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Burning Blame: How Newsom Fanned California's Wildfires · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: There is a narrative that is happening right now, and
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  Speaker 1: that is that you and the people in California, specifically
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  Speaker 1: those that are affected by these wildfires, should not be
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  Speaker 1: talking about politics. Should not be talking about holding politicians
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  Speaker 1: accountable because there's just too much suffering going on. Should
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  Speaker 1: not be looking at the facts of what actually happened
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  Speaker 1: with these wildfires, why they happened, and was their government
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  Speaker 1: mismanagement because if you do that, well, you're not a
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  Speaker 1: very nice person.
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  Speaker 2: The media, by the way, is not asking questions.
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  Speaker 1: And I tweeted out something earlier today that a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people got angry over on the left, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to read you the tweet right now because I
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  Speaker 1: think it's actually an important one. And what I said
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  Speaker 1: was is I said, if Ron DeSantis, we're the governor
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  Speaker 1: and just one fire hydrant ran out of water during
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  Speaker 1: a massive fire, the media would call it hydrant gait
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  Speaker 1: and demand a congressional investigation the truth. They would also
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  Speaker 1: be blaming DeSantis or Trump or anybody else in this
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  Speaker 1: situation if they were in charge in California with people's deaths,
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  Speaker 1: and they would be saying people are dying, and they
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  Speaker 1: would be demanding that they resign.
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  Speaker 2: But what is the media doing right now?
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  Speaker 1: The media is doing everything they can to not have
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  Speaker 1: that conversation.
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  Speaker 2: I'll give you a great example.
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  Speaker 1: Justin Trudeau, who has nothing to do with California, he
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  Speaker 1: is not an American leader, was on Jake Tapper's show.
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  Speaker 1: And this just shows you how much Jake Tapper sucks
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  Speaker 1: at his job, Like, why on the hell would you
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  Speaker 1: have him on.
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  Speaker 2: To talk about the wildfires.
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  Speaker 1: This is literally a leader who just resigned in another country,
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  Speaker 1: and as there are five major wildfires that are that
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  Speaker 1: are zero percent contained in Los Angeles and and this
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  Speaker 1: is massive, like looks like a nuclear destruction of this
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  Speaker 1: beautiful place. He has on Trudeau, a leader in Canada
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  Speaker 1: who's disgraced, who has just resigned, and has a conversation
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  Speaker 1: with him about the wildfires. It makes no sense except
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  Speaker 1: for the fact that you don't want to hold the
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  Speaker 1: people accountable that made the decisions that allowed for this
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  Speaker 1: to happen.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I want to be clear, I don't think that.
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  Speaker 1: I should hold back at all, and I don't think
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  Speaker 1: I should wait for the fires to go out before
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  Speaker 1: I start asking questions. I think right now is the
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  Speaker 1: time to start asking those questions and most importantly, demanding answers,
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  Speaker 1: because this is exactly how democrats get away with this.
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  Speaker 1: No one's willing to point the finger and ask questions
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  Speaker 1: and place blame, and they protect all these leaders at
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  Speaker 1: all costs, every single time something happens. And if you
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  Speaker 1: don't believe me, look at what happened when we pulled
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  Speaker 1: out of Afghanistan.
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  Speaker 2: No one was fired.
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  Speaker 1: When we pulled out of Afghanistan, the disaster that cost
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  Speaker 1: people their lives, no one was fired. After we saw
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  Speaker 1: the incompetency play out on TV live on TV. Nobody
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  Speaker 1: at the Pentagon was fired. Nobody at the State Department,
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  Speaker 1: no one at the White House. No one was held
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  Speaker 1: accountable for that. And my point is, when there are
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  Speaker 1: things that are happening, it is okay to ask questions
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  Speaker 1: while they're happening, while the spotlight is on what's happening.
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  Speaker 1: You do not wait till the spotlight moves to another story.
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  Speaker 1: You ask questions. Now, CNN doing everything they can, however,
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  Speaker 1: to protect those in charge. So like, all right, let's
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  Speaker 1: bring out a guy from Canada that has no say
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  Speaker 1: so in this Who's disgrace, and let's ask him about
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  Speaker 1: the wildfires and you want to know, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: what he said exactly what I would expect from Trudeau.
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  Speaker 1: They're doing exactly what Democrats in California are doing right
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  Speaker 1: now that are in charge. They're blaming these fires, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, not on arsonists. And we know now that
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  Speaker 1: some of these fires were in fact started by arsonists.
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  Speaker 1: We have seen multiple calls come into nine to one
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  Speaker 1: of people setting fires in California over the last several days.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's not a conspiracy theory, it's a reality. No
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  Speaker 1: one wants to talk about that because what.
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  Speaker 2: Do they want to blame. They want to blame climate change.
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  Speaker 1: And why did they have Trudeau on CNN while there's
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  Speaker 1: these five major wildfires that are destroying LA and some
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  Speaker 1: of them were arson why did.
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  Speaker 2: They have them on?
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  Speaker 1: Because they want to blame somebody else. They don't want
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  Speaker 1: to blame the Democrats. They want to blame climate change,
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  Speaker 1: which by default means blame Republicans.
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  Speaker 3: Before I get into the funeral, and before I get
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  Speaker 3: into what's going on with you back in your home country,
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  Speaker 3: I do want to ask you know, our country in
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  Speaker 3: the world really is watching these horrible fires in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 3: Canada has a lot of experience with similar conflagrations. I
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  Speaker 3: know that you have been offering resources to the people
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  Speaker 3: of California and Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 2: What advice could you offer them?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think unfortunately, over the past years, we've seen
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  Speaker 4: it get far worse, and we've seen wildfire is increasingly
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  Speaker 4: encroaching on urban areas, and that's an interface fire where
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  Speaker 4: we're having to train up more local municipal firefighters to
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  Speaker 4: deal with wildfires in a way that we never had before.
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  Speaker 4: I've been back and forth texting with Governor Newsom. We've
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  Speaker 4: offered a tremendous amount of equipment they're already accepting. There's expertise,
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  Speaker 4: there's things that we're having to do to deal with
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  Speaker 4: together as we of course respond to these fires, but
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  Speaker 4: also know that climate change means they're going to get
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  Speaker 4: steadily worse, and we have to keep stepping up on
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  Speaker 4: fighting climate change too.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of people out there.
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  Speaker 3: Might say, what does climate change have to do with this?
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  Speaker 4: Explain Well, when the summers get drier, when weather gets hotter,
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  Speaker 4: when weather patterns shift, Communities that were built in a
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  Speaker 4: place that you never saw fires are suddenly seeing fires
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  Speaker 4: much more frequently. There's a shift in everything that means
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  Speaker 4: even what we see now is going to just get
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  Speaker 4: worse and worse and worse over the coming decades if
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  Speaker 4: we're not serious about our emissions and looking for ways
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  Speaker 4: to protect our future generations.
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  Speaker 1: It is unbelievable the propaganda right there coming from CNN.
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  Speaker 1: As all this has happened, they're not asking any questions now,
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  Speaker 1: the questions that CNN should be asking, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: on behalf of the American people is the same question
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  Speaker 1: that was asked of Governor Newsom when a woman wearing
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  Speaker 1: a mask ran up to Gavin Newsom on the streets
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  Speaker 1: when she saw him, and she said this to Gavin Newsom,
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  Speaker 1: Listen carefully. This is a citizen. I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: she's conservative or liberal. I don't care. She is an
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  Speaker 1: American citizen. She's a citizen in California. She's a citizen
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  Speaker 1: there where this where the fires are happening, and she
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  Speaker 1: sees the governor on the street. And listen to what
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  Speaker 1: she says. This is what the media should be doing. Governor,
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  Speaker 1: you got a second.
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  Speaker 5: Governor.
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  Speaker 2: Governor, I live here.
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  Speaker 5: Governor, that was my daughter's school.
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  Speaker 6: Governor, please tell me where you're gonna I'm not going
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  Speaker 6: to hurt on my promise.
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  Speaker 7: I'm literally talking to the President right now to specifically
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  Speaker 7: answer the question of what we can do.
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  Speaker 2: For you and your daughter? Can I hear it? Can
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  Speaker 2: I hear your call? Because I don't believe it? I'm sorry?
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  Speaker 2: Can I there's literally I've tried five times. That's why
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  Speaker 2: I'm walking around to me. Why is the President not
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  Speaker 2: taking your call? Because it's not going through? Why I
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  Speaker 2: have to get cell service?
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  Speaker 8: Let's get it, let's get it. I want to be
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  Speaker 8: here when you call the President.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate I'm doing that right now, and it's to
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  Speaker 2: immediately get reimbursements, individual.
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  Speaker 1: Assistance, and to help you on with death is looking
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  Speaker 1: for I'm so sorry, especially for your daughter.
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  Speaker 2: I have four kids.
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  Speaker 6: Everyone who went to school there, they lost their homes.
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  Speaker 2: They lost two homes because they were living in one
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  Speaker 2: and building another.
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  Speaker 8: Cather, please tell me, tell me what are you going
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  Speaker 8: to do with the president.
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  Speaker 3: Right now, we're getting we're getting the resources to help rebuild.
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  Speaker 2: Why is there no daughter in the hydrantscopy? That's all? Literally?
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  Speaker 2: Is it going to be different next time? It has
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  Speaker 2: to be has to be. What are you going to
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  Speaker 2: do to fill the hydrants? I would fill them up personally.
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  Speaker 2: And you know that I.
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  Speaker 9: Would fill up the hydrants myself, but.
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  Speaker 2: Would you do that? I wouldn't do whatever I can,
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  Speaker 2: but you're not.
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  Speaker 9: I see the Do you know there's water dripping over there?
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  Speaker 6: Governor?
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  Speaker 2: There's water coming out there? You can use it. I
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  Speaker 2: appreciate it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to make the call to address everything I
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  Speaker 3: can right now, including making sure people.
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  Speaker 2: To make sure you can. Can I have an opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to at least tell people you're doing what you're saying
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  Speaker 2: you're doing. Can somebody have a contact? Can I have
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  Speaker 2: your contact right now?
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  Speaker 1: This is a woman on the streets that doesn't believe
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  Speaker 1: that the governor's doing his job.
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  Speaker 2: Why was there no water in the hydrance? I'm trying
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  Speaker 2: to figure that out.
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  Speaker 1: The questions that should be asked, and I put out
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  Speaker 1: a tweet with this the questions they should be asked,
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  Speaker 1: and many of them you can answer. You just have
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  Speaker 1: to look at their policies. Why was there not water
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  Speaker 1: in the hide well? Probably because they didn't fill up
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  Speaker 1: the reservoirs. And why do they not fill up the
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  Speaker 1: reservoirs because they destroyed dams intentionally and they decide to
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  Speaker 1: push water into the ocean, and they chose smelt fish
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  Speaker 1: over humans. What's even more shocking about what we're witnessing
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  Speaker 1: in California is the media says now is not the
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  Speaker 1: time to ask these questions. The reality is, yes, it is.
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  Speaker 1: They destroyed the dams intentionally. They refuse to do controlled
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  Speaker 1: burns intentionally, They refused to do forest management intentionally, they
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  Speaker 1: refuse to clear dead trees and brush intentionally. And they're
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  Speaker 1: gay fire chief, which, by the way, I don't care
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  Speaker 1: that she's gay. What I do care about is that
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  Speaker 1: the gay fire chief prioritize being gay and diversity equity
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  Speaker 1: inclusion over protecting people's lives, many of.
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  Speaker 2: Them, by the way, which I'm sure are gay.
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  Speaker 1: That's the irony in all this, Like the I don't
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  Speaker 1: care if you're gay fire chief, I don't care.
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  Speaker 2: I care that you.
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  Speaker 1: Thought it was your job to have a three year
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  Speaker 1: plan to make sure you get a bunch of trends
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  Speaker 1: and gay and all the DEI hiring in there, instead
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  Speaker 1: of understanding that your job.
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  Speaker 2: Is to fight fires. That's what I care about.
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  Speaker 1: Make no mistake, the fiery destruction of people's homes and
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  Speaker 1: their lives in Malibu is a direct result of politics.
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  Speaker 1: It is a direct result of the politicians in charge
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  Speaker 1: in Los Angeles and California. And by the way, if
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna be honest about this, they're all Democrats. But
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  Speaker 1: the media says, now is not the time. So a
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  Speaker 1: woman has to run up to the governor and do
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  Speaker 1: her job. And then the media says, no, no, We're
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  Speaker 1: going to talk to Trudeau, a guy from Canada that's disgraced,
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  Speaker 1: and he's going to lecture us about reducing our missions.
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: Remember Representative Eric Swalwell who slept with a Chinese spy,
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  Speaker 1: Feng Fang bang bang.
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  Speaker 2: Remember that guy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, MSNBC putting him on TV to talk about this.
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  Speaker 2: What did he say? Listen carefully.
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  Speaker 6: You are both from northern California, and the trauma and
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  Speaker 6: the scars and the tragic earthquakes and fires of the
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  Speaker 6: early nineties are still everywhere you look. It takes not
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  Speaker 6: months or years, but it can take decades to completely
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  Speaker 6: rebuild from catastrophes like this. What can you promise the
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  Speaker 6: people of California in terms of being able to obtain
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  Speaker 6: fire insurance, something that was difficult before this tastrophe.
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  Speaker 8: So I promise, first and foremost to be compassionate and
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  Speaker 8: to be an adult about this, and to ignore people
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  Speaker 8: who have conducted themselves like they belong at the kids
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  Speaker 8: table on this, who are in elected office, but to
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  Speaker 8: focus on the immediate needs. Where are your kids going
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  Speaker 8: to go to school? How do you get the resources
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  Speaker 8: you need to rebuild? What's the reimbursonment to be for
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  Speaker 8: local communities from the federal government so that all of
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  Speaker 8: the infrastructure can be built immediately. And then of course
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  Speaker 8: the questions that need to be answered is to you know,
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  Speaker 8: what can we do in the future to make sure
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  Speaker 8: the response is even better. But in many ways this
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  Speaker 8: is an act of God. Eighty to ninety mile per
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  Speaker 8: hour winds in January in southern California is unseasonable and unpredictable.
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  Speaker 8: But we always can be better in our emergency response.
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  Speaker 8: But right now it's not a time, you know, I
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  Speaker 8: think for finger pointing.
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  Speaker 2: It's a time to think.
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  Speaker 8: The firefighters, the police officers, the first responders, and the
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  Speaker 8: community and then act as quickly as we can to
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  Speaker 8: get people hopefully back to what they felt us home.
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  Speaker 1: Translation, we don't want any finger pointing right now, because
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  Speaker 1: we know the fingers will be pointing.
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  Speaker 2: At us and in our policies. That's what we know.
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  Speaker 1: So let's go through the facts of why this was preventable.
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  Speaker 1: These southern California fires were preventable tragedy full stop. You
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  Speaker 1: want to know how bad it is in California when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to arsonists. There were more than thirteen thousand,
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  Speaker 1: nine hundred and nine fires started by homeless individuals last
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  Speaker 1: year alone in California. Did you know that they knew
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  Speaker 1: this was a real chance that this could happen. They
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  Speaker 1: knew it was a real problem. They knew that if
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  Speaker 1: these Santa Ana wins shifted in the right direction, that
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  Speaker 1: what would happen.
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  Speaker 2: Here is exactly what was going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: And what did they decide to do because they're obsessed with,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, like some little random fish or some bird.
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  Speaker 1: They had zero forest management. Not only did they have
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  Speaker 1: zero forest management, the mayor out there cut the fire
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  Speaker 1: department funding by seventeen million plus dollars. Firefighters, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: in California were fired for not getting vaccinated because that
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  Speaker 1: mattered more than saving people's lives. California launched a DEI
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  Speaker 1: Bureau instead of focusing on training because they cared more
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  Speaker 1: about if a trainee was shooting water out of a
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  Speaker 1: hose than they did if it was the most qualified
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  Speaker 1: person to be a fireman or woman.
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  Speaker 2: There was no water in the fire hydrants.
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  Speaker 1: And the mayor and the governor knows this because California
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  Speaker 1: purposely didn't fill their reservoirs like they should have to
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  Speaker 1: prepare for this type of fire, which they had been
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  Speaker 1: warned about for years. What they did do, though, is
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  Speaker 1: every time they had a chance to go woke, they
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  Speaker 1: took it. You may not know this, but they were
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  Speaker 1: cheering themselves on in liberal California, the leaders, the mayor,
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  Speaker 1: the fire chief who's gay, the governor. Because in La
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  Speaker 1: they gave firefighting equipment to Ukraine in twenty twenty two.
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  Speaker 1: You know what we saw in video yesterday. We saw
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  Speaker 1: firemen using women's purses.
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  Speaker 2: This is not a.
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  Speaker 1: Joke to fill up water from their truck, run over
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  Speaker 1: to little fires and dump water out of persons.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't have buckets.
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  Speaker 1: You think that firefighting equipment they gave to Ukraine in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty two could have been used in this massive fire.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to go out and the way Lemon say yes,
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  Speaker 1: And you want to know how many warnings there were
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  Speaker 1: about these fires. Big insurance companies left California due to
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  Speaker 1: two things. Number one, over regulation and number two poor
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  Speaker 1: fire prevention. Slash management is how they described it. Big
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  Speaker 1: insurance companies looked at these policies as woke agenda policies,
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  Speaker 1: and they said, yeah, this didn't make any sense because
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  Speaker 1: you guys aren't doing any forestry management. You aren't doing
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  Speaker 1: control burns, you're not clearing brush. You guys are sitting
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  Speaker 1: there with all the kinneling you can possibly create for.
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  Speaker 2: Something like this to happen.
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  Speaker 1: So big insurance companies, who don't necessarily play politics, just
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  Speaker 1: looked at the scenario that was created by the radical
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  Speaker 1: lefties in California and they said, we're out of here.
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  Speaker 1: Which goes back to the final point that I made
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  Speaker 1: earlier today. Not everything is a conspiracy. It's called liberal incompetent.
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  Speaker 1: I want to say that again, not everything is a conspiracy.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of this can be simply explained by calling
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  Speaker 1: it what it is, and that is liberal incompetence. So
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  Speaker 1: as you sit there and you look at this and
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  Speaker 1: you say, well, maybe now's not the time to talk
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  Speaker 1: about it, absolutely now is the time to talk about it.
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  Speaker 1: These fires that are ravaging Los Angeles are estimated cause
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  Speaker 1: over fifty billion in damages. By the way, maybe we
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  Speaker 1: should stop sending money to Ukraine right now when the
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  Speaker 1: people who are American citizens need this money to rebuild
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  Speaker 1: their lives in California. The other reason why now is
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  Speaker 1: the time to talk about is because it actually I'm
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  Speaker 1: just gonna be honest it this is me off that
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  Speaker 1: as a taxpayer, now I got to pay and it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be billions and billions of dollars. We're gonna give
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  Speaker 1: a bail out to California because of their incompetency, and
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  Speaker 1: there's gonna be a huge check that's going to be
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  Speaker 1: written because of their incompetency, and you and I as taxpayers,
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  Speaker 1: are going to pay for it.
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  Speaker 2: Is going to cost us.
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  Speaker 1: Now when you take that money, By the way, we're
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  Speaker 1: going to have to borrow that money because we don't
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  Speaker 1: have the money because we have trillions in debts. So
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  Speaker 1: we're going to borrow that money. We're going to pay
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  Speaker 1: interest on that money, and it's going to put us
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  Speaker 1: into even more debt. And the people were rewarding for
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  Speaker 1: their incompetency are people just like the Los Angeles Mayor
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  Speaker 1: Karen Bass, who was on a trip to Ghana when
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  Speaker 1: the fire engulfed large portions of the city. The same
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  Speaker 1: woman the cut nearly twenty million from the city's budget
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  Speaker 1: for fire services for the current fiscal year, and now
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  Speaker 1: it's going to cost us billions of dollars. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: just so you understand the politics of this, the mayor
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  Speaker 1: of Los Angeles, Miss Bass, proposed even higher cuts to
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  Speaker 1: fire than what was accepted at the end at her
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  Speaker 1: west Side current proposal in April of twenty twenty four,
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  Speaker 1: Bass purportedly wanted twenty three million in cuts to the
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  Speaker 1: fire department, quote sick magnificantly. The proposal, describe by Bass
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  Speaker 1: as a reset, included sixty five million and cuts to
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  Speaker 1: her signature inside Safe Homelessness program.
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  Speaker 2: So we're spending more on that than we're spending on
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  Speaker 2: fire prevention.
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  Speaker 1: That would be an increase of more than one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and thirty eight million for the Los Angeles Police Department
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  Speaker 1: and a decrease of twenty three million for the LA
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  Speaker 1: Fire Department. Well, you get what you pay for, folks.
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  Speaker 1: There's also another aspect to this whole conversation, that is, right,
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  Speaker 1: when bad things happen in theory. People come together, right,
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  Speaker 1: you have heroes that come out. We hear sad stories
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  Speaker 1: about people. There's a man that died with a water
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  Speaker 1: hose in his hand trying to save his own house.
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  Speaker 2: You see people that have saved like baby Deer.
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  Speaker 1: In the last couple of hours that have come out
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  Speaker 1: on TV, We've seen people that have been pushing the
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  Speaker 1: elderly from old folks homes away from the blaze as
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  Speaker 1: embers are flying through the air on the street. Right,
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  Speaker 1: there's heroes that come out of this. But you also
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  Speaker 1: have a problem in La. You have a breakdown in
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  Speaker 1: society that's happening before our very eyes. There are a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people now that are taking advantage of this opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: Is looters are coming out in large numbers. Now, why
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  Speaker 1: would that happen? I can tell exactly why. Because you
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  Speaker 1: have a godless, lawless society in La. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: say that again because I didn't say it by accident,
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  Speaker 1: and there's people to say, well, Ben, that's just me
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  Speaker 1: to say that right now, No, it's not. This is
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  Speaker 1: exactly when you have this conversation. There is godlessness and lawlessness.
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  Speaker 2: In La. They don't prosecute people for breaking into stores.
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  Speaker 1: We've seen this. We look at all the stores in
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  Speaker 1: California that keep closing. They have to lock up everything
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  Speaker 1: at CBS and Walgreens because everything people walk in and steal.
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  Speaker 1: We've seen the videos of people walking into stores and
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  Speaker 1: just grab whatever the hell they want. They walk out,
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  Speaker 1: and they're not prosecuted because if it's under nine hundred
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  Speaker 1: and something dollars, they don't care out there. And now
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the La County District Attorney is
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  Speaker 1: issuing quota warning to potential looters.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you better not do that.
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  Speaker 1: You created a society bro where you didn't prosecute people
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  Speaker 1: for stealing in broad daylight in the stores, and you
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  Speaker 1: let them go because of bail reform in prison reform,
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  Speaker 1: and you did this. So now instead of people saying
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  Speaker 1: like hey, everybody, chill out, no stealing, we'll tell people.
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  Speaker 2: Let's try to say we lives. There's looters out there,
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  Speaker 2: like hey man, this is ours for the take, and
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  Speaker 2: let's go get it. Let's get into break into city.
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  Speaker 1: These nights homes are going to burn down anyway, right,
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  Speaker 1: there's justification for it. Hell, there's probably be like, oh
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  Speaker 1: the lord bless me during that fire. I got me
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  Speaker 1: a big screen TV, a couple of laptops, some iPads,
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  Speaker 1: got me some guns, stole me some furniture. I got
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  Speaker 1: some good stuff. The Lord blessed me. The house goun
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  Speaker 1: burned out. Anyway, right there, I can hear the justification
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  Speaker 1: of the criminals that are involved in this. And now
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  Speaker 1: Nathan Hutcham, Hutchman or whatever the hell's name is, the
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  Speaker 1: LA County District Attorney is out there on TV, which also,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, makes me laugh. Do you think there's
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of people in LA that are looting right
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  Speaker 1: now that are watching you on TV? No, because they're
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  Speaker 1: out there looting. It's like, well, we're going to tell
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  Speaker 1: them they better not loot. Good luck with that, bro.
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  Speaker 1: You create a society where no one's out accountable for
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  Speaker 1: any of their actions. In LA, you can be an illegal,
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  Speaker 1: you can be homeless, you can be a squatter. So
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  Speaker 1: the worst squatting we've seen of houses in the country
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  Speaker 1: are coming out of LA.
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  Speaker 2: You can walk into.
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  Speaker 1: A CBS at Walgreens, or a department store, a Saxo
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  Speaker 1: Fifth Avenue, a Macy's, whatever it is, and you can
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  Speaker 1: steal whatever the hell you want, and you're not gonna
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  Speaker 1: be prosecuted. You created a lawless environment where now you're shocked,
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  Speaker 1: and I think these Hollywood people are like truly shocked,
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  Speaker 1: like they cannot believe that people are just stealing right
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  Speaker 1: now and trying to steal during this time. I totally
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  Speaker 1: can It makes complete sense to me. Every day you
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  Speaker 1: let them get away with it. This is the big one,
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  Speaker 1: this is the Super Bowl. Go into anyhow, steal whatever
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  Speaker 1: the hell you want. And now they're like, well, you
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  Speaker 1: can't do that. Now you're drawing the line. Listen to him,
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  Speaker 1: plead with the criminals, Please don't do this.
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  Speaker 9: Nathan, Why was it important for you to put out
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  Speaker 9: to the world that Instagram.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you have a very big job right now.
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  Speaker 9: We watched you earlier on your news conference talking about looters.
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  Speaker 9: You're going to take a very heavy hand when it
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  Speaker 9: comes to that. But maybe sharing I guess that it's
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  Speaker 9: affecting everybody, including you and your family.
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  Speaker 7: So there's I thought it was very important to make
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  Speaker 7: it clear that I was there, I was a bearing
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  Speaker 7: witness right in the middle of the fire zone, that
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  Speaker 7: it affected my sister, you know, her entire family. I've
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  Speaker 7: personally been evacuated along with thousands of others. There's over
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  Speaker 7: one hundred and eighty thousand people who have been evacuated
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  Speaker 7: in Los Angeles County.
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  Speaker 2: And I want to also make.
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  Speaker 7: Clear to anyone who was thinking about taking advantage of
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  Speaker 7: it for their own personal illegal profit, and those looters,
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  Speaker 7: those scammers, those people who are going to do praying
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  Speaker 7: on vulnerable people who are looking to rebuild their lives,
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  Speaker 7: that they will actually be arrested, they will be prosecuted,
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  Speaker 7: and we will seek maximum punishment against that. Those people
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  Speaker 7: who want to take advantage of this tragedy are despicable,
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  Speaker 7: and I wanted to say in fair warning out to
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  Speaker 7: them right now so there's no misunderstanding about how they
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  Speaker 7: will be treated if and when they get caught, prosecuted
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  Speaker 7: and punished.
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  Speaker 2: I don't I'm sorry, Like, I don't believe you.
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  Speaker 1: If I'm one of these criminals out there, I'm laughing
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  Speaker 1: in your face because I'm like, dude, you guys can't
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  Speaker 1: even put out a fire. You can't even get water
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  Speaker 1: into hoses. You guys can't even do that. Like, do
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  Speaker 1: you really think right now if you are a professional
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  Speaker 1: louter or an amateur out there, you are worried about
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  Speaker 1: what that DA prosecutor just said. I'll go to another example.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go back and again. It just signals the reality.
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  Speaker 1: The Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley, she boasted about
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  Speaker 1: being the first female and LGBTQ fire chief in the
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  Speaker 1: LA Fire Department.
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  Speaker 2: And what did she do.
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  Speaker 1: She promote a culture of DEI in her hiring priority
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  Speaker 1: in a three she called it a three year initiative.
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  Speaker 1: A three year initiative, she said she wanted to create
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  Speaker 1: a supporting and promoting a culture that values diversity, inclusion,
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  Speaker 1: equity while striving to meet and exceed the expectations of
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  Speaker 1: the communities. As Chief Crowley's priorities, you get what you
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  Speaker 1: pay for. You push all this woke ideology and this
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  Speaker 1: is what you get. And by the way, Joe Biden
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  Speaker 1: just authorized five hundred million in aid to California and
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: who lost everything in these fires? Just kidding, just kidding, Sorry,
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  Speaker 1: that was for Ukraine. My bad so far. Joe Biden
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  Speaker 1: is not guaranteed any certain dollar amount of aid to Californias.
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  Speaker 1: That could change. But the time I'm taping this, that's
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  Speaker 1: what's going on.
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  Speaker 2: We had time to.
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  Speaker 1: Give another five hundred million in a to Ukraine, not California,
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  Speaker 1: but to Ukraine. Here's something else you might want to know.
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  Speaker 1: We finally have a clip of the President of the
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  Speaker 1: United States of America. I'm going to play this for
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  Speaker 1: you because it just came in. This just came in.
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  Speaker 1: Here is Joe Biden. I'm going to hear this with
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  Speaker 1: you right now for the first time today.
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  Speaker 10: For Secretary of Defense also authorized five hundred wildfire ground
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  Speaker 10: cleary personnel from the Defense Department, and I've directed the
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  Speaker 10: Department to continue working with covenduson to identify additional resources
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  Speaker 10: that can be provided for public safety and security. And
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  Speaker 10: we've secured additional firefighters and firefighting aircraft from our ally
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  Speaker 10: and Canada as well. I also want everyone in southern
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  Speaker 10: California to know we're going.
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  Speaker 2: To keep at it. We're sticking with this.
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  Speaker 10: We expect there may be a temporary break in the winds,
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  Speaker 10: but in some areas the winds are likely to continue
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  Speaker 10: well in the next week, and so we're going to
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  Speaker 10: continue to sending everything, literally every resource we can find
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  Speaker 10: that's appropriate to help the governor and the first responders. Second,
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  Speaker 10: we're focus on helping people who have been displaced where
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  Speaker 10: in many cases lost everything. You've reported on you're seeing
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  Speaker 10: the homes burned to the ground, whole areas have burned
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  Speaker 10: to the ground, large areas. They've been displaced, and they've
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  Speaker 10: lost everything. As I said, since the fire started, FEMA
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  Speaker 10: has been working with state the state to help residents
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  Speaker 10: get sheltered, groceries, prescription and other critical goods like baby formula.
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  Speaker 10: We're also sent FEMA Director Criswell to Los Angeles to
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  Speaker 10: manage our response on the ground. She was supposed to
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  Speaker 10: be on this call, but we have a deputy here
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  Speaker 10: because she is out in the field with the governor
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  Speaker 10: right now surveying what's going on.
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  Speaker 2: This guy's no clue what's going on. Quote. I want
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  Speaker 2: everyone's out of California to know we're going to keep
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  Speaker 2: at it. We're staying with this. Like what is that?
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  Speaker 2: What does that even mean? Like, we're gonna.
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  Speaker 1: Stick with it, boys, We're gonna We're gonna stick with it,
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  Speaker 1: letting the fires be zero percent contained. Like I'm being serious,
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  Speaker 1: what does that actually mean? Pacific Palisades property owner went
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  Speaker 1: on TV earlier today. His name is Steve Bardak, and
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  Speaker 1: you know what he said. He said, we as residents
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  Speaker 1: we made a mistake. Listen, I think.
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  Speaker 5: Los Angeles made a mistake. Karen Bass does not serve
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  Speaker 5: the interest of LA residents. U Some of the decisions
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  Speaker 5: are nonsensical, such as cutting seventeen point six million dollars
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  Speaker 5: from LA Fire Department's budget but instead prioritizing homelessness where
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  Speaker 5: roughly half of the funds of one point three billion
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  Speaker 5: dollars was not even spent. And it just doesn't make
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  Speaker 5: any sense. You know, where are her priorities, what is
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: her strategy? Where is the plan she she doesn't have one.
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  Speaker 5: We need a proven leader with that is effective, that
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  Speaker 5: understands priorities, that understands business, like Rick Fruso.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, you want to know why they can't
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  Speaker 1: do this job. They didn't sign up to do this job, folks.
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  Speaker 1: Gavin Newsome didn't sign up to be governor. He signed
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  Speaker 1: up to be a Hollywood celebrity. Karen Bass didn't sign
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  Speaker 1: up to actually be a mayor. She signed up for
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  Speaker 1: the glitzy parties and the celebrity handshakes and the woke
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  Speaker 1: ideology where everybody walk around say you're doing so great,
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: How many trans people got in your office?
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  Speaker 2: Now, good for you?
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: How many gay people got in your office? How many
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: lesbians you got hired? Oh?
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  Speaker 2: I got me a new.
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  Speaker 1: Lesbian up in here, is gonna be in charge of
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  Speaker 1: fire department. Yeah, she's gonna get some more lesbians up
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  Speaker 1: in here, and gave people in some trainees.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't sign up to actually serve the people, folks.
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  Speaker 1: They signed up to be famous with celebrities in a
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  Speaker 1: city where they get to go to all the fun,
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  Speaker 1: glitzy parties. By the way, in these types of disasters,
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  Speaker 1: this is where the.
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  Speaker 2: Governors earned their paycheck.
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  Speaker 1: It's also, by the way, where they earn their paycheck
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  Speaker 1: by making sure they do everything to make sure that
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  Speaker 1: days like this don't happen and fires like this don't happen.
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  Speaker 1: And notice they're still not telling you the truth that
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: a lot of these fires are being lit by individuals.
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  Speaker 1: Another Malibu resident started crying during an interview with NBC News, saying,
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: we lost everything we owned. I hope they learn from this,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: I really do. Adam Carolla slamming democrats. You may know
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: him the Adam Carolla Show. This is a guy that's
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: a comedian. He's a former liberal who's now just sensical.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: Here's what he said.
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  Speaker 11: You guys all voted for Karen Bass, the mayor of
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  Speaker 11: Los Angeles, who all voted for Gavin Newsom, And now
• 29:42
  Speaker 11: you get what you get.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, now that your house is on fire, Well.
• 29:46
  Speaker 11: Now you're thinking about something else. Now you want to
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  Speaker 11: know what's going on. What's going on around here? All
• 29:52
  Speaker 11: these people who were deep blue Democrats are now going
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  Speaker 11: to have to pull a permit to rebuild. And when
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  Speaker 11: they start running into the bureaucracy in the red tape,
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  Speaker 11: they're gonna start going nuts and they're gonna vote for
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  Speaker 11: Rick Caruso next time because they want to get That's
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  Speaker 11: all Trump says, We're gonna we're gonna pull back the regulations.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, he's right, you guys all voted for this,
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  Speaker 1: But now that your house is on fire, you start
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  Speaker 1: thinking about something else.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't agree with him more. And is all this
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: is happening.
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  Speaker 1: Just remember a lot of this started with a fish,
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  Speaker 1: a fish that they wanted to save, a little fish,
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  Speaker 1: And California burned itself to the ground to save a
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  Speaker 1: little fish and got rid of dams. By the way,
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: Pride Magazine, Yes it's a real article. Yes this is
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: a real headline. Pride magazine. Their headline today was this
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  Speaker 1: amid Palisades fire, Comma, los Angeles' first LGBTQ plus fire
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  Speaker 1: chief is proving lesbians get it done. I have nothing
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  Speaker 1: else to say. Make sure you share this podcast with
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: your family or friends wherever you are. I'll see you
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: back here tomorrow