WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:06.759 You're listening to KFI AM six forty on Demand. 2 00:00:05.440 --> 00:00:09.599 Sixty more stimulating talk Chris Merrill. So, if you missed it, 3 00:00:10.039 --> 00:00:15.480 the President introduced tariffs on all vehicles that are produced 4 00:00:15.519 --> 00:00:19.399 outside of the United States and tariffs on all car 5 00:00:19.480 --> 00:00:23.239 parts that are produced outside of the United States. This 6 00:00:23.399 --> 00:00:25.239 is going to have an impact. It's going to have 7 00:00:25.239 --> 00:00:27.559 an impact on the new car market, and I'm going 8 00:00:27.600 --> 00:00:28.640 to tell you in a minute that it's going to 9 00:00:28.679 --> 00:00:29.679 have an impact. 10 00:00:29.440 --> 00:00:31.359 On the used car market as well. 11 00:00:31.920 --> 00:00:34.640 NBCLA was doing a breakdown on what this means to 12 00:00:34.640 --> 00:00:35.520 you inside. 13 00:00:35.240 --> 00:00:39.159 The Oval Office. President Trump explains what he just signed, so. 14 00:00:39.159 --> 00:00:42.280 Will effectively be charging a twenty five percent tariff. But 15 00:00:42.359 --> 00:00:44.560 if you build your car in the United States, there's 16 00:00:44.640 --> 00:00:45.200 no tariff. 17 00:00:45.240 --> 00:00:48.679 The tariff's go into effect permanently on April second, when 18 00:00:48.679 --> 00:00:51.479 it comes to trade. That's the day the President has 19 00:00:51.520 --> 00:00:54.359 referred to as Liberation Day in America. 20 00:00:54.520 --> 00:00:59.359 This is the beginning of Liberation Day in America. 21 00:01:00.039 --> 00:01:04.000 Oh wait a minute, hold on, So March twenty sixth, 22 00:01:04.519 --> 00:01:06.760 and well, just mark down March twenty six for our 23 00:01:06.799 --> 00:01:10.959 Liberation Day celebrations moving forward, thank you, We'll just call 24 00:01:11.000 --> 00:01:11.680 it l Day. 25 00:01:12.480 --> 00:01:14.920 We're going to take back just some of the money 26 00:01:14.959 --> 00:01:17.959 that has been taken from US. 27 00:01:18.040 --> 00:01:21.640 And this is a direct attack, to be clear, a 28 00:01:21.680 --> 00:01:22.359 direct attack. 29 00:01:22.560 --> 00:01:26.840 Autos are Canada's second largest export, and tonight Prime Minister 30 00:01:26.920 --> 00:01:29.719 Carney says he will assess the details of the Trump 31 00:01:29.760 --> 00:01:32.640 decision before taking retaliatory measures. 32 00:01:33.040 --> 00:01:36.719 Oh, they're coming. There will be retaliatory measures, but. 33 00:01:37.280 --> 00:01:41.239 Vowing to protect hundreds of thousands of Canadian auto workers, 34 00:01:41.439 --> 00:01:42.000 we are going to. 35 00:01:41.920 --> 00:01:44.079 Stand up for Canada. We're going to be united. 36 00:01:44.239 --> 00:01:47.480 In Japan, autos make up twenty eight percent of the 37 00:01:47.480 --> 00:01:49.640 country's total exports to the US. 38 00:01:49.879 --> 00:01:51.799 Wow, I realized it was that much. 39 00:01:52.480 --> 00:01:57.480 I chibunk kak, Japan's Prime Minister Isshub, telling lawmakers he 40 00:01:57.640 --> 00:02:01.159 is strongly requesting the US not to apply these tariffs 41 00:02:01.159 --> 00:02:05.200 to Japan and is quote considering all options in response 42 00:02:05.280 --> 00:02:08.800 to them. President Drum said he expects auto firms to 43 00:02:09.039 --> 00:02:12.800 relocate to the United States and build new sites or. 44 00:02:12.919 --> 00:02:15.800 Expand existing ones. And of course there are some here. 45 00:02:15.840 --> 00:02:18.039 We know that Honda's open site, Hyundai's open the site, 46 00:02:18.280 --> 00:02:19.840 Toyota's got a plant here. 47 00:02:19.879 --> 00:02:21.319 But still parts. 48 00:02:21.039 --> 00:02:24.560 Aren't necessarily being manufactured here. In fact, many parts for 49 00:02:24.759 --> 00:02:27.479 domestic automakers are manufactured elsewhere. 50 00:02:28.039 --> 00:02:31.199 These twenty five percent terris will almost certainly increase the 51 00:02:31.280 --> 00:02:34.800 cost consumers will pay to buy new vehicles affected by 52 00:02:34.800 --> 00:02:37.159 the duties. We wait to see how the stock market 53 00:02:37.199 --> 00:02:40.120 will react when it opens, but shares of the top 54 00:02:40.240 --> 00:02:44.599 us automakers did fall sharply in after hours trading. So 55 00:02:44.879 --> 00:02:47.400 just how will these tariffs impact you? 56 00:02:47.599 --> 00:02:47.840 Well? 57 00:02:48.039 --> 00:02:51.840 According to autoweek, prices will go up and be passed 58 00:02:51.879 --> 00:02:56.159 on to buyers. Autoweek says, depending on the model you purchase, 59 00:02:56.560 --> 00:03:00.560 expect to pay between four and twelve thousand dollars more. 60 00:03:00.800 --> 00:03:04.159 I'm Robert Cathosik, all right, so four and twelve thousand 61 00:03:04.199 --> 00:03:06.680 dollars more. By the way, I'm looking at the market 62 00:03:06.719 --> 00:03:10.680 right now, and the Dow is pretty flat. Ford is 63 00:03:10.719 --> 00:03:14.240 down four percent though, so we are seeing that there 64 00:03:14.240 --> 00:03:16.759 are some some of these movers that are moving in 65 00:03:16.759 --> 00:03:21.919 the wrong direction. But overall, let me see, S and 66 00:03:21.960 --> 00:03:26.400 P is up, no, slightly up, it's about flat, and 67 00:03:26.879 --> 00:03:29.479 NASDAK is just up thirty five points. 68 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:34.120 So what does this mean to your pocketbook? 69 00:03:34.120 --> 00:03:35.479 It means that if you want to buy a car, 70 00:03:35.560 --> 00:03:37.800 it's gonna cost you more, and that doesn't just go 71 00:03:37.840 --> 00:03:39.800 for new cars. That's going to go for used cars too. 72 00:03:40.280 --> 00:03:44.360 And here's the logic, it's pretty basic economics. The price 73 00:03:44.400 --> 00:03:46.800 of the new cars goes up four to twelve thousand dollars, 74 00:03:47.080 --> 00:03:48.639 so you say, well, I'm not going to give four 75 00:03:48.680 --> 00:03:51.319 to twelve thousand dollars more for that new car. I'm 76 00:03:51.319 --> 00:03:57.520 gonna buy a gently owned, gently loved used car. Maybe 77 00:03:57.520 --> 00:03:59.400 it's a certified pre owm doesn't matter. 78 00:04:00.280 --> 00:04:01.120 You're not the only. 79 00:04:00.919 --> 00:04:03.759 One doing that, which means that demand for used cars 80 00:04:04.159 --> 00:04:06.960 goes up. If new cars are up four to twelve 81 00:04:07.039 --> 00:04:09.960 thousand dollars, you're going to start looking at a gently 82 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:13.479 pre owned vehicle, and so is everybody else. If demand 83 00:04:13.520 --> 00:04:17.319 goes up and supply remains the same, then you're going 84 00:04:17.399 --> 00:04:18.279 to see. 85 00:04:18.399 --> 00:04:19.319 The prices go up. 86 00:04:19.519 --> 00:04:23.759 Expect supply, however, in the used car market to decline. 87 00:04:24.360 --> 00:04:27.959 And the reason is if you are considering a new vehicle, 88 00:04:28.040 --> 00:04:29.639 but all of a sudden, that new vehicle price goes 89 00:04:29.720 --> 00:04:31.879 up four to twelve thousand dollars. 90 00:04:31.800 --> 00:04:35.279 You might say, let's see, let's say. 91 00:04:35.240 --> 00:04:38.160 Much longer I can push this one because there is 92 00:04:38.720 --> 00:04:43.519 no cost in new car payments if you're still driving 93 00:04:43.519 --> 00:04:45.120 the old car. Now, the old car costs might go 94 00:04:45.199 --> 00:04:48.120 up because of maintenance, but your other costs they don't increase. 95 00:04:48.160 --> 00:04:50.480 So the best way to save money is to not 96 00:04:50.519 --> 00:04:53.120 buy a new vehicle. The longer you make your car last, 97 00:04:53.800 --> 00:04:56.160 the more value you get out of it. And as 98 00:04:56.240 --> 00:04:59.399 a result, fewer cars will be entering into the used 99 00:04:59.439 --> 00:05:02.560 car market, which means supply drops at the same time 100 00:05:02.600 --> 00:05:04.959 that demand is up. Expect to see use cars increase 101 00:05:04.959 --> 00:05:06.759 in price in the same way that we're about to 102 00:05:06.800 --> 00:05:09.600 see these vehicles go up in price. Now, one interesting 103 00:05:09.600 --> 00:05:12.560 little tidbit too on the side here is that Tesla 104 00:05:13.279 --> 00:05:16.720 is the ones least likely impacted by the US tariffs 105 00:05:17.040 --> 00:05:20.399 on vehicles because Tesla does their manufacturing here in the 106 00:05:20.480 --> 00:05:23.959 United States. So some are gonna You're going to hear 107 00:05:23.959 --> 00:05:27.000 people screaming about how this is an unfair trade advantage 108 00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:29.519 being granted to Tesla, and this is all elon musk. 109 00:05:29.360 --> 00:05:30.240 And YadA, YadA, YadA. 110 00:05:30.519 --> 00:05:33.040 Don't I don't buy that this falls under the president's 111 00:05:34.279 --> 00:05:38.000 tariff philosophy. It just happens that his top advisor is 112 00:05:38.040 --> 00:05:40.319 a South African born in Canada and doing business in 113 00:05:40.360 --> 00:05:44.560 the United States, and he will benefit from this to 114 00:05:44.600 --> 00:05:48.279 a degree because as soon as there are retaliatory tariffs. 115 00:05:49.160 --> 00:05:52.120 That's when Tesla's gonna get stung. And we already know 116 00:05:52.160 --> 00:05:54.360 that he's been trying to crack into the Chinese market 117 00:05:54.519 --> 00:05:58.319 that hasn't gone very well. Chinese BYD auto manufacturer actually 118 00:05:58.399 --> 00:06:02.399 just introduced some new chargeing technology, new battery technology that 119 00:06:02.519 --> 00:06:04.959 is superior to anything that we have state side. If 120 00:06:05.079 --> 00:06:07.519 Japan all of a sudden says oh you're going to 121 00:06:07.560 --> 00:06:09.639 tear if our cars, We're definitely going to hit any 122 00:06:09.720 --> 00:06:11.600 vehicles that are coming out of the United States, that's 123 00:06:11.600 --> 00:06:14.240 going to have an impact on US automakers, including Tesla, 124 00:06:14.319 --> 00:06:16.800 and Tesla of course wants to see growth in Europe, 125 00:06:16.879 --> 00:06:22.319 and Europe's going to say, uh new it take a 126 00:06:22.439 --> 00:06:27.519 long walk of the shoot bridge and then it's gonna hit. 127 00:06:27.519 --> 00:06:30.199 It's gonna hit him, but not until there are retaliatory 128 00:06:30.240 --> 00:06:34.639 tariffs and when there are, expect to hear more bad 129 00:06:34.680 --> 00:06:37.000 French accents from yours truly, Chris. 130 00:06:36.759 --> 00:06:38.920 Merrill Live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. 131 00:06:39.399 --> 00:06:43.279 You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. 132 00:06:44.480 --> 00:06:48.199 KFI AM six forty on demand anytime the iHeart Radio app. 133 00:06:48.800 --> 00:06:50.319 We know that we've had a couple of high profile 134 00:06:50.319 --> 00:06:54.480 swatting incidents in southern California here and the last few weeks, 135 00:06:54.480 --> 00:06:59.839 we're actually seeing a number of swatting incidences, incidents, incidents 136 00:07:00.600 --> 00:07:04.000 growing nationwide. In fact, one happened to a radio host, 137 00:07:04.240 --> 00:07:07.959 syndicated host out of Texas, and the FCC chair Brendan Carr, 138 00:07:08.000 --> 00:07:11.000 actually got in on this. He was mentioning that it 139 00:07:11.040 --> 00:07:15.079 was politically motivated, but he says he called it political violence, 140 00:07:15.319 --> 00:07:17.040 saying that he had been in touch with law enforcement 141 00:07:17.079 --> 00:07:19.800 to ensure that they have access to trace back resources 142 00:07:19.800 --> 00:07:22.319 that locate the calls originating point. 143 00:07:22.399 --> 00:07:25.199 Bad actors will face accountability. 144 00:07:24.519 --> 00:07:26.319 That according to the FCC, when it comes to some 145 00:07:26.360 --> 00:07:34.439 of these others incidences incident SI. But what about closer 146 00:07:34.439 --> 00:07:37.480 to home, Well, believe it or not, you can't do 147 00:07:37.560 --> 00:07:40.480 a whole lot if somebody swats, and by swatting, I 148 00:07:40.480 --> 00:07:42.480 mean they call in law enforcement and they file a 149 00:07:42.480 --> 00:07:45.519 false claim saying oh there's a bomb or something, you 150 00:07:45.519 --> 00:07:47.160 can't really do a whole lot about it if it's 151 00:07:48.120 --> 00:07:52.319 if it's done against an institution. Now, if Amy were 152 00:07:52.360 --> 00:07:55.160 to say that that Chris Merrill has a bomb, then 153 00:07:55.199 --> 00:07:59.040 she would be committing a crime. If in fact, she 154 00:07:59.120 --> 00:08:02.319 were to say that something's happening at the radio station 155 00:08:02.480 --> 00:08:06.879 right now. In the state, you can't do with a 156 00:08:06.879 --> 00:08:08.959 lot as far as prosecution goes. Which brings us to 157 00:08:09.040 --> 00:08:14.120 what we saw in Clarmont where uh, I mean, if 158 00:08:14.759 --> 00:08:16.720 if you're saying it's happening at a hospital or a 159 00:08:16.759 --> 00:08:18.439 college or something of that sort. 160 00:08:18.839 --> 00:08:20.720 What what can be done? 161 00:08:20.879 --> 00:08:21.079 Well? 162 00:08:21.199 --> 00:08:25.040 Legislators aren't tackling the matter. Cakew was reporting that Claremont. 163 00:08:25.040 --> 00:08:28.240 Pete says the intent to prosecute the people who recently 164 00:08:28.279 --> 00:08:31.639 pulled a swatting incident here, but they're often hard to 165 00:08:31.720 --> 00:08:35.720 track down and to prosecute. They're hoping some new laws 166 00:08:35.960 --> 00:08:40.039 will change that. Massive law enforcement responses at both Claremont 167 00:08:40.080 --> 00:08:44.919 McKenna College and Lowilinda University Medical Center last week after 168 00:08:45.000 --> 00:08:47.879 two separate swatting calls or popes at nine to one 169 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:52.679 one reports in two days, required both campuses to be evacuated. 170 00:08:53.039 --> 00:08:56.720 Then here there's like a potential shooter, like yeah, yeah, 171 00:08:58.039 --> 00:09:00.159 that's it's also quite disruptive too. 172 00:09:00.799 --> 00:09:02.679 I mean, you're not just disrupting one person. You're talking 173 00:09:02.679 --> 00:09:05.120 about disrupting the operations of a hospital. 174 00:09:05.360 --> 00:09:08.000 Send students in Claremont into a panic. 175 00:09:08.320 --> 00:09:10.600 Everyone else was kind of running around and leaving campus. 176 00:09:10.960 --> 00:09:12.840 So it's scary, very freaky. 177 00:09:12.919 --> 00:09:15.200 I was on the phone calling all of my. 178 00:09:15.200 --> 00:09:17.840 Friends at a time when swatting calls are on the 179 00:09:17.919 --> 00:09:20.720 rise across the country. I just said that, why are 180 00:09:20.759 --> 00:09:24.720 police departments here in California struggling to hold the suspects 181 00:09:24.759 --> 00:09:25.639 account of why? 182 00:09:25.879 --> 00:09:29.000 You can hide your regular phone number, your IP address. 183 00:09:29.200 --> 00:09:33.320 You can basically use a voiceover for you, your own voice, 184 00:09:33.360 --> 00:09:36.360 so it disguises your voice. So any of that type 185 00:09:36.360 --> 00:09:38.720 of evidence we're looking for is very hard to track down. 186 00:09:39.039 --> 00:09:42.360 But it's also because of California laws that require at. 187 00:09:42.360 --> 00:09:44.519 Some point, speaking of disguising your voice, at some point 188 00:09:44.559 --> 00:09:46.039 one of us is gonna get wrapped up in a 189 00:09:47.120 --> 00:09:50.200 in a legal matter. You know that, right at some 190 00:09:50.360 --> 00:09:53.759 point they're gonna they're gonna take samples of Bill's voice 191 00:09:53.840 --> 00:09:57.639 or Amy's voice, or Neil Savadra's voice, and they're gonna 192 00:09:57.720 --> 00:09:59.919 use AI to process it, and then they're gonna have 193 00:10:00.120 --> 00:10:03.320 what sounds like Neil or Amy or Bill make a 194 00:10:03.399 --> 00:10:06.679 dastardly call, and then there's gonna be a knock on 195 00:10:06.720 --> 00:10:07.039 the door. 196 00:10:08.360 --> 00:10:08.559 Ah. 197 00:10:08.679 --> 00:10:10.840 Yes, mister handle, we'd like to talk to you about 198 00:10:10.879 --> 00:10:12.639 a recent phone call you made and Bill's gonna go 199 00:10:12.679 --> 00:10:16.320 I don't even know how my cell phone works. I 200 00:10:16.360 --> 00:10:19.519 have and make the calls for me. But this is 201 00:10:19.519 --> 00:10:22.200 gonna happen. You're gonna you're gonna start getting You're gonna 202 00:10:22.200 --> 00:10:27.559 start getting h crank calls from Keanu Reeves, from Taylor Swift, 203 00:10:27.720 --> 00:10:29.519 You're gonna start getting crank calls from all kinds of 204 00:10:29.559 --> 00:10:34.360 celebrities whose voices have simply been emulated by AI mark 205 00:10:34.480 --> 00:10:35.279 my words. 206 00:10:35.759 --> 00:10:39.559 But it's also because of California laws that require perpetrators 207 00:10:39.600 --> 00:10:43.519 here to threaten specific people instead of just an entity 208 00:10:43.639 --> 00:10:46.639 like a school or a hospital in order to prosecute. 209 00:10:46.679 --> 00:10:48.200 So what do we do to especially since there now 210 00:10:48.240 --> 00:10:50.879 reaching across the US and people are realizing this is 211 00:10:50.879 --> 00:10:53.320 a bigger issue than what we're actually thinking about. 212 00:10:53.559 --> 00:10:56.480 This bill really is going to tackle that loopo where 213 00:10:56.679 --> 00:10:58.480 you don't need to mention a person and it's still 214 00:10:58.519 --> 00:10:59.200 against the law. 215 00:10:59.360 --> 00:11:02.879 The Senators Susan Rubio, who represents Baldwin Park, authored a 216 00:11:02.919 --> 00:11:07.039 new Senate built SB nineteen, which allows prosecutors to charge 217 00:11:07.080 --> 00:11:10.559 people who make any credible threats of mass violence at schools, 218 00:11:10.799 --> 00:11:11.840 houses of warship. 219 00:11:13.399 --> 00:11:17.720 I mean, this one seems like a no brainer. Why 220 00:11:17.720 --> 00:11:18.559 did it take so long? 221 00:11:18.759 --> 00:11:22.039 Children deserve better, our students, our communities deserve better. So 222 00:11:22.080 --> 00:11:24.480 hopefully you know, this will set a strong message. 223 00:11:24.720 --> 00:11:27.559 Students we spoke with think threats of violence should not 224 00:11:27.639 --> 00:11:29.120 be tolerated. 225 00:11:28.799 --> 00:11:30.879 If it negatively impacts the community that it affects. 226 00:11:30.879 --> 00:11:33.639 It negatively impacts the police because they could be doing 227 00:11:33.679 --> 00:11:34.919 a myriad of other things. 228 00:11:35.360 --> 00:11:37.240 And yeah, this is not a free speech issue because 229 00:11:37.240 --> 00:11:41.159 this is intended to incite immediate reaction. For those of 230 00:11:41.159 --> 00:11:44.559 you that say, well, I was my speech not protecting, No, no, 231 00:11:44.720 --> 00:11:48.240 this is the definition of an exception to free speech. 232 00:11:48.320 --> 00:11:52.679 It is intended to incite immediate reaction here and in 233 00:11:52.720 --> 00:11:57.279 this case violence or at the very least, disruption by 234 00:11:57.320 --> 00:11:58.200 the authorities. 235 00:11:58.519 --> 00:12:01.960 So no false threats, not okay. 236 00:12:02.039 --> 00:12:05.480 And Senator Rubio says these swatting calls often cost one 237 00:12:05.559 --> 00:12:09.039 hundred thousand dollars in police response when you factor in 238 00:12:09.120 --> 00:12:13.000 things like helicopters and getting responding agencies out to help 239 00:12:13.120 --> 00:12:16.399 clear campuses. She says it's important for parents to talk 240 00:12:16.399 --> 00:12:18.559 to their kids about how serious it is to make 241 00:12:18.600 --> 00:12:21.120 a threat. But you know, sometimes the people who do 242 00:12:21.159 --> 00:12:26.840 these swatting calls are adults reporting in Claremont Nicolecommstock k 243 00:12:27.000 --> 00:12:27.480 CAL News. 244 00:12:27.559 --> 00:12:27.759 Yeah. 245 00:12:27.799 --> 00:12:29.799 I think oftentimes we and I'm glad you made that 246 00:12:29.840 --> 00:12:32.000 point because oftentimes I think we say, oh, the kids 247 00:12:32.000 --> 00:12:33.679 these days, here's what they're doing. 248 00:12:33.720 --> 00:12:34.279 I don't think so. 249 00:12:34.399 --> 00:12:36.600 I think sometimes you've just got some disgruntled or off 250 00:12:36.720 --> 00:12:39.879 kilter people that they're bored. 251 00:12:40.399 --> 00:12:43.159 They like the challenge or the adventure. They like to 252 00:12:43.519 --> 00:12:44.399 make people jump. 253 00:12:44.480 --> 00:12:46.399 Maybe they are sitting alone in their home and they 254 00:12:46.399 --> 00:12:49.600 feel powerless and this gives them some element of control. 255 00:12:49.639 --> 00:12:53.480 I'm sure there's a psychological factor to this, but either way, 256 00:12:53.480 --> 00:12:55.159 we've got to tighten the laws up so that we 257 00:12:55.200 --> 00:12:58.000 can track these people down and stop the sort of 258 00:12:58.039 --> 00:13:00.759 nonsense in the future. Okay, I A six forty were 259 00:13:00.759 --> 00:13:02.879 live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. 260 00:13:03.320 --> 00:13:08.720 You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand AM. 261 00:13:08.279 --> 00:13:11.039 Six forty on demand anytime the iHeartRadio app. 262 00:13:11.799 --> 00:13:13.840 There is an issue with some. 263 00:13:13.759 --> 00:13:16.360 Of the DNA samples that the La County Sheriff's Department 264 00:13:17.559 --> 00:13:19.519 had tested in the past. Now they have to retest 265 00:13:19.559 --> 00:13:22.960 them all because somebody didn't get an email. 266 00:13:23.559 --> 00:13:23.919 Oops. 267 00:13:24.000 --> 00:13:26.399 So very bizarre situation about how all of this went down. 268 00:13:26.440 --> 00:13:28.080 So here's the thing. The Sheriff's apartment over at their 269 00:13:28.080 --> 00:13:30.559 science lab has a series of DNA tests that they 270 00:13:30.639 --> 00:13:33.720 use for various crimes like sex crimes, DNA and murders, 271 00:13:33.759 --> 00:13:36.200 all kinds of different things. So here's the deal. The 272 00:13:36.200 --> 00:13:39.080 company that provides those tests for them notified the Sheriff's 273 00:13:39.080 --> 00:13:41.240 partment that the tests that they had were bad. The 274 00:13:41.320 --> 00:13:43.559 problem is that the company sent a letter to a 275 00:13:43.600 --> 00:13:45.919 person who no longer works at the sheriff's department. 276 00:13:46.200 --> 00:13:48.440 Oops, yeah, that's a problem. 277 00:13:48.559 --> 00:13:50.919 So that happened more than a year ago, and so 278 00:13:51.039 --> 00:13:53.240 for the last amount of time since that letter was 279 00:13:53.279 --> 00:13:56.360 sent out, the Sheriff's Partment continued to use those tests, 280 00:13:56.480 --> 00:13:58.600 not knowing that they were actually bad. 281 00:13:58.879 --> 00:13:59.440 Here's the thing. 282 00:13:59.679 --> 00:14:02.480 The company that runs the testing program says it doesn't 283 00:14:02.559 --> 00:14:06.000 provide false positives, but it's just not as reliable as 284 00:14:06.039 --> 00:14:08.679 they should be. So what happens now Now the department 285 00:14:08.720 --> 00:14:12.759 is trying to retest four thousand DNA samples to figure 286 00:14:12.759 --> 00:14:14.840 out if everything is still okay with the way it 287 00:14:14.879 --> 00:14:16.600 was tested the first time. The problem is, as we 288 00:14:16.720 --> 00:14:19.480 reported before, in certain crimes, in certain situations, there's not 289 00:14:19.559 --> 00:14:22.440 a lot of DNA evidence to test. So in some cases, 290 00:14:22.480 --> 00:14:25.440 there may be none left to retest with these cases. 291 00:14:25.639 --> 00:14:28.799 Uh oh, that's a problem now. 292 00:14:28.840 --> 00:14:31.120 Isn't it interesting that this email got sent to somebody 293 00:14:31.159 --> 00:14:33.279 that's no longer with the sheriff's department, which means either 294 00:14:33.320 --> 00:14:36.519 they left the sheriff's department and the email was taken away, 295 00:14:36.559 --> 00:14:38.200 which means that the email was sent to a box 296 00:14:38.200 --> 00:14:39.799 it no longer exists and it's up in the ether. 297 00:14:39.879 --> 00:14:43.559 And I don't know if they got a return message 298 00:14:43.600 --> 00:14:46.399 at the manufacturer, but they didn't do any other follow up. 299 00:14:46.399 --> 00:14:50.000 They certainly didn't send a second notice, third notice, another 300 00:14:50.039 --> 00:14:53.120 way of contacting. Or it's somebody that was terminated from 301 00:14:53.159 --> 00:14:56.320 the sheriff's department, in which case maybe they're even getting 302 00:14:56.360 --> 00:14:58.480 the notification and they're going, well, shouldn't. 303 00:14:58.080 --> 00:14:59.840 Have fired me, and then they delete the email. 304 00:15:01.600 --> 00:15:04.480 To be honest, I would have done that unless I 305 00:15:04.519 --> 00:15:08.679 thought that it was putting somebody in jail, you know, wrongly, 306 00:15:09.399 --> 00:15:11.519 then I would probably follow up. But if I thought 307 00:15:11.559 --> 00:15:14.480 that you know what this is on you guys, yeah, 308 00:15:14.480 --> 00:15:15.879 I probably would have just the leader of the email 309 00:15:15.879 --> 00:15:17.320 and been like, shouldn't have fired me? 310 00:15:17.559 --> 00:15:19.360 Now, what does this mean for all of the cases 311 00:15:19.399 --> 00:15:22.240 that have already gone through judicial system using these now 312 00:15:22.679 --> 00:15:26.039 hampered essentially DNA tests. Well, the District Attorney's office is 313 00:15:26.039 --> 00:15:27.559 working with the sheriff to try to sort all of 314 00:15:27.600 --> 00:15:30.080 that out. Defense attorneys could certainly get a hold of 315 00:15:30.080 --> 00:15:32.919 this and demand that certain things be retested or retried, 316 00:15:32.960 --> 00:15:34.960 and they could have a very big implication for the 317 00:15:35.000 --> 00:15:36.000 criminal justice system. 318 00:15:36.120 --> 00:15:37.159 We'll have to wait and play that out. 319 00:15:37.159 --> 00:15:38.600 By the way, the Sheriff's department is the only one 320 00:15:38.639 --> 00:15:40.519 that's come forward and told us about this issue, but 321 00:15:40.559 --> 00:15:42.840 we are told that other law enforcement agencies in the 322 00:15:42.879 --> 00:15:45.559 county also use that company. So we're reaching out to 323 00:15:45.600 --> 00:15:47.879 the different agencies throughout LA County to figure out if 324 00:15:47.879 --> 00:15:49.879 anybody else has been impound by this tests. But we 325 00:15:49.919 --> 00:15:52.960 are talking thousands of bad DNA tests at least with 326 00:15:53.000 --> 00:15:54.000 the Sheriff's department. 327 00:15:53.759 --> 00:15:55.679 Gests and that's just the Sheriff's department. As he said, 328 00:15:55.879 --> 00:15:59.000 this could be this could have a wider fallout. And 329 00:15:59.320 --> 00:16:01.759 if I'm a if I am a defense attorney, I'm 330 00:16:01.799 --> 00:16:06.600 salivating right now. I mean salivating, not like into a 331 00:16:06.639 --> 00:16:09.080 sample tube that they can future test, but I'm salivating 332 00:16:09.519 --> 00:16:12.879 like figuratively speaking, that would be. 333 00:16:14.320 --> 00:16:15.799 They got to be very excited about that. 334 00:16:16.440 --> 00:16:18.759 Okay, if I AM six forty were live everywhere on 335 00:16:18.840 --> 00:16:20.600 the iHeartRadio. 336 00:16:20.360 --> 00:16:23.759 You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. 337 00:16:24.480 --> 00:16:25.159 I'm there. 338 00:16:26.840 --> 00:16:28.559 I've told the story before, but I don't think I've 339 00:16:28.720 --> 00:16:31.080 told it on the morning show, so I'm gonna do 340 00:16:31.080 --> 00:16:38.519 it again. First came to California in twenty twelve and 341 00:16:38.799 --> 00:16:40.960 I rolled in. I worked in San Diego and I 342 00:16:41.039 --> 00:16:42.639 rolled in. They were putting me up at a resort, 343 00:16:43.159 --> 00:16:45.240 which was nice until I got the tax bill on 344 00:16:45.279 --> 00:16:46.480 that that was fun. 345 00:16:47.039 --> 00:16:48.559 So I roll up into this resort. 346 00:16:48.559 --> 00:16:53.320 It was February the twentieth, I believe, And as I 347 00:16:53.360 --> 00:16:54.840 pull into this resort, I had left. 348 00:16:55.159 --> 00:16:57.320 I was working in Kansas City, and I left Kansas City. 349 00:16:57.639 --> 00:17:00.879 I pull into this resort, you know, drive, drove across country, 350 00:17:00.879 --> 00:17:06.119 pull in, and as I'm driving in in February, there's 351 00:17:06.200 --> 00:17:09.799 girls standing in the parking lot in bikinis, and I thought, 352 00:17:09.960 --> 00:17:11.200 I'm never leaving California. 353 00:17:12.079 --> 00:17:13.400 This is the most amazing thing ever. 354 00:17:14.279 --> 00:17:18.359 So I start working at this radio station and great stations, 355 00:17:18.359 --> 00:17:23.559 still love it. Fantastic people there, and I hear about 356 00:17:23.599 --> 00:17:25.359 this high speed rail project. 357 00:17:25.599 --> 00:17:25.839 Again. 358 00:17:25.880 --> 00:17:29.480 This is twenty twelve, so still in the planning stages, 359 00:17:29.839 --> 00:17:32.240 and they said, well, you know, I was given a 360 00:17:32.240 --> 00:17:34.279 little bit of the backstory in I hadn't heard about 361 00:17:34.319 --> 00:17:37.519 it until then, and I'm giving the backstory. And they said, well, 362 00:17:37.519 --> 00:17:41.440 the voters approved this eight billion dollars to go towards 363 00:17:41.440 --> 00:17:43.720 starting this high speed rail and eventually it's going to 364 00:17:43.799 --> 00:17:46.960 run from the Bay Area and eventually it'll go from 365 00:17:47.000 --> 00:17:48.599 the Bay Area all the way to San Diego. But 366 00:17:48.680 --> 00:17:50.759 initially they want to get it from Bay Area and 367 00:17:50.799 --> 00:17:55.920 Sacramento to Los Angeles. And I thought, well, that sounds ambitious, 368 00:17:56.279 --> 00:17:58.359 and they said yeah. 369 00:17:57.640 --> 00:17:58.039 And the. 370 00:17:59.680 --> 00:18:03.839 The projections are already at I don't know what it 371 00:18:03.880 --> 00:18:06.160 was at the time, twenty five billion dollars or something 372 00:18:06.200 --> 00:18:09.559 like that. So shortly after I get there, they go, uh, oh, 373 00:18:09.640 --> 00:18:12.079 we're gonna need more money. Projections are now up to 374 00:18:13.680 --> 00:18:16.160 thirty billion or forty billion dollars, whatever it was. And 375 00:18:16.200 --> 00:18:19.960 I said, I've seen this play out before. I've been 376 00:18:20.039 --> 00:18:23.400 fired from enough stations and enough cities to see how 377 00:18:23.480 --> 00:18:27.759 government waste is ubiquitous. It is not a California problem. 378 00:18:28.079 --> 00:18:29.920 It happens everywhere. 379 00:18:30.359 --> 00:18:31.119 You have people. 380 00:18:31.240 --> 00:18:32.920 It's sort of like when you go to a buffet 381 00:18:33.200 --> 00:18:35.079 and your eyes are bigger than your stomach. 382 00:18:35.680 --> 00:18:36.440 That's what happens. 383 00:18:36.440 --> 00:18:39.160 When the politicians get just an iota of power. They go, 384 00:18:39.279 --> 00:18:41.799 we want to do this grand project, and they want 385 00:18:41.799 --> 00:18:43.160 to attach their names to it. 386 00:18:43.599 --> 00:18:43.839 Right. 387 00:18:44.279 --> 00:18:47.359 So Governor Brown really wanted to have this high speed rail. 388 00:18:47.359 --> 00:18:49.160 He says, this is going to be great, and they 389 00:18:49.240 --> 00:18:51.119 all push for it. And you had a bunch of 390 00:18:51.160 --> 00:18:53.440 the politicians and Sacramento patting themselves in the back. 391 00:18:53.519 --> 00:18:54.519 This is gonna be spectacular. 392 00:18:54.559 --> 00:18:57.559 And I went, wait a minute, the voters approved eight 393 00:18:57.559 --> 00:19:00.000 billion dollars. You're already up to forty or fifty billion dollars. 394 00:19:00.160 --> 00:19:02.920 Just said you, mark my words, this is gonna go 395 00:19:02.960 --> 00:19:07.839 up to one hundred billion dollars. And what I didn't 396 00:19:07.839 --> 00:19:11.200 realize is how wrong I was, because we blew past 397 00:19:11.200 --> 00:19:12.240 one hundred billion. 398 00:19:11.960 --> 00:19:15.759 Dollars a long, long time ago, long time ago. And 399 00:19:15.839 --> 00:19:16.920 what do we have to show for it? 400 00:19:17.599 --> 00:19:19.920 Raise your hand if you have ridden the high speed 401 00:19:20.039 --> 00:19:21.039