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We have a lot lined up here. And I want to get right into it. Karen Bass had a bit of a press conference today.

It was supposed to be primarily about the alleged cleanup in MacArthur Park, which

its own big issue.

The MacArthur Park area should be so beautiful, but it is so, so frightening and disgusting.

We used to, years ago, KF, I used to be in that general area, and so I saw it many times,

and I still pass it occasionally.

It's like, oh, my God, so many drug addicts, so many vagrants and mental illness and drug addicts just, it's just overwhelming.

And add to that all the crime in the area, there are gang members there.

There are hundreds, it seems, vendors, mostly illegal aliens who are selling stolen merchandise

in most cases. And then gang members are selling guns and drugs. It's a cesspool. I actually

haven't seen anything like that in any other city in the United States. I mean, it is something

out of the third world.

And we're going to talk about it a little later on in the show.

Because I want to first go to the questions at this news conference.

When Karen Bass started getting asked, for example, about all the texts that the LA Times found were deleted.

The week of the fires, and really for the past couple of months, Karen Bass deleted all the texts that the Times requested about the fires.

And then some lawyer who works for the city gave a nonsense

answer, claiming that there's a 1981 attorney general opinion about saving government information.

That's a femoral. And except text messages didn't

exist in 1981.

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