Bannon's War Room - WarRoom Battleground EP 694： President Trump Speaks With Newsom Cont

00:00:00.160 Continue on, Amanda. We've got Air Force One. We have Amanda Head. That's the shot I want right

00:00:04.320 there. Thanks, guys. Not that hard. Amanda Head, continue on, ma'am. 1.00

00:00:09.140 Sure. Yeah. So as far as what you're seeing visually, what President Trump is also going

00:00:14.000 to observe is the devastating nature of failed policies in California. Steve, you have lived

00:00:18.740 here plenty of times throughout your life. And the ingenuity that exists in California,

00:00:24.160 the way that this state and this city retrofits for earthquakes with coils and ball bearings

00:00:30.100 retrofitted under buildings that are the size of smart cards, with these foundation isolators that

00:00:35.760 shift with the earth. We have so much ingenuity in this state, even with respect to rock slides,

00:00:40.800 these gabion nets that they place on the side of mountains. And yet something as simple as

00:00:46.420 retaining water, something that is a natural resource that is right over there in the ocean.

00:00:50.680 Look, I understand that you can't put out fires traditionally, systematically with ocean water

00:00:56.060 because of concerns about corrosion. But I'm pretty sure that someone would rather have the materials

00:01:00.480 of their home corroding than they would to have it burned to ashes. So I have a feeling that President

00:01:04.940 Trump is going to have plenty to say and plenty of questions to ask of Mayor Karen Bass, who is

00:01:10.080 supposedly going to be here, and also Governor Gavin Newsom.

00:01:12.500 So, let me ask you, the tone, because this is the most liberal, you know, one of the biggest

00:01:21.720 progressive cities in the world. The part you're in right now is one of the progressive enclaves. I

00:01:27.440 know so many friends and folks I know from business and from Goldman Sachs and Harvard that are up there.

00:01:33.160 They're furious right now. They're rethinking like Bill Maher is their political beliefs because

00:01:38.120 it's just the incompetence. Give us a feel for what's happened in the last couple of weeks since

00:01:42.420 the fire, since the fire has ended. Yeah. You know, Steve, when, when you are a progressive

00:01:48.900 Democrat and you can afford to care about social issues and environmental issues, then it makes

00:01:55.880 it kind of easy to slide through life. But when that ideology comes crashing to the ground and is met

00:02:01.780 with the reality of everything you own being burned to ashes, then of course, you're going to start

00:02:06.700 rethinking things. And just anecdotally, I live on the other side of L.A. I live in Burbank, but again,

00:02:11.740 a very liberal area. And there are plenty of people in that area as well. And all of these liberal

00:02:17.040 enclaves across Southern California who are saying to themselves, if this happened this time and it

00:02:22.020 happened four years ago and it happened eight years before that, there is no telling when it's

00:02:26.140 going to happen again. And unless things change, we're out because we literally cannot afford to lose

00:02:30.900 another home. Amanda, can I do the, can I do the split screen with the, the, with the feed,

00:02:39.140 with the plane coming in? It's not up. Okay, fine. Let's see. Let's see. We can get that back up as

00:02:45.660 soon as possible. Amanda, what are people saying the cause of this fire is right now? I've heard

00:02:51.320 homeless. I've heard power lines. I've heard there's no lightning. I mean, what, as you read the L.A.

00:02:58.840 Times every day and see the local news, where do we stand with people actually getting to the bottom

00:03:03.460 of what caused it? You know, it depends who you're talking to. When it comes to the news media,

00:03:10.580 there seems to be an element of recognition that, that much of this has been man-made. Obviously,

00:03:16.760 anything that was man-made or nature-made was, was, you know, exacerbated by the, the initial winds

00:03:23.260 that took place during those first three or four days. But Steve, I got to tell you, in places like the

00:03:28.000 Hollywood Hills, where the Runyon fire broke out, thankfully that one has been put out,

00:03:32.420 there aren't power lines there. And you look at the, again, the sporadic nature of some of these

00:03:36.820 fires, the Hearst fire, some of the ones that are up north, northwest of Los Angeles, now in

00:03:43.040 Castaic, you just have to wonder if now we're having a copycat scenario of, of arson. And it, it honestly,

00:03:50.380 I would not be surprised if we found out a year from now, five years from now, 10 years from now,

00:03:55.140 sometimes it takes even longer for this information to come out. But it wouldn't surprise me at all if

00:03:59.580 we found out that there were some crazy environmentalists out there who were trying

00:04:02.720 to force change in this city, because they'll certainly do it with anything else. They'll,

00:04:06.980 they'll block roads, they will pour, you know, gasoline on, on paintings, they'll do whatever

00:04:12.260 it takes. And it would not surprise me if we found out that they were willing to sacrifice an entire

00:04:16.720 city, an entire area like Pacific Palisades to make their point known in the state of California.

00:04:21.820 The unfortunate thing is that a lot of people in California are waking up to the fact that it is

00:04:26.000 because of those precise policies that those people are pushing for, that is the reason they're in this

00:04:30.660 situation to begin with. I mean, isn't that, I think, homelessness, the homeless of also, but isn't

00:04:36.780 the reason President Trump's gonna have these conversations today is policies that were the

00:04:41.440 predicate for this, but also are people asking, one thing I was shocked to me, because there's a great

00:04:47.120 little fire station right there in the Palisades, I know, all throughout West LA. Where were the

00:04:52.240 firemen? Was it an organizational issue? Were they given a command not to go? And then President

00:04:57.280 Trump, his number one question is gonna be the water. In North Carolina today, he made, he made a

00:05:02.160 big deal about that leaving the White House. He made another big deal about it twice in, in, in North

00:05:08.440 Carolina. Gavin Newsom or somebody better be there for an answer. Maybe not a definitive answer, but it

00:05:13.720 better not be like, it's the first time anybody asks a question, because Trump will be up in your

00:05:17.880 grill on this. He is obsessed by this issue. What, where is the media, what are people in LA talking

00:05:24.280 about? Did that freeze right there? I think we first, yeah, we just lost it. Let's get, let's get

00:05:35.020 back. We're gonna get Amanda back up. And if we can get, we don't have LAX yet. There's no, there's no, 0.82

00:05:40.220 there's no feed. Okay. We're working on it or is the feed working on it? Okay. It's our feed.

00:05:49.280 People know this is, this is, oh man. I love directing as we, as we go about it. Okay. Stephen

00:05:56.800 came in and let's do a reset. The president of the United States has landed. He's in LAX, got in,

00:06:02.340 I think about an hour, supposed to be there about one or two o'clock, got there about three o'clock.

00:06:08.420 I think he was an hour late in North Carolina. I'm sure the headwinds, there we go. Let's cut

00:06:13.060 right to this where president Trump's going to come out. Let's cut, please. There, there we go,

00:06:17.080 boys. There, that's the door right there. The president's going to come out. That's the front

00:06:21.300 of Air Force One. President and first lady Melania Trump will be out momentarily. Let's get a full

00:06:27.360 shot at that. People don't need to see me. Seen enough of me. Newsom's down the front. There we go.

00:06:33.940 Oh, we're going to go back to directing school here. People don't need to see me. Seen enough

00:06:41.940 of me. Full shot right there. That's the front door of Air Force One. President will be out on

00:06:48.900 the tarmac. I've just been told by my crack production team that the governor of California

00:06:53.220 Newsom will be there. This will be quite interesting of President Trump and Newsom. Remember the last

00:06:58.520 time I think they were together was the Paradise Fire. In the Paradise Fire, President Trump,

00:07:04.720 and correct me if I'm wrong, crack production team who is actually from LA, the President

00:07:08.980 Newsom had not words, but the President was pretty adamant about you got to take care of

00:07:12.860 this underbrush. Why are we not having controlled burns? Remember the time the President was saying,

00:07:17.800 hey, we got to have controlled burns. The environmentalists have a whole different theory of that.

00:07:21.980 Josh Pettit, the golf course architect, was on here two weeks ago. He had a really laid out

00:07:26.680 the interconnective tissue of all these coastal commissions, all these environmental commissions.

00:07:32.840 The President is quite obsessed with the smell in the water. We got a second. Let's go back

00:07:43.080 to Amanda. Do we have Amanda head up? If we got her, let's bring her back up. I have a question.

00:07:49.560 If not, we'll just watch the President. Just split screen with Amanda, not full screen,

00:07:53.120 just split screen. Dang, that's perfect. There we go, boys. Amanda head, the question about water.

00:08:02.120 President Trump's going to come off that ramp. He's going to walk down those stairs. The governor

00:08:05.980 of California is there, and he's going to be up and he's going to ask the question,

00:08:08.980 where the hell was the water? What's going to be Newsom's response, ma'am?

00:08:14.300 Yeah, the problem, and this is the problem with practically every defunct policy here in California,

00:08:19.280 Steve, as you know, is that many of the problems here, Democrat politicians, especially Gavin Newsom,

00:08:25.400 they don't actually see as a problem. And that's the biggest issue here. If you don't see something

00:08:29.980 as a problem, you have no impetus to actually fix it. So it's going to be an interesting conversation

00:08:34.720 between those two men. I also wonder if Gavin Newsom is aware that some of his top donors in

00:08:39.820 the state of California have been to Mar-a-Lago to meet with President Trump. There's one in particular

00:08:44.140 who I'm not going to out him because I know he does still have a relationship with Gavin Newsom,

00:08:48.400 but there are change makers and problem solvers in the state of California who, despite their

00:08:53.400 Democrat leanings, are ready to come to the table and find solutions. And they're doing that with

00:08:57.880 Donald Trump and not Gavin Newsom. Amanda, this brings up the point of, I don't know the

00:09:05.100 technicalities of it, but the recall effort for Mayor Bass, the recall effort for Newsom,

00:09:11.200 I think is technically already underway, having they formed committees and people made

00:09:15.220 announcements and they're starting to try to raise money? Yeah, of course, in California,

00:09:20.260 and especially since we've had a few recalls, they have made the process a little bit harder,

00:09:24.500 but it first starts with the petition. You have to get a certain amount of signatures depending on

00:09:28.940 the level of that office. If it's a local or a state level office, you've got to get the signatures

00:09:33.300 on a petition to actually roll into a recall situation. I don't know if it's going to make it that

00:09:39.420 far with Mayor Karen Bass, because I know people are angry, but I'm not completely sure that people

00:09:44.660 have connected the dots yet between Karen Bass and the allocation of funds away from the fire

00:09:52.300 department. Amanda, here we go. The president of the United States and Melania Trump, the first lady,

00:10:00.940 are coming down full shot. Perfect. Look at that. They're coming down the ramp now to meet the

00:10:07.000 dignitaries, including Governor Newsom at Los Angeles International Airport.

00:10:20.500 Look at that right there. President Trump, very magnanimous, pulls Newsom close to him.

00:10:25.200 Looks like they're having some kind words, empathetic. Newsom, who is not quiet about the fact that

00:10:36.280 he's going to be running in 2028. First Lady Melania Trump is the president coming over. I think

00:10:44.500 the president's going to say a few words. Let's go to the tarmac of Los Angeles International Airport,

00:10:51.620 LAX. The president, Governor Newsom, the first lady, approaching the microphones.

00:10:56.480 So we just left North Carolina a little while ago. We have that in very good shape. We have the congressman

00:11:04.200 in charge and Michael Watley, and we're going to do a lot of work. We have the Army Corps of engineers

00:11:10.900 working as they are here. And I think you're going to see some very big progress. They left them high and

00:11:16.780 dry. And now we're going to be taking a little tour with some of the people from the area. I appreciate the

00:11:25.480 governor coming out and meeting me, Kevin, very much. And we'll be talking a little bit. We want

00:11:33.480 to get it fixed. We want to get the problem fixed. And there'll be some ways. But it's like you got

00:11:40.640 hit by a bomb, right? Yeah. Like you got hit by a bomb. Would you like to say something?

00:11:46.380 Most importantly, thank you for being here. It means a great deal to all of us.

00:11:50.160 Not just the folks in Palisades, the folks in Altadena that were devastated. We're going to

00:11:55.940 need your support. We're going to need your help. You were there for us during COVID. I don't forget

00:12:01.700 that. And I have all the expectations that we'll be able to work together to get this speedy

00:12:07.440 recovery. We will. We've got to get it done. Tremendous numbers of lives have been affected.

00:12:13.160 A lot of real estate's been affected. Nobody's ever probably seen anything like this. You

00:12:19.160 can almost say since the Second World War, when you think of it. I mean, nothing like this

00:12:23.400 has happened. And we're going to get it fixed. So we'll get it permanently fixed so it can't

00:12:28.080 happen again. And again, we'll be talking a little bit later and we'll get it worked out.

00:12:33.280 Okay? I appreciate it, Mr. President. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much.

00:12:36.140 Mr. President, both of you have disagreed a lot over the past week over what has happened

00:12:43.900 in this state. How do you plan to put your differences aside?

00:12:47.480 We've got to get it finished. We're looking to get something completed. And the way you

00:12:50.720 get it completed is to work together. He's the governor of the state. And we're going to

00:12:55.000 get it completed. They're going to need a lot of federal help. Unless you don't need any,

00:12:59.140 which would be okay. We're going to need a lot of federal help.

00:13:01.140 So, uh, we're going to take care of things. Okay?

00:13:04.140 Mr. President, you're welcome.

00:13:08.140 I have all the confidence the world will work that out.

00:13:11.140 Thank you, Bill. Thank you. I guess some of you are coming with us and some of you not.

00:13:17.140 Thank you very much. Thank you.

00:13:19.140 Uh, I'll see you.

00:13:24.140 There's the governor and the President of the United States with the First Lady, very friendly,

00:13:29.140 said we're going to work it out. President Trump being magnanimous. They're going over

00:13:33.140 to, um, that Marine, uh, helicopter. I'm sure it's from the Tustin. I think it's from Tustin.

00:13:39.140 I think still Tustin's got the Marine Corps base. I don't know if it's totally been shut down.

00:13:42.140 The air base there. That's one of the special helicopters just for the, uh, just for the commander

00:13:47.140 in chief. The governor is going to fly on the helicopter with, um, with, um, is that the

00:13:55.140 is that the pool feet or our feet? The pool feet, the pool feet stick on the helicopter,

00:13:59.140 pool feet. I'm gonna start directing the pool here in a minute to the real America's voice

00:14:05.140 guys get off the hook. So I start screaming at somebody else. Um, right. There's air force

00:14:10.140 one. You see the Marine helicopter. Let's watch this thing. Take off. Not get too crazy.

00:14:15.140 You crazy. I think the big, I think the news is that, uh, the president is a leader of all 0.91

00:14:20.140 people. He doesn't represent Maggie doesn't represent the Republican party doesn't represent

00:14:24.140 conservatives of the populist nationalist movement. He's the president of the United States

00:14:28.140 for everybody. And man, is he stepping into this role? Okay. We can go ahead and cut that.

00:14:32.140 There's gotta be another, there has to be another fee. There has to be another shot of the, of

00:14:36.140 that. So let's whatever the shot is, let's pick it up. Okay, guys, I know there's another shot

00:14:42.140 of that, of the helicopter. Let's go ahead and do it. Amanda Head, the president is heading

00:14:46.140 to you. We're going to go back to his shot in a minute. Talk to me about what he's going

00:14:50.140 to see. He and, he and Governor Newsom had very kind words for each other, going to work

00:14:54.140 together, going to need federal funds. Tell me what, uh, the president's going to, what,

00:14:59.140 what you anticipate coming out there, Amanda? Yeah, Steve, I have to say just an initial

00:15:05.140 observation. Obviously I'm used to seeing Governor Gavin Newsom gives says, and he is

00:15:10.140 always very slick. I gotta say, he seemed a little bit nervous there. And I don't know

00:15:15.140 if that was the exposure of having President Trump here or the possibility that there might

00:15:20.140 be a contentious conversation to come, but it certainly seemed congenial. And look, I mean,

00:15:25.140 as you said, this is a president of all people. This is a president who, Steve, he was officially

00:15:30.140 in office four days ago. He placed his hand on the Bible four days ago, and he has been practically

00:15:36.140 in constant conversation with the American people early in the morning until late at night,

00:15:41.140 signing executive orders, doing press conferences, speaking to the media everywhere across the

00:15:46.140 White House grounds. This guy has been in constant conversation and constant communication with

00:15:51.140 the American people. And the thing about what's happening in California and the things that he

00:15:55.140 wants to see happen here, it's the same thing with his executive orders. There is a common theme and a

00:16:00.140 common thread with all of them. And that is the common sense element, Steve.

00:16:05.140 It's not an executive order for Democrats. It's not an executive order for Republicans.

00:16:09.140 These are executive orders and policies that President Trump is trying to encourage deep

00:16:14.140 blue states like California to enact that just makes sense. I understand that there are

00:16:19.140 environmentalists out there and they care about the smelts and they care about this and that in

00:16:23.140 California. That's fine. You can still care about that. But the smelts are not more important than the

00:16:27.140 people of California and the homes that they live in, the cars that they drive, the family members

00:16:32.140 they live with and the school. And that is not more important than these people's livelihood.

00:16:38.140 And the policies that have been enacted here that have had a stranglehold on the state for the better

00:16:44.140 part of two decades, as far as environmentally at least, that's what's killing the population here.

00:16:49.140 And there is a reason that you cannot find U-Haul trucks in California to go out of state.

00:16:54.140 And, you know, you can find all the ones in the world if you need to actually come to California.

00:16:58.140 That's the reason they've lost a congressional seat. People are leaving the state because of the policies.

00:17:03.140 Look, Democrats have ruled the state for a very long time, but the outflow of the population of California

00:17:09.140 has really only intensified in the last 10 years. So you got to ask your question, what's the common denominator?

00:17:15.140 What's the reason? It's not because you've had Democrats in charge in the state. It's because they have gone so far left.

00:17:20.140 They have gone so far left, and it is the same reason that they lost this election to Donald Trump,

00:17:25.140 not only the White House, the House, the Senate, and also the popular vote.

00:17:29.140 The president, do we have a shot of the Marine helicopter leaving?

00:17:36.140 That's actually mathematically impossible, but I'll live with that.

00:17:40.140 Let's do the split screen. I think he's going to go.

00:17:42.140 So just like in the evolution of these, in the evolution of these events, let's go right there, do a split screen with Amanda.

00:17:48.140 You can drop me, please. Standing order. You don't need to do a box with me. Dang, there we go, guys.

00:17:54.140 Eventually, take a number two pencil and write that down. Maybe we'll make it stick.

00:17:59.140 Right there, here's what happens with the president of Rice.

00:18:02.140 The president of Rice is met by officials. I think it's quite important.

00:18:07.140 The only official there to meet the president of the United States was the governor, Gavin Newsom.

00:18:12.140 No mayor, no other officials. The first lady, Melania, came down. 1.00

00:18:17.140 The president came down the ramp, came down the steps. The governor's there.

00:18:20.140 They looked like they had a very pleasant chat. They walked over to the microphones.

00:18:24.140 The president didn't take the number of questions. He normally does.

00:18:26.140 Said some very kind things. We were going to work together.

00:18:28.140 The governor was very, Amanda, the governor was very open to say, we really appreciate the help.

00:18:34.140 We need your help. They had a few moments, kind of light moments.

00:18:37.140 The president just answered one question and said that we are going to work together.

00:18:41.140 The first lady was actually quiet. They then walked. No staff, no even military escorts.

00:18:47.140 The president and the governor walked to the Marine helicopter with the first lady.

00:18:52.140 It looked and appeared to me that they're the only ones that the only ones that got on board.

00:18:57.140 Now, what happens the next of these, you go to these roundtables.

00:19:00.140 You go to a briefing with more local officials. Amanda, we have a split screen right now.

00:19:04.140 It looks like a roundtable being set up right now for the president and the governor, Newsom, to attend.

00:19:12.140 And then the president is going to come out, Amanda, near where you are and actually going to tour the Palisades.

00:19:19.140 What will he hear in this roundtable? What has been going on and what's the feedback in Southern California about what caused this, where people are, the types of response that people have?

00:19:31.140 What is he going to hear in this roundtable, Amanda Head?

00:19:33.140 You know, Steve, I consider myself to be someone who's pretty good at messaging and can spin pretty much anything.

00:19:41.140 And I don't know if that's something that I should admit to, but I don't know how you spin this.

00:19:45.140 I don't know how, as Gavin Newsom or Karen Bass or any of the folks who have succumbed to the radical environmental policies here, explain it.

00:19:53.140 I don't know if they come at the president from the angle of, hey, we made mistakes and now we want to fix it or we don't even consider these things mistakes.

00:20:01.140 This is just this is just an occupational hazard of caring about the environment.

00:20:06.140 But, Steve, they are still smacked in the face with reality that in a state that has instituted, pre-instituted green policies before practically any other state in the country.

00:20:16.140 So we are further down the road of green energy and green policies in this state state policies that they claim affects climate change, which I would argue that there is nothing you can do to affect it.

00:20:27.140 But this is a state that claims that they are the most progressive in this area, and yet they couldn't prevent this.

00:20:32.140 And this is there are a lot of natural disasters out there that you can't stop.

00:20:36.140 You couldn't have stopped the tornadoes or Hurricane Helene, you know, running through Georgia and North Carolina and Kentucky and Tennessee.

00:20:43.140 You can't stop that. But what you can prevent is making is is the entire destruction of a community.

00:20:49.140 And you do that with something that the good Lord also gave us in addition to fire.

00:20:53.140 And that is water. And there happens to be a lot of that in the state.

00:20:56.140 I know people think of California as sunny California, a lot of desert regions, but there's plenty of water.

00:21:01.140 There are plenty of retention ponds that sat empty. There are plenty of water towers that sat empty.

00:21:05.140 And it's it's because of the failed policies.

00:21:10.140 So the you have these policies, these environmental policies, I understand that, but also the organization.

00:21:17.140 Why went the fire department there? Why the fire hydrants not have water?

00:21:21.140 Why did it seem like there was no for the first couple of nights of looting?

00:21:24.140 There were not enough of police, just the organization.

00:21:26.140 Does that come from woke and DEI that they don't have the right leadership?

00:21:31.140 Is it they have the right leadership, but they're just not organized?

00:21:34.140 So on the on not what set up the potential for this fire and the spread, but the ability, you know, people in the Palisades still complain to me.

00:21:42.140 They were shocked. There was never any firemen there.

00:21:44.140 And people know that the firemen in L.A. County and L.A. City are among some of the bravest and really supposed to be the best in the nation.

00:21:52.140 What happened and what are they going to hear?

00:21:55.140 Like you said, you're great at spinning, but you say this is not spinnable.

00:21:58.140 What's the president going to hear today?

00:22:01.140 You know, Steve, it's not unlike a business or an organization that because of the woke nature of of of modern economy has started focusing on the wrong things.

00:22:12.140 When you have a city council, when you have fire departments, when you have the capital in Sacramento that is placing more importance on DEI measures than they are the practicality of making sure we have the resources to fight things like firefighters.

00:22:27.140 Then things are going to have to get sacrificed. And Kristen Crowley, the fire chief, to her credit, you know, I know that they say, oh, we hired we hired a female. 1.00

00:22:35.140 Great. Rah, rah, rah. You know, she is the one who, beginning of December, I think it was December 5th, sent out a memo and said, hey, guys, we need help.

00:22:43.140 We don't have the resources in place. And lo and behold, look what happened.

00:22:46.140 And I know that there is plenty of blame to go around. But she sure seems to be emphasizing the fact that she asked for the resources and she was either met with silence or a closed door.

00:22:56.140 Amanda, you know, Bill Maher, and I think we'll try to play that. If not tomorrow, I'll try to get that in next week.

00:23:03.780 Bill Maher went off on, I think on his podcast. Oh, no, it was on the show the other night, last Friday night.

00:23:10.280 They pay you pay 13 percent state taxes here at the top bracket and not to include L.A. and all the fees, all the local sales taxes.

00:23:18.760 I mean, L.A., I believe right there you're seeing from the helicopter. It's a beautiful shot. Let's stick with that. Love that shot.

00:23:26.140 Leaving LAX on the on the Marine helicopter heading towards you, Amanda.

00:23:30.640 What are people going to say, Amanda, about the about the taxes and just the burden on things that have led to this absolute disaster?

00:23:41.820 Amanda's doing some some some she's she's calling in the early shots on the. 0.79

00:23:47.500 So, Amanda, tell me about what are people feeling that they overpaid, they're overregulated,

00:23:52.360 overregulated, yet they don't even have the basic services to keep them to keep them free.

00:23:57.520 Right there is coming up. That's a drone in the back, I think.

00:24:01.240 No, that's the. Oh, no, it's a it's the the Marine Corps.

00:24:05.240 That's the plane that can land on the on the helicopter.

00:24:08.020 It does a helicopter and also land on the on the LPHs and on the NFIPS.

00:24:12.940 Pretty extraordinary. Amanda, what do people think about the number of taxes they pay,

00:24:17.460 the amount of tax they pay, particularly for what they get? Yeah, I think that overhead shot you were

00:24:23.640 getting was was right near us. You know, there's been a lot of complaints about what you pay for in

00:24:30.300 this state and what you get or rather what you don't get. And I know that there's a lot of focus

00:24:34.740 on insurance companies. This has been a huge element of this and a big part of the devastation

00:24:39.440 that people are experiencing in anticipation of having claims denied. But you have to think,

00:24:44.840 you know, an insurance business is a business. You can't expect them to just eat the cost.

00:24:49.740 And when you have insurance regulations, insurance regulators in this in this state

00:24:55.100 who are telling these insurance companies that they can't raise their rates a certain amount

00:25:00.100 for an area of this country that has such a heightened concern for fire for forest fires.

00:25:04.760 If you're telling them that they can't raise their rates for that, then they do have to pull from

00:25:08.760 the state. So these people not only did they not get support from their state government,

00:25:12.500 who they pay these exorbitant taxes to, but they also didn't aren't getting the support

00:25:16.820 from their insurance companies. And I'm not there's there's plenty of demonization to go

00:25:20.220 towards insurance companies. But this is not actually that

00:25:22.660 the folks to blame in this are the people who are reaping in millions and billions of dollars

00:25:28.780 from the people of California getting nothing in return.

00:25:31.020 Amanda, hand her one second we have there. That's the the Osprey or the Osprey, a quite controversial.

00:25:39.640 That's what I thought. Boy, when I saw that, I'd hope the president not in that one. That's a very

00:25:43.720 controversial aircraft. That's the president's Marine Corps helicopter right to the right as you're

00:25:49.040 watching on the screen. As what we saw, I believe it's just Governor Newsom, the first lady and the

00:25:54.600 president in that. And those are the best Marine Corps helicopter pilots, probably best in the

00:26:01.300 world. My kid brother, who was a Navy helicopter pilot, might question that. But these are really

00:26:05.680 right to the left of that is that very controversial. The Osprey was the plane that can actually take

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00:30:12.020 Actually a plane that moved a plane into both a helicopter. Very controversial. Another helicopter

00:30:19.080 right up here. You're seeing a shot from the back. Now what you're coming up right there,

00:30:24.140 you see LAX in the background. To the right is the Pacific Ocean. And what you're going over is

00:30:29.340 Santa Monica. This is kind of the north part of the bay, the Santa Monica Bay. The south part of

00:30:35.520 that's called South Bay. That would be the South Bay beaches beyond. South of Marina del Rey right down

00:30:41.380 there. That's that mountain. That's Palos Verdes. And so you have Manhattan Beach and Hermosa Beach

00:30:46.940 and Redondo Beach all together. It's Palos Verdes down there. There's the helicopter. Looks like

00:30:53.400 that's the one carrying the president and the governor. They're helicoptering in. It's about

00:30:57.340 20 minutes, 30 minutes with light or no traffic from LAX to the Palisades. On a Friday afternoon,

00:31:03.920 it might take you two hours. The president's helicoptering in as daylight. We're about

00:31:08.840 3.30. The president's got a couple hours of daylight. I know he's going to see as much

00:31:14.180 as possible. Amanda had shown you and Ben, the photographer. And for people, what I love

00:31:20.300 is people that are out there and familiar with it have really not seen that kind of footage

00:31:23.500 just walking around the neighborhoods. The neighborhood's been very restrictive. They let

00:31:26.280 some media in. Right there, they're coming across. That's Santa Monica, that tall building

00:31:31.400 in the, there you see the South Bay. The tall building to your right is the highest building

00:31:35.000 right on Ocean Boulevard or Ocean Avenue right there in Santa Monica. And here we come in.

00:31:43.380 You have an Osprey, which is a Marine Corps plane, both an aircraft and a helicopter combined.

00:31:49.960 You have the Marine helicopter to the left. There's another Marine helicopter to the right.

00:31:55.080 They're both coming in. Now they're coming over Santa Monica. You'll be over Pacific Palisades

00:31:59.300 in a moment. It's Palisades right next to it. I believe I've got a, I've got a bet with my

00:32:04.600 young producer here who's also LA based. I think that probably the only place they could land is

00:32:09.780 down by Pali High, which left of Pali High, unless he's, he's betting on, on Sunset Boulevard or

00:32:16.380 Snuts Boulevard. I guess it's Sunset, just called Sunset at that part of a town right before it goes

00:32:22.040 to the ocean. The president will be landing in a moment. There will be a, a round table. Amanda

00:32:28.540 had, uh, back there, I think you're looking at, uh, I think that's, um, Los Angeles country

00:32:34.840 club where the U S open was played, right? Is it right back there towards, towards Wilshire?

00:32:41.240 Magnificent view. President's getting a great view of Los Angeles today. Another beautiful,

00:32:45.160 you know, Amanda dropped. We'll try to get Amanda back up in a second. It's going to be kind of tough 0.98

00:32:50.980 as more pool coverage comes up there. Amanda is very well positioned. I want to thank Ben,

00:32:55.660 the photographer. He just put the camera on his shoulder and hoofed it in and just walked it in

00:33:00.520 as he had to. Uh, I think the president has been very smart to take the helicopter today and not,

00:33:07.120 not try to fight the traffic, even when they clear it all out. Governor Newsom, I'm sure he and the

00:33:12.660 president are exchanging pleasantries right now. They are very, I think, tremendous on the, on the,

00:33:18.980 uh, on the tarmac, uh, president Trump, very magnanimous as president Trump's really stepping

00:33:24.120 into the role of our shot. There's freezing. We'll get that rebooted in a second. Um, these

00:33:28.960 shots have been fantastic. This is, this is all the pool feed from the major, uh, networks. You

00:33:34.280 remember this morning we had our own camera. Uh, we had, uh, Brian Glenn, there we go right there.

00:33:39.480 We're at the, um, we are at the, um, that's the location where they're going to have the, uh,

00:33:44.980 the round table. You see these round tables are, you know, they try to, they're probably,

00:33:50.920 you try to do as many things that kind of have an order or functionality to it. So you can do it

00:33:55.100 and replicate it over and over again. And clearly you do, you put different people there. Normally

00:33:59.580 have local, uh, local authorities. The president can meet them, get a briefing, uh, hear what they

00:34:05.720 want. I don't think the president will stay there that long, given that it's three 30 in the

00:34:09.600 afternoon. He's only got a couple hours of daylight. I would strongly recommend if I was

00:34:13.640 Governor Newsom and the others to give the president as much time as possible to just

00:34:19.140 walk around and see the Palisades. The only way to really understand the devastation I

00:34:26.000 think is to actually go there. The president's very familiar with Pacific Palisades. I know

00:34:30.220 he has friends up there. He has a lot of friends in LA. He owns a home in Beverly Hills. Uh,

00:34:34.300 we've had a number of fundraisers there over the years. President hasn't spent a lot of time

00:34:39.180 there given the fact he's had commitments, both media and otherwise have been running

00:34:43.420 and or the president for the, uh, for the last, uh, 10 years or so. Of course he, uh,

00:34:49.240 he has the magnificent Mar-a-Lago, which is a historic landmark that he spends so much

00:34:53.800 time in, in South Florida. Uh, but like I said, he does have a home in LA and he's obviously

00:34:59.300 so many friends and so many acquaintances. So does Melania. The first lady has, uh, uh, 0.92

00:35:04.500 been with him today. I think it's very symbolic of her commitment to the American people for

00:35:10.260 her to make this trip today for there. Cause Melania does not go on a lot of trips. She 1.00

00:35:14.560 goes to some of the rallies, but she's very selective of where she goes. I think it's

00:35:19.140 very symbolic today, uh, that she's there. Do we have, do we have Amanda is Amanda head

00:35:23.880 back up? Yeah. Let's go back to Amanda head. Uh, Amanda, um, what do you think the impact

00:35:29.660 of Melania, the first ladies out there, you know, she's all about home and family. She has 0.99

00:35:35.560 many friends in the Palisades and in, uh, in LA overall, what's the impact going to be

00:35:39.640 on her? You know, she has such a calming effect everywhere she is and she's, she's so gracious,

00:35:47.140 gracious, and she has such a wonderful, compassionate side of her that I think, you know, when, when

00:35:52.840 president Trump comes to a disaster area, it is so desperately needed because president

00:35:57.680 Trump, despite the fact that he, you know, has $10,000 suits, he's also the guy who, who

00:36:02.380 has a, a symbolic blue collar who rolls up his sleeves and he goes into the areas like North

00:36:07.220 Carolina to talk to the people, to survey the damage. And she's right there along with him.

00:36:11.680 It is such a wonderful thing to see in a first lady. And yet she also has that soft side that 0.83

00:36:17.100 is so desperately, desperately needed for people who, who have lost everything. And Steve, I've

00:36:22.240 got to say, I imagine that there are going to be people there who, who didn't vote for

00:36:26.100 Donald Trump and Donald Trump is going to tell them that's perfectly fine. Um, but for the

00:36:30.720 people who didn't vote for him, I imagine that they are seeing the coordination of president

00:36:35.400 Trump, hopefully with Gavin Newsom and other state leaders who can affect change here.

00:36:40.280 They are seeing the communication of president Trump to the American people, this ongoing

00:36:44.960 dialogue of problem solving that president Trump is doing from the oval office and right

00:36:49.200 now doing from Southern California.

00:36:50.780 Right there to your right, you just saw the beautiful Pacific ocean there of Santa Monica

00:36:58.200 Bay. Uh, and most days, you know, 300 days of the year, it's like this beautiful, uh, moderate

00:37:05.840 temperatures. A Mediterranean has a Mediterranean field to it, a Mediterranean climate. The bay is

00:37:11.760 absolutely magnificent, always very calm. You see this today, it looks like light winds. The

00:37:16.160 beaches right there of Santa Monica, magnificent beaches of Santa Monica, right in front of the

00:37:20.640 Palisades. I think actually they may be doing a little touring. I think they're taking president

00:37:25.000 Trump around so he can see some of the, uh, detail from the air. Uh, and then he will be

00:37:31.140 in Palisades in a, in a moment or two, get a briefing, uh, and then go out and actually see

00:37:35.980 it with governor Newsom. Uh, very calming effect. Amanda head is correct. And I tell you, he went

00:37:41.520 out of his way to be calming. No, uh, controversy. President Trump obviously has very strong opinions

00:37:48.080 and ideas, uh, concepts about the water situation. There's one of the helicopters right

00:37:53.040 there. I think that's the one that the president's in have a Osprey. You have two Marine helicopters.

00:37:59.780 Uh, and of course this, um, this plane in the front that we're getting the pool feed out

00:38:04.680 of and just really fantastic. They're flying over Santa Monica from LAX and they will be

00:38:10.660 in the Palisades area in a moment. This horrible devastation that, uh, Amanda head and her photographer

00:38:16.240 walked us through over the last hour, just absolutely stunning of what's happened. I know

00:38:20.920 it's going to have a big impact on the first lady, uh, because you can see someone who's so, uh, 1.00

00:38:26.280 such a strong believer in family and, uh, in hearth and the, um, in the nurturing nature of a home

00:38:33.260 is going to be actually blown away when you see what's happening. President Trump set on the tarmac.

00:38:37.920 He hasn't seen destruction like that since the second world war. President Trump really spends a lot

00:38:43.020 of time. Uh, my relationship with him, he's a lot about military history. He's read a lot of

00:38:47.700 military history. He's watched a lot of documents on military history right there. I think are we on

00:38:52.740 the, uh, that's the bluffs right towards the Pacific. I think as we get a little bit farther down,

00:38:57.760 close to the Pacific, it gets a little hilly in this area in the Canyon area off of Malibu.

00:39:03.160 For those who haven't been there, when you're at Malibu, when you've gone just North of Santa

00:39:07.280 Monica, the mountains come right down in the, in these canyons come right down to the sea. I mean,

00:39:12.580 Malibu is just a small strip of land. It's Pacific coast highway. There's a, you know,

00:39:19.180 a little strip of, of, of stores and houses on the right as you go North. And then the beach

00:39:23.940 houses on the left, um, all of those have burned down. The ones based essentially landing by the

00:39:29.960 beach, uh, from, is there, they're there. I don't know if they're late. I don't know if they're

00:39:35.780 landing. I think he's taking a tour so he can see the destruction of Malibu. I think they're

00:39:39.880 taking a president around there so that he can actually see the houses that were destroyed in

00:39:43.500 Malibu. Cause the president is very familiar with the real estate there. I think he has a lot of

00:39:47.560 friends that have those houses. And for all of us that have lived in Los Angeles that have that

00:39:52.580 strip, he had the re had some classic places. My young charge producer here, the real end,

00:39:58.420 one of the classics was burned to the ground. Moon shadows, one of the famous bars right there,

00:40:03.800 right? I don't think burned to the ground. So many classic structures and the really clapboard,

00:40:08.260 they're very beachy up there, all burned to the ground. Uh, I think they're taking the president

00:40:13.120 around. I'm sure he wants to see that. And Gavin Newsom, the, the, um, the governor I'm sure has

00:40:18.540 given him a tour. And I can tell you right now, I'm sure the president's pretty gobsmacked when you

00:40:23.240 see Malibu and you see that strip going all the way South of the colony in North of, uh, Santa Monica,

00:40:30.320 kind of that classic stretch of what people think of as Malibu, right from the, from the TV series

00:40:36.200 and from what you felt. These are the houses that are right on the stilts, right there on the water.

00:40:41.760 Most of them with no beach with stones underneath, virtually all those. So for that one big, I don't

00:40:47.760 want to call it a monstrosity, but there's a, there's like a three story building that sticks out,

00:40:53.340 uh, not beachy at all. I think that's the only one that survived. So, uh, there you see the Pacific

00:40:58.440 that that's a typical day in Southern California. That is a typical Friday with a very calm, uh,

00:41:04.680 breeze off the ocean and a, uh, just beautiful Mediterranean temperatures. Here it is in

00:41:10.640 January and it's, you know, the envy of the world. Um, but when you had the Santa Ana winds,

00:41:16.340 you had an inferno. When we opened the show with that, that the, the woman newscaster driving North 0.99

00:41:22.960 on thing. And she said, this is like you're driving through hell. That is that strip of land that

00:41:28.120 president Trump just went over. That's what it, uh, that's what it looks like. I want to thank

00:41:32.380 real America's voice for our coverage here, uh, with no commercial interruptions. The president

00:41:37.400 of the United States is not going to get a chance to stay there that long. He's just there for a

00:41:41.240 couple hours. I believe he is decamping. You're going to go to Las Vegas tonight to stay in his

00:41:45.840 hotel in Las Vegas. Don't think he's staying in his house in Beverly Hills. I think he's going to

00:41:49.620 Las Vegas. And then tomorrow we'll do coverage all day, uh, about his rally, big rally. Thank you for

00:41:56.780 really a, a quite a, we were confident. I know he was, but the rest of the media was shocked that

00:42:02.300 he won Nevada and particularly the biggie did. Uh, Amanda, can you hear, are they inbound to you?

00:42:07.660 Can you hear, can you hear the incoming helicopters in Osprey? Absolutely. So they, they, so they can't,

00:42:14.960 let me get my direction, right. They came from the East and flew right over us towards the ocean.

00:42:19.660 That's when I was asking if I was wondering if they were going to land some near somewhere near that's,

00:42:24.400 that is Will Rogers state beach effectively. Um, and then they flew back over us just a little

00:42:30.260 South of us, but back in an Eastward direction, it seems like they are maybe doing some circles,

00:42:35.140 just trying to make sure that they are able to see, uh, all of this area for those who don't live

00:42:41.400 in California. Steve, as you were saying, we've got Malibu, North Santa Monica, Malibu, and then up

00:42:46.720 to Zuma. And I've heard from some folks that even as far North as Zuma, that there, there's still

00:42:52.020 some destruction. So it's, it's horrible. Looks like, it looks like they're landing right now.

00:42:57.620 And by the way, you say Will Rogers state beach and Will Rogers park, the famous 125 year old

00:43:03.260 Will Rogers house, which is absolutely magnificent. Kind of the old West meets California burned to

00:43:09.500 the ground. The only thing left was the chimney as many of these houses, Amanda, there we have the

00:43:14.140 pool feed. We're watching that right now in Pacific Palisades. The president has landed Amanda.

00:43:20.460 They're going to go to a, um, they're going to have, just keep that right there. It's quite

00:43:24.600 interesting. They're going to go to a briefing, uh, what we call round tables. The president,

00:43:29.280 this is the normal evolution of these events where the president gets off. He then meets more

00:43:33.140 local officials, more people who are closer to whatever the problem is. The president gets a

00:43:38.380 short briefing. He normally asks a couple of questions, gets a feel for things before he goes out

00:43:44.160 in the field. The same kind of structure of his visit this morning in North Carolina came off

00:43:48.840 the tarmac. You meet some officials in that case. He met Watley, the chairman of the Republican

00:43:53.660 national committee is from North Carolina, met governor Stein, the Democrat that just won.

00:43:58.920 Uh, and he met some other officials, said a few words in the tarmac, goes to the,

00:44:03.120 goes to the round table, gets a further briefing, says some comments, take some questions and make

00:44:08.700 some inquiries. And then he goes out, saw that horrible destruction today in Swannanoa, North

00:44:14.040 Carolina, outside of Asheville. I know he was, uh, quite shocked about what he saw.

00:44:18.840 They're going up to the vehicles right now. They will have a motorcade, uh, secret service and

00:44:23.700 otherwise. The pool feed is taking us up there right now. Uh, the president's going to land here

00:44:28.860 in a moment. There you see the media, what you have when you're in the white house staff, you have

00:44:33.040 what's called a wrangler. The right, the media has got to be wrangled because they're, as Amanda knows,

00:44:38.080 they're, they're quite here. It comes to the president of the United States on the Marine

00:44:41.460 helicopter. Those of you that are listening to this on podcast, please get the footage.

00:44:46.900 Very, very impressive. President's going to exit in a moment with the first lady in Governor

00:44:52.340 Newsom of, uh, California. I think maybe they had one or two staffers in there, but it looked

00:44:58.020 like on the tarmac in LAX, it was just them. Here we're about to touch down.

00:45:01.360 People should know these are some of those experienced combat pilots in the world. Marine

00:45:09.100 Corps, the top, my brother can tell you that Navy helicopter pilots and Marine Corps helicopter

00:45:14.520 pilots are just incredible. Let's listen. Let's just listen in. Take the live feed of the audio.

00:45:19.320 I believe that's a little park right there in the Palisades. There's a little, I think that

00:45:34.320 little park is with some ball diamonds over there. That's where the kids play the little

00:45:37.840 league. I think that's that. Is that right there? And don't think so. Okay. It can't be

00:45:46.060 too far away. He's going to be in the Palisades, going to get the briefing. And then, uh, and

00:45:51.080 then, uh, you see right there, the, all the backup vehicles at the medical vehicles, you

00:45:55.520 have the secret service, you have, uh, the communication personnel. The president's never

00:46:01.280 far, they carry the foot, the football, what they call it. President's never far away from

00:46:05.300 the nuclear codes, never far away from essentially a rolling military, uh, command center and particularly

00:46:11.740 information and communication. The white house communication office is the biggest part of

00:46:16.920 the white house. I think it has two or 3000 people. Massive operation to make sure that

00:46:21.920 the president 24 seven is always connected, totally hooked in to whatever he needs to be commander

00:46:27.800 in chief of the armed forces. Pacific Palisades. The president's touring. It's about three 30

00:46:33.720 out there about, uh, three 45 local. Got a couple of hours of the second helicopter might be the

00:46:42.300 president. I don't know if it's the back or not, but we got two. One is, uh, here we're coming

00:46:51.000 in right now. Just magnificent. The precision of these Marine Corps pilots, second to none.

00:47:03.720 From LAX, it's only a couple of minutes, but I think, I don't know. My kid brother can tell me

00:47:13.300 five minutes by helicopter, but the president took a tour. You can see they did a tour over Malibu.

00:47:19.420 Don't think they're gonna have a chance to go down there today on a Friday afternoon, but he took it

00:47:22.640 from air and it's, it's still shocking. Um, as you saw in our footage earlier, where Amanda Head

00:47:27.860 and our photographer is still burned out hulks of cars. I mean, it doesn't look like a lot of stuff.

00:47:34.660 It doesn't look like a lot of remediation. I know there's some discussion about how that's all going

00:47:39.000 to be done. It's Will Rogers State Park right there. Of course. Will Rogers State Park is actually

00:47:47.060 down the hill in sunset. You come up a rise, you go to sunset. I might know a lodge. I might know a,

00:47:53.660 if he goes by car from there, we'll pass a, a very familiar in the Bannon household, very familiar

00:47:59.240 location. Um, the tragedy of Will Rogers State Park is Will Rogers had a magnificent home. I think

00:48:07.460 was 125 years old, kind of had the best of the old West in this just amazing, authentic structure

00:48:15.680 burned to the ground. Only thing remaining is the chimney. That's one lost to history. Many historic,

00:48:21.280 people wouldn't think of the, of history. We think of Los Angeles, but it's got a tremendous history

00:48:24.920 to it. I was reading the other day, so many historical structures in Altadena and in the

00:48:30.520 Pacific Palisades have just been turned to ash, uh, cannot be replaced. Can't the, the things that

00:48:37.140 were lost in Will Rogers State Park is just amazing at Will Rogers house. Landing at Will Rogers

00:48:44.120 State Park. This is right down. If you, if they'll have a briefing there, it looks like, and then

00:48:49.440 you get into a motorcade, you'll come up right up a sunset and you're right in the Palisades. I mean,

00:48:54.800 it's right at the bottom of the, of sunset in the Palisades. So the president will have a, you know,

00:49:01.520 an hour or so of a daylight, hour and a half of daylight to be able to tour the Palisades. If we

00:49:08.380 continue on to keep, uh, and keep quick time with the, um, keep quick time with the, with this brief

00:49:15.760 he's going to get at this round table. You know, I'm, I'm really curious about how Ben, the

00:49:19.980 photographer and Amanda actually got into the Palisades as far as they got, uh, because it is,

00:49:26.680 it's pretty cordoned off. This whole area has essentially been condemned and it's, um,

00:49:34.120 the president is going to be coming out in a moment. There's part of the motorcade. They'll take him

00:49:37.500 on, uh, the president decided not to go to Davos. There was some talk early on of going to Davos in

00:49:45.140 the first week so he could present to the globalists and really do the throwdown he did.

00:49:49.640 But of course, with these, the situation in, um, in, in, in California and because it came to his

00:49:57.040 attention that in North Carolina, nothing had been done. I think he actually went there in the, um,

00:50:03.560 in the pre-election. He had a short visit. There was a lot of concern. Those people wouldn't be

00:50:07.960 able to vote, wouldn't be able to vote property. And that is Trump country. But when the president

00:50:12.840 understood that nothing had been done for his people, nothing had been done for these hard

00:50:16.580 working folks out in Appalachia, uh, I know he made the first thing is that, Hey, I'm going to

00:50:20.880 North Carolina first. We're going to make a day of it. It turns out they're going to make a weekend

00:50:24.600 of it. President's going to be out. He's going to be, uh, there's the first lady, the governor,

00:50:28.560 governor, the president there, the president and the governor in a, in a, uh, still in a

00:50:35.520 very, uh, very, uh, engaged, I would say in discussions. Is that just me and my lion eyes

00:50:46.060 with Governor Newsom walking with a limp? I can't tell you. Okay.

00:50:52.700 President was very magnanimous when he first arrived. He said, uh, we're going to work together.

00:50:56.840 We're going to make this happen. We're going to make it work. He flew out with Governor Newsom

00:51:01.120 look like, and, uh, it looked like had a, uh, had a very engaged conversation.

00:51:08.200 President, that's the, that's the motorcade. That's the secret service over there. There's

00:51:12.000 a press pool. Um, it's a, just a stand, this is a standard stock, beautiful Friday afternoon

00:51:18.760 in Los Angeles. And you think about it from, you sell those, the pictures of the inferno,

00:51:24.840 it all happened right around here. Will Rogers State Park, Will Rogers' magnificent house.

00:51:32.180 Here we are right now. Oh my Lord, there's Mayor Bass. Oh, here we go. Here we go. Mayor Bass.

00:51:39.860 Mayor Bass has been a big critic of the president of the United States. There's Mayor Bass right there

00:51:44.120 to the left. So this ought to be quite interesting. The president, look, he's so classy and such a good

00:51:51.220 guy. I tell people all the time, this guy's got a big heart is sometimes he comes off with a real

00:51:56.020 bite, but president Trump's a people person. He loves people. You'd see, he comes out of the,

00:52:01.380 the entertainment, the hotel industry. He's magnanimous. He's going to go to his hotel tonight.

00:52:05.620 I think in Vegas, beautiful hotel. Uh, before he got into media, you know, from his father,

00:52:11.740 the real estate business, he built some of the most magnificent buildings in New York. Many of those

00:52:16.960 are hotels or, or entertainment or entertainment or leisure related. He now has golf courses all

00:52:24.140 over the world. Some of the greatest golf course in the world, including in Scotland, uh, where he

00:52:29.060 has, um, he has, you know, it's courses that used to be on the open rota that should be on the open

00:52:36.380 turnberry, the classic turnberry, the dual in the sun. He owns that to show how petty they were.

00:52:41.820 They took it out of the open rota, one of the greatest courses in the world. President Trump

00:52:45.060 bought it basically pre-bankruptcy, turned it around. That's his great love, but he's, he's a,

00:52:50.600 he's a people person. He's been the concierge, you know, the business of like, you know, being a

00:52:55.780 concierge for people coming in magnanimous, some of the great resorts in the world. Then in the media

00:53:01.820 and entertainment business. Um, so he's a people person, big hearted. And I think he saw today when

00:53:06.960 he came to the tarmac, there was a lot of discussion, whether it be confrontation or he couldn't

00:53:10.460 have been more gracious. He couldn't have been working with, uh, with Newsom to say that we're

00:53:15.600 going to, uh, we're going to work this out and we're going to figure this out together.

00:53:19.260 And we're there for you now that we got this. This is the round table. We're going to in the

00:53:24.540 round table, uh, the mayor, Karen Bass has been very critical of president Trump in the past.

00:53:29.280 She's there at the head of the table. It looks like Newsom, the governor will be on one side,

00:53:33.000 the president will be right there in the middle. And then, uh, and then the mayor Bass,

00:53:37.020 uh, to his right, uh, screen left right now. Um, Amanda had, uh, the president is going to be

00:53:44.700 there in a second from the motorcade. Can I get Amanda's shirt thing? Amanda, uh, talk to me

00:53:50.300 about, uh, you've got this process. You have mayor, uh, Bass is going to be there and that may be even

00:53:56.180 one notch more than, uh, than Newsom. The president were pretty vocal about his thoughts about Mayor

00:54:00.800 Bass. Give me your, uh, your thoughts.

00:54:02.860 You know, the unfortunate thing about Mayor Karen Bass and, and many of us witnessed this

00:54:10.220 attitude from her when she was in Congress as well. I don't know if she feels like she has

00:54:15.260 something to prove because she's a female, uh, in that mayoral seat in Los Angeles. Um, I imagine 0.99

00:54:22.560 she's going to be, uh, maybe a little bit more combative with president Trump after some initial 0.85

00:54:29.540 niceties. I think of course, the same thing with governor, with governor Newsom, there are initial

00:54:34.120 niceties, and then you have to get into the problem solving portion of the conversation.

00:54:39.000 And that's when I think you're going to be faced with a pretty substantial amount of,

00:54:42.780 of denial and maybe even doubling down on the part of the mayor and the governor. And as we know,

00:54:47.840 president, president Trump is not going to, uh, he doesn't suffer fools well. And when they are 0.91

00:54:53.880 going to try to combat, you know, what he says are solutions for this state, they are going to say,

00:54:58.280 well, you don't live here. You don't know, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. They're going to have

00:55:01.560 plenty of arguments that they're going to try to fly up against him. But we, we know president

00:55:05.380 Trump is not going to, to stand for that. So I hope that it is a, uh, a light conversation,

00:55:12.420 uh, as far as personalities, but I have a feeling that there might be some temper flaring, especially

00:55:18.660 when it's highlighted in the conversation, the deficit in policy and, and, and frankly,

00:55:24.580 you know, progress for the state. Well, yeah, that, that, that may be behind the scenes. You

00:55:28.780 know, one thing he said in North Carolina today, they, they, they, they were getting him, are there

00:55:32.840 any restrictions or constraints on, on a federal aid? And he says, listen, I just have two things

00:55:38.660 I have to, I got to understand this water situation and the water has to be cut on.

00:55:42.860 It's very specific about that. The other is he says, there's got to be voter ID, photo ID.

00:55:47.640 And this gets back to Rick Caruso. You know, there's a huge open controversy right now about

00:55:53.120 how the votes were counted in LA. You know, this just in November Caruso would tell you today,

00:55:58.060 I think he felt he won. And there's this whole discussion about it being a sanctuary city,

00:56:03.660 about being flooded with the illegal aliens, exactly who voted Caruso. I think would tell 0.64

00:56:08.980 you, he thinks the election was stolen from him. He's going to be, I believe a big part of this

00:56:12.580 recall effort. So talk to us about that. When the president says, I got two things,

00:56:16.160 one's the water we know about. The other one, he says, it's got to be photo ID for voting.

00:56:20.100 What does that mean to, to, to, uh, people in Los Angeles like yourself?

00:56:25.840 Yeah. Depending on who you talk to in California, they will tell you that you do have to have an ID

00:56:31.360 to vote in California. And let me tell you from experience, that ain't true. And Rick Caruso is

00:56:36.640 very similar to Donald Trump in that, you know, he, he has a real estate empire. He is a businessman.

00:56:41.980 And that was why I think he came very close to, if not beating Karen Bass.

00:56:45.940 And I would agree that when you consider the voting dynamics, the lack of integrity in this

00:56:50.160 state. Yeah, I agree. I think that Rick Caruso probably won. And I will say that because anecdotally

00:56:56.060 speaking, just from what I could see in Los Angeles, I saw, I would say I saw maybe one Karen

00:57:03.120 Bass sign for every four Rick Caruso signs. And, you know, Rick Caruso is very Trumpian in

00:57:09.380 policies. He ran as a Democrat, uh, but in the past he has been a Republican. And I, I think that

00:57:15.880 there were people out there who were Democrats who said, I don't care what his political leanings

00:57:19.480 are. I would rather vote for him. And I'm sure you all have seen the viral pictures of Rick Caruso's,

00:57:24.220 uh, real estate, his, his commercial development in Pacific Palisades that wasn't touched because he

00:57:30.200 knew intimately the defunct policies of this state with respect to protecting against fire.

00:57:35.300 And he knew what would happen to his own structures if he didn't take preemptive measures. And so he

00:57:39.660 did. And the people of California are going to have a decision to make when it comes to the mayoral

00:57:44.220 leadership of Los Angeles. Do you want someone like Rick Caruso who, even though he, he didn't win

00:57:49.600 the mayoral race and he wasn't able to save Los Angeles, he at least in a, in a microcosm was able

00:57:54.920 to save his own business. And wouldn't that have been nice to have someone like that in place

00:57:58.800 when all of this happened? And I know one of the arguments that Gavin Newsom is going to give,

00:58:02.740 and it's because he's done it in the past already. He, he talks about opening up the

00:58:06.580 spigots and how, Oh, you can't, you can't get the water from Northern California to Southern

00:58:09.800 California. Oh really? Well, that's interesting because when you consider all of the corruption

00:58:13.880 of the water board and all surrounding it, they're somehow able to take water from the Central Valley

00:58:21.320 that desperately needs it. Steve, you know what, what the Central Valley looks like. It's all,

00:58:25.340 it's all agriculture. It's citrus, it's almond, it's garlic, a lot of dairy land. And they're able

00:58:31.400 to take the water that those folks need and poured it down to Southern California to the city. So

00:58:35.680 why on earth can't they go a little bit further and move those, you know, move the water through

00:58:40.020 the pipes down to Southern California? It is absolutely doable. But again, Steve, I go back

00:58:44.120 to what I was saying earlier. You have to see it as a problem before you can find a solution. And I

00:58:48.800 don't think they see it as a problem. Did I lose them?

00:58:57.420 The head, Amanda head is going to be stick with us. This is her, the, just the news. She's going to 0.54

00:59:03.180 stick with us. Uh, stick brother Stinchcomb is going to pick up coverage at seven o'clock.

00:59:09.940 His show, he's going to take it live. I'll do a handoff. The president hasn't started talking.

00:59:14.760 If the president's already started talking, um, that we'll just, uh, do a transition. We'll punch

00:59:19.620 out here. We've been able to sit in here for John Solomon and adjust the news hour. His co-anchor,

00:59:25.740 his co-hand, Amanda head has been, she's in Pacific Palisades. She's been there for the last couple

00:59:30.660 hours, surveying the destruction and damage. The president is at Will Rogers state park. It's just

00:59:36.660 a few minutes away. It's at the bottom of sunset, right below Pacific Palisades. He's about to get

00:59:41.960 briefed by mayor Bass and other local officials about what actually happened here. What's the

00:59:49.360 current state of play. Uh, governor Newsom will be with the president. It appears they flew in

00:59:54.340 together in the helicopter from LAX, just the two of them. The president will get a briefing. I'm

00:59:59.240 sure he'll have a, take a few, um, he'll ask a few questions, get a few answers. Um, and then,

01:00:05.080 uh, and then probably talk to the press. Amanda will stick with us. Grant Stinchcomb of the Grant

01:00:10.420 Stinchcomb show. We'll pick up and Grant knows Southern California about as well as anybody.

01:00:16.120 Amanda, Amanda, how long have you been living in Southern California? You're, you're, I, you're,

01:00:20.500 you're from Auburn. You were Miss Auburn. Were you not? How did a Auburn girl end up in LA?

01:00:26.700 I don't know how on earth you remember that Steve. And I also don't know who told you I was Miss

01:00:31.200 Auburn, but I'm going to have to find them. It is true, but it's not something I talk about a whole

01:00:35.180 lot. I've been in LA for 18 years and I've lived in all parts of the city. Um, this is definitely

01:00:40.960 formerly was one of the most beautiful areas of the city and it's devastating to see, but there

01:00:45.680 has definitely been a downward slide and a downward shift from when in 2006 and the progressive policies

01:00:53.060 that have taken over since then. It's, it's really heartbreaking to see. Okay. Let's, let's do

01:00:59.180 the handover right now. Grant Stinchfield is here. Grant, you know, Southern California as well,

01:01:03.180 as well as anybody, what do you expect is going to happen in this briefing? You're going to take

01:01:06.900 it home from here, brother. Give me your perspective as we start, uh, tonight's, uh,

01:01:12.100 tonight's, uh, tonight's broadcast. Yep. Just go to the, well, Steve, it's great. What do you got

01:01:18.400 for us? My man. So it's, it's good to see you, Steve. Um, I'll tell you what, it's going to be

01:01:23.180 really interesting to see the dynamics between Newsom and president Trump. My guess is that they will

01:01:29.000 be cordial to each other. Maybe even look like their friends while they're going through

01:01:32.940 this, but we know that the two of these guys throw barbs at each other. I mean, Gavin Newsom

01:01:37.700 is the poster child for liberal, radical lunacy. Um, I think president Trump though, is going to

01:01:44.460 live, give California another lesson in conservatism about what it means to streamline the permitting

01:01:50.920 process. He talked about this in North Carolina. Do you know, I do radio in LA in the mornings

01:01:56.000 and they're talking about 120 days on a normal situation, just to get a permit to start building

01:02:02.440 a house, 120 days. There's no need for that. You talk about the environmental rate regulation,

01:02:07.760 Steve, in California that hold up the rebuilding of these properties. So I think in the end, um,

01:02:15.900 what you're going to see Steve is, um, California and saying, you know what, a lot of this stuff

01:02:21.660 that president Trump is talking about makes sense. They're, they're mad. And I can tell 0.69

01:02:26.940 you, they are steaming mad with leadership specifically in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County.

01:02:32.280 And as I say, when Joe Biden was in office, the fish rots from the head in California,

01:02:37.760 the head is Gavin Newsom and the fish rots there as well, Steve.

01:02:43.200 Grant, we're going to turn it over to you right now. Uh, Grant Stinchfield, who has a big radio

01:02:48.280 show in LA in the morning has obviously the real America's voice shows when the top shows in the

01:02:52.800 country, uh, right now you're sitting there. President Trump is going to get briefed in a

01:02:57.020 moment. Grant, we're going to turn it over to you. I want to thank Amanda head. Everybody's

01:03:00.220 been a fantastic day. Real America's voice has made history here. We're going to pass it over to

01:03:05.100 the man. Grant Stinchfield is going to take you in from here. Stephen K. Bannon. We'll see you

01:03:09.500 tomorrow morning live at 10 a.m. Uh, we'll have a life. It will have zero and Seagal

01:03:14.980 Chatta in Las Vegas alive tomorrow morning in the pregame of the rally. Grant, take it away,

01:03:21.840 brother. Love you. Good. Have a good show. All right, Steve. It's, it's great to see you. I

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Bannon's War Room - January 25, 2025

WarRoom Battleground EP 694： President Trump Speaks With Newsom Cont

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