Speaker 3: in the future. You have the servicemen and women marching,
Speaker 3: and at one point there was even a faction of
Speaker 3: the military dressed in Revolutionary war uniforms. So it really
Speaker 3: spans the two hundred and fifty years from its inception
Speaker 3: all the way up into the future. And you have
Speaker 3: President Trump and his cabinet sitting in the center of
Speaker 3: the grand stand. As the parade passed by, you had
Speaker 3: to find Secretary Pete Hegsith there, of course the first Lady.
Speaker 3: They were both on both sides of the president flanking him.
Speaker 3: There were reported to be six thousand soldiers, fifty military aircraft,
Speaker 3: and one hundred and fifty military vehicles. And I saw
Speaker 3: that attendee's kids were able to play with the tanks,
Speaker 3: play with the projectile launchers.
Speaker 4: Does it good for kids? Doesn't that sound so fun?
Speaker 2: Have you seen photos and footage from the big military parade. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I've been looking at it obsessively, looking at these things
Speaker 2: on the former Twitter, and it's very, very sparsely attended.
Speaker 2: Nowhere near close to the two hundred thousand people who
Speaker 2: were projected.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, it's well attended.
Speaker 3: For the scope of the camera and what's being captured
Speaker 3: in that lens. It definitely looks like it's you know,
Speaker 3: like it's full because they're making sure not to pay
Speaker 3: too far to the left or the right, of course,
Speaker 3: but was.
Speaker 2: It to you because I'm seeing huge gaps in the
Speaker 2: crowds and really not very many people there at all.
Speaker 3: You know, when I first started looking at the beginning
Speaker 3: of this parade, it did seem full. You know, it
Speaker 3: may have dissipated since then. I haven't been checking back
Speaker 3: to the photos. I've just really been reading the actual
Speaker 3: written updates. But regardless, it is not attended within the
Speaker 3: projection that they had of two hundred thousand attendees. Absolutely not.
Speaker 3: You know, But when you think about it again, if
Speaker 3: you enjoy history, then it's probably a fun place for
Speaker 3: you to be. If you want your kids to play
Speaker 3: with projectile launchers, it's probably a place that you could
Speaker 3: go and right now they're doing fireworks, and it's very patriotic.
Speaker 3: It's all of the things that we know Donald Trump
Speaker 3: wanted it. President Donald Trump expected it to be, wanted
Speaker 3: it to be. I have not necessarily heard much reference
Speaker 3: to his birthday. But the night's still young. We'll certainly
Speaker 3: see Mark. Is this something that you would attend? Are
Speaker 3: you a student of history?
Speaker 2: I am a student of history. I've got a minor
Speaker 2: in it. Oh but no, I mean I would attend
Speaker 2: it as a journalist. Uh huh, but not as just
Speaker 2: a fan. I'm not a fan boy.
Speaker 4: Yes, that's okay. It's interesting.
Speaker 3: It's definitely something that will be discussed for many years
Speaker 3: to come because it's unprecedented, and how many times have
Speaker 3: we used that word to describe things that have happened
Speaker 3: in the last five ten years. This is definitely, you know,
Speaker 3: a representative of unprecedented times.
Speaker 2: It really is. We haven't seen a parade like this
Speaker 2: in the United States never.
Speaker 3: I know there were parades, you know, after I think
Speaker 3: after Vietnam, I think there was a parade perhaps. And
Speaker 3: for those of you who are students of history, of course,
Speaker 3: hit the talk back and feel free to correct me.
Speaker 3: You'll do it without my permission anyway. But there have
Speaker 3: been smaller scale parades, but not to this extent and
Speaker 3: not in a way that this was organized and certainly
Speaker 3: did not cost into the tens of millions of dollars
Speaker 3: like this one has been said to do. So we'll
Speaker 3: continue to follow the parade. It should be wrapping up
Speaker 3: here in about I think an hour, about nine thirty
Speaker 3: pm Washington d C.
Speaker 4: Times.
Speaker 3: So it's the fireworks right now, and we'll see if
Speaker 3: any other sorts of fireworks should happen as this starts
Speaker 3: to wind down. When we come back, we're going to
Speaker 3: talk about Christy nomes appearance here in the Southland, and
Speaker 3: that's Department of Homeland Secretary Christie Nomes who was in
Speaker 3: La Thursday to address the recent ICE raids and protests.
Speaker 4: Well, she said a.
Speaker 3: Lot during her time, and I have some audio that
Speaker 3: I want to play for you along with some audio
Speaker 3: from borders are Tom Homan and some statements or a
Speaker 3: statement from Republican Representative Carl Demayo, and I have a
Speaker 3: lot of analysis about what they said in regards to
Speaker 3: who is being detained and how long ICE is planning
Speaker 3: to stay in La. We'll discuss all of that and more.
Speaker 3: You make sure you stay tuned right here. It's gonna
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Speaker 3: Hobbs here with you, and of course we're following the
Speaker 3: biggest news stories in all of the land, not just
Speaker 3: here in Los Angeles but certainly impacting us. We're talking
Speaker 3: about the protests all across the Southland, especially right here
Speaker 3: in downtown LA as they have taken a turn. As
Speaker 3: they do, things start to wind down from the no
Speaker 3: Kings Day protests, which were, as reporter Chris Atler put it, peaceful,
Speaker 3: completely peaceful, and uneventful. To that regard, they've now turned
Speaker 3: into a more agitated, volatile, unpredictable type of situation that
Speaker 3: we don't want, unfortunately, to be associated with the day
Speaker 3: where the day went well, this is not. We're also
Speaker 3: following the military parade celebrating the Army's birthday, Trump's birthday
Speaker 3: and flag dates well underway. Fireworks are going on as
Speaker 3: they're now into hour two of this military parade and celebration.
Speaker 3: And we're also following this horrific story out of Minnesota,
Speaker 3: the assassination of Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband and
Speaker 3: the attempted assassination of Minnesota Senator John Hoffman and his wife.
Speaker 3: There are quite a few developments there as well.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 3: While all of this is going on, of course, at
Speaker 3: the forefront, if not the center of the conversation in
Speaker 3: Los Angeles are these ICE raids, these Department of Homeland Security,
Speaker 3: Immigration and Custom Enforcements raids in which many people up
Speaker 3: until today have in fact been detained by Border Security, ICE,
Speaker 3: DHS and Department of Homeland Secretary Christy Nome was in
Speaker 3: LA just this previous Thursday to address the recent ICE
Speaker 3: raids and protests. Now, ICE, Border Patrol and other federal
Speaker 3: agencies also attended this press conference. This is where you
Speaker 3: had Senator Alex Padilla try to ask a question and
Speaker 3: he was also detained and thrown on the ground handcuffed
Speaker 3: to try and prevent that questioning. But all of those
Speaker 3: agencies have affirmed or reaffirmed their presence in LA saying
Speaker 3: they are not going away. And while these federal government
Speaker 3: agencies insist that their ICE agents are going after quote, criminals.
Speaker 3: There have been images and videos shared online and local
Speaker 3: witness accounts as well that show a stark difference with
Speaker 3: raids reportedly occurring at churches, hospitals, schools, agricultural fields. Lots
Speaker 3: of video coming out about that, and even during court
Speaker 3: check ins. Now, DHS Secretary Christenome again, she was here,
Speaker 3: so I'd like you to hear in her own words
Speaker 3: what she had to say about when ICE and when
Speaker 3: DHS and all these agencies will be leaving LA.
Speaker 7: No, there is some rhetoric out there that some of
Speaker 7: the people who have been detained arrested detention are not criminals.
Speaker 4: Or do not have a criminal history.
Speaker 3: Can you address that.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of rhetoric out there.
Speaker 6: That try Well, there's a lot of rhetoric and there's
Speaker 6: a lot of false information and a lot of fake news.
Speaker 6: So I'd appreciate it if you guys would start covering
Speaker 6: the facts and we'll get you all that information that
Speaker 6: we possibly can.
Speaker 4: Now, there may be people that.
Speaker 6: Because of the targets that we were out there arresting,
Speaker 6: that were individuals, they were collaterals that were spending time
Speaker 6: with them, and all those people will be vetted. And
Speaker 6: remembering still in the United States, if you come into
Speaker 6: this country illegally, you have committed a crime. And so
Speaker 6: when you do that, we have to go through and
Speaker 6: follow the law and make sure that we're adjudicating that
Speaker 6: and dealing with that appropriately. So the President's targets and
Speaker 6: priorities are the criminals that have perpetuated violence.
Speaker 3: And that was Christineome. So Christine Nome spoke right there,
Speaker 3: let you know exactly what the plans are for DHS
Speaker 3: and ICE. Well, she's not the only one who's spoken
Speaker 3: borders are. Tom Holman spoke this previous Tuesday about this
Speaker 3: concept of collateral You heard Christinomes say that, well, borders
Speaker 3: our Tom Holman also mentioned collateral damage. Let's find out
Speaker 3: what he had to say.
Speaker 9: Despite relative calm, returning to the anti ICE detention protests
Speaker 9: in Los Angeles, the Trump administration's borders are, Tom Homan
Speaker 9: says the hundreds of troops do not have a specific
Speaker 9: withdrawal order. We spoke earlier to mister Homan about the
Speaker 9: National Guard presence in the city. Was it really necessary
Speaker 9: to call out the National Guard?
Speaker 8: Absolutely was in the first two days, when the violence
Speaker 8: continued the city, we had the agents assaulted. We had
Speaker 8: a thousand protesters at the federal building that decided to
Speaker 8: become criminals and try to breach out the facility. They
Speaker 8: cause a lot of property damage. I'm glad he did it.
Speaker 9: When people see ICE agents add a garment factory, for example,
Speaker 9: it's a little confusing because not everybody who's getting arrested
Speaker 9: is a hardened criminal. Help people understand the disconnect there.
Speaker 8: Well a couple of things. The problem is hard to
Speaker 8: under say it because most immediately won't share the facts
Speaker 8: for the public. What's happening That the operation of garment
Speaker 8: District was based on a criminal search worm.
Speaker 9: But if somebody is going for a court appointed check
Speaker 9: in or an ICE meeting and then they're arrested, that
Speaker 9: seems to be different than the original way it was sold,
Speaker 9: which is that you were going to go after the
Speaker 9: hardened criminals. Those people seem to be basically abiding by
Speaker 9: the law.
Speaker 8: Well, listen, I seven day one. You're not going to
Speaker 8: find me. Ever, I seven day one. The President wants
Speaker 8: is prioritize public safety thrusts and national security tests. But
Speaker 8: I also said, if you're in the country illegally. You're
Speaker 8: not off the table.
Speaker 9: What is your message to a business owner who might
Speaker 9: have undocumented migrant labor who's not doing it. They're not
Speaker 9: any criminals, they just undocumented migrants. What would your message
Speaker 9: be to those companies?
Speaker 8: It's illegal? Heard knowingly her, that's what all says. If
Speaker 8: we can't arrest the bad guy in the jail, then
Speaker 8: we go to the neighborhood and find them. Or we
Speaker 8: were work saying find.
Speaker 9: The president said it would be fine if you arrested
Speaker 9: Gavin Newsom on what grounds would you arrest Gavin Newsom?
Speaker 8: Well, the whole thing's been thinking out the context.
Speaker 4: Just want to let that slide right on in there.
Speaker 3: So again, these are two government officials, right, We have
Speaker 3: two government officials right there, Department of homes Homem's Homeland
Speaker 3: I sound I sound like borders are Tom Homan Department
Speaker 3: of Homeland Security, Christie Nome? Right, And then we also
Speaker 3: have borders are Tom Holman speaking about who has been
Speaker 3: subjected to these detainments and what you heard there is
Speaker 3: what contradicts what has been said, which is that they
Speaker 3: are only going after hardened criminals. But both Christie Nome
Speaker 3: and borders are Tom Holman used the term collateral to
Speaker 3: describe anyone they feel that agencies can pinpoint or target
Speaker 3: as being, you know, in need of detainment based on
Speaker 3: the specifications of ICE and DHS. Let me read this
Speaker 3: to you quickly. This is Republican Representative Carl Demayo, who
Speaker 3: appeared right here just a few days ago, and he said, quote,
Speaker 3: the media is lying about these ICE raids. The ICE
Speaker 3: raids are not going after people based on skin color,
Speaker 3: which is what the governor lied about shamefully. They're not
Speaker 3: going after just regular illegal immigrants that are not here
Speaker 3: with documentation.
Speaker 4: Let me read that again.
Speaker 3: He said, they're not going after just regular illegal immigrants
Speaker 3: that are not here with documentation. ICE is going after
Speaker 3: people who are here illegally who have also committed heinous crimes,
Speaker 3: violent crimes, rapists, burglars, people with assault charges on them,
Speaker 3: and so ICE is going after criminal to remove them
Speaker 3: from the community. He said, you'd think that Californians would
Speaker 3: be rolling out the red carpet being grateful, but no,
Speaker 3: the media has lied. Gavin Newsom is a liar. Democrat,
Speaker 3: politicians are lying. Karen bass is lying, and it's provable. Well,
Speaker 3: what you just heard there from Borders are Tom Holman,
Speaker 3: Republican Representative Carl Demayo, whose words I just read, and
Speaker 3: Department of Homeland Security Secretary Christy Nome is that who
Speaker 3: they're going after is in fact whatever they deem necessary
Speaker 3: and appropriate for detainment. Their standards seem to be fluid,
Speaker 3: and while they may have set their sights initially on
Speaker 3: these quote hardened criminals, collateral has now come into the
Speaker 3: conversation has likely been present all along. Therefore, people who
Speaker 3: are not just hardened criminals are in fact being detained,
Speaker 3: and that is what's causing so much confusion around these
Speaker 3: ice raids and what's going on in the city of
Speaker 3: Los Angeles. When you have these statements contradicting each other,
Speaker 3: it does not help the cause. It does not help
Speaker 3: their argument that they're not doing something when one of
Speaker 3: their own representatives is saying they in fact are actually
Speaker 3: two of them Department of Homeland Security Secretary Christinome and
Speaker 3: Borders are Tom Holman.
Speaker 4: You heard that right there from them.
Speaker 3: If you didn't like it, got to argue with the facts,
Speaker 3: because that's all I gave you. When we come back,
Speaker 3: we're going to take a deeper dive, and we're going
Speaker 3: to look at who.
Speaker 4: Is being detained.
Speaker 3: Specifically, of those who've been detained, who are they who's
Speaker 3: been arrested under ICE or buy ICE under Trump as well,
Speaker 3: We're going to look at the US citizens who've been
Speaker 3: caught up in Trump's immigration crackdown right here on Saturdays
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