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Speaker 3 (00:34):
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minutes after the hour, Welcome to Tuesday, the fourteenth of January.
You have our Lord twenty twenty five. Next hour visit
with Lieutenant Colonel James Carafano on the potential release of
three dozen hostages and a ceasefire deal with Hamas. We'll
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The Senate will start confirmation hearings today southern California. Edison
being sued over claims its electrical equipment is responsible for
the start of one of the wildfires in LA and
President Biden announced a one time payment of seven hundred
and seventy dollars to each resident who applies and has
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been impacted by the LA fires. And the Santa Ana
wins are whipping through southern California again, what does that
mean for firefighters and the possibility of more fires, let
alone containment of the existing fires. For that more, here's
Roy O'Neil, our national correspondent. Good morning, Rory, Hey, then Michael,
good morning. All right. Wins were not favorable yesterday and
they don't look any better today.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
No, But if they can get through today without having
these wildfires really explode again, I think that will be
considered a successful day. The higher Santa Ana wins should
extend through about lunchtime tomorrow than things sort of normalize.
Comparing this batch of Santa Ana wins to last they're
about half of what they were three quarters. As you said,
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forty fifty sixty miles per hour. They were at one
hundred miles per hour last week. Those are also it's
going to be it'll be in pockets. It's not expected
to cover the whole county like we saw last week.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
So here are the numbers if it were a scoreboard.
In the Palisades Fire twenty three thousand, seven hundred and
thirteen acres at fourteen percent containment. They Eaton Fire fourteen
one hundred and seventeen acres at thirty three percent containment,
the Hurst fire seven hundred ninety nine acres and at
ninety seven percent containment. And then we had the Auto
(02:36):
fire and Inventura fifty six acres and zero containment. So
they need the winds and they need to get containment.
These containment numbers up, so they need the wins to
calm down, and that's more likely tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
It did go ahead now because with the winds then
you're less able to operate all those aircraft which have
been so successful and helping them to contain. These helicopters
in the air lanes struggle to fly in those wings
that's close to the ground.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Yesterday seemed to be more about as the fire raged
on the citizen rage and the narrative rage towards inept leadership,
and a lot of that was pointed towards the governor.
A lot of that was pointed towards the mayor, of
which the La Times publisher actually regrets the endorsement of
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her for mayor. That's kind of the story beyond the
fire that I think is going to keep simmering for
quite some time.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Yeah, I mean, I don't think most Americans could name
Mayor Bass's predecessor.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Yeah, I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
I think that's much more of a local kind of
an angle for them. And I don't know how much
mayors are involved in firefighting.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
You know, well, when you cut the budget seventeen million dollars,
you're very involved out of nine hundred and three million.
But yeah, I mean I get it.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
It's it's all looks bad and the fact that she
was out of the country and all that. I mean,
I I completely understand, But I don't know how often
mayors often get involved in deploying fire resources and how
much of this falls on the fire chief versus the mayor.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Well, and then the fire chief would tell you the
budget cuts reservoirs that were empty. Yeah, that that's kind
of the you know, the show that's going on that
is that is playing out far differently at a national level,
and then seven hundred and seventy dollars for those that
have been impacted. That's not going to seem like a
fair trade compared to what their outrage is. So that continues.
(04:30):
That's okay, No, I'm just saying, I'm just I'm trying
to give the feel of what's just that's just here's
money so.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
That you can buy dinner tonight and have a couple
of nights in a hotel. That's not your your reimbursement
for your loss. Well no, I know that, but that's
how it's being perceived. And so it's a it's a
narrative issue as well as a serious fire issue.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Is what's kind of brewed? Anything else yesterday that was
worthy of note? I mean, I guess the possibility of
for the first time we're talking about the origins and
and it may involve California edison, that would probably be
the biggest. Yeah, perhaps you know we.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Heard over the weekend that they created a task force
to look at the cause.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
The ATF is leading that investigation.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
The power lines that we saw some investigators around some
of the high tension power lines yesterday. The utility says, no,
don't blame us, but we've heard everything from the homeless
people did it. It was a part of a New
Year's Eve celebration to arsonist throughout there. And by the way,
every one of those answers may also be accurate, because it's.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Not going to be more than one exactly.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
You know.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
The area. We also got America is preparing for a presidency,
and we've we got more details of some of the
events from the inaugural Committee, including the Trump National Golf
Club in Virginia's going to host a reception and fireworks
display that'll be followed Sunday by a wreath laying ceremony
at Ourlington National Cemetery. Then you have the traditional Inauguration
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day tea at the White House. We got the rally
that the President is going to be doing at the
Capitol One Arena. Then you have the inauguration itself, the
announcement of Carrie Underwood seeing God bless America, the village people.
We even we even't got the garbage truck that's going
to be in the inaugural parade. It's going to be
quite quite the event in our nation's capital next week. Yep.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
The events start I guess this weekend the big show though,
of course noon on Monday.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Yeah, that'll be newon Eastern eleventh Central. I don't know
about you, but I mean there is the actual swearing
in ceremony that I think is probably the most you know,
memorable and theatrical. I always love that it's different when
it's going to be a new president rather than the
returning of a president. But there's just something about that
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morning tea where the incoming president is greeted at the
White House by the sitting president. Then they come out
and they leave together. I still think that's one of
the great traditions. What's one of your favorite moments? I
hadn't thought. I'm sorry, I've got another ring.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Yeah, no, I mean all of it is great to
see that peaceful transition. I gotta run, go run, all right,
twelve minutes after the hour. I think we're probably one
of the few people that would go out of his
way to try to defend Mayor Karen Bass and our
sounds of the day.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
And I'm just going to give you a quick little preview.
This is the owner And again when I did this earlier,
I pieced it together what we've seen Bezos do with
the New York with the Washington Post, we're now seeing
the owner of the La Times, and he did not
share or his views on the mayor of which his
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paper endorsed.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Listen, first of all, really accept comblain right. So at
the LA Times we endorsed Karen Bass I think right
now in front that's a mistake and we admit that.
So I thought it was very early important early on
for me to come out, and I think we were
wanted a few to say competence matters and good luck.
(07:57):
But maybe twenty twenty three million views show how that
was really due to the heart of most people, whether
you right or left. And it's the interesting thing is
that maybe we should think about how we elect people
on the basis of did they actually run a job,
did they actually make a payroll? Do they understand what
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it is? And rather than having professional politicians whose only
job is ready to run for office. There's nothing I'm
not going to be disparaging, but I think we at
the stage now of the nation and the world, there's
many things we'll talk about, even in healthcare that you
really need people.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
That's doctor Patrick Soon Cheong, who is the La Times owner.
What I think is significant about that is that we've
often talked about what does post trumpsm look like post
Donald Trump. Now we haven't had the inauguration yet, and
he's going to have Unlike any other second term other
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than one, he actually gets two for one hundred days,
not all. If it's gonna be a big, beautiful, one
beautiful bill or two bills. But probably the most this
president can do is let Doge get in there and
reveal a lot of the misspending, waste, duplicity, and fix
(09:18):
the budget a little bit. I think he can secure
the border. I think he can get deportation for those
to commit crimes beyond the crime of breaking in. And
then I think, whether he does it in one or
two bills, he can come back in, get rid of
some of the regulations again, solidify and make permanent the
tax cuts, and improve the economy. That's about all he's
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going to get done. Then, what there are some I
was one who predicted that one or both parties will
be gone by the end of the decade. I think
one might be literally gone. Bill Mars saying the Democrat
Party are the wigs of today. They're gonna be gone. Well,
(10:04):
I'd have to agree with them because I predicted it.
But their war is going to wage, have they They've
got a civil war within their party to be played
out with Justice Democrats in the far left. But they've
already lost credibility. And what you're seeing is whether it's
bezos at the Washington Post or the owner of the
New York Times, they're all scrambling. I just shared last
(10:28):
half hour. You'll have to check it out on the podcast.
But the numbers at the Washington Post, they've lost ninety
percent of their digital readership. They went from twenty two
and a half million daily active users and they're down
to two and a half. And they've lost They've gone
from one hundred ninety million in revenue in twenty twenty
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three to one hundred and seventy four million in twenty
twenty four. And I don't have to tell you twenty
twenty five looks a lot worse after this election. They
just started a lay off of four percent of their workforce.
They lost seventy seven million dollars last year. Whether you're
a newspaper, no matter what you are, you got revenue
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and you got cost With revenue falling, there's no one
to pay for these jobs. So they're scrambling to say that.
Have they been at the cabal table all along with
the deep state, with the administrative state, with the intelligency
at the university level. Yes, but they got no audience,
and they got no revenue, and they got no influence.
(11:35):
They're scrambling to save their lives. Like rats on a
boat that's sinking. They're running for higher ground. We saw
it with Bezos and Trump. You're seeing it in Los
Angeles with the fires in the mirror. And I think
the publisher of the La Times can name the previous mayor.
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It's your Morning Show with Michael Delchi. President Biden announcing
a one time payment of seven hundred and seventy dollars
to each resident impacted by the LA wildfires. As of yesterday,
some six thousand had applied for that. Southern California Edison
is being sued overclaims its electrical equipment is responsible for
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starting one of the wildfires in the LA area, and
Senate will start its confirmation hearings today. I wanted to
finish this one thought. I want to go back to
the owner of the La Times, doctor Patrick soon Schong.
He regrets his endorsement of Mayor Bass. But that's not
the main point. The main point he was making is
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this section right here, and as you're listening to it,
I want you to think in terms of what is
the future of trump Ism? Moreover, what might be the
longest lasting revolutionary impact of Donald Trump once he's gone,
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Because according to this publisher of the La Times, whether
it's Donald Trump or someone else, we might want to get,
you know, business leaders to have these executive offices instead
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of politicians, because when you know what hits the fan,
you don't need narratives and campaigns, you need leadership. Listen.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
And it's the interesting thing is that maybe we should
think about how we elect people on the basis of
did they actually run a job, did they actually make
a payroll? Do they understand what it is? And rather
than having professional politicians whose only job is ready to
run for office. There's nothing I'm not going to be disparaging,
but I think we have the stage now of the
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nation and the world. There's many things we've talked about
even in Okay that you really need people to understand, well,
how to fix a man in the street, you know,
how to fix the working type a person, and I
think prisident Trump in this election has understood that, and
he's become truly a Republican party. As you said, he's
(14:18):
become the Democratic body in terms of addressing the problems
of the man in the street.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
I think he is wisely onto something. Donald Trump hasn't
just changed the Republican Party forever. He's changed the Democrat
Party forever. There's another sound. I'm only too many ahead
of myself in terms of the sounds of the day,
but we had another sound of the day, and this
is Donna Brazil. Donna Brazil was the strategist behind Barack Obama.
(14:52):
What have I been telling you? Don't expect You know,
there'll be some tough questions here and there, but I
don't see any big surprises in these confirmation The Americans
have moved on, including the Democrats. They have no trust
in their own party. They think their own party doesn't
care about them, and their own party is a circus.
(15:15):
You go, oh, you're a conservative talk shows of course
you're gonna say, Well, here's Dona Brazil. She was Axelrod's
right hand lady, and she's telling you there's not gonna
this is not going to be like Donald Trump first
term at all.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Listen, Vetterman's going to go and meet with him down
at mar A Lago.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
Absolutely, the mayor of the District of Columbia went down
to meet with the President elect Trump. There's nothing wrong
with that. I don't think you this is this is
not going to be a time of resistance like it
was in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
They're going to look.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
For opportunities to work with the President elect and his team,
and they will be prepared to oppose them when they disagree.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Now, the question is, are you just seeing an eb
and flow in politics? Is there a death forming of
the two party system? The twenty sixteen was a referendum
election against incumbents. Is there a referendum forming against all politicians?
And we're ready for industry leaders to lead, because once
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you get elected, guess what, then you got to govern.
Sometimes the greatest campaigners are not the greatest at governing.
Everybody's kind of figuring this out at once. It's new
tomorrow forming right before your eyes.
Speaker 6 (16:34):
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Speaker 3 (17:18):
Coming up a minutes, John Decker will look at hamas
they may be close to a agreement with Israel for
a ceasefire and an exchange of hostages. More on that
in minutes, but first time for your Sounds of the day.
He's gonna get smoked.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
He's got two stopped.
Speaker 7 (17:33):
I really don't know what he says at the end
of this, and I don't think he knows what you've said.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
You don't know. It's got to be a big bits understanding.
I'm going in right. How do you like my garbage?
Speaking of the garbage, Trump, it's going to be in
the inaugural parade, a highlight for you to look forward to,
along with the announcement that Kerry Underwood will be singing
God Bless America during the actual oath taking ceremony, village
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people performing at some of the balls afterwards, Let's start
our Sounds of the day from the Oval Office with
the outgoing President Joe Biden with his outgoing Vice President
Kamala Harris by his side, making this announcement.
Speaker 7 (18:11):
I want to be clear, we're not waiting until those
fires are over and we start helping the victims.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
We're getting in help right now.
Speaker 7 (18:19):
As you all know, people impacted by these fires who
are going to receive one time payment of seven hundred
and seventy dollars one time payment so they can quickly
purchase things like water baby format and prescriptions. So far,
nearly six thousand survivors have registered to do just that.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
So all the millions affected, we're looking at over forty
one thousand acres of destruction only the Hearst fire at
ninety seven percent containment, Palisades at fourteen percent, Eating at
thirty three percent. People have lost multimillion dollar homes, businesses,
over twenty thousand structures, a lifetime of possessions, and here
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comes seven hundred dollars for the six thousand who have
applied for it. I don't even know if that'll cover
prescription drugs. I don't think it would cover more than
a night or two of hotels. But it's something some
might perceive that as the leadership needed from government was
before the fires happened, not after. Lee ineptness is front
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and center. So as the flames rage, so does the
anger of citizens. We talked early in the five o'clock hour,
and this is something profound. Everybody needs to explain to
your kids. If you look back at your life, jobs
you took with people, and then afterwards you look back
and go, why did I work for that guy? Why
(19:48):
did I date that person? Why did I marry that person?
Probably because you saw them the way you wished they
were or hoped they were, or convinced yourself they were,
and not as they actually were. What's happening in California
is voters are seeing their leaders now for what they are.
(20:09):
That's why you're hearing the La Times publishers say we
might want to start taking a look at not electing politicians,
but people have actually run businesses. Sure, a politicians good
at campaigning, but then they get an office and they're
not good at being an executive. They're not leaders, they're
not solvers, they don't know how to govern. And I
(20:30):
asked a question. You can respond on the iHeartRadio app
on the talkback. Could this be the lasting revolution of
Donald Trump? You may turn from career politicians for true leaders.
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O Kamala finally spoke and if Joe seven hundred dollars
wasn't enough, she had this to add.
Speaker 8 (20:56):
And so it's critically important that to the extent you
can find anything that gives you an ability to be
patient in this extremely dangerous and unprecedented crisis that you do.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
And so it's.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
So you got that go for you. Don't let anybody
take your.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Don't you ever let anybody take your power.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
From You're sure or it's salad from somebody who almost
was president of the United States. And just in case
you're joining us for the owner of the Los Angeles
Times that endorsed Mayor.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Bass because will really accept Plumblain right, so at the
early Times we endorse car In Bass. I think right
now in front that's a mistake and we admit that.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
So I think he knows who the previous mayor was too, Garcetti.
I think he knows who they endorsed her over Rich Russo,
and he may be back if you understand that a
developer and a businessman came close to being mayor and
(22:08):
instead you got this and this newspaper endorsed her. I
think you know his train of thought and why he
goes from his regret for endorsing her and into the
comment he makes, because it could be the vision of
(22:29):
non politician leaders in the future, or could be he's
thinking about Rich Russo, who he didn't endorse. Listen.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
I thought it was very early important, early on for
me to come out, and I think we wanted a
few to say competence matters, good Blue, but maybe twenty
twenty three million views to show how that was really
due to the heart of most people, whether you right
or left. And it's the interesting thing is that maybe
(22:57):
we should think about how we elect people on the
basis of did they actually run a job, did they
actually make a payroll? Do they understand what it is?
And rather than having professional politicians whose only job is
ready to run for office. There's nothing I'm trying to
be disparaging. But I think we at the stage now
of the nation and the world. There's many things we'll
(23:20):
talk about, even in healthcare, that you really need people
to understand, well, how to fix a man in the street.
You know, how to fix the working type of person.
And I think President Trump in this election has understood that.
And he's become truly the Publican party, she said, he's
become the Democratic Party in terms of the addressing the
(23:44):
problems of the man.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
And that's the owner of the Los Angeles Times telling
you I don't trust not just the leader of the
Republican party's the leader of the Democrat Party. Why he's
the only serious person ready to lead. Maybe we shouldn't
have politicians anymore. Maybe we need serious people. You know,
it's laughable to diminish this office. The President of the
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United States is the leader of the free world, the
commander in chief over the most powerful military, the CEO
of one of the biggest economies. It's a big job.
Right under that, next biggest job would be governor of
the state of New York, the state of Florida, and
(24:30):
the state of California. And right under that would be
the mayors of Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York City.
Those three cities are big. This is why you want
to thank God every day for your founding fathers and
the electoral College. These people that created all this inept leadership,
(24:54):
as everything they own is burning to the ground, would
have selected the president while our nation burned to the ground.
That's how big these cities are. They're bigger than most states.
You don't need a politician running Los Angeles, New York City,
(25:15):
or Chicago. You need a leader. You need somebody that's
like governor of one of the biggest states good, like
a potential presidential candidate good. The only times gets it.
I think a lot of their citizens get it. I
wonder how much of America is starting to get it.
Speaker 9 (25:35):
Now.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
There were budget cuts. The mayor of Los Angeles wanted
twenty four million, she got seventeen million. You had twenty
five percent of the vehicles not in operation for one
of its biggest fires in history, experiencing seventeen million dollars
(25:58):
in budget cuts for its big fire in history. And
then when you hook up the hose, there's no water
in the reservoirs.
Speaker 10 (26:04):
This was supposed to be the water to put out
the Palisades Fire. This is the Santanez Reservoir. It's the
water supply basically for the Palisades. When they first started
fighting the Palisades Fire, they ran out of water extremely quickly. Wednesday,
three am, they were basically out. And there's been a
lot of talk on why this happened. So how long
has this reservoir been empty for since February of last year.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
That's not preparedness. So there's a great old expression and
you were doing what when you should have been doing this?
And then this video served surfaces from July where the
new LA Water Chief, who is paid seven hundred and
fifty thousand dollars a year, is bragging on KBLA radio
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what they were focused on rather than full reservoirs for
fire season.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
You call it powered by equity, and I know that
it's been really important for the DWP to put an
equity lens on everything.
Speaker 11 (27:03):
Yes, yeah, And that's the number one thing that attracted
me to this role, coming from the communities that I
seeing what I've seen through my career and utilities and
through the military. I've been in the costcard nineteen and
a half years now, so I got six more months
to qualify for my twenty years, which was my original goal.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Wow, congratulations, thank you for your service.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 11 (27:26):
It's important to me that everything we do it's with
an equitted lens and social justice and making sure that
we right the wrongs that we've done in the past
from an infrastructure perspective, and that we involve the community
in that process.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
And this utility is serious about it. Yeah, too bad,
you weren't serious about water to put out fires. As
for the whole global warming narrative, how's that selling. I
always love to get a shot of truth from Henry
Edton at CNN. He goes over these numbers with his anchor.
I don't think Americans are making this connection.
Speaker 12 (28:01):
And the way we can see this in right here
and now, take a look at the monthly change in
Google searches. Look at the searches for wildfire up twenty
four hundred percent. My goodness, gracious, this is the most
amount of people searching for wildfires ever, ever, going back
since Google trends began back in two thousand and four.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
But look at climate change. Look at the change.
Speaker 12 (28:24):
It doesn't go hand in hand of wildfires.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
It's actually down.
Speaker 12 (28:27):
It's down nine percent, and I also looked in California,
there has been no increase in the number of searches.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
There's simply no audience for the global warming narrative. There's
a large audience for the a neetness of leadership. That
brings me to a sit down with American Majority founder
Ned Ryan, who told Tucker Carlson during a podcast why
he thinks the second Trump administration represents more than a
(28:57):
second term for Donald Trump, but a real shot at
restoration of the American Republic. Listen, this is I.
Speaker 9 (29:05):
Don't consider myself conservative necessarily because what are we actually conserving? This,
to me is one of my great frustrations with the
conservative movement. Rit large, explain to me again what we've
actually been conserving over the last forty fifty sixty years.
I'm more interested, and it's a very reactive term too conservative.
I'm far more interested in restoration, in being a restorationist,
(29:27):
in restoring the republic, and restoring a constitutional republic, and
restoring a government of buying for the people that actually
promotes the interests of the American people, which kind of
the premise of the American Republic. Right, all power flows
from the American people, from the people to their duly
elected representatives, who they make the stewards of the power
and money given to them to put together a government
(29:48):
that actually promotes and protects the interests of the American
people every day on every issue. And we've kind of
lost sight of that.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
There's something birthing right before our eyes in the midst
of this failure in destruction. We'll even run by that
by speaker new Gingrich. Next hour, final sound Donna Brazil.
I keep saying, you know, the left can't play the
games had played in the first term of Trump again
all blow up in their face. Oh, Donna Brazil gets him.
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Vetterman's going to go and meet with him down at
mar A Lago.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
Absolutely, the mayor of the District of Columbia went down
to meet with the President elect Trump. There's nothing wrong
with that. I don't think you this is this is
not going to be a time of resistance like it
was in twenty seventeen. They're going to look for opportunities
to work with the President elect and his team, and
they will be prepared to oppose them when they disagree.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
I mean, care for what you wish for, right, Maybe
it won't be us versus them, right versus left. Maybe
we will focus on right versus wrong and the right
people to lead. We the people that's encouraging. This is
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your Morning show with Michael Dotno. Let me introduce you
to a Supreme Court bar attorney in a White House.
Correspond to John Decker. John, one of the big stories
waking up this morning looks like Commas maybe close to
an agreement with Israel for a ceasefire and with it
about three dozen hostages. How close is this to being
a reality, Well.
Speaker 13 (31:18):
It sounds like it's the closest that we've been to
this some kind of deal taking place in maybe a
year and a half. Remember it's October seventh of twenty
twenty three that those hostages were first taken by the
terrorist group Comas. They've been held in Gaza since that time,
and there have been talks that have really stepped up
(31:40):
over the past few weeks in Doha. Those talks have
involved both officials from the Biden administration as well as
the lead Middle East coordinator for the incoming Trump administration,
and there's an indication that perhaps by the end of
the week we could see the first stage of that
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deal taking place.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
This is so reminiscent for people our age because of
the original Iranian hostage crisis, and we've all been thinking
about Jimmy Carter with his passing and funeral, and of
course as history played out right their their anticipation of
a very strong presidency in Ronald Reagan, the hostage is
released spitefully as soon as he took the oath of office.
(32:25):
Some of that kind of revisited in this although I'm
one of the first people to say, you know, while
that is of a political significance, not nearly a significance
as seeing a ceasefire and seeing these innocent people released,
the question is how many are still alive? And is
there very does a question.
Speaker 13 (32:45):
Yeah, that's a very good question. I think that's been
the difficulty. Uh, every time there has been there have
been efforts to release hostages. Having a deal is just
determining how many of the hostages are still a lot,
including American hostage. There are seven Americans who are taken
hostage back on October the seventh of twenty twenty three.
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How many of those individuals are still living? And you know,
as part of the negotiation, I would imagine you need
to have proof of life. You know, to know what
you're dealing with, to know what you're getting if you
are the Israelis, if you are the Americans, and then
you could have the first stage of a deal, and
that is the cessation of hostilities in Gaza at least
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for a period of time so that the rest of
the deal can be worked out the release of the
remaining hostages.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
So pretty remarkable. I think you're right there.
Speaker 13 (33:37):
There are some reminders of what happened back in nineteen
eighty one when there was the release of fifty two
American hostages. In that particular instance, Michael, as you know,
all fifty two Americans were alive when they were ultimately
handed over to the American side and then released.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
I'm not making light of it, but this is just
the dance that that radical Islamic groups carry out these
kinds of terrorist attacks. They always take hostages. After a while,
they get pounded, they release, they use the hostages, and
they release the hostage to end it, and then they
they're dampened down for a decade or so and then
they come back. This time it kind of lingered, which
made me think they didn't have the hostages to give
(34:20):
back for their exit play. Yeah, that's my greatest dealer.
Speaker 13 (34:24):
You know, I agree with you, Michael. You know I'm skeptical,
I'm cynical. I agree with you one hundred percent, and
we'll see. You know. I feel so terribly for any
family that has been dealing with this for you know,
almost a full year and a half and having to
go through hopes, hopes being dashed, and hopefully that's not
(34:46):
another insulsive hopes being dashed once again.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
Here's praying we're wrong and they will be released and
we will have peace. John Decker, White House Correspondent. Great
reporting as all, We're all in this together. This is
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Goldie Tones, and Mike mccannon. Thank you, Good morning. Seven
minutes after the hour, Welcome to Tuesday, the fourteenth of January.
You have our Lord twenty twenty five. Next hour visit
with Lieutenant Colonel James Carafano on the potential release of
three dozen hostages and a ceasefire deal with Hamas. We'll
also talk to Nude Gingrich, who has journey to America
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with Newton Calistic Gingrich a ninety minute documentary Tonight on PBS.
The Senate will start confirmation hearings today southern California. Edison
being sued over claims its electrical equipment is responsible for
the start of one of the wildfires in LA and
President Biden announced a one time payment of seven hundred
and seventy dollars to each resident who applies and has
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been impacted by the LA fires. And the Santa Ana
wins are whipping through southern California again, what does that
mean for firefighters and the possibility of more fires, let
alone containment of the existing fires. For that more, here's
Roy O'Neil, our national correspondent. Good morning, Rory, Hey, then Michael,
good morning. All right. Wins were not favorable yesterday and
they don't look any better today.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
No, But if they can get through today without having
these wildfires really explode again, I think that will be
considered a successful day. The higher Santa Ana wins should
extend through about lunchtime tomorrow than things sort of normalize.
Comparing this batch of Santa Ana wins to last they're
about half of what they were three quarters. As you said,
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forty fifty sixty miles per hour. They were at one
hundred miles per hour last week. Those are also it's
going to be it'll be in pockets. It's not expected
to cover the whole county like we saw last week.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
So here are the numbers if it were a scoreboard.
In the Palisades Fire twenty three thousand, seven hundred and
thirteen acres at fourteen percent containment. They Eaton Fire fourteen
one hundred and seventeen acres at thirty three percent containment,
the Hurst fire seven hundred ninety nine acres and at
ninety seven percent containment. And then we had the Auto
(02:36):
fire and Inventura fifty six acres and zero containment. So
they need the winds and they need to get containment.
These containment numbers up, so they need the wins to
calm down, and that's more likely tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
It did go ahead now because with the winds then
you're less able to operate all those aircraft which have
been so successful and helping them to contain. These helicopters
in the air lanes struggle to fly in those wings
that's close to the ground.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Yesterday seemed to be more about as the fire raged
on the citizen rage and the narrative rage towards inept leadership,
and a lot of that was pointed towards the governor.
A lot of that was pointed towards the mayor, of
which the La Times publisher actually regrets the endorsement of
(03:23):
her for mayor. That's kind of the story beyond the
fire that I think is going to keep simmering for
quite some time.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Yeah, I mean, I don't think most Americans could name
Mayor Bass's predecessor.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Yeah, I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
I think that's much more of a local kind of
an angle for them. And I don't know how much
mayors are involved in firefighting.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
You know, well, when you cut the budget seventeen million dollars,
you're very involved out of nine hundred and three million.
But yeah, I mean I get it.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
It's it's all looks bad and the fact that she
was out of the country and all that. I mean,
I I completely understand, But I don't know how often
mayors often get involved in deploying fire resources and how
much of this falls on the fire chief versus the mayor.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Well, and then the fire chief would tell you the
budget cuts reservoirs that were empty. Yeah, that that's kind
of the you know, the show that's going on that
is that is playing out far differently at a national level,
and then seven hundred and seventy dollars for those that
have been impacted. That's not going to seem like a
fair trade compared to what their outrage is. So that continues.
(04:30):
That's okay, No, I'm just saying, I'm just I'm trying
to give the feel of what's just that's just here's
money so.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
That you can buy dinner tonight and have a couple
of nights in a hotel. That's not your your reimbursement
for your loss. Well no, I know that, but that's
how it's being perceived. And so it's a it's a
narrative issue as well as a serious fire issue.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Is what's kind of brewed? Anything else yesterday that was
worthy of note? I mean, I guess the possibility of
for the first time we're talking about the origins and
and it may involve California edison, that would probably be
the biggest. Yeah, perhaps you know we.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Heard over the weekend that they created a task force
to look at the cause.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
The ATF is leading that investigation.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
The power lines that we saw some investigators around some
of the high tension power lines yesterday. The utility says, no,
don't blame us, but we've heard everything from the homeless
people did it. It was a part of a New
Year's Eve celebration to arsonist throughout there. And by the way,
every one of those answers may also be accurate, because it's.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Not going to be more than one exactly.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
You know.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
The area. We also got America is preparing for a presidency,
and we've we got more details of some of the
events from the inaugural Committee, including the Trump National Golf
Club in Virginia's going to host a reception and fireworks
display that'll be followed Sunday by a wreath laying ceremony
at Ourlington National Cemetery. Then you have the traditional Inauguration
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day tea at the White House. We got the rally
that the President is going to be doing at the
Capitol One Arena. Then you have the inauguration itself, the
announcement of Carrie Underwood seeing God bless America, the village people.
We even we even't got the garbage truck that's going
to be in the inaugural parade. It's going to be
quite quite the event in our nation's capital next week. Yep.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
The events start I guess this weekend the big show though,
of course noon on Monday.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Yeah, that'll be newon Eastern eleventh Central. I don't know
about you, but I mean there is the actual swearing
in ceremony that I think is probably the most you know,
memorable and theatrical. I always love that it's different when
it's going to be a new president rather than the
returning of a president. But there's just something about that
(06:42):
morning tea where the incoming president is greeted at the
White House by the sitting president. Then they come out
and they leave together. I still think that's one of
the great traditions. What's one of your favorite moments? I
hadn't thought. I'm sorry, I've got another ring.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Yeah, no, I mean all of it is great to
see that peaceful transition. I gotta run, go run, all right,
twelve minutes after the hour. I think we're probably one
of the few people that would go out of his
way to try to defend Mayor Karen Bass and our
sounds of the day.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
And I'm just going to give you a quick little preview.
This is the owner And again when I did this earlier,
I pieced it together what we've seen Bezos do with
the New York with the Washington Post, we're now seeing
the owner of the La Times, and he did not
share or his views on the mayor of which his
(07:34):
paper endorsed.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Listen, first of all, really accept comblain right. So at
the LA Times we endorsed Karen Bass I think right
now in front that's a mistake and we admit that.
So I thought it was very early important early on
for me to come out, and I think we were
wanted a few to say competence matters and good luck.
(07:57):
But maybe twenty twenty three million views show how that
was really due to the heart of most people, whether
you right or left. And it's the interesting thing is
that maybe we should think about how we elect people
on the basis of did they actually run a job,
did they actually make a payroll? Do they understand what
(08:18):
it is? And rather than having professional politicians whose only
job is ready to run for office. There's nothing I'm
not going to be disparaging, but I think we at
the stage now of the nation and the world, there's
many things we'll talk about, even in healthcare that you
really need people.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
That's doctor Patrick Soon Cheong, who is the La Times owner.
What I think is significant about that is that we've
often talked about what does post trumpsm look like post
Donald Trump. Now we haven't had the inauguration yet, and
he's going to have Unlike any other second term other
(08:57):
than one, he actually gets two for one hundred days,
not all. If it's gonna be a big, beautiful, one
beautiful bill or two bills. But probably the most this
president can do is let Doge get in there and
reveal a lot of the misspending, waste, duplicity, and fix
(09:18):
the budget a little bit. I think he can secure
the border. I think he can get deportation for those
to commit crimes beyond the crime of breaking in. And
then I think, whether he does it in one or
two bills, he can come back in, get rid of
some of the regulations again, solidify and make permanent the
tax cuts, and improve the economy. That's about all he's
(09:41):
going to get done. Then, what there are some I
was one who predicted that one or both parties will
be gone by the end of the decade. I think
one might be literally gone. Bill Mars saying the Democrat
Party are the wigs of today. They're gonna be gone. Well,
(10:04):
I'd have to agree with them because I predicted it.
But their war is going to wage, have they They've
got a civil war within their party to be played
out with Justice Democrats in the far left. But they've
already lost credibility. And what you're seeing is whether it's
bezos at the Washington Post or the owner of the
New York Times, they're all scrambling. I just shared last
(10:28):
half hour. You'll have to check it out on the podcast.
But the numbers at the Washington Post, they've lost ninety
percent of their digital readership. They went from twenty two
and a half million daily active users and they're down
to two and a half. And they've lost They've gone
from one hundred ninety million in revenue in twenty twenty
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three to one hundred and seventy four million in twenty
twenty four. And I don't have to tell you twenty
twenty five looks a lot worse after this election. They
just started a lay off of four percent of their workforce.
They lost seventy seven million dollars last year. Whether you're
a newspaper, no matter what you are, you got revenue
(11:13):
and you got cost With revenue falling, there's no one
to pay for these jobs. So they're scrambling to say that.
Have they been at the cabal table all along with
the deep state, with the administrative state, with the intelligency
at the university level. Yes, but they got no audience,
and they got no revenue, and they got no influence.
(11:35):
They're scrambling to save their lives. Like rats on a
boat that's sinking. They're running for higher ground. We saw
it with Bezos and Trump. You're seeing it in Los
Angeles with the fires in the mirror. And I think
the publisher of the La Times can name the previous mayor.
(11:56):
It's your Morning Show with Michael Delchi. President Biden announcing
a one time payment of seven hundred and seventy dollars
to each resident impacted by the LA wildfires. As of yesterday,
some six thousand had applied for that. Southern California Edison
is being sued overclaims its electrical equipment is responsible for
(12:16):
starting one of the wildfires in the LA area, and
Senate will start its confirmation hearings today. I wanted to
finish this one thought. I want to go back to
the owner of the La Times, doctor Patrick soon Schong.
He regrets his endorsement of Mayor Bass. But that's not
the main point. The main point he was making is
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this section right here, and as you're listening to it,
I want you to think in terms of what is
the future of trump Ism? Moreover, what might be the
longest lasting revolutionary impact of Donald Trump once he's gone,
(13:02):
Because according to this publisher of the La Times, whether
it's Donald Trump or someone else, we might want to get,
you know, business leaders to have these executive offices instead
(13:24):
of politicians, because when you know what hits the fan,
you don't need narratives and campaigns, you need leadership. Listen.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
And it's the interesting thing is that maybe we should
think about how we elect people on the basis of
did they actually run a job, did they actually make
a payroll? Do they understand what it is? And rather
than having professional politicians whose only job is ready to
run for office. There's nothing I'm not going to be disparaging,
but I think we have the stage now of the
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nation and the world. There's many things we've talked about
even in Okay that you really need people to understand, well,
how to fix a man in the street, you know,
how to fix the working type a person, and I
think prisident Trump in this election has understood that, and
he's become truly a Republican party. As you said, he's
(14:18):
become the Democratic body in terms of addressing the problems
of the man in the street.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
I think he is wisely onto something. Donald Trump hasn't
just changed the Republican Party forever. He's changed the Democrat
Party forever. There's another sound. I'm only too many ahead
of myself in terms of the sounds of the day,
but we had another sound of the day, and this
is Donna Brazil. Donna Brazil was the strategist behind Barack Obama.
(14:52):
What have I been telling you? Don't expect You know,
there'll be some tough questions here and there, but I
don't see any big surprises in these confirmation The Americans
have moved on, including the Democrats. They have no trust
in their own party. They think their own party doesn't
care about them, and their own party is a circus.
(15:15):
You go, oh, you're a conservative talk shows of course
you're gonna say, Well, here's Dona Brazil. She was Axelrod's
right hand lady, and she's telling you there's not gonna
this is not going to be like Donald Trump first
term at all.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Listen, Vetterman's going to go and meet with him down
at mar A Lago.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
Absolutely, the mayor of the District of Columbia went down
to meet with the President elect Trump. There's nothing wrong
with that. I don't think you this is this is
not going to be a time of resistance like it
was in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
They're going to look.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
For opportunities to work with the President elect and his team,
and they will be prepared to oppose them when they disagree.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Now, the question is, are you just seeing an eb
and flow in politics? Is there a death forming of
the two party system? The twenty sixteen was a referendum
election against incumbents. Is there a referendum forming against all politicians?
And we're ready for industry leaders to lead, because once
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you get elected, guess what, then you got to govern.
Sometimes the greatest campaigners are not the greatest at governing.
Everybody's kind of figuring this out at once. It's new
tomorrow forming right before your eyes.
Speaker 6 (16:34):
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Speaker 1 (16:53):
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Speaker 3 (17:18):
Coming up a minutes, John Decker will look at hamas
they may be close to a agreement with Israel for
a ceasefire and an exchange of hostages. More on that
in minutes, but first time for your Sounds of the day.
He's gonna get smoked.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
He's got two stopped.
Speaker 7 (17:33):
I really don't know what he says at the end
of this, and I don't think he knows what you've said.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
You don't know. It's got to be a big bits understanding.
I'm going in right. How do you like my garbage?
Speaking of the garbage, Trump, it's going to be in
the inaugural parade, a highlight for you to look forward to,
along with the announcement that Kerry Underwood will be singing
God Bless America during the actual oath taking ceremony, village
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people performing at some of the balls afterwards, Let's start
our Sounds of the day from the Oval Office with
the outgoing President Joe Biden with his outgoing Vice President
Kamala Harris by his side, making this announcement.
Speaker 7 (18:11):
I want to be clear, we're not waiting until those
fires are over and we start helping the victims.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
We're getting in help right now.
Speaker 7 (18:19):
As you all know, people impacted by these fires who
are going to receive one time payment of seven hundred
and seventy dollars one time payment so they can quickly
purchase things like water baby format and prescriptions. So far,
nearly six thousand survivors have registered to do just that.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
So all the millions affected, we're looking at over forty
one thousand acres of destruction only the Hearst fire at
ninety seven percent containment, Palisades at fourteen percent, Eating at
thirty three percent. People have lost multimillion dollar homes, businesses,
over twenty thousand structures, a lifetime of possessions, and here
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comes seven hundred dollars for the six thousand who have
applied for it. I don't even know if that'll cover
prescription drugs. I don't think it would cover more than
a night or two of hotels. But it's something some
might perceive that as the leadership needed from government was
before the fires happened, not after. Lee ineptness is front
(19:27):
and center. So as the flames rage, so does the
anger of citizens. We talked early in the five o'clock hour,
and this is something profound. Everybody needs to explain to
your kids. If you look back at your life, jobs
you took with people, and then afterwards you look back
and go, why did I work for that guy? Why
(19:48):
did I date that person? Why did I marry that person?
Probably because you saw them the way you wished they
were or hoped they were, or convinced yourself they were,
and not as they actually were. What's happening in California
is voters are seeing their leaders now for what they are.
(20:09):
That's why you're hearing the La Times publishers say we
might want to start taking a look at not electing politicians,
but people have actually run businesses. Sure, a politicians good
at campaigning, but then they get an office and they're
not good at being an executive. They're not leaders, they're
not solvers, they don't know how to govern. And I
(20:30):
asked a question. You can respond on the iHeartRadio app
on the talkback. Could this be the lasting revolution of
Donald Trump? You may turn from career politicians for true leaders.
(20:50):
O Kamala finally spoke and if Joe seven hundred dollars
wasn't enough, she had this to add.
Speaker 8 (20:56):
And so it's critically important that to the extent you
can find anything that gives you an ability to be
patient in this extremely dangerous and unprecedented crisis that you do.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
And so it's.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
So you got that go for you. Don't let anybody
take your.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Don't you ever let anybody take your power.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
From You're sure or it's salad from somebody who almost
was president of the United States. And just in case
you're joining us for the owner of the Los Angeles
Times that endorsed Mayor.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Bass because will really accept Plumblain right, so at the
early Times we endorse car In Bass. I think right
now in front that's a mistake and we admit that.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
So I think he knows who the previous mayor was too, Garcetti.
I think he knows who they endorsed her over Rich Russo,
and he may be back if you understand that a
developer and a businessman came close to being mayor and
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instead you got this and this newspaper endorsed her. I
think you know his train of thought and why he
goes from his regret for endorsing her and into the
comment he makes, because it could be the vision of
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non politician leaders in the future, or could be he's
thinking about Rich Russo, who he didn't endorse. Listen.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
I thought it was very early important, early on for
me to come out, and I think we wanted a
few to say competence matters, good Blue, but maybe twenty
twenty three million views to show how that was really
due to the heart of most people, whether you right
or left. And it's the interesting thing is that maybe
(22:57):
we should think about how we elect people on the
basis of did they actually run a job, did they
actually make a payroll? Do they understand what it is?
And rather than having professional politicians whose only job is
ready to run for office. There's nothing I'm trying to
be disparaging. But I think we at the stage now
of the nation and the world. There's many things we'll
(23:20):
talk about, even in healthcare, that you really need people
to understand, well, how to fix a man in the street.
You know, how to fix the working type of person.
And I think President Trump in this election has understood that.
And he's become truly the Publican party, she said, he's
become the Democratic Party in terms of the addressing the
(23:44):
problems of the man.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
And that's the owner of the Los Angeles Times telling
you I don't trust not just the leader of the
Republican party's the leader of the Democrat Party. Why he's
the only serious person ready to lead. Maybe we shouldn't
have politicians anymore. Maybe we need serious people. You know,
it's laughable to diminish this office. The President of the
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United States is the leader of the free world, the
commander in chief over the most powerful military, the CEO
of one of the biggest economies. It's a big job.
Right under that, next biggest job would be governor of
the state of New York, the state of Florida, and
(24:30):
the state of California. And right under that would be
the mayors of Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York City.
Those three cities are big. This is why you want
to thank God every day for your founding fathers and
the electoral College. These people that created all this inept leadership,
(24:54):
as everything they own is burning to the ground, would
have selected the president while our nation burned to the ground.
That's how big these cities are. They're bigger than most states.
You don't need a politician running Los Angeles, New York City,
(25:15):
or Chicago. You need a leader. You need somebody that's
like governor of one of the biggest states good, like
a potential presidential candidate good. The only times gets it.
I think a lot of their citizens get it. I
wonder how much of America is starting to get it.
Speaker 9 (25:35):
Now.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
There were budget cuts. The mayor of Los Angeles wanted
twenty four million, she got seventeen million. You had twenty
five percent of the vehicles not in operation for one
of its biggest fires in history, experiencing seventeen million dollars
(25:58):
in budget cuts for its big fire in history. And
then when you hook up the hose, there's no water
in the reservoirs.
Speaker 10 (26:04):
This was supposed to be the water to put out
the Palisades Fire. This is the Santanez Reservoir. It's the
water supply basically for the Palisades. When they first started
fighting the Palisades Fire, they ran out of water extremely quickly. Wednesday,
three am, they were basically out. And there's been a
lot of talk on why this happened. So how long
has this reservoir been empty for since February of last year.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
That's not preparedness. So there's a great old expression and
you were doing what when you should have been doing this?
And then this video served surfaces from July where the
new LA Water Chief, who is paid seven hundred and
fifty thousand dollars a year, is bragging on KBLA radio
(26:50):
what they were focused on rather than full reservoirs for
fire season.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
You call it powered by equity, and I know that
it's been really important for the DWP to put an
equity lens on everything.
Speaker 11 (27:03):
Yes, yeah, And that's the number one thing that attracted
me to this role, coming from the communities that I
seeing what I've seen through my career and utilities and
through the military. I've been in the costcard nineteen and
a half years now, so I got six more months
to qualify for my twenty years, which was my original goal.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Wow, congratulations, thank you for your service.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 11 (27:26):
It's important to me that everything we do it's with
an equitted lens and social justice and making sure that
we right the wrongs that we've done in the past
from an infrastructure perspective, and that we involve the community
in that process.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
And this utility is serious about it. Yeah, too bad,
you weren't serious about water to put out fires. As
for the whole global warming narrative, how's that selling. I
always love to get a shot of truth from Henry
Edton at CNN. He goes over these numbers with his anchor.
I don't think Americans are making this connection.
Speaker 12 (28:01):
And the way we can see this in right here
and now, take a look at the monthly change in
Google searches. Look at the searches for wildfire up twenty
four hundred percent. My goodness, gracious, this is the most
amount of people searching for wildfires ever, ever, going back
since Google trends began back in two thousand and four.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
But look at climate change. Look at the change.
Speaker 12 (28:24):
It doesn't go hand in hand of wildfires.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
It's actually down.
Speaker 12 (28:27):
It's down nine percent, and I also looked in California,
there has been no increase in the number of searches.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
There's simply no audience for the global warming narrative. There's
a large audience for the a neetness of leadership. That
brings me to a sit down with American Majority founder
Ned Ryan, who told Tucker Carlson during a podcast why
he thinks the second Trump administration represents more than a
(28:57):
second term for Donald Trump, but a real shot at
restoration of the American Republic. Listen, this is I.
Speaker 9 (29:05):
Don't consider myself conservative necessarily because what are we actually conserving? This,
to me is one of my great frustrations with the
conservative movement. Rit large, explain to me again what we've
actually been conserving over the last forty fifty sixty years.
I'm more interested, and it's a very reactive term too conservative.
I'm far more interested in restoration, in being a restorationist,
(29:27):
in restoring the republic, and restoring a constitutional republic, and
restoring a government of buying for the people that actually
promotes the interests of the American people, which kind of
the premise of the American Republic. Right, all power flows
from the American people, from the people to their duly
elected representatives, who they make the stewards of the power
and money given to them to put together a government
(29:48):
that actually promotes and protects the interests of the American
people every day on every issue. And we've kind of
lost sight of that.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
There's something birthing right before our eyes in the midst
of this failure in destruction. We'll even run by that
by speaker new Gingrich. Next hour, final sound Donna Brazil.
I keep saying, you know, the left can't play the
games had played in the first term of Trump again
all blow up in their face. Oh, Donna Brazil gets him.
(30:15):
Vetterman's going to go and meet with him down at
mar A Lago.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
Absolutely, the mayor of the District of Columbia went down
to meet with the President elect Trump. There's nothing wrong
with that. I don't think you this is this is
not going to be a time of resistance like it
was in twenty seventeen. They're going to look for opportunities
to work with the President elect and his team, and
they will be prepared to oppose them when they disagree.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
I mean, care for what you wish for, right, Maybe
it won't be us versus them, right versus left. Maybe
we will focus on right versus wrong and the right
people to lead. We the people that's encouraging. This is
(30:58):
your Morning show with Michael Dotno. Let me introduce you
to a Supreme Court bar attorney in a White House.
Correspond to John Decker. John, one of the big stories
waking up this morning looks like Commas maybe close to
an agreement with Israel for a ceasefire and with it
about three dozen hostages. How close is this to being
a reality, Well.
Speaker 13 (31:18):
It sounds like it's the closest that we've been to
this some kind of deal taking place in maybe a
year and a half. Remember it's October seventh of twenty
twenty three that those hostages were first taken by the
terrorist group Comas. They've been held in Gaza since that time,
and there have been talks that have really stepped up
(31:40):
over the past few weeks in Doha. Those talks have
involved both officials from the Biden administration as well as
the lead Middle East coordinator for the incoming Trump administration,
and there's an indication that perhaps by the end of
the week we could see the first stage of that
(32:00):
deal taking place.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
This is so reminiscent for people our age because of
the original Iranian hostage crisis, and we've all been thinking
about Jimmy Carter with his passing and funeral, and of
course as history played out right their their anticipation of
a very strong presidency in Ronald Reagan, the hostage is
released spitefully as soon as he took the oath of office.
(32:25):
Some of that kind of revisited in this although I'm
one of the first people to say, you know, while
that is of a political significance, not nearly a significance
as seeing a ceasefire and seeing these innocent people released,
the question is how many are still alive? And is
there very does a question.
Speaker 13 (32:45):
Yeah, that's a very good question. I think that's been
the difficulty. Uh, every time there has been there have
been efforts to release hostages. Having a deal is just
determining how many of the hostages are still a lot,
including American hostage. There are seven Americans who are taken
hostage back on October the seventh of twenty twenty three.
(33:06):
How many of those individuals are still living? And you know,
as part of the negotiation, I would imagine you need
to have proof of life. You know, to know what
you're dealing with, to know what you're getting if you
are the Israelis, if you are the Americans, and then
you could have the first stage of a deal, and
that is the cessation of hostilities in Gaza at least
(33:28):
for a period of time so that the rest of
the deal can be worked out the release of the
remaining hostages.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
So pretty remarkable. I think you're right there.
Speaker 13 (33:37):
There are some reminders of what happened back in nineteen
eighty one when there was the release of fifty two
American hostages. In that particular instance, Michael, as you know,
all fifty two Americans were alive when they were ultimately
handed over to the American side and then released.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
I'm not making light of it, but this is just
the dance that that radical Islamic groups carry out these
kinds of terrorist attacks. They always take hostages. After a while,
they get pounded, they release, they use the hostages, and
they release the hostage to end it, and then they
they're dampened down for a decade or so and then
they come back. This time it kind of lingered, which
made me think they didn't have the hostages to give
(34:20):
back for their exit play. Yeah, that's my greatest dealer.
Speaker 13 (34:24):
You know, I agree with you, Michael. You know I'm skeptical,
I'm cynical. I agree with you one hundred percent, and
we'll see. You know. I feel so terribly for any
family that has been dealing with this for you know,
almost a full year and a half and having to
go through hopes, hopes being dashed, and hopefully that's not
(34:46):
another insulsive hopes being dashed once again.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
Here's praying we're wrong and they will be released and
we will have peace. John Decker, White House Correspondent. Great
reporting as all, We're all in this together. This is
your Morning Show with Michael vinhel Join now.
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