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Speaker 3: Mark Thompson here on this Sunday, and I'm just kind
Speaker 3: of looking back at what's happened over the last couple
Speaker 3: of days. The No King's protests, of course, just filled
Speaker 3: the streets coast to coast, and here in southern California,
Speaker 3: tens of thousands of protesters in downtown La, all in
Speaker 3: opposition to President Trump's policies. There was a raid today.
Speaker 3: Was it today or yesterday with Santa Fe Springs the
Speaker 3: swap meet? I think it was yesterday, actually, yeah, But
Speaker 3: once again I was touching on at last hour, they
Speaker 3: are saying in terms of raids, that they're going to
Speaker 3: do less of that kind of thing and more of
Speaker 3: the stuff they'd said they were going to do, which
Speaker 3: is the going after violent criminals, going after those who
Speaker 3: run a foul of the law.
Speaker 2: But they went after this.
Speaker 3: Swap meet in Santa Fe Springs before a concert was
Speaker 3: going to start there. So I mean, I can't imagine that.
Speaker 3: You know, again, home depot, day workers and swap meets
Speaker 3: are on their list. I mean, most Americans agreed and
Speaker 3: actually put Donald Trump in office because of the problem
Speaker 3: at the border. The problem at the border is different
Speaker 3: than the immigration policy associated with going to a swap
Speaker 3: meet and arresting a bunch of people there and then
Speaker 3: going to home depot and arresting a bunch of day workers.
Speaker 3: As it turns out in latest polling, most Americans don't
Speaker 3: approve of that kind of thing. So they want the
Speaker 3: administration to stay on course on the articulated course of
Speaker 3: going after criminal gang associates and those who represent a
Speaker 3: criminal element. So again, not the technical criminal element that
Speaker 3: is associated with I get it, they aren't in the
Speaker 3: country legally. But what most Americans the latest polling just
Speaker 3: came out last week, is like, yeah, we understand that,
Speaker 3: but they're also a part of our community. What we're
Speaker 3: looking for is a response and a focus along the
Speaker 3: lines of what was articulated by the administration, which was, Hey,
Speaker 3: we're going to go after these gang connected people, We're
Speaker 3: going to go after those who have violent passed, and
Speaker 3: we're going to get.
Speaker 4: Rid of them.
Speaker 3: In any case, all of this taking place against the
Speaker 3: backdrop of a weekend with a lot of people in
Speaker 3: the streets.
Speaker 5: Should we cap the protest in downtown LA, which was
Speaker 5: the largest protest in our area today.
Speaker 6: The day started out peaceful.
Speaker 5: No King's Day organizers claimed two hundred thousand people turned
Speaker 5: out in downtown LA to protest the Trump administration's immigration policies.
Speaker 6: But around four pm it all changed.
Speaker 7: That's what LAPD says. Its officers were being attacked with rocks, models,
Speaker 7: and bricks. It issued a dispersal order, but many of
Speaker 7: the protesters were.
Speaker 1: Not ready to go home.
Speaker 7: The clash with LAPD officers and La County Shriff's deputies began.
Speaker 7: Tear Gas and non lethal munitions were used to help
Speaker 7: break up the crowd before the eight pm downtown curfew
Speaker 7: kicked in.
Speaker 5: La County Sheriff Robert Luna spoke with us earlier this evening, and.
Speaker 7: He says protests were peaceful up until about that four
Speaker 7: o'clock time in the afternoon, when police had no choice
Speaker 7: but to disperse the crowd. The sheriff also has a
Speaker 7: message for anyone who violates the downtown curfew.
Speaker 8: The curfew that's set here in the city of Los
Speaker 8: Angeles will be strictly enforced. Obviously, because of the activity
Speaker 8: that we've seen over the last several hours, and my
Speaker 8: message to the community that's still out there, and I'm
Speaker 8: going to say they're not protesting. This is not protesting
Speaker 8: or demonstration anymore. This is lawlessness. You need to leave,
Speaker 8: Please go home. We would like not to arrest you,
Speaker 8: but the direction to our deputies, our police officers is
Speaker 8: if you're out there violating the curfew and you don't leave,
Speaker 8: you are going to be arrested.
Speaker 3: I love that plan. I love that plan. You've got
Speaker 3: to take control of the city. You've got to and
Speaker 3: it's such a small area that's being affected on one level,
Speaker 3: but on another level, because it's a small area, you
Speaker 3: got to crack down hard. This downtown area has been
Speaker 3: through enough, pummeled by so many things outside, things inside, things,
Speaker 3: COVID strikes I mean, depending on you know. That's what
Speaker 3: I mean when I say from the outside of is
Speaker 3: COVID and the inside it was strikes you. You need
Speaker 3: to you need to seize downtown in such a way
Speaker 3: though that allows it to flourish and allows us to
Speaker 3: lift these curfews.
Speaker 5: As we've mentioned, there were several no Kings protests today.
Speaker 6: Let's take a look at some of them.
Speaker 5: Another large protest took place outside Whittier City Hall this afternoon.
Speaker 5: An ice raid took place at a home depot there
Speaker 5: earlier this week. Protesters we spoke with today say they're
Speaker 5: tired of the invasion on their community. Protests in Wittier
Speaker 5: remained peaceful, with no reported.
Speaker 7: Incidents and more from the No King's Day protests happening
Speaker 7: today and more than thirty different places across southern California.
Speaker 7: This was downtown Pasadena this afternoon. You could see a
Speaker 7: peaceful crowd of demonstrators. They took to the streets at
Speaker 7: Lake in Colorado.
Speaker 5: In Ventura, This is video from demonstrations near the Ventura
Speaker 5: County Government Center along Victoria Avenue and Telephone Road. One
Speaker 5: person was handing out free supplies to the dozens of
Speaker 5: protesters who showed up.
Speaker 3: I got to say this that when you consider the
Speaker 3: number of people who are in the streets and part
Speaker 3: of these protests, it is amazing that there weren't more incidents.
Speaker 3: I mean, just in terms of outside agitators. You would
Speaker 3: have thought there'd be more in downtown LA. I think
Speaker 3: there are every day. There's evidence of outside agitators having
Speaker 3: an effect. I just from surprised there wasn't more of
Speaker 3: it Karen Bass saying on morning talk shows she doesn't
Speaker 3: need the military, she doesn't want the military in the city.
Speaker 3: She is saying that. And of course this whole thing
Speaker 3: is cut up in the courts. Late Thursday, there was
Speaker 3: an appeals court panel that lifted the judge's order ruling
Speaker 3: that the president's deployment of the National Guard was illegal. So,
Speaker 3: in other words, it went on the side of Trump
Speaker 3: when he made the move. Initially went to court, it
Speaker 3: was overruled, and Trump, it was ruled, didn't have control
Speaker 3: of it. Then it went immediately to an appeals court
Speaker 3: and that panel lifted that other judges order, saying at
Speaker 3: least for the moment, that Trump does have the power
Speaker 3: to retain control of the National Guard and dispatch them
Speaker 3: to Los Angeles. And the key thing is that Trump
Speaker 3: controls what they do. The governor has no control anymore.
Speaker 3: What about polling, Mayor Bass comforted by a poll.
Speaker 6: Are Democrats out of touch on this issue?
Speaker 9: Well, I think if you did the polling in Los Angeles,
Speaker 9: I'm not sure it would be that way. Considering we
Speaker 9: are a city of immigrants.
Speaker 3: It's polling about immigration obviously, And again, the polling, as
Speaker 3: I was mentioning before overwhelmingly in favor of handling immigration
Speaker 3: as an issue. It's a front and center issue the board.
Speaker 3: The border was a massive win for the GOP, and
Speaker 3: Karen bass is responding to that essentially.
Speaker 6: Are Democrats out of touch on this issue?
Speaker 9: Well, I think if you did the polling in Los Angeles,
Speaker 9: I'm not sure it would be that way, considering we
Speaker 9: are a city of immigrants.
Speaker 10: And then people might approve that policy. But do people
Speaker 10: really approve the federal government coming in and seizing power
Speaker 10: from a state and from a city. So I drilled
Speaker 10: down a little further on that poll because I do
Speaker 10: not believe that Americans support the federal intervention in a
Speaker 10: city takeover or a state takeover.
Speaker 3: I think it's generally the case that when you are
Speaker 3: looking at kind of the Jetliner review of the immigration problem,
Speaker 3: you know, you're looking without looking at the specifics of
Speaker 3: families being busted up, and you know, some twelve year
Speaker 3: old at their graduation, Ice agents swooping and take both
Speaker 3: their parents away. I mean, it's there's pretty ridiculous stuff
Speaker 3: going on, and I think most Americans find that abhorrent.
Speaker 3: But if you ask them, do we have a problem
Speaker 3: they would say, yes, we do. That's essentially what Karen
Speaker 3: Bass was saying. It's interesting because when we come back,
Speaker 3: I just want to spend one second talking about the
Speaker 3: comparison between what's going on now with ice agents and
Speaker 3: raids like this and some of the scenes that we've seen,
Speaker 3: dramatic scenes, heartbreaking scenes that you've seen recorded on iPhone
Speaker 3: and cell phone and android phone footage, and how that
Speaker 3: actually has a parallel in American history and I really
Speaker 3: think it may be a turning point potentially. Potentially I'll
Speaker 3: talk about that when we come back. Mark Thompson sitting
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Speaker 3: Mark Thompson here on this Sunday, and there's a manhunt underway,
Speaker 3: as you know, in Minnesota for this vance bolter guy.
Speaker 3: Just a brutal, awful, despicable, horrifying thing. This guy masquerading
Speaker 3: as a cop, shoots and kills the Minnesota state Representative
Speaker 3: Melissa Hortman her husband, as well hacking another state lawmaker
Speaker 3: and his spouse fifty seven years old, Vance Bolter. So
Speaker 3: there is something of a break in the fact that
Speaker 3: they found another vehicle linked to the suspect.
Speaker 11: This is the epicenter, or at least as close as
Speaker 11: we can get to it. Here in rural Sibley County.
Speaker 11: I am on Highway twenty five the area in question
Speaker 11: where that suspects view.
Speaker 2: Again, of course Sibley County's in Minnesota.
Speaker 11: Question where that suspects vehicle was found. If our photographer
Speaker 11: can push about a mile from here, you've see some
Speaker 11: flashing lights. There were at least within the last half
Speaker 11: hour even more emergency vehicles. But since that amount of
Speaker 11: time they've left the scene. Here now, it's here where
Speaker 11: investigators say they found the shooting suspects seemingly abandoned vehicle,
Speaker 11: and not too far from that a cowboy hat.
Speaker 1: You're looking at new video.
Speaker 11: Just about an hour and a half ago, we watch
Speaker 11: as the suspects vehicle was towed away from the scene.
Speaker 11: We got a closer look at that vehicle before law
Speaker 11: enforcement pushed us back. You see it pulled over on
Speaker 11: the gravel road. We captured a photo of the cowboy hat.
Speaker 11: Now take a look at this side by side comparison
Speaker 11: and matches. The photo of the hat Beltzer was last
Speaker 11: seen wearing. An emergency dealer this morning told anyone living
Speaker 11: in the area, this is the facts in township to
Speaker 11: keep their doors locked and vehicles secured. Here on Highway
Speaker 11: twenty five. We've seen agencies from across the state come through,
Speaker 11: including SWAT and a bomb squad team.
Speaker 6: Viewers in green Isle sent us.
Speaker 11: Footage where dozens of squad cars are patrolling. Neighbors say
Speaker 11: all of this in their neighborhood is quite shocking.
Speaker 2: None of us are scared.
Speaker 12: This is just strange.
Speaker 6: You might disagree with somebody, but you don't shoot them.
Speaker 11: And again, as far as we know, despite that car
Speaker 11: being totalway belter is still at large. We are, as
Speaker 11: Derek mentioned, awaiting that five to thirty press conference where
Speaker 11: we're hoping to learn more details as far as what
Speaker 11: investigators have uncovered today.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm reading with interest sort of how they're going
Speaker 3: about this dragnet and the guy worked for a security company.
Speaker 3: He had a background, extensive background with military and security,
Speaker 3: so you know he has on board in his head
Speaker 3: a lot of the mechanisms and strategies to avoid being apprehended.
Speaker 3: But on the other hand, you know everybody after him
Speaker 3: has all of those as well, and there are a
Speaker 3: lot more of them than there are of him. There
Speaker 3: is a shelter in place order in Egan, Minnesota.
Speaker 13: Also getting word and you heard mention of that briefly
Speaker 13: of another shelter in place order, this time in Egan,
Speaker 13: and we are currently told it is not related to
Speaker 13: the ongoing manhunt for the man accused of shooting those
Speaker 13: two lawmakers and their spouses.
Speaker 2: It's not what is it related to?
Speaker 3: There's a shelter in place order in Egan, Minnesota and
Speaker 3: it's not related.
Speaker 2: To the man hunt. Are you kidding?
Speaker 3: What's going on in Egan, Minnesota that requires everybody to
Speaker 3: shelter in place?
Speaker 2: That's not related to the man.
Speaker 13: It's absurd of shooting those two lawmakers and their spouses. Wait,
Speaker 13: I have to hear that ongoing manhunt for the man
Speaker 13: accused of shooting, not that it is not related.
Speaker 3: Okay, I want to put our best people on this.
Speaker 3: Tell me how there can be a shelter and place
Speaker 3: order in Egan, Minnesota and it's not related to the
Speaker 3: man hunt for this guy Van Sbolter.
Speaker 4: It is not related.
Speaker 3: Okay, I will I accept that as true. It is
Speaker 3: an extraordinary coincidence. Then on this Sunday, this.
Speaker 13: Is our live look at the scene right now. If
Speaker 13: you are near Lexington Parkway and Falcon Way in Egan,
Speaker 13: please stay inside, lock your doors and stay away from
Speaker 13: doors and windows.
Speaker 3: Okay, you're telling me, Come on, guys, I mean you
Speaker 3: know it's clearly related to it. So the massive search
Speaker 3: continues and the discovery of the vehicle with that target list.
Speaker 3: Dozens of Minnesota Democrats, Tim Wall the governor, on that list,
Speaker 3: Ilan Omar, Tina Smith, State Attorney General Keith Ellison. There's
Speaker 3: a fifty thousand dollars reward for this information leading to
Speaker 3: his arrest. But he's clearly a dangerous guy and his
Speaker 3: wife was detained for questioning. There was a traffic stop
Speaker 3: near a town called Onamia. Maybe you guys know it.
Speaker 3: I don't know the Minnesota area super well at all.
Speaker 3: In fact, I've been through the airport. I think that's
Speaker 3: the extent of it. Lovely airport, but doesn't really help
Speaker 3: me with Onamia anyway. She was stopped late Saturday morning
Speaker 3: in Onamia, and apparently she was released without being arrested,
Speaker 3: but there was at least there have been some reports
Speaker 3: that there were things in the car that raised.
Speaker 2: Suspicions.
Speaker 3: So again, this guy is suspected of gaining entry to
Speaker 3: these homes by disguising himself as a cop. He even
Speaker 3: arrived at their home in a vehicle that looked like
Speaker 3: a police cruiser. But again, he worked with a security company.
Speaker 3: This is kind of who he was, so when you
Speaker 3: look at who he was, it doesn't surprise you. But
Speaker 3: this is a heinous act, and that these legislators and
Speaker 3: their spouses were killed in their home like this really
Speaker 3: extraordinarily disturbing. So that manhunt continues and Minnesota lawmakers are
Speaker 3: talking about who these people were.
Speaker 13: We are joined now by Caroline Cummings and covering the
Speaker 13: last five sessions of the state legislature. Had a professional
Speaker 13: relationship with Melissa Hortman. What stands out about her as
Speaker 13: a person.
Speaker 14: Well, I have been talking to lawmakers, Republicans and Democrats
Speaker 14: for the last several hours since this news broke Derek
Speaker 14: and everybody talks about how she is somebody who heard them,
Speaker 14: made them feel seen, never made their issues that they
Speaker 14: cared about small or less important. I thought former House
Speaker 14: Speaker Kurt doubt a Republican. So he worked alongside Melissa
Speaker 14: Hartman when she was in the Minority caucus in the
Speaker 14: Chamber and also when he was or when he was
Speaker 14: in the minority and she was the House Speaker, and
Speaker 14: he talked about how she had the unique ability to
Speaker 14: see the big picture but not letting the small things
Speaker 14: fall by the wayside, and that's what made her a
Speaker 14: true leader. So she knew her stuff. She was a
Speaker 14: skilled a politician as I've ever come across. But everybody
Speaker 14: respected her. She commanded respect no matter what side of
Speaker 14: the political aisle you are, and I think that really
Speaker 14: is resonating with a lot of people.
Speaker 3: Well, as I mentioned, they have a thin majority there
Speaker 3: in Minnesota, the Democrats, and so they really had to
Speaker 3: put together a coalition. She clearly was instrumental in doing
Speaker 3: it and apparently an extraordinary legislator and woman and mother
Speaker 3: Melissa Hortman and her husband now dead at the hands
Speaker 3: of this fifty seven year old guy who is still
Speaker 3: on the loose in Minnesota. A palate cleanser to it all.
Speaker 3: Will lighten things up when we come back.
Speaker 4: Oh keep it, Maudling.
Speaker 3: I am so sorry for the darkness of the day.
Speaker 3: By the way, Krozier, I must tell you when we
Speaker 3: come back. Last night I attended an m seed, a
Speaker 3: charity all and fundraiser for autism, you know, to fight autism. Okay,
Speaker 3: and I did something that was so stupid and I
Speaker 3: mean really stupid, and I cannot wait to share it
Speaker 3: with you and the KFI friends and family. Yeah, I'll
Speaker 3: do that next, all right, everyone, thank you for being
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Speaker 3: Mark Thompson here on this Sunday, got a few talkbacks
Speaker 3: that I love share with you. Thanks everybody who's listening
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Speaker 3: I think do you hit that you can record a
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Speaker 2: Good.
Speaker 3: Thing to keep in mind not only on this show,
Speaker 3: but you know, just across the board. If you ever
Speaker 3: had a thought, you know, last night I and then
Speaker 3: I'll get to the talk back to They relate to
Speaker 3: a lot of the stuff that we've been talking about.
Speaker 3: The ice raids and some of them are really really
Speaker 3: interesting too, and the national anthem and the Spanish national anthem.
Speaker 3: We'll get to all of them. But I promised you
Speaker 3: that I would share with you this evening story. I
Speaker 3: had the pleasure of m seeing the ed Asner Family
Speaker 3: Center benefit. It's for neurodivergent people and it's a center
Speaker 3: where so many kids with autism and other challenges. And
Speaker 3: by the way, autism is my family and it is
Speaker 3: a challenge, but it's not I mean, it's a full
Speaker 3: spectrum as we learn, right. I mean, I have a
Speaker 3: dear friend who is on the autism spectrum, and he's
Speaker 3: always talking about his autism, Like my autism makes me
Speaker 3: do it like a deep dive on something faster and
Speaker 3: more completely oftentimes you know, then I want it to
Speaker 3: you know, meaning so, but he's like a hugely productive
Speaker 3: member of society. That the point is, I always and
Speaker 3: I tell you, in my family as well, we have
Speaker 3: my nephew who's autistic and he's brilliant. I mean, he's
Speaker 3: he's you know, he's gainfully employed, brilliant guy, the sweetest kid.
Speaker 3: But again he talks about the autism. I guess because
Speaker 3: you know, it's something that he on a daily basis
Speaker 3: deals with in one form or another. But my point
Speaker 3: in mentioning those things is that you would never know
Speaker 3: it if he didn't mention it. So it can run
Speaker 3: the spectrum. As you well know, profound autism can have
Speaker 3: all kinds of other much more challenging features, and lives
Speaker 3: can really be derailed by it. But it's again, it's
Speaker 3: one of these neurodivergent disorders. And this ed Asner Family Center,
Speaker 3: they do such a great job there, all these programs.
Speaker 3: They have a job training and mental health counseling and
Speaker 3: enrichment activities. And again I was just em seeing it
Speaker 3: last night, and it's a group effort. Everybody comes out,
Speaker 3: it's a big poker thing and then they do this auction.
Speaker 3: So at the auction, and this is the part that
Speaker 3: I wanted to tell Krozier because I felt like such
Speaker 3: a moron. This is me, and you know me a
Speaker 3: little bit croz Like, I want everybody to be happy.
Speaker 3: I don't want any kind of awkward stuff. And sometimes
Speaker 3: I'll take the bullet just to make sure that everybody
Speaker 3: is happy. And here's how that manifested itself last night.
Speaker 3: They have an auction, and it's all these different kinds
Speaker 3: of vacation things like, you know, four days in Palm Springs,
Speaker 3: five days and wherever. This is a five day stay
Speaker 3: in some part of Thailand. Okay, it's not even it's
Speaker 3: like a luxury villa with I think a sleep six
Speaker 3: or eight something like that. I wasn't even paying that
Speaker 3: close attention to what it was. Okay, this you can
Speaker 3: tell by the fact that I'm only sort of broadly
Speaker 3: aware of this thing. So they open the bidding at
Speaker 3: one thousand dollars, and again I'm only kind of barely
Speaker 3: paying attention. I'm just kind of hoping that this goes along.
Speaker 3: But I'm seeing nobody's bidding. One person bid one thousand
Speaker 3: dollars and then they're saying, well, how about two thousand,
Speaker 3: two thousand, And this is a huge back loot on
Speaker 3: the Radford lot in a studio city. No one's saying anything.
Speaker 3: I'm thinking this thing's gonna go for a thousand dollars
Speaker 3: when I have one bit. It's embarrassing. So I say
Speaker 3: two thousand. Now I'm just trying to feed the auction
Speaker 3: and kind of get the energy going. So people go, yeah,
Speaker 3: you know that two thousand, he goes, do I hear
Speaker 3: three thousand?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: And you know where this is going? Other person said,
Speaker 3: three thousand going. I can tell you, I'm thinking this
Speaker 3: is a big thing. You're getting the five days, this villa.
Speaker 3: It's a beautiful you know, sleep six to eight. Again,
Speaker 3: I'm only kind of roughly aware of this specifics. It's
Speaker 3: at three thousand. Nobody else, nobody else, nobody else, And
Speaker 3: so I say four thousand.
Speaker 2: Jeez, Now where am I going to get four thousand dollars?
Speaker 1: Crows?
Speaker 2: I don't even have four thousand dollars.
Speaker 4: Continue.
Speaker 3: So I'm now looking at the other person thinking, please, please,
Speaker 3: bleeding with your eyes even forty five hundred, I'll give
Speaker 3: you the five hundred. If you can come up with
Speaker 3: the four k, I'll contribute five hundred to it. Just
Speaker 3: go dollars, yeah, just please outbid me. Four thousand going once,
Speaker 3: four thousand, going twice. Mark Thompson, congratulations and thank you.
Speaker 4: Fantastic.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 15: I can beat that, Oh really, I can beat that.
Speaker 15: I was at a very similar thing was. It was
Speaker 15: a it was a medical charity thing, research building, taking
Speaker 15: money for some thing.
Speaker 4: And it was a what's her Holly Robinson.
Speaker 15: Pete, Robbie Robber, Pete's wife, and she was up there
Speaker 15: as part of the whole process and the auction and
Speaker 15: all that stuff. And and uh, there was a final
Speaker 15: item that went up and it was a pair of
Speaker 15: earrings and a.
Speaker 4: Necklace blue sapphire.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 15: And and people were bidden all night.
Speaker 2: It was good.
Speaker 15: And I think, like I said, it was a final option,
Speaker 15: and this was thing. We're going to start the bidding
Speaker 15: off at eight thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 15: And people have been bidden all night long. So I
Speaker 15: go eight thousand dollars. Not a single person bid.
Speaker 2: That is better. You're right, that is better.
Speaker 4: My wife got to keep that when we got divorced.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, that is great.
Speaker 4: Oh thousand dollars winter winter, Winter Winter.
Speaker 15: It just happened to have it okay on the credit
Speaker 15: card at the time, but he's immediately maxed out.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, yeah.
Speaker 15: Eight thousand dollars. Because I was trying to be the
Speaker 15: good guy, like you said, you want to goose a little.
Speaker 2: Bit, yeah, to get it started.
Speaker 4: But I had a lot of people have a lot
Speaker 4: of money in here, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2: I just wanted to get it started. I didn't mean
Speaker 2: I wanted to walk away from it.
Speaker 3: Eight thousand dollars with an eight thousand that's terrific. Yeah,
Speaker 3: well that's what I'm doing. I'm just bumping the credit
Speaker 3: card for four thousand.
Speaker 4: Yeaheah.
Speaker 15: Hey, at least I got to talk to Holly afterwards,
Speaker 15: and Jason Ritter was there as well.
Speaker 4: I got to talk.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's very cool.
Speaker 15: That was like the best part about it because I
Speaker 15: got to talk to him about his dad John.
Speaker 2: Oh that's sweet.
Speaker 4: But not eight thousand dollars worth.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that it would probably be tough to hit that
Speaker 3: price tag.
Speaker 4: Have I love that you have pretty much the same story.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, It's really really funny that both of us had
Speaker 3: the same instinct. We're going to help this charity.
Speaker 4: Yeah, don't ever do that.
Speaker 3: Anybody listening, don't raise your paddle unless you're serious.
Speaker 4: Keeps your mouth closed.
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Speaker 16: Hey, when I started as Mark, how you doing well?
Speaker 16: Here's my only beef that I have. What's going on
Speaker 16: with the ice rates? I voted for Trump. I'm a
Speaker 16: first generation Mexican American. My wife's illegal, and I still
Speaker 16: voted for Trump because I believe in border security.
Speaker 1: That being said, Wow, that's incredible.
Speaker 3: Did you hear what he said? His wife's not legal
Speaker 3: and he voted for Trump. This is a guy who's
Speaker 3: trying to get rid of his wife. Are you realizing this?
Speaker 2: I'm kidding, I'm kidding.
Speaker 16: From the first generation Mexican American. My wife's illegal, and
Speaker 16: I still voted for Trump because I believe in border security.
Speaker 16: That being said, I'm pissed because it only seemed like
Speaker 16: it's charting latinos. That's all we see in TV when
Speaker 16: there's a lot of people from all over the world
Speaker 16: that came the last few years, and then people don't
Speaker 16: seem like they're being targeted, so it seems like a
Speaker 16: little personal.
Speaker 3: I cannot disagree. I think it is personal. How could
Speaker 3: you not feel that. I think you're right. And the
Speaker 3: other thing that I love about what you said is
Speaker 3: all of us felt the southern border is a mess.
Speaker 2: Something's got to get done.
Speaker 3: It was a winner for Donald Trump because of the
Speaker 3: mess of the southern border, and by the time the
Speaker 3: Biden administration really got its act together on the southern border,
Speaker 3: it really was too late. So you responded, you Fernando,
Speaker 3: this guy who just left us this message, responded to
Speaker 3: the border crisis and how it was out of control.
Speaker 3: Instead it turned on his community. I think this is
Speaker 3: really something that you're hearing more of. So here's another.
Speaker 17: So we just had to listen to Karen Bass again
Speaker 17: complain about this, all the faults of the military and
Speaker 17: the National Guard, and she doesn't need it in her
Speaker 17: city and all the problems is causing when all they're
Speaker 17: doing is surrounding the federal building.
Speaker 6: They're not doing anything else.
Speaker 17: If I had property in Los Angeles, I certainly be
Speaker 17: trying to protect it from all the vandalism.
Speaker 3: And this is true too, that the vandalism and the
Speaker 3: vandalizing of the federal building and surrounding businesses, it's absolutely
Speaker 3: way out of bounds. And the other thing is, of course,
Speaker 3: that you can't if your National Guard really do anything
Speaker 3: legally beyond protect the federal buildings and structures. That is
Speaker 3: kind of the easy legal thing that the National Guard
Speaker 3: can do. Now, if you want the National Guard to
Speaker 3: accompany ICE agents, which has been talked about and even
Speaker 3: it suggested demonstrated that again they go just as a
Speaker 3: show of kind of a protection force, that's a different thing,
Speaker 3: and that may be legally tricky. Now, again, there are
Speaker 3: a couple of different interpretations on that, one of which is, well,
Speaker 3: it's federal business, and therefore the government of the United
Speaker 3: States can direct them to simply make sure that no
Speaker 3: one interferes in federal business. That's why it's no longer
Speaker 3: a question of the state, and that's why in this case,
Speaker 3: Donald Trump can control what they do. That's again that's
Speaker 3: the legal argument that has to be worked out, and
Speaker 3: it's being worked out now. But I can't disagree. I mean,
Speaker 3: you know, you need protection on those buildings.
Speaker 2: So they get mark a great show.
Speaker 12: And I just want to throw up a comparison here
Speaker 12: because everything that's going on now, everything that Trump talked
Speaker 12: about being the legals out of the country is the
Speaker 12: exact same thing that Obama said. When Obama deported you know,
Speaker 12: three and a half million people, only twenty five percent
Speaker 12: of them got so called due process, you know, but
Speaker 12: it's like, what's the due process of coming into a
Speaker 12: country when you come in here illegally, what's the due
Speaker 12: process then?
Speaker 2: And how why do you have to wait to get
Speaker 2: them out?
Speaker 3: Well, there, you're right, and I would suggest, respectful, that
Speaker 3: you may be a little bit wrong. The right part
Speaker 3: is that Obama, of course went aggressively to deportation.
Speaker 2: They called him the deporter in chief.
Speaker 3: So I still think his numbers could exceed Donald Trump's.
Speaker 3: You know, we'll have to see out at all. I mean,
Speaker 3: Donald Trump likes the show of deportation, you know, when
Speaker 3: doctor Phil's there and the local news is there and
Speaker 3: they're breaking up families and it's a it's a you
Speaker 3: see the high profile nature of it. But in terms
Speaker 3: of raw numbers, Obama, You're right far surpassed anything we've seen.
Speaker 3: What might be a problem, and where I might disagree
Speaker 3: with you is on the due process thing. I mean,
Speaker 3: I think they moved everybody through the immigration court system
Speaker 3: very quickly, but I think everybody did get their due process. Again,
Speaker 3: the immigration courts are like traffic court. They're not like
Speaker 3: a you know, not like court TV doing a trial
Speaker 3: for murder. It's moving quickly, so it's possible to deport
Speaker 3: a lot of people in a short time and still
Speaker 3: have them have their moment in court, if you want
Speaker 3: to think of it that way. And as far as
Speaker 3: I'm coming across the border, I mean, they come here
Speaker 3: seeking asylum that kind of thing, so you know, they
Speaker 3: know what to say, so in that sense, they're following
Speaker 3: the law. So again, that's what i'd say. So I
Speaker 3: kind of agree with what you're saying, and I kind
Speaker 3: of take its for a couple of.
Speaker 18: Things, you know, Mark, I just think that it was
Speaker 18: poor timing and a poor decision to disrespectful to go
Speaker 18: against the Dodgers wishes.
Speaker 6: At another time.
Speaker 3: This is on the of course, the national anthem being
Speaker 3: sung in Spanish at the Dodgers Stadium. Was it at
Speaker 3: Dodgers stadium just last night.
Speaker 18: And disrespectful to go against the Dodgers' wishes at another time,
Speaker 18: like if she did that on Mexican Heritage Night, I'd
Speaker 18: say this pretty neat, pretty cool in fact, but I
Speaker 18: don't like the way she did it against their wishes
Speaker 18: and at a time where at this point we're in
Speaker 18: a lot of stress, A lot of those people don't
Speaker 18: even speak Spanish, and we want to sing the anthem
Speaker 18: thank you.
Speaker 3: Yeah. No, Look, that's one of those things where you
Speaker 3: go you asked them ahead of time, Dodgers said, don't
Speaker 3: sing it in Spanish, you sing it anyway. I mean
Speaker 3: that's going to be just by definition divisive. Right you asked,
Speaker 3: they told you no, you did it anyway. So the
Speaker 3: Dodgers aren't going to be so happy with you now.
Speaker 3: To be fair, I think there is a lot at Chavezerville,
Speaker 3: there's a lot in that crowd that I think a
Speaker 3: chunk of the crowd appreciates it. I guess might be
Speaker 3: a way to put it. But to your point, maybe
Speaker 3: you could have sung it in both languages. I don't know,
Speaker 3: but clearly it wasn't gamed out right. She was told
Speaker 3: don't do it, she did it. Anyway, and so that
Speaker 3: creates the issues. She's apologized she was in tears. I mean,
Speaker 3: let's make an appropriate decision as to how big a
Speaker 3: deal this is. I think it probably a mistake. I
Speaker 3: would have told her, Hey, ask them and if they
Speaker 3: say no, then you probably shouldn't do it.
Speaker 2: That would have been my advice.
Speaker 3: But I also don't think that, you know, we need to,
Speaker 3: you know, storm the bastille over this. I just don't
Speaker 3: think you need to. You know, this shouldn't be another
Speaker 3: general strike as a result of the fact that this
Speaker 3: singer decided to do the anthem anyway in Spanish. But
Speaker 3: I take your point, and I think it's a fair one.
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