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00:00Right, with the new Trump-appointed U.S. attorney in Los Angeles launching a new task force to
00:04investigate how billions of dollars in homeless funding has been spent. Grand juries, subpoenas,
00:10even arrests are all on the table. Matt Finn is reporting live from Los Angeles on this.
00:16You sat down with the U.S. attorney. What did you learn?
00:21Well, Sandra, the Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom, and L.A. mayor, Karen Bass,
00:26they take a lot of heat for the ongoing homeless crisis here. Well, now there's a new Republican,
00:32MAGA-aligned United States attorney here in Los Angeles, Bill Assaylee. He just launched
00:37a federal probe investigating exactly where California's homeless dollars are going. The
00:43FBI and IRS are going to assist. Assaylee estimates $24 billion in homeless funding statewide over the
00:50past five years. Much of that's spent here in Southern California. We will get to the bottom
00:56of it, and if we find that any federal laws are violated, we will arrest and prosecute those
01:01individuals involved. The new U.S. attorney points to a recent audit that revealed more than $2 billion
01:08in homeless funds is unaccounted for here in L.A. County alone. We want to know who's getting the
01:14money and who's benefiting off this because it's not the homeless people here in Los Angeles. The
01:19problem's gotten worse. There's about seven people dying every night on our streets,
01:23and that's unacceptable.
01:28Governor Gavin Newsom and the chair of the L.A. County supervisors tell Fox they welcome
01:32Assaylee's investigation. However, L.A. mayor Karen Bass, who says homeless numbers dropped by 10%
01:38last year, she says she doesn't want the investigation to be, quote, a fishing expedition
01:43or a distraction from her homeless mission. Now, there is also a federal judge here, David Carter,
01:49who is pictured touring Skid Row this past Sunday with Assaylee. The judge calls L.A. Homeless
01:55Services the Rocky Horror Picture Show. He is also aggressively auditing homeless dollars here. He told
02:01Mayor Bass and the L.A. County supervisors he's going to be their worst nightmare if they don't fix it by
02:06next month. Sandra. Matt Finna with that story for us. Matt, thank you. And that doesn't.