The Stone Zone dissects L.A.’s June 9 riots—ICE cars torched, Waymo vehicles vandalized, and federal buildings burned—while exposing Antifa’s role and Marxist tactics. Governor Newsom sued Trump over National Guard deployment despite $2B in 2020 riot damage, while LAPD Chief McDowell called attacks "disgusting," citing explosive devices and targeted officers. Trump’s aggressive response contrasts his 2020 inaction, but California’s crises—homelessness, crime—undermine Newsom’s presidential ambitions, with Kamala Harris facing vulnerability to a GOP challenger. The episode frames 2024’s unrest as a deliberate escalation, warning of unchecked chaos if federal intervention falters. [Automatically generated summary]
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Images of cars being set on fire, ICE officers and police officers being attacked, rocks being hurled at ICE enforcement officers, as well as bottles, chunks of cement, bags of urine and feces.
Protesters blocking the 101 highway, laying siege to federal buildings, also shooting fireworks all over television.
Protesters set fire to multiple vehicles.
Five driverless cars were vandalized and burned.
Numerous dumpsters, trash bin buildings, including the LAPD headquarters, a federal courthouse, and the Los Angeles Times buildings all set on fire.
Stores on 6th and Broadway looted and graffiti tagged demonstrators, as I say, blocking the 101 freeway.
All of this in Los Angeles.
Two LAPD officers were injured when most motorcyclists rammed a police skirmish line at Alameda and Temple.
Multiple law enforcement personnel have been hit by concrete, rocks, fireworks.
Rubber bullets have been shot at some of them.
One ICE agent was injured when a rock shattered his vehicle dropped from an underpass by a protester on the underpass dropped it on top of a police car, an ICE car, pardon me.
This is what the Democrats tell us is peaceful protest.
Listen to Corey Booker.
Reality is we see peaceful protests launching in Los Angeles.
And again, any violence against police officers should not be accepted.
Local authorities can handle that.
But remember, a lot of these peaceful protests are being generated because the President of the United States is sowing chaos and confusion by arresting people who are showing up for their immigration hearings, who are trying to abide by the law.
He's arresting them.
And you see this in communities that are Republican, Trump supporters being outraged that he's raiding kitchens and arresting people, high schools and arresting people who are not what he said he would do, which is focus law enforcement resources on violent criminals and people that are a danger to other Americans.
I mean, this is someone who's out of touch with reality.
The president has committed to deport illegals who are not only in many cases a danger to us because they're criminals, they're gangbangers, they're murderers, but even those who are not, we're paying an enormous financial and social cost for.
So the president's pledge is clear, but the protesters are anything but peaceful.
Let me ask this obvious question.
We have photographs of pallets of bricks that were conveniently dropped through the Paramount area where the protests are taking place.
Who paid for these bricks?
Who arranged for them to be there?
General Michael Flynn called it on Sunday when he said this is Antifa by their own admission.
Their aims are to create chaos, mobilize dissent, disrupt law enforcement operations, and incite violence.
These are not college kids.
These are domestic terrorists, trusts that they're part of and inside our local state and federal government institutions where they gather and report intelligence to subversive outsiders.
They are supported by outside foreign elements for direction and funding.
They are led by very effective political operatives.
These are the same people who gave us the Russian collusion hoax, the same people who gave us the 2020 riots.
Their manifesto reads like a Marxist playbook.
It's filled with tactics, techniques, and procedures all calculated to completely destabilize the rule of law.
This is what is unfolding today in Los Angeles.
Newsom is furious.
He went to social media on Saturday criticizing the president for federalizing 2,000 National Guard troops to quell the anti-ICE riots.
Clearly, if Governor Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass, who's done nothing but encourage the protesters and the radicals, cannot keep order, then the president must do so.
The most important thing I think this teaches us is Donald Trump learned from the 2020 BLM Antifa riots after the death of George Floyd.
Every single one of his advisors told him to rely on the governors to keep order.
He elected not to use federal power to keep order, which I argue he very much has the authority to do.
And the results are clear.
Over $2 billion in damage to private and public property, over 2,800 police officers injured, 284 police injuries in Chicago alone, 19 confirmed deaths.
There's another summary in the congressional record that claims there are 25 related deaths nationwide.
In Chicago alone, 15 people were killed.
In Minneapolis, St. Paul, two riot-related deaths occurred.
Chicago saw, as I say, 284 murders there.
Pardon me, injuries there.
Nationwide, which insured property damage, says that the damage was roughly $2 billion, making it the most costly civil unrest event since 1992's LA riots.
So President Trump decided to rely on Tim Waltz in Minnesota, and Tim Waltz didn't act, and therefore St. Paul, Minneapolis, St. Paul, saw the worst violence other than places like Chicago and LA.
Folks, this is planned.
This is orchestrated.
As I say, somebody paid for the bricks.
Now, as far as the claims that this is a peaceful demonstration and the fact that both Gavin Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass have denounced the president for mobilizing 2,000 National Guard troops and Secretary of Defense Pete Hagseff says he has,
I believe now, as many as 6,000, I believe that's the right number, active duty Marines prepared to go to Los Angeles to restore order.
Newsom, of course, is playing politics with this.
This is actually his huge opportunity.
He botched the California fires badly.
He'd like to run for president, but let's face it, his stay is a toilet.
It is the golden age of California is over.
Their cities are like tent cities, drug addiction, people shooting up everywhere.
His cities, you see, these cracked zombies.
Crime is rampant.
They can't put out a fire in Los Angeles in one of the ritzier sections because they cut off the water because they didn't want to endanger some little fish that was, the environmentalist said was rare.
I kid you not.
His economy is in the toilet.
So it's hard to run for president if you have no record to run on or if your record is actually negative.
So Gavin Newsom now hopes that this will revive his prospects.
He gets to be anti-Trump.
One thing all Democrats agree on is they all hate Donald Trump.
They don't just seem to understand that the American people love him, at least a majority of them.
So Trump has learned his, very clearly learned his lesson from 2020, moved exceedingly aggressively to restore order.
That is his first responsibility as governor.
And then this is kind of amusing.
Gavin Newsom actually dares Tom Homan to arrest him.
Arresting Gavin Newsom would be a political bonanza of all time.
He would become a martyr for the radical left and the Democrat Party.
I don't think Tom Holman's going to take this debate, but I mean you have Newsom saying, Tom, arrest me.
Let's go.
Let's just get it over with.
Tough guy.
This is when Newsom suggested, was responding to Homan's suggestion that he and L.A. Mayor Karen Bass could be arrested if they crossed the line by harboring and concealing illegal aliens or assaulting law enforcement.
So in other words, as long as Gavin Newsom is simply running his mouth, he's well within his rights.
If he physically acts to harbor or conceal an illegal or interfere in the election of the arrest of an illegal or if he assaulted law enforcement, rather than just encourage all those things, which is what he and Mayor Bass are doing today, then and only then do I think he would be subject to arrest.
It's kind of like throw me in the briar patch.
Gavin Newsom should be so lucky.
But it is, here is a development, however, in which Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDowell, now I should be very clear, he works for Karen Bass.
He works for LA Mayor Karen Bass and at the pleasure of Governor Newsom.
He called the wave of anti-ICE riots sweeping across the city disgusting and warned that the violence is swiftly escalating.
Law enforcement has struggled, as I say, to contain the growing violence that began last Friday, picked up steam over the weekend.
This comes as immigrations and customs enforcement was serving a series of criminal warrants at businesses under investigation for money laundering, fraud, and other additional violations.
The protests very quickly became violent riots.
That was the plan, the Antifa plan, over the course of the weekend, forcing the LAPD to declare them an unlawful assembly.
That's a legal requirement.
Waymo cars that arrived on the scene were vandalized and torched, with rioters smashing the cars with skateboards, rocks, and other objects, setting them ablaze.
Law enforcement vehicles also came under attack.
They always attacked the police cars, were set on fire after rioters stormed onto the 101 freeway, shutting down traffic entirely.
Hey, Corey Booker, this doesn't sound too peaceful to me.
During a press conference Sunday night, Chief McDowell, who again works for Karen Bass, described scenes of chaos and deliberate attacks on law enforcement officers, including the use of commercial-grade fireworks, hammers, and unknown liquids.
This violence that I have seen, it's disgusting, said Chief McDowell.
What we saw the first night was bad.
What we've seen since is getting increasingly worse and more violent.
According to McDowell, officers have been targeted with weapons capable of causing fatal injuries.
Protesters have been observed using tools to dismantle barriers and throw concrete rocks and bottles at police, as well as launching explosive devices, throwing unidentified liquids.
I can identify those for you.
They are baggies of urine and feces.
That's what we saw many, many times in the 2020 riots.
These are peaceful people, folks.
They just want peace.
It is amazing now that videos circulated last Sunday showing police officers seeking refuge under a freeway overpress as rivers pelted them and their vehicles from above with concrete.
One officer was hit in the head by a cement block, according to a story I just read.
They were also dropping incendiary devices.
These are the protests that Corey Booker says are peaceful.
We're overwhelmed not just by the number involved, by the level of violence we're seeing.
There's no limit to what they're doing to our officers.
Radicals have even ordered driverless Waymo taxis just to destroy them, to set them on fire when they arrive.
The LAPD has made at least 10 arrests as of Sunday.
Three officers had sustained injuries, although none were life-threatening.
I think that information is outdated.
Central Area Captain Raul Joval noted that most arrests are being made as we speak.
Our officers are, however, really under attack.
McDowell emphasized that the department is committed to identifying violent agitators through social media and surveillance footage and will pursue charges aggressively.
You're tuned in here to the Stone Zone.
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And the LA riots continue to dominate the national and political news.
Governor Gavin Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass, who badly botched the fires in LA recently, have filed an immediate lawsuit challenging President Trump's right to send 2,000 National Guardsmen.
Actually, what he does is he authorizes the state National Guards and he activates them.
They're wrong, of course.
They claim because they didn't request the National Guard that his sending them or deputizing them in essence is illegal.
They are incorrect.
It is, this is all, unfortunately, with Gavin Newsom.
This is all about the politics.
Here's a chance for him to rise again as a liberal hero because his state is in such bad shape.
And there's a woman named Kamala Harris in his way if he wants to run for president.
All polls show that she would lead the field if she runs again.
And right now, since Gavin Newsom cannot run again, she's eyeing Gavin Newsom's seat.
So he's very worried about Governor Kamala Harris, who would probably win, and worried about his ability to beat her for the nomination.
Yet he aspires to be president.
We're going to talk about this more with John Phillips of the John Phillips Show on KABC in Los Angeles, a great station, a great traditioned station.
John Phillips knows more about California politics than anyone I know.
He's a shrewd observer of the political scene in the golden state, particularly what's going on in the background as the Democrat machine seeks to increase their voter numbers by keeping these illegals in the state.
That is, of course, what this is really all.
So you do want to stay around for John Phillips.
He's also one of the funniest guys I know.
President Donald Trump posted this.
He says, if they spit, we will hit.
This is a statement for the President of the United States concerning the catastrophic Gavin Newscomb-inspired riots going on in L.A.
The insurrectionists have a tendency to spit in the face of National Guardsmen and women and others.
These patriots are told to accept this.
It's just the way life is, but not in the Trump administration.
If they spit, we will hit.
And I promise you, they will be hit harder than they have ever been hit before.
Such disrespect will not be tolerated.
That is a man who learned his lesson in the 2020 riots when he left it to Tim Waltz to decide what to do and the other governors who failed, causing record death and destruction then.
It's the same game plan, folks.
They are seeking to create instability so they can try to topple the man who's just elected in the greatest single political comeback in American history.
And this is just a piece of the puzzle.
When we come back, John Phillips of the John Phillips Show on KABC enters the stone zone.
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Gavin Newsom's Political Opportunity00:15:58
He is a shrewd analyst of both California and national politics.
Started in radio at 20 years old, one of the youngest hosts in the country.
And he and I are the two world's two largest fans of well, anyway.
I'm not going to go there.
John Phillips, thanks for joining us in the Stone Zone.
Well, thank you for having me, Roger.
So I really want to get your take not only on what's unfolding in Los Angeles, but also the politics of it.
To me, and I said this earlier, This is a golden opportunity for Gavin Newsom, whose prospects to be president prior to this were pretty dismal given the condition of California and the fact that California may have another Californian ahead of him should she decide to run,
Kamala Harris, who most polls show would lead as the first choice and who may be eyeing a bid to be governor of California and take his job anyway.
Well, it's really hard to look at Gavin Newsom on TV right now and not think that he's enjoying this because he is the guy who, I guess he calculated that the Democratic Party, after they lost the last election to Trump, would move to the right.
And that's why he started the podcast and invited Charlie Kirk and Michael Savage and Steve Bannon and others.
And that blew up in his face like a hillbilly's rifle because the Democratic Party isn't moving to the right.
They're digging in their heels and Trump derangement syndrome is real and they're only getting a stronger case of it right now.
And so this situation, these riots that are playing out right now in Los Angeles give him an opportunity to recalibrate himself and to present himself to the nation as the chief foil of Donald Trump, which is why he challenged Trump on TV to arrest him.
And he's having these angry press conferences and angry interviews where he's blaming everything that's going on right now in the streets of Los Angeles on Trump because he wants to turn this into a Gavin Newsom versus Donald Trump situation.
That lifts him up and puts him in a place where he thinks Democrats will rally around him.
Yeah, I actually had to go and check this out.
Tom Homan never specifically threatened to arrest him.
He said he would arrest any public official who assisted illegals from avoiding arrest or assaulted a law enforcement officer.
So this was clearly Gavin Newsom trying to bait Tom Holman and to give him the golden headline.
Nothing could be better for Gavin Newsom than to be arrested.
But he can't be arrested just for defending violent quote-unquote protesters or extremists or terrorists.
He could only be arrested if he acted in some way to impede an arrest or assault an officer and so on.
So he's posturing.
It's drama, a drama that I think Tom Homan is not going to take him up on.
Yeah, it's definitely posturing.
And what's funny is Gavin Newsom is such a sociopath that getting as much publicity as possible and furthering his political career and keeping his political career alive is really the goal.
And he's willing to put people's safety at risk by doing that because the position that Gavin Newsom has been taking is there's nothing wrong here.
There's nothing going on that's unsafe.
We have this under control.
We don't need any help from the feds.
The LAPD has all of this taken care of.
And Donald Trump is just trying to stir the pot.
And that same claim has been repeated by not just him, but other members of the political establishment, Democratic political establishment here in California over and over and over again.
But then last night, the police chief, Police Chief McDonnell, went on TV of the LAPD and said that none of that was true, that it was violent.
It's getting more violent.
The police are outnumbered.
They're overwhelmed.
They're being shot at with fireworks.
They're having bricks thrown at them.
They're having cinder blocks thrown at them.
And they need help.
And right now, because the police chief destroyed Gavin Newsom's narrative, there's trouble in paradise.
And the last time that this happened, it was right after the L.A. fires when the fire chief came out and said that the budget cuts that the city imposed on the fire department prevented them from being able to fully respond to the fires.
The moment she said that, she was a dead man walking because she destroyed the narrative that the mayor was putting out, and then the mayor's poll number started to crater.
The fact that the police chief went out there last night and destroyed Gavin Newsom's narrative, I think makes that man a dead man walking.
I think Newsom is going to target him.
I think the mayor is going to target him because that man has turned their framing upside down.
Well, of course, they continue to insist these are peaceful demonstrations, but the actual numbers that we see coming back, protesters hurling rocks, bottles, Molotov-style cocktails, fireworks, bags of urine and feces, chunks of concrete rocks at law enforcement and ICE officers.
We're not imagining it.
We're seeing this before our very eyes, cars set on fire, both police cars and these driverless cars.
I mean, it is to say that there's no violence here, don't believe what you're seeing on video.
Believe what Corey Booker and Gavin Newsom tell you.
In the wake of the fires and the horrific mishandling of the fires by Gavin Newsom and Mayor Kerry Bass, I have to believe that their standing in California is weakened.
I think here by going to the most radical left position, perhaps they feel they can rebuild their political strength on the left within the state.
Yeah, don't forget when Gavin Newsom was being recalled and the focus was on his performance as governor, there were a series of polls that showed him losing the recall and that Larry Elder would be elected governor of California.
It wasn't until he recalibrated then and nationalized that election where he was able to win because California is a deep blue state.
If you get the Democrats to vote for the Democratic candidate, that's all she wrote.
The election's over.
And by federalizing the recall election and making it all about Donald Trump and making it about abortion and other federal subjects that really have nothing to do with the state of California, he was able to divert attention away from his failures, whether it's with the homeless, the crime, the budget, the bullet train, the insurance crisis, you name it.
President Trump called the rioters paid insurrectionists.
I just saw that Congresswoman Anna Polina Luna got very specific in identifying those funding the riots.
I mean, John, these pallets of bricks, these pallets of cement blocks, these flatbed trucks who are delivering them, they didn't just come from nowhere.
This is not an indigenous uprising.
Who do you think is funding this insurrection?
Well, I think it's probably the usual suspects.
If I had to bet money on it, I would say that you're going to find some Soros money somewhere in there, although that's just my opinion.
But I spoke with someone at the FBI today who said that it's a different ballgame now because When you had George Gascon as the district attorney, who essentially was pro-criminal and was a Soros DA, he didn't have any interest in ever prosecuting anyone for assaulting a police officer, destroying police property, all the things that you saw happen on television.
But there's the new U.S. attorney that President Trump just appointed for the Central District of California, Bill Asaley, who came from the California state legislature and is really a shining star in the Trump administration as U.S. attorney.
And he has been very aggressive at saying that he is going to go after these people, these looters, these people who have been attacking federal police officers at federal property, and he's going to hit them with everything he can.
And when you start leaning on these people in a federal sort of way, you can find out just exactly who was supporting them, who was putting them up to it, and figure out who were the important players in the social network.
And the fact that arrests have been made and prosecutions will commence, and a U.S. attorney is very interested in getting to the bottom of it leads you to believe that they'll figure this out and we'll know exactly who was funding what you saw play out over the weekend.
It seems to me the other real question is to see whether these outbreaks of violence begin to spread.
Remember, in the beginning, it was Minneapolis, St. Paul, before long Chicago was burning and other cities.
General Flynn has outlined that he thinks this is a much broader strategy to destabilize the Trump administration and the country.
I will be very interested to see whether there is a further effort to create chaos, to mobilize the dissenters, disrupt law enforcement operations, and incite even more violence.
One thing is clear, and that is President Trump's very quick move to send 2,000 National Guardsmen and the statement by the Secretary of Defense that he's prepared to send in the Marines if necessary, shows the president will not repeat the mistakes of 2020 when his advisors urged him to let the governors handle it.
And governors like Tim Waltz, well, they couldn't handle it.
The governor of Illinois could not handle it.
There was $2 billion worth of public and private property destroyed, 54 people murdered, thousands of people injured.
He's not going to make that mistake again.
Yeah, I think that's right.
You're seeing that not only, as you mentioned, with the National Guard, but with the Marines as well.
He wants to make an example out of Los Angeles where civil unrest, rioting, looting won't be tolerated.
That Grampy Joe is no longer in the White House where he's not aware of what's going on in the world around him.
Donald Trump is keeping a very close eye on what's going on here, and he's not going to let it get out of hand.
And the other thing that's different this time than in civil unrest or riots of the past is that Elon owns Twitter.
So you can see what's going on in Los Angeles on Twitter or X whenever you want.
And it's not going to be censored, and it's not going to be shadow banned, and it's not going to be pulled down.
You're going to see what's happening with your own two eyes.
And before, when the other side controlled X, they were able to censor all of that content.
So if Gavin Newsom and Maxine Waters and Karen Bass go on TV and say there's no violence going on, everything is peaceful, and you just make sure that no one sees the actual evidence of what's going on on the streets, then a certain number of people will buy into it.
But when you can see what's going on in real time at all points, everywhere, you know that what they're saying is not true, and they look like buffoons going out and making the claim that everything is peaceful and anyone who says otherwise is a liar.
No one believes them.
Folks, if you're just tuning in, we're talking to John Phillips.
He hosts the John Phillips show at 790K ABC in Los Angeles.
He's also a columnist for the Orange County Register, a keen observer of the California and the national political scene.
I was going to say earlier that you and I were the two greatest admirers of Senator Assemblyman Joe Schell, who ran for governor in 1962.
But I wanted to get to the Newsome stuff.
I also want to talk to you about this rift between Elon and the president, which seems to be beginning to be healing.
Appears to be there's a cooling at a minimum.
But what do you make of all that?
I'm not surprised.
In fact, I assume that they would probably bump head sooner.
The fact that their bromance lasted as long as it did kind of shocked me.
But I'm also not surprised that they made up as quickly as they ended up fighting because ultimately they're on the same page.
I mean, you pay attention to what Musk's beefs are with Trump, and Musk is basically attacking them from the right.
So I don't think there's any threat at all that he's going to start funding Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer, and Nancy Pelosi and the rest of them because those aren't the arguments that he's making.
I think as soon as these hotheads cool down, and Trump has already cooled way down from where he was when the fight first started, and based on what I saw today, it looks like Elon's doing the same thing.
I don't know if they'll ever be as close as they once were.
Probably not.
Certain things were said that you can't go back on.
But I think that their fighting will cool off, and they will recognize that they're more powerful together than they are apart because they're essentially fighting for many of the same things.
The sad truth of it is that after he bought Twitter, changed it to acts, and made it a free speech site, he found himself under nine separate federal investigations by the Biden administration.
Had Kamala Harris won, they would have taken all of his federal contracts, destroyed his companies, and probably put him in jail.
I think he figured that out.
So we are on the right side.
I think he's a free speech hero.
I told him that when I met him at Mar-a-Lago.
I told him he was the most important voice for free speech since the founding fathers themselves.
And Donald Trump was standing there, and he agreed.
Folks, if you're listening to The Stone Zone, we're talking to John Phillips, the host of the John Phillips show at 790K ABC in Los Angeles, and we'll be right back.
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John, I noticed that former Vice President Kamala Harris put out a statement attacking Donald Trump, essentially backing the left progressive line.
Kamala Harris's Political Future00:04:11
You had a great column recently on her future, which I think has a lot to do with the country's political future choices.
In the little time we have left, tell us about that.
Yeah, well, I read the book Fight about the 2024 presidential election, and the authors of the book essentially concluded that the main reason that she lost was she never really had a reason for running.
She was just the candidate because Biden had to drop out, and she was the vice president.
But outside of that, she didn't really have a reason.
And based on everything I've seen and heard out of Kamala Harris, if she runs for governor of California, she's prepared to make all of those same mistakes a second time.
California has a million and one problems.
And when you read the articles about her as a potential candidate, it talks about what it will do for her resume.
It talks about what it'll do for her legacy.
It talks about how it would make her the chief loyal to Donald Trump, how it could position her to run for president again.
It's all about her.
It doesn't have much to do with what she would do for the state of California.
And if you're going to be a strong candidate for governor in California, you probably should have thought through some of our problems and have solutions to offer.
And she doesn't have any of that.
So in a weird sort of way, even though they just spent over a billion dollars promoting her nationally and her name ID is higher than all the other candidates, if there's a strong Republican candidate in that race, she might actually be the most beatable.
Wow.
That's extraordinary.
I just operate on the assumption between the voter fraud and the demographic changes that California cannot go red.
Am I wrong?
Well, what you just described is all true, and any Democrat would be an overwhelming favorite against any Republican, but you can push people too far.
I mean, look at the insurance crisis in California right now.
That race for insurance commissioner last time around was closer than any of the other statewide constitutional offices.
And with a strong candidate this next time around, who knows?
Maybe that's doable.
The last time a Republican won a statewide race in California was Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2010 for governor and Steve Poisner in 2010 for insurance commissioner.
So it is possible for California to elect a Republican.
It's unlikely.
But with the way that the Democrats are running the state, treating the state like it's a spring break rental car, if there's any time that they could lose, it's now.
Afraid we have to wrap it there.
I want to thank my guest, John Phillips, who is the host of the John Phillips show at 790K ABC in Los Angeles.
Also, check out his columns at the Orange County Register.
John, thank you for joining us today in the Stone Zone.
Thanks for having me.
And for our Stone Zone regulars out there, thanks for tuning in.
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