Episode 4181: Fires Continue To Rage As Newsom Neglects Californians; Undoing The Biden Damage Day One
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Summary
Water has run out in the Palisades area of Los Angeles and firefighters are scrambling to save what they can from the massive fire that has ravaged the area since sunday morning. The fire has destroyed more than 1,000 structures and forced the evacuation of thousands of people.
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Italian Chief Brenda Simonian talking about the challenges with this.
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They've been trying to save the more than 100-year-old Diodor Cedars on Christmas Tree Lane as well.
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I heard there are fire extinguishers or those haven't been able to get turned on or used.
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No, ma'am. We're at a complete, we're losing water pressure up here.
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The wind, as you see, is pushing it very violently.
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And the lack of water is a huge, huge hurdle that we're trying to overcome.
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So lack of water, like no pressure in the neighborhood?
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So we send our water tenders or our engines down to shuttle water from further away,
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It makes it challenging to do our job, but we're just up here trying to do the best we can for the citizens and the community.
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Obviously, Palisades ran out last night in the hydrants.
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I was trying to fire a firefighter on this block.
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They left because there was no water in the hydrants here.
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I mean, just when you have a system where it's not dissimilar to what we've seen in other extraordinarily large-scale fires,
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whether it be pipe, electricity, or whether it just be the complete overwhelm of the system.
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I mean, those hydrants are typical for two or three fires, maybe one fire.
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But, again, that's got to be determined by the local.
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And all those fields that are right now barren, the farmers, would have all the water they needed.
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And you could revert water up into the hills where you have all the dead forests, where the forests are so brittle.
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The head of Austria tells me, you know, we have trees that are much more flammable than what you have in California.
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We never have forest forests because they maintain their forests.
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And you have all that water that could be used to, what they call water flow, where the land would be damp.
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And you'd stop many of these horrible fires that are costing billions and billions of dollars by the federal government, etc.
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So one thing I'm going to do for California, vote for me, California.
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And I'm going to give you more water than almost anybody has.
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And the farmers up north are going to be able to use 100 percent of their land, not 1 percent of their land.
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They admitted that we did not have the water pressure in order to fight the fire on the ground.
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And the reason that happened is because they have about three one million gallon tanks that they have in the Palisades area.
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And the reason you fill that up is so that you have the water pressure.
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And so they were pumping out so much water over about 15 hours, about four times the capacity.
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And around 3 o'clock in the morning, 4 o'clock in the morning, they have no more water.
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And that was the critical time of this firefight yesterday because that's when the winds were the highest overnight and into the morning.
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On top of that, you also had the aircraft, which were not flying.
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They had to be grounded because of those strong winds.
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So when you have no water coming from up above or on the ground, that's why you see more than 1,000 structures that have burned because there was no way to fight this.
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And also you had those whipping winds that carried embers up to a mile or two.
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So it was really the perfect storm that created this mess.
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It's got a natural flow from Canada all the way up north of water, more water than they could ever use.
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And in order to protect a tiny little fish, the water up north gets routed into the Pacific Ocean.
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Millions and millions of gallons of water gets poured.
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I could have water for all of that land, water for your forests.
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You know, you could have everything, not only dangerous, billions of dollars a year they spend on forest fires.
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And, you know, there's a case with the environment.
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They're not allowed to rake their forests because you're not allowed to touch it.
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And all they have to do is clean their forests, meaning rake it up, get rid of the leaves, get rid of, you know, leaves that are sitting there for five years.
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And they'll certainly get rid of the dead fall.
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Governor Gavin Newsom, are you willing to work with him?
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Do you believe that federal aid should be provided to California for as long as it takes?
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Well, it's very sad because I've been trying to get Gavin Newsom to allow water to come.
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They send it out to the Pacific because they're trying to protect a tiny little fish, which is in other areas, by the way, called a smelt.
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And for the sake of a smelt, they have no water.
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They had no water in the fire hydrants today in Los Angeles.
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You have farmers that don't have any water in California.
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So what's happening in California is a true tragedy.
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I mean, virtually Beverly Hills and areas around Beverly Hills are being decimated.
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That the biggest homes, some of the most valuable homes in the world are just destroyed.
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If those people leave, you're going to lose half your tax base of California.
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And it's a mistake of the governor and you could say the administration.
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They give millions and millions of barrels of gallons of water that they have.
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But for California, we take care of the whole state.
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I hate to even ask this question, but the president-elect chose to attack you, blame you for this.
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I have a lot of thoughts and I know what I want to say.
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I stood next to the president of the United States of America today and I was proud to be with Joe Biden.
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And he had the backs of every single person in this community.
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He didn't play politics, didn't try to divide any of us.
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The good news is I'm a great grandfather as of the day.
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I'm a baby girl, so I remember this day for a lot of long reasons for that.
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Here's the time I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.
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I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it.
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And where do people like that go to share the big lie?
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I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
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Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
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If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
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It's Thursday, 9th January, in the year of our Lord, 2025.
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We've got a lot to get to today, but I want to talk about the historic significance of what we're seeing right now.
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Folks, this is what is called a hinge of history.
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From Europe, to the progressives in New York State, to California, the gravitational pull of President Trump's leadership,
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his common sense manliness, just let's be blunt, adult supervision, is reordering the political universe much more than November 5th or predicated upon November 5th.
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Well, Jim Vanderhay and Mike Allen, who are the Washington consensus in a sophisticated and smart way,
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not the stupid hour that Morning Joe is, but a sophisticated way, over at Axios,
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has a piece up about President Trump and the transition, and I've put it up on Getter and just said full-spectrum dominance.
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Those two cuts that we played, and I want to thank my crack production team and Denver for putting that together.
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Because right there, it encapsulates what the issues are.
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The fires still have no containment, and they're still roaring through.
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And Pacific Palisades, which I am extremely familiar with,
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It's one of the most quaint villages in greater Los Angeles.
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It's 20 miles right before you get to the ocean.
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As you head to the ocean west from L.A. proper, from downtown L.A.,
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It's always, L.A. is always known, I think, by the Pasadena, kind of in the eastern side,
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and then the beaches, the South Bay beaches of Manhattan Beach, Hermosa Beach, Redondo Beach,
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leading to Palos Verdes with Marina del Rey up at the top.
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Moe is from, was raised in Manhattan Beach, a huge athletic center down there of all those.
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Then you've got the beaches to the north, you have Santa Monica, and then you've got Pacific Palisades.
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It's kind of Pacific Palisades is where President Reagan lived.
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It was always known as the classy, understated elegance, not huge, over-the-top mansions.
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And if you see, even all the, most of these actors are progressive, but these are,
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if you look at the actors and musicians and people, they're the understated,
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it's a progressive enclave, obviously, because of Hollywood,
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but they're the understated, you could say, like the Billy Crystals and people like that,
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that are not there to, you know, rub their wealth into your face.
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Joel Pollack's over at Breitbart's put up a tremendous stream,
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a tremendous link on his, and Joel's a very even-handed guy.
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He's not a bomb thrower like we are, but you ought to read that.
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I know Karen Sigmund and the team at AFA have been all over this.
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It is, you know, Natalie's home in Santa Monica has had to be evacuated where her parents live.
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It is, it's stunning what happened in those two cuts.
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Trump, who's mocked and ridiculed all the time, mocked and ridiculed.
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And Gavin Newsom, Gavin Newsom is the personification,
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the manifestation of the progressive left, the politically correct left, right?
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President Trump did that first on a campaign stop, then on Joe Rogan's show.
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And in Daily Mail, I was saying, Joe Rogan's prophetic, talking about things, it was Trump.
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And Joe asked great questions, even to bring it up, that concept at the time,
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Given everything else was going on, President Trump, ready to get banged.
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I hope the folks, when, and I realize this is raw,
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and obviously, you know, our hearts, everything goes out to these people.
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they're associated with their parents and their grandparents,
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all the, think about your house, it would just burn in a minute.
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This thing happened, what, at 10, started at 10.30, I think on Tuesday,
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They're offshore winds, and they come across the desert,
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But, the winds, they've had other winds like this,
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and clearly, clearly, somehow this got started.
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But, where were the firefighters, firefighters?
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