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John, after another violent, deadly shooting weekend in Oakland,

Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee had to explain to Cron for

that don't worry, we've got enough police officers.

We're not short of 700 police officers.

Our goal is to get to 700 police officers.

We have probably about 615 offices right now,

who are sworn officers.

And some, of course, are on medical leave or administratively,

but quite frankly, they're coming back.

Boy, you got rid of Sheng Tao for that.

I do not understand.

You removed Sheng Tao and I understand why,

but you replaced her with someone who is just as bad

and not nearly as entertaining.

Absolutely good.

Yeah, it's been amazing.

It's crazy how their ideology is exactly the same.

It's just she's performing Sheng's act

in the body of a tired 80 year old woman.

Absolutely, absolutely.

Good job, Oakland.

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Well, it's time to move from one failed mayor to another.

In Los Angeles, embattled Mayor Karen Bass is seeking another four years

as mayor of America's second largest city.

However, a new poll says that 80% of Angelinos either support someone else

or unsure as to how they're going to vote in the mayoral election.

No, these are unprecedented numbers for an incumbent.

These are Eric Adams numbers for an incumbent seeking reelection.

And the latest inside California politics Emerson polling shows

that only 19.5% of respondents will be voting for Karen Bass's reelection.

Spencer Pratt comes in second place with just over 10%,

then Nithya Rahman at 9%, Adam Miller at 4%,

and Ray Hoang at no relation at 3%, 3% for someone else,

and 50% have no idea who they're going to be voting for

in the LA mayor's race that is less than three months away.

The first thing that I thought of when I saw those numbers

is why in the hell did Rick Caruso take a pass?

I thought the exact same thing this morning.

I am on my walk.

I'm like, Rick Caruso could have ran away with this thing.

I wonder if he can run as a right in candidate at this point.

Oh, I think it's already over.

I mean, he may have just decided screw politics.

I can do plenty of things as a private citizen

and not have half the city hate my guts.

But yes, this would have been an easy win for him.

It looks like because Karen Bass is historically unpopular.

I don't think Eric Garcetti ever saw numbers this bad.

I've received things on both ends.

No, I think you're right.

And what was crazy to me is that Rick Caruso

never really expressed much interest in state politics,

but all the chatter was that he was going to run for governor.

I don't think there was any chance that he had

of winning that race.

I thought he would be much more formidable

as a candidate for mayor.

I guess his consultants told him he wouldn't be able to win.

But when you look at these numbers, it's hard to imagine

if his name was on the ballot.

He wouldn't be in first place right now.

Well, and you're looking at where Karen Bass is with just 20% support.

That almost guarantees that she's not going to win outright in June.

That there will be a runoff where it's either going to be Bass Pratt

or Bass Ramen or depending on how the next couple of months go

because the headlines are not getting any better for Karen Bass,

it could be Pratt Ramen.

Well, what Karen Bass is hoping for based on her behavior

is she wants a November match up between her and Spencer Pratt

because she's going to just try to turn that rent match

into a Republican versus Democrat,

liberal versus conservative, female versus male match up.

What she doesn't want is a match up with Nithya Ramen

because the city is extremely left-wing.

So I don't think a socialist would scare away most LA voters.

She wouldn't be able to frame the race however

as a Republican versus Democrat, red versus blue match up

in which case she's probably toast.

Well, and even right now, early on, what is Karen Bass doing in her campaign emails?

They're going after not Spencer Pratt's politics.

They're going after the fact that he was on a reality show.

Well, all of that is going on.

Karen Bass is trying to spin a tail that is in no way connected with reality.

And that is that Los Angeles is a safe city

and she has control of the street takeovers.

Well, and that street takeover that we talked about yesterday, the one right outside of LA

live and the former staple center where the angry mob rushed a luxury apartment building.

That got a lot of coverage that she didn't necessarily want.

So I in all of the three and a half years that Karen Bass has been mayor,

she has never once reacted to a street takeover.

But all of a sudden when one happens to destroy a luxury building,

she realizes that it doesn't look good.

So she announced a crackdown on street takeovers in downtown LA.

For more, here's KTLA.

Now six mayor bass is announcing public safety changes after a mob rushed

an upscale apartment building early Sunday morning.

Notice how there was no public safety changes when the mob rushed an auto zone.

No, or the seven elevens or any of the other businesses that get looted on a regular basis,

whenever they have one of these street takeovers.

It is wild how all of a sudden these politicians who ignore all of these problems

when it's an election year now they're paying attention.

Smashing glass windows and assaulting employees inside and it was all caught on video.

It is yet another example of dangerous activity in downtown LA.

Rachel, by the way, if you see the video, what's wild about it is the entire angry mob that is

rushing the building and chasing away the security guards, they're all holding their phones filming

all of it because no one worries about going to jail for anything in this city.

Rachel, Benatop is live at crypto.com arena where mayor bass has laid out such a stupid name.

It really is.

It's going to see the lakers at the crypt.

You know, the only thing worse is the Honda Center in Anaheim,

where the ducks play in front of an audience of 17,000 people who wouldn't be caught dead in

a Honda. Rachel, Benatop is live at crypto.com arena where mayor bass has laid out her plan to ensure

safety in the bustling LA live area, Rachel.

Cher, Micah, the chief of police describes this as a high visibility strategy meant to deter crime.

Oh, is bass going to let McDonald do his job for once?

No, she's going to make it look like it.

Poorly, but yes, Cher, Micah, the chief of police describes this as a high visibility

strategy meant to deter crime and make people who live work and visit this popular part of downtown

feel safer.

Doesn't sound safe to me.

Doesn't of people flooded the streets of downtown LA.

Its drivers performed dangerous stunts shortly after the rowdy crowd entered the

circa apartment buildings on Figueroa and 12 broke down windows and attacked the security guard

in the lobby. The latest example of chaos and lawlessness prompting city officials to crack

down on safety measures in and around the luxury apartment building LA live crypto.com arena

and the seventh street metro these takeovers happen every single weekend. In fact,

they happen every single weekend near the sixth street bridge, but now that a luxury apartment

building was the target, all of a sudden she cares and how often do we cover these stories and

the tagline is zero arrests were made. Well, in this story, zero arrests were made in and

around the luxury apartment building LA live crypto.com arena and the seventh street metro between Thursday

night and by the way, if you've ever taken LA metro to the seven street station and walked from

there to the staple center, that is a scary walk. I did that once to a clipper game. Never again.

Between Thursday night and Sunday morning, which are considered surge periods,

LAPD will be adding 10 more officers patrolling on foot by bike and one dedicated car outside

of LA live day and night. Additional resources are deployed to ensure continuous visibility

and enforcement presence during the corridor is busy as periods. Regional partners like CHP

will take part also mounted units mayor bass and chief McDonald. I don't know if I want the

mounted units involved in this. I'm afraid of what those monsters will do the horse.

Well, hopefully the horse is just run over the monsters. Regional partners like CHP will take part

also mounted units mayor bass and chief McDonald. Say this is an effort to support the 90,000

people who called downtown LA home and for the people. I wonder how many of those 90,000 people

regret that decision. They're all from some place else. Nobody who lives down there is from here.

They're from some other place. They think that living downtown will give them some kind of

city experience in Southern California. And oh boy, are they in for a rude awakening?

This is not a real city. This is not San Francisco. This is not New York. Downtown LA is awful.

And for the people working late nights who need to catch a metro bus at the end of their shift.

Those who live here who walk their dogs who push strollers and come here to eat and watch a

game have have to feel as though they are safe. The area has not they need to be safe. They have

to feel as if they're safe. What she's advocating for is a placebo. Well, she's not going to do

anything to crack down on this. No, because then we'd have to put people in jail and she doesn't

want to do that because boss Castro thinks that that's a bad idea. The area has had a loss of

anywhere from 300 to 500,000 employees who opt to work from home instead of coming into town.

And that's because downtown LA sucks.

It's difficult to get there and it's not safe and there's really not that much fun stuff to do.

It is one of the worst. It might be the worst downtown of any major city in the country.

Well, there's a reason that the Lakers played an Inglewood and the Kings played an Inglewood

for so many years. They didn't want to play downtown. Well, why has all the major sports franchise

moves in Los Angeles been to go back to Inglewood? The Rams are an Inglewood. The chargers are an

Inglewood. The Clippers are an Inglewood. Reardon cleaned up downtown and that's when it

became safe to go back there again. But after Dick Reardon left the office, there was a residual

period where it was okay to be down there. But there's been too much time in between and now it's

a hellscape. Also, in just over three months, city officials anticipate thousands of visitors

will flock to downtown attractions while in town for the FIFA World Cup. You think about the 18.

Boy, international visitors are going to be able to gain quite an education. Oh, yeah.

You think about the 18 million visitors who come to downtown annually and the ways in which we

are trying to compel them to come back again and again internationally for our major events.

We need to give the best possible experience and impression. See, this is why I did not agree with

the city spending all that money to redo the convention center. You could spend all the money you

want modernizing that building. If you're not going to fix the surrounding neighborhood and all

of the problems with it, the conventions are going to stay in Vegas. 100%. And the mayor is also

touting a 10% decrease in homeless deaths. Great. It's always the same story with them. It doesn't

matter what kind of chaos is leading the news. Well, if you actually understood the statistics,

everything is actually going in the right direction driven by fewer overdoses. Now these statistics

are still very high, but she's promising to address street homelessness as part of the enforcement

too. That's the very latest in downtown LA. I'm Rachel Menitoff. I'll send it back to both of you

in the studio. There you go. A very desperate Karen Bass trying to scramble as an incredibly

embarrassing viral video of a street takeover in the crown jewel of downtown LA LA live in the

keep the monsters mob a luxury apartment building. And this comes on the same day as Karen Bass is

revealed to have only 20% support among those pulled in the LA mayor's race.

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Randy, there might be 90,000 residents in downtown LA, but that's deceptive. Half of them are living

on the streets. Fact check true. And Randy, if you want to listen to us on Saturdays in Fresno,

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It's the fixed California hour replay. Saturdays at noon on KMJ. Let's go to Don and El Serito,

Don, hello. Yeah, how you doing? I think I know how we can solve the problem with bass.

And you know, with the cost of gas and everything. And she's trying to solve some issues. And

and you know, like the police department, what they need to do to crack down on all these

idiots out there that's causing the issues at that hotel and everything, send out the

tricycle police. Then this way the cost of the department will be reduced. And nothing will

be done with the problems that's going on here in California. Well, if you send the cops on

tricycles, instead of sending the bad guys to jail, I guess we could just put them in the sandbox.

Thank you for the call, Sarah. I'm Philip show 800 222 5222 is telephone number 1 800 222 5222.

Well, Los Angeles mayor, Karen Bass is on the robes. And one of the issues that could prevent her

from winning reelection is the number of people living on the streets, a number of homeless people

in Los Angeles. She said combating homelessness would be her top priority. And if you live here,

if you look around and you, I guess smell the city, you know, that's not true. But Randy,

that's not stopping her from arguing over the numbers. Are you claiming that LA doesn't pass the

smell test? That's exactly what I'm saying. So Karen Bass was at the ribbon cutting of a mental

health center that she says is going to cut down on homelessness. And you know that she's getting

desperate when she doesn't immediately try to just run away from the microphone held by Matthew

Cedorf at Fox 11, who Karen Bass has been avoiding for months and months and months. Let's not forget

that it was Karen Bass's LAFD after action report PR firm that labeled Fox 11 as a negative

news source and don't talk to GG grassy yet of good day LA. Let's hear what Matthew Cedorf got

from Karen Bass. No, let's turn that off. Let's hear what Matthew Cedorf got from Karen Bass.

Here's Fox 11. Tonight a new mental health center is opening up in LA's Chinatown.

Mayor Karen Bass was there for the ribbon cutting, believing this center is just one step that could

help decrease homelessness across the city. Fox 11, the Matthew Cedorf reports from downtown LA.

1, 2, 3, LA. Was everyone on so loft? Sounds like it. This is the most low energy ribbon cutting I've

ever heard. 1, 2, 3, LA. Even the cheers don't sound that excited. They're all medicated.

Wouldn't you have to be to be participating in an event with Karen Bass? Yes.

LA Mayor Karen Bass cutting the ribbon to a new mental health care center in LA's Chinatown.

Do you think this is going to help with homelessness? Absolutely.

Shane, can you give her an assist? Get a get my girl off the sidelines here.

Do you think this is going to help with homelessness? Absolutely.

Thanks Shane. Absolutely. This is one of the missing pieces.

This Fox 11's first chance in at least four months to ask the mayor questions.

When you got Karen Bass doesn't do a whole lot of no holds barred interviews.

She does a lot of interviews on cable news where the hosts don't know anything about what's

going on in Los Angeles, but you don't see her sitting down and talking to Fox 11.

You didn't even see her talking to channel five or channel four.

She will do the occasional hit with KNX, but that barely counts as a news organization.

When she ran for office the first time around part of her framing was that she was a nice lady.

She came off as being like a kindergarten teacher. But what we found out since she was

elected mayor is that she has a real thin skin and she's a nasty woman. I couldn't agree with

you more. When you drive around LA, do you feel good about what you see?

I love Seedorf. Great question. When you drive around LA, do you feel good about what you see?

Well, of course there are still in campus there. We have many more to remove,

but we have removed many. We've been doing a great job. What are you talking about?

The city is as dirty as I've ever seen it. It looks like a toilet.

And now you're going to embarrass us on the world stage by bringing the Olympics here.

There is a very simple metric for a mayor that said that she was very focused on ending

street homelessness. She was very focused on getting people off the streets.

Is Skid Row better than it was four years ago?

Worse or about the same? I don't know anyone that would say it's better. It's filthy.

The conversation didn't last long.

But as the mayor left, we managed to squeeze in more time on homelessness.

See, Seedorf is a guy that didn't give up.

Nope. You just have to keep asking and asking and asking.

This is the second year in a row that street homelessness is down.

But there's just overall a lack of trust with these numbers.

Yes, that's true. And again, I know that we repeat this number over and over and over again.

Seven homeless people die per day on the streets.

So if it's going down a tick, that means she's producing six point whatever new bombs per day.

That street homelessness is down.

But there's just overall a lack of trust with these numbers.

When I understand that, but I will tell you something,

it is absolutely what you see. If you live on a block or you had a business where there was

a large encampment and that encampment has gone and has not come back for years.

Yeah, where exactly is that happened? Can you give us an example? Give us an address, please?

If that was going on across the city, she would be sailing to re-election.

If there were neighborhoods that had big encampments and those neighborhoods have been

clean in the last three years, she'd be getting more than 20% support in the LA mayor's race.

That's one of those things you would be able to see and feel immediately.

Remember back, and I think it was the 1980s or the 1990s, when Los Angeles, in particular,

had a massive smog problem, where you would be driving in to Los Angeles on the 10 free way or the

60 free way, and you'd be driving along the San Gabriel Mountains, and you would see this brown

haze. You wouldn't even be able to see the buildings of downtown LA because there was so much smog.

And then they passed the Clean Air Act. I think it was George H. W. Bush who was president at the time.

And you noticed the results almost immediately. You would be driving into town and it's like,

oh, look, there are big buildings in downtown.

LA's Homeless Services Authority reports homelessness has dropped two years in a row.

This is the same homeless services authority that has failed on it after on it after audit.

It has no idea where millions of dollars went and didn't her buddy run it,

who she made a big deal out of her being a doctor.

Doctor. Yes. Doctor, Valisha Adams-Kellum, formerly of the St. Joseph Center, a crooked

nonprofit in the Venice area. She was paid $435,000 a year as Karen Bass's hand picked a point

D to run the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. She had to resign in shame after settling

whistleblower complaints that include some kind of harassment that went on in Washington, D.C.

And of course, writing checks to her husband's non-profit from LASA.

All recent audit raised serious concerns about transparency and questions about how

billions of dollars are being spent. They offered you shelter at all or? Yeah, I refuse it.

Why is that? I don't like shelters too many bedbugs.

But the problem is the high cost of housing you see. I don't ever want to stereotype people,

but you can just tell by someone's voice that they're on meth. Oh, that is definitely meth voice.

Yeah, I refuse it. Why is that? People who don't do meth don't sound like that.

No, they don't. Yeah, I refuse it. Why is that? I don't like shelters too many bedbugs

inside safe made a lot of money for this city in using underutilized hotels to spend

a third of a billion dollars and most of us are bad. If you couldn't hear that this homeless

person says, Hey, Karen Bass sent over half a billion dollars and most of us are back where we started.

Good job, Karen, because putting people indefinitely in motels did not solve the problem.

And even the people that she has put in the motels is a tiny percentage of the people that are

on the streets every single day, which is why your average citizen of Los Angeles does not feel

this change that Karen Bass said happened. Loser should get more money. No, the question is we have

to make sure that the system runs better. There's a lot of problems with the system and you've been

in charge of it. And she acts like she's a writer in the letters to the editor section of the

newspaper. In fact, she has resisted audits of that. She doesn't want the city council to have

any control over where that spending goes, where we are spending. And this is true thanks to Monica

Rodriguez, the Ellie City Council, $17,000 per person per month to stay in one of those motels.

That's how much money we are wasting on inside safe. That is Minnesota level theft.

And it's been three and a half years since this program started. So you would think at this

point, wouldn't Karen Bass's reelection campaign be full of testimony of people that say, hey,

I went into inside safe and I got my life together and now I'm an upstanding citizen. As far as I know,

there are zero of those people. There's a lot of problems with the system. We have to address that.

The mayor, yeah, when are you going to do that? Oh, that's why she needs four more years.

The mayor insists progress is being made as political pressure builds. Well, there's a lot of

things that we can do are doing a much more to do. The primary election now less than three months

away. How was your greater term so far as mayor? How was your greater term so far as mayor?

She didn't want to answer that one. Of course. Would you like to answer it for him?

Well, she could have one of her professors do it for her because she didn't she get one of those

phony baloney masters degrees from USC? Yes, it's a bizarre story. But if you don't remember this

because this did come out at the time of the 2022 election, but still people chose her over

Rick Caruso, the same exact school of social work at USC that Mark Ridley Thomas got busted for

funneling money through to his son's nonprofit also gave Karen Bass an honorary degree.

And she talks about having a master's degree in social work all the time.

Since before Christmas, we've been asking mayor Bass for a one-on-one sit-down interview

to go over a long list of topics. We're going to continue putting in those requests reporting

in downtown LA Matthew Cedar Fox 11 news. Maddie, I love you. I don't think she's going to sit down

with you. By the way, I don't think that was an honorary degree. I think she claims that she

completed the courses over the computer. Oh, boy. I wonder how rigorous those were. Let's go to

Lesson Pasadena. Less. Hello. Yes. I wanted to tell you and Randy that last month I was assaulted by

a homeless man at Union Station as I made my way up the stairs and the security officer who had

a gun at the top of the stairs ignored me because he was too busy texting. And on Tuesday,

I boarded the metro at the Allenist station only to encounter a man passed out on the floor of the

car. On Thursday, I boarded the last train of the car of the train. That is at Union Station

only to see a man hunched over in a chair with a hypodermic needle stuck in his arm.

And on Friday night, I returned to the Allenist station where I stepped over a man passed out in

the elevator. I decided that the Karen Bass Memorial Metro serves as a drunk tank,

flop house, and shooting gallery transportation is second. But here's the kicker. Last night,

I attended a Glendale City Council meeting and demanded that they tell the Southern California

railroad authority to remove a homeless encampment under the freeway bridge between the Glendale

Station and Union Station. This dangerous and illegal encampment is on the railroad right

of way and spills over onto a spur track that's used by Union Pacific. Well, this is the

Karen Bass Memorial Metro for you and the state of homelessness here in Los Angeles. Thank you.

Thank you for the call and they want all of us to take those trains, which is why they have road

diets, which is why they don't repair our failing roads, which is why they're not requiring developers

to include parking and new build. This is what they want us to do. They want us to be in dangerous

situations all the time in confined spaces like a train. Let's go to Jonathan in West L.A. Jonathan

Hello. Hi, John. And Randy, my basic question is what is the difference in amount of money that

they spent on just the funding to house somebody in a hotel? And then was it two or three times more

to repair the hotel after they sued the city for the damage that was done by the homeless person

that they put in there? Do you guys have any ballpark figures or percentages on how much more

was spent to repair the place? Well, I'll tell you this based on what we know about a program

very similar during COVID in San Francisco, the project Room Key and the project Home Key,

where they decided to take all the homeless and shove them into motels. The city of San

Francisco was on the hook for over $400 million in repairs to those motels. So was that more

than they spent to put them in? And what is the difference? Like did they spend $100 million to

get them in or $100,000 and then they got to spend another $320,000 to repair the place?

So it's actually whatever they say that they're spending isn't true numbers. That's where they

are. Well, I don't have the exact numbers in front of me. I can tell you this.

It was so bad. Tom Bodett turned the light off for him. Right, right, right. Yeah.

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That's Johnny, don't like show at gmail.com. Coming up after the news at one,

eats the fixed California hour. And we're going to check in with independent journalist J.J. Smith,

who recently filmed on the streets of San Francisco and the illegal ballot signature scheme.

This is a scheme where homeless people are being paid to sign petitions trying to get legislation

on the ballot. You're not supposed to be paid to do something like that. I guess you can be paid

to collect the signatures, but you can't pay someone directly for their signature. But that's,

in fact, what's being done on the streets of San Francisco. Well, it's worse than that because

they're not even using their own names. What they were doing was they had a table and a line

all the way down the block on the tenderloin where you had people, homeless people getting paid

five dollars to look at a list of voter registration information, write down somebody else's name,

somebody else's address and sign their signature. It was straight up fraud. Yeah, that is illegal on

so many different levels. And of course, it is going on on the streets of San Francisco. We now

have the proof with the videos, according to everything that I've seen, the state of California

has now contacted JJ about what he was able to record. But all this leads to the question,

okay, what happens when these ballots go out in the mail and the same sort of scheming is going on?

Can you even trust an election where this type of fraud takes place in broad daylight and nobody

seems to care? How many things have qualified for the ballot with this kind of practice? And by the

way, it's pretty funny. One of the ballot initiatives that the firm that was collecting the

signature was going towards was the anti-wealth tax initiative that would ban a wealth tax. So

the billionaires apparently were hiring a really crooked firm to collect those signatures.

Well, what you do is you go to a firm and the firms just do how business is done in California

because the firms don't care which side they're collecting signatures for. They just want to be paid

for the signatures. So I'm sure that anyone who goes to one of these crooked organizations looking

to get something on the ballot that something akin to this is going on. But what goes on in November?

What goes on when these ballots go out in the mail? Because it's not as if these organizations just

go away. It's all starting to make sense now why every two years we have to vote on kidney bills.

Well, there are certain things that just make no sense. People just cannot believe that certain

results happen in the state. And yeah, the state's pretty left wing and you talk to a lot of people

and they subscribe to a lot of what's coming out of Sacramento. But who out there is signing

these initiatives for the kidney bills, for example, but you just brought up? I don't know anyone,

whether they be Republican, Democrat, independent, whatever, who can't wait to get to the Thanksgiving

table to start pounding their fists on the table to yell about kidneys. Yet these initiatives

qualify for the ballot. It seems like every cycle. And sometimes multiple bills, multiple initiatives.

I'm Tonya. This has been standard practice for a really long time. And now JJ has it on video

of exactly what is going on, paying homeless people to impersonate you on signing a petition.