"Inside Safe" Has Been A Failure (04/06)

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over the Easter holiday.

It's a good way to spend Easter.

Holy Saturday and Easter, all the holy days.

The day pass over.

Yeah, holidays can get really dull.

I mean, I found holidays excruciating,

especially religious holidays because we were stuck

on the house all day Sunday doing nothing.

And I said to my parents,

can't we go out and do something?

Oh, no, today's Easter.

So we got to sit in the house all day.

I was not a good son.

Do you remember the murder of Jamal Khashoggi?

He was a Saudi Arabian dissident,

a journalist.

He wrote for the Washington Post.

And Jamal Khashoggi was killed by Saudi agents.

It happened at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.

And because he was a journalist,

because he'd written for the Washington Post,

this was a big news story.

His journalists love to cover themselves.

A lot of people are killed at the hands of various regimes.

A journalist gets killed.

Well, so you might remember it.

Now, it was especially gruesome killing.

Jamal Khashoggi.

And again, he was very critical of the Saudi government.

His body was dismembered.

He was ambushed.

He was strangled.

His body cut into pieces.

And then disposed of.

They never said how it was disposed of.

The consulate had been secretly bugged by the Turkish government.

So Khashoggi's final moments were captured

in audio recordings.

So the whole world could hear how brutal the murder was.

And Saudi Arabia got an incredible amount of criticism.

And because of that, they became a pariah in the international community.

And it's like, where are you going with this one?

They hired a public relations company

to burnish its image.

It was a global communications agency.

And Saudi Arabia repaired its reputation

with the help of this company called Edelman.

Now, Edelman has Los Angeles offices,

San Francisco offices as well.

And Saudi Arabia hired Edelman for a five-year contract

to advise Saudi officials on how to partner with celebrities

and reshape its image.

Why am I bringing this up now eight years later?

Because Gavin Newsom has hired the same company

to burnish the state's image.

He is spending $19 million to repair California's image

around the country because of all the bad publicity.

And they're giving money to the same company, Edelman,

that tried to repair Saudi Arabia's image

after they ambushed, strangled, and chopped into pieces

the journalist Adnan Khashoggi.

This is what these PR companies do.

I remember years ago when we broke the story

of the Catholic priest, the L.A. Archdiocese,

raping the altar boys,

and how Cardinal Roger Mahoney protected them, covered up.

Well, Mahoney hired this PR company, Citric.

I think it's called Citric in company.

To do the PR for the Archdiocese,

I don't think Citric did them any good.

Actually, I drive by their offices every day.

They're not far from where I live.

There's a lot of these companies.

So, so Saudi Arabia was looking for help

and Edelman says, well, you just have a PR problem.

All right, so you strangled the guy

because he was speaking out against the regime.

Any strangling, let me chop them into pieces.

Don't worry, we know some celebrities

who will be willing to partner with you to make you look good.

Maybe that's where that golf tour came from.

You know who worked at one time for Edelman?

Tony Valar.

Tony Valar. Yeah, it is where they got the golf tour.

The LIV professional golf tour.

So now Newsom has this because Newsom is very frustrated

that the world only sees the massive amount of homelessness.

All the crime and the theft that was televised for so long.

All the highest taxes, all the garbage,

all the wacky policies,

because it hurts his run.

It hurts his run for president.

He's in a lot of trouble.

He knows he's in a lot of trouble

because his policies have failed so badly.

The gas prices, $6 a gallon.

I hear this news reports all the time.

Oh, gas is now an average of $4.11 across the country

but it's $6 in California.

Do you know how many thousands and thousands of times

that's been repeated on the news?

That the gas prices in California are now at six bucks.

All right.

And so Newsom's panicking because he's got what's he going to run on?

He's going to run on $6 gas.

Anyways, he's going to start battling about climate change.

So he hires this Edelman company.

Saudi Arabia was paying Edelman $787,000 a year.

Well, we're paying.

This is 19 million of our tax money.

19 million dollars for our tax money.

Let Newsom spending on this.

For a state that's broke.

That's, that is really outrageous.

And the spokesholds for Newsom say the contract has little to do with the governor

because he's termed out.

No, it has everything to do with him because he fouled up the state badly.

The whole country knows about it.

I bet you his polling numbers around the country are terrible.

He must be doing internal polls and he's finding that he has perceived as a disaster

around the nation.

And then what is he going to do?

If it's so bad that he can't even run for office because it's too embarrassing.

What does he do for a living?

What does he do for it for his time?

He has no talents.

He's no good.

That's just great.

He's got another problem too.

His wife Jennifer Sybel Newsom is quickly becoming the most irritating woman in America.

She's like whim or irritating then Hillary Clinton because Hillary at least was intelligent

and had some capabilities.

Jennifer Sybel Newsom, not intelligent.

She might be below Gavin at 93 on the IQ scale.

And well, she has no capabilities.

Unless you can't being a grifter.

Unless you can't stealing tax money.

Because she's made millions of dollars forcing public schools in California to run her feminism films.

They have to run her feminism films and then she charged them millions of dollars of our tax money,

which the school's paid.

Well, one of them was on toxic masculinity.

What's your kid sitting through a Jennifer Newsom film on toxic masculinity?

Well, she's been speaking up a lot.

And we have about a minute and a half of a word salad that really would give Kamala Harris a run for her money.

After a Trump-fired Pam Bondi and Christine Nome, Jennifer Sybel Newsom was standing up for them in a way.

So, you know, because of the patriarchy, we'll play this clip when we come back.

And maybe we'll go through our library of irritating Jennifer Newsom audio clips when we come back.

And you just imagine yourself listening to her for the next eight years as the first lady.

I mean, the first partner.

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She Jennifer Seibel Newsom, the first partner.

I mean, she's so pretentious and so full of herself.

And basically, she was a failed actress.

At some kind of dalliance with Harvey Weinstein that didn't go well, but they stayed friends.

I have to keep pointing this out because she did go to trial claiming some Harvey Weinstein abuse, except the jury didn't believe her.

And I think it was hung.

And then it was discovered that she went to Harvey even after whatever happened happened because Gavin was in some kind of public relations trouble.

And she went to Harvey for some advice system with Gavin should do.

She's going to play phone is what I'm saying.

If you didn't notice, she's also maybe slightly less bright than Gavin Newsom.

And I'm going to play you this clip.

And then we're going to go through the archive of Jennifer Newsom clips.

Now, she apparently was upset to some extent.

That Trump fired Pambondi as attorney general and Kristi Nome as Homeland Security Secretary.

Let's listen to Jennifer Newsom's reasoning.

Trust me, I'm not a fan of Pambondi nor Kristi Nome.

But I need to call out that it's no surprise to me that the first two prominent people pushed out of this administration or women.

Let me explain.

They conserved women that Trump handpicks who would line themselves with an agenda that controls women restricting our rights, limiting our autonomy and pushing us back into this straight jacket of femininity that is only in service of men.

There's a familiar pattern here.

Women are brought in package Mar-a-Laga style and lifted up as long as they commit to wholeheartedly serving interests of the patriarch at the top.

Now, it looks like power or proximity to power with a big title.

But it never comes with job security and protection.

There's no secure place inside this hand-picked patriarchal body that systemically disrespects the values and discriminates against women and girls.

What?

And this is where complicity comes in.

What is this?

Because when you line yourself with that value system with a leader who has publicly devalued women, degraded them, and then found liable of abusing women, women?

Well, guess what?

Like?

You're going to be the first to go.

So while you're in a perceived position of power in the system that regularly diminishes into values other women, even if you help sustain and uplift the system, your power is only temporary.

And ultimately, they will come for you.

That's the unfortunate truth for all women.

No woman is safe in Trump's Republican Party.

Unless she's enough wealth or the ability to buy her own job security and safety.

And so my friends, regardless of your political affiliation, you might want to wake up and see this for what it truly is.

It's a war on all women.

The straight jacket of femininity.

Are you trapped ever in the straight jacket of femininity?

I may be trapped in a straight jacket, but not because of that.

Would you like some fresh ground pepper for your salad?

That was bad.

Or a side of soup.

Oh gosh.

There's been three of these recently.

What phrase I write down served the interests of the patriarchy.

She's the only one who's still using this.

This is like an old feminist term from an old generation that's long since passed its influence.

Let's play the clip recently.

She's intentionally trying to confuse the sexuality of characters in her kids bedtime books.

When she reads stories to them, she switches the characters from male to female.

Listen to this.

Even if they tear that off, I've given them dolls to learn that care and caregiving is not just an activity that's reserved for women.

But that it's also an activity that is a responsibility of men.

What I've done with both my daughters and my sons is if I'm reading a book in the protagonist's e-mail, I just changed the heat of a sheet.

And it just normalizes for my sons in particular.

It's not even I don't even just do it for my girls.

I do it for my sons.

Stop, stop, stop.

There's the sons say something like, Mommy, did you cut off his penis?

How did you make him a she?

How did he become a she?

Isn't it crazy?

Like virtually everybody else in the world just reads the story.

But she's switching the sexes in the middle of the story.

Who does that?

What?

Play some more.

It's not even I don't even just do it for my girls.

I do it for my sons because I want them to see that women can be the center of a story, that women matter.

Right.

Because they didn't know that.

That women are interesting.

At the end of the day, we're all kind of like in this place in history maybe where we're recognizing what it is to ultimately deconstruct all these gender roles and ultimately be human.

And that's exciting to me.

So you know, I'll just continue to kind of do my work and try and deconstruct all of these like limiting narratives about ultimately what it means to be human.

Deconstruct all these limiting narrative of what it means to be human.

She wants to deconstruct my sexuality.

I don't want my sexuality deconstructed.

I don't want my gender roles deconstructed.

What is with her deconstructing things?

What's it her business?

What kind of gender roles people take on in their lives?

They take on what they're comfortable with.

There is obviously I'm still debating the huge differences between men and women.

Still?

Maybe she is.

And the world's moved on from this crap.

And eventually she loses herself in her own in her own nonsense.

Oh, my God.

Please.

We cannot have her be the first lady.

We are going to be getting lectures like this could be for eight years.

How is she going to connect with all the women in the 31 states that Trump won?

How does she connect with those women?

Democratic women aren't like to see their I don't know anybody talks like this.

I don't I live in the West Side for God's sake.

I know many West side mommies literally zero of them talk like this.

What a nut.

What goes on in that house?

No, no wonder you know, like wasn't the sun like a big Charlie Kirk thing.

Yeah, I wonder why.

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Coming up, we're going to talk with an ABC news correspondent former FBI agent about how the,

how the rescue of that second airman in Iraq likely happened.

You heard the story by now that one of our planes was shot down and both pilots ejected.

And one of them was found inside enemy lines in Iraq.

The second one had disappeared for a time.

And apparently he was hurt. He was bleeding, but he made his way into the crevice of a mountain.

And our rescue forces were able to find him and take him off to safety.

So we're going to talk ABC news correspondent coming up in the next segment.

And here's another failure.

That's all we have for you.

A Karen Bass failure.

The Los Angeles Times, David Sanhizer did this story.

Inside safe.

That was the marquee program that Karen Bass came up with.

It was spending hundreds of millions of dollars of your money to put the mental patients and the drug addicts in motel rooms.

Very expensive.

The idea was after let me see.

They're supposed to spend only so much time.

And then they were going to be transferred to a permanent home and apartment.

Yes.

Yes, they were going to transfer you within 90 days.

And the maximum stay could be six months.

So between 90 days, three months to six months, that's how much time you were going to spend in the motel.

Well, turns out the average stay is about one year.

And 40% of the mental patients and drug addicts in this program are back on the streets.

40% flat out failure rate.

We spent three hundred million dollars on this.

A three hundred million dollar disaster.

They quickly stuffed them in the motels.

But these people hate being in the motels.

They hate being alone.

Some of them bring in their friends.

And that's a violation of the rules.

And it should be.

That just leads to more drug sales and drug abuse in the hotels.

Here's one guy that they profile Jonathan Torres.

He knew it was risky.

But he kept having people over.

And finally the facility kicked him out.

Visitors were not allowed.

His neighbors were from a downtown encampment.

So he was inviting all his fellow mental patients and drug addicts into the motel room.

Gee, I wonder what they were doing there.

Yeah, we're paying for that.

Now he's been thrown back out on the street.

But a lot of these people run off on their own.

The longer the program has existed, the greater number of participants who've gone back to the streets.

It's now 40%.

It's 2,300 out of the 5,800.

And by the way, it was only 5,800 out of 33,000 street people.

There's 33,000 street people.

They only got 5,800 off the streets.

And now 20, 2,300 are back on the streets.

For $300 million, that is a total disaster.

Disaster is Hindenburg-like failure.

A UCLA law school professor named Gary Blaisey, an expert on vagrants.

They want that to be your life's work.

It's a free country.

Said the programs would come too expensive to justify.

It needs to be thoroughly re-engineered.

There were never enough low-cost apartments.

They were building apartments for a million dollars each.

He said, once they started having people in interim housing for nine months or a year,

that should have rang some alarm bells.

That's not sustainable.

Financial, it's not sustainable.

You keep people in motels for a year.

And they get tired of being them.

I have read frequently.

I just read another story this week that people who live on the street

like the streets, they get lonely when they're not on the streets

because they have a community.

They make friends.

Look at this.

There's one of these nonprofits, the people's concern.

They run two inside safe motels in Hollywood.

Up to 65% of their clients have serious issues with drugs.

Some of them have serious mental health issues.

So it's a very high percentage of drug addicts.

A very high percentage of people mentally ill.

In fact, a lot of people are both mentally ill and drug addicts.

So we blew $300 million and now a lot of them are back on the street.

That's why she has no business running for re-election.

There should have been a way to fire her.

She's so incompetent.

But she's in over her head.

And this is the only thing she's been trying to drag about.

Trying to brag about.

Excuse me.

Are we coming back?

We're going to talk with...

Well, this is named Rob Frankel, right?

Rich Frankel, excuse me, Rich Frankel.

And he's former special agent with the FBI.

And he's going to describe what happened with the military

rescuing the second downed airmen.

So Rich Frankel from ABC News on next...

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These victims have been let down time and time again.

For decades and decades and decades,

by local law enforcement,

by federal law enforcement,

by administration after administration.

The Justice Department through,

I think we counted four presidential administrations

failed these victims.

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The big news over the weekend was the rescue

of two pilots whose fighter jet was shot down by Iran.

The United States, both the military and the CIA work together.

One, both of them had hit the ejection button.

One of them was picked up behind enemy lines.

The second one was hiding in the crevice of the mountains.

And the Iranians were trying to track him down

at the same time as the Americans.

And the Americans won the race.

The CIA was involved with some misdirection,

putting it all together, Rich Frankel,

former special agent in charge of the FBI for ABC News.

Rich, how are you?

Very good, thank you, John.

Tell me how the military and the CIA have they pulled us off.

So, great job by both the military and our intel community,

the CIA, probably in the lead,

with other help from NSA and others.

But they were able to basically put together

a deception campaign where they misdirected the Iranian forces

and the Iranian government to think either

that he'd already been captured or that he was on his way,

I'm sorry, they had been rescued,

or that he was on his way to being rescued

in a different part of the country.

And while that was taking place and put it in place by the CIA,

the military then, through most likely,

Jacek, you know, joined his special operations command,

went in and using helicopters, planes, drones, etc.

were able to get in to the mountainous region

where this airman was, get down to him and get him out.

And do so without any loss of life

or anyone else being injured in this entire rescue operation.

How far away was the second serviceman

from where they ejected from the plane?

Not really sure, but what I understand

is that either he got injured either in the injection

or when he landed and was possibly bleeding

and had a broken ankle,

but was then able to move from the area where he had landed.

Basically, went up the side of a mountain,

most likely to get a better area for his peaking

to go off and to utilize the radio,

but was able to do that on his own.

So it doesn't appear that he knew that our rescue efforts

were even underway for the other pilot.

But still, you know, based upon his training

and everything that he's gone through as a, you know, aviator,

he followed that training and was able to get to a safe location.

Yeah, I just wondered with a bad injury

and he's bleeding, you know,

how did he struggle his way up the mountainside

and into the crevice and then was able to set off the beacon.

It just seemed like it was an extraordinary will that he had

to survive this.

Oh, it was great.

I mean, this is what this,

what the most aviator's trained for, you know,

in case this happens,

but the fact that he was able to take everything, you know,

take everything within his, within his being

to do what he did to get to safety is it's miraculous

that he was able to do that.

And then again, our guys were able to get into him,

even though we lost two planes in the effort,

no loss of life, no one else injured during the rescue.

So when you talk about the training,

do they actually eject themselves from active planes

during training and land in a mountainside

and then have to scramble, you know,

to safety somewhere?

Did they recreate it?

I don't think they do that.

Yeah.

Yeah, I don't think they do that,

but they do.

You know, they have their seer training,

which is, you know,

the survival will be in resistance escape training

that every pilot will go through.

They also have training for if they have to eject

and if they have to put it down in the water,

they have all different type of training

that they'll go through,

not only during their initial training,

but throughout their career,

they'll go back for that training.

I don't think they've actually ever practiced ejections.

I'm not a pilot myself,

but it's my understanding that basically everything

up until that,

including they all are trained in deploying parachutes

and what to do in the event of an ejection.

The CIA, do you have any idea

of how they pulled off this deception?

What are their methods for misleading the Iranian leadership?

Well, I'm sure that they used word of mouth.

People on the ground,

they use social media,

which is something that is sort of new to the CIA.

It's only been around 15, 20 years,

but also possibly new in the news,

putting out false messages through text and cell phones.

You know, the CIA has been doing this under its predecessor,

the OSS since World War II,

and they've been working with people on the ground

to do these type of operations since World War II.

They used to be called partisans.

And so, you know, the CIA,

this is one of the things that I would call their bread and butter,

is that they could operate in hostile environments around the world

and put out both intelligence that we want put out,

meaning the U.S. wants put out,

and also collect intelligence from those hostile nations.

And so, this is really just, you know,

this is what you would think, or I would think,

they would be doing almost every day in their work environment

when they were overseas.

That's fascinating stuff.

I'm sure we'll see the movie one day.

You know, you think of, again, the World War II movies,

then you go to Black Walk Down,

where there was a pilot, you know,

who was captured by the Somalis,

then you go to the Iranian hostage crisis,

then you go to just other events

that have ever happened around the world and all of them.

You know, you see through the movies.

My goal, though, is I hope that these,

that the pilot and the weapons officer,

we don't hear anything from them for a few years

because I want these two to continue to fight,

to continue to be, you know,

airmen for the U.S. military,

and to do the great job that they've already done.

Rich Frankl, thanks for coming on with us.

Thank you, John.

All right, for ABC News, former Special Agent in charge,

with the FBI, about the two pilots who were rescued,

in Iran, by U.S. forces,

not only military forces, but the CIA,

providing a massive deception operation.

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