WarRoom Battleground EP 694： President Trump Speaks With Newsom Cont
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1 hour and 6 minutes
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189.51523
Summary
Steve and Amanda discuss the devastating fires that have ravaged Southern California over the past week, and what they are doing to try to make sense of it all. They also talk about the devastating nature of the fires, and whether or not the fires are man-made.
Transcript
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Continue on, Amanda. We've got Air Force One. We have Amanda Head. That's the shot I want right
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there. Thanks, guys. Not that hard. Amanda Head, continue on, ma'am.
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Sure. Yeah. So as far as what you're seeing visually, what President Trump is also going
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to observe is the devastating nature of failed policies in California. Steve, you have lived
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here plenty of times throughout your life. And the ingenuity that exists in California,
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the way that this state and this city retrofits for earthquakes with coils and ball bearings
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retrofitted under buildings that are the size of smart cards, with these foundation isolators that
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shift with the earth. We have so much ingenuity in this state, even with respect to rock slides,
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these gabion nets that they place on the side of mountains. And yet something as simple as
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retaining water, something that is a natural resource that is right over there in the ocean.
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Look, I understand that you can't put out fires traditionally, systematically with ocean water
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because of concerns about corrosion. But I'm pretty sure that someone would rather have the materials
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of their home corroding than they would to have it burned to ashes. So I have a feeling that President
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Trump is going to have plenty to say and plenty of questions to ask of Mayor Karen Bass, who is
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supposedly going to be here, and also Governor Gavin Newsom.
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So, let me ask you, the tone, because this is the most liberal, you know, one of the biggest
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progressive cities in the world. The part you're in right now is one of the progressive enclaves. I
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know so many friends and folks I know from business and from Goldman Sachs and Harvard that are up there.
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They're furious right now. They're rethinking like Bill Maher is their political beliefs because
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it's just the incompetence. Give us a feel for what's happened in the last couple of weeks since
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the fire, since the fire has ended. Yeah. You know, Steve, when, when you are a progressive
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Democrat and you can afford to care about social issues and environmental issues, then it makes
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it kind of easy to slide through life. But when that ideology comes crashing to the ground and is met
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with the reality of everything you own being burned to ashes, then of course, you're going to start
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rethinking things. And just anecdotally, I live on the other side of L.A. I live in Burbank, but again,
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a very liberal area. And there are plenty of people in that area as well. And all of these liberal
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enclaves across Southern California who are saying to themselves, if this happened this time and it
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happened four years ago and it happened eight years before that, there is no telling when it's
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going to happen again. And unless things change, we're out because we literally cannot afford to lose
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another home. Amanda, can I do the, can I do the split screen with the, the, with the feed,
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with the plane coming in? It's not up. Okay, fine. Let's see. Let's see. We can get that back up as
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soon as possible. Amanda, what are people saying the cause of this fire is right now? I've heard
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homeless. I've heard power lines. I've heard there's no lightning. I mean, what, as you read the L.A.
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Times every day and see the local news, where do we stand with people actually getting to the bottom
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of what caused it? You know, it depends who you're talking to. When it comes to the news media,
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there seems to be an element of recognition that, that much of this has been man-made. Obviously,
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anything that was man-made or nature-made was, was, you know, exacerbated by the, the initial winds
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that took place during those first three or four days. But Steve, I got to tell you, in places like the
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Hollywood Hills, where the Runyon fire broke out, thankfully that one has been put out,
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there aren't power lines there. And you look at the, again, the sporadic nature of some of these
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fires, the Hearst fire, some of the ones that are up north, northwest of Los Angeles, now in
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Castaic, you just have to wonder if now we're having a copycat scenario of, of arson. And it, it honestly,
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I would not be surprised if we found out a year from now, five years from now, 10 years from now,
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sometimes it takes even longer for this information to come out. But it wouldn't surprise me at all if
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we found out that there were some crazy environmentalists out there who were trying
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to force change in this city, because they'll certainly do it with anything else. They'll,
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they'll block roads, they will pour, you know, gasoline on, on paintings, they'll do whatever
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it takes. And it would not surprise me if we found out that they were willing to sacrifice an entire
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city, an entire area like Pacific Palisades to make their point known in the state of California.
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The unfortunate thing is that a lot of people in California are waking up to the fact that it is
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because of those precise policies that those people are pushing for, that is the reason they're in this
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situation to begin with. I mean, isn't that, I think, homelessness, the homeless of also, but isn't
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the reason President Trump's gonna have these conversations today is policies that were the
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predicate for this, but also are people asking, one thing I was shocked to me, because there's a great
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little fire station right there in the Palisades, I know, all throughout West LA. Where were the
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firemen? Was it an organizational issue? Were they given a command not to go? And then President
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Trump, his number one question is gonna be the water. In North Carolina today, he made, he made a
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big deal about that leaving the White House. He made another big deal about it twice in, in, in North
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Carolina. Gavin Newsom or somebody better be there for an answer. Maybe not a definitive answer, but it
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better not be like, it's the first time anybody asks a question, because Trump will be up in your
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grill on this. He is obsessed by this issue. What, where is the media, what are people in LA talking
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about? Did that freeze right there? I think we first, yeah, we just lost it. Let's get, let's get
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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,
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there's no feed. Okay. We're working on it or is the feed working on it? Okay. It's our feed.
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People know this is, this is, oh man. I love directing as we, as we go about it. Okay. Stephen
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came in and let's do a reset. The president of the United States has landed. He's in LAX, got in,
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I think about an hour, supposed to be there about one or two o'clock, got there about three o'clock.
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I think he was an hour late in North Carolina. I'm sure the headwinds, there we go. Let's cut
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right to this where president Trump's going to come out. Let's cut, please. There, there we go,
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boys. There, that's the door right there. The president's going to come out. That's the front
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of Air Force One. President and first lady Melania Trump will be out momentarily. Let's get a full
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shot at that. People don't need to see me. Seen enough of me. Newsom's down the front. There we go.
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Oh, we're going to go back to directing school here. People don't need to see me. Seen enough
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of me. Full shot right there. That's the front door of Air Force One. President will be out on
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the tarmac. I've just been told by my crack production team that the governor of California
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Newsom will be there. This will be quite interesting of President Trump and Newsom. Remember the last
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time I think they were together was the Paradise Fire. In the Paradise Fire, President Trump,
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and correct me if I'm wrong, crack production team who is actually from LA, the President
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Newsom had not words, but the President was pretty adamant about you got to take care of
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this underbrush. Why are we not having controlled burns? Remember the time the President was saying,
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hey, we got to have controlled burns. The environmentalists have a whole different theory of that.
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Josh Pettit, the golf course architect, was on here two weeks ago. He had a really laid out
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the interconnective tissue of all these coastal commissions, all these environmental commissions.
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The President is quite obsessed with the smell in the water. We got a second. Let's go back
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to Amanda. Do we have Amanda head up? If we got her, let's bring her back up. I have a question.
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If not, we'll just watch the President. Just split screen with Amanda, not full screen,
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just split screen. Dang, that's perfect. There we go, boys. Amanda head, the question about water.
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President Trump's going to come off that ramp. He's going to walk down those stairs. The governor
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of California is there, and he's going to be up and he's going to ask the question,
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where the hell was the water? What's going to be Newsom's response, ma'am?
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Yeah, the problem, and this is the problem with practically every defunct policy here in California,
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Steve, as you know, is that many of the problems here, Democrat politicians, especially Gavin Newsom,
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they don't actually see as a problem. And that's the biggest issue here. If you don't see something
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as a problem, you have no impetus to actually fix it. So it's going to be an interesting conversation
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between those two men. I also wonder if Gavin Newsom is aware that some of his top donors in
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the state of California have been to Mar-a-Lago to meet with President Trump. There's one in particular
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who I'm not going to out him because I know he does still have a relationship with Gavin Newsom,
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but there are change makers and problem solvers in the state of California who, despite their
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Democrat leanings, are ready to come to the table and find solutions. And they're doing that with
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Donald Trump and not Gavin Newsom. Amanda, this brings up the point of, I don't know the
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technicalities of it, but the recall effort for Mayor Bass, the recall effort for Newsom,
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I think is technically already underway, having they formed committees and people made
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announcements and they're starting to try to raise money? Yeah, of course, in California,
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and especially since we've had a few recalls, they have made the process a little bit harder,
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but it first starts with the petition. You have to get a certain amount of signatures depending on
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the level of that office. If it's a local or a state level office, you've got to get the signatures
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on a petition to actually roll into a recall situation. I don't know if it's going to make it that
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far with Mayor Karen Bass, because I know people are angry, but I'm not completely sure that people
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have connected the dots yet between Karen Bass and the allocation of funds away from the fire
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department. Amanda, here we go. The president of the United States and Melania Trump, the first lady,
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are coming down full shot. Perfect. Look at that. They're coming down the ramp now to meet the
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dignitaries, including Governor Newsom at Los Angeles International Airport.
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Look at that right there. President Trump, very magnanimous, pulls Newsom close to him.
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Looks like they're having some kind words, empathetic. Newsom, who is not quiet about the fact that
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he's going to be running in 2028. First Lady Melania Trump is the president coming over. I think
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the president's going to say a few words. Let's go to the tarmac of Los Angeles International Airport,
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LAX. The president, Governor Newsom, the first lady, approaching the microphones.
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So we just left North Carolina a little while ago. We have that in very good shape. We have the congressman
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in charge and Michael Watley, and we're going to do a lot of work. We have the Army Corps of engineers
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working as they are here. And I think you're going to see some very big progress. They left them high and
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dry. And now we're going to be taking a little tour with some of the people from the area. I appreciate the
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governor coming out and meeting me, Kevin, very much. And we'll be talking a little bit. We want
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to get it fixed. We want to get the problem fixed. And there'll be some ways. But it's like you got
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hit by a bomb, right? Yeah. Like you got hit by a bomb. Would you like to say something?
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Most importantly, thank you for being here. It means a great deal to all of us.
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Not just the folks in Palisades, the folks in Altadena that were devastated. We're going to
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need your support. We're going to need your help. You were there for us during COVID. I don't forget
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that. And I have all the expectations that we'll be able to work together to get this speedy
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recovery. We will. We've got to get it done. Tremendous numbers of lives have been affected.
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A lot of real estate's been affected. Nobody's ever probably seen anything like this. You
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can almost say since the Second World War, when you think of it. I mean, nothing like this
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has happened. And we're going to get it fixed. So we'll get it permanently fixed so it can't
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happen again. And again, we'll be talking a little bit later and we'll get it worked out.
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Okay? I appreciate it, Mr. President. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much.
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Mr. President, both of you have disagreed a lot over the past week over what has happened
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in this state. How do you plan to put your differences aside?
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We've got to get it finished. We're looking to get something completed. And the way you
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get it completed is to work together. He's the governor of the state. And we're going to
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get it completed. They're going to need a lot of federal help. Unless you don't need any,
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which would be okay. We're going to need a lot of federal help.
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So, uh, we're going to take care of things. Okay?
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I have all the confidence the world will work that out.
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Thank you, Bill. Thank you. I guess some of you are coming with us and some of you not.
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There's the governor and the President of the United States with the First Lady, very friendly,
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said we're going to work it out. President Trump being magnanimous. They're going over
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to, um, that Marine, uh, helicopter. I'm sure it's from the Tustin. I think it's from Tustin.
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I think still Tustin's got the Marine Corps base. I don't know if it's totally been shut down.
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The air base there. That's one of the special helicopters just for the, uh, just for the commander
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in chief. The governor is going to fly on the helicopter with, um, with, um, is that the
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is that the pool feet or our feet? The pool feet, the pool feet stick on the helicopter,
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pool feet. I'm gonna start directing the pool here in a minute to the real America's voice
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guys get off the hook. So I start screaming at somebody else. Um, right. There's air force
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one. You see the Marine helicopter. Let's watch this thing. Take off. Not get too crazy.
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You crazy. I think the big, I think the news is that, uh, the president is a leader of all
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people. He doesn't represent Maggie doesn't represent the Republican party doesn't represent
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conservatives of the populist nationalist movement. He's the president of the United States
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for everybody. And man, is he stepping into this role? Okay. We can go ahead and cut that.
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There's gotta be another, there has to be another fee. There has to be another shot of the, of
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that. So let's whatever the shot is, let's pick it up. Okay, guys, I know there's another shot
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of that, of the helicopter. Let's go ahead and do it. Amanda Head, the president is heading
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to you. We're going to go back to his shot in a minute. Talk to me about what he's going
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to see. He and, he and Governor Newsom had very kind words for each other, going to work
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together, going to need federal funds. Tell me what, uh, the president's going to, what,
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what you anticipate coming out there, Amanda? Yeah, Steve, I have to say just an initial
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observation. Obviously I'm used to seeing Governor Gavin Newsom gives says, and he is
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always very slick. I gotta say, he seemed a little bit nervous there. And I don't know
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if that was the exposure of having President Trump here or the possibility that there might
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be a contentious conversation to come, but it certainly seemed congenial. And look, I mean,
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as you said, this is a president of all people. This is a president who, Steve, he was officially
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in office four days ago. He placed his hand on the Bible four days ago, and he has been practically
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in constant conversation with the American people early in the morning until late at night,
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signing executive orders, doing press conferences, speaking to the media everywhere across the
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White House grounds. This guy has been in constant conversation and constant communication with
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the American people. And the thing about what's happening in California and the things that he
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wants to see happen here, it's the same thing with his executive orders. There is a common theme and a
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common thread with all of them. And that is the common sense element, Steve.
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It's not an executive order for Democrats. It's not an executive order for Republicans.
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These are executive orders and policies that President Trump is trying to encourage deep
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blue states like California to enact that just makes sense. I understand that there are
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environmentalists out there and they care about the smelts and they care about this and that in
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California. That's fine. You can still care about that. But the smelts are not more important than the
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people of California and the homes that they live in, the cars that they drive, the family members
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they live with and the school. And that is not more important than these people's livelihood.
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And the policies that have been enacted here that have had a stranglehold on the state for the better
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part of two decades, as far as environmentally at least, that's what's killing the population here.
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And there is a reason that you cannot find U-Haul trucks in California to go out of state.
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And, you know, you can find all the ones in the world if you need to actually come to California.
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That's the reason they've lost a congressional seat. People are leaving the state because of the policies.
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Look, Democrats have ruled the state for a very long time, but the outflow of the population of California
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has really only intensified in the last 10 years. So you got to ask your question, what's the common denominator?
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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.
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They have gone so far left, and it is the same reason that they lost this election to Donald Trump,
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not only the White House, the House, the Senate, and also the popular vote.
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The president, do we have a shot of the Marine helicopter leaving?
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That's actually mathematically impossible, but I'll live with that.
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Let's do the split screen. I think he's going to go.
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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.
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You can drop me, please. Standing order. You don't need to do a box with me. Dang, there we go, guys.
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Eventually, take a number two pencil and write that down. Maybe we'll make it stick.
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Right there, here's what happens with the president of Rice.
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The president of Rice is met by officials. I think it's quite important.
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The only official there to meet the president of the United States was the governor, Gavin Newsom.
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No mayor, no other officials. The first lady, Melania, came down.
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The president came down the ramp, came down the steps. The governor's there.
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They looked like they had a very pleasant chat. They walked over to the microphones.
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The president didn't take the number of questions. He normally does.
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Said some very kind things. We were going to work together.
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The governor was very, Amanda, the governor was very open to say, we really appreciate the help.
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We need your help. They had a few moments, kind of light moments.
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The president just answered one question and said that we are going to work together.
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The first lady was actually quiet. They then walked. No staff, no even military escorts.
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The president and the governor walked to the Marine helicopter with the first lady.
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It looked and appeared to me that they're the only ones that the only ones that got on board.
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Now, what happens the next of these, you go to these roundtables.
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You go to a briefing with more local officials. Amanda, we have a split screen right now.
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It looks like a roundtable being set up right now for the president and the governor, Newsom, to attend.
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And then the president is going to come out, Amanda, near where you are and actually going to tour the Palisades.
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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?
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What is he going to hear in this roundtable, Amanda Head?
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You know, Steve, I consider myself to be someone who's pretty good at messaging and can spin pretty much anything.
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And I don't know if that's something that I should admit to, but I don't know how you spin this.
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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.
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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.
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This is just this is just an occupational hazard of caring about the environment.
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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.
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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.
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But this is a state that claims that they are the most progressive in this area, and yet they couldn't prevent this.
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And this is there are a lot of natural disasters out there that you can't stop.
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You couldn't have stopped the tornadoes or Hurricane Helene, you know, running through Georgia and North Carolina and Kentucky and Tennessee.
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You can't stop that. But what you can prevent is making is is the entire destruction of a community.
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And you do that with something that the good Lord also gave us in addition to fire.
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And that is water. And there happens to be a lot of that in the state.
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I know people think of California as sunny California, a lot of desert regions, but there's plenty of water.
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There are plenty of retention ponds that sat empty. There are plenty of water towers that sat empty.
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So the you have these policies, these environmental policies, I understand that, but also the organization.
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Why went the fire department there? Why the fire hydrants not have water?
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Why did it seem like there was no for the first couple of nights of looting?
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There were not enough of police, just the organization.
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Does that come from woke and DEI that they don't have the right leadership?
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Is it they have the right leadership, but they're just not organized?
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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.
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They were shocked. There was never any firemen there.
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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.
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Like you said, you're great at spinning, but you say this is not spinnable.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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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
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00:25:49.040
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00:25:54.600
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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
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,
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
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
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
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
00:36:50.780
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,
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
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
00:54:02.860
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
00:54:22.560
she's going to be, uh, maybe a little bit more combative with president Trump after some initial
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
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
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
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
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
01:03:26.640
appreciate it. And, uh, what a lead in for us to have Steve Bannon handing it off to us as we
01:03:33.080
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01:03:39.620
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01:03:45.460
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