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Speaker 2: These protests, but last night was only a one torch
Speaker 2: car night as opposed to a five torch car.
Speaker 3: Night from Sunday, So maybe it's getting better.
Speaker 2: Although the number of arrests was up last night compared
Speaker 2: to the night before, this is.
Speaker 1: So small compared to other protests that we have covered.
Speaker 4: In Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: This is such pageantry for all of the nation to see,
Speaker 1: and that is exactly what it is. More deployment of
Speaker 1: National Guard members and Marines get a cost, by the way,
Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty four million dollars the Defense Department
Speaker 1: came out with today, one hundred and thirty four million dollars.
Speaker 1: I think where that could go. Well, we could play
Speaker 1: that game all day, couldn't we. But this is something
Speaker 1: that the LAPD and the Sheriff's Department and the CHP
Speaker 1: know how to handle, and it's nowhere near what they
Speaker 1: have handled in the past.
Speaker 2: There's what The one thing that I think is different
Speaker 2: this time is that it's ongoing.
Speaker 3: It's been four nights now they're looking for a fifth.
Speaker 1: It's but what's been ongoing a group of a couple
Speaker 1: dozen people that come on.
Speaker 2: What I don't understand is they're they're totally playing into
Speaker 2: if if Trump says the l A p D can't
Speaker 2: handle it or the Sheriff's Department of c HP they
Speaker 2: can't handle it. So we're going to send in the
Speaker 2: federal troops to to take care of the rioters and
Speaker 2: the looters, and then people come out and riot and loot.
Speaker 2: What is what's the end game for those people? But
Speaker 2: what's the endgame for somebody who shows up not at
Speaker 2: noon at Grand Park to uh.
Speaker 1: I can't control the people. I can't control the agitators.
Speaker 1: I can't control the people that that. I can't control anybody.
Speaker 1: But I I don't want to worry about those people
Speaker 1: because they're not the adults in the room. The adults
Speaker 1: in the room should know better. I mean, this is
Speaker 1: leave the leave the person personalities and the politics aside.
Speaker 1: This is a big deal to send in the National
Speaker 1: Guard without a governor's okay, leave aside, it's Gavin Newsom,
Speaker 1: leave aside, it's Trump. Sixty years, this hasn't happened. It's
Speaker 1: not normal. It is for the political pageantry of it
Speaker 1: all on both sides. And the last time the National
Speaker 1: Guard was called in and the Marines were called in
Speaker 1: were the riots of nineteen ninety two. Widespread, wide spread
Speaker 1: city on fire, sixty three people killed.
Speaker 4: That assaults ourson. We don't need to relive that.
Speaker 1: You've all seen the documentaries if you weren't here for it.
Speaker 1: It was a city wide mess, and it wasn't just
Speaker 1: two blocks downtown, it was everywhere. Now, there was another
Speaker 1: occasion I read about this morning. In nineteen ninety two
Speaker 1: LAPD officers and the Marines were called to respond to
Speaker 1: a domestic disturbance at a local home. It's not just
Speaker 1: the pageantry that I'm worried about. It's the fact that
Speaker 1: these are two different entities, agencies trained differently, different protocols.
Speaker 1: When you have multiple agencies together, problems happen. There's a
Speaker 1: reason why there is a big dog and pony show
Speaker 1: at every press conference where all the agencies congratulate each other.
Speaker 4: When they actually work well together, it's rare. They weren't
Speaker 4: even on the.
Speaker 1: Same radio frequencies, and that was on display on nine
Speaker 1: to eleven. So I just really quick what happened in
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety two, when the LAPD officers and the Marines
Speaker 1: were called to that disturbance at a local home. When
Speaker 1: they arrived, a shotgun was fired out the front door,
Speaker 1: and a police officer yelled cover me. To the police,
Speaker 1: that means prepare to shoot if necessary, but to hold
Speaker 1: your fire. For Marines mean cover me means open fire,
Speaker 1: use firepower. The Marines shot more than two hundred bullets
Speaker 1: instantly as a response to that command, and three children
Speaker 1: were killed inside. And then they left and they haven't
Speaker 1: been back since.
Speaker 2: Chief McDonald did make a point about that last night
Speaker 2: in the news conference of adding a federal layer to this,
Speaker 2: on top of the LAPD and the Sheriff's department in
Speaker 2: the HP only makes it more confused.
Speaker 5: The introduction of a federal military personnel without direct coordination
Speaker 5: creates logistical challenges and risks confusion during critical incidents.
Speaker 2: Because I mean exactly to your point that this unit
Speaker 2: of the Marine Corps that's supposedly on its way or
Speaker 2: here in LA I haven't seen any images I have here,
Speaker 2: but it.
Speaker 4: Just crossed the wire.
Speaker 1: A military convoy stopped on the ninety one at Weir
Speaker 1: Canyon Road. Unclear if this is what the Marines might
Speaker 1: be them.
Speaker 2: So this second Battalion, seventh Marines are supposed to come
Speaker 2: in and support the National Guard units that are already
Speaker 2: here and have been placed under federal command, and their
Speaker 2: job to protect federal personnel and buildings. They are not
Speaker 2: unless something goes really wrong. They're not standing shoulder to
Speaker 2: shoulder with LAPD on a a skirmish line, pushing people
Speaker 2: back across Alameda Street or anything like that. They're there
Speaker 2: to protect the federal buildings, whether it's over in Westwood
Speaker 2: or right downtown at the roy Ball Building.
Speaker 3: That's what their job is.
Speaker 2: And there the Pentagon has to specifically spell out what
Speaker 2: their orders are. And along those lines, the Marine Corps,
Speaker 2: who is world renowned for killing bad guys and breaking stuff,
Speaker 2: that's what they do.
Speaker 3: Their job is to protect stuff right now, So.
Speaker 2: There are literal cards that are going to be handed
Speaker 2: out to these Marines that explains to them what their
Speaker 2: orders are while they're here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3: I'm for I.
Speaker 2: Said yesterday that I never thought it was going to
Speaker 2: come to this, that I never thought we would see
Speaker 2: US Marines boots on the ground in downtown line.
Speaker 1: I don't think that President Trump understands the gravity of
Speaker 1: what that means. I think he likes the idea. I
Speaker 1: think he likes the pageantry. It goes back to his
Speaker 1: military school days. It's ramping up to his birthday parade
Speaker 1: for a seventy ninth birthday next week, where it's gonna
Speaker 1: be the Kim Jong Un Show in Washington. I mean,
Speaker 1: all of this is very much a show, and he
Speaker 1: is a show min Unfortunately, because of the things we've
Speaker 1: just laid out, there is the potential for this to
Speaker 1: go very wrong. And I'm not talking about the protesters
Speaker 1: acting up. I'm talking about there being communication problems between
Speaker 1: all of these agencies, and the protocols and the way
Speaker 1: to handle things.
Speaker 3: And the precedent that this would set.
Speaker 1: And well, yeah, I don't think that this would happen
Speaker 1: with another president.
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think they'd be like well Trump said in
Speaker 1: the National Guard in the Marines back in twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 4: Think it would, you know, I think it's very different.
Speaker 1: I think that I don't think there's any precedents being
Speaker 1: set with this administration in terms of charting new territory
Speaker 1: that other people will follow suit on.
Speaker 2: Well, there's this. There's a lot going on. We do
Speaker 2: expect Mayor Bass to have a news conference. I believe
Speaker 2: it about ten o'clock our time, and we're going to listen
Speaker 2: in live to that. Michael Monks has been covering the
Speaker 2: story for KFI News. He'll join us a little later
Speaker 2: in the show as well.
Speaker 1: There's something going on because everyone on Twitter and all
Speaker 1: the social media, they're amplifying this. People who have no
Speaker 1: idea about Los Angeles. LA is covered in protesters. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's a couple dozen people downtown from time to time
Speaker 1: in two square blocks whatever.
Speaker 4: But there's this other.
Speaker 1: Thing going on where everyone's getting all up in arms
Speaker 1: about the Mexican flags.
Speaker 4: Listen, this is a Los Angeles thing.
Speaker 1: It doesn't mean we don't love America. A lot of us,
Speaker 1: a lot of people here came from Mexico. That's just
Speaker 1: the way it is. And a lot of people here
Speaker 1: love Mexico and love the United States, and we have
Speaker 1: all made peace with it. It's all copasetic here. But
Speaker 1: suddenly on Twitter it's look at these people in their
Speaker 1: Mexican flags, and as somebody who is white as the
Speaker 1: day is long and did not grow up in last angels,
Speaker 1: but it's been here for a couple decades. I take
Speaker 1: umbrage to that. It pisses me off.
Speaker 2: Well, it's also, I think, to your point, it's not
Speaker 2: new exactly, La. It's not new. Welcome to La. This
Speaker 2: is what we've done. We show the people saying, oh, the.
Speaker 4: Democrats are doing no good.
Speaker 1: They're not doing themselves any favors flying the Mexican flags.
Speaker 1: Getto come on, you know what else isn't doing any good. Honestly,
Speaker 1: when I listened to the John Cobell interview yesterday with
Speaker 1: Tom Homan, when John says and hands him the freaking
Speaker 1: melon sized softball over the plate, Hey, you're not coming
Speaker 1: in and resting people's nannies, right, that's not what this
Speaker 1: is about. And Tom Homan goes, wow, f them too,
Speaker 1: essentially like that, you're not doing yourself any favors On
Speaker 1: that side of the argument, I mean, he didn't say
Speaker 1: f them too, but he said, no, if you're if
Speaker 1: you're here illegally, you have a problem.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you go back. Basically, we'll pay you.
Speaker 1: That thousand dollars to get back home, what have you.
Speaker 1: That's not that's not helping the conversation either, right, well.
Speaker 3: There's more a lot more to this.
Speaker 5: Obviously, you're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from
Speaker 5: KFI Am six forty.
Speaker 1: We are awaiting a press conference from the mayor coming
Speaker 1: up in just about a half an hour.
Speaker 2: So they moved it to about ten thirty is what
Speaker 2: we're looking at now.
Speaker 1: Well, that was nice of them because it wasn't going
Speaker 1: to start at ten anyway, so it's nice that they
Speaker 1: went ahead and officially moved it.
Speaker 4: These things usually run a little bit late.
Speaker 1: There was a masked group of individuals seen hanging out
Speaker 1: riot gear to protesters yesterday.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I saw this.
Speaker 2: Fox eleven I think was the original TV station that
Speaker 2: showed this, and they were handing out some masks specifically
Speaker 2: that I saw.
Speaker 4: And riot shields and gas masks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the masks are they're not as advanced as
Speaker 2: you might think. They're shields over your face. And they
Speaker 2: say that I remember what the bionic shield, bionic shield.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Therefore, autobody shops, if you're working for metals and sparks
Speaker 2: and things like that, that's to protect your face. The
Speaker 2: very simple question is who the f is doing that?
Speaker 1: Well, their law enforcement shield. Law enforcement wears those from
Speaker 1: time to time.
Speaker 2: Yes, but there are different ballistic and higher end these
Speaker 2: were like twenty five thirty five.
Speaker 4: Gets set together, two hands that stuff out.
Speaker 3: Listen.
Speaker 2: There's plenty of coverage, there's plenty of opportunity for them
Speaker 2: to find who did that, and that I'm not I'm
Speaker 2: not sure what law they would break, but I'm sure
Speaker 2: there's plenty of them that they could get them for.
Speaker 2: And they are stupid enough to drive into a crowd
Speaker 2: like that, into a I think it was a Tacoma Toyota,
Speaker 2: Tacoma pickup truck and pass that stuff out with their
Speaker 2: license plate showing. So you can imagine that they will
Speaker 2: be able to pick up some of those people.
Speaker 1: The DA's office Nathan Hawkman says that he and other
Speaker 1: prosecutors are going to be going through social media video
Speaker 1: to find violent protesters to bring them to justice. There's
Speaker 1: been a lot of call for people not to wear
Speaker 1: masks protesting that it's illegal, and we saw a lot
Speaker 1: of that even before COVID. Think about the May Day
Speaker 1: protests of years prior, where people use bandanas as masks
Speaker 1: and things like that. I would totally put a mask
Speaker 1: on if I was protesting because of the effective tear
Speaker 1: gas or anything else they're going to shoot out, Like
Speaker 1: I can understand it's frustrating, but I can understand why
Speaker 1: you would want to have a mask in the event
Speaker 1: if something like that happened.
Speaker 2: But outside of a gas mask, a little surgical mask
Speaker 2: or a little bandana is not going to prevent the symptom, not.
Speaker 3: Going to invent.
Speaker 4: It's a psychosomatic thing.
Speaker 1: If I'm not breathing it in, I think that it's
Speaker 1: I'm faring better.
Speaker 2: Last night, multiple people arrested after break ins at several
Speaker 2: stores downtown, the Adida Store, there was an Apple store
Speaker 2: that was looted, the Shoe Palace, a CVS.
Speaker 3: And a marijuana to just Rea Pharmacy jewelry store.
Speaker 1: It just like politicians will let no crisis, not that
Speaker 1: this is a crisis, but will let no issue go unused.
Speaker 1: Criminals will let no crisis go unused as well. Where
Speaker 1: there's going to be protesters, always going to be looting,
Speaker 1: and the looters have nothing to do with the messaging.
Speaker 1: Usually usually, but we've seen it in every protest, especially
Speaker 1: up in Portland and during the George Floyd protests. Remember
Speaker 1: that that looting was extensive, and I listen.
Speaker 3: I said it yesterday.
Speaker 2: This is one of the things that Trump campaigned on
Speaker 2: was He's not going to allow our cities to turn
Speaker 2: into what Portland became in the summer of twenty twenty,
Speaker 2: which was consistent night after night, it went on for
Speaker 2: weeks in a couple of months, the ongoing clashes between
Speaker 2: at the time there were you know, they're protecting the
Speaker 2: federal building in Portland.
Speaker 1: Well, and that's the conversation to have, right It's like,
Speaker 1: on one hand, it is this is overkill. There's no
Speaker 1: way we need the National Guard, let alone the Marines
Speaker 1: coming in.
Speaker 4: We've got this.
Speaker 1: But on the other hand, if you're going to have
Speaker 1: the whole conversation, it's, well, he doesn't want it to
Speaker 1: get to the level where you do need the National Guard.
Speaker 1: You see a smaller issue, you want to squash it
Speaker 1: right away so it doesn't become a bigger issue. I
Speaker 1: understand that if you want to have a zero tolerance
Speaker 1: policy for any sort of protesting in America, that's another part.
Speaker 4: Of the conversation to have.
Speaker 1: If you have a zero tolerance policy for anybody in
Speaker 1: the streets, even when things go a little bit awry in.
Speaker 4: The scope of things.
Speaker 1: Things went awry, but it was only a little bit
Speaker 1: in the grand scheme of protests in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we were talking yesterday about there's got to
Speaker 2: be a hard line. One thing happens, whatever that is,
Speaker 2: a car has torched, a window is broken, a water
Speaker 2: bottle is lobbed at the police officer or something that
Speaker 2: one line is.
Speaker 1: Crossed, but everybody gets cleared off the street. Thing is
Speaker 1: is we're built on doing that kind of stuff. The
Speaker 1: whole country's built on that. On what what do you
Speaker 1: mean I'm protesting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but not not assaulting officers. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: Is that's a line.
Speaker 1: That's a line, right, that's a broken window, setting a fire.
Speaker 1: Go back to the freaking tea party, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean? Like all of this with you start assaulting officers. Yes,
Speaker 1: it gets violent, even between officers and protesters, Yes, but
Speaker 1: the line cannot be something that comes with a protest
Speaker 1: when it comes to a broken window.
Speaker 2: Well, that's where I think this has to be established
Speaker 2: clearly from the beginning.
Speaker 3: There should be an acknowledgment.
Speaker 2: Everybody should know that if you do the thing, whatever
Speaker 2: that thing is, it's over and everybody's going to be
Speaker 2: cleared off the streets of LA. There are questions about,
Speaker 2: by the way, what the Marine Corps is going to do,
Speaker 2: how it what it can do.
Speaker 3: We'll talk that.
Speaker 2: Pete Heggsuff was actually on Capitol Hill today answering questions
Speaker 2: from Congress about some of this.
Speaker 3: So that's coming up.
Speaker 5: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Speaker 5: AM six forty.
Speaker 2: A lot going on on this Tuesday, June tenth. President
Speaker 2: Trump is actually speaking from the Oval Office right now.
Speaker 2: He was there with some Cabinet members and they were
Speaker 2: discussing wildfires as we get into the warmer season around
Speaker 2: the country. Of course, there were questions about the authorization
Speaker 2: of the more National Guard and the Marines that are
Speaker 2: coming to California are coming to Los Angeles specifically.
Speaker 6: When I see people the kind of people that I
Speaker 6: saw on your network doing danger to the police and
Speaker 6: to the military and to the National Guard. Now it's okay,
Speaker 6: you know, you running out of people when you have
Speaker 6: two thousand people. From this National Guard standpoint, we have
Speaker 6: a very big military, but the National Guard they needed
Speaker 6: a little extra help, and we said to them, and
Speaker 6: we did a great job. Last night.
Speaker 3: We had well a lot of.
Speaker 6: Cars go up in smoke and plant and a lot
Speaker 6: of bad scenes, but it was pretty minor by comparison.
Speaker 3: This morning, it's very calm.
Speaker 6: We'll see what happens later, but they know if they
Speaker 6: go there, they're not going to get anywhere because we
Speaker 6: have the national that we backed it up with a
Speaker 6: number of Marinesia.
Speaker 1: The one thing about the oversaturation of amateur citizen reporters
Speaker 1: and things is nothing goes unnoticed. There used to be
Speaker 1: protests or really anything that reached national news where you
Speaker 1: didn't really get the whole story. People lied to you,
Speaker 1: police lied to you, Politicians lied to you about what
Speaker 1: was truly happening. At least with the advent of cell
Speaker 1: phones and cameras in everyone's pocket, we're hearing about everything.
Speaker 1: If something crazy happened with someone assaulting an officer, we're going.
Speaker 4: To see it on social media.
Speaker 1: When a cops rubber bullet hits the Australian reporter, we're
Speaker 1: going to see it. When somebody torches a way MO car.
Speaker 1: We see all of this thing because so many people
Speaker 1: have armed themselves with their phones and are documenting all
Speaker 1: of it in real time.
Speaker 2: I'm I'm curious what he the President is seeing though,
Speaker 2: because he's talking about the National Guard doing a great job,
Speaker 2: which they have been defending the detention center there, which
Speaker 2: has been the scene of a handful of skirmishes, and
Speaker 2: there were people out there last night, obviously, But it's
Speaker 2: not the National Guard, that's clear it.
Speaker 4: If I've learned one thing from George W.
Speaker 1: Bush, it's if you appoint someone to do a job
Speaker 1: and they go and do it, you say you're doing
Speaker 1: a great job, because it's a reflection of you.
Speaker 2: Even if they're not the ones that are actively repelling protesters, looters,
Speaker 2: and writers.
Speaker 1: Well, the way that Trump looks at it, he probably
Speaker 1: thinks those are Newsome's LAPD officers and that the National
Speaker 1: Guard troops are his troops, So his troops are doing
Speaker 1: a much better job.
Speaker 2: About seventeen hundred members of the California Army National Guards
Speaker 2: seventy ninth Infantry Brigade Combat Team, or the one that
Speaker 2: are here in la but also in Paramount and Compton
Speaker 2: that second Battalion, seventh Marines would be, are the ones
Speaker 2: that are coming in to support the soldiers have been
Speaker 2: placed under federal command in order to protect federal personnel
Speaker 2: and buildings according to According to Northcom, now the Pentagon
Speaker 2: has to come up with rules for engagement for lack
Speaker 2: of a better term, what is it that these marines
Speaker 2: are going to be doing now? Obviously if they're in
Speaker 2: an overseas war zone, it's very different. They have to
Speaker 2: be guided by standing rules for the use of force
Speaker 2: on American soil that are established and approved by Northern Command.
Speaker 2: One United States official even indicated that each of the
Speaker 2: Marines that would be deployed the seven hundred or so
Speaker 2: would receive a card that outlines what they could and
Speaker 2: could not can and cannot do.
Speaker 4: What kind of cards are going to have these orders,
Speaker 4: garry or the index cards?
Speaker 3: Is that what they do? They check your index card
Speaker 3: for your orders.
Speaker 4: Guys, check your index cards for your orders?
Speaker 5: You school wing nut idiot.
Speaker 2: Yes, north Com says each marine will receive a card
Speaker 2: that outlines what they can and cannot do. Things like
Speaker 2: use of force warning shots would be prohibited. Marines are
Speaker 2: first instructed to de escalate, which they have received training
Speaker 2: and doing, but they are permitted to act in self defense.
Speaker 2: The Pentagon is also developing rules for protecting federal personnel,
Speaker 2: federal property, and for potential detaining civilians if they ever
Speaker 2: come under assault. So, yes, those rules are going to
Speaker 2: be deployed to I guess is the right term.
Speaker 3: How comes the individual marine?
Speaker 4: How come when I call you those names you don't
Speaker 4: chuckle like that.
Speaker 2: Because you don't do it with the passion that I
Speaker 2: wish that you really lead into it alone. I always say,
Speaker 2: with kind of a sly smile, you call me an
Speaker 2: f and numb skull.
Speaker 3: No, that was another one that I had to delete.
Speaker 4: But what was What was the other word?
Speaker 3: It was the R word?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, all right, Well coming up next, As I mentioned,
Speaker 1: the president has a big birthday celebration with a military
Speaker 1: parade set for this weekend. In conjunction with that, or
Speaker 1: to protest that, there are several protests planned around the
Speaker 1: country no Kings, protests declaring that we will not be
Speaker 1: a land where a king like Trump will rule. What
Speaker 1: could go wrong?
Speaker 3: What could go wrong?
Speaker 1: Maybe it'll be nothing. You thought the Marines weren't coming in.
Speaker 1: I thought the kids were going to march out of
Speaker 1: the schools. Listen, we're in uncharted territory. Everything you knew,
Speaker 1: throw it out the windows, New world order here, that's right, Yes,
Speaker 1: you're listening.
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Speaker 1: As I mentioned saying that Diddy's favorite show was you
Speaker 1: want to make a guess on what Diddy's favorite.
Speaker 2: Real Housewives of Mormonville or whatever that means.
Speaker 1: No, but you're not totally far off. It's one of
Speaker 1: all of our favorite shows, Dateline. And if I ever
Speaker 1: get murdered, I will be so pissed if it's not
Speaker 1: Keith Morrison. Now I celebrate the whole lineup of Dateline.
Speaker 1: I think they all do a great job. But if
Speaker 1: I don't have Keith Morrison, Keith Morrison, I will be
Speaker 1: real pissed. I'm coming back to haunt whoever made that
Speaker 1: decision unless it's Keith Morrison.
Speaker 3: Couldn't quite put up with that mouth.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I'll say to my husband, like, come on, we'd
Speaker 1: get Keith Morrison, right.
Speaker 3: We'd qualify for Keith Morrison. Come on.
Speaker 2: There was a body last night, by the way, a
Speaker 2: death investigation underway after a man's body found on a
Speaker 2: sidewalk downtown LA, which has been right in that same
Speaker 2: area of the protests and the lootings they were called to.
Speaker 2: Police were called to the area West third and Broadway
Speaker 2: just after about one thirty, they said they found an
Speaker 2: unresponsive man. I guess a T mobile store right there
Speaker 2: in that intersection had been looted earlier in the night,
Speaker 2: but they're not sure if this had anything to do
Speaker 2: with that.
Speaker 4: Who wants to loot at tea Mobiles?
Speaker 2: And we've also obviously been talking about the ongoing standoff
Speaker 2: between the White House and Governor Newsom, the order to
Speaker 2: deploy seven hundred active duty Marines that are apparently on
Speaker 2: their way to LA two thousand additional National Guard troops.
Speaker 2: There was also a discussion a lot of people have
Speaker 2: been complaining that if, excuse me, if the President so
Speaker 2: hip on deploying National Guard units to LA, why weren't
Speaker 2: national Guard units deployed during January sixth? There were hundreds
Speaker 2: of National Guard units in and around the Capitol before
Speaker 2: the January sixth riots took place. It was the DC
Speaker 2: leadership that called for them at the time. It wasn't
Speaker 2: President Trump, so obviously he didn't go around the mayor
Speaker 2: of DC at the time. But there were National Guard
Speaker 2: troops on the ground there on January sixth, twenty twenty one.
Speaker 3: I can't even remember.
Speaker 2: I just say January sixth, I guess it was twenty
Speaker 2: twenty one as opposed to twenty twenty.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, twenty Yes, I did the math. I'm okay
Speaker 3: with math.
Speaker 4: I'm right there with you. Listen, it's been We've got
Speaker 4: there's been a lot of things that have happened.
Speaker 2: There's a lot, there is a So the other thing
Speaker 2: is the two hundred and fifty two hundred and fiftieth
Speaker 2: birthday slash anniversary, whatever you want to call it of
Speaker 2: the Army is on June fourteenth. You know what else
Speaker 2: is June fourteenth, President Trump's birthday. So they're doing a
Speaker 2: huge military celebration to honor the two hundred and fiftieth birthday.
Speaker 3: It's a weird way to say it.
Speaker 2: Of the army, and it's Trump's birthday, So he's gonna
Speaker 2: he's gonna play that up pretty well.
Speaker 1: This isn't just an air show we've all delighted in.
Speaker 1: This is a rolling of the tanks through this streets
Speaker 1: of DC. Uh just logistics alone. What does that do
Speaker 1: to the streets?
Speaker 2: Well, the military, the Army has said they're covering it
Speaker 2: like they got it.
Speaker 3: They know what they're doing.
Speaker 2: It's not really as if a tank is going straight
Speaker 2: it's probably not a big deal, but if a tank
Speaker 2: has to make a ninety degree turn on those intersections,
Speaker 2: it could easily tear up and destroy whatever asphalt is there.
Speaker 4: Picture our streets, but worse.
Speaker 2: They're all it's all going to look like I five
Speaker 2: through Burbank pretty soon. Yeah, but the military says they
Speaker 2: have plans they're putting iron steel plates down on some
Speaker 2: of those places.
Speaker 1: So I mean, just in terms of like aging infrastructure
Speaker 1: and in streets and like that, it's it's it's it's
Speaker 1: even worse in DC.
Speaker 2: There are also no kings protests that are being planned
Speaker 2: for Saturday, that were being planned before what we've seen
Speaker 2: the last few days here in LA. But you can
Speaker 2: imagine it's probably going to pick up some speed before
Speaker 2: June fourteenth.
Speaker 4: The crows up with the names of these things.
Speaker 3: I don't know pr firms.
Speaker 2: One of the co founders of one of these groups,
Speaker 2: you don't need to know his name or the name
Speaker 2: of the group, said the goal of the protest is
Speaker 2: to send a message that the United States has no kings. Duh.
Speaker 2: He this is again the guy referring to President Trump.
Speaker 2: He is planning your role tanks through the streets of
Speaker 2: DC in celebration of his birthday. And that's the thing
Speaker 2: you normally see or wouldn't see in a constitutional republic,
Speaker 2: certainly not America. Well, to be clear again, yes, he's
Speaker 2: going to take advantage of the fact that it's his birthday.
Speaker 2: Plans were made long before Trump was elected president again
Speaker 2: for this to be a celebration for the army.
Speaker 1: Remember when we got the fire weather forecast before the
Speaker 1: big fires and the Palisades and Altadena broke out, and
Speaker 1: we sat here and we could feel the urgency and
Speaker 1: the horror that was to come.
Speaker 4: Just getting the forecast alone, we could feel it.
Speaker 1: There have been times when we could feel the temperature
Speaker 1: of the country ratcheting up or the city ratching it up.
Speaker 1: May Day two thousand and six, you could feel the
Speaker 1: momentum of the movement almost.
Speaker 4: I'm not feeling that here.
Speaker 1: It's only Tuesday, but I'm not feeling the momentum of
Speaker 1: there being huge counter protests to Trump's birthday this weekend.
Speaker 1: Yet it is Tuesday, like I said, but I'm just
Speaker 1: not feeling it yet. This still seems to me to
Speaker 1: be a little weak stream. This no Kings protest.
Speaker 2: I hope you're right, I do too, all right more
Speaker 2: when we come back.
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