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Also on the IHeart app. Tremendous amount to cover today. How are we on Tracy? She ready yet?

Okay. They're going to let me know whenever Tracy Park is ready to come on. She's probably the

busiest person in the city of Los Angeles, the councilwoman for the 11th district along the west side, including Pacific Palisades.

I couldn't believe what was unfolding over the weekend.

And I can tell you, having a, as I mentioned, knowing a fair number of people in the Pacific Palisades area who are suffering from this.

Everyone is, if you can be angry and depressed at the same time, they're angry and depressed.

And what's intensifying the anger and the depression, it seems to be a complete lack of anybody in government outside of Tracy knowing what the

hell they're doing.

I mean, on Friday, I'm sorry, on Saturday night, Karen Bass, well, let me back up.

On Friday, she said that they were going to get rid of the checkpoints leading to Pacific

Palisades and they were going to open PCH into Malibu.

That was on Friday.

By Saturday night, she reversed her decision because everybody spent about 30 hours screaming

and yelling and waving their arms that this would be the nuttiest thing to do.

I mean, absolutely an insane idea to take away.

Really, the California National Guard, which had been banning the checkpoints. Because if you take away the checkpoints,

the whole world could enter the palisides. And we've got thousands of criminals here in Los Angeles

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