Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2: Toy Hobbs here with you, and we're joined by Michael Monks,
Speaker 2: who's downtown in downtown LA, right there in the center
Speaker 2: near Gloria Molina Park, as this anti war protest is
Speaker 2: getting underway. It started a little late, but maybe things
Speaker 2: are picking up speed.
Speaker 3: What's gone on, Michael.
Speaker 4: We've got about fifty anti war demonstrators here outside Los
Speaker 4: Angeles City Hall in response to the United States military
Speaker 4: strike against three nuclear facilities in Iran is announced by
Speaker 4: President Trump less than twenty four hours ago. So what
Speaker 4: is the message of this group? I'm joined live by
Speaker 4: Hoku Jeffrey, who is with the group called dam Hoku.
Speaker 4: What is the message from this crew that's outside LA
Speaker 4: City Hall right now?
Speaker 5: We want Trump, the Trump administration, the US government's hand
Speaker 5: hands off of Iran and to defeat Trump's drive towards.
Speaker 6: World War IIE.
Speaker 5: We think that the uh that this bombing wasn't about diplomacy.
Speaker 5: It's about trying to create the conditions for another world war.
Speaker 6: And they're what the bombing means. The bombing means.
Speaker 5: Now, is any country is that thinks that Trump is
Speaker 5: gonna bomb, which could be anyone will never sign a
Speaker 5: non nuclear non proliferation agreement because they think if they
Speaker 5: go to negotiate, they're gonna be bombed. And you think
Speaker 5: the struggle for victory to the Palestinian people that's been
Speaker 5: going strong for two years now and the global anti
Speaker 5: war movement that's been fighting with for within, for them,
Speaker 5: that struggle has to be victorious, especially now. We will
Speaker 5: not stand by and watch Trump's racist policy of ethnic
Speaker 5: cleansing and genocide spread through the Middle East. And the
Speaker 5: US has to stop funding this genocide in Gaza like
Speaker 5: right now.
Speaker 6: And uh and all of the all of the ICE
Speaker 6: and federal federal, Well, let.
Speaker 4: Me ask you about that, because you know what seemed
Speaker 4: to have provoked this protest today outside La City Hall
Speaker 4: was the strike on Iran and and now you're you're
Speaker 4: mentioning Gaza as well. We know that there is ongoing
Speaker 4: federal immigration enforcement here and there have been protests against
Speaker 4: all of these things. Now, how do you keep a
Speaker 4: singular message or how do you continue to keep people
Speaker 4: engaged when there is so much going on that so
Speaker 4: many people take grievances with.
Speaker 5: I mean, this is this is a this is a
Speaker 5: fight to defeat Trump's fascist dictatorship. Trump is showing exactly
Speaker 5: what a fascist dictatorship could look like in our country
Speaker 5: now in the last two weeks, and we're only in
Speaker 5: the beginning of this fight, and we're still looking our
Speaker 5: movements looking really strong. I think Trump did not expect
Speaker 5: this kind of fight back from from Los Angeles, but
Speaker 5: around the country did not expect it. So he, you know,
Speaker 5: says one day that he wants to stop deporting farm
Speaker 5: workers and hotel workers, then he reverses that, and then
Speaker 5: later he says that he wants to provide a pathway
Speaker 5: to citizenship for immigrants. I mean, I just think he
Speaker 5: doesn't know what to do, and but our movement just
Speaker 5: needs to get stronger, more people in the streets, and
Speaker 5: and unite the two movements.
Speaker 4: Well, I guess my my question again is there was
Speaker 4: a big protest here last week, the No Kings, just
Speaker 4: a general demonstration against President Trump and various policies. We
Speaker 4: have seen demonstrations here against the immigration enforcement as well.
Speaker 4: And now this in response to what happened yesterday in Iran.
Speaker 4: How do you momentum that you feel like you're building
Speaker 4: when there appears to be a laundry list of.
Speaker 7: Serious grievances against the administration.
Speaker 5: I think it's I think it's clear the majority of
Speaker 5: people in this country are opposed to Donald Trump, the
Speaker 5: Trump administration and his policies, and the movements made clear
Speaker 5: that we're gonna we're gonna fight this out, and we
Speaker 5: have the full confidence that that our movement is powerful
Speaker 5: when they're in the streets, and we're just gonna keep
Speaker 5: doing that to fight him. If it's if it's UH,
Speaker 5: if it's in our cities and it's they're deporting our
Speaker 5: sisters and brothers, we're gonna fight there.
Speaker 6: If it's UH, if it's to bomb Iran.
Speaker 5: And continue your ethnic cleansing and genocide of people in Gaza,
Speaker 5: we're gonna fight there too.
Speaker 6: Hey, months ask a question fighting uniting our movements?
Speaker 7: Tipany our host is gonna ask a quick question, go ahead,
Speaker 7: tip me.
Speaker 2: So, of course you might face hi Hoku, you might
Speaker 2: face some pro war pro trunk protesters. Do you have
Speaker 2: any methods, either being your organization or from the fifty
Speaker 2: to fifty one organization to keep things peaceful into this protest?
Speaker 4: And what type of structure you have to keep things peaceful?
Speaker 4: Should things go carry either from people within the organization
Speaker 4: or antagonists from outside of it.
Speaker 6: I don't UH.
Speaker 5: I think that the UH, the police and the Trump's
Speaker 5: ice agents and the military have made abundantly clear they're
Speaker 5: willing to use any amount of violence against our movement,
Speaker 5: against our fight to defend our families and our communities.
Speaker 6: And our movement has a right.
Speaker 5: To defend itself and to not be afraid and intimidated
Speaker 5: into not coming into the streets because we think that
Speaker 5: we're gonna be shot at by police.
Speaker 6: We're gonna keep coming into the streets. We're not afraid
Speaker 6: of them.
Speaker 5: We know our movement is strong, and we stand with
Speaker 5: the majority of this country that are opposed to Trump's policies.
Speaker 4: Hoku Jeffrey with the group BAM, just tell us quickly
Speaker 4: what BAM is so.
Speaker 7: That people know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: So BAM it's a long name.
Speaker 5: It stands for the Coalition to defend Affirmative Action, integration
Speaker 5: and immigrant rights and fight for equality by any means necessary.
Speaker 5: And if people want to look us up, where BAM
Speaker 5: for short. We're trying b a Emas and Mary Enders.
Speaker 7: In Nancy dot com.
Speaker 4: All right, we'll talk about timing about how you arrived
Speaker 4: at that acronym based on all of those different issues.
Speaker 7: But I appreciate you taking the time, all right, thanks,
Speaker 7: all right.
Speaker 2: All right, Michael monks doing that on the ground reporting,
Speaker 2: and Michael, I want to keep you on for this
Speaker 2: if possible, so our California state and local officials are
Speaker 2: monitoring threats. After the attack on those three key Iranian
Speaker 2: nuclear sites.
Speaker 3: LAPD is said to be.
Speaker 2: Stepping up patrols near places of worship, community gathering spaces,
Speaker 2: and other sensitive sites. That's according to Mayor bass. Hey, Michael,
Speaker 2: while you were in your travels today yesterday after you
Speaker 2: left the station, did you see an increase in patrols
Speaker 2: in LAPD presence around these sensitive areas or gathering spaces?
Speaker 7: Not particularly.
Speaker 4: I mean I did drive a bit around downtown Los
Speaker 4: Angeles this morning leading up to the start of this
Speaker 4: protest at noon, and nothing looked out of the ordinary,
Speaker 4: very quiet down here, in fact, a beautiful Sunday afternoon
Speaker 4: in downtown Los Angeles, and I haven't really seen much
Speaker 4: in the way of law enforcement here outside of this demonstration,
Speaker 4: which is small, largely peaceful, about fifty people waving I
Speaker 4: should say, entirely peaceful. There's nobody causing any trouble or
Speaker 4: being disruptive. It's waving American flags and holding signs outside
Speaker 4: of any churches that I drove past, and there are
Speaker 4: several down here. I haven't seen anything in that regard,
Speaker 4: But I'm not entirely sure what that strategy is.
Speaker 7: I did hear it announced by the mayor.
Speaker 4: And various governors and municipal leaders across the country that
Speaker 4: they were going to be ramping up security around those
Speaker 4: types of sensitive sites.
Speaker 7: But what that looks like visibly, not sure.
Speaker 2: Michael makes sure that before you go home, you head
Speaker 2: down to Little Tokyo since the businesses are back open,
Speaker 2: get yourself a good, nice Japanese lunch. There's a great
Speaker 2: place down there called Diako Ko. Yeah, wants you to
Speaker 2: go down there before you go home.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know.
Speaker 4: I did notice in the fashion district dan in Little
Speaker 4: Tokyo today that all of the businesses appear to be open,
Speaker 4: the ones that were opened before the chaos down here,
Speaker 4: but not a lot of street traffic yet, not a
Speaker 4: lot of foot traffic that just has not returned to
Speaker 4: the level that they enjoyed before these demonstrations and the
Speaker 4: Immigration Enforcement started.
Speaker 2: Have you seen businesses start to take down those wooden
Speaker 2: planks and you know they're boarding up their windows and
Speaker 2: reinforcing their property there. Are you seeing those things coming down?
Speaker 2: Are they putting them back up for today's protein?
Speaker 7: No, I mean they're still up. They are still up.
Speaker 4: In fact, there's some still up on the LAPD headquarters
Speaker 4: just across the street from us here at La City Hall.
Speaker 4: I think people feel better, as demonstrated by the fact
Speaker 4: that the businesses are open again expecting traffic. But the
Speaker 4: air this situation is so volatile that who knows when
Speaker 4: it takes a turn again. We heard Vice President Vance
Speaker 4: say that very thing, that it does appear that things
Speaker 4: have cooled off a bit in Los Angeles, but the
Speaker 4: military needs to say because we don't know when it
Speaker 4: might flare up again.
Speaker 7: I think even.
Speaker 4: Businesses who might disagree with the Vice president politically certainly
Speaker 4: agree with the sentiment that things could flare.
Speaker 7: Up here again.
Speaker 2: Are you seeing any pro war supporters or sympathizers down
Speaker 2: there kind of hanging around the edges of the protest.
Speaker 7: No, this hasn't really drawn anyone.
Speaker 4: I think, as we talked a bit earlier, Tiffany, that
Speaker 4: this group itself, which it has organized protests in the past,
Speaker 4: maybe didn't get the turnout that they wanted for this
Speaker 4: because it was so quick that even their own supporters
Speaker 4: maybe didn't get the message or couldn't join down. So
Speaker 4: whether any antagonist or opponents of this message could get
Speaker 4: the message, it.
Speaker 7: Would probably also be a difficult task.
Speaker 4: So nobody here waiving any pro Trump's stuff. But it's
Speaker 4: also important to note that this decision to strike those
Speaker 4: nuclear sites in Iran has not been universally well received,
Speaker 4: even in Trump's own fan orbit.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we're definitely going to get into the political
Speaker 2: divide and kind of fallout behind the decision.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Michael Monks.
Speaker 2: And we'll make sure to check back in with you,
Speaker 2: of course throughout the rest of the hour, and we'll
Speaker 2: continue to talk about our state and local officials monitoring
Speaker 2: any potential threats after the strike on those three nuclear facilities.
Speaker 2: When we come back, i'll tell you what Governor Gavin
Speaker 2: Newsom had to say, as well as more about anxiety
Speaker 2: in Los Angeles. Did you know that LA is home
Speaker 2: to the biggest population of Iranian nationals outside of Iran.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you how their community is responding as well
Speaker 2: to all of this in the news and more when
Speaker 2: we come back.
Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2: Tiffy Hobbs here with you just heard Tim talking about
Speaker 2: pizza from seven to eleven, Michael, Monks, make sure you
Speaker 2: go down there and get some pizza since the seven
Speaker 2: elevens are still open. I happen to enjoy a seven
Speaker 2: eleven pizza. Monks, do you have anything you want to
Speaker 2: say about that? Real journalism right now?
Speaker 4: You know, if you're ordering from seven to eleven and
Speaker 4: I've been guilty of it, Let's just say it's a
Speaker 4: particular set of circumstances where one's judgment may be impaired.
Speaker 3: Like during a protest.
Speaker 4: Perhaps I could be desperate enough I packed a granola
Speaker 4: bar in case I'm out here any longer, so I'll
Speaker 4: be fine for now. But there is a seven eleven
Speaker 4: just a couple blocks away that I know, well, I'll
Speaker 4: pop in there if I need something hot.
Speaker 2: I remember last week during the No King's protest, you
Speaker 2: mentioned how there were supporters protesters there who were handing
Speaker 2: out water, handing out I think food of some sort
Speaker 2: to make sure that everyone stayed healthy.
Speaker 3: As healthy as possible.
Speaker 2: Are you seeing any attempt to do that now? I
Speaker 2: know it's a much smaller crowd. You said fifty when
Speaker 2: we last talked to you. Has it grown anymore? Are
Speaker 2: they handing out food?
Speaker 6: Water?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 7: This is a pretty tame protest.
Speaker 4: This isn't like what we had seen in terms of
Speaker 4: scale of demonstration, like outside the Federal building on Alameda
Speaker 4: in recent weeks.
Speaker 7: This is much smaller.
Speaker 4: Folks seem to be pretty well hydrated on their own,
Speaker 4: so they don't need those auxiliaries porters at this point.
Speaker 4: Just a series of speakers right now, rattling off their
Speaker 4: list of grievances against the government, what they oppose this
Speaker 4: administration doing, and nothing intense. Again, there are no law
Speaker 4: enforcement present here, so that there isn't any sense of
Speaker 4: animosity between these protesters and anyone else right now.
Speaker 7: They're just speaking to each other.
Speaker 2: Shake it up a bit, Michael, monks do something that
Speaker 2: we can report on. Add a little, you know, extra
Speaker 2: little pizazz to their protest.
Speaker 4: Hey, if I had those belcrow shirts that we're pitching,
Speaker 4: I could rip off and have an antagonistic message on
Speaker 4: it right now and really stir the pot.
Speaker 3: Well, come back to you in a little bit.
Speaker 2: So, Michael Monks is in downtown LA watching the anti
Speaker 2: war protest, which is much smaller in scale, perhaps than anticipated,
Speaker 2: especially in comparison to protests that have been happening in
Speaker 2: the same area over the last many weeks. There's also
Speaker 2: another protest coming up around three pm, which is not
Speaker 2: necessarily an anti war protest. We'll see how that fleshes out,
Speaker 2: of course, and Gary Hoffman will actually be on during
Speaker 2: that time and he'll be reporting on any developments from
Speaker 2: downtown LA as they unfold. Now, speaking of local news,
Speaker 2: of course, there are questions around whether or not there
Speaker 2: are direct implications on California Los Angeles specifically when it
Speaker 2: comes to these Iranian strikes. He strikes on these nuclear
Speaker 2: sites in Iran, And with those questions that are being asked,
Speaker 2: one of them is what is any looming threat and
Speaker 2: how are local leaders responding to that. I mentioned previously
Speaker 2: that Mayor Bass said quote LAPD is stepping up patrols
Speaker 2: near places of worship, community gathering spaces, and other sensitive areas.
Speaker 2: Now Governor Newsom has weighed in. He posted on x
Speaker 2: under California Governor, it's really interesting to see our politicians
Speaker 2: taking to social media to disseminate information. But that's the
Speaker 2: way of the world, and he said, quote following the
Speaker 2: president's action in Iran, California State Threat Assessment Center is
Speaker 2: actively monitoring for any potential impacts in California. He went
Speaker 2: on to say, while there are no specific or credible
Speaker 2: counter threats we are aware of, or that we don't
Speaker 2: have any counter threats aware of at this time, we
Speaker 2: urge everyone to stay vigilant and report. They're saying, mayor Bass,
Speaker 2: governor newsom other elected officials. Of course, if you see something,
Speaker 2: say something. But they're saying as of right now, there
Speaker 2: are no specific or credible counter threats that they're aware
Speaker 2: of at this time, and that California's State Threat Assessment
Speaker 2: Center is actively monitoring for any change to that potential
Speaker 2: threat situation. Okay, And of course LAPD will be more
Speaker 2: present at these sensitive sites.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: The thing about Los Angeles is we actually have the
Speaker 2: largest Iranian community outside of Iran as a country, and
Speaker 2: most of those most of those Iranian nationals are in
Speaker 2: the West La neighborhood right there on Westwood Boulevard, where
Speaker 2: they have a number of businesses, grocery stores, restaurants, bakeries,
Speaker 2: all sorts of things. It's a huge, tight knit community
Speaker 2: there in the West La area of the city, and
Speaker 2: they're considered again to be the largest diaspora in the
Speaker 2: United States now.
Speaker 3: They are extremely diverse.
Speaker 2: They are not a monolith, and their opinions about the
Speaker 2: escalating conflict really reflect the multiplicity of the feelings and
Speaker 2: anxiety over what's happening in Iran. Some of the Iranian
Speaker 2: American community members have expressed hope for a regime change.
Speaker 2: They are not happy with the current regime and they
Speaker 2: do hope that as a result of these strikes, as
Speaker 2: a result of the escalation between Israel Iran, and now
Speaker 2: with the United States entering into the conflict, that a
Speaker 2: regime change could come out of all of this. Others
Speaker 2: say that they're worried about potential backlash or even the
Speaker 2: scapegoating of their community if the US enters into the conflict.
Speaker 2: Beyond just what we saw last night with those initial
Speaker 2: strikes on the three nuclear facilities, many Iranian Americans support
Speaker 2: anti government protests, and that goes back to what happened
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty two where Masa Amani was killed that
Speaker 2: sparked a lot of the anti war sentiment amongst the
Speaker 2: Irani in population, and they also say that while they
Speaker 2: were in support of not having war going to war
Speaker 2: back in twenty twenty two during those conflicts, now the
Speaker 2: sentiment is different because the conflict between Israel and Iran
Speaker 2: is different. The community says they are less united in
Speaker 2: their hopes for the future of Iran. So they have
Speaker 2: a lot to say and a lot of potential consequences
Speaker 2: to what's happening in their homeland and how they're impacted
Speaker 2: right here in southern California. When we come back, we'll
Speaker 2: talk about the political divide. There's absolutely fallout from last
Speaker 2: night's strikes. Not everyone is in support of what happened.
Speaker 2: There are some, but you'll be surprised to hear and
Speaker 2: we will certainly who is not on President Trump's side
Speaker 2: when it comes to entering into this convent.
Speaker 3: Flicked with Iran.
Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2: Timmy Hobbs here filling in until two o'clock, and we're
Speaker 2: talking all things Iran, all of the updates, all of
Speaker 2: the continuous breaking news and information out of Iran about
Speaker 2: that nuclear strike on those three prominent facilities by our
Speaker 2: US military last night round five pm hour time, one
Speaker 2: thirty Iran local time. That is said to have quote
Speaker 2: obliterated the key of the foremost nuclear site, which is
Speaker 2: called four to oh. And that comes from Defense Secretary
Speaker 2: Pete heg Seth. It is a little interesting when you
Speaker 2: look at the calendar and you see that July fourth,
Speaker 2: Independence Day, our most patriotic of holidays, is right around
Speaker 2: the corner. But not everyone is really feeling the patriotism
Speaker 2: when it comes to President Trump's decision to strike Iran,
Speaker 2: and in fact, that strike has sparked strong reactions across
Speaker 2: the political spectrum. Political leaders across the country have responded
Speaker 2: with a wide range of reactions, some happy, some supportive,
Speaker 2: and others downright condemning our now entry into what appears
Speaker 2: to be the prospect of a world war. It's not
Speaker 2: being called that by any means, but it is now seeing.
Speaker 2: This action is now seeing and causing wide ranging consequences.
Speaker 2: One person who spoke in support of the decision to
Speaker 2: strike those nuclear facilities, Vice President JD. Vance, fresh off
Speaker 2: of his visit to la is now embroiled in this
Speaker 2: situation and is speaking about it. He reposted first President
Speaker 2: Trump's message on X and on truth Social yesterday, and
Speaker 2: then he went on to speak to ABC's This Week,
Speaker 2: where he said this.
Speaker 8: The big question is the United States now at war
Speaker 8: with Iran. No, we're not at war with Iran. John,
Speaker 8: We're at war with Iran's nuclear program, and I think
Speaker 8: the President took decisive action to destroy that program last night.
Speaker 8: If I could step back a little bit, we have
Speaker 8: to give an incredible amount of gratitude to the troops
Speaker 8: who did an amazing thing last night. Think about this, John,
Speaker 8: They threw They flew thousands of miles away, a thirty
Speaker 8: hour NonStop flight, they never touched down on the ground,
Speaker 8: and they dropped a thirty thousand pound bomb on a
Speaker 8: target about the size of a washing machine. No military
Speaker 8: in the world has the training, the skills, and the
Speaker 8: equipment to do what these guys did last night. I
Speaker 8: know the President and I are both very proud of them,
Speaker 8: and I think what they did was accomplish a very
Speaker 8: core American national objective. Iran cannot have a nuclear weapons program.
Speaker 8: The President's been very clear about this. And thanks to
Speaker 8: the bravery and competence and skill of our great pilots
Speaker 8: and everybody who supported this mission. We took a major
Speaker 8: step forward for that national objective.
Speaker 3: Lap makes sense, right.
Speaker 2: Vice President j d Vance would of course be in
Speaker 2: support of this decision. But there are others on both
Speaker 2: sides of the isle who are expressing their descent. They're
Speaker 2: expressing their condemnation of that decision. And some of those
Speaker 2: voices or some of these words may in fact surprise you.
Speaker 2: One that may not surprise you Senator Bernie Sanders, another
Speaker 2: Alexandria Ocassio Cortes. Those who are typically characteristically on the
Speaker 2: left side of the isle are all condemning the strike,
Speaker 2: That includes Nancy Pelosi, and they're all calling it in
Speaker 2: different ways a violation of the Constitution and congressional war powers.
Speaker 2: Not really a surprise again for those on the left
Speaker 2: of the isle, because this is what they campaigned against.
Speaker 2: Now when it comes to those on the right, there
Speaker 2: are some voices that will be probably kind of shocking
Speaker 2: as far as them being in opposition to the decision.
Speaker 2: One of those people is Marjorie Taylor Green, a huge
Speaker 2: supporter of President Trump, and she has been in opposition
Speaker 2: to the United States getting involved in the conflict between
Speaker 2: Israel and Iran. She went on to say this is
Speaker 2: not our fight. Peace is the answer. That's Marjorie Taylor
Speaker 2: Green saying right there, peace is the answer. This is
Speaker 2: not our fight. There are more congressional reactions. In fact,
Speaker 2: Senator Tim Kane, Democrat out of Virginia, criticized the strikes
Speaker 2: and called them some pretty strong things.
Speaker 3: Let's hear from him.
Speaker 8: Well.
Speaker 9: The Vice President was on another network earlier this morning
Speaker 9: and said, we are not at war with Iran. We
Speaker 9: are at war with Iran's nuclear program. There seems to
Speaker 9: be a lot of legal person on the definition of
Speaker 9: the word war here. What do you make of that description.
Speaker 10: I think it's bs and I think anybody hearing it
Speaker 10: would conclude the same thing. When you're bombing another nation,
Speaker 10: ask them if they think it's war, they do. Would
Speaker 10: we think it was war if Iran bombed a US
Speaker 10: nuclear facility, of course we would. And the US we've
Speaker 10: invaded two neighbors of Iran, Afghanistan and Iraq to topple
Speaker 10: their regimes.
Speaker 3: Since two thousand.
Speaker 7: Those were wars.
Speaker 10: This is the US jumping into a war of choice
Speaker 10: at Donald Trump's urging, without any compelling national security interests
Speaker 10: for the United States to act in this way, particularly
Speaker 10: without a debate and vote in Congress. We should not
Speaker 10: be sending troops and risking troops lives in an offensive
Speaker 10: war without a debate in Congress.
Speaker 2: Also Senator Chuck Schumer, he called for the Senate to
Speaker 2: immediately hold a vote under the War Powers Act to
Speaker 2: reassert Congress's constitutional role in declaring war. Representative jakeem Jeffries
Speaker 2: out of New York accused the President of misleading the
Speaker 2: public and bypassing Congress. Now here's where some of the
Speaker 2: surprise comes in. You do have Republicans weighing in as well,
Speaker 2: including Representative Thomas Massey, Republican out of Kentucky, who said
Speaker 2: that they would he would introduce with Representative Roe Kanna,
Speaker 2: a Democrat out of California. So you have a cross
Speaker 2: party duo of Representative Thomas Massey and Representative Roe Kanna,
Speaker 2: one Republican, one Democrat, that they would introduce a joint
Speaker 2: War Powers Resolution which states that the action of the
Speaker 2: missile strike on these three nuclear facilities was not constitutional
Speaker 2: without prior Congressional authors. Senator Lindsay Graham, another Republican, took
Speaker 2: a rare bipartisan position of support for the strikes. Calling
Speaker 2: them the quote right call to stop Iran from acquiring
Speaker 2: nuclear weapons. Then they're Senator Roger Wicker, Republican out of Mississippi,
Speaker 2: Senator Jim Rish Republican out of Idaho, and Representative Mike Johnson,
Speaker 2: Republican out of Louisiana, and they all support the decision
Speaker 2: as limited and decisive. They also went on to deny
Speaker 2: any intention of regime change or a quote forever war.
Speaker 2: This idea of a forever war seems to be a
Speaker 2: pretty strong talking point because some say President Trump ran
Speaker 2: on the basis of not entering the United States in
Speaker 2: anymore forever wars, but that this now seems to be looming,
Speaker 2: that this war entry by last night strikes could very
Speaker 2: well assure the United States into an ongoing aggression. Republican
Speaker 2: Warren Davidson out of Ohio and also Marjorie Taylor Green
Speaker 2: again raised constitutional concerns, continuing a trend of isolationist skepticism
Speaker 2: even amid GOP support.
Speaker 3: They are divided absolutely.
Speaker 2: Now President Trump did speak to this division, and I'll
Speaker 2: tell you what he posted this morning around eleven am
Speaker 2: on Truth, Social and X. It's long, and I'm gonna
Speaker 2: read it so you can hear what President Trump has
Speaker 2: to say against those who say that he shouldn't have
Speaker 2: launched those strikes in Iran.
Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2: We're covering everything involving the nuclear strikes in Iran by
Speaker 2: US military forces. Took place yesterday around five pm hour
Speaker 2: time one thirty am Iranian time, and Michael Monks is
Speaker 2: in downtown LA for what was supposed to be, or
Speaker 2: at least thought to maybe be a large anti war protest, but.
Speaker 3: Seems to be smaller in scale but no less effective
Speaker 3: and passionate.
Speaker 2: Michael Monks, anything new to report on any wrap up
Speaker 2: of this?
Speaker 4: Are you sing it's wrapped up, It's finished. They're finished
Speaker 4: that they wrapped up a few moments ago.
Speaker 7: They've gone home.
Speaker 4: They peaked at about fifty people on the steps of
Speaker 4: La City Hall and had a lot of strong messages
Speaker 4: about potential war with Iran and general let's say, displeasure
Speaker 4: with the Trump administration. A lot of different grievances express today.
Speaker 4: But we are also hearing that they're supposed to be
Speaker 4: a protest maybe a little more focused on immigration enforcement
Speaker 4: around southern California outside the Federal Building. I am now
Speaker 4: in the news vehicle moving along Temple in Alameda.
Speaker 7: As we speak.
Speaker 4: I just saw a pretty sizable group maybe about one hundred,
Speaker 4: somewhere between fifty and one hundred at a quick glance,
Speaker 4: moving there on Los Angeles Street outside the Federal building.
Speaker 4: That is where some protests have been taking place. This
Speaker 4: is different than the ones that have been taking place
Speaker 4: in front of the National Guard in the rear side
Speaker 4: of the Federal building. This was in the front side,
Speaker 4: the Los Angeles Street facing side, not the Alameda Street
Speaker 4: facing side.
Speaker 7: And there have been protests.
Speaker 4: Out there over a couple of specific arrest by immigration
Speaker 4: agents of United States citizens on various charges, so.
Speaker 7: That may be related to that.
Speaker 4: I'm getting ready to turn around here and get a
Speaker 4: look at what their messaging is because we have been
Speaker 4: informed that around three o'clock we should be seeing a
Speaker 4: protest on the Alameda Street facing side, and that's where
Speaker 4: things have been spicy because the National Guard has been
Speaker 4: stationed here. I'm driving past that section right now.
Speaker 3: Over there at the bilding that's exactly the.
Speaker 7: Roy Ball Federal Building.
Speaker 4: Right now, there's only about three National Guards soldiers four
Speaker 4: I see positioned out here on Alameda Street and no
Speaker 4: protesters yet, so I don't know if they are anticipating
Speaker 4: a larger crowd, but right now looks like one guy
Speaker 4: holding a sign marching back and forth on that block
Speaker 4: as the soldiers watch that. Again, what I saw on
Speaker 4: the front side of this building before I drove around
Speaker 4: to the rear was and this was just a quick glance,
Speaker 4: was all I could get so as not to obstruct
Speaker 4: traffic of somewhere between fifty and one hundred people with
Speaker 4: signs and flags marching on Los Angeles Street. I'm going
Speaker 4: to see if I can meet up with them. As
Speaker 4: I turned back towards Los Angeles Street, here closer to
Speaker 4: Union State, You.
Speaker 2: I am indeed, Okay, we just decided to not get
Speaker 2: any more steps in.
Speaker 3: Huh, take the easy way out.
Speaker 7: I wanted to make sure I could bring you the latest.
Speaker 4: And while it is not a long walk, the blocks
Speaker 4: in downtown Los Angeles are considerably sizable compared to other places,
Speaker 4: so it just would have taken me a little bit.
Speaker 7: Long longer to get here. Okay, I do see the
Speaker 7: crowd now, looks like they.
Speaker 4: Are blocking some of the They're blocking the entrance to
Speaker 4: the one O one freeway here. Obviously that has been
Speaker 4: a problem in recent weeks, some of the protesters getting
Speaker 4: out to the freeway and blocking traffic there.
Speaker 7: I think as I.
Speaker 4: Drive here now on Arcadia and Alameda, excuse me, Alamedia, Alameda,
Speaker 4: I've been corrected by coworkers and listeners. Alameda, Anglis size
Speaker 4: that a little harder.
Speaker 7: Okay.
Speaker 4: I am now at Arcadia and Los Angeles Street. This
Speaker 4: is right near the Olvera Street al Pueblo. And yes,
Speaker 4: indeed there is a protest that is about to march
Speaker 4: right past me. I'm gonna red light, so I'm gonna
Speaker 4: have to give way to these protesters. It does look
Speaker 4: like about fifty to one hundred. Oh, you're sitting one
Speaker 4: hundred now, I think.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but I bring you the news.
Speaker 4: I'll sit in traffic to bring you guys the news,
Speaker 4: since it's the type of sacrifices I'm willing to make.
Speaker 4: This does seem to appear to be more focused on immigration.
Speaker 4: I might look out here actually, because they have turned
Speaker 4: their focus to the freeway, not to enter it, but
Speaker 4: to stand on that overpass over the one oh one here,
Speaker 4: and they are pushing their signs in that direction so
Speaker 4: that commuters below can see it. So I'm going to
Speaker 4: drive past this now, and yeah, I'd say there's about
Speaker 4: one hundred people here waving flags, waving signs, and that
Speaker 4: is definitely a protest that is more focused on immigration. Now,
Speaker 4: whether or not that's going to swell in size the
Speaker 4: way that some of them have in more recent weeks
Speaker 4: yet to be determined. I've heard around three o'clock is
Speaker 4: when we can expect a protest outside the rear of
Speaker 4: that building where the National Guard has been stationed. But
Speaker 4: these protests, the ones that are more specific beyond just
Speaker 4: immigration enforcement but specific excuse me to at least one
Speaker 4: arrest of a US citizen who was believed to have
Speaker 4: been detained in.
Speaker 7: That building for a while. They have been in the front,
Speaker 7: and they have.
Speaker 4: Been smaller, they've been sizable, but they have been much
Speaker 4: smaller and entirely peaceful. So that looked a little more
Speaker 4: similar to what I've seen in days from this week.
Speaker 4: This past week, when the protests were more focused on
Speaker 4: the release of that guy you may have seen on
Speaker 4: our news and other news. The guy worked at Walmart
Speaker 4: in Pico Rivera and got swept up by immigration agents.
Speaker 4: They say he obstructed their efforts, and there were some
Speaker 4: protests to have him freed. I believe he's since been
Speaker 4: released on bond.
Speaker 3: That's the doctoral student I believe. Is that the same guy.
Speaker 7: I think that might be a different guy.
Speaker 4: This is a twenty year old guy who was working
Speaker 4: at the Walmart and Pico Rivera. There's plenty of video
Speaker 4: out in social media when some immigration agents showed up
Speaker 4: at the Walmart there in that area and did take
Speaker 4: some people into custody, and this guy was seen on
Speaker 4: video in the middle of all of that.
Speaker 7: I don't want to ascribe.
Speaker 4: Any accusations or any behavior to him that can't be
Speaker 4: confirmed by law enforcement or him, but they say that
Speaker 4: he obstructed their efforts and that's how he ended up
Speaker 4: in custody. But he is reportedly a United States citizen,
Speaker 4: and that has drawn protest downtown as well understood.
Speaker 2: I love the visual that I've in my mind of
Speaker 2: three National Guards people or National guardsmen and women standing
Speaker 2: on the sideline kind of watching the anti immigration protests
Speaker 2: start to build, while the anti war protests had none
Speaker 2: of that. It's just, you know, such a juxtaposition of
Speaker 2: just they're waiting over here, there's nothing over there. They
Speaker 2: need to attend to. But they're here at the other
Speaker 2: side just in case that's a really.
Speaker 7: Now, that's a good point.
Speaker 4: And as we noted previously and in our news coverage
Speaker 4: of vice president of VANCE, who visited Los Angeles on Friday,
Speaker 4: says that it even he acknowledges that things have calmed down.
Speaker 4: That's not to say they've been entirely calm. We saw
Speaker 4: the scenes out of Bell and Maywood that looked harry,
Speaker 4: that looked violent, but not to the scale that we
Speaker 4: saw in the early days of these protests. But he
Speaker 4: did say that the military would be staying here just
Speaker 4: in case there are flare ups. Right now, the protests
Speaker 4: that took place over the past couple of hours in
Speaker 4: front of La City Hall against the war or against
Speaker 4: war with Iran, potential war with Iran, that was entire peaceful.
Speaker 4: Right now, this group of about one hundred protesters, they
Speaker 4: may disturb some surface streets here in downtown LA and
Speaker 4: the civic center area, but right now not a large
Speaker 4: enough group or raucous enough group to cause any problems
Speaker 4: beyond that.
Speaker 7: I'm now driving past.
Speaker 4: That protest area where outside of LA City Hall it's
Speaker 4: just about completely clear and looks like all of those
Speaker 4: demonstrators have moved on, so it is a pretty quiet
Speaker 4: day here in downtown Los Angeles. Again, we talked about
Speaker 4: the businesses that are struggling down here because of it all.
Speaker 4: It's a beautiful Sunday afternoon. Everything that would typically be
Speaker 4: open on a Sunday afternoon looks like it is in
Speaker 4: fact open.
Speaker 7: But there aren't many people.
Speaker 4: I'll note for you, Tiffany, just the entrepreneurial spirit or
Speaker 4: the opportunism maybe of some of these street vendors. About
Speaker 4: midway through that protest against the potential war with Iran
Speaker 4: outside La City Hall, a guy who sells flags showed
Speaker 4: up and wanted to make sure everybody was well stocked
Speaker 4: on their flag of the week before they move on
Speaker 4: to their next protest.
Speaker 2: Well, you know vell crow shirts. That's our next foray
Speaker 2: into entrepreneurialis.
Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe it's just flag lapels that we need to have.
Speaker 4: So like, if you're protesting for America, you love America,
Speaker 4: you get the flag there. If you feel like you
Speaker 4: need to take a stand on behalf of Mexicans, you can,
Speaker 4: you know, either put that together with the American flag
Speaker 4: take them.
Speaker 7: We might have a little opportunity here for these protests.
Speaker 2: Michael Munks, you be safe out there, and I'm sure
Speaker 2: you'll be calling in to talk to Gary, who will
Speaker 2: be on shortly to continue this conversation.
Speaker 3: You'd be safe.
Speaker 7: I'm always available when they need me.
Speaker 6: All right.
Speaker 2: Lastly, just to wrap this up, President Trump does not
Speaker 2: like any of his MAGA supporters, his biggest advocates speaking
Speaker 2: out against him. Those include Steve Bannon I mentioned, Representative
Speaker 2: Marjorie Taylor Green, Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones, and Charlie Kirk,
Speaker 2: who have all spoken against entering into what they are
Speaker 2: calling a forever war, saying that that goes against what
Speaker 2: President Trump promised in his campaign for this most recent term.
Speaker 2: So they are speaking against him, and President Trump is pissed.
Speaker 2: He doesn't like that you don't speak against President Trump.
Speaker 2: But he has zeroed in on Congressman Thomas Massey of Kentucky,
Speaker 2: vowing to have him voted out primaried out. He says
Speaker 2: that he will absolutely campaign against him in the next
Speaker 2: election to make sure that that Congressman Thomas Massey is
Speaker 2: completely out and that he is not MAGA, and that
Speaker 2: MAGA should get rid of him immediately. Which kind of
Speaker 2: contradicts the fact that he's not MAGA. If MAGA should
Speaker 2: get rid of him, but either way, we'll stay up
Speaker 2: to speed on everything involving Iran and the strikes on
Speaker 2: those nuclear facilities. Currently no active threat in California in
Speaker 2: Los Angeles, but you will see and increased LAPD presence
Speaker 2: at these sensitive sites. Have a great day, Be safe everyone.
Speaker 2: I'll see you next next Saturday from five to seven
Speaker 2: on Saturdays with Tiffany Kfi AM sixty Man